December 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [SLE] Grub suddenly crashed...
by Lonn 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: Sergey Mkrtchyan [mailto:crusoe@freenet.am] > Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 08:14 > To: lonn(a)lonnd.com > Subject: > RE: > RE: [SLE] Grub suddenly crashed... > > > > > > 12/01 12:25 Lonn <lonn(a)lonnd.com> wrote: > > Sergey, > > > > You will mount 'root' and 'swap' > > > > I cannot give the specifics for your situation, but someone will come > > along > > with those. > > > > Now you know to look for mount commands and determine how to mount > > 'root' > > and 'swap' > > Lonn, > I just can't go to my 'root' folder to mount it, and can't see > all my Linux files. I was thinking that mounting will let me > enter the 'root' folder and try to see what's going on with GRUB. > > > What did you have in GRUB? > > If you mean where I can load to, there is Windows, Linux SuSE, > Linux(Safe Mode) and Floppy. > > So what do you think if I mount my 'root' folder, will I be able > to load GRUB and boot to at least to one of my systems? > > I have got very important information on my SuSE and it will be a > disaster for me to lose it. > > Thanks a lot for all, > > Sergey Sergey, Grub tells the boot selection where to find the boot info. Go the list again, and emphasize that your data is precious, and also give as much info as possible. You said you see only a portion of the files in your Linux files system. Which partitions do you see, which dirs do you see? Do they appear to be OK obviously damaged? Many on the list have the expertise to help. Respond thoughtfully to their questions. Because your data is precious, I will bow out on trying to be helpful. **CAVEAT** You may want to backup your precious data before you boot or do anything to the Linux OS or before you change any Linux files -- or before you change any other OS files if you are multi-booting. Put your message on the list again -- I just now arrived at my computer -- 3:15 Eastern or 7:15 GMT, and I do not see any response to your late night posting. Lonn

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RE: [SLE] SuSE/Linux Ping vs DOS Ping
by James D. Parra 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

On Thursday 01 December 2005 1:01 pm, James D. Parra wrote: > > All I can think of is that there must be some minor difference > > between SuSE pings (or perhaps Linux pings in general) and DOS/Win > > pings that doesn't matter to most networks, but *does* matter for > > some > > reason to this piece of industrial hardware. > > Thoughts? > > I have noticed that some routers drops UDP data grams resulting in lost > information during Linux ping and traceroute requests. These lost packets > didn't occur with the DOS equivalents of the same commands. The > manufacture of the router sent me a beta firmware that resolved the > problem. > > Possibly, your equipment is also dropping UDP data grams. Pings are ICMP not UDP. However, some routers to block ICMP. But if this is on the same subnet, the router is out of the picture. Couldn't tell if it was by this statement; 4: The SuSE machine's ping command worked perfectly on a regular network, pinging Windows & *nix computers and various hardware routers without any difficulty. What did he mean by *regular network*? At any rate, I was just offering up a suggestion that maybe this device was dropping packets, not necessarily his router. The router I had dropped traceroute packets from my Linux boxes, but not from my DOS/Windows boxes. The firmware update list said it would fix ping and traceroute data gram issues. I am curious to see if he can 'traceroute' from his Suse box to the device he is having trouble with. ~James

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Re: [SLE] Update of Java SDK to 1.5.0_06 Coming?
by Kai Ponte 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

> Does SuSE have any plans to keep their Java packages for SuSE 10.0 > up-to-date with new releases from Sun? We're currently falling a little > behind, still being at 1.5.0_03 while Sun has released 1.5.0_06. > I doubt it - since 9.1, SUSE has always lagged behind Sun and been delenquent in releasing upgrades to the JVM/J2SE packages. I usually find myself updating from the .bin files Sun provides then running two JRE/JVM systems. Since my path usually prepends the YaST path for the environments, nothing seems to blow up. (Yet.) -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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OT: Switch settings for a COMPAQ 1400 VA UPS unit?
by Rikard Johnels 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hello all. This is a bit OT but as it is a prestep for a server setup... I have obtained a COMPAQ 1400VA ups with some kind of monitoring output via a RS-232 type jack on the back. There is also 8 dip-switches to play with. There was no manual or documentation with it, so i have no idea what the switches do, or what pins carries what signal. Has anyone any info on this? Tried Googling, but came up with nothing. The markings on the back says; DELTEC A Fiskars Company Type: PRA 1400i Part no: 142228-005 Serial no: A00269932 -- -- /Rikard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- email : rikard.j(a)rikjoh.com web : http://www.rikjoh.com mob : +46 (0)736 19 76 25 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >

