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Messed up somewhere...help
by Tom Duerbusch 10 Jun '03

10 Jun '03

Well, I have some time to work on this one as the system is still useable....but... This is Suse 8.1 with the default installation. A few months ago, I finally got around to defining an IP printer. Actually it is an IBM 4019e that is connected to an OS/2 box with the lpdeamon running. And it worked ok. I had a problem that it would print a garbage page prior to the actual printout. Somewhat like a LPR header. It had 4 lines of output with a line feed, but not a carriage return. But that isn't my current major problem. I tried to fix this problem. Eventually, when going though Control Center for printers, I got "No printing system installed. Choose the spooler to install and configure". I didn't really pay much attention to this message for several iterations of "trying". This is part of my current systems state. When I finally noticed (i.e. read) the message, I tried to install "LPRng". It just comes back to the same "No printing system installed." message. Same thing when selecting "CUPS full server installation". So, I decided to go back to the installation process and reinstall CUPS. Now, I get to the "big" current problem: When I go to "Install or remove software", it pops up with a major dependency conflict. I tried to cut and paste it here, but I couldn't "select", much less "copy". So, here is some things, I typed here: aaa_base 2002.11.5-1 conflict Conflicts with: Realplayer requires /etc/mailcap compat 2002.8.15-20 conflict Confllicts with: java2-jre requires libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 glibc 2.2.5-87 conflict required by: cups-libs requires ld.so.1 ghostscript-x11 requires ls.so.1 + 227 more.... conflicts with: dos2unix requires ld-linux.so.2 inetd requires ld-linux.so.2 + 82 more..... sh-utils 2.0-135 conflict conflicts with: sax2 requires /usr/bin/chroot My assumption is that somehow, a so.2 set of things got installed with the so.1 stuff. Now, I haven't applied any maintenance and the only things that have updated my system were from the installation CDs that came with the box. So, I'm at a loss on why there was a conflict to begin with. The conflict resolution wants to remove all 342 conflicting packages. That kind of sounds like my whole system. So, I will not be doing this until I have a good backup. Unfortunally, the last full backup was 3 months ago. At least that was a valid, operating, system. From a current backup, I should be able to restore all my user files. But hopefully, there is a way around this without a "full reinstall" or "full restore". Eventually, this type of option will not be available. But, perhaps others have hit this problem before and have some guideance. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

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Flightgear
by Hans Krueger 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

has anybody got Flightgear to run on 8.2 yet if so how thanks -- Hans hans007(a)prexar.com registered Linux user 289023 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

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V-Webmail issues..
by jrn＠oregonhanggliding.com 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

Hello all: I've been running a PHP webmail program on my system for a good length of time and suddenly after doing an online update to my 8.1 system the webmail program no longer works. It appears to authenticate the user fine ( I am using Cyrus IMAP and SASL2 DB ). However, after the login process it just redirects back to the login screen. It seems like perhaps session management has been messed up or something. Anybody have any clues or tips to track the problem down? Thanks, Jim

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SUSE REDOUBLES LINUX DESKTOP STRATEGY
by Fred A. Miller 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

SUSE REDOUBLES LINUX DESKTOP STRATEGY Posted June 08, 2003 9:00 PM Pacific Time Linux outfit SuSE is on the desktop offensive, with plans to unveil on Monday a desktop suite designed to take advantage of large IT infrastructures. Building out on the company's server-based Linux offerings, SuSE Linux Desktop is bundled with Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 6.0 and OpenOffice.org 1.0.2, although users can also install and use the latest versions of Microsoft Office. It also comes with five years free maintenance. For the full story: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/08/HNsusedesktop_1.html -- 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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Re: [SLE] Does SuSE deviate from "standards"
by GarUlbricht7＠netscape.net 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

