July 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

YaST 2 Partitioner
by Olipro 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

I have a Windows XP partition and whilst I do not use it, I need to migrate files across from time to time so I made an attempt to mount it from the SuSE partitioner. I configured the fstab options as read-only etc. When it comes to actually applying the settings, there are absolutely no changes made to my /etc/fstab. I can use the mount command if I specify the device, filesys and mount point but I can only do this as admin, and I do not wish to have to login as admin to transfer files. (also, other users of the system have files on the partition and I don't want to give them root access just for that) Any help would be greatly appreciated -- Olipro <Olipro(a)GTAGlobal.net>

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Weather applet
by Carlos E. R. 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

Some one knows if it would be possible to to externally tell that applet (gnome) that the internet connection is up, an update now? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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usb problems partly solved
by George Reynolds 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

I managed to get my smart media card to read by creading entries in fstab for sdb, sdc, sdd and sde manually. it now works. However, unless i know the exact directory name where the jpgs are stored (it's from my digicam) I get corruption and invalid size values like this: linux:/media/sde1/dcim # ls ls: ?aà$ ??.ª?/: No such file or directory ls: h|?>??¡:.?o.: No such file or directory ls: ks ??/ë_.u_: No such file or directory ls: m5=./-?.¡c,: No such file or directory ls: j?öé?±.£qw: No such file or directory ls: u?v/óh .?°?: No such file or directory ls: ?>>°öß¿u.;}/: No such file or directory ls: l??▒?/^;.?mk: No such file or directory ls: ?^kru?'m.æ/#: No such file or directory ls: ?x?(]?aà.2/ù: No such file or directory ls: ??/?$òg.?\á: No such file or directory ls: ??¢?/$å.??: No such file or directory ls: u?ê?v?÷?.??/: No such file or directory ?/: No such file or directory ls: n/m?*a^.e?î: No such file or directory ls: \/ô?ë=??.£?: No such file or directory ls: i}¬ïî?¼?.òi.: No such file or directory ls: ?????kë».«?.: No such file or directory ls: *n?f?/$ö.£?: No such file or directory etc etc linux:/media/sde1/dcim # cd 100_fuji linux:/media/sde1/dcim/100_fuji # ls . dscf0014.jpg dscf0025.jpg dscf0036.jpg dscf0047.jpg .. dscf0015.jpg dscf0026.jpg dscf0037.jpg dscf0048.jpg dscf0001.jpg dscf0016.jpg dscf0027.jpg dscf0038.jpg dscf0049.jpg dscf0002.jpg dscf0017.jpg dscf0028.jpg dscf0039.jpg dscf0050.jpg dscf0007.jpg dscf0018.jpg dscf0029.jpg dscf0040.jpg dscf0051.jpg dscf0008.jpg dscf0019.jpg dscf0030.jpg dscf0041.jpg dscf0052.jpg dscf0009.jpg dscf0020.jpg dscf0031.jpg dscf0042.jpg dscf0053.jpg dscf0010.jpg dscf0021.jpg dscf0032.jpg dscf0043.jpg dscf0011.jpg dscf0022.jpg dscf0033.jpg dscf0044.jpg dscf0012.jpg dscf0023.jpg dscf0034.jpg dscf0045.jpg dscf0013.jpg dscf0024.jpg dscf0035.jpg dscf0046.jpg could this be to do with sector size or something like that?] my /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 auto noauto,user,exec 0 0 #HOTPLUG B3Fu.XgRj7x7sPp5 /dev/sdf1 /media/sdf1 auto noauto,user,exec 0 0 #HOTPLUG B3Fu.65vJnGtOb_E /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 auto noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1 auto noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/sdd1 /media/sdd1 auto noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/sde1 /media/sde1 auto noauto,user,exec 0 0 the top two are my USB drives... George -- George Reynolds Livejournal: http://linux-geek.livejournal.com AOL: biggdelboy SuSE Linux 8.2/2.4.20 user -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/O d++@>-- s: a-- C++@>++++$ UC++++(++++)>$ P+ L+++ E W++@ N+ o K- w--- O+ M V- PS PE Y PGP+ t+ 5 X+ R tv++ b++ DI+++ D++ G e+++ h- r y?* ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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firebird 0.6.1
by Ben Rosenberg 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

If any of you want to use Firebird 0.6.1 which was just released then you can find a SuSE RPM here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/experimental/firebird/ -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.

