December 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: Any java expert there?
by Martin 22 Dec '03

22 Dec '03

Hi, I've setup new PC for family member (MS user) with SuSe8.2 and installed mozilla 1.5. She used to send ecard quite a lot but the url she used to go to doesn't want to play midi music. I've tested plugins for midi and it works just fine, I have java plugins 1.4.2 installed too. I've checked the page source and see it's java based but as I don't know anything about java I'm clueless. Below are first few line from that page, perhaps it's done the way mozilla 1.5 is not supported? Is there anything I can do besides install other browser then mozilla. Web page is http://www.all-yours.net, just in case someone would be interested to find out more why it is not working. Thx, Martin <html> <head> <script LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Opera') >= 0) { b = 'OP'; } else if ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE') >= 0) && (! navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 2') >= 0) ) { b = 'IEok'; } else if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Netscape6') >= 0) { b = 'NS6'; } else if (navigator.appName.indexOf('Netscape') != -1) { if (navigator.appVersion.substring(0,1) >= 4) { b = 'NS4'; } else if (navigator.appVersion.substring(0,1) == 3) { b = 'NS3'; } } __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/

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Corrected: Loads of problems upgrading to 2.4.18-4GB
by Steve King 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Got the kernal version wrong: I mean 2.4.18-4GB. Also, I installed from the RPM on the SUSE web site. Steve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5i6K94mqX5AIfgARAvMkAJ90/7MxpmazZb9cNy2Wpj+urPztCQCeLgRH b59U82g2fwhYfP0k4b3YVwo= =OI5s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Loads of problems upgrading to 2.4.18-10GB
by Steve King 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello I replaced my Suse 7.3 kernel to 2.4.18-10GB as recommended in the security announcements. It has been a disaster. After some tidying up initial problems (I could not boot because the instructions forgot to remind me to create a new boot floppy; once I solved that, startx was not working), I have 3 remaining problems: (a) My USB keyboard does not work, so I am using a borrowed regular keyboard at the moment. I suppose the problem is that there is no usbkbd.o module in the drivers like there was in 2.4.10-10GB. It is in the source, so how do I compile it? Any other missing dependencies? (b) My scanner is no longer detected. If I do scanimage -L, I get: No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). In the xconsole I get: Dec 21 23:19:16 linux kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Dec 21 23:19:16 linux kernel: scanner.c: write_scanner: NAK received. Also I get this at start up in xconsole, which I think is my scanner: Dec 21 22:48:10 linux kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x49f/0xe) is not claimed by any active driver. If I do lsmod, I can see scanner.o is present. (c) Windows on my KDE3.1.4 desktop runs slightly off the right hand edge. It means the "X" to close the wndow is just off the screen, which is very annoying, though not as serious as the other 2 problems. It is like the system thinks my screen is bigger than it is. Any ideas what to do? Any help appreciated. If not a solution to the above, how do I get back to using my old kernel? I have the lib diretcory for it still and also the sources. the security problem was probably no big deal for my PC as my firewall rules keep all externally-originated traffic out. Steve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5i0A94mqX5AIfgARAjBvAKC79tPlZa298f90KUIbBK1ECDd2PwCfTsZQ 1yreB3xDcxdWC40A8dSAE94= =gtLL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Problems with proxyarp
by Gary Ernst 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

I can't seen to delete a proxyarp entry on SLE 9.0 with /sbin/arp -i eth0 -d x.x.x.x pub. It seemed to work ok on SLE 8. Has the syntax changed or do I need to use a different method or is the arp coammand broken. Gary Ernst

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GRUB and FreeBSD
by Glenn Holmer 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

I've got SuSE 9.0 with GRUB as bootloader and want to also boot FreeBSD. Did the install of FreeBSD into /dev/hda3 and added this to menu.lst: title FreeBSD 5.1 root (hd0,2,a) kernel /boot/loader But I get "filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xA5. Error 17: cannot mount selected partition". Do I need another "stage_1_5" loader for the FreeBSD filesystem? -- ==================================================================== Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) ==================================================================== I think I am the product of three types of influences: the Vienna School for the language, Stravinsky and Bartok for the rhythmic impluse, and Debussy and Ravel for their preoccupation with sound. ==================================================================== -Pierre Boulez, 1998 ====================================================================

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Playing DVD's
by Simon Taplin 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Is there a specific way to get encryped DVD's to play with Suse 9.0 Pro or can I just follow the instructions on http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/>. The page listed in the Suse install screens about Xine didn't work for me. Thanks Simon

