January 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Installing openSuSE v11.1 on T21 -- Revisited
by Stan Goodman 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

I posted the earlier phases of this adventure here about a month ago, and have since "progressed", but always with similar results in the end. It quickly became clear that the DVD drive had failed in the middle of the installation, and I replaced it. Using the Installation DVD, I ran the installation-media verification routine, and found that it was defective (I have checked the iso file's MD5 code before I burned it), so I burned another and verified it successfully. I then installed v11.1 from this valid DVD. Installation and configuration proceeded normally, but instead of rebooting to present me with a finished system, it stalled with a dark screen and unblinking cursor in the upper-left corner. A five minute wait convinced me that it was going nowhere. (Two previous installations with the unverified DVD got further than this, in one case bringing up a finished system which I was able to use for the rest of the evening, but which failed to boot the following morning.) In order to try diagnose the reason for all this, I installed Windows XP, using the entire 20GB HD. This installed faultlessly, and ran perfectly, even after two shutdowns and reboots. I interpret this as meaning that I do not have a hardware problem. At the moment, the only thing I can think of is that the partitioning scheme I chose is inadequate, because that's the only thing that has not been tested. I have partitioned the HD as follows (from the beginning of the disk): Primary /boot 560MB ext3 (GRUB) Logical Swap 560MB Swap Logical / 8GB ext3 Logical /home 10GB ext3 I don't know what else to examine, and would be very grateful for comments and advice. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] unblock webmin user
by Linux 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

is there any way to unblock webmin user?? by user or by IP address. -- 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: [Gramps-users] python 2.6 and openSuSE 11.1
by Gunnar Haaland 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Dave skrev: > Even though the bsddb module is an official part of the Python 2.6 > package the maintainer of this package for the openSuSE team decicded to > omit the _bsddb module from the package for the 11.1 release. It is not > present. The openSuSE maintainer is supposedly resubmitting this > package with the _bsddb module included as he has gotten a lot of > complaints but to date this has not happened. That leaves the 11.1 > users with three options. Wait for the package update from openSuSE, > compile and install Python 2.6 from source code, or compile and install > the bsddb3 module. > > Since the _bsddb module provided by the Python 2.6 package is troublsome > (the reason it was omitted) and will not be present in the 3.0 release I > opted to install the bsddb3 module instead. I am not sure if Gramps > even uses this module but so far Gramps has run without problems on my > machine. > > Dave > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It is the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-users mailing list > Gramps-users(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users Where did you find that modul. Do you have an url or a link Gunnar -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Media mystery.
by Fred A. Miller 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

I've run across a DVD that is quite different than any other I've seen and would like to know if anyone here knows the "story" with this type of disk. First, the DVD is a Disney DVD, "The Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian." It plays fine on my desktop and DVD player. I wanted to make an archival copy, because my grandchildren like to watch some movies often (this is one of them), I make a copy to view and store the original. Yes....I use K9Copy. Now, if I open the disk with Konq. or Dolphin, they tell me the total number of files is 153 and the total size is 72.9G!! The disk cover says it's a dual layer DVD. It contains English, French, and Spanish languages. I'm presently extracting only the English files in K9Copy and already (compressed of course) have a total of almost 7G and it's not done yet!! Can anyone explain what Disney has managed to do to get this much on a dual layer DVD, which I had assumed wouldn't even play on an old DVD player? Thanks in advance, Fred -- "Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly -- and for the same reason." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] is avahi mandatory
by jdd 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Hello, I just noted that avahi-daemon is taking 50% of my cpu. Is it harmless to remove this? I have no direct use of zeronconf as each time it got in the way it was to do stupid things (like setting unexistent interface) but I don't know the dependencies thanks 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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Re: [opensuse] BASH help - Better way to test if remote host running openSuSE or windows?
by David C. Rankin 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Andrew Joakimsen wrote: > One problen I see already is if the server is running PNAELV or CentOS > the file is /etc/redhat-release. Your script would say that server is > running Windows. > > If you just want to see if the server is running any sort of Linux, > the output of the uname command might be apropriate (see the > manpage... I thing there is a switch that retuens just the phrase > "Linux"). A Windows host with cygwin might even report the windows > version (I never tested, I don't use Windows anymore.) > Thanks Carlos and Andrew, Since this is just for me, I know the box will be openSuSE, but if I did want it more generic, I could see how uname and awk or just grep on Linux would work as well. I'll keep pecking around, but at least it's working regardless of elegance right now... -- 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: Fixing Grub via rescue mode [WAS: Re: Creating a boot CD]
by jdd 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Markus Koßmann a écrit : > Am Sonntag, 11. Januar 2009 schrieb jdd: > >> else (manually), chrooting in your linux and aking grub-install >> /dev/yourdisk should work >> > Well, just chrooting is not enough. Before chrooting you should do ( assuming > your linux system is mounted on /mnt of the rescue system) > mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev > mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys > mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc > to provide these virtual filessystems to the chrooted system > > this is necessary only with openSUSE couldn't the distro provides a script? Ubuntu (or debian?) provide at rescue login a choice: login in the disk system or in the rescue system. the first log in the chroot jail 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] Yahoo Web Beacons
by Mark Misulich 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Hi, I just ran across this info on another forum to which I belong, and I thought that you might be interested if you don't already know about it. I don't know how this will affect Linux boxes. Yahoo is Tracking Group Members If you belong to ANY Yahoo Groups - be aware that Yahoo is now using "Web Beacons" to track every Yahoo Group user. It's similar to cookies, but allows Yahoo to record every website and every group you visit, even when you're not connected to Yahoo. Here is the page to go to if you desire to opt-out in the US: http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/opt_out/targeting/details.html Note that Yahoo's invasion of your privacy - and your ability to opt-out of it - is not user-specific. It is MACHINE specific. That means you will have to opt-out on every computer (and browser) you use. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Biju's Calendar
by Biju P 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Hi Click on the link below and please enter your birthday for me. I am creating a birthday list of all my friends and family. http://www.birthdayalarm.com/bd2/84162074a490962504b1448594560c375546214d13… Many Thanks, Biju -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Weather map
by Carlos E. R. 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm curious. We have those weather applet, which you configure with the name of a city and it periodically interrogates a server and displays the current temperature, wind etc at the place. We can have a few of those for info on some cities nearby. Now, what I wonder, is if there is some type of small weather map on which we configure the cities we are interested on, their positions, and we get their weather conditions on that area of interest. Does it exist? Of course, I know there are web pages that may have that kind of info, but that's rather "heavy handed". - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklmtFgACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WV+wCfZEpIl4lWPb0XFP3sHKkr/AAC UPMAn3zLRXG7qiQaH5CrTyj7zQbbx7nQ =CSJx -----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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