June 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Grub reports geometry problem
by FX Fraipont 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

Here's my problem: I had a problem after installing and using mldonkey for a couple of hours: for some unknown reason, the Mldonkey deamon refused to die, whatever I tried. And this deamon was according to ksysguard responsible for use of some 25% of system resources, visible in the fact that my hdb was constantly thrashing (reiserfs). I had no other option that to reboot, but after restarting, the box hung with the message: GRUB: geometry error on hdb (where my / partition is) I rebooted with the bootdisk, loaded the reiserfs module, and chose system rescue, which allowed me to have a working system. Using yast /bootloader configuration, I rewrote the grub config, and rebooted: no problem at all. This morning there was a power cut, and when I came home, the computer had restarted and had stopped with the same grub geometry error message. here's the log of the messages when I reboot on the rescue disk and try to boot the installed linux: <6> hdb:<4>hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60 <3>hdb: timeout waiting for DMA <3>hdb: timeout waiting for DMA <4>hdb: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not waiting <4>hdb: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } <4> <6>hda: DMA disabled <3>hdb: drive not ready for command <4>ide0: reset: success <4>hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x40 <3>hdb: timeout waiting for DMA <3>hdb: timeout waiting for DMA <4>hdb: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not waiting <4>hdb: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } <4> <3>hdb: drive not ready for command <4>ide0: reset: success <4> hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 > hdb2 What is the matter? Is my HD dying? fx -- ______________________ Courtesy of SuSE Linux http://www.nibz.org

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How to setup GPRS Modem on SuSE
by Adinda Praditya 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

Hi list,... I'm wondering SuSE can connect to the internet via GPRS modem (mobile phone). Is it possible? Has anyone tried it? What mobile phone can work with SuSE? Thanks, Adinda Praditya

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Re: [SLE] Grub editing
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

Thanks, it works now. Should be mem=209M >On Tuesday 03 June 2003 13:08 pm, Constant Brouerius van >Nidek wrote: >> Since some days I have an error at the address 209.3 >from my 256 >> memory chip. >> Before running to the computer shop in order to get me >a new chip I >> know that I can reduce the memory use at bootup by just >adding >> mem=209MB. In lilo I had experience in the past that >this info could >> be added in the append line. >> For Grub I have no idea where to include it. >> Just adding it in the line for the SuSE boot does not >take effect. >> Somebody knows where to include the info? >All items like that go on the kernel statement of the >/boot/grub/menu.lst -- NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.

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Re: [SLE] DVD
by Bernd 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

On Monday 02 June 2003 16:38, thom(a)cavtel.net wrote: > > On Monday 02 June 2003 5:04 am, Hans Krueger wrote: > >> has anybody got 8.2 to play dvd yet you know the ones we buy > >> and can't watch them > > I got xine and was pretty astounded. I like taking snapshots of old films > with it too. > Just do whats on this link (daily rpm bulilds:very easy) and ignore > dependency issues from yast: so far all works. You also must enable DMA in > Yast. Xine seems to play everything i throw at it so far (incl. divx) and > i cant say the same about all the windows programs you need. > > http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ Got it running!!! Yeah!!! Just one question: How do you view the content on 'enhanced' audio cd's? When I try using the 'CD' button on the gui, xine aborts. Bernd -- "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." Antoine de St. Exupery

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Star Office 6.1 beta2 - Can't save after first save
by Tom Nielsen 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

I create a file (spreadsheet or text doc) in SO then save it. I then make changes or additions and try to save it when I get: Error saving the document file:///opt/staroffice6.1/user/basic/script.xlc/: General Error. General input/output error I click OK and then get: Error saving the document file:///opt/staroffice6.1/user/basic/dialog.xlc/: General Error. General input/output error Now, if I save the file as something else, say the original was doc1, if I save my modifications as doc2, I'm ok. I can open the same doc1 file in OpenOffice, make the modifications, save it over doc1 and everything's fine. I go back to SO, try to save, and get the above. Any thoughts on this? I mean other than don't save the file until I'm sure everything is fine and no corrections or additions will be made to it. Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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Keyboard LEDs (OT)
by BandiPat 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

