December 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Partitioning problem on installation
by Ferdy Bassi 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

Hi all. I just bought SuSE 8.1 Pro. My partition table is: /dev/hda1, fat32, 5Gb, Win98 /dev/hda2, ntfs, 6 Gb, Win2k /dev/hda5, 9 Gb, planned for linux /dev/hda6, fat16 for xosl /dev/hdb1, fat32 for documents /dev/hdb2, swap for linux Xosl installed on hda6 is a very powerful and nice bootmanager. I'm using it to manage double booting of Win98 and 2k and it works fine. I started SuSE 8.1 installation and I choosed from Yast2 "custom partitioning". Well, Yast2 keeps telling me it can see only /dev/hda, no hda1, hda2, etc.. and it keeps planning to reformat the entire /dev/hda to set a unique big partition for SuSE Linux. I tried everything: I selected "First Hard Disk" instead of "Custom partitioning", I selected "Base partitioning on Yast suggestion" (or something like that...), but no way. So I tried to reboot my system using an old Linux system floppy (SYSLinux...) and I tried fdisk from that floppy. The command fdisk /dev/hda from that floppy can see all the partitions I have. So, what's wrong with Yast2?? TIA, Ferdinando

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Too Difficult
by Howard Coles Jr. 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

Why do I have to fight SuSE to get so darn little done? 1. I want to grip cd's, can't. some crazy problem with my sound card, then get that fixed (on my own no less) and now I can't see the music cds from grip, or koncd, or kscd etc., why? Works fine under Mandrake, RedHat, others, but not SuSE. 2. I want to install on a laptop and run wireless. Can't SuSE doesn't recognize the Wireless NIC or the built in modem. RedHat does, and Mandrake does. 3. I want to install all the "devel" packages so I can compile downloaded apps, like a much newer everybuddy. Takes 1.5 hours to manually select all the devel packages that the "select all Development packages" check box in the install routine DOES NOT SELECT! Why can't "ALL of KDE" really mean "ALL of KDE"? The same for the rest of the package selections? Why do I have to manually go in and select the rest? And in 8.1 THERE IS NO menu option to save the selections to a floppy or file, why not? If you are going to make me spend over 1.5 hours selecting crap that should get selected by default, and least give me an easy way to save my selections so I don't have to do it again! You want to know why people go back to Windoze? This is why. I am tired of fighting my PC to get little to nothing done. I am tired of fighting CUPS to get anything printed, the NIC drivers to stay on the net, etc. and on and on. You should not have to be a Linux expert and spend hours and hours configuring your box to get simple things done. Why do I want to use SuSE? Their update process is the best, I paid $80 for it, and I like the look and feel of the whole distro. but if I can't use it what good is it? Right now, my main machine has some wacked out problem with the video. IF it leave it sitting for about 5 - 10 mins my screen gets horribly scrambled like there is some frequency signal causing problems. I also can't figure out what wierd thing happened to my cdroms. I have a DVD player, and an HP cd burner. Both on the second channel of the ide controller. The DVD ROM is the master, which would make it /dev/hdc and the burner slave, /dev/hdd. the burner shows up as /dev/sr0 ( which I believe is ide-scsi channel 1) But, for some reason if I manuall set me cd player to use /dev/sr0 and put a cd in the dvd rom it plays!!! So I change the cdrecorder to point to sr1, now I can't burn cds!!! -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! "The act of faith is the obedience of the understanding to God revealing, and the product of that is the obedience of the will to God commanding." Matthew Henry, on Romans 1:5

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RE: [SLE] [SOLVED] StarOffice Broken after 8.1 install?
by Lawrence, BN (Bryan) 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

Hi Patrick (and everyone else). Thanks to both you and Togan. Yes, a "network" install is what i needed to do. The folks at OpenOffice (sorry about the subject line - too much time lying in the floor staring into the bowels of my new computer) ... need to change the setup to reflect what they actually mean ... Cheers, Bryan -----Original Message----- From: Patrick To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Sent: 12/1/02 5:43 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] StarOffice Broken after 8.1 install? On Sunday 01 December 2002 07:28 am, Lawrence, BN (Bryan) wrote: > Hi Folks > > It looks like I'm going to have a series of problems > with this install ... (However, I have got > my Hayes Accura PCI modem working ... if that's of > use to anyone). > > I've chosen the office install out of the box. (I've > never used OpenOffice b4, so apologies if this turns > out to be a stupid problem, as I expect it is). > > As a user, I click on the OpenOffice.org and it installs > the whole thing into my local directory (so we need a > whole copy for every user?). > > Now when I try and use it, it want to save the file > into /opt/OpenOffice.org/work, which doesn't exist. > OK, I can create that (but why? what is the point > of the directories in my user filesystem?). Saving the file > gives errors, and blows awayOpenOffice ... but sometimes > actually saves it. Not consistently ... > > For example, I can save atext.rtf (with an error message), > but then if I try and save atext.sxw ... bang, crash. > > Any thoughts gratefully received. I've had a nosey round > but the error is so fundamental ... it's bound to be > something I've done .. > > Cheers, > Bryan ------------------------- Bryan, My first thoughts on this is that you have installed it for a local user instead of Workstation setup which it should be. As workstation, it will install as if you have a network and you will be a user of this package. It will install a small set of needed files in your /home directory for the user, but you will be able to save files etc as user too! Patrick --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 -- 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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Fetchmail as root
by Nick Selby 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

