June 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Printing problem from Windowa via Samba/cups
by Avi Schwartz 30 Jun '02

30 Jun '02

Hi, I have a problem with printing from a Windows 2K machine, via samba, to a printer connected to a SuSE 8 machine. My printing system is CUPS. The problem I am having is that to the Windows side everything seems to be OK but all I get on the printer side is one blank page. When I print from Linux, everything is OK. I have no problem seeing the printer or browsing the shares on my linux box, so I think the permissions are OK. I checked the system log files, the samba log files as well as the cups log files and none shows an error. The printer in question is a Xerox N17 PS printer using the "DocuPrint N17, Foomatic + Postscript" driver. smb.conf has the following printer related lines: [global] printing = cups [printers] printer admin=user1, user2 comment = All Printers browseable = no printable = yes public = no writable = no create mode = 0700 path = /var/tmp /var/tmp has the following permissions and ownership: drwxrwxrwt and is owned by root.root. There is another problem, which may be related (or not), I am not sure. Using the KDE control center, I try to set up the printer and I get the following dialog: unable to load a valid driver for printer xerox. Error message received from manager: The IPP request failed for an unknown reason. I'd appreciate any help on the subject. Avi -- Avi Schwartz Avi(a)CFFtechnologies.com

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[Fwd: Re: [SLE] HD being accessed]
by Basil Chupin 30 Jun '02

30 Jun '02

Gentlemen, I thank you all for your comments about my question about why my HD is being accessed every 5 seconds and how to stop it but, as you all know, my HD is still being accessed every 5 seconds and I still don't know how to stop this. It also looks like nobody at SuSE reads this forum or if they do then they couldn't be bothered to come up with the answer. This being a SuSE mailing group then it would be safe to assume that everybody here must be running SuSE. May I then ask how /your/ system is behaving? Is your HD being accessed every 5 seconds, or in some other regular pattern? This 5 second access is occurring here on 3 computers with SuSE 8 installed on them but a friend of mine went back and installed v7.2 on one of his computers to check this timing thingie out and found that the accessing time was around every 25 seconds rather than 5 seconds in version 8.0 It would be nice to get your responses on this which may lead to some picture being formed about what, and why, is causing this 5 second access.Is this happening to you and which version are you running? My computer is switched on around 1000 hours and switched off around 0330 hours the next day. Now this is a heck of a lot of unnecessary read/write head activity over this period. Cheers.

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Re: [SLE] How To Mount SanDisk CF Card Reader under Suse 8.0?
by David Colburn 30 Jun '02

30 Jun '02

> As root, type "/sbin/modprobe usb-uhci" > Then try mounting the disk again. Same message: "/dev/sda1 is not a valid block device" doc

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pure-ftpd
by bob barish 30 Jun '02

30 Jun '02

Hello, I been trying to configure SuSefirewall2 and pure-ftpd to work together. When I have the firewall off I can ftp to the server and everything works as plan. When I activate SuSefirewall2 I can ftp in and authenticate but when I do any commands, say for example cd or ls, it says: Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> ls 229 Extended Passive mode OK (|||11162| At this point it freezes and I have to do a ctrl+c to exit the activity. Any thoughts on why this is happening. Thanks ahead of time. -- Bob Barish B.M.T Solutions http://www.bmtsolutions.com 4:10pm up 1 day, 1:14, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.02

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test...please ignore.
by Tom Nielsen 30 Jun '02

30 Jun '02

test

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RE: [SLE] Gnome Update and broken nautilus
by John Ross Hunt 30 Jun '02

