February 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

New suse 7.1 proffesional
by faisal 17 Feb '01

17 Feb '01

Hey i am a user of redhat linux but have heard so much about suse wana check it out the new 7.1 version any idea where i can find its ISO image thanks a lot *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤Allah Hafiz*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*Faisal Gillani *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤

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[SLE] printing in colour or color
by peter＠hargroves.screaming.net 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

Hello all readers, I have a epson stylus color 440 printer. I can print ok in Black but not in color any help appreciated. I'm using Suse 6.2 Peter -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Segmentation fault + Aiee's + Oops !!
by john＠vogue.demon.co.uk 07 Jul '00

07 Jul '00

========================================================================== What follows is a complete history of the problems I've had over the last 2 days, as accurately as I can remember them. The Aiee messages have been clipped from /var/log/warn, and the Oops screen dump has been faithfully copied down to the last digit. /var/log/boot.msg is included at the end. ========================================================================== Hello all, Can someone please help me work this out. I believe I have a hardware problem, either in memory or the CPU, but am not sure which. If someone more experienced at diagnosing this type of problem on Linux can give the following a once over, I'd be very grateful. This is a brand new system, 1 week old. It has an AMD Athlon 550Mhz CPU, 128MB of memory, two UDMA66 disks (8GB for /boot, swap, / and 20GB 7200rpm for other data) and two 3Com 3C905B-TX network cards. The system is intended to be an internet server for my home network. It's running SuSE 6.3 (2.2.13 kernel). The first indication something was amiss was a system freeze up during the SuSE install. It just stopped in the middle of installing the contents of CD1. I could get nothing from the install screen, but was able to change virtual consoles to look at the install log. Something in the install had falled over with a Segmentation fault. Restarting the install again seemed to go through ok. The next think I spotted was these strange errors appearing in /var/log/warn. I've put the last two days worth together below: kernel: iput: Aieee, semaphore in use inode 03:03/360840, count=0 kernel: iput: Aieee, atomic write semaphore in use inode 03:03/360840, count=0 kernel: iput: Aieee, semaphore in use inode 03:03/228759, count=0 kernel: iput: Aieee, atomic write semaphore in use inode 03:03/228759, count=0 kernel: iput: Aieee, semaphore in use inode 03:03/555542, count=0 kernel: iput: Aieee, atomic write semaphore in use inode 03:03/555542, count=0 What am I looking at here? Are these semaphore's Thread resources, or system V semaphores? What does this message mean? I've also been getting quite a number of these messages too: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-15 During this time I noticed more strange Segmentation faults. A couple of times while SuSEConfig runs various scripts after commiting changes made in Yast (a really odd place to segfault). But the worst was while trying to build my own kernel for the first time. I was trying to clean up some stuff (like RAID, etc) and include support for the various firewall options. make menuconfig ran ok, but 'make depend' got about about half way through and then started to Segmentation fault processing various files. I couldn't continue. I have another system here, my older PC that I'd just upgraded from SuSE 6.1 to 6.3, so I NFS mounted the kernel source tree and copied it over to a new directory, remade the linux softlink and this time the kernel built ok. At this point I tried experimenting with ip_forward and ipchains. I couldn't get it to work. What struck me as odd is that I could ping the public network interface card, from a PC on the the private network, even when a cat'ing the /proc ip_forward file clearly showed ip_forwarding to be turned off in the kernel (i.e. it returned 0). I can't believe that is correct. Anyway, I gave up on this for a while (too tired with it) and switch to setting up squid for proxy http access. This worked ok. Then, this evening, as I was preparing to configure sendmail for the first time, I fired up Yast from a telnet session and it Segmenation faulted. On the second attempt it hung the session. I tried to run a ps(1) to find the pid from a local kvt and that also hung. So I switched to a virtual console and tried logging in, that hung also. Back in X-windows I tried a shutdown -r, that segfaulted, so did reboot. By this point I was VERY worried. I had no choice but to power-cycle. After forcing a reboot the system crashed while fsck'ing hdb2, an 18GB partition. This is the first time it's ever had to fsck all system partitions contiguously before as they are usually in a clean state. It crashed with the following Oops message: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 current->tss.cr3 = 03ff3000, %cr3 = 03ff3000 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c0120409>] EFLAGS: 00010006 eax: c1efffc0 ebx: c1efffc0 ecx: 00000000 edx: c1fbd660 esi: 00000000 edi: c40ef740 ebp: 00000282 esp: c2a8bc9c ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process fsck.ext2 (pid: 17, process nr: 10, stackpage=c2a8b000) Stack: 00000000 00000400 c01266b9 c40ef740 00000003 c1fbd660 00000000 c0126746 00000000 00000400 00000400 c2147000 00000342 c2a8bcdc c2a8bcdc c2a8a000 c2a8a000 00000000 c01272b5 c2147000 00000400 00000000 00000000 00000400 Call Trace: [<c01266b9>] [<c0126746>] [<c01272b5>] [c01260ea>] [<c0126296>] [<c0129a81>] [<c01cbfa7>] 1cc6a2>] [<c01d38fc>] [<c01cf97e>] [<c01d37ac>] [<c01247f5>] [<c01249ae>] [<c010900c>] Code: 8b 01 89 03 85 c0 74 2b 8b 73 04 85 f6 75 10 89 19 89 c8 2b In the short time I've had the system it's not done this before. What I believe has caused it is that I've changed the pattern of memory usage for the system. In setting up squid I gave it 16MB of memory cache to play with. It's now running into more serious trouble than it was before. In my experience, random segfaults like this occur due to one of three causes: 1) a portion of memory is bad. 2) a CPU or CPU cache is bad 3) bad blocks in swap cause corruption when swapped out pages are read in again. I'm not swapping at the moment so it's got to be one of the first two. Thing is, how to I tell? I'm used to dealing with Tru64 Alpha systems, where the binary event log traps and logs CPU Exceptions and bad memory reads/writes. Here, I'm blind. My gut tells me it's memory, but I can't confirm it. Is there anything I can do other than start taking bits back to the PC supplier? Regards, John -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] 6.3 upgrade fonts and Staroffice
by fsanta＠arrakis.es 20 May '00

