December 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SCSI Tape Drive with SUSE 9.2
by Greg Freemyer 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

All, How do I get SUSE 9.2 to use a SCSI tape drive? === Background I have just upgraded my tape server from SUSE 8.2 to 9.2. (It is a test upgrade, so I can still use the tape under 8.2) In 8.2, I did an insmod for the SCSI controller and a stinit. After that the tape drive was usable as /dev/st0. With 9.2 the scsi controller module is being loaded fine at boot, but there is not a stinit command. I have tried just accessing /dev/st0, but no luck. In /proc/scsi, I do see the "streaming device". Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer

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Autoyast - distribution-release not available
by Rod Rioux 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

My autoyast installation is complaining that distribution-release not available, even if I select a "Full install" it still shows up.. here it is: #### YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2004-12-01 14:27:21 #### aaa_base 9-29.8 conflict Required by: apache2 requires /etc/mime.types bind requires /usr/bin/old bitstream-vera requires aaa_base efont-unicode requires aaa_base ghostscript-fonts-std requires aaa_base ifnteuro requires aaa_base intlfnts requires aaa_base kdebase3-ksysguardd requires aaa_base 7 more... Unresolved Requirements: aaa_base requires distribution-release Conflict Resolution: ( ) Do Not Install aaa_base ( ) Remove All 85 Referring Packages Do Not Install apache2 Do Not Install apache2-prefork Do Not Install arts Do Not Install capi4linux Do Not Install cdrecord Do Not Install cron Do Not Install cups Do Not Install cups-SUSE-ppds-dat 77 more... ( ) Ignore Conflict and Risk System Inconsistencies distribution-release not available Required by: aaa_base requires distribution-release Conflict Resolution: ( ) Remove All 86 Referring Packages Do Not Install aaa_base Do Not Install apache2 Do Not Install apache2-prefork Do Not Install arts Do Not Install capi4linux Do Not Install cdrecord Do Not Install cron Do Not Install cups 78 more... ( ) Ignore Conflict and Risk System Inconsistencies #### YaST2 conflicts list END ### If anyone has seen this the help would be great. /rod

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9.2: kprinter missing from OpenOffice
by William Gallafent 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Hi, I recently updated a SuSE 9.1 machine to 9.2. It's patched with all the latest updates as of today. I have just discovered that, since the update to 9.2, I can no longer print to KPrinter from OpenOffice. The only available option is 'lp', my local printer. How do I add KPrinter to the list? There seems to be no way to do so, in 'Print ...', 'Printer Settings ...' or 'Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org -> Print'. Apart from all the other good things that KPrinter allows, I need to use it to print reasonably sized PDFs. A recent example one-page document comes out at 17K when printed using KPrinter's print-to-PDF ... with OpenOffice.org's PDF export the same file is 350K! Looking at them both in acroread shows no apparent difference on the screen. This is a showstopper for me. Is this just a ruse to try to make people switch to KOffice (which, incidentally, cannot render the simple 1-page .sxw document in question - it misses the embedded spreadsheet component)? ;) So, why has KPrinter been removed for 9.2, and how can I put it back? At the moment, OpenOffice seems to be restricted to viewing only the CUPS printers, with no way to add new printers any more! This is surely completely broken behaviour. -- Bill Gallafent.

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Re: MySQL support for AMD64 (From the mysql list)
by Boyd Lynn Gerber 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

I thought it would be good to have this on the SuSE list. -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:58:24 -0600 (CST) From: valentin_nils(a)be-known-online.com To: Lynn Bender <lynn(a)unsubcentral.com> Cc: mysql(a)lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: MySQL support for AMD64 Hi Lynn, If you look in the archives you will find some strong recommendations agianst RH and for Suse (performance reasons). (Look for "AMD 64 bit" or "perfomance") I am personally using Debian (sid) which you may not want to do for your production ;-). Suse 9.2 unfortunately seems to be quite buggy (mostly obvious things) That starts with the installation itself. http://www.be-known-online.com/ http://www.be-known-online.com/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=46 Shows some of my personal notes. Dont expect anything spectacular. Anyway I hope that you may find the info useful. BTW I am not running anything near Terabyte operations. Best regards Nils Valentin Tokyo/ Japan > I just received a box with the following specs: > > Dual AMD64 > 8G ram > Two 3ware 2.4 terabyte RAID 5 arrays. > > My company has been using Redhat for most of its production machines. > > 1. Does anyone have any success/horror stories running MySQL 4.0.x > on RHES 3/ AMD64? > > 2. Does anyone have alternate recommendations for running MySQL > databases in the terabyte range on AMD64? > > Thanks > Lynn Bender > > > ________________________________________ > > UnsubCentral > Secure Email List Suppression Management > Neutral. Bonded. Trusted. > > You are receiving this commercial email > from a representative of UnsubCentral, Inc. > 13171 Pond Springs Road, Austin, TX 78729 > Toll Free: 800.589.0445 > > To cease all communication with UnsubCentral, visit > http://www.unsubcentral.com/unsubscribe > or send an email to unsubscribe(a)unsubcentral.com > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=valentin_nils@be-known-online.com > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=gerberb@zenez.com

