December 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Odd window behavior in SUSE 10 / KDE
by Roger Oberholtzer 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

On SUSE 10 / KDE: Run a program that wants to show a window, and the window is put under all other windows (possibly making it not visible), and the ICON in the task bar flashes a few times. But the window remains obscured by other windows. As an example, we see this for YAST when it wants a password. The dialog is not seen above the other windows. Not every time. But quite a few. It requires that the screen have windows covering lots of it. Quite a few other distro supplied apps behave this way. We also see this in a local app that has a full screen window, but will make an additional window if there is an error. The users are not noticing this error window as it is under the main window, which they think is no longer working as the program focus is in the obscured window. This behavior is different than 9.2 and all earlier. We see this is every SUSE 10 we have. They are running pretty much out of the box. So it is very unlikely that it is a setting that individuals at separate locations are all suddenly doing. Any one else see this behavior? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems AB

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IDE HD PROBLEM
by joao marka 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Hi list Today my dear server had some problems.... I´ve arrived at work, and the server had hanged, after a reboot (and a loooong wait while system was checking MD0) I was able to "destroy" the RAID (hda3 + hdc3) change fstab to mount / just with hda3.... after the system was running, i´ve tried fsck.ext3 an hdc3, and.... server crashed after another reboot, system was unable to mount hdd too.... Well, everything points to hardware failure... but... 2 discs at once???? I´m afraid of IDE controller error, and after a google harvest, have found some people with the same error messages, but apparently with config problems... Or, I hope... cable. Any clues??? Nov 30 18:35:59 samba kernel: hdc: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy } Nov 30 18:35:59 samba kernel: hdc: DMA disabled Nov 30 18:35:59 samba kernel: hdd: DMA disabled Nov 30 18:35:59 samba kernel: hdc: drive not ready for command Nov 30 18:36:01 samba kernel: ide1: reset: success ..... Dec 1 07:11:16 samba kernel: Cannot find map file. Dec 1 07:11:16 samba kernel: hdd1: bad access: block=2, count=2 Dec 1 07:11:16 samba kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:41 (hdd), sector 2 Dec 1 07:11:16 samba kernel: EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock Dec 1 07:11:16 samba kernel: EXT3-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended Dec 1 07:11:16 samba kernel: hdd: status error: status=0x00 { } Dec 1 07:11:16 samba kernel: hdd: drive not ready for command Dec 1 07:11:16 samba kernel: hdd: status error: status=0x00 { } Dec 1 07:11:16 samba kernel: hdd: drive not ready for command Joao Marka Calçados Jacob S/A

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Xen 3.0.0 released!
by Stephan Böni 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Xen 3.0 has been released now. OpenSUSE 10.0 contains only a buggy beta version. Will the final version be available for download over YOU? Stephan > Folks, > > Now seems a good time to call a Xen 3.0.0 release! We've been seeing > good stability on the XenRT regression tests for the last couple of > weeks, and the number of bug reports submitted to bugzilla have > dropped right down. It's time to get a bigger group of people to start > beating up on it... > > mercurial source: http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.0-testing.hg > > Along with the usual binary install tarball, we've created a new > live-iso demo CD, and some RPM packages for common linux > distros. Among the RPM downloads are 'xen-friendly' glibc packages. > See http://www.xensource.com/xen/downloads > > [Please use the Torrent versions if you can; http downloads require > email registration so we can control server load over the next few > days.] > > I expect we'll be spinning fixes to the 3.0 series fairly frequently > over the next few weeks. You'll be able to find the very latest > updates by pulling source from the 3.0-testing.hg tree, or using the > nightly builds. > > For the next few weeks, the xen-unstable.hg tree will be used to test > further releases in the 3.0.x series (we'll checkin the version of > linux 2.6.14 that has xen as a sub-arch that's currently sitting in > linux-2.6-xen.hg), before forking off to become the 3.1 development > branch once things have settled down on 3.0. > > As usual, please send those bug reports to the mailing lists and > bugzilla! > > Best, > Ian > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel(a)lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel >

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ssh xforwarding...
by Chadley Wilson 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Greetings, Covered 100 times, I know, I have many systems running Suse 10, and Xfrowarding works on them all.. But I know setup 3 new Systems to run on a private network, and guess what.. Its not working.. Here is the info, can you spot my mistake? ============================= Suse 10.0 with updates kernel - 2.6.13-15-default openssh-4.1p1-10 kssh-0.7-776 openssh-askpass-4.1p1-10 ============================ (comments removed) chadlap:~ # grep -v ^# /etc/ssh/ssh_config Host * ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes ForwardX11Trusted yes SendEnv LANG LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY LC_MESSAGES SendEnv LC_PAPER LC_NAME LC_ADDRESS LC_TELEPHONE LC_MEASUREMENT SendEnv LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_ALL chadlap:~ # grep -v ^# /etc/ssh/ssh_config =================================================== chadlap:~ # grep -v ^# /etc/sysconfig/ssh SSHD_OPTS="" chadlap:~ # ================================================== I really have no clue, it should work.. The files are identical on all my PCs. TIA Chadley

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vnc funny
by Chadley Wilson 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

greetings, I have enabled vnc via xinetd, and when I connect to it is says at the bottom of the vnc window on the windows PC, "nobody's x11 desktop chadlap:1" Any ideas for a fix... TIA Chadley

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uptime and users
by steve 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

uptime on our 9.2 nfs/nis server with an estimated 21 users logged in gives me this: 3 users, load average: 1.30, 1.37, 1.24 What does users refer to in this context? How can I get the actual number of user logged in? Cheers, Steve.

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slowing down dvd-rom reading speed
by Istvan Gabor 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Hello all: Does anybody know how to slow down the reading speed of a dvd-rom (NEC 3540) so that it would not be so noisy? Thanks, IG ________________________________________________________________________________ INTERNETES NYELVTANULÁS! Tanulj ANGOLUL, NÉMETÜL kedvezményes áron a Médiabóval! 3 Féle intenzitás; 3 Szint; Hanganyag CD-k; Ingyenes konzultáció! http://www.mediabo.hu/akcio/origo/jelentkezesi_lap.html

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Buenas Noticias
by Joan Manuel Ventura Felix 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Miren este articulo, es una buena noticia para el mundo linux, y sobre todo para los usuarios de Suse. http://www.vnunet.es/Actualidad/Noticias/Inform%C3%A1tica_profesional/Resul…

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Bash scripting help
by David Crouch 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

HI all. I used to know how to do this, but apparently I've forgotten :( I know I can use a for loop to process all the files in a directory, but I can't for the life of me remember how to do it. I have a bunch of archived files that I want to unarchive. I've tried for I in *rar:do 'unrar x $I.rar':done, but that doesn't work and I can't seem to find the right man page with the syntax. Any help? Appreciated in advance. -- David Crouch

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YaST - What is this "installation source not refreshed"?
by Shriramana Sharma 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Whenever I add a local directory as an installation source, YaST automatically sets its "Refresh" tag to on, and everytime I go to software management after that I get "Installation source not refreshed". What is this Refresh tag and what does it do, and why do I keep getting this error "Installation source not refreshed" when the Refresh tag is on? Thanks for enlightening me... -- Penguin #395953 resides at http://samvit.org subsisting on SUSE Linux 10.0 with KDE 3.5

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