December 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

YOU and unlisted updates
by Peter B Van Campen 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Hi Folks, I did a YOU on my 8.2 system and saw nothing there for 8.2, but when I hit finish it d/l'd a new 2.4 kernel 2.4.20-127. It went OK, now running, but it got me thinking that I have seen several instances where an update gets on YOU but is never listed, nor explained. Usually I like to stay up-to-date, but it would be nice to know something about why an update is avail. Have any of you experianced this? PeterB -- -- Proud SUSE user since 5.2 Loving SUSE 9.2 My BLOG == http://vancampen.org/blog --

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Help, hard drive problem - no Linux partitions found.
by Richard Mixon (qwest) 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Would appreciate any ideas before I bite the bullet and have to reinstall. I have a box I was using to setup mythtv using SuSE Pro 9.2. Its an Athlon XP 1500 with a WD 200GB drive, 512MB RAM. I had partitioned it with a 100mb "/boot", 512MB swap and the rest as an LVM storage group, which I then divided up into "/", "/var", "/cache" and "/mythtv". The only unorthodox thing I did (and I say that only in hindsight) was use the partition editor to change my "/mythtv" partition from Reiser to XFS while the partition was mounted. I had read that was much larger for large file. When I rebooted no I got a screen fully of numbers (TTY1, TTY2, ....) and no root partition found. I used CD #1 and asked it to automatically repair the system. It says it cannot find any partitions with Linux installed - of course I've had it rescan multiple times. The partition editor still shows all partitions as they should be. What should I do next? Thanks in advance - Richard

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dhcpd problem
by Alex Angerhofer 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Hi list, I have a strange problem with dhcpd. 1. the setup: nibbio (SuSE 9.2 on amd64) is connected to a DSL modem with ethernet device 1. Device 2 connects to my local network on which two other PCs are connected. I am running dhcpd (from the stock distribution) on nibbio which hands out leases on the private subnet. So far so good. 2. the initial problem: Just recently, out of the blue, the eth device order decided to change, i.e., device 1 is now eth1 and device 2 is now eth0 where they were previously coming up the other way. This foiled my dhcpd server which was tied to eth1. After googling a bit I found that with kernel 2.6.x the devices were now called eth-id-MAC whith the proper MAC addresses in order to positively identify them and that aliases introduced in modprobe.conf wouldn't really make any sense anymore or would tend to be irrelevant (see for example: http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/en/2004/05/91_sysco… ). So, I decided that the way to go would be to tie dhcpd to eth-id-MAC_of_device_2 rather than eth1 which it had been set before. However, this makes dhcpd fail with the following error message in the logs: Dec 30 15:52:38 nibbio dhcpd: No subnet declaration for eth-id-00:09:5b (0.0.0.0). Obviously, eth-id-00:09:5b is not the entire interface name. Apparently, dhcpd only takes the 15 first characters of whatever is given to it. I confirmed this behavior by leaving out eth- in the DHCPD_INTERFACE field and by trying just the MAC address. dhcpd fails to run in any case and only 15 characters are given. Has anybody else seen this problem, and perhaps found a solution? Best regards, Alex.

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OT-help for Tsnunami horror
by Gracia M. Littauer 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

As an internation list I'm sure there are many members affected by the Tsnunami & many who had relatives vacationing the area. Please donate to Doctors Without Borders as danger of diseases like cholera and malaria could wipe out even more thousands upon thousands http://www.doctorswithoutborders-usa.org/donate/ there are sites in many other countries around the world. http://www.doctorswithoutborders-usa.org/msfoffices.shtml SO many are trying to donate online to this group that their website actually went down from the traffic a while ago but you can call them in the US and donate. 1-888-392-0392 You can donate via credit card or bank draft. 86% of every cent you give to Doctors Without Borders goes directly to aid. Doctors Without Borders is on the way with medical aid and medical supplies NOW. -- Gracia...Cooleemee, NC Registered Linux user #263390 - SuSE 9.1 Pro Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

