December 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

fstab problem
by Dennis J. Tuchler 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

When i reinstalled 9.0, one of the partitions was not permanently mounted. I must mount it each time, and, worst of all, I cannot copy anything to it! 9.0 made it into /data1 and on fstab gave it these parameters /dev/hda4 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 How do I make it a permanently mounted partition, to which I can copy and from which I can delete? Thanks dj tuchler

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modem inop.
by Ellaree Beaty Philippen 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

9.0 looks ok to me but no modem sound and the flash thingee just sits there till I click it again to go away. I tried several different ones and am now back to the one that came with the machine. Its a 2x2 inch board that goes into its own special slot. What is that? I see that dev/modem is linked to ttyS0. These things show up on the bottom of the ps ax: 2294 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/smpppd-ifcfg --ifcfg=ifcfg-ppp0 --provider=provider0 2295 ttyS0 S 0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 57600 logfd 10 call ppp connect /usr/bin/wvdial --c 2296 ttyS0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/wvdial --chat --no-syslog --config /var/run/smpppd/wvdial-ppp0.conf I also tried plugging in an external modem which is working with little or no intervention on another Suse 9.0 machine.(no joy) Minicom is not installed. Rather not if I dont have to. Should I be looking in the bios for anything? Meanwhile I'll keep looking around. - Thanks ellie(a)wam.umd.edu ~

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SuSE's "default" things saved my butt!
by Tom Emerson 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

I wish to extend a hearty THANK YOU to whomever made sure that "/etc/ cron.daily/suse.de-backup-rc.config" not only exists "by default" after an installation, but also is pre-configured to actually back up the rc.config files! Recently I've posted a thread about a "crashed/corrupted" reiserFS partition that happened to contain my "/" directory -- after trying REALLY hard to make sure everything was lost, (by trying to rebuild the reiser "superblock" with incorrect parameters), I've managed to recover 95%+ and am well on my way to make that 99%+ with little or no intervention. long story short, I was able to "force" the recreation of the reiser superblock by physically erasing the incorrectly-built block; reiserfsck would then let me rebuild the superblock with the correct parameters, and "--rebuild-tree" was able to run with only a few files being lost [of which I'm pretty certain /etc/rc.config was among them] Today's bit of bright news is that I stumbled across the above-mentioned cron.daily script and was able to "recover" my rc.config file "as of the last time it changed" [sometime back in april, it appers...] and now my system at least "starts" with fewer complaints. Tom Oh, and as a bit of a BTW, I found out about the backup-rc.config script through the use of the "locate" command -- why has this wonderful little gem been removed from the "default" list of things installed? [is there something better?] -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net [working again, but only tenuously...]

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IBM's Linux commercial...cooool!
by Tom Nielsen 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

I'm not sure if anyone else has seen this, if so.....well, I don't get out much. I was watching CNN and saw this really cool commercial. Just the idea was really good. Then I found out it was for Linux and from IBM. If you haven't seen it, check it out. Having 2 kids, one 2 years old and the other 4 years old, I thought it was great. The kicker was that it was for Linux. http://www.juju.org/archives/prodigy_mp4.avi Just an FYI

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Uninstall nvidia driver
by Rocco Charamella 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

I went and installed the nvidia driver during a Yast update and I need to uninstall it. How do I do it? Nothing comes up in install/remove software for it. Please help. thanks

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Lost Grub
by DB Troll 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I hope someone can tell me where grub went. I have a dual boot system with 98SE and had to reintall it now only windoze boots. I hope I did not screw up the system and have to reload everything. TIA David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/3oQ/3VVncqMjOZsRAmozAJ4254DG5Nj+NNEy6LHUZ3Qv85JwSgCfaQAX jdk1IurwF45dZJpcHNY6nS0= =fZNl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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installing netbeans
by Victor R. Cardona 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

Hi everyone, I am trying to install netbeans on SuSE 9.0. I have to standard version of the sdk that came with SuSE, and everything seems to be working. However, whenever I try to install netbeans the installer cannot find the installed jvm. Thanks, Victor

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LISA problem
by Terry Bassett 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

Hello, I used LISA in 8.2 to browse and move files back and forth on my lan. However, with the 9.0 (clean install) on the same hardware, LISA no longer works. The setup in KDE keeps telling me that I don't have a nic installed, even though it is found upon startup and setup as eth0. Documentation on LISA seems scarce and I figure there is a file somewhere on my system that I can edit to fix this anomaly, if only I knew which file to edit. Can anyone give some advice? TIA Terry Bassett

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Virtual text console sizing at boot-login
by John S. Wolter 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

I'm trying to find out how to set the default screen size for virtual consoles. The default installation of SUSE 9.0 gives me a screen layout of 48 rows by 128 columns. I would like a traditional 25 rows by 80 columns. Tried stty with no effect as that just lets the kernel know what you would like. Inittab uses minigetty which appears to be getting information during the running of boot by init. This can't be that hard to figure out. -- ------------ Wolter Works - Always Innovating ------------- - Industry and Commerce Internet Invention - Internet Marketing Product Concepts & Implementation mailto:johnswolter@wolterworks.com John Wolter, President 1531 Jones Drive Ann Arbor, MI 48105-1871 USA 1-734-665-1263 Copyright 2003 John S. Wolter Neither this information block, the typed name of the sender, nor anything else in this message is intended to constitute an electronic signature unless a specific statement to the contrary is included in this message.

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Acer PCMCIA CDRW
by Cincai Patron 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

Hi, just borrowed an Acer PCMCIA MiniRW 8x8x24. It's an old one, manufactured 2001, model number is 8824MM-002. So I inserted it to the slot, and my notebook was locked. After reboot, I found that /var/log/messages hasn't logged the output. So, I reinserted the card and immediately switch to console 10. Apparently, the system successfully recognize the device as /dev/hde, and the driver is "ide-cs" (plus some other cryptic msgs). Any experience to be shared? Perhaps I need to load ide-scsi? TIA. -- -- Verdi March --

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