June 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Dependency Hell.....again.
by Fred A. Miller 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

For over 2 weeks now, there's been an OpenOffice update, but due to dependencies, I can't get it. Now, since yesterday, there's a new kernel, (I need the nVidia version) but because of a dependency, which isn't listed, I can't get that either. Can we assume someone is going to fix all the dependency issues.....soon?! Fred -- The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Education repo - Do I have the right url?
by David C. Rankin 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Listmates, Peter: For some reason, the Education repo for 11.0 is missing metadata on the mirrors causing the refresh to fail. Here is the result from the main redirector and from ftp5.gwdg.de: File '/content' not found on medium 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/openSUSE_11.0/' File '/content' not found on medium 'http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/opensuse/repositories/Education/openSUSE…' However, the opensuse-education.org url works just fine (I know this is the correct one): baseurl=http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/repo/1.0/11.0/ Looking directly at the old Education repositories, there are what appear to be a complete set of rpms at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/openSUSE_11.0/ So why don't the .../repositories/Education/openSUSE_11.0/ work? -- 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] [OT] is there a virtual machine that IMPROVE performance by using harddisk as harddisk image
by Zhang Weiwu 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

When talking about using a block device for hard disk image for virtual machine, Boyd said: > However, this may or may not actually increase your performance, depending > on the virtualization software. If they use the same techniques as the > kernel uses for swap files, the performance increase is tremendously > minimal. do people know a virtual machine software that can improve performance by making use of a separate harddisk instead of a disk image? Sorry for posting similar questions twice, but last thread went to the discussion of "can a virtual machine use harddisk as harddisk image" even since the very first follow-up posts so I think restart another thread with clearer question helps. Thank you all for who replied my last question. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] [OT] is there a virtual machine that uses harddisk as harddisk image
by Zhang Weiwu 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hello. I am just thinking, from the experience that Microsoft SQL can make use of a harddisk instead of database file as storage of database and improve performance, could virtual machine software make use of a separate harddisk instead of a disk image to improve its performance? I could equip it with SCSI harddisk or SSD harddisk to further improve performance. If it is possible, which virtual machine emulator could do that? (vmware?) This is different from the other frequently discussed topic on the Internet: "could I use the same harddisk partition that I use to dual-boot to run as virtual machine harddisk image?" This topic should have been discussed before but it is difficult to google. What keyword can I use to google? "use harddisk as harddisk image" gives 100 pages of unrelated topic. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] best way to organize small offices that share LAN with others?
by gildororonar＠mail-on.us 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hello. We are in a small office that shares a broadband (10MB/s) connection with several other offices. The LAN administrator ask us to use IP address from 192.168.4.42 to 192.168.5.57. Since most our users are mobile workers visiting customer from day to day, assign each notebook fixed IP address is an inflexible solution. DHCP wouldn't work because there is a DHCP server in one of the near-by offices that keep granting IP addresses that are not usable (e.g. 172.16.4.3). The local IT administrator will not corporate to find and stop the mallfunctioning DHCP server (not set up by him) and set up a working one, because he thinks fixed IP address is a perfect solution, mostly because he do not travel but sit in the server room all day and he doesn't mind travellers have different requirement. Solving the problem at management level turns out not working because the network is shared by multiple offices and connectivity offered by non-profit governmental organization. It is difficult to force somebody do things if they don't get money from you. Is there a technical solution to my case? I first think to let everybody configure a defaul IP address in case DHCP didn't get them one. I don't know if it is possible in OpenSUSE and even if it is possible it wouldn't work. There is a DHCP server in one of the near-by offices that keep granting IP addresses that are not usable (e.g. 172.16.4.3). I tried to set up my own DHCP server, I don't know why but the other one takes priority. The LAN administrator said not to corporate to find and stop the mallfunctioning DHCP server (not set up by him) nor setting up a working one, because he thinks fixed IP address is a perfect solution, mostly because he do not travel but sit in the server room all day and he doesn't mind travellers have different requirement. He also thinks NetworkManager in the tray is stupid and people (including the sales guys) should use "ifconfig eth0 up". Solving the problem at management level turns out not working because the network is shared by multiple offices and connectivity offered by non-profit governmental organization. It is difficult to force somebody do things if they don't get money from you. Then I think sub-netting our own network, with a NAT firewall fixed at 192.168.4.42 and everyone gets 192.168.0.x. Which is what I am currently using. I don't know of any down-side of this solution. Sure this makes it difficult to punch holes on the NAT firewall but the local administrator would agree to punch any hole in the first place. Then I think of setting up BOOTP server in local office, if Linux can be configured to prefer BOOTP than DHCP then we have control of what IP addresses to lease despite the stupid DHCP server. Since we are the only office that every personnel use Linux, this gives us advantage. But look into NetworkManager source code turns out it seems they tried to implement BOOTP and DHCP but only finished implementing the latter. Yet I have not the strength and time to develop BOOTP support for NetworkManager, having not written any software for 5 years I almost forget how to debug a C program. What do you suggest? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] inkscape memory usage question - maybe innocent
by Roger Oberholtzer 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

