December 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

tooltips
by ajtiM 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

Hi! Again me...anybody have an idea how can I save a problem with tooltips in the panel. In the Control Center - Desktop - Panel - Appearance - I have checked just a Enable background image but tooltips on the Panel still show up. In the kickeirrc I have ShowToolTips=false. But if I check Enable icon mouseover effect and after that turn off (uncheck)m tooltips don't show up. I have the same problem as root as user. I also tried to setup new user and problem is still here. Thanks in advance, Mitja

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Grip doesn't encode
by Rob Wright 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

Hello, I'm trying to rip/encode some CD's into .ogg format. I'm using Grip 3.2.0, OggEnc 1.0.1, and OpenSuse 10.0, all installed off the OpenSuse isos via Yast. Grip runs fine and I'm able to rip the files to .wavs. Watching the console in debug, it will call the encoder, then almost immediately say that the encoder has finished successfully. I've configured Grip to delete the .wav files after encoding, which it isn't doing, and to create a .m3u playlist, which it is doing. Grip does the exact same thing if I try to encode using lame. I can encode the .wav files left behind from the command line using either ogg or lame. I've checked my config in Grip and the path to my encoder is /usr/bin/oggenc, which is correct. I've used KAudioCreator, which rips and encodes just fine. Any ideas? I really like using Grip, but since installing the OpenSuse I haven't been able to. Thanks, Rob Wright suserob(a)poncacity.net

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md5sum on SUSE 10.0 OSS x86-64 not working properly?
by Arrigo Marchiori 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

Hello everybody, this is the first message I write here. I'm sorry to introduce myself with this frightening problem, but I just encountered it... I hope it's frightening just for me! :-| I'm using SUSE Linux 10.0, installed from an Eval DVD and switched right afterwards to an OSS repository (so I guess this is the correct list). My computer is an Athlon64, I'm running the 64-bit edition of Linux. This is the problem: md5sums gives _different_ output on the _same_ file! arrigo@arrigo:~/temp> dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M count=300 of=test.dat 300+0 records in 300+0 records out 314572800 bytes (315 MB) copied, 69.1124 seconds, 4.6 MB/s arrigo@arrigo:~/temp> md5sum test.dat 23a3f9ea48b3722df250dc5b6d378381 test.dat arrigo@arrigo:~/temp> md5sum test.dat 23a3f9ea48b3722df250dc5b6d378381 test.dat arrigo@arrigo:~/temp> md5sum test.dat 43e7f605c7d1b60373156bd453795e85 test.dat arrigo@arrigo:~/temp> Please believe me, I'm not joking: this is the actual output of md5sum, I gave those commands one right after the other, so the test.dat file wasn't touched among the tests. After some minutes I ran md5sum again and it gave the same output as the first two runs: arrigo@arrigo:~/temp> md5sum test.dat 23a3f9ea48b3722df250dc5b6d378381 test.dat arrigo@arrigo:~/temp> The md5sum is installed in my system is ver. 5.3.0, it's the default installed by SUSE. My system is up to date with the latest updates from YOU. The partition I've been working on is 46 GB large, formatted with ReiserFS, on an IDE hard disk. As a test, i downloaded version 5.93 of GNU coreutils, compiled it (I just ran ./configure and make) and ran this new md5sum: That version gave yet some different output: arrigo@arrigo:~/temp/coreutils/coreutils-5.93/src> ./md5sum ~/temp/test.dat 23a3f9ea48b3722df250dc5b6d378381 /home/arrigo/temp/test.dat arrigo@arrigo:~/temp/coreutils/coreutils-5.93/src> ./md5sum ~/temp/test.dat 23a3f9ea48b3722df250dc5b6d378381 /home/arrigo/temp/test.dat arrigo@arrigo:~/temp/coreutils/coreutils-5.93/src> ./md5sum ~/temp/test.dat 23a3f9ea48b3722df250dc5b6d378381 /home/arrigo/temp/test.dat arrigo@arrigo:~/temp/coreutils/coreutils-5.93/src> ./md5sum ~/temp/test.dat 583caa801a1f27fc9cfcd783f5d94ec7 /home/arrigo/temp/test.dat arrigo@arrigo:~/temp/coreutils/coreutils-5.93/src> ./md5sum ~/temp/test.dat 23a3f9ea48b3722df250dc5b6d378381 /home/arrigo/temp/test.dat arrigo@arrigo:~/temp/coreutils/coreutils-5.93/src> Again, the `real' value of the MD5 hash looks like the one starting with "23a" while sometimes I encountered different values. E.G. the 5.93 version, after some more trials, gave the following output: arrigo@arrigo:~/temp/coreutils/coreutils-5.93/src> ./md5sum ~/temp/test.dat 58913fa33641eb0bfa398f1643412259 /home/arrigo/temp/test.dat arrigo@arrigo:~/temp/coreutils/coreutils-5.93/src> That is different from any of the previous. Does anyone you have a clue about the cause of this? You know, computers are supposed to do correct calculations, that is that the same data should give always the same result!... My only idea right now is about the 64-bit system. Perhaps some other 32-bit running program switches the CPU in 32-bit mode, changing the results of md5sum? I tried re-compiling the coreutils in 32-bit version, that is running: $ CC="gcc -m32" ./configure $ CC="gcc -m32" make The resulting md5sum binary gave me, after some trials, another different value: 9f30d42e54af45b879700b776f1247e9 /home/arrigo/temp/test.dat Please let me know if you need any more information. If you want to repeat the steps I followed to exploit this, just pick a ~300 MB file and run repeatedly md5sum on it. I don't know if it works with different sizes, too. -- rigo http://rigo.altervista.org

