December 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] WeatherBug Follow Up
by Kai Ponte 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

The other day, someone asked if Weatherbug was ever going to be ported to Linux. I was doing some work on my mother's 9.2 system today preparing it for an upgrade to 10.1 or 10.2, while my rugrats were working with her on gingerbread houses. I noticed she had KWeather on her desktop. I believe this would do everything needed for WeatherBug. http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/suse/2006/snapshot1.png If you look in the bottom right of the kicker (system tray) there's the weather. Of course it is in farenheit since we're in the US. You can also have it in Celsius. I'm not sure if Kelvin is supported, though. -- kai www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Trouble downloading smart-gui
by Susemail 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

On Thursday 30 November 2006 22:17, Aveek Bhattacharya wrote: > (Replying off-list, since this is off-topic.) > > Jerome wrote: > > warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 58857177 > > Trying to import the key af734c5a58857177 from subkeys.pgp.net... > > gpg: requesting key 58857177 from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net > > gpg: keyserver timed out > > gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error > > error: gpg failed to import keyid af734c5a58857177, please make sure that > > gpg is installed, that the keyserver subkeys.pgp.net is working and that > > the package > > /var/lib/smart/packages/smart-gui-0.42-14.guru.suse100.x86_64.rpm has a > > valid signature. > > error: smart-gui-0.42-14.guru.suse100.x86_64.rpm: public key not > > available > > > > Thanks, > > Jerome > > Hi Jerome, > > A simple way would be to download the key (in this case 0x58857177) from > a web-based keyserver. Try http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ or http://pgp.mit.edu/. > > Download the key (copy and paste it into a file) and import it into the > *rpm* database using rpm --import. Then just repeat the command on > smart. It will install the already downloaded RPM. -- Regards, Aveek Bhattacharya IIT Bombay Hello Aveek, I did as you suggested with partial success. First I did : # rpm --import smart-gui-key error: smart-gui-key: import read failed. Then I googled around and tried a name change: # rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY error: RPM-GPG-KEY: import read failed. Then I tried to import directly from the server: rpm --import http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x58857177 [1] 12833 # error: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get: import read failed. So I tried again: # rpm --import http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x58857177 # rpm --import public.gpg.keyerror: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get: import read failed. Then I tried to install smart-gui again and got these results: # smart install smart-gui Loading cache... Updating cache... ###################################################################################### [100%] Computing transaction... Installing packages (1): smart-gui-0.42-14.guru.suse100@x86_64 76.7kB of package files are needed. 306.4kB will be used. Confirm changes? (Y/n): Y Committing transaction... warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 58857177 Trying to import the key af734c5a58857177 from subkeys.pgp.net... gpg: requesting key 58857177 from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net gpg: key 58857177: public key "Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser(a)skynet.be>" imported gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 The above GPG key has been imported successfully. It is required to install this package: smart-gui-0.42-14.guru.suse100.x86_64.rpm Do you want to trust this key forever? You must verify the below fingerprint before answering. pub 1024D/58857177 2002-09-27 Key fingerprint = E02F 0C4A CE1A 27C3 D082 C8EE AF73 4C5A 5885 7177 uid Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser(a)skynet.be> uid Pascal Bleser (FOSDEM) <loki(a)fosdem.org> uid Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser(a)atosorigin.com> uid Pascal Bleser (RPM signing key) <guru(a)unixtech.be> sub 1024g/102BCED4 2002-09-27 If you answer "Yes" all other packages signed with this key will be installed automatically. (y/N): y error: smart-gui-0.42-14.guru.suse100.x86_64.rpm: public key not available [1]+ Exit 1 rpm --import http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get Any ideas? Thanks, Jerome -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Please give us our old beatyful "bug" icon back on openSUSE site!
by Alexey Eremenko 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

hi all ! As you know, several months ago, our site changed the icons: http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org Unfortunately the bug icon as it is now is totally ugly and out of place ! I would like to request to give us back our old "red bug" icon for "bugzilla". instead of currect blue folder with exclamation mark on it. I have skopen about that some months ago but received no replies - I hope that together with community we can push it in the right direction ! What do you think? -Alexey Eremenko. 3.12.2006. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] encfs fails on NFS mounted home from Solaris 9, SUSE 10.1
by Alexandr Malusek 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

Hi, encfs works when I create the encrypted filesystem on a local disk: $ encfs /tmp/.crypt /tmp/crypt $ mount | grep encfs encfs on /tmp/crypt type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,default_permissions,user=malusek) but it fails when I try to create it in a home directory NFS mounted from a machine with Solaris 9 (tested on SUSE Linux 10.1 x86_64): $ encfs ~/.crypt ~/crypt EncFS Password: fusermount: failed to mountpoint for reading: Permission denied fuse failed. Common problems: - fuse kernel module not installed (modprobe fuse) - invalid options -- see usage message It seems to work OK when the home directory is NFS mounted from a SUSE Linux 10.1 server (tested on a different machine with SUSE 10.1). Can anybody confirm that there is problem with encfs in SUSE 10.1 when the encrypted filesystem is in a home directory NFS mounted from a Solaris 9 server? -- A.M. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Using a -debuginfo package
by Dylan 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

Hi I'm trying to get to the bottom of a problem with the touchpad on my laptop. To this end, I installed x11-input-synaptics-debuginfo - but now I have to ask... what do I need to do to get info from that package? Cheers Dylan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] smart channels
by Russbucket 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

SUSE 10.0, smart-addons-0.42-11.guru.suse100 smart-0.42-11.guru.suse100 smart-gui-0.42-11.guru.suse100 smartmontools-5.36-1 smart-debuginfo-0.42-11.guru.suse100 smart-ksmarttray-0.42-11.guru.suse100 Several Questions as a new smart user: 1.) I notice in etc/smart/channels the packman .channel lists some mirror channels. How do you get smart to use the mirrors? 2.)What does it mean during a channel update that it is stalled? I see this on several of the channels. Thanks for any help! -- Russ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] testing opensuse10.2 rc1 ? ( I think that's it's title ;) )
by jfweber＠gilweber.com 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

