November 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

status of NTFS file system.
by Jerry Westrick 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

I noticed that SUSE 9.2 now can mount my NTFS partitions, Is this still beta software? should i mount RO? Anybody know the status of this? Anybody had expirience with it? Jerry

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pam.conf does not exist
by John 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

I have installed the following pam related software # rpm -aq |egrep pam pam-modules-9.0-5 yast2-pam-2.8.5-65 pam-0.77-124 pam_mysql-0.5-2 But i cannot find the /etc/pam.conf Do why that happens?

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Konqueror messin' up
by John B 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Hi folks, Here's another thing that's really gettin' to me. I got online earlier to go to ebay just to browse around and waste some time. When I opened konqueror and there was no URL typed in the location bar, I had the top bar with the drop-down menus (all text stuff above the 'back' and forward' and etc. buttons bar) right where it was supposed to be...at the top of konqueror. As soon as I typed in an URL, konq started to go there, and as soon as it arrived, the top bar just disappears. It's not in the right-click tool bar menu at all. How do I get my konqueror to act right again? I've made no adjustments to it for better than a week now, so it wasn't because I was piddlin' with anything, heh. Using SuSE 9.2 with all YOU updates except the kernel (dialup sucks!). John

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nfs freezes the server.
by Tim Hanson 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I'm having problems with nfs. At present only one server and one client exist. I'm clearing up any problems before adding more clients. My server is a 64 bit Athlon system, the client is a 32 bit Athlon system (This may be relevant, maybe not). Both systems are running 9.2, although the same thing happened when running 9.1 on the client. This happens 100% of the time, after setting up nfs of /home on the server and /home/utilhome on the client. as soon as I activate nfs on the client, either through booting, through yast, or /etc/init.d/nfs restart, the server locks up tight. It won't respond to keyboard or an ssh login. The only unlock is the computer reset button. On the server, the option is rw,no_root_squash,async. On the client it is "defaults." Is there something I'm missing?

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YOU Update Problems - SUSE 9.2
by Don Parris 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

After I installed SUSE 9.2, I ran YOU successfully. I have also installed a few apps off the DVD since then. However, I have not been able to update since the initial update and my application installations all had errors, but seem to work fine. Someone suggested rebuilding the database, but I'm not sure how to do that. Where do I learn more? The error messages from tonight's attempt look something like: ERROR(InstTarget:E_RpmDB_subprocess_failed) warning: /etc/bogofilter.cf created as /etc/bogofilter.cf.rpmnew rpmdb: PANIC: Invalid argument rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30982) from dbcursor->c_put: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30982) from db->sync: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30982) from dbcursor->c_close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30982) from db->sync: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30982) from db->cursor: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30982) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery <I've truncated this message for brevity's sake> Thanks, Don -- DC Parris GNU Evangelist http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime anywhere!"

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/ out of diskspace after Backup/cp files???
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

How come when I backup my /home partition, i sometimes get scrolling messages that tell me that certain files where not copied, and at the end that the / partition has no free space?? This is one of THE quickest ways to make me breakout in a cold sweat!?? I am well aware of rsync and the system backup utilities on 9.0 but still prefer to do a plain cp as it results in a shorter time before the information can be accessed. Below is the procedure I use, which one fine day will find its way into a script: 1) Log off reading Mozilla email in KDE as a regular user 2) Log on to KDE as root 3) Using Konqueror, I click on the desktop icon that is labeled as /data4 4) Once the directory is mounted I delete the /home directory from /data4. 5) When complete I log out of KDE completely, sometimes unmounting /data4 beforehand. 6) I move to TTY1(ie CTRL-ALT-F2) and log on as root. 7) I then enter the command: #> cp -a /home /data4/home 7.1) I also sometimes do #> cp -a /etc /data4/etc to backup etc 8) On completion I shutdown the machine and go to bed. navigate to my backup partition /data4 My trimmed fstab is below to show that /data4 is a separate drive too. The figures at the end represent the partition capacity not its actual size, although the sizes are currently all under 50% of the capacity. /dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 1.9Gb /dev/hdb9 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 45.5Mb /dev/hdd1 /data4 auto noauto,user 0 0 6.9Gb /dev/hdb8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 5.9Gb /dev/hdb10 /opt ext3 defaults 1 2 3.0Gb /dev/hdb6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 3.8Gb /dev/hdb7 /var ext3 defaults 1 2 2.97Gb What is wrong with the steps 1-8? What am I missing? Does /data4 have to be mounted before step 7? Where does the backed up data go if /data4 is not mounted? Does the partition always have to be mounted before copying/accessing data on it, I would think so but when then have some of the backups completed without a hitch?? I've looked at the FHS, help, man and info pages for cp and realize this is a dumb question, but there must be something I'm missing that causes the root file system to become full. -- The cp full Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================

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RE: [SLE] Suse 9.1 Pro on Server Class Machine
by Ken Schneider 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 17:33, Ricci Graham wrote: > Ken, > > It boots fine from the install CD and I can load all five CD's, but then > when I try to boot from Installed System and it runs the boot messages by > and the it freezes at the "starting yast" message. I thought maybe it was > hanging on the RAID. What do you think? > > Ricci > Please keep this to the list. I installed SuSE on an 1850R and problems until I used nousb to get the system to run. YMMV. > > Are there any known problems with Suse 9.1 Professional running on a > Server > > Class machine i.e. > > Compaq 1850R > > Dual PIII 600 Mhz > > 1 Gig RAM > > RAID 5 (3 SCSI 18.5 Gig Hard drives) > > > > What part of the last line in my sig don't you understand? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please*

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k3B error for user
by Paul Cartwright 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

ok, I checked the archives and I can't find how to fix this problem. I have upgraded to SUSE9.2 and now my CD recorder won't burn, giving me a read error. as root, cdrecord works, so it is a file permissions problem?? yet the /dev/hdd is owned by the user what do I need to change? running kde 3.3.0 and K3b 0.11.17 -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

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portmap
by it clown 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hi All i am running 9.1 and portmap for some reason does not want to start. When i run rcportmap start i get the following: Starting RPC portmap daemonportmap: fork: Success failed. What is causing this and how can i fix this? Regards _____________________________________________________________________ For super low premiums ,click here http://www.dialdirect.co.za/quote

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FW: [SLE] Need Windows EXT2 Reader Advice
by Greg Wallace 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

On Monday, November 22, 2004 @ 5:19 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote -- >>On Monday, November 22, 2004 @ 5:01 PM, Greg Wallace wrote-- >> *) e2fsprogs -- Looks like this is software for a Linux machine and not for >> Windows. >I believe those are all the accesory tools like mkfs, fsck, etc. >Someone ported them to cygwin and released them this last summer. >Cygwin is a dll (or collection of dlls) that present a Linux API in a >windows environment. >The core team works mostly on the dll's, but there are hundreds of >Linux programs that have been compiled for the cygwin dll and are >included in the cygwin packages setup. (Not really a distro.). >End result is the e2fsprogs is available for windows (via cygwin) once >you get a good filesystem driver for ext2. >Greg Thanks for the info. So would you think that they would work on top of any Windows mounted EXT2 file system, regardless of the software (ext2fsd, ext2 anywhere) that was being used to mount it? Thanks, Greg W

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