October 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] GKrellm and lm_sensors
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

Well just do that. Put the out put into /etc/rc.d/boot.local. In my case it says: # I2C adapter drivers modprobe i2c-isa # I2C chipdrivers modprobe w83781d In your case it may be something totally different. Check than if you have the right module option in /etc/modules.conf Whenever I install gkrellm after a new installation I reboot. After reboot, gkrellm will give you the display. Now you right click on gkrellm and finalize the display. Put cpu in front of the cpu temp. and proc (I think it was) in front of the system temp. Same for the speed of the fans. You can now refine the whole setup with max and minimum for all values. JP>I would like to use GKrellM to display the mobo and cpu JP>temperatures, but I <snip> JP>working? The output from sensors-detect helpfully says JP>"put this in some config files"... -- "640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981 NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer

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Bugs in KMail, KDEInit?
by Glen 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

Hi all - I submitted the following bugs to KDE, but I'm wondering if anyone has any insight from a SuSE perspective? BUG # 1 - KMail won't die. On a newly-installed Suse Linux 8.1 system with KDE 3.0.3 and KMail 1.4.3, KMail fails to shut down correctly on exit. Whether I exit with the "X" box or through the File menu, a child KMail process continues running on my server. Compact-Folders-On-Exit is DISABLED, so this is not related to those bugs. This occurs whether I check mail or not, so this is not related to the POP process bugs. Even if I just start KMail, and immediately quit, the process stays there. The process is killable using killall, or the normal signal 15 kill, and it does not appear to use any CPU time, it just sits there... but because it's there, KMail cannot be restarted until that process is killed. I notice that kdeinit is leaving phantom kio_pop3 and kio_smtp processes around, too, but even if there are no such processes, KMail's child still lives on. BUG #2 - KDEInit doesn't die. On a fresh load of Suse 8.1 using KDE 3.0.3, I'm noticing problems with kdeinit's process management. kdeinit child processes - especially smtp, pop3, and http processes, seem to stay in the process table even after konqueror or kmail are completely exited/killed. The kdeinit parent process - and sometimes one or more children - stay running even after I log out. They stay running even if I kill the X server manually, or shut the X server down completely, having already logged out. During the logout process, kdeinit can take a long time (10 seconds or more) to terminate the X server and shut itself down even partially. This problem did not exist under Suse 8.0/KDE 3.0.1. I saw another bug similar to this about KDE 2.2.1, but this appears to be a new problem in 3.0.3

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Near-Line Storage
by Stuart Powell 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

Hello, everyone. I have recently acquired a new (old) server that came with a Compaq DLT Mini Library. The library has room for 15 tapes, and has a pair of 35/70 DLT drives inside it, along with a bar code reader (which I will probably never use). Having spoken to a Compaq support person, it seems that the drive is a Manatee or Manatee 2, if that helps. A search for this on the Compaq site yields no results, although there is a reference to it on the Arcserve site listing it as a supported device for their products. I am trying to decide which avenue to follow for this device. I would like to either use it as a back-up device or as a near-line storage device. If it could do both simultaneously, that would be awesome, but I think that's unlikely. My question is, does anyone know of any freely available utilities that would help with setting the device up as near-line storage ? I have found a few commercial offerings out on Google, and Freshmeat drew a blank, too. I can't spend a great deal of money on this as it is a home machine. I'd like to use it get our large collection of MPEG and MP3 files off the hard drives and free up some space. Thanks, Stuart.

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USB card reader.
by Fred A. Miller 06 Nov '02

06 Nov '02

Below is part of my fstab. I can't get the deff. of my usb card reader right. The error I get is that there's no file system specified. Thanks for any assistance. Fred __________________- /dev/sdc /local/coolpix auto auto,user -- "DRM.. Digitally Retarded Media. That's exactly what it is - content that cannot reach its full potential because of artificial restraints."

