November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Sound and SuSE 10,0
by Chadley Wilson 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Greetings, I am just curious,,, Has anyone here experienced a sound issue with 10 on more that say 8 PCs, all different specs? (sis, via, intel) Here at Pinnacle Micro in SA we use MSi Mainboards, and components. The sound is detected and configured correctly, I check the order of initialization and it looks good. But when KDE or Gnome starts there is a problem. I have solved this by adding an rcalsasound restart in the boot.local on each machine. Surely there is something else that loads after the sound that causes this... I wonder if my guess is right! Chadley

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Re: New USer
by Neal Wingate 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

WARNING: NEWBIE Hello all. I was was hoping someone could advise me on how to get started. Could someone point me to a good resource on file directory structure, how to install packages (is that what it's called) and general good house keeping hints? I promise to read and learn before asking silly questions in the future. Thanks you for your time, Neal ----- A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defence.

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Suseconfig hangs after online update (Suse 9.3)
by James D. Parra 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hello, After updating install, Suseconfig hangs on "tetex". <snip> Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.tetex... Tried stopping and restating suseconfig, but it hangs indefinitely on tetex. Any clues on how to correct this? Many thanks, James

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slib and SuSE10
by Donn Washburn 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hey Group; Anyone running SuSE 10 and "SuSEconfig" seeing a problem that "guile and slib" is having? I have tracked out the error to {guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)} which works but when the rest of the command is {guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib) (require 'new-catalog)") it fails. That is because new-catalog is not known and as best I can tell it is not a valid command variable. Replaced with "random" and the error goes away. Not being 100 % sure of what "guile" is for and short of screwing with "info guile" - man offers no help. Anyone known what guile and new catalog are supposed to do? -- 73 de Donn Washburn Hpage:" http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " 307 Savoy St. HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador LL# 1.281.242.3256 " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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Apache2 and php error
by Donn Washburn 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hey Group; This type of error comes from every file.php program. Like phpMyAdmin, timesheet and blogcms. All of them are in /srv/www/htdocs/. php modules are defined in /etc/apache2 by Yast2 and it has been restarted lots of times. OS: SuSE 10 Beta 4 modules: php4-mysql-4.4.0-5 mod_php4-core-4.4.0-5, apache2-mod_php4-4.4.0-5 pcre-devel-6.2-2 pcre-6.2-2 Error (sample) Warning: preg_match: internal pcre_fullinfo() error -3 in /srv/www/htdocs/phpMyAdmin/libraries/defines.lib.php on line 36 Anyone have an idea? Could it be coming from a modules conflict. -- 73 de Donn Washburn Hpage:" http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " 307 Savoy St. HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador LL# 1.281.242.3256 " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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remote xdm kdm confusion
by Peter Sutter 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

I have problems in accessing some SuSE V9.2 systems remotely. A X -query system :port works with all those X servers that were originally running SuSE 8.2 and were upgraded to SuSE 9.2; it fails to connect to all systems on which SuSE 9.2 was installed from scratch. What baffles me, is that if I choose xdm as the display manager on the server, it works, if I choose kdm as display manager, it doesn't. Where does the difference in behaviour come from? The display manager settings in YaST is on all systems exactly the same, /etc/sysconfig/diaplaymanager is identical, as is /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config. I prefer kdm over xdm and would like to get it going. Thanks for any help Peter

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SuSE 10.0 Eval + TNT2
by Rui Santos 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hi, This is something that has happend to me and, could proove usefull to someone at the same time I place my question. I installed SuSE 10.0 Eval on a machine with a NVidia TNT2 (I know - It's old). The problems begun, when i wanted to activate 3D on the Card. So, as usual i ran you to update the driver automaticly. Bad idea... The card stoped working at all... Next step was to download the latest nvidia-install from nvidia.com and give it a go. It also didn't work... So, after reading a few dosc at nvidia.com, i found out that, all installers >= 75xx don't support the NVidia TNT2 amongh others. So I've tryed version 7174 of the nvidia-installer. It almost worked. The problem now was that, after a reboot, there was no display available to be loaded. The solution was to add a few lines to /etc/udev/static_devices.txt. Those lines were: #nvidia by Rui Santos nvidia0 c 195 0 666 nvidia1 c 195 1 666 nvidia2 c 195 2 666 nvidia3 c 195 3 666 nvidia4 c 195 4 666 nvidia5 c 195 5 666 nvidia6 c 195 6 666 nvidia7 c 195 7 666 nvidiactl c 195 255 666 After this all worked well. Is there any other way to solve this? Is this the correct way? It seems to work... -- Rui Santos http://www.ruisantos.com/

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connecting two machines with a router, no internet connection
by James P. Bennett 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi, As the info below will show, I know nothing at all about networking and, until last week, never needed to. I have a simple router which worked fine when connecting two PCs running XPpro. Now I'm trying to use it to connect two workstations, each running SuSE 10.0 (one 32- and one 64-bit), but there is no connection to the internet or to any isp. (Yes, I know I could do this with a crossover cable, but I shall intermittently have network connection soon.) I tried assigning one machine a local address of 10.0.0.1, making it the dhcp server, but no joy. There seems to be no way to use Yast to create the connection that I want. Any suggestions? jim bennett

