January 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

KDE Start Button
by Jim 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Does anyone know how I can turn off the Suse Start menu button and use the default KDE button? Thanks, Jim

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User knowledge database
by Paul W. Abrahams 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

I'd like to put forth a proposal to SuSE and the folks on this list (who obviously include knowledgeable SuSEers) that SuSE create a self-maintaining user knowledge base with the same structure as SuSE's own database. Users could contribute articles to it having the same structure (including, in particular, keywords) as those in SuSE's own database. It could be surrounded by as many disclaimers as desired that the knowledge is not in any way guaranteed by SuSE and SuSE is not responsible for the accuracy or correctness of the knowledge therein. There's lots of useful knowledge on this list that never makes it to SDB, but searching the list is very difficult (Google seems to work better than anything else). The user knowledge database would provide a way to capture some of that knowledge, and folks here are obviously willing to volunteer their wisdom to the community. One would create an article by filling out an online form; a valuable enhancement would be to provide a way for others to comment on the article and in particular add to it. What do folks think? Paul Abrahams

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Unresolved configuration files
by Jean-Pierre Vanderwaeren 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Hi, I recently performed an upgarde from Suse 8.2 to Suse 9.0 on my Dell Inspiron 8200. The procedure was flawless and everything seems to work just fine, but for one small detail: During startup I get the message that the system found some "unresolved configuration files", followed by a list of files. I looked at them briefly, but they look fine to me. Since my system seems to work just fine, I am not too bothered, but I do admit that I am curious as to what causes this message. So please enlighten me, some one ;-) Bye, Jean-Pierre Vanderwaeren (jpv(a)easynet.be)

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sound prob after upgrade to 9.0
by MindBender 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Hello All, I have a strange problem after upgrading my SuSE 8.2 to 9.0 when using application from KDE there is no sound problem but if I used xmms it claim that the ressources is busy even if there is no apparent other application using the sound card.. have any body else has a similar problem Thanks for any help. ===== \\|// - ? (o o) / =======oOOO=(_)OOo=====================\ email : ephlodur(a)rocketmail.com What we need is Awareness we can't get carelless. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

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Premature end of script headers
by Susemail 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

I'm trying to get a program called sql-ledger up and running. The instructions say: create a file sql-ledger-httpd.conf in the same location where your httpd.conf is and copy the next section into the file: Alias /sql-ledger/ /usr/local/sql-ledger/ <Directory /usr/local/sql-ledger> AllowOverride All AddHandler cgi-script .pl Options ExecCGI Includes FollowSymlinks Order Allow,Deny Allow from All </Directory> <Directory /usr/local/sql-ledger/users> Order Deny,Allow Deny from All </Directory> I did this. edit httpd.conf and add: # SQL-Ledger Include <ServerRoot>/sql-ledger-httpd.conf Note: Replace <ServerRoot> with the server's root directory! restart your web server. I did this using /srv/www/htdocs/sql-ledger-httpd.conf. This produced errors, I could not connect to local host and there was an error in restarting apache2. So I put a copy of sql-ledger-httpd.conf in htdocs. Now I can connect to localhost and restart without error. The instructions above say: create a file sql-ledger-httpd.conf in the same location where your httpd.conf is; but this didn't work. Only after I put the file in htdocs could I connect to localhost. Even though http://localhost/index.html.en works now, http://localhost/sql-ledger/admin.pl gives this error: Server error! The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Error message: Premature end of script headers: admin.pl If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Error 500 localhost Wed Jan 28 23:51:43 2004 Apache/2.0.48 (Linux/SuSE) Is /srv/www/htdocs apache2's root directory? How do I correct this error? Thanks, Jerome

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Re: [SLE] Root filesystem on LVM on SuSE 9.0 (Progress!)
by Chris_Eason＠JohnLewis.co.uk 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