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ftp4.gwdg.de FTP Server Down (HTTP is OK)
by Randall R Schulz 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi, I don't know if Eberhard M. is aware of it or not, but the FTP server on ftp4.gwdg.de has been down since at least about 16:00 GMT yesterday (Tues. morning here on the N.A. west coast). The HTTP counterpart is up and running. Randall Schulz

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SuSE 10.0 Command Completion Dumbed Down
by Randall R Schulz 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi, Has anyone noticed how much stupider command completion is in SuSE 10.0 than it was in 9.3? The old one knew, e.g., about user and group names when you were typing a chown or chgrp command. It knew how to complete tar archive names to the point of knowing the difference between .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 based on the presence of the 'z' or 'j' options. It knew about directories when the command was directory-specific. Etc. I'd really like to get the old fancy behavior back, 'cause I found it significantly convenient in everyday use. None of the files I could readily identify as being related to command completion appear to be significantly different between 9.3 and 10.0, so presumably I'm looking in the wrong place. Alternatively, I could have inadvertently changed some configuration option or a default may have changed. Anyway, if anyone knows about this, I'd really appreciate being clued in. Thanks. Randall Schulz

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Re: [SLE] Firefox and PDF
by Kai Ponte 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 1:13 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: > > > > Now FF is out of beta perhaps it will work. Ill send the above link to > > the box I am using 1.5 on. > BTW: Firefox has been out of beta for quite a while. The stock version on > SuSE 10.0 is 1.07. > > The way the pdf plugin should be installed to work is: > 1. find out where firefox is installed: > /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib on SuSE stock releases. > > 2. in /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins, you need to remove the symlink to > nppdf.so. > > 3. in /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser, there is a text file, > Browser_Plugin_HowTo.txt. > There is also a script: install_browser_plugin > Run this script (as root), and install the plugin in /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib > when it prompts you. This will copy nppdf.so to > the /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins directory. > > At this point, you should be able to bring up a pdf properly from Firefox. > (Note: If you are not using Firefox from the standard SuSE location (/opt) > it may be in /usr/local/MozillaFirefox/lib. You da man! This worked. Now I can read this... http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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Updating KDE using smart.
by Erik Jakobsen 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi. I have installed smart on my SuSE Eval 10.0. How do I update KDE to version 3.5 with it. Are there repositories for it or ? Erik Jakobsen

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reverse proxy in apache with ldap_auth mod
by daniel parkes 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hy people i have a question!, what i have right now is: internet----------------------apache-reverse-proxy----------SPS servers | | AD free domain the proxy has authtype basic and looks for the user with ldap in and windows AD domain, what i need now is that the reverse proxy can validate users from several domains not only 1 as it does now, does anybody now how you can make the auth_ldap mod connect to several AD servers to validate a user? So i could have something like: AD second domain | | internet----------------------apache-reverse-proxy----------SPS servers | | | | AD free domain | AD third domain the reverse proxy has this proxy configuration: AuthAuthoritative Off AuthName "Staff only" AuthType Basic LDAP_Debug On LDAP_Server 172. LDAP_Port 389 Base_DN "" Bind_DN "" Bind_Pass "" UID_Attr cn require valid-user </Proxy>

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KDE 3.5 Image Gallery bug
by Craig Millar 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

There's a small bug in KDE 3.5 but I am not sure who to report it to because it appears to be a SUSE problem and not a KDE one. When you run Tools->Create Image Gallery Konqueror chokes on the images.html file that is output because of the following line in the source: <meta name="GENERATOR" content="KDE Konqueror KImgallery plugin version 3.5.0 Level "a" "/> Note the misquoted "a" at the end of the tag. Firefox appears to ignore this, Konqueror renders the file terribly. Where is this sort of thing reported? Thanks Craig

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