December 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Firefox mouse pointers
by Shriramana Sharma 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Does everyone see only the mousy black mouse pointers in their Firefox installations? I am running Firefox 1.5 (latest SUSE RPM) on KDE 3.5 final on SUSE 10.0 and I see ugly little black mouse pointers instead of the sleek beautiful KDE pointers. I do not have this problem with Firefox 1.5 on Windows XP. -- Penguin #395953 resides at http://samvit.org subsisting on SUSE Linux 10.0 with KDE 3.5

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Re: [SLE] SuSE/Linux Ping vs DOS Ping
by David McMillan 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Tom Peters wrote: >> No route. Just a crossover Cat5. > > > The Linux box has an IP address. The other box has one. If they're on > the same subnet, there is still a route between them, it's the one that > says "go straight out the wire." If they're not on the same subnet, it > has to know what the correct default gateway address is. If it's not > configured the same as the Windows box was, it probably won't work. Tried SuSE with the same IP as the XP box, and a few others in the same range. Didn't make any apparent difference. > What static IP? Same one as the Windows box you tried? Same IP with a > different MAC address means screwed up ARP table, possible confusion. > Not supposed to matter on a network with no layer 3 involvement. Not > SUPPOSED to matter... Try another address on the same subnet. Previous experience (mass hardware swapping) suggests that the industrial unit involved is pretty immune to that type of thing. But yes, I have tried multiple IPs.

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Smart not working
by jalal 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

I tried to get smart working (the update tool). First off, it wants to update almost every package on the system, which seems like overkill to me. But whenever I try to update a package, I get a list of Python errors. Which end in this: ... ... File "/usr/lib/python2.3/codecs.py", line 343, in __getattr__ return getattr(self.stream, name) AttributeError: 'file' object has no attribute 'bytebuffer' And that is it. :-( Google gives me no joy in tracking this down. Others have had the problem, but no-one has a solution. Anyone here have any clues??? SuSE 9.2, standard install with YOU/apt updates etc... Python 2.3.4 TIA

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jdictionary vs. special chars on SUSE 10.0
by pelibali 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

Hi, I attempted to use jdictionary on my system with three plugins installed: ENG-GER, ENG-HUN and GER-HUN. (This meaning, that at least one language having special characters in all of them.) Surprisingly all of these chars display as an empty quadrat, making impossible to use the program on a productive way. e.g. searching in words contai- ning special characters works only with regexps, but not with bare- words. Running the app from the command-line I used to get: scanPlugins(): Processing file: /usr/share/jdictionary/Plugins/SmartEngHun-1_4.jar Loading InfoSheet from file named: /usr/share/jdictionary/Plugins/SmartEngHun-1_4.jar InfoSheetCreator: Local specific info sheet is not found in plugin named: SmartEngHun-1_4.jar Trying to load the default sheet PluginLoader: File Not Found: SMARTResources_en.class PluginLoader: File Not Found: SMARTResources_en_EN.class scanPlugins(): Processing file: /usr/share/jdictionary/Plugins/SmartEngHunExp-1_4.jar Loading InfoSheet from file named: /usr/share/jdictionary/Plugins/SmartEngHunExp-1_4.jar InfoSheetCreator: Local specific info sheet is not found in plugin named: SmartEngHunExp-1_4.jar Trying to load the default sheet PluginLoader: File Not Found: SMARTResources_en.class PluginLoader: File Not Found: SMARTResources_en_EN.class scanPlugins(): Processing file: /usr/share/jdictionary/Plugins/SmartEngGer-1_4.jar Loading InfoSheet from file named: /usr/share/jdictionary/Plugins/SmartEngGer-1_4.jar InfoSheetCreator: Local specific info sheet is not found in plugin named: SmartEngGer-1_4.jar Trying to load the default sheet PluginLoader: File Not Found: SMARTResources_en.class PluginLoader: File Not Found: SMARTResources_en_EN.class Plugin SmartEngHun-1_4.jar is already loaded scanPlugins(): Processing file: /usr/share/jdictionary/Plugins/SmartGerHun-1_4.jar Loading InfoSheet from file named: /usr/share/jdictionary/Plugins/SmartGerHun-1_4.jar InfoSheetCreator: Local specific info sheet is not found in plugin named: SmartGerHun-1_4.jar Trying to load the default sheet PluginLoader: File Not Found: SMARTResources_en.class PluginLoader: File Not Found: SMARTResources_en_EN.class Saving prefs file...English - Hungarian Saving prefs file...Hungarian - English Saving prefs file...German - Hungarian Saving prefs file...Hungarian - German Saving prefs file...English - Hungarian Expression Saving prefs file...Hungarian - English Expression Saving prefs file...English - German Saving prefs file...German - English maybe it has something to do with the above described problem. Any ideas are very welcome, because I wouldn't let my 65+ mom learn regexps now ;) I can reproduce this messages on the SUSE 10.0 of my girly and my own 9.1; all of them have generally English locale. Thanks a lot, Pelibali

