Hi all,
Reading some mails on the GIMP mail list, I ran across the procedure
to install some more fonts for not only Gimp, but the system and
StarOffice to use also. Well, I installed the fonts, went to the
shell and issued the command xset fp+ <font directory> and then the
rehash command and all fonts are there! Ok, that went well, but each
time I restart the system, I have to do it all over again? Is there
a way to make it permanent and read the new fonts like it does the
ones the system installs or is that a no-no?
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Shell commands:
xset fp+ <new font directory>
xset fp rehash
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---KMail 1.2--- SuSE Linux v7.2---
Registered Linux User #225206
/tracerb(a)sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products*
*Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
I don't remember seeing this problem on the list.
KMail print on screen is clear and most letters are
separated. When I print out a mail, some letters,
particularly the "t", the "si" and the "sk" combinations
are scrunched together with adjoining letters.
I am printing to an HP 2200D laserjet. The
typeface on screen (and on paper) is a
sans-serif font. Even on screen, it is slightly
scrunched in spots. "ri" and "ti" and "tt" and "th" are
too close together.
Suggestions?
TNX--doug
While attempting to stop a video playing on Macro Media Flash Player 7,
I managed to lock out everything. I could not move the mouse cursor,
the arrow keys and the rest of the kb didn't work, ctl-alt-del did nothing.
None of the function keys did anything. (The video was something downloaded
from the 'net via Firefox.) I wound up pulling the big switch, as us hams
like to say. Is there anything else I could have done?
I'm trying to put Linux to practical use, and this is the first time I've seen
10.0 crash, so it's good, but not fool-proof. (If something can be broken,
this fool will break it!)
I have a 4-year old DELL desktop with a heavy CRT monitor that I'm going
to give away soon .
I also have a 2 month old laptop. Both computers run Linux/SuSE.
I would like to buy an external disk to save most of my s/w
development now residing on my old desktop.
But I would like to be able to use it also with my laptop.
Both computers have some USB ports so I daresay an external USB disk
would be fine ..
I'd appreciate some suggestion about a USB reliable, large capacity but
portable, external disk or
any alternative solution.
Thank you in advance.
Maura
I have a fileserver running SuSE 8.0 with 2 IDE Drives and a
SCSI RAID (RAID5). The system boots up to one of the IDE drives,
and the SCSI RAID drive runs as a mounted filesystem (/dev/md0).
(all filesystems are REISERFS).
Problem:
The SCSI RAID drive has crashed (won't boot up), and I need to
recover it (repair it, through some utility).
Further:
The software does not seem to want to mount the disks, even though
the SCSI BIOS (Adaptec) recognizes the disks, and they are listed as
OPTIMAL.
I tried to repair the disk(s) (with reiserfsck), but it produced an
error message:
reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 2
reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 16
reiserfs_open: neither new nor old reiserfs form found on /dev/md0
The literature suggested that this error message is hardware related
(either a disk is physically damaged, or maybe the RAID isn't
recognized), but again, the disks are recognized (and therefore,
so is the SCSI Card).
I tried to boot up with SuSE CD 1 in Recovery mode, but not sure
what to do there (i.e., after the root prompt - just run reiserfsck?).
Literature suggests there are plenty of tools to handle disk recovery,
and especially RAID support, I can't find reference to them
anywhere.
The installation of the RAID was trivial (using the YAST2
partitioning GUI window on startup), and yet recovery seems to be a
mystery. This can't be right.
Does anyone know where there are "decent" and "usable" recovery tools?
OR ... does anyone know what "specifically" to do in this case? Can
I re-partition without formatting, and recover the existing data?
Any help is appreciated - I'm sure I'm missing something "obvious", but
can't find "obviously" what to do in the literature, docs, etc.
Thank you.
Robert Amodeo
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of California, Los Angeles
What are people using for anti-virus software? I've got BitDefender
running on my machine, but I'd like to find something zero-cost that
has a nice GUI so that when I set up boxes for friends and family,
they can use it.
Regularly (and automatically) updated virus definitions are a must,
here.
Dave
I need a command line based packet sniffer. (I would use tethereal but
this system has no graphical stuff.) ALl it needs to do is collect raw
packets for analysis by ethereal on a different box.
Thank you,
Lucky Leavell
Today I installed update for KDE 3.3 (Sept. 15th) and many screensavers stop
work. Which versoin of kdeartwor3-screensavers works correct, please.
