November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Wierdness accessing my.ebay.com
by Michael Nelson 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

For the past couple weeks I have had extremely bad performance when trying to access http://my.ebay.com using any of the following browsers under SuSE 10.0 (fully up to date with YOU patches): Mozilla 1.7.12 Firefox 1.0.7 & 1.5RC1 Ephiphany 1.8.2 It will often take 2-5 minutes to display the page with those browsers, but once it finally gets the page loaded it looks OK. But any links off of that page will also load very very slowly. Strangely enough though, on the same system Opera 8.51 loads the pages properly and quickly (a matter of a few seconds). This is consistent and repeatable, and it's so bad that Opera is the only browser I can use if I want to do business on EBay (which I have been doing a lot in the past couple weeks). Those browsers work fine on http://www.ebay.com, just not on http://my.ebay.com. I suspect it is not the browsers themselves but some dynamic library they have in common that Opera doesn't use. Anyone else seeing this wierdness? Thanks Michael -- San Francisco, CA

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What's the difference?
by Kevanf1 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

Indeed 'is' there any difference between the OSS version of SuSE 10 on DVD and Eval version on DVD? I ask this question because 'Linux Magazine' have announced that they will be shipping the full version of SuSE 10 on DVD, not the OSS version, with their next copy of the magazine. If this is the case it is a big disincentive to buying the boxed version. After all, we no longer get the superb manuals - down to one install manual now - and if you are an experienced SuSE/GNU Linux user then you 'probably' will not need to contact the support line. Oh, I believe the magazine is due out on December 2nd in the UK. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

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9.3 cron daily question
by Joe Morris (NTM) 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

There was a thread http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-May/1103.html regarding cron daily in 9.3. The command find /var/spool/cron/lastrun -name cron.daily -printf "%c\n" was given to find the timestamp used by cron to run cron daily. In my trying to restore storeBackup to a functioning backup program, I was revisiting these instructions. I put the rm and touch commands in a crontab, and left my machine on all night (I normally power off my home machine at night) to set it to run at 2:00am. It set the time correctly, according to the above command, but I noticed after it was off last night, and ran the backup soon after starting this am, this timestamp was set to this mornings time, negating the rm and touch commands altogether. Is this the way it is supposed to work? It seems it will just keep changing when it runs depending on what time I turn on my computer, or if I turned on one day at noon, it will run at noon the next day if I turned on a 6am. Am I missing something, or is this the way it is supposed to work? I did make the changes to the /usr/lib/cron/run-crons. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris(a)ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871

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Making DVD
by Joseph Loo 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

I am running Suse 10.0 with k3b. I have pioneer dvr-509 dvd burener. I am trying to make DVD data disk (DVD+R). I have used their default settings,and have only been able to make coasters. I even have the automatic verify turned on and it passes without any problem. Innteresting, if I use a DVD+RW, it will burn correctly and the system can read the disk. Whenever I place the DVD+R in, the system comes back and says I have a blank disk. I remember in 9.3, it was working with no problems. Anyone has any suggestions on fixing this problem -- Joseph Loo jloo(a)acm.org

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Linux disk space running low
by Roy Leembruggen 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

Hope you guys out there can help me with this one: My SuSE 10 installation by default chose a partition size of 2.5 GB, but now it appears that I really needed a partition size of approx 6.0 GB, as at the moment it shows only 11 % free (269.2 MB). Since I have bags of disk space available I would like to resize my linux partition to 6.0 GB. I have a bootable CD (made an el-torito iso image as per the Reference Manual) that boots the system, but even then I am not sure whether I can safely resize and reboot subsequently. I could make a backup image of the entire linux partition with BootItNG but that probably is not the answer. Incidentally am I right in concluding that a Gnome desktop uses much less space than a KDE desktop ? I also installed SuSE 10 on a much older PC than this one (an old 266 Mhz processor and less than 128 MB memory) and to my surprize it detected hardware quite well - even correctly detected my ADSL right away, and the Gnome desktop on that one seems to have used much less disk space ? Greetings Roy ( retired Aircraft Maintenance Engineer from Dakota to Super Constellation -thanks Howard Huges for a beautiful aircraft - to Boeing 707 747 and 737 )

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SUSE 10 boxed edition broken beyond ...
by SuSE Ground Zero 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

