March 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] bootable SuSE CD image
by Purple Shirt 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

I am no expert but 1. yes I think you can make a collection of files programs and your own kernel and create a bootable CD. 2. somebody said earlier in this thread they downloaded part of the ftp collection from the ftp site and made a bootable CD out of it. 3. mkisofs is being used to turn floppy disk images into bootable CD images. this is called el torito and it puts a limit on how large the image can be. it must conform to floppy size 1.44 2.88 or .722 I believe. >From: John Karns <jkarns(a)csd.net> >To: Purple Shirt <purpleshirt(a)hotmail.com> >CC: jvdl(a)sirius.com, suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >Subject: Re: [SLE] bootable SuSE CD image >Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:31:13 -0500 (COT) > >On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Purple Shirt said: > > >after all the messing with modules you end up with a new floppy boot >image. > > > >you then convert it to a CD one as described earlier in the thread by use >of > >win pc or use linux box with something like this: > >>cd / > >>mkisofs -b bootdisk -c boot.catalog -o boot.iso -r -L /temp/disk1/ > > > >(bootdisk must be located in disk1 directory; this will create /boot.iso; > >then burn it) > >There is no special protocol then, or special command line argument to >create the bootable CD? It would seem then, that you could just as well >create a large image file with lots of utilities to make a rescue CD. > >The reason I ask is that in the past I tried to copy the set of SuSE disks >to have a backup, but CD 1 was not bootable. Thus I thought that there >was some special technique to it. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >John Karns jkarns(a)csd.net > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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inquiry//var/run/gdm.pid
by webmaster 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

acording to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was allready running (634) but seems to have been murdered mistriiously is whant I am getting whne I tunr my pc on... how can I fix this?

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Starting ugidd and other NFS issues
by Paul W. Abrahams 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

I'm running SL7.1 on two networked systems (one an update, the other an original installation). I want to be able to log in on one machine and then access my files (under the same username but not the same user number) on the other machine. Supposedly the mapping daemon rpc.ugidd makes all this possible as long as /etc/exports specifies the map_daemon option and rpc.ugidd is running. I can start rpc.ugidd manually as root, but that doesn't seem to be a good way to go about it. I tried putting the call into /etc/init.d/boot.local, but it gets executed too early; it has to be started after some networking stuff (I'm not sure what, but probably the portmapper) is already running. I can think of lots of dirty ways of forcing it to be called, but can anyone suggest a clean way? Another sidelight: Yast2 has an option for starting ugidd, but it apparently has no effect. I can't find any references to ugidd in any of the initialization files. A second, related issue that is preventing me from testing all of this: on the remote system, all user ID's are being squashed to "nobody". There's an option for forcing that to happen ("all_squash"), but I didn't specify it, and "no_all_squash" is supposed to be the default. Paul Abrahams

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Re: Woe, Woe, and Woe: The Only Things I found in KDE 2.1.1
by Timothy R.Butler 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

Opps, I didn't mean to send my last post again, I really wanted to resend this message: An update on my woes. It seems what kills KDE is adding AA along with a child panel. It loads fine until I have both AA and a child panel at the same time. Then X crashes when KDE tries to launch Kicker at startup. Any ideas? Thanks, Tim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm Christian Web Services Since 1996 tbutler(a)uninetsolutions.com http://www.uninetsolutions.com ============== "Information Powered by Innovation" ============== "AT&T: The pre-paid phone card. Jesus: The pre-paid life card."

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Woe, Woe, and Woe: The Only Things I found in KDE 2.1.1
by Timothy R.Butler 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

Hi everyone, Well, this is something new for me. I've been using KDE since version 1.0, and except for version 1.0 (which I had to compile myself), I have never been unable to get a stable version to install. This has changed with KDE 2.1.1. I have spent the better part of today trying to get the SuSE 7.1 RPM's to work - and I simply can't. Here's how it all started, and went: 1.) The newsticker last night displays a /. article saying that KDE 2.1.1 has become available. I go madly around from KDE mirror to mirror trying to find it. 2.) After downloading 2.1.1, I try to install it, and get a dependancy problem from KDevelop when I do a rpm -Uvh *.rpm. Soooo, I check, and the dependancy (html_dtd) actually is installed only it's named html-dtd. SuSE also (for some reason) decides to include an older version of their customized icons for KDE/FVWM/CDESIM (the ICONS package), which makes things look rather odd until I switch back to the newer version that is on the 7.1 DVD. 3.) I switch to rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm, and everything installs, but most of the RPMs report something to the effect of "Package index.html is not contained in the index." 4.) I launch KDE via KDM, and all of the fonts are badly "mis-shaped", and illegable (i.e. they look like non-scalable fonts that are way to big, and then are stretched out to make things worse). The only way I seem to be able to fix this is to delete ~/.kde2/share/config/kdeglobals . 5.) I figure out that for some reason TrueTypes aren't loading - that font _isn't_ scalable. Later figure out something happened to my fonts.dir in the truetype directory, and have to restore that (things were fine before installing 2.1.1, so I suspect the problem is due to SuSEconfig running to through the /etc/rc.config that the RPM's I installed updated). 6.) KDE 2.1.1 seems to be working _okay_ so I switch to QT experimental (SuSE's name for QT with XFT support). Once I figure out that KDE has anti-aliasing disabled, and how I go about restoring it, I get AA on. 7.) I customize Kicker once again with different icons. 8.) KDE 2.1.1 ceases to load correctly (a DCOP error saying that kicker won't load), and causes X to crash at the Kicker loading stage. 9.) I give up and restore 2.1. I think that covers everything leading up to this point. The main question is: is there something wrong with the SuSE RPMS? Is it something I'm doing? Help! Thanks, Tim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm Christian Web Services Since 1996 tbutler(a)uninetsolutions.com http://www.uninetsolutions.com ============== "Information Powered by Innovation" ============== "AT&T: The pre-paid phone card. Jesus: The pre-paid life card."