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usb problems
by George Reynolds 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

I have posted questions to this list before and everybody has been very helpful, so I am posting again. I have recently been having problems with my USB (since march), I get these sort of errors: Jul 31 00:41:48 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1810 and my flash drive is trying to start, but keeps getting the following: Jul 31 00:41:38 linux kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-1.7, assigned address 17 Jul 31 00:41:38 linux kernel: scanner.c: USB scanner device (0x0000/0x0000) now attached to scanner1 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: sdb : READ CAPACITY failed. Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: sdb : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: Info fld=0xa00 (nonstd), Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: sdb : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: sdb: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 2097144 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 2097144 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: unable to read partition table Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY failed. Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: sdc : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: Info fld=0xa00 (nonstd), Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: sdc : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: sdc: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 2097144 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 2097144 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: unable to read partition table Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: sdd : READ CAPACITY failed. Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: sdd : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: Info fld=0xa00 (nonstd), Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: sdd : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: sdd: I/O error: dev 08:30, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:30, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:30, sector 2097144 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:30, sector 2097144 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:30, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:30, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: unable to read partition table Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:30, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: sde : READ CAPACITY failed. Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: sde : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: Info fld=0xa00 (nonstd), Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: sde : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: sde: I/O error: dev 08:40, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:40, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:40, sector 2097144 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:40, sector 2097144 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:40, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:40, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: unable to read partition table Jul 31 00:41:43 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:40, sector 0 Jul 31 00:41:48 linux kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Jul 31 00:41:48 linux kernel: usb.c: error getting string descriptor 0 (error=-110) Jul 31 00:41:48 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1810 Jul 31 00:41:48 linux kernel: usb.c: error getting string descriptor 0 (error=-84) Jul 31 00:41:48 linux last message repeated 7 times sdb, sdc, sdd and sde are the 4 slots on my card. two of them had cards in them...... any ideas why they are not being picked up? I am also getting these sort of errors: Jul 31 00:47:20 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80001280, flags 0, urb c31089e0, burb c279e7c0 Jul 31 00:47:20 linux kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 18 rqt 128 rq 6 len 18 ret -6 Jul 31 00:47:20 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80001280, flags 0, urb c31089e0, burb c279e7c0 Jul 31 00:47:20 linux kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 18 rqt 128 rq 6 len 18 ret -6 Jul 31 00:47:20 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80001280, flags 0, urb c31089e0, burb c279e7c0 Jul 31 00:47:20 linux kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 18 rqt 128 rq 6 len 18 ret -6 Jul 31 00:47:20 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80001280, flags 0, urb c31089e0, burb c279e7c0 Jul 31 00:47:20 linux kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 18 rqt 128 rq 6 len 18 ret -6 Jul 31 00:47:20 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80001280, flags 0, urb c31089e0, burb c279e7c0 Jul 31 00:47:20 linux kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 18 rqt 128 rq 6 len 18 ret -6 Jul 31 00:47:20 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80001280, flags 0, urb c31089e0, burb c279e7c0 Jul 31 00:47:20 linux kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 18 rqt 128 rq 6 len 18 ret -6 Jul 31 00:47:20 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80001280, flags 0, urb c31089e0, burb c279e7c0 Jul 31 00:47:20 linux kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 18 rqt 128 rq 6 len 18 ret -6 Jul 31 00:47:20 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[7324]: cannot get config descriptor: No such device or address Jul 31 00:47:20 linux last message repeated 6 times I have been having problems with USB full stop, sometimes it is 'enabled' i.e. the lights on my hub are bright and the stuff works and sometimes the lights are dim and it needs to be rebooted for the lights to come back on bright agfain. I know that sounds simple, but that is what happens. I don't know if it is linux or the BIOS which is the problem. I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 with 2 USB ports one of which is attached to a 7 port USB hub- could this be the problem? It is a powered hub. thanks in advance for your help and advice. George -- George Reynolds Livejournal: http://linux-geek.livejournal.com AOL: biggdelboy SuSE Linux 8.2/2.4.20 user -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/O d++@>-- s: a-- C++@>++++$ UC++++(++++)>$ P+ L+++ E W++@ N+ o K- w--- O+ M V- PS PE Y PGP+ t+ 5 X+ R tv++ b++ DI+++ D++ G e+++ h- r y?* ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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Re: Blackbox Command Key Bindings
by Bryce Hardy 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

