December 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Changing Installation Source brings to filesystem crash
by Sergey Mkrtchyan 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hi all! I have installed SuSE 10 from DVD. Since I haven't got my own DVD Rom, I brought it from my friend and installed succesfully. Then when I want to install nearly everything rpm, it asks me for the SuSE 10 DVD. Since at that time my friend is already gone with his DVD Rom, I don't know what to do. I copied that DVD to my hard and changed Installation Source from YaST to my local directory (previously removing the source concerning the DVD Disk). When trying to install something "rpm" it gives something like "some error with some package", but when I enter the same DVD (which i copied to my hard and from hard version of which he doesn't want to install anything) it goes excellent. After restarting computer my SuSE don't want to load. And it behaves in different ways: one time it continuously restarts, another time it just gives me an Error 16 in GRUB (I have already installed SuSE today for four times). I guess that was the reason of the problem I described in another thread "Grub Suddenly Crashed", because it came to that after I copied that disk to my hard. Can anyone help? How to use a local copy of that DVD? Just not to get my friend's DVD Rom each time I want to install something. Regards, Sergey Mkrtchyan

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SUSE93 - KDE gone?
by Frank Bax 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

I've been running SUSE93 on a machine for about 4-5 weeks. This morning I booted up to a grey login screen instead of the familiar green one. After login, the system appears to be using a very rudimentary window manager. I've only ever used KDE. I can manage to start an X-term window, but don't have a clue how to proceed from there. How do I get KDE back?

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Soundblaster Live! 24 vs. SUSE 10
by Alvaro Aguilera 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hello, I just bought a Soundblaster Live! 24bits and a set of 5.1 speakers and now I am having a hard time trying to make them work on SUSE 10. For some reason only the two front speakers work. The center and rear ones don't. The card uses the module ca0106. Any hint? Thanks, Alvaro.

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SuseFax -- getting it to work
by Paul W. Abrahams 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

I've been trying to get SuSEFax to work, but it gives me the message SuSEFax.getStatus: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused Where do I go from here? I have a PCTel faxmodem built into my motherboard, which the hardware listing shows as being on the PCI bus. Paul

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Remote Desktop trouble in SuSE 10.0?
by Marc Chamberlin 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

I am running a small network of various computers and want to be able to configure each of them so that I can administer them remotely via remote desktop (aka VNC) The way I have been doing this is to assign each computer its own port for its server to listen on, so Comp A is listening on 5900, Comp B is listening on 5901, etc. I use the SuSE Control Center to configure the remote desktop server on each computer, and start the server via the inetd daemon. I have configured my SuSE firewall computer to route incoming requests to the appropriate computer. In the past all this has worked fine. I recently upgraded one of my computers, a laptop, to SuSE 10.0. and tried to configure it to accept incoming requests on a port other than port 0 - 5900 (for example port 1 - 5901) and have failed. The only port I can get the remote desktop to work with is port 0 - 5900. If I assign it any other port, other than 5900, and then try to connect to it with a viewer, I do not get the authentication process (i.e. the request for a password) to occur and the viewer will open up with a blank (grayed out) screen and then hangs. As I stated however, if I assign the server 5900, the base address of ports, everything works fine, I do get the request for the password and the viewer does open up correctly with a display of the desktop of the remote computer. For the moment I am able to get around this by routing through the firewall and redirecting incoming requests to port 0 - 5900 on the appropriate computer but this requires I assign every computer a static address and not use my internal DHCP server, not what I want to do in the long run.... Is anyone else having troubles with the remote desktop in SuSE 10.0, with the server configured to use a port other than 0 - 5900? Did something break? Marc.....

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USB-IRDA adapter
by Yuriy Chumak 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hello. What kind of USB-IRDA adapter can I to use with my SuSE 9.3 ? If anybody use adapters like this, please, let me know ( I want to connect to the Internet via Siemens AX75 ). Best regards, Yuriy.

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How to trigger yp update
by Chiu, PCM (Peter) 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

I have a yp master on a 9.3 box (machine M), and a yp slave server on a 9.2 box (machine S). A normal user log on yet another 9.2 box using a NIS account (machine C). If he then uses yppasswd to change his password on machine C, he can use the new password to log on M and S, but not on C. He has to use the old password to log on machine C. On M, there is a entry in /var/log/messages saying rpc.ypasswdd: update user (uid=25010) from host ip_address_of_c successful. Did try to restart ypbind on C using the root account, but not helping. Also restarted ypserv on S, not helping neither. Does anyone know how to trigger an yp update?

