January 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Is it possible to establish an ftp connection ...
by James P. Bennett 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

...to the machine on which ftpd is running? I imagined it would be a simple way to test whether I had properly set things up. But trying to connect to the numeric internet address yields only an empty directory. What am I doing wrong? jim bennett

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Question about LD_LIBRARY_PATH
by Koenraad Lelong 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

What's it for actually ? With FreePascal I'm trying to cross-compile for arm-linux. Compiling goes fine, but when linking, there is an error : libdl.so is wrong. It turns out that the linker finds the libdl.so for i386-linux. If I rename libdl.so, the linker finds the one for arm-linux. I tried to include the path to the arm-linux libdl.so in LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but then I can't compile any more. I can't even grep any more : I made a script to set that path, and I wanted to verify it : set | grep LIB. The errormessage : ELF file OS ABI invalid. This seems specific for Suse, on a Mandrake system there seems no problem, but I don't have that. I tried on Suse 9.1 and 9.2. I could copy the libdl.so or make a link in the current directory, but that's only a workaround. AFAIK standard linux-tools (assembler, linker,...) are used. Any suggestions ? TIA -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v.

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xfig export problems
by Jörg Leske 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

Hi @all, I have the annoying problem that xfig doesn't support utf-8 which was introduced with Suse 9.1. I noticed that in /etc/sysconfig/ xfig is by default started with the setting LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 xfig In spite of this setting the export to the ps format results in an empty page which makes sense because the export is done by fig2dev. It is also not possible to print from xfig. The export works fine if one passes export LANG=de_DE@euro for example to xterm and uses fig2dev -L ps file.fig file.ps How can I set the locale for both, xfig and fig2dev ? LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 xfig fig2dev seems not to work. Thank you for your responses Joerg

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Install bootloader after the fact?
by Trey Sizemore 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

I installed SUSE 9.2 via ftp on a second drive configured as a slave. It would be accessed in a multiboot environment using a boot manager like GAG. So I didn't install a boot loader thinking that GAG would handle this. But when GAG identifies the SUSE / partition on this drive and I attempt to boot from it, I get an error statiing: "Boot sector not found or invalid." So my question is, without reinstalling, can I go back and install a boot loader on the / partition of the SUSE install on the second disk? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn 10:25AM up 14 mins, 0 users, load averages: 0.09, 0.15, 0.15 FreeBSD salamander.thesizemores.net 5.3-STABLE i386

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Re: [SLE] SPARC port dead?
by Fergus Wilde 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

On Thursday 27 January 2005 15:09, you wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 15:02, Fergus Wilde wrote: > > Is the SuSE SPARC port officially dead? > > > > -- > > Fergus Wilde > > Chetham's Library > > Long Millgate > > Manchester > > M3 1SB > > > > Tel: +44 161 834 7961 > > Fax: +44 161 839 5797 > > > > http://www.chethams.org.uk > > Hi Fergus, > > Sorry to say, yes. > Although there was never an official notice, the 7.3-release was the > latest for the Sparc-hardware. > > AFAIK, there were quit a lot of people using it, fair amount of traffic > on the specific list, but not enough commercial possibilities. > (someone has to pay the people working full time for Suse....) > And if it's not commercial viable, how to justify the costs? > Even the people at RedHat let there Sparc-port die. > > Best suggestion if you have a sparc-station/server around there is > auroralinux, or gentoo (if your patient enough) or Debian. > > Hans Thanks for the mail, Hans - yes, I do see the commercial problem for outfits like SuSE. I think what I'll do is carry on doing what I started last week, putting OpenBSD on my old Ultra 1. http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html That port installed really well, dead easy, and runs beautifully. They haven't got SMP working yet, though I think FreeBSD has. But SuSE's mass of programmes and desktops would have been nice on a more powerful machine ... oh well, Cheers Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk

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Re: [SLE] 3ware sata controllers info
by Jack Malone 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

< Not to take this off-topic, but I'd make sure you understood what < problem you were fixing first. Deciding where the bottleneck is (if < there is one) shouldn't be hard with vmstat and iostat. Ok I have done some vmstat an iostat reports an pasted the output into a text file. I'm not sure what to make of them so Im posting them to see if chris Cameron or someone else can maybe tell where the problem is now. If you need more info let me know an i will post back to list if its before 3:30 cst here. Here the results of the reports of vmstat an iostat some vmstat info : horizon:~ # vmstat -s 1023880 total memory 881536 used memory 375760 active memory 447496 inactive memory 142344 free memory 55436 buffer memory 678348 swap cache 1052216 total swap 56736 used swap 995480 free swap 634041 non-nice user cpu ticks 578 nice user cpu ticks 117721 system cpu ticks 10163063 idle cpu ticks 185059 IO-wait cpu ticks 1439 IRQ cpu ticks 27655 softirq cpu ticks 45926850 pages paged in 7087080 pages paged out 197249 pages swapped in 327471 pages swapped out 164517155 interrupts 50965356 CPU context switches 1106568916 boot time 760282 forks horizon:~ # iostat -c Linux 2.6.8-24.5-default (horizon) 01/25/05 avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle 5.69 0.01 1.32 1.66 91.33 horizon:~ # iostat -d Linux 2.6.8-24.5-default (horizon) 01/25/05 Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn hda 0.00 0.10 0.00 10716 0 sda 11.61 819.57 127.05 91853870 14239632 sdb 0.00 0.02 0.00 1704 0 fd0 0.00 0.00 0.00 4 0 horizon:~ # iostat -p Linux 2.6.8-24.5-default (horizon) 01/25/05 avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle 5.69 0.01 1.32 1.65 91.34 Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn hda 0.00 0.10 0.00 10716 0 sda 11.61 819.15 127.03 91854398 14243968 sda1 4.68 14.10 23.36 1580672 2619768 sda2 20.42 804.85 103.66 90251094 11624200 sdb 0.00 0.02 0.00 1704 0 fd0 0.00 0.00 0.00 4 0 thanks jack

