June 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

trbl installing an rpm
by John R. Sowden 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

I just installed, on a new hard drive, not an 'upgrade', Suse 9.3. Note: it does not come with dosemu! I downloaded the rpm, and when I attempted to install it, I got the following error: error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm Any ideas? John

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9.3: broken mkinitrd
by Janne Karhunen 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Hi, Just tried to install mainline kernel 2.6.12 on SUSE 9.3. Works fine, but had to assemble initrd manually. Seems that SUSEs mkinird copies modules to initrd from wrong kernel release ( 2.6.11.12 on my case ); anyone here that might have read that script through and figured out what goes ballistic with it? -- // Janne

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*** EEPROM MAC address is invalid. 3c905B
by Steven T. Hatton 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

I've been having a problem with my ethernet card not initializing when the system is booted. This has happened on two different systems, with the same kind of NIC. I don't have as much information on the second system, but the stuff below is from one of them. Unfortunately, this is an intermittant problem. Sometimes it boots just fine. I recently turned off ACPI because I noticed it was using IRQ 11, as are both my video card and NIC. In ancient days, it was unacceptable to have two devices share an IRQ. Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to change either the video or the NIC's IRQ. Has anybody else had this problem with 3c905B's? hwinfo shows this (after turning off ACPI): 01: None 00.0: 10103 CPU [Created at cpu.290] Unique ID: rdCR.j8NaKXDZtZ6 Hardware Class: cpu Arch: Intel Vendor: "GenuineIntel" Model: 6.5.1 "Pentium II (Deschutes)" Features: fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,mmx,fxsr Clock: 400 MHz Cache: 512 kb Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown ... 20: PCI 0c.0: 0200 Ethernet controller [Created at pci.273] Unique ID: rBUF.2+bt1HBvFf1 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0c.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:0c.0 Hardware Class: network Model: "3Com 3C905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100" Vendor: pci 0x10b7 "3Com Corporation" Device: pci 0x9055 "3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]" SubVendor: pci 0x10b7 "3Com Corporation" SubDevice: pci 0x9055 "3C905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100" Revision: 0x24 Driver: "3c59x" Device File: eth0 I/O Ports: 0xc000-0xc07f (rw) Memory Range: 0xd6800000-0xd680007f (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0x00000000-0x0001ffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 11 (217672 events) HW Address: 00:10:4b:37:61:ab Link detected: yes Driver Info #0: Driver Status: 3c59x is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe 3c59x" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown 21: PCI(AGP) 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.273] Unique ID: VCu0.G_wQWNYi3c6 Parent ID: vSkL.U_SRSMlE0t6 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "PC Partner RV100 QY [Sapphire Radeon VE 7000]" Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc" Device: pci 0x5159 "Radeon VE" SubVendor: pci 0x174b "PC Partner Limited" SubDevice: pci 0x7112 "RV100 QY [Sapphire Radeon VE 7000]" Memory Range: 0xd8000000-0xdfffffff (rw,prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0xd800-0xd8ff (rw) Memory Range: 0xd7000000-0xd700ffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xd7fe0000-0xd7ffffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 11 (217672 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Driver Info #0: XFree86 v4 Server Module: radeon Driver Info #1: XFree86 v4 Server Module: radeon 3D Support: yes Color Depths: 16 Extensions: dri Options: Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #15 (PCI bridge) This is from a dmesg when the network card failed to load: Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel 440BX Chipset. agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 94M agpgart: AGP aperture is 32M @ 0xe6000000 usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11 PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:04.2[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.2: UHCI Host Controller PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.2 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.2: irq 11, io base 0xc400 uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0c.0 (0000 -> 0003) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html 0000:00:0c.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xc000. Vers LK1.1.19 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0c.0 to 64 *** EEPROM MAC address is invalid. 3c59x: vortex_probe1 fails. Returns -22 3c59x: probe of 0000:00:0c.0 failed with error -22 SCSI subsystem initialized st: Version 20041025, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 3 devices found cdrom: open failed. ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2]) ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states) powernow: This module only works with AMD K7 CPUs -- Regards, Steven

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what's an ag_bootloader?
by Steven T. Hatton 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

