November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Read Write access to partition from Windows and Linux
by Roland Turcan 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hello suse-linux-e! I'm developing software in Delphi / Kylix. Lot of things are the same on both version of software. I'm using WinMerge to compare sources and managing between platforms. I need to have a place on harddisk which I can write and read from Windows and Linux too, I'm always copying Linux sources from Windows partition to Linux and if I make some changes I have to copy it back. Lot of times I make some mistakes and then I'm spending time to finding which copy of Linux sources is newer. I have two harddisks in my computer: 1. Fixed disk in case (main HDD for Windows) 2. removable in IDE rack (this is for Linux) I have my documentations in flash disk because only this one is read/write device for my in this moment, but this is very slow and very small for storing all files of Linux project. Thanks for all ideas. -- Best regards, TRoland http://www.rotursoft.sk http://exekutor.rotursoft.sk

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SUSE93 - Network Profiles
by Bruce Samhaber 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hi, Is there a way to configure multiple network profiles in SUSE 9.3? I am running SUSE 9.3 on a laptop and want to connect it to different networks. For example: 1) Home Connection - Wired & wireless Ethernet - CUPS Print Server - Eventually Samba - Kmail should check mail automatically 2) Roaming Connection - Dial-up through Cell Phone from USB/COM Port (Idealistic) - Wireless Ethernet - Kmail should not check mail automatically 3) Office Connection - Wireless Ethernet - Windows print server. - Kmail should check mail automatically 4) Other Connection - Dial-up through built-in modem - Wireless Ethernet - Kmail should not check mail automatically To really top off the functionality it would be great if the system autonmatically switched profiles dependent on detecting certain network parameters. For example: a) switch to Home Connection when the home wireless network is detected, switch to the Office when its network is detected, only swicth to the roaming connection manually Each profile could contain rules for automatic switching. These rules could be of two types A) under what conditions to look for a new network B) when to switch to this network profile when searching. Thanks, -- Bruce Samhaber Senior Hardware Design Consultant Tel: 613-724-5987 112 Kenora St. Fax: 613-724-5987 Ottawa, Ontario Cel: 613-297-6961 K1Y 3L1 mailto: bsamhaber(a)sympatico.ca http://www3.sympatico.ca/marypat/

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More SUSE Problems
by Tasana Computers 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

This is referring to SUSE 10.0. In KDE I can't run lots of programs, Some games will not load, no CD burning apps will burn or even load.I can't find the CD-RW drive. and it crashes all the time. I have no idea what the problem is, and I have no idea what to tel you to help dx the problem. I know from running XP and working on peoples systems it is usually the end user, but in this case all I have been doing is clicking the app to open. So far in GNOME, evolution crashed once. I have yet to try the apps that were giving me problems. One thing I think may be the problem, someone mentioned that KDE is a memory hog. I have 512MB RAM but I gave min 64 to video, in XP I gave it 128MB and I have 3D acc turned on.I have the color set to 32 which takes lots of VM so I don't know how much of about 384MB of RAM the KDE is using and how much the apps need to run, one app in question is Freeciv, and all the CD burners. If anymore info is needed please ask. P.S. I did not hijack a thread to write this I made a new one from scratch. P.S.S. SUSE was not in my dictionary, WOW -- Poneyboy Gregory D. Watts 931-498-4341\Cell 931-260-0414 http://www.tasana.biz

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How to rotate log file ?
by Arie Reynaldi Z 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hi All, I have installae qmail + qmail-scanner, right now my qmail-queue.log is getting bigger.. I'm affraid it's gonna get so big like couple of megs in a week. How can i run log rotate so it will be like qmail-queue.log.tar.gz.1 and so on.. regards, -- Arie Reynaldi Zanahar reymanx at gmail.com http://www.reynaldi.or.id

