April 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Upgrading glibc
by Rick Friedman 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

Basically, the question is, how do I go about upgrading my SuSE 8.1 system from glibc-2.2.5 to glibc-2.3.x? I realize that some of my current programs may not work with 2.3.x but I'm interested in finding out what has to be done anyway. I may not do it, but I'd like to know. Thanks, Rick

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Wireless wep and security help
by Marcia 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

Dear All, I have finally my 3 computers networked wirelessly and working well. The Engenius 2511 pcmcia card works great with Suse 8 on my Compaq Presario 1700T laptop. The Siemens card was supposed to work with Linux but I just did not have the know how to get it to so put it in my husband's Win 98 computer and that works fine there. The Siemens SpeedStream wireless router/print server works just fine so far except I could not get the printing part to work yet. I am sure it is because of me and not the machine. The only problem is wep. I have not been able to get that to work. It is done in a browser for each machine. It is my understanding that you are supposed to do the client machines first then your server machine last. Well once I get a key and everything identical I cannot get on the net on my 2 client machines. Actually once I setup one browser then I cannot even get into the proper web page on any other machine for setup. Does anyone know how to do this? I am hearing that wep is not so secure anyway. What about setting up ssh, ssl, or IPsec instead? I am not familiar with any of them but would they keep snoops roaming around the neighborhood from getting into my network? Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Marcia

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Evolution not working after 8.2 upgrade.
by Tom Nielsen 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

When I had 8.0 Evolution and spell checking worked fine. I upgraded to 8.2 then added Rubber Turnip's Evolution (used to be Ximian) and I can't get spell checking to work. I added all the following files from RT also: aspell, gal2, gnome-spell, gtkhtml, libgsf from the Rubber Turnip site also. No luck. Any thoughts? If I uninstall Evolution, am I going to lose my email folders? Thanks, Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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pppd not ending
by Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

Hi, For some strange reason since a few days ago I am having trouble with wvdial and pppd. What happens is that I dialup from a console using wvdial, then when I want to disconnect I issue a SIGINT (ctrl+C) and wvdial says that is is exiting ok and that cuts the connection (I believe it also even brings down ppp0, havent check though) but if I pick up a phone from my house , I still here the typical noice of an internet connection... Any ideas of what could this be ? Software involved: $ uname -a Linux sofia 2.4.18 #6 Sun Nov 17 14:55:43 PYST 2002 i586 unknown (vanilla) $ rpm -q wvdial wvdial-1.41-170 $ rpm -q ppp ppp-2.4.0-5 Below is my /etc/ppp/options file: noauth debug crtscts lock modem asyncmap 0 nodetach lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 4 idle 600 noipx mtu 576 Thanks, Raul

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Quicky question...
by John 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

Hey gang, Still having troubles umounting either my windows partition and/or my SuSE 8.0 partition unless *all* instances of konqueror are closed/killed, and anything to do with kiothumbnails. If any one of these is still running, I get the 'can't umount <partiton>, busy' popup. Any ideas how to fix this? Also, my webcam worked fine in 8.0, but doesn't in 8.2, and following a few ideas I've read in the list here, I want to try first the 'apci=off', but can't for the life of me remember where I should put it or what I should do *after* I put it where it belongs, to test if it did the trick. I chose to use LILO during installation (I'm sort of used to it, so went with it) if that helps anyone with this. Thanks in advance. John -- A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin eats butterflies.