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RE: [SLE] Grub suddenly crashed...
by Lonn 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: Sergey Mkrtchyan [mailto:crusoe@freenet.am] > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 05:54 > To: lonn(a)lonnd.com > Subject: > RE: [SLE] Grub suddenly crashed... > Dear Lonn, > So as i understood I should open a new thread with the detailed > explanation of what happened? > > And more more "technical question" should I "reply" or "reply > all" the questions I receive from others and what's the difference? > > By the way...I looked again at home, when I try to mount "mount > /dev/hda6" without any "somefolder" it says something like > "mount: can't find /dev/hda6 in the /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab". I > looked in that files with "joe" there were something like > /dev/root but nothing about partitions.I tried to add something > like "/dev/hda6" and when tried to mount it said something like > "corrupted etc/fstab" > > Thank you for helping me! I haven't been any help, and I don't completely understand your problem, so I cannot help. The list owner would prefer that a new thread not be opened unless there is a new and different problem to resolve. There is more information in the "Welcome' message you received when you joined the list. I don't know your technical expertise, but it seems you may need to understand more about the elements of disk preparation and the Linux file system hierarchy -- and how to investigate that structure in a rescue mode. You must thoroughly understand the ramifications of any changes you may desire to make, else you may destroy your data and OS. Reply to private communication with concern regarding any privacy issues; however, the list owner would prefer that we always CC the list -- so the messaging and problem resolution will appear on the list and in the archives. If you've learned more about your problem that information could be helpful to those willing to assist. Lonn Lonn

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Enabling OpenOffice2 Mozilla-browser plugin for Opera?
by Terje J. Hanssen 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

I just succeeded to get the OpenOffice2 plugin to work for Mozilla Navigator and Firefox browsers using the following procedures for OpenSuse 10.0: 1) Enabling the Mozilla-browser plugin in OOo2 options: Tools -> Options -> Internet -> Mozilla Plug-in -> Enable 2) Created the following symlinks as root: ln -s /opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/libnpsoplugin.so /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/ ln -s /opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/libnpsoplugin.so /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins/ Restarted Mozilla and Firefox and they became capable to display e.g OOo2 Writer .odt files 3) I tried the corresponding for Opera: ln -s /opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/libnpsoplugin.so /usr/lib/opera/plugins/ By default, Opera does start OOo2 externally to display .odt files. Telling Opera to use the pluging program instead didn't work. A message box said that the plug-in wasn't installed. (usually Opera is compatible with Netscape/Mozilla plugins) Any ideas? Rgds, Terje J. Hanssen

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KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/ipv4/af_inet.c (151)
by Andrew Sitnikov 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

Hello suse-linux-e, i have high loaded http server with suse 10 instaled. #>dmesg | grep assertion KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/core/stream.c (279) KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/ipv4/af_inet.c (151) KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/core/stream.c (279) KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/ipv4/af_inet.c (151) KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/core/stream.c (279) KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/ipv4/af_inet.c (151) KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/core/stream.c (279) KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/ipv4/af_inet.c (151) KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/core/stream.c (279) KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/ipv4/af_inet.c (151) KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/core/stream.c (279) #>free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8115 5686 2429 0 376 4468 -/+ buffers/cache: 841 7273 Swap: 1953 0 1953 #>uname -a Linux pics 2.6.13-15-bigsmp #1 SMP Tue Sep 13 14:56:15 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux -- Best regards, Andrew mailto:sitnikov@infonet.ee

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SuSE 10 Install Failure
by David Johanson 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

I purchased the boxed set of 10 and have been trying for over a month to get it installed on my SCSI based system. I put in a service request to Novell over a month ago and we have been "playing" around since then trying to see what's wrong with my system. When we finally reached a point of determining that the problem was that YaST was getting confused with the install because I have more than one CD/DVD drive in the system, it was announced, today, that Novell does not support installs on SCSI based systems anymore except on a pay for call basis and it was suggested I ask about the install problem on this list. So, has anyone had any problems installing on a SCSI based system and if so what has been the work around? System consists of the following: 4 matched removable SCSI HDs, only one of which is turned on during the install 1 each DVD writer and reader and 1 each CD writer and reader. All except the DVD writer are SCSI, the DVD writer is IDE and is the device used for the install attempts (I've tried all 4 devices but all fail during the loading of the packages) because it ( the IDE Sony DVD) is by far the fastest device. Below is a typical error I get when trying to perform the install during the package writing phase: "error: /var/adm/YaSTInstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_ 0X00000001/MEDIA/suse/i586/ghostscripts-fonts-other-8.15rc1-29.i586rpm:MD5 digest: BAD Expected (cb29d41081097a3cd4feeda767aeb453) != (e8aa68850260b19cbc0d44f43a330b2d)" This error will repeat with just a different package name for all packages other than the first three packages. Below is a quote from Novell tech service: "After installation of the first packages the access to /mnt/var/ gets lost, resulting in errors like: Could not open logfile '/mnt/var/log/YaST2/y2logRPM' cannot get exclusive lock on /mnt/var/lib/rpm/Packages cannot open Packages database in /mnt/var/lib/rpm Yast got confused by your quite unusual system." I've installed all versions of SuSE Linux, from 7.3 - 9.3 inclusive, on this box before without this problem. Any help on how to get 10 installed greatly appreciated. dave

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SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT-INV in /var/log/warn?
by Steven T. Hatton 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT-INV What does this mean? I'm having trouble transferring data from a site which I believe is very fast. I've noticed there are messages in the warn log containing the string shown above and also the IP address of the sever in question. Any ideas?

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Possible to disable HAL, powersaved, dbus on OpenSuse 10?
by Matthias Keller 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

Hi I'm running an older server and actually I'd like to disable all services I dont absolutely need.... I saw that by default HAL, powersaved and dbus are running on my system. Is it save to disable them or are these essential system services? The computer isn't a laptop so i dont know if i really need powersaved ? HAL and DBUS is something new to me, i dont have them on my Suse9.0 system -- are they really needed? I've already disabled subfs and since the computer is a server i dont need any hotplugging, usb or something like that for which I guess HAL could be used..... Thanks a lot! Matt

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