May 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Synaptic Broken???
by Ed Harrison 03 May '06

03 May '06

Lately, synaptic repeatedly reports that file x of file y could not be downloaded. "smart --gui" give similar error messages. At the same time, from a console, I can do an "apt-get install filex filey" and the install is successful. I must conclude that something has gone terribly bad with the gui's. Ed Harrison, Linux User # 199533 SuSE10.0, Kernel 2.6.15 PolarBar Mailer 1.26

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SoC proposals - reminder on form
by Marcus Meissner 03 May '06

03 May '06

Hi, Just a reminder that potential summer of code students should at least take some time to write a *good* proposal. See: http://summerofcode.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ExampleApplications for some examples. - You should have a clear idea what you want to achieve and describe that. - Clear description how and with what methods. - Set yourself milestones. The URL above shows good examples... Ciao, Marcus

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openSUSE @ Google Summer of Code 2006
by Christoph Thiel 03 May '06

03 May '06

Hi everyone, openSUSE has just been accepted at Google Summer of Code 2006! Quoting http://code.google.com/soc/studentfaq.html: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What is Summer of Code 2006? Summer of Code 2006 is a program that offers student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects. Google will be working with a variety of open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several hundred projects over a three-month period. The inaugural instance of the program, which took place last summer, brought together 400 students and 40 mentoring organizations from 49 countries. We'd like to include even more organizations and participants this year. The program's goals are to inspire young developers and provide students in Computer Science and related fields the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits during the summer, and to support existing open source projects and organizations. Since we're looking to find developers around the world (many of whom may have considered creating open source software but havent yet taken the plunge), we felt that concentrating on the student population was a good place to focus our efforts. Further, since no single organization could possibly mentor hundreds of students working on disparate projects, we thought it made sense to spread the work throughout the open source and free software community. We also think that the Apache Software Foundation (for instance) knows a lot more about what an Apache project needs than Google does and is more likely to ensure that an applicant gets the right kind of guidance so they can create acceptable code. 2. When can I apply for Summer of Code 2006? You can apply starting on May 1, 2006. [...] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We are now looking for ideas, proposals, projects, etc. around openSUSE and SUSE Linux, that could be worked on in Google Summer of Code. As the period of application for SoC is already very short, we need to get our proposals for project online May 1st, 2006, at the latest. So, for example, if you are missing a certain YaST module, or a special feature in the distribution, speak up now! Our proposals will be publish on http://en.opensuse.org/SoC2006 shortly. Regards Christoph

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Saving in Firefox
by Marshall Lake 03 May '06

03 May '06

Suddenly, trying to save a file or a page in Firefox (v 1.7.12, SUSE 10.0) I'm getting an error. It only began happening in the last three or four days. The error I get is "XML Parsing Error: syntax error". The location of the error is different depending up which type of file I'm trying to save. Additonally, sometimes the file gets saved (even while outputing the error) and sometimes it doesn't. Is anyone else encountering this? -- Marshall Lake -- mlake(a)mlake.net -- http://mlake.net

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Upgrade kde?
by Filianx 03 May '06

03 May '06

Hi Has anyone got a link for KDE suppplementary update for 3.5.1? I am using SUSE Linux 10 and KDE 3x I wish to upgrade but all the mirrors I have looked at seem to be at 3.5.2 Much obliged -- Filianx

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Latest rpm for Firefox
by Paul W. Abrahams 03 May '06

03 May '06

In a recent post someone said that SuSE has an rpm for the latest version of Firefox. But where? The main SuSE site seems to be at 1.0.x, while the latest version is 1.5.0.2. The closest I could come was linuxelectrons.com, which has 1.5.0.1. I couldn't find any version on opensuse, but perhaps I just didn't know where to look for it there. Paul

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Fwd: [SLE] Latest rpm for Firefox
by Alberto Omar Rodrigues 03 May '06

03 May '06

On 5/2/06, Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams(a)acm.org> wrote: > > In a recent post someone said that SuSE has an rpm for the latest version > of > Firefox. But where? The main SuSE site seems to be at 1.0.x, while the > latest version is 1.5.0.2. The closest I could come was > linuxelectrons.com, > which has 1.5.0.1. I couldn't find any version on opensuse, but perhaps I > > just didn't know where to look for it there. > > Paul Here it's ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/firefox/1.5.0.3/ -- > Bye > > Alberto Omar Rodrigues > Mendoza - Argentina > Visite: www.porloschicos.com > Visit: www.porloschicos.com/PorLosChicos.NET/index_english.htm >

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php not running after reboot
by John 03 May '06

03 May '06

I'm sure there must be a simple fix but when I open my own website, my php files are treated as if they are downloads. Since other web sites do not give thios problem, I guess that my php system is not running after my last reboot (it was before!) Some clues as to wht to look at / configure would be much appreciated. Many Thanks, in advance John

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/proc - hard link count
by Mike Badar 03 May '06

03 May '06

Greetings, I'm running the following configuration: SUSE 10 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.13-15-default Hardware: Dell Precision Laptop As root, if I run "find" (searching any path and/or name), I get the following error: find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. I checked the knowledge base and found this entry: ############## UnitedLinux 1.0 iA64 Service Pack 2 SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (2c8caf05239362c3cab351f3f40b9d5d) applies to SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IPF fix root access to /proc/<pid>/environ ############### Does the above service pack apply to my configuration and the "Hard link count error"? Does anyone have any additional information related to the error I'm seeing? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Mike Badar ESRI-Denver 1 International Court Broomfield, CO 80021-3200 303-449-7779 mbadar(a)esri.com www.esri.com

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Root Privileges
by Dave Barton 03 May '06

03 May '06

SuSE 9.3 IIRC there was a posting on this list recently, that explained the circumstances under which root was not allowed to change access privileges (permissions) of files/directories owned by root. We have just run into this problem and the only solution I have found is to scrape the files off the Linux box onto a Windows box and then pull them back as a normal user. I have searched the archives and either I have missed the answer or It was posted on another list. Can anyone shed some light on this problem? TIA Dave

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