September 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Konqueror in 3.3, gwenview
by Fergus Wilde 03 Oct '04

03 Oct '04

Since my last kde 3.3 update, clicking through a weblink into an image uses (according to View - View mode) gwenview rather than the embedded viewer. Gwenview doesn't work, pictures never appear. I was happy with the embedded viewer anyway. The view menu allows you to change back to the embedded viewer for that instance, but the next image you click on opens gwenview again. Anyone know how to set the embedded viewer as default like it used to be? Anyone know why/how gwenview is broken, and why anyone thinks it ought to default to that. Cheers Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: 0161 834 7961 Fax: 0161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk

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components of /etc/apt/sources.list
by Deep Thinker 02 Oct '04

02 Oct '04

Hello All, I am currently installing apt on my 9.1 box at my house. I would like this box to be as stable and secure as possible. I am having trouble discerning which components I would like to have in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. So far I have base update security usr-local-bin kde mozilla samba3 funktronics packman and wine. How can I tell what other components I might want to use? Thanks, d33p th1nk3r

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Compilied kernel since 2.6.7 makes ide problems with hda6
by ennobartels＠t-online.de 02 Oct '04

02 Oct '04

Hi I have bought a new laptop. It's a GERICOM Hummer with a pentium 4 (hyperthreading) and 80GB HD with winxp. So I have installed SuSE Linux 9.1 also on it. I did also buy a usb mouse for it. But it didn't work. After some investigation I did understand that the hole usb system was not working. (rccoldplug restart and rchotplug restart could not help!!!) I did get the following error messages from /var/log/messages kernel: usb 1-3: new low speed USB device using address 4 kernel: usb 1-3: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 1 but max is 0 kernel: usb 1-3: can't read configurations, error -22 those errors were also posted in some other messages: http://forum.hardware.fr/hardwarefr/OSAlternatifs/sujet-41318-1.htm and also http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg04134.html and the follow up http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg03866.html and I tried the advice to compile a newer kernel. But I did get some bad harddisc problems. Look inside dmesg file. It can be found at: http://www.nwn.de/ebartels/linux/2.6.9_rc2_mm3_2h20_short.txt I did reduce the error messages. The original file is 7095 lines long. Those errors were gone if i did boot the default suse kernel or the 2.6.6 kernel again. The hard disc did I split up like this: fdisk -l /dev/hda: ---------------------- Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 33936 17103712+ 7 HPFS/NTFS (-> ntfs /windows) /dev/hda2 33937 33961 12600 83 Linux (-> ext2 /boot) /dev/hda3 33962 36041 1048320 82 Linux swap (-> swap - ) /dev/hda4 36042 155061 59986080 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) (-> - - ) /dev/hda5 36042 96376 30408808+ 83 Linux (-> reiserfs / ) /dev/hda6 96377 155061 29577208+ 83 Linux (-> reiserfs /home) ---------------------- I'am using grub as bootloader grub -v -> 0.94 I did tests with following kernels: ----------------------------------- Nu. Kernel Compiled hda6_problem usb_system -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. 2.6.5-7.108-smp (SuSE) N Okay Not working 2. 