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Adding package repositories
by ashutosh 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I just wanted to add third party package repositories using 'Installation Source' in YAST control center,but it just seems to wait indefinetly on 'Adding installation source' dialog after I put put in values and click to add the source.Is there any debug mode or log file or command line alternative that tells what is going on? regards, ashutosh

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LILO vs GRUB
by Matt Stamm 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I'm recent pruchased a new PC with a single SATA drive. I was unable to install SUSE to this PC using the default install. Every install attempt resulted in a GRUB error on the initial boot after the first CD. Changing the bootloader from GRUB to LILO fixed the problem and resulted in a successfull install. I'm concerned that I could not install SUSE with the default settings. It appears that SUSE, and the Linux community prefers GRUB and that GRUB is a more powerful bootloader than LILO. I do not plan on having any other OS on this PC other than SUSE. Should I be concerned that I could not use GRUB? What is the downside to using LILO instead of GRUB ? Any advise or comment would be appreciated. Matt

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RE: [SLE] LILO vs GRUB
by Matt Stamm 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Thank you James and Carlos for the LILO insights. I think I'll stick with LILO for now (if it ain't broke, don't fix it!) Thanks again, Matt ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "James D. Parra" <Jamesp(a)MusicReports.com> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 11:30:23 -0800 > >>That you need to run 'lilo' after doing any change to the bootloader >>configuration or a kernel update or change. Grub doesn't need that. > >> Grub can read directly from the filesystem, so it can read the menu and >> other files directly during boot. On the other hand, lilo can not do >> that, it needs a map to find those things it needs being compiled before >> hand (by running the 'lilo' command). > >Just to concur with Carlos, after any kernel upgrade, you'll need to run >"#/sbin/lilo" to update Lilo's boot selection. There is plenty of >documentation for lilo and it is easy to update and modify. It may lack a >few of the functions that Grub supports, but it works well enough. You won't >be disappointed. Besides, after you make any changes you need or want, you >won't need to tend to it again. > >~James > >-- >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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RE: [opensuse] Re: suse in a windows network (authentication)
by Daniel Hatfield 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

> Please post it to the list or wiki if you get chance Daniel! It's coming. I have a bunch of time on my hands starting in January. Cheers, Daniel

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128 GB limit with USB / Firewire external HDD
by Fergus Wilde 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Don't think we have done this one recently, apologies if we have: Having run out of disk space on an external firewire 120 GB drive, I thought it would be fun to fit a bigger disk and installed a 400 GB drive into the enclosure. No dice, SuSE sees only 128GB of it. Explore, discover some enclosures appear to have limitations in this regard. Buy new enclosure, this one does USB2 & Firewire, and manufacturers rate it to 400 GB. Use YaST partitioner to provide a single partition - success! Partitioner sees: /dev/sda1 372.6GB Linux native /media/usbdisk 0 48640 And the device appears to mount OK: # mount | grep sda /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=reiserfs) So get on with rsync'ing data across, but it stops :-( Why? # df /media/usbdisk/ Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 134202876 134201336 1540 100% /media/usbdisk So different parts of the system appear to have different views of the disk and partition concerned: YaST can see the 400GB disk, but the filesystem can apparently only see 128GB again? The machine has ide disks with partitions > 128GB without difficulty. Because it seemed to matter in some related discussions at lists.suse.com: # rpm -qa | grep hal hal-0.5.4-6.2 hal-resmgr-0.1_SVNr59-2 This phenomenon appears in the same way on two separate machines running SuSE 10. Anyone got a clue how to get the system to 'see' the remaining part of the disk in the same way the YaST partitioner appears to see it? I do realise that there may be hardware issues here, but it would be very interesting to hear from anyone who has a large external usb2 or firewire disk running successfully. Cheers Fergus

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booting to different monitors
by John R. Sowden 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Today I took my desktop home to access our dsl to download the latest open office. I booted into a blank screen after the first grub menu. I was unable to determine how to insert custom boot parameters. Is there a reasonable way to set up a different menu selection in grub to access a monitor with less resolution, or just different parameters? -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail(a)americansentry.net www.americansentry.net

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What the core team is discussing
by Sonja Krause-Harder 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi, we've added http://www.opensuse.org/Core_Team_Issues to show the topics that are currently being discussed in our (internal) core team meetings. We'll update this page regularily. Sonja -- Sonja Krause-Harder (skh(a)suse.de) Research & Development SUSE Linux Products GmbH

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Re: [SLE] LILO vs GRUB
by Matt Stamm 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Matthew Stringer <qube(a)firstnet.co.uk> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 15:16:08 +0000 >On Wednesday 0 >> Concerning the BIOS setting, its a Phoenix BIOS. In order >> to access the SATA info you have to hit <TAB>. When you >> hit <DEL> to enter the normal BIOS stuff there is no mention >> of the SATA drives. The <TAB> section displays two channels, >> with nothing on channel one and my 80 gig drive on channel 0. >> >> Does this tell you what you need to know? >> >> Matt > >Although it doesn't help I had this same problem with a Phoenix BIOS'ed mobo >and SATA drives. Made no diff what version of Suse/Fedora I used it wouldn't >boot. > >In the end I swapped the mobo, but with same IDE SATA controller and disks it >worked fine. > >Matthew > Matthew, In researching this problem I came across some discussions concerning the VIA chip set which is on my MOBO. So far everything is working fine after I changed the bootloader to LILO and finished the install. Unless I learn a compelling reason to change from LILO back to GRUB I think I'll just leave well-enough alone. Is there a reason I should try to get back to GRUB ??? Matt