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Lyx and docbook
by Carlos E. R. 06 Nov '02

06 Nov '02

Hi, I'm trying to write a small article using lyx with the "DocBook article (SGML)" class, with dissapointing results. I can view as dvi, postscript or pdf; but the TOC and the images fail to be produced. I can not even view as html, no file. However, I can export to sgml (or DocBook), and from that file manually export to html using "docbook2html texto.sgml" on a console, and I get better results: at least the html files are produced. The TOC is there, but the images lack the extension on their names, so that the html files have to be manually edited. Using "sgml2html texto.sgml" produces the same bad results. But there is worse. The html production stops, as the conversion complains with: jade:I: maximum number of errors (200) reached; change with -E option and the html document stays incomplete. Thus, I edited the file "/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.6/backends/html" and changed a line; it said: $SGML_JADE -t sgml $SGML_ARGUMENTS it reads now: $SGML_JADE -E 500 -t sgml $SGML_ARGUMENTS So now the document is fully parsed, but with many errors; it begins as follows: jade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:1:58:W: cannot generate system identifier for public te xt "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" jade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:1:58:E: reference to entity "ARTICLE" for which no system identifier could be generated jade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:1:0: entity was defined here jade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:1:58:E: DTD did not contain element declaration for document type name jade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:3:14:E: there is no attribute "LANG" jade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:3:18:E: element "ARTICLE" undefined jade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:5:12:E: element "ARTICLEINFO" undefined jade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:5:19:E: element "TITLE" undefined [etc] Using openjade as parser yields the same: openjade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:1:58:W: cannot generate system identifier for public text "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" openjade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:1:58:E: reference to entity "ARTICLE" for which no system identifier could be generated openjade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:1:0: entity was defined here openjade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:1:58:E: DTD did not contain element declaration for document type name openjade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:3:14:E: there is no attribute "LANG" openjade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:3:18:E: element "ARTICLE" undefined openjade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:5:12:E: element "ARTICLEINFO" undefined openjade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:5:19:E: element "TITLE" undefined openjade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:5:77:E: element "AUTHOR" undefined openjade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:5:99:E: element "ABSTRACT" undefined openjade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:5:105:E: element "PARA" undefined openjade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:5:218:E: element "PARA" undefined openjade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:5:223:E: element "TOC" undefined openjade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:6:6:E: element "SECT1" undefined openjade:/home/cer/lyx/texto.sgml:6:13:E: element "TITLE" undefined [etc] So I guess there is something very wrong on some package. It recognizes nothing! :-/ My system is Suse 7.3, but I remember I tried with 7.1 with similar results. Lyx was 1.1.6fix2; with this version, I could not even see images inside lyx, so I updated from sources to lyx-1.2.1; this version has some improvements, but the end result is mostly the same: the errors must be related to docbook or jade itself. What do you think? Package versions: docbook-dsssl-stylesheets-1.72-34 docbook-utils-0.6.6-67 docbook-xml-website-2.0a2-13 docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.42-21 docbook_3-3.1-83 docbook_4-4.1-83 docbook-utils-0.6.6-67 jade_dsl-1.2.1-355 openjade-1.3-275 te_latex-1.0.7-285 lyx-1.2.1-1 -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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RE: [SLE] "aic7xxx_abort returns 0x2002" SOLVED
by Berge, Harry ten 03 Nov '02

