September 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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List of topics in /etc/sysconfig section of Yast is out of date
by Paul Abrahams 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

I have two machines running 10.0. On just one of them, probably because the installation was an update rather than from scratch, the list of topics in the left-hand pane of the Yast /etc/sysconfig window is out of date. (Under Firewall it lists personal-firewall rather than SuSEfirewall2.) How can I update that list? All my Yast packages seem to have the 10.0 version or better. Paul

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jakarta-common-cli package?
by Sunny 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

Hi, I'm trying to use Azureus-console from packman for SUSE 10.0 x86_64. It requires jakarta-common-cli, but I can not find it any where. Any ideas? Thanks -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Windows is a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit graphical shell for an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.

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