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Converting SuSE to use MailDir instead of MBOX
by matice＠nic.fi 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Hello is there a howto out there or some sort of instructions or tips that you could provide that could explain how to convert the default settings of the suse 9.1 and 9.2 systems to use MailDir instead of MBOX. i need to setup my system for multiple domains and include anti-spam/virus features but they appearently require the usage of MailDir instead of MBox. All handed help is greatly appreaciated Season Greetings Matice

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Rosegarden4 for SuSE
by Guillermo Ballester Valor 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, To those suse users who likes music and computers, I've build rpms with the latest rosegarden4 sequencer version 0.9.91 - a.k.a 1.0pre1 -. It looks very nice as you can see from their site: http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ I've updated the SuSE 9.2 version and backported to SuSE 8.2 and 9.0. As I have not any accesible system with SuSE 9.1 there are not packages for it at the moment :(. I think you can rebuild src.rpm for 9.2 without problems if you have installed all needed for build packages. For SuSE 8.2 and 9.0 I also backported all needed libraries. You can download them from the directories in ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-gbv/rpms or in the apt suser-gbv component. Take a look at it. ;-) Happy new year 2005. Guillermo - -- Guillermo Ballester Valor gbv(a)oxixares.com Ogijares, Granada SPAIN Linux user #117181. See http://counter.li.org/ Public GPG KEY http://www.oxixares.com/~gbv/pubgpg.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB0t2XOA2UfsyErNQRAkD7AKC5fffPfuIorc9u8xwW15BHeJVYqACcDVvG JsNKTIzLmiO/bRHqMRptgz8= =udGc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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nfs server specification
by steve 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

Hi. I want to mount our server's /usr directory on the clients so that they can use scribus and inkscape. I have tried this with our amd server and 1024 Mb ram but it's too slow to be able to do anything with 2 let alone 20 clients. The user's /home directories are mounted from the same box. Could someone give me the specification for a server to be able to do what I want so that it would run at the same speed as from the client's PII 450's? Thanks, Steve.

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9.1 > 9.2 question
by Teruel de Campo 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

I was running SuSE 9.1 pro without problems. Now I did a clean install (format everything and install) and I have two questions (1) mouse. I have an IBM versatile mouse (wheel and 6 buttons) that was designed mainly for win however under SuSE 9.1 work great as a wheel+3 button mouse (the side buttons were not operational). I believe I was using the ps2 intelli mouse driver. Now under 9.2 even though the button and the wheel are active the movement are not controllable. I could not find any driver in the list or do any changes in the mouse setup that work. Seems that the driver for the mouse change from (9.1 to 9.2) I went to the store and I got a logitech optical mouse / ps2 connector. Again I have problems. In this case the mouse works, the three button worked but the wheel does not. (a) is there any way to retrieve and install the mouse driver from 9.1 to 9.2? so I can use the IBM versatile mouse as I have before? (b) is there any way to activate the wheel in the logitech optical mouse /ps2 (c) do you know of any program/driver that provides additional features to the mouse. (d) what's the best mouse for linux? (2) I love the snow in the alps background that came with 9.1 where in the dvd I can find it? BTW I am very impress by the presentation and installation of SuSE 9.2. What a value! Best wishes for the new year for all of you TIA -=terry(Denver)=-

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DLT not recognised
by David Chapman 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

I have been trying to get my DLT working to run a backup. But Kdat would not recognise it. After searching the mailing list I found a referance to mt_st which I installed but after running $ stint I get this "Can't find the tape characteristics database" Any help please Dave

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Cheap 9.2 ide/scsi backup solution suggestions
by Sheridan West 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

Hi I have a machine that needs a tape backup as my HP Colorado ide 8gb unit id's itself in 9.2 in /proc/scsi/scsi But something on the box is not allowing the unit to be configured. (I need more space than a cdrw can provide) So can i be ignorant and ask Can anybody suggest a cheap 8gb+ storage medium for doing occasional large backups to either an Ide/or scsi bus. I have done a fair ammount of googling - Im admitting defeat. So any possible solutions/suggestion are very welcome ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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