Got my SUSE 10.0 box some days ago, install and stuff. Anyway the final conclusion was: - despite being much faster this suse release is so damn cripled that is feeling like 7.3 edition - the dvd disc is not bootable, used an old 9.3 to start grub - find out the Novell was loosing expensive devel time to block apps and libs from running ok, even trying to compile new libraries was much harder - mp3 decoding is way wrong - even ac3 decoding or a52lib is imposible to get even I had legal copies of dvd movies. - amarok with helix plugin is getting shity quality even with high end sound sistems - multimedia is so cripled that I am thinking for the first time in 10 years to switch to windows - multimedia support is even better in windows nt4.0 - all the studies regarding desktop usability and multimedia vs. windows are true This policy of not upseting anyone, especially Microsoft is a closer look on what software devel will be un USA. Just a big consortium of universal consense going nowhere but down. Novell, drop out the linux business, I never saw such a regress in linux development since SuSE was bought by you. I am switch back to 9.3 on all my desktops, i am not planning to implement SuSE 10 on any server. I am looking toward another Linux distro - maybe SUPER. Waiting to see if Novell is going to release some multimedia packs in YOU, like in 9.3. Bye, A not at all happy SUSE camper.

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How do I protect a YaST package from upgrades?
by Stephen Carter 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

Hi, I've customised a package I installed through YaST from the default installation DVD on SuSE 10.0 so never want to have the option to upgrade it via YOU if one should come available. I could easily check the updates list in YOU myself, but this requires that a patch is initialy available in order to change the patch option and also this box will not be administered by me so I want insurance that the person maintaining the box can't upgrade the package unless they deliberately choose to do so. In YaST I can see there is a 'protected' option for a package that's already been installed but when I select this then click Finish, and go back into YaST the package is no longer marked as protected. Is there some way of marking a package 'protected' after it has been installed via YaST? Cheers, SteveC

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suse window theme/style
by Istvan Gabor 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

Hello all: I sent this question to suse-kde list before but did not get any answer so now I'm posting it here. I like(d) very much the default kde window and color style/ theme that was included with suse 9.0/9.1/9.2. In 10.0 the default style is different that I do not like as much. How could I install the style/theme of the above versions onto 10.0? (Currently I'm runnig 10.0 x86_64). Thanks, IG ______________________________________________________________________ KGFB 2006 - Garantáltan a legjobb ár! Nyerje meg az új Swiftet + garantált 10,000,- Ft értékű ajándék. WWW.NETRISK.HU

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Syncing with a Treo 650
by Trey Sizemore 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

I've got a Treo 650 that I'm trying to sync with my SUSE 10 laptop. So far, no luck. I thought it might be as simple as starting kpilot and then pressing the hotsync button on the USB cradle, but it doesn't appear that the device is being seen (no /dev/pilot file). Some issues with syncing I've googled have been related to that file not having the proper permissions, but in this case it's not even being created. This is the output of /var/log/messages when the device is plugged in and I hit the hotsync button: Nov 26 12:04:15 chameleon kernel: usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5 Nov 26 12:04:15 chameleon kernel: visor 2-2:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected Nov 26 12:04:15 chameleon kernel: usb 2-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0 Nov 26 12:04:15 chameleon kernel: usb 2-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1 Nov 26 12:04:15 chameleon NetworkManager: <debug info> [1133024655.567427] (): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_830_61_PalmSN12345678'). Nov 26 12:04:15 chameleon NetworkManager: <debug info> [1133024655.712086] (): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_830_61_PalmSN12345678_if0'). Nov 26 12:04:15 chameleon NetworkManager: <debug info> [1133024655.766072] (): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_830_61_PalmSN12345678_if0_serial_usb_0'). Nov 26 12:04:15 chameleon NetworkManager: <debug info> [1133024655.894152] (): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_830_61_PalmSN12345678_if0_serial_usb_1'). Anyone had any luck with this? -- Trey Sizemore <trey(a)fastmail.fm>

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Re: [SLE] 9.3 to 10.0 upgrade advantages
by Kai Ponte 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

> > Apart from the kernel I have a fully up-to-date (vi apt) version 9.3 system. What advantages if any would I get if I went to v10.0? > I found some of the included tools much better in 9.3, also the video support appears (subjective) better. You also get the SUSE branded OOo 2.0. It appears to be faster in many respects as well. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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suse window theme/style
by Istvan Gabor 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

Hello all: I sent this question to suse-kde list before but did not get any answer so now I'm posting it here. I like(d) very much the default kde window and color style/ theme that was included with suse 9.0/9.1/9.2. In 10.0 the default style is different that I do not like as much. How could I install the style/theme of the above versions onto 10.0? (Currently I'm runnig 10.0 x86_64). Thanks, IG ______________________________________________________________________ KGFB 2006 - Garantáltan a legjobb ár! Nyerje meg az új Swiftet + garantált 10,000,- Ft értékű ajándék. WWW.NETRISK.HU

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suse window theme/style
by Istvan Gabor 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

