July 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] How to create a dual-boot
by Maura Monville 04 Jul '09

04 Jul '09

Roughly 6 years ago SuSE forum helped me install both SuSE ans Windows on the same computer. I haven't done that since then any more. I have installed SuSE 11.1 on my dektop at the lab. I have an empty partition. How can I install Windows as well so as to create a dual-boot ? Maybe this can be handle by Grub ? Thanks in advance, Maura -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Amarok 2 on KDE 4.3 wants to downgrade KDE workspace 4.1
by Michael S. Dunsavage 04 Jul '09

04 Jul '09

I've been trying to install Amarok2 on OS11.1. I've even used the repo on Amarok's page, but it wants down grade to workspace 4.1.1. I don't want to do that if I'm running 4.3. How can I fix this problem? -- Michael S. Dunsavage -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Keyboard stops working
by Mike 04 Jul '09

04 Jul '09

This has been happening for a while. Originally it was noticed when running citrix, but that is no longer the case. When typing the keyboard just stops working. It's a PS/2 keyboard. Without using the keyboard how can I reset it? I could pull out the laptop and ssh back in but what command would I need to run. linux-zlo2 2.6.22.19-0.3-default #1 SMP 2009-05-27 10:35:34 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux open suse 10.3 Kde 3.5 -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE 4.3
by Mark Misulich 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Hi, I did some updates to my computer in the last day or two. There were a large number of updates to KDE 4.3 in the update mix. Now a number of things don't work on KDE 4.3 and 3.5. Here are a few of the things that I have found: 1. Ark extracts zip files in 4.3, but when it extracts files they don't go anywhere and they can't be found. 2. Dolphin won't open in 4.3 3. On the 3.5 desktop, the MyComputer icon stopped working. I found the executable for the icon at /opt/kde3/share/templates/.source/Program.desktop When I click on the gear, nothing happens. How may I restore function? Thanks, 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] Going crazy with printer
by Jim Sabatke 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

I feel a bit foolish about this one. I have a new box that doesn't have a parallel port for my HP LaserJet 1200. I bought a USB to parallel port cable, and with an enormous amount of experimentation, Googling and guessing, actually had it working. Then I installed the MPlayer plug-ins for Mozilla and the install unloaded almost all of my KDE4 environment. When I tried to reload KDE4, the box was very unstable and extremely unresponsive. I then did a re-install of SuSE 11.1. I had backed up my repo list, so I got my system back to where it should be, with MPlayer stuff installed easily. However, I forgot to save the printer configuration files and have not been able to get the HP printer back. I can cat a file to /dev/usb/lp0 and it does print, but programs will not print to the printer and the Yast printer setup is ridiculously hard to use. I'm also using TurboPrint 2.10.1 and it won't properly setup the printer either. Auto detection does not work with any program I've tried, include CUPS manager and the KDE printer setup program. To the best of my recollection, the printer setup was something like "tpu://epson/dev/usb/lp0" (I know, but "epson" worked), but I can't come up with the exact string to make it all work. Any advice out there? TIA, Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Howto: Creating an Userpage
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Hello Mates, i've just found out, that some Users don't know, how to create an own Userpage. So i've written an short HowTo. If i have anything forgotten, you can drop me a Note :-) Link: http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/07/02/howto-how-to-create-an- userpage/ -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.com

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[opensuse] Howto: Creating an Userpage
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Hello Mates, i've just found out, that some Users don't know, how to create an own Userpage. So i've written an short HowTo. If i have anything forgotten, you can drop me a Note :-) -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.com

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[opensuse] athlon unable to run qemu-kvm, poosibly caused by cpu-parameter
by Julien Michielsen 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