So why was this not added to the list? Instead it was bounced back to me as if I had done something bad.. it's not from another list, it isn't html; perhaps I should have made the subject w/o testing??? message begins here do as you will oh Suse list GOd or equivelent status babysitter for the night : Made my dvd and installed on my amd 64 bit box.. w/ a nice new Syncmaster225 flat panel monitor on it.. and so far, I htink it's pretty on par w/ 10.0 , and my Euro linux mag freebie of 10.1. That being said there seem to be a few snags and a few things that will cause headaches to roll out system wide if they aren't tweaked before release. They do seemed to have moved things that seem to be moved for the helluvit rather than for any need to move them.. But that said , once found the items seem to operate in the old ways.. It's hard to tell what is a complaint about the system and what is a complaint about the xsetup pppfffrfft! on my box it appears to HATE certain windows that are Supervisor or root ,uhm... usually used by... and it has at least now stopped strobing, and just shuts off. if I have another window that doesn't offend it so much, I can w/ a little judicious movement of that other window get to the stuff I need to modify.. Adding fonts hasn't been a pretty day.. as witness this missive. but we have to do as needs must til I can find the damned backup disk that has the nasty things from that company which will always be nameless . ;) ( I have legit licenses for the fonts, I just never can find them the three times a year I usually need them ) <heavy sigh>. Most of the apps seem to work as expected. I hope we won't lose the kweather app.. ( Yeah I know they can't put everything in right this minute, but times a wasting kiddies.. arrival date is tout bloody sweet , to borrow an Andy Cappism. ) There were the usual why in hell did they do *that* discoveries, none bad enough to say I wouldn't install it. install is clean as a whistle barring the tangle over what file system you want to use.. ( and being told "no" by nanny ;-p```) once slected it went right to work. I kinda like that.. overview.. I'm going to buy it.. I hope they settle on some update scheme otherwise there will either be too many choices ( our poor lil "MS" and "Stevie's box" users will NOT be able to cope, I'm warning you now... mark my words ! I am going to have to tidy my filters on kmail.. a to be expected difficulty I s'pose, and easily ignored. To the wonderors , yes you can copy your kde from 10 up ( can't say about bellow 10.0) and it will have your settings pretty much as you left them.. you don't need to do everything unless you have every single possible thing set .. but things like email, if you use kmail anyway, and the kontact ( Kabc) addressbook , and Konversation etc. all transfer a treat! Then you need only transfer your actual email directory to be back in the saddle etc. about that quickly. generally, considering it was a full beta two days ago... imagine what a nice gold box will bring us :) -- j If a hurricane doesn't leave you dead. It will make you strong. Don't try to explain, just nod your head . Breathe in breathe out , move on. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Package not found - on wrong media
by Sorin Peste 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

' Transaction failed: Need media 1: File ./i586/kdegraphics3-postscript-3.5.5-22.2.i586.rpm not found on media: file:/ ' This is what I get when trying to update a bunch of packages via zen-updater. My KDE repo is a mirror of the openSUSE service and is located at ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/opensuse.org/repositories/KDE%3A/KDE3/SUSE… It contains all the packages listed in the update. The file:/ seems to be the problem but I can't figure out how to fix it. Any hints would be appreciated. Sorin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Introducing Novell's Cunning Plan
by Fred A. Miller 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

I wasn't going to post this here, however, with all the negative discussion, maybe it needs to be widely read! Fred __________________ Introducing Novell's Cunning Plan When that marketing guy from Novell called me, I was expecting two things. He would either explain me that I was wrong and that the announcement did not mean what I and many others thought it meant, or he would take an almost devilish tone and tell me that we, the imbecile mass of the so-called community, were doomed and that now the big corporations were back in charge of Linux. No way. He called me and asked me -cheerfully- if I had enjoyed the announcement. He then told me: « Charles, isn't it beautiful? We got them hooked up! We're breaking the barriers and this will end up in a total disaster for Redmond. Linux has won! ». I was about to say something bad to this person but his very attitude was showing ignorance, spontaneity, and above all, bona fide. This is what stopped me being aggressive. I explained to him what the announcement meant for me and as I had gathered, for many inside the community. The man on the phone simply could not believe a word of it. At some point, he told me that Novell could not be a traitor given the amount of money they had invested in Free Software. And he was right. Novell did not simply acquire Suse or Ximian. They kept the development teams, push them more actively towards contributing to projects, freed some code (YAST, Ifolder, etc.) created new ones, while beefing up their teams on Gnome and OpenOffice.org. So this man, and to may other Novell employees at every level I was able to talk to, the « treason » scenario was met with awe and disbelief. Novell rightly bet its house on Linux and OpenOffice.org. http://www.libervis.com/introducing_novells_cunning_plan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Smart
by Brett I. Holcomb 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

Based on some of the posts here and my experiences with Yast2 I'm looking at smart as an alternative. I run OpenSuse 10.1. I installed smart and the smart-gui using Yast2 (does it know it's training it's own replacement <G>). I'm looking at some of the docs on the susewiki and the smart site but have some questions. 1. Channels - supposedly there are some installed with smart but my /etc/smart directory has no files in and the complete source site given in the docs is unreachable - no such server. I can add these manually but isn't a file with default channels supposed to exist? I did find a /var/lib/channels directory - is this used instead. 2. The susewiki talks about additional channels like suse-kde. Where do I find them? I'm hoping smart will live up to it's name and finally there will be a package manager that works <G>. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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