March 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

apt-get for SuSE
by Togan Muftuoglu 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

Hi, Looks like SuSE has the apt-get functionality integrated (ftp.gwdg.de has a directory apt) Has anyone used apt-get for SuSE/apt and if so comments are appreciated -- Togan Muftuoglu

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*Still* no Konsole (font issue?)
by Tom Wesley 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Been working on this all weekend but have still not found an answer. I cannot get konsole to work at all. Whenever I start it I get the window come up and then it just sits there. The cursor stays in the very top right corner and doesn't move. Also, if I try to add a terminal pane to konq I get a message saying that "Font '13' not found". This lead my to think that this was a font problem. I have reinstalled the distributions X (X 4.1 - SuSE7.3), turned AA on and off and set a wide variety of fonts for both the system defaults and konsole. So now I'm thinking that it might not be a font issue? But I have no idea where to turn. I have noticed that there are a few references to this type of thing with previous versions of KDE, but nothing with KDE3 so far. Oh and I'm using KDE3 from Adrian's rpm's. I can't really build from source due to time constraints. One other thing, konsole from KDE2 still works in KDE3, maybe pointing to a configuration issue? Or maybe a qt issue? Any ideas appreciated! Cheers, Tom - -- unix soit qui mal y pense -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8p2KQAEYnIVU7X9IRArHPAJ9jDoq0XU3FhUY3J6c1dge01DbJNwCghrWP P3XhAJ+5tVg390tV/g9LGBQ= =AxNU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Problems with 7.3
by Eddie Bradford 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

Hi, I just upgraded from 7.2 to 7.3 and I am having a strange problem. When I logoff, my computer no longer powers down, as it did with 7.2. I have to do a hard reset (hold the power on button down until the machine powers off). Then, about seven to ten minutes later, the computer starts up again. I've followed all of the recommendations in the SuSE FAQ under "shutdown", but nothing works. Any ideas? Eddie

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Problems Installing KDE3rc3
by Hugo Gonzalez Blanco 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

Hi , I wanted to test the new KDE3rc3 , so I downloaded the rpms , and installed them with Yast . But when I restarted the PC , I found that I keep on running Kde 2.2.2 . After that , I uninstalled every rpm relationed with any version of KDE and reinstalled the rpms of KDE3rc3 , and after restart the machine , I was running something unknown for me (I am quite new on Linux) , but I am sure it wasn't KDE. Any suggestion. Thanks .

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Fwd: Re: je 2 Bildschirme, Tastatur, Maus an einen PC
by Ronald Wiplinger 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

>At 07:49 ¤U¤È 2002/3/30 +0100, you wrote: >>Hallo Frank, >> >>Am Samstag, 30. März 2002 19:28 schrieb Frank Schmidt: >> > Ich möchte an meinen PC zwei reale Arbeitsplätze anschließen. >> > Sprich an den PC sollen 2 Monitore, 2 Tastaturen und 2 Mäuse >> > angeschlossen werden. Gibt es die Möglichkeit? Wenn ja, was für >> > Hardware brauche ich um z.B. 2 Tastaturen anzuschliesen? Auf den >> > beiden Monitoren sollen dann zweich verschiedene Terminals >> > laufen. >>[...] > > >Versuche es mit einem billigen PC und VNC, das klappt ganz gut, OS fuer >den PC ist mehr oder weniger egal. > > >>ich kann Deiner Mail nicht 100%ig entnehmen, wie genau das gemeint >>ist. Willst Du an diesem einen PC zwei gleichzeitige Arbeitsplätze? >>Sprich: Sollen zwei Leute zur gleichen Zeit daran arbeiten können? >>Das ist AFAIK nicht möglich. Du müsstest ja z.B. Deinen einen >>PS2-Tastatur-Ausgang splitten auf zwei Keyboards. Aber wie soll der >>PS2 wissen, von welcher Tastatur das Signal kommt und an welche >>Konsole es folglich weitergeleitet werden soll? > > >Das kann wie Du sagst nicht funktionieren. > > >>Gruß >>Phililpp >> >>-- >>registered Linux user number 258854 >> >>-- >>Um die Liste abzubestellen, schicken Sie eine Mail an: >> suse-linux-unsubscribe(a)suse.com >>Um eine Liste aller verfügbaren Kommandos zu bekommen, schicken >>Sie eine Mail an: suse-linux-help(a)suse.com > > >Ronald Wiplinger (ÃQ¤¯¯Ç), CEO, ELMIT - THE Internet Solution Provider >Tel. +886 2 8809-7680, Fax. +886 2 2809-9158, Mobile: +886 915 653-452 >Net2Phone:8869550066, ICQ: 111651169 >http://www.elmit.com http://www.wiplinger.org

