December 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

need help with ccrashed suse 10 raid1 system
by Art Fore 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

I had a failure on /sev/sdb2. I tried backing up using tar to a USB drive, but something happened and if filled up the disk. There was about 27 GB on the 148 GB disk when I started. After it ran out of disk space, it locked up. on rebooting, it will not boot. Get the splash screen, then when booting, it hangs. Tried the rescue system, I can mount /dev/md0 /mnt and view the directories and files. Tried the suse installation, automatic recovery, it errors out on the hard disks. tried the fsck on sda2, but it fails with error 0x10. tried reiser.fsck, but it does nothing. I li /mnt/home I also get nothing listed. Also, If is start the installation, it recognizes the processor as AMD Hammer 64-bit, however, the processor is a Semperon 32-bit. Any suggestions on how I can fix this? Art

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Problems with GLIBC
by talimades 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hello, Recently I have move from SuSE 8.2 to 9.2 and I have found some problems. I hope some one could help me with the more important. I had a software (fieldview) running perfectly in my SuSE 8.2, but after reinstall it in 9.2 it give me the following message when I try to use it: > jsa@talimades:~> fv > /usr/local/fv/bin/fvbin: relocation error: /usr/local/fv/bin/fvbin: symbol > errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time > reference Can you help me? Thank you. -- _________________________________________ - Talimades - _________________________________________

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rkhunter and SuSE 10.0 - problems with db-update
by Kyek, Andreas, VF-DE 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi, I'm running rkhunter (rpm from SuSE 10.0) as a rootkit checker. It is started by /etc/cron.daily/01-rkhunter, which is part of the rkhunter rpm. For anybody who is using rkhunter as well: - normally you should update the rkhunter db-Files on a regular base (rkhunter --update) in order to update the rkhunter database Files. - SuSE patched the os-db file (/var/lib/rkhunter/db/os.dat) in order to put the "SUSE LINUX 10*" entries in here Anybody who does the db-update will receive a new db-File which does no longer contain SUSE LINUX 10.0 as a valid os; so all md5-checks are skipped. Solution: create file /etc/cron.daily/001-rkhunter: --- cut here --- #!/bin/sh MY_VERSION="`grep -i ^suse /etc/SuSE-release`" if [ -e /etc/rkhunter.conf ]; then . /etc/rkhunter.conf else exit 1 fi /usr/bin/rkhunter --update | /bin/mail -s 'rkhunter Daily update' root if [ `grep -c "${MY_VERSION}" ${DBDIR}/os.dat` -eq 0 ]; then echo "999:${MY_VERSION}:/usr/bin/md5sum:/bin:" >> ${DBDIR}/os.dat fi --- cut here --- and rkhunter keeps on working. Andreas

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SuSE 9.0 & IRDA
by Yuriy Chumak 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hello. I can not set up IRDA interface for my SuSE 9.0. FIR has been detected but irda0 interface was not appeared. Please, tell me how can I set up IRDA interface? Best Redards, Yuriy Chumak.

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Trouble with KDE start
by B Stia 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hello SuSE people, This is a continuation of an earlier problem which I have partially solved. I had stupidly messed with my partition table amd ruined my 9.2 install. Finally reinstalled without formatting some partitions and was able to see, from the console as root, that all of my data was still there. Problem is I cannot get KDE to start as one user. (me) I can startx as root and KDE will come up. Following are various error messages I get when attempting to start KDE: From the cli in level 3 as a user issuing startx: .X.err permisssion denied. From the KDM login screen: EasyStreet kdm [5810]: Xserver for display :0 terminated unexpectedly. Directly after logon by user a screen with messages: Could not read network connection list /home/bob/.DCOPserver_EasyStreet_0 Please check that the "dcopserver" is running. No write access to $HOME (/home/bob) And in a little grey box at the top of the screen, the following : Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation. Fooled around checking various things, did another "repair system", which showed nothing wrong. I am unable to figure out what is wrong. Added a new user and it came up fine and worked OK. Uninstalled myself and the reinstalled myself as a user and it did not. Same problem.Will somebody give me some guidance/assistance please? Bob S. Please ??? PS Ken, I tried your suggestion but when I replaced the /home/bob directory the problem returned.

