July 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Sorry SuSE: 9.1 is Waste of time and money!
by Terje J. Hanssen 17 May '24

17 May '24

I am sorry to conclude that my upgrade from SuSE 9.0 Pro to 9.1 Pro has been waste of time and money for me, so far. The same I have to say about the free SuSE "Installation support". The reason is that my SuSE 9.1 installation only detects 1 of my 3 SCSCI devices (as I wrote in another subject on this forum: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-May/3254.html) Yamaha 4416S CDRW recorder detected HP DVD Writer 100i NOT detected Epson 1640SU scanner NOT detected It's rather stupid. I have installed 9.1 using the DVD disk just in the HP DVD drive, but after the installation of 9.1, the KDE/Konqueror /media/recorder cannot access it and YaST2 cannot install additional software from it. Only one "Cdrecorder" is found in My computer and that is the Yamaha 4416 drive, which the KDE/Konqueror file manager assign as /media/recorder11. I am sure 9.1 is the reason, as I hadn't this problems with 9.0. I have tried both an update and two several new installation of 9.1. Neither SJDS nor Windows on the same multiboot PC have problems to detect these devices. In my opinion SuSE should therefore debug 9.1 better and longer, and not leave the problems to the customers. I see SuSE notes on their web saying that they know SCSI scanners are not detected in 9.1. But regarding my HP DVD writer problem, the SuSE support (as usual) don't take the responsibility and argue that this problem (a combination of IDE disk and SCSI devices) isn't included in their free installation support! This sounds remarkable, and I have never had a modern PC of so simple model or configuration that it has fitted the limited rules for the free installation support. Terje J. Hanssen

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[SLE] RealPlayer G2 on SuSe 6.2
by yh＠ottawa.com 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Yesterday, I finally got sound going on my Linux setup. I downloaded RealPlayer G2 and it worked beautifully. Today, RealPlayer run but no sound coming out. All other sound functions still work. I can still play my CD, have system sound BUT no sound when I run RealPlayer. /var/log/message said kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? but KDE sound still work. I have re-installed RealPlayer 3 times now, still no sound when I run the RealPlayer. Any help is appreciated. Ying yh(a)ottawa.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Creating a new user for a deamon
by Rowan Reid 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

I'm setting up a cron job for a analysis tool, I'm trying to use the SuSE tools where possible but YAST doent' allow you to create new user without a home I tried /dev/null is there a proper way to do this ? Rowan Reid Job Captain, Systems Administrator STUDIO 3 ARCHITECTS 909 982 1717

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Web Site Standards
by Bryan Tyson 25 Sep '21

25 Sep '21

On Wednesday 03 July 2002 03:38, Michael wrote: > I tried to visit this site. > http://www.bet365.com > The result upset me so much i sent them this. I sent the letter below, and I encourage everyone on the list to send a similar letter. ----------------------------------------- Subject: Create a Real Web Site Please From: Bryan S. Tyson <bryantyson(a)earthlink.net> To: webmaster(a)bet365.com When attempting to view your site using Konqueror 2.2.1 and Mozilla 0.9.4, both Linux web browsers, I was curtly informed that my browser is "incompatible." Your site, sir, is what is "incompatible." Stick with established standards and real html, not Microsoft proprietary "features." *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ***************************************************

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Mount Windows NT(NTFS) drive as drive Z: for all users
by Keith Jacobs 25 Sep '21

25 Sep '21

We have an winNT server and need to auto mount a shared folder as if it were a windose mapped drive Z: on SuSE8 Could someone please explain how to do this and how to make sure it is set-up for every user everytime the system is booted. Thanks Regards Keith Jacobs New to Linux

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Adding fonts?
by Tracer Bullet 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Hi all, Reading some mails on the GIMP mail list, I ran across the procedure to install some more fonts for not only Gimp, but the system and StarOffice to use also. Well, I installed the fonts, went to the shell and issued the command xset fp+ <font directory> and then the rehash command and all fonts are there! Ok, that went well, but each time I restart the system, I have to do it all over again? Is there a way to make it permanent and read the new fonts like it does the ones the system installs or is that a no-no? end of line Tracer Shell commands: xset fp+ <new font directory> xset fp rehash -- ---KMail 1.2--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb(a)sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb

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[opensuse] Where can I get genIS_PLAINcache
by Chuck Payne 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi, I am trying to set up a simple repo, I read on the opensuse site about a binary called genIS_PLAINcache, because I can't see to find it or the package yast2-packmanager either. Can someone help. I am setting this repo up for SLE9, I have tried to use createrepo but I keeping getting errors. -- ---------------------------------------- When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. -- Robert Heinlein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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HP Laser 1020
by Alfredo Cole 08 May '10

