April 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE indoctrination too early?
by Damon Register 05 May '04

05 May '04

Am I indoctrinating my 3 year old son too early? Now when I come home he says "I want SuSE Linux" so he can play music with XMMS. Maybe I should get more games setup too? If Gates can do it by "giving" all that software to schools, why can't I beat him to it at home? Damon Register

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RE: [SLE] realtime clock probs
by GarUlbricht7＠netscape.net 05 May '04

05 May '04

John Sowden <jsowden(a)americansentry.net> wrote: > > in Suse 8.0, I have noticed that the time gets off by months, > even once by years. I can fix it in ms-dos (dual boot) > and it works fine. > > now i notice on booting that linux hangs > on the real time clock entry for about a minute > before it continues, no warning message, etc. > thoughts? > >-- > John Sowden ---<sig line trimmed>--- Hi John, I am running dual boot also. What I do is go into M$ and roughhly adjust the time using their control system. (I had to do it for daylight savings time.) Then I go back into Linux, and open up a link to an offiical time site (eg: http://www.time.gov/ ) and then set the time off the command line as root, eg: "date --set 14:55:25" the above will set the system time to 14:55:25; then I do: "hwclock --systohc" so that system time is copied to the cmos chip; and then do: "rm /etc/adjtime" (all w/o quotes) so time adjusting scripts don't think that the clock was slow or fast, and repeat the adjustment automatically on boot. This question is often asked. See for a longer explaination Carlos' post: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Nov/0001.html Hope this helps, Gar -- Age is a very high price to pay for wisdom -- __________________________________________________________________ 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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cannot open root device
by John Wilkes 04 May '04

04 May '04

My SuSE 8.2 system won't boot, giving the error message: VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" on 03:03" Booting with the CD or a 7.3 system on another drive, I can mount /dev/hda3 and it looks fine. Everything except the boot partition (hda1) is reiser, and it seems to be finding the boot partition. I tried "boot=/dev/hda3" with the same result. A power failure took the system down. It has been running for over a year and has rebooted successfully many times. I did not change anything recently. (i.e. no new kernel, etc.) The hda3 partition is certainly there, as I can mount it if I boot 7.3 system, but I don't really have any experience with reiser filesystems, so I don't know what to do. I ran fsck.reiserfs (or whatever its name is) off of the intallation CD. It did consistency checks in read-only mode and did not complain about anything. I'm stumped. Help!! -- John Wilkes john at wilkes dot com

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wvdial --> NO ANSWER
by Luca Mollica 03 May '04

03 May '04

Dear all, I am trying to configure my modem card corrctly on my SONY VAIO with SUSE 9.0. After set up of the card with smartlink and configuring the device with winconfig, I have tried to connect to my ISP, but I had bad response, that was NO ANSWER I had the accuracy to use X3 parameter, that could be right for skipping dialtone waiting (in Italy there is no long and continous dialtone before dialing the number). Is there someone who could provide me info about solving this bug?? This is the configuration file of wvdial: [Dialer Defaults] Modem = /dev/ttySL0 Baud = 460800 Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 X3 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 Init3 = Area Code = Phone = 7020001099 Username = ***** Password = ***** Ask Password = 0 Dial Command = ATDT Stupid Mode = 0 Compuserve = 0 Force Address = Idle Seconds = 30 DialMessage1 = DialMessage2 = ISDN = 0 Auto DNS = 1 Modem Name = Modem Type = Analog Modem and this is the output prompted trying to connect linuxgl:/home/gl # wvdial /etc/wvdial.conf --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.42 --> Warning: section [Dialer /etc/wvdial.conf] does not exist in wvdial.conf. --> Initializing modem. --> Sending: ATZ ATZ OK --> Sending: ATQ0 X3 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 ATQ0 X3 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 OK --> Modem initialized. --> Idle Seconds = 30, disabling automatic reconnect. --> Sending: ATDT7020001099 --> Waiting for carrier. ATDT7020001099 NO ANSWER Thanks to you all LM

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Hacked?
by Lucky Leavell 03 May '04

