September 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

BIND patch to "fix" verisign...
by Jose de Paula Eufrasio Junior 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hello there... SuSE has released some update with the patched bind that allows the "delegation only" option to be set and stop verisign "utility"? If not, someone has made an RPM, RPM-patch? thanks. []s jjunior -- José de Paula Eufrásio Júnior Analista de Sistema | CPD ProInternet do Brasil

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Repair cups from command line
by mark bannister 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Well, I celebrated too soon. After changing my motherboard all was well until I tried to reconfigure my extra parallel ports. I screwed up Cups somehow and now system won't start. Cups fails to start then system Hangs when Samba waits for Cups to start. I have no clue how to configure these things from a command line. I thought I could run YaST from command line, but I can't seem to figure that out either. I am booting from the rescue system. Can someone kindly point me in the right direction? Mark B.

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Dell Flat Monitor
by Sergio Dominguez 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi all, just installed Suse 8.2 Pro in my desktop (in my laptop it gave no problems!) and it looks like it cannot find the right monitor. I have a 15" flat monitor, and I have tried the 1503FP and a standard LCD 1024x768@75Hz In both cases Sax2 fries when doing the test (mouse not working and no response to keyboard) (I got those from looking through the list) If in any case I get to a not too bad (which means black margins on the screen) configuration and I save... well it hangs with a black screen and cursor blinking. Has anyone sorted out this monitor? Thanks, Sergio -- Didja hear about the dyslexic devil worshipper who sold his soul to Santa?

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Re: [SLE] Newbie
by Maureen Crothall 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

WOW!! So much help, so fast. I thank you all for the words of encouragement. Although it's now my THIRD choice, I do think SUSE is the one. Some have told me I'm over-researching and reading on Linux but I want to be sure. I have three weeks before I'm going to be really REALLY busy with my daughters wedding and family over from England, I'm thinking I might take the plunge now. You may hear from me again very soon. Thanks again. Maureen.

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Floppy and DVD/CDRW Drive in same laptop bay
by William Westfall 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Does anyone know how I get SuSE 8.2 to allow me the privilege of using both the floppy and CDRW in the same bay on my Panasonic T-72 laptop. I currently have the CDRW/DVD drive in the bay and it works great, but there are those occasions when I need the floppy, which goes into that bay also, what would be the procedure for swapping and activating so I have access to both? Thanks in Advance

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Confab not working
by Damian Buckley 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

We are using Suse Linux version 8.1 and we have a crontab set up - recently the crontab stopped running and without rebooting the machine I want to know a) what could have happened and b) how I can get the cron to start working again? I have restarted the cron deamon without any effect, restarted the networking side of the machines i.e interfaces, restarted inetd..... In need of help Thanx in advance Damian _____ Damian Buckley I.T Assistant Federation of Small Businesses The information contained in this email is strictly confidential and for the use of the addressee only. Notice is hereby given that any disclosure, use or copying of the information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited and may be illegal. If you have received this message in error please notify the sender immediately by return email. The sender and the FSB do not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of software viruses and advises that you carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachment.

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8.2 text install on vmware 4
by Eugene Salinas 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi everyone, I'm new to the list as I'm trying to install SuSE 8.2 and am having some issues. I'm trying to install SuSE 8.2 in VMWare 4. So I followed the instructions and installed using the text mode installer. However, I must have missed something because it didn't ask me whether I want to install the X server or not. VMware says to install text mode only so that you can put the tool on later and then use sax2. The install proceeded to the end in text mode only to see that at the first boot it started loading kde and after that I couldn't figure out how to install the vmtools and reconfigure the screen. Any ideas of what I'm missing? thanks a lot, eugene.

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FAT32 question
by Frits Wuthrich 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

every time I copy or move a file from a reiserfs partition to a FAT32 partition, I get the error message 'could not change permissions for [filename]'. This is the line in fstab for this drive/partition: /dev/hdb1 /windows/F vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,users,gid=users,umask=0002,code=437 0 0 Although I get the error message, the file gets copied anyway. I use SUSE8.1 or WinXP on this box. I am not sure what is going on, but I suspect the permission is set incorrectly for this windows partition? -- Frits Wuthrich <frits(a)wuthrich.cc>

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Re: [SLE] Laptop Wireless
by Branton Boehm 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

