February 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Packaging
by robertc＠mindspring.com 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

THis is an excellent idea Joe. They could drop the manuals and add more SuSE Stickers (though my peference is the older stickers). I havn't used the manuals since version 6.4. From what others have told me, the manuals with 7.3 are very good.. Just no need, with the online doc and the web its easier to search online than to read the book. Of course, the books do come in handy when needing reading material for the "reading room". SuSE: if you take this route, then PLEASE don't put the cardboard disk wallet into another cardboard box. Just shrinkwrap it and put a sticker on the outside. Robert I do have one suggestion tho! What if SuSE were to release a "smaller" version of SuSE with their standard release. This release would lack the manuals and related materials, and include JUST the CDs? Something like FreeBSD currently does. This would reduce the overhead for the manuals themselves, as well as freight (much less weight) getting it from SuSE to the consumer!

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kdeglobals - owner gets changed to root root which mangles settings. problem effects at least KDE 2.1 / 2.2.2 Suse 7.2
by phil 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

Greetings All! The File: /home/user/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals it's permissions keep getting changed to owner root and when it does so it makes the desktop settings change. I looked in various scripts and can't find what is changing the permissions on this file. I wonder if perhaps nobody is attempting to answer this question as it may be a bug. I see that I myself have answered this question. http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2001-Aug/0787.html But the funny thing is today I don't have SuSE-wizard installed and the exact same problem is happening. So I admit openly, I was wrong, this is NOT the fix. So I do more searching, and it seems that the German version of this question is going around as well. (With no answer yet I might add.) http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux/2001-Jul/4673.html this is a nasty little problem that causes a lot of hassle when ever someone thinks they are changing the settings it isn't saved (Obviously since the file is being owned by root) Now I am starting to get concerned about the entire directory /home/user/.kde/share/config/ Why are file permissions being changed in this directory and How can I set a trap on one or more files to catch the culprit program that changes the permission / ownership of these files. Why are the permissions being changed in this directory? If I could figure out why, then maybe I can figure out how. There has to be a way to make a log file somewhere that will figure out what is changing the permission on the file. I am not sure how to go about that. If it's a cronjob that's changing it, I am not seeing which one. I have ran harden_suse on the box[s] (yeah that's plural more than one box has this problem) this is effecting. I am back to looking at random files out and about and around /etc again, I hope I find something solid. -- Leave the Constitution Alone. http://members.osb.net/phil

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Thin Clients, LDAP served via CODA filesystem
by Togan Muftuoglu 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

Hi, I have a project that involves using LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) for a minimum of 50 Thin Clients who will be basicly surfing the net and reading and sending mail (hope not spam). The project has to be as secure as possible by design (from internal net and external net) since it is for a government office. They want users to be only allowed from their designated machines and in the future they may add, remove restrictions either by department or by user. The server will be dual CPU (either PIII or XEON) with a minimum of 2GB RAM in addition to hardware raid. Thin Clients are Pentium 133 with the best chance 64 MB Ram ( 32 MB is what they have currently) LTSP is using NFS and it also has NFS swap (which I did not like the idea as I am sure it will affect performance.) along with kernel 2.4.9 made from vanilla kernels. I need some opinions for the following 1) Kernel 2.2.19 or 2.4.17 from SuSE vs LTSP 2.4.9 kernel 2) Using of Coda file system (or another suggestion) vs NFS 3) Using LDAP vs NIS 4) KDM or GDM or XDM Thanks for any pointers or share of experience -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx

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mount /dev/hdc or cdrom
by Jacek BOBOLI 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

Hello ! Before all of my roundtrips within the adsl setting up of a modem, I had my filesystem ext2. Now I mounted it reiserfs. No big problem apart from a kernel panic resolved via the SuSE documentation on the web. But now, if i try to mount a cd, i am required to give the filesystem data. Thisdidn't occur before and in my fstab /dev/hdc is referenced with "auto" A tip ? Tks in advance Jacek

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FA 311 Network card
by robertc＠mindspring.com 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

