August 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

an alternative backup/restore method
by stephan beal 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

People often ask how to back up and restore their data under suse. Here's an article which covers an interesting approach for backing up RPM and DEB-based distributions: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-get-list-installed-software-reinstallat… -- ----- stephan(a)s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts

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YaST
by Hans van der Merwe 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

Yast GUI does not honour my mouse double click setting. Also some of the config pages does not close if you click on the close icon (top right), must press Finish or Cancel. There are also some other Tab control focus issues. Anyone else have these? Im going to log some bugs tonight. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm

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[Fwd: Re: [SLE] YaST]
by Henk Roos 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

Sorry Stephan. meant to send it to the maillist.... -------- Original Message -------- From: Henk Roos <henkr(a)vippayroll.co.za> To: stephan beal <stephan(a)s11n.net> Date: Do 24.08.2006 16:41 Subject: Re: [SLE] YaST Where's the double-click setting so by the way? I also want to set up my PC as such. On Do 24.08.2006 16:23, stephan beal <stephan(a)s11n.net> wrote: >On Thursday 24 August 2006 16:11, Hans van der Merwe wrote: >>Yast GUI does not honour my mouse double click setting. > >Because yast it not a KDE application, but is a plain old Qt >application. The double-click setting is a KDE-specific setting. > > >-- >----- stephan(a)s11n.net http://s11n.net >"...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands >of the will." -- Alan W. Watts "Softline VIP provides no warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy or completeness of any advice or information provided herein and accepts no liability for loss or damage of any nature whatsoever, as a result of or which may be attributable to the use of, or the reliance upon, the advice or information provided herein."

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[opensuse] Internet Installation Repository for 10.2 Alpha3?
by Christophe Veber 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

Are there internet installation repositories available for Suse 10.2Alpha3? For Alpha3, I only found ISO images, while for the factory I found no ISOs and only internet installation repositories. Btw, are there DVD ISOs for Alpha3? Christophe

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LaserJet 2200d doesn't print
by Herbert Georg 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

I have a HP LaserJet 2200d installed and configured via the paralell port in my Suse 10.0. I have even configured cups to acccept jobs from authorized IPs. All seems to work fine, until, apparently without any reason, it simply stops printing. lpq gives the following: laserjet2200 is ready and printing Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size active Adminis 21 CPC1.pdf 3681280 bytes But nothing ever comes out. I looked at /var/log/cups/ files and I can't see anything wrong. The jobs are small. For instance, a pdf file that I tryied to print has 600KB and the memory of the printer is 8MB. What can be the problem? Someone has any idea?? Please help me...

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IP address is lost with cross-cable
by Fajar Priyanto 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

Hi all, I have a strange experience. This morning I was preparing to go to several of our branch offices to install OpenSuse10.1. My preparation was to bring my notebook and a UTP cross-cable, because I planned to do a network install. So, I checked the cable by plugging my notebook with my desktop PC. All was good, I could do FTP from the desktop pc to the notebook. So, I went to the branch. What suprised me was, when I plugged in the cross cable to the desktop PC at the branch, my notebook lost it's static IP address! No matter I tried to configure it using Yast, the IP just didn't show up. I tried to configure it using CLI: ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.200 netmask 255.255.255.0. It managed to show up, but, the desktop PC couldn't connect to it, and I couldn't ping the dekstop PC from the notebook. So, I thought I would give up the cross cable and connect the notebook to the branch office network cable, and.... it worked! The IP is there. Well, at the end I managed to do network install, but using the existing network, not the cross cable. Can anyone suggest me what went wrong? Why the cross cable works at the headquarter, and not at the branch office? I remember that some network card just cannot be up-ped if it's not connected to a real switch. Something using MII-NOT-SUPPORTED options in the ifcfg-eth0 script. Is this the case? Thank you very much. By the way, my notebook is Acer TM 802, with ALI BCM4401 network card, and the desktop PC at the headoffice and branch office use RTL8139too network card. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 7:43pm up 2:28, 2.6.16.13-4-default GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org

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SuSE-10.0 - Mencoder - unable to open /dev/dsp permission denied
by Alain Barthélemy 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

