August 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

New improved skype is available
by Sid Boyce 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

skype-0.90.0.14-suse.i386.rpm includes the ability to dial any number worldwide. I guess this feature is a subscription service, I've been waiting on their server to chuck some details back to konqueror, it's a store directory in the URL, so I shall hopefully be getting details back some time, it's been about 10 minutes waiting so far. May be I caught the rush hour for Antipodean users. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====

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YaST fails to start
by Hilary L Hertzoff 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

I just upgraded to SuSE 9.1 and everything seems to be working fine except YaST. If I try to run it. It verifies my root password and then doesn't load. If I try to run it via the control center, I can select a module and put in my password, but the module doesn't load. SuSE online update fails with a log notice that it can't find libpopt.so.0. Running YaST in the console results in a message that the text version is installed but not working. I've tried forcing an reinstall of popt-devel, and of various of the YaST packages with no luck. Any thoughts? Thanks Hilary

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Resizing Linux Partition v. 9.1. prof.
by hwm＠onetel.net.uk 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

Linux Suse 9.1. Partition Resizing ---------------------------------- Is it true that once linux partitions have been created they cannot be resized unless there is still some free space at the bottom of the last partition? The scenario: Partitions have been created for 'swap', 'root', and 'home' (for programs and data). Later it turned out that there is not enough space for 'home' but more than necessary for 'root'. Obviously, one would want to reduce the 'root' partition and increase the 'home' to accommodate more programs. There is no space left below 'home'. According to literature this is not possible. It is only possible to make 2 partitions out of one. Also it does not appear possible to reduce the WIN98 partition which occupy the first cylinders and use the space for Linux. This of course is possible before installing Linux. Magic Partition v. 8 only creates or resizes partitions 'Ext2', 'Ext3', 'swap' but not 'Reiser' If this is true I am more than surprised because even Windows allows it. Conclusion: Linux allows to resize Window partions but not its own??!! -

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Suse Yast2 Servers Down?
by doc 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

I have just tried to run Yast2 on two different PCs and on both I am getting a failure. It says to check my connection but it is fine. E-mail and Web access are fine on both so the problem appears isolated to Suse. Anyone else seeing this? -- Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e West Central Florida 100% Linux. Suse 9.1 Drake, Hallicrafters, Heathkit, TenTec, Yaesu Radio Life: http://www.gospelcom.net/twr/ Linux-Incompatible hardware is defective! USA Pres. Election 2004: http://www.rnc.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Fetchmail Daemon Problem
by C Hamel 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

I have now gotten seven e-mails from Fetchmail Daemon with the following text, therein: Received: from lists.suse.de (195.135.221.131) by mail01j.rapidsite.net (RS ver 1.0.94vs) with SMTP id 4-0350368368 for <sist.mex(a)ovoplus.com>; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:59:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 11809 invoked by alias); 30 Jul 2004 15:47:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: <mailto:suse-linux-e-help@suse.com> list-unsubscribe: <mailto:suse-linux-e-unsubscribe-sist.mex=ovoplus.com@suse.com> list-post: <mailto:suse-linux-e@suse.com> X-MIME-Notice: attachments may have been removed from this message X-Mailinglist: suse-linux-e X-Message-Number-for-archive: 201285 Delivered-To: mailing list suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Received: (qmail 11792 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2004 15:47:25 -0000 From: C Hamel <vgm2(a)sc2000.net> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:45:26 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200407292116.38033.vgm2(a)sc2000.net> <20040730134450.GI22496(a)bristol.st.com> <410A5938.3050104(a)sandiego420.com> In-Reply-To: <410A5938.3050104(a)sandiego420.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200407301045.26735.vgm2(a)sc2000.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at scanhost.suse.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 tagged_above=-20.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_44, MY_LINUX X-Spam-Level: Subject: Re: [SLE] Think I've been cracked... not certain X-Loop-Detect:1 How do I put a stop to it!? -- ...CH "The more they over-think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." Scotty

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"... not enough memory to load all data" during HTTP installation of SUSE on Dell Lat CPIa
by J.N. SUsE Lists 01 Aug '04

01 Aug '04

( 6G drive, 258M-500M swap partition(s) ) "There is not enough memory to load all data; To continue, activate some swap space." ( It appears to recognize the 258M swap space, because then it has me choose hda1 ) And then: "Error activating swap space." I get the message above when trying to install SuSE 9.1 on a hard drive with a single partition (Linux Swap) on it, or with 2 swap partitions on the drive, with one of them formatted and the other not formatted -- I was trying to figure out how to get the install program to sucessfully . Partitions and formatting done by System Commander. (Because I can boot into it, partition, and format without installing an OS.) I've got 128M of RAM and 256K of cache. Can't seem to get far enough in the install to be able to access fdisk / cfdisk, and wouldn't really be sure how to do it, anyway... Hopefully, that's clearer than it sounds... Any help is appreciated. Thanks, -- J.

