June 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

New Linux Online Magazine - Tux
by columbo 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

There's a relatively new magazine (PDF Format) online entilted 'Tux' that is billing itself as 'The First And Only Magazine for the New Linux User' that you can find at http://www.tuxmagazine.com Although it's main function is an attempt to aid in the transition from Windows to Linux, it also offers interesting articles/editorials for the average Linux user. But, mainly, folks coming over from Windows to Suse Linux may receive a lot of insight reading it. It is distribution neutral (although they do review distro's) but with a KDE leaning bent. So far in the 3 issues released it has averaged approx 48 - 50 pages per issue of colorful, image laden content. The folks who maintain and/or publish Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com) Linux Gazette (http://www.linuxgazette.com) and Doc's IT Garage (http://www.docsearls.com) (SSC Publishing - Phil Huges) are responsible for this offering. This months issue (issue 3) tackles K3b, Tux Paint for Kids, IPod and Linux and a few other bits of news/reviews including a look at MEPIS 3.3. Hope someone finds this useful!

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executing a console program from a kde icon
by John Sowden 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

I wrote a short script to log in as root and run the crypto script to mount a an encrypted partition. Now I want to execute this by clicking on an icon, but the kde doc that describe running non-kde programs does not address this. could someone please direct me. --- John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901 U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail(a)americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net

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Remastering SuSE DVD with jigdo.
by Guillermo Ballester Valor 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Hello, For those users with problems to burn/copy/read the SuSE shipped double layered DVD, we've finally found a fully functional solution using jigdo. You can read about the process in this wiki page http://www.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Remastering_dvd_with_jigdo When finished, you'll have two single layered DVD iso files that will allow you a complete SuSE 9.3 instalation. Note that you have to use the shipped DVD or its iso image file. In other case jigdo can't help you. Guillermo -- Guillermo Ballester Valor gbv(a)oxixares.com Ogijares, Granada SPAIN Linux user #117181. See http://counter.li.org/ Public GPG KEY http://www.oxixares.com/~gbv/pubgpg.html

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kernel 2.6.x and temperature too high: rdo I have to recompile it?
by Luca Mollica 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Dear all, I have been using suse 9.1 (kernel linux-2.6.5-7.151 with standard config from the installation) for a while on my desk bi-cpu p4 with nvidia card. As long as I don't use the pc for theoretical calculation everything seems okay except IMHO an excessive fan speed, but when I start to use the cpu for calculation I got this message from the kernel: CPU#0: Temperature above threshold CPU#1: Temperature above threshold and a "beep-beep" sound from the case. I checked in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone but the dir is empty. lsmod gives: button 10384 0 battery 12804 0 ac 8964 0 fan 8196 0 thermal 16648 0 processor 21568 1 thermal p4_clockmod 9988 0 freq_table 8832 1 p4_clockmod i2c_i801 13200 0 i2c_dev 14976 0 i2c_sensor 7168 0 i2c_core 28932 3 i2c_i801,i2c_dev,i2c_sensor Looking at the config.default I saw that there are some misconfingurations (i.e. i586 rather than p4) so I am wondering if it is worthwhile to recompile the kernel (i.e. the new one 2.6.11.10 vanilla) or I can fix it downloading some patch. The upgrade is okay. Could anyone help me to fix this problem? Thanx L

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Re: [SLE] Rieser file system vs Netware NSS
by Stephen Carter 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

>>> Sid Boyce <sboyce(a)blueyonder.co.uk> 06/09/05 8:26 AM >>> NSK wrote: >The convention says trim back the latest to something reasonable and >bottom post. When following a topic, I don't usually want to see what >went before, but if I get interested part way through the discussion, I >can visit the archives, so I find top posting less intrusive, but as the >saying goes, I takes whatever comes. >Regards >Sid. >-- >Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot >Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist >Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks Sorry about the top post, that has led to this off topic discussion. FWIW as an on topic reply, NSS isn't available as a free add-on as far as I'm aware, and there are benefits for both Reiserfs and NSS depending on circumstances. SteveC -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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Re: [SLE] Rieser file system vs Netware NSS
by Stephen Carter 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

