January 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Is there a way to have an install server and update server in SUSE 9.2
by Shane A Broomhall (Aust) 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

Hi All, I am wanting to set up a home network, I have been playing with SLES 8 & 9 and know that it has the ability to create an install server so you can use AutoYast and that there is the facility to create an update server so that you can pull your updates from one of your servers instead of each computer pulling them accross the internet. I have been looking in Yast with SUSE Pro 9.2 and i dont seem to be able to find the tools for creating an install point, or for configuring an update server. I have found out how to configure the clients for an update from one of my servers but cannot work out how to do the server side. If anyone can provide some assistance it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and Cheers -- Shane A Broomhall Computer Consultant, Trainer, & Courseware Developer BVocEd&Train (CSU) Shane Broomhall Consulting Pty Ltd Brisbane Australia Email ShaneB(a)ShaneBroomhall.com Ph +61 (0) 4039952905

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kernel of the day 2.6.11-rc2-bk3-20050125153357-default gives error on loading sound module
by Osho GG 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

Hi, I tried the kernel of the day rpms marked kernel-default-2.6.10-20050125153357.i586.rpm on Suse 9.1. It gave an error about unknown symbol while loading the module for the sound card. The module is snd_intel8x0. There are many errors in the log file like kernel: snd_intel8x0: Unknown parameter `joystick' modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting snd_intel8x0 (/lib/modules/2.6.11-rc2-bk3-20050125153357-default/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) kernel: snd_intel8x0: Unknown parameter `joystick' If someone from suse who prepares this rpm is on the list, could you please please fix them? thanks, -- Osho

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Please help: one partition MUCH slower than the others
by Pieter Hulshoff 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

Hello all, For some reason, one of my partitions is MUCH slower than the others. Any other partition, even on the same disk, gives me speeds of 40-50 MB/s. This one however gives only 4-8 MB/s. This is independent of the partition being mounted or not. smartctl does not give me any errors, and fschk didn't find any problems either. Any thoughts/suggestions? Regards, Pieter Hulshoff

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test
by Peter Nikolic 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

123 test ignore please -- If Bill Gates had gotten LAID at High School do YOU think there would be a Microsoft ? Of course NOT ! You gotta spend a lot of time at your school Locker stuffing underware up your ass to think , I am going to take on the worlds Computer Industry -------:heard on Cyber Radio.:-------

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[SLE] Hostname in Suse 9.2 changes oddly - how to get the big pic on this (long)
by Dumb Waiter 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

Hi, My PC had a reasonable host name, "linux" I think it was. Then one gloomy day it somehow changed to "129". Now I am looking for information about how the host setting works in Suse 9.2; inspite of reading a wad of stuff and searching and oggling web postings I seem not to understand the basic concept of it and of the web settings related to it; like domain name 'site'. If you can point me to a source of good overview & necessary details please do so. I'd be happiest if hit with terminology one would use for describing quantum physics to an exceptionally stupid rodent. For some reason all the Linux books are either too complicated (=only the variable details mentioned, not the context explained) or if they are not, they entirely skip over the concept of 'How Linux understands and manages the internet / host settings (or any other settings, for that matter) and what they represent in the real world'. Most of the info stuff is like "The Crdlbsklrching of Drdlbb can be done either via skndrlzching the vrldnb instead of drdlbb or, setting the variable BRLDFGGING=false or by modyifying the respective settings of kjdhkjhkjhkj.conf or the file kjdhkjhkjhkj.conf.local or by doing whatever your distro uses for it's drdlbbsklrching." Thanks, Mike P.S. If anyone has perverse fixation in the details of messed host settings, the littany desribing mine is below. But rather than getting a single thing fixed via external or divine intervention I'd like to _understand_ how it all works. If that is possible. <optional_hostnamelittany> There is a D-Link DI-604 Ethernet Broadband Router model B2 between my ADSL modem and my PC(s), and it's a dynamic IP address that I have, or something like that; a 'grey' address someone from the provider's IT- support once called it, and mumbled something about it being NATted a second time due to the D-Link. I was running win XP then. I think it was this D-link that changed my host name. In D-links Lan settings page the last part of my PC's IP address was that 129. (And the end part of my other Suse 9.2 PC's D-Link ip address shows as it's host name in it's KDE terminal command line.) So what is the name of the supreme God that has power upon the Suse 9.2's host(name)? Apparently the command export HOSTNAME=mycray2_linux is not enough, or doing that with the variable HOST. And when tried to change host name to something else in YAST / Network services/ DNA and Host Name/ two things happened: _A) I was instantly confused by the message: "The resolver configuration (/etc/resov.conf) has been temporarily modified by DHCPCD. You have to options: 1. Modify the current (changed!) version of the file 2. Press 'Accept' now and conntinue editing other (non-roselver) data. You could return to his dialog later when the above sefvice has terminated." Although I understand the individual words, the real meaning of my two choices remains utterly obscure to me - what does that information try to say to me? _B) I don't remember which of the two choices I took, but I ended up with a non-working internet connection (even my XP laptop lost its connection to the outer world) until I completely removed the host name, reset the D-link and the D-Link apparently (again) provided this mysterious & boring '129' as host name. After yet some experinmenting I have now succeeded in getting the Yast to accept the hostname linux1 and domain name 'site', and the internet connection works ok. But the command line shows 129 as host name. And printenv says HOST=129 and HOSTNAME=129 yet in Yast host name field Host Name field has linux1 in it! The D-link's LAN settings page shows linux1 as my pc's host and plus this XXX..129 as it's IP address. Also, in Yast there is the name of my home network placed in a slot called Domain search 1; that is from the time when I had a Win home network; so Yast has probably yanked it from the D-link. (And two of the three name server fields apparently have the name server of my internet provider or some such thing.) It would be nice to get these linux boxes seeing each other in my home network but I don't know how to set that up, yet. (For what it's worth, I also have an Win XP laptop plus another pc Suse 9.2/Win ME pc connected to this D-link and they show up in the lan settings page of D-link. The other Linux pc has 'linux' as host name and the XP has a hostname of 10 characters; all in caps. I only installed the other Suse 9.2 to my old WinME PC last night, so I haven't configured to to any workgroups or anything in Suse; it is a Win ME dual boot. In the laptop I have and will not change any workgroup settings.) </optional_hostnamelittany>

