February 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] I am going to buy my first UPS
by alta 10 Feb '02

10 Feb '02

I just purchased a Tripp Lite 850 BC Pro from COSTCO for a very good price. The unit had a RS-232 port, but no cable. The documentation contained no pin-outs, no data about datacom operation, and no software. Therefore, I will have to experiment with the SuSE-provided software in order to get it to work. From previous experience I can say that Tripp Lite answers email (slowly), but provides less than 100% useful answers. Otherwise, the unit itself seems fine. Sorry I can't give bou more info, but this info may give you a clue what you are up against. ... Reed On Sunday 10 February 2002 02:17, you wrote: > Hi all, > > I have no experience with UPS, so here my questions are. > > 1) What kind of software should I use with the UPS? I want the PC > to log when a power failure happen, and to turn off when the > failure lasts too much. That software must work with serial port, > as I do not have USB ports. > > 2) What is RS-232 connector? Is it common serial port? > > 3) How much sellers lie? I mean, I have seen some low cost UPS and > sometimes they can resist longer than high cost UPS. I know that > half load of a low cost one is much less than half load of a high > cost one, but I do not find that information very trustful. So, > guys and girls, how much does your UPS last? > > 4) What UPS do you have, and how is your life with it? > > Praise -- Reed White - ALTA RESEARCH - www.alta-research.com Phone: 877-360-2582 - Email: alta(a)alta-research.com ------------------------------------------------------- -- Reed White - ALTA RESEARCH - www.alta-research.com Phone: 877-360-2582 - Email: alta(a)alta-research.com

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yast2 BROKEN, how do I re-install
by David Herman 10 Feb '02

10 Feb '02

Hello, my YaST2 was hosed by using SuSE's online update. When I tried running YaST2 after the update I got the a message; "There was an error while attempting to obtain a list of available modules. The list of displayed modules may be incomplete. Please make sure that YaST2 and YaST2 Control Center are installed properly" I looked for log and config files for yast but there wasn't much that I could get any info out of. I used yast to un-install everything I could find that was named *yast2*, then copied the same files from dvd to hard disk and re-installed them using yast.. I got the same message. I went to the SuSE ftp server and dloaded the newest *yast* files and installed them. Now the window will open and the icons appear (although not where they were before). Some of the functions look like they may even work. So many modules fail though that I won't trust the ones that do. Currently if I try to set >hardware >sound i get a message saying "the sound card database cannot be found. Please check your installation" How do I do this? By the way sound is working, I'd just like to install my soundfonts. >hardware > printer shows a message "No print spooler installed. You must install package lprold in order to print" Well my printing is finally working, thats what started this whole mess. I'm not going to trust a broken applications assesment and break my printing again. >iinstall remove software window just closes w/ no message. >misc >hardware info window opens but shows nothing. >Enter RANT mode I'm spending more and more time trying to get SuSE to work and less and less time actually using it. (I have gone well beyond any hope of actually enjoying using SuSE) I AM FRUSTRATED. >Exit RANT mode Any Ideas about how to fix my current problem will be greatly appreciated. thank you,

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broken logfiles
by S.Toms 10 Feb '02

10 Feb '02

I'm wondering about something that has been bugging me for a while with one of my systems, it seems that when the log file(s) get full and it moves them into .gz format it doesn't want to continue writing to the logs. It's currently running SuSE 6.3 which I plan on updating eventually to 7.3 as soon as I rope in all the configurations and changes I made so that I can duplicate them consistantly again. But for the time being, I would like to figure out why the log files arn't continuing to be written to. -- S.Toms - smotrs(a)mindspring.com - www.mindspring.com/~smotrs SuSE Linux v7.2 - Kernel 2.4.4-4GB I went to the race track once and bet on a horse that was so good that it took seven others to beat him!

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RAID Install question
by Robert Pollard 10 Feb '02

10 Feb '02

How do you do it? I have a HPT370 RAID controller and I can't find any information on how to install the RAID drivers before installing Linux or during the Linux installation. I have SuSe Linux 7.3 and whilst installing it I can't see where I can install the HPT370 drivers. I have the driver downloaded which is 4+MB in size but I don't know how to get it installed since it won't fit on a floppy. I thought maybe Yast Online Update would be the answer but I can't find that either. During the install I get 2 hard drives that are available with the remaining unpartitioned section of the disk available. I have set up Windows 2000 on 70GB of the 2-60GB drives and I want to dual boot both. In the manual partitioning section of the setup it shows the drives but not one drive. I don't know how to get the HPT370 driver installed so the installation will see the 2 drives as one. Thanks for any help in advance! Please respond to robertmp2(a)attbi.com Robert Pollard

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screen resolution
by Tom Nicholson 10 Feb '02

10 Feb '02

What is the easiest way to change my screen resolution? I need to go to 1024x768 from 800x600 because I can't see the bottom of a form. I tried to d/l a PDF and the Adobe user agreement popped up. I can't click the bottom of the screen where it wants me to. The smaller fonts in the higher resolutions are hard for me to read so I generally pick lower res because of eyesight. I already tried smaller font size in Netscape. Thanks, Tom.

