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Re: [SLE] problems with 'application/octet-stream'
by Eric Hines 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

There are two places to look (if this idea works for you at all); they go together. You should have a mime.convs file, typically in /etc/cups. Toward the end of that file is the line application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0 - Comment this line out. It's typically commented out until you add a cups printer under specific conditions (typically related to setting up a printer under Samba). In the same location as the above file should be the file mime.types. Toward the end of this file is the line application/octet-stream Comment out this line, as well. Hope this helps. Unfortunately, I'm pretty new, too, so that exhausts my ideas. Eric Hines At 12/26/05 12:52, Daniel Sheppeard wrote: >I keep getting alerts with the following message: > >Could not find mime type >application/octet-stream > >when starting Konquerer, when logging in, or when starting Kaffeine, >but only as one particular user. > >The only changes I've made recently was trying to create a file >assocation for Scribus save files. After dissatisfaction with my >attempts, I deleted the new assocation. As far as I can remember I >haven't made any changes to my configurations other than that. > >It's aggravating and is seriously impairing system performance. > >Any helpful ideas for a relative newbie? There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. --Bertrand Russell

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Interesting thread on Gnome's limited useability
by Lew Wolfgang 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Hi Folks, Slashdot pointed to an interesting thread on osdl about Gnome's developers being in favor of limiting functionality of a desktop to help users not get "confused". Linus chimes in and a vigourous discussion ensues. This is part of the post that kicked off the discussion: > Today I talked with Frederic Crozat, GNOME packager/maintainer and > desktop developer here at Mandriva, and David Barth, vice president for > engineering, about the development of the printing dialogs in GNOME, > Firefox, and Thunderbird. > > Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally not > listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against > listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing > than useful to the user. Here's the link to the first posting. Foul Language Warning! May not be appropriate to read to small children or at work. http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2005-December/000389.html Regards, Lew Wolfgang

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RE: [SLE] Problems with initrd after mkinitrd
by Patrick Freeman 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: Carl Hartung [mailto:suselinux@cehartung.com] [...] > On Saturday 24 December 2005 14:34, Patrick Freeman wrote: > <snippage> > > ...But now with up to 40 machines all getting the same treatment, > > between 30 and 60 % will hang on initrd after I run mkinitrd. > > Does this mean 12 have exhibited this behavior (30% of 40) or 24 (60% of > 40)? It means that, at various times we have run mkinitrd, and we have seen between 30% and 60% of failures with a maximum sample set of 40 machines at a time over the past year (the 60% is more typical in smaller sample sets (5 units), but 30% may be more realistic). > > If I were going to investigate the drive subsystems, I would: > > - verify the quality of the power supplies and the data cables. Done. > - check for poorly designed cases not allowing proper ventilation. Heat may be a contributor, at least on some, but I believe they are normally operating in spec (and haven't found a temperature correlation). Do you think that one-time heat problems may cause this problem at a later time? > - ensure all drives have the same *current* firmware installed. The drive microcode is up-to-date (can't remember off hand *what* version that is) and the drive revisions are of two sets -- the problem does not correlate to one or the other. > - ditto the mainboards and add-in controllers Done. > - plan on a realistic 2% to 3% field failure rate in the first 30 to 90 > days. > (no OEM can afford to burn-in and stress-test every single drive) These machines have all passed our burn-in process, and infant mortality is not a factor -- in fact, the symptom does not seem to be related to any kind of drive failure (as determined by later failure of the drives). > > FYI: I used to sell between $1 and $2 Million in drives a year into the > RISC/UNIX market. I've never purchased a WD drive, nor have I strayed from > Seagate. I've never regretted that decision. Thanks for that input -- I don't really have a choice in this matter, and given our company's position, we believe in the new products that Western Digital is producing, which are focused on the enterprise market (Raptors and Raid Edition) -- we are agnostic on the particular drives with which we are booting. Truthfully, we have seen few issues besides expected bumps with new products (for the Raptors and Raid Editions), and WD has responded extremely well on those fronts. On the 2.5" drive, they have recommended that we not use it in that application. But, again, since I have seen this problem with some of the 3.5" (WD400JB, 40GB), I am inclined to think it is some kind of process related thing or a bug in *some* software. > > Finally, I think you're going to have a real hard time pointing fingers > back > at WD since you haven't clearly ruled out the HighPoint driver that you're > compiling. This is interesting (the part about the HighPoint driver)... my problem is that I don't understand how I can boot with this very same driver on one machine which is *identical* (since they were originally imaged from the same machine, and all the same things were done to the set) to another ... and hang on the other one. Do you think the driver might have some kind of race condition which would cause it to break in one initrd and not the other (and not show up as an intermittent problem on each machine)? I would be happy to hear that, in the sense it would push me in one direction over the other, but I can't see that -- your experience may be better than mine on this, however. > > HTH & regards, Carl -- thank you -- it has helped me reinforce my thinking. Patrick.