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Netscape setup 6.2.2
by gjmwalsh＠netscape.net 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

Ugh! I downloaded Netscape 6.2.2, intending to use it instead of Mozilla at least until 8.0 gets here sometime in May. Two little bothers: >From whence cometh the cute QFA talk dialogoe at the invoking of netscape, which is a bit of a nuisance, and how does one get a non-rpm installed service (such as Netscape) on to the desktop (although coming from Unix I have no problem invoking it from a shell). And is is 'normal' to not have pdf files show as plugins after the 'helper' (in this case /usr/local/bin/acroread) has been downloaded and is able to display pdf files? The linkage between mozilla and Netscape6 is, shall we say, inextricable. What happens if Mozilla is removed from the system entirely? Anything fatal-like? Thanks for any pointers. George -- George Walsh, Managing Director, CruiseRoutes Division, DSC Directional Services Corp Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

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7.3 as an isp. Possible?
by steve 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

Hi everyone. My server here uses red hat. The service is too slow, is down for too long stretches of time and costs too much. Is it possible to use 7.3 to be our own server? Does anyone do it? All we want to do is serve web pages for our college, but they say we need a fixed ip and that costs. Must be a way around it no? Any advice really appreciated. I think that this is our only option. Our intranet works fine. is there more to it than that or is there a way of sticking our pages in /usr/local/httpd/htdocs like we do at the moment and pointing to internet rather than our local lan? When do you stop being a newbie? Cheers, Steve.

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Just Up-Graded to SuSE 7.3
by tabanna 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

All was excellent with vers 6.2 . . . I just Up-Graded to vers 7.3 HOW, please, can I stop wvdial connecting to internet, when I Re-Boot ? { this happens automatically } HOW can I solve probs : I can NOT Send Mail from my ISP { I am able to receive mail from my ISP withour Probs. } WHAT could be the screw-up, whereas, I am unable to send by smtp to my ISP . . . I suspect that it is some prob. with hosts or resolv.conf ~ what might it be, please ? thanks p.s. my ISP has Domain forthnet.gr but, my address is : tabanna(a)AIG.forthnet.gr maybe it is something to do with the difference between forthnet.gr , AND, AIG.forthnet.gr ? How should this be shown in rc.config/ hosts ? thanks ______________ sent on Linux _______________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif

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Re: MySQL - Best Way
by Andrei Verovski 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

>All, > >I have MySQL installed and working perfectly on my SuSE 7.2 >system. Now, I would like to build a new version of MySQL >and run two database servers on the same physical machine. > >If I do the standard (make && make install, etc), will it >make changes to the current installation? If yes, what can >I do to make them co-exist separately?? Hi, Just download latest mysql source (e.g. 3.23.49), put them into /usr/src/pacgakes/sources, edit SuSE-MySQL-RPM SPEC file, copy patch(es) from SuSE original MySQL source RPM, build your own RPM, and finally upgrade. I did it myself, worked OK. ********************************************* * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * Personal Home Page * http://homepage.mac.com/MacGuruHQ/ * Mac, Linux, DTP, Development, IT WEB Site *********************************************

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Re: [SLE] MS VPN - PPTP Server PoPToP
by Zdeněk Hornych 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