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SUSE93 CUPS Print Server Sharing
by Bruce Samhaber 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hi, I am running SUSE 93 on my desktop and laptop. I have used YAST to configure CUPS for both of these machines. Each one currently has one printer on it, however neither can see the printer queue from the other machine. I have set everything that I can think of. What is reqiured for the two machines to share printers? Note I would prefer if both printers were on the desktop eventually. Thanks, -- Bruce Samhaber Senior Hardware Design Consultant Tel: 613-724-5987 112 Kenora St. Fax: 613-724-5987 Ottawa, Ontario Cel: 613-297-6961 K1Y 3L1 mailto: bsamhaber(a)sympatico.ca http://www3.sympatico.ca/marypat/

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Yast System Services waits a long time for cron status
by Dylan 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hi All, Has anyone else noticed that the System Services module in Yast takes an inordinate length of time to discover the status of cron? Why should that be? Dylan -- "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." (Chinese Proverb)

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Re: [SLE] It's SuSE not SUSE
by Darryl Gregorash 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

On 11/16/2005 05:43 AM, James Knott wrote: >Darryl Gregorash wrote: > >>On 11/15/2005 08:14 PM, Philipp Thomas wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:16:29 -0500, Steven T. Hatton wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>If you don't know what SuSE means, look it up. >>>> >>>> >>>Wrong, it's SUSE. The special meaning it once had is purely >>>historical. >>> >>> >>Do you mean that SUSE is no longer a "Gesellschaft für Software und >>System Entwicklung"? >> >> > >It's not uncommon for companies to register an acronym as a trade name. > One example would be IBM. IIRC, "IBM" is a registered trademark. >Hardly anyone says "International Business Machines" these days. Apparently you missed the devious grin I added many lines further down (intentionally so), below the bottom of most peoples' screens. But since you mention this, the company was originally named "Gesellschaft für Software und System Entwicklung mbH" -- S.u.S.E GmbH -- which translates (quite literally) to "Company for Software and System Development, having limited liability." On this side of the Big Pond, that becomes S.u.S.E. Co., Ltd. I really don't know why so many at suse refer to this as having once been some "special meaning" as if it originates in some ancient and obscure dead language, or represents some long-forgotten druidic ritual. The periods doubtless confused the blazes out of most non-German speakers, but that is hardly any reason for even the slightest hint of embarrassment over the origins of the corporate name, nor even for slipping in the uppercase "u".

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Accessing the USB devices
by Paul W. Abrahams 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

I'm trying to use KPilot under 10.0; like several other things, it used to work for me, albeit awkwardly, under 9.1. But now I can't get the connection going, and KPilot gives me the message that /dev/pilot doesn't exist. I've determined that the Palm device (a Zire) is getting detected, since dmesg shows: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 12 visor 1-2:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected usb 1-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0 usb 1-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1 Furthermore, while the Palm is attempting to connect, I also have: pwa@suillus:~> ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* crw-rw----+ 1 root uucp 188, 0 2005-11-14 21:23 /dev/ttyUSB0 crw-rw----+ 1 root uucp 188, 1 2005-11-14 21:23 /dev/ttyUSB1 These devices go away when the Palm gives up on the connection. I would guess that /dev/ttyUSB? needs additional permissions, but I can't just add them because the devices themselves are transient. So how can I get the connection going? Paul

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Do databases work in OOo?
by Carlos E. R. 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a working database in mysql which I use through "rekall". I'm trying to use it through OOo (2.0.0-1.1); with the previous patch I got access, but now I can't. I use the jdbc driver - I think, it is not clear how all this is supposed to work. Now I get this error: SQL Status: 08S01 Communications link failure due to underlying exception: ** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION ** java.net.SocketException MESSAGE: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused STACKTRACE: java.net.SocketException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory.connect(StandardSocketFactory.java:151) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.<init>(MysqlIO.java:280) at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.createNewIO(Connection.java:1699) at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:405) at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:268) ** END NESTED EXCEPTION ** What does it mean? It worked previously. Is it a bug? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDenHOtTMYHG2NR9URAv7qAJ9v9SWTuxMPEsDwlAwsN3VWCviyGgCfeS+z zvA+QIjqMwVRbvvKiF6KUIk= =mc4a -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Spam headers
by B. Stia 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Hello Everyone. Why am I getting these mail headers fom the list? eg: [SLE] SPAM: Howto DVD DL to 2 DVD SL? They seem to appear randomly and are seen coming from many different posters. I wouldn't think that people are doing this on purpose. Anyone else seeing this? Bob S.