I have an FA 311 NIC running under SuSE 7.3. Occasionally the following message shows up in the /var/log/messages log: "linux kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability. " It seems that when this message happens the card stops responding until a manual ping is done on the system. In the driver parms in YAST I have "10BaseT-FD". That did not seem to make a difference. Has anyone experienced this or have a solution?? Robert

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Problem writing audio CDs with KreateCD
by Trent Clifton 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

Hello, I am new to Linux, and was hoping somebody here could help me with a problem I'm having. It seems that I am not able to write audio CDs. Data CDs write just fine, however. I've searched the Web for an answer, but haven't found one yet. I am running SuSE Linux 7.3 and using KreateCD frontend software. I have attached below the output that KreateCD gives me when I attempt to write an audio CD. I would be very grateful if someone could give me some advice on this. Thanks. KreateCD says: scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20 Cdrecord 1.11a05 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�rg Schilling TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'LG ' Identifikation : 'CD-RW CED-8080B ' Revision : '1.11' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1024000 = 1000 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: audio 273 MB (27:06.30) no preemp swab Total size: 273 MB (27:06.30) = 121973 sectors Lout start: 273 MB (27:08/23) = 121973 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 4 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2) ATIP start of lead in: -12508 (97:15/17) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 22 Manufacturer: Ritek Co. Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 237876 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 9 seconds. 8 seconds. 7 seconds. 6 seconds. 5 seconds. 4 seconds. 3 seconds. 2 seconds. 1 seconds. 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Starting new track at sector: 0 cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1B 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 64 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x64 Qual 0x00 (illegal mode for this track) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 40s __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Got something to say? Say it better with Yahoo! Video Mail http://mail.yahoo.com

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installing libxml2, error: no rpmlib...
by Torben Brosten 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

On installing libxml2 on suse6.4 2.2.19 system, I'm getting the following error: error: failed dependencies: rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 is needed by libxml2-2.4.13-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 is needed by libxml2-2.4.13-1 I can't find any rpmlib from rpmfind.net. What am I missing? Thanks in advance, Torben PS. Here's the details of what I've done and info that may be helpful: According to the xmlsoft.org FAQ, at: http://xmlsoft.org/FAQ.html#Installati >Problem: I can't install the libxml(2) RPM package >due to failed dependancies > >The most generic solution is to refetch the latest >src.rpm , and rebuild it locally with > >rpm --rebuild libxml(2)-xxx.src.rpm > >if everything goes well it will generate two >binary rpm (one providing the shared libs and >xmllint, and the other one, the -devel package >providing includes, static libraries and scripts >needed to build applications with libxml(2)) that >you can install locally. Grabbed source libxml2 from: ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2-2.4.13-1.src.rpm Here's the nitty gritty, in case it helps c344469-d:/tmp # mv libxml2-2.4.13-1.src.rpm /tmp c344469-d:/tmp # rpm --rebuild libxml2-2.4.13-1.src.rpm c344469-d:/tmp # ls libxml2* libxml2-2.4.13-1.i386.rpm libxml2-devel-2.4.13-1.i386.rpm libxml2-2.4.13-1.src.rpm c344469-d:/tmp # rpm -i libxml2-2.4.13-1.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 is needed by libxml2-2.4.13-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 is needed by libxml2-2.4.13-1 c344469-d:/tmp # rpm -i libxml2-devel-2.4.13-1.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libxml2 = 2.4.13 is needed by libxml2-devel-2.4.13-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 is needed by libxml2-devel-2.4.13-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 is needed by libxml2-devel-2.4.13-1 c344469-d:/tmp # rpm -q -i rpm Name : rpm Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 3.0.4 Vendor: SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany Release : 0 Build Date: Sat Mar 11 08:07:37 2000 Install date: Tue May 8 00:44:26 2001 Build Host: besson.suse.de Group : unsorted Source RPM: rpm-3.0.4-0.src.rpm Size : 4422119 License: GPL Packager : feedback(a)suse.de Summary : RPM Package Manager Description : .... [omitted] SuSE series: a c344469-d:/tmp # find / -name *rpmlib* -print /usr/include/rpm/rpmlib.h #in searching rpmfind.net for a rpmlib, get "No package found of name rpmlib"

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back to suse KDE theme?
by Jon Doe 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

I went and messed around with look and feel and I've lost the default KDE suse theme. Is there an easy way to get back to the default suse theme? lol Serves me right for fooling around huh?