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Video problems -- new card, can't configure, Sax2 won't run (very long message, sorry)
by Gil Weber 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

Hi, everyone. I apologize in advance for this VERY lengthy e-mail. But I wanted to include as much info as possible in hopes that someone can help. Last October I posted a question to the list about a problem I was having configuring a GeForce 5500FX PCI (128) video card using SuSE 9.1. I could not access the configuration screens in YaST to set resolution, number of colors, enable/disable 3D, etc. And I could not get Sax2 to run. No matter what I tried, nothing worked. Several of you offered suggestions. Nothing worked. ;o( Coincidentally the fan on the card started making all sorts of noise, so I returned the card for exchange. It took 60 days but I finally got a replacement card last week. I decided it was a good time to upgrade to SuSE 9.2, so I inserted the card and did a clean install of 9.2. Sadly, the same problems are back as with the previous card used under 9.1. I installed the nVidia driver from SuSE during the 9.2 install. Last night I updated the driver just in case the original did not load or install properly. Has not made any difference. I notice that on the nVidia website they show the latest driver as: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run I assume (??) that's what I got when I did the 9.2 YaST update. I'm having lots of video display problems. Windows flicker when moved or resized. When scrolling up or down a page (e.g., in a word processor document, or on a web page) the screen contents jerk rather than move smoothly up and down. Using the scroll bars or the mouse wheel results in terribly jerky response on screen. When I grab and move a window up and release the window it repaints from the top down. When I move a window down and release, the window repaints from the bottom up. Moving a window left or right also results in a full repaint. Icons on the desktop are very large and look awful. I can't reconfigure anything having to do with the video. The graphics card and monitor configuration screens within the control center are not accessible. Clicking on desktop settings/graphical desktop environment/change only causes the screen to go blank and flash, then it comes back and nothing has changed. I can't get to the configuration screens to change resolution, screen colors, enable/disable 3D, etc. Sax2 will not run. When I enter "sax2" in a shell the screen flashes, eventually comes back to the shell, and after a bit I get a message that says: gil@phred:~> sax2 SaX: root Password: SaX: initializing please wait... SaX: ups lost card during probing... abort gil@phred:~> If it will help I can send the contents of any files. I did look at these two (as suggested by the NVidia website) for possible clues: /var/log/Xorg.0 and /etc/X11/xorg.conf They're too long to post to the SuSE list (max 20000 bytes). The only things that jump out at me in the first file (newbie that I am) are these error and warning messages: (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPAN_DISPLAY: Invalid argument (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (NVIDIA X driver not found) (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device) I have no idea what FBIOPAN_DISPLAY is, but what ever it is is invalid! ;o) And in the second file I see repeated references to 640X480 resolution. It's as if the system does not recognize the monitor as a Viewsonic 20 and has simply assigned generic values (very low values). Anyway, if you need additional info please let me know. Thanks for any help you can provide. This is really frustrating. The horrible resolution is bad enough, but the jerky scrolling and flickering windows when moving/resizing makes using the pooter very, very difficult on the eyes. Thx! ;o) Gil Weber

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by Alberto Omar Rodrigues 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

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graphical swsuspend in 9.2
by Laur Ivan 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

Hi all, Just managed to upgrade my laptop to 9.2 and get back swsuspend to work. I want to make swsuspend to use the bootsplash (and avoid popping up the console). I've seen a patch for swsuspend on the net, but It said it's good for bootsplash v2, whilst 9.2 uses v3. I'd appreciate any pointers on this... Cheers, Laur

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Open Source Mailing List Software ? (need opinion)
by Alex Daniloff 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

Hello SuSE folkz, Could comebody please recommend an Open Source mailing list software which would have all or some of the following functionalities, listed in the order of importance: 1. Integration with MySQL data base (subscribed users, mailing lists). 2. Integration with Postfix 3. Archiving capabilities 4. Capabilities to browse archives over Internet. 5. Possibility to store archives in the data base. 6. Archives search engine (non essential if it uses MySQL)

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