June 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

connect: Network is Unreachable
by Robin Rowe 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Hi. I'm familiar with Linux, but this is my first install of SuSE. Everything went fine except I can't ping my LAN. I used the Yast GUI to set up the network DNS host IP and default gateway as 192.168.0.1. If I take the net down and bring it up again with 'ifup eth0' it says it got address 192.168.0.8 / 255.255.255.0. That looks ok. However, I can't ping myself at that address. Can't ping the gateway either. Using 'ifconfig' reports eth0 running in ipv6. Doesn't report anything about 192.168.0.8 at eth0, rather some long inet6 address. I haven't tried ipv6 before. SuSE installed that for me without asking. On a DHCP ipv4 LAN should I run ipv6, and how would I get rid of it? What now? Thanks! Robin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin.Rowe(a)MovieEditor.com Hollywood, California www.CinePaint.org Free motion picture and still image editing software

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Postfix my_networks problem
by Terry Milnes 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

I would like for Postfix to connect to my ISP's SMTP server to route email for me and the users that connect to my server. However, I setup Postfix's my_networks as 192.168.0.0/24 for all the boxes behind my Router. This errors out saying permission denied. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! NeoFax

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IDE DMA
by C Hamel 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

The notebook computer I use is capable of DMA when Windoze is installed but I get an error when I attempt to enable it w/SuSE v8.2 Personal. Can someone point me to some resources on this? ...Or maybe give me benefit of their experience? Thanks... -- ...CH SuSE Is All U Need 2 Drive U Nuts. Linux user# 313696 Linux box# 199365

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Linux Backup Survey
by Bruce Marshall 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

I wonder if I could talk any of you folks into going to: http://www.cds-inc.com/vote/linux.html and taking the 5-question survey on linux backup. BackAgain II is a very nice backup program (many types of devices and also network backups), and easy to use. It originally was written for OS/2 and then was ported to Windows. They have been thinking of a Linux port for awhile and they have the above survey to find out how people use linux and whether they would use such a backup program. Worth the minute it would take for the survey. Thanks. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh(a)bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 06/30/03 16:06 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?"

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Re: [SLE] Netscape Upgrade Question...
by Carl William Spitzer IV 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

NS 4.8 is fine its the 6+ series which are determined to imitate IE. This foolishness is a waste for us when we have Opera which can handle it just fine. Then there is Konqueror and Gamaleon(sp?) and likely more. CWSIV On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 11:59:23 +0900 Peter Evans <peter(a)despammed.com> writes: Being a Linux newbie, I can't directly answer the following question: > I would like to upgrade my Netscape v4.8 to Netscape 7.x > on SuSE 8.2. Should I remove the current version, or just > install the new one over the other? Also, will this effect > Mozilla, and if so, any hints on how to deal with this? However, a couple of comments. Netscape 7 is not an upgrade to Netscape 4.x. The two programs are utterly different, linked only as a matter of marketing. Netscape 4.x is a dog, and rather unlike anything else, and for this very reason you might want to keep it around if you are thinking of writing any web pages: it's good to check that Netscape 4.x can render them legibly. Not only is Netscape 7 typically behind Mozilla (as pointed out earlier), it's said to be burdened down with attempts by TimeLifeWarnerAOL (etc.) to have you frequent their sites and buy their products. I don't know for sure as I've never tried it; and I've never tried it because I've never heard any argument for its superiority to Mozilla, which I've been very contentedly using since version 0.98 (and with more or less irritation since well before that). ________________________________________________________________ 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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ISP connection via nic
by DB Troll 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Tomorrow my ISP will be installing a system at my house which relays via radio to my system instaed of having to use dial up modem. The only thing coming into my house will be the connector to the nic card and I want to be sure that I will be able to do this with SuSE. What is the best way to accomplish this so that i will be able to use the services that I now have with the dial-up. TIA David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/AJYx3VVncqMjOZsRAtaVAJ4oflrMAMC9r2lLs7XEE8Tp0m5LuACfbAvp mPVMvdAcXCcWvGzKFAyT8gY= =D5lp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Jpilot , gcc 3.3 and 8.2
by Donn Washburn 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Well Group: Here we go again. It seems that jpilot is not correctly working in 8.2 (it blows up). Furthermore, Yast2 Updates fails while downloading a jpilot backup file.rpm. So, I decided to just down load the latest version along with all of the other required files (pilot-link). Guess what? polit-link along with just about everything but vim6.2 and ytree (to fix the "?" problem in 8.2) are failing on 8.2 to compile. gcc 3.3 is complaining about a single quote missing. However a search is showing none (in otherwords they are paired up). Can we get a Yast2 Update patch or replacement for 3.3? I have heard that 3.2.3 (maybe 3.2.2 - memory) works. -- 73 de Donn Washburn __ " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 a MSDOS Virus "Free Zone" OS Email: n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org Info: http://www.knoppix.net

