October 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

strange problem with evolution
by David Robertson 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

Several times in the past I have got fed up with evolution because sometimes, for no apparent reason, the cursor would jump to a different part of the text I was typing and randomly delete some portions of text. Recently, that's not been happening, which was great as it really is otherwise my preferred email client. This evening it started doing it again. Then it dawned on me - I decided to have a go at playing with Project Looking Glass - Sun's new 3D desktop - and, as part of the procedure, I installed the nvidia driver, which I have not been using recently. It occurred to me that previously, this happened when I had been using the nvidia driver also, so could that somehow be the cause? Has anyone else experienced this or know of a fix? Seems a strange one to me! David -- Registered Linux User No 207521 The Linux Counter: http://counter.li.org/ "The above is my personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the little voices in my head."

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Now Konqueror is sulking
by Michael James 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

Konqueror gives me the pip. It tries to be too intelligent for it's own good. And too much artificial intelligence is artificial malevolence. So I use firebird for most of my browsing, and set it as the default app for HTML. But, sometimes I need a second browser, because firebird isn't coping or is already loaded with a cookie and I want to try something different. Konqueror is no good, it acts like a sulky child. Click on a link and it says, "I'm not your HTML app, do you want me to open this with Firebird or save it?" No button to say, "Just do it, you stupid heap of pedantic logic, you're a browser, it's HTML, display it!" Anyone know a way around this? Or should I write Konqueror off entirely? michaelj -- Michael James michael.james(a)csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166

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SUSE patched kernel
by Nicholas Moir 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

I have a host which will only boot with the patched SUSE kernel, a vanilla kernel using the SUSE .config results in a kernel panic. Is there a way of stripping out the SUSE patches individually, so I can find out which patch is responsible for the machine booting. Regards, Nick.

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apt-get and km* files
by Phil Burness 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

when doing an apt-get -s upgrade it came back with a load of km_wlan, km_hostap, km_... files. When I do a rpm -ql km_wlan it shows me they are the source files /usr/src/kernel-modules/...... my question is if I do an upgrade of k_deflt, do I need to do these files as well? Phil

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Problem with installing Mozilla Thunderbird
by Mike McCallister 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Hi folks! Seem to have gotten myself messed up again. I thought this might be an apt problem, but now it's looking like more of an RPM issue. Background: I've been using Thunderbird for my primary mail client for awhile now. I did not use apt to install (downloaded and installed as user to ~/thunderbird from tar). A few days ago, I updated some other packages through apt and Thunderbird began having problems loading. Specifically, thunderbird-bin would start running (in KDE) for a few seconds, then just die (no panel item, no UI). A few thunderbird-bin processes continued to run in the background, however. I attempted to reinstall from the tarball--no changes. I then checked to see if there was a package available from apt, and indeed there was. I proceeded to install via apt--without removing the old package. Thunderbird appeared to install, but it never actually finished. Eventually I discovered that the rebuild-databases process never completed. I killed this process (after nothing had happened for several hours). Later on, I found that rebuild-databases was a Thunderbird process, not from either apt or rpm. I tried removing the old installation (the Thunderbird release notes say to simply delete the ~/thunderbird folder), and running apt again. No change--still hanging. Further research indicates that rebuild-databases spawns three instances of thunderbird-bin. Is it trying to find the mail profile? Again after several hours of waiting, I killed the thunderbird-bin processes. In the log below, it appears (well, that's my guess anyway) that thunderbird-bin was trying to register itself, but killing the process sent that to /dev/null. Oh, and this is a SuSE 9.0 system, KDE 3.1.4. Any thoughts on getting Thunderbird running properly are much appreciated. Mike Apt log: linux:/home/mikemc # apt --no-checksig --no-post install MozillaThunderbird Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: MozillaThunderbird 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 339 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/9627kB of archives. After unpacking 28.3MB of additional disk space will be used. Committing changes... Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:MozillaThunderbird ########################################### [100%] /opt/MozillaThunderbird/bin/rebuild-databases.sh: line 79: 6764 Terminated $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/thunderbird-bin -register >/dev/null 2>/dev/null Done. -- Mike McCallister ProTek Writing Services workingwriter(a)prodigy.net "Translation from the Geek a specialty" Phone: (414) 545-4489 Fax: (248) 282-0532

