August 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting today 18:00 CEST
by Martin Lasarsch 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

Hi there, sorry for the late mail ... the next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) this Tuesday at 2006/08/29 18:00 CET (16:00 GMT) This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Status_Meeting_2006-08-29 as soon as possible. Also, if you cannot attend the meeting, but have questions you want to see discussed, please add them to the meeting wiki page as well. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About 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). Note: afaik this is the first meeting in the #opensuse-project channel -- with kind regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Lasarsch, Subsystems SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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bizarre momentary freezes in SUSE 10.1
by Jonathan Puthoff 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

Greetings all! My Dell Inspiron lappy (running freshly-installed and updated SUSE 10.1) experiences momentary freezes at seemingly random intervals. Symptoms appear as freezes of 2-4 seconds and possibly a spike in CPU usage. Keystrokes and mouse motions made during the beginning of this period are still reflected after the lock-up terminates. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Perhaps there is a log file somewhere that yield some info? I was running SUSE 10.0 just fine, no problems. . . Any help would be greatly appreciated. jonathan

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Zen-updater Problem
by firefox 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

Yesterday I installed libxine1 for amarok. But I get this error when I start my suse today. Error: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in <0x003d6> Novell.Zenworks.Gui.ZenTrayIcon:CheckUpdatesLoop () in (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void () I reinstall all things about yast2,but it still doesn't work.I google but don't get an answer. How can I solve this??? Suggestions appreciated Jack

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Re: [SLE] Zen-updater Problem
by Clint Tinsley 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: firefox <nativeonline(a)gmail.com> > To: "SuSE Group" <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> > Subject: [SLE] Zen-updater Problem > Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:43:50 +0800 > > > Yesterday I installed libxine1 for amarok. But I get this error when I > start my suse today. > Error: > System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance > of an object > in <0x003d6> Novell.Zenworks.Gui.ZenTrayIcon:CheckUpdatesLoop () > in (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void () > > I reinstall all things about yast2,but it still doesn't work.I google > but don't get an answer. > How can I solve this??? Welcome to the club. You are now officially the second person on this list to have this problem. I have been trying to get an answer to this problem for a couple of weeks now since doing a online update to Yast2. I keep hoping the engineer at SuSE will come back additional information besides doing a rebuild of the rpm database... The problem has to do with starting update "watcher" icon in the "zen tray" and its functionality. Clint

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system-wide default file handler? (e.g. use mplayer to open .avi format by default)
by Zhang Weiwu 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

Hello. It is very difficult to support new users (especially Windows users). Perhaps all people on this list who supports users switched to SuSE from Windows should open a separate list to share experience. Here is another difficulty: There is only one way to stop user complaining 'the Most Important Application: "Windows Media Player" is missing', that is to automatically associate .wmv and .avi (coded using wmv codec) to be by default opened by mplayer. I can do this for one single user, but how do I do this for a LOT of users? Can I set system-wide configuration to let .avi .wmv file open by mplayer? (In my case, users use gnome). I cannot eliminate wmv files. They are everywhere around the earth. Anyone who release some media file must consider that only some people knows how to (and wish to) install quick time, so .mov is 'out'. Same for Xvid, rmvb... result: every time every website release .wmv files. A lot of user actually consider wmv to be the best format in this universe because it's used so widely, it must be the best. It's not useful to tell user to launch mplayer for wmv files. First, they will try to drap and drop media files to mplayer, which do not work because mplayer don't support drag&drop. Second, they will try to use 'open file' dialogue, if they are lucky enough not to be threaden by English (mplayer user interface is in English), they will find themselves opening a dialog box full of jargon (they can use Linux for months without understanding '/home' '/usr' jargon) and don't know how to open the wmv file because they don't know where it is. Then, they will probably find the wmv file, but cannot read it because Chinese ideographs in filename are displayed junk text in mplayer. Then, if they still don't walk away from Linux computers to Windows computers, they will file a complaint. The only way to support these users is to set system-wide configuration so that when they double-click wmv, mplayer launches and plays. I googled around and found a lot of answers on how to change file-right-click-context menu, but none of them are for administrators, most articles only talk about how to change it for the current user.

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parport_pc suse 10
by Gabriel Dovalo 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

Hi, I've installed SuSE enterprise desktop 10 y my HP Laserjet 6L doesn't works. YaST2 detects it, test page can be printed correctry but when I restart the computer it stops working. After a restart: diamante:/ # lsmod | grep parport parport_pc 34916 0 parport 31944 1 parport_pc CUPS information at: http://localhost:631 Descripción: Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 6L. Ubicación: Impresora en paralelo en /dev/lp0 Estado de la impresora: procesando, aceptando trabajo. "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds..." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ but printer is really connected. diamante:/ # modprobe parport_pc irq=7 io=0x378 io_hi=0x778 dma=none ------------/var/log/messages------------------- Aug 28 23:54:03 diamante kernel: parport 0x378 (WARNING): CTR: wrote 0x0c, read 0xff Aug 28 23:54:03 diamante kernel: parport 0x378 (WARNING): DATA: wrote 0xaa, read 0xff Aug 28 23:54:03 diamante kernel: parport 0x378: You gave this address, but there is probably no parallel port there! Aug 28 23:54:03 diamante kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] printer still does not works. Now, I run: YaST2 > Hardware > Printer (nothing more) ------------/var/log/messages------------------- Aug 28 23:56:18 diamante kernel: parport 0x378 (WARNING): CTR: wrote 0x0c, read 0xff Aug 28 23:56:18 diamante kernel: parport 0x378 (WARNING): DATA: wrote 0xaa, read 0xff Aug 28 23:56:18 diamante kernel: parport 0x378: You gave this address, but there is probably no parallel port there! Aug 28 23:56:18 diamante kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] Aug 28 23:56:18 diamante kernel: pnp: Device 00:0a activated. Aug 28 23:56:18 diamante kernel: parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. Aug 28 23:56:18 diamante kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 5 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] Aug 28 23:56:18 diamante kernel: parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 6L Aug 28 23:56:18 diamante kernel: lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). ------------------------ and it starts printing all pending jobs. what can i do in order to make printer active on start up? Thanks in advance. -- Gabriel Dovalo --------------------------------- LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com

