June 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Problems when using internet
by Alfredo Cole 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hi: My daughter recently switched to SuSE 9.2. She connects to the internet via a dialup line. She can receive mail, and send short mails. If mails are more than 10 lines or so, then Kmail gives a timeout error. Surfing the net is possible, except when following links, like when going to www.ml.com and selecting "benefits on line". Konqueror will just hang forever. At first she thought it was her ISP, since she had sporadic similar problems when using MSW, so she switched ISP's but the problem persists. Bringing the firewall down has no effect, and she has tried Mozilla with the same results. I can access those pages from where I live, using a cable connection. Maybe somebody could tell me where to start looking. Thank you and regards. -- Alfredo J. Cole Grupo ACyC

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I Still need help
by Mishari Aljaser 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hi, I'm using SUSE LINUX v 9.1. I confiugred my modem to get access to the internet, but unfortunetly I'm getting wrong messages (See below) Can somebody help me to fix it SuSE Meta pppd (smpppd-ifcfg), Version 1.16 on linux. pppd[0]: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded. pppd[0]: --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0 pppd[0]: --> Initializing modem. pppd[0]: --> Sending: ATZ pppd[0]: ATZ pppd[0]: OK pppd[0]: --> Sending: AT Q0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 pppd[0]: AT Q0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 pppd[0]: OK pppd[0]: --> Sending: ATM1 pppd[0]: ATM1 pppd[0]: OK pppd[0]: --> Modem initialized. pppd[0]: --> Sending: ATDT3660033 pppd[0]: --> Waiting for carrier. pppd[0]: ATDT3660033 pppd[0]: CONNECT 45333/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS pppd[0]: --> Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt. pppd[0]: CVX Access Switch. pppd[0]: Access is restricted to authorized users only. pppd[0]: login: pppd[0]: --> Looks like a login prompt. pppd[0]: --> Sending: Mis pppd[0]: Mis pppd[0]: password: pppd[0]: --> Looks like a password prompt. pppd[0]: --> Sending: (password) pppd[0]: Exiting shell, and starting PPP session. pppd[0]: ~[7f]}#@!}!}!} }<}!}$}%\}"}&} }*} } }%}&}3bn{}'}"}(}"}1}$}%b}9S~ pppd[0]: --> PPP negotiation detected. pppd[0]: Serial connection established. pppd[0]: Using interface ppp0 Status is: connecting pppd[0]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 pppd[0]: No response to PAP authenticate-requests pppd[0]: Connection terminated. pppd[0]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Status is: disconnected pppd[0] died: Authentication error (exit code 19) Regards, Mishari --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel & more fun for the weekend. Check it out!

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changing the default boot resolution via a script or autoyast
by Chadley Wilson 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Greetings Migrating a complicated system from Redhat to Suse 9.2/3. I have forgotten how to change one line withing a file using awk sed cut and all those things, I also could not figure it out from the bash scripting giude, Isn't there an easier way to change the booting resolution that Yast sets. In Redhat we could run system-config-display --set-resolution=800x600 or something to that effect. I am hoping there is something like that in suse. Any ideas welcome there are many other tasks I need to automate TIA -- Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================

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compilation problems
by gerald marewo 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

dear all, i had a problem compiling both avidemux and mjpegtools on SuSE Linux 9.2 prof on a pentium 863 Mhz machine. problem looks very similar. please find below a snippet for avidemux: ... Making all in mpeg2enc make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/avidemux-2.0.40/avidemux/mpeg2enc' if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/usr/include/malloc -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I.. -IADM_library -I../ADM_library -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -falign-loops=16 -MT conform.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/conform.Tpo" -c -o conform.o conform.cc; \ then mv -f ".deps/conform.Tpo" ".deps/conform.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/conform.Tpo"; exit 1; fi In file included from /usr/include/g++/bits/stl_algobase.h:65, from /usr/include/g++/vector:67, from macroblock.hh:52, from global.h:35, from conform.cc:34: /usr/include/g++/cstring:45: error: syntax error before `!' token In file included from /usr/include/g++/cstring:49, from /usr/include/g++/bits/stl_algobase.h:65, from /usr/include/g++/vector:67, from macroblock.hh:52, from global.h:35, from conform.cc:34: /usr/include/g++/cstddef:52: error: `ptrdiff_t' not declared In file included from /usr/include/g++/bits/fpos.h:44, from /usr/include/g++/iosfwd:49, from /usr/include/g++/bits/stl_algobase.h:70, from /usr/include/g++/vector:67, from macroblock.hh:52, from global.h:35, from conform.cc:34: /usr/include/g++/i586-suse-linux/bits/c++io.h:43: error: syntax error before `; ' token /usr/include/g++/i586-suse-linux/bits/c++io.h:45: error: syntax error before `; ' token In file included from /usr/include/g++/bits/stl_algobase.h:73, from /usr/include/g++/vector:67, from macroblock.hh:52, from global.h:35, from conform.cc:34: /usr/include/g++/bits/stl_iterator_base_types.h:102: error: syntax error before `,' token /usr/include/g++/bits/stl_iterator_base_types.h:109: error: template declaration of `typedef _Tp std::value_type' /usr/include/g++/bits/stl_iterator_base_types.h:109: confused by earlier errors, bailing out make[3]: *** [conform.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/avidemux-2.0.40/avidemux/mpeg2enc' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/avidemux-2.0.40/avidemux' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/avidemux-2.0.40' make: *** [all] Error 2 i thought that this had to do with mpeg2enc and hence mjpegtools. tried compiling the latest stable mjpegtools and got a very similar message: 'syntax error before `?' token'. what i find interesting that there is no message like 'no such file' to indicate a missing dependency. i suspect a bug or missing CFLAG? i am now out of ideas and desperate. please help. -- gerald marewo

