February 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Western Digital IDE ATA Hard Disk
by riccardo35＠gmail.com 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

- just a remark: Jan 2007, bought a new 120 gig WD HD - soon after format fdisk could not see partition table. .......................... after re-partitioning/re-format, soon same trouble ................ next tried with Western Digital utility-tools. again - soon after format fdisk could not see partition table. .......................... as an experiment, tried to install Windows 2000 : not possible! ....................................... Friendly Greetings -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Applications question
by Art Fore 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

We have a Suse 10.1 file server at work using Samba. ( it was formally Redhad, but Suse is much easier to administer). It is present having Subversion installed on it and will have a postgress database for a partws database on it (prently using postgres locally for the database). One new requirement we need to fullfill is a defect entry program where we can enter hardware and/or software defects for record so they do not get lost and can be corrected. I have looked at MrProject before about two yearss ago, but it is very difficult to use and was not ready for prime time. I was thing of maybe using Drupal for something like this. Does anyone have any experience or wise advise on such a system using Apache server and webbrowser clients? Any input would be much appreciated. Art BTW this corporate network is an all windows system, but we have a Linux server so we can get around the IT meddling etc. and have some control over what we want to do. For what it is doing now, it works perfectly and one hell of a lot faster than the windows servers in Texas, Singapore, and Europe. This is our only server on premisses. -- 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: POP3 mail server
by Chuck Davis 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

It's really annoying when what worked with 10.1 does not work with 10.2! I have postfix working and mail is arriving at my server. I installed the imap package and POP3 is running on port 110 per nmap. I created a certificate as I have in the past and as is currently documented in the mail HOW-TO @ opensuse.org. Attempting to configure Kmail: Set up a POP3 account. On the Extras page "Check what the server supports" reports "Use TLS" and Authentication: "Clear Text". Attempting to connect gives error: "Could not connect to host Your POP3 server does not support TLS. Disable TLS if you want to connect without encription" Disabling TLS on the Extras tab and reconnecting results in: "Coult not login to myserver. The server said: 'Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command'". I've been unsuccessful finding any config files for POP3 that would let me enable TLS. DNS is working properly and I can sign on to my server from the client as follows: "ssh mylogin(a)mail.myserver". The first time I do that, it fetches the certificate and subsequently the logons are clean. Can anybody advise me how to configure Kmail to logon to the server? Both are running 10.2 (boxed) with all updates. Very much appreciate the key to success. My wife is getting antsy to get her mail! Chuck Davis -- 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] Interesting Boot Problem
by M Harris 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

On Wednesday 31 January 2007 21:20, you wrote: > If your > extensive service desk experience provides > you with some useful insight i'd love to hear it... Is there any way that this might be a dual boot system with Windows (in the interim) messing around with the partition table(s) or raid array? -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Please help with Suse 10.2 install
by Emily Berk 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

I am a pretty new Linux administrator, and after repeated tries have not been able to install Suse 10.2 on my fairly old (~4-5 years old) IBM eServer xSeries 200 (which seems to be on the supported list, but I'm not sure). When I install Windows, any version, there's no problem -- mouse, keyboard, CD, connection to Internet -- everything works fine. I once successfully installed Caldera Linux and again all the peripherals seemed to work fine. But when I boot to the Suse Install CD 1, the menu shows up but the keyboard and mouse don't work. SO, I tried booting to the non-graphical install on the same CD. And I've tried every option -- linux, noacpi, nolapic, failsafe, memtest. Each time, it displays "Loading linux .." Just those two dots and then -- nothing happens. I've looked but have not found a lot of information on troubleshooting a Suse installation, aside from the suggestion to try the non-graphical installation. Is there some way to install Suse Linux from Windows? Or, other suggestions? TIA, Emily Emily Berk http://www.armadillosoft.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] Suse 10.1 on hp dv8000 - sound issues, media slot issues
by Michael Smith 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Hey all, I'm running opensuse 10.1 on a HP Pavilion dv8000 notebook... Everything works pretty well except for one or two things. The sound doesn't have as full of a range as I would like, in fact it's pretty low. Any tips on this? Also, the built in media slots (sd-ram, etc.) don't work... Any hints on getting these working? Thanks, Mike Smith -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.17/661 - Release Date: 1/30/2007 11:30 PM -- 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 Census
by n7nkj 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Just installing 10.2 from the DVD. Been using KDE since 6.2. The little Gnome just doesn't cut it for me. Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Totally Baffled
by David McMillan 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