03 May '04

OS: SuSE 9.0 This is a new FTP installation updated via YOU. During the install, one non-root user was created and used successfully for about a week. First sign of trouble: we couldn't login with error indicating an incorrect password. AS root we reset the password and can now login on a character screen but when logging in under KDE, receive the following error: There was an error setting up inter-process communications with KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list /home/<user>/.DCOPserver_HBADMIN_0 Please check that the dcopserver program is running. A quick check of running processes shows no such process. The KDE login fails and returns to a login screen. All other users can login just fine. Further, we tried removing this use and his home directory along with all files/subdirectories but were unable to even list the following dirctories: cannot access /home/<user>/.qt (permission denied) cannot access /home/<user>/.kde (permission denied) cannot access /home/<user>/.wine (permission denied) cannot access /home/<user>/Desktop (permission denied) even as root. Could this system have been hacked or compromised in some way? (How would I go about checking this?) If so, what should we do about it? (I did enable SuSEfirewall2 closing all ports to the outside world.) Thank you, Lucky Leavell

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SuSE 9.1 and YaST License
by Andrei Verovski 03 May '04

03 May '04

Hi, Anyone knows if SuSE have changed YaST license to GPL for 9.1 version? Till v 9.0 it was prohibited to redistribute YaST on any media carreer including ISO images on ftp. However, I am need to build a custom installation which is distributable via ftp as ISO images, not just separate files. Thanks. ********************************************* * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * Personal Home Page * http://snow.prohosting.com/guru4mac/ * Mac, Linux, DTP, Development, IT WEB Site *********************************************

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Radeon 8500 and 3D?
by Damon Register 03 May '04

03 May '04

I have been searching the list archive to find a solution for my problem. Enabling 3D in sax2 doesn't work. I see in several messages that this has been discussed a lot so I would only like to ask if my understanding of all this is correct. Am I correct in the following? 1. 3D will not work with SuSE 9.0 out of the box? 2. I need ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ATI/suse90/fglrx/3… to get this working? 3. issues are as stated in README from item 2? Damon Register

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Setting Environment variables
by Paul Constable 02 May '04

02 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Am a newbie to the requirement of environment settings. I need to set CLASSPATH/PATH variables permanently, to enable me to do some development. I have a need to enable 'Eclipse' with Amzi prolog plug-in run. The stumbling blocks are ability to set a default environment variable, i.e. AMZI_DIR, and then all the additions to PATH. Could somebody point me in the right direction, I have tried many ways which fail frequently. Point me to some definitive guide for SuSE 8.2 & 9.0 please. So that I can solve this dilema once and for all. TIA, Paul - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The box says: Win98, WinNT or BETTER. That's why I installed Linux. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAjCq7AwmyZ1M9ITQRAvcuAJ9SMKwKkcBs13IFtwj58vjWwDLuGwCdHsOk jWHI9AvT7qhk6Mcw7mkuSBQ= =h6rD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Mozilla update
by Jay Vollmer 02 May '04

02 May '04

Hi everybody. Has enyone else encountered a problem with the most recent security update to Mozilla-1.4 which causes Mozilla to become unlaunchable? Specifically, I've found that if I replace mozilla-1.4-72(from DVD) with mozilla-1.4.1-12(via YOU) to fix the buffer overflow in the S/MIME code of Mozilla, the application becomes unlaunchable - no error, just doesn't start. Anyone else seeing this? -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER(a)CONSOLIDATEDLINT.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE

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Printing problem
by Jerome Lyles 01 May '04

01 May '04

The Print Manager is showing a lightening bolt in the Job ID column. The 'State' of the job is: processing, the IPP report says the job is printing but the job is not printing. What does the lightening bolt mean? How do I correct it? Thanks, Jerome Job IPP Report- KDE Control Module Attribute Values job-id 124 job-more-info http://Z:631/jobs/124 job-uri http://Z:631/jobs/124 job-printer-up-time Mon Apr 26 09:55:35 2004 job-originating-user-name zimm copies 1 multiple-document-handling separate-documents-collated-copies job-priority 50 job-originating-host-name localhost job-id 124 job-state 0x5 job-media-sheets-completed 0 job-printer-uri http://Z:631/printers/print job-name job-k-octets 69 time-at-creation Mon Apr 26 09:54:34 2004 time-at-processing Mon Apr 26 09:54:34 2004 time-at-completed job-hold-until no-hold job-sheets none none job-state-reasons job-printing

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