I had a really bad hardware day today. I'm not really sure what happened, but one of my systems had a harddrive that started having read errors. It's a pretty old PII with a 2.5GB Maxtor HD (and a 340 MB Western Digital that has been rock solid for over a decade), and 128 MB of ram. The BIOS is kind of flaky, and it can be hard to be sure whether I'm having hardware, or configuration problems with it. reiserfsck was telling me I had bad blocks, which may, or may not actually be true. The errors were happening near the end of the check process, which may mean the physical peremeter of the disk. I tried rebuilding the tree, but that failed, and I got an error (IIRC, from reiserfsck) after that saying that there was a problem reading block 0. Well, I had already decided to cannibalize another old system and add a harddrive to this one. I decided to slick this harddrive, and reinstall the OS, using the problematic HD as the root. (I was betting the read errors weren't really from hardware, but from the BIOS not being configured correctly.) It seemed to take the installation OK, but I couldn't get YaST to install the bootloader, I couldn't even get it to install it to a floppy. What happened was that it would run mkinitrd, and then say it was copying the configuration files. I could hear it grinding away for a while, so I suspect it was doing something like that. But then it would just sit there waiting to start actually writing the bootloader to disk. (I *believe* that was the third and final stage). I looked at top from tty2, and saw a few processes going which seemed related to this. One of them was ag_bootloader. After about a minute, it would jump to over 90% CPU utilization, and stay like that for over 20 minutes. Note that I was able to boot the system if I first started the installation process from CD. If I tried to boot directly from the HD, it just printed GRUB and sat there. I finally rearranged the harddrives so the new one is the root, and the problematic one holds /opt. (This box is mostly used for stuff like SVN, so a broken KDE won't kill me.) The system installed OK with the new arrangement. But I'm still curious as to what was wrong. I was able to dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/boot/current_mbr bs=256 count=1, so it seems the MBR was accessible. Does anybody know what ag_bootloader is, and why it would behave as I described? -- Regards, Steven

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Microsoft's Server
by William H Lugg 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

A short time ago, I and some coworkers were taking a MySQL class. (We are porting an MS Access app to SuSE Linux and MySQL.) During the class he stated that Microsoft uses Linux to run their web server. Is there anyone out there that can confirm or deny this claim? It doesn't really mater much...except for its humor value. Thanks. -- Bill Lugg Milstar Software Support Peterson AFB, CO

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Samba Sharing Dies
by Dave Barton 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

On SuSE 9.3 when I go to browse a Windose box from Konq I often get the error "The process for the smb://w2k-guest protocol died unexpectedly.". If I choose to browse a high level directory with very few files and no more than 1 or 2 sub-directories, all goes well, but if I try to browse a directory with a large number of sub-directories (eg. C:\WINNT) the router lights flash madly for about 10-15 mins and then I get the above error. I have no problem seeing any of the shared directories on the Linux box from the W2K box. Anyone got any thoughts about how I might have misconfigured Samba? TIA Dave

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Re: Fwd: RE: [SLE] Using Samba
by Jerome Lyles 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

