September 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Anyone using OpenGroupware?
by Tom Nielsen 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

I installed it on my home machine for testing and while everything will start up, I can't connect to http://localhost:20000/OpenGroupware/. I keep getting connection refused. I set it up with no security. I followed these directions: http://www.thievingmagpie.org/ogosuse82-en.html Any thoughts on where to start looking? Also, will this work on 64-bit SuSE? Thanks, Tom -- ---------------------------- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com ----------------------------

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reiserfs corrupt?
by Dave Howorth 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hello, I have a m/c running suse 9.0 and have just encountered problems when I started making heavy use of a disk. I suspect hardware problems but at the moment my concern is to understand how to recover from what looks to me like a corruption on reiserfs, about which I know nothing :( The m/c has SATA disks running in legacy mode. It has been OK for several months under light general usage but I just started using the file system seriously (100s of thousands of files in directories, files > 2GB in size, lots of copying etc) and have some problems. The m/c suddenly locks up in the middle of programs doing file operations (no response to keyboard, network suddenly inactive) and needs a reboot. I don't know why. There's nothing in /var/log/messages. I've run fsck.reiserfs on the filesystem, which has given it a clean bill of health. After the last time it crashed, I can't ls a directory: # ls xml /bin/ls: xml/releases: Permission denied /bin/ls: xml/tmp.log: Permission denied file.xml index The xml directory is 755 for me (dhoworth) but I get the same result doing the ls as myself or as root. 'releases' and 'index' are both directories, both were 755 and index still is (can't see releases!). 'tmp.log' and 'file.xml' are plain files, both 644. I don't understand how I can get permission denied as root? Given I suspect hardware problems as the source of the crash, I suspect filesystem corruption as the source of this problem, but I don't know about reiserfs. Is there some technique to figure out what's going on? And regain access to the data? Thanks, Dave

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[SLE] Machine Building - Nightmare Alley - Compatibility and Upgrade
by Ted Hilts 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Jerry: Thankyou for a complete section by section response. Sorry if you got multiple mailings. Apparently the SuSe Lists SERVER gets hostile if the email exceeds 20,000 bytes and that's total overhead. I do appreciate your reply, it also demonstrates that you know how to "read" and read from a technical standpoint. Many people simply discard a written communications because they are not up to intellectually dealing with anything that initially seems complex. So thank you for making this effort. I like very much your suggestion of Alice which I think is on the 9.1 SuSe distribution. One thing I maybe did not make clear. TELNET has associated with it a client/server packages. It is possible for a computer to be a TELNET client but not a TELNET server. Same is true of a lot of packages. When I used the word server I was not referring to a web server but to servers in general such as TELNET, FTP, NFS, etc. Clients ask for services. Servers provide these services. So that is what I meant. However, you are correct in saying that I want a fully functional machine in every Linux machine with some exceptions. And here again, you mentioned ALICE would hanle differences between SERVERS (in the sense of a web server or data base server, etc.) But it would seem that ALICE could treat my machines as such SERVERS (like on a SERVER farm) and that would accomplish my objective. Most of my LAN problems are not with Linux but rather with MS operating systems. I have to run Anti Virus stuff on real time, email, and system scans and they consume a lot of bus bandwidth.. And every improvement coming from Microsoft turns the machine into a slower than before slug. I have a list of complaints far too numberous to set out here. My remark about DISKs was meant to convey that I would save the old Linux 6.4, 6.2, Slackware, etc. Linux systems on their old disks (hard drives) which would simply go into storage. (I could reuse them if necessary by reinstalling them but that would only be necessary if there was a problem with the 9.1 installation on the NEW hard drives.) Hopefully they would not deteriorate in storage. Maybe it's not a good idea. But for sure I would put the 9.1 distribution for each machine on NEW hard drives as you suggested. Regarding RAID. I got burnt using RAID. I have a Linux machine which is both WEB SERVER and DATABASE SERVER and it had RAID. Can't remember the details. The CPU was AMD and frequently crashed. I did not understand how to technically manage or interact from the command line with RAID. I was afraid of it to be honest. I turned the problem over to a consultant and he also was unable to deal with it. So we ended up just using the hard drives in a conventional manner. I realize that is not a good excuse and one day I will have to get better educated and skilled regarding RAID. The kernel on that machine was recompiled to accommodate the software RAID function. That's all I remember about it. THANKS again for your reply and for taking the many hours to do so. TED

