April 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

autofs error trying to enable it-SUSE 9.3
by Paul Cartwright 05 May '05

05 May '05

I just installed 9.3 and setup my /home and it is working. BUT my /home2, windows/E../F../G are not mounted I am not seeing all my mount points being loads at bootup, and I found that autofs was not enabled. When I try to enable it I get this error: /etc/init.d/autofs start returned 6 (program is not configured): Starting service automounter ("files nis" does not provide any mounts)..skipped what do I do now?? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc

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SUSEplugger crashing/hanging in 9.3
by Luca 04 May '05

04 May '05

Hello everyone, I've just installed 9.3 after a brief experience with 9.2. I've noticed a strange behavior of SUSEplugger in Gnome: if I have my USB DVD-RW (LACIE DVD DL, with id=_NEC-DVD_RW_ND-3520A) plugged at startup, SUSEplugger hangs and does not show up in the tray (it shows up as a small window in the dekstop, and the "pci card" icon does not show up); if instead the USB DVD-RW is unplugged, SUSEplugger starts up correctly and quitely goes in the tray, then I can later plug my DVD-RW and it is recognized correctly. Also, from time to time SUSEplugger stays in the desktop with its tiny window instead of going in the Tray. If I ask to not start it at startup at next login, it basically ignores that (even if I set the Autostart=false statement in ~/.kde/share/config/susepluggerrc). Any ideas on this strange behavior of SUSEplugger? (this did not happen with 9.2, btw). Is this due to something not going on correctly with my USB drive? Thanks for any insight, Luca.

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Driver disk
by Anders Norrbring 04 May '05

04 May '05

How do I do a "Driver update" disk for installation with a hard disk driver that's not included in the distribution? Or, how do I modify the existing modules2 floppy? If I mount it, I have a file named 'module.config' and one named 'scsi-modules' where apparently all the drivers are packed in. But how can I modify that file/disk to include my updated driver? Or, as the first question is, how can I create a driver update floppy? Anders.

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Adobe Reader
by Chaitanya Krishna A 04 May '05

04 May '05

hi, I just downloaded Adobe Reader 7.0 rpm. I am on SuSE 9.1. If I install the rpm from the command line with the -Uvh option, will all the links to the Adobe plugins with my browsers get updated. Regards, Chaitanya. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Is this possible?
by Greg Wallace 04 May '05

04 May '05

I am running SuSE 8.1 on a desktop machine. The single internal disk drive has 3G of swap and 77G formatted as EXT3. I have a 120G USB attached hard drive formatted with a single logical partition with an EXT3 sub-partition taking up all but what the file system is using to manage it, meaning most of the 120G.. Is there a way, strictly using Linux commands to copy my working 77G partition to the USB partition? Could a reverse copy also be done if I unmounted the file system on Linux before I did the copy? Assuming it's possible, would my system work afterward just as it worked before? Thanks, Greg Wallace

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Failed ReiserFS
by Rikard Johnels 04 May '05

04 May '05

Hi all! I have a client that have lost two 30 gig disks with a huge number of files he uses in a project. The server (Linux SuSE 9.1) suddenly hickuped, and when it came back there was files on the discs but no NFS. ('df showed about 75% usage of the discs) After restart of NFS a 'df' shows total use 1% and the files are gone By some reason (so far unknown) the disk is suddenly empty. They are created under Linux and uses ReiserFS, so he thought them to be "safe". (No he didn't back them up regardles of warnings from me) I did a 'dd if=/dev/hdc of=image.hdc and if i look at that file i can see all the data. I can find all filenames but the fat seems empty. Is there a safe way to try to restore the lost files? Parttitiontable is OK. ReiserFS in it self didn't complain about anything, and SMART didn't register any failing disks. Where shall i start to look? -- /Rikard --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh(a)norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com/users/rikjoh Mob : +46 735 05 51 01 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Unison-gtk
by Even Sandsmark 04 May '05

04 May '05

I am looking for Unison-gtk i am using it on my debian machines, however i am unable to find a rpm or source package. alien does not do the job, seg. fault, i could probably work some more on that one, but it is not that good. i have been googling, searching rpm search, suse and debian but i can not find it. it is highly unusual, but i think the source have imploded regards Even

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9.3 /sbin/hotplug
by Sid Boyce 04 May '05

04 May '05

It's missing from my 9.2 --> 9.3 upgrade together with /etc/init.d/udev, but udevd is running. can anyone confirm that this is correct as I can't find them on the DVD. The admin guide page 346 says there should be a /sbin/hotplug, I only have /sbin/hotplugeventrecorder. rebuilding from source rpm udev-053-15.2, no /sbin/hotplug and I'm unable to access any USB devices. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks

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Wacom Graphire 2 (USB) on SuSE9.1?
by Frits Wüthrich 04 May '05

04 May '05

I can't get my graphical tablet to work on my new SuSE. On SuSE8.1 it was useable as an USB wheel mouse, but on 9.1 there is no movement visible of the cursor when I choose one of the USB mice. How can I fix this? -- Frits Wüthrich

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KMail URLs open Konqi w/ odd address
by Peter B Van Campen 03 May '05

03 May '05

Hi, On KDE 3.4 in SUSE 9.3 when I click on a URL in an Email Konqi opens but it is sorta hosed up. Example: An email has a link: http://www.cnet.com/4520-6033_1-6213658-1.html?tag=nl.e501 But the instance of Konqi has : /var/tmp/kdecache-pbvanca/krun/31689.0.4520-6033_1-6213658-1.html in the address box. The pages often are fouled up as well. Often the links within the page will not open properly. If you cut-n-paste the URL all is ok. Has anyone found a fix for this? PeterB

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