November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

serial ports dropped
by Roy F. Cabaniss 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

An odd one and it looks as though something wierd has happened. Went from 9.2 to 10. Under 9.2 (as with all of the prior versions of suse) to access my old palm pilot it was make a sym link to /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1 and just go for it, wither with kpilot gpilot or whatever. Start trying to access my palm pilot and no synch. Look in the devices and there is no ttyS#. There are ttys# but when I try to synch with them nothing happens. So I guess I need to ask.. what happened to the serial ports? (ps, they don't scan up when I do a hardware check with yast either) -- Dr. Roy F. Cabaniss Professor of Marketing University of Arkansas Monticello http://cabanisspc.uamont.edu

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Fw: [SLE] Connecting to internet
by Sebastian Pederiva 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

I use the same hardware with windows and also when I used fedora I succeed to connect the modem is connected via ehternet cable Sebastian ----- Original Message ----- To: <> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 4:13 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Connecting to internet On 21/11/05, Sebastian Pederiva <spederiva(a)spymac.com> wrote: > Do you use an ADSL modem? > I use ethernet ADSL router modem > > My modem is the samsung AHT-E300 ADSL Router > > Thanx > Ok, next question. Have you used this succesfully with either Apple or a Micorsoft set up? With this hardware being a router I would have thought that you need to access it via the usual web browser interface. Am I correct here? I have found some mention of the hardware on Google but mainly just ISPs stating they supply it. Does it connect via an ethernet cable? -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR -- 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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It's SuSE not SUSE
by Steven T. Hatton 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

If you don't know what SuSE means, look it up. Steven

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RE: [SLE] Video Editing Software for SuSE?
by WABonnett＠ups-scs.com 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: David McMillan [mailto:skyefire@skyefire.org] > Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:05 > To: SLE > Subject: [SLE] Video Editing Software for SuSE? > > > > Anyone know of a good, user-friendly video-editing app > that installs > and works well under SuSE 9 or 10 without too much hassle? > I have used and like Cinerella (free) and MainActor (not free). I still boot to Windows about half the time to do video editing, Pinnacle studio 9 is wonderful.

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samba PDC nt logon script
by Chadley Wilson 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Greetings, Just something, that is not clear with regards to setting up a PDC in linux. Where do I put my nt logon script, and PLEEEASE don't say in %U because that's whats unclear. Here are two bits of my conf file, [GLOBAL] logon script = %U.bat and [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon write list = root I assume that I must put the logon script in here? (path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon) I have called the logon script logon.bat The confusion I experience here is that the logon script entry refers to %U.bat which is supposed to mean per user. or run when users login, It doesn't work... Could someone here shed some light as to exactly where I am supposed to put the login.bat script. as in which folder.. :) Or at least how to work it out. LOL, TIA CHadley

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Recommended partitions for Suse 10.0
by 'o-Dzin Tridral 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Dear all, In my current Suse 10 installations (2 laptops) I've just accepted the default partitioning. It looks like a very simple arrangement with most of the space given over to '/'. I'm quite new to this and what I have read so far on the subject often seems to recommend different partitions for /var, /log, /tmp, /home etc. Is there any need to do this or is the default scheme sufficient? Mostly the laptops are going to be single user. I would appreciate any recommendations or examples. Thank you! 'o-Dzin

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Passwordless login seems not to work
by Paul W. Abrahams 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Using the Convenience section of the Login section of the KDE Control Center, I've specified that certain users should be able to log in without a password. However, the login screen continues to demand a password; if I don't give one, I can't log in. However, I also have automatic startup specified in the same section, and that does work without calling for a password. I've encountered the same behavior on two different systems. Anyone else seen this? Is it a pure bug or am I missing something? Paul

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open-exchange / tomcat issue
by Branislav Bozgai 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi. I've purchased the retail SUSE10.0 specifically to run open-exchange. However I'm not able to get it work. I've installed all the required RPMs followed all README in /usr/share/doc/packages but it does not work. I do get the open-exchange login page however when I login I get following error: Server error! The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI script. The URL is http://192.168.10.2/servlet/intranet?SITE=beforeAuth&sessionID=f3a04a36e03e… I've narrowed it down to Tomcat! It is not starting! The rctomcat5 is not starting tomcat. Looking at bugzilla I've found some .pid issue which I've fixed to no avail. Even though tomcat starts java nothing is responding on 8080 and 8000 is not even listening! Any ideas? Thanks, Brano

