December 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Bad blocks on a ReiserFS volume. How to retrieve files?
by Silviu Marin-Caea 14 Aug '24

14 Aug '24

I have a large hard-disk (120 GB) on which some blocks went bad. Now, it cannot be mounted. Attached is what debugreiserfs says. What can I do; I'm newbie to reiserfs architecture. I thought that ReiserFS keeps copies of the superblock or something, like ext2/3 does. reiserfsck says "error occured looks like hardware problem. bread cannot read block 13271040". That's the actual number it displays. PS I have asked the same question on the reiserfs-list, but it's extremely low traffic. Maybe someone here knows more. Thank you Filesystem state: consistency is not checked after last mounting Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x1642 of format 3.6 with standard journal Count of blocks on the device: 29945160 Number of bitmaps: 914 Blocksize: 4096 Free blocks (count of blocks - used [journal, bitmaps, data, reserved] blocks): 29154954 Root block: 14969 Filesystem is NOT clean Tree height: 4 Hash function used to sort names: "r5" Objectid map size 10, max 972 Journal parameters: Device [0x0] Magic [0x34ae2c74] Size 8193 blocks (including 1 for journal header) (first block 18) Max transaction length 1024 blocks Max batch size 900 blocks Max commit age 30 Blocks reserved by journal: 0 Fs state field: 0x0 sb_version: 2 inode generation number: 35482 UUID: 48d29ced-fe37-4c68-adf8-32ace9f2be45 LABEL: Set flags in SB: ATTRIBUTES CLEAN

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Sorry SuSE: 9.1 is Waste of time and money!
by Terje J. Hanssen 17 May '24

17 May '24

I am sorry to conclude that my upgrade from SuSE 9.0 Pro to 9.1 Pro has been waste of time and money for me, so far. The same I have to say about the free SuSE "Installation support". The reason is that my SuSE 9.1 installation only detects 1 of my 3 SCSCI devices (as I wrote in another subject on this forum: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-May/3254.html) Yamaha 4416S CDRW recorder detected HP DVD Writer 100i NOT detected Epson 1640SU scanner NOT detected It's rather stupid. I have installed 9.1 using the DVD disk just in the HP DVD drive, but after the installation of 9.1, the KDE/Konqueror /media/recorder cannot access it and YaST2 cannot install additional software from it. Only one "Cdrecorder" is found in My computer and that is the Yamaha 4416 drive, which the KDE/Konqueror file manager assign as /media/recorder11. I am sure 9.1 is the reason, as I hadn't this problems with 9.0. I have tried both an update and two several new installation of 9.1. Neither SJDS nor Windows on the same multiboot PC have problems to detect these devices. In my opinion SuSE should therefore debug 9.1 better and longer, and not leave the problems to the customers. I see SuSE notes on their web saying that they know SCSI scanners are not detected in 9.1. But regarding my HP DVD writer problem, the SuSE support (as usual) don't take the responsibility and argue that this problem (a combination of IDE disk and SCSI devices) isn't included in their free installation support! This sounds remarkable, and I have never had a modern PC of so simple model or configuration that it has fitted the limited rules for the free installation support. Terje J. Hanssen

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[SLE] RealPlayer G2 on SuSe 6.2
by yh＠ottawa.com 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Yesterday, I finally got sound going on my Linux setup. I downloaded RealPlayer G2 and it worked beautifully. Today, RealPlayer run but no sound coming out. All other sound functions still work. I can still play my CD, have system sound BUT no sound when I run RealPlayer. /var/log/message said kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? but KDE sound still work. I have re-installed RealPlayer 3 times now, still no sound when I run the RealPlayer. Any help is appreciated. Ying yh(a)ottawa.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Creating a new user for a deamon
by Rowan Reid 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

I'm setting up a cron job for a analysis tool, I'm trying to use the SuSE tools where possible but YAST doent' allow you to create new user without a home I tried /dev/null is there a proper way to do this ? Rowan Reid Job Captain, Systems Administrator STUDIO 3 ARCHITECTS 909 982 1717

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Web Site Standards
by Bryan Tyson 25 Sep '21

25 Sep '21

On Wednesday 03 July 2002 03:38, Michael wrote: > I tried to visit this site. > http://www.bet365.com > The result upset me so much i sent them this. I sent the letter below, and I encourage everyone on the list to send a similar letter. ----------------------------------------- Subject: Create a Real Web Site Please From: Bryan S. Tyson <bryantyson(a)earthlink.net> To: webmaster(a)bet365.com When attempting to view your site using Konqueror 2.2.1 and Mozilla 0.9.4, both Linux web browsers, I was curtly informed that my browser is "incompatible." Your site, sir, is what is "incompatible." Stick with established standards and real html, not Microsoft proprietary "features." *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ***************************************************

