December 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

firefox problem
by Ken Schneider 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Anyone know what the following error means? Nothing changed other than normal YOU updates. Browser crashed while using map24.com and will not restart. I deleted all of the cache files as well. ken@pc5:~> firefox INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Expected a version > 5! Version = 4 System error?:: No such file or directory SuSE 9.3, KDE 3.4.3 ken@pc5:~> firefox --version Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2005 mozilla.org -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

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Messed up my 9.2
by B Stia 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hello SuSE people. Welllll.....I went and did it - screwed up again. Trying to gain a little disk space, I went in and deleted a partition that I wasn't using very much. Of course that changed drive numbers (which I didn't realize until now), and moved /var up to the next drive number, and I failed to go in an edit fstab. Of course the next time I booted Suse failed because of the change. Sooo... Then I booted the DVD and went into the "repair system" and it offered to change my configuration. I accepted that and it changed /var to whatever--- I don't know. Certainly didn't help and/or made it worse. So since the "repair system" from the install directory didn't work, I then tried "rescue" but couldn't figure out the commands after the "rescue" prompt.. Even brought up "Vi", but couldn't access anything with it. I have all kinds of notes and procedures on how to do this kind of stuff in my e-mail archives but of course I cannont access it. Running 9.2 with Amd 64. Really don't want to reinstall. Somebody Please? help me get my system back? Bob S.

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fbset/console screen problem
by Corvin Russell 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Long story short -- my SuSE box has a new monitor which is the exact same type as the previous monitor, but initially the console and X were about 1 inch too far to the left. I fixed X, but how do I now fix the console screens? Is it through fbset? Corvin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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OT: KDE v. GNOME
by John Meyer 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi all: I've been in several Linux rooms and I notice a very big anti-KDE stance. My question is, what is so wrong with KDE? What about it inspires such hatred?

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Suddenly lost access to KMail address book
by Gil Weber 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi, everyone. While using KMail I am suddenly presented with an error message everytime I try to add a new contact or edit an existing contact. I do know know what I might have done to cause the following error message to pop up: The resource '/home/gil/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf' is locked by application 'XXXXXXXXX'. Please note that in the error message described immediately above there are actually 9 small boxes rather than "Xs" (I could not reproduce the small boxes in this e-mail message.) Apparently I am missing a font (??) that would normally show up where the small boxes are, and this is preventing me from being able to tell what application is locking the address book. I have no idea what font is necessary to "read" the 9 boxes. I opened the KSysGuard to see what is running that contains 9 characters in its name. The ones I see are: gpg-agent kblockd/0 klauncher ksmserver ksysguard xfslogd/0 Killing gpg-agent does not fix the problem. Killing ksysguard doesn't help, and neither does ksmserver (which obviously wipes out everything). Klauncher refuses to be killed, and the other 2 can only be killed by root. Have not gotten there yet and don't know if that's a waste of time to chase that. Any ideas on how to track this down and get back access to my address book? Might it be something not showing up on this short list? Might it be something controlled by root? Thanks for your thoughts. Gil

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Drive failure on SLES SUSE 8 - Raid 5 Need replacement procedure
by Dana Jaeger 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi, I have a drive failure on a DELL PE 2650 running raid 5. OS is SLES 8 kernel is 2.4.21-241.smp. The drives are 3x26 GB. I am unsure as to the raid driver. Would anyone have a procedure to replace the drive? Thanks in advance Dana Jaeger Hartford Hospital jaeger(a)harthosp.org Confidentiality Notice This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential or proprietary information which is legally privileged. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please promptly contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.

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Cannot make Intellimouse wheel work in Suse 10
by Bruno Negrao 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi all, I can't make the wheel of my Microsoft Intellimouse work in Suse 10. I made searches on google on this issue but nothing solved my problem. And when I go to the console and run "cat /dev/input/mouse", it is not displaying any output when I turn the mouse wheel (any other movement generates output as expected). My /etc/X11/xorg.conf has this configuration: Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Name" "IMPS/2" Option "Protocol" "imps/2" Option "Vendor" "PS/2-Mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Does someone have an Idea on this? (i'm sure this wheel works, this machine has a windowsxp partition that recognizes de mouse wheel correctly) Thank you, bruno.

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sshd blocks SIGALRM
by Loic Domaigne 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Gidday everbody, We have just found an interesting issue regarding the sshd daemon on our SuSE system. For some reasons, the /usr/sbin/sshd process blocks SIGALRM as shown in the /proc/pid/status: $ cat /proc/`cat /var/run/sshd.init.pid`/status Name: sshd State: S (sleeping) SleepAVG: 0% [...] SigPnd: 0000000000000000 ShdPnd: 0000000000000000 SigBlk: 0000000000002000 <-- SIGALRM is blocked SigIgn: 0000000000001000 As a result, any descendent processes shall inherit this mask. The bad news is that some commands rely on SIGALRM being unmasked, e.g. those invoking alarm() or similar. If those commands are started from a "ssh shell", then they won't work correctly (e.g. never times out). That's really annoying. Do you have an idea where the problem lies? Below you shall find the relevant information about the system. Thanks in advance! Loic. ******************* System information ****************** * Hardware: HP Proliant, intel PIII 1.4Ghz * SuSE release: 9.2 * uname -a: Linux mucltpa04 2.6.8-24-smp #1 SMP Wed Oct 6 09:16:23 UTC 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux * openssh based on the following RPMs: openssh-3.9p1-3 openssh-askpass-3.9p1-3 * let me know if you need more information -- -- // Sender address goes to /dev/null (!!) // Use my 32/64 bits, ANSI C89, compliant email-address instead: unsigned y[]= {0,34432,26811,16721,41866,63119,61007,48155,26147,10986}; void x(z){putchar(z);}; unsigned t; main(i){if(i<10){t=(y[i]*47560)%65521;x(t>>8);x(t&255);main(++i);}} GMX DSL-Flatrate 1 Jahr kostenlos* + WLAN-Router ab 0,- Euro* Bis 31.12.2005 einsteigen! Infos unter: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

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digikam bug solved
by jdd 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

I hit a kind of bug, I'm not sure from what it comes, so some of yours may be interested. this started as a dgikam bug. digikam allows to manage digital photos. on the new 0.8 version (no problem with the old one), suse 10.0 quite simple, any edit of a file led to the losing of the exif infos (exifs are the shot data stored in jpg files). file was correctly written. after a quite long exchange with the developpers of digikam and an afternoon of compilations :-( we noticed that there was a "write file error" on digikam exit. further checks made me see that all the photo files I worked on where copied from a cd with the readonly attribute (r--r--r--). Setting write enable corrected the bug. my problem is why could I write the image file and not the exifs data? may be this involve some kind of renaming and copying of the initial file. (rwx directory) the solutionn is easy, but I edited hundreds of photos before noticing the problem, work to be done again. may this be a suse/kde problem? this whas not present on suse 10 digikam (0.7.4) but on packman (0.8) and self compiled 0.8 one. thanks jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net

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[Fwd: Re: [SLE] Fwd: [OT] Watch out for counterfeit eBay requests]
by John Meyer 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

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