2.6.6 (Vanila) Y Okay Not working 3. 2.6.7 (Vanila) Y error - SUM Not sure ! 4. 2.6.8.1 (Vanila) Y error - SUM Okay 5. 2.6.9-rc2 (Vanila) Y error - SUM Okay 6. 2.6.9-rc2-mm2 (Vanila) Y error - SUM Okay 7. 2.6.9-rc2-mm3 (Vanila) Y error - SUM Okay SUM = single user mode Following things I did to solve the problem: -------------------------------------------- 1. reiserfsprog new version installed old : 3.6.13 new : 3.6.18 -> did not help 2. fstab options changed from "acl,user_xattr" to "default" -> did not help 3. DMA deactivated and tried to mount /home again -> same errors -> did not help 4. reiserfsck /dev/hda5 -> no errors found reiserfsck /dev/hda6 -> no errors found -> did not help 5. reiserfsck --rebuild-sb /dev/hda5 -> no errors found reiserfsck --rebuild-sb /dev/hda6 -> no errors found -> did not help 6. reiserfsck --clean-attributes /dev/hda5 -> no errors found reiserfsck --clean-attributes /dev/hda6 -> no errors found -> did not help 7. Booting with the failsave options: ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 -> did not help 8. Test loop: Finding the partions and print them on screen Started on the shell at an default kernel of suse (2.6.5-7.108-smp) gpart v0.1h (c) 1999-2001 Michail Brzitwa <michail(a)brzitwa.de>. --------- surprise:/> gpart /dev/hda Begin scan... Possible partition(Windows NT/W2K FS), size(16701mb), offset(0mb) Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(12mb), offset(16702mb) Possible partition(Linux swap), size(1023mb), offset(16715mb) Possible extended partition at offset(17738mb) * Warning: short read near sector(156301299), 64512 bytes instead of 66048. Skipping... End scan. Checking partitions... Partition(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX): primary Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary Partition(Linux swap or Solaris/x86): primary Ok. Guessed primary partition table: Primary partition(1) type: 007(0x07)(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX) size: 16701mb #s(34205680) s(63-34205742) chs: (0/1/1)-(1023/15/63)d (0/1/1)-(33934/4/19)r Primary partition(2) type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem) size: 12mb #s(25200) s(34207488-34232687) chs: (1023/15/63)-(1023/15/63)d (33936/0/1)-(33960/15/63)r Primary partition(3) type: 130(0x82)(Linux swap or Solaris/x86) size: 1023mb #s(2096640) s(34232688-36329327) chs: (1023/15/63)-(1023/15/63)d (33961/0/1)-(36040/15/63)r Primary partition(4) type: 005(0x05)(Extended DOS) size: 58580mb #s(119972160) s(36329328-156301487) chs: (1023/15/63)-(1023/15/63)d (36041/0/1)-(155060/15/63)r ----------------------------------- Why could gpart not found the 2 partions in the extended partition ? Does it only work with old reiserfs partions ? 9. If I did the reiserfsck program on the /dev/hda6 partions at the kernels 2.6.7 - 2.6.9-rc2-mm3 it gives all the errors as seen below in the dmesg output and so I could not check that partion with those kernels. It seems to be a hardware problem of the harddisc but after booting with the default SuSE9.1 Kernel all hda6 errors are gone. Everything was mount fine. So I thing this can't be a harddisc problem!? Is there something wrong with the ide driver ? Is there something wrong with the reiserfs driver ? Is there something wrong with .. ? What else ? But why can the system boot the root partion? It is also an reiserfs partition! Does somebody know what I can to, test, analyse, solve this error ? My dmesg messages file of kernel 2.6.9-rc2-mm3 can be found at: http://www.nwn.de/ebartels/linux/2.6.9_rc2_mm3_2h20_short.txt Thanks for listening! Enno

