May 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] USB 2.0 external hard drives
by Jeffrey L. Taylor 08 May '07

08 May '07

I looking to buy an external hard drive to backup (not archive) my laptop. It has USB 2.0. I am looking for a desktop solution, i.e., don't need nor want to pay for portable powered USB drives. Capacity 80GB to 160GB range. Any recommendations and/or condemnations? TIA, Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Riso CR1610EP printer
by Stuart Murray-Smith 08 May '07

08 May '07

Hi list Could anyone please inform me how to get the Riso CR1610EP printer configured under SuSE 10.x? TiA Regards, Stu@ -- Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. -- 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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[opensuse] Thunderbird 2.0 (SuSE 10.2)
by Dennis J. Tuchler 08 May '07

08 May '07

I installed Thunderbird 2.0 over my previous version and got an e-mail application with a three-row tool bar that freezes every time it downloads e-mail messages. Whenever I call it up and download e-mail it freezes up. On exiting (aborting) I send off an error message. I'd like to escape it, but I can't find the previous version at the T'bird web site. Where can I find it? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] pci-express raid card or pci
by Jack Malone 08 May '07

08 May '07

Ok I am giving up on the 3ware 9650 raid card for now til the next version of suse comes out. I need another raid card for this machine I'm working on that is either pci-e or the old pci type. I have one of each of those slots free to use. I have 5 Seagate sata drives to hook to it in a raid 10 config with one spare drive at the moment. So I need at least an 8 port card. I have always used 3ware raid cards but for now the 9650 I have is not supported in suse linux. I have been told that it works in 10.3 alpha but not in 10.2 so I'm putting it aside for now. Thanks Jack Malone -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Q: Compiz/Xinerama
by Magnus Boman 08 May '07

08 May '07

Hello all, I've got two monitors connected to my NVidia card, one is connected via VGA and the other one is connected via DVI, and it's setup with Xinerama. Xgl/Compiz runs just fine with this setup, but there's one thing that annoys me and that is the cube... It's currently one big cube covering both monitors. My questions is; Is it possible to get two independent cubes, one per monitor, and if so, how? Compiz version is 0.4.0. Thanks, Magnus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 4GB computer slowdown
by Alexandru Matei 08 May '07

08 May '07

Hello, I've recently upgraded my RAM to 4GB and since then, when the X server starts, the computer slows down a lot - what I mean by slows down is that: - although there is some occasional hard disk activity, I never see the KDE Desktop, I only get the mouse pointer and that's it - if I start a console with Ctrl+Alt+F1, it takes about a minute to see the command prompt from the moment I type my (correct) password - if after logging in I use the Midnight Commander, it's response is very slow and slurgish and navigation through folders is very slow When I still had 2GB everything was ok. I'm using openSUSE 10.2 on a Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86 Ghz, 4 MB L2 Cache, FSB 1066 Mhz / Intel DP965LT motherboard / 4 x 1 GB Corsair DDR2 675 Mhz, 4-4-4-12 / ATI Radeon EAX1300 256MB / WDC S-ATA II 250 GB HDD. Booting the XEN kernel (second option in the bootloader) works (but no ATI video driver is taken into consideration, it defaults to VESA mode), but using the default one causes the above problem. Could you please be as kind so as to give me a suggestion to fix this issue? It's really frustrating, as Windows XP and Vista work ok (but they don't see the entire 4GB, only 3.25 GB), but I would rather use Linux instead (and hopefully have all 4GB available). Thank you very much, Alex -- 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] Error's on raid disk
by Wilfred van Velzen 08 May '07

08 May '07

>>> "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas(a)telefonica.net> 2007-05-08 14:32:59 >>> > > The Tuesday 2007-05-08 at 13:09 +0200, Wilfred van Velzen wrote: > > > Not too busy, but busy enough during work hours, because the 30% hasn't > > moved yet... > > Probably busy enough that the test doesn't progress (much). If the test is > well designed, the normal disk activity has priority. It seems that way. > Probably you just have to wait longer and see. I'm in no hurry, I'll wait until tomorrow, by which time the remaining 30% should be finished. > There is a trick, although you may not like it. f the raid is in software, > you can deactivate one of the hard disks (simulate a failure). The other > disk(s) take over the load, the failed one goes idle, and the test can > happily progress on that one. However, if the other disk goes down in the > interval... ouch :-( It's software raid, and I thought of this, but don't like it... ;) > > smartctl -l error /dev/sdb > > > > But that shows the same output as the -a option... > > Ah... > > I expected something like this (I see it with -a): > > SMART Error Log Version: 1 > ATA Error Count: 251 (device log contains only the most recent five errors) > ... There are no errors in the log: # smartctl -l error /dev/sdb smartctl version 5.37 [x86_64-suse-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged > > I'll advice the one who controls the money to order a spare one in > > advance, so we can replace it if necessary. It's one of the disks in a > > raid 1 configuration, so it shouldn't be an immediate problem if one > > disk fails... > > In the case of a production server that you consider important enough to > have a raid, it should always be important to have a disks spare at hand, > errors or not ;-) It's production. It would be inconveniant if it wasn't available, but we could do without it for the time it takes to get a spare disk. But I agree with you! ;) > Also, you know that you can have an "active spare" inside the raid. If > there is a problem, it will immediately activate it and switch over. The > disadvantage is, obviously, that the spare is powered up, although idle. > In those cases, I would have an spare outside, too - maybe I'm too > paranoid ;-) There isn't room inside the server (it's a 1U 19" with only two HD drive bays), so I don't have to consider this. ;) Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards, Wilfred van Velzen -- SERCOM Regeltechniek b.v. Heereweg 9 2161 AB Lisse Nederland +31 (0)252 416530 (voice) +31 (0)252 419481 (fax) <http://www.sercom.nl/> Op al onze offertes, op alle opdrachten aan ons en op alle met ons gesloten overeenkomsten zijn toepasselijk de METAALUNIEVOORWAARDEN, gedeponeerd ter Griffie van de Rechtbank te Rotterdam, zoals deze luiden volgens de laatstelijk aldaar neergelegde tekst. De leveringsvoorwaarden worden u op verzoek toegezonden. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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