Integrated soundcard on Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 OpenSuS10.0 When trying to encode TV signal with Mencoder I have: unable to open /dev/dsp permission denied. Permission on /dev/dsp are now 660. Problem is thus different. What could be the the problem. The KDE control center seems buggy. Should I try alsaconf? -- Alain Barthélemy cassandre(a)bartydeux.be http://www.bartydeux.be Linux User #315631

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apache2.0.50 and Suse 9.2 won't start
by rejaine＠bhz.jamef.com.br 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

Hi guys, The problem appeared after many stops and starts of apache during my test. Now it doesn't matter if I even remove all SSL stuff and everything I have added to the default httpd.conf and ssl.conf configs. Also, i tried do reinstall all apache2 packages and restore all suse defaults... Apache still refuse to start. Some googling didn't help me except that I have seen others with the same problem withtout a solution.... My system: SuSE Linux 9.2 - kernel 2.6.8-24.19 apache2-prefork-2.0.50-7.9 apache2-example-pages-2.0.50-7.3 apache2-mod_php4-4.3.8-8.28 apache2-mod_perl-1.99_12_20040302-38.1 apache2-doc-2.0.50-7.3 apache2-2.0.50-7.9 I have another server whith exactly same configurations which works fine. # /var/log/apache2/error.log (whith APACHE_LOGLEVEL="debug") : [Thu Aug 24 09:16:43 2006] [info] Init: Initializing OpenSSL library [Thu Aug 24 09:16:43 2006] [info] Init: Seeding PRNG with 0 bytes of entropy [Thu Aug 24 09:16:43 2006] [info] Init: Generating temporary RSA private keys (512/1024 bits) [Thu Aug 24 09:16:43 2006] [info] Init: Generating temporary DH parameters (512/1024 bits) [Thu Aug 24 09:16:43 2006] [error] (38)Function not implemented: Cannot create SSLMutex Configuration Failed # ssl-global.conf => SSLMutex sem # ipcs -s ------ Arrays de semáforos ------ chave semid proprietário perms nsems Permissions in /etc/apache2, /var/log/apache2, /var/cache/apache2/ and /var/lib/apache2 are all OK And what can I do about it (except reboot my server)..? Any ideas?

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eric raymond, and binary drivers
by Peter Van Lone 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/eric_raymond_linux_compromise/ I just have a feeling that he is right, on this. I've had the same experience, of trying to get my kid to switch to linux. He was open to it, but ... when we struggled, first, to get a nic driver for his dell machine, and then getting his ipod to work was dicey and a huge compromise, and then I -Tunes was not really working well under wine .... Now, he is going mac -- (also at my suggestion, after he shied away from linux -- anything to get away from the mess that is mS). I had a feeling of foreboding when I heard Novell announce that no proprietary software would be shipped. It seems as though it is a lack of focus on the customer ... and perception is the rule. Instead, should we not be making licensing agreements, and being sure that linux stays can stay competitive in the media player/codec (and yes, DRM ... yuck) markets? Isn't the reality that there are probably always going to be proprietary software/hardware solutions? It seems to me linux has to be able to play in the world as it is, while also trying to change that world. Or ... is it ok that linux stays niche? Peter

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Re: [Samba] Problem with large files corrupting during transfer
by James Watkins 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

Ramsey Wes - wramse wrote: > Files >2.8gb are corrupting during the transfer. That 2.8gb file is the > largest we've gotten to go through successfully. The next largest file > is 5.7gb, and corrupts without fail. The 1st section of the file looks > normal, the next large chunk is corrupt, and the remainder of the file > is simply binary trash. It looks to me like 2(+) users are accessing the > file while it is writing to cache, which would explain this, but I have > no way to prove it. I tried adding 'oplocks = no' and 'strict locking = > yes', but neither fixed the problem. If more info is needed, please let > me know. Hi, I'm afraid I can't help you but I can tell you that I have a similar problem that I gave up on some time ago. I found that windows 2k could transfer the files perfectly well to my samba box so I guess it must be an NT problem. I posted this to the list: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2006-May/120717.html and only received one reply: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2006-May/120748.html Having verified that I was running SP6, I lost interest and tried to persuade my boss to fund an upgrade to our windows servers instead. I'm assured that the upgrade will happen some time this year :-) but I'd still be very interested to hear from you if you manage to fix the problem. Good luck, James.

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