August 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Funcky console screen
by Kirk ＠ AA 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have this very funcky console screen on the main console. Anyone know how to kill it... It looks like something I would have seen 10 years ago... I would like to set it to the normal Black and white, text type console... Please help. I just installed 7.2 on my computer. -- Kirk Moore Network Engineer, Web Master Renton, WA "Black holes are created when God divides by zero!!!"

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LILO + SuSE 7.2 on SCSI-Drive
by Vincent Allard 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Hi, Situation: when i start my PC, LILO presents to me the choice of kernel to start ==> OK BUT when i restart my PC without doing a physicaly shutdown, LILO starts without proposed me choices. I suspect that it's not normal. Any suggestion? Vincent

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Swap in KPM puzzle
by Alex Daniloff 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Hello Linux folkz, I just recompiled a new 2.4.7 kernel. Everything went OK but I can't understand why KPM in KDE shows swap space as (none) 0K/0K and KDE Control Center shows Virtual memory as 0%? Although, when I do swapon -s it shows: Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda1 partition 136512 0 -1 /dev/sdb1 partition 136512 0 -2 Looks normal to me Thank you in advance for any thoughts or ideas. Alex -- MS Windows users should be covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act! --------------> Try Linux and you'll understand why <--------------

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Re: SuSE 7.2 and WP8
by Joe Zien 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

"M.B. Schiekel" wrote: > M.B. Schiekel <mb.schiekel(a)t-online.de> on Thu, 05 Jul 2001 11:24:45 > +0100 in corel.wpoffice.wordperfect8-linux: > > >>well, I worked with SuSE 7.1 (Linux-Kernel 2.4.0, XFree86 4.0.2, KDE > >>2.0.1) and WP8 (light) and everything was fine. > >>Now I updated to the SuSE 7.2 (Linux-Kernel 2.4.4., XFree86 4.0.3, KDE > >>2.1.2) - you know - never touch a running system - > >>now when I try to start the xwp I get the errormessage: > >>"can´t load library libXpm.so.4" (that´s a link to ...4.11). > > Hallo everybody, > some time ago I reported here a solution for the SuSE 7.2 / WP8 > problem - the error of the SuSE 7.2 is, that the package shlibs5 (with > the old libc5) does no more contain a libc5 compatible libXpm.so.4 . > My solution was, to install a libXpm.so.4 from a SuSE 6.x version. > > Now Ed March kindly informed me, that he had found an even simpler > solution, because the SuSE 7.2 has a file (or strictly speaking a > sym-link) with name libXpm_wx.so, that seems to be the old libXpm.so.4 > So even all *non-linux-gurus* have a real chance to start xwp ;-) > > First please install with Yast or Yast2 the package shlibs5 - if not > already installed. > Next start a terminal and do the following: > cd /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib > ln -s libXpm_wx.so libXpm.so.4 > cd > > Well, I tried this and it´s functioning. > Kind regards - Bernhard > > -- > M.B. Schiekel: http://home.t-online.de/home/mb.schiekel/ Bernard, I tried to link libXpm_wx.so to libXpm.so.4 and this is what I get: jozien:/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib# ls -l libXpm* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jul 27 15:42 libXpm.so -> libXpm.so.4.10 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jul 27 15:42 libXpm.so.4 -> libXpm.so.4.10 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 53516 Nov 8 1999 libXpm.so.4.10 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jul 27 15:42 libXpm_wx.so -> libXpm_wx.so.1.67 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 65400 Nov 8 1999 libXpm_wx.so.1.67 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- jozien:/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib# ln -s libXpm_wx.so libXpm.so.4 ln: libXpm.so.4: File exists There is a link to libXpm.so.4. Should I delete the link? What happens to libXpm.so.4.10? ============================================================================== I have another problem: jozien:/opt/wp8/wpbin# ls -l total 7928 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2494 Mar 20 1999 README -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2929 Mar 20 1999 README.address -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3265 Mar 20 1999 README.copy -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 758 Mar 20 1999 README.demo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1161 Mar 20 1999 README.errata -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 687 Mar 20 1999 README.icon -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1777 Mar 20 1999 README.install -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13604 Mar 20 1999 README.lic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 246 Mar 20 1999 README.support -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1411 Mar 20 1999 README.wpmagic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1994 Mar 20 1999 README.wpsahelp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2488 Mar 20 1999 wpmerge -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8008636 Mar 20 1999 xwp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31760 Mar 20 1999 xwpsahlp jozien:/opt/wp8/wpbin# ldd /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp ldd: can't execute /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp (No such file or directory) jozien:/opt/wp8/wpbin# ======================================================================= I tried this in a terminal window: jozien@jozien:~$ /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp & [1] 735 jozien@jozien:~$ bash: /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp: No such file or directory [1]+ Exit 127 /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp jozien@jozien:~$ ./xwp bash: ./xwp: No such file or directory jozien@jozien:~$ sh /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp: /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp: cannot execute binary file jozien@jozien:~$ ------------------------------------------------------ I have shlibs5 installed from SuSE 6.3 and I am using: ftp://ftp.linux.com/pub/mirrors/caldera/old-products/col2.2/col/install/RPM… I have these same problems in both libranet 1.9.1 and SuSE 7.1 jozien