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Re: [SLE] secondary distro's
by Kai Ponte 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

> I have Suse 10 installed, and have a secondary machine I was looking to install another distro for playing/learning. What are your other used distro's? > > I was looking at Gentoo, Knoppix, and Ubuntu. Suse. :) Seriously, I've had it for almost two years and still am learning new stuff every day. <honest answer mode> You could build Gentoo from scratch. That is a learning experience. You could also get Free BSD and build a working web server. Remember, there's no gui by default there. You might also get one of the Red Hat clones - white box, Cent OS, or Tao - and check those out. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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SUSE updates
by Fred A. Miller 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

For a few days now, the suse.com pub site (/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_10.0/yast-source) has been unreachable via Yast. Does anyone have any info. here as to what's going on? Thanks, Fred -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x

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ThinkPad A31 crashing...
by Christos Gentsis 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Hello i have a ThinkPad A31 and it use to work perfectly with the SuSe 9.2 but now i install the OpenSuSe 10.0 and it crash all the time... the most of the times that it have crash i wasn't working on the laptop, i think that the last 4 days had crash more than 20 times and only one or two i was working on the laptop... the rest of the times, it wasn't respond then i try to work... Does anyone know what is happening? or have similar problems? Thanks Chris ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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Mad cow disease
by Jan Karjalainen 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

With the recent hoopla about Novell´s strategy about including KDE in SUSE or not, I feel compelled to write about my observations. I read the mailing lists with amusement at first, noticing panic amongst some SUSE users. "I´m swithing to Kubuntu/Fedora/whatever"... Then I realized, these people were seriuos!? I´ve never seen people more eager to jump ship, ever... Is this willingness to dump SUSE somehow connected to bad self esteem, or just a indicator of bad judgement? I mean, shouldn´t you read everything you read with critizism? Do you want to believe the hype, or the rumour of the day? When I read Novell´s memo, I thought: "let´s see, I´m sure they know the importance of supporting KDE, let´s see what develops in the next days", and so on... I noticed a willingness to interpret everything in a worst possible manner in the postings on the mailing lists. I hope these people don´t have any important positions in the community, because I´d hate to rely on people who jump to conclusions without having any hard facts to rely on. I myself have worked as a project manager and a system developer amongst other things, and I have to say that keeping your head cool and being willing to research claims/news/"so called facts" saves your day! Just my $0.02 of worth... /Jan K.

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Open Office and the MS fonts
by Maura Edelweiss Monville 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Is the latest OpenOffice version availabble as an rpm file to download from some website ? In addition, where can the MS fonts be downloaded from ? Is the last OO version going to run on SuSE 9.1 ??? Thank you in advace for your help. Maura

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RE: [SLE] It's SuSE not SUSE
by James D. Parra 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

pATRICK sHANAHAN -- "What is the strange and esoteric meaning behind this bizarre spelling?" SUSE, no matter how you spell it still SuSE. And one day, in the not too distant future, it will be spelled 'Novell'. Change is inevitable. We all better get used to it. ~James

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Install 10.0 onto Areca RAID controller?
by Randall J. Parr 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

I am trying to install SuSE 10.0 x86_64 on a Supermicro H8DCE dual Opteron system with an Areca/Tekram 1220 PCIe RAID controller installed. The installer appears to find the Areca controller. When I go to installer expert mode the Areca is listed and details seem correct. The installation fails, however, because no drives are detected. The Areca does have a RAID set configured (via it's BIOS). Is there a trick? Thanks R.Parr, RCHE, Temporal Arts

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UserAgent keeps killing my firefox
by Michael James 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