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What is Suse 9.1.42 ?
by Cosmo King 02 Oct '04

02 Oct '04

The Suse 9.1 update tree now includes 9.1.42, which among other things contains the kernel-2.6.8 package. When and why was the split to 9.1.42 and should we apply these 'updates' to suse pro 9.1 machines? Will 'you' automatically pull these updates? This is of interest, because we want kernel-2.6.8 which is the first to incorporate the 3w-9xxx driver. I hope that SLES9 gets a 2.6.8 kernel soon as well :) Thanks, Cosmo -- Cosmo King Systems Engineer Pogo Linux, Inc. 888.828.7646 cosmo(a)pogolinux.com

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SuSE 9.2????????
by Steven Pasternak 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

On ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/ there is a folder called '9.2' I haven't seen this anywhere else. What's up?

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Re: [SLE] Access denied to harddrive
by Jerome Lyles 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

On Tuesday 28 September 2004 01:30 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 11:16, Jerome Lyles wrote: > > Anyone know why I'm getting this message when I try to create a backup > > folder on this external harddrive: > > > > Access denied to > > /media/ieee1394_sbp2-00d04b43e0091193-0-0p1/BackupCosmos3. > > please post your /etc/fstab > please post ls /media -lh > :~> cat /etc/fstab /dev/hdb2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda5 swap swap pri=42 0 0 /dev/hdb1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 192.168.0.5:/home/adriel /mnt/linux nfs defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 /dev/sda1 /media/ieee1394_sbp2-00d04b43e0091193-0-0p1 reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2 :~> ls /media -lh total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2003-11-06 04:57 cdrecorder drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2003-09-23 08:02 cdrom drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2003-11-06 04:57 dvd drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2004-09-26 12:58 dvdrecorder drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2004-09-26 12:58 floppy drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2004-09-16 22:46 ieee1394_sbp2-00d04b35e0022046-0-0p2 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 80 2004-09-27 07:50 ieee1394_sbp2-00d04b43e0091193-0-0p1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2003-11-13 11:27 sda1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2004-02-07 14:16 sdb1 Jerome

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Bash Q: how to keep a script from failing when a var is undef or empty
by JW 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Hello, One thing I run into all the time with bash script is: I get a script that works perfectly when every thing is right, and is supposted to aleart me when something is wrong - often bashed on whether or not a particular var says something. But often the script fails because bash trips out over trying to test an empty var. For example: #!/bin/sh TAPESTATE=`mt -f /dev/st0 status | head -2 |tail -1 | cut -d " " -f4` if [ ${TAPESTATE} == "512" ]; then READY="yes" else READY="no" && echo "No tape in oe1 tape drive" | mail -s "Oe1 tape error" jw(a)mailsw.com fi if [ ${READY} == "yes" ]; then tar cplvf /dev/st0 -T /etc/mcmurray_backup.lst || echo "Tar failed during oe1 tape backup job" | mail -s "Oe1 backup job tar error" jw(a)mailsw.com else echo "Script failure in oe1 tar backup job" | mail -s "Oe1 backup job - error in script" jw(a)mailsw.com exit 1 fi As long as there's a tape in the tape drive it works out fine, but when there's not a tape, "mt -f /dev/st0 status" give the response: mt: /dev/st0: No medium found And apparently sends it to sterr so that $TAPESTATE remains empty (null). Now instead of just calmly passing on to the next section: else READY="no" && echo "No tape in oe1 tape drive" Bash give a response like this: usr/local/sbin/tape_bakup.sh: line 5: [: ==: unary operator expected And I've tried eq also. What's the proper way to do something like this? Thanks. -- ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com

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Re: [SLE] Bug reporting for SuSE
by Josephine 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

On Thursday 30 September 2004 21:26, stephen wrote: > Is there a central place for recording bugs for SuSE? > > For example, kdemultimedia3-CD (3.3.0-7) has a bug that's fixed in > cvs. Does SuSE know about it? I really don't know. > > Also, back when I was using Gentoo I patched an ebuild (build script) > that fixed a display bug with Tk apps under kde, a bug that is still > present in SuSE's Tk. > > I did download the source rpm for tk and will start looking at how to > modify the rpm's spec files. Hope the learning curve is not too > steep. ;) > > _________ > Stephen http://www.suse.de/cgi-bin/feedback.cgi Josephine -------------------------------------------------------

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Restarting the X server
by Paul W. Abrahams 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Is there a way to restart the X server without losing the contents of my windows and without logging out and logging back in again? Paul Abrahams

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Help with KDE Menu - Switch User is missing
by Jim Flanagan 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

The Kmenu option to Switch User is missing. Not sure when it happened, about 3 weeks ago. I've looked in Menu Editor but have not found the "actions"section of the menu. There was a post in suse-kde about this same problem, but it related to errors in /var/log/messages with problems on that system writing to /var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl. I don't have that error message. I'm running suse 8.2 with kde 3.2.3. On a similar but less important issue, somewhere in my several upgrades of kde, the menu items have added the suse & suse work menu up into the kde menu. I still have the suse menu button and suse work menu button where they should be. These old original suse & suse work menus seem to now be menu options up among the kde menu items. I tried changing a setting in kde about this, but no change. Additionally there is a Lost & found item that contains MANY items, most of which look like screen savers, but not all, e.g. tea timer, moonphase etc. Any help would be appreciated. Jim Flanagan

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