June 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] backuppc
by Lachlan Simpson 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hola, has anyone installed Backuppc on SUSE 10.1, and if they have, can I ask where they installed it, where they put their backups and conf files? I installed it on the weekend, and it seems all wrong - somehow I got the backups in /home and the conf was in /home and I think the install ended up in /usr/local I'm much more accustomed to Debian admin (where it is all done for you , I know, i'm a slack admin) where: /etc/backuppc/ was the conf /var/lib/backuppc is where all the backups went (and because I knew that's where they would go, I made it a large partition) and /usr/share is where the install went. This makes sense to me. As I'm not used to installing things from source (though it was easy enough, and I did enjoy it) I now have to ask a newbie question :) Where do people put non-Yast/RPM installs on their machines? Is there a convention that /usr/share is the place? Cheers L. --- Lachlan Simpson, National Database & IT Support Officer National Office The Wilderness Society 57E Brisbane Street, Hobart TAS 7000, AUSTRALIA lachlan.simpson(a)wilderness.org.au Ph (03) 6270 1798 http://www.wilderness.org.au -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] Problem-Disappearing Suspend button in KDE ??
by Gabriel. 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi, When trying to suspend my computer in the hard disk, it does not appear this option. Not update my kde, only the updates of ZEN/YAST. Any idea ? or Suggestions ? thanks a lot.!! -- (c) Argentina www.gnu.org

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Lexmark printer problems on SuSE 10.1
by Catherine 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi I'm having problems trying to allow users to select which tray they print to on a networked Lexmark E342n. I think I need to put a new PPD in /etc/ppd.conf, but I'm not sure, and a search for help has been largely fruitless. Can anyone shed any light on this? Cheers Catherine -- www.pledgebank.com/resist www.no2id.net

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Re: [SLE] **SOLVED** Problem-Disappearing Suspend button in KDE ??
by Gabriel. 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

i re-installed kpowersave and solved it. ACPI follow off, but it work fine. thanks a lot.!! On 6/27/06, Stan Glasoe <srglasoe(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 June 2006 18:00, Gabriel. wrote: > > stan, > > > > My swap is 1gb and my main memory 700 mb aprox. > > > > dyroom:~ # fdisk -l > > > > Disk /dev/hde: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hde1 1 1020 8193118+ 83 Linux > > /dev/hde2 * 1021 2456 11534670 83 Linux > > /dev/hde3 2457 3521 8554612+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > > /dev/hde4 3522 3649 1028160 82 Linux swap / > > Solaris > > > > ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### > > title SUSE Linux 10.1 > > root (hd0,1) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde2 vga=0x317 apm=off acpi=off > > resume=/dev/hde4 splash=silent showopts > > initrd /boot/initrd > > > > dyroom:~ # top > > top - 19:57:11 up 21 min, 3 users, load average: 0.34, 0.17, 0.18 > > Tasks: 81 total, 3 running, 78 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > > Cpu(s): 8.6% us, 1.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 89.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi, > 0.0% > > si Mem: 711528k total, 448872k used, 262656k free, 15336k > > buffers Swap: 1028152k total, 0k used, 1028152k free, 307348k > > cached > > > > In the panel only i see "Reboot/Shutdown or Change of User" Suspend on > > H.Disk or memory *Disappearing of the panel. > > > > thanks a lot. > > * > > > You have apm=off and acpi=off so I don't think suspend will be offered on > this system. ACPI is the preferred power management method _IF_ (big if > there) your system supports it. Try removing acpi=off or changing acpi=off > to acpi=on and see what happens. You may have to install powersaved and/or > kpowersave also. > > Stan > > -- > Check the headers for your unsubscription address > For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com > Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com > Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com > > > -- (c) Argentina www.gnu.org

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[SLE] Strange "Software Updater" and YOU Behavior
by Greg Wallace 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

It had been quite a while since the Software Updater had notified me of any updates so I thought I'd run YOU just to double check things. YOU then proceeded to ask me to insert my installation CD! Hello! Why would I be going to "Online Update" to install from the CD?! Anyway, there was an option to skip that source, which I did, and the YOU then continued on for a while apparently looking for updates via the mirror I have set up. When the list of available updates came back, there was nothing new there. I then decided to run YOU again, just to see if I was again prompted for the installation CD. This time I wasn't, and when the list of available patches came back, lo and behold there was actually a YAST specific update that needed to be installed, so I installed it. Oh well, just more strange behavior by the updating software I guess. Seems like you never know what might happen next with this thing. Greg Wallace -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] Problem-Disappearing Icons & Menus in OpenOffice 2 & SuSE 10.1
by Andrei Verovski 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Hi, I have strange problem - disappearing icons & menus in OpenOffice 2 & SuSE 10.1. Moving cursir overs make them visible, but then they becomes invisible again (with blank toolbar). Anyone know how to get rid of this glitch? Thanks in advance.

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[SLE] libzypp patch preinstall on iso
by lerninlinux＠comcast.net 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

I have been asked for the openSUSE download version by a friend with an intermediate, dial up connection at best. (if it rains, no phone, if your bleeding, no phone) Can this patch be installed in the iso, pre me burning it and mailing it to them? -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] A different Yast issue
by Greg Freemyer 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

I think I caused the below because I had left yast running on the console and killed it from a remote login. I suspect it left a lock in place that I need to clear. Anyway, I'm trying to add another repository to my yast sources. When I try I get a error dialog box that says: "another process is accessing the package database. Package management will not work!" How do I clear the lock? Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] Re: [opensuse-announce] Important SUSE Linux 10.1 update
by Bruce A. Mallett 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Does this work for anyone? I find that online_update lists a whole bunch of things to update but when I click "Accept" the window just disappears. If I run it from the shell prompt I get this: # yast2 online_update # Yes, thats right .. it says nothing. It is just gone after the "Accept". Adrian Schröter wrote: > From today on we provide an important patch for the package management. It > contains various bug fixes and performance improvements for YaST and Zen > updater. > > We recommend to install this patch with YaST Online Update (YOU). For that > please start YaST manually through the menu and use the 'Online Update' > module. > > This version still lacks patch rpm support which will be delivered with an > upcoming update. > > We regret any inconvenience you experienced so far. We consider this update a > large step forward and will continue improving our product constantly. > Special thanks to our openSUSE community members and their efforts helping us > to deliver this update. > > Michael Loeffler > Adrian Schroeter > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce-unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce-help(a)opensuse.org > > -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] Install Suse on Logical Volume on host running XEN-Fedora
by Claris Castillo 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

I am running Xen-FC and would like to create a couple of Suse domains. How can I install Suse in Logical volumes to use as disks in the VMs? To install FC locally is pretty easy with yum. I would not be surprised if that is the case for Suse using Yast. But my host is FC so I don't have yast. Please any help would be highly appreciated. thanks, cc -- Claris Castillo http://www4.ncsu.edu/~ccastil PhD. Candidate Computer Science North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC

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