February 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Cups Problem
by Clive 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

Hello All, Is there something wrong with Cups ? I have it installed and up and running on SuSE 9.2 well sort of. I have printed a couple of emails which need attention then when I tell cups to print something else ie: a letter from Open Office it sits in the queue and will not print. I have looked into the printer on the desktop and it shows a little red cross or some kind on emblem in the top right hand corner. The only way I can get it to start printing again is to reinstall all of cups and printer. Printer is a Epson Stylus 670 USB -- Clive. Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26:31N 01:27:48W

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Please Desparate Help to recover.
by John Proctor 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

I wonder if any body could please give me some advice, I have SuSE 8, and via the system disk I can boot up from the hard disk but when I try to go into Yast it just hangs, I know on version 9.2 I can run yast repair from the CD to check and replace damaged system files or re-install missing files, is there any way that I can perform a system check and perform the same sort operation on version 8. I have been through the manual but it only offers mounting the files system via rescue cd which I can do any way, any help would be greatly appreciated John Proctor. Ps I have been trying to solve this problem for over two weeks but with no success.

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ndiswrapper causing 400MB+ log files...
by Mark A. Taff 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

for both /var/log/messages & /var/log/warn. Sample from `messages` (duplicated in `warn`): <sample> Feb 15 22:59:13 liberty5 kernel: [<c0346c6e>] schedule+0x8ae/0xb90 Feb 15 22:59:13 liberty5 kernel: [<c011ff38>] __wake_up+0x38/0x50 Feb 15 22:59:13 liberty5 kernel: [<c0133409>] worker_thread+0x129/0x240 Feb 15 22:59:13 liberty5 kernel: [<c0203870>] fb_flashcursor+0x0/0xb0 Feb 15 22:59:13 liberty5 kernel: [<c011fe80>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 Feb 15 22:59:13 liberty5 kernel: [<c011fe80>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 Feb 15 22:59:13 liberty5 kernel: [<c01332e0>] worker_thread+0x0/0x240 Feb 15 22:59:13 liberty5 kernel: [<c0137535>] kthread+0xa5/0xf0 Feb 15 22:59:13 liberty5 kernel: [<c0137490>] kthread+0x0/0xf0 Feb 15 22:59:13 liberty5 kernel: [<c01052b9>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xc Feb 15 22:59:13 liberty5 kernel: bad: scheduling while atomic! </sample> The system also eventually hangs, and I have to cold reboot. I already have several gigabytes of log files from the last few days. This does not happen at work, where there is no wireless network. I will boot to runlevel 3 tonight while I snooze to see if it happens then as well. There are no other unusual messages in any logs. Only other thing I can think of is it tries to load some toshiba laptop module at boot and start service (fxfnd??) (both of these fail). Gkrellm is saying I still have plenty of ram/swap when it locks up. The hard drive seems to go to 100% about 1 sec before the machine locks. It is generating about 1,000 lines/second of log messages for each of messages and warn. Anyone have any idea how to fix the cause of these log files and lock-ups? Any help would be greatly appreciated. More info below. Thanks. Mark Version Info: Linux version 2.6.8-24.11-smp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809)) #1 SMP Fri Jan 14 13:01:26 UTC 2005 SuSE 9.2, FTP install. SuSE KDE 3.3.2 level a from rpm's. P4 w/HT, 512MB (1024MB /swap) Broadcom bcmwl5 driver for Broadcom BCM4306 rev 3 chip in HP pavilion zd7000 gcc (GCC) 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809) ndiswrapper-0.12 compiled from sources -- I couldn't get anything higher to work :-( wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"not_the_default" Nickname:"liberty5" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0D:88:B7:5B:32 Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key:[trustno1] ;-) Power Management:off Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-37 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:5 Invalid misc:646 Missed beacon:0 lspci -n --> 0000:02:03.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 03) <-- BCM4306 Module Size Used by nvidia 3471900 14 usbserial 33000 0 parport_pc 43968 1 lp 14984 0 parport 44616 2 parport_pc,lp nvram 13832 0 speedstep_lib 8452 0 freq_table 8576 0 thermal 21896 0 processor 30400 1 thermal fan 9348 0 button 12432 0 battery 15364 0 ac 10372 0 snd_pcm_oss 66728 0 snd_mixer_oss 25216 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_intel8x0 37028 2 snd_ac97_codec 76640 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm 113284 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 31620 1 snd_pcm snd 70532 9 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 13792 1 snd snd_page_alloc 14600 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm ipt_TOS 6656 14 ip6t_LOG 10752 25 ip6t_limit 6656 25 ipt_LOG 11136 38 ipt_limit 6656 38 ipt_pkttype 5760 4 af_packet 26760 0 edd 14620 0 ip6t_state 6016 22 ip6_conntrack 44836 1 ip6t_state ipt_state 6144 28 ip6t_REJECT 11648 3 ipt_REJECT 11008 3 iptable_mangle 7040 1 iptable_filter 7040 1 ip6table_mangle 6784 0 ip_nat_ftp 9456 0 iptable_nat 28964 1 ip_nat_ftp ip_conntrack_ftp 77104 1 ip_nat_ftp ip_conntrack 49852 4 ipt_state,ip_nat_ftp,iptable_nat,ip_conntrack_ftp ip_tables 22656 9 ipt_TOS,ipt_LOG,ipt_limit,ipt_pkttype,ipt_state,ipt_REJECT,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter,iptable_nat ip6table_filter 6784 1 ip6_tables 24064 6 ip6t_LOG,ip6t_limit,ip6t_state,ip6t_REJECT,ip6table_mangle,ip6table_filter ds 22404 2 ipv6 272256 17 ip6_conntrack,ip6t_REJECT binfmt_misc 16392 1 joydev 13760 0 sg 42528 0 st 43164 0 sd_mod 22144 0 sr_mod 21156 0 scsi_mod 121412 4 sg,st,sd_mod,sr_mod ide_cd 44448 0 cdrom 42652 2 sr_mod,ide_cd ndiswrapper 116004 0 subfs 12672 1 nls_iso8859_1 8192 1 nls_cp437 9856 1 vfat 18432 1 fat 49440 1 vfat ext3 128744 1 jbd 76964 1 ext3 ohci1394 37764 0 ieee1394 116536 1 ohci1394 yenta_socket 24448 0 pcmcia_core 73652 2 ds,yenta_socket 8139too 30208 0 mii 9216 1 8139too ehci_hcd 35204 0 uhci_hcd 36496 0 intel_agp 25504 1 agpgart 37804 2 intel_agp hw_random 9620 0 evdev 13184 1 dm_mod 63104 0 usbcore 120164 6 usbserial,ndiswrapper,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd reiserfs 265808 5