I have managed to get this to work! But until SuSE 9.0 behaves correctly by default I'm not going to use this arrangement for fear of future package updates breaking the system. The only thing I needed to get the system to work was to add a line to the 'linuxrc' script found in the root directory of the initrd image: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib/i686:/lib If this line is added before all the 'insmod' statements that load the SCSI and LVM drivers, the system boots up without any problems. I must also admit that when I double-checked the initrd on the system that I was trying to fix I found that it *did* in fact have libc.so.6 in it, but even so for some reason it wasn't being picked up until I specified the LD_LIBARARY_PATH variable. So, in conclusion, I can say that there is no reason why you have to have ANYTHING outside the LVM. There is no need for a separate /boot partition, and no need for a separate / or swap or anything else. Put the whole lot in LVM-managed volumes and LILO is perfectly capable of finding the files it needs, and the system is perfectly capable of booting up OK. But someone at SuSE needs to tweak their distribution to support this out of the box since the only way to get it to work currently is to: * interrupt the first reboot after installation and start a Rescue system * Activate and mount your filesystems: vgscan vgchange -ay system (if system is your volume group) mount /dev/system/lvroot /mnt (for testing purposes I just used one large logical volume and file system. In practice this is obviously not of much benefit so in reality you'd have more mounts to do here!) * chroot into the partially-installed system: chroot /mnt * Modify the linuxrc script found in initrd: cp /boot/initrd /tmp/initrd.gz gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz mount /tmp/initrd /mnt vi /mnt/linuxrc and add the line "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib/i686:/lib" before all the insmod statements. Save your changes. umount /mnt gzip /tmp/initrd cp /tmp/initrd.gz /boot/initrd-whatever-kernel-version-you've-got * Exit from the chrooted environment and reboot. exit shutdown -r now * Voila! I have been using a LVM on AIX for years and its advantages are very clear to me. The ability to separate out different areas of disc storage is extremely useful, as is the ability to extend or reduce those areas dynamically. (Make sure you use reiserfs for online filesystem resizing - I can't believe support for this on ext3, the default filesystem on Red Hat, is simply non-existant but it is.) The sooner Linux completes its support for this very useful tool the better! Hope someone at SuSE is listening! Chris ********************************************************************* Notice: This email is confidential and may contain copyright material of the John Lewis Partnership. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete all copies of this message. (Please note that it is your responsibility to scan this message for viruses). Email to and from the John Lewis Partnership is automatically monitored for operational and lawful business reasons. ********************************************************************* John Lewis plc Registered in England 233462 Registered office 171 Victoria Street London SW1E 5NN Websites: http://www.johnlewis.com and http://www.waitrose.com

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GRUB, SATA and mysterious drive numbers
by Dave Howorth 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Hi I'm trying to set up SUSE 9.0 on a new box with a P4 on an Intel D875PBZ board like another recent poster. I have: 1 PATA drive (pri master), 1 DVD (sec master) and 2 SATA drives. I have installed the system onto the first SATA drive (I'll call it SATA0) but am having trouble with the final stage of reconfiguring the drives and GRUB. To do the install, I set the BIOS to Legacy mode and asked for both SATA drives and the PATA Sec Master (DVD). (Note that the PATA drive is not selected - it isn't possible to select it as well as the DVD and a SATA drive and contrary to other reports it is NOT necessary to have or use one to do the install.). Boot from the DVD and install to the first SATA drive, which appears as hda. So far so good, running system with network and everything. Will happily reboot itself from disk using GRUB. The problem comes when I reset the BIOS to Enhanced mode, so I'll be able to see the PATA disk as well. I've told the BIOS that SATA0 takes precedence in boot order, so GRUB starts OK. If I stop the boot and go into GRUB's command line I can then see from the partition tables that it is seeing SATA0 as (hd0), SATA1 as (hd1) and PATA as (hd2). I have a menu entry: kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda0 initrd (hd0,0) That fails saying: sh2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ide0(3,1) Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 I have another menu entry: kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde0 initrd (hd0,0) This gets further. It appears to load the kernel and various drivers such as ethernet, usb but the root file system fails its fsck (my /etc/fstab says /dev/hda1 / reiserfs defaults 1 1) : reiserfs_open: the reiserfs superblock cannot be found on /dev/hda1. The system then boots into maintenance mode. df says that /dev/hda1 is mounted on / and I can browse the reiserfs file system that is on the first partition of SATA0. I also have a device.map file that says: (hd0) /dev/hda (hd1) /dev/hdc (hd2) /dev/hde (hd3) /dev/hdg But when I ask cfdisk to inspect /dev/hda it shows me the partition table for the PATA disk and when I ask to see /dev/hde it shows me SATA0. Within dmesg there are lines saying: PIIX-4 ... ide0: ... hda:DMA ... ide1: ... hdc:DMA ... ICH5-SATA ... ide2: ... hde:DMA ... ide3: ... hdg:DMA ... hda: ST3120022A, ATA DISK drive [ this is the PATA model number ] hdc: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM ... hde: ST3120026AS, ATA DISK drive [ this is the SATA model number ] hdg: ST3120026AS, ATA DISK drive [ this is the SATA model number ] If I edit my /etc/fstab to refer to /dev/hde1 then reiserfs is detected, fsck'ed and mounted OK (the system then locks up but that's another subject!) I'm confused!!! (hair being pulled out) It seems as though (hd0) is the SATA drive when GRUB starts but somehow /dev/hde (hd2?) becomes the SATA drive. Looking at the dmesg, I'd kind of expect SATA0 to be (hd2) from the get go. Can anybody explain what's happening? Also in the hope that this may help someone. Cheers, Dave