Hello all: I sent this question to suse-kde list before but did not get any answer so now I'm posting it here. I like(d) very much the default kde window and color style/ theme that was included with suse 9.0/9.1/9.2. In 10.0 the default style is different that I do not like as much. How could I install the style/theme of the above versions onto 10.0? (Currently I'm runnig 10.0 x86_64). Thanks, IG ______________________________________________________________________ KGFB 2006 - Garantáltan a legjobb ár! Nyerje meg az új Swiftet + garantált 10,000,- Ft értékű ajándék. WWW.NETRISK.HU

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Lame problem in 9.2
by Carl William Spitzer IV 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

LAME version 3.96.1 (http://lame.sourceforge.net/) Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 17249 Hz - 17782 Hz Encoding track_12.mp3 to Track012.mp3 Encoding as 44.1 kHz 128 kbps j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III (11x) qval=3 big_values too large! 490 Can't step back 379! bitstream problem: resyncing... big_values too large! 500 big_values too large! 511 mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 108 bits! Frame | CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU | ETA bitstream problem: resyncing... : | 0:00/ : | x| : big_values too large! 400 0/6662 ( 0%)| 0:00/ 0:00| 0:00/ 0:00| 0.0000x| 0:00 ./m12.sh: line 1: 7737 Segmentation fault lame track_12.mp3 Track012.mp3 --tl "Sample" --ta "Fran Martin" --tn "12" --ty "2005" --tg "Jazz" --tc "Converted by CWSIV using Suse Linux" --tt "Greatest Love Story" I am doing this for a friend whose windows box has forgotten how to burn and rip. I think the drive HP supplied has died. How can I make this work?? -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

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diff between apps version on apt servers
by Chema Ollés 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all: I'm sorry is not the correct list to make this question but I don't know where find some information about the differences between the version of any app I have on my alpha3 and the new version I see on the apt server,packman or suser-guru... For example if I exec smart upgrade I see 246 apps to change,from aaa_base to OpenOffice,all kde, Xorg and yast2... If I don't know that the diff are for security or any other reason... why to change? I don't know if I explain myself with clarity? cheers - -- Chema Ollés Usuario Linux: #198057 Linux 2.6.14-rc3-smp #7 SMP Thu Nov 17 01:00:40 CET 2005 i686 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDiNDG65SpD7GhbzoRAgcYAJ95sUfgeVyTy83M09v+5f507QBaowCfdn4/ wvN4SoKWvdUgeOtsy64EdZ8= =xUT+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Nvidia audio problems.
by Shibu Basheer 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

Hello, I have a fresh installation of opensuse 10. My motherboard is asus A7N266-VM. Although yast configured the sound card using alsa drivers, all I got was silence. I installed compiled and installed the nvidia oss drivers. I then replaced the contents of /etc/modprobe.d/sound with the foll wing entry. alias snd-card-0 nvsound When I run nvmixer, I get "Nvsound: Unable to open the Mixer" error. Although the nvmixer gui shows up, I am not able to make any changes. I can see the devices /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you!

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Re: [SLE] Firefox and PDF
by Kai Ponte 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

On Wednesday 23 November 2005 11:05 am, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 12:39 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: > > That's the problem. Something is fscked up with the plugin in 10/1.0.6 > > and 1.0.7 - it doesn't work. Opening as an external app does work. > > > > I'd work on it but I want to be sure and read this first. > > > > http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf > > Works fine in 9.2 with Firefox 1.0.7 and FireFox 1.5 > > So try fireFox 1.5 from Mozilla. Yes, I'll have to try that. I just downloaded it. The script thingy from a few emails ago didn't work. -- kai www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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[OT...sort of]Hardcopy or electronic books?
by Steven T. Hatton 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

I'm curious to know what people think about hardcopy documentation verses electronic form. For most purposes, such as simply looking things up, I prefer electronic form. For books which are intended to be read from start to finish, or at least large section are intended to be read as a whole, I prefer hardcopy. I find that e-books tend to collect e-dust when I have only an electronic version. Anybody else have a similar experience? Steven

