October 2006 - openSUSE Bugs - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[Bug 216805] New: dhcdbd fills hard disk if dbus is not running
by bugzilla_noreply＠novell.com 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=216805 Summary: dhcdbd fills hard disk if dbus is not running Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Beta 1 plus Platform: PowerPC OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: rml(a)novell.com ReportedBy: olh(a)novell.com QAContact: qa(a)suse.de 10.2b1 I booted into runlevel 2 and run dhcpcd eth0 ; rcsshd start to copy some files onto this system. The disk was constantly busy. dhcdbd complains to syslog about lack of dbus every 3 seconds. The network just works fine. It should just shut up and not complain about lack of dbus. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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[Bug 216222] New: boot partition too small with lvm proposal
by bugzilla_noreply＠novell.com 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=216222 Summary: boot partition too small with lvm proposal Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Beta 1 Platform: PowerPC OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: yast2-maintainers(a)suse.de ReportedBy: olh(a)novell.com QAContact: jsrain(a)novell.com CC: power-bugs(a)forge.provo.novell.com the 0x41 prep boot partition as created with 'use whole disk and remove existing partitions and also do a lvm proposal without extra home partition but no evms please' is only 8mb on a 40G IDE disk. The boot loader cant be installed because the kernel+initrd+booloader do not fit on an 8mb FAT partition. On SLES10 and earlier, if using 'whole disk', the 0x41 prep boot partition was around 16mb. inst-sys:~ # chroot /mnt su - -c lilo running on chrp Boot target is /dev/hda1 ERROR: Boot partition '/dev/hda1' cannot hold 24588 blocks inst-sys:~ # fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 1 8001 41 PPC PReP Boot /dev/hda2 2 4864 39062047+ 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/dm-0: 21.4 GB, 21474836480 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-1: 2147 MB, 2147483648 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 261 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table inst-sys:~ # dd if=/dev/hda1 | wc -c 8193024 16002+0 records in 16002+0 records out 8193024 bytes (8.2 MB) copied, 0.336943 s, 24.3 MB/s inst-sys:~ # cat /mnt/etc/lilo.conf # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Oct 30 11:17:02 UTC 2006 activate timeout = 80 boot = /dev/hda1 default = linux image = /boot/vmlinux ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### label = linux append = " quiet sysrq=1 panic=42" initrd = /boot/initrd root = /dev/system/root inst-sys:~ # -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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[Bug 216796] New: able to run programs using the root account without the right password
by bugzilla_noreply＠novell.com 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=216796 Summary: able to run programs using the root account without the right password Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Beta 1 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: KDE AssignedTo: kde-maintainers(a)suse.de ReportedBy: yez(a)familieschepers.nl QAContact: qa(a)suse.de Hi, On a previous beta1 installation, I got the message "conversation with su failed" when I rmb on the time and "Adjust Date & Time" and entered the password. This installation, the first time I have to provide a correct password. But when I close the dialog, and select "Adjust Date & Time" again, an empty password will open the dialog. Also then, I'm able to start yast2 in "administrator"-mode without having to apply a correct password. Regards, Edwin -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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[Bug 210505] New: Evolution - Underlete function on Emails in Trash folder corrupts database.
