July 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

YaST2 not working in gui mode after upgrade to KDE 3.01
by Art Fore 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

I have been reading the list about the YaST2 problems with KDE3.01 upgrade, but have not found a solution to my Desktop unit yet. Desktop and Laptop are running same version of everything, laptop works, desktop does not. Both units have been updated with YOU on everything as of last Friday. KDE 3.01 was upgraded via YOU. Checked SDB, it says to upgrade 3 KDE programs. These have been upgraded. One email on list said to upgrade to I have qt3-non-mt-3.0.4-30, but have not been able to find it. (I have I have qt3-non-mt-3.0.4-13 on both machines) Any other options would be much appreciated. Art

2 1

Couldn't install SuSE8 (ftp version) to Dell Opt Gx240
by Verdi March 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Hi, Today (night actually), I tried to install SuSE 8 (ftp version) to Dell Opt Gx240 at my lab, but fail. The machine spec is: - P4 1.6 Ghz - 256 RAM - ATI Rage 32 MB - HD Maxtor 6L020L1 20 Ghz, ATA 100 - CD ROM, Zip drive, floppy disk My hardisk structure is: hda1: Primary partition, NTFS (Windows Xp), about 7 GB hda2: Empty primary partition, this will be the mount point "/". Size is about 3 GB. hda3: Extended partition. Size is about 8 GB. During installation, this is displayed as "Win95 Extended (LBA)" (or something similar). hda4: Empty logical partition, this will be "/home". Size is about 3 GB. hda5: FAT32, this is where SuSE installation sources reside (D:\installer\suse8). Size is about 4 GB. hda6: Linux swap partition. Size is 1 GB. The installation steps: 1. Boot from bootdisk. 2. Load additional filesystem modules from module disk 1 (NTFS module). 3. Chose "manual installation". 4. When "choose installation media", chose "hardisk", then selected "hda5". 5. A dialog box asking for directory where installation sources reside, I filled with "/installer/suse8" (without double-quotes of course) 6. The installer performed automatic detection, all hardware are detected (zip drive, usb mouse). 7. A page appear, listing a number of possible customization (partition, where to install lilo, etc). 8. I chose "partitioin": the default/detected by SuSE installer was: format hda6 as swap. format hda4 as reiserfs, and mount to "/". mount hda1 to "/windows/C" mount hda5 to "/windows/D" 9. I modified the partition setting as following: a. format hda2 as reiserfs, and mount to "/" b. format hda4 as reiserfs, and mount to "/home". 10. Proceed with installation. The installer format the necessary partition. 11. And then, I got 2 similar error messages: a. Could not mount partition /dev/hda2 to /mnt/" (continue, abort, retry). b. Pressing "retry" will only repeat the error messages, so I chose "continue" 12. Then the following error message: a. "Could not mount partition /dev/hda5 to /mnt/windows/D" (cont, abort, retry) b. Pressing "retry" will only repeat the error messages, so I chose "continue" 13. After that, I was brought to the first page of installation again -- the text mode one with options such as: Boot/Exit, Power Off, Start Installation, etc etc. At step 8, I have tried to make installer not to mount hda1 to "/windows/C" and hda5 to "/windows/D", but I still got the similar error. I've also tried to format hda2 and hda4 with both ext2 or ext3, but still failed. I wonder what could be wrong? Do I need to change the partition structure (which is unlikely, cause there's already Windows XP)? Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Verdi -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net

4 17

Mail folders
by Richard Ibbotson 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Hi I've upgraded my own workstation from SuSE 7.3 to 8.0. Everything would seem to be fine apart from one very annoying problem.. After making a backup of my mail folders which are - Mail and mail folders - I find that when I start Kmail 1.4.1 with the old folders in place an error message appears on the screen which tells me that permissions are not set properly. This message then repeats itself for every mail folder. After a while the whole of KDE 3.0.1 locks up solid and I have to re-boot. Does anyone how to sort out this problem ? I've updated KDE from the SuSE site and the problem persists. Can't find any reference to this in the SuSE support site. Thanks -- Richard www.sheflug.co.uk

2 1

RE: [SLE] How To Mount SanDisk CF Card Reader under Suse 8.0?
by Cleary_Mike＠emc.com 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