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Duplicate File utility
by Graham Smith 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

Hi, I was wondering if anyone can recommend a utility for finding duplicate files within a filesystem. It needs to operate relatively fast as I have to search through about 30Gig of files. I have found a couple of Java apps on Freshmeat but most do not appear to work on SuSE 9.2. and I have a very limited knowledge of using java. -- Thanks, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------

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how to start the gui?
by Steve Lett 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

This is probably really dumb, but I'm obviously pretty much a newbie... I've only ever run SuSE linux and it always was starting the KDE gui. But now my big 20" monitor died, and in trying to change to a temporary 15" monitor, suddenly I find it only is booting up to a text screen prompt. I can login, and did so as root, then nothing else happens. How do I: 1. make it start the KDE gui like normal 2. make it stay that way. I'm lost at the command line for the most part. TIA Steve -- ______________________________________________ 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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9.0 small video problem
by David Johanson 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

I am having difficulty getting video to play smoothly on a 9.0 box which is actually my brides dual boot Win2K/SuSE 9.0 system. DVDs play crisply and smoothly on the windows side but are very jerky on the SuSE side, as if there is file buffering taking place like load, run, load next, run next, and so forth. I doubt that it is hardware related as the problem is absent, as I mentioned, on the windows side. Box is a P-4 1.8 GHz Intel chip, ATI Radeon 7500 RAGE 128 ULTRA card with 64MB RAM, and Princeton Graphics VL173 flat panel display driven at 1280 x 1024 16 bit, 3D acceleration disabled, ( 60 Hz) [31-80KHz // 56 -75Hz]. SuSE shows the monitor as a VESA (no Princeton VL173 options available) and identifies it as ATI RV200QW (Radeon). I'm wondering if the RV200QW selection is the problem? Any advice on getting this thing working properly greatly appreciated. xine doesn't want to play so I'm using gMplayer. 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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Failure to find a shared printer
by Kenneth Payne 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