I'm reposting this, because I think that it's been pushed down far enough that people aren't seeing it. Basically, I've got my internal wireless card setup as my eth-pcmcia-0 device. Someone said something about how it should be bridged to eth1 and then I can use it. It doesn't seem to be doing that. Can anyone help? Thanks, Branton > >I'm sorry that I haven't yet got this working... I really do appreciate >your help. > > >>>>3.1) fire up yast2 >>>> configure network card as pcmcia (DHCP settings might be >>>>troublesome, use hardcoded IP, just for testing at least) >>> >>> >>>YaST2 doesn't give me the option to configure the "Harris Semiconductor" >>>(my wireless card) that it detects as PCMCIA. If I click "Configure", it >>>goes straight to the screen where you set the IP address. I can click >>>"Configure" where it says "Other (not detected)" and then I get the >>>choice of a PCMCIA device. But I don't know how to hook that up to my >>>internal wireless card. >>> >>>If someone could point me in the right direction here, I would really >>>appreciate it. (Currently, the wireless is configured as eth1 and not as >>>PCMCIA.) >> >>Thats exactly where you need to go - Others/Pcmcia - and set up config for >>IP&gateway&DNS there. >> >> >>After it got pcmcia-ethX device, it will be bridged as ethY, and on >>restart of all things it will know that you got it.. >>Basic simple test - is that after you got it all - ifconfig should >>display ethY configured (might miss IP though, if wireless gateway is >>unreachable, but rest should be there) > >I've now got a eth-pcmcia-0 device that was configued in YaST2, but I don't >see that it was bridged anywhere. Is that something that I need to do or >should it be done automatically? Here is the output of ifconfig: > ># ifconfig >eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E2:58:9A:5B > inet addr:192.168.1.110 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::200:e2ff:fe58:9a5b/10 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:1047 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:1003 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:403170 (393.7 Kb) TX bytes:127242 (124.2 Kb) > Interrupt:11 Base address:0x9000 Memory:81a00000-81a00038 > >lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:2608 (2.5 Kb) TX bytes:2608 (2.5 Kb) > >eth0 is my ethernet card (which is working correctly). It doesn't appear >that the internal wireless card was "bridged" like you referred to. So... >what do I do now? > >Thanks, > Branton Boehm > >_________________________________________________________________ >MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: >http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > >-- >Check the headers for your unsubscription address >For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com >Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com >Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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Re: [SLE] kde 3.1.4
by stefan 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi Thadeu, Which package have you used from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/adrian/beta1 ? There is no qt-3.2.1-ver package schema in there. I think it is better wait until SuSE folks are gonna fix this under their FTP site. stefan --- Jose Thadeu Cavalcante <thadeurj(a)terra.com.br> wrote: Hi, I installed the Kde-3.1.4 using that one qt and in principle it is working correctly. So, It is good if you use that qt-3.2.1. I think SuSE will put qt3-3.2.1 in the download area briefly. Thadeu On Thursday 25 September 2003 03:11, stefan wrote: > Hi guys, > > Im confused. > > So once again: Are the new KDE packages from > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/ good or > not ? > > Still under 'base' there is qt3.1.2 instead of 3.2.1 ! > I think they should provide the new qt library under base too ! Right ? > > stefan > -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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Re: [SLE] kde 3.1.4
by stefan 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

In other words : at this moment there is not yet KDE 3.1.4 for Suse 8.2 available. Anyone does know how can we notice SuSE about this ? Is anyone from suse reading this mailing list ? stefan --- Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj(a)panther.mmj.dk> wrote: * Ben Rosenberg <ben(a)whack.org> [Sep 25. 2003 03:11]: > Wow! I wonder if KDE 3.1.4 is packaged this poorly in 9.0. *sigh* What do you think Ben? Our default desktop in a fresh system, not an upgrade of newer versions on an older system. You can be pretty sure it's good :) -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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NIS automounter
by fsanta 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

When a user logs on they request a mount from the server. Where is that mount? Is it physically copied to the client or are bits of it it NFS'd from the server each time he does something with it or is there a link to it on his machine. . .? We've been getting some very slow progress just recently, with open office under kde and especially as the file count grows on the server. SuSE 8.2. PIV server with 1024Mb and 40Gb IDE. 18 off PII 450 clients. 3 daisy chained switches. Any bottlneck help much appreciated. Steve.

