March 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

redhat vs suse
by faisal 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

Hello i am a user of redhat linux waiting for the suse linux 7.1 iso image to be available so that i could get it .. i was thinking what are the benifits i will have when i install suse on my workstation ? *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤Allah Hafiz*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*Faisal Gillani *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤Allah Hafiz*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*Faisal Gillani *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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New suse 7.1 proffesional
by faisal 17 Feb '01

17 Feb '01

Hey i am a user of redhat linux but have heard so much about suse wana check it out the new 7.1 version any idea where i can find its ISO image thanks a lot *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤Allah Hafiz*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*Faisal Gillani *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤

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[SLE] printing in colour or color
by peter＠hargroves.screaming.net 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

Hello all readers, I have a epson stylus color 440 printer. I can print ok in Black but not in color any help appreciated. I'm using Suse 6.2 Peter -- 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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[SLE] Reiser file system
by snieto＠sc.sas.cica.es 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

Can I put disk quotas in a file system that has ben configured with reiserfs ? <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can I put disk quotas in a file system that has ben configured with reiserfs ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY>

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[SLE] OT - Naming Conventions
by gconron＠hfx.andara.com 07 Jul '00

07 Jul '00

Hi, Slightly off topic, but does anybody know of widely used naming conventions used for shell scripting? Oracle uses the optimal flexible architecture, which describes variables both within sql and for naming sql scripts, but I have not found anything similar for unix/linux. If anyone could point to a resource, I'd be most appreciative. Cheers, GC -- Gregory Conron gconron(a)hfx.andara.com - email (902) 443-4562 - voicemail -- 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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[SLE] Segmentation fault + Aiee's + Oops !!
by john＠vogue.demon.co.uk 07 Jul '00

07 Jul '00

========================================================================== What follows is a complete history of the problems I've had over the last 2 days, as accurately as I can remember them. The Aiee messages have been clipped from /var/log/warn, and the Oops screen dump has been faithfully copied down to the last digit. /var/log/boot.msg is included at the end. ========================================================================== Hello all, Can someone please help me work this out. I believe I have a hardware problem, either in memory or the CPU, but am not sure which. If someone more experienced at diagnosing this type of problem on Linux can give the following a once over, I'd be very grateful. This is a brand new system, 1 week old. It has an AMD Athlon 550Mhz CPU, 128MB of memory, two UDMA66 disks (8GB for /boot, swap, / and 20GB 7200rpm for other data) and two 3Com 3C905B-TX network cards. The system is intended to be an internet server for my home network. It's running SuSE 6.3 (2.2.13 kernel). The first indication something was amiss was a system freeze up during the SuSE install. It just stopped in the middle of installing the contents of CD1. I could get nothing from the install screen, but was able to change virtual consoles to look at the install log. Something in the install had falled over with a Segmentation fault. Restarting the install again seemed to go through ok. The next think I spotted was these strange errors appearing in /var/log/warn. I've put the last two days worth together below: kernel: iput: Aieee, semaphore in use inode 03:03/360840, count=0 kernel: iput: Aieee, atomic write semaphore in use inode 03:03/360840, count=0 kernel: iput: Aieee, semaphore in use inode 03:03/228759, count=0 kernel: iput: Aieee, atomic write semaphore in use inode 03:03/228759, count=0 kernel: iput: Aieee, semaphore in use inode 03:03/555542, count=0 kernel: iput: Aieee, atomic write semaphore in use inode 03:03/555542, count=0 What am I looking at here? Are these semaphore's Thread resources, or system V semaphores? What does this message mean? I've also been getting quite a number of these messages too: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-15 During this time I noticed more strange Segmentation faults. A couple of times while SuSEConfig runs various scripts after commiting changes made in Yast (a really odd place to segfault). But the worst was while trying to build my own kernel for the first time. I was trying to clean up some stuff (like RAID, etc) and include support for the various firewall options. make menuconfig ran ok, but 'make depend' got about about half way through and then started to Segmentation fault processing various files. I couldn't continue. I have another system here, my older PC that I'd just upgraded from SuSE 6.1 to 6.3, so I NFS mounted the kernel source tree and copied it over to a new directory, remade the linux softlink and this time the kernel built ok. At this point I tried experimenting with ip_forward and ipchains. I couldn't get it to work. What struck me as odd is that I could ping the public network interface card, from a PC on the the private network, even when a cat'ing the /proc ip_forward file clearly showed ip_forwarding to be turned off in the kernel (i.e. it returned 0). I can't believe that is correct. Anyway, I gave up on this for a while (too tired with it) and switch to setting up squid for proxy http access. This worked ok. Then, this evening, as I was preparing to configure sendmail for the first time, I fired up Yast from a telnet session and it Segmenation faulted. On the second attempt it hung the session. I tried to run a ps(1) to find the pid from a local kvt and that also hung. So I switched to a virtual console and tried logging in, that hung also. Back in X-windows I tried a shutdown -r, that segfaulted, so did reboot. By this point I was VERY worried. I had no choice but to power-cycle. After forcing a reboot the system crashed while fsck'ing hdb2, an 18GB partition. This is the first time it's ever had to fsck all system partitions contiguously before as they are usually in a clean state. It crashed with the following Oops message: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 current->tss.cr3 = 03ff3000, %cr3 = 03ff3000 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c0120409>] EFLAGS: 00010006 eax: c1efffc0 ebx: c1efffc0 ecx: 00000000 edx: c1fbd660 esi: 00000000 edi: c40ef740 ebp: 00000282 esp: c2a8bc9c ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process fsck.ext2 (pid: 17, process nr: 10, stackpage=c2a8b000) Stack: 00000000 00000400 c01266b9 c40ef740 00000003 c1fbd660 00000000 c0126746 00000000 00000400 00000400 c2147000 00000342 c2a8bcdc c2a8bcdc c2a8a000 c2a8a000 00000000 c01272b5 c2147000 00000400 00000000 00000000 00000400 Call Trace: [<c01266b9>] [<c0126746>] [<c01272b5>] [c01260ea>] [<c0126296>] [<c0129a81>] [<c01cbfa7>] 1cc6a2>] [<c01d38fc>] [<c01cf97e>] [<c01d37ac>] [<c01247f5>] [<c01249ae>] [<c010900c>] Code: 8b 01 89 03 85 c0 74 2b 8b 73 04 85 f6 75 10 89 19 89 c8 2b In the short time I've had the system it's not done this before. What I believe has caused it is that I've changed the pattern of memory usage for the system. In setting up squid I gave it 16MB of memory cache to play with. It's now running into more serious trouble than it was before. In my experience, random segfaults like this occur due to one of three causes: 1) a portion of memory is bad. 2) a CPU or CPU cache is bad 3) bad blocks in swap cause corruption when swapped out pages are read in again. I'm not swapping at the moment so it's got to be one of the first two. Thing is, how to I tell? I'm used to dealing with Tru64 Alpha systems, where the binary event log traps and logs CPU Exceptions and bad memory reads/writes. Here, I'm blind. My gut tells me it's memory, but I can't confirm it. Is there anything I can do other than start taking bits back to the PC supplier? Regards, John -- 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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[SLE] reply e-mail automatically
by snieto＠sc.sas.cica.es 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