<<Apologies for the broken thread, had some issues...>> Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: >>Bryce Hardy wrote: >> >> Does anyone have command key bindings working in the version of >> blackbox included with SuSE 8.2? I set them up using bbconf, but >> there's no response to the respective key presses. Following is my >> ~/.bbkeysrc file, which looks to be in order, as far as I can tell. >> Any help would be appreciated. >Yes I have these command key bindings working fine on Blackbox 0.65.0/ >SuSE 8.2. ~/.bbkeysrc looks similar. >You do have bbkeys running? <Blush>I thought it was a config file that took effect by itself. I didn't know it had to be executed. Thanks Sjoerd for the pointer.</Blush> -- Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA) brycehdy(a)sonic.net

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sound problems on a Toshiba Tecra 8100 running SuSe 8.1 or 8.2
by Ben Rosenberg 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

I've had a bunch of complaints from co-workers over the last couple days that their sound on specifically the laptop mentioned below isn't working. So I said I would forward what the deal was to the SLE and see if any of you had suggestions. I'm doing this because the SLE generates to much traffic and none of them wanted to join with that much mail coming from one list. *laugh* Anyway. Any suggestions would rock. ----- Forwarded message ----- Hello, I have a problem with sound working under 8.2 on a Toshiba Tecra 8100. ALSA claims that the Yamaha card in it (YMF-744B [DS-1S Audio Controller]) has been supported since version 0.5.8 but it does not. Sound used to work just fine on SuSe 7.3, but when I changed to 8.1 it stopped working. I initially thought it was something I had done, but a friend with the same system has the exact same problem. I have now tested it on a third laptop with the exact same results. I even tried grabbing the latest ALSA src, compiling and installing it with no luck. Any help would be appreciated. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.

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Mount problem - why read-only?
by Steve Crane 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

I installed SuSE 8.1 on this machine a few weeks ago and had no problems writing to my FAT drives before yesterday. However, when I tried to write to one of them (/windows/D) last night I was informed that the file system was read-only. As far as I can tell this should not be the case and another FAT drive (/windows/E), which as far as I can tell, is configured the same is writable. This occurs both for my user account and for root. Any ideas? The /etc/fstab entries for the two drives are /dev/hdd1 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0 /dev/hda6 /windows/E vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0 the /etc/mtab entries are /dev/hdd1 /windows/D vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100, umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1, code=437 0 0 /dev/hda6 /windows/E vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100, umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0 and these are the mount points drwxrwxr-x 49 root users 16384 1970-01-01 02:00 D drwxrwxr-x 10 root users 8192 2003-07-30 20:33 E I recall something similar happening on my previous machine where a FAT drive that had been writable was suddenly read-only. That time I spotted that I had done something stupid and I suspect something similar, but I can't remember what it was. Thanks. -- Steve Crane http://craniac.afraid.org

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Strange problem with YAST2 (I think)
by José J. Cintrón 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I just ran into this (again) a few minutes ago, and after thinking for some time the only thing that I can recall between all occurrences is that I was using YAST2. My KB stopped responding while checking for packages to add/remove (about to type in the search box). The mouse works, and everything else seems to be working fine except that you cannot type anything. The only solution that I've found is to logout and log back in. As soon as you log out the KB starts working properly. I checked running processes to see if there was anything hogging the processor, but all processes seem to be behaving. Any ideas on what may be causing this? TIA! +----------------------------------------- | José J. Cintrón - <jcintron(a)mitre.org> +----------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 iQA/AwUBPyfHMn8SoQ73gTtrEQKRsgCeJ4cbMC+nJUX2bOrjAyhSl9/teTIAn0AV cQRMdZe2jwvRuaZpgwfeVyCU =AD+w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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change malboxes location
by M.Brighi＠sirtisistemi.it 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

I don't have enough space on the disk to keep all the mails so I need to change the mailboxes location of all user to another one. I have additional diskspace in another partition let us say /data I tried to move /var/spool/imap/* To /data/imap and then I create a symbolic link back to the original location ln -s /var/spool/imap /data/imap but when I try to access to a mailbox I get "IOERROR: opening /var/spol/imap/user/test01/cy.........: No such file or directory" So I tried another way I edited /etc/imapd.conf and I set partition-default to /data/imap partion-default: /data/imap then I removed the simbolic link. It works, anybody knows if this approach is correct ttks maria

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