September 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

BIND patch to "fix" verisign...
by Jose de Paula Eufrasio Junior 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hello there... SuSE has released some update with the patched bind that allows the "delegation only" option to be set and stop verisign "utility"? If not, someone has made an RPM, RPM-patch? thanks. []s jjunior -- José de Paula Eufrásio Júnior Analista de Sistema | CPD ProInternet do Brasil

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Repair cups from command line
by mark bannister 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Well, I celebrated too soon. After changing my motherboard all was well until I tried to reconfigure my extra parallel ports. I screwed up Cups somehow and now system won't start. Cups fails to start then system Hangs when Samba waits for Cups to start. I have no clue how to configure these things from a command line. I thought I could run YaST from command line, but I can't seem to figure that out either. I am booting from the rescue system. Can someone kindly point me in the right direction? Mark B.

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Dell Flat Monitor
by Sergio Dominguez 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi all, just installed Suse 8.2 Pro in my desktop (in my laptop it gave no problems!) and it looks like it cannot find the right monitor. I have a 15" flat monitor, and I have tried the 1503FP and a standard LCD 1024x768@75Hz In both cases Sax2 fries when doing the test (mouse not working and no response to keyboard) (I got those from looking through the list) If in any case I get to a not too bad (which means black margins on the screen) configuration and I save... well it hangs with a black screen and cursor blinking. Has anyone sorted out this monitor? Thanks, Sergio -- Didja hear about the dyslexic devil worshipper who sold his soul to Santa?

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Re: [SLE] Newbie
by Maureen Crothall 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

WOW!! So much help, so fast. I thank you all for the words of encouragement. Although it's now my THIRD choice, I do think SUSE is the one. Some have told me I'm over-researching and reading on Linux but I want to be sure. I have three weeks before I'm going to be really REALLY busy with my daughters wedding and family over from England, I'm thinking I might take the plunge now. You may hear from me again very soon. Thanks again. Maureen.

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Floppy and DVD/CDRW Drive in same laptop bay
by William Westfall 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Does anyone know how I get SuSE 8.2 to allow me the privilege of using both the floppy and CDRW in the same bay on my Panasonic T-72 laptop. I currently have the CDRW/DVD drive in the bay and it works great, but there are those occasions when I need the floppy, which goes into that bay also, what would be the procedure for swapping and activating so I have access to both? Thanks in Advance

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Confab not working
by Damian Buckley 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

We are using Suse Linux version 8.1 and we have a crontab set up - recently the crontab stopped running and without rebooting the machine I want to know a) what could have happened and b) how I can get the cron to start working again? I have restarted the cron deamon without any effect, restarted the networking side of the machines i.e interfaces, restarted inetd..... In need of help Thanx in advance Damian _____ Damian Buckley I.T Assistant Federation of Small Businesses The information contained in this email is strictly confidential and for the use of the addressee only. Notice is hereby given that any disclosure, use or copying of the information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited and may be illegal. If you have received this message in error please notify the sender immediately by return email. The sender and the FSB do not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of software viruses and advises that you carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachment.

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8.2 text install on vmware 4
by Eugene Salinas 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi everyone, I'm new to the list as I'm trying to install SuSE 8.2 and am having some issues. I'm trying to install SuSE 8.2 in VMWare 4. So I followed the instructions and installed using the text mode installer. However, I must have missed something because it didn't ask me whether I want to install the X server or not. VMware says to install text mode only so that you can put the tool on later and then use sax2. The install proceeded to the end in text mode only to see that at the first boot it started loading kde and after that I couldn't figure out how to install the vmtools and reconfigure the screen. Any ideas of what I'm missing? thanks a lot, eugene.

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FAT32 question
by Frits Wuthrich 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

every time I copy or move a file from a reiserfs partition to a FAT32 partition, I get the error message 'could not change permissions for [filename]'. This is the line in fstab for this drive/partition: /dev/hdb1 /windows/F vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,users,gid=users,umask=0002,code=437 0 0 Although I get the error message, the file gets copied anyway. I use SUSE8.1 or WinXP on this box. I am not sure what is going on, but I suspect the permission is set incorrectly for this windows partition? -- Frits Wuthrich <frits(a)wuthrich.cc>

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Re: [SLE] Laptop Wireless
by Branton Boehm 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

I'm reposting this, because I think that it's been pushed down far enough that people aren't seeing it. Basically, I've got my internal wireless card setup as my eth-pcmcia-0 device. Someone said something about how it should be bridged to eth1 and then I can use it. It doesn't seem to be doing that. Can anyone help? Thanks, Branton > >I'm sorry that I haven't yet got this working... I really do appreciate >your help. > > >>>>3.1) fire up yast2 >>>> configure network card as pcmcia (DHCP settings might be >>>>troublesome, use hardcoded IP, just for testing at least) >>> >>> >>>YaST2 doesn't give me the option to configure the "Harris Semiconductor" >>>(my wireless card) that it detects as PCMCIA. If I click "Configure", it >>>goes straight to the screen where you set the IP address. I can click >>>"Configure" where it says "Other (not detected)" and then I get the >>>choice of a PCMCIA device. But I don't know how to hook that up to my >>>internal wireless card. >>> >>>If someone could point me in the right direction here, I would really >>>appreciate it. (Currently, the wireless is configured as eth1 and not as >>>PCMCIA.) >> >>Thats exactly where you need to go - Others/Pcmcia - and set up config for >>IP&gateway&DNS there. >> >> >>After it got pcmcia-ethX device, it will be bridged as ethY, and on >>restart of all things it will know that you got it.. >>Basic simple test - is that after you got it all - ifconfig should >>display ethY configured (might miss IP though, if wireless gateway is >>unreachable, but rest should be there) > >I've now got a eth-pcmcia-0 device that was configued in YaST2, but I don't >see that it was bridged anywhere. Is that something that I need to do or >should it be done automatically? Here is the output of ifconfig: > ># ifconfig >eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E2:58:9A:5B > inet addr:192.168.1.110 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::200:e2ff:fe58:9a5b/10 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:1047 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:1003 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:403170 (393.7 Kb) TX bytes:127242 (124.2 Kb) > Interrupt:11 Base address:0x9000 Memory:81a00000-81a00038 > >lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:2608 (2.5 Kb) TX bytes:2608 (2.5 Kb) > >eth0 is my ethernet card (which is working correctly). It doesn't appear >that the internal wireless card was "bridged" like you referred to. So... >what do I do now? > >Thanks, > Branton Boehm > >_________________________________________________________________ >MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: >http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > >-- >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 _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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Re: [SLE] kde 3.1.4
by stefan 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi Thadeu, Which package have you used from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/adrian/beta1 ? There is no qt-3.2.1-ver package schema in there. I think it is better wait until SuSE folks are gonna fix this under their FTP site. stefan --- Jose Thadeu Cavalcante <thadeurj(a)terra.com.br> wrote: Hi, I installed the Kde-3.1.4 using that one qt and in principle it is working correctly. So, It is good if you use that qt-3.2.1. I think SuSE will put qt3-3.2.1 in the download area briefly. Thadeu On Thursday 25 September 2003 03:11, stefan wrote: > Hi guys, > > Im confused. > > So once again: Are the new KDE packages from > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/ good or > not ? > > Still under 'base' there is qt3.1.2 instead of 3.2.1 ! > I think they should provide the new qt library under base too ! Right ? > > stefan > -- 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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Re: [SLE] kde 3.1.4
by stefan 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

In other words : at this moment there is not yet KDE 3.1.4 for Suse 8.2 available. Anyone does know how can we notice SuSE about this ? Is anyone from suse reading this mailing list ? stefan --- Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj(a)panther.mmj.dk> wrote: * Ben Rosenberg <ben(a)whack.org> [Sep 25. 2003 03:11]: > Wow! I wonder if KDE 3.1.4 is packaged this poorly in 9.0. *sigh* What do you think Ben? Our default desktop in a fresh system, not an upgrade of newer versions on an older system. You can be pretty sure it's good :) -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J. -- 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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NIS automounter
by fsanta 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

When a user logs on they request a mount from the server. Where is that mount? Is it physically copied to the client or are bits of it it NFS'd from the server each time he does something with it or is there a link to it on his machine. . .? We've been getting some very slow progress just recently, with open office under kde and especially as the file count grows on the server. SuSE 8.2. PIV server with 1024Mb and 40Gb IDE. 18 off PII 450 clients. 3 daisy chained switches. Any bottlneck help much appreciated. Steve.

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Re: [SLE] kde 3.1.4
by stefan 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi guys, Im confused. So once again: Are the new KDE packages from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/ good or not ? Still under 'base' there is qt3.1.2 instead of 3.2.1 ! I think they should provide the new qt library under base too ! Right ? stefan --- Jose Thadeu Cavalcante <thadeurj(a)terra.com.br> wrote: I found a qt3-3.2.1 rpm in ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/adrian/beta1 Thank you Adrian -- 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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Cupsd error: child exited on signal 11
by Kepes.Krisztian 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hello , I have Suse 8.2, I install this machine not too long ago. When I want to setup the printing, the yast is say that cupsd is not startable. I reinstall all of cups packages, but it is not useable. The cupsd say this: /etc/init.d/cups start returned 0 (Success.) Starting cupsd..done cupsd: Child exited on signal 11! in the error_log I see: I [25/Sep/2003:09:49:11 +0200] Listening to 0:631 I [25/Sep/2003:09:49:11 +0200] Configured for up to 100 clients. I [25/Sep/2003:09:49:11 +0200] Allowing up to 10 client connections per host. I [25/Sep/2003:09:49:11 +0200] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 3017 PPDs... I [25/Sep/2003:09:49:12 +0200] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs... What is this ? What I can do for repairing the cupsd ? -- Hi : KK

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reiserfs prob after YOU update
by oguz eren 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi, Yesterday i used YOU on my SuSE 8.2 Prof.Ed. for the first time. I installed patches without any problem. But since then i can't boot my laptop anymore. The last part of boot msgs are as follows: ---begin--- Loading module reiserfs... Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.o reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal reiserfs: enabling write barrier flush mode reiserfs: using ordered data mode reiserfs: checking transaction log (ide0(3,2)) for (ide0(3,2)) Using r5 hash to sort names vs-7000: search_by_entry_key: search_by_key returned item position == 0<4>zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry ---end--- I guess it's sth with the kernel patch, but i don't know how to solve it. I can boot my laptop on safe mode, or with knoppix. Any help is appreciated, espacially the detailed ones, since i'm not a good shell-user :-)

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xine
by Tom Allison 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

I was trying to run xine and it seems that it isn't configured from the install. Furthermore, there is not xine-config script as mentioned in the docs. So what are you supposed to do in order to get xine running?

