January 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Two 11.1 Installation Problems
by dilogsys＠inter.net.il 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Hello Folks! Both of these questions were addressed at various times on the list over the last few months - but I have no choice but to raise them again. I am not even writing from my normal Linux box - which is not in the best of health. Environment: openSUSE 11.1 + KDE 4.1 (with a few adjustments), fresh install using clean partitions. Problem 1: After the first boot, the installation completed using yast in text mode. That was not so terrible, but after logging on for normal use, yast2 refused to run in GUI mode; the command line error message was "qt GUI missing" - No missing shared lib name given. Does anyone have a solution for this? I regard the yast2 tool as the major system management tool bar none, which differentiates openSUSE from the rest of the pack. I hope that there is a simple solution to this other than - re-install. Problem 2: Midnight commander refuses to come up at all. It just hangs. I checked it by opening a full screen text mode session - it didn't work there either. I found nothing helpful in man mc. Again, any takers on this one? mc is my most heavily used text mode management tool, so I've really ground to a halt. Thanks, Daniel -- 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] New 3 Column Web Template Available - Validated HTML 4.01, CSS
by David C. Rankin 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Per Jessen wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > >> Never fails, that was the stuff I added at 2:00 am after having >> validated the >> template before putting in the final content. Easy fix though. >> >> Also, Per, do you use quanta? If so, how can I tell it to handle >> my php >> include statements so the css flows through for the preview? > > Hi David > > I did use quanta a while back, but I haven't for the last 3-4 years. I > know I have used 'kate' every now and then, but otherwise it's mostly > plain vi. With the latest syntax-highlighting it's become a lot easier. > > Wait - do you use php to include css? That sounds a little backward. > > > /Per > Per -- No way, I'm backwards, but not that backwards;-) Hey take a look are Version 2 of the little template. It is growing up. It now has some pretty slick dynamic vertical pop-out menus (pure css) as well as updated formatting for the right column, etc. It has taken a week or so of spare time (note the absence of list posts), but I'm happy with the results so far. With the content separated from the header, footer and menu, adding content is made a lot easier. (but it will still probably take me a year to get the rest done) I don't know if you have used quanta lately, but the 3.5 version is awesome. I love it! For pure editing it doesn't matter to me whether I use vi, kwrite, kate, or quanta, but for the sheer convenience the 'project' features of quanta provide, I haven't found anything to beat it yet. I have my working copy of my site on my laptop. In quanta, a simple right-click and choose "Upload Project.." and all edits are automatically ftp'd to my actual web server. Piece of cake. Plus since quanta is basically kate on web steriods, all my prior templates, etc. are accessible as well. To take a look at the new version of the template just use the links on the bottom right of the home page: http://www.3111skyline.com/ -- 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] Re: mplayer install Suse 11.0
by Charles Philip Chan 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Regis Matejcik <rm(a)crescentconstruction.com> writes: > Thanks for the response, the results are: > > regis@linux:~> ldd /usr/bin/mplayer | grep not > libdvdnavmini.so.4 => not found > regis@linux:~> It is there in the package libdvdnav4-4.1~pm.1.i586.rpm. Here is content of the /usr/lib directory (viewed with mc): ,---- | @libdvdnav.so.4 | *libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 | @libdvdnavmini.so.4 | *libdvdnavmini.so.4.1.2 `---- Do a "ldconfig" as root. Charles -- "...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)." (By Matt Welsh)

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[opensuse] Howto Consolidate/Change which /boot/grub gets booted first?
by David C. Rankin 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Listmates, I have an 11.0 server with RAID1 that I added a spare 500G drive to in order to load 11.1 on the new drive. The 11.1 install created a new /boot/grub/menu.lst and attempted to add an entry to boot the 11.0 install. Now grub boots the 11.1 install (on sdc1) and then if selected will boot 11.0 on dm-2 (sda5 + sdb5). I now want to remove sdc from the system leaving the original 11.0 install. How do I tell grub to boot the 11.0 install first instead of booting from sdc so that when I remove the drive I'm not left unable to boot? Even if I wasn't removing sdc, I would still like to know how to make grub boot from my original /boot instead of the last installed /boot. Can somebody point me in the right direction to get this fixed? 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

