November 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

USB 20Gb Drive with a FAT32 and two NTFS partitions
by Riccardo Facchini 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hi all. I have a SuSE 9.1 stock on a i586 box, and a Transcend 20Gb USB disk. the disk has three partitions, the first one is FAT32, and the second and third are NTFS. Even if FDISK sees the units, I'm only able to mount the first partition. I'm able to mount other NTFS hard disks I have in the same box with no trouble at all. any suggestion on what I may be doing wrong? Regards, Riccardo

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Azureus questions?
by John N. Alegre 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

I have two quick questions on Azureus. Is Azureus a complete BitTorrent client or do I have to also install BitTorrent or some other p2p bridge / software? What ports do I need to open in SuSEFirewall for Azureus to work? Neither of these things is covered in the docs and a search of the SuSE arcives yielded nada. Thanks john

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How to enable autologin (no KDE and GNOME installed) ???
by Magr 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Greetings to everyone! I have installed SuSE Professional 9.2 over an old one and I've made a selection of packages without including KDE or GNOME packages(only their utilites if it was needed by dependences) and installed Window Maker as a WindowManager. The question is: How to set autologon for specified user ???

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Xmms-KDE Title problems
by Henry Standing 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hi All This one has been bugging me for a while now. I am using XMMS with the XMMS-KDE panel applet, and have noticed that the track title at the top of the applet is missing. Extensive googling brought up another user with the problem, but no resolution :( http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/alt.os.linux.suse/2004-09/2411.html Currently I am using SUSE 9.1 Pro hstanding@Henry5:~> rpm -qa | grep xmms xmms-kde-3.1-41 xmms-plugins-1.2.9-52 xmms-1.2.10-41 Anyone got any ideas where I can go from here? _ (\o/) Henry /_\ -- _ Henry Standing (\o/) Systems Engineer /_\ Oxford Policy Management lists at opml dot co dot uk

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ALSA
by rkimber＠ntlworld.com 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

My sound doesn't work any more, though I haven't *consciously* done anything to it. I'm getting error messages like:- kernel: ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:728: invalid via82xx_cur_ptr, using last valid pointer last message repeated 20 times is this due to some mal-configuration, or is it a bug? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber Suse 9.1 Prof, 2.6.5-7.111-smp, amd64

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SuSE 9.2 and Webcam
by Erik Jakobsen 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hi. I want to know if anyone has experiences with 9.2 and webcam. I have a Philips Toucam720K/00 here, that I want to run on my 9.2 TIA Erik Jakobsen

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Keyboard shortcuts and switching desktops
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

How can I change the function of depressing the 'Shift+TAB' keys ie I do not want it to switch desktops but to rather go to the previous field in the KDE GUI? I have looked in the help and been through both Yast and the Control Centre and can't find the setting that allows me to change the keyboard behaviour from switching desktops to going back to the previous field. This is driving me nuts as I know it is there somewhere. -- The desperately seeking keyboard relief 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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SuSE 9.2 install stops
by James Mohr 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hi All! This weekend I decided to re-install my machine with my recently purchased copy of SuSE 9.2. During boot, it would stop at the hardware check unless I started the the "safe" boot. The installation process goes so far as to format the partitions and when it gets to the point of actually installing the software it seems to stop. What I get appears to be the installation screens, but both panels are empty. All I have is the clock on the screen. I can move it around with the mouse and click the "details" button, which does "something", but I have nothing on the screen. I can switch virtual screens and get to a shell prompt. Here, I can run top or ps and it appears as if the processes exist, but they do not appear to be doing anything. For example, in top, the two top processes are always X and swapper. None of the installation processes (yast2) seem to be doing anything. Also, I run df regularly and the disk usage doesn't change. All this leads me to believe that the installation is doing nothing. Looking at the messages on other console screens, I do not see anything that indicate a problem (as far as I can tell). Since the installation didn't work, I pulled out my copy of SuSE 9.0 and re-installed that, without a problem. So, my assumption is that this isn't a hardware problem, per se. Maybe the media is defective???? So, I was wondering if anyone had similar experiences or has an idea of how to increase the amount of information is displayed. I am grateful for any and all help. Regards, Jim Mohr -- --------------------------------------- "Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." -- John Wooden --------------------------------------- Be sure to visit the Linux Tutorial: http://www.linux-tutorial.info --------------------------------------- NOTE: All messages sent to me in response to my posts to newsgroups or forums are subject to reposting.

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SUSE 9.2 and OpenOffice not starting
by Jim Hamilton 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hi all, I have an odd problem at the moment with OpenOffice 1.1.3 and SuSE 9.2 (patched kernel, kde 3.3.1). Immediately after a reboot I can start and stop OOo without problems at some point in time later, which I haven't determined as yet I can't start OOo-writer (or any other part of OOo). A small window starts, lots of cpu activity but no main window. Running strace on the startup of OOo-writer yields this output near the end. Any one able to point me in the right direction. My gut feel is that I am exhausting a kernel resource bit not sure how to determine this. munmap(0x427d9000, 3571712) = 0 fcntl64(9, F_SETLK, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 close(9) = 0 gettimeofday({1101802418, 595419}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1101802418, 595813}, NULL) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGXFSZ, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGXCPU, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGVTALRM, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGIO, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGURG, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGWINCH, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGPWR, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGSYS, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGBUS, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGFPE, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGABRT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTRAP, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 gettimeofday({1101802418, 598646}, NULL) = 0 write(8, "\4\1\2\0\2\0\200\4<\0\2\0\t\0\200\4<\0\2\0\3\0\200\4<\1"..., 84) = 84 read(8, 0xbfffede0, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) select(9, [8], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [8]) read(8, "\34\375\211\0\2\0\200\4\"\0\0\0-h\37\1\1\21\250\10\230"..., 32) = 32 read(8, "\34\375\211\0\2\0\200\4\366\0\0\0-h\37\1\1\21\250\10\230"..., 32) = 32 read(8, "\34\375\211\0\2\0\200\4q\1\0\0-h\37\1\1\21\250\10\230\375"..., 32) = 32 read(8, "\1\1\223\0\0\0\0\0\7\0\340\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\230"..., 32) = 32 shutdown(8, 2 /* send and receive */) = 0 close(8) = 0 close(6) = 0 close(7) = 0 close(5) = 0 exit_group(0) The clue seems to be this: read(8, 0xbfffede0, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) Br Jim -- Jim Hamilton Perth, Western Australia

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network interface not found
by Taavi Dovnar 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Suse 9.1 Pro. While booting, very often network card (integrated) is not found. Usually "few" restarts helps. Messages from log file are below. There is another computer with same configuration, usually no problems there. And same problem occur sometimes with other computers also... What could be reason & solution? MB: Epox 4PLAI 848P <notice>start services (network) Setting up network interfaces: lo lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8 doneWaiting for mandatory devices: eth-id-00:04:61:4e:bb:5b 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 eth-id-00:04:61:4e:bb:5b No interface found failedSetting up service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .failed <notice>exit status of (network) is (7)

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