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Newbie -- New Motherboard -- this was easy
by mark bannister 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

My motherboard just went on my new SuSE 8.2 setup. Since this is my file server I had to get it up running quickly so I ran out and bought a new Asus P4P80-VM motherboard, new P4 chip, and new memory. Put it all back together, booted from the hard disk and it all came up nicely. KDE detected new video, reconfigured 1Gig NIC (OK it hung there but restarted and was happy), found new IDE controller but Yast2 decided it couldn't configure anything. This is great!!!! Now, should I reinstall SuSE from scratch just to make sure everything is kosher? I had a few warnings at startup but they were minor things like the extra parallel port. If I do reinstall SuSE I of course want to keep all my configuration settings for Samba, Cups, etc. What's the best way to do this besides saving off each config file one by one? Any advice would be great. Thanks Mark B.

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nVidia
by Fred A. Miller 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

The latest nVidia driver that one is to install from nVidia after the kernel update just posted and installed by YOU, is NOT usable and WON'T install!! I hope SuSE is working on this, as 3D is "GONE" because of this error. Some have very slow systems now. Fred -- Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft®. We have no bugs in our software, Never!, We do have undocumented added features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost, to you, at this time.

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new libgphoto2 packages for SuSE 8.2
by Marcus Meissner 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi, For you digital camera users out there I have put a new libgphoto2 2.1.2 RPM on ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/meissner/gphoto/2.1.2/8.2/ This brings especially Canon and PTP drivers up to a good working state, so if you had problems with those cameras, feel free to try. Ciao, Marcus

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daisy chain and krells
by fsanta 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Krells no problem. Forgot about that one! You can change screen res on the fly under X. It's ctrl+alt +or- in the numeric keypad. Here is the reply to the switches: The ideal setup with switches is to have one as the "master" that the other switches and servers plug into. This should also be the best switch that you can afford.

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Plugin.
by Erik Jakobsen 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi. On my SuSE 8.2 system I also run the Netscape 7.1. From here when I call a webconfigurator, Netscape claims about a missing Java plugin. I answer yes to got to the site where the plugin is to be found. But I cannot decide what package I need to download/install. On the page I have several otpions, and that makes it not easier to decide :-) We speak of the J2SE, and here the options are : 1.4.2 1.4.1 1.3.1 1.2.2 I have downloaded the first option .1.4.2, and have followed the install instruction, and also made a symlink. But still claiming if I want to start up as told at the start of this message. What can be done ?. /Erik

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Re: [SLE] Dialup problems
by Carl William Spitzer IV 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Evolution errors Could not create composer window Unable to retreive message from editor I made the change but still get unknown host error. CWSIV cwsiv@linux:~> ls /etc/wv* -l -rw-r----- 1 root dialout 336 Sep 22 19:20 /etc/wvdial.conf cwsiv@linux:~> From: "Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris(a)ntm.org> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:39:06 +0800 Subject: Re: [SLE] Dialup problems On 09/24/2003 04:43 AM, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: >According to this i can get in when I first log in as root I can then access the web. >Changing wvdial.conf permissions to 655 worked but I still must run it in console first. > Not quite what I meant. >Now I have a curious question how do I get the system to dial when go to >www.oclug.org ??? > > Do you want dial on demand? > <snip> > >linux:/home/cwsiv # ls /etc/wvdial* -l >-rw------- 1 root root 336 Sep 22 19:20 /etc/wvdial.conf >linux:/home/cwsiv # > > This is wrong. i.e. joe@jmorris:~> ls -l /etc/wvdial* -rw-r----- 1 root dialout 302 2003-03-14 08:38 /etc/wvdial.conf In case you're wondering, I made that mistake in 6.4. If you edit it, and the editor makes a backup, it saves the file and changes the group owner. Change it to dialout, and 640. ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

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Email relay authentication
by Carlos E. R. 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

I use a modem dial up connection; that means that my IP is not fixed, the connection is not permanent, and that I don't have a domain name. I have two ISP, and several mail accounts. Normal, so far? :-) Ok. I have SuSE 8.2. I use postfix (previously I used sendmail) for sending my email, direct, ie, without using the ISPs relays. It is simpler, because each ISP doesn't look well upon me trying to use one server to send email from the other accounts. It works fine... except when it doesn't. The problem is that some destinations do not accept smtp connections coming from ranges blocked because of RBL, residential ranges, or such things. RBL blocking on ranges is so unfair as when a kid does something bad in school and the teacher punishes the whole class. And there is nothing I can do: the IPs are not mine to complain about it. (teleline, by other name terra, by other name _the_ telephone company, is the biggest ISP here. They don't answer client queries or complains by email: it has to be by pay phone, a 906 that may cost around 1$ a minute. If some one complains about spam (to abuse@whatever or similar email), there is a high probability that it would be ignored (I tried once). That explains why they could be included in the RBL). So... the solution should be use my provider relay (three at least), assuming that it hasn't been blacklisted as well. But how? Let me explain the problem: - It is a different relay for each account, ie, one for each "from" address. The transport has to be selected on the "from" address, not the destination. Thus, the file "/etc/postfix/transport" can not be used. - The relay servers requires authentication. How and where do I define passwords for each relay server? - Some servers might require pop before smtp... how on earth do I do that with postfix, for sending? I hope I don't forget anything O:-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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NVidia, apt-get and libGLcore
by Geoff Horn 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hello, I've a couple of (rpm) programs that, although they run OK, complain about a missing dependancy on libGLcore.so.1. These files exist as they are, I think, part of my NVidia 4496 installation. Is there a way to make the NVidia*.run installation into an rpm file so that these complaints go away? I'm trying to use apt but apt-get throws up these problems and I don't want apt to destroy my stable system by installing some unnecessary package! Geoff

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Netgear MA101 (USB Wireless Network Adapter)
by LinuxWorld999 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

After compiling and installing the kernel on the pc here, the wireless adapter would not work. A good HOWTO can be found at this site : http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/howto/howto-4.html Do not use the latest drivers but download and compile the snapshot dated 20021209. Compiling the latest drivers did not activate the adapter. However, downloading and compiling the snapshot dated 20021209 worked first time here. The pc spec is : Athlon 2800 XP, Nvidia Gforce4, 512MB ram, running SuSE 8.2. Using checkinstall, an rpm of the package has been prepared. Please let me know if you would this emailed to you, off this list of course. Hope this is of some help to anyone trying to get this particular adapter to work with 8.2. LW999

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Re: [SLE] NVidia, apt-get and libGLcore [SOLVED]
by Geoff Horn 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

On Wednesday 24 September 2003 8:48 pm, you wrote: > Op woensdag 24 september 2003 21:39, schreef Geoff Horn: > > I've a couple of (rpm) programs that, although they run OK, > > complain about a missing dependancy on libGLcore.so.1. These > > files exist as they are, I think, part of my NVidia 4496 > > installation. Is there a way to make the NVidia*.run installation > > into an rpm file so that these complaints go away? I'm trying to > > use apt but apt-get throws up these problems and I don't want apt > > to destroy my stable system by installing some unnecessary > > package! > Richard Bos wrote: > The attached package seems to have helped other people. Perhaps it > is usefull for you. If not rebuild it for your self :) It is just > faking the rpm database. Thanks for those little packages, that was it! Thanks again for such a simple solution. I also added libXm.so.2 to it as well, because of Opera's moans. Geoff

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sound "cards"
by jfweber＠bellsouth.net 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

** I'm not as good as I was once, but I am as good once as I ever was.. "A nasty bit of rough" by David Feherty ** Has anyone managed to get a real quality ( Something Turtle Beach , or failing that, the "audigy" from Creative ... ) or any other card that will give real quality sound ? -- j nemo me impune lacesset it's just an afterthought; okay ? : If at first you don't succeed...work for Microsoft

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qt3 >= 3.2.1 is needed by kdelibs3-3.1.4-15
by Joe Sullivan 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Yo, qt3 >= 3.2.1 is needed by kdelibs3-3.1.4-15 Anyone else noticing this with the 3.1.4 RPMs? There's a few qt3-type RPMs on the server, but they're like qt3-postgresql and such. The actual qt3 package is 3.1.2, not 3.2.1 . And that's long been installed. What's up? Anyone? Bueller? :-P *Apparently-needed-disclaimer: This is not a gripe post, just curious if a boo-boo was made. Joe -- Now Playing: Alice Cooper - Love Should Never Feel Like This [From The Eyes Of Alice Cooper (2003)] (0:11/3:32) Powered by XMMS and SuSE Linux 8.2 Pro

