May 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] problem with yast and kernel too big
by tibaer＠infomaniak.ch 08 May '00

08 May '00

Hello ! I want to compile my kernel by adding just the scsi emulation support. the problem is that with only this small change my kernel is too big !! So I tried to put "everything" (the more i could) in modules but my kernel is still too big !! my kernel version is 2.2.10 and i've got SuSE 6.2. Other problem: now that i've got a big kernel, yast doesn't work anymore (when i try to start it, the first window "YAST Version ..." appears and nothing else happens !!). I don't think that's because of my big kernel but this problem started after i installed my big kernel !! what can i do ??? thanks ! thierry -- 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] sendmail - last try
by suse＠dertext.de 08 May '00

08 May '00

hi guys 'n gals, (my last try to this list, otherwise I'll have to face the big boys at comp.mail.sendmail. so c'mon !) endmail (freshly installed) on starting gets into "running queue" but never get's out of it. ps aux | grep sendmail : root 29929 0.0 0.4 1920 1072 ? S 13:59 0:00 sendmail: accepting root 29930 0.0 0.4 1928 1100 ? S 13:59 0:00 sendmail:running queue this is where it just stops, no more accept or mail. no immedeate log-entries, but sometimes , on running the queue it complains about /etc/aliases.db being out of date, which I have makemap'd at least 80 times, as well as all the other maps. ANY ideas ?? thanks dan -- 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] Java 2 SDK from Sun
by ronco＠gw.total-web.net 08 May '00

08 May '00

Hi - Has anyone out used the Java 2 SDK from Sun on Linux? How do the efforts of the Blackdown Group differ from what Sun is putting out there? Any insight would be helpful... Thanks, -ronc -- 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] Xfree4.0 question
by kevin.jackson＠jhallpr.demon.co.uk 08 May '00

08 May '00

I take it you are in xdm and not kdm. xdm is another window manager - just like kdm... except xdm is available on ALL XWindow machines (without exception???) - whereas kdm is usually only available on machines that have KDE installed. Its hard to answer "What is this for" when you don't explain what "this" is - so if I've got it wrong then please state more clearly. To get kdm back, edit /etc/rc.config Find the line DISPLAYMANAGER="xdm" and put DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" Re-run SuSEconfig and hey presto! Hope this solves your problem! BTW - never ran X4.0 before... not needed for me yet. :) Kev > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Hounschell [mailto:dmarkh@cfl.rr.com] > Sent: 08 May 2000 12:40 > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: [SLE] Xfree4.0 question > > > Just installed Xfree4.0 from the SuSE site, downloaded the > GLX and Kernel modules from NVIDIA. WOW!!!!! Just a couple > of problems though. Now when I log in (RUN LEVEL-3) as root > I no longer have kde I'm in something I've never seen before. > What is this for and how can I get kde back? Also if I do any > package changes which causes yast to run SuSEconfig, It messes > up the install of the NVIDIA GLX driver. Quake3 demo can no > longer load libGL.so. Basically every time this happens I have > to reinstall the NVIDIA rpms to get quake to run. This doesn't > bother me too much as I'm only using quake 3 to test the NVidia > 3d stuff. The change to the root login is a killer though. Any > one know what I need to do to get KDE back for root? > > Oh yea is SuSE gonna package the NVIDIA/Xfree4.0 stuff for us > any time soon???? > > > Mark > > -- > 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/ > -- 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] 6.4 problems
by tla＠akamai.com 08 May '00

08 May '00

I, too, have been seeing some problems with SuSE 6.4. The first one is relatively minor, and was easy to track down. If you install both pdflib.rpm and python.rpm, you'll get a Warning: could not rmdir /usr/lib/python: Directory not empty when you install the python.rpm script. This is due to the fact that the pdflib.rpm installs a file in /usr/lib/python, and the python rpm installs to /usr/lib/python1.5 and then symlinks to /usr/lib/python. But since pdflib.rpm installs *before* python.rpm, this doesn't work and you have to go fix it yourself. The second one is pretty major. This involves PCMCIA and networking on my laptop. The short form is, DHCP doesn't work, and static IP addressing only works if I immediately log in and run a tcpdump (thereby enabling promiscuous mode on my eth0 interface.) I've got a Xircom CardBus combo ethernet/modem card, which is supported just fine under RedHat. I've tried several things, including recompiling the PCMCIA package, recompiling the kernel, downgrading to the SuSE 6.3 PCMCIA package...none of them fix the problem. SuSE tech support referred me to an upgrade which fixes Toshibas (didn't work, unsurprisingly), three SDB articles that had nothing to do with my situation, and that was about it. Has anyone else tried to install 6.4 on a laptop? Can anyone confirm that 6.3 works on a laptop? I'll downgrade if I can get my hands on a copy of the 6.3 CDs. -tara -- 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] vmware
by brumsey＠world-net.co.nz 08 May '00