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Mount Windows NT(NTFS) drive as drive Z: for all users
by Keith Jacobs 25 Sep '21

25 Sep '21

We have an winNT server and need to auto mount a shared folder as if it were a windose mapped drive Z: on SuSE8 Could someone please explain how to do this and how to make sure it is set-up for every user everytime the system is booted. Thanks Regards Keith Jacobs New to Linux

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Adding fonts?
by Tracer Bullet 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Hi all, Reading some mails on the GIMP mail list, I ran across the procedure to install some more fonts for not only Gimp, but the system and StarOffice to use also. Well, I installed the fonts, went to the shell and issued the command xset fp+ <font directory> and then the rehash command and all fonts are there! Ok, that went well, but each time I restart the system, I have to do it all over again? Is there a way to make it permanent and read the new fonts like it does the ones the system installs or is that a no-no? end of line Tracer Shell commands: xset fp+ <new font directory> xset fp rehash -- ---KMail 1.2--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb(a)sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb

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Problem with procmail
by Carlos E. R. 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm having a problem with some mails handled by one particular rule in procmail - all the rest are being handled ok. The .procmailrc goes like this: VERBOSE=on LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log ... cut :0 * ^Received: from correo.foo.es { :0 * ^Received: from (ruebert.ieee.org|engine.ieee.org|hormel3.ieee.org|boldfish.ieee.org|aries3.…) $HOME/Mail/in_ieee :0 * ^FROM_DAEMON $HOME/Mail/in_daemon :0 $HOME/Mail/in_foo } The problem is that mail matching the "^Received" clause above goes to the "/var/spool/mail/cer" folder instead of the "$HOME/Mail/in_foo" that corresponds. The log is this, showing a write error: procmail: No match on "^List-Id: <husky-discuss.lists.sourceforge.net>" procmail: Executing "/usr/bin/spamc" procmail: No match on "^X-Spam-Status: Yes" procmail: No match on "^^rom[ ]" procmail: No match on "^From.*FETCHMAIL-DAEMON(a)nimrodel.valinor" procmail: No match on "^To.*virusalert(a)nimrodel.valinor" procmail: No match on "^From.*(MAILER-DAEMON|postmaster)(a)nimrodel.valinor" ... procmail: Match on "^Received: from correo.foo.es" procmail: No match on "^Received: from (ruebert.ieee.org|engine.ieee.org|hormel3.ieee.org|boldfish.ieee.org|aries3.…)" procmail: No match on "(^(Mailing-List:|Precedence:.*(junk|bulk|list)|To: Multiple recipients of |(((Resent-)?(From|Sender)|X-Envelope-From):|>?From )([^>]*[^(.%@a-z0-9])?(Post(ma?(st(e?r)?|n)|office)|(send)?Mail(er)?|daemon|m(mdf|ajordomo)|n?uucp|LIST(SERV|proc)|NETSERV|o(wner|ps)|r(e(quest|sponse)|oot)|b(ounce|bs\.smtp)|echo|mirror|s(erv(ices?|er)|mtp(error)?|ystem)|A(dmin(istrator)?|MMGR|utoanswer))(([^).!:a-z0-9][-_a-z0-9]*)?[%@> ][^<)]*($.*$.*)?)?$([^>]|$)))" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/cer/Mail/in_foo" procmail: Opening "/home/cer/Mail/in_foo" procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock So far, normal. procmail: Error while writing to "/home/cer/Mail/in_foo" procmail: Truncated file to former size A write error. What write error? procmail: No match on "^Received: from pop.tiscali.es" procmail: Extraneous locallockfile ignored .... procmail: Bypassed locking "/var/spool/mail/cer.lock" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/cer" procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/cer" procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock procmail: Notified comsat: "cer@0:/var/spool/mail/cer" >From sombody(a)somewhere.com Wed Aug 31 20:17:13 2005 Subject: Final.... Folder: /var/spool/mail/cer 952289 I have copied over the emails in /home/cer/Mail/in_foo to another folder, then deleted, recreated in_foo, and finally copied back all the emails. The folder has 57Mb (392 emails) and Pine seems happy with it, no complaints. Ideas? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDFflQtTMYHG2NR9URAuBbAJ96DTk33WG7nb+BfwkIB40MTql0qgCffUW8 i7c5FLtIHFDl86hb4moJhu8= =k4MY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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print from K-Mail run together
by Doug McGarrett 01 May '06

