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[opensuse] Install SuSE 102 along side 10.1 - What happens?
by Brian S. Schang 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hello: I'm writing in an attempt to understand how the SuSE installer will accommodate my existing installation. Background: (1) I have SuSE 10.1 successfully installed. (2) I have three hard drives connected: - /dev/sda : the "main" hard drive with SuSE 10.1 and swap - /dev/sdb : a new drive that is blank - /dev/sdc : data (3) I want to leave my SuSE 10.1 intact (untouched) on sda and want to install SuSE 10.2 on sdb. OK, the easy part. I can boot from the SuSE 10.2 DVD and install on sdb. This should be a piece of cake. Presumably an install of SuSE 10.2 on sdb will not touch sda or sdc. Now, the question -- what happens to the boot sequence?? For my setup today (if I understand this properly), I'll boot from sda. Upon boot the master boot record (MBR) will be read from sda and will launch grub on /dev/sda2/boot. The menu.lst file will define the "presets" and default that I have. What happens when I install SuSE 10.2 on sdb? - Will the machine still load the MBR from sda? [I think this is a hardware/BIOS issue?] - Will the machine still load grub from /dev/sda2/boot? - What will happen to my existing menu.lst file? Will it be overwritten (to only contain a 10.2 option) or will it be modified/appended (10.1 and 10.2 options)? The bottom line is that I don't much care, but I do want the option to boot into my working/existing 10.1 versus my experimental 10.2 setup. Will the install program handle this for me? Will I need to make some manual configuration changes after the SuSE 10.2 install? Thank you. Brian Schang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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KDE Remote Desktop (VNC) troubles
by Janko Mivšek 07 May '07

07 May '07

Hello all, I'm repeating this question and I'd really appreciate any help. I cannot connect to a remote server via KDE Remote Desktop Connection anymore. When trying, I got an error: Connection failed, server does not accept new connections On a server there is: - no krfb processes - netstat -anp | grep 590 returns: tcp 0 0 :::5900 :::* LISTEN 2030/kdeinit: kded therefore someone is waiting for connection - this is SuSE 9.0 Is there a way to restart KDE's VNC on this server without restarting KDE completely? Thanks for any hint and best regards Janko

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[opensuse] Kaffeine/DVD
by Billie Erin Walsh 21 Apr '07

21 Apr '07

"The source can't be read. Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain data (e.g: no disc in drive). (Error reading from DVD.)" When I try to watch some DVD's in Kaffeine I get the above error message. [ Region 1] [ 10.2 ] It seems that the ones that do this open to a folder called video_ts in Konq. Inside the folder are what I assume are the movie files [ ifo, bup, and vob files ] Konq just lists them as type:unknown. Mediaplayer says there is no media on the disk Some will play through the FBI anti-copy message then stop in Kaffeine. I have watched some of these movies on my other computer with Kaffeine just fine. [ 10.1 and 10.0 ] I just finished watching another DVD on this machine without any hitches. [ Region 3 which brings up another question ] I've downloaded and installed all the Kaffeine and xine updates from Packman. Installed libdvdcss. I've read everything on the wiki and some other sites dealing with playing DVD's in Kaffeine and don't see anything I missed installing. Is there something I just overlooked? About the other question: In a certain Windows DVD player it said that if I watched three DVD's from a certain region it would "lock" into that region only. Does anyone know if Kaffeine does the same thing? -- (o:]>*HUGGLES*<[:o) Billie Walsh The three best words in the English Language: "I LOVE YOU" Pass them on! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] GUI to create hard/symlinks?
by Carlos E. R. 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I would like to know if there is a GUI browser (or text mode) capable of selecting a bunch of files and creating hardlinks in another directory. AFAIK, neither konqueror, nautilus, krusader, or midnight comander do. The closest is nautilus, but only symlinks and in the same directory. Midnight comander does both hard or soft, but only of one file, not of a selection. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFpU+gtTMYHG2NR9URAs6/AKCNge0+2BpoX6QqgT5vc7sGdT0xQACfRVVW 2EyEcDP7xrUX89cIN2NeYEk= =ULXT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] gdm / xorg issues: x server already running?
by Michael Dolan 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Whenever I start my desktop (running OpenSuse 10.2 with XGL), it shows the nVidia logo startup screen, then goes to this funky blue/black gdm error message saying "There already appears to be an X server running on display :0." And then it asks if it should try restarting X on display :0 again. Whether I say Yes or No, the screen goes blank for a second and then the normal gdm login screen comes up... it's very odd b/c it works, but for some reason appears to be called too early or something.... I've already tried just reinstalling gdm and xorg server packages... Can anyone help me identify where I should fix this? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OpenOffice "crashes" on exit from slideshow
by Simon Roberts 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hi all, I have SuSE 10.2 installed, and have just noticed that if I present a slideshow in OpenOffice (the version bundled with 10.2) the thing "crashes" when you exit a slideshow. It's curious, it doesn't seem to die per se, nor do any damage, but it insists that it crashed and must recover the file. Maybe it really did crash, but the file didn't really need recovery, since no changed had been made. It doesn't (so far at least) seem to damage anything, but it's a bit odd, and slightly worrying. Does anyone else see this, or am I just "special" :) Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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10.2 beta 2
by Robert Lewis 18 Mar '07

