March 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

GIMP will not start...
by Johnny Ernst Nielsen 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Greetings, SUSE Linux 10.0 on an old pentium 400Mhz After the initial setup dialogs on first run, nothing happens. Subsequent starting attempts simply does nothing at all. I have tried "strace gimp 2> outdata.txt" It gives 2357 lines, of which the last 20 looks like this: read(4, "", 4000) = 0 close(4) = 0 gettimeofday({1137533030, 236061}, NULL) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 32768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x411e4000 munmap(0x411e4000, 32768) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 32768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x411e4000 munmap(0x411e4000, 32768) = 0 open("/home/hanne/.gimp-2.2", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE| O_DIRECTORY) = 4 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 getdents64(4, /* 23 entries */, 4096) = 720 getdents64(4, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 close(4) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 32768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x411e4000 munmap(0x411e4000, 32768) = 0 open("/home/hanne/.gimp-2.2/gimpswap.10230", O_RDWR|O_CREAT| O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 4 close(4) = 0 unlink("/home/hanne/.gimp-2.2/gimpswap.10230") = 0 --- SIGILL (Illegal instruction) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGILL +++ I am completely blank. Everything else on the computer runs just fine. Can anyone help? Let me know if you need more information, since I have no idea what may be relevant to solve the problem. Best regards Johnny :o)

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Printing problems
by Art Fore 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

These printing problems are about to drive me up the wall in Suse 10. Don't know if it is Suse 10 or Linux in general. I open a PDF file in Opera which opens KPDF. When I print, it prints A4 eventhough the printer is setup for letter in Yast, CUPS, and KDE print manager and the file itself is a letter size document. If I save the file, and open it in Acrobat, it prints OK, but openening it in KPF still wants to print A4. Why is this? Is there some hidden configuration file somewhere I am not aware of? Art

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Palm sync with Kontact - out of the box on Suse 10?
by Janus 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

I never managed to sync my Palm with Kontact. My last attempt was with SuSE 9.1. Has anyone succeeded in synchronising their Palm (contacts, calender and to-dos) with the relevant applications in Kontact? Is it "out of the box" with SuSE 10? I have a Palm Tungsten E. Janus -- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science. International Development Studies. ESST - Society, Science and Technology in Europe.

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Networked, duplexing, colour laser printer
by 'o-Dzin Tridral 26 May '06

26 May '06

Dear everyone, I'm looking for a duplexing colour laser printer that I can put onto our small home network, either wired or wireless. If possible I'd prefer something where the toner cartridges aren't extortionatelly priced, but that might be too much to ask. I've been looking at something like the Epson Aculaser C1100N. I've looked at /www.linuxprinting.org/ and checked the general level of linux compatibility and Epson look like a good bet. I'd appreciate hearing peoples' experiences with linux and colour laser printers. Any recommendations? Anything to avoid? Thank you for any advice. 'ö-Dzin

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How to update the database ?
by Erik Jakobsen 23 May '06

23 May '06

You sure know the situation, that you have erased some files, but after you see, that they are still visible, because the database had not been updated. I have forgotten how that is to be done. Can anybody help me ?. TIA -- Venlig hilsen - Best regards - Erik Jakobsen SuSE Linux 10.0 Eval.. Licensed HAM-RADIO with the callsign OZ4KK http://www.urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 with http://counter.li.org

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How to assign a keyboard shortcut to each keyboard
by Shriramana Sharma 07 May '06

07 May '06

I use at least four keyboards -- US normal, US international, Indian Devanagari and Indian Tamil. I would like to assign keyboard shortcuts to each of these individually so while typing US normal I can shift to US international without reaching for the mouse. Back in Windows where I use Keyman (http://tavultesoft.com) I have this facility. Please tell me how I can assign individual shortcuts. The KDE Control Center Keyboard Layout dialog has some stuff called Switching Options and Xkb options but they do not seem to contain what I want. Thank you. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.51 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-02-10 W06-5 UTC+0530

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print from K-Mail run together
by Doug McGarrett 01 May '06

01 May '06

I don't remember seeing this problem on the list. KMail print on screen is clear and most letters are separated. When I print out a mail, some letters, particularly the "t", the "si" and the "sk" combinations are scrunched together with adjoining letters. I am printing to an HP 2200D laserjet. The typeface on screen (and on paper) is a sans-serif font. Even on screen, it is slightly scrunched in spots. "ri" and "ti" and "tt" and "th" are too close together. Suggestions? TNX--doug

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Can't open Transcode tarball or it doesn't exist
by Peter B Van Campen 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Hi Folks, I have been trying to get a tarball of transcode to compile on my SUSE 9.2 system. Every pkg I have d/l'd from the sites listed on the Transcode Wiki page: http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode are unopenable. Every one, including the beta versions. Have I made one of those embarrassing newby errors? Konqi Filemgr says : "The file does not exist" even tho it lists it. Is there a location for a transcode I can open and compile? PeterB p.s. The pkgs are unopenable on my SUSE 8.2 sys also -- -- Proud SUSE user since 5.2 Loving SUSE 9.2 My BLOG == http://vancampen.org/blog --

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date / time problems
by John Moore 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

I have SuSE 10.0 running at work and at home and it works great. Except I cannot -- either through the applet at the top of the screen or through YAST -- get SuSE to do the time right. I set the correct time and date and click Apply it doesn't stick. I even tried rebooting -- something you usually don't have to do -- but it made no difference. Sigh. Currently my time is correct but the date reads March 4 (should be April 3). I run Gnome so I am thinking this could be a Gnome bug. Any suggestions? John Moore Manager, IS Quality Care for Children Atlanta, GA

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screen, mouse, kb lockup
by Doug McGarrett 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

While attempting to stop a video playing on Macro Media Flash Player 7, I managed to lock out everything. I could not move the mouse cursor, the arrow keys and the rest of the kb didn't work, ctl-alt-del did nothing. None of the function keys did anything. (The video was something downloaded from the 'net via Firefox.) I wound up pulling the big switch, as us hams like to say. Is there anything else I could have done? I'm trying to put Linux to practical use, and this is the first time I've seen 10.0 crash, so it's good, but not fool-proof. (If something can be broken, this fool will break it!)

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