December 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: Any java expert there?
by Martin 22 Dec '03

22 Dec '03

Hi, I've setup new PC for family member (MS user) with SuSe8.2 and installed mozilla 1.5. She used to send ecard quite a lot but the url she used to go to doesn't want to play midi music. I've tested plugins for midi and it works just fine, I have java plugins 1.4.2 installed too. I've checked the page source and see it's java based but as I don't know anything about java I'm clueless. Below are first few line from that page, perhaps it's done the way mozilla 1.5 is not supported? Is there anything I can do besides install other browser then mozilla. Web page is http://www.all-yours.net, just in case someone would be interested to find out more why it is not working. Thx, Martin <html> <head> <script LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Opera') >= 0) { b = 'OP'; } else if ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE') >= 0) && (! navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 2') >= 0) ) { b = 'IEok'; } else if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Netscape6') >= 0) { b = 'NS6'; } else if (navigator.appName.indexOf('Netscape') != -1) { if (navigator.appVersion.substring(0,1) >= 4) { b = 'NS4'; } else if (navigator.appVersion.substring(0,1) == 3) { b = 'NS3'; } } __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/

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Corrected: Loads of problems upgrading to 2.4.18-4GB
by Steve King 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Got the kernal version wrong: I mean 2.4.18-4GB. Also, I installed from the RPM on the SUSE web site. Steve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5i6K94mqX5AIfgARAvMkAJ90/7MxpmazZb9cNy2Wpj+urPztCQCeLgRH b59U82g2fwhYfP0k4b3YVwo= =OI5s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Loads of problems upgrading to 2.4.18-10GB
by Steve King 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello I replaced my Suse 7.3 kernel to 2.4.18-10GB as recommended in the security announcements. It has been a disaster. After some tidying up initial problems (I could not boot because the instructions forgot to remind me to create a new boot floppy; once I solved that, startx was not working), I have 3 remaining problems: (a) My USB keyboard does not work, so I am using a borrowed regular keyboard at the moment. I suppose the problem is that there is no usbkbd.o module in the drivers like there was in 2.4.10-10GB. It is in the source, so how do I compile it? Any other missing dependencies? (b) My scanner is no longer detected. If I do scanimage -L, I get: No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). In the xconsole I get: Dec 21 23:19:16 linux kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Dec 21 23:19:16 linux kernel: scanner.c: write_scanner: NAK received. Also I get this at start up in xconsole, which I think is my scanner: Dec 21 22:48:10 linux kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x49f/0xe) is not claimed by any active driver. If I do lsmod, I can see scanner.o is present. (c) Windows on my KDE3.1.4 desktop runs slightly off the right hand edge. It means the "X" to close the wndow is just off the screen, which is very annoying, though not as serious as the other 2 problems. It is like the system thinks my screen is bigger than it is. Any ideas what to do? Any help appreciated. If not a solution to the above, how do I get back to using my old kernel? I have the lib diretcory for it still and also the sources. the security problem was probably no big deal for my PC as my firewall rules keep all externally-originated traffic out. Steve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5i0A94mqX5AIfgARAjBvAKC79tPlZa298f90KUIbBK1ECDd2PwCfTsZQ 1yreB3xDcxdWC40A8dSAE94= =gtLL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Problems with proxyarp
by Gary Ernst 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

I can't seen to delete a proxyarp entry on SLE 9.0 with /sbin/arp -i eth0 -d x.x.x.x pub. It seemed to work ok on SLE 8. Has the syntax changed or do I need to use a different method or is the arp coammand broken. Gary Ernst

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GRUB and FreeBSD
by Glenn Holmer 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

I've got SuSE 9.0 with GRUB as bootloader and want to also boot FreeBSD. Did the install of FreeBSD into /dev/hda3 and added this to menu.lst: title FreeBSD 5.1 root (hd0,2,a) kernel /boot/loader But I get "filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xA5. Error 17: cannot mount selected partition". Do I need another "stage_1_5" loader for the FreeBSD filesystem? -- ==================================================================== Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) ==================================================================== I think I am the product of three types of influences: the Vienna School for the language, Stravinsky and Bartok for the rhythmic impluse, and Debussy and Ravel for their preoccupation with sound. ==================================================================== -Pierre Boulez, 1998 ====================================================================

