December 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Novell Database
by Erik Jakobsen 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Hi. I have found very good informations on: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/ Are there a database that tells all what there is to be found on the www.novell.com ?. I would say it was by random I found the coolsolutions, but glad I did it. Then now of course I wanted to know about all the stuff that can be found on the site. Anybody that can help me ? TIA Erik Jakobsen

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DNS troubles
by Ronald Wiplinger 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

On one machine I got some DNS troubles. I start dns, but it is not running without any reasons! Can you please give me a hand? # /etc/rc.d/named stop;/etc/rc.d/named start;/etc/rc.d/named status Shutting down name server bind9 - Warning: named not running ! done Starting name server bind9 done Checking for nameserver bind9 running # ps ax |grep name returns empty # tail /var/log/messages Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2111]: starting BIND 9.1.3 Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2111]: using 1 CPU Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: zone '0.168.192.in-addr.arpa' allows updates by IP address, which is insecure Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: zone 'xxx.com.tw' allows updates by IP address, which is insecure Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: zone 'xxxx.com' allows updates by IP address, which is insecure Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: set maximum open files to -1: permission denied Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53 Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, xx.218.36.50#53 Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1, 192.168.0.254#53 Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: running One more time in single steps: dns:~ # /etc/rc.d/named stop Shutting down name server bind9 - Warning: named not running ! done dns:~ # /etc/rc.d/named start Starting name server bind9 done dns:~ # /etc/rc.d/named status Checking for nameserver bind9 dead dns:~ # Why? How to track it down? bye Ronald Wiplinger

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New machine problems, looking for culprits
by Paul Alfille 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

A new AMD64 bit machine, new SUSE 9.3, should be heaven. Machine hangs after a few minutes of use, but I can't tell why. I hope someone recognizes a problem part so I can address it. Parts: Motherboard: Asus A8V-E includes: Disk controller: VIA SATA and IDE drives Network: Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E gigabit sound, usb, firewire on board CPU: AMD Athlon64 XP3500+ Graphics: Gigabyte PCI-Express 6600GT (NX66T128D) Attempts: WinXP: Embarassingly stable. SuSE9.3 (64bit) crashes Fedora Core 4 64-bit crashes Ubantu64 crashes DamnSmallLinux (embedded under XP with QEMU) stable!!! Obviously SuSE is my choice. I keep trying online update, hoping that the system will stay up long enough to complete and that a fix is coming. Any thoughts? Paul Alfille

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help needed for setting yast install sources
by Istvan Gabor 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Dear suse users: I have some problems using yast installation system. My problems are: 1. I can't find kamix if I search for it. However I checked the ftp site and kamix is among the packages there (in SL-10.0-OSS/ inst-source/suse/i586/). Why is it not shown in yast? 2. I would like to downgrade qt3-3.3.5 to qt3-3.3.4. But yast shows only 3.3.5 even in the version window. Currently my install sources are set up like this, in this order, all of them are enabled, refreshing is enabled for all too: 1. ftp.novell.hu/pub/mirrors/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/ distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source/ 2. ftp.novell.hu/pub/mirrors/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/ distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source-java/ 3. ftp.novell.hu/pub/mirrors/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/10.0/SUSE- Linux10.0-GM-Extra/ 4. ftp.novell.hu/pub/mirrors/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/ supplementary/KDE/update_for_10.0/yast-source/ 5. ftp.novell.hu/ pub/mirrors/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/ supplementary/GNOME/update_for_10.0/yast-source/ 6. packman.inode.at/suse/10.0/ In the last line there is the suse evaluation DVD but that is disabled. Thanks, IG _____________________________________________________________________________ Töltse az év végét sztárokkal! Ingyen filmek egészen Újévig a T-Online Tékában! http://www.t-online.hu

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how to use "fixed" graphic card setup in 10.0?
by Istvan Gabor 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Hello all: SUSE likes to "fix" things that work well. In earlier versions (9.0, 9.1, 9.2 and 9.3) Yast/sax2 graphic card setup was pretty straightforward. One could choose from a driver list which driver to use. This option is gone in 10.0. Also it was easy setting up different resolutions with the checkmarks. I can't find this in 10.0 either, there is only a pulldown list in which I can choose only one setting (eg XGA 1024x768) at a time. So my questions are: 1. How can I switch to the nv driver instead of nvidia? 2. How can I set these resolutions: 1024x768 an 640x480 so that ctrl-alt-+/- would result in the change. Thanks, IG _________________________________________________________________________________ Karácsonyi és Akciós csengőhangok a megújult Sztarsms oldalon - http://www.sztarsms.hu