01 May '06

I don't remember seeing this problem on the list. KMail print on screen is clear and most letters are separated. When I print out a mail, some letters, particularly the "t", the "si" and the "sk" combinations are scrunched together with adjoining letters. I am printing to an HP 2200D laserjet. The typeface on screen (and on paper) is a sans-serif font. Even on screen, it is slightly scrunched in spots. "ri" and "ti" and "tt" and "th" are too close together. Suggestions? TNX--doug

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Can't open Transcode tarball or it doesn't exist
by Peter B Van Campen 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Hi Folks, I have been trying to get a tarball of transcode to compile on my SUSE 9.2 system. Every pkg I have d/l'd from the sites listed on the Transcode Wiki page: http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode are unopenable. Every one, including the beta versions. Have I made one of those embarrassing newby errors? Konqi Filemgr says : "The file does not exist" even tho it lists it. Is there a location for a transcode I can open and compile? PeterB p.s. The pkgs are unopenable on my SUSE 8.2 sys also -- -- Proud SUSE user since 5.2 Loving SUSE 9.2 My BLOG == http://vancampen.org/blog --

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screen, mouse, kb lockup
by Doug McGarrett 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

While attempting to stop a video playing on Macro Media Flash Player 7, I managed to lock out everything. I could not move the mouse cursor, the arrow keys and the rest of the kb didn't work, ctl-alt-del did nothing. None of the function keys did anything. (The video was something downloaded from the 'net via Firefox.) I wound up pulling the big switch, as us hams like to say. Is there anything else I could have done? I'm trying to put Linux to practical use, and this is the first time I've seen 10.0 crash, so it's good, but not fool-proof. (If something can be broken, this fool will break it!)

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suse 10.0 ftp installation
by Kai Zhang 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hi, i am downloaded and burned the first CD OSS installation CD. Due to limited number of CD and fast internet connection, i wish to install via ftp. After mounting the NIC, I can't find installation file on ftp server. I am using ftp://mirror.ac.uk/edunfs/mirrors/sites/ftp.suse.com/i386/10.0/iso/ Is this the right place to install via ftp? If not, can you point me to a right directory. I am fast access to mirror.ac.uk and wondering if there is direct installation files available on the ftp server. Thanks for your help! Regards, Kai

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] php4_unixODBC
by Sven Haberer 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

good idea - please see here: http://www.susewiki.org/index.php?title=HowTo:_PHP4_ODBC Hope this is detailed enough... BTW, thats my first wiki entry ever... Am Sonntag, 24. April 2005 22:36 schrieb Richard Bos: > Op zondag 24 april 2005 23:36, schreef Sven Haberer: > > If desired, I could post a short description how I did this... > > If you can put it own the wiki (http://www.susewiki.org) than we can all > maintain it. > > -- > Richard Bos > Without a home the journey is endless

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stopping dictionary attacks on sshd
by Dan Abernathy 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hello all I notice several automated break-in attempts appearing in /var/log/messages regarding sshd. A small sample: Nov 7 14:34:10 d8400 sshd[18607]: Invalid user a from 71.129.198.189 Nov 7 14:34:11 d8400 sshd[18609]: Invalid user aaron from 71.129.198.189 Hundreds of entries like the above, working their way through every English letter using common first names, also names of services like Apache. I ran across this Novell Cool Solutions article: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/trench/16341.html It describes the use of a shell script, run once per minute using a cron job, that parses information from /var/log/messages and adds offending IP addresses to /etc/hosts.deny. I saved the script as ssh-block.sh in my home folder, in a subdirectory named cronjobs. I used su to become root and ran crontab -e, and added the script to run once per minute. Entries in /var/log/messages confirm that the shell script is indeed being run every minute, but the contents of /etc/hosts.deny hasn't changed at all, despite the presence of failed sshd log-ins (also written to /var/log/messages). Can someone knowledgeable about shell scripts take a look at the URL above and see if there is a problem with the script? If not, what did I do incorrectly? What's the proper way to run this job regularly? I assume it must be run as root, both to read /var/log/messages and to write to /etc/hosts.deny. Dan

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TV spool
by Carlos E. R. 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Is there a program in Linux, that allows me to save the TV stream to a file, then watch that file somewhat later, at the same time you are saving the program? There are hardware boxes that do this. You know, you are watching a program, somebody phones you, so you press a key, and later you continue watching from the point you stopped, while the box continues saving the rest of the program that is still on air. But to do that on a PC, in Linux? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDcKEHtTMYHG2NR9URAjhGAJ4zENessY1F846qOYQQQlql7EE9MACfVo+j kWFCdTZLa39Rrm+1k9BBaMk= =AQcO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Mounting an SD card with a Ricoh CardBus
by CPHennessy 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Hi, I've a laptop with a SD card reader, which when I use "lspci" I can see is a 06:09.0 Cardbus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3) When I insert an SD card it is not mounted automatically. Should it be ? How can I mount it manually ? Thanks, CPH

