September 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

kate problem
by sjb 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

Hi all, I use kate to edit files on an FTP server and it's always worked fine for me in the past .. including today. But about 5 minutes ago kate stopped saving files. Looking at the network traffic I can see that it's sending an anonymous logon instead of my username:password (despite me telling it to remember them). Shutting kate down and restarting didn't help. Removing all of kates config files didn't help. Manually typing ftp://username:password@server.domain.com/ doesn't work .. it keeps sending the anonymous logon. Anybody know what's up .. it was working one minute, and not the next. i didn't touch anything .. honest! ;-) sjb

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Suse Linux logo
by Tom Nielsen 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

Where can I find a logo to put on my website that says something like Powered by SuSE Linux? tom - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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sudden printing problems in KDE
by Marian Routh 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

Hi - OK, I'm stumped and I need your help. Everything has worked beautifully on my SuSE 8.2 installation for a long time until a few days ago when I tried to change the printing margins in the Kate editor because I wanted them to be larger. I looked at the margins that were set (I was doing this from within Kate), saw they were set for "centimeters", changed them to "inches" and clicked "save". It didn't seem to take, but since that time none of the KDE apps (except, oddly enough, Kedit) will print. If I try to print something in Kate or KNode etc. I get the usual Kprinter dialogue box but when I click Print, nothing happens. No error messages. Printing with Kprinter works perfectly as it always has in all non-KDE apps such as OpenOffice, Emacs, Mozilla, Evolution, etc. I'm using the default CUPS with my Epson Stylus 900. I logged into a different account and Kate prints OK, so it must be something in my own account, but I can't see what it is. Please point me in the right direction - I've been using SuSE exclusively since 8.0, but because it is so stable and works so well, I'm not that skilled in troubleshooting. TIA, Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com Don't Panic!

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Re: [SLE] Goodbye SuSE :-(
by Sid Boyce 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

Ben Rosenberg wrote: > * Sid Boyce (sboyce(a)blueyonder.co.uk) [030918 22:52]: > >>>So a two hour turn around on OpenSSH wasn't good enough? I can say your >>>never going to get the blood red bleeding edge stuff out of SuSE..it >>>just won't happen. SuSE just isn't into that sort of thing. This would >>>be why they patched OpenSSH 3.5p1 instead of just making 3.7.1p1 >>>packages and letting the chips fall where they may. They know that >>>things break and that us long time SLE'ers get REALLY pissed off when >>>1000's of emails come through with blah, blah and blah is broken. So >>>they do try to keep that to a minimum. Thank God. >>> >> >>Fine if you are just using your box as an appliance, but if you want >>to make use of quite a few updated and special applications, then things >>can go totally doolally > > > Well, I can say categorically that I don't use my computer as an > appliance since I regularly play Quake3Arena, UT and other games. I use > it for Office related tasks (swriter, scalc..etc) and for quite a few > other tasks but I also know that upgrading without testing is a foolish > road to go down. SuSE has a policy of not breaking dependencies..so if > say something like a new version of OpenSSL comes out because a bug or > exploit was found then they will patch the existing version rather then > introduce that unknown into the equation and have to recompiled things > such as ALL of the KDE components that depend on ssl support among other > things. Some of us use our computers for work and have no time to play > around fixing this or that or some other thing because one block in the > pyramid has been changed to make the whole thing unstable. > > And again, if you "feel the need to bleed" compile it yourself or go to > one of the MANY sites that have SuSE packages or contact me off list if > you can't make it work and I'll give you my rate for RTFMing the INSTALL > files and knowing how things work so that I can get a pkg built. > > >>>Just do what I do..compile the src yourself and make rpm's. :) >>> >> >>Try doing that to scribus-1.1.0, it runs, but doesn't allow you to >>type anything alpha or numeric into a text box. > > > Well, I'm sorry that you couldn't build Scribus. And I'm sorry it didn't > let you type anything. I went looking at their site and I found "Latest > Developers Release: 1.1.0". So your complaining that an unstable > development version wouldn't behave correctly. Don't be silly and don't > complain about something that's marked unstable and for developers. If > your not testing it and reporting bugs or not working on it code wise > then this should be a hint it's not for end users and might not behave > all that well. I don't bitch when an unstable release screws up. I'm > using a nightly from a few days ago of Firebird and ya know what > ..earlier today it didn't like some PHP on a page..it grabbed all the > RAM and all the swap an locked the machine up tight as a drum. Did I > complain..a little...but I didn't get that upset that I had to hit the > power button. After all it was a "nightly, unstable release" an thems > the breaks. > > The last changelog entry for Scribus BTW is 06.09.2003 so the 1.1.0 > tarball of source would probably be from this date or around it. If you > want to truly get involved then pull from CVS ..the bugs that afflicted > your build may have been cured. Just as the build I was using of > Firebird that was built on Mozilla 1.5a had many things fixed in the nightly > from 09/17 which is build on Mozilla 1.5b. > I was mainly venting things I hope SuSE should get a grip on and I did say 8.2 was a vast improvement on earlier releases as far as currency of the software and I hope it wasn't a one off exercise. Mandrake and debian also had similar complaints. I don't quit that easily, needless to say, it compiles and works flawlessly on Mandrake 91 as it does on my SuSE 8.2 PIII 700 laptop. Version 1.0.1 from Lenz site allows numerics and special characters only. A friend has the SuSE 8.2 CD version running fine, but it doesn't here. We've found that we can install a SuSE distro on his machine and mine, then we'll have different problems - he has a PIII and I an Athlon, both with GEForce 4 cards, could be how the hardware handles things. > You have to understand that I don't say the things I say to make you run > screaming away from SuSE, but to warn you that the SuSE/German mentality > seems to be stability first..feature second. A lot of us long time SuSE > users like this and are very use to it. If you want newer versions of > packages that SuSE hasn't felt the need to upgrade then you can visit > such sites as packman's, usr-local-bin or funktronics. These sites have > new builds and "version numbers" then some of the SuSE software. You > could even just grab apt and add these directories to your sources.list > and you'll get the updates automatically when you run the "update then > upgrade". What I've said is quite simply how it is and SuSE isn't going > to change to supporting unstable developer releases...they simply don't > have the resources to do it nor do they want to do it. > I do use usr-local-bin etc., but they have gaps also, I don't see FlightGear 0.9.2 up anywhere. I reckon all software is unstable, that's why new releases are issued. There have been issues with kernels, apps, etc., NVidia-4496 e.g though there is an update HOWTO supplied on the SuSE site, gcc. More often than not the bugs in earlier software are fixed satisfactorily - that's why 8.2 has been a significant improvement over other releases. We need to air perceived shortcomings in the hope that our beloved distro will improve, better than keeping quiet until it boils over and be met by "NOBODY EVER SAID". > > And one small request. Please do not CC me. I've been on this list for > about 5.5 years and if you send to the list. I'm dead positive I'll get > it. An one more thing..when you indent your paragraphs like that..it > makes it awfully hard to read..it's not needed. > Request granted. Hmmmmmmmmm... some say indentation helps. Regards Sid.... Long time SuSE user by choice.