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CD-ROM mounting twice
by Vincente Aggrippino 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

SuSE 10.0 Has anyone else experience this? HAL is (auto)mounting my DVD writer twice whenever I put a CD in. Here's from the /var/log/messages: Nov 10 11:02:00 home hal-subfs-mount[29729]: MOUNT_POINT:: /media/dvdrecorder Nov 10 11:02:00 home hal-subfs-mount[29729]: MOUNTPOINT:: /media/dvdrecorder Thank you, Vince

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ADSL setup -- Buddy needs help!
by James Hatridge 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi all, A buddy of mine in Ireland is having two major problems. #1 He's dual booking W$/SuSE 10. When he tries to boot into Linux he gets i/o errors about 3 out of 4 times. #2 He is trying to setup ADSL and is having problems. Can someone tell me a good "simple" (for a newbie) how-to for him? If you have the time to talk him thru some of this his email is: martin fennell <marlowearcher(a)yahoo.com> Thanks! JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin/index.php Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection/index.php

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Evolution + courier-imap
by Hans du Plooy 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi guys, Since upgrading to SUSE 10.0, my evolution no longer displays the contents of the INBOX in my imap account, which runs on courier-imap. It displays the contents of all the subfolders, just not Inbox. When I rightclick on inbox and select "properties" it tells me there are howmanyever mails in the folder, but it doesn't display the message list. Any ideas what could cause this? Thanks Hans

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4.4GB iso desn't fit on dvd
by steve 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

suse_no64.iso 4.4Gb (4,736,907,264) K3B tells me that it will not fit onto a 4.7GB DVD-R Can anyone help? What I'm trying to do is rip the i386 installation from the dual layer dvd so it will fit onto a single layer dvd. Thanks, Steve.

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Suse 10 - Problem with yast nvidia update
by Jim Flanagan 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi all, I'm setting up Suse 10 on a new install. Setup went extremely well. However when I select the nvidia update in yast, x won't start. The boot process gets to runlevel 5, but xdm won't start. Tried running sax2 in runlevel 3, but that won't run either. I did sax2 -m 0=nv which go a very far off but running (sort of) sax configure screen. Not sure what is up with this. My 9.3 install runs very well on this same box with the yast nvidia update. Running the nvidia update is not too critical on this box, but I was wondering what was up with this. Is this card getting too old to be supported in suse 10, or x11? Or is this a bug? My card is NVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64. TIA for any pointers. Jim

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x86-64 and wireless
by Ed Harrison 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Anybody got wireless to work on SuSE 10 for AMD 64? I have a Belkin Wireless G care (Broadcom BCM4318 chip) and am having no joy. Ed Harrison, Registered Linux User #199533 SuSE 10.0, Kernel 2.6.13 PolarBar Mailer 1.26

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Logrotate again, work with /var/log/messages not work with apache2.
by Arie Reynaldi Z 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi All, I see in /etc/logrotate.d/ there are apache2 and syslog, but everyday i check, it seems logrotate only did /var/log/messages, /var/log/mail but not do anything with apache2 logs (access_log, error_log). When I try to run it manually, using logrotate -d -f /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 I found some errors, it says that logrotate did read my configuration, but can't compressed cause there's no such file. Here's my log files. rotating pattern: /var/log/apache2/access_log /var/log/apache2/arie-access_log forced from command line (99 rotations) empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed considering log /var/log/apache2/access_log log needs rotating considering log /var/log/apache2/arie-access_log log needs rotating rotating log /var/log/apache2/access_log, log->rotateCount is 99 glob finding old rotated logs failed renaming /var/log/apache2/access_log to /var/log/apache2/access_log-20051121 creating new log mode = 0644 uid = 0 gid = 0 running postrotate script running script with arg /var/log/apache2/access_log: " /etc/init.d/apache2 reload " error: unable to open /var/log/apache2/access_log-20051121 for compression rotating log /var/log/apache2/arie-access_log, log->rotateCount is 99 glob finding old rotated logs failed renaming /var/log/apache2/arie-access_log to /var/log/apache2/arie-access_log-20051121 creating new log mode = 0644 uid = 0 gid = 0 running postrotate script running script with arg /var/log/apache2/arie-access_log: " /etc/init.d/apache2 reload " error: unable to open /var/log/apache2/arie-access_log-20051121 for compression regards, -- Arie Reynaldi Zanahar reymanx at gmail.com http://www.reynaldi.or.id