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What is Boson?
by Dylan 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hi all In chosing what to d/load from the KDE apps directory - can anyone tell me what boson is? TIA Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg

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Camera programs keep crashing
by Tom Nielsen 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

I have a Canon A70 which I've tried to get connected for several weeks. I manage to connect it to digikam and gtkam (via the PTP driver in gphoto) but every time I click on an image to try to do something with it, the program crashes. Any thoughts? I ended up buying a card reader to resolve this issue, but I would still like to get it connected. I know the A70 isn't supported. Thanks, Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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How to reuse YOU downloads
by Juan Francisco Torres Chacón 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

I think this has been asked a lot before, but I cant find the information.. We just updated a SuSE 8.1 machine, and YOU downloaded a lot of RPMS to /var/lib.... Is there a procedure to reuse all that information and downloaded packages on a different machine? How can this be done? Thank you -------------------------------------------------------- Juan Torres

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[Fwd: [SLE] Linux client that talks to MSN Messenger]
by Hipolito A. Gonzalez M. 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Try the Amsn. Is very good www.google.com Search AMSN, the first link. If you won't found it, I will send you. is only 900 KB -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [SLE] Linux client that talks to MSN Messenger Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:46:06 -0500 From: Peter B Van Campen <peterb(a)vancampen.org> Reply-To: peterb(a)vancampen.org To: Suse <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> Hi ALL, Last month MSN changed their Messenger server and my Netscape AIM for linux on SuSE 8.2 stopped seeing my nephew when he is signed on. Are any of you using a Linux "AIM-like" client that can still connect to MSN-messenger users?" I know that I can use a W98 MSNM client on W98 but I do NOT want to apply for a MS Passport!! PeterB -- -- Proud to use SuSE Linux, since 5.2 Loving using SuSE Linux 8.2 MyBlog http://vancampen.org/blog/ Nothing is as perfect as a Cultured Diamond There was never any Blood on a Cultured Diamond -- -- 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------ Una prensa libre es el gran enemigo de los dictadores. Independientemente de sus abusos, sus debilidades, sus errores. Una prensa libre es la gran aliada y defensora de la democracia. Charlos S. Shapiro Embajador de USA en la Rep. de Venezuela Martes, 20 de Mayo 2003

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Sound problem.
by Bombadil 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hello, I've a strange problem. Everything about my soundcard was working fine, but suddenly the sound go away. If I restore the kmix window, I found only one chanel, the one corresponding to the microphone of the usb camera... wich I've never seen before! May anyone tell me what can I do to restore the sounds settings? Thanks.

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Fwbuilder and SuSE82
by Guy Zelck 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hello all, What is the advised way of activating the ruleset made by fwbuilder on boot-up? Redhad & Mandrake have an init.d script called iptables which could picks this ruleset file up and configures iptables. I know there's firewall2 on SuSE but could it be used for this task. I think not. Do I have to emulate what the other distributions do myself or is there a SuSE way around this? I'm new to SuSE, coming from the other distros, so I thought I might ask the in-crowd. Thanks, Guy.

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amd athlon kernel
by fsanta 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hi everyone. I just bought a new box with an AMD XP 2200 processor.YOU pulled down a big patch last night and I now have k_athlon-2.4.20-100. Is this correct for 8.2? Also, what's the difference between the Intel and the AMD kernel anyway? All the google articles with any content seem to be in German. Thanks Steve.

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really aweful sound on KDE
by Tom Allison 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

I'm struggling with the sound on my desktop. It's terribly lagging, often to the point of distortion. artsd is also running ~100% CPU even when nothing is going on. desktop applications seem to have sound OK (k-desktop games), but the browser doesn't have anything that works. It is inconsistent. It either has no sound, or badly distorted sound (almost 1/2 speed). What's worse is I running into this on more than one machine. So I'm a little leary about settings in general and not "just a hardware" problem. Never having used KDE before I'm not really sure what to try.

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Re: [SLE] A Samba question about Win2000
by js 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Ian David Laws wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Wednesday 24 September 2003 00:31, js wrote: > > >>Ian David Laws wrote: >> >> >> <snip> > > > > >>Once unexpected side effect. It created an entirely new login with new >>home directory for my user on the XP box along with a roaming profile on >>the server. To my surprise, I had no favorites, my programs were >>reinitialized, and I email profiles didn't work anymore. Even my My >>Documents folder was empty. This caused a temporary panic until I saw >>my old folder was still there, but I didn't have permission to view it. >>I eventually worked around all this, but anyone experimenting might want >>to back up the user data and possibly the registry data so you can >>import it to your new user account. I believe there is a migration tool >>for this, but for now that's on my todo list. >> >> > >If you had login as Admin you should of been able to copy all the files. :-( >At least it is now working. :-) > >Ian > >- -- > > I did just that, but it still didn't retain my old registry settings for some reason. My netscape favorites , email accounts and such don't work. John

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USB / kpilotDaemon / usbserial failure
by Alex Doll 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hotsyncing my Palm Tungsten T via USB to my Linux machine has been spotty at best. Sometimes I can sync just fine and other times the entire USB hotplug system locks up solid and I can't even shut down properly (hard reset required). Tried j-pilot, kpilot and pilot-xfer and all seem to suffer the same problems. Could be a hotplug specific thing too because the USB scanner often won't talk to Linux? My newbie eyes reading the log message suggests it is a visor or usbserial problem and not hotplug. Here is a snapshot from the /var/log/messages -- Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 19:05:30 Aug 6 2003 Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe000, IRQ 5 Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: hub.c: USB hub found Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xdc00, IRQ 5 Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: hub.c: USB hub found Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:11.3-2, assigned address 2 Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: hub.c: USB hub found Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: hub.c: 4 ports detected Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:11.3-2.3, assigned address 3 Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x3f0/0x101) is not claimed by any active driver. Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:11.3-2.4, assigned address 4 Sep 23 10:32:52 linux kernel: usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x781/0x830) is not claimed by any active driver. Sep 23 10:33:05 linux kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Sep 23 10:33:05 linux kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage Sep 23 10:33:05 linux kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Sep 23 10:33:05 linux kernel: Vendor: SanDisk Model: ImageMate CF-SD1 Rev: 0100 Sep 23 10:33:05 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Sep 23 10:33:05 linux kernel: Vendor: SanDisk Model: ImageMate CF-SD3 Rev: 0100 Sep 23 10:33:05 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Sep 23 10:33:05 linux kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Sep 23 10:33:05 linux kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 1 Sep 23 10:33:05 linux kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. [ MMC stuff deleted ] Sep 23 10:33:09 linux kernel: usb.c: registered new driver serial Sep 23 10:33:09 linux kernel: usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic Sep 23 10:33:09 linux kernel: usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.4 Sep 23 10:34:50 linux kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:11.3-2.1, assigned address 5 Sep 23 10:34:50 linux kernel: usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x830/0x60) is not claimed by any active driver. Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Handspring Visor / Palm 4.0 / Clié 4.x Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor / Palm 4.0 / Clié 4.x converter detected Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000018 Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: printing eip: Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: d1560632 Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: *pde = 00000000 Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: Oops: 0000 2.4.20-4GB-athlon #1 Wed Aug 6 18:27:52 UTC 2003 Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: CPU: 0 Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: EIP: 0010:[<d1560632>] Tainted: P Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: EFLAGS: 00010046 Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000300 Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: esi: 00000246 edi: cc88b400 ebp: ffffffea esp: cdd63eb4 Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: Process kpilotDaemon (pid: 2926, stackpage=cdd63000) Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: Stack: 00000000 000001f0 cdf6bdc0 cc88b41c cc88b474 c5fd89d6 cc88b41c d154e000 Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: cdc6f140 00000000 d00b5000 00000000 d16c89c0 c01c6d61 d00b5000 cdc6f340 Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: cdd63f38 00000000 d16c89c0 0000000a 00000400 c01c38c0 d00b5000 d16c89c0 Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: Call Trace: [usbcore:usb_devfs_handle+31560610/161222634] [normal_poll+369/400] [tty_poll+112/144] [do_select+483/544] [sys_select+743/1248] Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: Call Trace: [<c5fd89d6>] [<c01c6d61>] [<c01c38c0>] [<c01574d3>] [<c0157827>] Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: [system_call+51/56] Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: [<c0108e67>] Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: Modules: [(visor:<d1560060>:<d1562628>)] [(usbserial:<c5fd8060>:<c5fdcc7c>)] Sep 23 10:34:54 linux kernel: Code: 83 78 18 8d 0f 44 da 41 83 f9 17 7e e6 56 9d 8b 35 a0 25 56 Sep 23 10:34:57 linux kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Sep 23 10:34:57 linux kernel: visor.c: visor_startup - error getting connection information Sep 23 10:34:57 linux insmod: Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB-athlon/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/visor.o Sep 23 10:34:57 linux insmod: Symbol version prefix '' Sep 23 10:34:57 linux kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor / Palm 4.0 / Clié 4.x converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs) Sep 23 10:34:57 linux kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor / Palm 4.0 / Clié 4.x converter now attached to ttyUSB1 (or usb/tts/1 for devfs) Sep 23 10:34:57 linux kernel: usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Sony Clié 3.5 Sep 23 10:34:57 linux kernel: visor.c: USB HandSpring Visor, Palm m50x, Sony Clié driver v1.6 Sep 23 10:34:57 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 876 Sep 23 10:34:57 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[2988]: Warning: invalid config descriptor Sep 23 10:34:57 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[2988]: Config 0 descriptor too long, truncating Sep 23 10:34:57 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[2988]: Warning: invalid config descriptor Sep 23 10:34:57 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[2988]: Config 0 descriptor too long, truncating Sep 23 10:34:57 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[2988]: Warning: invalid config descriptor Sep 23 10:34:57 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[2988]: Config 0 descriptor too long, truncating Sep 23 10:34:57 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[2988]: Warning: invalid config descriptor Sep 23 10:34:57 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[2988]: Config 0 descriptor too long, truncating Sep 23 10:34:57 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[2988]: Warning: invalid config descriptor Sep 23 10:34:57 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[2988]: Config 0 descriptor too long, truncating -- ------------------------------------- Alex Doll alex.doll(a)agdconsulting.ca IT Consulting - Mineral Process Engineer http://www.agdconsulting.ca ----------------------------------------