Thank you, Wolfi & Ben. I certainly know that this mailing list is only in English. (But it is a pity ...) I made a mistake - by changing recepient's address ... But I am very pleased by your answers ... If you need to practice your Czech I can repeat it once more. :-) Happy Easter to everyone Zdenek.Hornych(a)brandysnl.cz (My problem´s already solved.) On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 10:16, Zdeněk Hornych wrote: > Zdravim Vas vsechny o velikonocich. Resim problem s pripojenim > dial-up klienta do lokalni site, klient ma MS W2K, pripojuje se > pres box SuSE 7.2 se SuSE Firewallem 2 a jde na svuj server > v lokalni siti - Samba na SuSE Linuxu. > > Zapojeni: > ========= > > dynam. IP _ eth0=194.108.47.241 (Ext) 192.168.4.10 > _______ __ _/ \_ ____________ ______________ > | | / \_/ \ | | | | > | W2K | ---> / Internet / ---> | firewall | ---------> | fileserver | > | | \ __ _| | | | | > ------- ---/ \--/ ------------ -------------- > eth2=192.168.4.1 (Internal) (...) > Zdenek.Hornych(a)brandysnl.cz Hello Zdenek, Nice ASCII-graphics you made .... This reminds me on what I told to my boss at work: He should rather send me to a Czech lesson than on yet another English lesson, since my English is already -at least kinda- understandable:-) Well, back on topic, there are most presumably not many people out there who understand Czech, but if you came back to the list with an English description of your problem, sure someone will know about it. Nastravii (my only word czech) / Cheers .... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!?

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audiogalaxy once more
by Dirk Schlangen 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

Hint: englich version below! Hallo! Das Thema wurde zwar schon in der vergangenen Woche diskutiert, aber da ich weiterhin mit dem Programm Schwierigkeiten habe, hier noch mal die Problematik: Ich habe mich auf der Homepage von Audiogalaxy angemeldet und das Programm installiert. Folgendermaßen sieht meine account.txt aus: benutzername password Folgendermaßen sieht meine .shares.txt aus: /home/user/audiogalaxy/ Wenn ich das Programm auf der Konsole starte (mit ASatellite-static) dann scheint das Programm zu connecten. Ich kann auch auf der Homepage unter meinem Account sehen, dass einige Tracks den Status 'processing' haben. Diesen Status verlieren die 'angeforderten' Files aber nach etwa 1 bis 2 Minuten wieder und gehen 'offline'. Das Programm beendet sich selbst. Den Status 'transferring' erreichen die in Frage kommenden Dateien nicht. Komischerweise bemerkt der Satellite keine Files, die zum Tausch unter /home/user/audiogalaxy/ liegen. (Satellite meldet auf der Homepage 'You have no songs in your shared directory.' obwohl das eigentlich nicht stimmen kann. Diese Meldung gibt es natürlich nur, solage der Satellite läuft. Nach einiger Zeit geht der Satellite offensichtlich offline und diese 'Meldung' erscheint dann auch auf der Homepage. Vielleicht habe ich meine .shares.txt nicht richtig eingerichtet? Welche Fehler könnte ich sonst noch gemacht haben? Wäre für Hinweise wirklich dankbar. Grüße Dirk Hello! I guess this topic was already discussed last week, but I still have some problems with audiogalaxy: I have registrated a valid account on the homepage (www.audiogalaxy.com) and installed the AG-Satellite. My account.txt file seems to be alright: username password But I'm not sure wheater my .shares.txt is valid. It looks like this: /home/user/audiogalaxy/ When I start the programm on the konsole (AGSatellite-static), the client seems to connect because I can see some requested files on the audiogalaxy-homepage having the status 'processing'. After a while, this status is changed to 'offline' and the satellite seems to be offline / and the program itself terminates. I have one file in the directory /home/user/audiogalaxy/ to share, but the web-interface does not show this. Has anyone an idea? Dirk

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Where's my "Path"?
by Tom Nielsen 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

I'm installed a theme from kde-look.org and after installation I got the comment "add /opt/kde/bin to your Path." Path??? Can someone have pity on the stupid and tell me where I should put this?? (Be nice!). Tom

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Su strane probleme
by Calinoiu Alexandru Nicolae 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

I have this strange probleme with "su". Take a look at this: calin@linux:~> su // this is what I write in my console su: incorrect password // this is what i recive Do you notice something strange, Ye you've got it, the is no field in witch I am asket to type the password. What about this ? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/

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"Hotswapping" IDE hard drives
by Glen Goldsmith 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

