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Papaya
by James Ogley 27 Jun '03

27 Jun '03

Updated on www.usr-local-bin.org today: * Papaya - Updated to latest CVS - Includes a patch to fix the connection keep-alive facility James -- 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 8.2) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

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Couple of problems I hope I can get a solution for...
by Jose J. Cintron 27 Jun '03

27 Jun '03

I'll try to explain as best as I can... (BTW I'm new to SuSE, trying to get away from RedHat) 1. Can't play DVDs on my newly installed SuSE box (using SuSE 8.2 Pro). with Xine. I downloaded the libdvdcss from about 4 different site all with the same results as soon as I select DVD Xine crashes and burns. I even went as far as downloading Xine from packman.links2linux.org un-installing the default xine and re-installing the newly downloaded. 2. Problem I try to install Nessus on this box and found out that gtk is not fully distributed on the CDs (can anyone tell me where I can get gtk-config for the version of gtk that ships with 8.2) TIA for any help! -- +------------------------------------------ | José J. Cintrón - <jcintron(a)mitre.org> +------------------------------------------

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With Linux: Palm OS or Symbian?
by Patriiiiiiiiiick 27 Jun '03

27 Jun '03

Hello! I have the intention of buying some kind of smartphone soon and I wonder what is the best one to synchronise wiht Linux: Palm OS or Symbian? Thank you for your point of view! Patrick

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Re: [SLE] windows xp overwrites the linux boot manager (YET NOT SOLVED)
by Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva 27 Jun '03

27 Jun '03

Last night, I tried to rebuild my boot loader. I made use of $/sbin/lilo and now I my PC can load the green main graphical menu before starting any O.S. Choosing the option Linux isn't yet a so good idea. Some errors appeared: read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev03:0a, block 64, size 1024) read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev03:0a, block 8, size 1024) kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:0a Reading the tutorial LILO-crash-rescue-HOWTO that comes with SuSE CD #1 it is said to add some lines to fstab > Edit /etc/fstab (not /rootpart/etc/fstab) and put (sample code given > here) - > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > /dev/hda4 /rootpart ext2 defaults 1 1 > /dev/hda5 /rootpart/boot ext2 defaults 1 1 > /dev/hda6 /rootpart/usr ext2 defaults 1 1 > /dev/hda7 /rootpart/var ext2 defaults 1 1 > /dev/hda8 /rootpart/opt ext2 defaults 1 1 > /dev/hda9 /rootpart/root ext2 defaults 1 1 > /dev/hda10 /rootpart/home ext2 defaults 1 1 > /dev/hda11 /rootpart/win95part vfat defaults 1 1 > (In this case I already know that my /boot, /usr, /bar, ...partitions are on hda6) Sorry I'm a beginner and I don't know whether it applies or not to me. 'Could you help again? a. Anders Johansson escreveu: >On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 16:20, Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva wrote: > > >>So, as Ken suggested too, I should use the command >> >>/usr/sbin/grub_install /dev/hda >> >> > >Are you saying you have that command? On my machine it's grub-install, >not grub_install. > >When you log in to the rescue system, you should > >mkdir tmpdir >mount /dev/hda6 tmpdir >cd tmpdir >chroot . (note the space and dot) >grub-install /dev/hda > > > >

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Re: [SLE] windows xp overwrites the linux boot manager (YET NOT SOLVED)
by Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva 27 Jun '03

27 Jun '03

As I said in another e-mail, alternatly, I used /sbin/lilo and it worked. By now, the boot loader is ok and it is launching the linux OS. Just the SuSE O.S. is not loading properly. It stops in these errors (already explained in an another e-mail): > read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev03:0a, block > 64, size 1024) > read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev03:0a, block > 8, size 1024) > kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:0a I'm going to think I have two options ahead: 1.now that LILO can load, discocer how set my fstab and enable my root partition (sorry for being ignorant) 2.try to boot the installed OS througth a floppy to recover it In both case, I don't know either what to do it. a. David Chapman escreveu: >On Friday 27 June 2003 12:33, you wrote > > >>In english should be: "Partitions could not be mounted. Check the log >>file ..." >> >> > >This happened to me not long ago. My sysem did boot after a couple of tries. >But in the end I made a Grub boot floppy to boot the system. >If you have files you realy must recover have a look at >http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ >Once you have a Grub boot floppy you can boot from it by passing a couple of >parameters to it. >Took me a couple of days to figure it out thought. >---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >"My feet are small for the same reason my waist is small -- things don't >grow in the shade." -- Dolly Parton > > > > -- Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva Bibliotecário FIOCRUZ-Centro de Pesquisa Aggeu Magalhães Fone 81 3302-6515

