December 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

no escape from Gates?
by Damon Register 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

I am well aware that this list is free and voluntary and that no one is under any obligation to solve my problems so please don't think that I am unhappy with the people in this list. As I have said in other posts, I would really like to be able to leave the Gates world but so far this has not been possible. Still I am running into a lot of little problems that keep me going to Windows to get certain tasks done because I still can't solve these problems with SuSE. I think a lot of my problems are permission related but I can't solve them without a little help. With a little detective work I was able to find from fstab and Konqueror file manager all the relationships between CD drives and names. From Konqueror I find that /cdrom is a link to /media/cdrom. fstab shows me that /media/cdrom is a mount point for /dev/cdrom and Konqueror shows me that /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/sr0. Great, now I have the chain but what do I do with this in order to get grip to work for a normal (not root) user? What permissions must be set? Why does the IDE DVD drive work with no adjustments while the SCSI CD-RW not work for a normal user but does work for root. Is it possibly the SCSI controller that needs permission adjustment? If so, how do I find what is the /dev and what permission must be set? [rant on] The really frustrating thing is that though I believe some of these problems to be simple ones, I get zero response. Also I find that these issues are VERY common but information scarce or incomplete. I feel that the Linux community is too secretive at times. Why do I see very long threads about disk polishing or YaST 1 vs YaST 2 but zero answers to what I believe are simple questions about devices? Why is it so often I see in FAQs or posts that critical details are omitted? Sometimes I have seen over time that there are many posts on a subject that could be answered if a FAQ contained sufficient information for the reader to be able to solve his problems. A good example is CD ripping. There is a FAQ at http://dinamizm.ath.cx/articles/cdrip.html that covers the subject but has several errors and is also lacking information that could help the reader to deal with exceptions. According to the SuSE 8.0 manual and posts in this list, typing audiocd:/ in Konqueror will let me rip CDs but neither the SuSE book or the posts have bothered to mention prerequisites that would allow this to work. Another great example is something really simple: symbolic links. I could find information in "Running Linux" (O'Reilly?) on creating a symbolic link but the writer didn't bother to mention how to get rid of a link. This is really stupid. How can a beginner be expected to guess that rm is the way to get rid of a link? [rant off] Damon Register

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grub and dual-booting
by Jeric 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

At work I have been allowed to put Linux as a dual boot on our one test box (whoohoo!). But, whenever I have to reformat windows 2000 drive for testing reasons, I loose the Grub menu, and can only get back into SuSE via a bootdisk. Now, in the past, with LILO, I could go back into SuSE with a boot disk and simply type "lilo" and it would replant itself back into the MBR. How can I reseat Grub back into the MBR from within Linux, so that I have the O/S boot option menu on boot? Thanks -Jeric -- JericAtSbcglobalDotNetwork 9:09pm up 26 days, 12:58, 8 users, load average: 0.13, 0.03, 0.01

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vfs panic in suse 8.0
by Gerson Sampaio 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

Hi list, i have suse 8.0 in a partitioned disk and it worked normally until now. Today , the system doesn't started and i got the message: 'vfs panic' , and shows that the superblock is invalid. What to do ? Thanks in advance. Gérson Sampaio _______________________________________________________________________ Busca Yahoo! O melhor lugar para encontrar tudo o que você procura na Internet http://br.busca.yahoo.com/

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APT
by Erik Jakobsen 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

Hi. In my SuSE 8.1 I have installed: 0.5.4cnc9-1cl If I run apt-get update, the directory that is opened is for 8.0: Get:1 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386 release [6311B] How can I change that ?. -- Med venlig hilsen - Best regards. Erik Jakobsen - eja(a)urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 - http://counter.li.org SuSE Linux 8.1

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Mozilla
by James Ogley 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

As promised earlier, I've now added fresh RPMs of Mozilla 1.2.1 to www.usr-local-bin.org - now with added legality! :) Yup, I've removed the Flash 6 plugin before Macromedia's lawyers try to kick my butt into touch, and provided a link to a legal download site where you can get a SuSE RPM of it (which works fine for me) -- 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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HELP. have just deleted all my home directories!
by steve sheriff 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