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Cygwin : How-To cut & paste
by Maura Edelweiss Monville 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

I wonder whether there is someone who has some experience at installing and using Cygwin on a Windows/XP box to run graphics applications remotely on a Linux platform ... I did that recently. When I run Cygwin X-server it pops up an xterm taht I use to X-connect to the remote Red Hat machine. Luckily I can run remotely all the graphic applications I need and have them display on the Windows box sitting on my desk ... But there is a typical X feature that I cannot get. It's the common cut & paste that does not work even inside the single Cygwin xterm... Even ohn the Window machine some sort of cut/copy & paste is possible through the drop-down menus fired up by clicking the mouse rightmost button Can anyone help me with taht , please ? Maura

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Re: [SLE] Project Management Software
by Arie Reynaldi Z 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

> > El Martes, 7 de Junio de 2005 17:34, Jostein Berntsen escribió: > > On 07.06.05,12:43, a.bridge(a)insightbb.com wrote: > > > I will like to get some recommendations on open source project > > > management software some of you may be using or have heard good things > > > egroupware has a projects module, looks fine. > I have a same question too, what is project management software that good for production purpose. Has anyone use one of those s/w in regular basis ? PS: Carlos, sorry i mailed you directly.. forgot to change 'To'.. :( -- Arie Reynaldi Zanahar reymanx at gmail.com http://www.reynaldi.or.id

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Re: [SLE] tracking down persistant (since 9.0) bug/misconfig
by Linda Walsh 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Nevermind....found the problem. Apparently, libfreetype moved from /usr/X11R6/bin to /usr/bin. In the 8.x-9.0 upgrade, the old lib wasn't removed. Found it with "ldconfig -p|grep free" which showed libfreetype.so.6 in both directories. rpm -qf told me which was bogus...sigh... Can't believe the answer at my fingertips the whole time...*doh*! :-) linda Linda Walsh wrote: > Every since I upgraded my "build" machine from the 8.x series to 9.0, > I've > had a problem in doing kernel makes -- more specifically, running the > graphical kernel config util. > I've worked around the problem by using the curses implementation, but > I'd > like to find a solution to this hanger-on'er. I thought it might go > away with > the 9.1 upgrade, but no luck. > > When I run "make xconfig" in a kernel tree, I get: > usr/src/261111-netgate# make xconfig > scripts/kconfig/qconf arch/i386/Kconfig > scripts/kconfig/qconf: error while loading shared libraries: > /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Get_PS_Font_Info > make[1]: *** [xconfig] Error 127 > make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 > > My libfonts in /usr/lib look like: > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 249984 Apr 5 2004 libfontconfig.a > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 871 Apr 5 2004 libfontconfig.la* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jul 21 2004 libfontconfig.so -> > libfontconfig.so.1.0.4* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jul 21 2004 libfontconfig.so.1 -> > libfontconfig.so.1.0.4* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 204755 Apr 5 2004 libfontconfig.so.1.0.4* > > With all of the April 5 2004 files coming from the suse91 package. > The same problem existed on 9.0. > I don't see explicit linkage to the libfontconfig library, so it would > appear to be run-time loaded -- but the library in which the symbol > resides appears to be "libfreetype.so.6.3.5". I.e. using "nm", I see > the "U" symbol reference for the function, and I see the "T" reference > in libfreetype. If libfontconfig is dynamically loaded, shouldn't > libfreetype > also be loaded? > > Any ideas? > > I'm asking here, as I *CAN* get it to build properly on a test system > that wasn't > upgraded to 9.0, but was "fresh-installed", so it seems to have something > to do with the upgrade process. The test system is way underpowered > compared > to my "build" machine...:-(. > > When I first had the problem on 9.0, I contacted support@suse w/the > problem but > they couldn't figure out why and only suggested reformatting and > starting from > scratch...Ug...not desirable as also runs network services in my house > (dns, time, > squid web-proxy, email, domain-samba services...etc). > > It seems doing things the Windows way and reformatting and > reinstalling the OS > would be like using dynamite to remove a fly (in the ointment), so to > speak. > > Thanks much in advance, > -linda > >