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Re: [SLE] which suse distrib do you prefer?
by Bahram Alinezhad 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Theo v. Werkhoven" (twe-suse.e(a)ferrets4me.xs4all.nl) wrote: ---------- You sir, are bloody annoying. Will you PLEASE stop topposting and learn to reply to a specific piece of quoted text? Thank you. Theo <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<- It had to be replied to the entire message (whole message was relevant); I felt that a single line reply behind a 90(?) line quotation was not a good thouht. I almost alwasy use top-quoting, unless very few states like that; Even so, I apologize for inconvenience; I'll try to use it always. Was that really so annoying? Thank you for your notice, Bahram Alinezhad, Rudehen, Tehran, Iran. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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List of Packages on DVD/CD's
by Your Name 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Is there any link to a list of all the packages and descriptions included witht he retail version og 9.2? It used to be available and was a great resource. I've Googled for it and looked all over the US site and can not find any reference to a package list. Todd

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Re: [SLE] which suse distrib do you prefer?
by Bahram Alinezhad 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

I've always recommended people to use the last version of linuces, due to its fast development and improvement; Really sorry to hear these! Thank you for your notice, Bahram Alinezhad, Rudehen, Tehran, Iran. ->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Synthetic Cartoonz" (synthetoonz(a)bellsouth.net) wrote: ---------- I started at 8.0 Professional, and bought every SuSE Professional version since. I use the most peculiar hardware I have -- my HP5295 laptop -- as the index of success for the distro. With 8.0 Pro hardly anything worked on the laptop. No sound, the CD burner wouldn't burn, USB wasn't functioning worth a darn, and the LAN wasn't working. At that time I had just bought into running Linux after experiencing the third Windows implosion on the laptop in a year. So, the lack of working stuff in 8.0 left me slightly disappointed. But, I managed to eventually make the LAN work, and figured that sooner or later I or someone else would figure out how to get the rest of the hardware running in this or the next version of SuSE. 8.1 Pro and 8.2 Pro saw progressive improvements. In 8.1 the LAN worked immediately after the install, sound and the CD-Burner also started working, tough sound was sometimes sporadic. USB required some personal hacking on a device by device basis. In 8.2, the sound stopped working, but USB support increased dramatically. Most thing I shoved into the USB port would mount without magic incantations. I think 9.0 Pro was really intended to be 8.3 Pro, but SuSE appeared to need to engage in Version Number Wars with other distros. That was the BEST version so far. Everything worked on the laptop. Sound was working without issue this time, and everything I needed was working happily. Some of the power management things didn't work so well, but I wasn't concerned with that, since I don't normally use the laptop without the AC power plugged in. I think 9.1 Pro is the originally intended 9.0 Pro. I get the "dot oh" feeling of being used as someone's unpaid beta tester. Everything is working, but sometimes it works strangely. USB is the biggest problem: USB devices sometimes move locations, so I end up having to remove and recreate icons on the desktop to make mounting/opening/browsing the devices convenient. Hotplugging USB devices often takes an irritatingly long time to recognize that something was plugged in. USB performance and reliability also took a nosedive. Devices that were working fine with 9.0 have intermittent I/O errors. Most annoying. Some recent patches and updates have fixed something, because I'm having far fewer I/O errors. (USB throughput still stinks.) Otherwise, the only improvement I see in 9.1 is that the power management features (that I don't care about) appear to be functioning much better. I just picked up SuSE Pro 9.2 yesterday at CompUSA and it is still on the floor next to my desk. Various computer parts are winging their way to me from a variety of Internet sellers as I write this. In the next week I plan to use 9.2 to build a file and print server for my personal linux boxes in the house (and my wife's nasty Win 98 box.) When that is done I'll start upgrading the other linux systems. to 9.2. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com

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Flash Editor
by Mitja 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Is there any program for Linux that can create Flash-content? Thank you, Mitja