by bugzilla_noreply＠novell.com 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=210505 Summary: Evolution - Underlete function on Emails in Trash folder corrupts database. Product: SUSE Linux 10.1 Version: Final Platform: i586 OS/Version: SuSE Linux 10.1 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Evolution AssignedTo: kharish(a)novell.com ReportedBy: alpha096(a)tpg.com.au QAContact: anagappan(a)novell.com Select Trash folder in Evolution> Select 1 or several emails > Right click and select Undelete. Selected email(s) will now enter the in box. Select Inbox > Select one or more emails> Right click and select "Move" and move to a local folder. Outcome. The email that was moved to a local folder ends up back in the 'Trash folder. It never gets moved to the selected folder. It appears that the undelete function is not working and once an email is in the trash folder it cannot ever be moved to any other folder even if you omit the undelete function. If undeleting a large number of emails and attempting to move to a singular local folder results in corruption of indexing of the folder the undeleted emails were moved to - see screen shot. There appears no way of re-indexing the database. The synchronise menu option offers an extraneous error response. see screen capture. Folder properties indicate the local folder has now 978 emails in it when there is in reality on 64. I am unable to fix the indexing problem now. This problem is faithfully reproducible -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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[Bug 208452] New: YaST: do not download (as default) all architectures metadata
by bugzilla_noreply＠novell.com 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=208452 Summary: YaST: do not download (as default) all architectures metadata Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Alpha 4 plus Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening(a)forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: azerion(a)gmail.com QAContact: jsrain(a)novell.com > Seeing what YaST is doing, I was confused. It starts with downloading > many .pat-files. For each platform! Not only i386/i586 but also x64 and > pcc. I will never use those things I guess on an i586-system so why are the > downloaded? I guess there is a good reason for cause the ZEN/YaST-stuff has > been many times under the microscope. But could somebody explain it to me? Azerion ============================= ZYPP is creating a full cache of all metadata available to be able working without the network connection afterwards. Optimizing this behavior might be a good idea. Stano ============================== Only thing that this behavior is usefull: - if you replace your processor with a new type (and so probably your whole motherboard) - and you do not have an network connection. For all those other situations (read: 99.99%) I think it is a bloat. Azerion -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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[Bug 214242] New: Yast2 does not remember the selected printer (LPR)
by bugzilla_noreply＠novell.com 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=214242 Summary: Yast2 does not remember the selected printer (LPR) Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: SuSE Linux 10.0 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening(a)forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bluedzins(a)wp.pl QAContact: kkaempf(a)novell.com I added the second printer to the system via LPR, everything is ok, I chose HP 9000 Series. I "finish" the printer dialog. The module was closed. I run it again -- yast2 showed the second printer as "unknown". However, I can print correctly. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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[Bug 214894] New: Spamd error when parsing email body with too long domain name.
by bugzilla_noreply＠novell.com 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=214894 Summary: Spamd error when parsing email body with too long domain name. Product: SUSE Linux 10.1 Version: Final Platform: PC OS/Version: SuSE Linux 10.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Security AssignedTo: security-team(a)suse.de ReportedBy: robin.listas(a)telefonica.net QAContact: qa(a)suse.de Some one sent an email to <opensuse(a)opensuse.org> with this sentence in the body: > Hey, the > "everyone-is-entitled-to-my-opinion-and-i-am-an-expert-and-asus-is-crap.com" > domain is available! inmediately, I saw this in my /var/log/warn file, which I happen to watch: Oct 24 23:46:06 nimrodel spamd[6105]: length of everyone-is-entitled-to-my-opinion-and-i-am-an-expert-and-asus-is-crap is larger than 63 octets at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi/Net/DNS/Question.pm line 179 Oct 24 23:46:06 nimrodel spamd[6105]: plugin: eval failed: length of everyone-is-entitled-to-my-opinion-and-i-am-an-expert-and-asus-is-crap is larger than 63 octets at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi/Net/DNS/Question.pm line 179 Using spamassassin-3.1.3-3.2 in SuSE 10.1 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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[Bug 214896] New: RE-evaluate System Backup and restore