On Saturday 18 June 2005 05:27 pm, Susemail wrote: > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: RE: [SLE] Using Samba > Date: Friday 17 June 2005 03:01 > From: Greg Wallace <jgregw(a)acsalaska.net> > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > > On Thursday, June 16, 2005 @ 4:43 PM, Jerome wrote: > >On Wednesday 15 June 2005 02:54, Greg Wallace wrote: > >> On Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @5:02 PM, Jerome wrote: > >> >On Monday 13 June 2005 01:25, Greg Wallace wrote: > >> >> I share a linux directory with my Windows machine. Try adding -- > >> >> > >> >> wins support = yes > >> >> security = share > >> >> > >> >> to your [global] section. > > > >Done Using Yast I could not set privileges for 'nobody' but I did notice nobody has a predefined password. I've seen this before with other system users. I've never been able to find out what the password is. I'm going to delete it to see if that helps. Usually the system will recreate it though. In this case it's a six token password. ps: Yast insists on a password so I'll use my user password instead of the one supplied. pps: It changed the password back to the system one (Suse 9.3) anyone know what it is? > > >> I don't even get a Login Window. I click on My Network Places and > >> there's a folder there with the pipeline under it that you see on a > > network Me too. > > >I get this message when I access shareddocs: > > > >\\Linux\shareddocs is not accessable. You might not have permission to > > use > > > >this network resourse (Which is the core of my problem now). The group > > name > > >could not be found. > > I wonder where it's looking? > > > > > >> You probably have some additional setup work to do on Linux before you > > > >> *) Set up the folder in Linux that matches the path= name. Mine is > >> shareddocs (and at the root level; i. e., /shareddocs on Linux). The > > owner > > >> of shareddocs is user nobody (built-in Linux user) and the group is the > >> group I set up that matches my Windows workgroup name. > > > >See smb.conf below. > > > >> *) Make sure any users that will access the share are assigned to that > >> group on your Linux machine. I assigned the built-in "nobody" user to > > the > > >> group and, with the "guest account = nobody" option in Samba, that's the > id > I also added my Linux user id to that group and also root, giving me > access to the folder on the Linux side. > > > >I holding off adding root for now. > > > >> Once all of that was done, I went to "My Network Places" and added > >> \\Linux\SharedDocs (yes, I named my Linux machine Linux -- lots of > >> imagination at work there huh!). Now, if I double click on that folder, > >> I'm looking at all of the files and directories in the Linux shareddocs > >> directory from my Windows machine (sub-directories show up as folders). > >> > >> Hope this is enough to get you started. > >> > >> Greg > > > >Thanks Greg, is was enough to get me started (all of yesterday) and > > almost finished. But there is still a permissions roadblock. > > > > >Xp shares using smb:// works just fine, I have learned today. However > > using > > >the Linux Desktop icon: Network Browsing, gets me to this address: > > > >slp://awws/[awws://192.168.0.2:3703?name=MyVaio&version=2.0&guid=73780010- > >> > > 28e9-1e0e-a750-9f349deee3b3] > > >That displays this message: > > > >Service Attributes > >awws://192.168.0.2:3703 > > > >Instead of the Windows share. > > > >In the 9.3 Administration guide on p.542 it says: > >security = share: 'A password is firmly assigned to a share.' > >Do shares have passwords assigned to them automatically? > > > ># smb.conf is the main Samba configuration file. You find a full commented > ># version at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/smb.conf.SUSE if the > ># samba-doc package is installed. > ># Date: 2005-04-04 > >[global] > > workgroup = MYHOME > > printing = cups > > printcap name = cups > > printcap cache time = 750 > > cups options = raw > > printer admin = @ntadmin, root, administrator > > username map = /etc/samba/smbusers > > map to guest = Bad User > > I don't have the line below, but I don't see why it would be a problem > > > include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf > > I don't have any of the lines from here.. > > > logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile > > logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile > > logon drive = P: > > add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d > > /var/lib/nobody > > >-s /bin/false %m$ > > domain logons = Yes > > ... to here > > > domain master = No > > For the line above, I have > Domain master = False domain master = No - is the default > > > idmap gid = 10000-20000 > > idmap uid = 10000-20000 > > wins support = yes > > The line below should say security = share > security = user - this is the default (Suse 9.3) I did try share, no access. > > I also have the following lines unix extensions = Yes - tried this,no change > socket options = ISO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY > veto files = /* .eml/* .nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/ > syslog = 0 - added this > log level = 1 - added this > > > >[shareddocs] > > > > path = /home/adriel/shareddocs > > guest ok = yes > > guest account = nobody > > force group = MYHOME > > I also have the following lines > force create mode = 0060 > force directory mode = 0070 > create mask = 0770 > directory mask = 0770 > read only = no > > Now, if I were using /home/adriel/shareddocs for my share, then if I did > > cd /home/adriel > dir > > I would see > > drwxrwx--- ... nobody ... myhome ... shareddocs > drwxrwxr-x ... nobody ... myhome ... shareddocs > It being a linux share, in order to mount the directory you need x > privileges on that directory. That security is enforced across to Windows, > so windows cannot even look at what's in the directory unless it (nobody) > has that privilege. I don't have to enter a password to display the > "share" on Windows. I had, I think, the same errors as you when I first > started setting this up. I believe you're definitely down to getting the > security right on Linux. Once you do that, you should be able to change to > that directory on Windows. > > Greg Wallace > > Hi Greg, I have tried many things, starting with your suggestions. Then I tried accessing the Samba Server on it's own host. Sometimes I used smb//:adriel@linux/users or smb//:linux/users and sometimes I used the Network desktop Icon (remote:/). I found that I cannot log on to the Samba Server on it's own host: Access denied! I hope this is a vital clue to someone. There should be an obvious reason(s) (to someone) why I can't log on to the Samba Server on it's own host using my own user and password on this system. This will interest you Greg. When I use remote:/ (Network Desktop Icon) to access your example: [shareddocs] path = /home/adriel/shareddocs guest ok = yes guest account = nobody force group = MYHOME force create mode = 0060 force directory = 0070 create mask = 0770 directory mask = 0770 read only = no I get this error Message: Internal Error Please send a full bug report at http://bugs.kde.org Unknown error condition in stat: Invalid argument I'm surprised too. I'm using Suse 9.3. What's the correct way to send a 'full bug report'? Still seeking access, Jerome

