January 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Strange kde behavior
by Mozzi 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

Hallo all I just converted my office machine to Suse 8.1 (@last) I just have a verey strange problem I have run online update and have all the newest updates on my machine including kde 3.0.4 Now the problem..... I run kde, my kicker panel and evereythong else is kde but my desktop is gnome!! I don't understad it, logging out and in again does't help at all. Anybody seen this before? Mozzi

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Firewire Drive
by Linux World 999 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

A firewire PCI host adapter is attached to a PC running SuSE 8.1. The controller has been detected by SuSE. An Iomega Perless firewire drive is attached to the controller but cannot be accessed. During the boot process, the lights flash and stay on while the PC is switched. On another PC, which is a Toshiba laptop, with a PCMCIA firewire adapter the drive is automatically recognised and ready for use using Linux. Can anyone offer any assistance to install the drive on the first PC?

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SuSE 8.1 YOU Not working Err: autoyast2-9032
by Chris Geske 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

Just installed 8.1. Online update did not work at first, so changed /etc/wgetrc to passive ftp. YOU picked up the YOU update and installed. Went back into YOU to get the rest of the updates, and after selecting a ftp server and hitting next, after a few moments, I get YOU pukes, and I get the following error: Err: autoyast2-9032 I've done everything the SDB suggested, copying files into SelDB and ProdDB, etc. Nothing works. Any ideas. Chris Geske LIMS Manager Northern Lake Service, Inc. ph: 715-478-2777 email: lims(a)newnorth.net

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] missing adduser command
by noel scott 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

Thanks, yes, you're right, I did mean useradd. The reason I couldn't find or access it when I went to look for it was that I was probably not logged in as root. Thanks again. Noel Scott ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [SLE] missing adduser command Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 01:20:04 -0600 From: Jay Vollmer <jvollmer(a)visi.com> To: Noel Scott <nmscott(a)shaw.ca>, suse-linux-e(a)suse.com On Thursday 02 January 2003 01:05, Noel Scott wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed the current version of Suse and tried to add a user but > the adduser command doesn't exist on my system. > > Can anyone tell me how I can add this command or otherwise fix this > problem? You probably mean useradd. It's in /usr/sbin/ -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER(a)VISI.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com -------------------------------------------------------

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Recycling ....
by James Hatridge 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

HI all, Now that Christmas and New Years holidays are over and you have had time to put your new computer parts in, what are you going to do with the old parts & systems? How about recycling them? It's better than letting the stuff become hi-tech doorstops and it's much better than stuffing the local landfill with parts that will sit there for 1000's of years. I can use anything on the list below: Hard Disks of 4gb or bigger (bigger is better <G>) Memory 72pin --- 16mb, 32mb, or 64mb 168pin -- 64mb or bigger 56k modem cards CDroms 4x are fine ( got a DVD laying around? <G>) CD-RW burners of any speed LS-120 drives Zip drives ( I can use Zip 100 Disks too) internal cables IDE / SCSI Mother Boards -- Anything above PI For example I have an AMD slot A CPU but no MoB for it CPUs PI 233mhz and up CPU Fans PI type Video cards with more than 8mb memory or 3D types 100mbs network cards #### Odds & ends -- anything special or odd.. I might have missed it or just never thought about it. #### I can not afford to pay you for any of this stuff. But if you send me anything I'll take care of the postage (surface only, ie cheap) by sending you US dollars (personal check, I've got an account in the US). An € account in Germany too. BETTER , if you are a stamp collector, would be me sending you German FDCs (I have West German, Berlin, & DDR) or German stamps, we can work something out, I'm sure. Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ BayerWulf Linux System # 129656 The Recycled Beowulf Project Looking for throw-away or obsolete computers and parts to recycle into a Linux super computer

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installing Nagios
by Prengel, Ralf 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

Has anyone an easy installation-manual for nagios under suse 8.1 I ve several problems to configure and run nagios and would like to check some points before aksing here. Ralf Prengel

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Epson ESC/P2 Display Program?
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

Happy New Year, Folks! I'm looking for a Linux program which will render on screen what should be printed by an Epson printer stream in Epson's "ESC/P2" code. Reason: I have a file of such data ("printed to file"). When output to a printer (Epson SQ-1170), it does not print correctly. I want to check whether it is the printer which may be at fault, or whether the data is incorrect (as output by a printer driver for this printer under Win98). Since it seems to consist almost entirely of binary (graphics) data, it is very hard to check it by hand, though various experimental cross-checks strongly suggest that the error is in the data stream. An independent program which should render the data stream correctly would probably clinch the matter. Any suggestions? Best wishes to all for 2003! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 02-Jan-03 Time: 14:18:38 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Using extra buttons on Logitech-MX500 mouse
by Vitaly Shishakov 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

Hi, all! Happy new Year and merry X-mass you all! I obtained a new Logitech MX-500 mouse, it has wheel, two extra butons acting like wheel (handy, when you scroll a long way down), and one extra button on its top, and two extra buttons on the side. (over all -- 8 buttons) Does anyone know how can i bind them to some KDE-actions? Thank you in advance. Vitaly

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Evolution/Gnumeric/X-Chat/Gabber updates
by James Ogley 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

Updated today on www.usr-local-bin.org * Evolution - built with LDAP support * Gnumeric - updated to 1.1.15 - fairly stable apparently, would be looking at releasing were there a graphing system for GNOME2 * X-Chat - updated to 1.9.8 - probably the last 'unstable' release before 2.0.0 * Gabber - added SSL support - added XMMS support (dunno what this does, but someone might want to use it... Happy New Year -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james(a)rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter(a)myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.1) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

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qt bindings crocked
by Kenneth Payne 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

I'm having some problems with my python qt bindings setup on SuSE 8.1 A python program like this import sys from qt import * # create application object myApp = QApplication(sys.argv) segfaults when it gets to creating the QApplication. I have qt 2.3.2 and qt 3.0.5 installed. There is a qt2 symlink and a qt3 symlink. I'm using Python 2.2.1 Essentially my setup is an out-of-the-box clean install of SuSE 8.1 - I selected python and the qt bindings using YAST2, so it should all "just work". Am I missing something like a QTDIR environment variable? I've tried exporting both QTDIR as /usr/lib/qt2 and QTDIR as /usr/lib/qt3. I get the same seg fault. Or is it some problem with versions of qt? Any suggestions? I should also point out that there is something fishy about my qt environment generally as programs like Knights find unresolved library calls at runtime. The rpm of Knights 0.5.6 for SuSE 8.0 from the Knights website gives the following runtime error : knights: relocation error: knights: undefined symbol: __ti7QWidget In the same way, previously a previously working version of Quanta Gold also give runtime errors. As far as I can recall, I had none of this trouble with SuSE 8.0 - Ken

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