December 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

xcdroast/gtk silliness
by Steve Miller 14 Dec '02

14 Dec '02

Hi, I'd like to NOT have to log on as root just to burn a CD.... After following the instructions provided by SuSE (!) (that now reside on my computer as /usr/share/doc/packages/xcdroast/README.nonroot), I have the following file attributes. -rwsr-s--- 1 root cdwrite 194665 Feb 28 2001 cdda2wav -rwxr-s--- 1 root cdwrite 104659 Feb 28 2001 readcd -rwxr-s--- 2 root cdwrite 369272 Feb 28 2001 mkisofs -rwsr-s--- 1 root cdwrite 212486 Feb 28 2001 cdrecord -rwxr-sr-x 1 root cdwrite 675341 Mar 16 2001 xcdrgtk As root, I entered the configuration of xcdroast and placed my normal user name on the list of those permitted to burn CDs. As that (non-root) user, I tried to start xcdroast and got the following message before the program aborted. ** WARNING **: X-CD-Roast does not seem to have the correct permissions set ** WARNING **: So do as root something like that: (and read the Manual) chown root:cdwrite xcdroast; chmod 2755 xcdroast OK. I did this and got. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root cdwrite 7 Dec 10 19:00 xcdroast -> xcdrgtk Now, when I try to start xcdroast, I get.... > Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid. This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper program instead. For further details, see: http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html Refusing to initialize GTK+. [1]+ Exit 1 xcdroast The URL brilliantly explains that I need to write a "helper program". I have three things to say about this: (1) Help! I am not a Gtk programmer. (2) What manual? (3) If someone from SuSE is reading this, PLEASE stop testing your customers' loyalty like this! I know using Linux takes patience, but this is a little ridiculous. (There is a whole section in the configuration manual (SuSE 7.1) about CD burning that is totally silent on this issue. TIA, Steve Miller __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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Re: [SLE] cd-burning - hard crash
by Aron Fischer 14 Dec '02

14 Dec '02

[original message] > > >here is a short descriptios of my problem. > > >I have SuSE 8.1 and have one DVD drive and one cdrw drive. > > >I had no problems burning (I used KOnCD) until I removed my DVD drive for > > >a week to use it in another computer. > > >Now I have it back... everything seems fine except: > > >when I try to burn a data cd (I can still burn audio) my sytem goes down > > >hard. > > >any ideas where to look. I havn't changed any configs so whatever changes > > >happend, they must be from SuSE automagically reconfiguring after a > > >hardware change. [/original message] On Friday 13 December 2002 14:52, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > On 12/13/2002 09:10 PM, Aron Fischer wrote: > >ok I get: > >hwscan --list > >8kLt.s7X5t8wb7w1: (cfg=yes, avail=no, need=no) cdrom > > HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-2500 ENrk.i+OHop_Xp96: (cfg=yes, avail=no, need=no) > > cdrom CD-W540E > > These must have been the original config, as they were configured > (cfg=yes), but no longer available. Since they are available, but seen > as different, delete these two files from /var/lib/hardware > > >and > >zyP1.1P+HC1U3306: (cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no) cdrom TEAC > > HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-2500 > > Q8g5.6YgWLsFXs+C: (cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no) cdrom > > HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-25 00 > > > >does this help? > >(as in: what does this mean?) > > Maybe. After deleting the 2 above files, rerun hwscan -- cdrom., then > --list. If they still show up as cfg=no, try hwscan --cfg=new > Q8g5.6YgWLsFX+C which is the id number of your dvd, then rerun hwscan > --cdrom to see if it will autocfg. After all this, maybe it will work > as it did previously. HTH Ok I tried that. I still get a hard crash whenever I try to burn a cd. hwscan --list | grep cdrom zyP1.1P+HC1U3306: (cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no) cdrom TEAC HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-2500 Q8g5.6YgWLsFXs+C: (cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no) cdrom HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-2500 the TEAC is not a DVD drive but a cdrw. help? thanks Aron -- "For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat." "Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem." -- Alan McKay

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strange font problem
by Aron Fischer 14 Dec '02

14 Dec '02

I have a strange font problem. I don't know what causes it, it is not regular and I can't reproduce it at will. What hapens is this: sometimes (randomly as far as I can tell) when I boot, all fonts in the login screen are tiny. when I log in (to kde for example) all fonts are tiny and I can't change them. If, howerver, I restart X, then all font appear in their normal sizes. It's not a big problem because I only have to press ctrl+alt+backspace and wait a few seconds. However I found it bizarre. what could possibly screw up the fonts on boot sometimes and not othertimes with the same config? cheers Aron -- "For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat." "Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem." -- Alan McKay

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Re: [SLE] qwidget?
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 14 Dec '02

14 Dec '02

MG>Constant Brouerius van Nidek <constant(a)indo.net.id> MG>writes: MG>> Shutting down my KDE I get a lot of error information MG>about MG>> qwidget who seem to complain that a negative value is MG>It is part of the qt library: The QWidget class is the MG>base class of MG>all user interface objects. It sounds like some KDE/Qt MG>application is MG>not properly setting things up for a saved session. Do MG>you get the MG>same errors when you do not select "Save session for MG>future logins"? Yes, I am always leaving the sesion without Save session for future logins. But I have to confes that I have saved my favored screen some time ago with save sessions for future logins in order to start it with gkrellm and xawtv. Was to lazy to enter those two in autostart. Will try to empty everything from my kde desktop and save that for future logins ;-) and see if that solves the problem. Will report. -- " Every little BYTE helps " NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.