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Playing DVD's
by Simon Taplin 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Is there a specific way to get encryped DVD's to play with Suse 9.0 Pro or can I just follow the instructions on http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/>. The page listed in the Suse install screens about Xine didn't work for me. Thanks Simon

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File Saving Problem with OpenOffice Spreadsheet
by linuxworld999 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

While experimenting with Open Office at home, view to using it in the office instead of M$ Office, there was a problem saving a large soreadsheet using the version of OpenOffice packaged with SuSE 9.0. A sheet containing 6 columns and 31,000 rows of data could not be saved. The saving process does start but does not finish. Oddly, on a windows machine using OpenOffice, teh problem does not occur. The only difference is that the windows version was downloaded from OpenOffice's web site. After deleting the software using YaST2 and downloading and installing the latest version from OpenOffice's website, the problem was solved. I have quadrupled the data, 18 columns by 32,000 rows of data and file was saved. If anyone else is having this problem, this might help. Regards. LW999

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Re: [SLE] Synaptic Crashes
by Jerome Lyles 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

On Sunday 21 December 2003 09:46 am, Richard Bos wrote: > Op zondag 21 december 2003 20:37, schreef Jerome Lyles: > > On Saturday 20 December 2003 12:02 am, Richard Bos wrote: > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > > > gabber: Depends: libgal.so.21 > > > > E: Broken packages > > > > > > > > Why would Synaptic crash over this? > > > > > > What suse version are you running? > > > > Suse 9.0 > > > > > libgal.so.21 is suse-8.2 > > > apt-info> grep libgal.so.21 file* > > > file-8.2:opt/gnome/lib/libgal.so.21 Development_Libraries_C_and_C++/gal > > > file-8.2:opt/gnome/lib/libgal.so.21.1.1 > > > Development_Libraries_C_and_C++/gal > > > > > > gal is provided by the apt components: base or gnome2 (for suse9.0): > > > > > > apt-info> grep gal\; pkg-8.2 pkg-9.0 | grep -v src > > > pkg-8.2:gal;0.23-36;i586;base > > > pkg-9.0:gal;0.23-215;i586;gnome2 > > > pkg-9.0:gal;0.24-69;i586;base > > > > > > First guess is that you don't have the component base (gnome2) listed > > > in sources.list. > > > > rpm ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ SuSE/9.0-i386 update security > > base kde gnome2 xfree86 usr-local-bin suser-rbos > > Jerome, > > what is your conclusion from the information I provided you?? You: 'You'll find the answer, why the upgrade is not performed, in the output that comes after you hit the "Y" button, at that point rpm will called. It might be that rpm finds conflicting files. If so the upgrade will be stopped.' When I did the first apt upgrade (1403 packages) the upgrade process ran uninterrupted for 24 hours. When I did 'rpm -qa | grep some package' it showed that the package didn't have the latest version number. Maybe I needed to update the rpm db? When I used synaptic and checked the list of upgradable packages none had been upgraded. So I upgraded them using Synaptic in smaller batches. Sometimes Synaptic would quit on certain package upgrades which is unexpected > Do you think that apt is able to resolve dependencies that are not provided > by any packages? No I don't. When I ran apt upgrade on the 1403 packages it never quit, it downloaded but didn't upgrade. Synaptic would quit over certain packages but in the cases where this didn't happen Synaptic actually upgraded the package. I understand that apt upgrade works. But its not working for me, Synaptic is but apt upgrade isn't. Maybe I needed to upgrade the rpm db to show the changes apt upgrade made? > > Which synaptic version are you running? Is it the latest available > (try apt install synaptic). :~> rpm -qa | grep synaptic synaptic-0.47-rb2

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The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6
by Stanley Keymer 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Talking about kernel 2.6, anyone read the article by Joseph Pranevich titled "The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6" Thou of some length it's worth reading here is the link..... http://kniggit.net/wwol26.html - Stanley

