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/etc - Too many levels of symbolic links

Frank Bax

5 Jul 2005 5 Jul '05

20:42

As a newcomer to SUSE (a few hours), I found this situation somewhat disturbing: # grep -r baxbax /etc/ grep: /etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1/50-visor.hotplug: Too many levels of symbolic links # ls -ltr /etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1/ total 1 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 488 Mar 23 08:50 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 5 06:42 50-visor.hotplug -> 50-visor.hotplug drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jul 5 06:42 . Is this link really supposed to point to itself?? Frank

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Joe Morris (NTM)

5 Jul 5 Jul

21:33

New subject: [SLE] /etc - Too many levels of symbolic links

Frank Bax wrote:

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As a newcomer to SUSE (a few hours), I found this situation somewhat disturbing:

# grep -r baxbax /etc/ grep: /etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1/50-visor.hotplug: Too many levels of symbolic links # ls -ltr /etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1/ total 1 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 488 Mar 23 08:50 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 5 06:42 50-visor.hotplug -> 50-visor.hotplug drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jul 5 06:42 .

Is this link really supposed to point to itself?? It looks like a bug to me. i checked my 9.3 and saw the same thing. I would suggest removing that symlink and link it to the 50-visor.hotplug in ttyUSB0, i.e. jmorris:/home/joe # cd /etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1/ jmorris:/etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1 # ls -al total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-05-15 16:12 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 2005-05-24 10:29 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2005-05-15 16:12 50-visor.hotplug -> 50-visor.hotplug jmorris:/etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1 # rm 50-visor.hotplug jmorris:/etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1 # ln -s ../ttyUSB0/50-visor.hotplug 50-visor.hotplug HTH -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871

Donn Washburn

21:46

New subject: [SLE] /etc - Too many levels of symbolic links

Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:

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Frank Bax wrote:

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As a newcomer to SUSE (a few hours), I found this situation somewhat disturbing:

# grep -r baxbax /etc/ grep: /etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1/50-visor.hotplug: Too many levels of symbolic links # ls -ltr /etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1/ total 1 jmorris:/etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1 # rm 50-visor.hotplug jmorris:/etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1 # ln -s ../ttyUSB0/50-visor.hotplug 50-visor.hotplug HTH Same thing here and I agree - remove it -- 73 de Donn Washburn Hpage: " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB Email: " n5xwb@hal-pc.org " 307 Savoy St. HAMs: " n5xwb@arrl.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador LL# 1.281.242.3256 " http://counter.li.org " #279316

Andreas Jaeger

6 Jul 6 Jul

07:04

New subject: [SLE] /etc - Too many levels of symbolic links

Donn Washburn writes:

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Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:

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Frank Bax wrote:

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As a newcomer to SUSE (a few hours), I found this situation somewhat disturbing:

# grep -r baxbax /etc/ grep: /etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1/50-visor.hotplug: Too many levels of symbolic links # ls -ltr /etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1/ total 1 jmorris:/etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1 # rm 50-visor.hotplug jmorris:/etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1 # ln -s ../ttyUSB0/50-visor.hotplug 50-visor.hotplug HTH Same thing here and I agree - remove it

Please report a bug in bugzilla.novell.com, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

Andreas Jaeger

07:05

New subject: [SLE] /etc - Too many levels of symbolic links

Andreas Jaeger writes:

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Donn Washburn writes:

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Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:

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Frank Bax wrote:

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As a newcomer to SUSE (a few hours), I found this situation somewhat disturbing:

# grep -r baxbax /etc/ grep: /etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1/50-visor.hotplug: Too many levels of symbolic links # ls -ltr /etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1/ total 1 jmorris:/etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1 # rm 50-visor.hotplug jmorris:/etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB1 # ln -s ../ttyUSB0/50-visor.hotplug 50-visor.hotplug HTH Same thing here and I agree - remove it

Please report a bug in bugzilla.novell.com,

Argh - wrong mailing list. I'll report it myself ;-) Sorry, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

Tad Whiteside

19 Jul 19 Jul

03:10

New subject: [SLE] gnucash and suse 9.3

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 i was trying to get gnucash to run under kde (suse9.3) and it crashes w/ two error messages: ERROR 1: /home/tad/.kde/share/config/gtkrc:37: error: unexpected identifier `gtk-alternative-button-order', expected keyword - e.g. `style' /home/tad/.kde/share/config/gtkrc:37: error: unexpected identifier `gtk-alternative-button-order', expected keyword - e.g. `style' ERROR 2: Warning: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load font: - -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load fallback font: - -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* Warning: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load font: - -adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load fallback font: - -adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load fallback font: - -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load fallback font: - -adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* does anyone know how to fix this or where to look to fix this, i found this article (http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lofiversion/index.php/t10057.html) but neither of those tips help me out. alos, i don't seem to have adobe/helvetica listed as one of my fonts, should it have been installed by suse or kde or something? thanks for your help, Tad - -- Tad Whiteside Chemistry Department University of Georgia 706-542-2051 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC3G85XmZckhe5ygMRAh+iAJ4g/PZA3pM5Yc2BHWOlZBJdcvxHYgCfXWDe Mj+IRuyRgjMWcz3pvOmp+Gs= =s4ip -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

John D Lamb

07:18

New subject: [SLE] gnucash and suse 9.3

Tad Whiteside wrote:

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i was trying to get gnucash to run under kde (suse9.3) and it crashes w/ two error messages:

ERROR 1: /home/tad/.kde/share/config/gtkrc:37: error: unexpected identifier `gtk-alternative-button-order', expected keyword - e.g. `style' /home/tad/.kde/share/config/gtkrc:37: error: unexpected identifier `gtk-alternative-button-order', expected keyword - e.g. `style'

This is normal and shouldn't cause GnuCash to fail

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ERROR 2: Warning: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*

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(http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lofiversion/index.php/t10057.html) but neither of those tips help me out. alos, i don't seem to have adobe/helvetica listed as one of my fonts, should it have been installed by suse or kde or something?

Yes, you should have adobe/helvetica listed. It will be on the installation media, but I don't know where. -- JDL

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Andreas Jaeger
Donn Washburn
Frank Bax
Joe Morris (NTM)
John D Lamb
Tad Whiteside