September 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Mozilla spell check broke
by Spam Bob 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

Posted this sometime back but never received any suggestions. SuSE 9.0. Mozilla 1.4.2 Spell check worked with the initial install. A Mozilla update broke spell check then a subsequent update fixed spell check. A later update broke spell check again, and subsequent updates (maybe just one) have not fixed things.

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Re: Where's make
by James Knott 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

Amnaya Awasthi wrote: > If you are working with professional, go to > http://www.suse.com/us/private/products/suse_linux/prof/packages_profession…. > Here you can find all the suse 9.1 pro items listed. Some of these are > actually installed in the first go through your installer. A similar list is > also available for the personal edition at > http://www.suse.com/us/private/products/suse_linux/pers/packages_personal/i…. > > search for your software/package etc by the name or group and you will be > guided to its description and also a path from where it can be downloaded. I > generally prefer the ftp site > ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/suse/i386/current/suse/i586 from where the item > can be downloaded as an rpm and then later you can install it with yast. I was able to find it on the DVD. I prefer not to use original disks, so I put the originals away, after I made copies of the CDs. I then set Yast to look on an ftp site, instead of requiring disks. This method generally works well, but as I've found out, apparently not everything is available on the site I was using, nor on the CDs.

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Qn re Yast2
by Dennis J. Tuchler 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

Yast2 offers two update choices: On-Line Update and System Update. What is the difference between the two? Thanks for your time dj tuchler

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Re: [SLE] checkinstall problem
by Jim Sabatke 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

Richard Bos wrote: > > As you can see here (above) is that apt reports correctly that the > dependencies are just not match! It is up to the packager (you!) to take > attention to take care that all dependency are met. In this case yast may > cause problems at the end, as yast does not report (pro-actively/in advance) > that problem may arise in the future. > > Perhaps it is not nice now for you, you should actually appreciate this very > strict dependency checking by apt. Well I do ;) > > Does checkinstall offer you the option to obtain the src.rpm? If so add > "Provides: libexif.so.9" to the spec file and rebuild the libexif rpm. > This may solve the problem for now, but may create (many) other later on as > the library is not correct...... > That's what I thought was happening. I don't think checkinstall will create a source RPM. The main thing is, gtkcam, xsane, and lots of other SuSE distro programs are compiled with the latest versions of lib's at the time. They generally work with a newer version just fine. When incompatibilities are introduced, the lib maker usually makes it new lib (gtk, gtk2). I tried installing both libexif's and then apt complained that dup's were in the system. I could list that in the duplicats section, but that can get counterproductive also, if I really want to have apt check things for incompatibilies. Checkinstall does provide for a "provides" list, but I haven't found how to make that work to satisfy apt. Checkinstall documentation is almost non-existant. I think there should be a way to specify a lib that is >= a version. The configure scripts for compiles do that sort of check. I don't want to recompile a whole load of programs when I install a new lib, when the new lib works just fine and is not incompatible with the old lib. I agree with apt strictness being generally a very good thing. It has found things that DID need to be fixed. Thank you! -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. NOTE: Please do not email me any attachments with Microsoft extensions. They are deleted on my ISP's server before I ever see them, and no bounce message is sent.

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NTP & SUSE 9
by John 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

I tried to configure the XNTPD 4.1.1 How could i open the 123 UDP port

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checkinstall problem
by Jim Sabatke 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

I've compiled libexif-0.6.10, which is required for gimp2. The old version was 5.12-27. It compiles, goes through checkinstall and rpm fine. However, apt-get is having trouble because a lot of packages depend on libexif.so.9. The new package provides libexif.so.10. I haven't stumbled on a way to satisfy this yet. I've tried specifying everything I can think of in the checkinstall parameters. The checkinstall doc's are pretty light in this area. Any help? Thanks, -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. NOTE: Please do not email me any attachments with Microsoft extensions. They are deleted on my ISP's server before I ever see them, and no bounce message is sent.

