July 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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

02 Jul '02

Weird. Today, my Konq file, edit, etc. toolbar has gone bye, bye. No error messages, no changes from my side in the settings configuration, it has apparently got a mind of it's own. How do I get it back? I am using SuSE 7.3 Pro with KDE/Konq 2.2.1. Cheers, Brian

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Pro-Office will not install
by lester＠lsces.co.uk 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

OK I have a CD labled Pro-office which dropped through the door this morning. The notes say Run 'Patch CD Update', but on mine that fails to find the CD. I think the problem is that I have a DVD, and a CDWriter and neither of them are accessed as /dev/cdrom. SO how do I get YaST to look at a different location for the Patch CD? or map /dev/cdrom to on of the physical drives -- Lester Caine ----------------------------- L.S.Caine Electronic Services

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digital camera mount
by steve 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Hi everyone. I have a Nikon Coolpix 775 and a Lexar usb cable. On my computer with 8.0 at home I can do: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt and see my photos under /mnt. On my computer with 8.0 at work I get the error: mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device. Any ideas anyone? Thanks, Steve.

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Re: [SLE] Annoying problem. KDE File Manager - Super User Mode
by Oyku Gencay 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Yes I did check from another user account. I just did the same thing. I updated SuSE 8.0 via YOU. It was working before. Now it doesn't. This reminds me of Dilbert. Dogbert ask Dilbert, if he wants the newer version of their software which he says, slower, bulky and buggy and more expensive. Dilbert shakes and says yes because he cannot help himself from not getting the latest version of software on his computer. I think I jumped on te KDE update like that :) Hope some SuSE people are reading :) Cheers, Oyku Rodd Ahrenstorff wrote: > On Monday 01 July 2002 7:40 am, Oyku Gencay wrote: > >>Hi Folks, >> >>I don't know the internals of KDE but I'm having a very very annoying >>problem. I don't know how it happend but the the "File Manager - Super >>User Mode" dos not work anymore. Please tell me what should I do to get >>it working? >> >>It dies silently right after entering the root password in the kdesu >>dialog. > > > I had this same problem on my initial install of SuSE 8.0 after applying the > online updates about 1 month ago. I never did find a solution. > > Have you been able to use kfm-su from a different user login? That might > point to something wrong with that specific user profile. > > Hope that helps...

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[a tad OT] can you 'make menuconfig' more than once? and more on kernels
by JW 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Hello, Sorry this isn't really SuSE-specific but I don't have a more convenient place to ask right now. At least I'm running it on SuSE :-D When working on a new kernel to compile, is it safe to fiddle around with make menuconfig and exit, and come back to it later? It would seem like it should be perfectly fine, and certainly when I 'come back later' all my changes seem to still be there, but who knows.... Additionally: for those who compile their own 'vanilla' kernels, I'm curious to know: 1. What your favorite patches are to render your system more useable under normal conditions (I'm not talking about bleeding edge things, but rather things like RieserFS); and 2. What modules you usually have to enable that aren't enabled by default. I turned on some things related to parallel port and USB that looked like they should be on for an average workstation. ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com

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Ooops! mean SuSE Linux Pro-Office CD
by David Colburn 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

I intended to refer to SuSE Linux Pro-Office CD rather than just StarOffice 6. It is late ... doc -- "And God said, let there be light ... "

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tail -f doesn't work on a smbfs mount
by Chavez Gutierrez, Freddy 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

I mount a WinNT share using a samba client version 2.2.1: smbmount -t smbfs -o username=user //ntserver/share /logs Then I want to watch a log generated by Internet Information Server (IIS) that grows continually: tail -f /logs/zzz.txt I can see the last lines in file zzz.txt the first time, but I don't get the new lines that appear in such file. From any windows station I have no problem seeing the file zzz.txt updated. I have to say that IIS block the file zzz.txt against write, but permit read that file. Thanks for your help. Freddy Chavez.

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StarOffice 6 & Base Questions
by David Colburn 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

This sounds like a good deal at $24.95 (esp. compared to the M$ alternatives), and the extras (SuSE 8.0 updates) might even solve some of the conflicts and sluggish performance I have been experiencing with SuSE 8.0 (I am hoping there is something in there that YaST 2 autoupdates are missing). I have looked around for info re. StarOffice Base handling M$ Access database files to no avail. Anyone tried this or have answers, please? Other informed feedback re. StarOffice 6? Thanks! doc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ StarOffice 6 comprises all vital office applications: StarOffice Writer, the word processing application StarOffice Calc, the spreadsheet application StarOffice Impress, the presentation program StarOffice Draw, the drawing program StarOffice Base, the data organizer -- "And God said, let there be light ... "

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java/symbolic link/gnutella
by Thom Nuzum 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

can't remember where i found this: > 1. If there is an existing symbolic link titled 'java' in '/usr/lib', delete > it by running: > > rm /usr/lib/java If not, jsut go to Step 2. > > 2. To create / recreate the symbolic link to the j2re1.4.1 directory, run: > > ln -s /usr/local/j2re1.4.0 /usr/lib/java THANKS This hepled greatly after my frustration of having to update to both: j2sdk and j2re in order to run LimeWire Gnutella. One problem though,I did this, but then found nothing after typing "java -version" First i went to root/etc/sysconfig/java and changed this symbolic link. CREATE_JAVALINK="no" I then did rm /usr/lib/java ln -s /usr/local/j2re1.4.0 /usr/lib/java Lastly I had to do the following: 1."export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.0.01 2."export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH My only problem with suse 8.0 so far.I'm not sure what the redundancies if any of my steps were, but LimeWire works. (not meant as an insult for the Deutche) but this sucked and the manuals are useless brochures nothing more. I gave them to my kid to cut-up and use now a 6.4 manual: a great linux book. And yes i checked all the help files too.The Gnuttella forums were a bloody nightmare with pranksters giving 3 page bash instructions on how to create a Desktop link to the app.in SuSE(very funny stuff) It would be helpful to have a list of SuSE peculiarities. I think they are here on this very helpful list already though. Unfortuanetely i don't even like the LimeWire product now that it finally works and may try GTK Gnutella. Doing the above should get this product working and or update java.

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Two questions - restoring LILO versus NT boot, and Dynamic Disks / Windows XP
by Sean McGrath 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

I have upgraded my WinXP root Disk (C) to a Dynamic Disk. It's a u160 SCSI drive and I was seeing less than stellar performance under XP; upgrading to dynamic has brought back its speed. My problem is that it took my LILO MBR with it.. I now don't have access to my Suse 8.0 pro install. I can still boot in recovery mode and mount it, but can't seem to boot it. Wasn't there once a way to boot Linux directly from the Windows NT/XP startup screen? Make a third option for linux and use the "boot" command or some such? (Trying to remember back to Suse 6.4) If that's no longer an option, I am wondering if I do reinstall 8.0 Pro from scratch, will Suse have a problem writing Lilo to the MBR of a dynamic disk? If anyone can share some hints, I'd appreciate it. Thanks Sean

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