September 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Where's the Wiki, or the FAQ?
by Felix Miata 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

If there's one thing that makes this list different from most mailing lists, it's the absence complete help links at the bottom of each list post. Right now down there there are what looks like 3 links, but two are email addresses, and #3 is just a link to the mailing list archive. Those are all well and good, but there needs to be at least one http:// address for a FAQ or somewhere else to get started from, as the mailing list archive ain't it, unless the goal is to get ever subscriber to post here first and look for a FAQ later. I installed 10.0 from the box DVD. I would have thought this type of KDE install would automatically give me access to common standard file types. I was obviously assuming to much. I got an installation instruction CD for fixing my printer. On it is one mpg file. When I tried to open it with Kaffeine, it crashed. When I tried to open it with Konq, it tells me no plugin found to handle this resource, xine couldn't find demux. I opened YAST software management, and the list of plugins is a mile long. I also searched there for demux, and found 2 gstreamers and 1 ogmtools, but nothing that has anything obvious to do with Konq. What am I supposed to do to make something play this mpg file, put it in a windoz box? -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. Esteem her, and she will exalt you; embrace her, and she will honor you." Proverbs 4:7-8 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/

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permanent smb mounts
by Tim Nicholson 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

I am trying to make a permanent smb mount point for a (non browsable) Windows share in 10.1, this used to be easy with Lineighbourhood, but I cannot see how to do it with the new 10.1 "personal settings" samba bits. Do I have to resort to hacking /etc/fstab? (I'm not sure I can remember the syntax) -- Tim Nicholson http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.

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10.1 RC1 to final by updating RPMs?
by Thomas Börkel 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

HI! Is it already known, if I will be able to update a 10.1 RC1 installation to 10.1 final (when available) by simply updating all changed RPMs? Thanks! Thomas

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[opensuse] su not resetting PATH anymore?
by Frank Steiner 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

Hi, in SuSE 9.0 "su" resets the PATH and then sets it to some value for root. Especially, the "." entry (that the users had) disappeared. Calling "su" in SuSE 10.1 does not reset the path anymore, and so root suddenly has "." in his path, although CWD_IN_ROOT_PATH is set to no. This is really really bad because you don't expect it. "su -l" is not a good alternative because it changes you current directory. Can I revert to the old behaviour of su? Was resetting the path a feature of su, or of the shell scripts in /etc/? cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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/var/log/messages, kernel messages, what is this ?
by Sylvester Lykkehus 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

Hi All, In my /var/log/messages, these messages keeps appearing: Sep 30 18:01:18 SoliD kernel: b5:ad:12:d9:3f:d5:a3:9a:c1:d9:b2:fb:e0:a8:ab:bb: Sep 30 18:01:18 SoliD kernel: 28:5d:d1:4e:56:0c:da:4d: Sep 30 18:01:18 SoliD kernel: bc:19:d7:53:bd:db:92:53: Sep 30 18:01:18 SoliD kernel: ab:21:40:9d:be:b2:17:91:bc:99:88:ef:e8:23:99:f7: Sep 30 18:01:18 SoliD kernel: e8:09:71:33:8f:94:b4:76: Sep 30 18:01:18 SoliD kernel: 6f:34:4e:e7:a7:60:36:59: Sep 30 18:01:56 SoliD kernel: fb:00:34:29:17:9d:b2:15:ff:20:dd:dc:06:10:b5:93: Sep 30 18:01:56 SoliD kernel: c1:29:be:e7:4a:de:d2:4e: Sep 30 18:01:56 SoliD kernel: 72:98:6c:b8:14:a6:44:17: almost twice every minute, 3-8 messages per second. There seems to be no pattern in the messages. What could be causing this, and what does these messages really tell ?

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10.1: No resume after latest kernel update
by Hermann J. Beckers 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

After upgrade to 2.6.12.21-0.25-bigsmp, my system doesn't resume anymore. Suspend works, resume starts, it even restores the data pages, but when control should go the reactivated kernel, it shows only the screen with the suspend messages. Any hints? hjb

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Re: [SLE] SUSE = Ubuntu? (now power consumption)
by M Harris 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

On Monday 25 September 2006 21:22, M Harris wrote: > Tomorrow when I have a little more time I will measure the entire > system again, this time with each machine cranking on a 20,000 digit > computation of pi--- just to see what the overall load increase will be > with all of the processors "hot" so to speak--- never measured that before > either! Ok, again as promised, I measured my home system/network for a contrast comparison between all processors idle vs all processors pegged. First I established a baseline for the house (systems down) including my office cd amp (forgot that before). So... I removed the cd amp from the system load numbers. The entire network up and idling consumes 625 watts (see previous post for network compliment). I then shipped this command to each processor on the network to get it cranking on a computation of pi to 50,000 digits: time echo "scale=50000; 16*a(1/5)-4*a(1/239)" |bc -lq The scale was chosen significantly large enough so that even the fastest machine on the network could in no way complete the calculation before I could take the measurement. ( to see the pi calculation complete on your own system in a reasonable time set the scale to something smaller than 1000 ). Survey says.... With all processors pegged the entire network consumes *780 watts*. So, to put this in perspective, even with all processors pegged the entire network still consumes 5% less power than my coffee maker. Over an (8) hour day the network will consume 6.2 KwHr pegged vs 5.2 KwHr idling. The coffee maker consumes about 6.6 KwHr over that same period. Moral to the story?? Well, if I give up coffee.... I will be healthier and the savings will completely pay for running my home network. ;-))) -- Kind regards, M Harris <><

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YaST and soundfonts
by eddieleprince 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

Has anyone managed to install soundfonts using YaST? I'm currently trying to run Solfege but without any joy. I have a soundblaster live card. Any thoughts on how to get solfege going on SUSE 10.1 anyone? Thanks Eddie

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Firewall zones
by Paul Abrahams 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

I want to configure the SuSE firewall so that communication within my LAN is uninhibited but communication outside the LAN is fully protected. Looking at the firewall configuration in Yast, I see that the external zone is protected but the internal zone is not. However, I don't see how to specify that the internal zone consists of hosts with addresses 192.168.0.x. This would seem to be a pretty common requirement. It appears that the firewall configurator can specify that an interface is external or internal, but I have only one interface (network card). It connects to the LAN and to the router; the router in turn talks to the world. It's a very common setup. Paul

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Block rug from updating?
by Anders Norrbring 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

How can I set packages to NOT be updated via rug? I don't see any options in the rug man page. Also, it's set as locked in yast, so 'yast online-update' doesn't try to update it, but rug does! -- Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting

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