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Lost etc, now what? Warning: Long winded story.
by lists1 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Hi all, sorry for the length of this: I had a dual boot setup, running suse 8.0 and windows 98se. I haven't booted into windows for almost a year now. It's on a box I built, asus a7v133 mb, athlon or duron 900, 2x256 mb cl2 name brand ram (forgot name), soundblaster live value pci card, hardware based US Robotics V90 modem (was removed to use in another computer, and mwave something was one of the error messages on every boot up, both prior to removing the modem, and afterward as well, one of the messages that it was advised to ignore, and I never used the modem under linux, so I don't know if it worked or not) adaptec ide raid card with one drive (other drive failed earlier, not related problem) in a raid 1 setup. This is the drive that boots both os's. a second drive is on the primary controller, and the secondary controller has a cdrom drive. The second drive is for data only. I partitioned the raid drive in the following manner: sda1: windows sda2 or 7: boot, ext2 sda4 or 5: extended partition sda8:reiserfs, / sda9: reiserfs, /home sda10: vfat sda11:vfat sda12:vfat I'm doing this from memory. The numbers may be off, but the basic layout is right. A couple of the missing numbers are swap (more than one swap partition was used), and perhaps etc, or etc is under / The box is/was my main workstation. It's on a dsl lan, behind a hardware device performing nat. It is completely invisible during port scans, with no open ports. I can't even ssh into the box from outside the nat device. I can't find the recovery floppy that I made when I first set this box up. Before the box failed, I tried making a rescue floppy, but it asked for the installation media, which I gave to someone else (we're on a tight budget and splitting the cost of the professional disks), so I couldn't make the rescue floppy again. After checking the logs recently, I was getting more errors: major modules, 108, 109, 111, 112, 114, and similar. Earlier, it had been confined to errors that I had looked up, and the advice was to ignore them, it was a bug in the release. Related errors were because I tried to install a cd burner, was never able to get it to work, so I removed it and installed elsewhere. But there were a few more lines in the logs that had me worried. Also, in the last few weeks, the box started freezing up, and the only way to correct it would be to reset the box. When this started happening, I decided to manually write down the partition table, in case something went wrong. I had used yast's online update to update the security patches once a week or more often. I don't run any servers on the box. So I logged on as root in X, planning on updating through online update, writing down the partition table through yast's partitioner, and a few other chores that are simply easier to do when logged on as root, as opposed to su'ing into the features. I had the partitioner open, when what can go wrong, does. The box crashed. I reset the system, and now nothing happens. I'm not sure if /etc disappeared right after the system crashed, or a few reboots afterward. It may have happened as a result of the above description of actions, or a hacker succeeded in accessing the box and wiped /etc. Some of the error messages are: hostname lookup failure Xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1 cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Xinit: error while loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1 cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory # /bin/df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems: No such file or directory So I try to reboot, switch runlevels, etc, and: # init0 INIT:Switching to runlevel:0 INIT: No inittab found Can't open (/etc/ioctl.save 0_WRONLY) No such file or directory no more processes left in this runlevel The only thing I can do is log on as a single user, rescue, where I see the directories under / , but I can't go into them because I get error messages that tell me there is no /etc/fstab, or mtab. /etc doesn't appear in the list of directories under / . I was able to boot a knoppix disk, with a knoppix boot floppy, on the box. I can locate my data, and locate most of the linux directories (I haven't made a comprehensive list yet, but the boot partition is there, var, bin, sbin, usr, and most of the others are there. But /etc is missing. I don't recall if I originally made /etc a separate partition or not. It does not appear under / . Since knoppix gives you a convoluted directory structure (it has it's own / and other directories, plus it's own similar directories under the sub-directory of "KNOPPIX", I don't know if there is a missing partition that is not mounting, which may contain the files belonging to etc, but it doesn't appear to be the case. There is also another issue which you may be able to help me on. I seem to have trouble accessing some of my own data files and directories. The knoppix distro is reporting that some of the data directories on both the raid disk, and the data disk are owned by root, and the group is root. I believe that it is likely this is an error, that the owner and group should be a different owner, with group "users". Anyway, I am logged on as root, not knoppix user, when using the knoppix disk to look at the filesystems and data. I still can't access the data. Is this because my knoppix root user is a different user id than the suse root user? And my knoppix user id, and "users" group id are different than the suse group id for "users"? If so, where are the id numbers kept? /etc? Or is this a problem because /etc is missing? I have looked up solutions for a missing partition table, and rebuilding fstab. I have a suse 7.3 desktop that I can look at as an example for fstab, but what do I do when the entire /etc directory is gone? Should I attempt to install 8.2 over this 8.0 installation? There is too much data on several of the partitions to back them up. /home is simply too large, along with a few other partitions (three of the vfat partitions that I can think of right now), plus the separate data hard disk. In addition, when I did try to backup some of the data to another computer, the backup (dd) failed, because it said that some filenames were too long, and it simply stopped the backup right where it ran into the problem. I don't have the space anymore to backup the data elsewhere. And since I never was able to get the cd burner working, I can't backup to multiple cds (which was the original reason for buying the burner, backups), and couldn't backup the copies of the suse 8.0 disks. I do have suse 7.3 professional disks that I can use for getting files. This will take some time to sort the issues out, as I don't have regular 'net access anymore due to the failure of the above workstation. TIA for any help/suggestions. Bing. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All spam received is reported to http://spamcop.net Any spam designed to avoid spamcop processing is processed and reported manually to all the isps in the headers. Don't send it. I don't respond to it.

