September 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Newest Firefox runs at 100% CPU
by Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Hi Anyone else experiencing that the latest firefox(1.5.0.7-0.1) runs at 98-100% after a couple of minutes. Reverting back to the older version (1.5.0.6-1.3) fixes the problem... -- Regards Kenneth Aar

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[opensuse] mkinitrd
by Fred A. Miller 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Ok.....it's been known now for over 2 days that mkinitrd is messed up. Why hasn't there been an update for 10.1? Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Creative Zen V
by Lívio Cipriano 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Hi, I'm using SuSE 10.1 and I would like to know if someone was able to connect it. The dmesg command shows that it detected when it's plug, but there is no pop up window. Regards Lívio

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smart and xulrunner update
by Roger Oberholtzer 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Using smart on a SUSE 10.1 system, I have been trying to update some packages from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/10.1 However, I keep getting: Output from mozilla-xulrunner180-1.8.0.6-0@i586: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.8.0.1: cpio: rename failed - Resource temporarily unavailable This has been happening for the past week or so. On more than one system. Anyone else seen this? -- Roger Oberholtzer

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Why is Smart slow
by Matthew Stringer 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

I realise this isn't specifically a Suse question but it has been discussed a lot on here. When I first tried the Smart Package Manager I was fairly impressed especially when used with Suse 10.1 which seemed to struggle so much with Zen. It's search facility isn't as nice as YaST's but for downloading patches it's quite handy. However I've noticed that with the current version the download speeds are fantastically slow often dropping to only a few bytes/second even if it's only downloading a single RPM. This can be especially frustrating when patching a newly built machine where there is a lot of updates to download. Yet if I was to wget the same package from the same location from the same machine at the same time I'll get several hundred + KB/s. There doesn't seem to be options for throttling the download speed, it didn't use to be this slow, anyone having the same problem? Cheers Matthew

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setting the shortcut for changing keyboard layout
by Istvan Gabor 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Hello all: I have SUSE 10.1 installed. The default shortcut for changing keyboard layout in KDE 3.5 is CTRL+ALT+K. I would like to change this either to (left)ALT+(left)SHIFT or (left)ALT+(left)CTRL which would be more convenient for me. I tried to change the setting in StartMenu/PersonalSettings/ Regional&Accessibility/KeyboardShortcuts/ShortcutSchemes tab but it did not accept any of the above. Isn't is possible to set these as shortcuts? Thanks, IG _______________________________________________________________________ 25% kedvezmény 3 könyv vásárlása esetén! Bookline.hu http://www.bookline.hu/control/news?newsid=484&affiliate=fre25skar3067

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*.md5sum...What's it for?
by Sergey Mkrtchyan 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Hi all, My friend is going to install scientific linux on his machine...he sent me this thing... (ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/307/iso/x86_64). File: SL.307.060906.x86_64.disc1.iso 636218 KB File: SL.307.060906.x86_64.disc2.iso 656198 KB File: SL.307.060906.x86_64.disc3.iso 655622 KB File: SL.307.060906.x86_64.disc4.iso 671748 KB File: SL.307.060906.x86_64.md5sum 1 KB The question is what is the last "File: SL.307.060906.x86_64.md5sum". Sure he have to burn first 4 ones on the CD but what should be done with the last one? I doubt that it should be burned on the 5th disk. Sorry for little bit offtop and thanks in advance... Regards, Sergey -- Sergey Mkrtchyan, Scinetific Researcher, Department of Molecular Physics, Faculty of Physics, Yerevan State University

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[opensuse] 10.1 packages for 10.0
by Jordi Massaguer i Pla 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Hello, is there a repository for opensuse10.0 with 10.1 packages? The problem I am trying to solve is that there are some packages (ant and its dependencies) that I need to install on an opensuse 10.0 that are at the opensuse10.1 repository. I do not find the source code, so that I can not create the rpms by myself. Is there a way to get the srpms or the rpms for opensuse10.0? Actually I tried to install the opensuse10.1 rpms, but, since they are compiled for i586 and in 10.0 were compiled for noarch, I can not get it done without solving dependecy problems. Thanks, jordi ----------------------------------------------- Jordi Massaguer Pla openTrends Solucions i Sistemes phone: +34 93 320 84 14 fax: +34 93 300 35 27 jordi.massaguer(a)opentrends.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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kopete blink in taskbar with XGL
by Michal Hlavac 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Hello, I have kde 3.5.4 in suse 10.1 with XGL. I have notification when message recieved. Message window blink in task bar. But in XGL message window blink only with first message. In another messages looks like selected... where is problem? thanks, miso

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Why bugs don't get great info from everybody (was: Why it's silly to file a bug report to Novell
by mlist＠safenet-inc.com 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Felix Miata [mailto:mrmazda@ij.net] offered: > In far less than the time you wasted writing all those useless > additional comments in the bug, maybe 5-10 minutes, you could have: > > 1-dropped to runlevel 3 > 2-run sax2 > 3-tested that the new xorg.conf was in fact broken using startx > 4-saved the broken file > 5-restored the good xorg.conf > 6-returned to runlevel 5 > 7-attached your good & bad xorg.conf & Xorg.0.log.old files to the bug > > Meanwhile, all normal "production" functions would have continued > uninterrupted in runlevel 3. The respondents could have spelled this > out, so only most of the blame is on you rather than all of it. _You_ know that. I mean, _you_ know that: a) those 7 steps are 1) necessary and 2) sufficient and that b) you can do all those things safely, and be back exactly where you left, with no other introduced problems or omissions affecting your ability to continue doing the primary purpose of the computer. Less knowledgeable and practiced people don't. Those of us who aren't doing software and system config for a living, or as our major hobby, likely have just one Linux box that is also our main/only computer. So, we may tinker a bit, but any given problem is researched and solved just one time. We don't get to repeat and test and refine the fix, and toss away all our mistakes and dead-ends that we encountered while getting there, cuz at that point, we're done. There's no second, third, and twenty-fourth computer on which to consolidate our grasp and pile up some experience. After the next SUSE version is installed, that problem is gone, or if it's back it's back with a new cause. Many people actually need to do a thing more than once to learn it and retain it. For example, I had to learn to calculate mode-lines and such, to get my video working properly in SuSE 7.point.something. You'd expect me to know how to do that (and why and where and...) today. But I couldn't. I'd have to research it again. I'd have a small advantage of having an idea where to start, or some search terms to use ... but there's the disadvantage of five million additional pages on the web, on roughly that topic, since the last time. After I finally fixed the problem once, I stopped, because that was my only computer. Having stopped, I did not re-inforce my learning. I definitely did not streamline it and clean out all the hundreds of false starts and dead-ends that made the first time take a month. So those wrong approaches are all still there, waiting to trip me, and undermining any confidence if I had to tackle another video config problem today. Not interesting, but just one explanation of why not everybody knows what to do to gather just the right bug-diagnosing info, and why they don't have the confidence to do it... if they're working on a computer that needs to stay available for their real work or their real hobby. Yes, I know you get over that kind of trepidation real quick if you land in a job where you configure ten computers a day, every day, while debugging networks, recovering databases, etc... but then, you don't land in a job like that if you aren't suited to it. Kevin (whose SUSE PC mostly works, and who is waiting for 10.2 to see if what doesn't work will be magically fixed... and what new thing will not-quite-work) 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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