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Xterm
by Donnie Linville 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Has anyone tested the method used in the how-to here? http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/LG/current/swieskowski.html Donnie

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Re: [SLE] Scanner advise.
by Bryan Tyson 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

On Monday 30 July 2001 19:08, Dave wrote: > I have a Visioneer 4400 USB; any easy suggestions as to how it > should be set up. The boot process does not identify it in any manner > I can detect. That model is not listed on the usb scanner page http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html However, he gives the following advice: If you are in the market for a new USB scanner to use under Linux then I strongly recommend that you select an Epson scanner. All the Epson scanners conform to the Epson scanner language and the SANE backend is actively maintained. As a result all the Epson scanners work under Linux and SANE. While they might not be the cheapest option they are by far the safest option. I took this advice, and I am now happily scanning away with my Epson 1200U. *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ***************************************************

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Re: [SLE] sending an automatic mail to new users]
by Raul Gutierrez Segales 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

> Probably the best thing to do would be to send yourself a mail with what > ever message you want in it. Ok > Have a look in your mail box in /var/spool/mail/yourname and grab the mail > (headers and all) and save this to a new file. Ok > All you will need to do in future is just copy this file into > /var/spool/mail/newuser But this would mean I would have to did manually, perhaps I should write a script to make users and after making the users copy the email file to the /var/spool/mail/$newuser (it would be a variable in the script). But that would mean I wouldnt be able to use YaST anymore....I will think about it... > Kind regards, > > Paul Thanks for your help, Raúl _______________________ Raul Gutierrez Segales oxford(a)campoalto.edu.py

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Moneydance not working
by rjwohlfar＠bigfoot.com 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

I'm trying to get Moneydance to run under 7.2. Whenever I try to start it, I get the error "***Out of memory, exiting***". Is this a problem with Java? Or with Moneydance? How might I go about fixing it? -- Robert Wohlfarth rjwohlfar(a)bigfoot.com "Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?" -- Matthew 6:25b

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eth0 and eth1
by Donnie Linville 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Ok, I tested it with the hub and it worked.Finally!!Now all I have to do is go buy another cable.Ok, I will now read up on the xterminals and quit bothering everyone for a while.Thanks for the help!!!!! -- Donzer Broadcasting on SuSe ----/ / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ 7.1

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Re: [SLE] Gnome broken - Unable to reach the control center??
by Jamie O'Shaughnessy 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Robert, Yes I can confirm this works, fantastic. I have built/installed root-portal (from source) and it had installed a file "root-portal_applet.gnorba" in /opt/gnome/etc/CORBA/services. I moved the file to /etc/opt/gnome/CORBA/services, removed the /opt/gnome/etc/CORBA directory and then created the symbolic links you said below. Works fine then. I expect anyone building gnome applets will get this problem with SuSE 7.2 - if you get the "Unable to reach the control-center" warning, this is the way to fix it. Many thanks, Jamie On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, rjwohlfar wrote: > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: Jamie O'Shaughnessy <jamie.oshaughnessy(a)ntlworld.com> > Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 18:22:40 +0000 (GMT) > >I've tracked this down a little further and I'm getting the following > >printed to the console when I'm running the control center: > > > >** WARNING ** : Unable to reach the control-center > > > I had a similar problem crop up this weekend. Installed SuSE 7.2 last > week. And it had been using my old GNOME configuration (from SuSE 6.4) > just fine. Then I added a new applet to the GNOME Panel. Lost all > applets and the Control Center! > > Here's the solution I came up with... > rm /etc/CORBA > rm /opt/gnome/etc/CORBA > ln -s /etc/opt/gnome/CORBA /etc/CORBA > ln -s /etc/opt/gnome/CORBA /opt/gnome/etc/CORBA > > I did check the directories /etc/CORBA and /opt/gnome/etc/CORBA before > deleting. They were both empty. If you have files in there. Move the > files to /etc/opt/gnome/CORBA first! > > CORBA is how GNOME embeds the stuff into the Panel and Control Center. I > had trouble about 6 months ago with CORBA being setup wrong. That's what > made me look for the directories. With the symlinks, the Panel and > Control Center were back to normal. > > If this solves your problem, would you please forward the message to > "suse-linux-e(a)suse.com" and "feedback(a)suse.com"? I'm having some trouble > with my e-mail still... > > Thanks! > > -- Jamie O'Shaughnessy jamie.oshaughnessy(a)ntlworld.com

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