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Open Office jre1.3.x Dependency
by Paul Kraus 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

The initial ftp install of suse 8.2 won't let open office work. It has a failed dependancy. jre1.3.x. It has this problems on two separate machines that i have installed the OS on so i am assuming that it is a known issue and you people will have an easy answer for me :) I can not find a place where i am able to search the list archives. If you have a link please send. Doing a search for YAST2 of jre i found nothing. So assuming that the problem is a missing java 2 runtime environment i downloaded and installed both j2re Java 2 runtime environment, standard edition and jre Java 2 runtime environment. Neither had any effect on the dependancy check. I have installed (from sun site) Paul Kraus

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turning off acpi without wrecking my machine? a newbie question
by O.D.Iberien 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

I could not get my eth0 port configured via DHCP without slowing down my whole system to a crawl. Here is the story: I have a Windows 2000 PC, a SuSE PC (8.2 Personal), and a little Netgear RP114 router/switch, which also acts as DHCP server. I want to use the Linux box as a VNC server, so that I can access the Linux desktop from the Windows box. The only thing that has worked so far is entering acpi=off (or a variant) as a boot command at startup. Then the eth0 port configures just fine. However, the Linux machine also becomes so slow when I do this that it is nearly unusuable. (The KDE desktop pulldowns, etc., are fine, but if I try to use them to open, say, a command window, it takes forever, if it happens at all.) I have, incidentally, tried swapping out the NIC, tried configuring the ports manually, tried a crossover cable, tried disabling IPv6, setting default gateways, etc. The acpi=off boot command is the only thing which has allowed the Linux box to "see" the switch. Any suggestions? ----------------------------------------- Hot Mobiil - helinad, logod ja piltsõnumid! http://portal.hot.ee

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