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KMail and time zone issues
by Jerry Feldman 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

When I get a calendar notice under kmail, the time is displayed as standard time NOT daylight time. All my settings appear to be correct: here is a fragment of what was sent: DTSTART:20050607T180000Z DTEND:20050607T190000Z For EDT, this should display as 2:00PM to 3:00PM (EDT) What displays is: Start Time: 2005-06-07 1:00 pm End Time: 2005-06-07 2:00 pm Duration: 1 hour System SuSE 9.3 Timezone US/Eastern HW clock set to local time (I dual boot into Windows XP :-( ## Path: System/Environment/Clock ## Description: Information about your timezone and time ## Type: string ## ServiceRestart: boot.clock # # Set to "-u" if your system clock is set to UTC, and to "--localtime" # if your clock runs that way. # HWCLOCK="--localtime" ## Type: string(Europe/Berlin,Europe/London,Europe/Paris) ## ServiceRestart: boot.clock # # Timezone (e.g. CET) # (this will set /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime) # TIMEZONE="US/Eastern" DEFAULT_TIMEZONE="US/Mountain" Additionally, my KD panel clock displays the correct time as does the date command: gaf@sauron:~> date Tue Jun 7 08:49:58 EDT 2005 It just seems to be KDE when displaying calendars sent from others. Any ideas? -- 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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tracking down persistant (since 9.0) bug/misconfig
by Linda Walsh 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Every since I upgraded my "build" machine from the 8.x series to 9.0, I've had a problem in doing kernel makes -- more specifically, running the graphical kernel config util. I've worked around the problem by using the curses implementation, but I'd like to find a solution to this hanger-on'er. I thought it might go away with the 9.1 upgrade, but no luck. When I run "make xconfig" in a kernel tree, I get: usr/src/261111-netgate# make xconfig scripts/kconfig/qconf arch/i386/Kconfig scripts/kconfig/qconf: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Get_PS_Font_Info make[1]: *** [xconfig] Error 127 make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 My libfonts in /usr/lib look like: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 249984 Apr 5 2004 libfontconfig.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 871 Apr 5 2004 libfontconfig.la* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jul 21 2004 libfontconfig.so -> libfontconfig.so.1.0.4* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jul 21 2004 libfontconfig.so.1 -> libfontconfig.so.1.0.4* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 204755 Apr 5 2004 libfontconfig.so.1.0.4* With all of the April 5 2004 files coming from the suse91 package. The same problem existed on 9.0. I don't see explicit linkage to the libfontconfig library, so it would appear to be run-time loaded -- but the library in which the symbol resides appears to be "libfreetype.so.6.3.5". I.e. using "nm", I see the "U" symbol reference for the function, and I see the "T" reference in libfreetype. If libfontconfig is dynamically loaded, shouldn't libfreetype also be loaded? Any ideas? I'm asking here, as I *CAN* get it to build properly on a test system that wasn't upgraded to 9.0, but was "fresh-installed", so it seems to have something to do with the upgrade process. The test system is way underpowered compared to my "build" machine...:-(. When I first had the problem on 9.0, I contacted support@suse w/the problem but they couldn't figure out why and only suggested reformatting and starting from scratch...Ug...not desirable as also runs network services in my house (dns, time, squid web-proxy, email, domain-samba services...etc). It seems doing things the Windows way and reformatting and reinstalling the OS would be like using dynamite to remove a fly (in the ointment), so to speak. Thanks much in advance, -linda

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Reboot filesystem corruption
by Jeffrey L. Taylor 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

If I reboot or shutdown and boot, the filesystem is corrupted and boot stalls midway thru starting up services. Suspsend to swap and resume does not have this problem. Booting the rescue disk and running fsck on both root and home partition (ext3 and ReiserFS, respectively) fixes the problem. It is fairly consistent when it stalls if I try booting again. But when changes after FS repair. fscking the root partion alone is not sufficient. fscking both partitions works. IBM T41 ThinkPad. SuSE 9.2. Has anyone seen anything like this and have a solution? TIA, Jeffrey

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