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Re: [SLE] kde 3.1.4
by stefan 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi guys, Im confused. So once again: Are the new KDE packages from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/ good or not ? Still under 'base' there is qt3.1.2 instead of 3.2.1 ! I think they should provide the new qt library under base too ! Right ? stefan --- Jose Thadeu Cavalcante <thadeurj(a)terra.com.br> wrote: I found a qt3-3.2.1 rpm in ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/adrian/beta1 Thank you Adrian -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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Cupsd error: child exited on signal 11
by Kepes.Krisztian 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hello , I have Suse 8.2, I install this machine not too long ago. When I want to setup the printing, the yast is say that cupsd is not startable. I reinstall all of cups packages, but it is not useable. The cupsd say this: /etc/init.d/cups start returned 0 (Success.) Starting cupsd..done cupsd: Child exited on signal 11! in the error_log I see: I [25/Sep/2003:09:49:11 +0200] Listening to 0:631 I [25/Sep/2003:09:49:11 +0200] Configured for up to 100 clients. I [25/Sep/2003:09:49:11 +0200] Allowing up to 10 client connections per host. I [25/Sep/2003:09:49:11 +0200] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 3017 PPDs... I [25/Sep/2003:09:49:12 +0200] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs... What is this ? What I can do for repairing the cupsd ? -- Hi : KK

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reiserfs prob after YOU update
by oguz eren 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi, Yesterday i used YOU on my SuSE 8.2 Prof.Ed. for the first time. I installed patches without any problem. But since then i can't boot my laptop anymore. The last part of boot msgs are as follows: ---begin--- Loading module reiserfs... Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.o reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal reiserfs: enabling write barrier flush mode reiserfs: using ordered data mode reiserfs: checking transaction log (ide0(3,2)) for (ide0(3,2)) Using r5 hash to sort names vs-7000: search_by_entry_key: search_by_key returned item position == 0<4>zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry ---end--- I guess it's sth with the kernel patch, but i don't know how to solve it. I can boot my laptop on safe mode, or with knoppix. Any help is appreciated, espacially the detailed ones, since i'm not a good shell-user :-)

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xine
by Tom Allison 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

I was trying to run xine and it seems that it isn't configured from the install. Furthermore, there is not xine-config script as mentioned in the docs. So what are you supposed to do in order to get xine running?

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Newbie -- New Motherboard -- this was easy
by mark bannister 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

My motherboard just went on my new SuSE 8.2 setup. Since this is my file server I had to get it up running quickly so I ran out and bought a new Asus P4P80-VM motherboard, new P4 chip, and new memory. Put it all back together, booted from the hard disk and it all came up nicely. KDE detected new video, reconfigured 1Gig NIC (OK it hung there but restarted and was happy), found new IDE controller but Yast2 decided it couldn't configure anything. This is great!!!! Now, should I reinstall SuSE from scratch just to make sure everything is kosher? I had a few warnings at startup but they were minor things like the extra parallel port. If I do reinstall SuSE I of course want to keep all my configuration settings for Samba, Cups, etc. What's the best way to do this besides saving off each config file one by one? Any advice would be great. Thanks Mark B.

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nVidia
by Fred A. Miller 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

The latest nVidia driver that one is to install from nVidia after the kernel update just posted and installed by YOU, is NOT usable and WON'T install!! I hope SuSE is working on this, as 3D is "GONE" because of this error. Some have very slow systems now. Fred -- Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft®. We have no bugs in our software, Never!, We do have undocumented added features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost, to you, at this time.

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new libgphoto2 packages for SuSE 8.2
by Marcus Meissner 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi, For you digital camera users out there I have put a new libgphoto2 2.1.2 RPM on ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/meissner/gphoto/2.1.2/8.2/ This brings especially Canon and PTP drivers up to a good working state, so if you had problems with those cameras, feel free to try. Ciao, Marcus

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daisy chain and krells
by fsanta 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Krells no problem. Forgot about that one! You can change screen res on the fly under X. It's ctrl+alt +or- in the numeric keypad. Here is the reply to the switches: The ideal setup with switches is to have one as the "master" that the other switches and servers plug into. This should also be the best switch that you can afford.