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Perl::GD is broken?!
by Alex Daniloff 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

Hello SuSE folkz, Just today I was trying to create an image with Perl::GD module and it does complain about some dynamic linkage. I'm using SuSE7.1 distro with GD installed by default. Could somebody tell me please if you had the same experience and how you fixed it. Thanks in advance. Alex

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Anyone successfully used the vhost package on SuSE?
by wilson＠claborn.net 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

Has anyone successfully used the vhost package from http://www.chaogic.com/vhost/ on SuSE? I see that it "requires" linuxconf. Is there a SuSEified version of Linuxconf? I would be interested in SuSE supporting this package - perhaps they could provide an interface to YaST modules in place of linuxconf, or something even more generic for distros that have neither YaST nor Linuxconf. I also wish they'd support postfix in place of sendmail. ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com

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wvdial config problem
by NOC - Kulish Consulting 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

I am trying to get wvdial setup for dialing into work. I dont need it to dial on demand so I figured this was the easiest way to go. I guess easiest might not be the term :).... Here is the output from wvdial: -=-=-=-=-= CONNECT 24000/ARQ/MNP/COMPRESSION: NONE --> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately. --> Starting pppd at Tue Mar 27 09:14:23 2001 --> pid of pppd: 338 --> Disconnecting at Tue Mar 27 09:14:23 2001 --> The PPP daemon has died: Fatal pppd error (exit code = 1) --> man pppd explains pppd error codes in more detail. --> Try again and look into /var/log/messages and the wvdial and pppd --> man pages for more information. -=-=-=-=-= So I go check /var/log/messages and find this: -=-=-=-=-= Mar 27 09:14:23 shire pppd[338]: Plugin /usr/lib/passwordfd.so loaded. Mar 27 09:14:23 shire pppd[338]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 Mar 27 09:14:23 shire pppd[338]: Perms of /dev/ttyS1 are ok, no 'mesg n' neccesa ry. Mar 27 09:14:23 shire modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib /modules/2.4.2/modules.dep Mar 27 09:14:23 shire modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tty-ldisc-3 Mar 27 09:14:23 shire pppd[338]: ioctl(TIOCSETD): Invalid argument(22) Mar 27 09:14:23 shire pppd[338]: Exit. -=-=-=-=-= After looking at that, I figured I better take a look at modules.conf to see whats whats there: -=-=-=-=-= alias iso9660 isofs alias tty-ldisc-1 slip alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp alias tty-ldisc-5 mkiss # alias tty-ldisc-7 6pack alias tty-ldisc-7 off # IrDA -=-=-=-=-= After this I checked in /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/net: -=-=-=-=-= . .. bsd_comp.o dummy.o ppp_async.o ppp_deflate.o ppp_synctty.o -=-=-=-=-= Now I checked the manpage for pppd: -=-=-=-=-= 1 An immediately fatal error of some kind occurred, such as an essential system call failing, or run ning out of virtual memory. -=-=-=-=-= I dont see my ppp.o module, so I am assuming that this is the issue. So I do a search for ppp.o and come up with nothing. I assume that my alias line in modules.conf is incorrect (alias tty=ldisk-3 ppp). Finally, my question. Do I need to alias that to ppp_async.o, ppp_deflate.o, or ppp_synctty.o?? Or none of those? Am I completelly off track here? Sorry about the long message. If you guys (and gals) need any more info, let me know. This is on SuSE 7.0 kernel 2.4.2 if that matters. Thanks! CK

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Re: [SLE] In which package do I find a certain program?
by Purple Shirt 28 Mar '01

28 Mar '01

yes but it doesn't contain the package contents anymore. so its basically as useful as yast. >From: Frederik Vos <fvos(a)vosberg.mine.nu> >To: <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> >Subject: Re: [SLE] In which package do I find a certain program? >Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:05:52 +0200 (CEST) > > > >On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Purple Shirt wrote: > > > > > enjoy searching. > > > > http://www.suse.com/us/products/susesoft/70news/packages/index.html > >is there a site also for 7.1 ?? > >Regards >vosbergF > > >-- >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/faq > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Re: [SLE] In which package do I find a certain program?
by Volker Kuhlmann 28 Mar '01

28 Mar '01

> I know Michael said something about some doc package but I just want > something on the web. its so much simpler. Not quite what you want (though you could put a web interface around it), but might http://volker.orcon.net.nz/soft/susegrep be of help to you? I don't have SuSE 7.1 so didn't test it with that. Volker

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