08 May '10

Hi: I just bought this printer, thinking it would work right out of the box. I'm running SUSE 9.3 with CUPS, and it does not seem to support this model. Anybody got this printer to work? Any pointers would help. Best regards. -- Alfredo Cole-Tuckler

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[opensuse] What is wrong with my NX server?
by Joop Beris 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hello listmates, I have recently installed NX server, after switching to openSUSE 11.1. However, I can't seem to log in. It used to work beautifully on openSUSE 10.3. What I did is the following: - First of all, to install the NX server, I added the following repository: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/RemoteDesktop/openSUSE_11.1/ >From that This resulted in the following packages being installed: - FreeNX - NX - freenx-client - libnxcl1 - After that, I ran nxsetup, which completed without errors. On the client, I installed version 3.3.0-6 of the NX Client for Linux from NoMachine. I chose this client because in the past, I have had bad experiences with the FreenNX client. The NoMachine client has always worked well for me. - Trying with the QtNX client, the client simply seems to freeze, without doing anything after starting the connection. - Up launching the NX client and entering the connection details, I start the connection. This takes a while, after which the client responds with: "Session startup failed". In the detail window, it says a lot more: NX> 105 /usr/bin/nxserver: line 1371: 13828 Terminated sleep $AGENT_STARTUP_TIMEOUT NX> 596 Session startup failed. NX> 1004 Error: NX Agent exited with exit status 1. To troubleshoot set SESSION_LOG_CLEAN=0 in node.conf and investigate "/home/<user>/.nx/F-C-<hostname>-1000-8689F93F7362B387803D3B292867F08C/session". You might also want to try: ssh -X myserver; /usr/bin/nxnode --agent to test the basic functionality. Session log follows: Can't open /var/lib/nxserver/db/running/sessionId{8689F93F7362B387803D3B292867F08C}: No such file or directory. mv: cannot stat `/var/lib/nxserver/db/running/sessionId{8689F93F7362B387803D3B292867F08C}'NX> 1006 Session status: closed : No such file or directory NX> 280 Exiting on signal: 15 FOllowing the troubleshooting advice above, I have set SESSION_LOG_CLEAN=0 in /etc/nxserver/node.conf I also tried the command "ssh -X myserver; /usr/bin/nxnode --agent" to test the basic connection from the client. This gives me the following error on the console: NX> 1000 NXNODE - Version 2.1.0-72 OS (GPL, using backend: 3.2.0) NX> 716 Starting NX Agent ... Error: Aborting session with 'Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again'. Session: Aborting session at 'Thu Jun 4 11:07:26 2009'. Session: Session aborted at 'Thu Jun 4 11:07:26 2009'. NX> 716 NX Agent exited with status: 1 NX> 1001 Bye. I find this odd, since to me this seems to be a problem with X authorization, not something to do with NX. I have confirmed that while X (KDE) is running, no one is logged into the machine at this point. I have also investigated /home/<user>/.nx/F-C-<hostname>-1000-8689F93F7362B387803D3B292867F08C/session, to see if there is some more information there. There, it lists the following: NXAGENT - Version 3.2.0 Copyright (C) 2001, 2007 NoMachine. See http://www.nomachine.com/ for more information. Info: Agent running with pid '15613'. Session: Starting session at 'Thu Jun 4 11:14:43 2009'. Info: Proxy running in server mode with pid '15613'. Info: Waiting for connection from '127.0.0.1' on port '5000'. Info: Aborting the procedure due to signal '15'. Error: Aborting session with 'Unable to open display 'nx/nx,options=/home/<user>/.nx/C-<hostname>-1000-8689F93F7362B387803D3B292867F08C/options:1000''. Session: Aborting session at 'Thu Jun 4 11:14:43 2009'. Session: Session aborted at 'Thu Jun 4 11:14:43 2009'. I enabled logging in /etc/nxserver/node.conf, and the same information is logged there. I am a bit stumped as to what to try now. Does anyone have any suggestions, please? I'll be grateful for any help or tips which help me solve this. Kind regards, Joop -- 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: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 Review
by Richard Creighton 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Sid Boyce wrote: > http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/opensuse10.3.review.html > Mentions of "for the uninitiated" sounds about right. To sidestep any > problems with the DVD, I've installed from Factory. Looks like the DVD > should have been delayed until it was compared with Factory for > stability. > I think the reviewer attempted to be fair (he points to the URL to > show where he is coming from). Perhaps some pertinent pointers for 11.0. > Regards > Sid. http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/opensuse10.3.review.html should be MUST READING for management at Novell and at openSuSE.org. It is eminently fair and for the most part, accurate. I think any inaccuracies could be attributable to unfamiliarity rather than bias. If this reviewer hadn't been what I would call a 'Power-user', and had instead been someone converting from Windows, not only would they probably not have had a successful install, but would have an article that Microsoft would probably have printed in full page ads throughout the world. As it is, it should wake up Senior Management in SuSE. regards Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.1 on a thinkpad T500
by jef peeraer 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

