April 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Windows announement
by chuck holland 03 May '05

03 May '05

Windows annouced today that they will be releasing a windows pro 64 bit & server for the same price as there 32 bit version. So that means if you got a 32 bit computer and a 64 bit computer you can buy the upgrades for both if you still have windows 98 for only $398.00 plus tax. Then Bill makes this annoucement like it is such a great deal. If he ever gets tired of ripping people off he can become a comedian. This might be the wrong place for this but I had to tell someone. chuck

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POP3 Server start?
by Keith 03 May '05

03 May '05

I installed the imap RPM that comes with SUSE 9.1 Pro. How do I setup & start the pop3 server so people can log in and download their mail? I have gone through YAST and SYSV Level editor and I can't find anything. I used to use dovecot on FC3 so that is my reference point for running a mail server on Linux.

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postgresql
by David Bear 03 May '05

03 May '05

I have noted that when using the 9.2 install CD that postgresql is not listed as an installable option. It is not listed in yast as a package. Yet, using the 9.2 DVD it is. Why the difference? As a second questions, 9.2 still seems to be distributing postgresql 7.4. The postgres group has released version 8. Would I be better off grabbing the rpm for version 8? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax: 480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing"

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Interesting review of SuSE 9.3
by Basil Chupin 03 May '05

03 May '05

An interesting article about v9.3 to be found at www.theinquirer.net. The article is titled, "SuSE 9.3 fails home-use test". Cheers. -- Understanding only begins with the act of perception.

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9.3 crappy
by Chris 02 May '05

02 May '05

I loaded 9.3 up and install went well. I did the on line update part except the Nvidia ones. Rebooted did the you thing for the Nvidia. Rebooted fine. Diddled with a few personal setting such as screen saver and wallpaper. Shutdown and later fired up twice. Then I went to fire up and could only get a grey/blue screen that asks for log on and gives a console only. Its an x screen and does not allow for further options without knowledge on how to use the console a lot more than I do. I reinstalled and the same story! Any one got a clue what it's doing. I have reinstalled 9.2 and no probs. The screen did show an error about the floppy ( I did not write it down). There wasn't a disk in the floppy! Chris

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FireFox broken, is SuSE Pro becoming a test bed like Fedora?
by Preston Crawford 02 May '05

02 May '05

I've been watching the happenings on the message boards recently with regards to SuSE 9.3. It seems like it's more bleeding edge and unstable than usual. And now I get a Firefox YOU update where my bookmarks and profile are broken. I can still get to my bookmarks, but I have to select "Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks" then my bookmarks appear after having disappeared. They disappear next time I start Firefox back up. On top of that it doesn't properly recognize my profile, i.e. Firefox looks different than it should. Different X to close down tabs, etc. What is going on with Novell quality control? I'm a little concerned. In the short term I want Firefox to work again. In the long term I want to know that YOU isn't going to thrash my desktop for daily use. I can get that with Fedora if I want. Preston

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Portable KMail
by Jim Flanagan 02 May '05

02 May '05

I was wondering if anyone has, or would it be possible, to make a version of Kmail that is portable. By that I mean made so that you could have it on a CD, or usb drive that you could take with you. Mail and settings could be stored and saved there, and would not be kept on the workstation. Like thunderbird I guess. I have tried thunderbird, esp using win machines, but unless I am missing a setup option, it does not seem to thread messages properly. But, the older versions would just run from a directory, on your desktop or whereever. All you email was stored there too. You could take it all with you. Unfotunately the newer versions have an install routin that installs the app in the normal places. I really like kmail, and was wondering if/how to make it "portable". Pardon the meandering. -- Jim Flanagan linuxjim(a)jjfiii.com

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booting 9.3 install on laptop w/ reiserfs root
by Danny Sauer 02 May '05

02 May '05

I've got an old (IBM Thinkpad 760EL) laptop. It won't boot from CD, and I don't have a floppy drive. So, I got an adapter, and hooked up the hard drive in a SuSE 9.2 system. I partitioned the 2GB drive into a 250MB swap partition (hdc2) and a 1.5GB root (hdc1). I formatted the root with reiserfs (default options), ran mkswap on the swap partition, and mounted the root on /mnt. Then I fired up Yast and did the install to directory thing, checking the "run yast on startup to detect hardware" option. I essentially did a "basic with KDE" install, with the thinkpad utils and a few other things added. Then I installed grub to the drive with grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/hdc I forgot to write a grub.conf, but I figured that'd be fine, I'm relatively comfortable with grub's command line. I replaced the drive in the laptop, and fired it up. I got dumped to a grub prompt, as expected. I type root, and it says that it's using (hd0,0), which is correct, AFAIK. It's the only hard drive in the system. Then I type kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 which grub recognizes as a linux bzimage, and I then type "boot". The kernel loads, and then hangs where it should be mounting the root filesystem. It says "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,1)". A few lines up, it recognizes the hard drive as an IBM ATA disk drive, and sees that hda has 2 partitions, hda1 and hda2. The geometry agrees with what's printed on the drive itself. I've tried specifying an initrd (the one in /boot) with grub, too, and there's the same problem, though the kernel does say that it found a ramdisk before it hangs on the root filesystem. Now, using grub's tab completion, I can see that the device nodes /dev/hda1 and /dev/pts are where they should be. The root filesystem is fine. What I'm wondering is, does the default 9.2 kernel not have reiserfs support? That seems very odd, especially for SuSE. Did I miss something else? I think I did everything required for making a drive bootable, but maybe I missed a step that someone outside the situation can see? I'd appreciate any debugging steps that I'm missing here. I guess I could build a new kernel and put that on this drive, but it's such a pain to take the drive out of the laptop, remove it from the caddy, hook it up to a working machine, etc. :) Thanks. --Danny, probably putting the laptop back up on eBay anyway, since it can't boot from the darn CD-ROM, but it can boot from a *token ring* network.

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Trying to Build Postfix From Source
by Lucky Leavell 02 May '05

02 May '05

OS: SuSE 9.3 Pro Postfix: v2.2.1 I was trying to recompile postfix from the SuSE-supplied source rpm to add mysql support but ran into the following dependencies: cvs ncurses-devel rcs texinfo Not finding the binary rpms anywhere, I did find source rpms for all but ncurses-devel but did find ncurses. However, upon trying to build these from source, I find each interdependent on the others, making the build fail. For example, the ncurses build requires cvs, rcs and texinfo; the cvs build requires ncurses-devel, rcs and texinfo; the rcs build requires all four and texinfo requires cvs, rcs and texinfo. Where can I find prebuilt binaries for these or, alternatively, get out of this circular dependency problem? Thank you, Lucky Leavell

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Strange Problem
by Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 02 May '05

02 May '05

I have just upgraded from SuSE 9.0 to 9.3. When I attempt to run a script that ran under 9.0 with no problem I get the error message: bash: ./get-dockings: /bin/csh: bad interpreter: Permission denied Yet, the permission on the script are -rwxrwxrwx What is going on here? Also, it makes no difference if I attempt running the script as root, not my normal procedure, or as a user. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry

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