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Re: [SLE] .mov files don't play
by Hani 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [SLE] .mov files don't play Date: Saturday 26 November 2005 12:34 From: Hani <hyoussef(a)shaw.ca> To: lrenard(a)i-movix.com Thanks, I had done some searching and found the information: http://www.susewiki.org/index.php?title=SuSE_9.3:_Fixing_MultiMedia_Support I just installed: a. xine-lib (libxine1) - http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=124 b. w32codec-all - http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=046 And everything works fine. On Saturday 26 November 2005 04:03, Laurent Renard wrote: > Le vendredi 25 novembre 2005 à 19:14 -0700, Hani a écrit : > > Hi all, > > anyone know why .mov files don't play? > > The default video player kaffine starts but does not play any .mov video. > > > > Is there any updates or software I need? > > > > [I'm using SuSE 10 eval. Other video such as real player works fine.] > > MPlayer does it ! > Install apt-get using YAST > More infos on how to get more sources to install MPlayer : > http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ > http://packman.links2linux.org/ > > replace your /etc/apt/sources.list with > mine : > > rpm ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt SuSE/10.0-i386 rpmkeys > base java update-drpm update-prpm update extra suser-crauch > suser-jengelh suser-guru usr-local-bin suser-scorot suser-jogley packman > packman-i686 kernel-of-the-day wine suse-people suse-projects > kde-unstable security-prpm security > rpm-src ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt SuSE/10.0-i386 rpmkeys > base java update-drpm update-prpm update extra suser-crauch > suser-jengelh suser-guru usr-local-bin suser-scorot suser-jogley packman > packman-i686 kernel-of-the-day wine suse-people suse-projects > kde-unstable security-prpm security > > and > #apt-get update && apt-get install MPlayer MPlayer-w32codecs > > Good luck -------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [SLE] [OT] Request adivce on internet connection (US)
by Kevanf1 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

On 26/11/05, James Knott <james.knott(a)rogers.com> wrote: > A friend of mine recently made one of those antennas, using a certain > type of food can (tomato sauce IIRC), which are made of a solderable > metal and are actually closer to the desired dimensions than a Pringles > can. He soldered two cans end to end. Also, if it's going to be > permanently mounted outside, you do not want any cardboard. > Use a proper designated 'metal' varnish. It's usually used for ornamental brassware. It would stop those sauce cans from rusting which they will eventually. For the cardboard Pringles tubes, ordinary yacht varnish would work. Making my own fishing tackle comes in useful sometimes. Spilling over into my other interests :-) -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

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SPAM: SMB Share hangs system
by Chadley Wilson 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

Greetings, I have discovered a new problem, I have a windows PC for doing ABC bla bla.. >From the windows PC I have mounted a share to my linux PC. When the powerfails or some ID10T reboots the windows PC my linux PC is immediately unusable and I have to reboot it to fix. Isn't there a config option for fstab that when the remote system dies, the shares must be immediatly umounted and then remounted when t reappears? TIA Chadley

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about emacs-x11 & gvim 's appearance
by lof 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

Hey all I have just turnned to SUSE10.0 from Mandriva for a few days . When I set up gvim ，I found it a little different from that I used before. The background color is gray at first , when I typed some letters in ,it turnned to white--only where the letters exist changed,. Then I installed emacs-x11 ,the situation is the same.Especially when use color-theme, the color where letters exist changed ,and the rest is still gray ,it is so ugly. Can anyone help me to make the color back to normal ?

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XMMS Stopped Playing MP3s
by Randall R Schulz 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

Hi, Recently xmms stopped playing MP3s on my system, which it used to handle just fine. I really only use XMMS to play pod-cast tracks downloaded by CastPodder (formerly iPodder, thank you Apple). My attempts to diagnose the problem were initially confused by the fact that a recent update to CastPodder contained a bug that causes it not to pass file name arguments on to xmms when launching it to play a track it had downloaded. When I figured that out, I tried opening audio files manually from XMMS. Only then did I realized that xmms was having problems with MP3s but not, e.g., Ogg-Vorbis files. Furthermore, a quick attempt to use various other MP3-capable players shows they're all working properly. Has anybody else encountered this symptom? If so, have you diagnosed the cause of the problem? Have you fixed it? Thanks in advance. Randall Schulz

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Re: [SLE] Developing a Real Time Data System
by JUAN ERNESTO FLORES BELTRAN 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