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problem setting up samba on suse 9.3
by Istvan Gabor 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Dear SUSE users: I would like to use samba on my suse 9.3 box. I have set up the samba shares through yast. I also cheked the 'open port in firewall' option. But when I want to browse the windows/samba network, clicking on the desktop icon 'Network Browsing', then on the 'SMB Shares' icon in the upcoming window, I get the following error message: "Unable to find any workgroups in your local network. This may be caused by an enabled firewall." I checked my firewall settings and made sure that Samba Server is allowed, furthermore UDP ports 138 and 139 are enabled. Still can't browse the samba network. I can't even see my own shares. If I turn off the firewall I can browse the samba ahares and the samba network with no hassle. So it seems that the culprit is the firewall but which setting? I had no this type of problem in 9.1 and 9.2 Please help! Thanks, IG _________________________________________________________________________ Töltsd le Caramel első saját szerzeményét, és nyerj egy közös vacsorát vagy VIP-jegyeket a lemezbemutató koncertre! http://zenearuhaz.t-online.hu/index.php?m=info&albumid=14517&sp=74&sty=78

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adding env variables to root
by mike 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

hi i am new to SUSE. using SUSE 10 how can i add the env variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the root's profile.? thanks

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SLES 9 SP2 on OES??
by Ryan McCain 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I'm a bit confused. Can I install SLES 9 SP2 onto OES? I'm thinking this because isnt OES essentially SLES 9 SP1? Thanks, Ryan

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Problem with size of GTK fonts
by Daniel Bertolo 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi On my notebook, I have a problem with font sizes of GTK fonts. The resolution of the display is 1680x1050 (16:10 aspect ration). I did a KDE-standard install of SUSE 10.0. With the default setup, the font size within GTK applications is huge while QT apps display correctly. I found an application that is called gnome-font-properties. With that, I could set the font size of GTK apps to a normal level. This works. In order to have it work after a relogin, I installed a shortcut in my Autostart folder to '/opt/gnome/lib/control-center-2.0/gnome-settings-daemon'. After login, everything works. But after some minutes, all QT apps get small fonts. What's the problem here? How are font size linked between GTK and QT apps? I thought that the gtk-qt-engine does not affect font sizes, does it? Thanks for help, Daniel

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Mozilla and MathML
by Steven T. Hatton 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I'm having problems with Mozilla viewing MathML. The problem I am having with the build from SuSE 10 is different from what happens with the mozilla 1.7.12 from mozilla.org. If someone would verify this, I would appreciate it. I want to report one, or perhaps two bugs. With the Mozilla that ships with SuSE 10, I do not see the &NotExists; in the xhtml below. With the build from mozilla.org, there are incorrect and, downright weird fonts shown. If you get an error saying you need to install special fonts, you can ignore that in this case. If you want the fonts, follow the links in the error message, and get the _4.1_ fonts. One thing I've noticed with the Mozilla from SuSE is that it seems to have MathML fonts built in. I don't get the error telling me to get the Math fonts that I get from the mozilla.org build. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0//EN" "HTMLFiles/xhtml-math11-f.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title> fundamentals-of-mathematics.xml </title> </head> <body> <mml:math xmlns:mml='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML' id='peano-3'> <mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>&NotExists;</mml:mo> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>α</mml:mi> <mml:mo>&Element;</mml:mo> <mml:mi mathvariant='double-struck'>N</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:mo>&SuchThat;</mml:mo> <mml:mrow> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>α</mml:mi> <mml:mo>′</mml:mo> </mml:msup> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> </body> </html>

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Re: [SLE] LILO vs GRUB
by Matt Stamm 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Bruce Marshall <bmarsh(a)bmarsh.com> Reply-To: bmarsh(a)bmarsh.com Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 09:51:08 -0500 >On Wednesday 02 November 2005 09:39 am, Matt Stamm wrote: >> I'm recent pruchased a new PC with a single SATA drive. >> I was unable to install SUSE to this PC using the default >> install. Every install attempt resulted in a GRUB error >> on the initial boot after the first CD. Changing the >> bootloader from GRUB to LILO fixed the problem and >> resulted in a successfull install. >> >> I'm concerned that I could not install SUSE with the >> default settings. It appears that SUSE, and the Linux >> community prefers GRUB and that GRUB is a more powerful >> bootloader than LILO. I do not plan on having any other >> OS on this PC other than SUSE. >> >> Should I be concerned that I could not use GRUB? >> >> What is the downside to using LILO instead of GRUB ? >> >> Any advise or comment would be appreciated. >> >> Matt > >I have installed 10.0 on a machine with a SATA drive... an Intel motherboard >-- so the problem must lie either with your hardware situation or possibly >your BIOS settings for IDE/SATA. > >It is possible that the SATA drive switched position (numbering) when the >system rebooted.. and that a grub setting might cure the boot problem. > Bruce, I'm sure the BIOS setting is a possibility. I purchased the PC from Monarch Computer Systems. They offer PCs with Linux pre-installed and they just (last week) started offering SUSE 10 pre-installed. So I called them to get advise and they too are having problems. They have a single order for a SUSE 10 system and, as of Monday, have yet to get it out the door due to install problems. They sound much more GRUB experienced than I so they said they are working on a GRUB work-around. Concerning the BIOS setting, its a Phoenix BIOS. In order to access the SATA info you have to hit <TAB>. When you hit <DEL> to enter the normal BIOS stuff there is no mention of the SATA drives. The <TAB> section displays two channels, with nothing on channel one and my 80 gig drive on channel 0. Does this tell you what you need to know? Matt

