October 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

printing in Linux lacking?
by Damon Register 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

Though I probably have a long way to go, I have learned a lot about SuSE Linux since first trying in 1999. I currently have configured 8.0 at home with Mozilla and Open Office. Even printing seemed to work ok in Open Office which amazed me. While printing did work without any trouble, I was very disappointed in the quality and then I realized that something very important seems to be missing from Linux printing. In Windows printing, the printer options give me choices for print quality and even paper type. For printing pictures on photo paper, I can select the photo paper type and best quality. Am I missing something or is this completely missing in Linux? How can I print a good quality photo on photo paper? Damon Register

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Upgrade help
by Tom Nielsen 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

I'm going to do a fresh install of 9 from 8.2. In doing so, I'd like to minimize my FUBAR time by listing all the rpms I currently have installed. Now, I know I can do this in Synaptic, YAST, and Kpackage, but how can I list them so that I can print them out on a printer? BTW, The first fresh install I've done was about 2 years ago. Since then, they've all be upgrades. This is why a fresh install is a bit new to me. Thanks! Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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Evolution in SuSE 9.0 is slow
by Art Fore 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

Evolution in SuSE 9.0 is very slow like when going between mail boxes, or contacts, etc. It seems even slower than in 8.2. Is this normal or is there something in configuration? Art

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Centrino and SuSE 9.0
by Thinker 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

Hello all, Have the support issues for Intel Centrino been worked out with Linux? I tried to google for info but everything I find is at least 6 months old. I signed the petition just in case. The reason I am asking is, we are looking at purchasing two new laptops at work. The problem I am running into is everyone is pushing Centrino. My IBM, DELL and HP reps are all telling me that Centrino is the way to go. The two people using the laptops will be using Windows XP and SuSE 9.0 in a dual boot configuration. My administrator will be switching back and forth since this will be his first exposure to Linux. I plan to use wine and run XP only when I need to get to Photoshop. Both machines will be run in a Wireless networking environment. If the issues haven't been resolved, I suppose we will have to spend a little extra to get Pentium 4s. I would much rather have wireless built in, but only if it works well with Linux. Thanks for your time. -=Thinker

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java very slow on 9.0
by Ain Vagula 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

It is a problem with Java2 on SuSE 9.0. It is really slow and takes a huge amount of memory. Tried in Konqueror - takes about 6 minutes to open an simple java applet, memory usage by java_vm is about 230 MB (i have 256 MB ram and 512 swap). With mozilla, firebird, galeon - takes 7-10 minutes, sometimes forever... memory usage the same. With Opera - opens in 2-3 seconds, memory usage almost the same. Have tried with many different java installations, no difference. ain

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Delayed delivery from postfix to cyrus
by Thorsten Büker 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