John wrote: >Just html? not only html, i have worked under other languages too >Real time under Windows and linux is not generally possible, but can be >obtained in linux with special provisions in a heavily modified kernel, or >in either with a separate master real-time program that provides real time >functions with linux as a subordinate module. > >Even with the specialized additions to make linux or Windows real-time, you >won't get real-time performance unless you know how to use it -- and that's >not trivial, or even easy! > >Although real-time modified Windows and linux are possible, and becoming >more popular, it's almost always easier to use a real-time operating system >or executive (depending upon what exactly you want to do), and you'll >always come out at the end with a more robust system, at least from a >real-time point of view. Other, non-real time considerations sometimes >make it better to use the desktop and server programs (Win and Linux), but >this is separate from real-time considerations. Could explaine about this desktops and server programs more detailed..?? >With all this said, many people often miscall "interactive", >"event-driven", and "quick-response" programming real-time, so we'd have to >know what you're trying to do. have you worked under labview?? (sorry this is not free software, but i must mention it), i would like to create an application which allows me to get data from a Data Acquisition Card. Actually I am thinking of working with a National Instruments Acquisition data card, this card is used for applications on which is required to measure any process, from voltage to temperature to an electric engine speed. This card just get an analog input that can vary from 10 volts to 10 volts (no matter the process to be tested it is required to transform it into a ±10 v signal and connect it to the card) then internally the analog signal is transformed to a digital signal and sent to the computer using a PCI, USB or PCMCIA bus. For the USB (low cost option) bus the specifications as follows: Bus Interface: USB 2.0 full-speed (12 Mb/s) Analog Input Sample rate: 10 kS/s This is just a basic description of coursesuch card can handle up to 16 analog inputs >With all this said, many people often miscall "interactive", >"event-driven", and "quick-response" programming real-time, so we'd have to >know what you're trying to do. > >And, of course, procedural programming, real-time or not, is completely >different from text markup programming, so you have a lot to learn before >you go very far, no matter what you're really doing :-). I know this requires lot of reading and learning, that´s why I am asking for help at this forum : ) any manual, tutorial or link to introduce me to the real data programmingI would appreciate your suggesttions > If your html programming included javascript and/or php, you have a vague >idea what the difference is. Thinking of python to develop the GUI interface, there is a powerful library called Matplotlib which allows graphics interface familiar to matlab and code seems simple, on the other hand could i handle the data by coding C ?? Thanks for your help in advance Regards.- Juan

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.mov files don't play
by Hani 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

Hi all, anyone know why .mov files don't play? The default video player kaffine starts but does not play any .mov video. Is there any updates or software I need? [I'm using SuSE 10 eval. Other video such as real player works fine.]

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How to get rid of blank ghost items in KDE 3.4 menu?
by Alex Daniloff 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

Hello SuSE folkz, Once I had an installation of early version of CrossOver office. It was awfully buggy and I deinstalled it. However, it left after itself blank CrossOver folder with blank items in KDE 3.4 menu. I deleted them via KDE Menu Editor and got into more troubles. After installation of a new version of CrossOver office, its menu and items didn't show up in KDE Menu at all. After I deleted config file ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu The new CrossOver folder reappeared in KDE menu but those old CrossOver ghost menu items were mixed with the menu items of the new one. Could somebody please give me a clue, where KDE 3.4 keeps its global menu configuration file. I would like to edit it directly to get rid of those ghost menu items for good. Thank you in advance for any help. Alex

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Users and cyrus imap
by Jim Flanagan 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

Hi all, I'm currently working on setting up cyrus imap to use authsasl and sasldb instead of pam. Still working on this. But I was wondering if instead of using the sasldb, could I set up users in pam (thru yast) who could authenticate to use cyrus imap, but not be allowed to login as a local user. I don't want to have several local users set up with system login rights just to give them rights to use imap. cyrus is a system user of group mail. Is there a way to set up users that are part of a group that has rights to use imap, but not part of group users (which will prevent them from loging on to the system? Pardon me if my noobs are showing. Jim

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Apache configuration help
by David Crouch 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

Hello all. I've just recently installed SUSE 10.0, but had the same problem on a SUSE 9.3 machine and I don't understand why. (I admit I was lazy in getting around to fixing it). None of the ~ addresses work in apache, either locally or remotely. When I try to access any address that's not in /srv/www/htdocs/* I get the following: Access forbidden! You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Error 403 I verified the public_html folder is set 755 and the contents are 644 owned to the (user).users group. I assume I'm doing something stupid I'm just not aware of, or need to configure. I did verify mod_userdirs is enabled... so, who's got the easy fix for this one? Thanks for your help. -- David Crouch

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Menu font for Firefox
by Paul W. Abrahams 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

On my (KDE) desktop, the Firefox browser shows up with a tiny font for the top-line menu (File, Edit, View, etc.) The control for that font appears to be neither in Firefox itself nor in the KDE control center. I'm guessing that it's somewhere in the X configuration. Can anyone tell me how to make that font bigger (or to change it to a different font)? Paul

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HELP! How do you change device eth1 to eth2
by Henry Tang 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

I have no idea what happened but the device assignment name suddenly changed. Is there any way that i can change it back. I don't have gui installed. Yast doesn't have it. eth0 needs to be eth1 eth2-> eth0 eth1- eth2. thanks henry

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Phoning with modem
by Chadley Wilson 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