I just updated to the latest inkscape 0.46-64.4 from SUSE (GNOME:STABLE:2.26 / openSUSE_11.1). In the Help menu, there is an "About Memory" item. With a newly started process, I get: In Use Slack standard malloc() 60,100,200 182,333 As the program sits, with no screen/mouse movement or any external activity, the "In Use" value steadily increments by some 100 bytes per second. The "Slack" value decreases by this amount. There is also a "Total" value, but it remains constant. Anyone have any idea what this means? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] to use keyboard with two joysticks, using joystick for mouse
by Zhang Weiwu 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hello. I bought a keyboard that have two joy sticks, on the left and right side, and thinking to use this thing to reduce the necessary to interrupt typing and free a hand to use a mouse. I only need one joystick to emulate a mouse. Do anyone happen to have knowledge if the second mouse could be useful to improve efficiency too? An idea come to my mind. I can use the left joystick for acceleration and right joystick for actual movement. I guess this idea doesn't work because for acceleration I only need a high/low control instead of 4 directions. Or, the left joystick moves the viewport? Not sure if it is useful or even configurable. -- 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 Weekly News, Issue #74 is out
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 74 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Announcing the openSUSE Ambassadors Program * openSUSE Education * Gnome 2.26.2 for openSUSE 11.1 * Ben Kevan : How to find out how long a process has been running * Duncan Mac-Vicar: Facebook on Kopete, take II For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/74/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/74 -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Features Screening Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.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] Can't read mounted floppy disk
by Stan Goodman 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Only rarely anymore does one have to read of write diskettes, and I am having to do so now for the first time since I installed openSuSE. I have a floppy disk containing files. I can read these files in another OS using the same floppy drive on the same machine, but not in openSuSE. The Disk List in the Konqueror /sysinfo display shows that the available space on this diskette is much smaller than the total space, so it does see that there are files there. According to the Properties for fd0, the diskette is mounded on "/media/floppy". The following is the line in fstab that relates to the floppy drive: ***** /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 ***** When I click on the floppy-disk icon, Konqueror opens a window, showing the Location as: "media:/fd0", which doesn't look quite the same as the alleged mount point. The window is empty, although I know that there are files there. In the Konqueror view of directory "floppy", the status line at the bottom shows "No Items - No Files - No folders". The permissions for the floppy drive are RW for the owner (which is me), RO for group and others. It is not possible, even as root, to extend writing to group. Can someone help me see what is wrong here? -- 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] Error "ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host" on Remote SSH Connection
by Masim "Vavai" Sugianto 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hi, I'm installing openSUSE 11.1 without firewall (firewall was not active). I could ssh from local network but failed on remote network with the following messages : server1:~ # ssh -v -v -v -v 125.xxx.xxx.xxx OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8h 28 May 2008 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to 125.xxx.xxx.xxx [125.xxx.xxx.xxx] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: permanently_set_uid: 0/0 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host I've modified /etc/hosts.allow with this line : sshd: ALL (for temporary used) and remove any entry from /etc/hosts.deny. The remote server has 2 Network card, the second card was deactivated. Port 80 has been successfully forwarded. Is there any clue for this problem ? -- Best Regards, Masim "Vavai" Sugianto /************************************************************/ Blog (ID) : http://www.vavai.com/blog Blog (EN) : http://www.vavai.net Community : http://www.opensuse.or.id /************************************************************/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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