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Setting LILO as bootmanager with SuSE Linux 8.1
by David List 14 Dec '02

14 Dec '02

I have tried today to get my main system up and running with SuSE Linux 8.1 - with no success. My other systems where the bootmanager don´t matter run fine, but on this system I absolutely need to use LILO as boot manager, since it is a mixed IDE/SCSI system where I need to insert lines with 'bios = xxxxx' to make it work. I don´t how to do that with grub if it is possible at all. All I know is that the default grub setup made by the installation did *not* work. I come from SuSE Linux 7.3 where it was easy to make changes in the boot manager setup through YaST. With SuSE Linux 8.1 it is completely confusing with /etc/sysconfig containing a lot of files that don´t have mentionings of the possible settings for parameters in their comments - and I don´t see any mentioning of how to set up LILO as boot manager in the "Administration Guide" either. I have removed grub, inserted the /etc/lilo.conf file that worked on my previous setup on this system and I have run /sbin/lilo. That did not work. I don´t get any error codes at boot (LI, LIL and so on), so I don´t know what is wrong. What should I do to set up LILO as boot manager? Best regards, David List

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Re: [SLE] Setting LILO as bootmanager with SuSE Linux 8.1
by Mark Gray 14 Dec '02

14 Dec '02

"David List" <david(a)davidlist.dk> writes: >>> That was certainly not my experience and I understand from all the >>> SuSE documentation IŽve read that grub *is* the default >> >>> bootloader with 8.1. Mark Gray wrote: >> Only if you have no bootloader installed yet -- if lilo is already >> there it will use lilo. > I believe you are talking about upgrades. Both Anders and I have made > clean installations. Yes, when Anders said that lilo had been installed by default instead of grub I thought he might have been doing an upgrade -- wasn't following closely enough (never mind :-)

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Unexpected Installation Failure
by Bryan Tyson 14 Dec '02

14 Dec '02

I have a K62-500 system on which I have installed several different Linux distros in the past (versions of SuSE and Mandrake). I had Mandrake 8.2 in the house and decided to put it on this system. The installer behaved very oddly when it reached package selection, and ultimately it did not work. I decided, OK, let's try SuSE 8.1. Same thing. Once it hit package selection, it failed. A little web searching seemed to indicate these later versions don't even work with K62. Mandrake had a patch on their site, but I could not get it to work even with the patch. Reading the SuSE box, I found in the hardware requirements, for AMD it only lists Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP and Athlon MP. The Mandrake site also said it would not work with Pentium I. In this case I installed Mandrake 8.1, and it worked great. I guess a K62 500 MHz is not very modern, but I would hardly consider it obsolete. It has plenty of pep for use in the office. Linux used to have an advantage for working with older hardware. It looks like that advantage is being lost. *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ***************************************************

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Re: [SLE] qwidget?
by Mark Gray 14 Dec '02

14 Dec '02

Constant Brouerius van Nidek <constant(a)indo.net.id> writes: > Shutting down my KDE I get a lot of error information about > qwidget who seem to complain that a negative value is not > possible. > I have no idea where to look in order to get rid of this > errors. What are qwidgets and where are they maintained? > I am running SuSe 8.0. It is part of the qt library: The QWidget class is the base class of all user interface objects. It sounds like some KDE/Qt application is not properly setting things up for a saved session. Do you get the same errors when you do not select "Save session for future logins"?

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Re: [SLE] Setting LILO as bootmanager with SuSE Linux 8.1
by Mark Gray 14 Dec '02

14 Dec '02

"David List" <david(a)davidlist.dk> writes: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Anders Karlsson [mailto:anders.karlsson@meansolutions.com] >> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 8:43 AM >> To: SuSE general (E-mail) >> Subject: Re: [SLE] Setting LILO as bootmanager with SuSE Linux 8.1 >> >> My experience from installing SuSE 8.1 Pro from scratch is that >> LILO was used by the installer and that the YaST2 config tool only >> knows about LILO (to install, configure etc.). > That was certainly not my experience and I understand from all the SuSE > documentation IŽve read that grub *is* the default bootloader with 8.1. Only if you have no bootloader installed yet -- if lilo is already there it will use lilo. [snip]

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qwidget?
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 14 Dec '02

14 Dec '02

Shutting down my KDE I get a lot of error information about qwidget who seem to complain that a negative value is not possible. I have no idea where to look in order to get rid of this errors. What are qwidgets and where are they maintained? I am running SuSe 8.0. -- NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.

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