October 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Upgrade to OpenSUSE 11
by Ray Madigan 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

I had a machine hard drive go south so I upgraded that machine to opensuse 11. I have other machines in my lab and I want to upgrade them from 9.1 to 11.0. I have tried to find some information in the documentation, but I couldn't find a thread. My highest priority is to have smooth running machines. Is it better to start from a bare hard drive and reinstall everything or to upgrade the current installation if this is even possible? Will it keep all/some of my applications/settings? If the answer is written somewhere point me near it and I will ferret out the answer myself. I appreciate your help. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Youtube videos
by Chris Arnold 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Opensuse 11 kde 4.1.1 x86 64. Firefox does not play youtube videos. Flash-player is installed. How do i get flash videos working? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE 4.1 wallpapers
by Michael S. Dunsavage 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

I used to use the wallpaper called water or water effects or whatever but now when I pick a wallpaper it simply defaults to the opensuse default wallpaper. No matter which ones I pick. However, the slide show works (but won't keep the time I set) Any one else have this problem? and if so how to fix? -- Michael S. Dunsavage -- 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-Exchange to open other users mailbox
by Ken Gramm 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 15:45 -0400, Andrew Joakimsen wrote: > Does anyone use evolution-exchange and have it set to also open > another user's mailbox? I cannot get this to function. When I go to > File > Subscribe to another Users Exchange Folder option and enter the > mailbox name I get a message saying "generic error" with no real > insight as to the problem. If I enter an invalid mailbox I get an > error stating such I can't offer you a solution, but I can say that it isn't just you. I also get the same error message when I try to open another user's mailbox. openSUSE 11.0 evolution-data-server-2.22.1.1-11.2 evolution-exchange-2.22.1.2-6.1 evolution-2.22.1.1-15.1 evolution-exchange-lang-2.22.1.2-6.1 Connecting to Exchange 2k3 sp2 running on Win 2k3 sp2. K -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Suse 10.3 and 11
by Cornelius Franken 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hi All Time for me to get back on the bandwagon. Been so busy at work with M$ SQL crap that I have not furthered my education in Linux for a while. Anyway down to brass tacks. Is it possible to run OpenSuse 11 and 10.3 on the same machine? I have a 160 GB hard drive that has my opensuse 10.3 on it. I don't use all the space so I was thinking of giving 11 a trail run. Has anybody done this or know how to do it? Regards Neil ----------------------------------------- Engen Petroleum Limited, disclaims liability for any loss, damage or expense however caused, arising from the sending, receipt, or use of this e-mail and on any reliance placed upon the information provided through this service and does not guarantee the completeness or accuracy of the information. Please visit http://www.engen.co.za/home/server/common/disclaimer.asp to view the full disclaimer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: openSUSE (11.0) getting worse with the influence of KDE4 - Part #1: zypper
by Joachim Schrod 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

Basil Chupin wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: >> The Thursday 2008-09-25 at 17:15 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote: >> >> > posting from a Novell employee - ie, an "official" posting - >> >> No, that's not "official" either. None of the Novell/suse employees >> write here in any official capacity. Some do so in their free time and >> even from home. >> >> They have, of course, knowledge and information from inside, but they >> don't represent the official opinion/say of the company. > > You know this for a fact, do you? > > As far as I am concerned, if I see in the sender's address a reference > to Novell or openSUSE then the response comes officially from an > employee of Novell/openSUSE. > > If the response is NOT from someone connected with Novell/openSUSE then > there *must* be a disclaimer to indicate same. > > If the response *is* from someone in Novell/openSUSE but reflects only > their *personal* view/opinion then the poster must specifically mention > this (as I have seen at least one person from Novell/openSUSE stipulate > in his/her posting). You are very, very, very stupid. It's been a long time that I have read such garbage on the Net. *PLONK* SUSE/Novell folks, just put him in your KILL files. Don't let yourself be taken off your valuable contributions by such brain-dead comments. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] formatting a flash drive
by Duaine & Laura Hechler 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

I'm trying to run rsync against a hard drive directory to a usb flash drive directory and I'm getting errors about can't change the permissions. Currently, it's mkdosfs -F 32 What should a flash drive be formated as (specifically if I want to run rsync to it) ? -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler(a)charter.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: [Samba] Samba over bridged ethernet VPN
by David C. Rankin 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