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Red-carpet or ZENworks for SuSE 10.0 Eval.
by Erik Jakobsen 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi. Where can I find the subject ?. Erik Jakobsen P.S. Please Anders!

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strange DHCP server problem on SuSE 10.0
by Phil Driscoll 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I have a SuSE 10.0 machine running the DHCP server (I upgraded the machine from SuSE 9.3 a couple of weeks ago). The DHCP server still seems to work perfectly well with all my machines except for one (a 233MHz PII machine with a realtek 8139 NIC). For all the working machines, I see the normal 'discover offer request ack' sequence in the log files - e.g.: Nov 1 20:42:47 opteron dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:c0:26:75:ee:89 via eth0 Nov 1 20:42:47 opteron dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.2.220 to 00:c0:26:75:ee:89 via eth0 Nov 1 20:42:47 opteron dhcpd: Wrote 2 leases to leases file. Nov 1 20:42:47 opteron dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.2.220 (192.168.2.20) from 00:c0:26:75:ee:89 via eth0 Nov 1 20:42:47 opteron dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.2.220 to 00:c0:26:75:ee:89 via eth0 but on the non-working machine, there's a discover and an offer, but no DHCPREQUEST comes back from the client: Nov 1 20:34:57 opteron dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:06:4f:05:84:a4 via eth0 Nov 1 20:34:58 opteron dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.2.220 to 00:06:4f:05:84:a4 via eth0 The /var/log/messages show that the 'now borken' machine was working perfectly up to the upgrade to SuSE 10, and hasn't worked since. I suppose there's a slight chance that the non-working machine broke in some way at exactly the same time as I upgraded to 10.0, but there's not a lot to go wrong as it's a thin client machine using etherboot. My dhcp.conf file remains exactly as it was before the upgrade. Anyone got any ideas what might be wrong? Thanks -- Phil Driscoll

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XMMS and amarok fails to play .mp3-files
by Jon Jahren 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hello, I'm trying to get xmms and/or amarok to play mp3 files, however, xmms just won't play them, with the message: /usr/lib/xmms/General/libir.so: undefined symbol: irapp_thread amaroK just won't play the files, or skips through the playlist really fast, and I can't get an errormessage because amaroK refuses to start via the terminal. This is OpenSUSE alpha 2 xmms 1.2.10 installed via YaST and amaroK that came with SUSE or is installed via YaST, can't remember. It's probably worth noting that I know my soundcard works, and that I know mplayer plays mp3 files just fine. Any help greatly appreciated. Regards Jon Jahren

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Re: [SLE] Yast Error
by adamvaz＠earthlink.net 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Do it again as root. The database is owned by root. Adam -----Original Message----- From: "B. Stia" <usr(a)sanctum.com> Subj: [SLE] Yast Error Date: Tue Nov 1, 2005 1:20 am Size: 784 bytes To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Hello SuSE people. Tonight I went to install the package sharutils from the 9.2 disks. It would not install and gave me the following error. I have no idea what it means. Anybody can explain/rectify this??? --------------------------------------------------------------------- ERROR(InstTarget:E_RpmDB_subprocess_failed) --- error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for any help/guidance. Bob S. -- 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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Configuring Postfix Server
by JUAN ERNESTO FLORES BELTRAN 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi everyone, I am trying to configure my postfix server and i still not sure the best way to do it. Actually i am designing a system based on php-postgresql, it is configured as apache, postgresql and postfix server (everything is supposed to be executed from the same computer). the system is intended to send e-mails to postfix under certain conditions, when the condition is achieved then php sends the mail as follows: ............................................................................................................................... <?php $to=administrator(a)linux.site; $subject=New request; $Body=A new request has been made if (mail($to, $subject, $Body)){ echo(<p>Messagge successfully sent!</p>); } else { echo(<p>Messagge delivery failed.</p>); ?> ................................................................................................................................ I am sending e-mails to @linux.site domain because of it is my computers default hostname: ................................................................................................................................ # postconf myhostname = linux.site mydomain = linux.site ................................................................................................................................ every time the condition is reached i receive the message: "Message successfully sent!" this means postfix has received the message, and it does even when postfix is unused (/etc/init.d/postfix stop) then the message is sent to the queue until postfix is started again (/etc/init.d/postfix start) i can see the enqueued message by using #mailq command. Well everything is ok by now, but i still not know where the message is sent once postfix is started again. I mean the message is just moved to the active queue and probably delivered to the mailbox via qmgràlocal processes. But how can I open the message from console and verify its content??? What is the command required and where the mailbox is located? As follows al the info related to milbox according to postconf: # postconf d home_mailbox = mailbox_command = mailbox_command_map = mailbox_delivery_lock = fcntl, dotlock mailbox_size_limit = 0 mailbox_transport = virtual_mailbox_base = virtual_mailbox_domains = $virtual_mailbox_maps virtual_mailbox_limit = 51200000 virtual_mailbox_lock = fcntl virtual_mailbox_maps = and, # postconf n mailbox_command = mailbox_size_limit = 0 mailbox_transport = well, this was my first question. The next one is related to the tables used to route every message. Actually I am trying to send mails by using postfix and I would like to use squirrelmail to read such messages. What tables do I need to configure in order to send mail properly to the mailbox LOCALLY on my computer and read them from a mail account by using squirrelmail?? On the other hand, how do I edit every table?, I mean I have got into every table by: # pico /etc/postfix/canonical # vi :/etc/postfix/canonical etc and it seems there is no fields to fill indo I have to erase the whole content of each table an edit its content??? Thanks for your answers in advance.. Regards Juan PD: everything is supposed to be executed from the same computer (suse 10), it is configured as apache, postgresql and postfix server.