I keep seeing bits and pieces here and there about this is possible, but haven't seen any definitive guides out there. Other than, it isn't possible w/o frying hardware. I know this is poppycock, since I'm doing it in windows 98 w/ a software package called swap manager. It really isn't hot swapping, but just swapping ide drives w/o rebooting. I've got those handy dandy hard drive mobile racks. Great little things, but I'm using them for backups. And it would be really nice to be able to swap them w/o rebooting. Sure, I know you'd need to umount them fs on them, physically turn the drive off w/ the switch on the case, pull the drive out, insert new drive, power on.. etc. Sounds rather elegant if you ask me.... So anyone out there done any of this? IF so.. how? ;) Glen Goldsmith

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zaurus pda
by Landy orman 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

can anyone confirm if it is true that you need windows to sync the zaurus pda and to upgrade software into it? (sounds absurd from sharp they would make a linux pda to only sync with windows

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Missing Menu Categories/Apps
by Anthony W. Marino 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

My panel/taskbar are missing Menu Categories/Apps (ie; System, Admin, Internet and more). What can I do to restore them? Thank You, Anthony

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Install from HD with graphic Yast2??
by Shuohuan Chang 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

Hi, Is there any possible for me to install suse from Harddisk with the interface of graphical Yast2, just like the one on SuSE CD installation?? Or, where can I get it (linuxrc from cdrom boot)? Is it legistimate for people to hand out the linuxrc from the cost version of suse? For people who download suse from ftp are capabled to make their own version of suse installation ISO with graphical Yast2 installation possible. Thanks for answering / helping. jsc

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Newbie compiling kernel.
by Brian Durant 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

After my experience (or lack there of) ;-) with trying to compile the current kernel, I decided that I would try to summarize the commands so that it can be used when (not if) the question comes up again on the list. While it is good refering to the manual or MAN pages, the best solution always is to have a simple, concise presentation for newbies, so they (I) don't have to go looking around 10 different bloody places. Below are a list of the commands in order. Anyone care to add commentary to them for the archive or so that one of us can pull it out of the hat when the question comes up next time? cd /usr/src/linux make cloneconfig make xconfig or make menuconfig #do your changes# make dep make clean make bzImage make bzlilo mk_initrd lilo cd /lib/modules cp -a 2.4.4-4GB 2.4.4-4GB.backup Cheers, Brian

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Auto-update
by James Worrest 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

Usually I use either the manual update or I have just downloaded the fixed files from a ftp site put them on a CD-ROM and upgrade by using the RPM program in KDE. I have been tempted to use the auto-update of YAST2 to the SuSE ftp site, but it usually warns me that it's going to take many hours to do this. Is there anyway to see, easily, what the patches you need and use the manual mode, or just turn on the auto-update mode before I go to bed and then when I get up see if the computer is still running? I would hope that it could determine what I needed without running hours on end. Anyway, I would like to know if any of you have solved this problem with 7.3 or if there is a problem? ---Jim

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enlightenment
by Tamara Abbey 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

O.k., I'm trying enlightenment and I could not find it on the SuSE 7.3 personal set, so I downloaded all the rpms and I guess they're installed now. So, how do I run it? (and, I think, after a week, I am actually starting to have a little fun with this 8-)) TIA <tamara />

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ADSL help...to save a new user.<Urgent>
by Mark Doucette 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

Hi all, I've just convinced a friend of mine to install SuSE 7.3. Everything went fine except now he is asking me how to connect to the net via his Telus Velocity ADSL connection. I'm running cable so this is new to me. I don't have alot of time today to research this and he is getting frustrated and I'm afraid of loosing him back to WinBlows haha. If anyone can please help with this urgent situation, that would be greatly appreciated. Especially another Telus ADSL user. With the amazing state that the SuSE distro is in, I know I could convince him that linux is the answer, but having a net connection is the key here. Also, he has an SMC EtherEZ ISA network card that wasn't picked up on install, even though it was detected on prior attempts at running linux <ie SuSE 7.2,6.4 etc> Thanks all -- Mark Doucette kranked(a)oberon.ark.com WinFree and Lovin' it. SuSE Rox Linux! Registered Linux User # 240512 ----////----

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There is a bug in Suse Kernel 2.4.16??
by Praise 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