08 May '00

This may sound a bit stupid , but I am going to set up a kind of cybercafe and am wondering if it would be possible to have linux on all m/c but run vmware to run the cafe as the program I want to use only runs on windoze. I was thing that if they broke out of the system or a virus/worm was let loose they would only damage the vmware dir and maybe have a more secure system. Any ideas on this? B.Rumsey -- 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] MASQ and denying ARP requests
by Martijn.van.den.Burg＠asml.nl 08 May '00

08 May '00

Hi, I've been playing with ethereal a little, and I noticed that some webservers do an ARP lookup on my machine's IP address. This box is located behind a firewall, it is MASQ-ed and has a private IP. How is it possible that a webserver can request the hardware address of my MASQ-ed machine? Is something wrong with the MASQing setup or am I overlooking something. Is it necessary from a local network point of view to have ARP enabled (I could disable it with ifconfig)? If so, is it possible to deny (at the firewall) ARP-lookup requests from untrusted servers? I feel that giving away this kind of data is like giving away a Pentium III's serial number. Am I wrong or am I just being paranoid. Bye, Martijn -- 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] Network strangeness on notebook
by fountai＠hursley.ibm.com 08 May '00

08 May '00

I'm continuing to struggle to get SuSE running on my Dell 5000 notebook. SuSE-6.3 handled the Xircom network card (a PCMCIA based tulip) perfectly, but wouldn't talk to the modem (on the same Xircom card). I upgraded to SuSE-6.4 at the weekend and the modem problem is fixed. :-) The network is now broken though. :-( The network device is detected and set up correctly, and things configure as I want, but the adapter doesn't receive information. The really odd thing is that if I put the adapter in promiscuous mode using tcpdump, it works fine! If I ping another machine on my net the arp request goes out, and is returned by the pingee, but the notebook doesn't receive the arp reply unless I've run tcpdump in another window. This is a less than convienient workaround! Anyone got any ideas where the problem might be? -- 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] KDE2: Rolling you own, as it were?
by hattons＠bellatlantic.net 08 May '00

08 May '00

I am sending this to the SuSE list as well as to the KDE-Alpha list. Chris seems to still be having problems with his ISP. This KDE-Alpha list seems to be down agian. If anybody on the SuSE list knows what the status of the kalpha list is I'd like to know. Here's the original message, posted to the kalpha list: I really appreciate the fact that Chris has done so much hard work in getting the pre-alpha rpms out. I've been trying to get the CVS sourch to compile. I am new at this, and have hit a few sangs. I run this little script: _____________________________________________________________ bash-2.03# cat /root/bin/compilekde #!/bin/bash ln -s ../kde-common/admin . make -f Makefile.cvs ./configure make bash-2.03# ______________________________________________________________ I do this from the directory where the source is. For example, _______________________________________________________________ /data/working/src/kde/kdebase or /data/working/src/kde/kdelibs _______________________________________________________________ When I try to compile I get this: _______________________________________________________________ bash-2.03# compilekde ln: ./admin: File exists This Makefile is only for the CVS repository This will be deleted before making the distribution *** Concatenating configure tests into acinclude.m4 *** Creating list of subdirectories in subdirs *** Searching for subdirectories... *** Retrieving configure tests needed by configure.in *** Scanning for include statements configure.in:80: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling /usr/bin/autoheader: Symbol `PACKAGE' is not covered by /usr/share/autoconf/acconfig.h /usr/bin/autoheader: Symbol `VERSION' is not covered by /usr/share/autoconf/acconfig.h make[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 /root/bin/compilekde: ./configure: No such file or directory make: *** No targets. Stop. bash-2.03# _________________________________________________________________ Any suggestions? TIA, Steve -- 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] XFree4
by mitja.pavlovic＠guest.arnes.si 08 May '00

08 May '00

I found on SuSE ftp server XFree4.0 for SuSE 6.4. Is it the same as server on the second SuSE cd? Thanks. Mitja -- 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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