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adding an installation source
by Peter Evans 27 Jun '03

27 Jun '03

Warning: posting by a newbie, IQ <70. On another SuSE list, Mike Fabian announced the availability of such files as ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/ebview-0.3.0-0.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/foks-fpw-1.1-0.i586.rpm Wanting both (and perhaps more later from the same source), I went into YaST Control Center (of 8.2 Personal) to tell it that I wanted to add the ftp source "ftp.suse.com" and directory "/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/". There was a delay, and then the error message: "Unable to create installation source from URL 'ftp://ftp.suse.com//pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/' "Details "ERROR(InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media)" I can only guess what that might mean. Thinking that there might be just a temporary glitch with ftp.suse.com, I thereafter tried it several times over the last two days. Same (non-) result. The only variation has been the time it has taken for that error message to appear. All right then, what have I totally misunderstood this time? (Incidentally, I don't know why there's a double slash -- "com//pub" -- as the dupe arises even if I specify "ftp.suse.com" minus terminating slash. Neither do I know what effect the extra slash might have, if any.)

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Re: [SLE] windows xp overwrites the linux boot manager (YET NOT SOLVED)
by Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva 27 Jun '03

27 Jun '03

Hello David, I did what suggested. My Linux was almost launched - an error occured: > Partições não podem ser montadas. Verifique o arquivo de log > /var/log/y2log [OK] In english should be: "Partitions should not be mounted. Check the log file ..." a. David Chapman escreveu: >On Thursday 26 June 2003 15:04, Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva wrote: > > > >>The option Installed system drives me to the Win XP boot manager instead >>of my SuSE Linux 8.1, as have been sugested. >> >> >> >Try booting from the SuSE cd and select "New Installation" >then after selecting the language you get to choose again "New Installation" > "Upgrade an installed system" > "Boot installed OS" >Select "Boot installed OS" this will scan for a root partion . And hopfully >give you a choice of XP or SuSE > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >"My feet are small for the same reason my waist is small -- things don't >grow in the shade." -- Dolly Parton > > > > -- Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva Bibliotecário FIOCRUZ-Centro de Pesquisa Aggeu Magalhães Fone 81 3302-6515

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desktop icons not staying sorted
by David Chapman 27 Jun '03

27 Jun '03

The icons on my desktop will not stay sorted. Any ideas.

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Cut it out!
by David Krider 27 Jun '03

27 Jun '03

Here we go with yet another waste of bandwidth post, but anyway... If you've got more than 4 lines of sig, make a web page, put your paradigm-shifting, world-altering, crime-ending, poverty-fixing, homeless-sheltering information on that, and GIVE US A LINK. And when you reply to a post that has excess verbiage for a sig, CUT IT OFF before sending the reply. I just read 4 lines of reply on a post that had something like 30 lines of sig. Gimme a break. (I guess I should be grateful that at least the response I just read was on the bottom of the original post, and not on the top.) And note that this IS perfectly relevant to THIS list, and therefore NOT off-topic, and so it's not marked that way. While I'm at it, if your company forces every email you send to have 30 lines of legal-disclaiming boilerplate, at least GET A FREE ACCOUNT somewhere to handle your mailing list traffic. None of us care. Does anyone honestly look for answers from this list that need not be checked for veracity before putting them into production? Again, gimme a break. On second thought, I take it back. The _least_ you could do is figure out how to configure your email client on your SuSE GNU/Linux wokstation to just use binmail and avoid your company's additions. Regards all, dk

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Wireless network
by Bill Wisse 27 Jun '03

27 Jun '03

Hi all After reiving on this morning about this wireless island, I have to find a solution now to hook in to this. As most ( apart from two) computers here run Windoze I have to get my wireless card working or if I cannot I have to go back to W$$%^&#. The wireless PCI adapter I have here is a Netgear 11Mbs 802.11b 32 bit PCI MA311. ( again the SuSe hardware database is not very helpfull) Does anyone know if this will work with my SuSE 8.2? Or have any other recommendation? Thanks for any input Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. My holy cow is a penguin.

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