30 Jun '02

> I've just updated by install of Gnome (1.4) from ftp.suse.com > and now when > I run Nautilus it complains: > > ** WARNING **: Can't find description even for > "x-directory/normal". This > probably means that your gnome-vfs.keys file is in the wrong place or > isn't being found for some other reason. > > And Nautilus won't open directories, crashes on opening > preferences, etc. > > From having a nose around on the net it seems that > /opt/gnome/share/mime-types/gnome-vfs.keys is missing now? > > Any ideas? Yes. Apparently, there needs to be gnome-mime-data packages for both gnome1 & gnome2. First, download this file and place it in your "/usr/src/packages/SOURCES" directory: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/stable/sources/gnome-mime-data/gnome-mime-data -1.0.1.tar.bz2 Next, take the file below and place in in your "/usr/src/packages/SPECS" directory. Then, cd to the "SPECS" directory and do an "rpm -ba gnome1.mime-data.spec" to create the package. It can be found in "/usr/src/packages/RPMS/noarch". Do an "rpm -Uvh gnome1-mime-data-1.0.1-0.noarch.rpm" and "killall -HUP nautilus" to bring your desktop back to life. Good luck, -jrh ======== cut here ========= gnome1.mime-data.spec ======== cut here ========= %define prefix /opt/gnome %define sysconfdir /etc%{prefix} %define localstatedir /var %define mandir %{prefix}/share/man %define infodir %{prefix}/share/info %define libdir %{prefix}/lib %define includedir %{prefix}/include %define bindir %{prefix}/bin %define datadir %{prefix}/share Name: gnome1-mime-data Summary: The GNOME virtual file-system libraries Version: 1.0.1 Release: 0 License: LGPL Group: System Environment/Libraries Source: gnome-mime-data-%{version}.tar.bz2 URL: http://www.gnome.org/ Packager: John Ross Hunt <johnrosshunt(a)attbi.com> Vendor: John Ross Hunt <johnrosshunt(a)attbi.com> for SuSE Linux BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root BuildArch: noarch %description The GNOME MIME database contains a basic set of applications and MIME types for a GNOME system. %prep %setup -q -n gnome-mime-data-%{version} %build # Needed for snapshot releases. MYCFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" if [ ! -f configure ]; then CFLAGS="$MYCFLAGS" ./autogen.sh $MYARCH_FLAGS \ --disable-more-warnings --prefix=%{prefix} \ --localstatedir=%{localstatedir} --sysconfdir=%{sysconfdir} \ --mandir=%{mandir} --libdir=%{libdir} \ --includedir=%{includedir} --bindir=%{bindir} --help \ --target=%{_target_cpu}-suse-linux fi CFLAGS="$MYCFLAGS" ./configure $MYARCH_FLAGS --disable-more-warnings \ --prefix=%{prefix} --localstatedir=%{localstatedir} \ --sysconfdir=%{sysconfdir} --mandir=%{mandir} \ --libdir=%{libdir} --includedir=%{includedir} \ --bindir=%{bindir} --target=%{_target_cpu}-suse-linux make %install rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT make -k sysconfdir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{sysconfdir} \ prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{prefix} mandir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{mandir} \ libdir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{libdir} bindir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{bindir} \ includedir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{includedir} install ldconfig -n $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{libdir} %find_lang %name %clean rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT %files -f %{name}.lang %defattr(-, root, root) %doc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog NEWS README %config(noreplace) %{sysconfdir}/gnome-vfs-mime-magic %dir %{datadir}/application-registry %{datadir}/application-registry/gnome-vfs.applications %{datadir}/mime-info/*.keys %{datadir}/mime-info/*.mime %{libdir}/pkgconfig/*.pc %changelog * Sun Jun 16 2002 John Ross Hunt <johnrosshunt(a)attbi.com> - Missing package from GNOME 1.x supplementary - Needed for gnome-vfs upgrade * Mon Feb 11 2002 Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc(a)linuxweasel.com> - fixed name - disabled double-run of configure (hackish solution) - fixed buildroot * Sun Oct 21 2001 Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc(a)linuxweasel.com> - some messing around with Requires: and BuildRequires - cleaned up %files quite a bit (still not quite as good as it could be) - removed a bunch of unnecessary %defines ====== end cut here ======

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Re: [SLE] How To Mount SanDisk CF Card Reader under Suse 8.0?
by David Colburn 30 Jun '02

30 Jun '02

On Saturday 29 June 2002 19:47, Ewan Leith wrote: > Look in /var/log/messages > > search for sda Nothing. > if you see nothing look for > > Attached scsi removable disk Nothing. > for me to access my usb compact flash reader i need usbcore and > usb-storage, try modprobe usb-storage and see if it does anything, > check /var/log/messages again to see if it output anything. > Ewan The most recent additions ... linux kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver ... linux kernel: usb.c: register new driver usb-storage Thanks! doc -- "And God said, let there be light ... "

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Re: [SLE] pure-ftpd
by bob barish 29 Jun '02

29 Jun '02

On Saturday 29 June 2002 16:40, you wrote: > try enabling passive ftp on the client > > if youre just type ftp localhost then typing "passive" once connected > should do it > > Ewan Thanks Ewan for the suggestion. Can do most commands now but when I try a simple ls is still get the message: Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> ls 229 Extended Passive mode OK (|||11162| I should tell you I am using the command line to test the ftp out. Any more suggestions. -- Bob Barish B.M.T Solutions http://www.bmtsolutions.com 4:55pm up 1 day, 1:59, 5 users, load average: 0.15, 0.06, 0.06

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Installing SuSE 8.0 via FTP
by Gabriel＠suse.de 29 Jun '02

29 Jun '02

Hi, Some months ago I bought SuSE 7.3 and tried to install it on a Dell Dimension 8200 (equipped with an nVidia GeForce3 card) with no success -- either the graphics card can't be made to work or the system hangs after some time of keyboard inactivity. Well. Now that SuSE 8.0 is out, I decided to try an installation via FTP (at least to make something out of the money I put on acquiring 7.3). After entering /pub/suse/i386/current/ as the directory on the remote server, the installer aborted with the message bad gzip magic numbers Good. No my question: does SuSE decide not to provide installable source? Why suddenly is it so hard to install and use SuSE? (My first SuSE was 6.3 on a Dell Insprion 7500, I was quite happy with it -- actually 6.3, 6.4, 7.1 and 7.3). Thanks, -- Gaby

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Re: [SLE] Kwintv failing to start after a reboot
by Clive 29 Jun '02

29 Jun '02

Thanks for more input. I already ran SuSEconfig then rebooted but still kwintv did not run. I then shutdown the pc while I had something to eat. Booted the pc and now kwintv and xawtv both run without having to rerun yast2. Thanks again. Clive

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