May 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Another interesting article in theinquirer...
by Basil Chupin 02 May '05

02 May '05

..but about Linux generally this time. www.theinquirer.net and the article is called, "The real Window for Linux". Ciao. -- Minds and parachutes only function properly when open.

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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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Validation against SAMBA
by Anders Norrbring 02 May '05

02 May '05

I can't get user validation via SAMBA to work... What can I have missed? I have a domain controller running SLES9 that carries all our user accounts. I'm setting up 9.3 as a client, and I mark user validation SAMBA, join the domain, but still no users on the domain controller can log on to the 9.3 desktop. Anders.

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creative webcam III
by Laurent Renard 01 May '05

01 May '05

I'd like to operate with it and camsource Where could i find the device ? /dev/video ? Thank you -- Laurent Renard

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Questions about the SuSE build script
by Sébastien 01 May '05

01 May '05

I recently experienced with SuSE 9.2 the suse build script used by suse to build packages in a chrooted environment (See http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11793.html for more informations about the build script). Since 9.3 (build-2005.3.11-3-noarch.rpm), some problems appeared. First problem: build do not seem know any of the suse metapackage anymore (metapackage name are given in the suse package convention http://ftp.novell.com/pub/forge/library/SUSE%20Package%20Conventions/spc.ht…) When calling a suse metapackage (such as gnome2-devel-packages or x-devel-package) in the #needeforbuild tag, the build script tells it doesn't know such meta package. Thus in order to compile a gkt2 app, I need to manually add all the gtk2 and gnome devel packages in the #needeforbuild tag, which is really annoing. Second problem: After a successfull compilation with build, if I want to start an other compilation, build always faill with the following error: error: failed to stat /lib/klibc/dev: no such file or directory package filesystem-9.3-2 is already installed In order to continu the compilation process, the build script must rebuilt the complete chrooted environment each time I use it, which is also annoing. So here are my questions: - Is there a more recent rpm of the build script available anywhere ??? - I didn't experiment those kind of "bug" with SuSE 9.2, thus, is there something wrong with the build script provided with 9.3 or is there something i'm doing wrong now ??

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returned mail
by Ken Schneider 01 May '05

01 May '05

Is it just me or is anyone else getting these: This is the Postfix program at host linux.local. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program <gbrown(a)localhost.linux.local>: host localhost[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in processing, id=02960-01, virus_scan FAILED: NO VIRUS SCANNERS AVAILABLE (in reply to end of DATA command) -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

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disabling the boot frame in 9.3?
by Michael W Cocke 01 May '05

01 May '05

I _think_ it's called the frame. I have splash=verbose, and I've got some kind of graphics background/frame as the bootup messages scroll. How do I get rid of it? I just want text on black, preferably without having to change vga to normal (I prefer the small text). Thanks! Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.

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MPlayer and Suse 9.3
by William E. Shotts 01 May '05

01 May '05

Am trying to install MPlayer on Suse 9.3. Have gone to Packman site and downloaded the requisite files. Whenever I try to install the RPMs (w32codec-all or libdca or toolame) using YAST the following happens. 1. Install appears to go normally 2. At the 100% mark, I get a message indicating the RPM has failed to install 3. Details show "fatal region error detected" Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

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