To get internet banking to work I have to load the UserAgent extension into firefox and set it to Opera 8 (WindowsXP). However if I ever quit firefox without setting it back to default then firefox won't start next time. A post said how to fix this, edit the file .mozilla/firefox/<some string>.default/prefs.js Take out the lines user_pref("general.appname.override", "Opera"); user_pref("general.appversion.override", "8.02 (Windows NT 5.1; U;en)"); user_pref("general.platform.override", "Win32"); user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Opera/8.02 (Windows NT 5.1; U;en)"); user_pref("general.useragent.vendor", ""); user_pref("general.useragent.vendorSub", ""); Note indented lines should be joined to the line before. Then it works. Humpf. Anyone got a better solution? michaelj -- Michael James michael.james(a)csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166 No matter how much you pay for software, you always get less than you hoped. Unless you pay nothing, then you get more.

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[SLE] Help : Unable to install SuSE 9.3 or 10 on my new computer.
by Catimimi 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Hi, I run SuSE since release 7.1 without problem, but I just built a new computer : - Asus P5WD2 Premium motherboard, Intel 955X chipset - Pentium extreme edition (Pentium 840 dual core with hyperthreading) processor - 1 GB DDR2 memory - Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX Pci express - Hitachi T7k250 Sata2 250 GB disk - Hitachi 7k500 Sata2 500 GB disk - IDE DVD rom and IDE DVD writer for earlier compatibility I installed : - Adaptec 39160N SCSI adapter with SCSI CRrom and 36GB HD I tried to installed SuSE 9.3 or 10.0 (32 bits for beginning) either in normal or in safe mode and the system freezes after : Activating usb devices Activating ieee1394 devices Searching for file info ... As indicated in the SuSe database, I choosed the compatibility mode in order to be able to install on SATA disks ! In order to ckeck if the problem comes from SATA, I uninstalled the SATA disks and kept only the SCSI disk, same result ! Can someone help me ? I'll register my official copy of SuSE 10 and ask for help, but I don't expect a reply. Thanks in advance. Michel. PS : the system runs perfectly with Windows XP.

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nVidia Corporation GeForce 6800 GT
by Steven T. Hatton 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

I have an nVidia Corporation GeForce 6800 GT graphics card. I recall reading somewhere there were problems with some nVidia cards an SuSE 10. I really don't understand what I get from the nVidia proprietary software that is installed by the YaST script. Do I need the xorg-x11-server-glx-6.8.2-100.i586.rpm? Would it make any difference if it were installed or not? The reason I asked is that I just built OpenSceneGraph and when I ran it I got this message: Warning: Producer::RenderSurface, under the X11 environment has tested the glXWaitVideoSyncSGI extension and found it to not be working properly. This does not necessarily mean that glXSwapBuffers will not block on VSYNC, but it does mean that the CPU bound application will not be able to synchronize with the graphics video retrace signal. Most operations will work fine. Steven

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by Alexey Eremenko 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

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GRUB DualBoot
by Frank Bax 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

I installed SUSE93 on a disk that already has MDK91 on it, but SUSE didn't detect other OS's on the system during install. I haven't used GRUB before, so where is the config file and what do I put in it to add these boot options (from lilo): image=/boot/vmlinuz label="MDK91" root=/dev/hda6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="quiet devfs=mount acpi=off" vga=788 read-only other=/dev/hda3 label="Win98SE" table=/dev/hda

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Re: [SLE] It's SuSE, not SUSE
by Jeff Dierking 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Mike Roy wrote .. > Hello everyone: > Just a quick observation. Someone remarked that we now say > 'IBM' and not 'International Business Machines'. But, the IBM logo is > still in 'all caps' and not a combination of upper and lower case > letters. It is IBM, not 'IbM' nor 'Ibm'. In the same way, we don't say > 'Gesellschaft für Software and System Entwicklung', but SuSE with the > lower case 'u'. So, from where I'm sitting, I like SuSE, not SUSE. > Just my $0.02 worth. > Cheers, > Mike According to openSUSE at http://www.opensuse.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Why_is_SUSE_written_in_s… The name is SUSE However, before Novell bought them out, they were SuSE. I personally prefer SuSE. Jeff Dierking jeff(a)lordjester.com ------------------------ GPG/PGP KeyID 0x5F355DB4 Retrieve pgp-public-keys(a)pgp.mit.edu?subject=get%200x5F355DB4 ------------------------ So far, no one has opted to publish my sequel to "the Book of Mormon,": "The Book of Mormon 2 (this time its PERSONAL). This one is set in the roaring twenties, with the lord JC as a smooth-talkin' private eye, livin on the mean streets of Chicago. Basically, he spends the book battling the Mob, which really sucks for the Mob, let me tell you. He's got tha phat "gonnections" -- Greg Ingber '99, on _swat.talk