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Re: Radio-Stream
by Ronald Wiplinger 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Taner Ayaydin wrote: > Hallo Liste, > > erstmal wünsche ich allen frohe Weihnachten und begebe mich an meine Frage. > > > > Ich habe vor, in unsere Community ein Online-Radio einzufügen. Habe mir mal > die Angebote auf www.radiostream.de <http://www.radiostream.de/> angeschaut > und überlegt, bei Preisen zwischen 99 - 279 Euro miete ich mir einen eigenen > Server und betreibe es selber. > Wie schon Wolfgang erwaehnte, mach Dich ueber den Musikschutz schlau, ... Aber da hab' ich was fuer Dich, schau mal auf: http://www.podsafeaudio.com und http://www.garageband.com Deren Musik kann man verwenden, man muss nur den Hinweis geben wo die Musik zu kaufen ist. Ich moechte Dich aber auch in eine andere Richtung lenken: Wann liest Du DIESE Meldung? Siehst Du mir auf die Finger wenn ich tippe? Ist es wirklich notwendig zu "streamen"? Ich habe meistens dann, wenn das Programm laeuft keine Zeit, und wann ich Zeit habe, dann ist das Programm vorbei. Die Loesung dazu ist Podcasting. Uebrigens ein neues Wort in der Britania Encyclopadie heuer aufgenommen. Es ist i.m wesentlichen nur eine Aufnahme des Programs und in MP3 (audio) oder MP4 (video) gespeichert. Es gibt kostenlose Speicherplaetze und auch kostenpflichtige. Hier kann man auch "Shownotes" dazugeben, was dem Hoerer auch helfen kann das Programm leichter zu verstehen. Zum Erstellen der Aufzeichnung gibt es auch kostenlose Programme (Audacity). Es gibt natuerlich fuer Windows mehrere Programme. Ein weiteres schoenes Detail ist, dass man RSS feeds dazu machen kann. Aber auch Shoutcast (und ich glaube auch Icecast) kann das. Kurz: Podcasting mit frei Verfuegbarer Musik koennte Dir viel Geld ersparen! iPod oder MP3 Spieler hat ja jeder schon. bye Ronald Wiplinger > Hab bei http://www.shoutcast.com/ vorbeigeschaut um mich kurz über die > Software schlau zu machen. Alles auf English. Oki, dann wars auch mal > vorerst damit :-) > > > > Meine Frage. Ist es arg kompliziert so etwas auf einem gemieteten Server zu > betreiben? > > Was für eine Bandbreite haben solche Server generell, um zu Wissen, wie viel > User bei 128kbs da ohne Probleme mithören könnten. > > Die 1000GB Traffic dürften wohl für den Anfang ausreichen? (1&1 L64) > > > > Für Tipps, Ratschläge und Hilfestellungen wäre ich sehr Dankbar. > > (Vielleicht kennt sich auch jemand damit aus, einen UKW Radiosender zu > gründen und kann mir Ansprechpartner und Infos zukommen lassen) > > > > Viele Grüße > > Taner > > > > > -- Ronald Wiplinger (CEO of ELMIT) http://www.elmit.com http://voip.elmit.com http://e-paper.elmit.com Tel. (M) +886.939.775.516 (O) +886.2.2835.7765 (ENUM) or FWD 511208 - I'm a SpamCon Foundation Member, #694, Verify it at http://www.spamcon.org PS: Spam prevention! Our system is protected with a spam prevention program. If you send us an e-mail, our system will send you a confirmation message back. Just reply to this confirmation message please. After receiving this confirmation message, our system will send the hold message (one) and all future messages (after the received confirmation message) to me without asking you again.