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Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG under SuSE 9.2?
by Jesper Andersson 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Dear everyone, I wonder if anyone has any experience of getting the wireless eth-card in a Dell Latitude D600 to work for SuSE 9.2? The card is an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG. It is recognised by the system as such, and I am able to configure it in Yast without any obvious problems. However, it doesn't get an IP-address. This is in contrast with the same laptop in the same location booting the XP partition, in which case it finds the network, gets an IP and chats away happily. The setup is the same for SuSE and XP: DHCP, named ssid, WEP-ASCII-5char encryption. The following may be relevant version numbers Kernel 2.6.8-24 wireless-tools 27pre26-10 ipw-firmware 3.3 During boot I get the following messages (some of which sound a bit omnious, but I am not certain how serious they are) that I interpret as related to the problem <4>ieee80211_crypt: unsupported module, tainting kernel. ("tainting is bad, right?") <7>ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' <4>ieee80211: unsupported module, tainting kernel. . . <4>ipw2200: unsupported module, tainting kernel. <6>ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200 Network Driver, 0.8 <6>ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation . . <6>eth1: Setting MAC to 00:0e:35:ad:e3:81 <3>ipw2200: Calibration and the later on when trying to connect eth1 device: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05) eth1 configuration: wlan-id-00:0e:35:ad:e3:81 ERROR: command 'iwconfig eth1 mode Managed' returned Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported. eth1 (DHCP) . . . . . no IP address yet... backgrounding. waiting If anyone recognise the problem and has a solution to it I would be for ever grateful. Please also be gentle with me if/when replying. I am a bit of a beginner and don't handle jargon very well. Puss Jesper

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postfix setup.
by pelibali 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

Hi, I'm not sure, that its easily possible, but running few comps in a network, I would like them to pass my root e-mails to my own machine. I setup already the alias, so my "normal" user can read everything already, but only locally. This I would like to change by the following scheme: - if my computer is available, then the messages should be transfered, - if my computer is not online, messages should wait in a queue, until it appears again. This should happen with no error-messages, no expiring, etc. I don't ask for complete solution for this problem, but please let me know, what I would need to get the above system up and running. At present I have postfix installed and running on all the comps; UIDs/GIDs are identical on all of them; all SUSE, but various versions. Thank you, Pelibali

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External disk choice
by Maura Edelweiss Monville 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

I have a 4-year old DELL desktop with a heavy CRT monitor that I'm going to give away soon . I also have a 2 month old laptop. Both computers run Linux/SuSE. I would like to buy an external disk to save most of my s/w development now residing on my old desktop. But I would like to be able to use it also with my laptop. Both computers have some USB ports so I daresay an external USB disk would be fine .. I'd appreciate some suggestion about a USB reliable, large capacity but portable, external disk or any alternative solution. Thank you in advance. Maura

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unsuscribe
by Linda Miller 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

unsuscribe

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Hex / ascii / Text editor recomendations please
by scsijon 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Does anyone know of a decent simple linux Hex/ascii/text editor, like the one that use to be in Xtree in the old days (you used tab to move between the two formats). I've had a look at freshmeat's offers and they all seem to be all much more programmers editors and that is far more than the need to just add some missed initials and dates at three positions (varying locations unfortunately) over 83 files. thanks in advance scsijon ps, can someone give me the websubscription address for opensuse please, been meaning to subscribe for a while now.

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Monitor Driver Disk
by Ken Schneider 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

Is there some secret to reading a manufacturers driver data copied to a floppy disk? I own a KDS ExtremeFlat XF-9b monitor, downloaded the driver zip file from the manufacturer, copied the unzipped data to a floppy and get an error when trying to read the driver info: Read Error ________________________________________ Could not read from the CD or disk. This may point to a damaged medium or incorrectly formatted information files. If that company does not know how to format the info can someone point me to the monitor database file so I can manually add the correct data for my monitor? Also, where can I submit the information to be included in future SUSE updates? The default install seems to think that I have a PTS Proview Monitor which is not correct. Thanks, -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

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[+/-OT] Does gmail pop3 work for you?
by Carlos E. R. 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Somebody convinced my to try gmail, and so I got a gmail account. I configured fetchmail to get the emails, and it worked for some time. I was testing it on this list, some may have noticed my change of address during a few days. Then, suddenly, without changing anything, it stopped working with this error message: Dec 20 14:08:47 nimrodel fetchmail[15825]: POP3< +OK [SYS/TEMP] Due to a temporary system problem, this mailbox will seem empty. But this "temporary" error hasn't changed since Dec 14, when it started. I have googled, and found an email thread in "debian-user" ([OT] Gmail POP fails), with some people reporting the exact same error even earlier than me, with diferent email configurations, but no solution. I have not found any mention of this in gmail help either. How about you people? Any clues, pointers? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDsZ64tTMYHG2NR9URAurLAJ9tc1agIzOu8Y9bGhwuwz6m5Xs4ggCeP3iB T75sUX3qLKUEC6BBsd2lLio= =9JOX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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SCSI RAID recovery
by Robert Amodeo 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