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10.0 upgrade from 9.2
by Kai Zhang 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

A newbie question: How to upgrade my 9.2 to 10? I installed 9.2 via FTP. (downloaded boot.iso and install by giving ftp server address) in 10 directory, i can find 5 ISO files. If I wish to install 10.0 via ftp, do i only need to download the 1st CD? Thanks for your kind help. Kai

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Network Problems after Xen Installation
by Andreas Ehmich 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hello, I installed Xen with this manual http://www.opensuse.org/Installing_Xen3 After reboot my network interfaces doesn't work. Is there a manual available howto configurate the xen bridge? Can this be done by YaST? Regards, Andi

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Capi with AVM Fritz Card PCI
by Christian Präger 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi, I want to use the AVM Fritz Card PCI 2.0 with Opensuse 10 on an AMD Athlon64. This ISDN card runs perfect with the HiSAX-Driver, but if I want to use the Capi-Driver I get following error code: error in /sbin/isdnctrl addif ippp0 I get the same error if I want to start the interface manually. I also downloaded and installed this two files: ftp://anonymous@ftp.gwdg.de:21/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/x86_64/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-GM-Extra/suse/x86_64/avmfritzcapi-2.6-40.x86_64.rpm ftp://anonymous@ftp.gwdg.de:21/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/x86_64/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-GM-Extra/suse/x86_64/km_fritzcapi-2.6-40.x86_64.rpm How can I get Capi work under Opensuse? Thanks Christian

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out of range - new monitor
by Peter Sutter 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I got myself a new tft monitor, it works well in graphics mode (runlevel 5), but when I startup the system or try to switch to a console (tty1 or tty2), the monitor displays a 'out of range' message on a black screen. I can setup the monitor in yast for runlevel 5, but where do I setup the monitor for text mode? Thanks for your help peter

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modifies for use Smartlink-softmodem on ibm thinkpad T41
by Gianluca 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi everyone, The opensuse project is fantastic :-) ... and now I'm tring to get my contribution. I installed the openSUSE 10.0 release on my thinkpad T41, and the packages for modem installed on my laptop are in inst-source-extra directory, and are: - smartlink-softmodem - km_smartlink-softmodem In the package km_smartlink-softmodem for 10.0, the file armlibs.o is missing... so the slamr.ko module can't be generated... and modem doesn't work !! However, this problem is already fixed in the km_smartlink-softmodem for 10.1 release... but there are other problems with that package. In fact, the slamr.ko module doesn't be generated because in the Makefile provided by the package for generate the module there isn't the definition of KERNEL_SOURCE variable used at line 19: modules modules_add clean: $(MAKE) -C $(KERNEL_SOURCE) $@ SUBDIRS=$(CURDIR) EXTRA_CFLAGS=-I$(CURDIR) So, I add the line: KERNEL_SOURCE=lib/modules/`uname -r`/build and now the slamr.ko module can be generated and installed :-). But... another problem arises with my laptop. When the kernel initialize itself and search and load the modules for my hardware, it automatically load slamr module for modem... but it do that too early. I don't know why... but this behaviour blocks the modem!!! So, I blocked the loading of slamr by kernel booting (I moved the file slamr.ko in another directory)... and I modified the script slmodemd for loading the slamr module when the script starts. And now the modem works perfectly. :-) / line 56: #modprobe slamr/ line 57: insmod /usr/src/kernel-modules/km_smartlink_softmodem/slamr.ko I'm italian... and I'm learning english... so, be patience for my poor english... thanks :-) Ciao, Gianluca

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Using Thunderbird with Firefox
by jim 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

How do you set Firefox to use Thunderbird as default mail ? If I put Bookmarks from another computer that Firefox used, how can i get them to come up in Suse Firefox? If I put Bookmarks in /home/user and try to do a import from Firefox , Firefox won't import them. Jim