In case you haven't solved this yet, here is a post from a couple of months ago which pretty well covers it: <snip> Problem: You have a digital camera and a USB card reader....PNY or other brand and would like to have it defined at bootup. Solution: put a "card" in the reader that has at least 1 image on it or is formated, and reboot the 'puter. Login and carefully read the /var/log/messages file......near the end of it. An example of what you're looking for is below, which is what the system "sees" the card reader as. Apr 9 23:37:40 linux kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Apr 9 23:37:40 linux kernel: SCSI device sdc: 125185 512-byte hdwr sectors (64 MB) Apr 9 23:37:40 linux kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off Apr 9 23:37:40 linux kernel: sdc: sdc1 Apr 9 23:37:40 linux kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured Note that on this box, it's sdc1. Make a mount point of your choice. In my case, it's /local2/coolpix, which is on an 18.3G SCSI drive as /local2. Ok....now you're ready to add a line in /etc/fstab, which in my file is: /dev/sdc1 /local2/coolpix vfat ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 Reboot, and in KDE2.2.2 or KDE3.0, you'll have an icon on your desktop for the reader. </snip> Hope that helps! Mike ------------------------------------------ Cleary_Mike(a)emc.com ------------------------------------------ "A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse." - anon -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Tyson [mailto:bryantyson@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 1:28 AM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] How To Mount SanDisk CF Card Reader under Suse 8.0? On Saturday 29 June 2002 19:35, David wrote: > How do I get his USB SanDisk Reader to be properly recognized and > accessible, please? Did you try modprobe usb-storage? *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net *************************************************** -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com

3 3

RE: [SLE] KDE 3.x or Gnome 2.0 or Ximian
by James.Rocks＠equant.com 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Hi James, I have tried to install IceWM on two machines and failed each time ... it appears to install but nothing appears on the login menu (which has the same seven options as before i.e. kde, windowmaker, sawfish, gnome, mwm, twm & failsafe). Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I also want to try enlightemenet and had the same problem with that ... on the plus side I actually tried a few that I could find and I rather liked "Windowmaker" (NextStep like) and it strikes me that if I realy want to abandon Windows then I ought to adopt a more UNIX-Like (which I assume Windowmaker to be) GUI. James C. Rocks Equant Archway House Canary Wharf London E14 9SZ Phone: 0207-5226856 Fax: 0207-5126087 Mobile Phone: 07771-767405 http://www.equant.com This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.

2 1

Problems with Liquid theme and SuSE 8.0
by Paul Benjamin 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Well I finally broke down and bough 8.0 and got it to install. The next project was getting Liquid installed. I could not find a RPM at SuSE like I did for KDE2.2 and SuSE 7.2. So I hit kde-look.org and grabbed the tar ball. The ./configure make install seem to go well except it didn't show up in the control panel. Yes I did put /usr/local/kde/bin in the path (even though there isn't a /usr/local/kde/bin dir?) but no luck! So I have attempted to look every where google will take me but still no prize. Mosfet may be a great programmer but you think he could at least put in a README or something. If anyone else got this beast to work or knows of a RPM could you clue me in! Thanks, pben P.S. what happend to the mailing list archive at suse.com?

2 2

Re: [SLE] Kernel Compilation for Dual Xeon system
by Simon Oliver 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Rowan Reid wrote: > > > - which processor type to select - I assume Pentium-4 since > > no Xeon option. > > If I'm not mistaken XENONS are PIII with a big chunk of L2 Cache. The new Xeon's have less on-chip cache (512KB) but extra features such as speeds up to 2.4GHz, 400MHz FSB and hyper-threading. Greg Freemyer wrote: > > I thought hyper-threading was unique to the 64-bit intels? I guess I'm wrong. Yes. See Intel's web-site for details. In fact is seems to work - with SuSE 8.0, Kernel 2.4.18 and hyper-threading switched on in the BIOS, a two CPU machine appears to have four virtual CPU's - at least 'top' thinks so. -- Simon Oliver

1 0

re: [SLE] Linux Install on Conmpaq Proliant 5000 Server
by James.Rocks＠equant.com 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Hi Greg, > I'm no expert on the Proliant line, but Compaq (HP) sends me tons of CDs for them. > In particular they send me a set of "Quickstart CDs" fairly often. > I think that they have some Linux specific files and drivers on there. > Do you have those for your machine? and have you checked to see if there is anything > you need to run before you try to install SuSE. I assume you mean the SmartStart CD's .. yes I have CD's for them (version 5.1 I believe). I hadn't checked for drivers on them but will do so, thanks :-) > BTW: My wife works for Equant in Atlanta, GA. If you have intercompany mail, maybe she > could send a recent set of quickstart CDs to you. I don't think I need them but thanks anyway :-) Barbara, I hope working for Equant Atlanta is more satisfying than working for Equant UK is right now! James C. Rocks Equant Archway House Canary Wharf London E14 9SZ Phone: 0207-5226856 Fax: 0207-5126087 Mobile Phone: 07771-767405 http://www.equant.com

1 0

RPMs for SuSE at http://guru.unixtech.be/rpm/
by Andrei Verovski 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Hi, There was one site which had a lot of RPMs for SuSE at http://guru.unixtech.be/rpm/ Anyone have a clue where it have been moved? Thanks Andrei

1 0

Konq file, edit, etc. toolbar gone bye, bye (SOLVED)
by Brian Durant 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Belay that question. Just found the answer. Right click and choose "show menu toolbar". Cheers, Brian

1 0