November 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SLES8 again
by Dmitry Melekhov 30 Nov '02

30 Nov '02

Hello! Well, I'm here again ;-) I readed RH AS EULA and Service Agreement (www.redhat.com/licenses) and, just because RH EULA allows me to copy RH AS in binary form and there is no limitation to copy binary updates I (and I think any company in Russia ;-) ) can install and update any number of servers bought RH maintenance only for one server. I'll not say you how ;-P before someone will post SLES8 license or point me to url with SLES8 license and license for SLES8 maintenance service. If all Michael Hasenstein wrote here is in sync with SLES8 license, i.e. one can install SLES8 to any number of servers then I can install updates from one maintened server to any number of servers. I hope that this is not according only to russian law, I think that this is possible in most of countries. Muahaaa! :-)

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Fwd: Re: [Samba] smbd crashing machine
by Ken Schneider 30 Nov '02

30 Nov '02

In trying to resolve this problem I contacted the samba folks and they suggest that I upgrade my kernel. But when running YOU under yast2 no upgrade shows as a choice even though going through the ftp server under package images an update is listed. Under the old yast1 pre-8.x I could select kernel updates. Do I need to manually download the kernel and sources in order to perform the update to the kernel? Or do I need to compile my own kernel? Ken Schneider -----Original Message----- From: jra(a)dp.samba.org To: Ken Schneider <kschneider(a)rtsx.com> Cc: samba(a)lists.samba.org Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 05:03:00 +0000 Subject: Re: [Samba] smbd crashing machine On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:20:54PM -0500, Ken Schneider wrote: > I have the following setup: > > Compaq Proliant 6000 w/ 4 pentium PRO cpu's, 512 MB ram > SuSE PRO 8.0 > kernel package k_psmp-2.4.18-56 > samba 2.2.5 w/winbind > using ACL's (acl-2.0.11-2) > > Using samba to provide access to a share using MS NT server for > authentication via winbind. All works well until the following occurs: > > I am getting the following errors showing in my messages file ( and also > using dmesg): > > <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address > 0000002d You have a bad kernel. You need to fix this before looking at any other Samba issues. Jeremy.

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Fonts/Settings suggestions?
by Rick Reumann 30 Nov '02

30 Nov '02

I'm new to Linux and I'm curious what fonts you guys like to use for display. I'm not really to happy with the way fonts are looking but it could just be the way I have it set up. My 21'' monitor is set with a screen rs of 1280 x 1024 (it's a viewsonic G810 and my video card is an XFS GeForce4 MX(440)). Color depth set at 16bit. 3D acceleration enabled and anti-aliasing enabled. I'm currently using nimbus-sans (Xft) 12px for most things but have been trying some others . I'm having trouble getting the fonts to look very clear. I don't think it's the monitor of video card since on XP things look fine and clearer. Any suggestions welcome. Thank you -- Rick , -- Rick

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Re: [SLE] galeon
by James Ogley 30 Nov '02

30 Nov '02

> got stuck in make install > /bin/sh: gconftool-1: command not found > /opt/gnome/bin/gconftool-1 > root@pepino:/home/landie/galeon-1.2.7 > Looks like /opt/gnome/bin isn't in root's path - this is probably because you've just done su rather than 'su -' (no quotes) Using the - makes it a full login shell for root, although you'll then need to cd to the directory with the galeon source. -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james(a)rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter(a)myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.1). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

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Kmail Problem
by joseph leblanc 30 Nov '02

30 Nov '02

I am able to receive mail no problem, and I can send out short messages no problem, but when I try to attach one of my email messages or forward my email somewhere, the message gets stuck in the sent box, and I get a message back from verizon The server didn't accept the message content Thanks in advance JD LeBlanc

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Mozilla install.
by Erik Jakobsen 30 Nov '02

30 Nov '02

Hi. Running here SuSE 8.1. I would install mozilla with the mozilla- installer, but gets this: eurit:~ # /opt/mozilla-installer/mozilla-installer Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkprogress.c: line 518 (gtk_progress_set_percentage): assertion `percentage >= 0 && percentage <= 1.0' failed. Whats the reason for this failure ?. -- Med venlig hilsen - Best regards. Erik Jakobsen - erik(a)urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 - http://counter.li.org SuSE Linux 8.1

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Re: [SLE] Strange ./configure Error Message
by Jerry Feldman 30 Nov '02

30 Nov '02

You need to set execute permission on the configure script. That's what the shell is telling you. "L. Mark Stone" wrote: > I'm trying to install the latest version of Quanta. Yast and apt do not > have the latest version, so I d/l'd the bz2 file from Sourceforge. > > After I expanded the file, I went to run ./configure, and got the > following: > > bronxville:/home/lms/Documents/Downloads/quanta-3.0 # ./configure > bash: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied > bronxville:/home/lms/Documents/Downloads/quanta-3.0 # > > I'm running SuSE 8.1. > > I'm not a programmer, so the whole build process is something I do rote, > without really understanding what's going on. I don't want to be a > programmer either; I just want to run the app! > -- Jerry Feldman <gaf(a)blu.org> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org

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stopping SuSEconfig from resetting certain things?
by Jeric 30 Nov '02

30 Nov '02

How can you disable certain things that SuSEconfig syncs? I want to use SuSEconfig for most things, but for instance, I don't want it to config my fonts, or maybe mozilla. How can I disable certain things? Every time I run it, it resets my custom TrueType fonts, so they get reset back to the 8.1 defaults when I restart the X server >:( Thanks, Jeric -- JericAtSbcglobalDotNetwork 9:22pm up 9 days, 13:11, 6 users, load average: 0.09, 0.15, 0.10

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Java - Too Many Files Open
by Bill Parker 30 Nov '02

30 Nov '02

I understand in Java 1.3.1 or 1.4.x there is a limit of 1024 files that can be opened via java (default), how does one increase this limit to say 4096 (for the session in question)? I attempted to use ulimit -n 4096, but it gives me operation not permitted as my plain old self (reg. user). I have looked at ulimit -n, but it gives me operation not permitted. Also, on machines which are production servers (java, webservers, etc)...what should the value of /proc/sys/fs/file-max be (i've looked for a reliable answer, but nothing has turned up as of yet). -Bill

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cdrom woes
by Roy Cabaniss 30 Nov '02

30 Nov '02

I've been using Suse for quite a while. I don't think it is too much to ask for my dvd and burner to work. Any suggestions on how to make that occur. (Both cdburner and dvd worked fine under 7.3 and continue to work under windows 98) I recently decided to update to 8.1 from 7.3. This was a clean install from a dvd drive. The system has a dvd as hdc and a burner as hdd. I found the note about 8.1 and ide drives (whose bright idea was that anyway?) and did indeed make the modifications to the sysconfig/kernal file. and updated the initrd. INITRD_MODULES="reiserfs cdrom ide-cd ide-scsi" my etc/fstab is. fstab /dev/hdb3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0 /dev/hdb2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 I've tried variations in the fstab of /dev/sr0 /dev/sr1 /dev/hdc /dev/hdd for the cdrom and dvd also grub has the following lines in it (any real reason to use grub rather than lilo?). title linux kernel (hd1,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb3 hdd=ide-scsi vga=788 initrd (hd1,0)/initrd -- Dr. Roy F. Cabaniss http://www.housedraco.org US2002021452 -- Dr. Roy F. Cabaniss http://www.housedraco.org US2002021452

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