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Re: [SLE] VMware WS eaudio on SuSE 9.2?
by Kyek, Andreas, VF-DE 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

Michael W Cocke wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:14:14 -0600, you wrote: > > >On Monday 24 January 2005 20:45, Michael W Cocke wrote: > >> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:26:09 -0600, you wrote: > >> >On Monday 24 January 2005 18:35, Michael W Cocke wrote: > >> >> Just curious - is the audio in vmware workstation > >> >> working under SuSE 9.2 for anyone? I've futzed with it > >> >> for hours, tried VMware tech support, yada yada. No audio. > >> >> > >> >> Mike- > >> > > >> >have you tried: > >> >$esddsp vmware I guess that won't work. vmware isn't the started binary but only a shell script; and an esddsp (or artdsp) call to a shell script does not work. For sound in VMware you have IMO to possibilities: a) configure your sounddaemon to free the device as fast as possible and start VMware after the deamon has freed the device b) stop the sounddaemon; start VMware and restart the daemon after shutting down VMware again. I have a Windows XP Installation running in VMware 4.5.2 and I do have sound in the VM. Andreas

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usb nfs
by Chris H 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

Greets; My usb hd is automatically recognized and mounted as follows; /media/usb-0x05e3-0x0702:0:0:0p4 however SuSE see's this as /media/usb-0x05e3-0x0702\:0\:0\:0p4/ Now the problem with this notation is that it does not allow for NFS export due to name limitations which does not recognize the \'s Is there way to change the name of the drive as identified by Yast either when it auto mounts the drive to media or alternatively at a later point which would not be ideal. NFS will not work however unitl the naming convention changes. Regards /ch

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ReiserFS question dealing with a large RAID volume.
by Ben Rosenberg 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

Ok people. I have X86 clone server that has built in IDE RAID. The RAID volume is 1.8T (RAID 5+0). SUSE 9.2 installs just fine and it is quite fast.. after it's booted. The issue is that during boot when it comes time to mount the 1.8T fs .. it takes in the neighborhood of 8 to 15 minutes. It does this regardless of how the machine is shutdown and there is no data on this volume as this is a new build. The project was passed off onto me by a co-worker who had tried Slackware on the machines and let the default Fedora Core install boot through. The other two distro's booted fine on the same hardware config and zoomed past the 1.8T fs like a breeze as long as the fs had been unmounted properly. Anyone have any thoughts? If you need more info.. please tell me. It's been a while since I actually had to ask for help so I'm not sure what details I should give. -Ben -- "There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend religious faith."

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[OT} blacklisting dynamic dial-up addresses
by Per Jessen 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

> [rant start] > > I consider blocking ranges of IPs just because they are dynamic unfair. > True, spammers use them. But also much more bona fide people than spammers > use dynamic addresses. Condemning us all because there are some rotten > fruits in the same bag is as unfair as imprisoning a bunch of people > because one of them committed some kind of crime, but the exact culprit > can not be determined. However, it is recommended that dial-up users use their providers relay for exactly this reason. In fact, some providers even block port 25 making it impossible for people on dial-up to run their own mail-server. But I agree that completely blocking based on SORBS or other dial-up lists is not The Right Thing(R) to do. > And the exact culprit can be got, with a court order, in Spain. The providers, by law, keep a > list of each connection with the phone number used to connect each time. Spammers can be > known. It only needs determination on the part of the law enforcing establishment, politics, > police, judges, etc, to get at them. Start with the provider I would suggest. Telefonica was blacklisted by ahbl.org because they refused to do anything (or at least ignored the requests) about spammers. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/freetrial - sign up for your free 30-day trial now!

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"mms is not a registered protocol"
by Gil Weber 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

Hi, everyone. Last fall I wrote to the list asking for help with an error message I was getting when trying to watch videos on the following site: http://www.mlsnet.com/MLS/sights/ The message was: "mms not supported protocol." At the time I was using Mozilla 1.6 and SuSE 9.1, and some of you supplied the following solution: 1) open Mozilla, type about:config and click enter 2) right click on the screen and choose new/string from the menu that appears 3) enter preference: network.protocol-handler.apps.mms 4) in the next screen enter path to Kaffeine: opt/kde3/bin/kaffeine. That worked great. However, I just did a clean install of 9.2, did the on-line update using YaST, and I am using Firefox 1.0. I am getting another error message now that reads: "mms is not a registered protocol." I tried the Mozilla solution shown above but it isn't working. I'm still getting the error message. Any ideas? Would appreciate guidance on getting Firefox to play the videos on this site. Thx Gil

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