May 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Are theese legal?
by Jerome R. Westrick 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Please take a look at this amazon.com offering... they are selling home burned CD's of SUSE 9.1 Pro... Does SuSE know of this? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/offering/list/-/B0001MBCP4/all/… Jerry

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Sorry SuSE: 9.1 is Waste of time and money!
by Terje J. Hanssen 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Some hours later ....... Downgraded and reinstalled SuSe 9.0 (over 9.1): Yamaha 4416S CDRW recorder detected and works HP DVD Writer 100i detected and works Epson 1640SU scanner detected and works SuSE 9.0 works ........ :-) Terje J. Hanssen

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Suse 9.1 and modem - problem
by Basil Chupin 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

In my message of 18/5 with Subject of "SUSE 9.1 - BAH!" I mentioned that I was having big problems with getting Suse 9.1 to co-operate with my modem/modems (either internal or external - but as I have replaced my internals with externals my comments below only refer to external modems). Since that message of 18/5 I've been doing some testing and have found this (summarised): (a) during the installation of 9.1, at the point where the modem is first configured, is then tested for connectivity with the ISP and then the YOU update is allowed to be done - at this point the modem works perfectly. I get a consistent thruput of 4.4 - 5.9 Kb/s (apart from the occasional drop, of course). However, once the REST of the Suse installation is completed, the modem almost stops working with thruput between 0 and 800+ b/s (not Kb/s but b/s) coupled with periods of total inactivity lasting minutes. My testing has shown that it is NOT the YOU update that causes the modem problem but the completion of the installation- meaning that something gets installed that causes the problem. Configuring the modem during the installation, allowing it to dial the ISP - but not letting YOU to update - and then completing the installation does not solve the modem problem; (b) doing a full install of anything OTHER than KDE-related applications does NOT cause problems with the modem. If, for example, one installs the GNOME Desktop and not KDE then the modem works perfectly after the full installation. In one test I only installed the "Minimum graphical system (without KDE)" - and got the FVWM 'desktop' - and things worked fine but then I added GAMES (which are KDE) to this system. Immediately the modem stopped working correctly; (c) C Hamel and I have been corresponding privately and he mentioned earlier tonight that he found a "funny" about the KDE application "k3b". As a test I re-installed Suse 9.1 with KDE Desktop, Multimedia, Games, plus a couple of other things I normally insall, BUT I deliberately omitted installing k3b. After the full installation the modem was behaving almost normally with thruput again back to 4.4 - 5.9 Kb/s but with quite a number of slowdowns and stops. This degradation in performance could have been caused by the fact that in our part of the world at that time the Net is used pretty heavily. I will be retesting this during the day time (later today) to see if the performance is still below par. In summary, something KDE-related is causing the problem with the modem(s) - and it may be possible that it is k3b. I would pass this info onto to Suse Tech Support but I can't find their address right now. If someone knows it could they please forward this message to them on my behalf? (I got my Suse 9.1 on 13 May but haven't been able to use the darn thing because of the problem with the modem - and I'm getting p***** off :-(.) Cheers. -- I am not young enough to know everything.

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sysvinit bug in 9.1?
by Kastus 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Can anybody running 9.1 confirm the following? sysvinit-2.85-20 shipped with 9.1 has a bug setting HOME environment variable. If you run the command "tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/1/environ" as root, it reports: OME=/ TERM=linux vga=0x317 splash=silent Note missing H in HOME. Possible impact is on apcupsd package. Has anybody reported this to SUSE feedback? If not, I will do that. Thanks, -Kastus

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K3B & Ripping
by Erik Jakobsen 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Hi. I'm using SuSE 9.1, and would rip an audiocd with K3B, but I couldn't do it. Can anybody of you do it, and how did you solve the problem ?. -- Med venlig hilsen - Best regards Erik Jakobsen - eja(a)urbakken.dk SuSE Linux 9.1 Proff.

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Looking for an explanation
by eddie 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

This morning I couldn't log in (KDE), but could log in at console. After a good deal of searching and experimentation I discovered that my /tmp had run out of space, and that my /tmp/kde-eddie was 689MB! Can anyone say why kde-eddie should have grown to that size? How can I prevent a reoccurrence? By removing kde-eddie I can log in now and everything seem fine (so far). Any thoughts, anyone? Thanks Eddie

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SuSE 9.1: upgrading to KDE 3.2.2
by Frederic Soulier 31 May '04

31 May '04

Hi How safe is it to upgrade the KDE 3.2.1 (from 9.1) with KDE 3.2.2 in ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.1-i386/RPMS.kde ? Thanks. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Frederic P. Soulier frederic(a)wallaby.uklinux.net OpenPGP key available on http://www.keyserver.net 1024D/BA6700ED 49A6 8E8E 4230 8D41 1ADE B649 3203 1DD2 BA67 00ED _____________________________________________________________________

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ssh question
by Trey Sizemore 31 May '04

31 May '04

I have a laptop running SUSE 9.1 and a desktop with Arch Linux 0.6. I want to transfer a bunch of files from the desktop to the laptop. I have made sure the sshd daemon is running on both boxes and both boxes can ping each other (connected through a Netgear router). However, when I open Konq on the laptop and type 'fish://username@XXX.XXX.X.X' on the laptop, I get an error message saying 'Could not connect to host at XXX.XXX.X.X (IP of the desktop machine. How can I fix this? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has not yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. - Friedrich Nietzsche 13:31:54 up 1:27, 1 user, load average: 0.28, 0.15, 0.10 Linux salamander 2.6.6 #1 SMP Mon May 10 00:12:20 PDT 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

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On the lighter side
by Michael Satterwhite 31 May '04

31 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just got my workstation upgraded to 9.0 (I know, I'm behind the curve). I decided on a full install which went very well. On my 8.2 system, I had installed some KDE eye-candy. Specifically it was a cursor set that had a distinct crystal like view. The standard cursor even seemed to spin. I could have sworn it was the "BlueGlass" set, but when I installed that, the standar cursor is quite ordinary. This is obviously *NOT* of earth-shaking importance as the system is working fine. I would like to know what that was so that I could reinstall it. If anyone has any ideas as to what it is from my feeble description, could you let me know? Thanks much. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAuz24jeziQOokQnARAp5NAJ9dZP8gtozrNZc/a6CiV0sWYOycGgCfQG/+ tbyfMdVNyzFLAM7q4uUnlao= =2Nkj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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grimp
by Fred Miller 31 May '04

31 May '04

Anyone know what's going on with http://www.gimp.org? Nonone seems to be able to get to the site. manual.gimp.org is also unreachable. Fred -- "The only secure Microsoft software is what's still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..." (Forno)

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