May 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE 8.2 - various issues
by George Reynolds 09 May '03

09 May '03

HI. I am having problems with my SuSE 8.2. Every now and again the taskbar crashes (very windows 95). It pops back up within seconds, but never the less it does crash. Also my X server freezes (keyboard/mouse) when I switch to the F10 (var/log/messages) console the back again. It hasn't crashed the box, just the keyboard/mouse doesn't work (external ones don't work either). Wondered if this was a Nvidia driver bug (I have a Gforce2 latest drivers). Has anybody else experienced this. I never had any problems with SuSE 8.1 Do you think it is worth re-installing KDE 3 because it was not updated with SuSE 8.2 (my version was later). It therefore is running the KDE 3.1 compiled for SuSE 8.1 and not 8.2. On a positive note, I have just got a firewire card for my PC card slot. It works great and my firewire CD drive is working perfectly. However, if I wasn't a linux user, I wouldn't know, because although it popped up saying it had been detected, and it set it up in Yast2, it didn't add an entry in /etc/fstab. I had to do it manually. Not a problem, just something SuSE needs to work on if they are aiming for the beginners. I had multiple crashes/freezes when Sax2 was testing my video display modes and the other day, I decided to go into Sax2 to see if I could fix this. This resulted in my video card being stuck at a lower resolution, and it wouldn't go back to 1600*1800 however hard I tried ( I think the LCD was not set up correctly). It works now, in full screen mode, however I do get these crashes. Just as a point on the slash screen, why dont they put 'SuSE 8.2 linux'? My USB drives now all work, which is very good news. However imici (www.imici.com) doesn't work and come up with a segmentation fault everytime u try to sign in (it sits there fine as long as u don't sign in). I have tried deleting the confiuration files and starting from scratch, but it still does it. I can't understand it. I have a nice sticker on my laptop now, which came with the CDs :D

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some non-ttf are not displayed after upgrade xf86
by Verdi March 09 May '03

09 May '03

After I upgrade to XFree86-4.3.0 (for 8.1), now my KDE could not display certain non-truetype fonts, such as Helvetica, Times, Terminal, Lucida*, Fixed, Clearyu, Clean, and Charter. Any ideas? -- -- Verdi March --

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Konq -> Mozilla
by Michael Satterwhite 09 May '03

09 May '03

I was trying to import bookmarks from Konqueror into Mozilla last night, but couldn't find an option for this on the import menu. What procedure can be used to transfer my Konq bookmarks to Mozilla?

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Re: [SLE] document management sw
by James Oakley 09 May '03

09 May '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 May 2003 06:32 pm, oguzeren wrote: > Well, I'm a home user; and generally use my system to install things, > learn linux; and programming in linux.I need root priveleges too much > that i gave up signing on as a user. > > Besides, i'll loose nothing but time, if i break it someday. > > But any further suggestment will be appreciated, thanks. Ok. I assume that you have a user setup. All you have to do is run: 'sux <user> -c "<command>"' or under KDE: 'kdesu -l <user> <command>' On the login as root issue, when I started using Linux in 1993 I always logged in as root. "I know what I'm doing," I thought. As time went on and I became more comfortable, I realised that it was a bad thing. I was *too* comfortable with it and was more inclined to hit the enter key without thinking. For a specific story involving Linus himself, I will quote from http://liw.iki.fi/liw/texts/linux-anecdotes.html : "At one point, Linus had implemented device files in /dev, and wanted to dial up the university computer and debug his terminal emulation code again. So he starts his terminal emulator program and tells it to use /dev/hda. That should have been /dev/ttyS1. Oops. Now his master boot record started with "ATDT" and the university modem pool phone number. I think he implemented permission checking the following day." - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley(a)solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+u5+U+FOexA3koIgRApeKAKC10Q0Hvrn+U5a8Bgxf/cNptAa++wCgktzt o28+A1sjCrlEejMru5egYJU= =f3y0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [SLE] Applixware
by GarUlbricht7＠netscape.net 09 May '03