Greetings, Client requests can very scary from time to time, I have a client that switched from windows to linux, Almost all of his staff are using laptops with internal modems, The Chyanne Bitware software which accompanies the laptop allows them to use the internal modem with a set of headphones with microphone as a telephone. I think it's a cool Idea. So what software is there for linux that can achieve this? Chadley

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SLES to SuSE migration?
by Anders Norrbring 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

Does anybody have any suggestions on how to move/migrate a fully working SLES9 system with LDAP users and Samba as a PDC to a SuSE Pro 9.3 ? -- Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting

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some scsi problem
by Marc Collin 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

i have 3 hd hp 18.2 map3367nc (id:00 lun:00) last drive on the cable fujitsu map3367nc (id:01:lun:00) ibm-esxs map3367np (id:02 lun00) first drive on the cable under linux, my root system is on the hp hd... sometime the harddrive fail all my hd is on the channel b aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs target1:0:0: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 127) target1:0:1: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 127) target1:0:2: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 127) (scsi1:A:0:0): Unexpected busfree in Data-in phase SEQADDR == 0x84 SCSI error : <1 0 0 0> return code = 0x10000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 8451 SCSI error : <1 0 0 0> return code = 0x10000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 8459 SCSI error : <1 0 0 0> return code = 0x10000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 8467 SCSI error : <1 0 0 0> return code = 0x10000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 8475 target1:0:0: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s ST (100 ns, offset 15) i don't understand the problem... does i need to put my last hd near of the cable terminaison? does the first hd on the cable need to have id 0... any idea? thanks

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digikam and 10
by Francesco Scaglioni 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

Hi, Digikam 0.74 (as supplied) runs fine on 10. If I install digikam 0.8 (I need the multi tag search refinement search) it loads fine but on attempting to import pictures ( it does not seem to recognise those imported already into 0.74 ) the system errors out with "unknown protocol : digicamalbums". Does anyone have any suggestions? TIA F

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no mail in 24 hours
by Jack Malone 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

just checking had no mail from any of suse lists in over 24 hours jack

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CD insert program
by Mike Roy 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

Hello everyone: Under windoze, HP had a really neat program (the software came bundles with the HP burner) for creating the paper insert for CD/DVD cases (including information on the spine). I know that Nero, under M$, has a similar program. I do remember using one under Linux but can't seem to find it. Does SuSE have a small, simple program that I can use to create these inserts? What I want to do is list the contents of the CD (for example, song titles and artists) plus put some information on the spine of the insert (i.e.: world's greatest vocals, why Tux is king). Any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike

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Partition most benefited by Raptor performance
by Lonn 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

If this is too elementary for linux-e, please reply direct rather than extend the thread. Which SUSE desktop hd partition(s) benefit most from Raptor performance? With large RAM (1 or 2 GB), is 'swap' usually quiet while Linux runs most common apps? Lonn C. Dugan

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boot problem - dying HD ?
by Istvan Gabor 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

Hello all: I have a serious problem with a system running SUSE 9.2. >From one day to another the system could not boot. Instead gave a lot of error messages and asked for the root password finally saying that the root file system was corrupted. Auto fsck failed on the root filesystem. I booted from a SUSE 9.2 rescue/install disk selecting rescue mode and tried to save all the files from the root filesystem to another partition before manually run fsck. It did not work and I got a lot of i/o errors. I took out this HD (let's call HD1) from the computer and connected to another MB in another computer and now I am trying to boot that computer up but is also fails. (That computer has a very same HD, let's call it HD2.) Without connecting HD1 to that computer it boots normally from its own HD2. Both HDs are SATAs and the BIOS sees them as first IDE master and slave. Right now my problem is that if I connect the possibly bad drive HD1 to the other system it also fails to boot correctly. The boot process is very slow and I get the following error messages during boot: Buffer I/O error on device sdb2, logical block xxxxxx ata1: status 0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata1: error=0x40 { Uncorrectable Error} scsi 0 : ERROR on channel 0, id1, lun0 current sdb: sense key Medium error Additional sense: Unrecovered read error: auto reallocate failed end request: I/O error, dev sdb sector xxxxxxxx and it goes like this for a really long time with different xxxxxx values. Finally I got error messages that processes could not been started since a read-only filesystem. If I disconnect 'sdb' (HD1) and only sda (HD2) is connected, boot process is OK. Questions: 1. Does these messages mean that the HD1 is dying? 2. How could I disable sdb check to be able to boot normally from sda? 3. Why the connection of sdb2 causes the system not to boot normally from sda? Thanks, IG ps: Sorry for being verbous. ______________________________________________________________________________ Hihetetlen! Sikerkönyvek 1 napos házhozszállítással! 3 könyv rendelése esetén összesen 20% kedvezmény! http://www.bookline.hu/?affiliate=frenapkar982