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Re: [SLE] Printer Problems
by Kai Ponte 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

> * Kai Ponte <kai(a)perfectreign.com> [11-20-05 15:51]: > > Where should I look? > > issue from cl, lpstat -a > get the printer que name > issue from cl, including path > /usr/bin/enable <printer name> > > ie: /usr/bin/enable epson925e > > path-name is necessary as 'enable' is also a batch built-in command. Okay, I'm onsite. I just did that and - when I sent a test page again - the red error light showed up. Hardware malfunction apparently. Here's teh output, though... linux:/home/fc # lpstat -a stylusphotor300 accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00 linux:/home/fc # /usr/bin/enable stylusphotor300 linux:/home/fc # lpq stylusphotor300 is ready and printing Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size active fc 237 kdeprint_c9K73by8 109568 bytes 1st 238 Test Page 15360 bytes -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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Konqueror
by ajtiM 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi! I have a SuSE 10.0 and now KDE 3.5 RC1 but i had same problem on KDE 3.4 too. Problem is that is Konqueror very slow or it doen't open site ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/ or better it open ftp4.gwdg.de but when i choose pub than it need very long time to open and same when choose linux and... I thin server is not busy because Firefox open immediately. Thanks, Mitja

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Re: [SLE] Gnome disappointment
by Kai Ponte 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

> Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 19:20 -0500, Allen wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 09:40:21AM +0200, Janne Karhunen wrote: > >>> On Saturday 05 November 2005 09:23, Bryan Tyson wrote: > >>> > >>>>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1882118,00.asp > >>>> This article contains a very disappointing piece of news: > >>>> > >>>> "Novell is making one large strategic change. The GNOME interface is > >>>> going to become the default interface on both the SLES (SuSE Linux > >>>> Enterprise Server) and Novell Linux Desktop line. KDE libraries will be > >>>> supplied on both, but the bulk of Novell's interface moving forward > >>>> will be on GNOME." > >>> Incredible. They are stupid enough to screw their own customers. > >>> This will probably have a drastic influence on their current > >>> popularity. > >> > >> Yea I mean wow those mean mean guys, now you have to click on KDE before > >> hitting enter after typing your password. And then YOU HAVE TO CLICK ON SET > >> AS DEFAULT for GDM.... Wow, rough times..... *Sigh*. > > > > I was going to stay out of this one, but... > > > > Do you really think SUSE will invest as much time in honorable desktop > > #2 as they will in desktop #1? I bet things for KDE will lag. This has > > already started with beagle, which is much more integrated into gnome > > than kde. It is a simple matter of resources. If SUSE had equal > > resources for both gnome and kde, there would have been no need for any > > announcement. The announcement pretty much indicates one desktop will > > get the emphasis. Anyone who does software development knows what that > > means. > > > > KDE-4.0 pre-release reviews indicate major improvements including > beagle, so the show is not over yet. > Regards > Sid. Throwing my $.02 in - I have never been really happy with the whole KDE / Gnome thing. Gnome has always been - imo - ugly and not user-friendly, while at the same time being almost as resource-hungry as KDE. If I want to loose the eye-candy, I'll IceWM or Flux or... The whole reason, IIRC, that Miguel decided to abandon KDE and write his own desktop was becasue of licencing - which is long since resolved. I remember firing up Gnome on my Mandrake 6.1 system and immediately going back to KDE. That said, I just wish each distro would simply settle on one - or at least build wrappers - so that we could have a consistent look/feel. I absoltely hate using the dialog boxes in any GTK+ app - most horrible is that awful file open in GIMP. Okay.... </rant> -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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aacraid on SUSE 9.2
by Hans du Plooy 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

