September 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE 7.1 but want 7.2 and/or Apache/MySQL/PHP4
by MM 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Hi again! I asked you before how to install SuSE 7.2 from the net, thank you all for your answers! Now is the situation as followed; We have succesfully installed a minimal SuSe 7.1 from CD's. (But it took som time for us to realize that the system didn't hang after reboot, you just have to press alt+F1 to se the textversion of yast2, cause we didn't install X...) Anyway. Now we want 7.2 or at least the latest versions of Apache, PHP4, MySQL and Jakarta. So we tried to run yast2 and chose "Software / System Update" and as source we chose the correct directory at ftp.sunet.se. We couldn't update the system while running it, we had to restart with the CD and then start over. Ok, that's fine. We selected all the packages we wanted to update and everything seemed to update ok. Then we were told to choose a new kernel. Ok. But after an reboot there was an Kernel panic : Unable to mount root. (Apparently the SCSI-drives were not loaded in the new kernel...) Then we tried a new approach. We reinstalled 7.1 minimal. Then we downloaded some RPM's from the 7.2-directory at ftp.sunet.se. We were able to succesfully upgrade Apache to version 1.3.19, but then PHP4 stopped working... And when we tried to run the mod_php4.rpm it didn't work cause it wanted some zillion other RPM's - unclear which one's... So, no we are stuck. We are satisfied running 7.1 and the 2.4 kernel that comes with it, an upgrade to 7.2 is not that important. But we want to upgrade Apache, PHP4, MySQL and Jakarta to the latest versions. HOW? Please help! Thanks in advance... Micke

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rpm version 4
by Karol Pietrzak 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

RPM version 3 still reigns supreme: most (all?) RPM distros use it, stable, it's the standard (LSB), and I could find very little rpm v4 documentation. What are the advantages of rpm version 4? Everything I could want in a package format is already in version 3: package signatures via GnuPG / PGP, dependencies, etc. There's one thing I'm looking for, though: better compression since RPM uses cpio, afaik. Anyone have a webpage I could look at? -- noodlez: Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 0x3A1446A0

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[CD-BURN] mkisofs
by Oliver Ob 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Hello folks, I burn backups from my 4 NFS-shared servers here regularly, therefore I create iso images using mkisofs with options -J -r -v -o file.iso and that's alright so far, I get my image. But what I find annoying is that after burning I find my files with little changes: For instance, the german special letters like for OE, AE and so forth all all changed to "_". Is there a way around that? Another thing what I am going to face tonight is how to compare entire directories with sub-dirs, meaning like (raw edit) fc -options /dir1/* /burnt_cd/ Has anyone such a command handy? Would save me loads of time since I finish work very late these weeks. Many thanks. Olli -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ =Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html I I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/friends.html I I http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VGAP-93 I I http://home.t-online.de/home/spacecraft.portal I >>> Telek0ma iBBMS - soon back online +49.4503.TRSi1/TRSi2 <<<

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Samba on Dos?
by Jim Hatridge 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Hi all... I'm trying to setup samba between Linux and a DrDos 7.03 machine. The Dos machine does not have W$ on it at all. It has the A and C drives. I would like to have it see my Linux machine as the D drive. It looks simple on the Linux side, but how can I (or can I?) do this on the Dos side. I've looked at the manuals in SuSE 7.2 and it's mainly for M$ windows. TIA! -- Jim Hatridge ------------------------------------------------------ BayerWulf The Recycled Beowulf Project Looking for throw-away or obsolete computers and parts to recycle into a Linux super computer

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SCSI Hard Disk Problems
by Ron Cordell 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have a machine that uses an Adaptec 2940U SCSI controller and 3 SCSI drives. The first SCSI drive is a 2.1GB drive that contains Linux. The other 2 drives are Seagate 9GB drives that are used for filesystem storage. The first of the Seagate drives seems to just "go away" after some period of time. The messages log just shows I/O errors that result from the drive no longer being available. If I reboot the machine, I hear the drive spinning up, and it will become operational again. It seems that the drive is taking itself offline, but I don't know why. The machine is a Pentium 266 with 128MB RAM running SuSE 7.1 distro with the 2.4.4-4GB kernel. The SCSI driver is not the new aix-7xxx driver, but the old driver because I had problems with the new driver allowing me to partition and format the drives reliably. Questions: 1. Is there a way to bring the drive back on-line without rebooting the machine? 2. What tools can I use to discover the cause of the problem? 3. As soon as I can get the drive to stay online long enough to make a tape backup of its contents I will replace the drive. Is this an indication that the drive is going bad? Thanks for any help! - -ronc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7t5aZZ+z1OyGYSIwRAmwPAJ4ks0tIMOWoSRxzoguoZ7aGxFLgzgCeJwhN aQudsjlLVg1JWxumjYf5BLc= =nEDb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ip=dchp. Anyone using this?
by Tom Wesley 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Hi, I've been trying to make a boot disk for my cable modem to be able to install SuSE from the ftp site. As there seems to be no support for dhcp in the install program itself, I've had the useful idea (?) of getting the kernel to do this beforehand. However, I've had little luck in getting it to work. I supply the boot param ip=dhcp and the kernel starts the lookup. This then just times out and dies. eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. Sending DHCP requests .,??..... timed out! IP-Config: Reopening network devices... IP-Config: Complete: device=eth0, addr=213.105.119.110, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=213.105.119.254, host=213.105.119.110, domain=, nis-domain=(none), bootserver=0.0.0.0, rootserver=0.0.0.0, rootpath= A little further on the first line is repeated, but with no following lines. My question is, will the dhcp do this? Or is it designed soley for use with diskless machines? And if it should work, does anyone have anything like this working? Cheers for any help, Tom ps Are there any women who read this list? Not that I'm trying to meet any, just investigating the apparent male dominance where linux is concerned :) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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xmms with arts
by Tom Wesley 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Hi, Anyone know what happened to the arts plugin for xmms? I'd prefer xmms for it's looks, but can't get it to co-exist with the kde arts sound stuff. There's a link to the plugin on the xmms site, but it's broken. If anyone has the tar of the source could they mail me it? Or post the url to it. Cheers people Tom _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Rescue CD
by Vetter, Gary H. 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Maybe I missed this in the archives, but is there a standard, fairly easy method of creating a rescue CD? Also, what if the CD burner is on a different (Windows) PC? Thanks in advance! Gary Vetter ND Retirement and Investment Office (701) 328-9879

