April 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] USB stick not mounted with "sync" option
by Darren Freeman 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi all, in OpenSUSE 10.1, my removable USB flash memory would be mounted by the hotplug subsystem with the sync option so I could yank it if it weren't flashing. However now that I've gone to 10.2, all my systems mount it without the sync option and I have experienced data loss without realising this. A workaround is to run "sync" as root before yanking, or unmount. Is this a bug or a deliberate change? How can I configure my preferred behaviour? Have fun, Darren -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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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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[opensuse] no messages
by Carl Spitzer 14 May '07

14 May '07

the archive at lists.opensuse.org shows activity, Myrealbox seems to receive other email but nothing now for 8 days from opensuse and related lists. Whats up. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ | \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | \ / | \ || | X |__/| || |( `--. |__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Missing timezone for Canberra, Australia
by Darren Freeman 13 May '07

13 May '07

Hi all, Using OpenSUSE 10.2 DVD There is no timezone for Canberra, Australia, under the clock settings of KDE. This is the capital so it would be polite to include it :) Have fun, Darren -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] red prompt for root user
by Alexey Eremenko 13 May '07

13 May '07

congratulations for this new feature in 10.3 ! I really like it ! 1. Who made it? 2. Where can I find documentation that allows me to change bash prompt? (colors, symbols, etc...) I know this is a bash-specific PS1/PS2 variables were changed... -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Caching updates locally/Local update server
by Prajjwal Devkota 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hi Everyone, I need to update my opensuse machines at times, and the uplink is not so good as it through VSAT links. I was looking for a place where the online updater stores its files, but I could not find any location. The files seemed to be temporarily stored in /var/adm/mount/..., but then once the update was over, these files got automatically removed. If there is no option for creating an automated local update server, I think I would have to manage with locally cached rpms, but then, even for locally cached rpms, which location can I find them in, and what would be a good idea to manage my updates for a LAN? The funny thing is: in Yast2, when I go to Patch->All in this list, I see that the option Keep has been selected. However, the rpms do not seem to appear anywhere. Can anyone help me out with this? Thanks, Prajjwal Message Disclaimer: This electronic message may contain confidential information. If you have received it in error, please immediately inform the sender and delete the mail and any attachments. Unless it relates to the official business of UMN, any opinions, views and other information expressed in this document are those of the individual sender. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Software Updater - Error
by eddieleprince 08 May '07

08 May '07

Every time I start KDE I get the following error message. It has just started happening in the last week or so. Anyone has any thoughts? (openSUSE 10.2, KDE Release 3.5.5 "release 45.4", kernel 2.6.18.8-0.2-default) ------------------------------------ Software Updater - Error ------------------------------------ System.NullReferenceException: A null value was found where an object instance was required. Server stack trace: at Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.PackageManager.GetUpdates (Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Catalog catalog) [0x00000] at Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.PackageManager.GetUpdates () [0x00000] at Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.RemotePackageMa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] uninstall source
by lists Guillot 08 May '07

08 May '07

Hello everyone, and welcome to Newbie Question Sunday. I often install packages from source with ./configure, make, make install. Sometimes I'm not happy with the software for whatever reason and I want to get rid of it. I don't actually know how to do this, till now I've always done make clean or make distclean if available, and then deleted the sources. But I installed something the other day that messed up something else, and uninstalling in this manner did not fix the problem. So how does one really fully undo what is done by ./configure, make, make install? To give an example, to solve a claimed dependency by some other software I went and installed iconv ( http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ ). Then when I tried to run man from the command line I got: > man man Reformatting man(1), please wait... iconv: conversion from utf8 unsupported iconv: try 'iconv -l' to get the list of supported encodings So I "uninstalled" iconv as mentioned above, but the problem didn't go away. to my surprise I found that /usr/local/bin/iconv was still there. If I delete it the problem is solved, so that's ok. The question is that I thought make clean would have got rid of it, and now I wonder what other junk is left lying around from other source packages I've installed and "removed". How does one really uninstall? How do you know if everything's been removed? Sorry if this is embarrassingly basic. Cheers. g -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Raw Printer server
by Hans van der Merwe 08 May '07

08 May '07

I have an unsupported USB Lexmark P3450 printer (paperweight according to http://openprinting.org) Is it still possible to share this printer, as RAW, with cups and samba to Windows machines? I can see the printer on the Win clients and see print jobs in the CUPS status window - but no spooling to printer. 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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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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