installed it yesterday on my brand new thinkpad, and most of the basic stuff seems to be working : tested the wired/wireless connection :ok. can write DVD's, sound is ok, hibernation and sleep : ok , sdcard reader : ok, and last but not least, video graphics, weel that's a special case with this laptop, it includes 2 graphic controller : 1 discrete, the ati hd3650 and am integrated controller , intel mobile GM45 express chipset. i knew i wasn't going to get this switchable graphics thing in order... by default, the installation chooses the intel chipset. which works ok, but doesn't give you the power of the ATI. i changed the bios setting to discrete graphics ( swichable off ). when booted into command line, i could run sax and it installed the correct ATI drivers. but the next reboot set me back to the intel chipset, and indeed the bios was back to switchable graphics enabled ? jef peeraer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Does YaST Support ADS Security Setting in Samba
by Anthony Simonelli 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

I followed the instructions from this posting: http://en.opensuse.org/Setting_up_Squid_NTLM_DansGuardian_Sarg to be able to setup NTLM Authentication. One instruction says to change the security setting in smb.conf to "security=ads". Everything works, and Winbind lists the users and groups. However, when I go into YaST to add SMB shares, YaST changes the security back to being "user". This means that all of the shares created on the server cannot be accessed unless a user account is added to smbpasswd. What I would like is to have Samba shares authenticated by AD. Can I setup Samba using YaST to be able to join a domain as a member server (security=ads) and authenticate Samba shares using AD through YaST and, if so, how is it done? Anthony Simonelli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] kde4 konqueror will not connect via proxy
by lynn 10 Sep '09

10 Sep '09

The proxy works for firefox but not for konq in 11.0 kde 4. I've tested the proxy via yast and it works fine. Also, other browsers recognise it. Bug? I'm using squid on a 10.3 server with 11.0 and KDE4 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] kde3 is gone... for 11.2
by jdd 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

I just notice that there will be nomore kde3 for the upcomming openSUSE 11.2. I don't want to grin. Not necessary. I just wanted to ask here what do you have in kde3.5 and don't find in kde4 and you would like to have. Not to say you will have it but to give info to devs... I stopped using kde4 on 11.1 for problems in the config panel and lack of understanding of the new windows layout. I expect this to be solved before next release; what do you think? be constructive :-) jdd NB: I miss the kweather applet, but it don't work neither in kde 3.5 :-( -- 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] General Poor quality of Opensuse
by Peter Nikolic 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