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GUI program in X from script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d?
by Johnny Ernst Nielsen 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Good day, SUSE 9.0 How do I get a GUI program (kdialog) to show on the X screen by a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d? It has to happen on the screen of whatever user is logged into KDE. A test script looks like this: #!/bin/bash #Test if the script is activated -- write to a file. echo "Script activated." > /root/test.txt #See what user the script is started as. echo "User: $USER" >> /root/test.txt #See what is in the DISPLAY variable. echo "Display: $DISPLAY" >> /root/test.txt #Test if kdialog can be started. echo "Result of kdialog call:" >> /root/test.txt /opt/kde3/bin/kdialog --msgbox "This is a test." 2&> /root/ test2.txt #End of script. It is the kdialog command that will not work. Both $USER and $DISPLAY are empty when the script is running, but all, except the call to kdialog, works as it is supposed to. kdialog fails with this message: "kdialog: cannot connect to X server" So I though that I just needed to give all on the local computer access to X. As the user logged in to X I have tried to export the DISPLAY variable and run xhost +local: No luck. xhost +localhost No luck. xhost + (Yes this is dangerous, but for a brief tester...) No luck. DISPLAY is set to :0.0 I also tried setting it to localhost:0.0 No luck. I tried xhost mycomputer export DISPLAY=mycomputer:0.0 No luck. I have not been able to find anything clueful to me in the SDB, the Sysadmin guide, the User guide, the list archives, or googeling. I am out of ideas. Can anyone help? Best regards Johnny :o)

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HW choice - comments?
by Radule Soskic 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Dear SLE members, I am considering the following HW components for my new PC (suse 9.1 and hopefully 9.2+): MB: ASUS A7V8X-X CPU: AMD 2500+Barton VideoCard: ATI Radeon 9200SE-TV DVDrec: Pioneer 107D or 108D or A07XLA or A07XLB I consulted HW database at suse website. There is an indication there that asus MB and Radeon are fully supported, the other two components are not explicitly mentioned. I remember some threads here on problems with suse+asus and suse+ati. I searched list archives, but there is no so much info on particular models that I have in option. I noticed that asus refuses support to linux users, but if this MB really works with no problems, I think I can live without support. Please, can anybody from the list post real life experience with any of components from the list above ??? TIA cikasole

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Re: [ltp] Re: Weird keyboard problem
by James Knott 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Eben King wrote: > Shift-numlk (scrlk) works under SuSE 9.1 in the console, but the change is > not reflected in a running KDE session. I did not try starting KDE > _after_ numlk was invoked. > You can go to a text console and turn on num lock. As soon as you switch back to the desktop, numlock is turned off again.

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Questions about Playing Audio CDs without an Audio Cable
by Dom Incollingo 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Hello, I've been using SuSE (9.1, and 9.0 before that) on a desktop computer, and have routinely played music CDs using KsCD. A few weeks ago, my CD RW went bad, and I took the computer to a shop to have a new CD RW installed. The shop didn't connect the CD RW to the sound card, so KsCD no longer works. (It detects the CD and "plays" it, but there is no sound.) Totem plays music CDs fine, even without the audio cord connecting the CD RW to the sound card. (Because it uses the IDE interface?) I'm trying to decide if I should install an audio cable or if I should do without it. Are there any major disadvantages to using software like Totem to play music CDs rather than using KsCD with an audio cable? For example, are players like Totem more CPU-intensive? Also, is it fairly common for newer desktop computers to ship without an audio cable and to rely on players like Totem to play CDs? Thanks for your thoughts. Dom

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[9.0] Problems with apt and JRE
by Rikard Johnels 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Hi all! I have tried to get the hang of apt, but i keep stumbling over the java integration. I have encountered several "Depends: libjawt.so but it is not installable" and installed J2SE with the JRE from SUN. but it still complains about it not exsisting. I have tried looking for answers online, but cant make too much out of it. :( How do i solve this problem? Its irritating to stuble over such a small thing and not having a clue on how to go on. -- /Rikard --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh(a)norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 735 05 51 01 PGP : ---------------------------------------------------------------

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