NSS does run on SuSE as part of Novell's Nterprise Linux Services. This could be beneficial for specific Novell services as it will support extended attributes that Reiserfs doesn't, and be happily managed via iManager. Just as an idea, here's a quick review article from information week: http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=60401973 Regards, Steve >>>suse-list(a)bout-tyme.net 06/08/05 9:21 pm >>> On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 12:22 -0500, BOB HERZOG wrote: > I come to Suse because of Novell's transition. I believe it is the >right decision but I have a long learning curve ahead of me. I used >Unix in college and that has been 10 yr ago. So, My question... > >We are running make that installing...Novell OES Sles. The default >partitioning is rieser. May be confused but I thought Novell was >supporting NSS under Suse? (NSS is what we used on Netware 6.5) Is >rieser the default because it is the best all around for Linux. > > >thanks in advance... I have to start somewhere, > >bob > > nss is for netware not for linux which is what SuSE runs on. -- 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 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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Usb-stick problem again
by FX Fraipont 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Sorry to insist, but I still haven't solved my problem, and I don't seem to be the only one experiencing thios: I'm resending this, as I got no answers: I've just installed 9.3 on my wife's laptop. With 9.2, when she inserted her usb-stick, it was mounted automatically and a konqueror window opened and showed the contents. It doesn't any more. I've added /dev/sda1 vfat /media/usbkey -noauto to fstab, and now inserting the key opens a konqueror window, but the key is not mounted. I have to do it manually from konsole. Any ideas to fully automate the process? dmesg May 31 20:49:56 linux kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4 May 31 20:49:56 linux kernel: hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found May 31 20:49:56 linux kernel: hub 1-1:1.0: 1 port detected May 31 20:49:56 linux kernel: usb 1-1.1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5 May 31 20:49:56 linux kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices May 31 20:49:56 linux kernel: usb-storage: device found at 5 May 31 20:49:56 linux kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: Vendor: Prolific Model: USB Flash Disk Rev:PROL May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB) May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: sda: Write Protect is off May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 00 06 00 00 May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB) May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: sda: Write Protect is off May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 00 06 00 00 May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: sda: sda1 May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete May 31 20:50:04 linux /etc/hotplug.d/block/50-hwscan.hotplug[9245]: new block de vice /block/sda May 31 20:50:05 linux /etc/hotplug.d/block/50-hwscan.hotplug[9293]: new block de vice /block/sda/sda1 linux:/home/cecile # lsusb Bus 001 Device 005: ID 067b:2517 Prolific Technology, Inc. Flash Disk Mass Storage Device Bus 001 Device 004: ID 067b:2515 Prolific Technology, Inc. Flash Disk Embedded Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 It was a FAT32 system (remember, in 9.2 it was mounted automatically). Just to make sure, i reformatted it FAT32 in SuSE 9.3 - no change, of course, that was not the problem. my question is: why isn't the usbstick mounted automatically? FXF

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How to link two subnetworks
by Henry Tang 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Hi i have two subnetworks 192.168.1.x and 192.168.2.x. connected to a server router with 3 network cards. 1connect outside 2 for the subnetworks. How can i get one subnet work to talk to the other.. Both subnetwork can ping the router but computer in the subnetwork can not ping the other computer on the other subnetwork.. I figure is something to do with routing but what is wrong? 66.93.216.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth2 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 66.93.216.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 thanks henry

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non-interactive anonymous ftp 500 Bad EPRT protocol
by Steven T. Hatton 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

This may be a firewall issue, but I really don't know. I used to be able to fetch Mozilla nightly builds with the following command. It hasn't worked for a long time. You can see what is happening. Does anybody know what's up with this? Sure, I can get it a bunch of different ways, but I believe this was should work. ~/mozilla # ftp -ai ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk/mozilla-… Trying 64.12.204.21... Connected to ftp.mozilla.org. 220-m2 220 331 Please specify the password. 230 Login successful. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. 200 Switching to Binary mode. 250 Directory successfully changed. 250 Directory successfully changed. 250 Directory successfully changed. 250 Directory successfully changed. 250 Directory successfully changed. local: mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz remote: mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||58130|) 500 Bad EPRT protocol. 500 Illegal PORT command. ftp: bind: Address already in use 221 Goodbye -- Regards, Steven

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Adaptec Serial ATA Raid 1210SA card
by Fergus Wilde 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Hi All, I'm running out of disk space and wondered whether to add SATA disks rather than EIDE. This card: Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1210SA is on offer reasonably cheaply. The hardware compatibility database describes its state of support as 'unknown', though Adaptec asserts that it works with SuSE. Anyone using it? Can you use it for the boot disk? Does the RAID bit work? Any probs? Thanks Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk

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