May 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] opensuse repositories now illegal in Germany
by Thomas Meindl 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Reading the news I came across the legal issue of a new law in Germany. It is now illegal to own, write or distribute preventive software which can test the security of a computer by using the internet. As far as I can see this means that portscanner like nmap are now illegal. Does anyone know how this affects the opensuse distribution? Kind regards, Tom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] updating problem (opensususeupdater)
by Carlos E. R. 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, opensuse updater says there is one package available: Name Type New Version Catalog perl-Archive-Tar: Update to satisfy missing dependency Patch 3438-0 20070216-193512 But when I choose to update, there is nothing (in YOU). I close it, and the next round there it is again. A day has passed already and it keeps insisting there is one update when there is none. What is wrong? If I manually search in YOU for "perl-Archive-Tar", I find a package not selected for update, installed version 1.30-17 and available version 1.30-22.1. Why doesn't it update automatically? And, if it should not be updated, why does opensuse-updater says there is one update pending? If I search for the patch, it says thus: perl-Archive-Tar - perl-Archive-Tar: Update to satisfy missing dependency A earlier spamassassin update added a new dependency for perl-Archive-Tar. This causes illegible errormessages from the update stack which are not do not point to this problem.Since it requires the package to be pulled from the installation media which might not be listed anymore this update just contains the package to fulfill the new dependencies. It contains no changes compared to the original shipping version. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGXI1mtTMYHG2NR9URAu/XAKCAwdjNlfW5r1hFE3xTDDuL3ErhpgCggyyt kQh9dZwGrwmeYNfczMhLrKo= =8Kw6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Adding an installation source to YaST (SUSE 10.0 AMD64 x 2)
by Peter Bradley 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

It's time I got this business of adding installation sources to YaST thing sorted. I'd really like to install the latest versions of Mono and Monodevelop, so I went to the web site, which advises SUSE uses to add the installation source: http://go-mono.com/download-stable/suse-100-x86_64 to YaST. In YaST --> Software --> Installation Source, I clicked on add --> http and, in the dialog that appears added the following details: Server Name: go-mono.com Directory on server: download-stable/suse-100-x86_64 After clicking OK in the dialog, it went away and thought about it for a while and then added 27 identical URLs to the list in the Software source media dialog. The URLs added are all listed (immediately after the line specifying my installation DVD source) as: http://go-mono.com/download-stable/suse-100-x86_64 (which, I guess, is what you'd expect except that I was only expecting it to add a single line) I then turned refresh on for each of these entries and clicked Finish. Back in the YaST Control Centre I chose Software Management. YaST then tried to refresh each of these sources. On every attempt, the error message: ERROR(InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media) was displayed. Very user friendly, I thought :-) When I eventually got back to YaST, nothing from this installation source appeared to be displayed (i.e. there was nothing I could see that indicated that I had any version of Mono available to me except 1.1.8x that I had from the installation DVD, and which I had uninstalled prior to adding the new source). The source column in YaST was empty in all cases. Finally, just for the heck of it, I turned refresh off and tried again. The result was the same. Does anyone know what the undoubtedly obvious thing is that I've missed? Thanks, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] CD question
by James Hatridge 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Hi all, Sometimes I have a CD/DVD go bad etc and it will not come out of the CD reader. As root I try the eject command and it will not work saying that the CD is busy. So far I've ended up rebooting to get the !"§$ CD out. Is there a way to force the eject command to work without rebooting? Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 Ebay ID: WartHogBulletin ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.WartHogBulletin.de Many Enemies -- Much Honor! Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.manyenemies-muchhonor.info An American in Bavaria http://www.gaubodengalerie.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OpenOffice.org 2.2
by Siegfried Wolkenstein 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Hello, is there a SuSE rpm package for OpenOffice.org available? I cannot find one. There is an error int the OOo 2.1.14.package: [quote] this chunk of code should be correct, but it doesn't work as expected. [code] oTables = myDocument.getTextTables() oTable = oTables(0) tableHeight = oTable.Rows.Count-1 tableWidth = oTable.Columns.Count [/code] tableHeight equals 50, but tableWidth equals 0 (there are actually 9 columns...). [/quote] 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] Re: [opensuse-security] Need help with SuSE 9.3 and /var/log/auth.log
by John Andersen 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

On Tuesday 29 May 2007, Andreas wrote: > Hi, > sorry for not using english in the other post. > > I've got an old SuSE 9.3 system that serves as a firewall/router/samba > for a small office. > I use ssh for maintenance. > Recently I learned that on other systems there is a /var/log/auth.log > that logs who is coming in. > This files doesn't exist on my system and I couldn't find an entry in > the 2 files in /etc/syslog-ng. > Could someone give me a hint how to set this auth.log up? > I have to admit that I'm not really hot with this setup stuff that goes > beyond yast. I don't think 9.3 uses syslog-ng just the old syslog. Therefore /var/log/messages would be the place to look for messages about "who is coming in" (whatever that might mean). You could type "last" as root and see the list of logins. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] SSH Login Message
by Bob 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Does anyone know how to stop this message from being displayed when someone logs in using SSH sshd[26987]: pam_unix2: session started for user xxxx, service sshd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] nVidia Video Card Advice Please
by Mike 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