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Re: [SLE] Mounting HDD
by David A. Parker 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Gregory, I did not intend to utter anything, and I am sorry if my comments offended you. I was not the one who made the "pass yourself" comment, that was another person. I was simply saying that "Certified Computer Specialist" was a vague and ambiguous title, and possibly implied more experience with this sort of thing than you apparently had. Something like "Windows Certified Computer Specialist" would have made things a lot clearer. I didn't mean to "cut your hand off" when you were asking these questions. In fact, props to you for not only giving Linux a try, but installing it on a computer for someone else, too. Personally, I've been running Linux for about four years now, at home and at work, and rarely do I have to use Windows for anything, but I know what it's like to be used to Windows and then try to learn Linux. I was dual-booting Red Hat and Windows 98 for a while while I was still getting used to Linux. - Dave Parker Tasana Computers wrote: > The certification is in Windows, I am just getting into Linux. "pass > myself" is not a misnomer. I have had several years training in > Windows and hardware I am just reaching out to Linux and run it on > both of my computers in dual boot and this person did not want to buy > another OS and the 98SE was needing to be reinstalled, (beyond even > the "restore" for 98,) and Linux was all I had. I do not appreciate > what you implied by your comments and it should not have been uttered. > You must remember that 99% of training is in Windows and when someone > is reaching out to something new you don't cut their hand off. I would > bet that you cause more problems in trying to teach then you solve. A > good teacher never implies what you just did. > > David A Parker wrote: > >> Ken Schneider wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 11:23 -0600, Tasana Computers wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I recently installed SUSE 10.0 on a Compaq PII and the client asked >>>> me to install a second HDD. I deleted the partitions that had 98SE >>>> on them using partition logic, I used this on both drives but did >>>> not format either drive. I then installed SUSE n the master and I >>>> never got the option to mount or format the second 3GB HDD. SUSE is >>>> now up and running and it sees the second drive but when I click on >>>> it I get the error that the drive is not mounted. I think since it >>>> was not formatted it can't see it. Where do I go from here to get >>>> SUSE to save to that drive???? >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Any OS needs to format the partition first -before- you can use it. >>> You can use the command df to show what it mounted and space >>> used/available. >>> >>> >>> >>>> Second issuse same computer. I downloaded audacity and it came in >>>> two packages. When I try to install either one (rpm's) i get the >>>> error that it needs the other one. How on earth do I get theis >>>> installed??? >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> rpm -i *.rpm to have rpm work with both at the same time. >>> >>> >>> >>>> Thanks a heap >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Gregory D. Watts >>>> Poneyboy >>>> Certified Computer Specialist >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> If you are going to pass yourself of as a "Certified Computer >>> Specialist" I think you need a little more training in linux first. The >>> two above items are actually pretty much basic items to know. >>> :-) >>> >>> >>> >> In rare cases (mainly on older Red Hat installations), I have had rpm >> still refuse to install multiple packages that require each other >> using "rpm -i *.rpm". In this case, "rpm -i --nodeps *.rpm" solves >> the problem. >> >> "Certified Computer Specialist"... Certified in what? Certified by >> whom? That's a pretty vague title. :-) >> > -- Dave Parker Utica College Department of Integrated Information Technology Services Data Processing Office (315) 792-3229

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/media/ipod
by Art Fore 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

When I connect the ipod to suse 10.0, I get the above mount automatically. Question is, how to unmount it. Ipod displays a message "do not disconnect". It is a usb device and shows up under scsi2 with scsi monitor. How do I find out the /dev/device that it is or is there any other way to eject the ipod? Art

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Artifact of conversion to KDE 3.5
by Paul W. Abrahams 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

I've encountered an odd bug, annoying but not critical, in the conversion from KDE 3.4.2 to KDE 3.5. If I use the KDE Control Center directly and go to Appearance and Themes / Background, I get the correct screen to set the desktop background. But if I use the taskbar icon for KCC (an applet, technically), which provides more direct access to Appearance and Themes, I just get a blank window when I then go to Background. Would anyone else care to take a minute and try this? Is it just me or is there a more general problem here? Paul

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ssh -X and kate
by Scott Leighton 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

This has been bugging me and I'm hoping someone on the list can point me in the right direction. When I ssh -X from my laptop to the server (SuSE 9.3) and fire up kate, I get two instances of kate displaying on the laptop. This doesn't seem to happen with other apps, like yast2, konqueror or even open office, they result in the expected single instance. Anyone have any idea why this happens with kate and where I might look to make it stop? Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-21.10-default x86_64 SuSE Linux 9.3 (x86-64)

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dxr3 support
by Shibu Basheer 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

I have a dxr3 card I want to use with SuSE. Is this card supported in the SuSE kernel, or should I be compiling the modules from cvs? I plan to use the dxr3 card with vdr and mplayer. Thank you!

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