November 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Synchronize mail between Laptop & Fixed PC
by Franky Goethals 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Hi guys, I want to synchronize my mail (Kontakt) between my portable & my fixed PC, the way that they automatically synchronize in both ways, and i can work on both. Any ideas how to do this ? Greets, Franky.

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SuSE 9.2
by Mitja 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

SuSE 9.2 came and...my opinion: the worse version.Sound doesn't work under KDE. Suseplugger show me Creative SB Live! EMU10k1, everything is OK but there are not sound. I i run KAMix i got a msg that there are not soundcard available. ATI Radeon 9000 works ugly. Second day and i still try to configure KDE. Problem is also with firewall (all 3 phase): Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 3 of 3) WARNING: Error inserting ipfwadm (/lib/modules/2.6.8-24-smp/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipfwadm.ko): Device or resource busy SuSEfirewall2: Firewall rules successfully set from /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 Thank you. Mitja

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SUSE taking over the World! Finally!
by Allen 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/0/4662743FE8FF0106CC256F56007A25C7?Ope… Long link but a good read. I've been plugging for SUSE since I first used it and nothing can touch it. The only thing that even comes CLOSE is Slackware. SUSE is really getting up to par on the business world, and I think it's great. And look at the screen shot towards the bottom! BEAUTIFUL! Take that XP, RedHat, Sco, And every other shitty OS.

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SCSI Tape Drive with SUSE 9.2
by Greg Freemyer 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

All, How do I get SUSE 9.2 to use a SCSI tape drive? === Background I have just upgraded my tape server from SUSE 8.2 to 9.2. (It is a test upgrade, so I can still use the tape under 8.2) In 8.2, I did an insmod for the SCSI controller and a stinit. After that the tape drive was usable as /dev/st0. With 9.2 the scsi controller module is being loaded fine at boot, but there is not a stinit command. I have tried just accessing /dev/st0, but no luck. In /proc/scsi, I do see the "streaming device". Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer

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Re: [SLE] which suse distrib do you prefer?
by Bahram Alinezhad 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

I've always recommended people to use the last version of linuces, due to its fast development and improvement; Really sorry to hear these! Thank you for your notice, Bahram Alinezhad, Rudehen, Tehran, Iran. ->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Synthetic Cartoonz" (synthetoonz(a)bellsouth.net) wrote: ---------- I started at 8.0 Professional, and bought every SuSE Professional version since. I use the most peculiar hardware I have -- my HP5295 laptop -- as the index of success for the distro. With 8.0 Pro hardly anything worked on the laptop. No sound, the CD burner wouldn't burn, USB wasn't functioning worth a darn, and the LAN wasn't working. At that time I had just bought into running Linux after experiencing the third Windows implosion on the laptop in a year. So, the lack of working stuff in 8.0 left me slightly disappointed. But, I managed to eventually make the LAN work, and figured that sooner or later I or someone else would figure out how to get the rest of the hardware running in this or the next version of SuSE. 8.1 Pro and 8.2 Pro saw progressive improvements. In 8.1 the LAN worked immediately after the install, sound and the CD-Burner also started working, tough sound was sometimes sporadic. USB required some personal hacking on a device by device basis. In 8.2, the sound stopped working, but USB support increased dramatically. Most thing I shoved into the USB port would mount without magic incantations. I think 9.0 Pro was really intended to be 8.3 Pro, but SuSE appeared to need to engage in Version Number Wars with other distros. That was the BEST version so far. Everything worked on the laptop. Sound was working without issue this time, and everything I needed was working happily. Some of the power management things didn't work so well, but I wasn't concerned with that, since I don't normally use the laptop without the AC power plugged in. I think 9.1 Pro is the originally intended 9.0 Pro. I get the "dot oh" feeling of being used as someone's unpaid beta tester. Everything is working, but sometimes it works strangely. USB is the biggest problem: USB devices sometimes move locations, so I end up having to remove and recreate icons on the desktop to make mounting/opening/browsing the devices convenient. Hotplugging USB devices often takes an irritatingly long time to recognize that something was plugged in. USB performance and reliability also took a nosedive. Devices that were working fine with 9.0 have intermittent I/O errors. Most annoying. Some recent patches and updates have fixed something, because I'm having far fewer I/O errors. (USB throughput still stinks.) Otherwise, the only improvement I see in 9.1 is that the power management features (that I don't care about) appear to be functioning much better. I just picked up SuSE Pro 9.2 yesterday at CompUSA and it is still on the floor next to my desk. Various computer parts are winging their way to me from a variety of Internet sellers as I write this. In the next week I plan to use 9.2 to build a file and print server for my personal linux boxes in the house (and my wife's nasty Win 98 box.) When that is done I'll start upgrading the other linux systems. to 9.2. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com