I tried to get WinXP installed under kvm, and noticed I could not get it installed, because the MS-Win setup-procedure got confused. I had run two commands: qemu-img create -f qcow2 ./winxp.img 10G this command worked fine, to prepare a WinXP- immage on disk (in direc- tory /mnt/a14). Secondly I wanted to install the XP on disk such that qemu-kvm can work on it, and therefor I used the command qemu-kvm -M pc -m 1G -cpu athlon -cdrom /dev/sr0 -boot d /mnt/a14/winxp.img Having given this command the Windows setup started to run, but ended in failure with the message "Cannot load file SETUPREG.HIV into memory. Errorcode is 3072. Push any key to stop the installation program" Even though setup complained of not being able to find the SETUPREG.HIV-file, this file was present in the subdirectory I386 of the Win-XP-CD. I assume the setup-procedure got confused by the cpu-parameter of the qemu-kvm - command: qemu-kvm -cpu athlon. If the parameter had had i386 as its value, I suppose the setup-procedure of MS-Win would have searched the I386 directory, and everything had worked fine. Is this a known problem of the installation of WinXP under qemu-kvm, and does a work-around exist? If I could use my present allready installed XP-version on a separate partition as an input to the qemu-kvm command (instead of the MS Win CD) the problem might be side-stepped. Is this possible at all? Thanks for your interest. -W- Julien Michielsen julien(a)michkloo.xs4all.nl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] zypper up of tomcat 6 fails
by Dan Goodman 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