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Re: [SLE] amd athlon kernel
by Alex Doll 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

On Wednesday 24 September 2003 08:25, Trey Gruel wrote: > You do know that having the case open is generally *worse* for cooling, > right? > > I've got an Athlon XP 1800+ which, while it has more cooling fans, is > quieter than the P3-500 it replaced. It's quieter because the fans are > all larger, lower rpm fans. Even under heavy loads, CPU temp rarely goes > above 39C. I ran it with the case open for a while becuase I hadn't > finished moving parts into it, and the temp was usually around 45C. Most > (decent) cases nowadays, are designed so that air flows nicely through the > case to draw in cool air and push out the hot.. My case has intake fans > in the front and side (over the video card) and outgoing fans in the back > and the power supply (yes, air flows *through* the psu). > > -- > trey Mine was the other way around. It ran 45degC with the case shut in and 38degC with the case open. I have fans at the front of the case, on the CPU and on the video card. No fans on the side of the case -- likely why I need to run without the cover. A rats nest of IDE ribbon cables sits right above the processor fan and was likely obstructing the air flow. -AD -- ------------------------------------- Alex Doll alex.doll(a)agdconsulting.ca IT Consulting - Mineral Process Engineer http://www.agdconsulting.ca ----------------------------------------

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Strange hard drive capacity 2048GB !?
by Alex Daniloff 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hello SuSE folkz, I've just installed a couple of WDE9150 Western Digital SCSI hard drives to build RAID5. To my suprise, each of these drives shows 2048GB of its capacity instead of real 9.1GB. Just for the sake of sanity I tried to install SuSE8.2 Linux on one of these drives. Installation failed with warnings related to some IO problems. Could somebody tell me please if I have to perform low level formatting of these SCSI drives before building RAID5, or these drives just defective and I'll have exchange them and bit crap out of vendor. Thank you very much in advance for any help or source of information.

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amavis scanner licenses
by Dan Am 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hi , is anyone of you using amavis in a non-private environment ? Which of the scanners is the least costly. "antivir" for a medium sized mailserver is quite costly I found. Regards Dan -- buddha 2.4.20-4GB 3:26pm up 20:54, 4 users,

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Problem with Korean fonts in Mozilla 1.4-2
by Bob Pearson 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

I am unable to display hangul (korean letters) in Mozilla 1.4 inspite of downloading and installing Hangul TrueType Fonts (they are in my font path). Looking at: http://kr.yahoo.com/ Ddsplays the title bar in Hangul and I have loaded character codings in Mozilla for: Korean (EUC-KR) Korean (ISO-2022-KR) Korean (UHC) Korean (JOHAB) But I just get funky boxes. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong or what font's I am missing and where to get them? Thanks. -- I am unique and special, just like everyone else.

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Re: [SLE] SuSE 8.2: anybody got a spare copy?
by Jason Hale 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Look on ebay. There are ppl selling dvd-r and cd-r copies of it, sans support and manuals, of course. I think you might want to offer to pay for more than just the shipping, btw. Even though (cd|dvd)-r media is not terribly expensive, it would probably foster a more sympathetic response to your plight. >>> Fred M.Sloniker <fizzit(a)pioneernet.net> 09/23/03 10:42PM >>> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:45:39 -0700, Fred M.Sloniker <fizzit(a)pioneernet.net> wrote: >I recently reformatted my hard drive (a long story, and one involving >Windows, naturally), so I lost my downloaded 8.2 install. Rather than >wait the month and a half it took to download it again, I was hoping >someone'd be able to spare their 8.2 disks, or even copies thereof. I >have a DVD player, so CDs or DVDs would suit me just fine. If you're >interested in helping out, email me; I'm willing to pay shipping. ...uh, sorry about replying to myself, but... I live in Skagit County, Washington, so if it'd be more convenient for you to meet me and lend me your disks or something, that works too. (I already asked on the BLUG mailing list without result, but maybe someone here isn't on that list.) -- 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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printing from evolution
by Ken Schneider 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Just wondering if anyone else on this list is having the same problem as me. I am using KDE for my desktop and evolution for my email client. When I go to print the page size selection is always set to A4, not used here in the states. Also I cannot get my cups printers to show up. I consider this very poor on Ximian's part to NOT let a user change configuration settings for the printer. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998

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Re: [SLE] "split" question
by Matt Stamm 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Anders Johansson <andjoh(a)rydsbo.net> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:04:48 +0200 >On Wednesday 24 September 2003 16:01, Matt Stamm wrote: >> When using split to break a file into chunks, how do you re-join the >> chunks? > >cat x* > file > Thank you! >-- >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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restoring old crons
by John Pettigrew 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Is there any way to recover old crontabs from a previous installation that I have fully backed up? I can't find the relevant files, and it would be easier copying an old file across than trying to recreate all the entries! Specifically, I'd like root's crontab back. TiA John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john(a)headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank

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"split" question
by Matt Stamm 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

When using split to break a file into chunks, how do you re-join the chunks? Matt

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Re: [SLE] Galeon opens up multiple instances and doesn't stop. [Solved]
by eddie 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

From: Anders Karlsson <anders(a)trudheim.com> >Message-Id: <1051528324.4258.18.camel@marx> >Date: 28 Apr 2003 12:12:05 +0100 >Subject: Re: [SLE] Galeon opens up multiple instances and doesn't stop. > > On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 10:44, Clifford Okoro wrote: >> When i open up galeon, it keeps on replicating instances and does'nt >> stop until i kill it. I've got up to 98 instances so far. Anybody has >> this problem? And how did you fix it. > > >I've seen this. I installed the Rubber Turnip version of Galeon and was >happy. ;-) (http://www.usr-local-bin.org/) > > >HTH, > > >-- >Anders Karlsson <anders(a)trudheim.com> >Trudheim Technology Limited I hope I'm not offending anyone but this is actually a thread from April of this year. Two days ago we had this problem and having discussed it with my line manager, he managed to track down and resolve the problem. I am posting it on the list for those who might be interested or have this problem themselves. What happened. I was logged in to the system as root and started galeon. Thinking this was a bad idea, I cancelled the configuration window. However, galeon started up quite happily and I continue to use it as root. All subsequent galeon sessions opened up multiple instances and didn't stop unless it was killed off manually. Discovery and fix. What we discovered was that when logged in as root, two files were created: /opt/mozilla/components/compreg.dat /opt/mozilla/components/xpti.dat After removing these files galeon behaved normally when run as non-root user. Under non-root use these files do not get generated. Hope this helps. Eddie

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USB printer in SuSE 8.2
by John Pettigrew 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

I have an Epson C40UX colour printer, which YaST detected and set up properly using CUPS. However, when I came to print to it today, it decided that it was a different printer, so I had to set it up all over again, so I now have duplicate queues for it. Originally, it was listed in YaST as "Epson Stylus C40" and was set up as a "USB printer on //EPSON/Stylus%20C40?serial=L5302011019210", whereas today's instance is "Epson Unknown", and is set up as a "USB printer on /dev/usb/lp1". In each case, I ended up using the same drivers and queue options. Is this normal, and how can I get SuSE 8.2 to recognise the printer consistently? John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john(a)headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank

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Anyone using an Abit KR7A-RAID???
by Tom Nielsen 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

I'm trying to get a RAID 1 (mirroring) setup and when my regular bios starts up, my drives are detected, but when I get into my Raid setup, NO drives are detected. I setup the bios to ATA133-RAID, but still nothing. Has anyone else got this to work? Here's what I've got: IDE1 Maxtor Drive - Creative CD IDE2 Western Dig - Sony CD-RW IDE3 Western Dig - just got it. Any thoughts would be great! Tom - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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anit-virus software
by Tom Allison 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Has anyone picked up any anti-virus scanners for SuSE that are "Free"? The only one I can find is clamav, but it's not something that comes from the SuSE mirrors.

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Patched Kernel causes incompatibilities?
by Matthew Goins 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

I am running 8.1 on an AMD Athlon, VIA KT400 chipset. I have noticed that when I use YOU to upgrade to the latest kernel for amd processors, one of my NICs stops working, and the nvidia 3D driver crashes the computer. Using rpm to downgrade back to the kernel on the CD, everything works fine again. I have purchased 8.2, and the kernel on that system causes exactly the same problems. Any suggestions? I also have the separate problem that the 8.2 version permits me to use DMA with my disk drives, but the 8.1 does not. I would like to have both DMA and 3D acceleration in one system if possible. Very perplexing. All suggestions welcome. Matt

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Saving an install
by Tom Allison 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

I have an installation that I'm been putting together for a while now. But I need to save off whatever it is I've done and redo it onto a new hard drive and such. I was wondering if there is some way that I can save off everything that was done to some file and then re-read that file back into the installation process as the answer to all the questions. I think in SuSE 6 I could do this, but I don't know anymore. -- What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwords? :-) -- Larry Wall in <8162(a)jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>

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Error booting 8.2 (32M of RAM)
by Alec Podrezenko 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hi! I have P-I with 32M RAM. SuSE8.2 was intalled to HDD on another computer. When P-I is booted, there are messages: ---------- freed unused kernel memory ... INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 min #The same messages appear for ids 1-6... INIT: open (/dev/console) input/output error ---------- Whether I can use this computer with SUSE8.2 or I need to install on it 7.3 only?