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File Saving Problem with OpenOffice Spreadsheet
by linuxworld999 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

While experimenting with Open Office at home, view to using it in the office instead of M$ Office, there was a problem saving a large soreadsheet using the version of OpenOffice packaged with SuSE 9.0. A sheet containing 6 columns and 31,000 rows of data could not be saved. The saving process does start but does not finish. Oddly, on a windows machine using OpenOffice, teh problem does not occur. The only difference is that the windows version was downloaded from OpenOffice's web site. After deleting the software using YaST2 and downloading and installing the latest version from OpenOffice's website, the problem was solved. I have quadrupled the data, 18 columns by 32,000 rows of data and file was saved. If anyone else is having this problem, this might help. Regards. LW999

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Re: [SLE] Synaptic Crashes
by Jerome Lyles 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

On Sunday 21 December 2003 09:46 am, Richard Bos wrote: > Op zondag 21 december 2003 20:37, schreef Jerome Lyles: > > On Saturday 20 December 2003 12:02 am, Richard Bos wrote: > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > > > gabber: Depends: libgal.so.21 > > > > E: Broken packages > > > > > > > > Why would Synaptic crash over this? > > > > > > What suse version are you running? > > > > Suse 9.0 > > > > > libgal.so.21 is suse-8.2 > > > apt-info> grep libgal.so.21 file* > > > file-8.2:opt/gnome/lib/libgal.so.21 Development_Libraries_C_and_C++/gal > > > file-8.2:opt/gnome/lib/libgal.so.21.1.1 > > > Development_Libraries_C_and_C++/gal > > > > > > gal is provided by the apt components: base or gnome2 (for suse9.0): > > > > > > apt-info> grep gal\; pkg-8.2 pkg-9.0 | grep -v src > > > pkg-8.2:gal;0.23-36;i586;base > > > pkg-9.0:gal;0.23-215;i586;gnome2 > > > pkg-9.0:gal;0.24-69;i586;base > > > > > > First guess is that you don't have the component base (gnome2) listed > > > in sources.list. > > > > rpm ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ SuSE/9.0-i386 update security > > base kde gnome2 xfree86 usr-local-bin suser-rbos > > Jerome, > > what is your conclusion from the information I provided you?? You: 'You'll find the answer, why the upgrade is not performed, in the output that comes after you hit the "Y" button, at that point rpm will called. It might be that rpm finds conflicting files. If so the upgrade will be stopped.' When I did the first apt upgrade (1403 packages) the upgrade process ran uninterrupted for 24 hours. When I did 'rpm -qa | grep some package' it showed that the package didn't have the latest version number. Maybe I needed to update the rpm db? When I used synaptic and checked the list of upgradable packages none had been upgraded. So I upgraded them using Synaptic in smaller batches. Sometimes Synaptic would quit on certain package upgrades which is unexpected > Do you think that apt is able to resolve dependencies that are not provided > by any packages? No I don't. When I ran apt upgrade on the 1403 packages it never quit, it downloaded but didn't upgrade. Synaptic would quit over certain packages but in the cases where this didn't happen Synaptic actually upgraded the package. I understand that apt upgrade works. But its not working for me, Synaptic is but apt upgrade isn't. Maybe I needed to upgrade the rpm db to show the changes apt upgrade made? > > Which synaptic version are you running? Is it the latest available > (try apt install synaptic). :~> rpm -qa | grep synaptic synaptic-0.47-rb2

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The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6
by Stanley Keymer 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Talking about kernel 2.6, anyone read the article by Joseph Pranevich titled "The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6" Thou of some length it's worth reading here is the link..... http://kniggit.net/wwol26.html - Stanley

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RE: [SLE] Reinstalling Grub on MBR
by Art Fore 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Tried suggestions from Marshall Heartley with no success. Booting from CDROM rescue Rescue lgin: root Rescue:~# mount /dev/hda6 /mnt cd /mnt chroot try 'chroot --help' for more information. Do the chroot --help and from what I understand from it, I do chroot newroot /mnt/usr/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda chroot: cannot change root directory to newroot: No such file or directory. I can do a ls /man/usr/sbin/grub-* and see the file. If I do chroot newroot ls /man/usr/sbin/grub-* I get the same error as above. Checked 4 linux books, there is nothing on chroot. Checked the web, all there is are man pages which do not help more than the chroot --help. Any suggestions? Art -- Sent using SuSE Linux and Ximian Evolution.

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