November 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Compiz from X11:Compiz repository
by Teruel de Campo MD 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Problem I can not make compiz to work with the new versions. I'm running opensuse 11 (64b) 2.6.25.18-0.2-default with all the updates. The version I am running (and it works perfect) is the 0.7.8-9.1 from the old repository site X11:XGL. When I install the new version from X11:Compiz, it does not work. This is what I am doing. Install the new version with yast. Then go to the Configuration desktop/kde components/session manager and there I select compiz. Then restart X (and also try reboot). Now it seems to load compiz and the windows do not have the title bar but nothing works. I use the ccsm and the setup seems to be OK. Well I back in the old version with the Compiz Fusion Icon and everything is working OK. I post this message to see if I am doing something wrong so I can correct it. TIA -=terry=- -- 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: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems
by Neil 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Volkan YAZICI <yazicivo(a)ttmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I had used to be a ReiserFS user ~4 years and never had even a single > problem with it. It was blazingly fast and there isn't a second > filesystem I know of that could challange with it in the speed of > recovering at the boot after a system crash or electricity cutoff. > > This year I'm obligated to administrate extra ~5 production servers and > as a result of major GNU/Linux headquarters moving from ReiserFS to > EXT3, I started to use EXT3 in those new servers. But unfortunately, > after every electricity cutoff[1], EXT3 just crashes and waits prompt > from me standing at boot. I start the servers with Knoppix (Gee!) and > run e2fsck on every single partition. (Keep on imagining this PITA!) No, > pressing `Y' to run a fsck on the partitions doesn't work. I tried my > luck with XFS, but it resulted same as EXT3. > > Please, I don't want to start a flamewar between filesystems. But could > anybody give any recommendations to me? Should I switch back to ReiserFS > for my own mental sake? Is it possible to configure EXT3 to behave in a > more automatized manner and recover from crashes with minimum human > interruption? Do others also experience similar problems? > > > Regards. > > [1] Yes, we have couples of UPS boxes around, but they are not capable > of standing the load for many hours. And yes, this is "Banana > Republic" and companies cut your electricity off without a clue. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org > > Hi Can't the systems shut down when the UPS is doing it's job? They should have enogh juice to run for a minute, or the UPS set is far below spec. Neil -- There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who cannot count ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature, please! ** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] slow SuSe 11
by f.costen＠cs.man.ac.uk 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Dear Sirs, I installed SuSe 11 on my laptop and my normal usage of the laptop during the week is 1. I login to the laptop from another Unix/linux box 2. run the thunderbird and firefox on the laptop and send the window to the terminal in front of me 3. use these software on the Unix/Linux box. So far(SuSe 10 and 10.1, 10.2 ) I did not have any problem on these software but after the installation of SuSe 11, the window behaviour, file opening are pretty slow. Could you give me any suggestion on the way to solve this issue ? thanks Fumie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Ripping out hair - Update for 10.3 Broken?
by LLLActive＠gmx.net 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hi all, I'm ripping out my hair. Since last week I have continuously update problems from opensuse 10.3: In CLI (Ctrl-Alt-1) and init 3 (because I need updates for acpi that freezes system when KDE is up): running yast: Error message occurs - curl error from http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/ Error Code: Unreconized Error Error Message: connect() timed out! Then I press OK, Then I press Retry ....then it downloads and works every time !!! (IPV6 deactivated - as some advised when searching Internet for similar problem) When I click on retry, it does it fine. It does it on many-many 'patches' - ALWAYS the SAME patches like 'patch-evolution-4878.xml' or 'patch-flash-player-5161.xml' . It will take hours to click retry every time. How can retry be automated? :-( Al -- "Feel free" - 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] package verification?
by Greg Freemyer 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

