March 2007 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] DNS server IPs not retained in 10.2a2
by Silviu Marin-Caea 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=255312 Added to most annoying list too. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Boot speed and services
by Martin Schlander 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

There's been talk about improving boot speed and stopping unnecessary services from running by default. I believe postfix, sshd and AppArmor are not necessary on most installations, I certainly always disable them. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Re: dvd-delta-isos
by Andreas Jaeger 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Andreas Vetter <vetter(a)physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> writes: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Andreas Vetter wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> >> > >> > I'm glad to announce the second public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3. >> > ... >> >> I try to get the dvd-delta-isos using ktorrent. It says >> Tracker: invalid response >> Seeders: 0 >> >> Is it on my side, or do you experience the same? > > Now it works. Thanks. Yeah, we restarted the tracker, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Linux audio foks
by Sid Boyce 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Donn Washburn wrote: > Sid Boyce wrote: >> Donn Washburn wrote: >>> Hey Group; >>> >>> I have the record player > phono In > line out going to the sound card >>> Line In. Hopefully the impedance is good enough and the level is OK. >>> It plays out of the speakers and sounds OK also. Now for the question ? >>> I would like to save the music as a mp3, ogg or whatever. Kmix spots it >>> as a Line Input. What is needed to capture it and put it in a file. >>> Say like a mixer record output >>> >> >> No luck with audacity? >> The Input selections in 1.3.2 are Vol, Line, Mic, CD, Line1, Phonein, >> Phoneout and Video. You should then be able to record from the Line >> input. >> >> File --> Export as --> MP3 or whatever format. >> Regards >> Sid. > The problem is Sid; > That Audacity will only work as a user if you change the permissions on > /dev/dsp. I tried several and only 777 seem to work. However, Audacity > will only "Record" once and then it fails on the second try. Now this > may be a "Me" problem understanding the way it saves data. I have fixed > it by removing /home/donn/.audacity-data and trying it again. It ask > for lang. which I set and then it comes up with full features. > I and several others have had similar permissions problems with gizmo which actually said there was no audio device. I did strace and submitted it to the forum, but the mystery continued. Then I had a brainwave, tried it as root and it was AOK. So I added the user to audio in /etc/group, also did the same for video a while back when kaffeine complained about no video, though OK with audio. was audio:x:17: now audio:x:17:lancelot video:x:33:lancelot It's a strange behaviour, stuff used to come up with ownerships in /dev of e.g <user>:audio, then quite a while ago on Mandriva and more recently on openSUSE, they are "root:audio", so the user can't get to them. Don't know whether it's a bug or feature, but it's a gotcha. Most apps work, but there is always one or two that experience the problem. It's only last week I got this problem when I fired up gizmo the first time in months. Without the changes my DVB card would complain when kaffeine is fired up. # l -R /dev/dvb /dev/dvb: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 2007-03-10 07:27 ./ drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 16520 2007-03-12 00:19 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 2007-03-10 07:27 adapter0/ /dev/dvb/adapter0: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 2007-03-10 07:27 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 2007-03-10 07:27 ../ crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 4 2007-03-10 07:27 demux0 crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 5 2007-03-10 07:27 dvr0 crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 3 2007-03-10 07:27 frontend0 crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 7 2007-03-10 07:27 net0 Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] no cdrecord
by Donn Washburn 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hey Group; In SuSE10.3 there is no cdrecord. I guest the author of cdrecords message to Linux hit home. Anyway, while downloading/updating or just lucky I saw a note the cdrecord was being replaced. Problem is my memory has not locked on the new substitute. It may have been in the SuSE Yast Install notes A "which cdrecord", "locate cdrecord" fails to answer the question. What is the binary replacements file name? -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 Did you know? The transistor was invented by three white men. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Printing in openSUSE 10.3
by JP Rosevear 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

A couple weeks ago at the dist meeting we discussed improving how printers are configured on openSUSE. Specifically we discussed the following use cases as something we would want to achieve for 10.3, and we'd like to open up the discussion on implementation: 1) Detecting a local USB printer when plugged into the machine and prompting the user to configure it or automatically selecting a driver and configuring the printer We have a lot of the detection code, both usb and hal cups backends can detect the usb printer. Hal being a general hardware detection layer actually sends a message when its plugged in and GNOME uses this to pop up a dialog to configure the printer via a hal backend for cups. However the hal backend is not a standard upstream cups backend and its very difficult to convert a cups hal:// uri to a usb:// one - but not entirely impossible, there is some code in /usr/bin/add-unknown-printer (part of the gnome-volume-manager) to do some of this. Yast also does not support the hal backend currently. The usb cups backend is the standard upstream cups backend but it does no polling so we'd need to poll somehow (gnome-volume-manager and kmediamanager are possiblities). For true zero config printer, we'd need to build up a database of printer ids and driver mappings and include that in the distro. We also need to make this configurable so that you have the possibility of not doing zeroconfig printing on servers. 2) Not needing root to configure a printer Couple of thoughts here, for a hal based solution we might be able to leverage PolicyKit and unify our hardware access permissions system with an upstream default. We could also alter resmgr for this or use sudo. We need to make sure this is configurable though, because it needs to be turned off for servres. 3) Detecting when a printer is connected/disconnected and offering visual feedback via a notification area icon, or some other ui feedback An easy thing to do here would be to patch cups to send out dbus signals and both GNOME and KDE could put up tray icons or whatever. HAL could also be used to detect disconnects reconnects 4) Ability to remove printers from cups (even shared printers) when they're unplugged to prevent jobs from accumulating in the queue or being default If we can get to zeroconfig printing we could optionally just remove a printer from cups when its unplugged. A little more unclear how useful it would be. If someone wants to throw up some info as an openSUSE project http://en.opensuse.org/Projects that would be great. I suspect items 1) and 2) are really the keys, if they work then 3) or 4) should be pretty straightforward. -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] cvsgraph?
