May 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

MS Exchange ate the responses!
by VANTASSLE, GEORDON M (SBCSI) 06 May '03

06 May '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, I know I posted this a week or two ago, but Exchange ate people's responses to me. I wanted to find out what options were used to compile the Nagios RPMS on the SuSE installation media. How can I go about doing that? Do I have to maybe look in the source RPM? I know that someone said something about using ldd but I lost that message. Thanks for your help. - -- Regards, Geordon M. VanTassle Technical Architect SBC, Call Center Technologies * phone: 847-781-3063 * pager: 630-695-0007 * text page:6306950007@paging.acswireless.com <mailto:6306950007@paging.acswireless.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 Comment: This message signed to ensure authenticity. iQA/AwUBPrbG5BnDT1v4QosXEQK6awCcDg6wKbzjJNIJEUpM4tkJddJozPIAoLIT gMUqtVZqgrk1odNLVxSIzftc =sPFD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [SLE] Can of Worms: 8.0 to 8.2 - Upgrade or Clean?
by Carl William Spitzer IV 06 May '03

06 May '03

Do you keep your /home on a separate partition? CWSIV On Mon, 5 May 2003 10:37:18 -0400 "Sharpe, Richard" <rsharpe(a)amherst1.com> writes: > >Ditto on that, I always do clean installs, and load back my data etc >from >backup. > >Richard A Sharpe >Database Analyst and Administration (DBA) Sqlserver/DB2 >Amherst Technologies >40 Continental Blvd >Merrimack, NH 03054 >PHONE .......(603) 579-6180 / (800) 431-8031 >Cell phone ..(603) 320-7785 >FAX ...........(603) 578-1072 >EMAIL .......rsharpe(a)amherst1.com / Webpage ...www.amherst1.com > >"Tenemos que tener fe" ("We must have faith") > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gaf@blu.org] >> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 10:22 AM >> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >> Subject: Re: [SLE] Can of Worms: 8.0 to 8.2 - Upgrade or Clean? >> >> >> On Mon, 05 May 2003 06:17:16 -0700 >> CMF <cforzetting(a)bak.rr.com> wrote: >> >> > I just received my 8.2 Pro and I'. wondering about the >> virtues of an >> > upgrade vs. clean install. I would like to keep my stuff >> going (esp. >> > the DVD player), but I want to make sure that an upgrade >> install will >> > allow the new HW rcognition. >> I think that Marion had a good reply, but... >> I personally prefer doing a clean install regardless of the OS (SuSE >> Linux, Commercial Unix, Windows...). One reason is that over time >some >> configuration files tend to change. Additionally, one tends to >> accumulate other things in the root file system. And, while >> SuSE does a >> pretty decent job with upgrades, you can sometimes have a mixed bag. > >> >> Again, back up your /home and /usr/local directory trees. For the >most >> part, they should be separate partitions independent of the OS, but >> we've had this discussion. >> ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

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Modem Query
by Purdom, Jesse 06 May '03

06 May '03

Hello, I am looking to purchase a new modem for a system I am putting together and was wondering if anyone has tried using a U.S. Robotics 56K* v.92 Performance Pro with SuSE v8.0 Pro. Are there any known issues with this modem and Linux? I have tried querying the SuSE Hardware Database but could not find anything regarding this particular modem in it. Any information would be most helpful. Thanks! Jesse

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Swap partition makes hard disc "grate"
by Federico Damonte 06 May '03

06 May '03

Dear list, thanks to a pointer by Jerry Feldman (thanks!) I found out that what made my hard diic grate during boot was indeed the swap partition. To solve the problem, i tried refomatting the sawp partition, but could not find any way to do that (I have SuSE 8.0), neither in Yast nor with command line tools. I tried deleting the swap and recreating it as a reiserfs partition, in yast, iand always got an "fdisk failed" error. After several tries, i decided to "continue" instead of "reboot", and i had an extra reiserfs partition and no grinding. When i deleted that partition and put the swap back in, though (again after several fdisk failures), i got the same grinding back. What i was going to do now, is to delete swap once and for all and never touch my partition table again, but i would like to be sure nothing else is going wrong wth my hard disk. So i would like to know: 1. is there something like "scandisk" under linux (sorry for the "MSism"!) that checks the *surface* of the partition? 2. how can i reformat the swap filesystem (if there is such a thing)? thanks again to all in advance! federico

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KDevelop setup problem
by Michael Satterwhite 06 May '03

06 May '03

I was trying to run KDevelop setup, and I'm getting the following error message. "The documentation of the KDE-library could not be found. Please make wure you have KDELibs-Doc installed and set the directory manually." No problem, I thought. I did a locate on "KDELibs-Doc". It wasn't found. I go into Yast2 and do a search on "KDELibs-Doc". It wasn't there, either. Does anyone know how to correct this?