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RE: [SLE] Problems with initrd after mkinitrd
by Carlos E. R. 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2005-12-26 a las 04:56 -0500, Patrick Freeman escribió: (Notes) Er... even if you answered in private, I'll answer to the list, as it could well be your server rejected my direct reply (dynamic ip); we'll see. And this way more people can comment on your problem. Another thing: you are using a mail program that breaks threading: it removes / does not respect "In-Reply-To" and "References" headers, and thus your emails appear disconnected from previous posts to the same thread. It would be better to use another one that does, at least in mail lists. > > That's the fix... but I don't see clearly what is the problem, the > > symptoms :-? > > Carlos -- thanks -- I guess I am curious *why* this is happening -- what > am I doing wrong? Or what is going wrong with the process (mkinitrd or > whatever). > > To clarify the problem, symptoms: On a set of identical machines, > making a change to the initrd (via mkinitrd, either adding a driver or > an updated driver) causes a subset of the machines to hang on loading > the new initrd and not on the balance of the set (The details should be > available from my original post, but I hope I have included everything > you might want to know). Ah, ok, I understand. No error messages, just hang? You could leave the verbose boot screen on by default to find out. I think that initrd is read by the boot loader, ie, grub or lilo, and it uses the bios functions to do this, as the kernel is not running yet. So, things to check could be: Is the bios updated? Is that file about the same position (track number) in the HD? Perhaps having a separate ext2 /boot partition, below track 1024 would help - or perhaps not. You could find out if there is a correlation in bioses versions/releases. Another idea could be to check if the other boot manager (lilo / grub) works better in your case. - -- Saludos Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDr9gvtTMYHG2NR9URAjRHAKCQGJhgd9rvyLpkx4F77w8I2qdXVgCeMpnu g5+4uJSp3QVPmAqepz3B3DA= =vmGA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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SUSE 9.3 Pro and 3 NICs
by Eric Hines 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Folks, I'm running SUSE Pro 9.3 on an Intel server board with two NICs built in (a GigE and a 10/100). I've since added a Netgear GigE as a 3d NIC. I'm trying to set this box up as a Samba server for a 2-subnet LAN that will have a mix of XP and SUSE machines. eth0 is supposed to face the Net (on ....1.2); the other two NICs are supposed to connect only to eth0 for access to the Net and to each other. The problem I'm having (or maybe not; I'm an extreme newbie with networking) is that every time I boot up the SUSE server, the NICs come out assigned differently: 1 boot: eth0 on 192.168.3.1 Intel GigE NIC eth1 on ...2.2 Intel 10/100 eth2 on ...3.1 Netgear 2 boot: eth0 on ...3.1 Intel 10/100 eth1 on ...1.2 Netgear eth2 on ...2.2 Intel GigE 3 boot: eth0 on ...1.2 Netgear eth1 on ...3.1 Intel GigE eth2 on ...2.2 Intel 10/100 and so on. Both IP address assignments to the NICs and which NIC is on a given ethx change, apparently at random. It would seem that cabling my subnets cannot be done if the NIC assignments keep changing on every boot up. How can I force the system to keep the NICs on a stable assignment--and one of my choosing? The above changes come whether I change the NIC assignments via YaST or do nothing at all before a reboot. Thanks for your help. Eric Hines There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. --Bertrand Russell

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Re: [SLE] suddenly no sound
by Steve Lett 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

