October 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: Logout-->Suspend Computer and swap space
by Roy Leembruggen 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Thanks Carlos E.R for those interesting hints. Did you mean I should enter "resume=/dev/sda6" in /etc/grub.conf ? I entered it there and then ran /sbin/SuSEconfig but did not find any refernce to "resume" in /var/log/boot.msg or /var/log/messages Am rather edgy about altering configuration files outside Yast. In older versions one had to always run /sbin/SuSEconfig - is there any other way of involving Yast in this case ? Roy

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suse in a windows network (authentication)
by Roman Sommer 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

hi list i was wondering if I could somehow make my suse (10) authenticate versus my windows 2003 domain controller. I configured both ldap client and kerberos client in Yast2. Authentication works (the kerberos part).. but I still cannot log in because ldap isn't able to fetch user account information from my active directory which is because it's not using the kerberos credidentials to establish a gssapi connection. So I set up shell/home information in /etc/passwd. No password. Passwords are still being retrieved from the domain controller via kerberos. Big surprise -> login works. If I now issue a ldapsearch with the filter it already tried before (but with no valid bind) "(&(objectclass=User)(msSFU30Name=testuser))" it starts a SASL/GSSAPI authentication and successfully fetches the needed information. Why doesn't ldap use gssapi on logins then.. or where can I tell it to use it? Couldn't find any suitable option in Yast nor the config files themselves. Oh and no I don't want to use a dedicated user with a locally stored plaintext password to search active directory :) might anyone please help? best regards Roman Sommer

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Loop mounting iso doesn't seem to work...
by M.Blackmore 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Hokay. I've downloaded the iso's of the cd and also the EVAL dvd. Loop mounted them per hoaghi's instructions. Is there any reason why mounting the DVD iso (and not makeDVD from the CD's) should fail as an nfs source for booting another 'pooter off the boot cd (as burned from boot.iso)? The error message is something along the lines of (shutdown the other pooter before noting it down, alas) error in nfs unknown error -1 Huh?

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Searching the mailinglist(s)
by houghi 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

What is the best way to search these mailinglists? I tried google, but something like http://www.google.com/search?hs=p1l&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozi… or http://tinyurl.com/beqpz for short does not show anything. With the amount of mails, it would be nice to have an effective searchengine. Now I am able to seach most of what I want with the mails I have with grepmail (grepm rather) but I can not always re-find all of the things I am looking for. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

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Test HDD
by Hans du Plooy 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Hi guys, I'm having problems with a windows server that resets spontaneously. Normally I would suspect windows, but seeing as it is a fresh install, the hard drive seems to be the obvious culprit. Is there a tool, preferably one that I can run off a live CD, that will test the hard drive below filesystem level? Thanks Hans

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GeForce 2 and the legacy nvidia driver on SuSE 10.0
by Jean-Francois Lemaire 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Hello, Has anyone been able to install the "legacy" nvidia driver for a GeForce 2 graphics card under 10.0? I can get it to compile, but the installer tells me it can't load the module. I tried with version 6629 and 7174. It seems to me it may be an issue with GCC 4. -- Jean-François Lemaire

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manipulating the system speaker
by Tim Hanson 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Does anyone know of a utility to manipulate the system speaker? I am building a pc that will be "storage only," a bunch of drives, headless, no gui, accessible only with ssh from my desktop computer or the main server. What I need is a utility I can put last in the boot sequence, so I know the thing is booted and I can login. Alternatively, is there a utility that will play a short .wav or .mpg from a startup script? -- Insanity is the final defense ... It's hard to get a refund when the salesman is sniffing your crotch and baying at the moon.

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Linuxant driverloader
by Corvin Russell 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

I've also switched my office machine over to linux after years of enduring Windows. Simultaneously, I've moved to a new office where the internet connection is through a wireless access point. We're all given US Robotics USR5420 802.11g wireless USB adapters. I managed to get this thing going with Linuxant's driverloader software, but there are a few issues. One that seems obviously related to driverloader is that everytime I shut the system down, the shutdown stops at trying to unload the driverloader module, and I have to do a hard reset, which I'm not happy about. I've verified that the driverloader rpm is for the correct kernel version, etc. The other problem is of unknown origin, but basically the connection drops from time to time. The hardware seems to be communicating with the access point fine, but I lose my IP lease and routing information, and nothing I do (except rebooting, which then entails a hard reset) can bring it up again. I'm using WPA-PSK to encrypt the wireless signal, but all the XP computers are using a protocol that SuSE 9.3 doesn't support. Are there any bright ideas as to what the problem here might be? I'm thinking of just going out and getting a wireless card that is better supported. Any recommendations? Corvin __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com

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bash hangs on xterm startup about 1/50 times.
by Steven T. Hatton 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Every once in a while, when I start a new xterm, bash will not give me a prompt. This has happened on different machines, and under the last few SuSE distributions. It's a very minor annoyance, but it's so fundamental to the very concept of Linux/Unix (http://www.unix.org/) that it needs to be addressed. Have other's noticed this? STH

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Apache2 and php error
by Donn Washburn 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hey Group; This type of error comes from every file.php program. Like phpMyAdmin, timesheet and blogcms. All of them are in /srv/www/htdocs/. php modules are defined in /etc/apache2 by Yast2 and it has been restarted lots of times. OS: SuSE 10 Beta 4 modules: php4-mysql-4.4.0-5 mod_php4-core-4.4.0-5, apache2-mod_php4-4.4.0-5 pcre-devel-6.2-2 pcre-6.2-2 Error (sample) Warning: preg_match: internal pcre_fullinfo() error -3 in /srv/www/htdocs/phpMyAdmin/libraries/defines.lib.php on line 36 Anyone have an idea? Could it be coming from a modules conflict. -- 73 de Donn Washburn Hpage:" http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " 307 Savoy St. HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador LL# 1.281.242.3256 " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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