October 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Grub is not recognizing Windows
by Sergey Mkrtchyan 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

Hi List, After installing Scientific Linux on a machine, Grub is not recognizing already existing Windows, thus it is impossible to get to Windows after that. But that is not occuring when installing SuSE, everything is ok in Grub. What can be the reason, and what should be done about that? Note: I don't have direct access to that machine, but can ask a friend all questions and details you might be interested in. Thank you very much Cheers, Sergey -- Sergey Mkrtchyan, Scinetific Researcher, Department of Molecular Physics, Faculty of Physics, Yerevan State University

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I still don't understand NTP :-(
by Daniel Bauer 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Hi SInce I have my Suse 10.0 I sometimes adjust the time using the command line: ntpdate -u time.uni-freiburg.de ; hwclock --systohc This works. After reading a thread here this morning I configured NTP in Yast, so that this could be done automatically. But my var/log/messages says: Oct 2 10:08:09 venus ntpd[6614]: ntpd 4.2.0a(a)1.1191-r Fri Sep 9 17:17:17 UTC 2005 (1) Oct 2 10:08:09 venus ntpd[6614]: precision = 1.000 usec Oct 2 10:08:09 venus ntpd[6614]: Listening on interface wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 Oct 2 10:08:09 venus ntpd[6614]: Listening on interface wildcard, ::#123 Oct 2 10:08:09 venus ntpd[6614]: Listening on interface lo, 127.0.0.1#123 Oct 2 10:08:09 venus ntpd[6614]: Listening on interface eth0, 192.168.2.2#123 Oct 2 10:08:09 venus ntpd[6614]: kernel time sync status 0040 the only thing I found after googling for status 0040 was, that I should check that the firewall allows port 123 (UDP) in both directions. But can it really be the firewall? Why does it work perfectly from command line then? Output of xntpdc is: ntpdc> peer remote local st poll reach delay offset disp ======================================================================= =LOCAL(0) 127.0.0.1 10 64 377 0.00000 0.000000 0.03087 *swisstime.ee.et 192.168.2.2 2 1024 377 0.02505 0.009517 0.11856 ntpdc> (I must confess that I have not the slightest idea what these messages want to tell me, and I havn't found out in xntp_doc...) Can someone help me understanding a bit more? Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch

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Re: [opensuse] web hosting with suse?
by Carl Hartung 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 16:42, Afan wrote: > Error 404?!?!? Please respond to the list so others may benefit. And you always have to keep an eye out for line breaks when people post links here :-) Try again... http://www.cari.net/Dedicated-Servers/Linux-Server-Options/Single-Processor… regards, Carl --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Installation from ftp.opensuse.org, updates from ftp.suse.com?
by William Gallafent 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Seems a bit odd to set up an installation source from one server, and collect updates from another. Will distribution and updates both reside on ftp.opensuse.org at any time in the near future? (Of course, I actually use a mirror for both.)

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Smart stuff
by Bob S 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Hello SuSE people, Am running 10.0 on an AMD64 bit system and the very latest smart. I have since SuSE 8.0 used apt to update my system. I loved it. Fast accurate and no problems. Even upgraded from 8.1 to 8.2 using apt. Since apt can't do KDE anymore I had to switch from apt to smart. Smart is not really that smart (maybe some day soon) but is still the best alternative out there for upgrading and maintaining your current distro. Anyway, here is my really weird problem. When I installed Smart, I downloaded all of the packages which included smart-addons and installed them all. This is for 10.0 mind you. When I try to upgrade the system smart goes and looks at10.1 packages in Packman, and of course, it fails. Here is an excerpt/example from a portion of the message that is produced: Fetching packages... -> http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/.../libxml++-2.14.0-1.guru.suse100.x86_64.rpm -> http://packman.inode.at/.../libffmpeg0-0.4.9-7.pm.svn20060924.x86_64.rpm libffmpeg0-0.4.9-7.pm.svn2006.. [ 21%] libxml++-2.14.0-1.guru.suse10.. [ 21%] -> http://packman.inode.at/suse/10.1/./x86_64/knemo-0.4.5-0.pm.1.x86_64.rpm -> http://packman.inode.at/suse/10.1/./x86_64/gengetopt-2.18-0.pm.1.x86_64.rpm gengetopt-2.18-0.pm.1.x86_64... Notice that even though the first line states "guru.suse100.x86_64." and will download those packages, while lines 6 & 7 ask for packages from 10.1. Naturally they don't download or upgrade stating that it is an unexpected package size. What ????? is going on here ?? This has to be some kind of weird bug or something. I have been fighting this for a week and only tonight noticed the 10.0 to 10.1 difference. Can't believe that I am the only one affected by this. Thoughts, suggestions, ideas what to do??? Yea, I guess that I could go to Packman and manualy download the half dozen packages to upgrade, but that doesn't fix the broken whatever. Bob S.

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[opensuse] web hosting with suse?
by afan＠afan.net 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

hi, I use suse on home server, desktops at home, on laptop. I convinced my boss to install on out test web server suse. I'm really suse fan. we have a some issues with hosting company and decided to move to other hosting company. I was looking for hosting company that host with suse - but wasn't able to find any? Does somebody can recomend any? And, why hosting companies don't use suse for hosting? thanks. -afan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Printing TOC in OOo
by Lívio Cipriano 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Hi, Does anyone knows how to automatically update Table of Contents (and other fields) when printing an Open Office Writer document? -- Regards, Lívio Cipriano

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Re: [opensuse] web hosting with suse?
by afan＠afan.net 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

> Maybe you'd like to try http://strato.de or http://1und1.de - some of > the biggest hosters in Germany/Europe ... since we are US based company, is there any in US? > Many do! I really have hard time to find them :( > Davey Thanks Davey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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NSS volumes on Linux
by Moby 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

After going through Novell's web site multiple times, I realize (correctly I think) that OES on Linux and SLES are the same product, namely a Linux core with Novell services on top. I am interested in being able to create NSS volumes on Linux and having people use those NSS volumes from machines running the Novell client for Windows. From what I gather, I can do that with OES on Linux and also with SLES. Can anyone tell me whether it is possible to create NSS volumes on stock Suse Linux 10.1? I understand that one would have to buy either OES or SLES - but having done that, is there a way to take the components required for creating NSS volumes and providing NCP services and installing them on a stock SuSE Linux 10.1 machine? Thanks in advance for any help. -- Moby

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[opensuse] Open office issue & integration
by Bruce Adams 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Hi, I discovered a problem with the Novell version of open office install as part of Suse 10 64bit. A document that was shared with colleagues and saved in office 1.1 format could no longer be saved in my - more up to date - version of office. Saving in either 2.0 or 1.1 format hangs at about 80% and ultimately causes office to restart. Unfortunately I can't post the document as a failing test case since it contains confidential information. I decided to install open-office 2.0.3 to get around the problem. yast -i *.rpm successfully installs office to /opt/openoffice.org2.0. That is I can run e.g. swriter from that directory. I am also now able to save the document that previous caused problems. However the desktop integration does not seem to work. No links are installed in /usr/bin and no menu options appear in gnome. When I attempt to install the SUSE rpm in the desktop-integration subdirectory it hangs. Installing it directly with rpm doesn't seem to do anything either. Though I do have to uninstall it with -e after a failed yast install. Any ideas what is happening here? Is it a Suse 64bit issue? Regards, Bruce.

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