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OpenLDAP + Sleepycat - SuSE 9.1
by Marc Cabanatuan 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Hello, When using yast(2) to install openldap, and it's necessary dependencies and after configuring slapd/ldap to run, I see these messages when using `rcldap start` in /var/log/messages: Dec 1 09:19:24 linux slapd[20796]: bdb_initialize: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (April 6, 2004) Dec 1 09:19:24 linux slapd[20796]: bdb_db_init: Initializing BDB database Dec 1 09:19:24 linux slapd[20801]: bdb(dc=linux,dc=buildingservice): Berkeley DB library configured to support only DB_PRIVATE environments Dec 1 09:19:24 linux slapd[20801]: bdb_db_open: dbenv_open failed: Invalid argument (22) Dec 1 09:19:24 linux slapd[20801]: backend_startup: bi_db_open(0) failed! (22) Dec 1 09:19:24 linux slapd[20801]: bdb(dc=linux,dc=buildingservice): DB_ENV->lock_id_free interface requires an environment configured for the locking subsystem Dec 1 09:19:24 linux slapd[20801]: bdb(dc=linux,dc=buildingservice): txn_checkpoint interface requires an environment configured for the transaction subsystem Dec 1 09:19:24 linux slapd[20801]: bdb_db_destroy: txn_checkpoint failed: Invalid argument (22) Dec 1 09:19:24 linux slapd[20801]: slapd stopped. Dec 1 09:19:24 linux slapd[20801]: connections_destroy: nothing to destroy. Upon doing some research, it appears that BDB4 is broken with 9.1 and needs to be rebuilt manually to fix the problem? I am apprehensive at doing this because then it doesn't seem that it would register BDB as being installed then if I built it manually, and I'd like to keep the ship as clean as possible, so to speak.Any help on this would be great. Further info/details as follows: When running `openldap-2.1-slapcat`, it seems to start just fine. Dec 1 09:21:39 linux openldap-2.1-slapcat: bdb_initialize: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (June 23, 2004) Dec 1 09:21:39 linux openldap-2.1-slapcat: /etc/openldap/slapd.conf: line 21: unknown directive "modulepath" outside backend info and database definitions (ignored) Dec 1 09:21:39 linux openldap-2.1-slapcat: bdb_db_init: Initializing BDB database linux:~ # /usr/lib/openldap/slapd -V @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.2.6 (Aug 4 2004 16:31:54) $ abuild@boltzmann:/usr/src/packages/BUILD/openldap-2.2.6/servers/slapd linux:~ # cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.5-7.111-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #1 Wed Oct 13 15:45:13 UTC 2004 linux:~ # cat /etc/SuSE-release SuSE Linux 9.1 (i586) VERSION = 9.1 Marc Cabanatuan Systems / Network Administrator Building Service, Inc. 414.353.3600 phone 414.353.6060 fax 414.358.5080 x5570 voicemail direct http://www.buildingservice.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in any e-mail and their attached files, including replies and forwarded copies, are confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s) and may be legally privileged or prohibited from disclosure and unauthorized use. If you are not the named addressee you may not use, copy or disclose this information to any other person. If you received this message in error please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of the email and associated files. If you are not the intended recipient, any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance upon this message or its attachments is prohibited and unlawful. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the originator and do not necessarily represent those of Building Service, Inc. While we have taken steps to control the spread of viruses within our systems, we cannot guarantee that this file is virus-free. ELECTRONIC FILES: Building Service, Inc. does not warranty the accuracy or completeness of any information contained within the attached electronic files. It is the sole responsibility of the undersigned to verify the information. The file attached is reproduced for the use of the recipient only. The information is considered proprietary information, owned by Building Service, Inc. and may not be reproduced for the use of others.

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Changes betweet Suse 9.0 and 9.2 in kdeglobals config file
by Patrick John Hays 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

I did a fresh install of 9.2 and would like to "recreate" my desktop preferences from 9.0. For example, under 9.0 the ".kde/share/config/kdeglobals" file specified the names of my multiple desktops under [Desktops]. This is no longer the case under 9.2. In fact, I can't for the life of me figure out where virtual desktop names are stored. I've grep'ed my entire system without luck and even did an experiment where I changed a multiple desktop name using the control center and then did a find / -mmin -1 to see what files had been modified but was still unable to track down where the names are stored. Can anybody point me to some documentation or give me some pointers on config files used by KDE 3.3 as provided by Suse 9.2. TIA, Patrick

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