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Odd network behavior--suggestions?
by Simon Roberts 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

Hi all, I thought I understood networking (at least reasonably well) until now, but I'm staying in a hotel using my SuSE 9.3 laptop as a client to their wireless LAN and am seeing behavior that's making me doubt my sanity. I turn on and tell netgo to connect to an open wireless network, which it does. My wireless interface gets configured (as 192.168.1.131 as it happens), the default route and DNS both are pointed at 192.168.1.1, so I'm assuming it's a very simple configuration like most the boxes one might use at home (Linksys, or similar--if it was Belkin it would be 192.168.2.1 I believe :) Anyway, I do this, and I can connect to google.com and some other sites OK. However, some sites, probably 2/3 of all sites I've tried, and 99% of the more obscure ones (e.g. publib.boulder.ibm.com and theserverside.com--not sites that one might expect to be filtered) either come back immediately claiming they refused the connection, or they just time out. I ran ethereal and noticed that the refusals are coming in as those "unreachable" packets (they're ICMP aren't they?) with the "administratively cancelled" (or similar) flag set. The ones that time out just time out. There doesn't appear to be a rhyme or reason as to which will be refused and which will time out, and this seems to change from time to time. E.g. when I arrived, I got immediately rejected by both Earthlink's web-based mail site and by mail.yahoo.com (but not by yahoo.com itself). Later that night, earthlink started working, and yahoo disappeared entirely. Now they're both unavailable again. Oh to add to the info, there's a wire-connected machine available for public use in this hotel's lobby, and it seems to be able to connect to pretty much anything. Once in a while it get's blown off, but no more than is a believable rate for the Internet as a whole. But to add to the confusion, the IP addresses from the local DNS don't always agree with those I get from home. (I managed to connect to my home system usins ssh, and read email from there! While I was at it, I noticed that the dns results for many inaccessible sites were different.) That could be dynamic load balancing at work, but yesterday I tried to connect to my own system and the address was total nonsense. Could this be some strange attempt at filtering being done by the hotel? Or a bizzare effect of a massively overloaded, or interference-prone, wireless infrastructure, someone in the hotel doing strange things to me (my firewall is running, and I didn't see lots of unrecognizable traffic with ethereal), or a prelude to martian invasion. Or, something else I should know about? Cheers Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." Naguib Mahfouz __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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problem exiting X
by Tim Hanson 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

Installation of SuSE 10.0 on my new HP Pavilian xv6000 went incredibly well, the easiest laptop install I've ever done. I'm left with one problem. The widescreen 1280x800 works great while the window managers are running, but X won't exit properly. Regardless of whether I exit to gdm or console, the screen turns into a gray color, sometimes tinted with various colors, plus some horizontal and vertical lines. At this point the screen will not recover. Pressing <alt>F2 -F9 while X is running causes the screen to do the same thing. The problem occurs with KDE, GNOME, and FVWM2. Skipping all window managers, i.e., simply typing "/usr/bin/X11/X" at the command line in runlevel 3, then pulling the rug out with <crtl><alt><backspace> gives a normal exit to a good console. Is there something I can put in .xinit or somewhere that will fix this? -- He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. -- John Mason Brown, drama critic

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Running Cedega under suse
by Cameron Accola 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

this is an ad-mature question here but: what do you all think would be better: running linux & Cedega or running windows (yuch!) & DirectX i have a powerful x86 intel based system that i built, i really want to try and contribute to the opensuse project but i want to bring some of my games with me.

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ls funny issue
by Chadley Wilson 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

Greetings, Been struggling for a while trying to figure out why my script keeps removing the hidden directories: When you run ls -l as a user you get a listing without the .xxxxx files, But as root ls -l shows all anyway. So when root runs the script it deletes everything in the folder. I assumed there was an alias runnng for ls but can't find it. Can someone here please assist Thanks Chadley

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[OT] Request adivce on internet connection (US)
by Adolph & Sharon Weidanz 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

Hey all... I apologize for this off topic question, and may have been sent (I didn't get it back) but I need help and advice and the only internet I have access to is to dl email 2-3 times a week and this is the only group I get... Because of not having a landline or cable connection available, I need to find a way to connect to the internet. I have looked at 4 or 5 of the satellite providers, but they limit the amount that can be downloaded. For instance Direcway and earthlink reduces your bandwidth after you dl 169megs in 4 hours. Others are even more restrictive. So my next idea is to use Verizon's braodband cell access. They say it will run 79.99 a month for 400 - 700K + service. The only drawback is that the antenna is a PCMCIA card. I would want to be able to hook it to my router with a ethernet/rj45 dongle so both the desktop and the laptop can access the internet. Does anyone have any success with this? The router will give the connecting computers an IP but does the router get an IP through the PCMCIA card? Any ideas or help would be appreciated, I am going through withdrawals not being able to hit the apt repositories or do a Yast update ;^) --

