September 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

ZMD/Zen-Updater - What in the world is it doing?
by John Andersen 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Today, several updates showed up. So I clicked the orange ball and waited while ti retrieved a list. That took quite a while. (The orange ball knew how many updates there were, but for some reason it took another 5 minutes ti fetch the names). Ok so it starts an update and gets 9% done and SITS THERE FOR 15 MINUTES? Its not drawing any significant amount of CPU, my net traffic is at a minimum, but its just sitting there, Not writing to the log, just doing nothing. Load Average is point 58. What is it doing? And why can't it do it faster? Why not a little log action to help diagnose these long pauses.? A full 18 minutes later it jumped to 17% done. Whats it doing? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen

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Bandwidth concideration for X-terminals?
by Rikard Johnels 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

This might not be the exact forum for this; but how do i calculate bandwidth consumption for a X-terminal? I am planning a "blackbox" and to use a remote Multi Head X-terminal to be able to keep my working space as quiet as possible. My idea is to use 3 or 4 (yes three or four!) 1600x1024x32 bpp wide screen monitors and run them as a "dumb" terminal over the network. How do i calculate bandwidth consumption? I want to be able to use the machine as a workstation with full frame video capability on one monitor. I read somewhere that a 640x480@24 fps MPEG-2 file is using some 45 MB in bandwidth. What would a 1600x1024@24 be? (if my math mpu still is functional i estimate some 2.5^2 = 6.25 times 45, which would be some 280 Mb/s) And then coupled with a desktop of 3200x2048 @32 bpp... Thats some 4x1.7 Mpixels to update at a reasonable rate.. (25 fps?) Not sure if i make sense at all.. (Too late for advanced thinking...) -- /Rikard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- email : rikard.j(a)rikjoh.com web : http://www.rikjoh.com mob: : +46 (0)763 19 76 25 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >

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K3B and empty directories
by Koenraad Lelong 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Hi, Yesterday I made a dual layer DVD. The original data contained an empty directory, but K3B skipped this when burning the DVD. Is there someplace to configure to burn those empty directories ? I looked at every configuration option but found nothing. Did I miss it ? Or is it 'hidden' like the DVD-size trick I found in the archive ? -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v.

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Debugging Qt4.2 with KDevelop 3.5.4
by Jose Thadeu P. D. Cavalcante 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Hi, I'm building a project using KDevelop 3.5.4 and Qt4.2. I want do debugging it, but I have no success. The error happens on the link step and error message is: /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lQtGui_debug collect2: ld returned 1 exit status gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/thadeu/projC/gtom3/src' gmake[1]: *** [../bin/gtom3] Error 1 gmake: *** [sub-src-make_default] Error 2 *** Exited with status: 2 *** I search for QtGui_debug but not found it. Somebody can help me? Thank you Thadeu

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Smart update message
by Erik Jakobsen 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Hi. I'm receiving this message during a smart update of my SuSE 10.1: error: Failed acquiring information for 'Latest KDE 3 environment for released SUSE distributions (SUSE_Linux_10.1)': error: http://software.opensuse.org/download/KDE%3A/KDE3/SUSE_Linux_10.1/repodata/…: Invalid SHA (expected b41489bbba7f7bd4ce5fb4986d38db3867596cb3, got 430d8f2aacbf89b0893b329d442f132e2e0c52df) What is thsi about ?. Erik Jakobsen

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Mencoder Help Please
by Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Hi, Having digged net for a second day I am still having trouble converting a bunch of DIVX, XViD and QuickTime *.mov files into H264 (with mencoder) with AAC audio. Anyone please could help? I am trying to use one-line script for one-pass encoding: mencoder -oac faac -ovc x264 $1 -o $1.mp4 However, it produces no sound and throws message: WARNING: OUTPUT FILE FORMAT IS _AVI_. See -of help. I have no clue reason about. mencoder -oac copy -ovc x264 $1 -o $1.mp4 generates valid video file but sound track is being directly copied and remain mp3 What I would like to write a script which scans given directory for *.avi and *.mov files, and converts them to H264/AAC sound using 2-pass encoding (since my script cannot do what is need in 1-pass I even did not tried 2-pass encoding). Anyone could suggest a workable solution? Thanks in advance.

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Latest version of UDEV & 10.1
by Adolph Weidanz 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey all... I was up on the kernel site and the latest version of udev on http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/ is udev-100, the latest RPM I've found for 10.1 is udev-085-30.11 Now the udev site says "please use the packages provided by your distro instead of trying to install from the source tree." The README has dire warnings "Integrating udev in the system is a whole lot of work, has complex dependencies and differs a lot from distro to distro. All major distros depend on udev these days and the system may not work without a proper installed version. The upstream udev project does not support or recommend to replace a distro's udev installation with the upstream version. The installation of a unmodified upstream version may render your system unusable." So does anyone know of an RPM of the latest or is running the -100 that is willing to pass on what worked and what didn't? I am running 2.6.16.13-4-default. I am still trying to find out why my aircard will work on the laptop and not the desktop when I use the same rules for both. When I set udevcontrol to log info most of the output is the same but there a bunch lines of identifier stuff that is different (I'd be happy to send it to someone, it is long...). I am hoping that upgrading might fix the problem. BTW since I am running this through gmail (long story) I'd even appreciate a smart remark or RTFM ;^) just to know this go through... - --- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFBf2elC+PSm9+eB0RAilHAJ4uM06VA3njmXlARgyTl5MVV+uVkwCeLtr4 KmNZ62zgrduUMO9/NrVc9/I= =hLX2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Zen asks for a cd, won't use the dvd already configured.
by John E. Perry 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Hi, With the zen update this morning, one of the updates asked to install some security-related packages (kerberos?) which I hadn't done before. I said yes, and a while later it asked me to load cd2 into "media". I haven't put more than cd1 into the drive except to copy it into my installation directory since 9.3, and now that I'm using the dvd image, I don't even have the x86_64 cds. The dvd is configured as my zen installation source - I checked. So now I can't do this latest update, and my ball stays orange. How can I fix this? -- John Perry Embedded Electronics (757)813-6109 j.e.perry(a)cox.net

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php5
by teck 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Hello all.. I found a db app id like to use but:) it needs php 5 or greater im using suse 10.0 with php4.4.0 my question(s) : is it as simple as just finding one upgrade rpm? do apps that are now running with php4 break when i install 5? i've done some googling on it but my biggest fear of breaking what is working now i cant seem to find an answer for. thanks for any advice!

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[opensuse] Boson 0.12
by Dominique Leuenberger 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Hi, On the BuildServer, I can find Boson at http://software.opensuse.org/download/games:/strategy:/realtime/SUSE_Linux_… BUT: unfortunately, it is still the outdated Version 0.11. Are there any plans to update it to 0.12? Changes between 0.11 and 0.12: Major PlayerId redesign Several bugfixes Visual feedbacks when giving orders to units Provide ALT+number to center on a selection Show all production options in the commandframe, even those with unmet requirements (grayed out then) Powerplants now actually plant power Shadow support Turrets turn towards their target Weapons can use ammunition New radar system New method to find the 3d-position of the mouse position. This fixes problems with some broken OpenGL drivers and also fixes a performance issue A completely new species with its own models autotools replaced by cmake cvs replaced by subversionDominique

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