April 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Still can't get X font server problem resolved.
by Vicki Stanfield 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

I am still unable to resolve the problems with getting X to run on my newly installed SuSE 9.0 system. The system is an AMD700MHz on an Asus board with an Nvidia Geoforce 440 MX with 64 MB of video memory. I just noticed that the XFree86.log file shows this: (--) PCI:*(0:12:0) nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] rev 162, Mem @ 0xd9000000/24, 0xdc000000/26, BIOS @ 0x000c0000/17 which seems to indicate an AGP card when actually it is a PCI card. The problem that I am seeing is that when I try to start X, I get the following: Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, removing from list! So, I googled and found that this is related to the xfs server not being able to start. When I try to start it manually, I get: xfs notice: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled (unreadable) xfs notice: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled (unreadable) xfs notice: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled (unreadable) xfs notice: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID (unreadable)xfs notice: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX (unreadable)xfs notice: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic (unreadable) xfs notice: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc (unreadable) xfs notice: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi (unreadable) xfs notice: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi (unreadable) xfs notice: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1 (unreadable) xfs notice: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi (unreadable) xfs notice: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv (unreadable) -------------- If I can't resolve this, I will have to switch back to RedHat or maybe to Slackware. I have been trying to solve this problem for a week now. I solved part of it by downloading and installing the new NVidia drivers, but I am left with this path thing. Anybody got a clue about how to solve this? --vicki

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Keep an installation tree updated
by Stefano Zanarini 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

Hi, I have an internal mirror which I use to install several machines,what I want to do is keep this tree updated with suse's updates,so when a fresh installation is done there is no needs to run yast2 to update packages.Is it possible ? have I to use "create_package_descr" ? if so have I to remove old packages which will be replaced with updates from the tree ,or can yast chose the newer between the two ? Have someone even tried ? Thank's in advance.

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cyclom-Y pci and suse9
by Darin Perusich 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

hi, i'm running into a problem with an older 8-port cyclades cyclom-y (8Yo) card under suse 9 and was wondering if anyone else has experienced anything similar. i've been using this card as a serial console head for linux and sun servers on redhat 7.1 for 3+ years without any problem. i was going to upgrade the box to an 800MHz amd and suse 9. the kernel sees the card and loads the driver fine and i can connect to a port, via kermit once. when i go to disconnect it fails to close the port and locks up the kermit session, i have to SIGKILL kermit. after this connections to any of the ports fail and i'm forced to reboot before i can communicate with the cyclom. i've tried this card in 3 different machines (AMD and P4) and i get the same results with suse 9. any thoughts on this? -- Darin Perusich Unix Systems Administrator Cognigen Corp. darinper(a)cognigencorp.com

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Cups admin login problem
by Jerome Lyles 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

I can't log in to cups to do any admin tasks. My cups conf. file says: # You definitely will want to limit access to the administration functions. # The default configuration requires a local connection from a user who # is a member of the system group to do any admin tasks. You can change # the group name using the SystemGroup directive. # AuthType BasicDigest AuthClass Group AuthGroupName sys ## Restrict access to local domain Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 so I added myself to the sys group and I still cannot login. I can't login as root either. So the AuthGroupName is sys, I'm a member and I still can't login. Anyone understand what is going on here? Thanks, Jerome

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chmod/chown question
by Luca Mollica 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

Dear all, I have a FAT32 partition on my disk, namely /dev/hda6, that has been mounted in defaults mode on the directory /windows/File_Sharing. The owner is root and group is root too. Well, I would like to be able to save my WinXP/Linux documents that have to be shared between the OS without being root: I know the usage of command chmod/chown, but every time I try to use this command as root on File_Sharing subdrectories, chmod -R <username>.users <dirname> or (the user belong both to users and root groups) chmod -R <username>.root <dirname> I experienxce troubles and errors like this one: OPERATION NOT PERMITTED do you have any suggestion about solving this "simple" problem?? Thanks LM

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keyboard settings and runlevels
by Luca Mollica 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

Hi, after booting my SUSE 9 Pro system into runlevel 3, I have worked on SAX2 as root, configured my monitor properly and come back to runlevel 5 (all as root, of course). But when I have started my KDE, trying o write something in a shell, I have discovered that mapping of the keyboard was not correct(I don't mean the letters, but symbols, commas, ec ...). But the set up came back to the correct settings after I have entered as root and beated init 5 But this solution was temporary: after rebooting the system, the situation was the same, with wrong keyboar mapping. The boot log file says that I am really entering the system with init 5 mode. So, what could be the problem? YAST tells me I am using the right (italian keyboard), and when I test it I find the right characters .... Thanks a lot LM

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about my problem with blank screens and NVIDIA drivers ... SOLVED (but .. )
by Luca Mollica 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

Dear all, according to what has been suggested by Carl Hartung and Patrick Shanahan, I tried to wake up my XWindow and I had success to do it booting as init 3, starting sax2 (with -l flag), configuring my monitor correctly (this was the lost information!) and finally restarting the system with init 5. Summarizing, I think that the problem has been caused effectively by the usage of Nvidia 3D-supporting "official" drivers usage with my video card FX 5600 Go: now 3D functions are not provided.

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RE: [SLE] Bash Scripting SCP
by GarUlbricht7＠netscape.net 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

Chad Skinner wrote on Thu Apr 29 2004 - 20:30:21 CEST : > > I am trying to write a script to copy files using scp. > I would like to be able to monitor the progress of the copy, > but can not figure out how to redirect the output of the SCP command. > > Does anyone know if it is possible to capture the output > with the percent complete? > > Thanks, > Chad > Hi Chad, I don't use SCP, but when I do: # rpm -Uvh *.rpm I often capture the output (i.e. #######, etc) by adding: # rpm -Uvh *.rpm 2>&1 | tee /home/gar/text.txt where "tee" reads from standard input and writes to standard output and files, and "2>&1" takes the "stderrfile" and adds it to "stdout" You may be able to do something similar to solve your problem. Hope this helps, -- "The quickest way to get information on the web is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong information." - Aahz' Law restated -- __________________________________________________________________ Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp

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Courier-IMAP vs Cyrus-IMAP
by Lucky Leavell 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

OS: SuSE 9.0 Environment: SMall ISP hosting virtual domains/users. (Currently several hundred users, nostly commercial) MTA: Postfix 2.0 Which one would best handle mail for virtual users without requiring Linux login accounts or aliases to the same? A cursory overview on my part and I like the looks of Courier-IMAP but nothing is cast i stone yet. This system will also be using anti-spam (probably spamassassin) and antivirus software for the same users. Ease of admininstration, security and performance are all important. Thank you, Lucky Leavell

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ARK broken after update to KDE3.2.2
by Dylan 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

Hi All, I recently updated some 8.2 and 9.0 systems to KDE3.2.2 (from ftp.mirror.ac.uk) On all boxes, the KDE ark application fails to open downloaded .tar.gz (or .tgz) archives with the message "I cannot fork a decompressor." KArchiver has no trouble with the same files so I know they are not damaged. However, ark is happy to create a new archive, and then decompress it. Any idea what might be causing this? Cheers Dylan -- "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" -Dark Helmet

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