Mitja
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Hi,
Since I updated, a month ago, from SuSE 8.2 to SuSE 9.1 I had the feeling
that the modem connection was slower than previously. Previously I saw
comments on this list to that effect, but they seemed to be related to
winmodems. It could be just an unjustified feeling, therefore I started to
pay more attention, and finally I ran some test to confirm it.
Thus, I can now confirm it: there is something in SuSE 9.1 that makes
Internet connection using a modem definitely slower than previous versions
of SuSE.
** System **
SuSE 9.1 on a P-IV at 1.8 Ghz, with 700Mb ram. Internet connection through
external serial modem (3COM US Robotics, V90 type) - no winmodem involved.
I have tried reducing the TCP window to 8Kb, as recommended on the SDB: no
noticeably change.
Patches (YOU) are almost up to date - at 2K/s a kernel update is...
fearsome :-(
Connection is started using wvdial on an xterm (same definitions as in SuSE
8.2 previously). Desktop is gnome. Running susefirewall2 and DNS locally.
More info: just ask for it :-)
** Symptoms **
Mail fetching (fetchmail) runs jerkily, it runs and stops, seldom reaching
5Kb/s. It may stop for as long as 1 minute, timing out.
But connectivity is not lost: pings to the same server from which I'm
downloading works; one provider yields 20% packet loss, another 1% - so
packet loss is probably not the main issue.
YOU takes seemingly for ever. Ftp downloads are slow. Browsing of large
pages is also slow.
** Tests done **
1) Plug the modem on my old Pentium 120 machine, running SuSE 7.3, text
only. Route through intranet (one ethernet cable, direct, 100 Mb/s).
Change default route in main computer (SuSE 9.1) to eth0, and do the
downloading, name solving, etc, on this "fast" machine - no software
is changed at all - except that wvdial and pppd runs on the other 7.3
machine.
+----------+ +-----------+
+------+ | P-120 | | P-IV 1.8Gh|
---phone---|modem |---rs232---| SuSE 7.3 |--eth--| SuSE 9.1 |
line +------+ | | | (fetch) |
+----------+ +-----------+
Run and time a single download of 738442 bytes. During this download no
other Internet activity is running (no fetchmail, no browsing, no email
sending). There is the local firewall (Susefirewall2) and a local dns
server. No high load tasks are running (no updatedb, for example), only
the xterms on which I see the logs and enter the commands.
2), 3) Plug the modem back on my P-IV machine running SuSE 9.1. Remove
default route to eth0. Repeat the download, using two different
providers, to make sure. Everything else is the same.
** Conclusion of the 3 tests, in brief **
When routed through the old computer running SuSE 7.3, throughput is 5.04
KB/s (on previous, non meticulous tests, I saw speed peeks up to 8Kb when
downloading email - surely due to compression). When using the fast,
Pentium IV machine, with SuSE 9.1, average speed is between 1 - 2 Kbytes
per second! (even less, in fact).
This is a disgrace :-//
I see a lot of ppp "decompression error" in the kernel logs:
Jul 23 21:22:39 nimrodel kernel: PPP: VJ decompression error
I count 37 of them during test #2 (none during test #3) - compared with
560 during 4 months usage of SuSE 8.2 on this same machine.
** Wild non-educated guess **
The kernel is loosing ACK packets, so the servers waits.
** Detailed results **
*********** TEST #1: teleline - routed through P120, SuSE 7.3 **************
cer@nimrodel:~> date ; time wget --timeout=45 --waitretry=10 --continue "http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2"
Fri Jul 23 20:52:39 CEST 2004
- --20:52:39--
http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2
=> `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2'
Resolving old.spamassassin.org... 64.142.3.173
Connecting to old.spamassassin.org[64.142.3.173]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 738,442 [application/x-bzip2]
100%[==============================================================================>] 738,442 5.10K/s ETA 00:00
20:55:03 (5.04 KB/s) - `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2' saved
[738442/738442]
real 2m24.400s
user 0m0.043s
sys 0m0.065s
cer@nimrodel:~> l Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2
- -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 738442 2004-01-20 23:06 Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2
cer@nimrodel:~> rm Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2
*********** TEST #2: teleline, direct, PIV - SuSE 9.1 **************
cer@nimrodel:~> date ; time wget --timeout=45 --waitretry=10 --continue "http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2"
Fri Jul 23 21:04:31 CEST 2004
- --21:04:31--
http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2
=> `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2'
Resolving old.spamassassin.org... 64.142.3.173
Connecting to old.spamassassin.org[64.142.3.173]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 738,442 [application/x-bzip2]
5% [==> ] 37,314 541.56B/s ETA 23:15
21:06:27 (541.46 B/s) - Read error at byte 37314/738442
(Connection timed out). Retrying.