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SuSE 7.2: Kernel 2.4.7 Update
by Roger L.S.Griffiths BSc 30 Sep '01

30 Sep '01

Hi there, I have been trying to upgrade to Kernel 2.4.7 since it is available from the official update tree on the SuSE FTP web site, and have encountered a number of problems:- * I needed to recompile the kernel with the Reiserfs module built-in in order to mount my root partition (with 2.4.4 it worked out of the box). * The supplied "alsa-driver-0.5.10b" would not recompile with "--with-sequencer=on", however downloading "alsa-driver-0.5.11" from www.alsa-project.org cured the problem. * The 2.4.7.SuSE-4GB kernel causes kernel panics on boot when compiled for an Athlon, but not when compiled for K6. I have let my unread entries grow to 10000+ on this mailing list, so please excuse any repetition from previous e-mails. I would like to compile the 2.4 kernel for my athlon, so If anyone has any helpful advice... Many Thanks Roger -- Roger L.S. Griffiths, BSc (Hons) Gott würfelt nicht (God does not play dice) - Albert Einstein

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glib
by landie 30 Sep '01

30 Sep '01

quite dont understand i just finish installing glib from source with no errors and no where do i see glib-config, any idea? To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men. --Abraham Lincoln -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org mQGiBDuyaGQRBADuy5RgRve2BFembRa15NJOkIHlsUOQrsDazsLzTnvNIQanyuFy xRDS/aiRsnNEY9FY5Q9vpkn6FkC1kgGbu3IODFoA2IG6x5gWxu2ZrUXdzA+BCx5S 7TyB6o2slBc8scNCGrpZUwtPjfFrRQG0ScS3eDO+0D5imc9l+1vGNzq0VwCgpj/Q fCeeUUKnjBrj7KryVHwd6qMD/37IWO2vKgEgHmZ/hrkEDcd79lurxaknxmdzEoD9 evwEKhlHbxcg7AVS6UD5CowCDAIDK/88ygQLFK+3ZoG7pLormPNfEUlYH9pIDgUU X1aVElu656GM5Cr4g+6KuOOUIobfw4AM1yCyIrAakFMGQtGRu80f6X9ViaYInW9F m6ZxBADYJ/FwpWVHqCeaSLeSCnzpP3Jki/KiXgUF0/B6aWYTojo643d69vVjK6Ca IedAcAve3kk2InBWEzjFt8C7widt2G6aJYXsHDzRkzhhttHHXemoOlgCNKz2T23M ZD3tN2HC8YNE/ODoUF+1PM+FJ/h2guVCCMLCrlGakBE/xyomf7QsUm9sYW5kbyBS b21hbiAoZnJlZSkgPGxhbmR5QGRlc3BpZXJ0YXByLmNvbT6IXQQTEQIAHQUCO7Jo ZAUJAsfqAAULBwoDBAMVAwIDFgIBAheAAAoJEEZFYl4vkkomfs4Anij31JBfYFeB ZR7q4hN4Z9oQf5aWAJ9gzF42zDT2wDFlapTm/T2uIOb9t7kBDQQ7smhrEAQA8xWk 008LVtTnJadrvmhydU0Pa4sUgKNozeg7k0f0NpeZYDm1nY2oPuscM9+fPU9gZ+pc X6eMZzAF4oE6jOhoA7OnEFhl7zdVa1tjKOIITbadP3RgZHFRY/9dS34KNJlvuJYX x+XqSa6W/Y2fa2FOEs2q4DSekUYclx2Vpbd1E4sAAwYEAIB5tYHGm7lVzauO8O0K jTRzBLEZesgXu9B1aD/HGOlQ55Af9j1ZiiXY9IceiEWymfLpjTwhrM7/rYJC50lo /H+6AROoTFuyZ8GulQvdr5YSeGhW9gmrh+s/uj7PDYBgtbQh10zNefIXRI/W/QlR xYaB/Q/8N8LrpJ3TB8IPVcdmiEwEGBECAAwFAjuyaGsFCQLH6gAACgkQRkViXi+S SibQPACfbXb9XvrS9G3XTqUGnaTeGkA/w1wAniY/hTrnZdCrdLsG3ANDcTmZBioC =ZXxw -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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