May 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] User loses GNOME desktop (SuSE 10.0)
by John O'Gorman 22 May '07

22 May '07

One user has a corrupted GNOME desktop. When he logs in, about 3 icons show, no task bar, no menus. Lots of error dialogue boxes pop up. Dozens of error messages: GConf Error: Adding client to server's l;ist failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 The book suggested renaning .gconf and .gnome2 (actually misprinted as ./gconf and ./gnome2). I did this. When the user logged in again, no change. All other users are OK. I added another user - OK also. This is not a show-stopper as he can use KDE instead and that still works. OS is SuSE 10.0. All the users are logging in on thin clients (LTSP Linux Terminal Server Project) which have worked fine for 5 years. Any suggestions John O'Gorman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OpenSuse vs MyRealBox again
by Carl Spitzer 22 May '07

22 May '07

Now again its happening I can post to the list from here but not receive. Why is the server having these problems. Just because Messaging Archetects took over Myrealbox from novell is no reason to have these issues for now the third time in a year. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ | \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | \ / | \ || | 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] ntsc to pal
by Primm 22 May '07

22 May '07

I've read the google articles filled with command line kernel jargon which I simply don't understand. All I want to do is convert my ntsc DVD's to pal so that I can watch them in Spain. Can SuSE 10.2 do that? TIA Steve. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop?
by Kai Ponte 22 May '07

22 May '07

I just got my new HP/Compaq 9440 laptop on Friday. It is pre-loaded with Windows Vista, which looks nice... http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/64 ...but is already starting to irritate me. In any case, I want to dual boot. I don't suppose I can wipe Vista off of it, since it is a work laptop. I've read that dual-booting under Vista is not as easy as 2k/xp because the partitioning is different. Every guide I've read so far says to have the Windows installer create a partition to be used later for Linux. Well, HP created the partitions for me, so I have little choice. Can I safely (at least reasonably) resize or am I screwed? -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop - Not Solved!
by Kai Ponte 21 May '07

21 May '07

Figuring I would just "go for it" and install SUSE on my laptop, I booted the DVD. Unfortunately, when I got to the partition menu, I got the following choice: "Delete Windows partition /dev/sda1 (85.1 GB). Resize impossible due to inconsistent fs. Try checking fs under Windows." The same went for my 6.4 and 1.5 GB partitions. I'll have to wait for *nix to catch up with the filesystem. Maybe I can run VMWare instaead Darn! I really wanted to play Chromium and Planet Penguin Racer on my 17" screen... -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- 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] Evolution/palm sync woes
by Simon Roberts 21 May '07

21 May '07

----- Original Message ---- From: Kai Ponte <kai(a)perfectreign.com> > I'm trying to get my girlfriend a Linux system, and am making a fool > of myself :( Nah, you're looking like a true geek! > She needs to have a working mechanism for syncing her palm device. I Good bloody luck! I've had no end of difficulty trying to successfully and consistently sync various palm devices. This goes all the way back to me trying with my Palm III under Mandrake 6 in '99. I'm not sure about gnome but in kde there are various options for synching - all which work to some degree of success. Your main issues are the user permissions to the usb virtual port that is created for palm - which is usually /dev/pilot but symlinks to /TTY/USB/USB1 or soemthinglikethat - and the timeouts on the palm device. What Palm Pilot does she have? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh dear! I didn't think it would be that bad (and here's me hoping to get this working with a whinedoze mobile device too!) The devices and permissions seem fine. It will run the core/original set of conduits. That is, it does "backup" etc. (I don't know where it puts the data, but it does the backup and a bunch of the other conduits that are enabled!) However, it's the evolution-specific conduits that don't work. As I say, initially they weren't listed, then I discovered the files that represent them were present but in a directory other than where evolution was looking. Then I copied the files and they just don't seem to work, but don't give error messages. I'm not at her place right now, but if memory serves, it's a Palm Z1 (cheap and cheerful, genuine Palm, about a year or so old, color screen). 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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.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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[opensuse] Evolution/palm sync woes
by Simon Roberts 21 May '07

21 May '07

Hi all, I'm trying to get my girlfriend a Linux system, and am making a fool of myself :( She needs to have a working mechanism for syncing her palm device. I proudly told her that evolution would do this without difficulty. Hah, bloody wrong :( I've been round the houses with 10.2, first it didn't recognize the device, then I tried to install new versions, all manner of nonsense. I've tried compiling and installing from source, but now I think I'm close. I finally figured out that the system wasn't doing the patch downloads, so when I got that configured properly, I found hundreds of updates, including evolution and gnome-pilot updates. Well, next I found that the system would recognize the palm, and would sync, but that there were no evolution conduits offered. Then I located them in /opt/gnome/share/blahblah/conduits, but worked out that the set the system was working with are in /usr/local...blah. So, I copied them over. Now I have been able to select the evolution conduits, but they don't work :( If I enable the calendar conduit and hit sync, It shows the top progress bar at about 1/8 of the way across, then the bottom one just bounces back and forth really fast. Then eventually the palm times out and it's all over. Any suggestions? Surely this can't be so hard? I must have broken something in all my long trials, but how do I reset everything to the "out of the box" configuration (without reinstalling the whole machine!) 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 ____________________________________________________________________________________Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.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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[opensuse] Simple RPM question
by Jorge Fábregas 21 May '07

21 May '07

Hello guys, Is there a way to remove a package and ALL its dependencies? For example, I installed mplayer and I had to install 9 other packages to satisfy dependencies. If I no longer want mplayer I'll do this: rpm -q --last to see the last packages I installed. I"ll then do "rpm -e" with EACH one of them. I noticed that you can only specify one package with the remove switch...It will be great If I could "rpm -e this,that,the-other-one, blabla" or something like "rpm -e MPlayer --along-dependencies" :) (if and only those packages are needed only by MPlayer of course...). I'm not interested in a shell script. I just would like to know if there's a switch I'm missing (I read the man page but found nothing). Thanks! Jorge -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] [OT] Now this gives "Playing with your pingus" a whole new meaning
by Pueblo Native 21 May '07

21 May '07

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=46127 Damn, I knew I was spending too much time inviting friends over to play with my pingus, thank goodness they were girls . . .;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Seeking Simple Image Editing Tool for Web Development
by Randall R Schulz 21 May '07

21 May '07

Hi, I need to create some textures for a Web interface in PNG (or GIF) form that include transparency. I've been driven crazy by GIMP, Krita and the other programs that appear in KDE -> Graphics -> Image Editing menu on my SuSE 10.0 installation. Is there some other package, possibly not one categorized under that section of the KDE menu, that I can use to quickly create a simple stipple pattern with transparency? Thanks. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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