Hi all, During the last days our local mailserver suddenly started to behave strangly, as incoming mails aren't delivered. Googling around the whole days unfortunately didn't lead to any solution. Any help from your side is appreciated! I have sent this mail to suse-imap-e(a)suse.com, too. People receiving it twice might discard on version, thanks! ;-) The configuration is quite simple: postfix -> cyrus. Used packages are postfix-2.0.6-14, cyrus-imapd-2.1.12-34, cyrus-sasl2-2.1.12-31, db-4.0.14-249 and the box is based on SuSE 8.2. As postfix and cyrus were started after executing the the backup script (like every night before), the next incoming mail was bounced due to relay while delivering to cyrus. Oct 26 02:17:01 mail postfix/pipe[23046]: 57230A800D: EB378A8011: to=<user(a)domain.de>, orig_to=<userorig(a)domain.de>, relay=cyrus, delay=1002, status=bounced (Command time limit exceeded: "/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/deliver") During the following days some mails were bounced, some others were queued but not bounced, and some others were delivered: Oct 28 02:33:25 mail postfix/pipe[449]: EA3D6A800E: to=<user(a)domain.de>, orig_to=user(a)domain.de>, relay=cyrus, delay=1998, status=sent (mail.domain.de) Restarting postfix, cyrus and saslauthd (and cleaning the queue manually by postqueue -f) temporarily fixed the problem, the delay decreased to a usual amount of 1 or 2 seconds. Nevertheless each restart of cyrus leaves the following logs in /var/log/warn: Oct 29 16:55:37 mail master[1718]: setrlimit: Unable to set file descriptors limit to -1: Operation not permitted Oct 29 16:55:37 mail master[1718]: retrying with 1024 (current max) Oct 29 16:55:49 mail tls_prune[2082]: DBERROR db4: 4 lockers In several postings this message were estimated to be of cosmetic character, is this right? Without any logical scheme the following entry as produced by cyrus: Oct 29 16:17:15 mail deliver[858]: connect(/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp) failed: Connection refused This occurs both while booting the machine as starting cyrus manually, but I don't recognize any scheme. I thought about wrong permissions of /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp, but they seem to be correct: mail:~ # ls -al /var/lib/imap/socket/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus mail 4096 Oct 29 16:55 . drwxr-xr-x 12 cyrus mail 4096 Oct 29 20:25 .. -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 0 Oct 2 05:40 imap.lock srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 29 16:55 lmtp -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 0 Oct 2 06:59 lmtpunix.lock -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 0 Oct 4 02:16 sieve.lock mail:~ # ls -al /var/lib/imap/ total 84 drwxr-xr-x 12 cyrus mail 4096 Oct 29 20:25 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Oct 2 11:00 .. drwxr-x--- 2 cyrus mail 4096 Oct 29 16:55 db drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Oct 29 20:25 db.backup1 drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Oct 29 19:55 db.backup2 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 24576 Oct 29 20:25 deliver.db drwxr-x--- 3 cyrus mail 4096 Oct 2 05:36 deliverdb drwxr-x--- 2 cyrus mail 4096 Mar 28 2003 log -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 3728 Oct 29 16:55 mailboxes.db drwxr-x--- 2 cyrus mail 4096 Mar 28 2003 msg drwxr-x--- 2 cyrus mail 4096 Oct 29 20:26 proc drwxr-x--- 28 cyrus mail 4096 Oct 2 05:36 quota drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus mail 4096 Oct 29 16:55 socket -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 8192 Oct 29 16:55 tls_sessions.db drwxr-x--- 28 cyrus mail 4096 Oct 2 05:36 user Using a valid shell for user postfix I can even connect via lmtp: mail:~ # su - postfix -c "/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/deliver -l;" 220 mail LMTP Cyrus v2.1.12 ready Do you have any idea, why the transport of messages from postfix to cyrus is delayed and the incoming mails are bounced in consequence? As already mentioned this behaviour started without any changes to the configuration (running without problems before). See several configuration-files below. Thanks a lot in advance, Thorsten ~~~~~~~~ /etc/cyrus.conf ~~~~~~~~ START { recover cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -r" } SERVICES { imap cmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=0 pop3 cmd="pop3d" listen="pop3" prefork=0 sieve cmd="timsieved" listen="sieve" prefork=0 lmtpunix cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=0 } EVENTS { checkpoint cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -c" period=30 delprune cmd="ctl_deliver -E 3" period=1440 tlsprune cmd="tls_prune" period=1440 } ~~~~~~~~ /etc/cyrus.conf ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ /etc/imapd.conf ~~~~~~~~ configdirectory: /var/lib/imap partition-default: /var/spool/imap admins: cyrus root allowanonymouslogin: no autocreatequota: 100000 reject8bit: no quotawarn: 90 timeout: 480 sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_mech_list: PLAIN saslauth_method: shadow virtdomains: 1 ~~~~~~~~ /etc/imapd.conf ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ postconf -n ~~~~~~~~ alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases body_checks = pcre:/etc/postfix/body_checks canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix content_filter = daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix debug_peer_level = 2 default_destination_concurrency_limit = 10 default_privs = nobody defer_transports = disable_dns_lookups = no header_checks = pcre:/etc/postfix/header_checks inet_interfaces = all local_destination_concurrency_limit = 2 mail_owner = postfix mail_spool_directory = /var/mail mailbox_command = /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/deliver mailbox_size_limit = 51200000 mailbox_transport = cyrus mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq manpage_directory = /usr/share/man masquerade_classes = envelope_sender, header_sender, header_recipient masquerade_domains = masquerade_exceptions = root message_size_limit = 10240000 mime_header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/mime_header_checks mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, /etc/postfix/localdomains mydomain = mail.domain.de myhostname = mail.domain.de mynetworks = aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/29, eee.fff.ggg.hhh/27 myorigin = $mydomain newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases program_directory = /usr/lib/postfix queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/packages/postfix/README_FILES relayhost = relocated_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/relocated sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/packages/postfix/samples sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_canonical sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail setgid_group = maildrop smtp_sasl_auth_enable = no smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP smtpd_client_restrictions = reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net, reject_rbl_client sbl.spamhaus.org, reject_rbl_client relays.ordb.org smtpd_helo_required = no smtpd_helo_restrictions = smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, reject_non_fqdn_sender, reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_non_fqdn_hostname, reject_unknown_recipient_domain, reject_invalid_hostname, reject_unknown_hostname, reject_unknown_sender_domain, reject_rbl_client, permit_mx_backup, reject_unauth_destination smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = no smtpd_sender_restrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/access smtpd_use_tls = no strict_rfc821_envelopes = no transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 ~~~~~~~~ postconf -n ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ /etc/postfix/master.cf ~~~~~~~~ # ======================================================================== == # service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command + args # (yes) (yes) (yes) (never) (100) # ======================================================================== == smtp inet n - n - - smtpd pickup fifo n - n 60 1 pickup cleanup unix n - n - 0 cleanup qmgr fifo n - n 300 1 qmgr rewrite unix - - n - - trivial-rewrite bounce unix - - n - 0 bounce defer unix - - n - 0 bounce flush unix n - n 1000? 0 flush proxymap unix - - n - - proxymap smtp unix - - n - - smtp relay unix - - n - - smtp showq unix n - n - - showq error unix - - n - - error local unix - n n - - local virtual unix - n n - - virtual lmtp unix - - n - - lmtp maildrop unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/usr/local/bin/maildrop -d ${recipient} cyrus unix - n n - - pipe user=cyrus argv=/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -r ${sender} -m ${extension} ${user} uucp unix - n n - - pipe flags=Fqhu user=uucp argv=uux -r -n -z -a$sender - $nexthop!rmail ($recipient) ifmail unix - n n - - pipe flags=F user=ftn argv=/usr/lib/ifmail/ifmail -r $nexthop ($recipient) bsmtp unix - n n - - pipe flags=Fq. user=foo argv=/usr/local/sbin/bsmtp -f $sender $nexthop $recipient vscan unix - n n - 10 pipe user=vscan argv=/usr/sbin/amavis ${sender} ${recipient} procmail unix - n n - - pipe flags=R user=nobody argv=/usr/bin/procmail -t -m /etc/procmailrc ${sender} ${recipient} ~~~~~~~~ /etc/postfix/master.cf ~~~~~~~~ -- Thorsten Büker * Bärenstr. 19-21 / WG 3106 * 52064 Aachen Tel 0241 - 8865315 * Mobil 0163 - 2572057 * http://bueker.net Nail here for a new monitor -----> [x]

