November 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] No battery detected after upgrade
by Gabriel Fróes Franco 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hello all, I'm running Suse10.3 and I've updated my kernel yesterday to 2.6.22.12-0.1-default. After this update the battery monitor on KDE always shows -1% charged and looking at lshal and /proc/acpi there's no sign of my battery. Is there anything I can do? I cannot rollback to the previous kernel since it s not available through the repositories. regards, Gabriel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Where's my skull and crossbones ?
by Bob S 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hey SuSE lovers. Why did they take away my skull and crossbones ? I used to take great delight to hit ctl+alt+escape to kill an unresponsive app. Very appropriate. Now they have some wimpy little white x. Boo !! Bring it back ! 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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Re: [opensuse] Software RAID recovery
by Coach-X 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

> Any good documentation about RAID 1 known? I found these websites very useful: http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/RAID_setup http://www.texsoft.it/index.php?c=hardware&m=hw.storage.grubraid1&l=it http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] huge update ?
by Hans Witvliet 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Perhaps i missed something... On my daily update from gwdg i just got 5884 files updated, and of those were 5494 files from 10.3 (mostly, but not all src rpm's) Something drastic happened? HW -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] LDAP Server SetUp
by Peter Bloomfield 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

I am trying to setup an LDAP server for user authentication. The environment I am in has windows XP and 2000, MAC and a couple of different linux, SuSE and Fedora. I have a little test network consisting of three machines, a linux box (SuSE 10.3), a windows XP box and a MAC. I have setup the SuSE box as an LDAP server (via yast2 modules), but am now at a loss of how to include the user information for the authentication. I want to add a couple of users 'Bill' and 'Ben' to the LDAP server and then setup up the client software on the MAC and Windows box to log in. Can anybody point me in the direction of a how to which will demonstrate how I can do this. Thanks in advance Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] CPU speed
by A. den Oudsten 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

I have a PC with a AMD Athlon processor on a MSI motherboard K7T-266-PRO from 2001 In openSUSE 10.2 sysinfo gave as speed 1.199,81 MHz After upgrade to 10.3 it gives only 900,12 MHz My questions; What happened and what can I do to restore the old speed? TIA André den Oudsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Backup solutions
by Philippe Landau 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

What can a simple user use to backup his installation ? Also what simple backup solution do you recommend for your personal data ? I hope this is not too repetitive. http://opensuse-community.org/ does not discuss it and apparently the OpenSuse Wiki only points to opensuse.org. Kind regards Philippe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] No battery detected after upgrade
by kevindupuy＠bellsouth.net 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

I know that in YaST there is a "taboo - Never Install/Upgrade" function, I don't know if that would affect the openSUSE Updater or not... -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Gabriel Fróes Franco <gffranco(a)gmail.com> > > Thank you Rajko. > > I managed to rollback to the previous version and everything is working now. > Just one more question. Is there a way to make the suse updater ignore the > broken kernel updates? Is there a ignore list for it? > > Regards, > > Gabriel > > On Tuesday 20 November 2007 00:58:01 Rajko M. wrote: > > On Monday 19 November 2007 12:14:43 pm Gabriel Fróes Franco wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I'm running Suse10.3 and I've updated my kernel yesterday to > > > 2.6.22.12-0.1-default. After this update the battery monitor on KDE > > > always shows -1% charged and looking at lshal and /proc/acpi there's no > > > sign of my battery. Is there anything I can do? I cannot rollback to the > > > previous kernel since it s not available through the repositories. > > > > > > regards, > > > > > > Gabriel > > > > Browse: > > http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/rpm/ > > subdirectory for your architecture and you will find all update kernels. > > Download previous that worked, open console, login as root, cd to directory > > where you downloaded kernel and run, for instance for 32 bit system: > > rpm -ivh kernel-default-2.6.22.9-0.4.i586.rpm > > or > > rpm -ivh kernel-default-2.6.22.12-0.1.x86_64.rpm > > for 64 bit. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Rajko. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Script help
by Chris Arnold 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

I have the following script to add text to the end of a file (that file is found in ~/Desktop/test). When i run the script it adds the following: text... just like the script has but it adds it on the 2nd to last line and i want to add it to the very end of the file. Not sure how the opensuse list feels about attachments but i have added the script and small test file for you all to run the script on the test file so you can see what is happening. Chris

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[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 Review
by Richard Creighton 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

jdd wrote: > Sid Boyce wrote: >> http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/opensuse10.3.review.html >> Mentions of "for the uninitiated" sounds about right. To sidestep any >> problems with the DVD, I've installed from Factory. Looks like the >> DVD should have been delayed until it was compared with Factory for >> stability. >> I think the reviewer attempted to be fair (he points to the URL to >> show where he is coming from). Perhaps some pertinent pointers for 11.0. >> Regards >> Sid. > > always the same garbage... the author say that he wouldn't give > openSUSE to a newcommer, but he try the install on a very special > machine (grub on the root partition, and he wonder why he can't reboot > without editing the original grub!!!), and when going to console he > tries to use mandriva tools and don't know yast is at hand. > > so one people that wants to make all special by himself and wonder why > openSUSE don't do this automatically. May I say no distribution can > do? and on my own laptop, mandriva installs worst than openSUSE (what > means little) > > jdd > I'm not sure that I could recommend the GM install DVD to a novice either and I swear by SuSE. As an ex (retired) College Professor teaching OS theory, I taught Windoze, RedHat, SuSE and several others. I chose SuSE for my own use. However, with that said, the GM release simply is/was not ready for prime time with major flaws in the installer, in the repair program and numerous other programs that simply shouldn't have been there in a release version. I consistently have recommended to management in private mail and in public that the GM be remastered. There are a few managers at openSuSE.org and Novell that are well aware of my views on the subject (at least their responses suggest they at least read the E-Mail <grin>). I think they made the wrong decision, but I can only hope that like 10.2, they see the light and re-master 10.3. With the numerous fixes that are in place, 10.3 is generally a good release and in some ways, a great release, but for a new install, it is often a disaster and depending on a faulty DVD to do an install with in the hopes the system will not destroy other OS's like Windoze or other distros long enough to download the 'fixes' is like lighting a handful of cherry bombs with a hand slathered with glue. You might succeed, but why do it in the first place. The reviewer consistently stated that the machine he was installing to was 'Novell Certified'. That doesn't sound like a 'very special machine' as you state. That he might have other distros, even Windows on that machine doesn't make it unusual. Many converts to SuSE will have or want the ability to keep their old OS, be it Windows or Mandrake or RedHat or whatever, even an older version of SuSE, until they are sure that the new version of SuSE does what they need and want it to do. To honestly say "I had problems" is not being negative. I am/was a beta tester for 10.3 and *I* had problems. I see dozens, no hundreds, of buglist reports from people with all kinds of problems. Sound problems, IDE renaming issues, clobbered Windows partitions, you name it....are they *all* 'special machines' and should therefore be discounted because they had problems? I think not. I think the reviewer was honest and admitted that he used other distros and frankly, if we, as beta testers, had done a better job, and if management and others at Novell and openSuSE.org had listened when we said 'there is a problem', rather than all too often ignoring or discounting the report until it was too late, maybe the reviewer might have said "this is a keeper" rather than saying in so many words, 'it is a very good distro, but not yet, at least for me'. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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