December 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

during fresh install source medium busy
by Richard Bos 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

I just obtained a new system that I can use for experients, and as I have a copy of suse-8.0 laying around on my harddisk I decided to have that version installed on the new system. So I did: - copy the suse-8.0 files from my "production" system to my new system (using knoppix to create the partition and for the ssh server). - dd'ed the bootdisk and modules1 images to 2 floppy disks. - inserted the the floppy disks into the new system - pointed yast to the partition that holds the copy of suse-8.o (/dev/hdb2) - configured the installation (language, timezone, partitions end such) - selected "continue" - yast creates the required partitions but at this point I get the following error; could not mount the source medium, because it is already mounted. it is indeed mounted on /var/adm/mount and /tmp/extras Anyone know how to deal with this?? -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

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Palm Pilot synching
by Thomas Nuzum 19 Jan '03

19 Jan '03

I have a sony clie 665 and pilot-link showing as installed. Will this work under evolution or do i need jpilot or xpalm desktop? I don't really care as long as i get it to synch with something. How do i start pilot-link? anybody got a good web link for this? thanks again

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What the...
by r ob 19 Jan '03

19 Jan '03

Hello again all you groovy folks, OK So I'm a little behund on the times,shoot me.But first how do I tell SuSE 7.3 with its lovely splash screen that my ide bus is not 33Mhz.Earlier versions let me override at the LILO prompt.With 7.3 I don't even see the Lilo. PLease Help TIA

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bash hash hell
by zentara 19 Jan '03

19 Jan '03

Hi, I'm having trouble with my bash hash table again. I have mc in /usr/local/bin/mc and everytime I try to run mc, I get -bash "No /usr/bin/mc". I've tried hash -d and I get "hash table is empty", but the mc error continues. So where is this hash table? I reboot and the problem persists, so it has to be written somewhere? It reminds me of windows, haha. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation

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SuSE8.1 crash - looking for ideas why this is happening
by Clayton 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

Yet again, I managed to bring my system to a screeching halt. When this happens, everything stops and no recovery is possible. I have to unplug (and plug back in) the power supply to recover. The reset and power buttons do nothing. This all seems to stem from when I am using the floppy drive. This time I was creating a boot floppy from the SuSE8.1 CDROM This is what I did: cd /media/cdrecorder/boot/ dd if=bootdisk of=/dev/fd0u1440 It started creating the bootfloppy, and then the system crashes. The floppy disk is completely destroyed in the process. I cannot reformat the floppy in Linux or Windows once the system crashes while writing to the floppy. I have tested this same step on another computer running 8.1 and everything works fine. So... where can I look to try and pin down the problem? I have checked the various logs in /var/log and there is nothing in there... no errors, no indication of kernel panics, no hardware errors... nothing. Anyone have any suggestions what could be happening, or what I can look for? Can a failing floppy drive cause such a major system crash like this? C.

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Best file format
by Harry G 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

I need to scan some small wiring diagrams, drawings, etc. but the file size is important. Which tends to be smaller, tiff, bmp, etc? TIA Harry Giles

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[SuSE 8.1] usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
by Bram Platel 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

I'm using SuSE 8.1 since today. But I'm having some problems booting. When the boot process reaches the hotplug part (hotplug start [net pci usb....) the machine stops for about 5 to 10 minutes! In the system log there is this entry: linux kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout So the problem looks very similar to the one discribed in the SuSE support database on: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/usb80.html I have edited /etc/sysconfig/kernel which now contains the line: INITRD_MODULES="jbd ext3 ide-scsi usbcore usb-uhci" Then I've done mk_initrd, and I'm using Grub so I skipped the lilo part. My fstab now reads: usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 and I have set HOTPLUG_USB_USE_USBMODULES="yes" in /etc/sysconfig/hotplug (which then takes care of the sleep 3 in the usb.agent). But as you guess, this has no effect. I still get the same messages. What could be wrong? (I'm using the Asus K7M mainboard) Kind regards, Bram Platel

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Kpackage - Information
by Linux World 999 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

The one useful piece of software not included with SuSE 8.1 is kpackage. I tried XMIN and other similar packages but none are as good as kpackage, in my opinion. <flame_stopper> If some of you do not agree that kpackage is better than other RPM front-ends, please do not flame me. This is purely my preference. </flame_stopper> Downloading Kpackage as source and RPM has not been a successful experience. However, after a lot of trial and error, there is a package that can be installed to provide this useful tool. It is called "kdeadmin3-3.0.4-0.i586.rpm". Although the site from which this package was downloaded cannot be remembered, a search on google should help to locate this package. The file size is 1 MB. Hope this helps to anyone trying to find kpackage for use on SuSE 8.1. All the best. LW999

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Re: Hard drive recovery question
by Hilary Hertzoff 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

On Thursday 26 December 2002 20:02, Hilary Hertzoff wrote: I have a hard drive that crashed a couple of months ago. I've attached it as a slave to a new system and have been trying various recovery options. I used dd_rescue to make a copy on my new hard drive and pulled some data off of it. Thankfully, I was able to rebuild the most important lost file. (Talk about a lesson in backing up the system regularly) However, now I'm wondering if the filesystem on the drive might be recoverable. I have the original disk geometry. I wouldn't need to be able to boot the drive, I just want access to the file system, so I could identify the files that I want to copy to the new drive. The original drive was running SuSE 8.0 with an ext2 filesystem and 3 partiitions.../dev/hdc1 was the boot partition, /dev/hdc2 was a swap partition, and /dev/hdc3 held the files that I'm looking for. I did try mounting the dd_rescue file and failed. I also tried running parted and got an unrecognized disk label message. So I tried mklabel and got a read/write error. I've tried fdisk, e2fsck, and gpart with minimal success, The only thing I can think of to try is reinstalling SuSE. Back when it first crashed, I tried mounting the drive using the cds and it didn't recognize that there was a system on the disk. I'm afraid that SuSE's install program will format the disk and I'll lose the contents. Any thoughts? Hilary

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Questions repeated because I didn't get answers...
by Fred M. Sloniker 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

It's possible I missed the answers to my questions for one reason or another, including a problem I'm having with Kmail (mentioned below) or nobody being sure of the answer to all my questions. Even if you can only answer one of the questions, though, I'd appreciate it... * Selecting the Knode icon for the shortcut I added to the KDE taskbar doesn't work; it shows the Knewsticker icon instead. It looks right when I'm selecting it, but not on the bar. Selecting other icons works fine; for instance, I can select the Smiletris icon for it. Why isn't this working? * Why does it take so long for icons of programs I've installed/uninstalled to appear/disappear? Is there anything I can do to speed things up? * What determines which fonts are offered as fixed-width fonts under the Look and Feel -> Fonts menu? The selections seem to be, uh, bad and wrong, leaving out fonts I know are fixed-width and including fonts that are obviously NOT fixed-width. * I can't see the bodies of some mail I receive. Some of it comes from Yahoo Groups, so I can visit them and find out what I'm missing. Looks like it may be multipart MIME and/or HTML mail. I'm using Kmail; how do I see the hidden text? * What's a good DVD player for Linux? Being an ex-Windows user, ease of installation is important to me, but feature-richness is important too. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer, and merry Christmas!

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