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HP Compaq nx9110
by Paul Hewlett 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Finally decided to try SuSE 10.0 - got DVD and installed on my server and did a network install to a test PC (HP Vectra - P3 - 866MHz - 384M RAM). Install on this PC was spectacularly successful. Performance is very snappy and donloading of patches much faster - impressive. So I decided to try it on my HP Compaq nx9110 laptop (512M RAM - P4 - 3200 MHz). The install started OK but when doing the first reboot the PC apparently died. I rebooted in failsafe mode and continued the installation in text mode - my monitor was shown as 'unknown'. Rebooted - same story - black screen - no apparent activity. Booted failsafe mode - works but the kdm login screen takes a loooong time to come up. Attempted to login but the screen went completely crazy - lots of lines and scrambled video. Switched off in hurry. Booted in failsafe mode and edited boot/grub/menu.lst and changed vga=0x317 to vga=normal for normal boot option. Rebooted - now I get lots of text as for a normal boot process - usual stuff - however when I get to ACPI the boot process freezes - the message is ACPI version 20050408 I have now reverted to 9.3 (9.2 also ran on this laptop successfully). How do I determine the version of 10.0 on the DVD ? Any suggestions ? Anybody else using a nx9110 ? Thanx for any help u can give me ... Regards Paul -- Paul Hewlett - CottonPickinMinds - www.cottonpickinminds.co.za Tel: +27 21 852 8812 Cel: +27 84 420 9282 Fax: +27 86 672 0563 --

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Re: [SLE] Printer filter to PDF file
by Terje J. Hanssen 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

**James Knott wrote:// ** > Terje J. Hanssen wrote: > /> Hello everyone, / > /> / > /> OpenSuse 10 comes ready preconfigured with a printer filter to pdf > file. / > /> I wish to set up such pdf filter on another distro too, but I am not / > /> which software is used for this setup, e.g Ghostscript or another > one? / > /> / > /> That is, I searching for hints how to setup such a printer filet to > pdf / > /> file. > > /The KDE KPrinter will create PDFs. OpenOffice will too. Yes, it looks to be the KPrinter, as the pdf filter was found in KDE desktop printer KJobViewer. The OOo one that I am aware of, I expect works only internally from OOo applications, while the Kprinter's to pdf file filter should be general from all applications, if I'm right. Tried also a Gnome login to OpenSuse, but didn't see the pdf file filter available for the "Gnome printer". Possibly can it be set up also here? Thanks, Terje J. Hanssen

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RE: [opensuse] suse in a windows network (authentication)
by Daniel Hatfield 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

> i was wondering if I could somehow make my suse (10) authenticate > versus my windows 2003 domain controller. I configured both ldap > client and kerberos client in Yast2. Authentication works (the > kerberos part).. but I still cannot log in because ldap isn't able to > fetch user account information from my active directory which is > because it's not using the kerberos credidentials to establish a > gssapi connection. > > So I set up shell/home information in /etc/passwd. No password. > Passwords are still being retrieved from the domain controller via > kerberos. Big surprise -> login works. If I now issue a ldapsearch > with the filter it already tried before (but with no valid bind) > "(&(objectclass=User)(msSFU30Name=testuser))" it starts a SASL/GSSAPI > authentication and successfully fetches the needed information. Why > doesn't ldap use gssapi on logins then.. or where can I tell it to use > it? Couldn't find any suitable option in Yast nor the config files > themselves. I don't know about using doing this with ldap directly, but if you have Kerberos working and you've successfully joined your computer to the domain. You're really close. Let's test to make sure. Do the following as root from the command line: To test Kerberos: kinit administrator The above command will prompt for a password. Enter the password of your 2K3 domain administrator. If you have renamed your domain administrator account use the name instead with the kinit command. If you receive no errors Kerberos is working. To test winbind: wbinfo -g The above command should give you a list of groups in you Active directory. Try it with the -u switch to see a list of users. Let us know what your results are and we can help you further. Cheers, Daniel

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Editing main.cf (myhostname-mydomain changes)
by JUAN ERNESTO FLORES BELTRAN 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi, I am just trying to change myhostname and mydomain parameters at main.cf. My main.cf current configuration as follows (only myhostname and mydomain parameters shown for practical reasons): # pico /etc/postfix/main.cf #INTERNET HOST AND DOMAIN NAMES #myhostname = host.domain.tld #myhostname = virtual.domain.tld #mydomain = domain.tld However when i type postconf and postconf d I do get the following: .. #postconf mydomain = linux.site myhostname = linux.site . #postconf d mydomain = linux myhostname = linux . so actually I can send e-mails locally with the PHP command mail() locally at @linux.site addresses, however I would like to change the domain to @telesoft.com what changes do I have to execute??? I was wondering whether editing main.cf (pico command),and substituting domain.tld for telesoft.com would be enough: # pico /etc/postfix/main.cf #INTERNET HOST AND DOMAIN NAMES #myhostname = host.telesoft.com #myhostname = virtual.telesoft.com #mydomain = telesoft.com .. then, #/etc/init.d/postfix reload to load the changes to the server are these the all the necessary changes I should perform to move into a new domain name?? From @linux.site to @telesoft.com??..what else do i still have to take under consideration?? thanks for your answers in advance Regards.- PS: both postfix and php are running and sending/receiving e-mails locally on my laptop...

