October 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SONY DRU-800A DVD+-RW oppinions
by Sunny 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi, can someone recommend this device for using under SuSE? Someone had problems? Thanks -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

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Wlan doesn't start at boot time
by Ilker 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hi all, I just installed OpenSUSE 10.0 on my desktop PC.I almost solved everything and it installed my printer and scanner (wow, it made it automatically).I also managed to show my Linksys WMP54G wireless lan card.The operating system sees the card but everytime i boot into system, i have to type "dhcpcd -G http://192.168.1.1 wlan0" as root.On my last distro, i just changed the permissions as 755 and put a "script" includes that command into init.d and worked fine, but on SUSE i couldn't get it working.I even tried it with a suid bit but no luck.Is there any way to get it connected automatically at boot ? I don't want to use NetGO.

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Erasing a File (Doubt)
by JUAN ERNESTO FLORES BELTRAN 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hi everyone, I have created a folder on my desktop (suse 10, gnome desktop), it is locked. Now i am trying to erase it but the system says i am not a superuser, so i am not authorized. How can i erase this file (sen it to trash?). Is it nessesary to do it form text mode or from a console?? which commands do i need? Reagrds Thanks for your answers in advance Juan.-

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Parsing of undecoded UTF-8 will give garbage...
by Rikard Johnels 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

I am getting a loads of these: Parsing of undecoded UTF-8 will give garbage when decoding entities at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/Mail/SpamAssassin/HTML.pm line 182. when running sa-learn roh@hawk:~> sa-learn --spam .kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.Old/Spam/cur/ Parsing of undecoded UTF-8 will give garbage when decoding entities at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/Mail/SpamAssassin/HTML.pm line 182. Parsing of undecoded UTF-8 will give garbage when decoding entities at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/Mail/SpamAssassin/HTML.pm line 182. <lots of repeated messages cut> Learned from 6320 message(s) (6365 message(s) examined). What can be done about it? -- -- /Rikard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- email : rikard.j(a)rikjoh.com web : http://www.rikjoh.com mob : +46 (0)736 19 76 25 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >

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usb automounting affects networking
by Norbert Müller 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hi all, After switching to Suse OSS 10.0 I have the following problem^Wbehaviour: My USB-Stick/MP3 Player mounts fine automatically, window pops up, so I am happy with this. But my digicam does not automount. Looking into /var/log/messages I find the following: Oct 31 17:57:47 linux kernel: usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 Oct 31 17:57:48 linux kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Oct 31 17:57:48 linux kernel: usb-storage: device found at 3 Oct 31 17:57:48 linux kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: Vendor: Model: Rev: Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: SCSI device sdb: 1001952 512-byte hdwr sectors (513 MB) Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 08 Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: SCSI device sdb: 1001952 512-byte hdwr sectors (513 MB) Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 08 Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: sdb: sdb1 Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: printk: 118 messages suppressed. Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1002112 Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1002113 Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1002114 Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1002115 Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1002116 Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1002117 Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1002118 Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1002119 Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1002112 Oct 31 17:57:53 linux kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1002113 Oct 31 17:57:53 linux udevd-event[9416]: run_program: '/sbin/vol_id' abnormal exit I tried '/sbin/vol_id /dev/sdb1' on the konsole and got a segmentation violation. Strange thing is, that after this my WLAN is down. usblist finds the digicam. manual mounting works Under Suse 9.3 the digicam was automounted. Anybody an idea, what is the reason? Regards Norbert

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ClusterIP anyone?
by Martin Cordova 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hello: I am interested in learning about configuring load balancing without a load balancer, now that IPTables includes support for this. It's hard to find easy-to-follow intructions about it, the netfilter how-to does not help me too much (because of my limited experience with iptables and networking concepts) I wonder if someone has already experimented with ClusterIP and can share his/her scripts? Is there a SuSE-specific config file to setup clusterIP nodes? Could not find anything on Yast2/FireWall module. BTW, it would be nice to have a config option for this in yast2. I already looked into a very nice software called "balancer", which is an open source TCP proxy, very easy to configure, but I suspect that an IPTable-based solution could be much faster, right? I would appreciate comments on this if it is not the case. Thank you, Martin -- Dinamica - Open source J2EE framework Free, easy and powerful http://www.martincordova.com

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What has happened to the libpng.so.2
by Alexander S. Usov 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hi! I have a binary, which requires libpng.so.2 to run. A quick check show that the last SuSE version it was included is 9.1 (compat-2004.4.2-3.i386.rpm). Will it work if I simply copy it somewhere into /usr/local/lib? -- Best regards, Alexander.

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Laptop mode tools
by Alistair Hamilton 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hi Is there a reason why there are no laptop mode tools included in 10.0? I cannot find anything in Yast to do the same job. Regards Alistair

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smartd
by B. Stia 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hello Suse people. I installed the smartmontools just to keep an eye on my two hard drives. Would be great to know if one of them is about to die. Run a check on them, say once a day, on boot-up? Read the smartd man page, all 1,616 lines of it. Very informative and very inconclusive. Doesn't tell me what to do. And I really don't need to know all of the options or everything about it. I just simply want to monitor the hard drives on a daily basis and send me an email message that everything is OK, or is not. I can run the commands individually from the cli. Soooo, humor me here please. How do I get it to do that? Bob S.

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Kmail crashing with signal 6
by Rikard Johnels 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

My Kmail has started to mysteriously just die on me. I started it up from prompt and after a while it gave me: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x087dfb80 *** *** KMail got signal 6 (Crashing) And thats all she wrote... I have no clue on why... Bug in kmail? Bug in glibc? A well known feature in either? All i know is that it is very annoying. -- -- /Rikard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- email : rikard.j(a)rikjoh.com web : http://www.rikjoh.com mob : +46 (0)736 19 76 25 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >

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