Is there any way I can undelete? We have SuSE 8.0 with reiser. Urgent! Tia, Steve. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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APT-GET update.
by Erik Jakobsen 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

Hi. When I execute apt-get update, I get the following errors: Collecting File Provides... Error! W: Release file did not contain checksum information for ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.1-i386/base/pkglist.gnome W: Release file did not contain checksum information for ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.1-i386/base/release.gnome E: could not open RPM package list file /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.gwdg.de_pub_linux_suse_apt_SuSE_8.1-i386_base_pkglist.gnome: E: Problem opening /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.gwdg.de_pub_linux_suse_apt_SuSE_8.1-i386_base_pkglist.gnome E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. How can I get rid of the errors ?. -- Med venlig hilsen - Best regards. Erik Jakobsen - eja(a)urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 - http://counter.li.org SuSE Linux 8.1

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Re: [SLE] libc.so.6 errors on Zend IDE Installaion, SuSE 8.1
by Jason Lotito 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

Just for reference sake, I found the problem. The solution can be found here: http://www.zend.com/phorum/read.php?num=4&id=924&thread=899 The solution is: You should use the suse/i586/glibc-2.2.5-151.i586.rpm from your 8.1 instead of suse/i686/glibc-2.2.5-152.i686.rpm. You can find the i586 version of glibc on your SuSE CD's, CD number 1. You have to first uninstall your i686 version of glibc, and simply install this version then, and it will work like a charm. Jason > > Jason Lotito wrote: > > >Hello, > > > > > >I am trying to install the Zend IDE on my SuSE 8.1 machine, and I keep > > >running into an error: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: > > >cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory, any clues? > > > > > >ls /lib/ shows libc.so.6 is present, and I really have no clue as to > > > where to go. > > > > > >Here is the complete error message and output from the installation: > > > > > >bambam:/home/jason/Documents/ZendStudio-2_5_0c # ./ZendStudio-2_5_0c.bin > > >Preparing to install... > > >Extracting the JRE from the installer archive... > > >Unpacking the JRE... > > >Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... > > >Configuring the installer for this system's environment... > > >dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open > > >shared object file: No such file or directory > > >/bin/ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open > > >shared object file: No such file or directory > > >basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open > > >shared object file: No such file or directory > > >dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open > > >shared object file: No such file or directory > > >basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open > > >shared object file: No such file or directory > > >hostname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open > > >shared object file: No such file or directory > > > > > >Launching installer... > > > > > >rm: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared > > >object file: No such file or directory > > >rm: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared > > >object file: No such file or directory > > > > > >Thank you > > > > -- > > "DRM... Digitally Retarded Media - content that cannot reach its full > > potential because of artificial restraints." > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 -- Jason Lotito PHP Developer's Network Founder www.devnetwork.net

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How to work with dependencies on glibc2.3?
by Philip Nelson 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

I am trying to get a number of music related packages working on Suse 8. I have been dismayed to see that both Suse 8 and 8.1 are at glibc2.2.5. MusE in particular requires libc.so.6 from glibc2.3 and won't start. Is there anything I can do with Suse 8 to get this working? The MusE that's installed with Yast is too unstable to really use and is many revs out of the latest version.

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Galeon, Evolution, X-Chat updates
by James Ogley 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

Updated today on www.usr-local-bin.org * Galeon - updated to 1.3.1 (GNOME2 beta) - depends on GTK2 Mozilla 1.2.1 * Evolution - updated to 1.2.1 (bugfix) - also updated: gtkhtml-1.1 & gal * X-Chat - updated to 1.9.7 (GNOME2 beta) It's been pointed out to me that the packages of Mozilla 1.2.1 don't include the Flash plugin, I'm going to do new packages and post them to the site tomorrow to rectify this. James -- 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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