by bugzilla_noreply＠novell.com 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=214896 Summary: RE-evaluate System Backup and restore Product: SUSE Linux 10.1 Version: Final Platform: i386 OS/Version: SuSE Linux 10.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening(a)forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: alpha096(a)tpg.com.au QAContact: qa(a)suse.de I lost my total system trying to expand the root partition as it was running out of space - My error, however I have learnt more about partitioner and its limitations. I had an automated System Back to a NFS drive running weekly for such a disaster. The backup Help is confusing Backup Options “Here, select which parts of the system to search and back up. Archive Description is an optional description of the backup archive. The archive will contain files from packages that were changed since package installation or upgrade. Files that do not belong to any package can be optionally added to the archive. Check Display List of Files to show and edit a list of files found before creating the backup archive. If you select Check MD5 Sum, the MD5 sum is used to determine if the file was changed. It is more reliable than checking the size or modification time, but takes longer” There needs to be a full explanation of the term "Files that do not belong to any package can be optionally added to the archive" It is also confusing why you would want to omit directories in a System Backup as you therefore cannot restore it. Certainly a System backup should backup all files in the anticipation that a duplicate system can be restored to its original form if needs be. The other fundamental problem is that we can exclude directories from backup, however we cannot add them. I mention this because whilst a "System Backup" seems to imply the ability to backup a system with the understanding that in the event of failure the total working System ca be restored to a functioning and usable state. I appreciated that we can backup system areas that are mounted, however this does not appear to indicate the files located in those partitions. Here we run into the fundamental question is we Backup a Total System in order to be able to restore that same system to a workable system without loosing data. A System backup is performed in order that we may recover a lost system. As the System Backup does NOT enable the backup of the associated files in respect to its functioning configuration I.E its /home configuration file and there is no ability to include this area of the disk - the value of System Backup needs discussion as in its current state it can really only restore the / directory partition. Discussion needs to take place for the ability for the user to easily backup and subsequently restore a "complete working system" - if that is what the application is intended to do? The current System back and restore functionality usefulness is therefore questionable. I appreciated that due to Linux complex directory structure it is really difficult to Backup, however in its current form System Backup and hence restore has limited in not an undefined goal. It actually cannot backup and successfully and restore the total system installed on a PC to its previous state - and perhaps its aim and functionality needs further discussion. I appreciated that backing up a system, preserving file attributes, is a difficult task, however we do have several constants we can utilize. There will always be a / and /home partition and perhaps this may be different in the system to be restored, however the constants are that they will exist and there will be a need to address recovery to a differently partitioned system. The lack of file verification in such an important role is of worry. Much discussion to be had and I apologizes for the verbose rhetoric. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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[Bug 213865] New: Evolution - No achieve facility
by bugzilla_noreply＠novell.com 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=213865 Summary: Evolution - No achieve facility Product: SUSE Linux 10.1 Version: Final Platform: i386 OS/Version: SuSE Linux 10.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Evolution AssignedTo: kharish(a)novell.com ReportedBy: alpha096(a)tpg.com.au QAContact: anagappan(a)novell.com I cannot see easily a way od archiving email, task, note etc to an archive file which as acceptable at different points in time. Not that I want to ever have to return to MS-Outlook which uses 1 single file a PST file that holds the day or years activities and emails into one achieve folder. There may be some value in creating a sear folder and archive that file, however this does maintain, contacts and tasks list in you calendar. As corporate start to adopt Linux this functionality will be expected. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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[Bug 214237] New: reorganize buttons naming and "instant" hints-help
by bugzilla_noreply＠novell.com 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=214237 Summary: reorganize buttons naming and "instant" hints-help Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: SuSE Linux 10.0 Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening(a)forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bluedzins(a)wp.pl QAContact: kkaempf(a)novell.com It is not a bug strictly, rather example of really bad UI design. Take a look at printer module. Button "finish". Help (left side of the dialog) says "Saving Changes Press Finish to save changes." There are two basic principles in education: a) do not explain the topic via tautology b) do not explain the topic (the unknown) via unkwown This printer dialog is just example of (a). Please, rename this button "save changes & finish" and remove this so-called "help". It is offensive in intellectual way to even 10-years old child. Yast2 is full of places when principle (a) or (b) is violated so please, take a look, and fix this. This way the help side can be cleared up from pure nonsense help and the user could get used to use it -- because then it would containt _useful_ information. Btw. when adding printer: "do want to..." should be "do you want to..." and it is not a warning, just a question, so do not make panic. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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