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Evolution/XChat
by James Ogley 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Updated on www.usr-local-bin.org today: * Evolution - GNOME Email & Groupware client - Updated to version 1.4.5 - Bugfix release - gal2-0, gtkhtml3.0, libsoup also updated * XChat - IRC client - Updated to version 2.0.5 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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Re: [SLE] KDE 3.1.4 ?
by stefan 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hi all, I don't want to waste more time on this but in short: 1- SuSE 8.2 Professional Version ships with KDE 3.1.1 - There were problems with konqueror , security issues, in that version which were not covered by any patch by SuSE. I sent several emails to feedback, to the list; Their support seems to be very very busy. They should hire more people to handle such of things. The only solution was to upgrade to KDE 3.1.3. There are no clear 'blueprints' how to do that. SuSE should provide that too. 2- Any other security problem should be take it seriously even if some people consider it serious or not. Its there, therefore a patch should be issuesd. If they are *very* very busy we all can understand this. But SuSE should at least notice their users about this under their security bulletin telling that the patch will follow soon. Anyway this is not a matter of current KDM (found under KDE 3.1.3) problem. It is a matter of entire process which seems does not exist. I posted several times why ! ( Default SuSE 8.2 Professional ships with KDE 3.1.1 "KDE Security Advisory: Konqueror Referer Leaking Website Authentication Credentials Original Release Date: 2003-07-29 URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20030729-1.txt ) I hope this process will be defined and implemented. Regards, Stefan

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RE: [SLE] SuSE 8.2: anybody got a spare copy?
by Sharpe, Richard 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Or from PCCOnnection, http://www.pcconnection.com/scripts/searchresults.asp?BasicSrchText=suse&SR= 1&ER=10&TR=0&ST=BS&PP=0&sortval=Price&plattype=A Richard A Sharpe (DBA) Sqlserver/DB2 Amherst Technologies 40 Continental Blvd Merrimack, NH 03054 PHONE .......(603) 579-6180 / (800) 431-8031 Cell phone ..(603) 320-7785 FAX ...........(603) 578-1072 EMAIL .......rsharpe(a)amherst1.com "Tenemos que tener fe" ("We must have faith") -----Original Message----- From: jalal [mailto:the_jalal@fastmail.fm] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:41 AM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE 8.2: anybody got a spare copy? On Wed 24 September 2003 02:45, Fred M.Sloniker wrote: > I recently reformatted my hard drive (a long story, and one involving > Windows, naturally), so I lost my downloaded 8.2 install. Rather than > wait the month and a half it took to download it again, I was hoping > someone'd be able to spare their 8.2 disks, or even copies thereof. I > have a DVD player, so CDs or DVDs would suit me just fine. If you're > interested in helping out, email me; I'm willing to pay shipping. Why not just order a copy from SuSE, you'll have it within a day or two. -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E -- 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: anybody got a spare copy?
by Fred M.Sloniker 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

I recently reformatted my hard drive (a long story, and one involving Windows, naturally), so I lost my downloaded 8.2 install. Rather than wait the month and a half it took to download it again, I was hoping someone'd be able to spare their 8.2 disks, or even copies thereof. I have a DVD player, so CDs or DVDs would suit me just fine. If you're interested in helping out, email me; I'm willing to pay shipping.

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CUPS
by Steven Lobbezoo 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hi, I'm working in an small office which has 10 Suse 8.2 systems installed in a network. I installed a printer on one pc with the cups server. That works fine. Now i should be able to install a cups (station only) version on other work stations to be able to use the printer from there. That's impossible. Only after re-installing a work station complete, the cups software will work. If I just try to install (with Yast2) i get an undefined server error. It says it's connection to the right pc on the right port. If i try to change anything in the server configuration, cupsd will not start anymore (protection exeption ?) So, ... pease help and give me an idea how to use cups, what's supposed to be user-friendly! The rest of the installation works like a charm (sharing internet connection, KDE, Gnome, networking - NFS, etc.) Thansk a lot in advance, Steven

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gDesklets
by John Pettigrew 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Has anyone got gDesklets (http://gDesklets.gnomedesktop.org/) to work on SuSE 8.2? There is a dependency on gnome-python-2.0, which doesn't seem to come with SuSE - there is a python-gnome, but this doesn't seem to be the same thing. Thanks, John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john(a)headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank

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Strange hard link "Operation not permitted"
by Hugh Song 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

I thought the root can do anything: Here, you will see that it cannot on my machine :SuSE-8.2 with the following rpms. coreutils-4.5.8-11 glibc-2.3.2-5 glibc-locale-2.3.2-6 glibc-devel-2.3.2-6 glibc-info-2.3.2-6 reiserfs-3.6.4-12 The kernel really does not matter. It happens under both 2.4.23-pre4-pac1 suse-2.4.19-4GB The symptom is rodolfo:tmp $ ls -l slide-demo.obj -rw------- 1 ghsong ipl 3096 Aug 29 20:37 slide-demo.obj rodolfo:tmp $ ln slide-demo.obj new.obj /bin/ln: creating hard link `new.obj' to `slide-demo.obj': Operation not permitted rodolfo:tmp $ chown root.root slide-demo.obj rodolfo:tmp $ ls -l slide-demo.obj -rw------- 1 root root 3096 Aug 29 20:37 slide-demo.obj rodolfo:tmp $ ln slide-demo.obj new.obj rodolfo:tmp $ rodolfo:tmp $ ls -l slide-demo.obj new.obj -rw------- 2 root root 3096 Aug 29 20:37 new.obj -rw------- 2 root root 3096 Aug 29 20:37 slide-demo.obj rodolfo:tmp $ On any other SuSE-installed LInux machines with the same rpms installed, the "root" is "root", the hard link succeeded without a hitch even when the file's owner is not "root". I understand the latter behavior is the correct one. The security setting within yast2 on all machines are the same. What is going on? The only difference I can think of is that the "rodolfo" system is on a laptop on which Reiserfs file system was probably created around Aug 2002. while all others are on desktop, on which Reiserfs file system was created around around January 2003. reiserfsck on the file system with the readonly on gave me no error. Regards, Hugh Song

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Re: [SLE] KDE 3.1.4 ?
by r.maurizzi＠digitalpha.it 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

> Notice the date on the file. And I would have had no reason to > go digging for any KDM issues what so ever since I personally > think it's a waste of resources..I am quite capable of typing startx. The date on the file you gave the URL for is exactly the same: 16 Sept. Regarding the "waste of resources", I may think like you that a graphic login is one, but i doubt my many users would be as happy without it. > >- SuSE do not have pam_krb5 installed or configured > > Doesn't matter the vulnerability exists in the packages that they > shipped. So a fix being put out can not be argued about. I'm sure the fix WILL be put out. But I think that, since SuSE resources are not infinite, it's far better for us that they concentrate on more dangerous vulnerabilities than the KDM one. Like the two ones in sendmail and gkrellmd for which I downloaded the fixed rpm today. > > - the number of Linux boxes connected to the net that let in > > users using X11/XDCMP is near zero, due to the inefficiency > > of the protocol > > And how would you know this. Do you statistics to back up your > assertion? Or would you just be stating an opinion? Do you know every > Linux user personally and do you do scans of all ip networks? I think > not. Whether the protocol is inefficient or not..it's in wide enough > use that the vulnerability was announced.. The protocol is not in widespread use, or better not used at all, due to the inherent inefficiency it has on high latency networks. And that is not an opinion, is how things are. The fact you see very little connection attempts on your box for X port is a proof enogh: cracker and worm writers go for much more useful targets than this (ones where you don't have to be a Kerberos authenticated user to get in as root, for example.. ;-) And finally, the vulnerability was announced because ALL of them are announced in open source projects. Not because it was especially important or urgent to fix. > I'm not in any kind of situation with KDM or any other GUI login > manager because they are a waste in my opinion but as I said > earlier I'm more worried about those who don't work like I do > or think as I do. Well, I'm sure anyone who was able to put up a Kerberos authenticated, network distributed X login system is wise enough to watch after himself. My point was that it's not a "default configuration", nor a simple one to set up unless you know very well what you are doing. That is the main reason I don't think this fix is urgent. That said, I think your reasoning that we should also worry for other users out there is perfectly right. I don't want to end up like on Microsoft OSes... ;-) > >Then, why do you think this is an _important_ security upgrade? > > Security is security..one doesn't pick and choose. If it has the ability > to be problem then it should be fixed. Period. Security means assessing the risks and, if you have to make a choice, to fix the more dangerous ones before the less dangerous ones. And that's exacly what's happening in this case, in my opinion. > The picking and choosing of what security issues to address would > be the cause of the constant messages that I see scrolling in my tail window... I beg to differ on this, also... Fixes for all security problems are always released, even by Microsoft. It's the poor security culture in many users and "sysadmins" that DO NOT INSTALL FIXES that's causing so much cruft in our logs. Worm writers and script kiddies know this, and so they go out trying, since they'll find something for sure. > so many so that I might as well not even tail my procmail or fetchmail > logs because the firewall log just shoves them past to fast. Try using grep to filter out unwanted messages... works wonders ;-) I usually log ALL incoming connection with SuSEfirewall. I simply strip firewall's messages with a "grep -v SuSE-FW" when I'm looking for other programs' messages Ciao, Roberto