>On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:34:28AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: >> >>> On 09-Jun-03 Patrick Shanahan wrote: >>> And *your* question has what to do with the thread "Enabling >>> /home/*/public_html to be seen in my web page" which you have >>> responded? >>> >> I think Patrick and others are being unduly harsh with Zach Smith's >> alleged "hijacking" of a thread. When I received his message it had >> simply the Subect: >> [SLE] Does SuSE deviate from "standards" >> However, from the headers in his message I see: >> In-Reply-To: <3EE3EF56.30404(a)okstate.edu> >> References: <c3.34a644fa.2c150739(a)aol.com> >> <20030608214341.GU5294(a)wahoo.no-ip.org> <3EE3DEB8.9080302(a)okstate.edu> >> <20030608233346.GY5294(a)wahoo.no-ip.org> <3EE3EF56.30404(a)okstate.edu> >> What seems to have happened here is that Zach sent a new message to the >> list by "reply"ing to an existing one (perhaps to save typing/looking up >> the list address), then clearing everything he could see (including the >> subject) and creating a totally new message (or so it seemed) -- but not >> realising that hidden below the surface there might be headers that >> referenced other messages in a thread. >> Hence _some_ people whose mail reader can identify the thread from these >> headers (which presumes that they have already retained other messages >> from the thread) will get the impression that the thread has been >> changed. >> But in Zach's message and headers as received by me there is no >> mention of "Enabling /home/*/public_html to be seen in my web page". >> So presumably anyone who saw that in the "Subject:" line as received >> by them had it put in there by their own system. Right or wrong ... ? Ted. On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 5:23 EST, Jerry A! <jerry-at-thehutt.org> wrote in reply (to Ted Harding): >: >: >: What seems to have happened here is that Zach sent a new message to the >: list by "reply"ing to an existing one (perhaps to save typing/looking up >: the list address), then clearing everything he could see (including the >: subject) and creating a totally new message (or so it seemed) -- but not >: realising that hidden below the surface there might be headers that >: referenced other messages in a thread. >: >: Hence _some_ people whose mail reader can identify the thread from these >: headers (which presumes that they have already retained other messages >: from the thread) will get the impression that the thread has been changed. >: >: But in Zach's message and headers as received by me there is no mention >: of "Enabling /home/*/public_html to be seen in my web page". So presumably >: anyone who saw that in the "Subject:" line as received by them had it >: put in there by their own system. >: >: Right or wrong ... ? > > I'm guessing that many of the people that had issue (and rightfully > so) were using mutt or MH, which correctly track via "References" and > the Message-Id's that the header contains. The text of the subject > may have been changed, but for all intents and purposes, the mail > still "said" that it was part of a previous thread. > > For further clarification, I suggest checking out RFC 2822. > > --Jerry Jerry and Ted, As you well know, the problem isn't _some_ people whose mail reader can identify the thread from these headers. (those using mutt or MH) It is also the fact that the SuSE mailing list archieves get messes up. http://lists.suse.com/archive/ And I don't understand all the permutations, but I do know with the Netscape email program I use if I hit reply, edit my text, change the "To" line and modify the Re line, i can break the thread on the archieve dispite the "hidden" headers --- and that is not what I wanted to do with my earlier reply to Zach Smith entitled: RE: [SLE] Does SuSE deviate from "standards" (long) BTW -- Zack did apologize -- but he broke the thread too. Zack -- what email program are you using ??? Was it mutt or MH ??? __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 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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printing latex file with kile
by Prabu Subroto 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

Dear my friends... I am absolutely new in LaTex. I am trying kile to make me easier learning LaTex. As the first experience, I wrote this passage : " \documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{letter} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \address{Prabu Subroto in Universitas Trisakti} \signature{your signature} \begin{document} \begin{letter}{name and address of the recipient} \opening{saying hello} \begin{large}SCO and Microsoft down but SuSE up\end{large} \\ \\ I don't understand why SCO is sueing IBM and Linux now, why not from the beginning. They now that Linux has the concept similar as UNIX since the beginning.\\ \\ I guess SCO just want to earn money from conflict through court. \closing{saying goodbye} %\cc{Cclist} %\ps{adding a postscript} %\encl{list of enclosed material} \end{letter} \end{document} " Now I want to print it, but I don't know how. If I just do "File-->Print Source" than I will only get the same print out result as the source code. I want the result as under below : " SCO and Microsoft down but SuSE up I don't understand why SCO is sueing IBM and Linux now, why not from the beginning. They now that Linux has the concept similar as UNIX since the beginning. I guess SCO just want to earn money from conflict through court. " How can I print it? What is "DVI"? Is it LaTex file? Thank you my friends... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com

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RE: [SLE] printing latex file with kile
by Quinlan, Grant 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