09 May '03

[SLE] Applixware From: Michael George (george_at_mutualdata.com) Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 17:19:52 CEST Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ] Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 11:19:52 -0400 From: Michael George <george(a)mutualdata.com> Message-ID: <20030508111952.B11015(a)brutus.pewamo.office> Subject: [SLE] Applixware Hello! I am still using Applixware 5.0 under RHL 7.2 and even though it is now defunct I still find it my favorite suite. Since Applixware was first offered with SuSe and 5.0 was reported to work with SuSe 6.x, I am hoping I can install it on an 8.2 system and it will work. Anyone out there have Applixware 5.0 running under SuSe 8.2? Thanks! -Michael *********************** I had already deleted your email when i read: Subject: Re: [SLE] Can't install WordPerfect 8 on SuSE 8.2 Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 19:12 EST >From "O'Smith" <penguin0601(a)earthlink.net> ---- snip --- (Who asked:) Did you install the shlibs5 rpm from your SuSE cds? You will need those to run WP8 (and probably Applixware too) on the newer distros. These are the old libs needed to run the old programs not supported now. Once you have those libs installed, WP8 (Applixware) should start right from the (your sourcce). If you only have the downloaded version, then it should be accessible from the shell. Patrick (note i edited slightly Patrick's email--- but i think his answer applies to your situation. If I am wrong i am sure somebody will correct me (I hope I did this right so your thread isn't messed up) __________________________________________________________________ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455

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Problem with traceroute
by Michael Satterwhite 09 May '03

09 May '03

I'm having a problem with traceroute. When I run it (e.g. traceroute weblore.com) it pauses for a bit, then prints out a series of hops with absolutely no information. After a bit, it repeats this. Here's a sample output: linux:/home/michael # traceroute weblore.com traceroute to weblore.com (198.65.246.22), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 * * * 2 * * * 3 * * * 4 * * * 5 * * * 6 * * * Is there something I'm missing?

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Microsoft nicking Apple ideas again(OT)
by Fred A. Miller 09 May '03

09 May '03

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9334 -- Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Pro & KMail 1.5.1 Never forget: At Microsoft, the engineering department are the Ferengi... The marketing and legal departments are the Borg!

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Applixware or WordPerfect
by Rich3800＠aol.com 09 May '03

09 May '03

Whether it's Applixware or WordPerfect, I'm wary of committing to any software that's not open source. Each of us has only so much time available, so it pays to maximize it. As we can see with Microsoft software which, with each upgrade, new documentation has to be procured. Microsoft has one of the worst record as far as backward compatibility goes, making learning past software outdated. I want to make my learning of software as efficient as possible, to avoid wasting time. Evolution, not revolution.

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Can't install WordPerfect 8 on SuSE 8.2
by Z_God 09 May '03

09 May '03

When I try to run the installer, it says: ./install.wp: line 362: linux/ins/wpinstg: Unkown file or directory While that file does exist. When I run it directly, I get: bash: ./wpinstg: Unkown file or directory What is happening??? How can it say that the file I'm trying to run doesn't exist while I even completed it with TAB? Thanks in advance, Z

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Icons not being put into menus
by MaC 09 May '03

09 May '03

Hi, I know this is a problem with SuSE, as the programs I'm trying to install all put the correct menu icon in under, Redhat, Slackware, Debian, but when I install any 3rd party app, (sometimes, ok 89% of the time) the menu for it is displayed, but no icon. After looking at the file responsable for it it seems that SuSE is for some reason not adding the extension on, so its reading: 'sof' rather than 'sof.xpm'. I must admit I have recently moved over to SuSE from RH, and so far impressed, apart from this, its the silly small things like this thats making me use redhat for certain things, yes I know its a silly gripe, but if SuSE wants tyo make it on the desktop, things like this must *not* happen Any help would be gret Cheers Mark -- Please be aware that I do not read or reply to messages with attachments in any proprietary format. Please send attachments in any standards compliant format. Proprietary format attachments are a major obstacle to the broader adoption of GNU/Linux. Remember: Competition is good for business; Proprietary denies choice..

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