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www failure
by Ted 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

I have a problem....My suse distro had no problems at all with mail ,news or browsing yesterday but for some reason I cannot get any of these now... I have not altered any files but for some reason I connect to my isp ok...I see the packets flowing yet I cannot d/load anything...There is nothing in /var/log/messages to give me a clue either...I am sending this from my libranet partition which seems to be ok...Any suggestions appreciated.. -- Regards Ted Wager Using Libranet Linux

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Toshiba DVD-RAM SD-W2002 formatting
by expatriate 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hello I'm running 8.2 and the only way I've been able to "format" this device is by issuing the command: mkfs /dev/hdb which yields the message: "/dev/hdb is entire device, not just one partition!" "Proceed anyway? (y,n)" I proceed anyway and I'm able to mount it and write to it. Questions: 1) This is the only IDE device without partitions. Is this normal? I was not able to affect it in any way using the fdisk utility. 2) Is anyone using this device with a 9.4GB DVD-RAM disk? Can anyone format to this capacity? TIA & cheers

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kernel memory leak?
by Kastus 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hi, I'm seeing a strange problem on SuSE 8.2 with kernel k_deflt-2.4.20-100. This is a Celeron 1.3G 512MB RAM system running 8.2 with all current updates. After a fresh boot, free reports about 30 MB used. Then, if I run something disk-intensive (e.g. rsync a reiserfs file system on a 20GB partition from one disk to another), used memory grows to about 400MB: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 514956 508348 6608 0 29792 60828 -/+ buffers/cache: 417728 97228 Swap: 987988 6736 981252 Another way to cause memory consumption to grow is to run a du command on a relatively big (20GB) filesystem. What is strange, ps does not show any processes with memory allocated that big. I'm not using KDE, I run windowmaker and a couple of xterms in it. Whatever I tried, the memory is not released. I exited from X, I logged out, used memory is still the same and slightly growing. I was able to reproduce this situation on another 8.2 installation, a dual P3-1G 1GB RAM system, by running a du on a root file system 75GB in size. So what is that? A memory leak in kernel? Did anybody else see anything similar? Thanks, -Kastus

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Dumping RPM list from Suse8.1
by Michael.James＠csiro.au 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Anyone know how to dump the RPM package list under Suse8.1? I can see the Yast:Software:Install and Remove Software:File:Export entry in Suse8.2, but where is something like it in 8.1? Am I back to rpm -qa > RPM.list ?? BTW I want to be able to snarf it back into a Suse 8.2 install... ie: Yast:Software:Install and Remove Software:File:Import -- Michael James michael.james(a)csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166

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KDE 3.1.4 ?
by Gerrit Jan Eldering 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Why no KDE 3.1.4. for SuSE.....???? Who tell's me....... -- GJ Eldering SuSELINUX 8.2 KDE 3.1.3 k_athlon 2.4.20-100-athlon

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DRI on ATI Rage Mobility M3
by Nick LeRoy 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hello, all... I have a Dell Inspiron 4000 with a Mobility M3, and, for the life of me, I can't get DRI working on it. Gears complains about no DRI, and then gets ~100 FPS: nleroy@host:~> gears Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". 514 frames in 5.000 seconds = 102.800 FPS Tuxracer complains similarly... XFree86 detects it as: (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x rev 2, Mem @ 0xe4000000/26, 0xfdffc000/14, I/O @ 0xec00/8 SaX setup XFree86 to load GLX and DRI, and, from looking at the log, it appears that they're loaded correctly. Actually, that's not quite true. I can't really get SaX2 to generate a correct config because I need to add a 'option "Display" "BIOS"' by hand to the device line to get it to display at all. It appears that DRI and GLX are being properly loaded, however. Relevant info: nleroy@host:~> rpm -q XFree86 XFree86-4.3.0-111 nleroy@host:~> rpm -q k_deflt k_deflt-2.4.20-100 On a whim, I've tried loading the r128 module by hand, to no avail: nleroy@host:~> /sbin/lsmod | head Module Size Used by Not tainted r128 81396 0 (unused) agpgart 35520 1 (autoclean) I've tried running switchxf86_glx & 3Ddiag: host:~ # 3Ddiag 3Ddiag version 0.691 Verifying 3D configuration: Using 3dinfo ************************************************************ Verifying 3D configuration based on XFree86 4 for 3D board "ATI Technologies Inc Mobility M3 AGP 2x (1002@4c46)": Tests for package "XFree86-GLX": package ... done. package files ... done. Tests for correct OpenGL libraries/GLX extensions: Symbolic Links ... done. /etc/sysconfig/3ddiag (SCRIPT_3D=switch2xf86_glx) ... done. Test for correct XFree86 version ... done. Tests for XFree86 configuration: Config File /etc/X11/XF86Config ... done. Driver ... done. Color Depth ... done. Extensions ... done. Options ... done. ----------------------- NOTE ----------------------------------- If 3D hardware OpenGL configuration is not stable enough, you should switch back to 'Mesa Software Rendering'. You can verify this configuration with the command "3Ddiag --mesasoft". ----------------------- NOTE ----------------------------------- Checking GLU/glut runtime configuration: GLU ... done (package mesaglu) glut ... done (package mesaglut) Googling around shows that other people seem to be having similar problems, but I haven't found any answers. I can provide my entire XF86Config and XFree86.0.log, in case they're helpful. I will post a couple of snippets in line, however: Section "Module" Load "type1" Load "speedo" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "dri" EndSection -- and -- (II) LoadModule: "glx" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading sub module "GLcore" (II) LoadModule: "GLcore" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a (II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension GLX (II) LoadModule: "dri" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a (II) Module dri: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading sub module "drm" (II) LoadModule: "drm" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a (II) Module drm: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI (II) LoadModule: "r128" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o (II) Module r128: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 4.0.1 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) LoadModule: "ati" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ati_drv.o (II) Module ati: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 6.4.18 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 If anybody could offer any insight into what I have configured wrong, need to install, etc., I'd be greatly appreciative. Thanks in advance! -Nick

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Canon PowerShot G3 USB camera in SuSE8.2 Linux?
by Alex Daniloff 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hello SuSE folkz, Could somebody tell or point me to the right source of information on how to enable Canon PowerShot G3 USB camera in SuSE 8.2 Linux. Gtcam app. sees this camera and recognizes it correctly, but it gives initialization errors when I try to load or just see the pictures. Many thanks in advance. Alex

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upgrading packages
by Tom Allison 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

I've been using YOU for a while now and realized that it was not upgrading all the available packages from the mirrors based on what I was seeing in the Install Package section of Yast2. I guess it's only for more critical updates? How do you upgrade packages (all packages) automatically from the mirrors? Or do you have to manually go through the list?

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How to disable vga (monitor) display (when compiling kernel)
by Bo Jacobsen 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

I'm trying to disable the monitor display so nothing is shown (neigher while booting nor when it's time for the shell prompt) (after the grub boot selections) on a monitor connected to a buildt in VGA card. I have tried to different combinations of disabled options in the kernel (running "make menuconfig"), but most of then result in a system that will run exatly as I wan't it to, but when running "shutdown -r now" it will hang somewhere in the shutdown process. /var/log/messages gives no usefull information. I have tried to disable the following: /console drivers/Vga text console /console drivers/frame buffer support/all disabled /character devices/Virtual Terminal I have also tried to enable "/character devices/Support for console on serial support". I run SuSE 8.2 and have tried this on the kernel: linux-2.4.21.SuSE-13.tar.bz2 Any idears on how this is proberly done. Thanks in advance Bo Jacobsen

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Re: [SLE] KDE 3.1.4 ?
by r.maurizzi＠digitalpha.it 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

> Your correct that they do not have to do so. But when it's a > security risk then in good faith they should act quickly. One > of the security risks with KDE if memory serves me is with > KDM (GUI Login) and if SuSE is going to have this enabled > by default which they do.. Did you read the announce? It seems to me you have not. See http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2003/Sep/1007721.html > It is reported that with a certain configuration of the MIT > pam_krb5 module, a pam_setcred() call may fail while > leaving the session alive when a remote authenticated > user connects, thereby granting root access to the > remote authenticated user (CVE: CAN-2003-0690). The situation is that: - SuSE do not have KMD listening on the network unless you enable it - SuSE do not have pam_krb5 installed or configured - the number of linux boxes connected to the net that let in users using X11/XDCMP is near zero, due to the inefficiency of the procotol - if you really *ARE* in that kind of situation (public X server with kerberos support on a fast public lan) you can always use another XDM for a few days Then, why do you think this is an _important_ security upgrade? Ciao, Roberto

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Google is my friend but .art files are not
by Bob Pearson 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

I searched on google for a graphic program for linux that understand the .art file format and came up with nothing. Does anyone know of any such creature? TIA. Regards, Bob Pearson -- I am unique and special, just like everyone else.

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Cannot scan as except as root on SuSE 8.2.
by Guy Zelck 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hello all, I have an hp Scanjet 5200C connected via usb which I works only as root. Yast2 recognizes the scanner and libusb is used by the system. I suppose it has sth. to do with not having the necessary rights. As root, when starting xscanimage, I notice in the messages log that "resmgr" outputs a lot of lines of which the last 2 are : Sep 19 23:23:05 gz resmgr[966]: accepted connection from user root Sep 19 23:23:05 gz xscanimage: resmgr: server response code 200 (I suppose code 200 means OK) Now when I try as user 'guy', I get the following 2 last lines : Sep 19 23:25:40 gz resmgr[966]: accepted connection from user guy sep 19 23:25:40 gz xscanimage: resmgr: server response code 502 (I suppose code 502 mean NOK) Resmgr is new to me so I read a few man pages and from that I learned that in resmgr.conf all users pertaining to class 'desktop' have access to all kinds of scanner device files that are all owned by my regular user when I check them. So I'm puzzled as to what could be wrong. I'm surprised that I'm apparently the only person with this kind of pb. I installed this system from over the internet, not from cds. Can anyone help? Thanks, Guy.

