April 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Italian ISP does not support Linux
by praisetazio 01 May '04

01 May '04

For the italians around this mailing list, you have to notice that the web page at http://www.virgilio.it displays a message telling that only Windows/ MacOsX are supported. If you are willing to fight against this, please send an email to the provider at: http://www.virgilio.it/supporto/scrivi/index.html?pmk=PSHelp Sorry for the non-italian guys in this list. Praise

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RE: [SLE] YaST2 Sick
by Dalziel, Josh 01 May '04

01 May '04

How long did you let YAST sit before you killed it? It make take a long time to work after you rebuild the DB. I think it took about 15 minutes for me once. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Weisenstein [mailto:dan@tesoro.com] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 3:12 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] YaST2 Sick Jim Sabatke wrote: > Dan Weisenstein wrote: > >> In the course of playing around with Evolution, adding and removing >> things, etc. yast2 has become partially broken. If I attempt to do >> anything related to adding or removing packages, it just freezes up. I >> can do anything with services, hardware, etc. with no problems. >> >> What could be wrong? I'm thinking something might be damaged with >> respect to the >> rpm database? If so, can it be repaired? >> >> Thanks - Dan >> > You could try rebuilding the database. # rpm --rebuilddb > Well, that helped somewhat. Now, I start yast2, click on Add/Remove Software, and it starts: then a dialog starts that says "Checking Dependecies" ??? I haven't even selected anything to add or remove... The dialog box stays there... window is now frozen. It's process is now sucking up 95% of the CPU.... Any other ideas? I'll have to kill -9 it to get it to stop. Thanks- Dan -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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Re: Re: [SLE] Problem with k3b - help asked
by jfweber＠bellsouth.net 01 May '04

01 May '04

> What version are you using? On what version of SuSE? The one shipped > with 9.0 is not working properly, you can upgrade by using the packman > rpm available here: > > http://packman.links2linux.org/download.php?t=b&id=4266 > > I am using k3b-0.11.9-0 on SuSE 9.0, and burning dvd's is no size limit > - I mean, within 4.7 gb :-) (I use DVD-R). I also have had n/p burning *.iso up to the size of the current dvd blanks, anyway. IIRC "YOU" updated k3b the last install I did. But if it doesn't ,you should get the packman files referenced above. Also, it wouldn't hurt to go to whatever location (url) that is the home of k3b...email the creators, tell about your problems,things you'd like added,changed etc.

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SuSE 9.1 and PDC20265 Raid controller
by Marc Philippens 01 May '04

01 May '04

Hi all, I'm currently running SuSE 9.0 without any problems on my MSI K7T266 Pro 2 board with onboard PDC20265 Raid controller using two harddrives in a striped configuration. Now I would like to now if it's possible to upgrade to SuSE 9.1 still using the Raid controller (since as far as I know PDC20265 Raid support is still not ported to the 2.6.x kernel ). Does anybody know if the Promise PDC20265 Raid controller is supported by the new 2.6.x kernel which is shipped along with SuSE 9.1 Regards, Marc

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9.1 soon on mirrors?
by Dave Lists 01 May '04

01 May '04

Below is a note from a Suse Mirror for 9.1 Is this telling me that 9.1 will be available in ftp mirrors within days? Before May 7th or soon after? Dave. Thu Apr 22 16:40:00 MEST 2004 - draht ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This tree contains the source RPM packages for the SUSE LINUX 9.1 distribution. The SUSE LINUX 9.1 ftp version is being worked on and will be published in a few days, in this directory. Thanks, Roman Drahtmüller, Sebastian Nagel, ftpadmin(a)suse.com

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[9.0] & sensors & epox 8rda+ (nforce2)
by Adolph & Sharon Weidanz 01 May '04