by Andreas Vetter 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Just a question regarding viewcvs (aka viewvc). Can we include a package cvsgraph in openSUSE? -- Regards, Andreas Vetter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Update notification via mail
by Christian Boltz 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Hello, an outstanding feature of the new package management is sending a mail to root with the available updates listed. Not a problem on a desktop machine (there's opensuse-updater ;-) , but really needed on a server. I have written such a application. Well, application is exaggerated - it's a 10 lines script calling zypp-checkpatches-wrapper + 110 lines of XSLT stylesheet. Download: package "patch2mail" on http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/cboltz/openSUSE_10.2/repodata/ (also available for factory) Usage is easy: just install the package ;-) Every time cron.daily runs, it will send you a mail if updates are available. Questions: - is sending the mail to root ok or should the mail address be a config option? - is it ok to install to /etc/cron.daily directly? (IMHO yes, several other packages (for example logdigest) do this also.) - any other ideas? - will it be included in 10.3? ;-) On my todo list: - add a line listing the zypper command to install a specific patch (ready for copy&paste) BTW: What is the correct command to install a specific patch? zypper in -t patch -y yast2-printer works, but I'd like to include the patch number. zypper in -t patch -y yast2-printer-2706-0 does not work - "patch 'yast2-printer-2706-0' not found" :-( Regards, Christian Boltz PS: an example notification mail looks like this: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Update sources: - SUSE-Linux-10.2-Updates (http://suse.inode.at/pub/update/10.2) === yast2-printer - Patch 2706-0 (recommended) === yast2-printer: show remote printers This patch will fix several bugs: (#240727) - show also remote printers (#220712) - if more PPD's are available, select recommended first (#214243) - suggest PPD file for the selected printer (#223838) - select proper default queue === kernel - Patch 2705-0 (security) === Linux Kernel security update. This kernel update fixes the following security problems: - CVE-2006-5751: An integer overflow in the networking bridge ioctl starting with Kernel 2.6.7 could be used by local attackers to overflow kernel memory buffers and potentially escalate privileges [#222656] [... several other issues ...] Furthermore, it catches up to the mainline kernel, version 2.6.18.8, and contains a large number of additional fixes for non security bugs. -------------------------------------------------------- Total: 2 updates (1 security) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Ausgaben mit einer 0 sind ok, es sei denn sie sind es nicht. [Thorsten Haude in suse-linux] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Checksum errors on packages.en
by Magnus Boman 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 18:17 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote: > Magnus Boman wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 19:25 -0600, Donn Washburn wrote: > >> Magnus Boman wrote: > >>> Hello list! > >>> > >>> I have an issue when at home which I'm hoping for some help with. > >>> > >>> I have two installation sources on my machines (I've got two machines > >>> and 4 different installations of openSUSE 10.3Alpha1Plus). > >> > > >> http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-fact… > >>> http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/ins… > >>> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/ > >>> > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Magnus > >> I believe it is due to the fact that SuSE's update is looking for a > >> repodata file. > >> Try > >> http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-fact… > >> > > Well, I found that using ftp works and I could use http from my office, > > just not from home. So there's something else wrong here. At least using > > ftp allows me to update my machine now :-) > > > > Cheers, > > Magnus > At home Firewall, NAT, router, gateway, DNS settings. Try this and see > if you are at least getting out. This is a friends site so only do it > for a very short time. "ping 44.76.5.200" > > It should look like this if the ethernet network is working. > 64 bytes from 44.76.5.200: icmp_seq=2 ttl=114 time=139 ms There's nothing that prevents me from accessing the internet. I don't have a proxy so nothing is cached. The packages.en file that gives me checksum errors (when using http in the installation source) is downloading, it's just that the SHA1 checksum doesn't match what's in the content file (funny enough, the md5 checksum matches). Cheers, Magnus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Checksum errors on packages.en
by Magnus Boman 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 19:25 -0600, Donn Washburn wrote: > Magnus Boman wrote: > > Hello list! > > > > I have an issue when at home which I'm hoping for some help with. > > > > I have two installation sources on my machines (I've got two machines > > and 4 different installations of openSUSE 10.3Alpha1Plus). > > > http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-fact… > > http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/ins… > > http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/ > > > > > > Cheers, > > Magnus > I believe it is due to the fact that SuSE's update is looking for a > repodata file. > Try > http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-fact… > Well, I found that using ftp works and I could use http from my office, just not from home. So there's something else wrong here. At least using ftp allows me to update my machine now :-) Cheers, Magnus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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