I have used Opensuse now for some years since the days of 5.3 in fact and Linux in general well before that since the days of the Early 0.9 kernels all floppy distro no X i also ran Slackware and Red Hat and tested a few more along the way so i know a thing or two about Linux i have even brewed up my own distro at one time . It has to be said now after attempting to get 11.2 MS2 and 11.2 MS3 to play the game the standards of releases has fallen to a new all time low how on earth have you got the front to call these releases anything other than Alpha at best . The sound system is a total mess this pulseaudio thing is what nothing more than a total blight on the system there needs to be a choice for users risk pulseaudio or can that and run safe Alsa sound system . I know you are going to say Alsa doesn't do this or that but unlike pulseaudio it never failed to work it never chopped the audio Beagle ! what a total pain and complete resource hog once again it needs to be a LOT easier to un-install or not install at all With the requisite warning for those that do install it beware it will hog your CPU for excessive amounts of time , Likewise Nepomuk . KDE now i actually don't happen to believe all that has been said about the use of or rather almost ENFORCED use of KDE4.x and whilst it is sort of shaping up it will not be ready for the 11.2 release no way too much still don't play ball nice at all and needs sorting a lot to do with multimedia just plain does not work or if it does thanks to the enforced use of that pulseaudio stuff jitters and skips or as happens here when playing a DVD it stops then repeats a sylable carries on for a few seconds then does the same again well i spose if you like Norman Collier that's all well and good i think he's a prat . It seems now that no one actually gives a monkeys about the standards of the releases now that some members of staff have been dispensed with it seems and quite probably others the wrong staff members were dispensed with what is it going to take to get this distro back on track and back to a decent standard , Even the Ill fated 10.0 was far better than 11.2 is right now and arguably better than 11.2 as well. Then we have this whole License thing about codecs and DVD playing software things like DHT as well , People purchase a distro and rightfully so expect to be able to install it bang in a DVD and have it play not go faffing around having to instantly pollute a new install with essentially foreign packages not everyone has a good enough Internet connection to do that any way , maybe it is time for Opensuse to find a new home where German licensing rules don't apply . This mail is aimed squarley at the Opensuse team who o know will call me for everything under the sun plus some it is a two way street don forget i have gripes with quite a few there who's attitudes STINK but i am not interested in them right now , Contray to the comments that will come in from one in perticular a lot of the content of this email will be agreed by a considerable number of people a lot will keep stum they dont want their name to appear thats ok by me some may just get brave enough to agree fair dincum blue but do not for one moment think i am a one off this world is full of people that think one thing and say another for the sake of not standing out There is a lot more i could mention maybe i will shortly but one thing is for sure the situation as of this moment is a total disgrace to the SuSe name and a very poor shadow of it's former good name sort it out people , There is no point being the first ones to release something if it is a complete screwup a little more time in the R&D and less in the sales will work wonders Pete .

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[opensuse] Linux Kongress 2009
by Kurt Garloff 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

Hi, Linux Kongress 2009 is back to Germany again and taking place in Dresden from Oct 27 thr Oct 30 -- with the first two days being reserved for tutorials. (Those of you who were angry about the conflict with the plumbers conf -- it has been resolved now.) http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009/ I would appreciate many contributions from the openSUSE community. The program committee is looking forward for your contributions. http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009/cfp.html Best, -- Kurt Garloff, VP OPS Partner Engineering -- Novell Inc.

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[opensuse] BASH: has $COLUMNS gone nuts?
by David C. Rankin 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Listmates, Here is one I'm having difficulty understanding. As part of your environment the "LINES" and "COLUMNS" variables are defined telling you the number of lines and columns an xterm has. Many old script examples make use of them. Now, I can't make use of them? Specifically, from the command line: echo $COLUMNS properly returns the number of columns for the terminal. But calling or assigning $COLUMNS in a script no longer works. Try this in a bash script: #!/bin/bash echo $COLUMNS exit 0 Nothing?? Why? -- 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] nepomukfromhell - 99% of CPU
by David C. Rankin 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

List, I had removed /usr/share/autostart/nempmuk..desktop for the specific reason of preventing that Beagle like application from starting. After a couple of hours, my machine is brought to its knees. I knew what the problem was before I even ran killall $(ps ax | grep nepomuk), and sure enough the beast was back. I rechecked /usr/share/autostart/ and there was no nepomuk. How in the heck did it start on its own after I had removed the autostart entry and after I had rebooted without it present?? To see how nepomuk cripples a systems, see: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_bugs/kde4/screenshots/nepomuk-… http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_bugs/kde4/screenshots/nepomuk-… -- 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] Frustrated building inkscape 0.47, issue should be simple, just need a bit of help.
by Per Jessen 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi David I'm just about to complete a build of inkscape0.47pre1 on openSUSE-11.0-32bit. The configure went fine (after I'd installed the necessary libary and include files). Prior to that I downloaded and built libgc. I'll try the same on x86_64 and report back. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (23.6°C) -- 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] Losing NFS mounts on 11.1
by James Pifer 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 16:35 +0200, jdd (kim2) wrote: > James Pifer a écrit : > > >> On 10.3 I could switch back and forth and the mounts would stay > >> connected, or reconnect in the background, not sure which. I've looked > >> through the man page and don't see anything relevant. > > I have no real idea, but do you have good fstab options? did you read > the *mount* man page? > > jdd > > These mounts are not done through fstab. I suppose they could be, but it was never needed in the past, and I definitely do some manual mounts on occasion. On 10.3 if I manually mounted drives, and then switched my network connection**, the mount would persist. On 11.1 the NFS mounts all drop immediately. **Switching my network connection using Network Manager. IP address stays the same. Other apps continue to work fine, as well as my smb mounts. It's just NFS mounts that croaks. I did look at the mount man page and did not see anything that looked like it would help. Thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Frustrated building inkscape 0.47, issue should be simple, just need a bit of help.
by David C. Rankin 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Listmates, I think I have looked for an answer before on this, but can't recall for certain. I'm trying to build inkscape 0.47 on openSuSE 11.0 and I'm running into problems with having libgc.a or libgc.so properly recognized by ./configure. This libgc is the boehm garbage collector from hp: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/gc.tar.gz (** This is version 6.8 -- meets requirements of >6.4) It is installed with the normal ./configure --prefix=/usr, make, make install and it installs, among other things: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 849284 2009-07-30 23:52 /usr/lib/libgc.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 700 2009-07-30 23:52 /usr/lib/libgc.la* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2009-07-30 23:52 /usr/lib/libgc.so -> libgc.so.1.0.2* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2009-07-30 23:52 /usr/lib/libgc.so.1 -> libgc.so.1.0.2* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 491964 2009-07-30 23:52 /usr/lib/libgc.so.1.0.2* Pursuant to its install instructions, the path to /usr/lib needs to be in /etc/ld.so.conf, it is by default: 00:55 alchemy:~/linux/apps/gc6.8> grep /usr/lib /etc/ld.so.conf /usr/lib64/Xaw3d /usr/lib/Xaw3d /usr/lib64 /usr/lib However, after the ./autogen.sh (completes OK), the ./configure dies at: <snip> checking for GC_init in -lgc... yes checking libgc version 6.4+... no configure: error: libgc (the Boehm Conservative Collector) 6.4+, is needed to compile inkscape -- http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc Now the strange part is the same packages (gc and inkscape), build and install just fine with the exact same options on archlinux, so my problem here is something on opensuse that I can't figure out how to set so that the library is seen by ./configure. How do I go about finding out why ./configure for inkscape won't see the libgc on openSuSE 11.0? -- 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] Mail server HowTo?
by Clayton 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

