June 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Evolution memory hog?
by Carl William Spitzer IV 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Recently in 9.1 Evolution seems to slow the box and when I check top in konsole I find its hogging the cpu to almost 90%. This box is fully updated? Why is this occuring? -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

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Thunderbird from Windows to Suse 9.3
by James Wright 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hello, I have dual boot for Windows XP and Suse 9.3. In Windows I did not have a smtp server setup to send out mail. I needed to bring the email I had stored in XP to Suse, as that is what I primarily use. I use Thunderbird in both XP and Suse. I accidently erased my account settings in XP. I set up the exact same account, and even copied the folders into that accounts folder. It did not bring up my mail. The folders and email are still on my XP partition. All I want is for the e-mail to be in Suse. In Thunderbird you cannot import from Thunderbird. Is there a way to bring a copy of the e-mail folders/files into Suse from the XP partition (which I can access through command line or konqueror). I don't need them in XP, and don't want to fiddle around in XP trying to restore it, just to forward it to myself. Thank you. - James W

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how to stop history from dropping failed command?
by Steven T. Hatton 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

I don't know what has changed to make bash history drop failed commands, but it has been doing it for quite some time. Guess what. I rarely want to pull back the last command and edit it if it succeeded. What's really strange is it doesn't drop all failed commands. For example, I entered `svn svn://anonsvn.kde.org' once, and it didn't put the command in my history. I entered the same command to use it as an example for this email, and it is now in the history. Anybody know what is going on here? It really bugs me! -- Regards, Steven

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Firefox plugins problems
by Jostein Berntsen 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hi, Has anyone had problems with firefox plugins after upgrading to Firefox 1.0.4-1.1? I can't get Java, Flash og PDF to work anymore after upgrade, while it worked perfectly before. When I go to about:plugins they are listed, except Java which sould be installed. Trying the "Install Missing Plugins" does not work. ls -l /usr/lib/browser-plugins totalt 2534 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 856 2004-05-20 23:34 flashplayer.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2096844 2004-05-20 23:34 libflashplayer.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 446899 2004-11-02 09:54 mplayerplug-in.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 2005-02-08 10:23 nppdf.so -> ../../X11R6/lib/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39099 2004-12-17 21:06 nsdejavu.so KDE Version: 3.4.1 - Jostein -- Jostein Berntsen <jbernts(a)broadpark.no>

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Copy spool mail files?
by Jim Flanagan 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Is there a way to copy email from one boot /var/spool/mail to a differnt boot /var/spool/mail? One is SuSE 9.3 and the other is 8.2. I only have 3 users set up so far. TIA Jim Flanagan linuxjim at jjfiii.com

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Failure to see my Jaz drives
by J. Scott Thayer, M.D. 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

I am running 9.3, my first update since 8.0. Everything looks pretty good overall. I have a SCSI controller card with 2 external Jaz drives chained off of it. As far as I can tell the system knows about the controller card but never has recognized the disks. This was not a problem in 8.0 or earlier versions. I looked around and can find no tool to sniff out the drives. I used the repair system operation on the install disk to see what I could come up with but no go. At one point I (inadvertently) wound up in the curses based, yast package and had a chance to look at what modules it thought were installed and a SCSI entry was there. Any ideas as I how I should proceed? lsmod does show scsi_mod in the output if that helps. dmesg always used to show references to both drives (sda and sdb) but now the only entry is 'SCSI subsystem initialized'. The drives ARE working as the machine is dual boot and they are visible to XP. Thanks

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"mtst -f /dev/nst0 tell" fixed
by Robert Paulsen 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Last December I posted a message on this list indicating that the following command started to fail after a kernel upgrade: mtst -f /dev/nst0 tell /dev/nst0: Inappropriate ioctl for device There was no discussion about this in the list, but I did get a personal reply a month or two later asking if I was able to resolve the problem. (I was not). I have since upgraded to SuSE 9.3 and the problem is now resolved. I lost track of the name and email address of my correspondent so can't send the good news personally. Perhaps she will see this note!

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genealogy program for SuSE
by Mike Roy 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hello everyone: I have a friend I'm trying to convert to Linux. One of his major hobbies/interests is genealogy and I think it would be great if I could show him a Linux-based program that would meet his needs. Now, I've tried Gramps but have had no end of problems trying to get the thing to work. There seems to be some major problems between SuSE / gramps and rather that spending forever and a day trying to make it work, is there another Linux-based genealogy program that will work under SuSE? Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike

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Asus A7V880
by Hans du Plooy 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hi guys, As many of you surely know, I've been having a lot of graphics card problems. At first I thought it was the nVidia driver, as I had the same issues with four different cards. But when I replaced it with a Radeon 9250, I got the same problem (but only after a reboot though). Then I figured out that if I disable apic and acpi at boot, the problem went away. For a while. Now, I have to boot into runlevel 3, delete the .ICE-unix and .X11-unix directories, do startx as root, and then only start xdm before I can work. If I don't, the following happens: X starts, I get a quick flash of something, much like what you sometimes get when changing resolutions, and then the screen just goes blank, and eventually goes into DPMS mode. For what it's worth, in Windows I have issues too, sometimes after a reboot the screen looks like what those old VGA screens use to look like when you try a too high resolution on them. Only thing is my screen switches off if you try that, so that's obviously not what happens. Anyway, by this time I'm really starting to suspect the motherboard, because I know the graphics card (all five of them) checks out fine. Does anybody else run SUSE 9.3 on this board, or know of any issues with it? Thanks -- Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com

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Cannot change KDM greetings
by Mike Béla 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

It's easy and intuitive to change the KDM greetings for the default KDM theme. But the same thing is impossible for the SuSE KDM theme (SuSE 9.3). This very nice KDM theme looks like a GDM and the default bootsplash graphics, but I cannot change the greet ings. The settings in the Control Center and YaST sysconfig editor have effects only if I use the KDE's default KDM theme.

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