January 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

cdrecord trouble after k3b upgrade
by Hans du Plooy 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Hi all, I compiled and installed the latest k3b, same as I always do, and it broke things a bit. I have seen this before, so luckily I know what went wrong - I just don't know how to fix it. It seems it broke whatever logs a normal user into resource manager. Normal user can't write CDs anymore (even after I uninstalled the newer k3b - made an rpm, lucklily) and reinstall the one from the SUSE CDs. This in in 9.2, btw. root can write cds OK, but logging the normal user into resource manager doesn't seem to help. Here's what I get: hansdp@ncshans:/opt/hans> cdrecord dev=ATA:1,1,0 -dao -data -v driveropts=burnfree speed=12 -eject gracetime=2 opencd.iso Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://www.suse.de/feedback Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM cdrecord: Resource temporarily unavailable. Cannot get mmap for 4198400 Bytes on /dev/zero. hansdp@ncshans:/opt/hans> Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za

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Bual boot
by Chris 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

I am happy! I installed win me on a spare hd next to suse 9.2 and thought I would have to reinstall suse. Instead I did a repair and was able to reinstall grub and boot into either. This is great as previously any win os had to be installed first. This means when (inevitabley) I need to reinstall me I will not need to reinstall suse. I thought there might be someone out there who was unaware of this cahnge and would apreciate knowing this. suse even guides you through it! CHEERS for suse. Chris

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test post
by Chris H 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Pls do not reply. System test with apologies. /ch

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transferring text from spreadsheet
by Dennis J. Tuchler 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

There must be a way to transfer text from a spreadsheet to the OOo word processor. I'm just not finding it. Whenever I copy a block of text and then paste it onto the OOo word processor screen, the block is confined to a box. Is there a way to transfer it so that it is plain text? I found I could do this by transferring a block of text (or rows of numbers) to KWord, but for some reason, when I saved the resulting document as rtf in KWord, OOo could not read the resulting document! In any case, I would prefer to work within OOo. dj tuchler

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aacraid and 2.6 kernel
by John Scott 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Has anybody had success with aacraid and the 2.6 kernels? I know there are problems with aacraid (google is your friend) and 2.6, but not the 2.4 series. I've got 2.6.5-7.95-smp working with it, but can't seem to get any of the other 2.6.x to work. Everytime I try, I get maybe a minute to minute and a half (if it even completes booting) before the disks go read only due to a scsi reset. Can't get them to remount as rw either. I've also noticed that during the day the system will appear to hang under the 2.6.5-7.95-smp kernel, but wait about 45 seconds to 2 minutes, and starts the system responding again. The logs don't show any errors. I think this may be caused by the aacraid as well, but can't prove it. John

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Setting environment variables
by Koenraad Lelong 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Hi, I have a script to set a number of environment variables, including the PATH. It seems not to work. After the script terminates, the variables and the new path are gone or in their original state. Is this normal behaviour, or is there a misconfigured setting ? I modified the script to echo the path, and that's fine, but when I echo it after the script has run, it's in it's original state. Sugestions and pointers to reading material are welcome. The script : #!/bin/bash # dev-arm-qpe.sh script # location : /usr/bin # if [ -z ${ORG_PATH} ] then ORG_PATH=${PATH} export ORG_PATH fi if [ -z ${ORG_LD_LIBRARY_PATH} ] then ORG_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} export ORG_LD_LIBRARY_PATH fi CROSSCOMPILE=/opt/Embedix/tools:/usr/local/x86/2.95.3/bin:/opt/Embedix/tools QPEDIR=/opt/Qtopia/sharp QTDIR=/opt/Qtopia/sharp PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$QPEDIR/bin:$CROSSCOMPILE/bin:${ORG_PATH} TMAKEPATH=/opt/Qtopia/tmake/lib/qws/linux-sharp-g++/ ### Commented out next line. No need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH ! ### LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:${ORG_LD_LIBRARY_PATH} export QPEDIR QTDIR PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH TMAKEPATH PS1 echo "Altered environment for Sharp Zaurus Development ARM" -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v.

