July 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Desktop Wierdness
by Kai Ponte 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

My mother (openSUSE 10.3 32-bit 1G RAM) calls me today and says I messed with her fonts when I did an update on Sunday. (I often run the updater manually when we go over for dinner on Sundays.) I went over this evening and saw that (a) her desktop icons are all gone and (b) her fonts are wacky. For example, see the enclosed screen. On reading mail the font is large and bold. On writing mail the font is small and green. Ideas? -- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request

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[opensuse] USB Problem
by russbucket 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

System ASUS Motherboard, P4, 4GB Memory, 2 320GB Sata drives, 2 DVD Drives, IDE. openSUSE 11.0, ( linux 2.6.25.11-0.1-pae #1 SMP 2008-07-13 20:48:28) Dual boot opensuse 11.0 and openSUSE 10.3. Yesterday I added a new drive (USB) { actually120GB IDE drive in shuttle that converts it to USB. Purpose was a drive to back my data too. The drive was recognized and I displaced and cleared old data off it. I then used the YaST partitioner to create two partitions, 75GB mount point /linuxbackup and 25GB mount point /windowsbackup. I then right clicked each icon and did a remove safely since there was no unmount option. That is how i do it with my Scandisk thumb drive. Then shutdown and rebooted,system keep going to the root login then, repair mode. kept getting message superblock bad magic.on the drive I had just removed, tried fsck as suggested by the message using backup super block. no luck fixing. Finally tried booting into 10.3 and that worked. went back to 11.0 installation --> boot loader, installed new boot loader and rebooted and system came back up. My questions are what is the correct way to shut this USB disk down so I do not have to install a new boot loader each time? Should my mount point be /media/disk instead (thats what the thumb drive does)? I know if I do not disconnect the thumb drive before shutting down, it does not boot up correctly. Any help or pointers will be appreciated. I need a back up before I try installing Virtualbox. -- Russ Linux register user 441463 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Bug in 11.0 - ATI drivers are mandatory dependencies for all software
by David C. Rankin 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

List, Tonight I went to install beediff and bsc. After selecting the packages for install, the install then added the ATI Video Card drivers as mandatory dependancies and I couldn't delete their addition. I am happy with my setup and I don't want to install the ATI drivers, I want to install the beesoft utilities. How do I convince Yast to let me install just the beesoft utilities without it trying to force feed the ATI drivers? Any help would be appreciated. -- 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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Re: [opensuse] help! How did EDITOR=/usr/bin/joe get set and how do I get vi back -- permanently?
by Martin Mielke 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Hi David, assuming you use bash, just put an "export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi" in your .bashrc (w/o the quotes) and eventually issue a "source $HOME/.bashrc" (again, w/o quotes) to reload the settings if you don't want to logout/login again. HTH, Martin ----- Original Message ---- > From: David C. Rankin <drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com> > To: suse <opensuse(a)opensuse.org> > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:37:33 AM > Subject: [opensuse] help! How did EDITOR=/usr/bin/joe get set and how do I get vi back -- permanently? > > Listmates, > > Gremlins in my 10.3 server again. I went to edit a crontab and to my > surprise, > a blue screen editor appeared and I had no idea how to get out of it so I just > hit ctrl+c to exit. Further investigation revealed that "joe" was now my > default editor? joe who? > > [00:57 nirvana/var/backup] # set | grep EDITOR > EDITOR=/usr/bin/joe > [00:57 nirvana/var/backup] # export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi > [00:57 nirvana/var/backup] # set | grep EDITOR > EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi > _=EDITOR > > Now I have an additional piece of environment set to "_=EDITOR". I killed it > > with "unset _". > > More troubling is how did "EDITOR=/usr/bin/joe" get set in the first place? > This is a basic 10.3 server (Linux nirvana 2.6.22.18-0.2-default). I like vi, I > wouldn't change it. > > More frustrating, this seems to be set every time I open a new shell. I exit > a > shell, su to reopen another, and the thing is set to joe again. Where do I fix > this for good? Thanks. > > -- > 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 -- 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 Updater
by Juan Pablo Romero Méndez 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Hello, I have a problem with opensuse updater and kde 4.1 After typing the root password, this error message appears: kdesu(6169)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::KDEsuClient::command: [ /usr/src/packages/BUILD/kdelibs-4.1.0/kdesu/client.cpp : 196 ] no reply from daemon ¿what could be wrong? Regards, Juan Pablo -- 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: KDE 4.1
by Chuck Davis 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

I have been using the KDE4.1 factory repository to keep an eye on development. Sometime in the last couple of weeks an update disabled 4.1 from running. A crappy looking gui box pops up saying something about lnusertemp cannot be found and directories may be full. Well, lnusertemp is in /opt/kde3/bin but I am trying to start 4.1. Now that 4.1 has gone gold I thought it might be fixed but most of the stuff in the repository is still marked with the little lock (i.e. should not be installed) and 4.1 will not start. 3.5 still seems to work undaunted. I'm running AMD64 bit machines. Should the factory repository still have most of the basic libraries locked? Thanks for any direction. Chuck Davis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Printing using cups
by Joseph Loo 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

I have a printer using turboprint on another machine that I am sharing via cups. On my laptop, I am connected to the printer and I can print to it with no problem. The problem i have three apps that work partially with it. Open office just works partially. It does not allow me to select the various paper trays associated with the program. Firefox and evolution both do now work with the printer at all. Whenever I try to print, it just dies. -- Joseph Loo jloo(a)acm.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] kmail 4.1 [solved]
by lynn 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

> Have you tried backing up your >.kde4 folder, then deleting it and starting with a clean config to see if >the > problem persists? If it does, I suggest lodging a bug report, then restore >your old .kde4 again. >John. Renamed the folder, setup kmail again and restarted 4.1. Works fine now. Thanks. L 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] kmail 4.1
by primm 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hi Does anyone know how to get the new kmail to send plain text messages? If I uncheck the html formatting in options, the html toolbar goes away but the message still ends up being sent as multipart. 11.0 x86-64 and 4.1.0 from factory today. tks. L 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] Extremely hideous mishandling of history in bash
by Nico Sabbi 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hi, wandering through countless distributions I'd never seen this most hideous handling of the bash history: in OpenSuse when you select a previous command with the up-arrow key, then modify it in some manner and run it this last command is forgotten. If you press once again the up-arrow key the command you see is not the last you ran, but the one before it. Is there any setting I can use to restore the only sane behaviour? Thanks, Nico -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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