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Re: [SLE] A Samba question about Win2000
by Chris Roubekas 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

suse-linux-e(a)suse.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Micxz Love (lovedialup.com)" <an_email(a)micxz.com> To: "Chris Roubekas" <croubekas(a)panafonet.gr> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] A Samba question about Win2000 > Chris Roubekas wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I have a SuSE 7.2 box running as a file sharing Server. > > All Win9X machines of the network currently loggon the Linux > > box and a small logon.bat executes some drive loggons. > > One of those stations upgraded over the weekend to > > Win2000 and to my surprise it cannot loggon. > > I have added the machine account to the smbpasswd > > file, I have also made all possible adjustments as I have > > read through various articles posted on the internet but still > > nothing!!! > > I have double and triple checked all necessary steps and > > still I am unable to get the Win2000 machine to connect > > to the network. > > Can someone please tell me if there is some bug in the > > version of Samba that is supplied with SuSE 7.2 with regards > > to Win2000?? > > > > Thanx folks! > > Chris > > > > - Have you anabled plain text passwords under windows? > - Can you ping the server? > - Have you checked your workgroup? > - Do you have encrypted authentication turned on in samba? > > I don't know of any bugs. Dear Friend, I have adjusted all the above steps that you mentioned. However, I have not adjusted the last step about encryption.... can you please tell me how to enable this parameter?? Thank you in advance! > > -- > Micxz > Founder - Lovedialup.com > Production Engineer - Raspberrymedia.com >

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How to pronounce SuSE
by Jay Jennings 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

I don't want to sound link an idiot when talking about SuSE so what is the correct way to pronounce it? Thanks Jay Jennings

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Fw: [Full-Disclosure] **NEW** OpenSSH Vuln Today
by Radu Voicu 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi! Did this affects any of the SuSE versions? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:11:32 -0700 > From: Jeremiah Cornelius <jeremiah(a)nur.net> > To: full-disclosure(a)lists.netsys.com > Subject: [Full-Disclosure] **NEW** OpenSSH Vuln Today > > > - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > To: > Secure Shell > > Subject: > Multiple PAM vulnerabilities in portable OpenSSH > > Date: > Sep 23 2003 12:40PM > > Author: > Damien Miller <djm cvs openbsd org> > > Message-ID: > <200309231240.h8NCePCd025947(a)cvs.openbsd.org> > > Subject: Portable OpenSSH Security Advisory: sshpam.adv > > This document can be found at: http://www.openssh.com/txt/sshpam.adv > > 1. Versions affected: > > Portable OpenSSH versions 3.7p1 and 3.7.1p1 contain multiple > vulnerabilities in the new PAM code. At least one of these bugs > is remotely exploitable (under a non-standard configuration, > with privsep disabled). > > The OpenBSD releases of OpenSSH do not contain this code and > are not vulnerable. Older versions of portable OpenSSH are not > vulnerable. > > 2. Solution: > > Upgrade to Portable OpenSSH 3.7.1p2 or disable PAM > support ("UsePam no" in sshd_config). > > Due to complexity, inconsistencies in the specification and > differences between vendors' PAM implementations we recommend > that PAM be left disabled in sshd_config unless there is a need > for its use. Sites only using public key or simple password > authentication usually have little need to enable PAM support. > - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/cKj6Ji2cv3XsiSARAgSXAKCnphtbWIwF2kxwYspPwcnQ2nC1HgCdFQqo > nFIlRMEGrI/7QvUcVCwYL7o= > =jsqb > - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html > > > > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Vlad Galu > Senior IP Engineer > Romania Data Systems - Bucharest Branch > Tel. +4021-30.10.850, Fax. +4021-30.10.851 > http://www.rdsnet.ro/ > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. > If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible > for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver > this message to anyone. In such a case, you should destroy this message > and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail. > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQE/cLEkP5WtpVOrzpcRAv4JAJ9ladVU9nPCc5keU/9KWIs8StgikACeJBVW > kC3W0WH1I3BlO9CVMlHAdFA= > =b4gP > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >

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Access to router
by Zach Smith 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

I have the Linksys 4 port router, connecting 2 Linux boxes and one Windows box to the net via cable connection. The problem I'm having is getting to the setup menu of the router using a browser interface (Opera, Mozilla, etc.). I have no problem with this in Windoze but can't get it to come up in Linux (http://192.168.1.1/) I tried emailing Linksys for help but received no response. I can't find any solutions on Google responding to this particular problem. Anyone here have a solution? Many thanks in advance. Zach Dirty Harry today: "I know what you're thinkin' punk; did he fire sixteen shots or only fifteen..."

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kdelibs3-cups.rpm
by Fred A. Miller 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

kdelibs3-cups.rpm - Ok, I tried a system update in YAST2, and CAN'T do it because this file IS supposed to be there, but isn't!! Where is it?! Thanks, Fred -- "...Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows XP (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)."

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how to log the amount of internet use
by Erik Hajer 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

I have a small home network with one server/internet gateway(via adsl/ppptp) and 5 desktop-clients. Among the users of my network there are a few heavy p2p-users. I allready did some traffic-shaping (with cbq.init) to reduse there bandwide consumption, but what I am looking for is a tool/script that makes it possible to log the amount of download/upload traffic per client/internal IP-adress on a daily base;Something like: -------------- date:23-09-03 IP-adress: Download: Upload: Total: x.x.x.1 xx Gb xx GB xx Gb x.x.x.2 yy yy yy x.x.x.3 zz zz zz total: x.x.x.0/24 tt Gb ttGb ttGb ------------- With something like this it would by possible to keep an eye on things and to send a dayly/weekly/monthly e-mail to all the users on the clients about their "internet-use", etc. any suggestion about where to start making this work would be verry welcome.....

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YOU connection problems
by John Lamb 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

I've updated a box to 8.2 and am having some connection problems while running YaST Online Update. Essentially, the connection to suse.com always times out after a few minutes and I have to put in a mirror by hand. Any solutions? There is one obvious mirror for me to use and I'd like to set this as a default without going through SuSE.com. ++ Switching the firewall off has no effect. wget is using passive ftp. The network card (and network) is 100Mbps and I can usually get several Mbps directly from suse.com and a lot more from other mirrors. I'm using text-mode YaST because its easier. The box doesn't have a keyboard, mouse or monitor; so I never start an X client on it. -- JDL Non enim propter gloriam, diuicias aut honores pugnamus set propter libertatem solummodo quam Nemo bonus nisi simul cum vita amittit.

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apt
by landy 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

can someone using apt4rpm tell me where the hcek i can get perl-xml-libxml pepino:/home/illustre # rpm -i apt4rpm-0.65.2-0.noarch.rpm error: failed dependencies: perl-XML-LibXML is needed by apt4rpm-0.65.2-0

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disk activity monitoring
by fsanta 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Any favorite for monitoring disk activity? We are looking to try to find a bottleneck in our lan. Thanks, Steve.

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OT: Some funny Linux videos from IBM
by Sharpe, Richard 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Just a few laughs from IBM to brighten the day. http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/ <http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/> # Rich Richard A Sharpe (DBA) Sqlserver/DB2 Amherst Technologies 40 Continental Blvd Merrimack, NH 03054 PHONE .......(603) 579-6180 / (800) 431-8031 Cell phone ..(603) 320-7785 FAX ...........(603) 578-1072 EMAIL .......rsharpe(a)amherst1.com <mailto:.......rsharpe@amherst1.com> "Tenemos que tener fe" ("We must have faith")

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Can't print to WinXP hosted printer
by Rob Lofland 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Added the printer using Yast2. The WinXP Server and the printer were both seen by Yast2 during installation and the "Test SMB Access" test was successful. When I print something though, it just sits on the kprinter queue and never actually prints. I'm running Samba and the workgroup in the smb.conf file is the same as on the XP machine. Anybody know what might be the problem ? Thanks, Rob

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Problems with Xine
by Rikard Johnels 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

A short cut from a earlier thread.. > On Tuesday 23 September 2003 02:00, Tom Allison wrote: > > I was trying to run xine and it seems that it isn't configured from the > > install. > > Furthermore, there is not xine-config script as mentioned in the docs. > > > > So what are you supposed to do in order to get xine running? > > Might be helpfull if we new which version of Suse you were trying > this on, and where you got your xine. > > The xine on the suse disk is crippled, and old. > Go here, download all the xine rpms, put them in a single > directory and rpm --install *.rpm > http://packman.links2linux.org/ > And don't forget libdecess if you want to read encrupted > dvds. > -- > _____________________________________ > John Andersen I have done the above mentioned stuff, but it barfs at me. sparhawk:/home/rikjoh/Desktop/xine # rpm --install *.rpm error: failed dependencies: libdvdcss >=3D 1.2 is needed by libxine1-dvd-1_rc0a-0.pm.0 libfame is needed by libxine1-dxr3-1_rc0a-0.pm.0 libfame-0.9.so.0 is needed by libxine1-dxr3-1_rc0a-0.pm.0 libtheora is needed by libxine1-ogg-1_rc0a-0.pm.0 speex is needed by libxine1-ogg-1_rc0a-0.pm.0 libspeex.so.1 is needed by libxine1-ogg-1_rc0a-0.pm.0 libtheora.so.0 is needed by libxine1-ogg-1_rc0a-0.pm.0 libfame-0.9.so.0 is needed by libxine1-sdl-1_rc0a-0.pm.0 win32-codecs >=3D 0.90 is needed by libxine1-w32dll-1_rc0a-0.pm.0 I have tried to compile from source but it fouls. I have tried running the cripeled version and it fails to display most files i try playing. Also.. Is there a way of making xine SMP aware? Or is that sourcecode dependent? -- /Rikard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh(a)norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 70 464 99 39 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >

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Kernel compile version
by js 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

I just downloaded the updated kernel for suse 8.2. When I tried to install the new NVidia driver, it said the driver didn't match the kernel. So I let try to build a kernel module. It gave a "gcc mismatch error, your running kernel was compiled with a different version of gcc than you are using." Great! This is the second time I've had this problem. Does anyone know which compiler was used for the latest OFFICIAL kernel for suse 8.2? I don't mean the Mantel "next" kernel, but the production kernel which now distributes with online update. The only way I could fix this in the past was to download the matching compiler. SuSE should make it a practice of keeping the compiler standardized for the life of a particular release. Especially considering I pointed this out to their techs the last time it happened. John S.