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RE: [SLE] Command-line semaphores
by Michael Benz 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

You could touch a file out to /var/lock and have the process check for the lock file then cleanup when you are ready to proceed. > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul W. Abrahams [mailto:abrahams@acm.org] > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 7:48 PM > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: [SLE] Command-line semaphores > > > Is there lurking somewhere in bash or as a utility program > something I can use > on a command line to construct a semaphore? The idea is that > I have some > resource and a couple of processes that want that resource. > I want to make > sure that if one gets the resource, the other is locked out > until the first > one is finished. > > For what it's worth, here's the specific case I'm interested > in. I want to > back up my home directory once a day. Easy enough, it seems > -- create a cron > job that does the deed at noon each day. But what if my > machine isn't turned > on at noon (since I don't leave it on all the time)? Again > -- easy enough: > do the backup when the machine is turned on, and set a signal > indicating that > it's been done. If the signal is set at noon, then don't do > the backup. > > But things get interesting if I turn the machine on very > slightly before noon. > Then it's possible that the job will either get done twice or > not at all if I > don't handle the signal correctly. That's the problem that > semaphores are > supposed to solve. > > Paul > > > -- > Check the headers for your unsubscription address > For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com > Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com > Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com > > >

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Permission problem with rsync -a
by Paul W. Abrahams 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

I've run into an interesting problem with using "rsync -a" to back up a directory. Some of the subdirectories I'm backing up have write permission turned off. The result seems to be that rsync can't install the files within the corresponding backup directories. It's logical enough, I suppose, but very inconvenient. I can get around it by not copying permissions -- but is there a better solution? Paul

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Re: [SLE] OT-help for Tsunami horror
by jfweber＠bellsouth.net 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Headers_ to_ forward_ to list_ owner: all MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501051007.09424@list-spammer> On Wednesday 05 January 2005 9:14 am, jfweber(a)bellsouth.net wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 9:15 pm, edwin wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 06:54:39 -0500, jfweber wrote > > <snip> > > > Please visit http://acehmediacenter.or.id to see the worst part of the > > world after tsunami. Estimation of death toll is 100,000 and almost every > > infrastructure in Aceh shoreline was damaged. > > > > Edwin > > Edwin, , I just saw the shots of an island ( Bande Eceh?? Spelling after a > brief look is unlikely correct, so bear w/ me) near the epicenter in > Sumatra. That island that looks like it was hit by a carpet bomb attack, > well except for the water all over what is left of the place... I've seen > a lot of so called 3rd world damage after everything except earthquakes, > but then I'm formerly a So. Californian so that probably wouldn't bother me > too much.<s> > > For a while it seemed that every time I was going to be anywhere in the > Carribbean that almost guaranteed there would be a huge storm just sit over > the island.. This stuff I was just looking at looks more like some Giant > trod all over the place just stomping on everthing.. what I saw didn't even > have most of the trees, let alone dwellings standing! > > Here's another thought, in that whole area there are groups of folks who > basically live on boats and work from them... and they are little boats , > for the most part.. W/ this kind of damage , I'm guessing they will never > know how many died. Or if anyone actually survived. > > Your link is interesting ... unfortunately the English stuff didn't show > half of what is happening. > > Question, > I noticed the other day they were talking about clean sheets, or any sheets > being unavailable in a lot of hospitals, they were used to wrap the bodies > as they were found. Is that on any list somewhere... or that perhaps the > (US) Military could supply body bags, and all the movie stars can send > enough cash to buy sheets for the hospitals. > > What bothers me so much is the emphasis on How many Europeans or Americans > died. And lurid tales of people gathering up children to sell to people > for the sex trade. All anyone needs to do is look at an over view of any of > these places ( a flyover, so to speak) and you can see how much devistation > to the infrastructure has happened. And if the buildings don't survive, > it's not too likely the people did... > > Sorry , I'll stop ranting now... this thing is enormous and will be a > disaster that will go on long after the news folks go on to the next big > story.... > > Too bad there isn't some way to have groups of folks gather together to > support towns and villiages for oooh five years... Local control over where > the money goes as long as it goes directly to the people and their aide... -- j nemo me impune lacessit 'Quis custodiet ipsos custodiates?'

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sa-learn problems (spamassassin-3.0.2-1)
by Rikard Johnels 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Starting to get the following as i run "sa-learn --spam Mail/missed_spam/cur/" Use of uninitialized value in quotemeta at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 928. It repeats for every mail in Mail/missed_spam/cur (from what i can understand as there are a few hundreds of the error) spamassassin-3.0.2-1 What goes?? -- /Rikard --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh(a)norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 735 05 51 01 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------

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