December 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE install problem --crash.
by stephan 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Hello, Installing SuSE 9.0 on a Gateway 920 succeeds only up to the 'hardware detection' phase during which the system crashes and requires a cold-boot. Upon reboot the system works but various elements remain unconfigured, like keyboard language (was set to 'de', so none of my accounts logged in, originally thought it was an NIS problem!) in /etc/X11/xkbd. I do not know how much of the rest of my system remains unconfigured, but I do know that if I try to use YaST to go to the 'Graphics Card' module my system freezes again. I believe the 920 has a ServerWorks chipset with onboard ATI Rage XL video. I know the 920 series was certified for 8.x, however perhaps it is no longer compatible with 9.0? Help! Thanks, Stephan

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PCMCIA cardbus network card on 9.0
by Tim Nicholson 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

I have a Realtek RTL8139 based cardbus card 10/100 card which is correctly identified under YAST2, and set up as eth-pcmcia automagically. Despite this the system doesn't then seem to know then how to use it. cardinfo simply recognises it as a cardbus card with no details, and ifconfig does not list it as an interface. Plugging in an old Dynamode 10Mb card using the same eth-pcmcia driver works fine! Any one know what to prod next? -- Tim Nicholson BBCi at http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.

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LVM
by Örn Hansen 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

I'm trying to get LVM working, during SuSE 9.0 install on an older machine. It has a non-bootable CD-ROM, so I'm trying to use a boot floppy. One from SuSE's side. But it appears, that the lvm_mod isn't working. Has anyone tried using LVM during install, preferrable boot or net install? Mvh, Örn

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Disc insert annoyance
by Dale 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

When I insert an audio or dvd disc, the kernel thinks I want it to be smart and recognize it and change my existing desktop shortcuts for the DVD and CD-R icons. I changed the value in the Powertweak Configuration tool for check_media. this value is at zero. I changed it to one, and the same thing happens, so I set it back to zero. Am I changing the wrong value? How do I disable this?

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SMC-2835W (Prism GT) on SuSE 9.0
by Torkild Ulvøy Resheim 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Just wondering if anyone have had any success getting a Prism GT PCMCIA card to work under SuSE 9.0. I been trying various settings bet can't get the card to be detected correctly. The last resort is to compile and install the drivers from wlan-ng by myself. I was hoping to avoid that. -- Med vennlig hilsen / Kind regards (( Torkild Ulvøy Resheim, Senior Systemutvikler / Software Engineer )) Emma EDB AS, Trondheim, Norway. http://www.emmaedb.no |----|_ "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable | | ) from a feature." |____|´

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Distributing group membership with NIS
by Dylan 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Hi all, I've been battling with a problem accessing an external device via serial port. I have it working now, but am not entirely satisfied with the 'solution' (c.f thread "/dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttys0 - What's the difference?") The device attaches to /dev/ttyS1, which is root:uucp:rw-rw---- so I figured a standard user would be able to access the device without problem since by default they are assigned membership of group uucp. I found that this was not the case. After much faffing, I have identified the cause as NIS. With the default setup for the min GUID as 500, the output from groups on the server is: root@gandalf:~> groups dylan dylan : dandg users dialout video uucp audio root@gandalf:~> groups fabrizio fabrizio : users dialout video uucp audio (dandg is a group I have created for controlling network shared file access GUID=500, it is the default group for the relevant users so their files are created with group dandg) on a client I get: dylan@gandalf:~> groups dandg dylan@gandalf:~> groups fabrizio users This is clearly not satisfactory. From the point of view of accessing the serial port, I could set it to rw-rw-rw, but would need to do so on every machine which the external device might be used on. Also, that isn't actually the problem. What I actually want (and indeed, expected to be the case) is that the full group membership be distributed by NIS. To this end, I have temporarily set the min GUID on the NIS maps to be 0. This has done the trick - normal users can now access the serial port - but still doesn't seem satisfactory as I notice that the groups below GUID 500 appear twice when system and NIS groups are listed in YaST. Is there a better way to accomplish my goal? Should I delete the local entries from /etc/groups (surely not since there would be no groups defined either before ypbind starts or if the NIS server is unavailable)? Thanks for any help, comments, hints... Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg

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SMC WI-FI
by FX Fraipont 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Correct address for Prism driver is : http://prism54.org fxf -- ______________________ Courtesy of SuSE Linux http://www.nibz.org

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Re: [SLE] apt-get updates
by Jerome Lyles 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