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SuSE 9.3 Printing - Trouble with HP Colour LaserJet 2600n
by Stephen Carter 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I'm looking for any option under SuSE 9.3 that will print at all to a HP CL2600n. At this stage I don't even care about colour. Just black would be nice. I've tried the LaserJet 4 & 5 , Colour LJ 2500 & 2550 drivers going through HPJetDirect and LPD (raw and text queues) to no avail at all. I've checked linuxprinting.org and unfortunately it doesn't mention that model at all. Any help would really be appriciated. Cheers, SteveC

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ssh on SuSE 10.0 OSS
by David Robertson 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Not really a SuSE issue, I think, but I'd be grateful for any help, as trawling through the man pages and google hasn't helped me. I'm trying to access my SuSE 10 OSS desktop from my Nokia Communicator 9500 mobile 'phone, using PuTTY for symbian, but when I try to log in and am asked for the user password, it is not accepted: I have not set up any other passwords for ssh. According to the PuTTY for Symbian documentation, I need to generate rsa keys (for ssh1): I have done this (using ssh-keygen) and made sure that the private key is available on both the 'phone and the desktop. Also, both protocols 1 and 2 are enabled in /etc/ssh/ssh_config. I'm a bit stuck on where to go now and if anyone could point me towards some possible solutions, I'd be grateful. I think I need an idiots's guide to ssh so if anyone knows of a link, that might help! Many thanks all. David

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NFS locking broken in SuSE 10.0 ?
by Stephan L Jansen 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi, I recently installed SuSE 10.0 on a machine we have and I notice that NFS locking seems to be broken. Whenever I try to set a lock with fcntl F_SETLK on an NFS mounted filesystem served by a SuSE 10.0 machine I get a "Stale NFS file handle" error. This happens from a variety of NFS clients IRIX, Solaris, SuSE 9.x and MAC OSX. If I turn on debugging by doing "echo 65535 > /proc/sys/sunrpc/nlm_debug" I get the following messages in dmesg/syslog: lockd: request from 905c6e82 lockd: LOCK called lockd: nlm_lookup_host(905c6e82, p=17, v=4, my role=server, name=uwast) lockd: host garbage collection lockd: nlmsvc_mark_resources nlm_gc_hosts skipping uwast (cnt 2 use 0 exp 42936407) lockd: nsm_monitor(uwast) lockd: nlm_file_lookup(02000001 05000800 00000080 0d5287c8 00000001 0d5287c7) lockd: creating file for (02000001 05000800 00000080 0d5287c8 00000001 0d5287c7) lockd: open failed (error 1) lockd: release host uwast, refcount is now 0 nlmsvc_retry_blocked(00000000, when=0) nlmsvc_retry_blocked(00000000, when=0) lockd: nlm_lookup_host(905c6e82, p=6, v=4, my role=client, name=uwast) Anyone have an idea on how to fix this problem? Here's a simple test program that shows this problem: #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <fcntl.h> #define LOOPS 3 main(int argc, char **argv) { int i; int fd; int status; #ifdef __DARWIN__ struct flock lock = {0, 0, 0, F_WRLCK, SEEK_SET}; #else struct flock lock = {F_WRLCK, SEEK_SET, 0, 0, 0}; #endif if(argc != 2) { printf("usage: %s FILE\n", argv[0]); exit(0); } i = 0; while(i++ < LOOPS) { #ifdef _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE fd = open((const char *) argv[1], O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE); #else fd = open((const char *) argv[1], O_RDWR); #endif if (fd < 0) { perror("Unable to open file"); exit(-1); } status = fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &lock); if (status != 0) { perror("Error locking file"); } close(fd); } exit(0); } -- ------- Stephan

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SuSE 10.0 and Kopete on Scandinavian charachters.
by Erik Jakobsen 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi. I use the Kopete, that followed my SuSE 10. Eval. version. But I cannot get the Scandinavian characthers visible. The Kopete is version 0.10.3. How am I doing the trick ?. Erik Jakobsen

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linux powersave Error (CPUFreq_kernel 21)
by Greg Wallace 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I am getting the following lines in the system log Linux powersave ERROR (CPUFreq_kernel 21) Can not ondemand governor, maybe your cpufreq driver is too slow Linux powersave ERROR (CPUFreq_kernel 23) Try CPUFREQ_CONTROL=userspace in /etc/sysconfig/powersvae/cpu/freq Linux powersave ERROR (PM_Interface 231) Cannot create cpufreq objects Well, this 3 year old Dell desktop machine ain't likely to have no such thing as a cpu governor on it. I'm sure it's much too simple minded for that. I tried looking at the powersave scheme I'm using and the only thing that looks like it might apply is the "Frequency Scaling" setting. There are 3 settings, none of which seem to say not to try to do any scaling. I do not have "Allow throttling" checked. Anyone else getting this message or know how to get rid of it? Thanks, Greg Wallace

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linux modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting sonypi
by Greg Wallace 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I'm getting this error in the log file on a regular basis -- linux modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting sonypi(lib/modules/2.6.11.4-29.9-default/kernel/drivers/char/sonypi.k0): No such device Well, I don't have any sony devices, so I can understand why it would say that. Not sure why my system is trying to use a sony module when I don't have a sony device. I did a modprobe -R on sonypi.so, but that didn't seem to fix it. I'm not noticing any impact from this, but I'd just as soon get rid of that message if possible. It makes me a bit uncomfortable to be continually getting FATAL errors written to my log file. Makes me think it could rise up and bite me somewhere down the line. I did some web surfing for "Error inserting sonypi" and found multiple hits. One person was talking about modifying modprobe.conf to remove the references to it to get rid of the message. He seemed to be saying that that was the solution. In my modprobe.conf, I have two entries referencing sonypi (though not sonypi.so). They are alias char-major-10-250 sonypi options sonypi minor=250 Should I comment out these two lines? Is it really that simple? Thanks, Greg Wallace