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start X app from cron
by Patrick Shanahan 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

I seem to have gone brain dead, maybe normal... I cannot start an X app from cron. All my efforts have presented: cannot connect to X server ie: /opt/kde3/bin/kstart --desktop 4 /usr/bin/smtm. results in an email: kstart: cannot connect to X server not a problem with smtm, a perl/Tk app. ie: /usr/bin/smtm works -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2

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Smart freezes
by mikus＠bga.com 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

I've been trying out the smart package manager on SuSE 10.0. When there are a lot of packages to update, 'smart --gui' "freezes" on me while "installing" the packages (after it has downloaded them). Not yet ready for the big time. mikus

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permissions.secure breaks startx
by Michael James 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Bumped into this problem on Suse 10 last night. I normally run servers at runlevel 3 log in to the text terminal and type startx to get a graphical environment. Also, I don't like the sound of setting permissions to easy in /etc/sysconfig/security, so I set them to: CHECK_PERMISSIONS="set" PERMISSION_SECURITY="secure local" This means that the permissions in /etc/permissions.secure are applied nightly. But this takes the suid bit off /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg and the window manager can't start for a normal user. /etc/permissions.easy sets it to -rws--x--x root:root 2711 So as a compromise in /etc/permissions.secure I changed /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg to -rws--x--- root:video 2710 Then I put all the local users into "video" group. FWIW, 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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USB icon on desktop
by Syv Ritch 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Hi, 1. I use 10.0, and recently, in the last few days, a usb icon has appeared on my desktop. It is owned by root/root. I am signed on as user. If I do a: umount /proc/bus/usb, then the icon will disappear from the desktop, but it reappears on the next boot [it's a dell laptop] 2. 10.0 used to automount USBs, it does not anymore. I have to manually mount -t vfat... Any suggestion? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com

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RE: [SLE] Postfix on Suse 9.3
by James D. Parra 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Hello, I am try to set up postfix as a relay to an internal MX. It will run with MailScanner and will not have any local mailboxes. After spending some time with the cf and config files, I cannot tell which files are actually controlling postfix, that is, main.cf, main.cf.SuSEconfig, or /etc/sysconfig/postfix. Initially, I was modifying main.cf directly, but, as I was told, this was not the best solution on Suse. After removing the main.cf file and running SuSEconfig, SuSEconfig replaced the main.cf with a back up, although I still get the following error when running SuSEconfig; Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.postfix... *** WARNING *** Found /etc/postfix/main.cf.SuSEconfig, exiting... *** WARNING *** ~~~ Using 'rcpostfix restart' spits out the following error; Shutting down mail service (Postfix) done Starting mail service (Postfix)postconf: warning: My hostname postmaster is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf done postmaster:/etc/postfix # postconf: warning: My hostname postmaster is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf ~~~ I can telnet to it via port 25 so it is running. At this point, however, I have no idea which file I modify is actually affecting postfix's behavior. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance, James

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Storebackup
by Joe Morris (NTM) 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Does anyone else use storebackup? Just a heads up, it appears the security update for it IIANM back in Oct actually broke it. The problem is, /usr/lib/storeBackup/bin/storeBackup.pl is not executable, so it quietly fails to run. Just discovered it today (been too busy I know). Just wanting to verify my finding before I send some feedback to SuSE. It also seems the directory permissions for that package are quite wacky, a regular user cannot even read the docs. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris(a)ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871

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VPN recommendations
by Malcom Kemp 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

I have a SuSE 9.3 system running a SAMBA server in a small office for a non-profit organization. They want to access this server through a VPN from their Windows (XP) computers. There are only about 6 users that would be utilizing this service, and probably not more than one or two concurrent users. Does anyone have a suggestion for the best way to implement a VPN in such a SuSE/XP environment? There is an article about the problems with Microsoft's implementation of PPTP, but it is somewhat old. Are there still security problems with this in latest XP updates? Is anyone using pptpd with Microsoft clients? I have also looked at implementing OpenVPN, but it seems unduly complex to configure the client machines. Thanks for your help.

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Firewall recomendation
by Sunny 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Hi there, I'm hunting for good firewall. What I need is precise control on per host base, i.e. I want to be able to control which host can comunicate with which over specific protocol, like: host1 can accept ssh only from host3 only host2 can make http requests to host4, etc. All this, combined with per zone rules :) and good user interface - either web, or console(text) for remote administration. Any pointers? Thanks -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85

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