----- Original Message ----- To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] suddenly no sound Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:41:08 -0500 > Hi Steve, > I've gotta run, but here's an idea: delete the file > /etc/modprobe.d/sound, run > YaST again and see if you can configure the sound card. Merry Christmas! > - Carl Did that and then it did recognize the CLabs sound card at next start up, the system knows it's there and suggests a setup, so the card itself seems working but I cannot configure it. It won't save the setup options giving the error: An error occurred during the installation of CT4780 SBLive! Value The kernel module snd-emu10k1x for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. Indeed Carl's response to "SuSE 10.0 not responding to "shutdown-r now" seems to apply here. Not mentioned in the previous post as I didn't associate it... I just did a kernel upgrade along with the other YOU suggested updates after installing the video card. Just really looking to get newest drivers, but I remember there was a note about the kernel upgrade and rebooting afterward. It didn't warn me that it was gonna trash my system completely. ;-( But that's kind of what's happening here, a general crapping out of lots of things... Control Center reports Release 2.6.8-24.19-default Since my original post, I've tried a couple of other things and am having serious problems. Thunderbird opens and crashed closed immediately. K3B won't open at all, even by root. KCDRecorder won't open at all, even by root. Audacity Amarok pretty much everything multimedia seems screwed up, though Firefox still works and it browses OK. Open Office works, printer OK, mouse OK... I'm wondering if I shouldn't just reload 9.2 from scratch to clearup the mess, get the system stable, and then update all BUT the kernel. --But don't I need the kernel upgrade? It shows as a security issue... Should I just get the iso for 10.0 and upgrade to that? Or is that a worse can of worms? Upgrade to 9.3 and update kernel and all amd see what happens? I'm more and more confused about what to do... I'm not so skilled but I can sure make a mess of things in a hurry. lol... Thanks for any feedback. I'm anxious to see what opinions are out there about either fixing or replacing. And Merry Christmas from West Tennessee, U.S.A.!n Steve In a world without walls or fences, who needs Windows or Gates? Registered Linux User #287453 ---------------------------------------- '87 Street Comanche #24/100 '92 Cherokee '88 Grand Wagoneer '87 Grand Wagoneer '81 Wagoneer ...and they say there's only one... --------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] SUSE 9.3 Pro and 3 NICs
by Eric Hines 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

>Subject: Re: [SLE] SUSE 9.3 Pro and 3 NICs > >At 12/25/05 07:51, James Knott wrote: >>Eric Hines wrote: >> > At 12/24/05 18:53, James Knott wrote: >> >> Eric Hines wrote: >><snip> >> > >> > Alternatively, how do I use YaST to do this? I've been in YaST|Network >> > Devices|Network Card|<NIC>|Edit and edited the IP address for each. I >> > can't find any place to pin a NIC to a particular ethx, though. And >> > both the addresses and the ethx change on each boot--e.g., eth0 will >> > have on NIC (by MAC address) and one IP address after one bootup, and >> > after another bootup it'll have a different NIC and a different IP >> > address (and both will be completely different--it won't simply be a >> > NIC/IP address pairing from another ethx on the earlier bootup). >> >>I'm not sure what you're getting at here. If you use the ifcfg files, >>you'll always configure the correct NIC. If you need to refer to the >>NICs in a script, you use the full name. >> >><snip> > >One of the problems I have--and I'll try editing the files directly, >to guarantee that I'm configuring the correct NIC with the correct >information--is that it doesn't seem to make any difference how I >configure each NIC--or whether I configure them at all--on one boot >up, eth0, say, will have NIC1, with IP address 2, attached to it, >and on a subsequent bootup, eth0 will have NIC2, with IP address 3, >attached to it, even though I have done nothing at--just boot up, >run ifconfig -a to see what's where, then shut down. Similarly, >there's no pairing between NIC and IP address--these change on their >own, also: NIC3 with IP address 1 on one bootup will have, on the >next bootup, IP address 3 attached. > >Also, even editing the files directly, I could see no way to pin a >NIC to a specific eth. How do I do that? > >Thanks > >Eric Hines Reading the man page on ifstatus, and probably with a large dose of a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, I'm reminded of further events that I should have reported at the outset. When I installed the Netgear NIC, SUSE found it right off and offered to let me configure it, which I did, via the YaST that SUSE presented. However, on each of the next several (5-6) cold boot ups, SUSE found the Netgear all over again and presented YAST for me to configure the Netgear. As I entered the YAST module, I saw that the Netgear was already configured, from my earlier setup. SUSE has stopped newly finding the Netgear lately, and it shows up (as it did even when it was being "newly found," and I was declining to configure it yet again) in ifconfig -a as though it's working properly. It's like the Netgear never got properly registered in the kernel. How can I check this, and how can I register it, if that needs to be done? Additionally, this is what I may be beginning to understand: eth0 is an interface 00:11:11:...:A2 is a device (i.e., a NIC) ifcfg-eth-id... with IP addresses, and so on, is a configuration. I don't care if NIC/ethx pairing remains constant, all I care about is whether NIC/IP address remains constant. Is this right? All I have to do is solve the wandering NIC/IP address pairing problem? Thanks Eric Hines There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. --Bertrand Russell

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