Wes Deviers wrote: > On Monday 29 September 2008 12:33:33 Daniel Bye wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have Samba 3.0.32 on FreeBSD-7-RELEASE, set up to act as a very simple >> workgroup file server (i.e., no domain or anything fancy like that). It >> is the latest version of Samba available in ports. >> >> I am seeing timeouts and connection reset errors in my per-client logs such >> as the following. For clients on the local LAN, the errors don't cause any >> real problems. However, for remote clients connected over OpenVPN in >> bridged Ethernet mode over cheap domestic ADSL lines, they result in the >> clients being unable to open or otherwise manipulate files on the server. > > SNIP > >> This client machine is running WinXP Pro, but we are seeing the same for >> WinXP Home, Vista HP, FreeBSD and Linux-based clients. I have found several >> references to the same problem in numerous mailing list archives and bug >> reports around the web, but none of them seems to have a definite fix. >> Anyone know of anything I can try here? >> >> Thanks for any help or insights you can offer... >> >> Dan > > Dan, > > I've had problems similar to this with OpenVPN when path MTU discovery was > broken. In theory it should never break, but there have been a few times when > I've had to tweak it by hand. The general theory, if you're unfamiliar, is > that different networking media have different Maximum Transmission Units (MTU) > which is the largest size an L2 chunk can be and still be transported. In > Ethernet, it's typically 1500 bytes (+ some overhead, the actual max is 1514). > > Your OVPN link is probably using 1500 as well. But OpenVPN wraps some header > information around the Ethernet frame to deliver it correctly; what can happen > is that the payload size can be larger that 1500 on the VPN link, forcing the > entire frame to be dropped. > > A quick way to diagnose this..if you ssh and do commands with minimal output, > it will work fine. If you do a huge directory listing, it will spaz and die > (because you go from small to large packets). > > Have you seen anything like that? Can you give us a quick breakdown of how > the routing looks between sites? > > Wes Dan, I also recall some discussion from the samba list about changing: socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 to socket options = TCP_NODELAY and letting samba manage the buffer sizes. I don't know if this will specifically help your vpn problem, but you could give it a try. It may also help samba performance on its local lan as well. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.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] Retain downloaded packages?
by Kevin Donnelly 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

Does YaST in 11.0 have an option yet to retain the downloaded packages in /var/cache instead of deleting them after install? -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.cymraeg.org.uk - Welsh-English autotranslator www.klebran.org.uk - Gwirydd gramadeg rhydd i'r Gymraeg www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Need Advise
by Chuck Payne 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

Ok, please please bear with me. I been fight with my ips and Linksys to get my network back up. Background I have DSL. The company I am with, started me out on a ADSL that they set up with my block of ip's. I have 16. 13 that I can use. One lost to Network, Boardcast, and the gateway. On friday, I move from my old little house to my new big house. The old house could work with ADSL. The new house as fiber to the house. Because of this, I can't no longer use my modem. I had to purchase a router that support PPPoE, no problem, most due. Here where the problem because. I can connect to my ISP and I get my WAN ip, and I can get out, because NAT'ing is turn on, but I can't get in. If I turn NAT'ing off I can't get in or out. Problem Let me explain a bit about my network, I hope this helps and doesn't confuse everyone. I will change the ip's for safety reason. But you should be able to follow along. My router is a Linksys, it might be the problem. It is BEFSR41 Version 4.3. I got in and set it up for PPPoE with my user id and password. I connect I get the wan ip of 47.216.14.229, Now I give my router the ip of 47.216.17.87 with a subnet of 255.255.255.240. Now my boxes are on the same 47.216.17.86/28 network. I go in the router and turn off NAT'inng. I can from my linux box ping 47.219.14.229 but I can't ping any thing belong it. The Questions... Does anyone know of a good cheap DSL Router that I can set my gateway ip and it will allow all my other ip's to go out, and do PPPoE? I was told that some people flah linksys routers to get it more use. Does anyone know what the software is and a link to the page? It's most off the shelves routers are for people with no static or one. Oh, the range for the router needs to be in the $50 to $80 range, I might be able to go as high as $100. Does anyone have a Linksys BEFSR41 and more that one static IP? Have you gotten yours to work? If I can't get this done with router what would it take for my linux box to be able to do this. It currently has two nic, one is 47.216.17.88/28 and the other is 192.168.65.2/24. Does I need a third Nic? Would this be wise, would the other computers be able to get out? Does anyone have any Advice beside "RTFM"? I know it weird to ask this list, but I am at a lost. My websites, no email and wife that doesn't understand that some times these things take a bit of work. Thanks a head of time. Payne -- -- Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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