I regularly patch my 11.1 o/s via "zypper ref -b" followed by "zypper up". Usually everything goes fine. However, last night tomcat6 was one of the proposed upgrades, and it failed. This morning I repeated my usual procedure, and only tomcat6 was proposed. When it ran, it failed with the message below. Any ideas about how to proceed (info to gather, is it a config problem on my end, etc.)? Here is the dialog produced: The following package is going to be upgraded: tomcat6 Overall download size: 74.0 K. No additional space will be used or freed after the operation. Continue? [YES/no]: y Retrieving package tomcat6-6.0.18-16.2.1.noarch (1/1), 74.0 K (176.0 K unpacked) Retrieving delta: ./rpm/noarch/tomcat6-6.0.18-16.1.1_16.2.1.noarch.delta.rpm, 26.0 K Retrieving: tomcat6-6.0.18-16.1.1_16.2.1.noarch.delta.rpm [done] Applying delta: ./tomcat6-6.0.18-16.1.1_16.2.1.noarch.delta.rpm [done] Installing: tomcat6-6.0.18-16.2.1 [error] Installation of tomcat6-6.0.18-16.2.1 failed: (with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/tomcat6/Catalina: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory Abort, retry, ignore? [A/r/i]: Here is the state of files Cat* in /etc/tomcat: crustacean:/etc/tomcat6 # ls -lad Cat* drwxr-xr-x 3 tomcat tomcat 80 May 13 08:43 Catalina lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 30 11:05 Catalina;4a4a29a1 -> /var/cache/tomcat6/Catalina lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 30 16:55 Catalina;4a4a7bc6 -> /var/cache/tomcat6/Catalina lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 30 16:55 Catalina;4a4a7bdb -> /var/cache/tomcat6/Catalina lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 1 10:36 Catalina;4a4b7455 -> /var/cache/tomcat6/Catalina Here is what is at /var/cache/tomcat6: crustacean:/var/cache/tomcat6 # ls -lad . drwxrwxr-x 3 root tomcat 72 May 10 13:21 . crustacean:/var/cache/tomcat6 # ls -lad * drwxrwxr-x 2 root tomcat 48 Feb 10 09:24 temp The directory /var/cat/tomcat6/temp is empty. Here is what I have installed relative to tomcat: crustacean:/ # rpm -qa | grep -i tomcat jakarta-commons-collections-tomcat5-3.2-88.13 tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.18-16.2.1 jakarta-commons-dbcp-tomcat5-1.2.2-88.17 struts-webapps-tomcat6-1.2.9-162.163.2 tomcat6-javadoc-6.0.18-16.2.1 tomcat6-lib-6.0.18-16.2.1 tomcat6-servlet-2_5-api-6.0.18-16.2.1 tomcat6-webapps-6.0.18-16.2.1 jakarta-commons-pool-tomcat5-1.3-1.108 tomcat6-jsp-2_1-api-6.0.18-16.2.1 tomcat6-6.0.18-16.1.1 tomcat6-admin-webapps-6.0.18-16.2.1 Hope this is the correct level of detail to include. Any help/guidance will be appreciated. Dan G. -- 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 ATI driver released... And works! -- NOT!
by David C. Rankin 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Dave Plater wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: >> >> Dave, >> >> Your english was fine, I was just suffering from a momentary cranal-rectal >> inversion :-( >> >> >> > By the way, Peter didn't seem to have solved his problem which I think > may be due to his not having the devel versions installed. I have no > experience with ATI only nvidia, in fact from what I've seen on this > list I don't want to have any ATI experience. Does the installation of > his driver require the development versions to be installed? Maybe you > can put him on the right track. > Regards > Dave P > > > Dave, The devel versions shouldn't be required. When I checked my 11.0 version, all I have is compat-libstdc++-5.0.7-121.1 (which I understand is libstdc++33 in 11.1), but: [01:44 alchemy:/srv/www/htdocs/wordpress] # rpm -qa | grep libstdc++ compat-libstdc++-5.0.7-121.1 ------------- I do have other unrelated devel packages installed: libstdc++44-4.4.0_20090316-2.1 libstdc++43-devel-4.3.3_20090126-2.3 libstdc++43-doc-4.3.3_20090316-2.1 libstdc++44-32bit-4.4.0_20090316-2.1 libstdc++-devel-4.3-39.1 but nothing on the system related to libstdc++.so.5 [02:16 alchemy:/srv/www/htdocs/wordpress] # rpm -q --whatprovides libstdc++.so.5 compat-libstdc++-5.0.7-121.1 I have never had a compile problem with the ATI driver related to a missing library. ATI botched a couple of driver releases that not even Stefan could compile for 11.1. The key here I think is 11.1. ATI hasn't released a driver to date that will work with my hardware and 11.1. Anders and others are doing OK with the 9-3 release (although I suspect if they compare the 11.1 fglrx driver performance to that of the Sept. 08 driver running on 11.0 or 10.3 they would be wildly disappointed by the comparison.) The problem is there is no "measuring stick" or a good performing driver that will compile against 11.1. I know in my experience with the 8-10, 8-11, 8-12, and 9-1 fglrx drivers, my graphics performance on my laptop with an X1200/x1300 chipset all the foregoing drivers suffer greater than a 40% performance loss compared against the 8-9 driver. I would like to see the test results of others who think the 9-3 driver is doing OK, comparing (1) the glxgears frame rates w/default window size, and (2) the overall feel and responsiveness of the graphics subsystem against their same hardware running 11.0 or 10.3 with the 8-9 driver. I would be willing to wager their would be a bunch of bruised chins from all the "jaw dropping" that would occur when the performance penalty of the recent ATI drivers is actually measured in black-and-white. It's almost impossible to tell how much of a performance hit you have taken just by looking at the screen and saying "yes, it looks OK" without doing an actual comparison. As for Peter, the only thing I can think of is just to plug libstdc++.so.5 into webpin on 11.1 and see what packages come back and then install those packages to get around his compile problem. The search on 11.1 says the package is provided by the following. Since I don't run 11.1 (primarily due to the ATI issue (to be fair other things as well)), I haven't had to beat my head into the wall over this yet, but if it were me, I would just go down the list of the 1-click installs below, find my architecture and install every damn one of them that matched until I had a usable libstdc++.so.5 on my system to compile against: Results from http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/ libstdc++33 (3.3.3) The standard C++ shared library contains /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 1-click: http://api.opensuse-community.org/searchservice//YMPs/openSUSE_111/3ca198ef… libstdc++33-32bit (3.3.3) The standard C++ shared library contains /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 Results from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/gcc/openSUSE_11.1 1-click: http://api.opensuse-community.org/searchservice//YMPs/openSUSE_111/19e75469… libstdc++33 (3.3.3) The standard C++ shared library contains /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 1-click: http://api.opensuse-community.org/searchservice//YMPs/openSUSE_111/f12e9978… libstdc++33-32bit (3.3.3) The standard C++ shared library contains /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 1-click: http://api.opensuse-community.org/searchservice//YMPs/openSUSE_111/c7de6099… libstdc++33-64bit (3.3.3) The standard C++ shared library contains /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5 1-click: http://api.opensuse-community.org/searchservice//YMPs/openSUSE_111/8d311289… And if that didn't work, I'd just grab a copy from 11.0 and see if that would work. Looking closer, the libstdc++.so.5 isn't even a real file, on 11.0 it is just sym linked against libstdc++.so.5.0.7: 02:18 alchemy:/srv/www/htdocs/wordpress] # l /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2008-07-26 17:47 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5 -> libstdc++.so.5.0.7* [02:37 alchemy:/srv/www/htdocs/wordpress] # l /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5.0.7 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 855856 2008-06-06 16:45 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5.0.7* Hell, Peter's problem may be as simple as just recreating the sym link. Peter, give this a try [as root]: [[ -f /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5.0.7 ]] && ln -s /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5.0.7 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5 -- 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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