01 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey all... I'm having a problem, and google has not been much help. I really need to run sensors on my epox 8RDA+ mb running SUSE 9.0. I tried running sensors-detect. It tells me that I need to run the i2c-nforce2 module. But, it can't seem to find it. I looked on the lm_sensor site, and from the problem database, if I understood it correctly, they said I had to run the SuSE version.. Any help would be appreciated... I need to get my folding up and running... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAkYG7lC+PSm9+eB0RApSvAJ0eg8os1e2/6o15dOBLI/qaN0TJcQCgjqjL DJSlTi1Df9LVXbGQXPqgNmQ= =M8LM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: Fw: [SLE] ReiserFS problem?
by McAllister, Andrew 01 May '04

01 May '04

My understanding of ReiserFS is that by DEFAULT only the metadata is journaled. See http://www.namesys.com/v4/v4.html#crashes_handl. That is to say, when a file is written, the data that goes into the file is NOT journaled, but the data about the file IS journaled. Thus, when your power goes out, the file system should be OK (or easily fixed), but the files themselves may contain corrupt data. Seems counter intuitive, but the goal of Reiserfs is limit the time it takes to fsck after a crash. To protect data you need to protect the machine from adverse events. I believe if you want to journal data and metadata, then you'll have to modify the ReiserFS default behavior (I presume there is a man page on how to do it, but I haven't looked). Ext3 has similar configurations though I don't know the default behavior of ext3 (rtm). ReiserFS is ideal for something like an Oracle database. Where the files are fixed size and the application itself journals its own data. Or possibly a system with a HUGE number of files like a news server. Where the contents of the file aren't as important as the system not taking 4 days to come back up after a crash. In all honesty though, you need a UPS. No matter what file system you have power outages will inevitably cause some sort of data corruption. Andrew McAllister > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Bendily [mailto:brad@selu.edu] > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 8:59 AM > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: Fw: [SLE] ReiserFS problem? snip > This is all well and good, but the machine having the problem > is brand new > and the drive isn't that big. So I don't really think it's a > power supply > issue. It works ok, until the power goes out then reiserFS doesn't > recover. It's a journaling file system and therefore should be able to > survive when it is not shutdown properly. Right? snip

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Strange bounces.
by Carlos E. R. 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

Hi, For some time now, I and some other people are receiving bounces like this whenever I (or others) send mails to SLS: |We have received the message sent to email address: | |32793(a)34.moosq.com | |however, this address is not a valid subscription or removal address on |this system. Please check the address and try sending your message again. or: |We have received the message sent to email address: | |97391(a)n0.tekmailer.com | |however, this address is not a valid subscription or removal address on |this system. Please check the address and try sending your message again. They usually start on Fridays, and stop on Mondays or Tuesdays, after several reports to SuSE Linux lists owners (and no comments from them, that's why I write here - I think I miss Chris; once I even had to write to "support" to get attention). What is happening? Somebody knows what those domains are, why they bounce, and why can they not be banned from ever resubscribing every week and bouncing back? I'm getting tired... :-/ -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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YaST2 Sick
by Dan Weisenstein 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

In the course of playing around with Evolution, adding and removing things, etc. yast2 has become partially broken. If I attempt to do anything related to adding or removing packages, it just freezes up. I can do anything with services, hardware, etc. with no problems. What could be wrong? I'm thinking something might be damaged with respect to the rpm database? If so, can it be repaired? Thanks - Dan

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exim log - nobody
by Henry Tang 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

hi, i got this email and it is some sort of spam.. i think someone is using my server to spam people. Anyone have any idea what it means? 2004-04-27 15:16:47 1BIZ0Z-0004Mt-Vz <= tguajar(a)xxx.com U=nobody P=local S=673 2004-04-27 15:16:48 1BIZ0Z-0004Mt-Vz => tsteele(a)xxx.com R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp H=utc.univ-coop.austin.tx.us [198.xxx.xxx.x] 2004-04-27 15:16:48 1BIZ0Z-0004Mt-Vz Completed Looks like the user used nobody as login and locally sent the message to tsteele.. Is that right? thanks henry

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