November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

ripping audio track from vcd
by eddieleprince 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

I have a vcd that I want to rip just the audio track from. I guessing that it can be done by Mplayer. Does anyone know the correct syntax or perhaps can explain in "simple" steps how this can be done (with Mplayer or any other package). Would be extremely grateful. Thanks a million Eddie

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Trouble with adding YAST installation sources
by Dan Abernathy 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hi all, I'm new to Suse (and Linux, for that matter) and was trying to follow this great set of instructions to add support for things like Windows media file formats. http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/ I added the following RPM repositories to YAST: ftp://packman.unixheads.com/ mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source-java mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-GM-Extra That went fine, but when I opened Software Management in YAST, it said "Reading package information..." which I assumed was normal - it has to check what's available at the sites I added in order to build the list I'll be searching. However, it's never gotten beyond that point. I let it go all night and all day today, and it's still "Reading package information..." for, well, coming up on 24 hours now. I think it's had plenty of time to do this, and it won't even let me close the window or abort it. Any suggestions? It did the same thing when I added just the Packman mirror, but I got to thinking it was hung and restarted the machine (forcefully). This time I added more sources and decided to let it take as long as it wanted, but this surely can't be correct. Or is it? Slap me gently if I'm doing something stupid, I'm new at this...:-)

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PostgreSQL connection
by Michal Hlavac 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

hello, I installed PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on Suse 10 (x86_64). Firewall is down. telnet localhost 5432 result: xxxxx:/var # telnet localhost 5432 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. but telnet ip_address 5432 result: xxxxx: # telnet 158.195.xx.xx 5432 Trying 158.195.xx.xx... telnet: connect to address 158.195.xx.xx: Connection refused Why I cannot connect to ip address?????? I tried to add line to pg_hba.conf, then restart, but no change... thanks, miso

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smeg / alacarte for GNOME
by MJang 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Folks, Just wondering if there are any plans to incorporate smeg (Simple Menu Editor for GNOME) into SUSE (or maybe if it's already there in some other format). It's sometimes also known as alacarte. Thanks, Mike

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SendFax permission problem
by Carl William Spitzer IV 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

cwsiv@linux:~> ls /usr/sbin/se* -l -rwxr-xr-x 1 root users 59104 2005-02-11 09:59 /usr/sbin/sendfax so what permissions do I need to enable fax use by ordinary users? only when I am in root does 'which' find sendfax. -- _______ _______ _______ __ / ____\ \ / / ____|_ _\ \ / / | | \ \ /\ / / (___ | | \ \ / / | | \ \/ \/ / \___ \ | | \ \/ / | |____ \ /\ / ____) |_| |_ \ / \_____| \/ \/ |_____/|_____| \/

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Re: [SLE] frequent hard disk failures - 9.3?
by Adam Vazquez Kb2jpd 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hello from Adam in NYC The lifetime of a hard drive is pretty dependent of how well it was installed. After years of doing refits and running Linux, you notice a few things. Heat kills drives. Some drives like Maxtors like to run hot and loud. If you don't properly ventilate, some drives just either get sick or just quit. Reisefs likes to work best with drives with large caches. I have been running with laptopToshibas with 16M caches and does it run stable and fast. 9.3 Reiserfs is sensitive to flawed hard drives. Upgrading to Reiserfs on SuSE 10 seems to be a wise choice if you value your flying data. Don't trust fsck. Test the drive out thouroughly. Backup first and see for yourself. Good luck chasing the gremlins. Adam in NYC -----Original Message----- From: Carlos F Lange <carlos.lange(a)ualberta.ca> Subj: [SLE] frequent hard disk failures - 9.3? Date: Thu Nov 3, 2005 10:56 am Size: 1K To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Hi, Since I upgraded my 2 PCs at home and 9 PCs at the university to SuSE 9.3 (clean install, all partitions ReiserFS) I had 4 hard disks either crashing or showing bad sectors. In all cases the failure is (I still need to confirm one case) hardware related and there is no apparent pattern: they were Maxtor, Western Digital (2), and Seagate disks, EIDE and SATA, new and old, on Intel and on AMD boards, so I can't pin the blame on any particular brand or type. But I can say that it is definitely an unusually high number of hard disk failures. Since I am one of only 2 in the department running SuSE and my colleague also had a hard disk crash while running 9.3, whereas the rest of the MSerfs (and a couple of Mac addicts) in the department may have lost one HD in the same period, it is starting to look bad. :( I wonder if it is just here, or if someone else also noticed higher number of crashes. I remember a previous thread from July, where people tried to blame ReiserFS and others convinced them it was mainly hardware. Well, hardware seems to be the case here, but then again, SuSE and ReiserFS were the only things in common among the 4 failed HDs I had in the past 4 months. Am I seeing things, or what? Carlos -- Carlos Frederico Lange -------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientific Programmer: professional who loves to _find_ own errors. -- 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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desktop management issue SUSE 10.0
by Paul Cartwright 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

I was trying to get xplanet working, and when I went to advanced background settings there were 2 entries existing that I had not put there. KDEworld and kwebdesktop. My entry for xplanet was below those 2. When I tried to remove kdeworld I got an error message saying: unable to remove the program: the program is global and can only be removed by the system administrator. any clue how to remove them??? I looked all over the YaST menus and I am unalbe to see where I can delete those entries. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-pcartwright/key.asc

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Postgresql login on 9.3
by Kevin Donnelly 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

I'm looking at moving from mysql to postgresql, but (to my great shame!) I can find no way to log into the psql monitor. I'm assuming that it's similar to mysql, and that I should use something like: psql -U postgres but I can't figure out what SUSE's password for the postgres user is. Without logging in, I can't add other users. Can anyone give me the magic words to open this up? TIA -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - Meddalwedd Rhydd yn Gymraeg www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD

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Re: [SLE] frequent hard disk failures - 9.3?
by Kai Ponte 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

> Hi, > > Since I upgraded my 2 PCs at home and 9 PCs at the university > to SuSE 9.3 (clean install, all partitions ReiserFS) I had 4 hard > disks either crashing or showing bad sectors. In all cases the <snip> > But I can say that it is definitely an unusually high number of > hard disk failures. Since I am one of only 2 in the department > running SuSE and my colleague also had a hard disk crash > while running 9.3, whereas the rest of the MSerfs (and a couple > of Mac addicts) in the department may have lost one HD in I had a similar issue. My laptop was bought new in July. From then until October I ran 9.3 - I had three occasions where my system would go down and require a fsck -rebuild. I never lost data, and keep a KDAR DVD handy anyway, but it was wierd. So far I haven't had the issue at all after re-formatting and upgrading to 10.0. HTH! -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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10.0: nfsd deadlocks kernel
by Janne Karhunen 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

G'd day everyone, Just found interesting bug from 10.0. Don't know yet why, but seems that on this system kernel nfsd deadlocks kernel right after system has been booted. Latest thing seen in syslog from nfsd: kernel: NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory kernel: NFSD: recovery directory /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery doesn't exist kernel: NFSD: starting 90-second grace period WTF? Was this defaulting to highly broken NFSv4? Well that most certainly would explain it. There was nothing on console about this and once the system locks up, it does not even respond to sysRq. So not even interrupts are running anymore. Deadlocking from atomic context? -- // Janne

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