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how to write to a mounted fat32 samba share?
by Charles Griffin 06 May '03

06 May '03

I've got a small home LAN -- one file/print server running SuSE Linux 8.2, one desktop, and one laptop. Both the desktop and the laptop have to dual boot into Windows. I have set up the server with 2 hard drives -- one that contains the usual Linux file structure and the other formatted as a FAT32 disk for data only. I have the server mount this driver as /data at boot via a typical fstab entry. I've got samba server running on the server, and I've added the correct users and samba users. Now, I'd like to also have this FAT32 /data drive mounted automatically by the other computers. For testing purposes, I'm trying to get it to mount in the Linux side on the desktop. So, I've got an entry in my desktop fstab that looks like this: //sambaserver/data /home/user/datadirectory smbfs username=(sambauser),password=(sambapassword),rw 0 0 This works and the share is mounted in the home director of the user. The problem is that it is read only. I have added various other options to the fstab entry in addition to the "rw" option already there, such as "gid=(username)", "uid=(username)", "dmask=0777" or "fmask=0777". Nothing seems to make it world-writable. I also have set "Writeable = yes" in the smb.conf file on the server for this share. Could the problem be that I'm trying to mount it twice -- i.e., this /data directory is mounted by the server and then it's mounted again by the client. Is that a problem? I really would like to make this share writeable. Any suggestions or thoughts are very appreciated. Thank you. Charles __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com

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Poor NFS-Performance with > 7.3
by Andreas Keller 06 May '03

06 May '03

Hi List, think i got a strange problem and don´t know what to do. Scenario: nfs-server with suse 7.3, kernel 2.4.16-4GB. clients #1: all suses older or same as 7.3 - no problems with nfs-performance clients #2: all suses newer than 7.3 - VERY poor nfs-performance. i tried a lot mount options to get a better performance, but nothing really did it. Only -o noacl resulted in a measurable improvement. Tried also async, but no effect. even mounting with samba is faster ( but not as fast as with 7.3 ) anyone an idea ? greetings andy

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upgrade with the cd's via yast
by Roy Cabaniss 06 May '03

06 May '03

One thing I have consistantly disliked has been the lack of an ability to do an upgrade of software via yast. If the item is on the online update then it is no problem, but when it is not (such as with kde 3.1) then yast does not like to manage the update. My production environment is running 8.1. I got 8.2 but am not willing to make it my production environment (apache problems). Yet there are some things I would like to get that are on the 8.2 disks. In particular, kde 3.1 and xfree 4.3. So how can I make yast read those 8.2 cd's and install/upgrade the appropriate programs. Last time I went near a system upgrade it trashed out a bunch of stuff so I am very reluctant to take that route. 8.1 is running and I want it to stay that way. I just want to upgrade some of the programs. Am I going to have to manually do them from source? -- Roy Cabaniss <rcaban(a)cabanisspc.uamont.edu> Cabaniss Class

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Odd problem running apps as sux
by John Pettigrew 06 May '03

06 May '03

Although there used to be no problems, I cannot now run X apps as either sux or using gnomesu (which SuSE now use as the default way to launch YaST2). The reported error is: Gnome SuperUser: b: connection to ":0.0" refused by server However, a simple su still works for running everything else I've tried. The only thing I can think of that I've fiddled with is the video drivers - I tried the NVidia drivers, but reverted to the nv driver because the nvidia drivers wouldn't use a mode larger than 1280x1024 (much smaller than my usual 1600x1200). However, AFAICT, I have removed all traces of the nvidia drivers (ran SaX2, changed XF86Config, ran switch2nv, uninstalled nvidia drivers). Can anyone suggest anything I might check to get this working again? Thx John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john(a)headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Knossos: escape the ever-changing labyrinth before the Minotaur catches you!

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foobillard (again)
by growbynet＠hotpop.com 06 May '03

06 May '03

Trying to update foobillard from version 2.4 (goes with suse 8.2) to 2.6, but got error that says "libglcore.so1 is missing". Any fix, please? AFAIK libglcore.so1 must be installed with NVidia 3d drivers, I have those drivers installed, but no libglcore.so1

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