Hello, I'd like to know how can I reply a mail automaticaly. For example, if I am out of the office, all of e-mail that I receive are replied with a e-mail that say that I'm out of the office. Can I do it with sendmail? Thank you very much. -- 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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[SLE] [SLE} RS/6000 PPC Linux
by btm77＠home.com 09 Jun '00

09 Jun '00

Hello Folks, I'm going to inherit a an IBM 42T. It has the "Power PC" silk-screen on it. Does anybody know or heard of anyone installing Linux on RS/6000 based hardware. Or is their bus just too proprietary for anybody to even try it. This box is old but it runs X with GLX on a giant card and a 20" monitor. I would hate to see this rare classic in the dumpster. I don't think I could afford a license to AIX. Thanks for your input, -BTM77 -- 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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[SLE] Kickstart
by jont＠ii.uib.no 26 May '00

26 May '00

Is there anything similar to Red Hat's Kickstart or Sun's Jumpstart in SuSE? If not, could the wizards at SuSE please include this functionality in the next version of the distro. It would be a _very_ important feature to have for those of us who have to install Linux on a _lot_ of PCs. TIA ---J.T.U. /==================================================================\ | Jon Trygve Utne |e-mail: jont(a)ii.uib.no | | Department of Informatics | Jon.Utne(a)mi.uib.no | | University of Bergen, Norway | Jon.Utne(a)student.uib.no | | Tlf(work) +47 55 58 82 95 |"Smith & Wesson: The original| | URL: http://www.ii.uib.no/~jont | point and click interface" | \==================================================================/ -- 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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[SLE] 6.3 upgrade fonts and Staroffice
by fsanta＠arrakis.es 20 May '00

20 May '00

Hi everyone. Just upgraded to 6.3 and found that all our type1 fonts had been lost from Staroffice. Fortunately they remanined intact in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 but we had to do a type1inst in that directory to get the fonts.scale file back then xset fp rehash in KDE and then reinstall them in each user's installation. I think that this may help the poster of a font question earlier on which I just deleted. Naughty. Best wishes from Steve at FeF, Spain. -- 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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