Hi all! I have been using two cd-rw (a Philips 16/10/40 EIDE and a Waitec T-Rex SCSI 16/10/40) plus two cd-rom (Plextor 40x SCSI and an Asus 34x Eide). The Eide stuff is working through scsi emulation. Everything works fine for common reading for all. BUT I am having problems: the couple Asus+Philips has some problem doing dao copies (using cdrdao), it does not always fail: it fails 80% claiming that there is no cd in drive (destination). Also, using cdparanoia on both drives slows the system to death (only 80% of the times!). Using cdparanoia on the SCSI will give me similar problems, but it does not freeze the system. It just slows everything abit when it is trying to read the cd. I also have the same problem doing dao copies on waitec t-rex. The scsi drives are mounted on a different system than eide ones. The only thing in common is the kernel, Suse Kernel 2.4.16. The distro is 7.1 on both cases but I have been using self compiled versions of latest cdrdao and cdrecord on the scsi system. There is something known about this?? Any idea on how to solve it?? Praise

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Win. XP, Win. 98 and SuSE Linux 7.3 on a 37 GB harddrive
by Roy Leembruggen 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

I have been running Linux and Windows for around one year on a 37 GB hard drive, first with Win. Me and now with Win. XP. To do so required some figuring out to get round the '1024 cylinder problem' . Using Partition Magic I did the following: 1) Resized the FAT32 Primary partition down to 22.8 GB 2) Created a 20 Mb Primary Ext2 /boot partition at the start of the drive by moving the FAT 32 partition up. 3) Created an Extended partition with the remaining space of approx 15 Mb; and within it 3 logical partitions, FAT32 - swap - and Ext2 root (/) Everything worked fine, with System Commander as the boot manager, until yesterday when I found that my Interactive Banking program had a compatability problem with Windows XP, so decided to add Windows 98. Rather recklessly in hindsight, I went ahead and converted my second FAT32 partition from 'logical' to 'primary', which was very easy, and I was left with 3 Primary partitions and 1 (smaller) Extended Linux partition. Booted up Windows XP subsequently without any problem, but Linux to my surprise gave out the dreaded 'kenel panic - unable to mount fs' message. Using the Rescue system did not help so I thought my problems were over when I re-installed Linux. - but the problem persisted with exactly the same 'kenel panic - unable to mount fs' message. The problem lay apparently in the fact that the extended partition now lay outside the 1024 cyl. range, and Partition Magic reported this fact and suggested marking the Extended partition as ExtendedX. However by this time I was tired of experimenting, so merely 'back-tracked' by converting the second FAT32 primary->logical and now I am back where I started, Windows XP and Linux - but no Win. 98 My unanswered questions are as follows 1) Can anyone explain the mystery of 'marking' an Extended partition as ExtendedX - not mentioned anywhere in the Partition Magic Manual. 2) Upto now I thought that only the /boot partition needed to be within the 1024 cyl. range, but now it appears that the root ( / ) partition also needs to be. 3) According to Yast2 Partitioner the root ( / ) partition starts at 4210 and ends at 4864 in the first place, so what difference does it make since it was already outside the 1024 cyl. range at the start! 3) Does all this mean that my only option for Linux with Win. XP and Win. 98 would mean booting Linux from a floppy?

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SuSE Menus Missing
by Anthony W. Marino 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

I'm missing my SuSE specific menus/links (ie; YAST, YAST2 and etc). Is there anyway that I can rebuild them? Thank You, Anthony

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ADSL help...to save a new user.<Urgent><Duplicate right Time>
by Mark Doucette 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

This is a duplicate since i noticed that my system time was way off. Hi all, I've just convinced a friend of mine to install SuSE 7.3. Everything went fine except now he is asking me how to connect to the net via his Telus Velocity ADSL connection. I'm running cable so this is new to me. I don't have alot of time today to research this and he is getting frustrated and I'm afraid of loosing him back to WinBlows haha. If anyone can please help with this urgent situation, that would be greatly appreciated. Especially another Telus ADSL user. With the amazing state that the SuSE distro is in, I know I could convince him that linux is the answer, but having a net connection is the key here. Also, he has an SMC EtherEZ ISA network card that wasn't picked up on install, even though it was detected on prior attempts at running linux <ie SuSE 7.2,6.4 etc> Thanks all -- Mark Doucette kranked(a)oberon.ark.com WinFree and Lovin' it. SuSE Rox Linux! Registered Linux User # 240512 ----////----

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