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Re: [opensuse] Fonts unreadable in windows apps running on wine
by Josef Reidinger 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Bogdan Cristea wrote: > On Monday 12 January 2009 16:21:35 you wrote: >> Bogdan Cristea wrote: >>> In openSuSE 11.1, 32 bits, the fonts are unreadable in windows apps >>> running on wine, thus making unusable the app. I have installed the same >>> app on a 64 bits PC, the same OS, and this problem does not exist. >>> Could you advise how to solve this issue ? >> try winecfg and play with dpi size > > Useful tip, thanks, but in this case the text in the configuration window is > unreadable. Is there a configuration file ? Hmm, it is whole registry base. more at http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys -- 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: is avahi mandatory
by jdd 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Marcus Meissner a écrit : > The problem is that "libavahi.." requirs avahi the daemon. > > And libavahi is linked into various gnome stuff (didnt check closely enough, > but I guess gnome-vfs), so it is in turn required by nearly all of gnome. In fact I didn't think to launch such a discussion when I first posted :-( As I just installed 11.1 to have a larger working space (I had 11.0 root on a 10Gb partition and took 20 Gb for 11.1), I could try to install nearly all the important desktops (kde3, kde4, gnome, xfce at least). 11Gb ! I also had to get a look at the daemons list, what I didn't had to do for years now. I noticed that some things could be enhanced: for example, I have no use of a braille daemon!! This example seems good because if ever a blind people trys to install openSUSE, having the braille daemon as default is a very good idea, as this user may be unable to activate it. What this shows is than: * avahi is not necessary to gnome to run (avahi is stopped and gnome works), at least basically * many more daemon are used on present time than before * disk space is critical. 10Gb was too much, it's a bare minimum now. * we should have a way to urge the user to scan his daemon list and choose what to keep. The later problem is than many daemon are cryptics: I often wondered what avahi was, but did only recently had the time to find the info. Even in YaST, the comment is often: xxx dameon: makes xxx run (that is no comment at all) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eic8MSSfM http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412160445 -- 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: Two 11.1 Installation Problems
by jdd 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

dilogsys(a)inter.net.il a écrit : > Environment: openSUSE 11.1 + KDE 4.1 (with a few adjustments), > fresh install using clean partitions. same here > Problem 1: After the first boot, the installation completed using > yast in text mode. That was not so terrible, but after logging on > for normal use, yast2 refused to run in GUI mode; the command line > error message was "qt GUI missing" - No missing shared lib name > given. Does anyone have a solution for this? probably some bad option checked at install time. lauch yast (console mode), software and check "kde4" in the sheme > hope that there is a simple solution to this other than - > re-install. there is always one (but not always easy to find :-() > Problem 2: Midnight commander refuses to come up at all. It just > hangs. I checked it by opening a full screen text mode session how could you else do if you don't have a GUI??? > mc is my most heavily used text mode management tool, so I've > really ground to a halt. use yast to reinstall mc did you install from cd, dvd or network? jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eic8MSSfM http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412160445 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] empty medium isn't recognized by system
by Milho 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Hello everybody. I was having trouble with K3B: it wasn't finding a cd/dvd writer. looking for solution in google, I found out that I need to put myself as user in the group "cdrom". I did it, and recorded a dvd. One day later, My system doesn't recognize empty disks anymore. It runs normally and cdrom/dvd, but when I put an empty disk in the drive, there's no reaction and /dev/cdrom doesn't work. Does anyone knows how to fix that? Thanks :) MilhoXP driveless... -- 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] unblock webmin user
by Satoru Matsumoto 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mr./Mrs./Miss "Linux", :-) You've replyed only to me, but not to the list. ;-) Linux wrote: > Satoru Matsumoto wrote: >> Linux wrote: >>> is there any way to unblock webmin user?? by user or by IP address. >> You can add webmin users from webmin UI. Login to webmin and go to >> Webmin -> Webmin Users. You can create new webmin users or "Convert Unix >> to Webmin users". >> >> Best, >> > that's the problem. i can't login to webmin anymore. my webmin was set > for one user only, and not root user. See /etc/webmin/miniserv.users . In my environment, in which root user can login to webmin, it is described as below: root:x:0:::::::0:0 I don't know exactly this will work or not, but, why don't you add the line to your miniserv.users and restart webmin ? Best, - -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing & Weekly News Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds(a)gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.geeko.jp/author/heliosreds _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklq8skACgkQXnHIfHE6+z30jwCfUoudjh8hQb3xVMjHpMN8MOTN 3NEAn0RtcTW95taXLdBjHy3Ozaoy+lxI =Vtbb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Factory repos for KDE4 on 11.1?
by Clayton 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Is anyone using the Factory repos for KDE4 on 11.1? Which ones are you using? Just KDE4:/UNSTABLE:/Desktop/ ? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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