June 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Evolution question
by Tom Nielsen 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

How do I get a New Message window to pop up using xterm? I want the command for a keyboard shortcut. Thanks! -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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APIC settings
by himbA 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

Hello I'm experiencing some trouble with interupts being lost from my cdrom while trying to rip audio cd. I notced my motherboard is using APIC mode in bios and my kernel (on suse 8.2) was initialy installed with CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y I would like to disable APIC (also change to PIC in BIOS) in linux and see if it has anything to do with lost interupts.. Is it possible without kernel recompilation? Linux 2.4.20-4GB-athlon #1 Mon Mar 17 17:56:47 UTC 2003 i686 regards, himba -- This €-mail was Kmailed.

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Haalp on Konqueror crash!
by ABHIJIT NAIK 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

Dear Friends, I am a dedicated Linux user and have been using SuSE 8.2 since about three days. My past installations were 7.3 / 8.0 / 8.1 and 8.2 which I now use. However, on 8.2 whenever I try and open the home directory upon clicking on it the window pops up and then vanishes and I get another window that says: "The application Konqueror (konqueror) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV)" I have installed everything that came with the CD's and have a AMD Duron with 256MB SDR, and Nvidia video board. I did check with the conflicts while installing the provisions yet maybe I am mistaken at some junction which you could solve for me. Please do haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalp and save Mua! Sincerely, ABHIJIT NAIK

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CD mounting problems
by Tom Nielsen 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

On my desktop (8.2) I have my CD burner. I click on it to mount it and nothing happens. I right mouse on it and select mount, nada. I go to xterm and type 'mount /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder' and I get a message back saying only root can do that. Fine, I'll show you Mr. Computer...I su and do the same. Mr. Computer says to me: 'mount: block device /dev/cdrecorder is write-protected, mounting read-only /dev/cdrecorder: Input/output error mount: you must specify the filesystem type' I say to Mr. Computer, "Bite me!" then check my fstab. It says: /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 So what's the problem. I'm pretty pissed off at Mr. Computer. This episode reminds me of Office Space where the printer isn't working. Any help here? Also, sorry about the 'Mr. Computer' thing. I've been hanging around my kids too much. Tom - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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Chip ID Needed
by Dennis Tuchler 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

What is the id number of the video chip in Intell Integrated 3d Extreme Graphics, sold with many low-end computers by Dell and HP? thanks dj tuchler -- Dennis Tuchler <dtuchler(a)earthlink.net>

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USB Memory card reader suddenly given up
by George Reynolds 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

I have been using a PQI memory card reader to transfer data from my digital camera to my hard drive (linux SuSE 8.2) for a while now. when I went to use it the other week, it popped up the icon on the desktop sde1 and it let me look at the root directory : dcim but if I tried to click on this, konqueror froze. I killed konqueror manually and i looked at the command prompt. If I try to go into dcim, it is successful, however, when i do an >ls I get a whole load of corruption and random characters over and over again followed by : is not a directory or something similar. The size of the files are wrong, they are reading at like 1GB when the card is only 64MB. I have got a brand new drive to see if it was faulty, but i get exactly the same effect. Can anybody say why this has suddenly given up? I was using a (faulty) 4 port hub before on my lapotp, now i have a working 7 port hub. I do get problems when the laptop doesn't enable the USB at startup, so i have to restart the computer, because linux senses there is a USB port, but can't access it (the lights don't come on brightly so the USB port isn't connecting with the devices). I don't think this is the problem though, as all of my other USB devices work fine. I am getting these sorts of errors too: Jun 5 12:09:28 linux kernel: lost async page write due to I/O error on 41:00 Jun 5 12:09:28 linux last message repeated 5 times Hope somebody can be of assistance to why this has suddenly stopped working. George

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re: [SLE] SuSE Cluster
by Greg Freemyer 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

>> Hi all! >> I would like to build a failover cluster with SuSE. It should be two >> machines, one running and one standby. Each machine should have its own >> disks with an "data" volume that should be mirrord in realtime between the >> machines. >> Can somebody guide me, what applikations should i use? >> The machine(s) will be an e-mail/www/ftp server. >> Kind regards >> Mattias Olsson I think heartbeat and drbd would be the best choices. check out www.linux-ha.org They have an active users mailing list. Archives at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ha&r=1&w=2#linux-ha You can also get the most recent SuSE rpms from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/people/lmb/ HTH Greg -- Greg Freemyer

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Xntp
by Tom Nielsen 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

After a great amount of work, I managed to get ntp running...I think. After configuring the IP address, I ran /etc/init.d/xntpd. I noticed it said "resetting time to IP ...." I tried to run 'ntpdate' and I got: ntpdate: no servers can be used, exiting. Do I need to run ntpdate? How and what do I setup to have my clock set itself on a monthly basis? Thanks, Tom - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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SuSE Cluster
by Olsson Mattias 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

Hi all! I would like to build a failover cluster with SuSE. It should be two machines, one running and one standby. Each machine should have its own disks with an "data" volume that should be mirrord in realtime between the machines. Can somebody guide me, what applikations should i use? The machine(s) will be an e-mail/www/ftp server. Kind regards Mattias Olsson

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Dail-out mailing: freeing up the mail queue
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

Hi Folks, The problem I've solved below may have bugged you too, so I'm sharing the solution. To set the scene: Probably like many of you, I do my email work "off-line" and then, when there is mail to be sent, I dial up to the ISP and send the mail (basically using "sendmail -q"). However, I've been bugged for ages by the fact that sendmail can lock some or all of the mail-queue files (as shown by asterisks when 'mailq' is run) for many minutes, which can block the queue for ages. My usual solution is simply to sit around until 'mailq' shows no asterisks, and then dial out and send, but I've also tried other, more drastic, approaches which have their disadvanrages. Yesterday, however, I got an idea (could have seen it years ago). What process is locking the queue? No doubt sendmail itself. So I did a 'ps -aux | grep sendmail' while the queue was locked. And there is was. First, check whether the queue is locked: # mailq Mail Queue (1 request) --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------ VAA00979* 16895 Tue Jun 3 21:09 efh (host map: lookup (<destination domain>): deferred) <list of recipient addresses here> So there it is locked (see "*"). Now check for what sendmail is up to: # ps -aux | grep sendmail root 160 0.0 1.1 1256 720 ? S May 23 0:00 sendmail: accepting root 1027 0.0 1.4 1336 940 ? S 21:11 0:00 sendmail: VAA00979: And there is sendmail working on "VAA00979", with process ID 1027. So now stop it: # kill -15 1027 And now see what has heppened: # mailq Mail Queue (1 request) --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------ VAA00979 16895 Tue Jun 3 21:09 efh (host map: lookup (<destination domain>): deferred) <etc> and there is it unlocked! Short, sweet, snappy and instantaneous. What I did above could very easily be implemented in a suitable script for sending mail as a batch job when dialling out, which I intend to do. So the "algorithm" is: Run 'mailq' and grep for any "*" If found, extract message identifiers (e.g. "VAA00979" from "VAA00979*") run 'ps -aux' and match on "sendmail: <identifier>", and extract its PID kill -15 PID Lines 3, 4 and 5 could be little 'awk' jobs, feeding the 'grep' output from line 1 to 'awk'. There it is. Any comments? Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 04-Jun-03 Time: 11:30:19 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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