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problems with 'application/octet-stream'
by Daniel Sheppeard 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

I keep getting alerts with the following message: Could not find mime type application/octet-stream when starting Konquerer, when logging in, or when starting Kaffeine, but only as one particular user. The only changes I've made recently was trying to create a file assocation for Scribus save files. After dissatisfaction with my attempts, I deleted the new assocation. As far as I can remember I haven't made any changes to my configurations other than that. It's aggravating and is seriously impairing system performance. Any helpful ideas for a relative newbie?

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RE: [SLE] Limitations of SuSe Linux 10 "Live DVD" !!
by Prasad, Rajeev, NEO 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Thx for your response. I was thinking about that too ! (Infact I was thinking about a concept PC on disk. Which will have my fav. OS and data on a dvd-rw, which i can put in on any PC/MAc/*UNIX/XXX... box and run/use my own thing!) but here specific to SuSe 10 'Live-DVD' I wanted to knwo if i can:- 1. add/remove packages? 2. add/remove patches? 3. change config ? 4. run/use common unix utilities? excuse me for my limited knowledge of the product. actually i recently came to know about "Live-CD/DVD" concept ! (yesterday only). and now i want to get it for practicing LINUX etc. thank you, Rajeev Prasad -----Original Message----- From: Kevanf1 [mailto:kevanf1@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 11:44 AM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Limitations of SuSe Linux 10 "Live DVD" !! On 26/12/05, Prasad, Rajeev, NEO <prasadrajeev(a)att.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am planning to use SuSe Linux 10 Live-DVD for practicing Linux. > > Although, I can install any version on my laptop and work, but I dont want > to disturb/touch my 'Windows' laptop just for practicing Linux, then I heard > of run-from-DVD Linux, and I want to try it. > > My question is: With Live-DVD can I do things like make/remove > files/directories, change config of apps and OS, ifconfig, du, dk, vi, awk, > perl... etc. Also, would I be able to install/remove packages and patches? > (or simulate atleast) > > Please help me with your advice. > The easisest asnwer is to think of the DVD for what it is. A nonewritable disk. What you get is a full operating system plus applications all running from a DVD. If you burned to a re-writable disk then you may be able to tinker but that is not the way it is meant to be used. It is meant to popped in and run as it is. You could certainly save to any hard drive that was installed on the PC. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care this Xmas. PLEASE DON'T drink and drive. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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RE: [SLE] Limitations of SuSe Linux 10 "Live DVD" !!
by Eric Hines 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

One thing you could do would be to plug a USB-capable external hard drive into your laptop. Then you could practice with the Linux DVD to your heart's content, saving all to the USB HD and not disturb your Windows set up at all. Of course external HDs are slower than internals, and laptops are slower than PCs--the accumulated slowness would be perceptible.... Eric Hines At 12/26/05 11:59, Prasad, Rajeev, NEO wrote: >Thx for your response. I was thinking about that too ! (Infact I was >thinking about a concept PC on disk. Which will have my fav. OS and >data on a dvd-rw, which i can put in on any PC/MAc/*UNIX/XXX... box >and run/use my own thing!) > >but here specific to SuSe 10 'Live-DVD' I wanted to knwo if i can:- > >1. add/remove packages? >2. add/remove patches? >3. change config ? >4. run/use common unix utilities? > > >excuse me for my limited knowledge of the product. actually i >recently came to know about "Live-CD/DVD" concept ! (yesterday >only). and now i want to get it for practicing LINUX etc. > >thank you, > >Rajeev Prasad > >-----Original Message----- >From: Kevanf1 [mailto:kevanf1@gmail.com] >Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 11:44 AM >To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >Subject: Re: [SLE] Limitations of SuSe Linux 10 "Live DVD" !! > > >On 26/12/05, Prasad, Rajeev, NEO <prasadrajeev(a)att.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I am planning to use SuSe Linux 10 Live-DVD for practicing Linux. > > > > Although, I can install any version on my laptop and work, but I dont want > > to disturb/touch my 'Windows' laptop just for practicing Linux, > then I heard > > of run-from-DVD Linux, and I want to try it. > > > > My question is: With Live-DVD can I do things like make/remove > > files/directories, change config of apps and OS, ifconfig, du, dk, vi, awk, > > perl... etc. Also, would I be able to install/remove packages and patches? > > (or simulate atleast) > > > > Please help me with your advice. > > > >The easisest asnwer is to think of the DVD for what it is. A >nonewritable disk. What you get is a full operating system plus >applications all running from a DVD. If you burned to a re-writable >disk then you may be able to tinker but that is not the way it is >meant to be used. It is meant to popped in and run as it is. You >could certainly save to any hard drive that was installed on the PC. >-- >============================================== >I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. >============================================== >Take care this Xmas. PLEASE DON'T drink and drive. >Kevan Farmer > >Linux user #373362 > >Cheslyn Hay >Staffordshire >WS6 7HR > >-- >Check the headers for your unsubscription address >For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com >Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com >Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com > > > >-- >Check the headers for your unsubscription address >For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com >Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com >Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. --Bertrand Russell