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Upgrade from 9.3 to 10.0
by psychic blue 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Hi there! When I try to update my system from 9.3 to 10.0 (x86_64), yast throws several dependency conflicts at me; apart from problems with the packages dprobes, evlog & opfile this a lot of trouble around "resmgr 0.9.8_SVNr57-2". Some packages require libresmgr.so.1 while others want libresmgr.so.0.9.8. I had a look at the resmgr package in 10.0 and it contained both so's anyway. Does anyone know what's going on here?! Thanks. pb --- resmgr 0.9.8_SVNr57-2 conflict Required by: libgnomesu requires libresmgr.so.1()(64bit) SDL_mixer requires libresmgr.so.1()(64bit) alsa requires libresmgr.so.1()(64bit) alsa requires libresmgr.so.1(RESMGR_1.0)(64bit) amarok-libvisual requires libresmgr.so.1()(64bit) arts requires libresmgr.so.1()(64bit) arts requires libresmgr.so.1(RESMGR_1.0)(64bit) awesfx requires libresmgr.so.1()(64bit) 96 more... Conflicts with: sane requires libresmgr.so.0.9.8()(64bit) avifile requires libresmgr.so.0.9.8()(64bit) gabber requires libresmgr.so.0.9.8()(64bit) Conflict Resolution: ( ) Do Not Update resmgr ( ) Remove All 13 Conflicting Packages Delete inkscape Delete kdegraphics3-scan Delete python-imaging Delete Video-DVDRip Delete sane Delete gabber Delete transcode Delete dvdshrink 5 more... ( ) Remove All 283 Referring Packages Delete SDL_mixer Delete alsa Do Not Install amarok-arts Delete bluez-utils Delete cdparanoia Delete cdrdao Delete cdrecord Delete dvd+rw-tools 275 more... ( ) Ignore Conflict and Risk System Inconsistencies

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Fwd: Re: [opensuse] PostgreSQL 8.1 rpm
by Marcin 'Spock' Jurczuk 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Dnia poniedziałek, 14 listopada 2005 17:45, Michal Hlavac napisał: > hello, > > where can I find Postgresql 8.1 rpm for suse 10??? > > thanks, miso > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help(a)opensuse.org PostgreSQL shoould be in inst-source-extra: blade6:/home/spock # rpm -qi postgresql Name : postgresql Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 8.0.3 Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany Release : 5 Build Date: pią 09 wrz 2005 19:17:21 CEST Install date: wto 08 lis 2005 13:06:16 CET Build Host: janacek.suse.de Group : Productivity/Databases/Tools Source RPM: postgresql-8.0.3-5.src.rpm Size : 3404860 License: BSD Signature : DSA/SHA1, pią 09 wrz 2005 20:28:18 CEST, Key ID a84edae89c800aca Packager : http://www.suse.de/feedback URL : http://www.postgresql.org/ Summary : Basic Clients and Utilities for PostgreSQL Authors: -------- Marc G. Fournier <scrappy(a)hub.org> Tom Lane <tgl(a)sss.pgh.pa.us> Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim4o(a)yahoo.com> Bruce Momjian <pgman(a)candle.pha.pa.us> Jan Wieck <JanWieck(a)Yahoo.com> Distribution: SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) blade6:/home/spock # -- Marcin Jurczuk SAV sp. z o.o tel. (85) 8789503 ------------------------------------------------------- -- Spock ..Earth..

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