October 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Looking for a console sysmon
by Rowan Reid 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

I am looking for a top like system monitor that progressively shows memory use, cpu usage .. Network bandwidth drive access. Something like dare I say NT system monitor. I am perplexed that my base non X install running Apache, SSHd, Postgres, IPTables Firewall, is using 58Megs of 64Megs. Neither Top, nor Free gives me a process for process memory usage breakdown. Rowan Reid Job Captain, Systems Administrator STUDIO 3 ARCHITECTS 909 982 1717

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DVDs on SuSE 8.1
by Jay Vollmer 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

I've noticed that the Ogle RPMs I used in 8.0 don't seem to work under 8.1 Has anyone been able to use Ogle or Xine to watch DVDs under SuSE8.1 If so, Which RPMs do I need? If it matters, this is on a dual P3 system. -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER(a)VISI.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE

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problems with PPP (newbie)
by Juan Rayas 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Hi, I've installed v8. I have a dial-up modem, and I can establish a connection with wvdial as long as I'm logged in as root. If I try the same as a normal user, PPP fails with error code 3 or 19. I think taht it is a permission problem, but I'm noy sure how to proceed. Thanks. --Juan.

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Re: [SLE] Attn PowerEdge users: 8.1 updates
by Stuart Powell 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Hello, JW. Where did you hear this nonsense ? I just installed 8.1 Pro on a server with a pair of IBM ServeRAID cards, and grub boots off them just fine. Stuart. >>> JW <jw(a)centraltexasit.com> 10/31/02 03:52PM >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Disclaimer: use this information at your own risk. I can't help it if you destroy your system while following any of these instructions. Neither can my employer. So be careful. - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Howdy, <snip> FOR RAID USERS: Now, if you are using RAID, you should know that GRUB (the new default bootloader in SuSE 8.1) is incapable of booting a system when /boot is inside a RAID drive (hardware or software). I have been told that YaST is supposed to detect this situation and use lilo instead of GRUB, however that did not work for me. So you will have to install lilo manually, and use it, if you are using RAID. </snip>

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rpmnew & rpmsave
by Rodney Wishart 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

After upgrading to ver 8.1, I have several files mostly in /etc which end in .rpmsave and .rpmnew. While booting a message, "searching for unresolved configuration files" displays a list of these files and says see /var/adm/configcheck.the contents of the text fileconfigcheck are: /etc/X11/qtrc.rpmnew /etc/aliases.rpmnew /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.rpmnew /etc/init.d/isdn.rpmsave /etc/init.d/ldap.rpmsave /etc/init.d/xntpd.rpmsave /etc/inittab.rpmnew /etc/isdn/isdn.conf.rpmnew /etc/mail/submit.cf.rpmnew /etc/openldap/ldap.conf.rpmnew /etc/printcap.rpmnew /etc/printcap.rpmorig /etc/sendmail.cf.rpmnew /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc.rpmsave My system is running well for about three weeks now. My question is, can I just delete these files. I suspect they are backup files no longer needed.

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Restricting desktop area in KDE
by Ole Kofoed Hansen 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

For a long time, I have been annoyed by what is actually a minor detail on my desktop. On the righthand side of my desktop, I have an icq client and gkrellm running. I would like to make KDE treat these windows just as if they were panels, so that other programs don't just pop up on top of them. It is not good enough if I just set them to "Always on top" because then other programs can still be partly obscured. If anyone has hints to help me solve this, it would be greatly appreciated. Regards Ole

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Slow YOU update times in 8.1
by Doug Glenn 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

I am experiancing 15-20 minute waits on a cable connection before it displays the results where I can choose the packages. This same time occurs no matter what site I select, or if I select manual or automatic. This is on a Athlon 1800 system with plenty of ram and drive space, so it is not hardware related. I can also browse the web and get email without pause while YOU is running. I have both name servers in the resolv.conf, and my own system in hosts (although I recently added it, the problem existed before I added it). Throughput at dslreports.com shows 800+ throughput. So it does not appear the bandwidth is impaired either. Has anyone seen this and resolved it? Has it been reported to Suse? I cannot find any reference in the SDB regarding this or in this newsgroup (that I found) Doug

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8.1 - Kernel panic, install support non-existent
by Joe Sullivan 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Hey, Having grown weary of waiting and waiting and waiting for supposed installation support to give any kind of response whatsoever... (apparently responses won't come until after the install support period expires, so what's the point)... 7.3 and 8.0 have run fine on my system. I have a Duron 800Mhz processor on a First AE31 mainboard, with the most recent BIOS update. Something is causing a kernel panic with 8.1. It may run for a while, there's no install problems, but eventually there's a panic and of course that's a system freeze. The problem is I can't figure out what's causing the panic. With a Duron processor, the Athlon kernel is installed by default. Freezes. Tried a new install using the k_deflt kernel instead. It seems to run a bit longer, but I still end up with a freeze. The SuSE support database gives no real clues either. There was one writeup about having both a CD-RW and CD-R with a fix, and I did that. But still the freeze. I doubted that was the problem, though it was an issue for my system. I've tried running it without online updates, and with. Still freeze. The panic occurs at what seems to be random times. Doesn't matter if I'm playing XMMS, or checking my mail. I can find no warnings or anything in any var/log files. I'm beginning to feel like I wasted my money on this Pro 8.1 package. I refuse to believe it's the whole i586/gcc3.2 change, because I've gotten Mandrake 9 and RH8 to both install fine. But I paid for and prefer the SuSE setup, so I don't want to switch to either of those. Is there *any* way to figure out what is causing the kernel panic? Does it write anything *anywhere* before it panics? Thanks, Joe

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PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0
by Geoffrey Horn 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Is anybody successfully using lifelines 3.0.21 with SuSE 8.1? I cannot get any lifelines (genealogy) postscript report files to print at all. Some data is sent to my printer but nothing is printed. Previous reports from lifelines version 3.0.19 are in PS-Adobe-3.0 format and still print OK but the newer version of lifelines is in PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0 format. I can't see anything on the internet about this. What is EPSF anyway? Is this a SuSE problem, or is it lifelines I wonder. Any ideas anyone? -- Geoff Horn

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(OT) Nov'2002 LinuxJournal
by gilson redrick 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Hello, all: The issue has the "2002 Readers' Choice Awards." The 'Favorite Distribution' was: 1. Mandrake Linux; 2. Red Hat; 3. Debian. I can't resist quoting a portion of the paragraph: <<The most popular write-in distribution was Russia's ASPLinux. For some, it doesn't seem to matter what the distribution is, as one voter wrote, "I'm addicted to the installation process, so I switch all the time.">> You may read all at www.linuxjournal.com. -- Regards, gr (in /usually/ balmy, sunny Florida's Suncoast) [powered by SuSE-7.3 Linux 2.4.10]

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