All, I had a new client call me today. They believe their system has had an intruder in it. Possibly, just a worm/robot. Possibly a human. (The system is now offline.) I believe it's running an unpatched version of SLES 9.0 I'd like to verify if any of the executables have been altered from the beginning. Is there a way to have RPM / Yast do that? Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.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] Apache2 Parse Error on 11.0 x86_64
by David C. Rankin 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Listmates, I am getting an error trying to start apache2 on opensuse 11.0. The error is: [17:07 alchemy/usr/local/lib/apache2] # rcapache2 reload Reload httpd2 (graceful restart) Syntax error on line 189 of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf.local: Invalid command 'AuthDBMGroupFile', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration The command line was: /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -DSSL unused Line 189 is: AuthDBMGroupFile /usr/local/lib/apache2/dcraccess The syntax appears correct: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_auth_dbm.html#authdbmgroupfile Is this a bug or am I misreading something? -- 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] fixing Grub and MBR
by James D. Parra 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hello, Try to fix the MBR, but running into some problems. After an clean install the system hangs at boot. Doesn't even get to the boot loader. Used the Suse 10.3 rescue cd and ran fdisk; /boot is on /dev/sda1 / is on /dev/sda3 mounted /boot on /dev/sda1 made dir /tmp/rootold mounted /dev/sda3 /tmp/rootold chrooted to /tmp/rootold cd to / ran 'grub-install', but it shows; grub > setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,0) (hd0,0) Error 21: selected disk does not exist. <snip> How can I fix this? Thank you, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] TFT monitor blinking
by Istvan Gabor 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hello: I have changed my CRT monitor to TFT flat panel. The monitor was recognized and set up by openSUSE 10.3 automatically, the resolution is set to 1400x1050, color depth is 24. I have an ATI Radeon VE/7000 videocard. Interestingely the monitor is blinking frequently, ie. turns completely to black just for a second. This occurs eg. when I change the with of name, ext or other colums or change directory in krusader, save file or change tab in Opera browser. The screen comes back to normal after this transient one second blank state. I never experineced similar with my CRT monitor, though its resolution was only 1024x768. Any explanation, suggestion to solve this or trace the cause? TIA, suseuser04 ______________________________________________________________________ 30% kedvezménnyel Ken Follett, Nora Roberts, Dan Brown és más szerzők művei! Könyvszerda - több mint 500 féle könyvvel! http://bookline.hu/control/news?newsid=397&tabname=book&affiliate=frekszkar… -- 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] Bye bye SuSE?
by Dotan Cohen 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

2008/10/21 Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon(a)decoulon.ch>: > On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I very much recommend Kubuntu, though it is .deb based. Fedora is just >> too unstable for daily work. What proprietary software do you depend >> on? > > I did not like the Ubuntu setup the last time I tried it, but I'll take a look > at the latest version. > > I don't depend on any proprietary software (except iScan perhaps, but I can > use another scanner, and Opera). I mainly use Gimp, OpenOffice, VLC, and > several KDE tools. > > This being said, I can live with KDE 4 based apps if I can get a decent > desktop with a sensible file manager. Which KDe 4 does not seem to provide > now, and the developpers don't seem to care about for the future. > Then maybe it's been a while since you've tried dolphin. As much as I hated that app when it first came out, I really like it now. And don't let anyone tell you that you can still use Konqi for a file manager: it calls dolphin and behaves more like dolphin than the Konqi we knew from KDE 3. But that's really just fine: like I said, dolphin has come a long way and it really is a good piece of software. This is what's holding me back from KDE 4.x: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165402 (No "show keyboard status" indicator in KDE4 ) -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

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Re: [opensuse] KDE accessibility. was Bye bye SuSE?
by Dominique Leuenberger 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 13:10 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: > Actually I think Europe is better. It's not a question of sueing for > damages, it's enforcing rights under equal-opportunity employment laws. > In the UK one would use the Disability Discrimination Act, I believe. > But I can't believe the TUV certification given to LiMux won't already > require compliance with applicable legislation. Even so, the TUV certification is valid for the current version of LiMux... which contains KDE 3.5... so what's the point? Nobody, but really NOBODY forces you to go to openSUSE 11.2 (which won't have kde 3 shipped anymore)... Having an old product removed from a package is nothing unusual.... ever tried to sue the competitor for not having IE6 shipped with Vista anymore? You can't tell me IE7 is equal to 6, as I know some sites which refuse to work with anything else than IE6 But this is getting really far off what this list should all be about. If you don't agree to steps taken by a distro, recompile the old packages for your favorite version and install it... I'm sure with some effort you can even get KDE 2 to run on openSUSE 11.1 and laters. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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