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how do I change screen resolution
by Tom Nicholson 10 Feb '02

10 Feb '02

I looked through the programs on KDE. Also tried right clicking on the desktop which doesn't produce anything useful.

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ping stops after 10-20 pings
by Bengt Törnqvist 10 Feb '02

10 Feb '02

I have installed Linux in my HP KAYAK XA PC and have problems with sending ping continously from the PC. Ping stops after 10-20 pings. Ping can be "awakened" again by sending one ping from another PC towards the KAYAK PC. Pinging stops therafter again after 10-20 pings, can be "awak- ened" again and so on... The problem is the same for RedHat 7.1 and SuSE 7.3 installations. There is no problem sending pings continously when using Windows98. Presently I have SuSE 7.3 with kernel 2.4.10 installed. I have disabled all power management (apm) related functions in BIOS. lspci command responds with the circuit 79C970. dmsg output shows 79C971. I have tested IRQ number 3 and 11 for pcnet32 interrupt without any change in behavior. mii-tool command responds with: eth0: no autonegotiation, 10baseT-HD, link ok mii-diag command responds with: Using the default interface 'eth0'. Basic registers of MII PHY #1: 1000 782d 7810 0000 01e1 0021 0000 0000. Basic mode control register 0x1000: Auto-negotiation enabled. You have link beat, and everything is working OK. Your link partner is generating 10baseT link beat (no autonegotiation). Files from ping test from KAYAK PC (192.168.1.1) to other PC (192.168.1.3): Record from ping window of 192.168.1.1: kayak:~ # ping 192.168.1.3 PING lte5100.pikeperch (192.168.1.3) from 192.168.1.1 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from lte5100.pikeperch (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.118 msec 64 bytes from lte5100.pikeperch (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1.055 msec 64 bytes from lte5100.pikeperch (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=4.109 msec 64 bytes from lte5100.pikeperch (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=1.025 msec 64 bytes from lte5100.pikeperch (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=20.628 msec 64 bytes from lte5100.pikeperch (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=878 usec 64 bytes from lte5100.pikeperch (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=927 usec 64 bytes from lte5100.pikeperch (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=880 usec 64 bytes from lte5100.pikeperch (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=2.429 msec 64 bytes from lte5100.pikeperch (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 time=898 usec 64 bytes from lte5100.pikeperch (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=11 ttl=255 time=2.321 msec 64 bytes from lte5100.pikeperch (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=12 ttl=255 time=876 usec 64 bytes from lte5100.pikeperch (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=13 ttl=255 time=988 usec 64 bytes from lte5100.pikeperch (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=14 ttl=255 time=891 usec 64 bytes from lte5100.pikeperch (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=15 ttl=255 time=902 usec 64 bytes from lte5100.pikeperch (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=16 ttl=255 time=966 usec (* Here ping stopped and I interrupted pinging by pressing ctrl-C on the keyboard*) ping: sendmsg: Interrupted system call --- lte5100.pikeperch ping statistics --- 17 packets transmitted, 16 received, 5% loss, time 22152ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.876/2.555/20.628/4.744 ms Record from tcpdump in other window of 192.168.1.1: 15:56:10.048375 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 15:56:10.049327 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 15:56:11.050558 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 15:56:11.051509 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 15:56:12.060543 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 15:56:12.064563 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 15:56:13.070533 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 15:56:13.071476 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 15:56:14.080539 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 15:56:14.101081 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 15:56:15.045658 arp who-has 192.168.1.1 tell 192.168.1.3 15:56:15.045710 arp reply 192.168.1.1 is-at 0:60:b0:86:11:f5 15:56:15.090544 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 15:56:15.091334 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 15:56:16.100540 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 15:56:16.101381 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 15:56:17.110534 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 15:56:17.111331 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 15:56:18.120537 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 15:56:18.122882 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 15:56:19.130536 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 15:56:19.131353 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 15:56:20.140534 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 15:56:20.142776 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 15:56:21.150531 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 15:56:21.151329 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 15:56:22.160538 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 15:56:22.161446 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 15:56:23.170531 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 15:56:23.171344 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 15:56:24.180540 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 15:56:24.181359 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 15:56:25.190534 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 15:56:25.191419 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply Record from tcpdump in window of 192.168.1.3 (ignore time stamp as I forgot to set the clock of this PC): 06:15:08.325007 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 06:15:08.325305 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 06:15:09.327154 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 06:15:09.327455 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 06:15:10.340201 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 06:15:10.340472 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 06:15:11.347042 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 06:15:11.347343 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 06:15:12.376632 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 06:15:12.376912 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 06:15:13.321461 arp who-has 192.168.1.1 tell 192.168.1.3 (0:a0:d1:1:54:18) 06:15:13.321973 arp reply 192.168.1.1 is-at 0:60:b0:86:11:f5 (0:a0:d1:1:54:18) 06:15:13.366868 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 06:15:13.367127 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 06:15:14.376833 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 06:15:14.377133 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 06:15:15.386784 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 06:15:15.387050 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 06:15:16.396837 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 06:15:16.397102 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 06:15:17.406710 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 06:15:17.406987 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 06:15:18.416676 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 06:15:18.418370 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 06:15:19.426629 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 06:15:19.426889 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 06:15:20.436692 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 06:15:20.436965 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 06:15:21.446561 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 06:15:21.446825 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 06:15:22.456531 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 06:15:22.456799 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply 06:15:23.466573 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.3: icmp: echo request (DF) 06:15:23.466824 192.168.1.3 > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo reply Conclusion: 17 messages were sent to the ethernet interface board but only 16 appeared in the output from the board. For some reason the message is "swallowed" in the board. Does anyone have any clue on what is going on and/or any advices? Best regards Bengt T