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Apache2 and SSL
by Jim Flanagan 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hi all, I'm trying to get apache2 running with ssl on Suse 10.0. Apache runs fine on http, but https on port 443 is a problem. Following the instructions in /usr/share/doc/packages/apache2/README.QUICKSTART.SSL, in Yast>system>etc/sysconfig editor I added "ssl" to APACHE_MODULES, and "SSL" to APACHE_SERVER_FLAGS. This still does not work. I went to yast>network services>http server configuration, and added listen to port 443 (on all addresses). It was already set to listen to all addresses on port 80 by default. This change produces an error in yast saying that the system could not adjust 'apache 2' service. Apache 2 is not running after this error. Deleting listen on port 443 produces a running apache2 again, but still not on ssl. For some reason yast put listen 443 above listen 80, if this is relevant. I did not specifiy an IP address, I selected all addresses, however as I write this, this sounds not too safe. There is only one ethernet card in this box. I have not made new certs yet, relying on the installed "snakeoil" certs for testing. Below is an excerpt of apache2 logs. The times when "caught SIGTERM" is references is when I had set listen to port 443. The times referencing resuming normal operations is when I deleted listen on port 443. I'm not sure what favicon.ico is referencing, or why its missing. Any help is most welcome. TIA, Jim Flanagan tail -F /var/log/apache2/*_log & ==> /var/log/apache2/access_log <== [1] 13028 linux:/home/user # 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:34:40 -0600] "GET /squirrelmail/src/login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2165 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:34:40 -0600] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 1012 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:34:46 -0600] "POST /squirrelmail/src/redirect.php HTTP/1.1" 302 - "http://localhost/squirrelmail/src/login.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:34:46 -0600] "GET /squirrelmail/src/webmail.php HTTP/1.1" 200 334 "http://localhost/squirrelmail/src/login.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:34:46 -0600] "GET /squirrelmail/src/left_main.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2111 "http://localhost/squirrelmail/src/webmail.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:34:48 -0600] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 1012 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:34:46 -0600] "GET /squirrelmail/src/right_main.php HTTP/1.1" 200 5699 "http://localhost/squirrelmail/src/webmail.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:34:50 -0600] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 1012 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:34:52 -0600] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 1012 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:34:52 -0600] "GET /squirrelmail/src/signout.php HTTP/1.1" 200 734 "http://localhost/squirrelmail/src/right_main.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" ==> /var/log/apache2/error_log <== [Sun Dec 04 22:34:37 2005] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Sun Dec 04 22:37:28 2005] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Linux/SUSE) configured -- resuming normal operations [Sun Dec 04 22:39:22 2005] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Sun Dec 04 23:34:22 2005] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Linux/SUSE) configured -- resuming normal operations [Sun Dec 04 23:34:29 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /srv/www/htdocs/favicon.ico [Sun Dec 04 23:34:36 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /srv/www/htdocs/favicon.ico [Sun Dec 04 23:34:40 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /srv/www/htdocs/favicon.ico [Sun Dec 04 23:34:48 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /srv/www/htdocs/favicon.ico [Sun Dec 04 23:34:50 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /srv/www/htdocs/favicon.ico [Sun Dec 04 23:34:52 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /srv/www/htdocs/favicon.ico ==> /var/log/apache2/access_log <== 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:37:01 -0600] "GET /squirrelmail/src/login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2165 "http://localhost/squirrelmail/src/signout.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:37:02 -0600] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 1012 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" ==> /var/log/apache2/error_log <== [Sun Dec 04 23:37:02 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /srv/www/htdocs/favicon.ico ==> /var/log/apache2/access_log <== 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:37:16 -0600] "POST /squirrelmail/src/redirect.php HTTP/1.1" 302 - "http://localhost/squirrelmail/src/login.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:37:16 -0600] "GET /squirrelmail/src/webmail.php HTTP/1.1" 200 334 "http://localhost/squirrelmail/src/login.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:37:17 -0600] "GET /squirrelmail/src/left_main.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2111 "http://localhost/squirrelmail/src/webmail.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:37:19 -0600] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 1012 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" ==> /var/log/apache2/error_log <== [Sun Dec 04 23:37:19 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /srv/www/htdocs/favicon.ico ==> /var/log/apache2/access_log <== 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:37:17 -0600] "GET /squirrelmail/src/right_main.php HTTP/1.1" 200 5699 "http://localhost/squirrelmail/src/webmail.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:37:20 -0600] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 1012 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7 SUSE/1.0.7-0.1" ==> /var/log/apache2/error_log <== [Sun Dec 04 23:37:20 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /srv/www/htdocs/favicon.ico ==> /var/log/apache2/access_log <== 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Dec/2005:23:37:41 -0600] "\x80g\x01\x03" 501 950 "-" "-" ==> /var/log/apache2/error_log <== [Sun Dec 04 23:37:41 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Invalid method in request \x80g\x01\x03 <end>

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openoffice and PPS sound
by Paul Cartwright 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Is there some trick to getting sound from a powerpoint presentation in OpenOffice? the HELP says to click on the slide and select PLAY, but I can't find anything to click, and the slide show is silent. SUSE 10.0 and KDE 3.5 with OO beta 2.0 -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

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Distorted display upon shutdown
by Shriramana Sharma 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

http://h1.ripway.com/samvit/temp/bug-suse-shutdown.jpg gives you an idea of what I see when I shutdown my SUSE session. Though this does not affect my system in any performance-related way, I would like to iron out this bug which has been bothering me ever since SUSE 10 RC 1. Does anyone have any ideas? I have no problem with the graphics during startup or the working session. -- Penguin #395953 resides at http://samvit.org subsisting on SUSE Linux 10.0 with KDE 3.5

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