December 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

printer problem
by Doug McGarrett 12 Dec '02

12 Dec '02

I tried to send this from SuSE linux, but something got screwed up. Let's try it from here. If I don't have my printer turned on when I boot SuSE, then I cannot print, even if I turn it on later. Is there a way to initiallize the printer if I turn it on after I boot Linux? (The printer is a laser-jet, with Post-Script capability, and SuSE is set up to use that. If I turn on the printer with the computer, it works fine.) I can turn the printer on later in MS Windows. Thanx, all. --doug

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No free/kein freies UnitedLinux?!
by René Matthäi 12 Dec '02

12 Dec '02

Hi, unter/under UnitedLinux-FAQ http://www.unitedlinux.com/en/info/faqs.html steht/is written: > Can users download free versions of UnitedLinux for non-commercial > uses, similar to how Linux is freely available today? > > Yes, UnitedLinux sources are available for free download now that > Version 1.0 is released, from our founding partners Conectiva, The > SCO Group, SuSE, and Turbolinux - you'll find details in their > developer programs. "developer programs" schließt aber normale Nutzer doch gewöhnlich aus. Wie kann man die UnitedLinux-Basis dann bekommen? But "developer programs" usually excludes normal users, doesn't it - how can one obtain the UnitedLinux base packages etc. then? Grüße/regards Ré

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Printing and Kmail problems
by Marcia 12 Dec '02

12 Dec '02

Dear All, I have Suse 8 and a HP 940c printer. It prints except that when I print from my email pages HTML or text it always leaves about 1/4 inch of the print at the top off and about the same at the bottom so that a few lines at the top and bottom do not get printed. I am not using cups,however, I had this same problem in LM 9 even using cups. I am using the BSD spooler I believe and the hpijs driver. There must be some adjustment I can make to make sure it does not do this. Does anyone know how to make those adjustments? Also, whenever I try to save an email HTML page from kmail it will not save as HTML but only as text. How may I change this? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Marcia

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Error building latest SuSE kernel
by Tom Emerson 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

From other messages, I saw that kernel 2.4.19 was available and "highly recommended" [because, among other things, it fixes a problem w/multiple IDE drives -- while I haven't seen a problem I can trace to this yet, I'm about to embark on something that would stress this, so if it's waiting to break...] So, I downloaded the sources, did "make cloneconfig" and noted some "new" items (mostly related to 'enterprise volume management') which I figured was a good thing to try out [re above stress test: I may try to do some video editing, in which case I'd REALLY like to have my two 80gb drives configured as raid-0 [striped] for speed] I've probably diddled a couple of other settings [dunno exactly what I'm doing -- it's been a while since I was "comfortable" doing kernel compiles; nowadays it seems even more complex] I -DID- to a "make dep", then tried make bzImage -- this chugged along until the following error: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.19.SuSE/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DKBUILD_BASENAME=traps -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c traps.c traps.c: In function `do_int3': traps.c:790: warning: implicit declaration of function `kdb' traps.c:790: `KDB_REASON_BREAK' undeclared (first use in this function) traps.c:790: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once traps.c:790: for each function it appears in.) traps.c:790: `kdb_eframe_t' undeclared (first use in this function) traps.c:790: parse error before "regs" make[1]: *** [traps.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19.SuSE/arch/i386/kernel' make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/kernel] Error 2 So, have I stepped in the goo on this? should I back up an redo the "make cloneconfig" and try that [without any additional 'diddling'] or is there simply "a problem" with the latest kernel sources "as supplied" by SuSE and I'm stuck unless *I* want to investigate and repair... [yeah, RIGHT!] Tom

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Corrupt filesystem on custom rescuedisk
by Pantaleimon 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

