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Install/Partioning Help
by Bob S. 08 Jun '03

08 Jun '03

Hello Suse People, Doing a fresh install of 8.2 over 8.0. (Personal) Want to change some of my partitions around some. No size changes. Have some questions at the partitioning screen. I am somewhat familiar with hard drive partioning. The drive is hdb. ( 30 gigs) This was the 8.0 setup. hdb1 = /, hdb2 =extended, hdb3 =/usr, hdb5 =/newlinux, hdb6 =swap, hdb7=fat32, hdb8 =/data. Now at the partioning screen Yast suggests/has added another logical partion, hdb9 =/ which is 1.9 gigs. Don't know where it got it from and is scheduled to be formatted. NONE... of the other drives, regular or logical will be formatted. Don't understand this because hdb1 was the original / . Does this mean that all of the old boot stuff from / will remain? Will hdb3 =usr remain?? ( can't be ! ) The reason for the repartitioning is that I would like to create a /home partition I do NOT want Yast to touch /newlinux or /data but would like to change them from ext2 to ext3. Would that cause data loss with that change? I am thinking accept hdb9 =/ as suggested by Yast even though it is only 1.9 gigs,( worry about var, opt, etc.) and then format the original hdb1 from / to /home. Or, would it be better to format the original hdb1 and reuse it? ( 4.5 gigs) Then use the newfound hdb9 for something else. I would like my /home partition to be bigger than 1.9 gigs though. PLEASE !! Correct my thinking if I am wrong! I could also create an LVM / LVM's? But I have no idea about that. Can anyone direct me to the "Administration Guide" Hope that some partitioning guru will give me some advice here. Bob S.

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Konqueror crashes everytime!
by ABHIJIT NAIK 08 Jun '03

08 Jun '03

Dear Friends, I have a major problem as far as SuSE 8.2 is concerned. Everytime I open the Home directory or any browser to view the files the window opens briefly and then shuts down upon which another window opens saying 'The application Konqueror (konqueror) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV)'. I have 3D enabled, tested and running on my nVidia GeForce and have updated the driver for it as well. Please help me solve this situation. Thanking you all very much. Regards, ABHIJIT NAIK

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] Install/Partioning Help
by Bob S. 08 Jun '03

08 Jun '03

Subject: Re: [SLE] Install/Partioning Help Date: Friday 06 June 2003 23:14 From: Bob Stia <rnr(a)sanctum.com> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com On Friday 06 June 2003 05:32, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The 03.06.06 at 02:20, Bob S. wrote: > > Now at the partioning screen Yast suggests/has added another > > logical partion, hdb9 =/ which is 1.9 gigs. Don't know where it > > got it from and is scheduled to be formatted. NONE... of the > > other drives, regular or logical will be formatted. Don't > > understand this because hdb1 was the original / . Does this mean > > that all of the old boot stuff from / will remain? Will hdb3 > > =usr remain?? ( can't be ! ) > > You have to go into manual or expert mode, and select the > partitions you want it to use and/or create. The automated mode is > just installing a new system on a new partition. Yes Carlos, Thanks for replying. I was in manual mode. In the first paragraph of my original post that is evidenced by my original drives. That is why I am asking these questions. I need to understand what it is that Yast will do when I select to change those options. I think that you have misunderstood what I am asking. If you have the time and inclination to assist me, I ask that you please re-read the original post. If you or anyone else wants to help I have included the orinal post at the bottom of this message. Thanks anyway, for at least replying. Bob S. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello Suse People, Doing a fresh install of 8.2 over 8.0. (Personal) Want to change some of my partitions around some. No size changes. Have some questions at the partitioning screen. I am somewhat familiar with hard drive partioning. The drive is hdb. ( 30 gigs) This was the 8.0 setup. hdb1 = /, hdb2 =extended, hdb3 =/usr, hdb5 =/newlinux, hdb6 =swap, hdb7=fat32, hdb8 =/data. Now at the partioning screen Yast suggests/has added another logical partion, hdb9 =/ which is 1.9 gigs. Don't know where it got it from and is scheduled to be formatted. NONE... of the other drives, regular or logical will be formatted. Don't understand this because hdb1 was the original / . Does this mean that all of the old boot stuff from / will remain? Will hdb3 =/usr remain?? ( can't be ! ) The reason for the repartitioning is that I would like to create a /home partition I do NOT want Yast to touch /newlinux or /data but would like to change them from ext2 to ext3. Would that cause data loss with that change? I am thinking accept hdb9 =/ as suggested by Yast even though it is only 1.9 gigs,( worry about var, opt, etc.) and then format the original hdb1 from / to /home. Or, would it be better to format the original hdb1 and reuse it? ( 4.5 gigs) Then use the newfound hdb9 for something else. I would like my /home partition to be bigger than 1.9 gigs though. PLEASE !! Correct my thinking if I am wrong! I could also create an LVM / LVM's? But I have no idea about that. Can anyone direct me to the "Administration Guide" Hope that some partitioning guru will give me some advice here. Bob S.