This problem may really be a Windows XP issue, but I'm posting here because - let's face it - the people on this list are experts on everything. I used to access an Epson Stylus Color 860 printer share on a Windows 98 box from my SuSE Linux 9.0 machine using Samba. No problems. However, the Windows 98 machine has been retired and the printer is now on a Windows XP machine. Now I cannot print to it from Linux. Linux just doesn't see the share. "smbclient -L host" returns all the shares on the XP machine. The printer is not one of them. File sharing, however, works fine. Two other Windows 98 machines on the network also fail to see the share. So it looks like this is not a Linux-to-Windows problem. So I'm forced to conclude one of two things: Either the Windows XP drivers for the printer do not allow networking or there is some trick to sharing a printer on Windows XP that I do not know about. This is quite possible as I use Linux almost exclusively these days and Windows is just a fading nightmare as far as I'm concerned. Does anyone have any observations or advice about how I should go about trying to resolve the issue? Best wishes - Ken

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Firefox can't open display
by Chris Carlen 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

Hi: I tried installing Firefox 1.0 on two Suse 9.1 machines. They have different updates applied. One machine complained while installing, the other complains when the user tries to run. # Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client! (firefox-bin:5441): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Any suggestions? Thanks. -- _____________________ Christopher R. Carlen crobc(a)sbcglobal.net SuSE 9.1 Linux 2.6.5

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Converting mpeg video to DVD and burning to a CD
by Sean Rima 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

I have a couple of mpeg videos that I want to burn to a CD but as a DVD image, is this possible. I cannot use VCD as the DVD player doesn't like them on my TV Sean -- Sean Rima ICQ: 679813 AIM: tcobone Jabber.org: thecivvie Vodafone: +353879120530

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Re: PCMCIA in SuSE Pro 9.2
by Harry Giles 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

Alma J Wetzker wrote: > Harry Giles wrote: >> Bill Campbell wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2005, Alma J Wetzker wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I just got a Thinkpad T23 for doing school stuff. I have SuSE Pro >>>> 9.2 loaded on it right now. Everything works except the PCMCIA >>>> (cardbus?) stuff. I am trying to get a Belkin 54g (F5D7010D) card >>>> working. I can't find a log that reports the card in the >>>> computer. Yast can't find it. What do I need to do to get PCMCIA >>>> working, or, which log should I be looking in to see if the thing >>>> is even detected? I need a concrete starting place or command. I >>>> have been trying ndiswrapper, with no luck. >>>> >>> >>> >>> You should see something in the /var/log/messages file when you >>> insert or remove the card. I'm not familiar with the Belkin 54G >>> card, but I haven't had much luck with any of the 802.11g cards >>> with SuSE 9.2 or earlier (I have a couple here waiting for them >>> to catch up :-). I'm using a USB 802.11b card on my ThinkPad 600 >>> running SuSE 9.2 Professional. This required some fiddling, and >>> installing software on SuSE 9.0, but worked out of the box on 9.2. >>> >> >> These cards don't happen to be based on a Texas Instruments chip set, >> are they? If you, you have to download the software drivers >> seperately via Yast update. >> >> Hope it helps. >> > > I get no change in the '/var/log/messages' file and 'cardctl ident' > reports no cards in either socket, yet I know the card works under > windows 2000 pro. > > I guess my problem is that the system is not playing with PCMCIA. It > says it is, but it is lying. Any suggestions? (Sticking with Windows > is not a suggestion.) > Usbview sees my pcmia card. For some reason Linux appears to treat PCMIA like a USB item. Usbview is on the Suse disks, or you can get it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbview/ . At least then you will know if your system sees the card. Harry G

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