December 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

VMware 4.0 and SuSE 8.2
by Jeffrey L. Taylor 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Does VMware 4.0 still require the apic boot parameter on SuSE 8.2? When I enable it, VMware 3.2 works, but /dev/hda starts dropping interupts, particularly during backups to /dev/hdd (IDE tape). TIA, Jeffrey

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Problems Installing 9.0 on Netserver LC3 w/ NetRAID 3si Card
by Stuart Powell 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Hello, everyone. I just tried a couple of times to install 9.0 on a spare HP Netserver LC3 I have here. The two 9GB hard drives are mirrored via the NetRAID 3si card. I understand this card is an LSI MegaRAID 438 card, and as such have tried using the megaraid2 driver. The installation goes OK, although I had to manually select the RAID driver as it wasn't autodetected. Partitioning seems to go OK, and the packages all install, but after the first boot, there's a kernel panic. I don't see the RAID driver being loaded, and the panic occurs as the system fails to mount / from sda2. Has anyone had success with this setup ? I have an identical machine that I plan to install SLOX4.1 onto this week, and this problem concerns me somewhat. I bought the 3si card as it was the only HP RAID card that shows up in the SuSE hardware database, and it shows as being fully supported. Bye for now, Stuart.

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Openvpn question...newbie asking so be patient
by Tom Nielsen 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

I got openvpn working on an simple tunnel without security via the openvpn man page. I setup static IPs for both sides. My purpose for doing this was to try to get something setup so that I can use my laptop (dhcp on dialup) to make a secure connection with my IMAP mail server at my office. 1. How do I setup this thing so that I can use a dynamic IP on my laptop? 2. In order to use openvpn I have to run the command. If I'm away on business for 2 weeks, should I run the command prior to leaving or am I missing something? 3. If I make an insecure connection, as a way to test, can I just do a direct connect to my IMAP server rather than forwarding a port from my firewall? (did this make sense). Thanks for any help. Tom

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vhosts with cgi
by Gregory Baboolal 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Hi, Running 9.0 Apache2 with perl enabled. Have created virtual hosts and left the default settings untouched. However even with setting options to All in the directory directive my hello.pl isn't served (but works in cgi-bin - which is script aliased by default). <Directory "/srv/www/vhosts/my.site.com"> Options All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> Is there some other setting to be made too? tia.

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Gnome & Gkrellm
by Eric Pierce 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Hi ho, I'm trying to run Gkrellm in Gnome with the following features: 1) Unfocusable (ie., it won't show up when I cycle through apps using Alt-Tab) 2) Always on the bottom layer. I'm currently using 'devilspie' so Gkrellm will show up on all workspaces and also so it won't show up on the panel, but it doesn't appear that 'devilspie' can do the 2 things above. Any tips would be great. Thanks for reading, Eric Pierce __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree

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McLite
by J. Scott Thayer, M.D. 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Has anyone installed and gotten McLIte to run? This is weather visualizing software. JST

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reply
by Dan Svarreby 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

This is what I have got under boot-dir; linux:/boot # ls . initrd-2.4.21-144-smp4G .. Kerntypes-2.4.21-144-smp4G backup_mbr message boot System.map-2.4.21-144-smp4G config-2.4.21-144-smp4G vmlinux-2.4.21-144-smp4G.gz grub vmlinuz initrd vmlinuz-2.4.21-144-smp4G ... no signs of any 2.6 there :(

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TapeWare vs. Arkeia
by Anders Norrbring 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

Do anybody have any opinions on choice of tape backup softwares? I'm in a position where I should choose either Yosemite's TapeWare or Arkeia for our backup purposes. I've been trying to evaluate both, but I can't really see the big picture of pros and cons, so if anybody has been digging more into this and can give me some more info, I'd be very grateful! Thank you, Anders Norrbring

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SuSE 9 Professional Overwrites RedHat 9/Shrike Install?
by Colburn 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

I started an install from my boxed SuSE 9 Professional CDs last evening and was scared off by a request to choose between New Install and Repair -- the text of both seemed to suggest possible harm to the RedHat 9 install on my notebook. I am not prepared to replace the RH9 install until I know that SuSE 9 Pro is an improvement, and I definitely do not want to lose data. The SuSE 9 LiveEval test didn't tell me much as the driver and various options are is too limited to know is SuSE 9 Pro will work well. Also, I could not boot and load from the SuSE 9 DVD install disk for some reason. Has anyone run the the New Install option of SuSE 9 Pro on top of an existing RedHat 9 install without harm to RH9? I had understood that to be so but the YaST text suggests otherwise. Thanks! doc

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

21 Dec '03

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. SuSE Profesional Ver 9.0 Current Fixes/Patches/Updates 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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