May 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

9.3 and Mouse Settings not permanent
by Mike McMullin 01 May '05

01 May '05

Has anyone noticed that their mouse settings under 9.3 are not persistent? The system doesn't seem to know there's a mouse attached when it reboots or when you log out and log back in.

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9.3 upgrade issues
by Joseph Loo 01 May '05

01 May '05

I recently upgraded the Suse 9.3 on the AMD 64 and found some interesting problems and workarounds. I like to use the nfs server to share the disk drives and autofs. I have found that whenever I use the kernel NFS server, nfsutils I can freeze the machine up. /etc/exports file /export/home0 sirus(rw,sync) polaris(rw,sync) When I try to connect to the machien from another distro Mandrake 9.2 with ls /net/crab/export/home0/loo the machine will lockup tight as a drum. If I use the user version of the nfsserver no problem. Another issue I have is the autofs. I like to have the options on the autfs to be soft, interruptable, and a short timeout period. /etc/auto.master# # $Id: auto.master,v 1.3 2003/09/29 08:22:35 raven Exp $ # # Sample auto.master file # This is an automounter map and it has the following format # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location # For details of the format look at autofs(5). /home /etc/auto.home -rw,soft,intr --timeout-30 #/misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout=30 /misc /etc/auto.misc -rw,soft,intr --timeout=30 /net /etc/auto.net -rw,soft,intr --timeout=30 the autofs barf at the following setting. but if you change the options to: # # $Id: auto.master,v 1.3 2003/09/29 08:22:35 raven Exp $ # # Sample auto.master file # This is an automounter map and it has the following format # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location # For details of the format look at autofs(5). /home /etc/auto.home -rw,soft,intr --timeout 30 #/misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout=30 /misc /etc/auto.misc -rw,soft,intr --timeout 30 /net /etc/auto.net -rw,soft,intr --timeout 30 It will work fine. the example in the auto.master is wrong with the "=". Nowhere it seems in the documentation mention this change. The only way I found it is to look at the /etc/autofs script. I think when you change the operation, the example should be fixed and the documentation should be updated. I have been trying to get the /net function to work in SUSE 9.3. sor far no luck. I have to admit, it has gone farther this time. Before you could not list the exported directory. loo@crab:~> ls /net/sirus/export/home/ /bin/ls: /net/sirus/export/home/: No such file or directory I have on sirus the following /etc/exports # /etc/exports: NFS file systems being exported. See exports(5). /export/home sirus(rw,no_subtree_check,async) crab(sync,rw,no_subtree_check) polaris(sync,rw,no_subtree_check) I can not see anything wrong with exports moachine/ I am running gentoo on the machine 2004.r3. -- Joseph Loo jloo(a)acm.org

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Can't Boot Laptop with 9.3
by Dom Incollingo 01 May '05

01 May '05

Hello, I installed 9.3 on an HP ZD7000 laptop about a week ago. (I previously had 9.2 on the laptop for about 2 months with no problems.) Apart from several annoying problems with Gnome, 9.3 seemed to be working fine. This morning I tried to reboot the laptop. But the laptop will not boot. It gets midway through the boot process and it shuts itself off. I've tried booting the laptop 5 times, but the same thing happened each time. Before the boot process stops, I notice messages indicating that the "filesystem is not clean". How can I diagnose/correct this problem? Is there a way to determine if this if my system got corrupted or if this is a hardware failure? If the system is corrupted, can I fix it without re-installing? Thanks very much. Dom

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Eclipse Update Manager broken?
by Mike McCallister 01 May '05

01 May '05

Hi folks! I've been playing a little bit with Eclipse 3.0. I installed it on my SUSE 9.2 system with YaST, but when I try to update to Eclipse SDK v3.0.2 through the Eclipse Update Manager, it won't complete the process. It appears to connect, download and verify the updated files, but quits when trying to install a file. Error message reads: Unable to complete action for feature "Eclipse Project SDK" due to errors. Unable to complete action for feature "Eclipse Platform" due to errors. Unable to create file "/usr/share/eclipse/plugins/org.apache.ant_1.6.2/META-INF/MANIFEST1114897983762.MF". [/usr/share/eclipse/plugins/org.apache.ant_1.6.2/META-INF/MANIFEST1114897983762.MF (Permission denied)] Unable to create file "/usr/share/eclipse/plugins/org.apache.ant_1.6.2/META-INF/MANIFEST1114897983762.MF". [/usr/share/eclipse/plugins/org.apache.ant_1.6.2/META-INF/MANIFEST1114897983762.MF (Permission denied)] /usr/share/eclipse is owned by Root, and I have changed the permissions of /usr/share/eclipse to allow the Eclipse group (of one user--me) to Read,Write and eXecute to any file and dir in the branch. I'm running Eclipse as the User, as I would expect to. Any thoughts appreciated. -- Mike McCallister ProTek Writing Services workingwriter(a)prodigy.net "Translation from the Geek a specialty" Phone: (414) 545-4489 Fax: (248) 282-0532 "Notes from the Metaverse" http://radio.weblogs.com/0124049

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9.3 kernel on a 9.2 system
by Ken Schneider 01 May '05

01 May '05

Has anyone installed the 9.3 kernel along side the 9.2 kernel on a 9.2 system? Are there any problems that may be incurred doing this? I loaded the 9.3 live DVD and there seemed to be better support for a couple of the pieces of hardware that I have and just wanted to try it before downloading/installing the 9.3 FTP version. I would buy 9.3 but as I am disabled/retired money has become very tight for me. I have purchased all versions up to 9.1 and prefer using SuSE linux. Thanks, -- 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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hostname == (none)
by Felix Miata 01 May '05

01 May '05

This SuSE 8.2 system has run 24/7 more than 2 years. hostname used to work, and the prompts would use it. Not any more, and I have no idea why, or when it broke, but it probably only broke within the past 3-8 weeks. #hostname (none) #uname -n (none) #uname -a Linux (none) 2.4.20-4GB #1 Fri Jan 14 15:08:13 UTC 2005 i586 unknown unknown GNU/Linux #cat /etc/HOSTNAME ax5t3.ij.net #nslookup ax5t3 Server: 207.22.166.61 Address: 207.22.166.61#53 ** server can't find ax5t3.ij.net: NXDOMAIN nslookup doesn't work on any of my puters. :-( SuSEconfig also returns "unknown host". Timestamp on 13 byte /etc/HOSTNAME is Nov 2003. Various 1st lines in /etc/resolv.conf have no apparent impact. Anyone have any idea how to fix this? -- "Love your neighbor as yourself." Matthew 22:39 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/

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Java XML in SuSE 9.3
by Randall R Schulz 01 May '05

01 May '05

Hi, I now have two examples of Java programs that don't work because of missing or misconfigured XML support in the SuSE-supplied Java packages. I'm seeing it with Tomcat, as I reported earlier, and now with XML-dependent plug-ins for jEdit. I have every conceivably relevant package installed and I tried re-installing Xerces-j2. Has anyone else experienced such problems? If you have, how did you solve them? Thanks. Randall Schulz

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