November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Linuxant driverloader
by Corvin Russell 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

I've also switched my office machine over to linux after years of enduring Windows. Simultaneously, I've moved to a new office where the internet connection is through a wireless access point. We're all given US Robotics USR5420 802.11g wireless USB adapters. I managed to get this thing going with Linuxant's driverloader software, but there are a few issues. One that seems obviously related to driverloader is that everytime I shut the system down, the shutdown stops at trying to unload the driverloader module, and I have to do a hard reset, which I'm not happy about. I've verified that the driverloader rpm is for the correct kernel version, etc. The other problem is of unknown origin, but basically the connection drops from time to time. The hardware seems to be communicating with the access point fine, but I lose my IP lease and routing information, and nothing I do (except rebooting, which then entails a hard reset) can bring it up again. I'm using WPA-PSK to encrypt the wireless signal, but all the XP computers are using a protocol that SuSE 9.3 doesn't support. Are there any bright ideas as to what the problem here might be? I'm thinking of just going out and getting a wireless card that is better supported. Any recommendations? Corvin __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com

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Kontact in 10.0
by Francesco Scaglioni 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hi, Am trying to configure Kontact to talk to a groupwise server. Error message is simply "canot connect to server". Where would I find a log file that might contain a little more information so that I can begin to troubleshoot this? TIA F

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bash hangs on xterm startup about 1/50 times.
by Steven T. Hatton 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Every once in a while, when I start a new xterm, bash will not give me a prompt. This has happened on different machines, and under the last few SuSE distributions. It's a very minor annoyance, but it's so fundamental to the very concept of Linux/Unix (http://www.unix.org/) that it needs to be addressed. Have other's noticed this? STH

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mount smbfs from smbfstab
by Chadley Wilson 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Greetings, mount -t smbfs -o username=xxxxxxx,password=xxxxxx //CHADWIN/hotshare /home/chadley/hotshare/ works just fine, but only root can read and write to the share. I have added a variety of different lines to the fstab and smbfstab. I have also switch off my firewall, yet I get the same error every time I try. Does anyone here know why I can't automount this share? ======================================================================== chadlap:/home/chadley # rcsmbfs start Mount SMB/ CIFS File Systems from /etc/samba/smbfstab //chadwin/hotshare on /home/chadley/hotshare type smbfs .Password: ...failed Error: timeout while mount. ========================================================================= chadlap:/home/chadley # mount hotshare/ mount: special device //chadwin/hotshare does not exist ========================================================================= TIA Chadley

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Fonts in Firefox and others
by Mark Panen 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hi The body of firefox i have adjusted the fonts according to my liking but the taskbar and search part are horribly small. So is gkrellm, i can't read the temps. I have tried all the settings in kcontrol to no avail. Any help please ? Mark

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10.0: no 3D support, nvidia driver update unsuccessful?
by Kostas Georgokitsos 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hiall, After updating to SUSE 10.0 I tried to reinstall the nvidia driver from YOU. However as there were lots of updates going on and the internet connection rather slow, I did not pay particular attention to wether the nvidia update was successful or not. I do assume it was successful as starting YOU again does not show the installation script as a possiblity anymore and /etc/X11/XFConfig86 shows "nvidia" as the driver (as opposed to "nv" for the generic X11 driver,as far as I remember). In yast->card and monitor properties, however, I cannot select Activate 3D acceleration as it is greyed out. How can I determine if the installation script was successful? If not, how can I run it again, as it does not show up in YOU? Kostas

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Why doesnt SuSE install the ftp directory structure anymore??
by Rikard Johnels 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Trying to set up vs-ftpd on my 10.0 (and also tried on a older 9.3) But neither of them has the ftpdir package. I cant seem to find them at all. I would have thought that that package was loaded by default if you installed any of the ftp-servers that comes with the release??? -- -- /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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More SuSe10 and networking issues.
by Tim Nicholson 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