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RE: [SLE] Reinstalling Grub on MBR
by Art Fore 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Tried suggestions from Marshall Heartley with no success. Booting from CDROM rescue Rescue lgin: root Rescue:~# mount /dev/hda6 /mnt cd /mnt chroot try 'chroot --help' for more information. Do the chroot --help and from what I understand from it, I do chroot newroot /mnt/usr/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda chroot: cannot change root directory to newroot: No such file or directory. I can do a ls /man/usr/sbin/grub-* and see the file. If I do chroot newroot ls /man/usr/sbin/grub-* I get the same error as above. Checked 4 linux books, there is nothing on chroot. Checked the web, all there is are man pages which do not help more than the chroot --help. Any suggestions? Art -- Sent using SuSE Linux and Ximian Evolution.

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Special Errors backing up
by Jerome Lyles 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Should I be concerned about any of this?: # rdiff-backup --exclude /data2 --exclude /tmp --exclude /proc --exclude /mnt --exclude /data1 / /mnt/Cosmos3Backup2 SpecialFileError var/run/ptal-mlcd/usb:OfficeJet_V40xi Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/private/bounce Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/private/bsmtp Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/private/cyrus Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/private/defer Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/private/error Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/private/ifmail Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/private/lmtp Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/private/local Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/private/maildrop Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/private/procmail Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/private/proxymap Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/private/relay Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/private/rewrite Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/private/smtp Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/private/uucp Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/private/virtual Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/private/vscan Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/public/cleanup Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/public/flush Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long SpecialFileError var/spool/postfix/public/showq Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long This is my second backup using rdiff-backup. I don't remember any error messages for the first backup. Can I correct these errors? (Just curious: how does an AF_UNIX path get to be too long:-)) Thanks, Jerome

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Looking for webcam recommendations
by Tom Nielsen 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

I want to get a webcam (up to $50) for my system. I have cable internet, so speed isn't an issue. My brother (Mac) and my Dad (XP) will also use the same kind. Any thoughts? Thanks, Tom

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Synaptic Crashes
by Jerome Lyles 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

When I try to upgrade gabber using synaptic I get this error message: /usr/sbin/synaptic: relocation error: /usr/sbin/synaptic: undefined symbol: _ZN15pkgVersionMatchC1ESsNS_9MatchTypeEi This undefined symbol causes synaptic to crash. Anyone know why? The command line says: # apt install gabber Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: gabber: Depends: libgal.so.21 E: Broken packages Why would Synaptic crash over this?

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Sharing Local Folder in Mozilla
by Simon Taplin 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Is there a way to share my Local folders for Mozilla Mail. My Suse 9.0 is Mozilla 1.4 and Win2k Pro is Mozilla 1.5. I've set it so that the Local Folders are on a FAT32 Partition but as far as I can see, there is no way to import the settings/local folders between the two different Mails. Am I missing something? Simon

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lftp chokes on empty directories
by David Krider 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

I've emailed the list a couple times about not being able to fully sync with the update mirrors, but I finally figured out why. I run the following command to do this: lftp -c 'mirror -e -vvv ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/SuSE/i386/update/8.2/ /data/suse/8.2/updates/i386/update/' The problem is that it always chokes when it hits the rpm/i686 directory, which is empty. I can lftp to it by hand just fine, but when it's running in mirror mode, it thinks the fact that it doesn't see anything in the directory means that it got disconnected, and keeps trying to reconnect. This looks like a plain-and-simple BUG in lftp, and I guess there's nothing to do about it. It's only started doing this in the past month or so, so I'm guessing that the latest update broke this for me. I guess the question I have now is: How do people script wget to do the same thing? Thanks, dk

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Re: [SLE] intel 865 video card and kde control center SIGSEGV problems
by Robert P. J. Day 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

-----Original Message----- From: Franky Ostyn <franky.ostyn(a)skynet.be> Sent: Dec 21, 2003 1:33 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] intel 865 video card and kde control center SIGSEGV problems boot in the BIOS: under Integrated Devices -> OnBoard Video Buffer, change the setting from 1M to 8M or higher if possible. That's all. -------------------------------------------------------------------- been there, done that. i'm allowed to toggle only between two values -- 1M and 8M -- and it's currently set to 8M. and just basic math tells me that, if this is all the RAM available to video, i can't do better than 1024x768 at 256 colors. so *something* is thoroughly strange here. rday