18 Mar '07

Today was supposed to be the day for 10.2 beta 2 to be released. So far I have not been able to locate it. Does anyone have insight into when this will appear? Cheers, Bob

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[opensuse] Need explanation - question 1
by usr 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

Hello SuSE people Recently installed 10.2 on a new hard drive. Triple boot all on their own harddrives. I gave 10.2 a 3GB partition for / I also made separate partitions for /tmp, /var, and /home, each 10GB in size. I went to update 10.2 and was warned that the / partition is 97% full. How can that be? Does everthing on the DVD install into / ?? Now, do I have to reinstall 10.2 after making the / partition much larger ?? Some please explain what the problem is here. Please ?? Bob S. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Paying for a Senior Moment
by Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

I have just upgraded my linux machine to a 64bit AMD CPU. I also went from the 32bit openSUSE v9.3 to the 64bit v10.3. However, the systemboard only has one IDE connectir and I had three IDE HD's that I wanted to install in the new system. So I installed a IDE to PCI card that has two IDE cable slots. I also put a new 250GB SATA HD on the system and unstalled the OS on that so I can boot the new machine. In fact, this message is being sent via that medium. The machine finds all of the HD's on boot, ans I can see them in Krusaders Mountg-Manager. However, when I attem;pt to mount the IDE drives in the Mount-Manager I get: Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so Here is the fstab: /dev/sda5 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/sda6 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/hdc1 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 /dev/hdb /hdb ext3 defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /hdc ext3 defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd /hdd ext3 defaults 0 0 I added the last three lines in an attempt to find the drives, obviously the file system is incorrect. I accepted the openSUSE installer defaults, which is why sda5 and 6 are ext3. Here is the output of dmesg (at least the parts that I think are for the IDE HD's) hdb: WDC WD400EB-00CPF0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hdb: max request size: 128KiB hdb: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) hdb: cache flushes not supported hdb: hdb1 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: WDC WD1200JB-00GVA0, ATA DISK drive hdd: WDC WD400JB-00ENA0, ATA DISK drive ide1 at 0xffffc20000024c80-0xffffc20000024c87,0xffffc20000024c8a on irq 50 hdc: max request size: 64KiB hdc: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) hdc: cache flushes supported hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdd: max request size: 64KiB hdc: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) hdc: cache flushes supported hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdd: max request size: 64KiB hdd: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) hdd: cache flushes not supported hdd: hdd1 It seems to me, in my rather naive way of looking at hardware issues, that I don't have the corrects fstab entries for the IDE drives. Is that information buried in the dmesg resuls? I need a solution to this problem (there's a lot in installed software and files on those HD to which I need access) and any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Finally, my apologies for the length of this message, I don't know what of the above (if any) will be useful Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Wireless setup [OT]
by Koenraad Lelong 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

Sorry for the off-topic post, but I don't know where to ask, so any pointers are welcome. At home I'm trying to set up a wireless accesspoint (connected to a Suse sever, that's why I ask here ;-) ). If the accesspoint is placed inside the house it's impossible to get access to it. I tried with two different products (Linksys and D-Link). Those accesspoints do work fine elsewhere, even in my gagage, which is a different building than my home, max. 20m away, but from inside my home I can't connect. I tried all channels, with no luck. So, has anyone of you some hints what to try next to get connected ? P.S. as far as I know there are no other transmitters in that band (2.4GHz ?) at home. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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