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Gimp 1.3.14 Perl Support
by Andrei Verovski 08 Jun '03

08 Jun '03

Hi, I have just installed Gimp 1.3.14 from usr-local-bin and notices that Perl support seem to be removed from Gimp, plugins written in Perl do not work anymore, even when installed with gimptool --install-admin-script. Anyone knows how to bring back Perl support into new 1.3.14 Gimp? ********************************************* * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * Personal Home Page * http://snow.prohosting.com/guru4mac * Mac, Linux, DTP, Development, IT WEB Site *********************************************

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OT Netidentity
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 08 Jun '03

08 Jun '03

Every time when I give an URL into konquerer which it does not find at once I get the Netidentuty site with the Claire Daniels ad saying Whoops The file you were looking for on xyz was not found. (xyz being the URL which was used). Does somebody know how to get rid of Claire Daniels?

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8.2 Trouble with routing
by j6m＠adm.estp.fr 08 Jun '03

08 Jun '03

Hi suse-linux-e folks, I read the last thread about routing but it does not seem to contain the answer to my problem. I am setting up a fw/router. It runs on a NForce2 based mb with 8.2 standard athlon kernel. It three NICS with static IPs eth0 10.0.0.1 (255.0.0.0) eth1 192.168.1.1 (255.255.255.0) eth2 192.168.2.1 (255.255.255.0) The eth0 is connected via a crossover cable to an ADSL modem and provides connection by PPPoE to the upstream ISP which provides me with a fixed IP. Interface eth1 is intended for the local network Interface eth2 is intended for the DMZ I enabled IP forwarding for both IPv4 and IPv6. >From my fw/router, I have the following routing tables and connection status hotel:~ # adsl-status adsl-status: Link is up and running on interface ppp0 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:213.41.132.65 P-t-P:62.4.16.247 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1 RX packets:1709537 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:877788 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:2473788663 (2359.1 Mb) TX bytes:47091795 (44.9 Mb) hotel:~ # ip route show 62.4.16.247 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 213.41.132.65 10.0.0.0/24 via 10.0.0.137 dev eth0 192.168.2.0/24 via 192.168.2.1 dev eth2 192.168.1.0/24 via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 default via 62.4.16.247 dev ppp0 >From my server in DMZ (192.168.2.5), I have : echo:~ # ip route show 192.168.2.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.5 default via 192.168.2.1 dev eth0 (Server echo is a dual Athlon with an AMD760MP chipset) NICs are e muix of RTL81399 and VIA-Rhine III based cards. Problems : 1- I cannot establish any connection from the DMZ machine to the outter net. Packets are neither droppedor rejected by the firewall (rules to ACCEPT outgoing connections and NATing incoming ones have been set) when it is started. Anyway, the same occurs when it is stopped. 2 - Establishing cnnections between hotel and echo are slow. For instance a ssh password prompt may ask up to 10 seconds after command launch. NB: I do not use Suse firewall but Shorewall (http://www.shorewall.net), but IMHO Shorewall is not to be blamed. I already successfully setup a fw/router using Shorewall and Suse 8.0 a year ago without any trouble. I removed references to start_firewall in /etc/ppp/ip-up but without any results. I also checked IP forwarding was correctly set in the relevant files under /proc. What am I missing ? APIC ? kernel flaws ? Hardware flaws ? I would prefer to keep Suse on my fw rather than trying yet another distro (like Debian) that I will have to manage Regards J6M

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Problems with low resolution modelines in X
by Pieter Hulshoff 08 Jun '03

08 Jun '03

Hello all, I've been adding some modelines for low resolution setups for xmame a few days ago but some are not accepted. An example: Modeline "320x224" 16.55 320 328 376 416 224 225 228 234 doublescan The XFree86 logfile states: (II) RADEON(0): Clock range: 20.00 to 400.00 MHz (II) RADEON(0): Not using mode "320x224" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) My assumption (the mother of all f**kups) is that the modeline is not accepted due to the clock range starting at 20 MHz. Any idea on how I can decrease that 20 MHz? My old computer using a TNT chipset had no problems running these modelines, so I think they're correct in themselves. Regards, Pieter Hulshoff

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Reset Firewall to default
by tim 08 Jun '03

08 Jun '03

Dear All I think i have messed up my firewall - by playing around too much. How do i go about deleting the current setup and starting out again with a blank configuration? Using 8.1 - have altered all sorts of settings in SuSEFirewall2 and in "editor for etc/sysconfig" Thanks in advance Tim

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KDE service releases via YOU?
by Johnny Ernst Nielsen 08 Jun '03

08 Jun '03

Good day, has anyone got a feeling how long time it usually takes for a KDE service release to show up in YOU? I'm on SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional. Best regards :o)

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High load / low cpu usage
by David Herman 08 Jun '03

08 Jun '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I use gkrellm to monitor (casually) whats happening w/ my machine. Lately I've had periods where the system load gets quite high (20) While cpu usage and disk activity are normal (~10%) This causes excruciatingly slow screen re-draws, kicker responding weeks after I've moused the bottom of the screen, etc. I've used gtop and kde system guard to see what processes are running. They will tell me if a process is using alot of cpu time and allow me to adjust the processes nice values if I want. Unfortunately what I want to know what is causing excessive SYSTEM LOAD (since cpu usage is normal) and be able to gain control back of the system. Niether of the above programs give me this info. I prefer gui interfaces but will use the shell when forced. One of the offending processes is related to konq saving my obscenely large bookmarks file (I'm working on it) Thanks for your Ideas - -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+4n+5BwgxlylUsJARAou5AJ4kuvW8QS/+uXrYUOGzHJZTG0gISgCeMgql aQTlSOPPLNHIzKZP7amY5tY= =+nvs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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