September 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Maintenance work at SUSE offices
by Marcus Meissner 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hi, Tomorrow, Saturday 23rd of September, our IS&T department will be doing elecritical reconfiguration work in our server rooms. This work will happen between 6am UTC and 11am UTC. This will affect: - The automated update mirror retrieval for SUSE Linux 9.2 up to 10.0. - @suse.com mailinglists (any mail will be queued and delivered later). - The old SUSE portal (portal.suse.de) Ciao, Marcus

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[opensuse] problem with yast2 on amd64
by Giuseppe Sacco 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hi all, I have a problem on my first suse installation. It is a 64bit amd processor and I cannot use yast2. When I run yast2 I get this error message: lnx01:~ # yast2 You need to install yast2-ncurses to use the YaST2 text mode interface lnx01:~ # rpm -q yast2-ncurses yast2-ncurses-2.13.27-3 lnx01:~ # rpm -q yast2 yast2-2.13.54-5 using strace I fount that yast2 is looking for plug-ins in the wrong directory: it uses /usr/lib/YaST2/plugin directory while all plug-ins are installed in /usr/lib64/YaST2/plugin. What should I do in order to fix it? Thanks, Giuseppe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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RE: [SLE] Windows install *after* Linux
by mlist＠safenet-inc.com 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Felix Miata [mailto:mrmazda@ij.net] [...] > The better approach is to install such that windoz > changes nothing that isn't dead easy simple to undo. > > How? > 1-partition completely first, preferably with a cross-platform and/or > OS-agnostic tool, to prevent balks by unruly installers. Reserve for > /boot on hda1, and put a tiny FAT16b on hda2 or hda3 for > windoz to boot > from. Make hda1 "active". > 2-install Linux, but put the bootloader on hda1, not the MBR > 3-add a stanza to menu.lst or lilo.conf for the windoz primary. do not > include "makeactive", unless you want to [...] Felix, can I get that in the bronzed version? I wanna hang it on my wall. You write a couple more clear, detailed explanations like that, and Anders is gonna have competition for his [SLE] crown. :-) Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it.

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RE: [SLE] SUSE 10.1 upgrade
by mlist＠safenet-inc.com 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Anders Johansson [mailto:ajohansson@novell.com] replied to Steve: > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 15:40 -0700, Steve Reilly wrote: > > im not even sure if i can recommend 10.2 right now. i > >installed 10.2 alpha4 on a test box, and theyre doing some > >funky things with the menu system and such..... even thats > >broken at this point. i couldnt get it to work. tried > >updating, and the same problems exist..... brand new > >install, and dependency issues?, but, ill give them the > >benefit of the doubt........ it is not released yet. > > Benefit of the doubt? Recommend it right now??? > > It is ALPHA! Alpha in computer science terms means "this is > known not to > work, don't install unless you are a tester or developer and are > prepared for things to break and to give constructive feedback in the > form of bug reports or patches" > > Complaining about the non-working status of an alpha release basically > is the same as saying you don't know what it is That's exactly true, of course (both paragraphs...) When our company gives out an alpha product, the distribution is very limited - usually to the one or two customers who demanded the new feature set. They are working hand-in-hand with our engineers to ensure that the implementation does what they need, fits with their own applications, etc. They participate in two, three, however-many alphas it takes to ensure that the beta version will be working as required. The beta is what our QA department tests, to ensure that: a) the new stuff works in general situations (i.e. as other customers might use it), as well as in the specific situations of the driving customers b) everything else from before still works - nothing got broken while we were concentrating on getting the new stuff to work. As the product matures, the list of "test cases" that QA must perform and pass gets inexorably longer and more complex. They automate as much as possible, so as to a) get it all done in finite time b) ensure the repeatability of testing. The point, however, is that while alphas are almost guaranteed to be broken in a few ways, GA (general availability) releases are expected to have been prodded, poked, thumped and tested "six ways from Sunday" to ensure that _nothing_ goes out the door broken. Certainly nothing that absolutely everybody would use every day. So, something like the après-release updater grief in SUSE 10.1 was (should have been) horribly embarrassing, but all kinds of glitches and oversights in 10.2 alpha are merely expected, and not any cause for alarm. For me, 10.2 will be the first SuSE (er, I mean SUSE) release since 5.2 where I'll sit on my wallet for a couple of months after formal release, until I see which way it blows... or sucks. :-) Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it.