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Problems setting up orinoco card
by Rick Barnes 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

hello, i'm trying to setup my dell i8100 to use a orinoco card. I got the card working fine under Win2k, but I cannot figure out how to get it to work under suse 7.3. When I insert the card I get the two beeps sound and if I lsmod the hermes and orinoco modules are loaded. When I try to modprobe orinoco_cs i get the following errors: # modprobe orinoco_cs /lib/modules/2.4.16-4GB/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_cs.o: init_module: Operation not permitted Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.4.16-4GB/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_cs.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.16-4GB/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_cs.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.16-4GB/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_cs.o: insmod orinoco_cs failed As was suggested in the PCMCIA howto (for an i8k not i8100) i tried excluding the port 0x800-0x8ff # cardctl status 0 5V 16-bit PC Card function 0: [ready] # cardmgr modpath = (null) modsubdir = (null) # cardctl ident 0 product info: "Lucent Technologies", "WaveLAN/IEEE", "Version 01.01", "" manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002 function: 6 (network) # iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 no wireless extensions. # cat /var/lib/pcmcia/stab Socket 0: Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter Socket 1: empty i am fresh out of ideas for the time being, any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA Rick Barnes _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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TrippLite BC PRO 850 UPS - HOWTO
by alta 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

HOWTO: TrippLite BC PRO 850 UPS - For SuSE Linux 7.3 (1) Note that the cable pin-assignments on the TrippLite and other UPS's are not compatible with standard DBD-9 pin assignments. Cables often have resisters, or even a diode, built in. The info below will tell you how to make a cable that works. Or, you can order one from TrippLite. (73-0724 might work) The following shows the TrippLite DBD-9 male cable pins, and how to connect them to the computer female DBD-9 connector. I did this by making an adapter module. Note that you need two 10K resistors, and one small-signal diode (almost any will do). pin description 1 "gnd", actually -12v derived from computer's SD pin-3 This feeds the emitter side of two opto isolators. 5 AC Fail, collector side of opto isolator, pulled up to +12 by 10K res in cable connected to computer's DTR pin-4. Connect pin-5 to computer's CTS pin-8. -12 volts means AC Fail. 6 Low Batt, collector side of opto isolator, pulled up to +12 by 10K res in cable connected to computer's DTR pin-4.. Connect 6 to computer's DCD pin-1. -12 volts means Low Batt. 2 Inverter shutoff +, controlled by +12 from computer's RTS pin-7. Insert a diode between UPS pin-2 and computer pin-7, anode (arrow-side) to computer. +12 volts from computer causes inverter to shut down. 4 Inverter shutoff -, connected to computer's sig gnd pin-5. The above works if you configure SMARTUPS_MODEL = genericups and GENERICUPS_MODEL = 5. genericups 5 puts -12 on SD, +12 on DTR, and -12 on RTS. (2) Using YaST2, install ups software from SuSE disks. (3) Go to the KDE or SuSE control center. YaST2 modules -> System -> RC-Config Editor Enter root password where needed. Edit RC-Config -> Hardware -> Power Mgt -> UPS Setup: GENERICUPS_MODEL = 5 SMARTUPS_DEVICE = ttyS1 (for com2 port) SMARTUPS_MASTER = localhost SMARTUPS_MODEL = genericups (4) In same menu area, set start-variables. Edir RC-Config -> Start-Variables -> Hardware Setup: START_UPS = yes (5) As root, start it up. rcups start (6) Test it. upsc localhost This will display status info about your UPS. Try pulling the power plug, and see the status change. Your computer will not be shut down until the Low Battery event occurs. -- Reed White - ALTA RESEARCH - www.alta-research.com Phone: 877-360-2582 - Email: alta(a)alta-research.com

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