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umess device: how to make it available for everyone?
by Zhang Weiwu 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

Hello. I run an X-terminal-server using SuSE 10.1. A lot of people visiting the office need to exchange file with USB flash (umess device). In order to make it possible for everybody to use USB drive, I used extended USB wire to give every user a USB port from terminal server. The problem is, when 5 users logged into the system, one user plug in a Umess device, a shortcut to this device is created on the desktop, only write accessible to another user! e.g. user yuliansu plug in a umess device, an icon appear on zhangweiwu's desktop, folder /media/disk (which is the mount point of this umess device) belong to zhangweiwu and not writable for other users. user yuliansu is upset because she cannot write to the device. What we need: when a umess device is plugged in, current problem is every user can see an icon for this device and EVERYBODY can write to it. e.g. folder /media/disk (mount point) should belong to certain user and permission should be 774 (group-writable). I hope I am clear on my situation. Can anyone give me hint where to configure the default permission for automatically mounted device like Umess?

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[opensuse] Package Manager Update 3: Call for Testing
by Andreas Jaeger 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

[Hope this is appropriate here - sorry for the duplicate] Our developers are continuing to improve the package manager stack. We'd like to release some of their changes for 10.1 now and I'd like to ask for testers. Please report all bugs you find in bugzilla (http://bugzilla.novell.com, component libzypp and include in the summary "Package Manager Update 3"). We plan to release on friday, 2006-09-01 an update to the test repository with anything that has been found so far and plan to release the final update next week officially. This update contains the following new features: * support for patch/delta RPMs in YUM sources (#168844) in YOU but not yet in the ZENworks tools This update includes fixes for the following bugs: * various performance enhancements * 190163 - *-kmp-* dependencies match multiple kernel packages * 176568 - Evaluate possible xml parser optimizations * 195567 - 100 /var/tmp/TmpFile.xxxxx in 3 Days * 193584 - cut-off package description in zen-updater * 194424 - Online update setup creates unusable cron job * 191676 - zen installer/updater cannot add an FTP YUM repository * 190295 - zen-updater/zmd/rug does not install update stack patches first * 193212 - zmd does not unblock transactions after transaction preparation failure * 191506 - zen-updated showing updates from non-subscribed catalog * 183656 - mono needed for YaST package management since last update openSUSE 10.2 will see further improvments that need even better testing. If you like to test, please read below the details - otherwise wait for the online update that we will release soon. Until the online update has been installed, I advise to run as root "yast2 online_update" for patch installation. If you have never updated the stack, then use yast to do the following, otherwise use either ZENworks tools or YaST: * Add the following (or one of the mirrors) as installation source: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/10.1-packagemanagement-update-test * Run an online update and install the new libzypp patch * Test whether YOU installs patches using patch/delta RPMs. Note patch and delta RPMs are smaller than full RPMs. Therefore download is faster but assembly of them takes longer. If anything looks broken, please contact myself and Stano <visnov at suse.cz>. Feel free to add him as <visnov at novell.com> in your bugzilla report, so that we do not lose track of any issues with this update. We do not plan to add further fixes, our goal is to get this update out and find any regressions introduced. openSUSE 10.2 will see further improvments that need even better testing and the ongoing progress can be tested using the openSUSE 10.2 Alpha releases - with Alpha4 next week. Thanks for your help, Stano and Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse] NEW 10.1 desktop problem.
by Fred A. Miller 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

I've noted a new problem in 10.1 that may be a KDE problem, not anything in the base code. If one chooses to use the normal Unix convention of wherever the cursor is, is the active window, then windows start to "strobe" and processor usage is 100% unless you try to move the window, then the strobing stops.....for awhile. Changing the option in KDE to a "click" to change windows stops all of this. This all started the other day with a large update that included KDE files. Fred -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 5.x --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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how to make: require root password to shutdown / normal user cannot shutdown
by 张韡武 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

Hello. I miss the good old days on almost every Linux that normal users cannot shutdown the machine. I have a SuSE 10.1 installation which has to be on for all the time. Every user go to click 'Desktop' -> 'Logout', then, instead of given this dialog: gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/I/users/weiwu/logout_prompt_1.png This dialog is given: gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/I/users/weiwu/logout_prompt_2.png What I want is dialog 1. What I have is dialog 2. Can I achieve it? -- 锐业软服（国内业务） http://www.realss.cn Real SoftService http://www.realss.com 销售咨询(Sales Department): 0086 592 20 99987 (Chinese, German, English) 国际业务(International Sales): 0086 10 8460 6011 (German and English) 联系：厦门大学科技园，嘉庚二号楼6楼邮政：厦门大学2312号信箱（邮编361005）

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