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Audacity not run
by Sunny 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Hi, I'm running Suse 9.1. When I try to start Audacity, it fails with these errors: sunny@linux:~> audacity (audacity:8983): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkaccellabel.c: line 214 (gtk_accel_label_new): assertion `string != NULL' failed (audacity:8983): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkmisc.c: line 211 (gtk_misc_set_alignment): assertion `GTK_IS_MISC (misc)' failed (audacity:8983): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkcontainer.c: line 949 (gtk_container_add): assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed (audacity:8983): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkaccellabel.c: line 400 (gtk_accel_label_set_accel_widget): assertion `GTK_IS_ACCEL_LABEL (accel_label)' failed Segmentation fault So, I googled for it, but no resolution so far. I have ran it in debugger, so I'm attaching more info. Unfortunately I can not make use of that info :( Here is the output of the debugger: sunny@linux:~> gdb /usr/bin/audacity GNU gdb 6.2.1 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/audacity [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 16384 (LWP 9024)] (audacity:9024): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkaccellabel.c: line 214 (gtk_accel_label_new): assertion `string != NULL' failed (audacity:9024): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkmisc.c: line 211 (gtk_misc_set_alignment): assertion `GTK_IS_MISC (misc)' failed (audacity:9024): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkcontainer.c: line 949 (gtk_container_add): assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed (audacity:9024): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkaccellabel.c: line 400 (gtk_accel_label_set_accel_widget): assertion `GTK_IS_ACCEL_LABEL (accel_label)' failed Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 9024)] gtk_widget_show (widget=0x0) at gtkwidget.c:1962 1962 gtkwidget.c: No such file or directory. in gtkwidget.c Current language: auto; currently c (gdb) bt #0 gtk_widget_show (widget=0x0) at gtkwidget.c:1962 #1 0x40ab0d2a in gtk_menu_item_new_with_label (label=0x8 <Address 0x8 out of bounds>) at gtkmenuitem.c:280 #2 0x403a067f in wxChoice::GtkAppendHelper () from /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0 #3 0x403a1779 in wxChoice::Create () from /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0 #4 0x0808f3a6 in LangChoiceDialog (this=0xbfffee20, parent=0x0, id=-1, title=@0xbfffee10) at choice.h:35 #5 0x08090166 in ChooseLanguage (parent=0x0) at string.h:311 #6 0x08069535 in AudacityApp::OnInit (this=0x834d978) at AudacityApp.cpp:394 #7 0x40398060 in wxEntry () from /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0 #8 0x0806a3b7 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff204) at AudacityApp.cpp:194 I'd appreciate any clue. Thanks Sunny -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85

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Re: SUSE taking over the World! Finally!
by Sean 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

On Mon, November 29, 2004 3:57 pm, Allen said: > I know who made the RPM, I just said they didn't get much from RedHat > other than that. With SUSE 8.1 Professional. which was my first Linux, it > shows a calender and how SUSE started. And a million books I have all show > SUSE was first a part of Slackware. SUSE has been around longer than > ReDHat and so has Slackware. Hi Allen, You're over discounting the incredible amount of work RedHat has contributed back to the community in many open source projects especially the kernel. The Suse products of today owe some thanks to Red Hat. Admitting this takes nothing away from Suse. Sean

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/etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc in 9.1
by Felix Miata 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

I couldn't find a man page for this. How can I find out what the following section from this file is for? [X-:*-Greeter] AdminSession=YaSTadminSession -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/

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postfix and php on suse 9.1
by Chris W 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

I recently installed SUSE 9.1 and my php script that sent mail no longer works. It works fine on an suse 9.0 box. I was wondering if anyone can give me a hint as to what to look for to fix this. I understand there is some error in the PHP config that needs to be fixed. Can someone tell me where that config error is? Below is some of my error log from a send attempt. Nov 13 11:50:34 WebServer postfix/pickup[30613]: 1EF48D587: uid=30 from=<wwwrun> Nov 13 11:50:34 WebServer postfix/cleanup[31469]: 1EF48D587: message-id=<20041113175034.1EF48D587(a)aopro.com> Nov 13 11:50:34 WebServer postfix/cleanup[31469]: 1EF48D587: to=<unknown>, relay=none, delay=0, status=bounced (No recipients specified) Nov 13 11:50:34 WebServer postfix/cleanup[31473]: 2CA3DD5AF: message-id=<20041113175034.2CA3DD5AF(a)aopro.com> Nov 13 11:50:34 WebServer postfix/qmgr[3547]: 2CA3DD5AF: from=<>, size=1833, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 13 11:50:34 WebServer postfix/local[31474]: 2CA3DD5AF: to=<root(a)aopro.com>, orig_to=<wwwrun(a)aopro.com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox) Nov 13 11:50:34 WebServer postfix/qmgr[3547]: 2CA3DD5AF: removed Here is the simple mail script that I am using to test <?php $message = "This is a Test Message "; mail('1qazse4(a)cox.net', "test message", $message); ?> <HTML><BODY> Message sent. </BODY></HTML> Thanks for the help. -- Chris W Not getting the gifts you want? The Wish Zone can help. http://thewishzone.com

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Replacementsfor Windows Applications
by Russ 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

I am looking to replace Turbo Tax and Quicken. Does anyone know of any Linux based programs I can use to replace them? -- Russ

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