May 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] KDE updates 10.1
by GJE 30 May '06

30 May '06

Op dinsdag 30 mei 2006 17:14, schreef u: > Well, GNOME packages are still found at: > > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/GNOME/update_for_10.1/ > > does it tell you anything? > > Regards. > AA. Yes.... GNOME will be the standard :( I don't like Gnome -- Thx, Gerrit Jan Eldering KDE-versie: 3.5.2 Level "a" Systeem: SUSELinux 10.1 Kernel: 2.6.16.13-4-default

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YOU (10.0) thinks my sublime Sancerre is vintage vinegar!
by Stephen Boddy 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi, I've updated Wine with a very recent release from the wine web site. Unfortunately YOU thinks that Wine v0.9.14 (May 24, 2006) is older than Wine 20050725-3.2 Gah!!! I've tried setting the package to protected mode within YOU and Software Management. Neither stops the system from thinking there's a newer release. Does anyone know how I stop this from occuring? It's P'ing me off, as it means the SUSE watcher is permanently red, and warns me about new updates everytime I login. Regards -- Steve Boddy

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Apache problem, figured out, kinda - need resolution - Was Apache problem
by Joe Zitnik 30 May '06

30 May '06

OK, so this is what I found. I set this box up and it originally had Apache 1.3.x on it. The vendor who needed the box for web based training installed Apache 2 on the box, but they must have done it in a non - conventional way. The box is trying to launch the apache at bootup, instead of the apache2 install. I think when the updates were done, since yast only saw the apache install, it rewrote the init scripts to try and use apache and it's httpd.conf at startup. How can I change the init scripts to launch the right version of Apache?

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Update launchers disappeared from top panel
by Kelly J. Morris 30 May '06

30 May '06

I am running SuSE Pro 9.2. Since I installed, there have been a couple of icons on the top panel that indicated when there was a system or application update available and allowed me to launch into the update app in YaST. A couple of days ago, the two icons disappeared. I can't figure out how to get them back, or, does this indicate that there are no longer be any new updates for 9.2? TIA Kelly -- Kelly J. Morris <kjmlists(a)comcast.net>

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Re: [SLE] Printing Problems with SuSE v10.1
by Carlos E. R. 30 May '06

30 May '06

El 2006-05-30 a las 11:05 +0100, Ken Hough escribió: > > Not true. My 9.3 shows: > > > > 0378-037a : parport0 > > 037b-037f : parport0 > > > I haven't used 9.3. I should have stated "Version 9.1 and earlier ......." I don't have my 7.3 running right now to check ;-) > > What is the reason of the second parport0 reference? No idea... but I guess the second range is really for EPP-mode, ie, both ranges are in fact the complete parport0 io ports. Mmm, yes, from Ralph Brown: 0378-037A as for standard parallel port 037B RW address strobe 037C RW data strobe 0 037D RW data strobe 1 037E RW data strobe 2 037F RW data strobe 3 -- Saludos Carlos Robinson

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Recover Update of 10.1 from power failure hard crash.
by Boyd Lynn Gerber 30 May '06