I have a fileserver running SuSE 8.0 with 2 IDE Drives and a SCSI RAID (RAID5). The system boots up to one of the IDE drives, and the SCSI RAID drive runs as a mounted filesystem (/dev/md0). (all filesystems are REISERFS). Problem: The SCSI RAID drive has crashed (won't boot up), and I need to recover it (repair it, through some utility). Further: The software does not seem to want to mount the disks, even though the SCSI BIOS (Adaptec) recognizes the disks, and they are listed as OPTIMAL. I tried to repair the disk(s) (with reiserfsck), but it produced an error message: reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 2 reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 16 reiserfs_open: neither new nor old reiserfs form found on /dev/md0 The literature suggested that this error message is hardware related (either a disk is physically damaged, or maybe the RAID isn't recognized), but again, the disks are recognized (and therefore, so is the SCSI Card). I tried to boot up with SuSE CD 1 in Recovery mode, but not sure what to do there (i.e., after the root prompt - just run reiserfsck?). Literature suggests there are plenty of tools to handle disk recovery, and especially RAID support, I can't find reference to them anywhere. The installation of the RAID was trivial (using the YAST2 partitioning GUI window on startup), and yet recovery seems to be a mystery. This can't be right. Does anyone know where there are "decent" and "usable" recovery tools? OR ... does anyone know what "specifically" to do in this case? Can I re-partition without formatting, and recover the existing data? Any help is appreciated - I'm sure I'm missing something "obvious", but can't find "obviously" what to do in the literature, docs, etc. Thank you. Robert Amodeo School of Engineering and Applied Science University of California, Los Angeles

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Apache setup on 10.0
by John Meyer 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

I set up Apache to run through YAST2, and anything located in my srv/www (I think) will publish. However, any of the user public_html directories do not publish. When I try to acccess them, I get the following error: Access forbidden! You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. and I have mod_userdir enabled. What else do I need to do?

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Looking for a book that describes highly available DHCP setups
by Joachim Schrod 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi, I'm looking for a book that explains reliable and manageable DHCP setups. In particular, it should cover installations with failover and load balancing configurations of dhcpd. Both static and dynamic addressing is used. In addition, an explanation how to integrate and manage an LDAP backend would be nice; maintaining the shared configuration in a text file would probably be too error-prone. On my SUSE system, I found the IETF drafts and some example configurations. I did not found any more documentation. I searched on O'Reilly's Safari for DHCP books, but found none that covers DHCP failover. (I was astonished that ORA published a book on DHCP for Windows, but not one for Unix/Linux. It got a sad world to live in when there are more relevant Windows than Unix ORA books.) Can anybody on this list recommend a book or an online reference for that topic on me. I have understood the basic technology, and I am interested in how-to reports that gives operational tips for enterprise-class installations and explains common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Thanks in advance for any answer, Joachim PS: For relevance to this list: It should work on SUSE 10.0. But since the dhcpd has been version 3.0.x since at least 8.1, the SUSE version probably won't matter. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany

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Apache2 Won't Start
by Linuxjim 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi all. I'm setting up a new SuSE 10 install. Apache 2 won't start. I had apache2 working, with php5 and squirrelmail, but something dorked up. I get the following error... ------------ Starting httpd2 (prefork) Syntax error on line 10 of /etc/apache2/mod_status.conf: Invalid command 'Order', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration The command line was: /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf [1A..failed --------- mod_status.conf reads as follows... -------- <IfModule mod_status.c> <Location /server-status> SetHandler server-status Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from localhost </Location> </IfModule> -------- I'm not sure what this means, but I don't see any misspellings. Not sure what other module it might be looking for. It was working, basic index.html came up (set owner and group to "root" in htdocs. I was looking around in Yast>Netwrok Services>http, I might have changed the running status of one or two modules, but not sure what happened. Many thanks, Jim

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X.org 7.0 release
by Osho GG 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

Hi, X.org 7.0 was released recently. Does anyone know where I can find SuSE 9.1 rpms? thanks, Osho

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HP PSC-1315
by Mike McMullin 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