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Xen on Suse
by Paul Buede 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

I am interested in doing some testing with Xen. Is anyone out there using it? And more importantly, will it allow me to run other OS's inside the virtual machines? Or am I restricted to the Host OS? I want to do some work with virtual Redhat and virtual Suse boxes, but hopefully would use just one server running either Redhat or Suse as the host. Can you recommend why one host OS would be better than the other? -- Paul Buede Systems Engineer Netconn Solutions buedep(a)netcsc.com Office 301-739-9110 ext 2025 Cell 301-404-3941

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Re: [SLE] suse 10 on cable modem at comcast.net
by lerninlinux＠comcast.net 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Joe Zien <jozien(a)cybercomm.net> > I got your e-mail on suse-linux-e(a)suse.com and notice > you use comcast.net with a cable modem. > I just ordered suse 10 and am a comcast cable user and plan > to go broadband with a comcast cable modem, at present I only have dial-up. > Did you have any problems using a cable modem and could you > give me any tips how you set it up in suse 10? > Any help would be appreciated. > > TIA > > jozien > > -- > 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 > > My background, my ISP went under and I was forced to upgrade to cable. I had bought the cable modem, from a local store (recovered freight sale) for $20 after rebate. I had more problems with the cable "people" then with the computers. As I have/had multiple computers, I picked up a router with Network address translation. Pluged it it, went to it's webpage, configured it, ran the network cable to the cable modem, ran a cable to outside the house (no cable at the time, and still don't use it for tv) and had Comcast do a service drop (if you have cable tv you already have that). They will require the mac address off the back of the cable modem, and it's serial number. If you already have either a network, or a network card, you are most likely already set up to receive your IP via, DHCP (Nat box, or Cable company directly). You can't have Comcast install it, as they don't support Linux (I can tell you from the experience at my parents, they are barely Windows/pc capable). I have had several different Linux distros, and so far, all of them have been automatically set to get their IP addresses by DHCP by default. Biggest tip, is if you need them to install it, keep the machine as a dual boot.

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SuSE/Linux Ping vs DOS Ping
by David McMillan 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

G'day, fellow SuSE users. I've got a puzzler concerning ping responses that I hope someone can enlighten me about. I have a piece of industrial equipment that uses a TCP/IP Ethernet interface that I'm trying to troubleshoot at work. Part of the manufacturer's troubleshooting checklist is to "connect an DOS/Windows computer and use the PING command from the command line." Not having a D/W computer handy, I plugged in my SuSE 9.1 Pro laptop, but couldn't get a response. Not even a "connection refused," just silence. After some fairly exhaustive troubleshooting, this is what we found: 1: A DOS ping command, from another computer, using the same IP and netmask, over the same cable, got an immediate response. 2: The SuSE machine could not get a ping response, but *did* see the various open and filtered ports on the inustrial box, on the correct IP, when using nmap. 3: De/Re-activating SuSE Firewall made no difference. 4: The SuSE machine's ping command worked perfectly on a regular network, pinging Windows & *nix computers and various hardware routers without any difficulty. All I can think of is that there must be some minor difference between SuSE pings (or perhaps Linux pings in general) and DOS/Win pings that doesn't matter to most networks, but *does* matter for some reason to this piece of industrial hardware. Thoughts?