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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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Packages
by mozzi 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Heya all I can't seem to find packages for dsniff and snort anywhere, and yes I have looked through all of these sites, http://www.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#External_YaST_… Anyone know where I might find an external YaST Repository for security related stuff? From google it looks like there were packages up to 9.1? I am on x86_64 eval dvd with all updates done. Mozzi

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ic25n080atmr04 harddrive under SuSe 9.3
by Brad Dameron 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Trying to install 9.3 Pro on a Sony PCG-GRT360ZG laptop and it keeps saying no drive is found. I look over boot.msg and it says the drive is found but with a CHS of 0/0/55. Anyone know how to specify the CHS during boot? Thank you, Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com

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Printer filter to PDF file
by Terje J. Hanssen 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hello everyone, OpenSuse 10 comes ready preconfigured with a printer filter to pdf file. I wish to set up such pdf filter on another distro too, but I am not which software is used for this setup, e.g Ghostscript or another one? That is, I searching for hints how to setup such a printer filet to pdf file. Rgds Terje J. Hanssen

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Re: [SLE] Suse 10 will not install, GRUB / SATA problem?
by Matt Stamm 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Ken Schneider <suse-list(a)bout-tyme.net> Reply-To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:06:23 -0500 >On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 09:25 -0800, Matt Stamm wrote: >> ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >> From: Ken Schneider <suse-list(a)bout-tyme.net> >> Reply-To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >> Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:13:14 -0500 >> When I boot the install cd and then boot to the hard drive i get the >> "GRUB Loading Stage1.5" message and everything stops >> >> >> >> >Also How long have you been using >> >linux, not necessarily just SuSE, but in general? >> >> >> I've only use SuSE, and have used SuSE since 2002 when I installed >> 8.1. I've been using 8.1 ever since. >> >> >> > >> >One thing that you can try, not sure if I recommended this already, >> boot >> >to the rescue system and make a note of which kernel modules are >> loaded >> >that give access to the SATA drive, if at all, (let us know if the >> drive >> >is available in rescue mode). >> >> Yes, the drive is available in rescue mode. I enter rescue mode, login >> as root, and using the command line I see what appears to be a normal >> linux file structure (/bin, /etc, /home, etc.) >> >> >> >This/these module(s) will need to be added >> >to the initrd modules list so they are loaded during the initial >> >boot sequence. This can be done from the rescue system using chroot >> >to gain access to the installed system as though you booted to the >> >installed system. >> >> I don't understand. I've never used chroot > >Normally / is your root directory, with chroot you can temporarily >change it to something else. In this case you would mount your root >directory to a temporary mount point in the rescue system and use the >chroot command to change to that mount point and have it treated as >though it is /. > >> >> >If you're installed system has /boot on a separate partition it >> >will need to be mounted after the root filesystem is mounted. >> > >> >> /boot is on the same system. Using the rescue system, when I go >> to /boot, its empty. > >Send a copy of the /etc/fstab from the system. If you have a floppy >drive you can copy it there so you can add it to an email. >It looks like /root is on it's own partition. > >-- >Ken Schneider >UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 > > >-- >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 > > > Ken, A new twist. I finally got Suse 10 to install by changing the boot loader from GRUB to LILO! Does it seem to you to suggest a problem with GRUB and SATA drives?? Here is a summary of what I did... - normal install failed with "GRUB Loading stage1.5." on initial boot after the CD1 install. - Successful FreeDOS install and hard drive boot. - successful Suse 10 install when I disconnected the 80gig SATA drive and connected a 6 gig drive to IDE2 - Successful install when using LILO in place of GRUB I could install suse using grub when I used an IDE drive but GRUB crashed when installing to a SATA drive. I'm still a little concerning that I can not use GRUB. Should I be? Anyway, concerning my fstat. I wasn't sure if I could send an attachment through the mailing list so below is a copy... /dev/sda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0 Thank you very much for your help! Matt

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using smart for updates
by mikus＠bga.com 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Does the 'smart' implementation on SuSE issue an automatic "SuSEconfig" and "ldconfig" like 'apt-get' does ? >From using 'smart', it seemed to spend too short a time "under the covers" after downloads have finished for those two "fix-things-up" processes to have been included. mikus

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SUSE 10.0 keyboard issue
by Paul Cartwright 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

in 9.3 my keyboard worked fine. Now in 10.0 the numeric keypad doesn't function and I have to use the number keys over the regular keys, and the += key, with CTRL and SHFT to navigate the messages in kmail. in 9.3 the hardware said I had an: AT Translated Set 2 Keyboard Identifier 262145 Vendor Identifier 262673 ykbmodel: pc104 I have a DELL Dimension system with a SK-8100 keyboard. In YaST I see an sk7100, but not an sk8100, and I have tried: DELL DELL-101 Generic -104 I'm beginning to get a little UPSET. This has worked so well for 3 versions of SUSE, why did it break NOW??? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-pcartwright/key.asc

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