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Re: [SLE] Ximian, another time... help please
by martinr_richard＠msn.com 10 Feb '02

10 Feb '02

Hi! The dependencies I had are now ok but ... Ximian Desktop seems good and I would want to try it but it tells me that a lot of packages (KDE packages) will be removed. Why that?? I don't want it. Is it possible to install Ximian Desktop and to keep KDE? How? Thanks a lot >From: Daniel Rees <dan(a)dwrees.co.uk> >To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >Subject: Re: [SLE] Ximian, another time... help please >Date: 09 Feb 2002 11:01:28 +0000 > >On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 01:19, martinr_richard(a)msn.com wrote: > > Hi! > > > > When I try to install Ximian desktop from the website, I follow the > > procedure and I have a problem that I don't know what to do. > > I got this message and I can't install Ximian. What I must do > > > > Dependency Failure > > Package dependencies could not be completely resolved and Ximian GNOME > > cannot be installed on your system. <snip> > > > > Package gnet needs package gnet equal to version 1.1.0-1 which cannot be > > found. > > Package gnet-devel needs package gnet equal to version 1.0.4 which >cannot be > > found. > > Package monkeytalk needs package libgnet-1.0.so.0 which cannot be found. > >Have you tried typing the above into http://fr2.rpmfind.net (I find fr2 >has more SuSE specific packages). I had a similar problem but with >different packages (scheme.rpm in particular). > >Once you have those installed, Ximian should install fine, as you can >see from my headers. :) > >-- >Daniel Rees >e: dan(a)dwrees.co.uk >w: http://www.dwrees.co.uk > >-- >To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com >For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com >Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the >archives at http://lists.suse.com > _________________________________________________________________ Téléchargez MSN Explorer gratuitement à l'adresse http://explorer.msn.fr/intl.asp.

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installing Liquid
by Bruce Young 10 Feb '02

10 Feb '02

I am running suse 7.2 and just installed the latest KDE . when i am trying to install Liquid and do a: make -f Makefile.cvs i get the following error as a regular user: make[1]:execvp: aclocal: Permission denied make[1]:*** [cvs] Error 127 make: *** [all] Error 2 tried it as root and got: make[1]:execvp: aclocal: Command not found make[1]:*** [cvs] Error 127 make: *** [all] Error 2 much help appreciated... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com

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can we stop our students using internet?
by scc 10 Feb '02

10 Feb '02

Hi everyone. I am the computer teacher. We have a samba network with Linux and w98 machines. Some kids are intent on chatting during lesson time. is there any way I can knock their machine out sitting at the server or deny access to certain addresses at certain times? 7.3, samba, squid, bind8, badly set up security etc. etc. Thanks, Steve.

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