Greetings, I don't know if I saw something here or it was just me about the keyboards that don't have the LEDs on them. Maybe my inquiry into the matter came about by the mails concerning using the extra buttons on the new internet keyboards in Linux. Anyway, if you are missing LEDs on your keyboard and would like to have a SuSE 8.2 rpm applet to give those back to you onscreen, then I have one such rpm built! :o) Many other features built into the program as well. I can see how it would be useful even if you have LEDs on your keyboard. Very handy to be able to turn on Num Lock & Caps Lock with the mouse! Now I just need to figure out what to do with all these other buttons. What a quandry! ;o) Contact me off list if you would like the rpm. It is only about 300k, so should not hurt the modem users here either. Thank you for your time and remember, "Have a lot of fun!" Patrick -- --- KMail v1.5.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

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[SLE] YOU doesn't connect to master server
by Stanley Long 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

Were does YOU keep the address of the SuSE page that lists system update sites? Is http://www.suse.de/cgi-bin/suseservers.cgi the correct URL? After a clean DVD install of SuSE 8.2, then one online update w/ YOU, I can't do any more updates :-(( YaST2 gives an "Error": "Cannot connect to http://www.suse.de/cgi-bin/suseservers.cgi. Check your connection." There is no /var/lib/YaST/update.inf on my system. I don't know if it was there after the install. Would it help to do a DVD re-install of RPM and create an update.inf? There is a procedure for 8.0 shown at http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/jsj_no_update_inf.html The first install was done from a site with a really fast connection. Here the connection is 56k dialup, so I don't want to mess up and need a total restart. Thanks.

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Probs w/SuSEconfig in YaST
by The Wizard 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

All - I have a strange problem whenever SuSEconfig is run from wiithin YaST2. It reaches the "susewm" module and just hangs. I can leave it running for 30-40 minutes and the SuSEconfig screen stays at 91% and never returns. Yet if I run SuSEconfig from the command-line for the same module "SuSEconfig --module susewm" it seems to run fine: gryffindor:/home/markea 63> sudo SuSEconfig --module susewm Starting SuSEconfig, the SuSE Configuration Tool... Running module susewm only Reading /etc/sysconfig and updating the system... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.susewm... Finished. this completes in 15 seconds or so. This has only happened since I upgraded to 8.2, and the 3.1.2 version of KDE. Any ideas about why SuSEconfig would behave differently under the YaST2 umbrella than from the command line? Mark Almeida

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CUPS question
by Tom Nielsen 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

I have an HP5000 in the office setup to an print server. I'm wondering if there's a way to setup either CUPS or KDE to let me know when my job is done printing. I hate getting up from my chair! Thanks, Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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SuSE 8.2 rpm -hvU hangs
by Nick LeRoy 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

All.. I've recently installed SuSE 8.2 on a number of machines & love it. However, on an IBM Thinkpad 20, I'm seeing a behaviour I've never seen before. I'm trying to update KDE to 3.1.2 (by hand, using rpm -hvU), and rpm keeps hanging. It goes through the install "motions", draws the hash accross the screen, then hangs in what I'd have to guess is the post-install. It's not just a single RPM that's causing this problem; it seems to be doing it on all of them. rpm is using 100% of the CPU, and gdb seems completely confused about it's image. I've done an 'rpm --rebuild' to verify that my database is ok, I've rebooted in case there's some kind of file left open, etc., but nothing seems to solve this problem. Has anybody else every seen this? FWIW, rpm -q rpm shows rpm-3.0.6-470, and rpm --verify rpm seems happy. Also, according to 'ps', rpm doesn't have any child processes running at the time; it's rpm itself that's, I imagine, stuck in a loop somewhere. I'd appreciate any help that anybody can offer. Thanks -Nick

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