I have made (or rather tried to make but not succeded) a custom rescue disk based on the image /disks/rescue on CD1 of SuSE Linux 7.3. I unziped the image, mounted a loopback filesystem, copied everything to a temporary directory, deleted some files and added some. Then I created an 8MiB file of zeroes, made an ext2 filesystem on that file, mounted it as a loopback filesystem and copied everything from the temporary directory to this filesystem. I then unmounted it, gziped the file and copied the onto a disk using dd. I had to try and fail a bit to get resulting image small enough to fit onto a floppy so I made a script to automate the process. I have attached the script to the end of this post. The problem is that when I boot using the unmodified /disks/bootdisk image, which I copied to a disk, and my custom rescue disk I get errors. After the boot disk is read I get the menus. I then select "rescue system" and "from floppy" (or at least something like that). I am asked to insert the rescue disk, it is read and it says "remove disk" and an OK button. I press the OK button. At this point I would normally get the login screen. I do when I use the supplied, unmodified rescue image. When I use my custom rescue image I get an error message telling me that e2fsck was run and it not find the filesystem entirely to its liking, specifically the superblock is missing. On a previous occasion, ie. with an earlier version of the rescue disk, which didn't work either, I got error messages telling me some program was respawning to fast. Thinking that something was wrong with my rescue disk I loaded the image back from the disk, gunziped it, mounted it as a loopback filesystem and ran e2fsck. e2fsck reported that the filesystem was OK. I also tried with a minix filesystem on the rescue image i case that's what the program (linuxrc is it?) that loads the rescue sytem expects but got, basically, the same result. Here's my rescue image when I've done a ls -s: 1404 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1437278 Dec 1 23:40 tmp/newrescue.gz Here's my "make rescue disk" script: #!/bin/bash #Modifies the SuSE rescue image and produces new image. Make a tmp directory #and cd to it before running this. New rescue image is 'newrescue.gz'. if [ $(mount | grep -c 'rescue.*res') != 0 ]; then umount res fi if [ $(mount | grep -c 'newrescue.*newres') != 0 ]; then umount newres fi if [ $(mount | grep -c 'bigrescue.*bigres') != 0 ]; then umount bigres fi #Mount SuSE disk rescue image and copy files to buffer test ! -d res && mkdir -v res cp /SuSE.7.3.CDs/CD1/disks/rescue rescue.gz test -f rescue && rm rescue gunzip -v rescue.gz mount -v -o loop -t ext2 rescue res test -d tmpres && rm -r tmpres test ! -d tmpres && mkdir -v tmpres cp -dpR res/* tmpres #Mount SuSE CD big rescue image test ! -d bigres && mkdir bigres cp /SuSE.7.3.CDs/CD1/suse/images/rescue bigrescue.gz test -f bigrescue && rm bigrescue gunzip -v bigrescue.gz mount -v -o loop -t ext2 bigrescue bigres #Files to add cp -vdp /lib/*lvm* tmpres/lib cp -vdpR /dev/hda16 tmpres/dev cp -vdpR /dev/hdb16 tmpres/dev cp /sbin/vgscan tmpres/sbin cp /sbin/vgchange tmpres/sbin cp bigres/sbin/insmod tmpres/sbin #Files to remove rm tmpres/usr/bin/basename #rm tmpres/usr/bin/chattr rm tmpres/usr/bin/cpio rm tmpres/usr/bin/cut rm tmpres/usr/bin/diff rm tmpres/usr/bin/du rm tmpres/usr/bin/egrep rm tmpres/usr/bin/fgrep rm tmpres/usr/bin/grep rm tmpres/usr/bin/ftp rm tmpres/usr/bin/find rm tmpres/usr/bin/lsattr rm tmpres/usr/bin/less rm tmpres/usr/bin/mt rm tmpres/usr/bin/sed rm tmpres/usr/bin/telnet #rm tmpres/usr/bin/touch rm tmpres/usr/bin/vim rm tmpres/usr/bin/vi rm tmpres/usr/bin/zgrep rm tmpres/usr/bin/wc rm tmpres/usr/bin/yes #rm tmpres/bin/cp rm tmpres/bin/dd rm tmpres/bin/df rm tmpres/bin/mv rm tmpres/bin/ps rm tmpres/bin/dmesg rm tmpres/bin/pwd rm tmpres/bin/fuser rm tmpres/bin/hostname rm tmpres/bin/gzip rm tmpres/bin/gunzip rm tmpres/bin/ping #rm tmpres/bin/sleep rm tmpres/bin/tar rm tmpres/sbin/hdparm rm tmpres/sbin/hwclock rm tmpres/sbin/ifconfig #rm tmpres/sbin/killproc #rm tmpres/sbin/mingetty #rm tmpres/sbin/restore rm tmpres/sbin/route rm tmpres/sbin/sfdisk rm tmpres/sbin/tune2fs #rm tmpres/sbin/update #rm tmpres/lib/libncurses.so.3.0 #rm tmpres/lib/libncurses.so.3.0.980228 #Make new rescue image test ! -d newres && mkdir newres dd if=/dev/zero of=newrescue bs=1k count=8192 echo y | mke2fs -m 0 -N1000 newrescue #echo y | mkfs.minix newrescue mount -v -o loop -t ext2 newrescue newres #mount -v -o loop -t minix newrescue newres cp -dpR tmpres/* newres ldconfig -r newres du -sh res newres #Cleanup umount res umount newres umount bigres rmdir -v res newres bigres rm rescue bigrescue rm -r tmpres #Zip up and report sizes gzip -fv9 newrescue du -k newrescue.gz /SuSE.7.3.CDs/CD1/disks/bootdisk

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Problem installing ported FTPD
by Dimitrios Pezaros 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Dear all, I am trying to install the following FTPD (ported from BSD) on my SuSE 8.0 PRO box, from the corresponding RPM: ftpd-BSD-0.3.3-8.i686 However, I get some failed dependencies and installation is aborted: error: failed dependencies: rc-inetd is needed by ftpd-BSD-0.3.3-8 inetdaemon is needed by ftpd-BSD-0.3.3-8 man-pages < 1.51 conflicts with ftpd-BSD-0.3.3-8 As far as I can tell, inetdaemon (xinetd?) and rc-inetd exist on my system. Does anybody know what the problem might be here? Any help would be greatly appreciated. With thanks, Dimitris.

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Quanta too wide for screen
by Bob Rea 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

I am using Quanta Plus 3.0-pr1, which came with SuSE 8.1 Pro. I can only resize the window vertically, and not horizontally. It is wider than my screen at 768 x 1024. Is there a work-around for this? Is there a later version, and if so, where can i find an rpm for 8.1? -- Bob Rea mailto:gapetard@stsams.org http://www.petard.us Freedom is only privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all --Billy Bragg

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autoconf-automake
by DB Troll 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Does anyone know if autoconf 2.54 or > and automake 1.7 are available in rpm for 8.0. Thanks David

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OT - Internet Filtering Question
by Bryan Tyson 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Suppose a filter or proxy such as found in many corporate environments is set to block the users from accessing web sites in a certain domain, for example aol.com. If a user enters the numerical IP address of a site in the aol.com domain instead of typing members.aol.com/~bob/bobshomepage, will the filter still block it? Thank you. *************************************************** 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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Java 1.4.1_01 and Tomcat (SuSE 8.0)
by Bill Parker 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Hi All, Is it possible to make tomcat call Java 1.4.1 if it's installed on a SuSE 8.0 box on system init? Reason I ask is that it looks like Tomcat calls Java 1.3.1 even if 1.4.1 is installed (along side 1.3.1)? -Bill

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