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installion hangs -> hwinfo
by wrsnell＠wrsnell.net 01 Aug '04

01 Aug '04

Aloha, I have installed and re-install Suse 9.1 a number of times while attempting to learn Linux. Suddenly my installation halts at the first reboot (and all subsequent boots after the installation is complete) with the message: 'Control-D is the only method of reboot' 'hit <enter> to login' Above this, in the details, I can see: can not find Keymap for us, Exit Loading Keymap failed /etc/init.d/kbd: line 129: /usr/sbin/hwinfo: no such file or directory Line 129 of /ecs/init.d/kbd refers to numlock. After hitting <enter> I tried dir /usr/sbin/hwinfo # no such file or directory dir /usr -> # no such file or directory mount command: hda2 /boot ...... hda5 / ...... df -a shows two empty directory other than . & .. . My layout is hda is a EIDE master; hda1 hpfs 1.00gb hpfs is a os/2, ecs file system hda6 hpfs 3.80gb hda7 hpfs 5.00gb sda is a usb externally encased ide drive (20gb) containing: sdb5 swap .826gb sdb6 /tmp 1.00gb sdb7 /home 7.20gb sdb8 /opt 4.00gb sdb9 /usr 5.86gb I assumed the /boot should be inside of the first 8gb of hda, because usb drivers for the external drive would not be loaded until after the the boot; therefore my placement of /boot and /root on the ide drive. I can boot from the installation cd, or from install floppy disks to the 'installed system' without a problem, if I use the KDE desktop. What am I doing wrong??? Any help will be greatly appreciated!!! Please forgive me if this is a duplicate posting but I could find evidence of it being received by the list. Bill*** ----------------------

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odd this: k3b vs juk and grip
by Brian Pack 01 Aug '04

01 Aug '04

I've been trying to burn some cd's with k3b, and have noticed some strange goings on... If I use an m3u playlist generated from xmms, it works fine. If I try one generated from juk or grip, I get "unsupported format" from k3b. Those playlists play fine in xmms, and if I re-save the playlist with xmms, it'll work fine with k3b. Is this due to something left checked/unchecked in k3b, or something that just hasn't been addressed yet? -- http://oldgoldandblue.typepad.com

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Adjust Partitions
by JP 01 Aug '04

01 Aug '04

Good day, While I have been running Linux on an old computer for about 8 months now I am still quite green when it comes to Linux. I recently converted from FC1 to SuSE 9.0 and apparently should've done a better job researching a good partitioning scheme for my 15GB HDD. Pointers to reasources on how can I go about re-allocating my Disk space in a non-destructive way (obviously I would back up the important stuff first) are greatly appreciated as well as "Gotcha's" that you may know about from experience. Here is my current set-up as you can see the set-up is far from optimal: (specifically the /var partition, DOH!) ------------------ Disk Space -------------------- Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 1012M 748M 213M 78% / /dev/hda1 244M 8.3M 223M 4% /boot /dev/hda8 3.5G 114M 3.3G 4% /home /dev/hda7 1012M 38M 923M 4% /tmp /dev/hda5 5.0G 1.3G 3.5G 27% /usr /dev/hda6 3.1G 259M 2.8G 9% /var tmpfs 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm In addition to using it as a means to ween myself from MS I am using using this box for web development, a testing webserver running PHP and MySQL, and an e-mail server (UW-IMAP, postfix, squirrelmail, amavisd). Thanks for you help, JP

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Cannot enter external firewire drive
by Jerome Lyles 01 Aug '04

01 Aug '04

There are four entries in the drive directory for the one drive. The drive has a Mac and a Linux partition on it. I get this error: Could not enter folder /media/ieee1394_sbp2-00d04b35e0022046-0-0p1 for three of the four entries (op1,op2,op3). /media/ieee1394_sbp2-00d04b35e0022046-0-0p3 is the one that I can access my Linux partition through. Before the latest online update (today) none of them would allow access to my Linux partition on this drive, now one of them will. Anyone know why there are four references to this drive and why three of them cannot be entered? Thanks, Jerome

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