- --21:06:28--
http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2
(try: 2) => `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2'
Connecting to old.spamassassin.org[64.142.3.173]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Continued download failed on this file, which conflicts with `-c'.
Refusing to truncate existing file `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2'.
real 1m57.632s
user 0m0.005s
sys 0m0.008s
So, I remove the "continue" and increase the timeout value, and try again.
cer@nimrodel:~> date ; time wget --timeout=90 --waitretry=10 "http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2"
Fri Jul 23 21:08:13 CEST 2004
- --21:08:13--
http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2
=> `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2.2'
Resolving old.spamassassin.org... 64.142.3.173
Connecting to old.spamassassin.org[64.142.3.173]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 738,442 [application/x-bzip2]
10% [=======> ] 76,410 2.16K/s ETA 05:15
12% [=========> ] 95,234 601.24B/s ETA 10:52
22% [================> ] 166,186 694.98B/s ETA 10:40
29% [======================> ] 219,762 896.54B/s ETA 10:49
{xterm resize}
41% [=====================> ] 305,194 496.80B/s ETA 10:03
{xterm resize}
43% [================> ] 321,122 412.63B/s ETA 10:49
96% [======================================> ] 709,186 538.58B/s ETA 00:37
100%[========================================>] 738,442 2.21K/s ETA 00:00
21:23:27 (809.97 B/s) - `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2.2' saved
[738442/738442]
real 15m13.735s
user 0m0.006s
sys 0m0.016s
Connectivity was not lost during pauses:
cer@nimrodel:~> ping old.spamassassin.org
PING bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=319 ms
64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=286 ms
64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=3 ttl=46 time=289 ms
64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=7 ttl=46 time=307 ms
64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=9 ttl=46
time=306 ms
- --- bugzilla.spamassassin.org ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 5 received, 50% packet loss, time 9003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 286.976/302.200/319.884/12.398 ms
cer@nimrodel:~>
But you see a "50% packet loss" - although not always:
cer@nimrodel:~> ping old.spamassassin.org
PING bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=306 ms
64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=286 ms
64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=3 ttl=46 time=280 ms
64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=4 ttl=46 time=282 ms
64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=5 ttl=46 time=282 ms
64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=6 ttl=46 time=279 ms
64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=7 ttl=46 time=278 ms
- --- bugzilla.spamassassin.org ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 6005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 278.978/285.684/306.956/9.035 ms
cer@nimrodel:~>
The round trip increases notably when the download resumes. I tend to
leave a terminal pinging something continuously, else my wvdial session
timeouts at 60" (local phone is charged by the minute here), so I do know
the server from which I'm downloading is not down.
cer@nimrodel:~> ping -a -A old.spamassassin.org
PING bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173) 56(84) bytes of data.
...
- --- bugzilla.spamassassin.org ping statistics ---
208 packets transmitted, 167 received, 19% packet loss, time 82875ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 277.933/412.677/1731.743/272.088 ms, pipe 4,
ipg/ewma 400.366/677.842 ms
*********** TEST #3: tiscali, direct, PIV - SuSE 9.1 **************
Test done using an alternate provider; everything else is the same as test
number 2.
cer@nimrodel:~> date ; time wget --timeout=90 --waitretry=10 "http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2"
Fri Jul 23 21:27:25 CEST 2004
- --21:27:25--
http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2
=> `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2.3'
Resolving old.spamassassin.org... 64.142.3.173
Connecting to old.spamassassin.org[64.142.3.173]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 738,442 [application/x-bzip2]
2% [ ] 15,609 1.27K/s ETA 12:10
86% [==================================> ] 636,801 1.59K/s ETA 01:05
100%[========================================>] 738,442 885.09B/s ETA 00:00
21:36:03 (1.40 KB/s) - `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2.3' saved
[738442/738442]
real 8m37.800s
user 0m0.006s
sys 0m0.008s
Pings during this download:
- --- bugzilla.spamassassin.org ping statistics ---
714 packets transmitted, 705 received, 1% packet loss, time 444595ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 298.668/650.054/4098.931/515.073 ms, pipe 7,
ipg/ewma 623.555/301.994 ms
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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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Hi all,
Does anyone in the SuSE team knows if the package OpenOffice_org-ca will be
available for SuSE 9.1? Or if i want it i need to upgrade to 9.2?
Thanks,
Agustí