My brother picked up the above mentioned all in one unit. Configuring it as a printer went without a hitch and works fine. Setting it in YaST as a scanner seems to have worked it's identified in the top pane twice. rpm -q sane returns sane 1.0.15-20.2 lsusb returns Bus 003 Device 002: ID 03f0:3f11 Hewlett-Packard PSC-1315/PSC-1317 xsane tells me that sane is not installed which is contradicted by the above rpm query. Kooka starts up and I get a "Select Scan Device" window with "1 hpaio:/usb/psc_1310_series: serial=cn535c31fbv6 hp psc_1310_series" The program interface itself loads and I get a window that tells me that no scanner was found. The "HP Device Manager (Toolbox)" doesn't list it at all. His system in new enough to have USB 2.0 on the motherboard. Any pointers, as this is one of the few things holding him back from dumping XP totally.

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Hylafax queue problem on SuSE 9.3
by Andre Truter 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

I have set up an oungoing fax server using Hylafax on SuSE 9.3 Everything seems to be fine, except that it never sends the faxes. Clients can submit faxes to the queue, but then the faxes just sit there. The queue is never processed. Any idea what could be wrong or where to start looking? -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~

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Opensuse 10.1 alpha 4 ?
by Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

hi all, is there anyone who tried suse 10.1 alpha4 before ? which version of kde or kernel is included in 10.1 ? [is there any page that tells about packages included ? or anyone who tried can tell me?] couldn't find packages description in opensuse.org about this release. regards, bye.

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epson rx620
by Dave Howorth 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Has anybody any experience of the Epson RX620 printer/scanner? It's pretty new so it doesn't show in the linuxprinting d/b. Suse d/b shows rx600 as problematic. Google shows some pages saying it's fine. So it would be nice to hear from somebody with personal experience :) Oh, I'm running Suse 9.3 on an Athlon64 if it's relevant. Thanks, Dave

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Using k3b
by Tim Hanson 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

I have a large jazz CD collection, a lot of which may not be available forever. I'm concerned with things I've read that CDs and DVDs may be subject to deterioration. I also know that CDs can also be damaged by scratches, etc. I'm familiar with and have successfully used the CD cloning utility of k3b to create a playable (with a standard CD player) duplicate CD, but I want to copy the entire image to my hard drive, so I can keep it there in case the original becomes unplayable later. I have no interest in creating a bunch of duplicate CDs, most of which will never be used in my lifetime. When I clone directly to my hard drive, the program created two files: k3b_0.img and k3b_0.img.toc. This is fine, but I can't figure out how to write this image to another CD. I've read the documentation that comes with the program without success. -- "Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets" -- The Brigader, "Dr. Who" -- We cannot put the face of a person on a stamp unless said person is deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead. -- James E. Day, Postmaster General

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Fwd: SuSE 9.3 Pro with EPSOM CX5400 all-in-one scanner-printer
by Thurston Ackerman 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Fwd: SuSE 9.3 Pro with EPSOM CX5400 all-in-one scanner-printer Date: Monday 19 December 2005 23:44 From: Thurston Ackerman <ack82(a)comcast.net> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: SuSE 9.3 Pro with EPSOM CX5400 all-in-one scanner-printer Date: Monday 19 December 2005 09:59 From: Thurston Ackerman <ack82(a)comcast.net> To: nove;_clients_patchs_upDates(a)list.novell.com, Bob(a)aisn.com After replaceing failed power supply and DVD burner in my SysteMax-Tiger 970555 P4 1.8 gHz P4 PC; most programs and peritherals have been successfully set up except for the EPSOM CX5400 which is happy with the other OS, XP-Home plug and pray but not with the SuSE 9.3 Pro (upgaded from earlier SuSE 9.0 OS Epsom doesn't support linux so where can OldAck find driver, etc. the make my EPSOM CX5400 productive again with SuSE 9.3 please? Stay young, OldAck ------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------

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WRT54G wireless woes
by Glenn Holmer 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Just got a Linksys WRT54G and putting it through its paces. PPPoE and switch components work great, but I'm having trouble with wireless. I had been using a 3Com access point, which my ThinkPad and Zaurus could both see without issues, but neither can see the WRT54G. On the ThinkPad, the output of iwconfig shows zeros for the WRT54G's MAC address (i.e. it didn't associate), although kinternet's "wireless connection" dialog and "iwlist scan" show it by ESSID with the correct MAC address. Neither the ThinkPad nor the Zaurus have the access point's MAC address specified. (I normally use 64-bit WEP, but also tried with no encryption.) What might I have done wrong? I've spent hours twiddling bits on the WRT54G. It's a version 5, and I upgraded to the latest firmware (for that version, it's 1.00.4). The ThinkPad is running SUSE 10.0 and using ipw2100 driver. -- ======================================================== Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) ======================================================== "...GNOME is a disease...just tell people to use KDE." -Linus Torvalds ========================================================

