January 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

kde3.4beta1 doesn't break many things
by Silviu Marin-Caea 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

So I took the risk and upgraded to kde3.4beta1 on my home computer. It doesn't break as much stuff as I expected. I don't have much use for the extra toolbar (Document Relations) in konqueror, and it's hard to get rid of it, it keeps popping back in when opening new tabs. Anyway it's a minor annoyance. So I went on and upgraded KDE on my computer at work too. This broke the connection to SUSE Openexchange, and I couldn't fix it anymore. Oh well. For other interested risk takers: http://download.kde.org/binarydownload.html?url=/unstable/3.3.91/SuSE/ix86/… Thanks to the KDE developers and to SUSE/Novell for sponsoring :-)

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Cinellerra
by Mirko Perak 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

HI, I have tried to find Cinelerra RPM for SuSE 9.2. At rpmseek they have only for Mandrake and RedHat. Does someone know where I can find this RPM? Do you have some experiances with Cinelerra video edithor on SuSE? Mirko

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System Update to 9.2 with FTP?
by Hugo 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Hi! The FTP version of SuSE 9.2 seems to be out. I have system with 9.1 with supplementary updates from SuSE (KDE and Misc). I'm trying to update this to 9.2 using the Yast System Update. I thought it would go like: add the FTP source with Yast Change Source of Installation and then go to System Update. But no. Different things happen: Sometimes I get only Media error? to Update Options. Maybe this means that the FTP-server is not accepting my connections. I have tried to counter this with setting a close by mirror as one source and then the ftp.suse.com. But hasn't helped. If I left the old installation sources (9.1 and supplementary) I didn't get the error, but I got undate to 9.2 instead. Do I really need to leave the old sources there? Or was my luck with the FTP-servers (countless times...) just so bad? Actually seems that it's going to update to the latest (lowest) entry in the sources (i.e. 9.2 has to be listed last in the sources. If I have older one there, it will say Update to 9.1 for example.) After I got the System Update to start the update, it tells me that there are 614 packages that requires changes and it requires manual intervention (I have not really installed anything outside the SuSE packages, only KCheckMail...). Ok, then I was presented with a couple of package conflicts... not too bad, except that the choices were very bad (should I not update hwinfo or should I remove sax2 saxtools? Doesn't sound like I'd like to remove sax2 or saxtools... but of course later on I discovered that they are now sax2-gui and sax2-tools! Thank's for not telling me this at this point!). So, I select cancel and go through all the packages I want and pressing check dependencies in turn. No conflicts. Now, I might be a noobie with linux, but not with computers... so I export the selection list. Then I press Accept. After that I'm till shown a large number of packages that have been added automatically even though I did not have problems according to the detect dependencies. What's this? After that I'm back at the update system dialog, where as everything else is OK, I select Next. Expecting installation to begin... but only thing that happens is that the dialog is closed. Then nothing. So I try again. Import the selection done in last step. Check dependencies. Now there are conflicts again! Why? Before I saved the list, I checked it and it did not have conflicts. Can anybody tell me what's happening here? After solving those again, the same thing happens... i.e. nothing. No installation of update. I looked through the manuals of SuSE, but didn't find anything about the system update function. I also Googled the web and this list to find anything, but no. So either nobody uses that function or it works perfectly for everybody else. What am I doing wrong? (I tried to list all the applets and messages here, so if anybody else has the same problem, they should be able to find this... provided of course, that somebody can help me...?) -- HG

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Possible USB problem with SuSE 9.2
by Barrie Hill 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

I am running SuSE 9.2 on a Shuttle mv43n motherboard (VIA chipset) and have run into a possible problem with the USB sub system. I am running a USB Samsung printer and a USB Mustek scanner on this system and have had no problems with it previously on SuSE 9.0 and SuSE 9.1. The problem is intermitent but once it starts the only thing that will clear it is a reboot. It initially shows up as a printer problem, print jobs will spool to the queue, but the printer shows up as unavailable. If I try a lsusb command, the command hangs and cannot be killed. I have seen similar types of problems on unix servers when there have been filesystem problems. The only fix at present is to reboot the system and delete and reconfigure the printer. While trying to fault find the problem when trying to cat file in the usb area in the proc filesystem I have had the same problem. I have reverted to SuSE 9.1 and this problem doesn't occur. I would appreciate any help on this problem. Thanks. Cheers, Barrie Hill

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Assistance w/ getting text out of a file
by Ryan McCain 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

I have a file that has 100 or so lines in this format: dn: cn=SERVERNAME1,ou=NWSERVERS,ou=SERVER03,ou=iServices,ou=MON,o=LA dn: cn=SERVERNAME2,ou=NWSERVERS,ou=SERVER03,ou=iServices,ou=MON,o=LA dn: cn=SERVERNAME3,ou=NWSERVERS,ou=SERVER03,ou=iServices,ou=MON,o=LA How can I strip out everything execpt the servername? Using either shell scripting, sed or perl? Thanks, Ryan

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Logitech keyboard.
by Erik Jakobsen 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Hi. I have a Logitech wireless keyboard, How can I change the keyboard to also have the lacking of the scroll key ?. Erik Jakobsen

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SB "Live."
by Fred A. Miller 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Is the new SB 24-bit Live #SB0410 supported in 9.2? It's not listed and wondered if anyone has tried it. Thanks! Fred -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."

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Wireless keyboard & mouse?
by Rich Goodwin 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

I want to get a wireless keyboard & mouse a system I am building. 9.2 Pro is what I'll be installing. Any recommendations? Rich -- Remember, all Windows-based machines are, by definition, fault tolerant. They run Windows don't they?!?!?!?

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SPAM in the archives
by Stephen 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

I have just been to have a look through the suse-linux-e archives for a thread I remember reading. I was quite surprised to find a lot of SPAM emails in there, almost a quarter of them in fact. Is there no way of removing them from the archives? Regards Steve

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GNU Project Management Software?
by Alex Daniloff 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Hello SuSE folkz, I'm looking for an Open Source project managemant software, which would have a web interface and integration with MySQL. Could somebody please advise me on this issue. Many thanks in advance, Alex

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