I just installed an Adaptec AAR-2410SA SATA raid card with three discs in a raid-5 to replace a kernel based raid consisting of two discs (of which one has failed) on a SUSE 9.2 box. I used my SUSE 10.0 boot disc in rescue mode to partition the raid device and copy all the data across, and edit the boot settings and fstab. When trying to boot off it, the kernel messages show that it sees the card, but then it starts complaining (see log below) and then a kernel panic - can't mount VFS root (or whatever that standard complaint is when it cannot find the / filesystem). When booting off the old discs with the raid controller installed, I get the following in boot.log: <6>scsi0 : aacraid <5> Vendor: ADAPTEC Model: AAR-2410SA RAID5 Rev: V1.0 <5> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 <5>SCSI device sda: 468742144 512-byte hdwr sectors (239996 MB) <5>sda: Write Protect is off <7>sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 <5>SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through <5>SCSI device sda: 468742144 512-byte hdwr sectors (239996 MB) <5>sda: Write Protect is off <7>sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 <5>SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through <6> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 <5>Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 [that much looks fine] <3>aacraid: Host adapter reset request. SCSI hang ? <3>aacraid: Host adapter appears dead <6>scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 [this message repeats a bunch of times] <4>SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x6000000 <4>end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 321103 <3>Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 321040 <3>scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device <3>Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 321041 repeated a number of times, each time with different sector/block numbers. My guess is the aacraid driver in the 2.6.8 kernel doesn't understand this controller (it's not listed in the README). I downloaded the latest driver for SUSE 9 (doesn't work) as well as the source. There are no build instructions with the source - I tried substituting it in the kernel tree, but it fails to build. Does anyone know how to build this driver? Thanks Hans

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Gaim broken after upgrading gnome
by Jason Riker 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Hello All, Gaim stopped working after upgrading gnome on my system. This is the gnome source I am using: http://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/supplementary/GNOME/update_for_10.0/yas… Has anyone else experienced this? If so, can you help me fix it? Thank you. Jason

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Splitting and redirecting mailing-lists (was: openSUSE governance)
by Pascal Bleser 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Schroeter wrote: > On Sunday 13 November 2005 18:09, Michael K Dolan Jr wrote: > ... >> And I'd also suggest that Suse developers need to be more active >> externally - you're an open project now - why collaborate/email/discuss >> internally without collaborating with the community. You may be >> surprised at some of the benefits. Other projects have done this well... > > the main problem here is that plenty developers do fear the traffic on this > mailing list and that we still not have a transparent system to follow and > discuss issues depending on specific components of the system. Exactly > What we could do is to define more mailinglists to specific areas to improve > this (you can see a way better response time already on the opensuse-* > lists). => "support" questions about stable SUSE Linux releases (i.e. 10.0) => suse-linux-e => questions about development versions of SUSE Linux (i.e. 10.1) => opensuse-factory Here: opensuse.org community, governance, ... Could we agree on this ? Has anyone on this list a problem with that ? If we do agree on splitting the lists and topics like that, we should all redirect questions and topics that don't belong onto this list to the appropriate one. Maybe the description of the list should be refined on http://www.opensuse.org/Communicate cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser(a)skynet.be> <guru(a)unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDgFTqr3NMWliFcXcRAkNmAJ9WhBFmbhtfZSa5pZH/aGHvRkKbJgCePP7O f9G2lxueHBIQZvAAveWIEFg= =qUKi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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SuSE 10.0 masquerade changes?
by Peter A. Taylor 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

I got simple masquerading working under SuSE 9.3 (sharing a modem), but I can't get it working under SuSE 10.0 . I can ping and ftp within my internal network, but the internal network can't see the internet. Has anything relevant changed between 9.3 and 10.0, or am I doing something stupid? Any ideas? Where do I look for clues? Peter Taylor

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vsftp current logons
by Kai Zhang 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Hi, I've got vsftpd running. Is there anyway to check out who is connection to my user, upload or download, which directory/file they are accessing? i can only check vsftp.log in /var/log folder. But those are only logs of past connections, right? Kai

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Re: [SLE] pwc module on SuSE 10.0
by Bryan S. Tyson 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

On Sunday 20 November 2005 11:24 am, Jay Vollmer wrote: > Can you tell me where I can get 'hold of the webcam package? Last time I checked, it was in SuSE's v4l-tools package. Previously it was included with xawtv. Bryan ************************************** Powered by Mepis Linux 3.3.1 KDE 3.4.2 KMail 1.8.2 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net **************************************

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how to mount not as superuser?
by Istvan Gabor 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Hi all: I would like to mount my iso file I've created with mkisofs as a loopdevice to a mount point in my home directory but mount gives the error message: @linux:~> mount image-01.iso mnt -t iso9660 -o loop mount: only root can do that How could I mount MY file in MY directory? Why would I need to be root for this? I can't understand the policy. Thanks, IG _______________________________________________________________________ Rendelj képet és nyerjél gépet a T-Online Fotótárával december 15-ig. http://www.t-online.hu

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