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Plugin.
by Erik Jakobsen 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi. On my SuSE 8.2 system I also run the Netscape 7.1. From here when I call a webconfigurator, Netscape claims about a missing Java plugin. I answer yes to got to the site where the plugin is to be found. But I cannot decide what package I need to download/install. On the page I have several otpions, and that makes it not easier to decide :-) We speak of the J2SE, and here the options are : 1.4.2 1.4.1 1.3.1 1.2.2 I have downloaded the first option .1.4.2, and have followed the install instruction, and also made a symlink. But still claiming if I want to start up as told at the start of this message. What can be done ?. /Erik

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Re: [SLE] Dialup problems
by Carl William Spitzer IV 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Evolution errors Could not create composer window Unable to retreive message from editor I made the change but still get unknown host error. CWSIV cwsiv@linux:~> ls /etc/wv* -l -rw-r----- 1 root dialout 336 Sep 22 19:20 /etc/wvdial.conf cwsiv@linux:~> From: "Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris(a)ntm.org> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:39:06 +0800 Subject: Re: [SLE] Dialup problems On 09/24/2003 04:43 AM, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: >According to this i can get in when I first log in as root I can then access the web. >Changing wvdial.conf permissions to 655 worked but I still must run it in console first. > Not quite what I meant. >Now I have a curious question how do I get the system to dial when go to >www.oclug.org ??? > > Do you want dial on demand? > <snip> > >linux:/home/cwsiv # ls /etc/wvdial* -l >-rw------- 1 root root 336 Sep 22 19:20 /etc/wvdial.conf >linux:/home/cwsiv # > > This is wrong. i.e. joe@jmorris:~> ls -l /etc/wvdial* -rw-r----- 1 root dialout 302 2003-03-14 08:38 /etc/wvdial.conf In case you're wondering, I made that mistake in 6.4. If you edit it, and the editor makes a backup, it saves the file and changes the group owner. Change it to dialout, and 640. ________________________________________________________________ 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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Email relay authentication
by Carlos E. R. 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

I use a modem dial up connection; that means that my IP is not fixed, the connection is not permanent, and that I don't have a domain name. I have two ISP, and several mail accounts. Normal, so far? :-) Ok. I have SuSE 8.2. I use postfix (previously I used sendmail) for sending my email, direct, ie, without using the ISPs relays. It is simpler, because each ISP doesn't look well upon me trying to use one server to send email from the other accounts. It works fine... except when it doesn't. The problem is that some destinations do not accept smtp connections coming from ranges blocked because of RBL, residential ranges, or such things. RBL blocking on ranges is so unfair as when a kid does something bad in school and the teacher punishes the whole class. And there is nothing I can do: the IPs are not mine to complain about it. (teleline, by other name terra, by other name _the_ telephone company, is the biggest ISP here. They don't answer client queries or complains by email: it has to be by pay phone, a 906 that may cost around 1$ a minute. If some one complains about spam (to abuse@whatever or similar email), there is a high probability that it would be ignored (I tried once). That explains why they could be included in the RBL). So... the solution should be use my provider relay (three at least), assuming that it hasn't been blacklisted as well. But how? Let me explain the problem: - It is a different relay for each account, ie, one for each "from" address. The transport has to be selected on the "from" address, not the destination. Thus, the file "/etc/postfix/transport" can not be used. - The relay servers requires authentication. How and where do I define passwords for each relay server? - Some servers might require pop before smtp... how on earth do I do that with postfix, for sending? I hope I don't forget anything O:-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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NVidia, apt-get and libGLcore
by Geoff Horn 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hello, I've a couple of (rpm) programs that, although they run OK, complain about a missing dependancy on libGLcore.so.1. These files exist as they are, I think, part of my NVidia 4496 installation. Is there a way to make the NVidia*.run installation into an rpm file so that these complaints go away? I'm trying to use apt but apt-get throws up these problems and I don't want apt to destroy my stable system by installing some unnecessary package! Geoff

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Netgear MA101 (USB Wireless Network Adapter)
by LinuxWorld999 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

After compiling and installing the kernel on the pc here, the wireless adapter would not work. A good HOWTO can be found at this site : http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/howto/howto-4.html Do not use the latest drivers but download and compile the snapshot dated 20021209. Compiling the latest drivers did not activate the adapter. However, downloading and compiling the snapshot dated 20021209 worked first time here. The pc spec is : Athlon 2800 XP, Nvidia Gforce4, 512MB ram, running SuSE 8.2. Using checkinstall, an rpm of the package has been prepared. Please let me know if you would this emailed to you, off this list of course. Hope this is of some help to anyone trying to get this particular adapter to work with 8.2. LW999

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