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Re: [SLE] Damaged DVD's
by Mark Gray 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

"knesbitt" <knesbitt(a)nucleus.com> writes: > Nope...DVD #1 stalls at same point "YaST2 Evaluating package selection" . > Can't do anything from this point. > Whats this about a DVD bug and combo drives?? This is obviously not a > scratched disc issue. > > Kirby Yes -- that is similar to the 8.1 bug -- the solution is listed on: Title SDB: Installing SuSE Linux 8.1: No Package Selection Available URL http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/mlasars_8.1_dvdinstall.html My laptop exhibited the bug on 8.1, but I haven't gotten around to upgrading it to 8.2 -- on 8.1 I accidentally hit upon one of the solutions they mention: Alternatively, you can also select "Abort Installation" both in the current menu and in the subsequent window to access linuxrc. Once in linuxrc, press Enter three times to restart the installation process. [end quote] They haven't many bugs listed on: Title SDB: Known Problems and Special Features in SuSE Linux 8.2 URL http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/bugs82.html But you might look through for 8.1 leftovers on: Title SDB: Known Problems and Special Features in SuSE Linux 8.1 URL http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/bugs81.html Hope this helps.

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Squirrelmail
by Jym Brittain 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

I just did a clean install of 8.2 including squirrelmail. I ran through the squirrelmail config and cant get the thing to work. Would someone help a lamer with a walkthrough to getting it working? I'm getting the dreaded "Unknown user or password incorrect" error while using proper ID information. uw imap is installed as well as openldap2

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SLES8 & SuSE 8.2 are happy here
by Hans Forbrich 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

Just a quick note that on my systems, SuSE 8.2 and SLES 8 installed totally automagically and are currently running quite happily. Everything autodetected beautifully. These are company's lab machines & system configurations (identical systems for each): MB: ASUS A7V8X Onboard GBLan, Audio CPU: Athalon XP 2500+ Barton Memory: Kingston 2x512 MB Video: ATI Radeon 7000 / 32M CD: LiteOn DVD HD: Seagate 80GB Mouse: Logitech cordless 3-button non-wheel KVM: Belkin OmniView SE 4-port (MB capabilities of Firewire, SPID/SPOUT and USB 2.0 have not been checked - I don't need them yet). I ack. that there is nothing special about these machines (other than speed) and YMMV on fancier systems, epecially around graphics. I thought it important to note that the above config is OK and had a seamless install. Thanks SuSE /Hans

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KDE 3.1 upgrade gone wrong; SuSE 8.1. Loggin screen problems(?)
by Lars Forseth 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

Hi! I have done something stupid, in frustration at trying to upgrade to KDE 3.1 i deleted my /opt/kde3 dir's. Why? Well, I tried the following: 1. 'rpm -Fvh --nodeps *.rpm' and then 'rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm'. But I always ended up with warious dependencies prblems. So in a spat of delirious frustration I did this stupid thing. Now the result: when I start the PC get the old (original 8.1) login screen. And I onle get the choice between an 'default' and 'failsafe' loggin. When I chose default I then get a blue background screen with a lone x-term window. I can then enter 'kde' here and kde3.1 starts up! How to rectify this situation? (If I try to start d.e windowmaker or another windowmanager I get an error and ends up back at the original 8.1 login screen. regards larsf -- ----------------------------------------------- Lars Forseth Nord-Trøndelag Fylkeskommune http://folk.uio.no/forseth ------------------------------------------------

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A bit of a rant
by Mike Grello 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

Here is a tip for SuSE (and increasingly most Linux distros), if I wanted Windows I would've bought Windows. If you are going to treat the user like an idiot, then (s)he should not have to have some smarts to fix what you broke. Power went out the other day, when it returned the terminal switch was pointed to another machine. The SuSE machine noticed it did not have it's (USB) mouse, so it started up YaST, when I switched to the SuSE system, I cancelled it, because I didn't want to make any changes. Upon bootup the mouse didn't work. Not a big problem for me because: 1. I have a backup of the XF86Config file (actually XF86Config.YaST.save). 2. I have another Linux system (no help, this time, down with a hw problem) 3. I know what I am doing. Which are also all reasons I did not need the "help" that caused the problem to begin with, however someone who needed "help" would have been down for a while. Honestly, I (and I am sure many others) am fleeing Windows screaming and flailing; please don't make Linux into another Windows.

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