I'm not even sure how to describe this, but I'll try. Okay: I have a small NAS device attached to my home LAN which I've been using to keep a large (~300GB) of data files on, but which is near its storage limit. So I've been trying to set up LVM (for the first time) on my 10.0 system, to create a larger archive to copy the data files to. The LVM creation process went well, as far as I can tell, and I ordered an rsync job to duplicate the original archive to the new, expanded one. But after about 36GB of copying, something incredibly weird happened: my original archive vanished from the mount list, and the rsync job stopped with a string of "no such file/directory" errors. I mean, it just *vanished* -- stopped showing up at all when I did a df. Konq started reporting "this directory/file no longer appears to be present" when I tried to navigate to it. And this is on a machine that *no one* else has access to, so I can 99% guarantee there was no human intervention. Even stranger: I couldn't remount the NAS drive for some reason, although using its HTTP access I was able to confirm that it was fine. Eventually, I just gave up and rebooted. And now, this (I should note that my NAS is normally mounted to /archives, and the LVM volume to /archives2): david@linux:/> ls -la /bin/ls: archives: No such file or directory total 35 drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 656 2007-01-30 16:12 . drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 656 2007-01-30 16:12 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-11-26 21:45 8thdimension drwxr-xr-x 4 david root 104 2007-01-07 20:18 archives2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2896 2006-12-09 00:15 bin drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1488 2007-01-07 00:32 boot drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 15660 2007-01-30 21:12 dev drwxr-xr-x 108 root root 9288 2007-01-30 23:11 etc drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 2005-11-20 04:48 home drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4136 2007-01-21 16:46 lib drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 144 2007-01-08 08:43 media drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-09-09 12:27 mnt drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 344 2006-08-26 17:03 opt dr-xr-xr-x 140 root root 0 2007-01-30 16:12 proc drwx------ 26 root root 1376 2007-01-30 21:11 root drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 9760 2007-01-30 19:47 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2006-06-19 19:35 sg1 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 2005-11-19 20:35 srv drwxr-xr-x 11 david root 4096 2007-01-27 00:29 storage drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-09-09 05:59 subdomain drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 2007-01-30 16:12 sys drwxrwxrwt 31 root root 2848 2007-01-30 23:00 tmp drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 416 2006-11-14 09:42 usr drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 360 2005-11-19 19:34 var david@linux:/> sudo mkdir /archives mkdir: cannot create directory `/archives': File exists david@linux:/> ls /archives /bin/ls: /archives: No such file or directory david@linux:/> Okay: If I mount the NAS device to /archives, the mount command succeeds. It shows up in df as mounted, and shows me the NAS device's format and current space used/avail. But any attempt to ls /archives shows it as not existing. So I umounted the NAS device, and tried again. And tried re-creating it with mkdir. And the results, you've seen above. I am *stumped.* This string of behaviors makes *no* sense at all. Has anyone else ever encountered anything like this? -- 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] Daylight Savings Change
by Coach-X 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

> Someone seems to have missed the boat here; I believe all the 10.x > versions have the proper time change information, but 9.3 does not. > Maybe they think it doesn't matter, since 9.3 is slated for the > dustbin in only a few months (when 10.3 is released) :-) I would hope they would issue a new timezone version, as support is not slated to end until april 30. Also, 10.3 will probably not be available until august, that is our next upgrade cycle. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] running mkinitrd on a dead system
by John Brown 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Hello SUSE users, I encrypted my laptop's hard disc using instructions from http://en.opensuse.org/ Encrypted_Root_File_System_with_SUSE_HOWTO. (To be short, I now have LUKS- encrypted filesystems, and also a custom initrd image, which asks me for password before every boot. I created the initrd image using a pached mkinitrd script.) In my infinite stupidity, I decided that I need another kernel. I downloaded kenel's rpm version, and it promptly overwrited my custom initrd image. Now, when I boot my laptop, I am greeted with a message that my encrypted (cryptsetup-LUKS) filesystem is unknown, and can't be mounted. I tried to boot from CD using Knoppix, and execute mkinitrd from it, but it failed as it can't find /etc/sysconfig/kernel (It's obvious that Knoppix does not have this folder). I can mount my encrypted filesystems from Knoppix, so the question now is which command line parameters should I give mkinitrd so that it correctly creates initrd - finds my kernel and copies it to my boot (unencrypted) partition I would really appreciate any ideas or suggestions! Best regards, John -- John Brown mrjohnbrown(a)fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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