I just recently replaced my motherboard with a newer board with PCIe support (AMD x2 Dual Core 5200+) and an integrated nVidia 6100 video adapter. The integrated adapter works and I was finally able to install the nVidia drivers for 3D support, but it leaves a lot to be desired. First off, it wasn't even recognized by OpenSUSE. It came up as a Vesa Framebuffer adapter and I couldn't change it. I ran "sax2 -r -m 0=nv" to get wide screen resolution from my monitor, then installed the nvidia drivers. It still shows up as a Vesa Framebuffer adapter even though the nVidia drivers are loaded. Also, I am getting extremely bad ghosting (shadowing) of my fonts which is especially noticeable while typing on a white background. I've tried adjusting the aliasing/anti-aliasing and changing to and from sub-pixel hinting with varying hinting styles, but so far I haven't come across the magic combination yet to get rid of the lousy looking fonts. I've got a MAG 22" wide screen LCD monitor and the setup with my old motherboard worked perfectly for me with a nVidia GeForce FX 5200 AGP card. My question is this: Is there something I may be missing in the setup of the integrated 6100 or should I just buy a separate PCIe 16x adapter? Which nVidia adapter would you folks recommend? I don't have a whole lot to spend on it at this point but would like something that works with 3D enabled and renders the fonts like my old 5200 did. I checked the HCL and found that the GeForce 7300LE PCIe is supposed to work properly with 10.2. Are any of you using that adapter and if so how is it working out for you? Thanks very much for your help. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Wireless troubles in 10.2 installation
by Jos van Kan 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

<soapbox> Until recently I have shied away from replacing my rock solid 9.3 system with anything newfangled, but since support is probably going to stop in the foreseeable future I decided to do a parallell installation of 10.2, just to see if I would run into any trouble. The 10.2 distro I got from a DVD that was part of a "Linux special" of C'T (a German computer magazine, also appearing in a Dutch version in the Netherlands). Everything went smoothly, but for a major glitch in the configuration of the wifi card, that crippled the remainder of the installation (installing update repositories etc), in short, everything that requires an internet connection. I am the proud owner of a Belkin wifi card, that I use in 9.3 with ndiswrapper. It was duly identified in 10.2 and provided with the bcm43xx driver which made good sense to me, since the card has a Broadcom chip. But. 1. It said I had to download firmware before the installation could complete. That was kind of hard, since I had no internet connection. 2. Yast configured it as eth1, which struck me as strange (I'd expect wlan0) 3. Yast did not hand me an opportunity to enter ESSID and encryption key, with the result, that the wireless router was unreachable. After the installation (semi-)completed I ran ifconfig but the card was not listed. I entered essid and encryption key by hand using iwconfig and restarted the network, but still no joy. I rebooted 9.3 to look around at the Belkin site for firmware and found none. I googled for "suse 10.2 bcm43xx firmware" and found the (surprise!) opensuse site, that told a totally different story, viz, that I had to install "bcm43xx-fwcutter" from the "installation disc" and run "install_bcm43xx_firmware". That looked promising. The software appears to be, apparently for legal reasons, on the "add-on CD", which btw was part of the DVD the distro was on. Apparently the same legal reasons did not forbid that. :-) What boggles my mind, is that Yast says I have to download the stuff where it is on the DVD. (Probably should have checked the box Add from other sources, or some such description only understandable by someone who gets there for the umpteenth time) And that it cannot install it itself. I mean if the stuff is there, what the heck. Ask the user, or do something intelligent. Well, anyway, after I handcrafted the eth1 configuration file to include a couple of "WIRELESS" parameters like WIRELESS, WIRELESS_ESSID and WIRELESS_KEY and installed the online update directories I had basically a running system. I hate to think what would have happened, had I been a newbie trying linux for the first time. The problem is well known btw, as the 18700 google hits on "suse 10.2 bcm43xx firmware" testify. Among those a substantial amount consists of newbies being left stranded in the desert. The card does not run under knetworkmanager, but what else is new? </soapbox> Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] vncserver access via putty but not from remote desktop sharing
by Alexander.Herr＠csiro.au 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Hi list, I put this onto a new threat, since I bunged up the previous mail's threat... I am trying to use KDE desktop sharing. However I am unable to login into the remote desktop via http (time out error) or via remote desktop connection (Kwallet asks for a password but does not accept the invitation password). I have enabled Firewall access to ports etc. So what I would need is a how-to to that explains from scratch what other things need to be enabled to run desktop sharing. Also I cannot find the log file for the vnc server (none under /var/log/) - where would that be located and under what name. Oddly I can start vnc manually and tunnel into it via putty/tighvnc. The logfile than is in my home directory. Thanx Herry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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