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intel 865 video card and kde control center SIGSEGV problems
by Robert P. J. Day 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

as someone who just did his very first suse 9 personal edition install, i have two issues. first, this system is a standard dell with an intel 865 (i810) video card, and dell E772p monitor that absolutely refuses to support a fairly standard 1024x768 at 16 colors. i can get 640x480 at 16 colors, or 1024x768 at 8 colors (which looks horrible with smudges all over the screen). i find it hard to believe that a fairly new system would be incapable of supporting a basic 1024x768 at 16 colors. has anyone else set up a system with this combination of video card/monitor? (i've already gone into the BIOS and given 8M to video, so that's not an apparent problem.) second problem: when i run the KDE control center, i get the ubiquitous SIGSEGV (11), which i normally associate with actual HW memory problems. during the install, i did download and install all of the updates that were available. is this a known issue? i'm about to start going through the mailing list archives, but if anyone can give me some pointers, that would be great. rday

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SuSEconfig Manual Entries Sync
by Peter A. Solomon 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

SuSE Professional Ver 9.0 Current Fixes/Patches/Updates I understand that when I make a manual entry into a config file maintained by SuSEconfig, it will skip this configuration file in the future and leave a file called whatever.SuSEconfig. I would like to re-sync SuSEconfig so that It again checks and configures a file that was adjusted outside SuSEconfig. I've tried to delete the whatever.SuSEconfig file and run SuSEconfig, which restores the file and reports that the original has been modified. I've also tried copying the modified file to the whatever.SuSEconfig file, with no joy. I've looked at file permissions and didn't see any obvious differences. What am I missing, how do I sync these again so that SuSEconfig will take back ownership and maint? Thank you for any assistance. Peter Whatever.SuSEconfig = any file that might have a SuSEconfig alternate file placed, like postfix.SuSEconfig etc.

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Tripwire on 9.0
by Tim Nicholson 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

I am failing miserably to get tripwire set up and initialised on 9.0. The problem is with twadmin, which I cannot get to create a configuration file. I have tried on several systems but all behave identically. Working through the cookbook found at /usr/share/doc/packages/tripwire/README.SuSE as root. Step 1, create local and site keys, no problem Step 2, fails as follows:- smc:/etc/tripwire # twadmin -m F -v -S site.key twcfg.txt Tripwire(R) 2.3.1.2 for Linux Tripwire 2.3 Portions copyright 2000 Tripwire, Inc. Tripwire is a registered trademark of Tripwire, Inc. This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --version. This is free software which may be redistributed or modified only under certain conditions; see COPYING for details. All rights reserved. Using plaintext config file: /etc/tripwire/twcfg.txt Opening key file: /etc/tripwire/site.key Opening key file: /etc/tripwire/site.key Please enter your site passphrase: Software interrupt forced exit: Segmentation Fault Abort The segmentation fault occurs after a pause for calculation. If I try the no encryption option, it falls over immediately with the same segmentation fault:- smc:/etc/tripwire # twadmin -m F -v -e twcfg.txt Tripwire(R) 2.3.1.2 for Linux Tripwire 2.3 Portions copyright 2000 Tripwire, Inc. Tripwire is a registered trademark of Tripwire, Inc. This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --version. This is free software which may be redistributed or modified only under certain conditions; see COPYING for details. All rights reserved. Using plaintext config file: /etc/tripwire/twcfg.txt Opening key file: /etc/tripwire/site.key Software interrupt forced exit: Segmentation Fault Abort I have tried changing the line LOCALKEYFILE = /etc/tripwire/$(HOSTNAME)-local.key and replaced $(HOSTNAME) with a fixed string, in case of errors in parsing or assigning the HOSTNAME, but this does not affect the outcome. I have run out of things to try now! Any suggestions would be appreciated! -- 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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Control "R" for Reverse Search [ in bash ]
by pinto 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Dear SuSErs, In SuSE 9.0 , Control "R" for Reverse Search does not seem to be working correctly ~ please, any ideas on How to correct this feature ? thanks best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________

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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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