03 Nov '02

Great! I tried it with 'noapic' and my SMP kernel with the aic7xxx driver works! Everybody a great thanx for all their input on this tricky one..... Now I have them (system management) convinced they must use SuSE again instead of RH :-) Regards Harry > -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart Powell [SMTP:SPowell@pcsolutionsmn.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 6:42 PM > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [SLE] "aic7xxx_abort returns 0x2002" AGAIN > > Hello. > > I think I must have missed the original thread, as this appears to jump > into the middle of a problem. > > I have installed SuSE (6.2 onwards) on many systems with a variety of > Adaptec cards. My latest installation was on an older IBM PC Server 704 > with a pair of on-board 7880 controllers. They were detected just > fine. > > I have seen a problem like this on RAID cards using 7xxx controllers > when I forgot to add noapic to the lilo boot prompt. Disableapic never > made a difference, but noapic worked first time. > > Bye for now, > Stuart. > > >>> "Berge, Harry ten" <berge(a)hitt.nl> 10/30/02 02:30AM >>> > Pfffff..... just had RH removed from the system and did a final try. > With > the aic7xxx_old, because I didn't tried it before, but AGAIN it failed. > I'm > getting very dissapointed, because of this failure. > > Adaptec is the leading company in SCSI boards and SuSE doesn't support > it!!! > > I cannot understand why SuSE isn't trying to fix this BIG problem. And > it > becomes much more painful to see that it works with RH on the fly! > > Harry > > <snip> > > > -- > Check the headers for your unsubscription address > For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com > Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com > Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com >

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hosed up lilo in 8.0
by Karl Agee 02 Nov '02

02 Nov '02

I've got a hosed up lilo in suse 8.0. I updated the yast-lilo the other day and apparently it has a bug and really messed up my system. about my box: hde1: windows2000, set as default (extended partition next) hde5: linux swap hde6: suse 8.0 reiserfs hde7: libranet (end of extended partition hde3: dos shared data partition when I attempted to add libranet yast went batty and ran on and on...I finally stopped it rebooting and when I was able to get back in using resuce disk many of my base directories where gone.../etc, /bin/, /sbin, etc. I had a mondo rescue disk and that replaced all of it, but, I still cannot execute lilo. My lilo.conf is fine. The error I get when I run lilo is "sorry, cannot deal with device 0x0102". any way of getting lilo and my system back short of reinstalling? --karl __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/

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Re: [SLE] SuSE opens Linux desktop for Windows
by Jeff lists 02 Nov '02

02 Nov '02

"Matthew Johnson" <matthew(a)psychohorse.com> wrote in message news:<17C25285A1EAEF46BB355A6F4B05874507C738(a)fileserver.bciassoc.net>... > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 10:45, Bryan Tyson wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 October 2002 11:26, Dmitry wrote: > > > > > Including Crossover is completely wrong decigion > > > > I agree. Let's stop wasting time trying to make Windows apps run on > > Linux and put the resources into developing quality native apps. > > > > I agree, but trust me an awful lot of people won't use it unless the > application they use happens to say Microsoft Office. If you were a > world dictator and ordered MSFT to remove MS Office in its current form > and use StarOffice/OpenOffice in its current form I would lay bets that > people would probably rave about it being the best yet... > > *Hopefully* those people coming over will experiment with Open Source > offerings also and decide on using those instead of Ms Office. > > The biggest shame imho is WebSphere Homepage builder for Linux, real > Wine hack labelled as Linux software. Most unfortunate as I was > interested in it. > > Matt > I'm one of those long-time Windows users learning how to use Linux, and I thought that this news blurb was worthy of the Mighty Microsoft Marketing Machine trying to find a way to keep M$ Office from not being used at all. I've used Star Office 5.2, and am now using OpenOffice that came with SuSE 8.1 Pro. It baffles me why an open source vendor would shoot the movement in the foot with announcements like that..... even some of us goofy Windows users recognize the efficiency of native apps. -Jeff

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Logitech Quickcam pro 4000
by jaakko tamminen 02 Nov '02

02 Nov '02

Hi I just got that USB camera for gift... Now I was looking how install it under SuSE 8.0 I'm really scared now! There is few modules, that requires compiling my own kernel, apply patches etc etc... And common to all of them is very poor documentation! This can't be right, right??? So, how to install that camera so, that I could use some SW to get pictures/video out of it under SuSE 8.0 ?? jaska.

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cron-daily
by Dan Am 02 Nov '02

02 Nov '02

Hi again, now a silly one: 1. Am I right : all the scripts in cron-daily get executed daily ? 2. How can I switch it on/off ? 3. Where is the Docu for that one ? 4. Who (UID) executes the stuff ? Sorry for being simple Regards Dan

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