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Gizmo for SuSE 9.3
by Alfredo Cole 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hi: Is there a rpm package for SuSE 9.3? It seems to be targeted at debian-based systems only. Any other installation instructions would be welcome. Thank you. -- Alfredo J. Cole Grupo ACyC

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9.3 Review
by David Johanson 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Linux Magazine (Linux Pro in the US) has a 4 page review of the 9.3 release in the June 2005 issue, pgs 44-47. "Novell's Suse Linux 9.3 is a feature-rich, and robust Linux distribution. At first glance, the new version does not seem much changed from 9.2, but a lot of work has gone on under the hood. The distribution is definitely good for new users. If you already have Suse Linux 9.x or a similarly recent system, the update is only worth the effort if you are unhappy with your current setup. If you use external media on a regular basis, the update is definitely a good idea. . . . " dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe

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files on audio cd
by Francesco Scaglioni 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Hi, I have an audio cd ( commercial and no DRM ). It contains 20 wav files some of which are bad ( disc damage ). "Looking" at the cd with amarok reveals several folders as well. One of those contains 20 ogg files. How can I extract the ogg files ? and save them to hard drive. K3b cannot "see" the folders. Amarok cannot play the files as it complains it cannot access them ( although it can "see" them ) and I cannot seem to mount the disc. Is there some means ( ? copy iso to hard drive first ) that I can get at those oggs? Using SuSE 10. Many thanks Francesco

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Kooka missing SANE
by A. den Oudsten 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Dear girls and guys, I have installed SUSE 10.0 on my system: AMD K7 1200MHz Athlon 266MHz MSI-K7T-266-Pro VIA-KT266 socket-A DDR-DRAM 512 MB GEFORGE-2 MX-200 32MB AGP + TV-Out CD drive LG CDRW 16x10x40x DVD drive PHILIPS PCDV5016G NEC ZIP drive TRUST AMI MOUSE Serial Printer HP psc2110 I try to run Kooka, but that indicates their is no SANE library, while I checked it is installed. I 'm curieus how to solve this. Thanks, André den Oudsten

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Problems using VMWare with USB ports
by Mariano Juri 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Hello everyone! I just bought a webcam Genius. I have Linux Suse 9.1 and VMWare 5.5. Recently I installed Windows XP under VMWare and I try to use my webcan but I can't. I have the same problem with a Printer and I read that this is a problem with USB ports but I suppose that exist a solution for this problem... Someone can help me? Thanks in advance

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GRUB with gfxmenu patch
by Peter Clark 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Where can I get the source (either tar.gz or rpm) for the gfxmenu patch used in the version of GRUB either in 10.0 or 10.1? Thanks, :Peter

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Lean & Mean!!!
by bernd 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Is there a way of determining which modules, system services, drivers, and processes I can do without, and dump them so they don't load or start by default? As examples: I'm running desktops, not laptops, so I don't need any power or battery saving apps, processes, or modules running, right? I also am not using a joystick, so do I need the drivers to load??? etc, etc, etc! Thanks, Bernd

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SCSI card compatibility - Adaptec AHA19160
by Lars Karlskov 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi, >I can se in the hardware compatibility list that the SCSI card Adaptec AHA19160 are supported by Suse Linux 8.1 but not by other versions. Have anyone been working with this hardware on a SUSE Pro 9.2? Regards, Lars Karlskov Denmark

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Tips for an SUSE newbie?
by kevin.kempter＠dataintellect.com 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Well I'm finally making the move to SUSE. I've been running Fedora / red hat for years. I'm currently installing open SUSE v10 on my new IBM Z60m thinkpad. I have a few questions.. I was able to add more yum repositories to fedora, is there an equivelant for SUSE? How about updating, do I stull use yum or are there other, better methods? Any general tips ? Thanks in advance for your advice...

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grub-install
by jim 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

After reinstalling $Windows98 and grub is removed from track 0 of harddrive. How do I get back into Suse10.0 to run grub-install so as to dual boot again. Jim