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suseplugger
by Daniel Hatfield 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

Hello everyone, it's been a while. I've got an interesting problem here. Suseplugger doesn't seem to mount my USB hard drive properly anymore. If I let it automount, it will only transfer at USB 1 speed and shows the file system type as floppyfss. If I manually mount it using vfat as the filesystem everything is happy. So, I'm wondering if anyone knows where Suse stores it's settings for suseplugger (if that's even what controls it) and what I should change to get this working properly. Thanks, Daniel

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Cannot copy (non-)encrypted DVD
by LLLActive＠GMX.Net 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

Hi all, --- 2 Problems with K3b on Novell SuSE 10.0 Boxed version --- *************** :: Problem 1 :: Cannot copy encrypted DVD I have created a Data DVD 4,7 GB with only data files. It is a DVD-RW. Now I wan't to copy the DVD to a normal DVD-R 4,7 GB. In K3b the error "Found encrypted DVD. Cannot copy encrypted DVDs" occurs. Debugging output of K3b: System ----------------------- K3b Version: 0.12 KDE Version: 3.4.2 Level "b" QT Version: 3.3.4 Kernel: 2.6.13-15.7-default Devices ----------------------- TEAC DV-W50D 1.05 (/dev/hdb, ) at /media/dvdrecorder [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM; DVD-ROM; DVD-R; DVD-RW; DVD+R; DVD+RW] [DVD-ROM; DVD-R Sequential; DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite; DVD-RW Sequential; DVD+RW; DVD +R; CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R96P; SAO/R96R; RAW/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R; Restricted Overwrite] HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B 0L23 (/dev/hdc, ) at /media/dvd [CD-ROM; DVD-ROM] [DVD-ROM; CD-ROM] [None] I'm sure it is not a encrypted! Where do I look for the solution? *************** :: Problem 2 :: "Project does not contain all necessary VideoDVD files". I used the options: "New Video DVD Project". I copied the *.mpg / *.mpeg file into the "VIDEO_TS" sub-directory. Then I tried to burn the new Video DVD. It is from a recording with my Video camera captured as a PAL DVD *.mpeg/*.mpg compatible file. This time K3b reports: System ----------------------- K3b Version: 0.12 KDE Version: 3.4.2 Level "b" QT Version: 3.3.4 Kernel: 2.6.13-15.7-default Devices ----------------------- TEAC DV-W50D 1.05 (/dev/hdb, ) at /media/dvdrecorder [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM; DVD-ROM; DVD-R; DVD-RW; DVD+R; DVD+RW] [DVD-ROM; DVD-R Sequential; DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite; DVD-RW Sequential; DVD+RW; DVD +R; CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R96P; SAO/R96R; RAW/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R; Restricted Overwrite] HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B 0L23 (/dev/hdc, ) at /media/dvd [CD-ROM; DVD-ROM] [DVD-ROM; CD-ROM] [None] K3b ----------------------- Size of filesystem calculated: 0 Used versions ----------------------- mkisofs: 2.1 mkisofs ----------------------- /usr/bin/mkisofs: Warning: -follow-links does not always work correctly; be careful. Warning: Disabling Joliet support for DVD-Video. /usr/bin/mkisofs: No such file or directory. Faild to open /tmp/kde-root/k3bVideoDvd0//VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO /usr/bin/mkisofs: Can't open VMG info for '/tmp/kde-root/k3bVideoDvd0/'. /usr/bin/mkisofs: Unable to parse DVD-Video structures. /usr/bin/mkisofs: Unable to make a DVD-Video image. As you can see, I even tried as root. Any help appreciated! :-) L3

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suse 10 on cable modem at comcast.net
by Joe Zien 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

I got your e-mail on suse-linux-e(a)suse.com and notice you use comcast.net with a cable modem. I just ordered suse 10 and am a comcast cable user and plan to go broadband with a comcast cable modem, at present I only have dial-up. Did you have any problems using a cable modem and could you give me any tips how you set it up in suse 10? Any help would be appreciated. TIA jozien

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Unable to get out
by Langsley 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

I have been trying for a week or so to unsubscribe from this list with no success. I've tried responding to the unsubscribe address in the header and get no response. I've tried sending a mail to the unsubscribe address without my email address, to which I get a confirm response but when I send a confirmation message nothing happens but I Continue getting email from this list. I tried the help address but all it does is send an automatic message telling me to do what I've already done.So I tried yet again and still I'm getting email from this list! Is there any one here who can help me unsubscribe from this list? I apologize for posting this here but I simply do not know where to turn. -- LTR Registered Linux user #280295 itisi(a)kvremcwb.com

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