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DVD writing with growisofs
by Gary Hodges 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

I'm trying to write a large file (~4 GB) to a DVD using growisofs. The writing process (seemingly) proceeds along just fine, but the file isn't getting written correctly. On a Windows machine the file shows up as the correct size, but only as ~8 MB on my Linux machine. I've written other DVDs without trouble, and though I don't recall any with a single file this large, it is just this one that is causing problems. Gary ~>growisofs -version * growisofs by <appro(a)fy.chalmers.se>, version 5.12, front-ending to mkisofs: mkisofs 2.01a17 (i686-suse-linux) ~>growisofs -Z /dev/sr2 -l -r -J /home/hodges/dvd/ Executing 'mkisofs -l -r -J /home/hodges/dvd/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/sr2 obs=32k seek=0' /dev/sr2: pre-formatting blank DVD+RW... /dev/sr2: "Current Write Speed" is 4.0x1385KBps. 0.25% done, estimate finish Wed Sep 1 19:34:04 2004 ### Intermediate lines deleted ### 99.99% done, estimate finish Wed Sep 1 16:07:51 2004 Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 251 Total directory bytes: 0 Path table size(bytes): 10 Max brk space used 21864 1995277 extents written (3897 Mb) /dev/sr2: flushing cache /dev/sr2: stopping de-icing /dev/sr2: writing lead-out /dev/sr2: reloading tray # The original file ~>ls -lh dvd/hda8.dd.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 smith users 3.9G 2004-08-31 10:52 dvd/hda8.dd.gz # After being written to the DVD ~>ls -lh /media/dvd/hda8.dd.gz -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8.7M 2004-08-31 10:52 /media/dvd/hda8.dd.gz # After being copied from the DVD to the hard drive ~>ls -lh temp/hda8.dd.gz -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8.7M 2004-09-01 16:55 temp/hda8.dd.gz

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Re: [SLE] checkinstall problem
by Jim Sabatke 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

BandiPat wrote: > On Friday 03 September 2004 09:21 am, Jim Sabatke wrote: > >>I've compiled libexif-0.6.10, which is required for gimp2. >>The old version was 5.12-27. It compiles, goes through >>checkinstall and rpm fine. However, apt-get is having >>trouble because a lot of packages depend on libexif.so.9. >>The new package provides libexif.so.10. >> >>I haven't stumbled on a way to satisfy this yet. I've tried >>specifying everything I can think of in the checkinstall >>parameters. <snip> > I can send you the spec file to build a proper rpm file with 0.6.10 or > any of the other files, should you need them. > > Lee Acutally, it does create the link from libexif.so to libexif.so.10. Also, yast doesn't find any dependency problems, but apt-get does. When I look at the libexif package in yast, it shows the correct, updated version. -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. NOTE: Please do not email me any attachments with Microsoft extensions. They are deleted on my ISP's server before I ever see them, and no bounce message is sent.

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Login delay
by Dan Jones 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

I'm running SuSE 9.1 Logging in is very slow. I'm not talking about X loading. Logging in prompts for a password. If I give an incorrect password, it takes about 2 or 3 seconds to tell me that. If I give a correct password, it takes literally 45 seconds to a minute to give me a command prompt. It doesn't matter where or how I'm logging in. Running 'su' from a shell gives the same delay. Running a program such as YaST, which requires the root password, gives the same delay. The delay occurs with either a normal user or root. It occurs with any shell (bash, zsh, csh, etc). I thought perhaps the issue might be with shadow passwords and so disabled them. No change. Any time I have to enter a password, there's a delay of close to a minute. Any ideas or suggestions appreciated.

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scanner what works
by Hans Krueger 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

I need to get a working scanner for my system I don't think that I'm going to get my old Mustek 600 III EP Plus going so what have my fellow suser using that works with the 2.6 kernel thanks -- Hans hanskrueger(a)adelphia.net

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