What have Suse done? There seem to be all sorts of issues over networking that didn't exist in previous versions judging by the posts here and elsewhere. I have just tried upgrading my Thinkpad to 10. Install goes fine, then I plug in the cardbus network card(Realtek chipset), autodetection works fine, and it gets configured as per previous versions of SuSE, but then... nothing! ifconfig shows its details, but no IP addresses and no bytes in/out. Check to see if its DHCP, the server has an entry saying its dished one out to the system, but its never been received. Try static IP. Still no connection! I notice then under DHCP, whenever the IF light blinks to show activity and I do another ifconfig -all, the byte count stays at zero *but* the loopback byte count goes up.... Reboot the system with a knoppix 4.02 disc in and the IF works perfectly. Bizzzarely, reboot with KUbuntu live DVD and that has the same problem with the IF. Methinks that there is a kernel module problem somewhere.... Unfortunately, I have also found that my USB pen drive won't mount under 10 either, so I have no easy way of getting patches onto the system. I only upgraded because I hoped that the WiFI would work (3Com) but that still isn't detected, and the ndiswrapper supplied is still woefully out of date so it wont play ball that way either..... So far one step forward five steps back -- Tim Nicholson http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.

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SUSE 10.0, evolution and the address book
by Roger Oberholtzer 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

SUSE 10.0 installed a new version of evolution than the one I have been using. On startup, evolution imported things into it's new layout. But I do not have my address book. There is a file called ~/.evolution/addressbook/local/system/addressbook.db that seems to contain my addresses. But evolution seems not to be using this. Anyone else have problems when updating evolution as part of the SUSE 10 install? -- Roger

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Re: [SLE] Yast Error
by B. Stia 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

On Wednesday 02 November 2005 08:49 am, Paul wrote: > hi, > > > > 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. > > > > Adam, > > > > I was root. You have to be root to install software with Yast. > > > > Bob S. > > There should be more messages in the file /var/log/YaST2/y2log which > may shed more light on the problem, for example the rpm database is > corrupt and needs rebuilding. > > Also check the permissions of the directory /var/lib/rpm (ls -ld) and > the files contained within it (ls -l). Root should be able to > read/write these files. > Paul, The y2log is a huge file so I chose an excerpt which appears to be pertinent. From looking at that it seems that yast could not get a lock on that directory. Why ??? Here is the excerpt" -------------------------------------------------- RpmDb::installPackage(/var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000001/MEDIA/suse/x86_64/sharutils-4.2c-721.x86_64.rpm,156) 2005-10-31 21:56:31 <1> EasyStreet(7757) [liby2util++] ExternalProgram.cc(start_program):163 Executing 'rpm' '--root' '/' '--dbpath' '/var/lib/rpm' '-U' '--percent' '--nosignature' '--force' '--nodeps' '--ignoresize' '/var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000001/MEDIA/suse/x86_64/sharutils-4.2c-721.x86_64.rpm' 2005-10-31 21:59:35 <1> EasyStreet(7757) [liby2util++] ExternalProgram.cc(checkStatus):322 pid 7773 exited with status 1 2005-10-31 21:59:35 <3> EasyStreet(7757) [rpmdb] RpmDb.cc(installPackage):1637 rpm failed, message was: warning: waiting for exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages 2005-10-31 21:59:35 <3> EasyStreet(7757) [rpmdb] RpmDb.cc(installPackage):1637 error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages 2005-10-31 21:59:35 <3> EasyStreet(7757) [rpmdb] RpmDb.cc(installPackage):1637 error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) 2005-10-31 21:59:35 <3> EasyStreet(7757) [rpmdb] RpmDb.cc(installPackage):1637 error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm 2005-10-31 21:59:35 <3> EasyStreet(7757) [rpmdb] RpmDb.cc(installPackage):1637 2005-10-31 22:01:13 <1> EasyStreet(7757) [YCP] PackageCallbacks.ycp:283 DonePackage `abort ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Bob S.

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