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Problems with OpenSUSE 10 on iBook - WiFi, sound and suspend
by John Pettigrew 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Having just got a cheap iBook from my work (500MHz G3), I decided to install OpenSUSE on it, and it went fine. Boots, runs KDE, no worry. Score one for the community version of OpenSUSE-PPC! I've used SuSE for years (since 7.3) on x86 but this is my first venture into the Linux-on-PPC world. There are, however, a few outstanding problems with this setup that I was hoping someone could help with. If it seems like a good idea, I will also post the PPC-specific problems to the suse-ppc list. First, my wireless network. I have just bought a wireless 802.11g router and dongle (matched pair from Buffalo) to allow the new laptop to connect to the wide world. The hardware basically works fine (at least, in unencrypted mode, a WinXP laptop can connect and browse; encryption is a whole other story). However, in SUSE, there are problems. The dongle is labelled on the box as a Buffalo USB AirStation G54 (WLI-U2-KG54). YaST recognised the dongle during installation and set it up as a MELCO WLI-U2-KG54 (Buffalo's website seems to call this device a WLI-U2-KG54-AI). The settings are: Device Name: wlan-bus-usb-2-1:1.0 IP address assigned using DHCP [the DHCP server of the router is enabled] Started automatically at boot However, if I use any of the tools that seem to be available to find a WiFi network (e.g. KWiFiManager), they say that there is no wireless interface, and hence cannot find the router. Any ideas on how to make this work? I'm fine with wired LANs (at home network level, anyway) but have never delved into wireless before. Second, the iBook won't make any sound in KDE. The hardware is fine - I get the Apple chord when the machine first boots, but nothing thereafter. Again, YaST says that the sound card is recognised and supported, listing card number 0 as Integrated Sound (awacs), with the driver snd-powermac. But sounds (e.g. in the KDE Control Centre) don't make any noise. Volume is set to 80%, and none of the settings in the mixer are at zero. Once more - any ideas about this one? Finally, the iBook won't suspend. If I select "Suspend to disk" from the KPowersave icon in the system tray, I get an error message: The kernel version "vmlinuz" in /boot does not match the running kernel version "2.6.13-15-default". Resuming with this kernel will not work. If you know what you are doing, you can override this in /etc/sysconfig/powersave/sleep with the variable SUSPEND2DISK_IGNORE_KERNEL_MISMATCH=yes What's the best way to fix this and allow the machine to enter suspend mode (I do, BTW, have the resume option in lilo set to my swap partition, following the advice in the PPC pages on the website). Thanks in advance for any help! John -- John Pettigrew http://john.pettigrew.org.uk/ http://john.pettigrew.org.uk/blog/

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problems with a newly created raid partition
by Con Hennessy 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi, I'm using opensuse 10.0 and trying to create a raid partition. I'm using yast to create the partition, I can mount it and create files in it. However when I boot the partition cannot be mounted. I have to disable it in /etc/fstab and then I can boot. When I re-enable the raid definition and try to mount it, in /var/log/messages I get : udevd[2329]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'umount' kernel: ReiserFS: md0: warning: sh-2006: read_super_block: bread failed (dev md0, block 2, size 4096) kernel: ReiserFS: md0: warning: sh-2006: read_super_block: bread failed (dev md0, block 16, size 4096) kernel: ReiserFS: md0: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on md0 The definition in /etc/fstab is : /dev/md0 /raid0 reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2 and /etc/raidtab is : # autogenerated /etc/raidtab by YaST2 raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size 4 device /dev/hda6 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc6 raid-disk 1 Anyone able to give me a pointer or two in the right direction ? Thanks, CPH

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Bombproof linux wireless PCI cards
by bernd 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

Is there such an animal as bombproof wireless pci cards for linux that I can pull out of the box, shove in the machine, setup in yast or a simple setup with command-line and have it work? Bernd

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Package inconsistency caused by SUSE java updates from Dec 20
by Joachim Schrod 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

Hi, On some 10.0 systems, I use YOU for online updates. At 20 Dec, new Java packages appeared and got installed by me. Now, package dependencies are broken, yast2 reports conflicts for *tomcat* and lots of java-1_4_2* packages. This is because java-1_4_2-sun-src didn't got updated, too, and still has the dependency on the old java-1_4_2-sun package. Deleting java-1_4_2-sun-src does the job and restores consistency. Anybody in the know, if those broken dependency will be resolved in the future, and a java-1_4_2-sun-src package will be released? Thanks in advance for any answer, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany

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wireless HOW-TO
by Paul Cartwright 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

ok, so I got this new Dell XPS laptop, and I installed SUSE 10.0 on it, dual-boot. Now I'm trying to get the wireless card to work. It is an Intel Pro 2915ABG. I've got the netgear router setup and working wirelessly to WIndows, but not for SUSE. I'm trying to install and get ndiswrapper working, but I'm... floundering badly. I was using this how-to: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Suse_Professional_9.x and I got to a page that says if iwconfig says "no wireless extensions" for my card I need to enable the config option CONFIG_NET_RADIO in my kernel setup-recompile and reinstall the kernel. I'm not up on compiling kernels, though I did download & install the kernel-source.rpm package. Can someone point me to what to do next??? either a how-to to add that option to a kernel, or a better how-to for ndiswrapper??? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

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