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[opensuse] Crap, I broke java plugin on 11.0 x86_64 -- howto fix
by David C. Rankin 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Listmates; After finally getting my weather sites working with sun java, for some reason when I uninstalled openjdk, my java quit working. What does openjdk have to do with sun java? Here is my present config: [01:52 alchemy:/home/david/webdev/data] # update-alternatives --display java java - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/java /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/java - priority 1613 slave ControlPanel: /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/ControlPanel slave keytool.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/keytool-java-1_6_0-sun.1.gz slave rmid.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/rmid-java-1_6_0-sun.1.gz slave orbd.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/orbd-java-1_6_0-sun.1.gz slave rmid: /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/rmid slave servertool.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/servertool-java-1_6_0-sun.1.gz slave javaws.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/javaws-java-1_6_0-sun.1.gz slave jre_exports: /usr/lib64/jvm-exports/jre-1.6.0-sun slave policytool: /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/policytool slave orbd: /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/orbd slave rmiregistry: /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/rmiregistry slave tnameserv: /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/tnameserv slave rmiregistry.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/rmiregistry-java-1_6_0-sun.1.gz slave keytool: /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/keytool slave tnameserv.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/tnameserv-java-1_6_0-sun.1.gz slave javaws: /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/javaws slave servertool: /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/servertool slave java.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/java-java-1_6_0-sun.1.gz slave policytool.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/policytool-java-1_6_0-sun.1.gz slave jre: /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/java - priority 1500 slave jre_exports: /usr/lib64/jvm-exports/jre-1.5.0-gcj slave rmiregistry: /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/rmiregistry slave jre: /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj Current `best' version is /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/java. I have java-1_6_0-sun-plugin-1.6.0.u12-1.2.x86_64 installed (I had to install it after openjdk was removed), but still no java on my weather sites. I have been through: http://en.opensuse.org/Java/setDefaultJava Is there some other magic update-alternatives approach I need to take? Thanks in advance. -- 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] Co-existing in a dynamic network Howto?
by David C. Rankin 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Marc Chamberlin wrote: >> > Thanks David for the DHCP suggestion, I have been fooling around with it > and there is a wrinkle in our network environment that I am not finding > a solution for when using your approach to assign a single fixed address > to a laptop. We have both a wired and a wireless network and laptops do > change the way they are connecting to the network from time to time. > This means that a particular laptop could be using one of two different > hardware MAC addresses and apparently the DHCP server (the one that > comes with SuSE which we use on our main server) will not allow me to > assign the same fixed IP address to two different MAC addresses?? I can > understand if that is just the way it is, even seems logical since the > DHCP server may not have a means to "know" that two different MAC > addresses actually belong to the same laptop.. I have tried some > variations on your theme but so far no joy getting the DHCP server to > assign the same IP address to two different MAC addresses... > > I can work around this, just have to make my scripts a bit smarter is > all... (All this is making me appreciate the days when someone else was > the sys admin, and not me... but that was when I worked for a great big > corporation that could afford em!) > > Marc... > Ah hah! You are right. I only considered my laptop a connecting wirelessly. I know I wouldn't want to assign the same IP to both mac addresses. If I were worried about controlling the wired connection as well, then I would just make another address assignment in dhcpd.conf like this: host P35a.3111skyline.com { hardware ethernet [newWiredMACaddress]; fixed-address 192.168.6.201; # 201 instead of 101 } That way I could at least maintain some numerical sanity to the IP scheme. Run wireless IPs 100-> and run wired 200-> for the machines I was assigning fixed addresses to. (Of course, then the problem of the duplicate hostnames rears its ugly head if somebody manages to connect both wired and wirelessly at the same time ;-) -- 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] Font sizes in X
by Marcelo Magno T. Sales 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi, folks I have two computers with identical monitors (Samsung SyncMaster 2232BW), which are configured identically in Yast/Sax2. This model is not there, so they are configured as LCD 1680x1050, 20". Fonts are configured with the same types and sizes in KDE's System Settings in both machines. However, in one of them the fonts are displayed slightly bigger than in the other. What may be causing this? The video cards are different, may this have something to do with the problem? Other than the card specific settings, I can see no other significant differences in xorg.conf in both machines. Thanks, Marcelo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] How to mount USB mass storage device
by Dave Feustel 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

I'm running S11 without kde or gnome. When I insert a dos-formatted flash drive in my 14-in-one reader, there is no indication that the device is now accessible or what the device name is that I would use in a mount command. I examined dmesg but found nothing that seemed helpful. How do I determine the name of the newly plugged-in usb device? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.0 zypper up -- What's the deal with the broken openjdk?
by David C. Rankin 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