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ssh keygen
by Chadley Wilson 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Greetings I seem to be missing a step. on the server I run ssh-keygen -t rsa or dsa I copy id_rsa.pub into authorised keys on my workstation. The I try log in and it still asks for the password. what is missing? -- -- Chadley Wilson Production Line Superintendant Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================

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How do I play a playlist of VOBs off hard drive?
by wmeler 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

I have some VOBs on my hard drive that I want to play "back to back" as I pulled them from some of my DVDs. I know how to create and play a playlist of VOBs on Windows, but not on SuSE. I have 9.2 right now. -- Cheers, wmeler

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Re: [SLE] 9.3: Keyboard keymaps and xorg
by AmigaPhil＠ping.be 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas(a)tiscali.es) wrote something I wish to comment : (news:<Pine.LNX.4.61.0506172247260.11566(a)nimrodel.valinor> posted on 17-juin-05 21:50:01) >> So in the end, it seems the files were not missing as I thought, >> just "unavailable" (???) >> How could it be that Konqueror is hidding files to root ? >> How could it be that root is refused access to some files ? > > If your partition is reiser, it is a known problem. You need to boot from > the dvd, and run a "reiserfsck" on it. It is known that when a reiserfs > part. gets corrupted, one of the symptoms is the "Permission denied" > message to root. Oh s..t. At installation time, I was thinking to use ext3 partitions instead. But then I saw the ReiserFS was default with Suse, and I opted for it. Thanks, I'm going to try that. [Back for report] *SOLVED* !!! (The whole thing was a ReiserFS issue) 1st step: Repairing the damaged partition I booted the DVD, and first try to repair the partition with the repair function from the installation program. The program found effectively that my /dev/sda2 ReiserFS partition was corrupted (did not have a chance to spot that the last time I used the install/repair function. See underneath why.) I click on "Repair", and in a fraction of a second, I briefly saw a small windows poping up. It ran so fast that I sounded suspect. I ran the detection again to discover that the partition was still corrupted. *WORST*, I could then no more boot from HD ! So the only thing left to do was to launch the rescue mode. From there, I ran reiserfsck --check /dev/sda2 and I was told to fix the partition with the --rebuild-tree option. So I did it: reiserfsck --rebuild-tree --logfile rebuild.log /dev/sda2 After a moment of PANIC when I saw the warning to perform a backup first (I have none and could not do one), but everything went fine. 2nd step: Repair the system (in case...) The Suse install/repair process ran flawlessly, no more corrupted FS. I replaced a few packages as suggested (xorg was not one of them). And reboot again, now from HD. ... a quick check: the "unavailable" files were not in place, but the directories were clean. (The retrieved files were in a newly created lost+found directory) So, step 3: re-install the xorg package again with yast. No problem this time, the package was installed properly. Step 4: Run Yast Online Update (YOU) At least to make sure the packages replaced during the system repair process are up-to-date. Step 5: Configure X11 and the keyboard with Yast > Sax2 Hey, I can now print the missing keys in the test key gadget ! AND *DONE* ! The keyboard configuration issue is closed now. Thanks to all ! (I wonder if I'll take the assle to switch from ReiserFS to Ext3. Is there a tool which perform a backup, format the partition, and restore the backup to it without much pain ?) AmigaPhil, world citizen. /No MS-HTML mail please/ PGP key: 0x9C07F6C1 -----BEGIN CARNIVORE TEASER----- The following garbage may or may not contain crypted message. At least you now know I'm an advocate for the respect of privacy. MUAWOEF3HcrhtER1pIlIP5FUvlapvVOJSVvVHvHABAyFHBHytIpzoUvMOz5SaSVTIGyWJHqM ykVEVIHLtnyzyxOp6Rtxt2FOOKlypRCGfJztLltMSHWbyYODxdjvIOOcnpDtEMyMjazDDIMn lFt0SW1vAFVzq5VODRzFLVlavqVldETxHEFR5ttKJpIJIpqqDHORU0FEIOVVvMNuRPb3tG== -----END CARNIVORE TEASER-----

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