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RPM database failure
by eja＠urbakken.dk 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

Hi. I had a mains fall out the other day, and since then if I want to run Synaptic, it claims about opening the RPM database. It the same if I want to rpm -e <an_rpm_file>. I use SuSE 8.2. What can be done ?. /Erik.

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Re: [SLE] K3B.
by Silviu Marin-Caea 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

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Re: [SLE] K3B.
by Silviu Marin-Caea 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

Erik Jakobsen wrote: >> >> In the manual :-) Really, now. > > > Where can it be found ?. In the command line: man cdrdao Search for explanations for the --driver option. >> Try these, along with the other options you're using >> cdrdao --driver generic-mmc >> cdrdao --driver generic-mmc-raw > > What for instance is a name of a driver ?. In this particular case, all the stuff that "driver" notion reffers to is already included in cdrdao, you just need to specify which one to use. That's what the --driver option does. You don't have to install any piece of software, you already have everything you need.

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Odd spamassassin reports
by John Pettigrew 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

I've been getting loads of these fake MS patches today (over 60 so far - I'm glad I'm on broadband!), and spamassassin isn't catching them all yet. I've been training it on them, but when looking at the reports on these, I noticed something odd. Spamassassin is using the bayesian method to identify messages but those with 90-99% probability of being spam are given a score of +4.0, whereas those with a probability of 80-90% are getting a score of +5.3 (both values are the bayesian component only - there are obviously other scores being used also). This seems wrong to me. Can anyone suggest why this is happening? Also, when training with spam, is it also important to train with ham, or can I just add to the spam corpus? 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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spamassassin question
by Tom Nielsen 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

The other night I was fumbling through the internet looking for info on spamassassin. I came across something somewhere that talked about the user emailing spam, which spamassassin missed, to a spam server so that spamassassin could use the learning feature. It was something like spamserver(a)blah.blah. Bascially, if I get an email which was spam and I have spamassassin setup on my mail server, I could forward that email to the spamserver (or something like that) for it to learn. This would be lieu of saving the message, coping it to the server, then running sa-learn..... The other upside is that individual users can forward this email. Again, I just briefly saw it and can't remember where. Anyone have the foggest idea on what I'm talking about? Thanks, Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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Help installing Java Media Framework (JMF) on SuSE 8.2 - "JMF Classes not found"
by Rob Tow 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

I've downloaded JMF from the Sun site - version 2.1.1e - but I'm having trouble getting it to run. I've set up my classpath to point to the jar file: CLASSPATH=/home/musashi/jv/JMF-2.1.1e/lib/jmf.jar and also set: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/musashi/jv/JMF-2.1.1e/lib when Iuse Konqueror to run the JMF Diagnostics Applet found at: http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/2.1.1/jmfdiagnostics.html it says: JMF Diagnostics: Java 1.1 compliant browser.....Maybe JMF classes.....Not Found Has anyone succeeded in stalling JMF under SuSE 8.2??? What have I missed? -r- -- R o b T o w robtow(a)tauzero.com www.tauzero.com/Rob_Tow (408)-829-7407 * *ronin in the glade *swift katas slice the still air *...his own opponent

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