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hal & dbus
by Tim Hanson 20 May '05

20 May '05

I asked a question about this last week and was sent to the support db, but that answer doesn't solve my problem. I'm trying to script reads and writes to my dvd. Of course, this becomes difficult because it mounts dynamically, giving the name of the disk. I've looked in the environment, through /etc, and so on, but can't find a place where the title of the dynamically mounted dvd is listed in a text file. If I can find the name somewhere on disk, I can read it into a script variable and work with it on the fly. Does anyone have a clue about this?

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Firefox problem after YOU on SuSE 9.1
by ti＠amb.org 20 May '05

20 May '05

Hi all, I have SuSE 9.1 which was previously running Firefox 1.0.1 (installed from SuSE's rpm), and was working well. Recently I ran YOU and it upgraded Firefox to 1.0.3, and now the "right click -> Save Image As..." or "right click -> Save Link As..." don't work any more. An error dialog box appears as follows: XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: chrome://global/content/filepicker.xul Line Number 1, Column 5 ends="xul:box"> ____^ Any idea what's wrong and how do I fix this? I tried googling the web but didn't find a solution. -Ti -- Ti Kan

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x on a (type) of server
by lerninlinux＠comcast.net 20 May '05

20 May '05

I have some old systems that I intend to swap around parts and eliminate a lot of the old pc's (p133's 32mb). I have a file server, that I may turn into my backup server, but I am building a music server out of some of my parts. I haven't decided yet wether to put a dvd drive in it (make it a mythbox) or just a cd drive (for ripping and playing), but my prefered two players are Juk, and Xmms. As this will be in another room, hooked to the stereo, but without a moniter, I was wondering about running x remotely. Does it take less memory to remotely operate X? Does X have to run to run these (dependencies) or can I move the order of the songs on these by the command line somehow? Thanks

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Messed up SuSE web site pages.
by James Knott 20 May '05

20 May '05

Lately, I've noticed that some of the SuSE web pages seem a bit messed up. When you go to the page, there's a long list of Novell stuff at the left, before you get to the desired info. This happens with both Mozilla and Konqueror. Has anyone else noticed this? Is this a new "feature"? An example can be found here. http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/09/fhassel_grub_overview.html

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Novell Linux Leaders Flee
by its2am＠gmail.com 20 May '05

20 May '05

It seems to me there are a few points here: 1) Is the Inquirer a reliable news rag? Who knows, but the story was also in eWeek, which, I think, has a better rep: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1814335,00.asp So, is the story factual? Probably. 2) Are the Novell "Linux leaders" leaving? Well, the following paragraph is taken from the eWeek article: "...after the departures of vice chairman Chris Stone last November and of chief technology officer Alan Nugent this March, both of whom were pivotal players in the company's decision to embrace Linux and open source across all of its products and services...." It would appear that some good brains have left Novell recently. What the article doesn't answer is, "Why?" 3) What effect will this have on SuSE and Novell? I've heard SuSE described as Novell's "dying gasp", but that, obviously, is one person's opinion. We'll see. And 4) (tangentially) Is SuSE getting better? That, as has been seen on this list, is debatable. My personal opinion is that Linux (in general) has improved drastically over the past 5 years, but is still only about as usable (for a desktop system) as Windows 98 was. SuSE is a pretty good flavor. So's Red Hat. Red Hat has the advantage of being the flavor of choice in America, which is a pretty big, unified market. There was also news yesterday of Michael Dell's investment of $99.5 million into Red Hat. The European market is fragmented, to say the least. What does all this mean? I hope some intelligent folk on this list will chime in, but my opinion is that SuSE will maintain its small sliver of a market share, and some new brains will be found to replace those who've left Novell, and the world will continue to turn.

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Performance problem with SLES9 after patch
by Jerry Feldman 20 May '05

20 May '05

One of the systems in out lab is exhibiting serious performance problems after applying the latest patches. There is nothing we can think of at the moment why it is so poor. It does not appear to be a hardware problem. The system is a 2 dual core CPU XEON (X86) HP ProLiant 3.2GHz with 4GB memory. Before the patch, things ran ok. Initially, one of the users was complaining that compile time was horrendous. After looking at the system, I booted Knoppix, and performance was fine. We then completely reinstalled SLES9 and performance was fine until applying the patches. kernel is 2.6.5-7.151-bigsmp. Top did not show any process hogging the CPU. The symptoms are: man man 20 Seconds YaST(command line) > 1 minute. I also unmounted the NFS file system to try to eliminate a potential problem with nfs, Note that PS AX runs instantaneously as does ls. All file systems are ext3. ------- I ran the same tests on a similarly configured blade system: 2 dual core XEON (x86) 3.0GHz. kernel:2.6.5-7.151-smp. man man < 1 second YaST(command line) 2 secs The admin configures most of his systems identically. Note that both the systems are available for public log in, but I don't want to broadcast the addresses here, but you can email me, and I'll give you the web site where you can sign up and access these systems. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf(a)blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

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All of a sudden my machine got fast
by John Bailo 20 May '05

20 May '05

Did those Novell guys do an update recently? I just noticed that machine is running way faster ( snappier ) than normal Suse 9.2 KDE Athlon 2400 .5 G ram

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Installing 9.3 with floppies - can someone help?
by Hugo 20 May '05

20 May '05

Hi! I have the DVD for 9.3 (and the 5 CD rom set as well)... but the laptop where I want to install 9.3 does not have CD drive (or DVD for that matter). How do I install? I thought I'd boot with floppies and then set the installation source either over NFS from another SuSE 9.2 box or over samba from a windows laptop. But I just didn't find any floppies for 9.3? Maybe I looked from the wrong place? I did find them for the 9.2 (3 + 5 modules disks)... but I'd really like to run 9.3 as it has some programs and features that I'm really interested in. In addition to floppies, I can boot the laptop to Knoppix with the Knoppix Terminal server (PXE-boot)... can I somehow start the installation of SuSE 9.3 from Knoppix? I also have another server that has faulty CD drive (that can not be used to boot) and no DVD and I'd like to install the same SuSE 9.3 there also. So I believe that the same procedure applies.... I just do not know how to do it without the floppies that I didn't find. Maybe I'm just blind... can anybody help? -- HG

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CUPS and SuSE 9.1
by babu walad 20 May '05

20 May '05

Hi, MY printer used to work under 9.0 but since my upgrade to 9.1 I cannot get anything working. I have an hp laserjet 1200 connected via an hp print server (printjet 500 with 3 ports). When I try to use the CUPS web interface at http://localhost:631/admin it asks for a login and password. I never set any. Does anyone know what the defaults are? I did not like my root login/password. When Yast configures my printer, it detects the print server but after that there is no other operation it does to configure the printer itself. I looked under the PPD directory and it was empty. I re-installed all the CUPS packages and it is still empty. Any suggestions where to start? Thanks, Babu __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail

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Undeliverable Messages
by B. Stia 20 May '05

20 May '05

Hi, I am getting an undeliverable message to an mtgordon(a)ximian.com for every message that I send to this list. Anybody else seeing this?? And now I am being threatened by ezmlm. Bob S.

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