Ah. Maybe I sent that off too quickly. The exact wording is: The system-wide fetchmail daemon can be run either as root or as an unprivileged user 'fetchmail'. You should only run it as root if you will need to deliver mail directly from fetchmail to a MDA (unsafe, and not done by default in Debian), or if a plugin or preconnect line needs it. Since I am using procmail, which I think is an MDA, this would make sense. But the question about why Debian thinks it's unsafe still remains. I guess I'm just trying to find out what risk I've accepted by doing it! Thanks again in advance. nick

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Galeon broken after apt upgrade on fresh SuSE 8.1
by Andre Truter 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

Hi, I installed a fresh SuSE 8.1 and then did an apgrade with apt (after removing the prpm stuff from the sources file) The upgrade went well, but now galeon is broken. This is the error I get when I try to start galeon: /opt/gnome/bin/galeon-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkembedmoz.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks -- Andre Truter Software Engineer Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 AIM: trusoftzaf http://www.trusoft.za.net <-------------------------------------------------> < The box said: Requires Windows 95 or better... > < So I installed Linux > <------------------------------------------------->

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DVD recording
by Gasper Romih 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

Hi I have Ricoh DVD+RW recorder at home and i do not know how to use in linux as DVD recorder. My distro is SuSE 8.1 ftp version. i notice that package K3B witch support DVD recording but i do not know how? In distro SuSE 8.0 was one package dvdrecord. Is this package what i am looking for? Thx for answers P.S. Sorry if my english is not so perfect but i think you can understand what i mean

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StarOffice Broken after 8.1 install?
by Lawrence, BN (Bryan) 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

Hi Folks It looks like I'm going to have a series of problems with this install ... (However, I have got my Hayes Accura PCI modem working ... if that's of use to anyone). I've chosen the office install out of the box. (I've never used OpenOffice b4, so apologies if this turns out to be a stupid problem, as I expect it is). As a user, I click on the OpenOffice.org and it installs the whole thing into my local directory (so we need a whole copy for every user?). Now when I try and use it, it want to save the file into /opt/OpenOffice.org/work, which doesn't exist. OK, I can create that (but why? what is the point of the directories in my user filesystem?). Saving the file gives errors, and blows awayOpenOffice ... but sometimes actually saves it. Not consistently ... For example, I can save atext.rtf (with an error message), but then if I try and save atext.sxw ... bang, crash. Any thoughts gratefully received. I've had a nosey round but the error is so fundamental ... it's bound to be something I've done .. Cheers, Bryan

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OT: Elf Bowling game?
by Patrick 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

Hi all, Danger Will Robinson off topic question ahead! Are any of you familar with the above game? The last time I used Windows, there was Elf Bowling and Elf Bowling 2 available. Are the games or like games available in Linux somewhere? I intend to do a Google search after typing this mail, but I thought I would throw out the question to all of you first. They usually show up around Christmas time from the guy's site that wrote them for Winblows. They are fun to pass the time away. Thanks Patrick-- --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206

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Re: [SLE] Too Difficult
by Howard Coles Jr. 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

On Saturday 30 November 2002 03:56 pm, Jon Biddell wrote: > => 1. How do I straighten out the mess that has some how > => screwed up my ability > => to use the two cdroms I have (DVD and HP CD-RW)? > => I have a DVD player, and an HP CD burner. Both on the > => second channel of the > => ide controller. The DVD ROM is the master, which would make > => it /dev/hdc and > => the burner slave, /dev/hdd. the burner shows up as /dev/sr0 > => ( which I > => believe is ide-scsi channel 1) But, for some reason if I > => manually set me CD > => player to use /dev/sr0 and put a CD in the dvd ROM it > => plays!!! So I change > => the cdrecorder to point to sr1, now I can't burn CDs!!! > > This is interesting - I have exactly the same setup and my Samsung DVD > (/dev/hdc) and my HP CD-RW (/dev/hdd) work fine - and have straight out > of the box. I'm running SuSE 8.0. > > I've resisted the upgrade thus far as this is stable - the only thing I > can't get is Gnome2. Well, stay were you are. 8.1 so far has been one horrible trouble after another. I know I'll know linux when this is all done because I'm constantly having to fix some broken something. Somehow SuSE got confused and assigned my Samsung DVD to /dev/hdc which is correct, but then /dev/sr0 to the HP CD-Burner, and now I can't make heads or tails of how to get it back to where it belongs. Before that it was CUPS causing all manor of print problems, finally had to switch over to LPRng to fix that, before that it was sound, the "master" volume control only controls one output channel NOT both. Then there was the problem with the ATI video card, simple add OPTION "AGPMODE" "4" to XF86Config file to fix that. Then there was the 'can't get YOU to get an update to save my life. Found a tip on this list about setting passive mode to on for wget. Now, xmms is the only player that will play sound CD's howeit very softly, can't find the volume control to turn that up. May be that /dev/sg0 thing. And then there's the laptop. RedHat and Mandrake see the wireless card just fine, same with the battery levels and modem, but SuSE doesn't see a darn thing. -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! "The act of faith is the obedience of the understanding to God revealing, and the product of that is the obedience of the will to God commanding." Matthew Henry, on Romans 1:5

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inetd
by Martin Eller 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

Perhaps someone

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