February 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?
by Daniel Bauer 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Hi everybody, The HD (with Suse 10.0, ReiserFS) of my moms old laptop is broken and I thought, maybe there's a possibility to revover her e-mails and some OOo textfiles, but google wouldn't help me (I probably search wrong - find only commercial ads...). Trying to mount /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda2 with the rescue system fails (it says: partition doesn't exist) The openSuse install CD says, "parted cannot format the disk". reiserfsck says the SuperBlock cannot be read - and I cannot rebuild the Superblock with reiserfsck because I don't know what answers I should type to the questions it asks.... The only thing I know is that it's a 20 G disk with a swap, a root and a home partition (with reiserfs). But I don't even know the sizes of the partitions or the version of reiserfs... Is there a Linux tool to make a bootable CD, that will then search the disk and give possibility to save found files to a floppy? any hints? thanks Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Mailman on 10.2
by Teemu Nikkilä 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Hi, has anyone set up Mailman on OpenSuSE? I'd need a very simple configuration for one or two mailing lists on my mail and web server. I installed Mailman from official RPM and followed the README.SuSE but can't figure out how to set up the web interface. Cheers, Teemu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Spelling Knot Werking in KMail
by Kai Ponte 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

I just knowticed somefing in Kmail. I used to have spell checking enabled by default. I have the ispell dictionary enabled and don't recall changing anything. According to KMail Help... KMail will automatically check the spelling of your message (in HTML mode this currently does not work) and display unknown words using red color. If there are too many unknown words KMail will disable its checking. To select the language used for checking, select View->Dictionary. You can disable automatic spellchecking in the Options menu. To check the spelling of your message using a dialog, select Tools->Spelling.... KMail uses KSpell to check spelling, which is the KDE frontend to the ispell or aspell spelling checker. Note that you may first need to configure the spellchecker using Settings->Spellchecker.... I can do the manual spell checking but it used to to auto spell checking. Any ideas? I'm rully stummpte on tis one. -- kai www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com www.filesite.org || www.donutmonster.com closing the doors that surround me so no one will ever penetrate complete my retreat just to wait for the day that never comes so i will laugh alone -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Consistency with power privileges
by Angus MacGyver 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Hi All, Running Suse 10.2 on a number of machines and have some issues with power management. When I first installed suse 10.2 on one machine, I couldn't get a normal user to be able to suspend or hibernate the machine, even though root could (so know the hardware was capable) I found a workaround, and wrote it in my little blue book of knowledge so I wouldn't forget, which was to fire up Yast2, goto /etc/sysconfig Editor, choose System>Powermanagement>Sleep Modes > Disable_User_Stanadby and change parameter from Yes to NO.. Great - worked a treat - till the hard drive failed and I had to do a re-install. The re-install now doesn't have this setting, so I can't get normal users to hibernate/suspend the machine which is somewhat irritating. I did some searching, and unfortunately now cannot remember where i found it, but found some stuff relating to /etc/PolicyKit/privilege.d/hal-power-* Now taken a look at those settings, tweaked and rebooted but still a normal user cannot hibernate the system... Please can someone point me in the right direction. Cheers AM -- Angus MacGyver <macgyver(a)calibre-solutions.co.uk> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] wine and new libraries
by Richard Bos 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Hi, I just installed wine-0.9.31 for a proprietary application that is being said runs using wine-0.9.29 and up. However, it needs some libraries that are not part of wine. An example is Host.dll. I downloaded Host.dll from the net and saved it into /usr/lib/wine. After executing the application with wine, wine still complains that it cannot find it. After moving the libs to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 the application can be launched. There still seems to be a problem with the application, might that because the dll's are not correctly recognized/initialized by wine? How can I have those dll's installed systemwide in /usr/lib/wine and recognized by wine? -- TIA, Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] pdf and xorg process memory leak
by Michal Hlavac 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Hello, I have suse 10.2 with latest kde 3.5.6 packages from repos.opensuse.org. Before I start kpdf with 1.7MB large pdf file, X-org process has 80MB of ram. When I scroll down pdf, Xorg has 650MB of ram. Looks strange... Is there anybody with same issue??? m.

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[opensuse] Downgrading gcc
by Donato Azevedo 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Hi guys, I'd like to know if there's a way to downgrade gcc from 4.1 to 3.X. I mean a manageable way, in the sense that I need not compile a new gcc and remove the old one by hand. thankx for the help! -- Donato Azevedo GNU/Linux enthusiast -- 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] Installing new Installation source
by A. den Oudsten 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Ladislav Slezak wrote: > Hi, > > A. den Oudsten napsal(a): > >>Hy, >>I'm using openSUSE 10.2 with great satisfaction, but when I trie with >>Yast to make a new installation source in a local directory >>/windows/C/MyDownloadFiles/ it reacts with: Can't make installation >>source. Unknown source type for dir:///windows/C/MyDownloadFiles/ >> >>Why this? May be I did something wrong, but what? > > > What does /windows/C/MyDownloadFiles contain? Yast expects a product in the > specified directory (CD1/DVD1 copy or a YUM repository). If you want to use an > ISO image check the option in the dialog. > > If you have just plain RPM files (no metadata, no directory media.1 or > suse/setup...) use "Package Directory" type of the source. > > > Ladislav > Indeed I should chose Package Directory instead of Local Directory. The reason why is not clear for me because in both I used the same directory. Thanks, 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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Re: [opensuse] Win vs Lin info]
by Hans van der Merwe 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 09:45 +0100, DElyMyth wrote: > On 2/27/07, Hans van der Merwe <hvdmerwe(a)sunspace.co.za> wrote: > > > > This will probably spark some debates, but can someone point me to some > > information that I can use to successfully challenge out IT department > > concerning moving some Windows driven services to Linux (file, print and > > email/collaboration). > > I would say (besides the usual os-wars) that the ability to pilot the > server remotely without a GUI could be a good point. > A GUI spends resources, and Windows can't live without it, while Linux > can, and connecting via ssh gives you all the power you need to manage > the server and the installed services also if you're at home and want > to check how things are going (maybe trough a slow connection, > unusable if you need a GUI). > > Another point can be the fact that Windows costs, while Linux is free... > Not forgetting about stability issues. > Windows needs to be rebooted sometimes, Linux can live without a > reboot for months (unless you want to upgrade the kernel...). > > Hope this helps, > Thx, but the practical problem is this... we have two competent Windows centric IT people... one IT manager who overdosed on the MS-Coolaid.... we have an AD, 70 XPs (full house, Office etc), MS-Portal, MS-Exchange, MS-SQL, BackupExec, MS-IIS, FullSiteLicense(TM). To move just one of these over to something else will require another Linux IT person (we cant afford), IT manager wont let IT staff go on Linux course because we don't have Linux servers (catch-22). I'll admit, this is actually an valid issue. Now I want persuade management (who knows nothing about IT and assumes its always expensive) that we can move over some of these services to cheaper alternatives. IT manager has got all the FUD behind him - I need some anti-FUD info. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Is SLES-10-x86_64 available for download?
by Adinda Praditya 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Hi all... I'm going to SLES-10-x86_64 install Dell Power Edge 2950. I couldn't find the iso files on http://download.novell.com/Download. Are they available for download? I tried SLES-10-CD-ia64-GMC instead (as it's the closest one to SLES-10-x86_64) but the Dell server won't accept. If it's not available for download, what package available that can be used for the server? Thanks, Adinda P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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