On Friday 19 December 2003 11:54 pm, Richard Bos wrote: > Op zaterdag 20 december 2003 07:50, schreef Jerome Lyles: > > On Thursday 18 December 2003 10:32 pm, Richard Bos wrote: > > > Op vrijdag 19 december 2003 01:35, schreef Jerome Lyles: > > > > > Hello Jerom, > > > > > > > > > > it is confusing what you're writing. You have zope-doc-2.6.1-132 > > > > > installed and apt shows that 2.6.1-155 is available. Let see what > > > > > is the result of: > > > > > > > > > > apt install zope-doc does the new version get installed? > > > > > > > > Yes, the the new version gets installed. When I use apt upgrade on a > > > > batch of packages they are not installed. What is the command to > > > > upgrade and install the upgrade? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jerome > > > > > > It is apt-get upgrade. What does the output show, before you hit the > > > 'y' button? I actually don't think it makes sense to copy the suse > > > list. > > > > This: > > # apt-get upgrade > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > The following packages will be upgraded > > gail gail-devel gaim gal gal2-devel galeon gambas gimp2-svg > > gnome-applets2 gnome-audio gnome-common gnome-desktop gnome-desktop-devel > > gnome-filesystem gnome-games2 gnome-icon-theme gnome-libs gnome-media2 > > gnome-mime-data gnome-panel gnome-panel-devel gnome-panel-doc gnome-pilot > > gnome-pilot-devel gnome-print gnome-session gnome-spell gnome-spell2 > > gnome-system-monitor gnome-terminal gnome-themes gnome-utils2 gnome-vfs > > gnome-vfs-extras gnome-vfs2 gnome-vfs2-devel gnome-vfs2-doc gnome2-SuSE > > gnome2-user-docs gnomeicu gnomemeeting gnomemm gstreamer gstreamer-devel > > gstreamer-plugins-devel gtk gtk-engines gtk-themes gtk2 gtk2-devel > > gtk2-doc gtk2-engines gtk2-themes gtkam gtkdoc gtkglarea gtkhtml2 > > gtkhtml2-devel gtklp gtkmm gtkspell gtkutils libghttp libgimpprint > > libglade libglade2 libglade2-devel libglade2-doc libgnome libgnome-devel > > libgnome-doc libgnomecanvas libgnomecanvas-devel libgnomecanvas-doc > > libgnomedb libgnomedb-devel libgnomeprint libgnomeprint-devel > > libgnomeprint-doc libgnomeprintui libgnomeprintui-devel > > libgnomeprintui-doc libgnomeui libgnomeui-devel libgnomeui-doc libgphoto2 > > libgsf-devel libgsf-doc libgsf-gnome libgtkhtml libgtkhtml-devel libsoup > > libsoup-devel qamix qinternet qjackconnect qpopper qsa qsa-devel > > qscintilla qt3 qt3-devel qt3-devel-doc qt3-devel-tools qt3-examples > > qt3-extensions qt3-man qt3-mysql qt3-non-mt qt3-static > > The following packages have been kept back > > epiphany epiphany-plugins gabber gimp2 gstreamer-plugins > > gstreamer-plugins-default gstreamer-plugins-excess > > gstreamer-plugins-extra gtkhtml libgda libgda-devel libgsf mozilla > > mozilla-calendar mozilla-mail mozilla-spellchecker > > 110 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 16 not upgraded. > > Need to get 3991kB/108MB of archives. > > After unpacking 24.3MB of additional disk space will be used. > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > Jerome > > What is the output once the hit the "y" button? > > Did you already investigate why the following packages will not be updated? To a degree, I did install the mozilla series individually. The gabber package was missing a library dependency and when synaptic tried to install it synaptic crashed. What I want to know is why 'apt-get upgrade' did not upgrade the packages it downloaded upgrades for(1403). I had to use synaptic to actually get the upgrades installed. Isn't 'apt-get upgrade' supposed to download and install a group of packages? > > > The following packages have been kept back > > epiphany epiphany-plugins gabber gimp2 gstreamer-plugins > > gstreamer-plugins-default gstreamer-plugins-excess > > gstreamer-plugins-extra gtkhtml libgda libgda-devel libgsf mozilla > > mozilla-calendar mozilla-mail mozilla-spellchecker > > You can do that with apt-get install <the name of single pkg> > e.g. apt-get install gabber

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Ispell not working in kmail
by Jerome Lyles 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

When I try to use the spelling tool in Kmail (after updating ispell using apt) I get this message: ISpell/Aspell could not be started. Please make sure you have ISpell or Aspell properly configured and in your PATH. There does'nt seem to be a way to configure ispell in Kmail and the man page is no help. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks, Jerome

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man pages show ``?'' for word breaks
by David Krider 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

It's a small thing, but annoying. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks, dk

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