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[opensuse] rug - no updates
by Ingo Wichmann 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hi! I don't know how to convince rug to install updates: iw:~ # /etc/init.d/novell-zmd restart Shutting down ZENworks Management Daemon done Starting ZENworks Management Daemon done iw:~ # rug refresh Dienstaktualisierung... 100% Successfully refreshed. iw:~ # rug sl # | Status | Type | Name | URI --+--------+------+-------------------------------------------------+----------- 1 | Active | ZYPP | SUSE-Linux-10.1-DVD-i386-10.1-0-20060921-150637 | http://... 2 | Active | ZYPP | 20060921-182620 | http://... ( From the zmd applet i know that the uri are correct ) iw:~ # rug ca Sub'd? | Name | Service -------+-------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------ Yes | SUSE-Linux-10.1-DVD-i386-10.1-0-20060921-150637 | SUSE-Linux-10.1-DVD-i386-10.1-0-20060921-150637 Yes | 20060921-182620 | 20060921-182620 iw:~ # rug lu No updates are available. Well, thats not true. The zmd applet shows 4 updates available. In fact, the 4 updates are 4 different versions of thunderbird. Well, so it's really only one update, but still i'd like to install it. If i try to install them via the applet ( what's the difference? ), the update fails: Unresolved dependencies: Installing patch:glibc-1678-0.noarch[20060921-182620] Installing patch:MozillaThunderbird-2100-0.noarch[20060921-182620] Installing patch:MozillaThunderbird-1672-0.noarch[20060921-182620] Installing patch:MozillaThunderbird-1924-0.noarch[20060921-182620] atom:MozillaThunderbird-1.5.0.5-0.1.i586[20060921-182620] provides MozillaThunderbird == 1.5.0.5-0.1, but it is uninstallable. Try installing it on its own for more details. There are no installable providers of MozillaThunderbird == 1.5.0.5-0.1 for patch:MozillaThunderbird-1924-0.noarch[20060921-182620] atom:MozillaThunderbird-translations-1.5.0.4-2.1.i586[20060921-182620] provides MozillaThunderbird-translations == 1.5.0.4-2.1, but it is uninstallable. Try installing it on its own for more details. There are no installable providers of MozillaThunderbird-translations == 1.5.0.4-2.1 for patch:MozillaThunderbird-1672-0.noarch[20060921-182620] atom:MozillaThunderbird-translations-1.5.0.7-0.1.i586[20060921-182620] provides MozillaThunderbird-translations == 1.5.0.7-0.1, but it is uninstallable. Try installing it on its own for more details. There are no installable providers of MozillaThunderbird-translations == 1.5.0.7-0.1 for patch:MozillaThunderbird-2100-0.noarch[20060921-182620] atom:glibc-devel-2.4-31.1.i686[20060921-182620] provides glibc-devel == 2.4-31.1, but it is uninstallable. Try installing it on its own for more details. There are no installable providers of glibc-devel == 2.4-31.1 for patch:glibc-1678-0.noarch[20060921-182620] atom:glibc-2.4-31.1.i686[20060921-182620] needed by patch:glibc-1678-0.noarch[20060921-182620] Installing atom:glibc-2.4-31.1.i686[20060921-182620] Finally, installing updates via y2pmsh works ... but i'd like to get rug/zmd working too ;-) Ingo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Ecasound for SuSE-10.1???
by Alain Barthélemy 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Till SuSE-8.2 I used Ecasound "Multitrack audio processing tools". Ideal to convert from any format to another and to capture an audio signal simultaneously as .wac or .cdr and .mp3 or .ogg files. With SuSE-10.1, Ecasound disappeared. No more .rpm package! Very difficult to compile manually the program because of dependencies problems, I suppose. Does anyone know where to find an rpm package of ecasound for SuSE-10.1-x86_64? Or another program that works, not Audacity that crashes irreversibly (icon "null" and go to hell). Of course there is Sox, oggenc, lame but ecasound was so easy to use. I can of course return to Debian Sarge which is still aware that ecasound exists. -- Alain Barthélemy cassandre(a)bartydeux.be http://www.bartydeux.be Linux User #315631

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Re: [SLE] Printing in Mozilla
by Erik Jakobsen 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: >> >> > IIRC, you should just type: kprinter as the print command. > Hej. Thanks for the -kprinter. I couldn't get it up working, and now the printer has been locked. I also tested with kprinter -stdin, but had still no luck

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Printing in Mozilla
by Erik Jakobsen 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hi. I know that this has been shown on this list while ago, and I ha dthe idea I have written it down. But I want to be able to print from Mozilla, and I can remember, that something has to be put into the Printer Properties>Print Command line, and the second shoul be -kprint as far as I remember, but what should be typed in first is out of my mind. Anyboday that can help here ? OS SuSE 10.0

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Dump command on SuSe?
by jimmy Pierre 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Greetings, Does anybody run batch files with a "dump" of the system? f yes what exactly do you use. Cheers, Jimmy

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YOU conflict
by Carlos E. R. 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just run YOU and I got this error: #### YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2006-09-21 01:32:42 #### patch:libzypp-2083-0.noarch[20060703-235259] cannot be installed due to missing dependencies There are no installable providers of yast2-perl-bindings == 2.13.5-1.4 for patch:libzypp-2083-0.noarch[20060703-235259] Conflict Resolution: ( ) do not install libzypp (x) Ignore this requirement just here #### YaST2 conflicts list END ### I canceled the update. But what does it mean? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFEdCjtTMYHG2NR9URArf9AJ9LskwwBrcdZBk+878yO5syq9rJlwCfSFoE 88as6tWzQx74CeuOfxCrYPA= =gGAa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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