August 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

64bit version
by Jyri Palokangas 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi all, is there going to be 64bit version of OpenSUSE? Regards, Jyri

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Skype unable to connect - not the usual network problems ...
by Colin Murphy 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

I have been using Skype for a few weeks now and it has been working quite well, but recently my system has hit a problem. This Suse 9.2 machine is shared by two people, and so, has two user accounts on it. Both of us use Skype, but Skype has stopped working on my user login but it does work on the other log-in. When using my log-in, if I try to dial out I get the message that Skype is 'Connecting ...' but never quite fullfils that promise. The application then will not close nicely. The 'Disconnect' button doesn't achieve anything and I have to kill Skype manually. This happens for all of the Skype accounts that I've tried. Conversely, when I use the another log-in all works, for all Skype user accounts. So, I conclude, there must be some sort of corruption in my /home/colin directory. In passing I'll mention that I beleive the problems started when I tried to download a Voicemail message. In an attempt to fix this problem I moved the /home/colin/.Skype directory to ./.Skype.bak and restarted Skype so it could create a new .Skype directory. Unfortunately this hasn't helped. Are there any other files that might have an effect on the way Skype works? Where else should I be looking to get more information to help diagnose the problem? What log files might help? Thanks in advance. -- Colin Murphy - Colin(a)SpudULike.me.uk aka spudulike1964 on Skype

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irc?
by Eugene Ray 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi, So, what's the "official" IRC channel would be? :) Thanks

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Automatically load the device modules detected by /etc/init.d/hwscan ?
by Steven Shiau 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi, I am new to SuSE, and I already searched all the mailing list and google the websites, but I can not find the answer, so please allow me to ask here: How can I automatically load the device modules detected by /etc/init.d/hwscan in SuSE 9.3 (i586) ? Actually I am creating a diskless environment in VMWARE 5.2, I already copy all the necessary files, start the service /etc/init.d/hwscan. The diskless node now works OK, but it seems that hwscan just create some files in /var/lib/hardware, and it does not load the necessary modules. For example, the PIIX is detected in ------------- /var/lib/hardware/unique-keys # grep -i piix * 5n+q.5AomeSDSgG8:DeviceName=82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB ESW+.2kE1GEmwX42:DeviceName=82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE l_yX.C_TirkYEeJ6:Drivers=PIIX_IDE|ide-disk M71A.3ag1TR5NRU0:DeviceName=82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA y5Vg.5eUSZ87O3lF:DeviceName=82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI ------------- But it is only detected, hwscan never load the necessary module "piix" ------------- /var/lib/hardware/unique-keys # lsmod |grep -i piix /var/lib/hardware/unique-keys # ------------- So the ide_disk module won't work. Therefore I can not access the local harddisk. I know I can make it by issue "modprobe piix" and "modprobe ide_disk", but how can I make it load automatically after "/etc/init.d/hwscan start" ? I am familiar with the discover in Debian, and it will detect the hardware and load the necessary modules for them. Where am I wrong in SuSE 9.3 ? How can I make SuSE automatically load the device modules detected by /etc/init.d/hwscan ? Thanks in advance. -- Steven Shiau

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9.3 is slow :( partial solved
by Mike McMullin 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

The original complaints were Evolution takes 20 minutes to dl e-mail on a dsl connection. Solution : turn off spam checking. KBearSiteManagerdb always staring up. Konqueror takes 1 minute + to load. Solution : delete ~/.KDE folder and relog-in in KDE. Current state : KDE has been upgraded to 3.4.2 and still tends to be slower than 9.1 using 3.4.1. 2 minutes from start of log-in to usable desktop, apps are slow starting. HD UDMA was checked and turned on for the drive that Linux is on (Windows drive was properly set up ?). Currently using Gnome as GUI, which loads much faster 1/2 to 1/4 of the time it seems. Apps launch faster than KDE, much faster. Firefox - doesn't always load web pages when URL is launched from Evolution. Any thoughts? I'm wondering about uninstalling KDE and reinstalling it, but I want to make sure that every profile gets everything fresh from the re-install, including menu's. Mike

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Problem getting ndiswrapper to autoload on 9.3
by Peter N. Spotts 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Folks, I'm using ndiswrapper for the wifi driver I need for my Linksys PCMCIA card. I can load ndiswrapper manually with modprobe each time I power up the laptop, and things work fine. But when I run ndiswrapper -m so that it automatically starts during boot-up, I get the following error message in dmesg: ndiswrapper: module not supported by Novell, setting U tain flag. Yet the next two lines show ndiswrapper v. 1.1 loaded, as well as the Linksys driver. The bottom line: I can't get ndiswrapper to activate on start-up, but I can (and do) manually start it with modprobe ndiswrapper after starup. What steps have I failed to take (I followed the SuSE ndiswrapper instructions at Novell's web site)? Best, Pete -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter N. Spotts | Science Correspondent The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston MA 02115 Office: 617-450-2449 | Office in home: 508-520-3139 Email: pspotts(a)alum.mit.edu | www.csmonitor.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: [suse-programming-e] Compile option of readline libraries
by Scott Leighton 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

On Monday 08 August 2005 11:49 am, Shuichi Tamagawa wrote: > I couldn't find SPECS and SOURCES directories. Where can I > find them? > > Thanks helphand@helphand:~> l /usr/src/packages total 1 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 168 2005-03-23 13:40 ./ drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 728 2005-08-04 20:26 ../ drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 136 2005-07-26 19:32 BUILD/ drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 96 2005-06-10 18:03 RPMS/ drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 272 2005-07-26 19:25 SOURCES/ drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 144 2005-07-26 19:25 SPECS/ drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 48 2005-06-10 18:03 SRPMS/ -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-21.8-default x86_64 SuSE Linux 9.3 (x86-64)

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Berkeley DB
by Mike Dewhirst 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

I'm looking to update my Berkely DB version on SuSE 9.1 from 4.2.52-85 to the latest version. Can anyone post a link to the latest binary please? Thanks heaps Mike

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LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
by Mike Dewhirst 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Can anyone tell me please if a Linux environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 is needed for anything special in SuSE 9.1? It might be interfering with my Subversion repositories and need to be changed. I don't want to spoil Firebird on the same machine. I'm running SuSE 9.1 Pro installed out of the box. I'm a Linux newby. I have already asked this on the Firebird list. Thank you Mike

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SCRIPT: storebackup exited with RETURNCODE = 255.
by Jim Cunning 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

I installed storeback on my 9.1 system and created two config files in /etc/storebackup--one with the default name (storebackup.config) and another with my own name--to generate two separate backups. I have two problems: 1. Storebackup finishes with 255 returncode, even though no problems are reported in its logfile, and no "exit 255" statement exists in the storeBackup script. 2. The storebackup cron script doesn't run the second backup: ============== [...] if [ -x /usr/bin/storeBackup -a "$configs" ]; then for file in $configs do nice storeBackup -f "$file" done fi ============== I would expect the "for" statement to run twice, but it always stops after the first config file, no matter what names I use to affect the order the files are found. I can manually run each one separately just fine, except for the 255 return code at the end. Anyone with a clue how to fix this? Thanks, Jim

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