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readline keymap == emacs || emacs-standard || emacs-meta || emacs-ctlx
by Steven T. Hatton 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

I see in the man page for bash there are different keymap options for the readline editing-mode. What I don't see is any documentation on the various modes. ############## from man bind ##################### bind readline-command ... -m keymap Use keymap as the keymap to be affected by the subsequent bindings. Acceptable keymap names are emacs, emacs-standard, emacs-meta, emacs-ctlx, vi, vi-move, vi-command, and vi-insert. vi is equivalent to vi-command; emacs is equivalent to emacs-standard. ################# end ########################### I'm going to play with this a bit to see if I can't figure it out, but it's not even clear how to set the keymap, or any other of these options, for that matter. If I do `help bind', I see: ############## output ##################### bind: bind [-lpvsPVS] [-m keymap] [-f filename] [-q name] [-u name] [-r keyseq] [-x keyseq:shell-command] [keyseq:readline-function or readline-command] Bind a key sequence to a Readline function or a macro, or set a Readline variable. The non-option argument syntax is equivalent to that found in ~/.inputrc, but must be passed as a single argument: bind '"\C-x\C-r": re-read-init-file'. bind accepts the following options: -m keymap Use `keymap' as the keymap for the duration of this command. Acceptable keymap names are emacs, emacs-standard, emacs-meta, emacs-ctlx, vi, vi-move, vi-command, and vi-insert. -l List names of functions. -P List function names and bindings. -p List functions and bindings in a form that can be reused as input. -r keyseq Remove the binding for KEYSEQ. -x keyseq:shell-command Cause SHELL-COMMAND to be executed when KEYSEQ is entered. -f filename Read key bindings from FILENAME. -q function-name Query about which keys invoke the named function. -u function-name Unbind all keys which are bound to the named function. -V List variable names and values -v List variable names and values in a form that can be reused as input. -S List key sequences that invoke macros and their values -s List key sequences that invoke macros and their values in a form that can be reused as input. ################# end ########################### `bind -v' results in: ################ output ###################### set blink-matching-paren on set byte-oriented off set completion-ignore-case off set convert-meta off set disable-completion off set enable-keypad off set expand-tilde off set history-preserve-point off set horizontal-scroll-mode off set input-meta on set mark-directories on set mark-modified-lines off set mark-symlinked-directories off set match-hidden-files on set meta-flag on set output-meta on set page-completions on set prefer-visible-bell on set print-completions-horizontally off set show-all-if-ambiguous off set visible-stats off set bell-style audible set comment-begin # set completion-query-items 100 set editing-mode emacs set keymap emacs ################ end ###################### But `set keymap emacs-meta' does not change the result of the previous command. Is there a good resource on these bash/readline related issues? STH

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[SLE} Installing source RPMs
by John Ryan 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Hello, I am new to Linux. I am running SUSE 9.0 personal. I want to install some source RPMs. So, I downloaded two of them from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.0/suse/src When I tried (having su'ed to root) rpmbuild --rebuild ./aide-0.9-189.src.rpm it returns installing ./aide-0.9-189.src.rpm error: ./aide-0.9-189.src.rpm cannot be installed When I tried rpmbuild --rebuild ./ethereal-0.9.114-86.src.rpm I eventually get checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to gtk-config. checking for glib-config... no checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... no *** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found *** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to glib-config. configure: error: GLib distribution not found. error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.98608 (%build) I checked using YAST, and both glib and gtk are installed, but I could locate neither lib-config nor using a find command. How should one go about installing source RPMs? I have never installed one before. John ________________________________________________________________________ BT Yahoo! Broadband - Free modem offer, sign up online today and save £80 http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk

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More on Bash and readline
by Steven T. Hatton 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

In the man page for bind it says I can make modifications to the settings by creating a ~/.inputrc. I tried that, but it doesn't seem to have any affect on the settings. Is it overridden by the /etc/inputrc? Also, is there a way to echo the key codes that I would put in such a file? For example, I want to map Ctrl+Delete to copy region as kill. How do I find out what the acceptable representation for that combination would be? STH

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