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9.1 unuseably slow
by David Bottrill 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

We received a copy of 9.1 today at work and I have installed this on three machines with dissapointing results. The first machine was an IBM Thinkpad R40 with a Centino 1600 CPU. This machine worked fine and the performance was great. The second and third machines were unusable, KDE takes serveral minutes to start, attempting to start YAST for instance will take about a minute for the SU box to appear and then another minute for YAST to load. I get similar results for all applications I have tried, in all instances the system performs like a P100 with very little RAM. The machines that run slowly are both Athlon XP based machines, one being an Athlon XP 2400 with 1GB of DDR RAM on an ECS Elite motherboard. The second machine is an XP2000 with 512MB of PC3200 RAM on a PCChips motherboard. I have applied all the updates with no effect. Any ideas would be appreciated, I've had to switch back to 9.0 as the whole 9.1 experience is unuseable has anybody got any ideas? David -- David Bottrill Registered Linux user number 330730 www.bottrill.org Internet SIP Phone: 1-747-244-2699

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Re: [SLE] ppp0 slow problem resolved
by Jim Sabatke 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

cybervision8(a)vsnl.net wrote: >>hi > > i am also on external modem with 9.1 pro i get max speed 6-8 avg min is 1.6-3.6 but avg speed is 4-5 kb it really worked for me .Did u put u r isp dns numbers in /etc/resolve.conf try this > thx That may be counterproductive if running DNS. I think listing them as forwarders in /etc/named.conf is probably going to be faster. Also, this wouldn't explain why Carlos has problems in 9.1 that he didn't have in other versions. -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. NOTE: Please do not email me any attachments with Microsoft extensions. They are deleted on my ISP's server before I ever see them, and no bounce message is sent.

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Q: NIS maps and user
by Dr.Peer-Joachim Koch 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hi, I noticed on a freshly installed suse 9.X some changes in the nis. On older systems NIS users do NOT see the crypted passwords (a X is shown),but now every user SEE's the value's! Where can I change the behavior ? -- Bye, Peer _________________________________________________________ Max-Planck-Institut fuer Biogeochemie Dr. Peer-Joachim Koch Hans-Knöll Str.10 Telefon: ++49 3641 57-6705 D-07745 Jena Telefax: ++49 3641 57-7864

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RTSP video links
by C Hamel 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

I am unable to view RTSP (real time streaming protocol) links. I have attempted updating the file associations but am wondering if that is the proper area, given the fact that it still does not work. Anyone have success with this? The site in question is www.cspan.org --not the realplayer/wmp links but in the left-most column where other links to video are. -- ..."Yogi" CH Namasté Yoga Studio "If music be the food of love, why can't rabbits sing?"

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Clock sync with OS X
by John N. Alegre 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Anybody know of any software that will snyc SuSE with a OS X system. Apple makes it duck soup easy to keep the OS X system synced with GMT. I wanna sync SuSE to the Mac. Thanks john

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Kmail/GnuPG Issue
by Jesse L. Purdom 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hello. I have recently installed SuSE v9.1 Professional and while I am quite happy with this release, I am experiencing a problem with Kmail and GnuPG. I would like KMail to digitally sign outgoing e-mail using my GnuPG key. I have created the key and have added the key under KMail>Configure KMail>Identities for my user. I have also configured KMail Security as follows under KMail>Configure>Security>OpenPGP: *Always encrypt to self *Show signed/encrypted text after composing *Always show the encryption keys for approval *Automatically sign messages using OpenPGP However, KMail will not always automatically sign messages, normally I have to click the "sign" button prior to sending, and many times it will ignore this button. Also, even if it does prompt me for my passphrase prior to sending, it has yet to show me the text of the signed message prior to sending. Has anyone else experienced this problem with KMail? I am running ver 1.6.2 (Using KDE 3.2.1) - the default which ships with SuSE v9.1. I have applied all updates from Online Update. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Jesse

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KMail problem (Headers)
by Dennis J. Tuchler 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

I have Kmail 1.7. When I want to see more of the header of a note, I go to View - Headers, but the Headers menu is greyed out. How do I find information in the header (other than by saving the note as text)? Thanks dj tuchler

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