June 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Universal trash ? & Log in prob.
by B. Stia 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

Hello SuSE people. First of all reunning 9.2 & KDE 3.4 Universal trash is a question/warning for others. The log in problem is related/caused by that which I don't know how to fix. A little long-winded but necessary to understand the problem. History is: A few nights ago I ripped a movie DVD. When I finished I put the 7 gig file in the trash. Last night I started to do a Kdar backup and started to get error messages. One being that /tmp was full and couldn't proceed. I have /tmp set to empty every time I boot up so I just rebooted. After the reboot, SuSE brings me to a screen message that says / directory is full and KDE is unable to start. I drop down to init 3 and look at the /tmp & / directories and find nothing obvious. Then I boot from the DVD and do a system repair. Still nothing obvious. My / directory is 2 gig and is normally about 20% used. After several hours of this I just start trying different things to empty those directories. /tmp IS empty after the reboot except for the normal boot stuff. Just the / directory is 100% full. I finally see the huge trash files and empty the trash for all 3 users AND root! That empties my / directory. Hence the question/warning. How is it possible that trash can be in root's trashcan?? Is the trash universal with all users? Anyway, that returned my / directory to normal and I reboot. Now I get to the log in screen and attempt to log in as my normal user. X starts it's thing and I am dumped back to the log in screen. I try the other users and they work normally and bring up their KDE screens. Only I cannot log in this way. I have to drop back to init 3 log in and then startx. Then I get my normal KDE screen. Why only me? and how do I go about fixing that ? Bob S.

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new cups 1.1.x and 1.2.x and yast2
by Donn Washburn 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

Hey Group; As a long time Unix person I have run into one thing that I can't figure out. Why is Yast2, when setting up cups it resuses to leave the permissions on /etc/cups/files as lp.lp and insists on changing them to root.lp after I set them as SuSE does lp.lp. Problem seem to be coming from Yast2 near the end of the process when it is going to write the configured data. Up pops an error message. Which causes it not to write the default printer info. I have the cups-user and group set to lp for ./configure. It looks like yast2 is the cause. Also it seem /sbin/mkinitrd is not able to figure out the correct kernel version for modules. In version 1.2.# (SuSE90^) it worked, However, in 1.9.# (SuSE 93) it seems to be broken. -- 73 de Donn Washburn Hpage: " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " 307 Savoy St. HAMs: " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador LL# 1.281.242.3256 " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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Terminal emulation between SCO-Unix, Hotkey, Telnet and Suse
by Chadley Wilson 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

Greetings, I am having a real tough time with Terminal emulation, more specifically on the SCO-Unix boxes, any one heard of or seen an error like " got tint " when hitting the backspace key? The second issue I have is simply strange, and only happens on the Suse9.3 PCs, The enduser uses hotkey to telnet to our central dailing server,a SCO-Unix box. From there they dial-out to our sites, via a selection of 32 modems. The question is how come the terminal emulation is so frustratingly slow when connecting to the Suse 9.3 boxes. But theres a catch. If I telnet into the SCO box from a 9.3 on tty or konsole in X, and connect to one of the "extremely slow in HOTKEY" boxes it work s perfectly. I can't seem to find any relevant docs, that cover this topic in detail, could some please point me in some direction here. I need a better understanding of the underlying factors at work here. TIA -- -- Chadley Wilson Production Line Superintendant Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================

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Re: [SLE] passwd -d suse 9.3
by Mark Gray 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk(a)suse.de> writes: > On Mon, Jun 20, Chadley Wilson wrote: > >> Greetings >> >> In one of our systems we require the system to have no password for a specific >> user, >> >> In 9.2 passwd -d <username> achieved this, how do I achieve it in 9.3? > In the same way, this was not changed as a view in /etc/shadow will > show you. While the password is removed, it is now impossible to log into an account using a totally empty password. (This may be caused by "blowfish" encryption, or it might be because of some option or feature of pam (personally, I just broke down and entered a password, but the original poster is correct.)

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Failure to ope floppy in "My Computer"
by Robert Paulsen 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

Clicking on the floppy drive's icon in the "My Computer" folder results in an error: The process for the media protocol died unexpectedly. This used to work just fine. Since I rarely use the floppy I can't pin down exactly when it started to fail but I did just notice it yesterday. One potential culpret is an update to the kernel a few days ago: kernel-smp-2.6.11.4-21.7 Anyone else see this problem? Other possibility is also related to the kernel. I just recently turned on hyperthreading and switched to the SMP kernel. This was shortly before the update to the -21.7 level. Thanks.

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Opera updated, now seg faulting
by Gary Hodges 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

SuSE 9.0 Pro Opera 7.11-0 updated to 8.0-4 Today when I did a system update I noticed that a new Opera update was available. Went through the update process, and now Opera seg faults when I try and run it. I've tried reinstalling 7.11 and reupdating a couple of times, but always end with the same result.

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How to umount USB disk in GNOME
by Joseph Loo 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

Ever since I loaded suse 9.3, whenenver I added a usb disk either a harddrive or a memory media, the system would come up and automtically mount the drives on the desktop. This is an okay but I am having a problem to umount the drive. When I click on the icon and request aan umount, I get the following message: "umount: only root can unmount /dev/sdc1 from /media/usbdisk". The only way I can umount the drive is to go to the root and umount the drive /dev/sdc1. I got rid of the fstab error by adding /media/usbdisk to the fstab. I also set it so users can mount or umount the drive. In KDE, the user can mount and umount the drive with no problem. GNOME should have a similiar property. Is there a configuration or something that wil allow me to umount the drive? -- Joseph Loo jloo(a)acm.org

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Problem report for "nut" (smartups) package
by Robert Paulsen 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

The init script (/etc/init.d/upd) for this package has a syntax error. (Beware of line-wrap in the following!) Original: (echo "-> Starting upslog: "; startproc /usr/bin/upslog localhost /var/log/ups.log \ $UPSLOG_INTERVAL || rc_failed) More Correct: (echo "-> Starting upslog: "; startproc /usr/bin/upslog -s myups@localhost -l /var/log/ups.log \ -i $UPSLOG_INTERVAL || rc_failed) The correction I give is not completely correct since "myups@localhost" is hard-coded but should come from one of the config files.

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How do I play a DVD's files off of my hard drive?
by wmeler 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

I have some files straight off of a DVD's VIDEO_TS directory, and I want to play the movie. How do I do this? Is there a way to create a playlist of the various tracks and save this list? I am open to new applications if necessary. -- Cheers, wmeler

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yppasswd: You can only change local passwords
by Shinn, Rob (R.A.) 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

I'm using SLES 8 and I cannot change NIS passwords using yppasswd and the root account on the NIS server. In reading this thread, http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-Apr/1115.html, I've found that this is /by design/. Commercial UNIX variants (Sun and HP-UX) allow root on the NIS master to change NIS passwords. Is there any way I can make this happen on SuSE Linux 8? Rob A. Shinn <rshinn(a)ford.com> Environment Analyst Peformance & Scalability Lab Ford Alpha A612 CDSID: RSHINN 313.390.5684 248-342-5232 (Cell)

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