20 May '00

Hi everyone. Just upgraded to 6.3 and found that all our type1 fonts had been lost from Staroffice. Fortunately they remanined intact in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 but we had to do a type1inst in that directory to get the fonts.scale file back then xset fp rehash in KDE and then reinstall them in each user's installation. I think that this may help the poster of a font question earlier on which I just deleted. Naughty. Best wishes from Steve at FeF, Spain. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] [suse-security-announce] majordomo vulnerability (fwd)
by jmgrant＠primenet.com 16 May '00

16 May '00

> To: suse-security(a)suse.com > Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 15:22:26 +0100 (MET) > Cc: suse-security-announce(a)suse.com, security(a)suse.de > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL47 (25)] > Message-Id: <20000102142226.B93C667AE(a)Galois.suse.de> > From: marc(a)suse.de (Marc Heuse) > Subject: [suse-security-announce] majordomo vulnerability > > Hi, > > the mailinglist software "majordomo" was found having several local > vulnerabilties. However, the licence of the program prohibites us providing > a fix! :-( This is one big reason I'm trying to get away from non-free software. Anyone have recommendations for a good alternative to majordomo, hopefully one that's on my SuSE CDs? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] Sound in Linux
by matt.wong＠intelligroup.co.nz 25 Apr '00

25 Apr '00

Hi Sam On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Sam Carleton wrote: > Ok, I have SuSE 6.2 running on two boxes at home. One is my main box > that has a sound card in it. I am running the fvwm2 window manager, not > KDE. Is there sound support for fvwm2? Other then games, is there any > real reason to install sound support? I got sound running on my machine at home last night. I don't have much (translate: any) experience with fvwm2 (running Window Maker) but I wanted sound to play MP3s and RM files. As such I haven't configured sound for Window Maker because it's damn annoying. I think it all comes down to personal preference. If you have a use for sound then go for it. Otherwise having something running that's taking up system resource can be all bad. My home machine is a workstation, not a server and I want it to do most things that Windoze can do, except do it in a very stable fashion =) Cheers Matt -- Matt Wong matt.wong(a)intelligroup.co.nz Senior Basis Consultant Intelligroup New Zealand Mobile: +64 25 710 233 http://www.intelligroup.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Hard Drive follies
by tjhanson＠home.com 23 Apr '00

23 Apr '00

I upgraded my system and along with the new board, processor, memory, and all that I bought a 30 gig hard drive. I could not get fdisk to see more than 7.9 gigs of it, even though I did all the standard things like flash the bios, use the installation diskette from the manufacturer, etc. The only way I was able to partition the drive was to use the Windows 95 fdisk, with all its limitations including the one from marketing which limits to one primary partition per drive. Eventually I partitioned a 15 gig primary and a 15 gig extended, then changed the type, formatted and gave mount points in YaST. Now there is a 15 gig primary, a Windows extended, with a Linux logical as the only partition there. Cripes. Is there a better way? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] mount and xdm
by l41484＠alfa.ist.utl.pt 04 Apr '00

04 Apr '00

From time to time i can't mount floppies (as a regular user) because something (yast?? suseconfig??) is removing the suid bit from mount. Who is doing it and how can i stop him doing it? (i have security setting on secure and i would prefer to leave it that way) How can i allow remote users login to the server through X (xdm) but without starting xfree on the machine. I mean i want users to login through X remotely but not locally. TIA. -- Tiago Pascoal (l41484(a)alfa.ist.utl.pt) FAX : +351-1-7273394 Politicamente incorrecto, e membro (nao muito) proeminente da geracao rasca. Recem empossado (engajado) cidadao da republica das bananas. "Even more amazing was the realization that God has Internet access. I wonder if He has a full newsfeed?" (By Matt Welsh) -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Reiser FS
by alex＠daniloff.com 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

Hello Linux folks! I got a couple of question regarding new Reiser journaling file system. Is somebody of you actually using it? Is there any advantages Reiser FS over EXT2 in terms of speed, ability to recover after crash? Can I install reiser fs with my plain kernel 2.2.14? Thanks in advance, Alex -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] screen resolution
by alfred＠optics.rochester.edu 21 Mar '00

21 Mar '00

I've spent the last few weeks getting my SuSE box up and running, with a fair amount of success. However, there is one annoying detail which I would very much like to have fixed, if only I knew how. The issue I'm talking about is that I've been unable to get my system to behave well at a resolution of 1024x768 or higher; the most I've gotten is 800x600 at 16 bit color depth. 1024x768 gives a nasty 'snow' phenomenon which makes my desktop unworkable. What's strange is that under M$ Windows I can get 1024x768 at 8 or 16 bit color depth as well as 1280x1024 at 8 bit color depth (the latter though only at 60 Hz). Some of my system's details: SiS5597 video card xfree86 version 3.3.4 SVGA X server SuSE 6.2 kernel 2.2.10 Does anyone on this list have any experience with SiS cards? What is the highest resolution which I should expect to get with this system? How can I fix this problem? Thanks, Alfred -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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