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Re: [SLE] VGA out of range error message
by Clint Tinsley 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Whoa! Not to offend anyone but the point of this person's complaint was not that Knoppix worked or if the SuSE Live DVD would work but why not SuSE? The probable solution to this would have been to recommend that s/he bring up a terminal session, do an Init 3 if necessary and then run sax2 to try to have s/he's video configuration set properly. Seem to see way too many apparent flames where help is what is needed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Schneider" <suse-list(a)bout-tyme.net> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] VGA out of range error message Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 09:34:03 -0500 > > On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 15:21 +0100, FX Fraipont wrote: > > Ken Schneider wrote: > > > > >>I then tried to rescue her data using a Knoppix 3.4 in German I > > had from >>some time ago, and hey presto, it booted straight into > > kde, without any >>silly vga out of range error messages, and I > > was connected to the >>internet and could browse her reiserfs > > partition and burn a dvd with >>her data without intervening at > > any moment. > > >> > > >>If Knoppix can do it, why can't SuSE? > > >> > > >> >> > > >And what happened when you tried the SUSE install DVD to boot to rescue > > >mode? > > > > > > > > > Nothing, I mean reiserfschk would start and hang somewhere in the > > middle of the process. > > > > --rebuid-tree eventually completed, but SuSe freezes on boot at > > the reiser message stage. > > Anyway, that's not the point, I have the data saved now and will > > reinstall suses10. My gripe was with the screen frequencies. > > > > > > fx > > > > OK. But to compare apples to apples you should have tried using a SUSE > "live DVD" and see if that would have booted to KDE, or did you? > > -- > Ken Schneider > UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 > > > -- > Check the headers for your unsubscription address > For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com > Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com > Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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Time, Problem in Suse10.0
by jim 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Has the time problem been fixed in 10.0 yet. I have been pushing Suse as the desktop favorite for Linux , but sure looks bad when you can't get the correct time. Jim

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strange problem in krusader
by Istvan Gabor 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Hello all: I've got this strange problem: My amule download got corrupted since a computer freezing. Now when I check the Temp folder where amule stores their part, part.met and part.met.bak files the newest krusader version that I built from CVS source shows file #.part.met with an irreally large size (TB) and date (1935). An older version of krusader, 1.60.0 shows a different irreal size (TB) and another not-real date (2004). The strange thing is if I do an ls -l in a terminal this file is not shown at all. Konqueror does not list this file either. What does this mean? Thanks, IG _____________________________________________________________________________ Töltse az év végét sztárokkal! Ingyen filmek egészen Újévig a T-Online Tékában! http://www.t-online.hu

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Re: [SLE] Novell Database
by Clint Tinsley 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

> I have found very good informations on: > > http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/ > > Are there a database that tells all what there is to be found on > the www.novell.com ?. > > I would say it was by random I found the coolsolutions, but glad I did it. > > Then now of course I wanted to know about all the stuff that can be > found on the site. > > Anybody that can help me ? There are several ways of searching coolsolutions. One is using the search engine with all its options. The other is to pull a list of all the submissions to the coolsolutions site. I will tell you that if you use the Novell Linux Desktop (NLD) coolsolutions list, you will get the most suggested solutions and helps that will work on both NLD and SuSE 10.0, mileage will vary. OT: I really get upset with Novell in that they know how to make NLD work including video player support (Totem) but ship a crippled SuSE because of "licensing concerns." Linus once said that Novell might be the greatest thing to have happen to Linux but IMO, they may also be the ones to break it. FYI, I bleed Novell Red, corpusules are shaped in the red N logo. A Novell CNE6 and 10 year consecutive attendee of Novell's Brainshare, 2006 is the first year I won't go so I won't make it 11. I am also a long time user/advocate of SuSE, I don't remember if I have any 5.x but I have bought every retail version of SuSE since 6.0.

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