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updates
by James Newman 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

when downloading the updates from the suse site, can you just download the lastest or do you have to download and install each update. ie. imapweb32. do I have to download everyone one of those, or will the latest have all of the previous corrections included as well as the new fixes. Thanks, James Newman IT Supervisor Castleberry Investments Office: (580) 225-6041 Fax: (580) 225-6056 Cell: (580) 821-2964

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Re: [SLE] Help with crontab (NOT SOLVED TO ME)
by adagilson＠cpqam.fiocruz.br 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

I put this line into my crontab: 29 21 * * * xmms -p /home/adagilson/acordar.m3u Although, the command line: xmms -p /home/adagilson/acordar.m3u ...can play a list of mp3 very fine when executed by a Gnome terminal, it is not working with Cron. Take a look at the result from the command CRONTAB -L: $crontab -l #vi crontab 29 21 * * * xmms -p /home/adagilson/acordar.m3u :wq!#You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/adagilson This is the MESSAGE SENT BY CRON: Message 15: >From adagilson(a)linux.local Fri Sep 19 21:29:01 2003 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:29:00 -0300 From: root(a)linux.local (Cron Daemon) To: adagilson(a)linux.local Subject: Cron <adagilson@linux> xmms -p /home/adagilson/acordar.m3u X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/adagilson> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=adagilson> /bin/sh: xmms: command not found Thanks for any help a. John Pettigrew escreveu: > In a previous message, Evan Morris wrote: > > 30 14 * * * root /usr/bin/perl /home/default/scriptname.pl some_argument > >[snip] > >Basically, I want to know how to tell the system to run a specific perl >script at a certain time, and to accept a command line argument. > > >The first thing is to ensure that you have the command format correct - that >is, if you type it into a console, does it do what you want? Once you have >that format, just transfer the command into your crontab. The time/date and >user fields are correct in the example you gave AFAIK. > >If you want easier control of cron jobs, try webmin - it has a module for >crons that makes it easier to manage. I discovered this tool recently and >it's fantastic, with modules for configuring loads of different aspects of >your system.>> > HTH John ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

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Problems with PDA and gnome
by Ernesto Jardim 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi, I'm using gnome 2.2.4 rolled by ULB (thanks Rubber). I want to configure my PDA (USB Sony Clie in /dev/ttyUSB0) to access it from Evolution but the configuration with gnome-pilot fails. The pilot configuration freezes when it tries to retrieve the user name and ID. The pilot ends up failing the connection ... It is not a problem with the connection or with pilot-link, I use this PDA for more than a year with J-Pilot. Regards EJ

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RE: [SLE] Cable internet questions
by Peer Stefan 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi Franklin, > From: Franklin Maurer [mailto:nebbish@sprynet.com] > On Monday 22 September 2003 6:54 pm, pheonix1t wrote: [snip] > I know the definitions of router and switch but haven't > actually configured > either. I'm also poor and I thought switches were more expensive than > routers.In fact I'm only getting the internet access because > it will come > through my job at Comcast. > > If you could point out some good info for the right time to > use a switch > versus a router I'd appreciate it. Are you aware of the OSI layers? 1) Physical layer 2) Media access / Data Link 3) Network 4) Transport 5) Session 6) Presentation 7) Application Switches are (normally) working in layer 2 - this is the ethernet layer (or token ring or atm or isdn or whatever). Routers work in layer 3. This is where IP comes in. So routers route the traffic between IP-subnets (this is why you need the netmasks), and switches "route" the traffic according to the ARP-table (MAC-addresses). If you need IP-filters and NAT and stuff you'll need a firewall which takes care of the routing too (this could be a linux-box, a cable-router or a cisco, if you have that much money ;-) > Or how to have linux take care of the routing info. There's a good linux routing howto. Have a look at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/ cheers, Stefan

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Matsonic board and sound
by Olle Viksten 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

I upgraded to a Matsonic MS8137C+ mother board today. Everything wenr smoth except the sound driver. Does anyone know how to get it to work on a SuSE 82, KDE3.1 machine? Olle -- War does not determine who is right, war determine who is left. Registered Linux User 61169 http://counter.li.org Magick! Bettie Page! Crossfire! http://www.viksten.com

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GUI webpage program needed
by Tom Nielsen 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

I'm wondering if anyone out there uses a really good GUI webpage builder. Something equal to FrontPage or Dreamweaver. I've tried Bluefish and wasn't thrilled. Any thoughts? Thanks, Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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KMAIL Problems
by Norman Duncan 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Since installing KDE3.1.3 some months ago I have had a series of "occational" problems with KMAIL - as below. I have just gritted my teeth and ignored them, but now they are becoming permanent and un bearable. Googling does not seem to yield anything useful. I hope someone can help. Bear in mind that I am a simple trainer and need to be led in this field. Norman 1. it does not always load immediately. sometimes it loads on the first click on the button , sometimes afer a few clicks, and now more often it requires up to about 15 2. Sometimes it opens mails fine, and at other times it converts mails into UNKNOWN in subject, sender and date.... with no content. Only when I move the mail to trash or another sub folder does it become readable again, with its administrative details. 3. ALWAYS - on shutting it down - it launches crash handler with the following messages: 0x415e63a9 in wait4 () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 #0 0x415e63a9 in wait4 () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 #1 0x41661cf0 in __DTOR_END__ () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 #2 0x41459983 in waitpid () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 #3 0x40b99d9d in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler(int) () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #4 0x41457a7a in pthread_sighandler () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 #5 <signal handler called> #6 0x407305ee in Kpgp::Module::~Module() () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdenetwork.so.2 #7 0x08159fca in QComboBox::setAutoCompletion(bool) () #8 0x4077993f in KStaticDeleter<Kpgp::Module>::destructObject() () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdenetwork.so.2 #9 0x40ba5b87 in KGlobal::deleteStaticDeleters() () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #10 0x40b2e906 in KApplication::~KApplication() () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #11 0x40bb45c7 in KUniqueApplication::~KUniqueApplication() () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #12 0x0818a38e in QComboBox::setAutoCompletion(bool) () #13 0x415614c2 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6

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Using Qt
by LinuxMail 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi Everyone, How can I start using Qt? How can it be started? regards Leo

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More Spell Checking Help Please
by W.D. McKinney 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

OK need help. Grabbed everything for the latest Evolution and other that being exceptionally slow at re-freshing windows, I still don't have spell checking ? Any pecularities with this version ? 1.4.4 Dee -- Dee McKinney Honor the Past, Live the Present, Plan for the Future.

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Php doesn't work on Apache 2
by Bombadil 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi, Whenever I try to open a php file , the browser ask me to open it as text. In Yast2 everything seems to be installes , any idea? Thanks.

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plasma screen resolution 1365x768
by Berge, Harry ten 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi, We're investigating the use of plasma screens. Almost all plasma screens have a native resolution of 1365x768 (16:9). However, I can't find a graphics adapter that can display this resolution. Has anyone experience with plasma screens? And how did you fix this problem? > Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind Regards, > H.J. ten Berge Test Engineer HITT Traffic Oude Apeldoornseweg 41-45 P.O. Box 717 NL-7300 AS, APELDOORN The Netherlands Telephone +31-55-543 26 34 Fax +31-55-543 25 53 E-mail mailto:berge@hitt.nl Internet http://www.hitt-traffic.nl

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SuSE 8.2 + Mailman + Apache2
by mettius 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hello, Has anyone had success getting mailman's web interface to work with Apache2? The SuSE mailman rpm installs and plugs itself into Apache1 (which I'm not running). It note the following is added by the rpm: /etc/httpd/modules/mailman (nothing like this is added to /etc/apache2/modules) /etc/httpd/mailman.conf (nothing like this is added to /etc/apache2/modules) The only mailman options in YAST2 are for Apache1 (not Apache2) Any suggestions? Thanks, -Mettius

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How do I kill a Zombie?
by Tom Nielsen 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

I've got this process that is defunct. I ran kill 7690 as root and nothing happens. Tried kill -l 7690, nothing. Here's my line: tom-linux:/home/tom # ps aux | grep " Z " tom 7690 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 08:59 0:00 [netstat] <defunct> root 7835 0.0 0.1 3544 572 pts/1 S 09:34 0:00 grep Z tom-linux:/home/tom # kill -l 7690 bash: kill: 7690: invalid signal specification I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. Thanks, Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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