When I first installed Kile, I was trying to use pdfLatex to produce portable PDF files, and to use GhostScript to view them, mostly since these were the default settings tied to the function keys. I could not get either to work, but I downloaded the Linux PDF Viewer from Adobe, and set up the "Quick Build" on the "F1" key to go through the steps of Latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf -> launch Adobe, and everything has been working great for me ever since. I'm using Kile to manage and write "Z" specifications and getting excellent results. Now I wish I could find a good package for describing and adding "Petri Net" specification diagrams to my LaTeX documents. Grant Q -----Original Message----- From: wayne.king [mailto:king.812@osu.edu] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 4:27 PM To: Prabu Subroto; suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] printing latex file with kile Prabu, dvi stands for "device independent" if you excute latex on the file either through the tools option on kile or by simply typine latex lettter.tex at the command prompt. that, barring any errors, will generate a letter.dvi file. Under the tools menu in Kile you will find other options though depending on what you have installed like pdflatex which will create a .pdf file or a postscript option which is there as well. you can print a dvi file, obviously a .pdf file or a .ps script file and you won't see the latex source. there are also utilities like "dvips" which generate postscript files out of .dvi files and ps2pdf which well, it should be obvious what that does. wayne

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re: [SLE] new disk installation
by Greg Freemyer 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

I don't know with 6.1, but with newer SuSE versions it is easy. Install new drive as IDE 2 Master (/dev/hdc) Boot single user mode dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=8k Assuming your old disk is smaller that 40GB, use 'fdisk /dev/hdc' to create a new partition or 2 at the end of the disk. Format, mount and populate the partitions if you are going to move anything to them. poweroff Physically remove the old drive and make the new drive IDE 1 Master Boot as normal. Update your /etc/fstab to use the new partitions. Reboot to test fstab changes Greg -- Greg Freemyer >> Hello guys >> I have an old system running SuSE 6.1 and i want to add a new hard disk >> (40GB) >> and transfer everything from the old disk to the new one with the same >> distribution >> How can i do this? >> Probably i will run fdisk /dev/my2nddisk but after that what? >> I mean how i can transfer all the settings from the old disk to the new >> one >> without loosing any data? >> Thanks a lot >> -- >> 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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Suse 8.2: remote session of kde using exeed will not work automatic
by Carl Van Elsacker 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

Hello, Since last week after my upgrade (read a clean install) from Suse 8.0 to 8.2 i'm fighting a very strange problem. I want to start kde on top of my windows XP and use Exceed 7.0.0.0 to do it. My exceed command string is : export DISPLAY=192.74.233.15:0.0 ; startkde I create an exceed client shortcut to automate kde logon and use this shortcut to start kde. The only thing I see is the kde splash screen, and after all the initialization the desktop appears for a few seconds. Hereafter kde disappears. Enabling exceed's debug logging shows the following: export DISPLAY=192.74.233.15:0.0 ; startkde kbuildsycoca running... DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. Server has no DPMS extension >> running as realtime process now (priority 50) mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding KInternet session mode disabled. KInternet should be started from startkde. ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! I never have the same problem with suse 8.0 (and exceed 7.0.0.0). And strange enough when I start a manual telnet session and run my exceed command string manually everything seems to work fine. (in my telnet session I found also the same 'ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error!' error. Maybe exceed triggers this ? I have used linux software from the Suse 8.2 CD or installed by suse's online update.(because of my problem) Kde 3.1.1 XFree86-4.3.0-15 kdebase3-3.1.1-63 kdebase3-SuSE-8.2-78 Can someone please help me out ? On the internet I've found info about the DCOP error but nothing seems to help me. Fvwm seems to work. I do not found a way to start gnome remotely because startx doesn't run from a remote telnet session. (but that's another story I think) Thanks in advance en greetings, Carl Van Elsacker ICT system engineer

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[SLE] [suse-laptop] apa1480_cb pcmcia cardbus scsi missing in SuSE Linux 8.2?
by pj.info＠bluewin.ch 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

Hello, I am missing the pcmcia / cardbus driver for the Adaptec APA-1480 SCSI adapter in SuSE Linux 8.2 (pro). It has been there since a long time up to- and including SuSE Linux 8.1 (pro). The older pcmcia driver (aha152x_cs) for the non-cardbus APA-1460 SCSI adapter still being there. Is there any problem with this card? Any hints or using some other sources? Thank you, Best regards, Peter.

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