[18:44 alchemy:/home/david/webdev/data] # zypper up Reading installed packages... Problem: Solvable java-1_6_0-openjdk-1.4_b14-24.2.i586 conflicts with tzdata-java provided by itself Solution 1: Following actions will be done: deinstallation of java-1_6_0-openjdk-plugin-1.2_b09-19.3.x86_64 deinstallation of java-1_6_0-openjdk-devel-1.2_b09-19.3.x86_64 deinstallation of java-1_6_0-openjdk-1.2_b09-19.3.x86_64 Solution 2: do not install patch:java-1_6_0-openjdk-578.noarch Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/C]: 2 I've seen some weird $&1T, but "conflicts with tzdata-java provided by itself" is a new one... -- 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] several messages
by Bob S 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hello SuSE people, This is really just a test to see if it makes it to the list, Please just ignore it. The last four or five have not. Thanks Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] kdenlive for 10.3? compiling source-rpm?
by Daniel Bauer 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hi, kdenlive seems to be a quite interesting video editing software, but for openSuse 10.3 there are only old versions, newer ones only for 11.x. a) does anybody know a more recent kdenlive rpm for 10.3? I work with kde 3.5, but have also installed kde 4.2. b) there's a source rpm. But I have no idea what to do with a source rpm, how to find out about dependencies, what else I need to install etc. Is there anybody who successfully compiled it on 10.3? Is there any risk (for the rest of my apps/system) if I just go on an try? thanks for your hints. Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com erotic art photos: http://www.bauer-nudes.com Madagascar special: http://www.fotograf-basel.ch/madagascar/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Trouble Mounting NTFS Drive Image - Loop Offset not working?
by peby＠sagonet.com 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hi Everyone, This is my first email to the support mailing list - I've been being more active on the forums, but am new to the mailing list. I ran into an issue and it was recommended to me that I give it a shot asking for advice here. The issue I am having is described in http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/408967-mounting-ntfs-drive-image-of… In a nutshell, I have an image of an NTFS drive created with dd_rescue. The image was of the entire device, not just a partition. I am trying to mount this under Suse 11.1 using a loopback device and specifying the offset value. However, not matter what I try, I can not seem to make this work. When I actually go to mount it the mount command hangs interminably, or results in an error: Callandor:~ # Cannot create link /etc/mtab~ Perhaps there is a stale lock file? (More info with output from the way I am creating the loop device and the offset can be found in the above forum post if you would like to see the specifics.) This is a curious matter for me, and I would like to get it resolved and would much appreciate any suggestions anyone may have. Thank you for your time. Cheers, Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Co-existing in a dynamic network Howto?
by Marc Chamberlin 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hello - I could use some advise on how to configure our SuSE systems to work in a dynamic network. I have several computers running SuSE and use fstab to do a number of automounts of file systems that exist on other computers within our network. Trouble is that these other computers may come and go and I do not have control over the exact configuration of the network at any given time. I use fstab to define what I want automounted, so as to be able to run some scripts that access available remote file systems during boot up. (That is one reason why I cannot use the KNetworkManager as it is not active until after boot up has taken place and a second is that these scripts must be ran during the boot up process so as to set up some other server configurations automatically and not wait until a user has logged in.) Trouble is two fold. during boot up, if the automount process finds one computer that does not exist, it times out and seems to give up on mounting any of the rest of the computers in the list. I would like to get around this without having to endure a long timeout for each failed mount attempt also so that the boot up process can be accomplished in a reasonable amount of time. And, after bootup, this timeout problem also seems to plague the SuSE menu (in the kicker bar, i.e. the menus displayed when one clicks on the SuSE logo) When I click on the SuSE menu launcher, it seems to want to do an automount of all the file systems defined in the fstab file and this can result in a horrendously long time out process (for each failed attempt to automount a remote file system) during which the entire kicker becomes unresponsive and frozen. I probably am overlooking some simple configuration setting but so far have not been able to find a method of getting around these two issues. Any help and suggestions would be much appreciated! (Am mostly running SuSE 11.1 with KDE 3.5) Marc... -- 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] Co-existing in a dynamic network Howto?
by Marc Chamberlin 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

David C. Rankin wrote: >> Marc Chamberlin wrote: >> <snip> >> >>> Kai - to answer your questions, my network consists mostly of laptops >>> that come and go and some desktops. All are dual booted to either Windoz >>> or Linux, users choice. Our DHCP server does know their names and does >>> assign a fixed static internal network address to each one. So that >>> simplifies the problem a lot. >>> Also we have a static file system structure that must be set up on each >>> system so we can work with that. >>> >> <snip> >> >> Marc, >> >> An even easier way for the dual-boot laptop issue, (if your users are smart >> enough to maintain the same hostname in Linux and windows) is to configure >> dhcpd.conf like: >> >> subnet 192.168.6.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { >> option domain-name "3111skyline.com"; >> ddns-domainname "3111skyline.com"; >> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; >> range dynamic-bootp 192.168.6.110 192.168.6.150; >> default-lease-time 28800; >> max-lease-time 172800; >> zone 3111skyline.com. {primary 127.0.0.1; key DHCP_UPDATER; } >> zone 6.168.192.in-addr.arpa. { primary 127.0.0.1; key DHCP_UPDATER; } >> # >> # We want P35a to appear at the same fixed address regardless of >> # which OS is booted to prevent multiple dhcp leases belonging to the >> # same hardware address >> # >> host P35a.3111skyline.com { >> hardware ethernet 00:26:f5:17:2d:83; >> fixed-address 192.168.6.101; >> } >> >> That way no matter which OS they use, the IP dhcpd hands out is always the >> same for the same hostname/mac address of any given box. >> >> > Thanks David for the DHCP suggestion, I have been fooling around with > it and there is a wrinkle in our network environment that I am not > finding a solution for when using your approach to assign a single > fixed address to a laptop. We have both a wired and a wireless network > and laptops do change the way they are connecting to the network from > time to time. This means that a particular laptop could be using one > of two different hardware MAC addresses and apparently the DHCP server > (the one that comes with SuSE which we use on our main server) will > not allow me to assign the same fixed IP address to two different MAC > addresses?? I can understand if that is just the way it is, even > seems logical since the DHCP server may not have a means to "know" > that two different MAC addresses actually belong to the same laptop.. > I have tried some variations on your theme but so far no joy getting > the DHCP server to assign the same IP address to two different MAC > addresses... > > I can work around this, just have to make my scripts a bit smarter is > all... (All this is making me appreciate the days when someone else > was the sys admin, and not me... but that was when I worked for a > great big corporation that could afford em!) > > Marc... > P.S. Sorry David I did not mean to reply to your personal address, durn Thunderbird email client won't set the reply to properly for the opensuse mail list... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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