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[SLE] Help : Matrox G450 not detected by SuSE 9.0
by Catimimi 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

Yes SuSe 9.0 Pro is available in France. I installed it but : My Matrox G450 is detected as a G400. When I try to change to G450 with SaX2, I get an error message : /dev/apm_bios couldn't be open ! This device exists ! I copied my file XF86Config from SuSE 8.2 to SuSE 9.0 and reboot. The card is detected, DRM works. But if I run SaX2 test the system freezes ! There seems to be a bug in SaX2, even after the available upgrade. Did someone meet the problem ? I'll report to SuSE. Thanks for your help. Michel.

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Re: [SLE] How to setup a HP4300C scanner in SuSE 8.2
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

ma>Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: ma>>On Tuesday 28 October 2003 21:41, Alain Barthélemy ma>wrote: ma>>>Le mardi 28 octobre 2003, 11:14:59 ou environ Currie ma>>Sylvanus <sylvanus.currie(a)british-energy.com> a écrit: ma>>>>YaST/hardware indicates that no scanner is installed ma>>>>However, when I try to use the YaST dialog to ma>configure ma>>>>my scanner, it is correctly identified but setup ma>>>>Can anyone suggest the cause and/or a fix? ma>>>> ma>>>Strange! If you go to Sane site, ma>>>http://www.sane-project.org , you don't see HP4300C ma>>>mentioned. The reason is maybe that the scanner is ma>well ma>>>detected but the Sane version delivered by your SuSE ma>>>version doe not support it. ma>>> ma>> ma>>Welcome to the niash chipset users. Your 4300c has the ma>same ma>>kind of chipset as my scanner the 3400c and I have the ma>same ma>>problems and still no solution. Had the scanner ma>working on ma>>SuSE 8.1 but on 8.2 the scanner is only recognized but ma>not ma>>installed. Somebody told me to update the sane driver ma>to ma>> ma>> ma>>>1.1 and to update the kernel. Did both but still no ma>>> ma>>> ma>>solution. No working scanner. Must be some way to ma>install ma>>the scanner by hand but I have not found the ma>instructions. ma>>I you like to do some work on it together we may find ma>a way ma>>to get the scanner working. ma>> ma>> ma>> ma>> ma>I have the HP 4300c usb scanner working well in Suse 8 ma>.2. I had to ma>upgrade my kernel since I had usb problems with 8.2 and ma>my Athlon xp ma>1600+. I am using the rpm's that are suggested from www ma>. ma>sourceforge.net. There are many instructions that could ma>work for you. If ma>you go to their mailing list you can ask your questions ma>and maybe get ma>some excellent help. This site ma>http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.p ma>hp?thread_id=763779&forum_id=120925 ma>helped me as well as many other suggestions from ma>http://sourceforge.net/projects/hp3300backend/. Good ma>luck. Dear Marcia, Glad to hear that you got your scanner working. Tried to get the rpm's from sourceforge working but them being Mandrake rpm's I had some troubles with the instalation and I could still not get it working. Did you realy use the mandrake rpm front and backend and did it finaly work? (That was what I did with 8.1 which worked but which failed me up to now with 8.2) It gives me new hope to have the scanner working again. -- NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.

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cyrus / ldap / authentication whining
by Tom Allison 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

I've tried now for several weeks to get cyrus-imap working and was making some really impressive progress. Unfortunately I've kind of hit a wall. I was never able to get the authentication working 100% on anything other than pam-->/etc/passwd. Not wanted to have an account for everyone using this mail server I tried to configure it for sasldb2 as the basis of authentication but ran into a brick wall getting sieveshell to authenticate. I was able to get sieveshell to authenticate under the pam-->/etc/passwd authentication model, but it was inconsistent which really pissed me off. I have not been able to find anything to suggest I'm doing anything slightly wrong and can only conclude that the sieveshell code is flawed at this point. Unfortunately there isn't much documentation on sieveshell or cyrus-imap in general. So, I removed the imapd.conf configuration for sasldb2 and reverted everything back to saslauthd / pam. So, seeing as this wasn't getting me anywhere and I might have more luck someplace else, I started to dabble with LDAP authentication and installed all the packages. At this point I should mention that I was still having inconsistencies on the sieveshell authentication even using /etc/passwd as the source. Last night I ran into a rather haunting error. I created an ldif file and tried to add it to the openldap server using 'ldapadd -a foo.ldif' The result in the logs... It can't authenticate because it can't find the file /etc/sasldb2. That didn't exist before I started into all this sasldb2 stuff and it doesn't exist now. Any bets on just how screwed up is my authentication model is at this point? I can reboot/login well enough, but the problem persists. According to some searches in sysconfig directories and the /etc directory I can't find anything out of place that mentions sasldb. So, at this point I'm looking at probably just reinstalling everything from scratch and hoping that somehow this gets sorted out in the process. I'm fairly disappointed in the level of documentation available for cyrus-imap. Does anyone know of another maildir compatable imap server?

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Firewire drive locks up my computer
by Sergio Espinoza Dien 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

Hey SuSErs, I got my external Firewire drive mounted yesterday, but since then, I've notice that when I try to copy or delete big amounts of data from/to the drive it locks up my computer. For example, later last night I was listening to the MP3's from that drive and deleting a lot of junk that was on other directories of the same drive. I was using also Xchat , Kmail and edonkey... all this at once... and then my computer did lock up. :( Today I got the same issue (lock up) but with less processes running, I was trying to delete a big directory from the drive... I don't think this is normal, am I wrong? I added this line to fstab, and SuSE loads my drive fine... /dev/sda1 /firewire auto rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0 I'm running this linux box with a PIII 600, 128RAM, Kernel 2.4.20-4GB and SuSE 8.2 Pro. The drive is using fat32 and before yesterday it was only used with Windoze. Any ideas on what could be wrong? lack of power from my linux box? lack of memory? File system? I would greatly appreciate your comments/suggestions. Thanks in advance, -- Sergio Espinoza Dien linux(a)sergioespinoza.com http://www.sergioespinoza.com/ http://www.xtremecode.net/ Linux User #328168 *Delivered by Kmail

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