30 May '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I started a SUSE Linux 10.1 upgrade from 10.0 on saturday. We had a bad weather and a car hit a power pole. My power was out for over 6 hours. I had just started and upgrade when the system died. The upgrade had installed linux-2.6.16.13-4. I have a linux-2.6.16.13-4-obj but no linux-2.6.16.13-4. When I boot the system I get ... waiting for /dev/had5 to appear: .... resume device /dev/hda5 not found (Ignoring). waiting for /dev/had6 to appear: .... not found exiting to (/bin/sh). I have searched google for "linux waiting for to appear" and tried what I could find most of them were about USB Devices and re-installing. When I boot from CD 1 or the DVD I am able to mount/use both the swap and root as /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda6. When I try to do a network install again the system hangs hard before the select /dev/hda6. When I run install and repair system I get a failure on mkinitrd that is run from the auto repair in the grub menu part of the auto repair. Auto Repair does not complain about any thing else. It does only have two packages for the base instead of the complete list. Kernel and some YaST. I tried going back to 2.6.13-15.8 with no luck. I remove all the /boot/*2.6.13-15.8 files since they were not there when I booted to the rescue system the first time. I have tried Rescue System mount /dev/hda6 /mnt swapon /dev/had5 cd /mnt chroot /mnt mkinitrd and had it fail. I then copied the /sbin from Rescue System to /lib/klibc/sbin as that what was giving me errors on mkinitrd. Then it build and installs to /boot the linux-2.6.16.13-4 files again. They are the exact same sizes each time. Sadly I did not make a backup of the system. I am able to see all my files on the disk from the rescue cd. So I have not lost any thing that I need. The disk is a 120 GB disk with 6 GB available. I tried to do a rpm --rebuilddb after the above mount and chroot. It did not help. I am not sure what else to try. Does any one have any ideas on getting this system to a state where I am able to restart the network install. I have the entire 10.1/inst-source and 10.1/non-oss-inst-source download to another system that is 10.0. I was using it for the network install. HELP? I do not know what else to try. Thanks for any ideas. - -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQFEclXnVtBjDid73eYRAk3aAJ9MB49KrlzR4JMBdQlgXnb9TiPUmwCfc0PL eUnURAw6peKbxj8eljips90= =dB4B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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REMINDER: openSUSE Status Meeting TODAY 2006/05/30 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT)
by Sonja Krause-Harder 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi there, the next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official #opensuse IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE) today at 2006/05/30 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT) This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Topics so far: 1. Status SUSE Linux 10.1 2. Status build service For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For details about this IRC meeting read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Status_Meeting_2006-05-30 For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ (not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ (not affiliated with openSUSE either). cheers, Sonja -- Sonja Krause-Harder (skh(a)suse.de) Research & Development SUSE Linux Products GmbH

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OpenOffice always on top in SuSE 10.1
by Andre Truter 30 May '06

30 May '06

I posted this to the openSuSE list, but got no response and I googled to no avail, so I am trying here, maybe someone can help. I upgraded my SuSE Pro 10.0 to 10.1 with the non-oss-DVD that I downloaded from the openSUSE site. (I am still waiting for SUSE Pro 10.1 to reach South Africa) I use GNOME as desktop. Now I have an over-eager OpenOffice. When you open a document with OpenOffice, it keeps on popping up to the top of the focus stack and it will even move itself to the current focussed desktop from another desktop. It seems that it detects some change every 200 milliseconds or so. Even using a drop-down list in OpenOffice is very difficult. If you scroll down the open list too long, it close the list. You have to open the drop-down list, move quickly to the item you want and click, otherwise your list is closed. Opening a dialogue in OpenOffice will keep the dialogue on top, but I can see in the window border that the focus keeps on reverting to the main window behind. Using another application while an OpenOffice document is open is extremely annoying, as the OpenOffice doc keeps on grabbing the focus. For instance, typing something in another application. You type two characters and then you are suddenly typing in the OpenOffice doc. So, to type something in the other application, you type two characters then click on your application to get focus back, type another two characters, click, type, click, etc. Has anybody seen this behaviour? Any ideas what this can be? I already tried playing with the focus-follow-mouse settings in GNOME, but it makes no difference. Thanks -- Andre Truter | Software Consultant | Registered Linux user #185282 Jabber: andre_tux(a)jabberafrica.org | http://www.trusoft.co.za ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~

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How to Increase no of buffered lines in Konsole
by Arun Mallikarjunan 30 May '06

30 May '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, When I develop software, I often print the output on the console which most of the time overruns the screen and even scrolling does not help in seeing everything. In windows when I used putty I could set the buffer size to whatever I wanted. Is there a place where I can do the same for Konsole? TIA, Arun -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEdxsh/ImPbuYUWasRAtO3AKDrvjkDADMrHU9VWhy5H7dbAfqiEgCfQaFe Yv6XfKVAb4gf22v0bVJtp4I= =LBwZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Printing Problems with SuSE v10.1
by Ken Hough 30 May '06

30 May '06

Am I alone in identifying a problem with the YAST printer setup utility? I have now installed v10.1 on three different PCs and have found exactly the same problem for each as follows: If YAST is used to install a printer and then the 'Test' option is used, there is no output to the printer. Also, printer output from other apps such as Open Office and GIMP then remains stuck in the print queue. Rebooting the PC (and avoiding the 'Test' option) allows printing to proceed normally. I don't recollect having this problem with SuSE v9.1 or earlier versions. Also, is there any reason why there should now be two entries for parport0 in /proc/ioports, one for the correct port address (eg 0378-037a) and one for 0778-077a. Again earlier versions showed only a single correct entry. Thanks Ken Hough

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