I've decided to tinker with setting up a mail server. I've never done this before... so it's all new to me. I have a domain I want to use. It's set up with DynDNS to forward all web traffic to my local computer (which has a dynamic IP that my ISP likes to change at random.. usually at least twice per day). The webserver side works great.... my sub domains are responding correctly etc. I've added their Mail Hop Relay service to one of my domains. This should in theory provide MX records, and according to their website things are setup correctly on their side... so now it comes down to me and my local settings... and this is where things are not working exactly right. I've read through and attempted to follow this HowTo: http://en.opensuse.org/Mail_server_HOWTO which in theory should allow me to set up postfix. After reading and following the steps (I think I got it right) I've tested locally by using mailx and: - sending a mail to a regular local user works, and I see the mail arrive in /var/spool/mail/. - sending mail to an alias does not work (I see the bounce in /var/spoo/mail) - sending mail to external email addresses... disappears, and never arrives (at least not yet) Is there some clearer documentation that anyone knows about, or some other info I can read up on? Or any obvious things that I may have missed? Port 25 on my router is forwarded... the Mail Relay is set to use port 25... not sure where to look next. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] BASH: Shorter way to do [[ $line == QUIT ]] || [[ $line == Quit ]] || [[ $line == quit ]] && break ?
by David C. Rankin 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Bash gurus, What is a shorter way to do multiple case insensitive tests on a string or variable that would accomplish this: [[ $line == QUIT ]] || [[ $line == Quit ]] || [[ $line == quit ]] && break Basically what I am looking for is some case insensitive way to test for quit or exit without having to define a test for each possible permutation without bringing in a big hammer like sed or the like. I am a bit confused on the test expansion but know things like $line == [Qq]uit won't work. I can do it in case: case $line in [Qq][Uu][Ii][Tt] ) break;; esac But that seems like a clunky use of case. Is there a better way? -- 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] sound so low
by Hawit 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

I hv an Intel ALC269 onboard sound card but it volumes is so low. I hv set all volume to top but doesnt help. In Windows it is recognized as Realtek High Definition... how do I fix the sound so it could work like in windows environment? i am using opensuse 11.1 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] virtualbox can not start (after kernel pae update?)
by Hawit 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

suddenly my VirtualBox 3.0.2 can not start. so as root i run s6420:~ # /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Stopping VirtualBox kernel module done Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module failed (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong) s6420:~ # rpm -qa | grep virtual s6420:~ # rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-pae-extra-2.6.27.25-0.1.1 kernel-pae-2.6.27.25-0.1.1 linux-kernel-headers-2.6.27-2.28 kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.25-0.1.1 I hv reinstalled VirtualBox, linux-kernel-headers but doesnt help. any idea? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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