June 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

partition copy
by Sunny 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Hi, I just got a bigger HDD for my laptop. I need to move the existing windows installation over the new drive. Is there a free utility which will allow me to make a partition copy (NTFS) to a network share, and restore from there? I can not plug both drives at the same time, so I need to copy the old one, and then to install the new one. All this is to make a free space for suse. I taught about running knoppix and dd, but I'm not sure that this will work. Thanks Sunny

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RE: [SLE] DNS issues with 9.1, 9.2 and SLES 9
by DChristensen 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Ken, I checked the /etc/resolve.conf file. The name server line is set to the new DNS server and the name search line has also been updated to follow the settings I made in YAST. I've not configured a DNS server with LINUX and I'll research doing that to see if it improves the situation. Thanks for your reply. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Ken Schneider [mailto:suse-list@bout-tyme.net] Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 10:30 AM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] DNS issues with 9.1, 9.2 and SLES 9 On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 10:19 -0500, DChristensen wrote: > Background: Previously we had a NT domain with the PDC offering DHCP, > DNS and WINS services. Pointing to that server from our LINUX > machines worked okay… we were able to resolve internal machine names > without much problem. We could ping a host, i.e. PING HOST1 and it > would resolve with the IP address and fully qualified host name. > > Problem: We have added a new PDC on a Windows 2000 server which > runs mixed NT/AD mode and offers DHCP and DNS services. Once that was > done, my older SuSE boxes (9.1 Pro, 9.2 Pro and SLES 9) are no longer > resolving internal host names, though they do resolve external > addresses. SuSE 9.3 Pro resolves them just fine. I've checked and > rechecked the settings in YAST and all of the machines are configured > with the same entries. > > I've tried to research this problem but haven't found anything that > would tell me why the versions are behaving differently. Does anyone > have an idea why they are behaving as they are and what I have to do > to make them work correctly? > Check /etc/resolv.conf and make sure the nameserver line points to your DNS server. I suspect that it is still pointing to the old server address. Or even better yet, set up a linux box as your DNS server and eliminate problems all around. And yes it can be set up for dynamic updates from your PDC. -- 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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My Wifi problem is sorted :)
by Sean Rima 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Thanks to all who helped, turned out the reason I could not get ndiswraper to work was because of the prism54 module, unloaded it and ndiswrapper works and I am wifi :) Sean

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DNS issues with 9.1, 9.2 and SLES 9
by DChristensen 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Background: Previously we had a NT domain with the PDC offering DHCP, DNS and WINS services. Pointing to that server from our LINUX machines worked okay… we were able to resolve internal machine names without much problem. We could ping a host, i.e. PING HOST1 and it would resolve with the IP address and fully qualified host name. Problem: We have added a new PDC on a Windows 2000 server which runs mixed NT/AD mode and offers DHCP and DNS services. Once that was done, my older SuSE boxes (9.1 Pro, 9.2 Pro and SLES 9) are no longer resolving internal host names, though they do resolve external addresses. SuSE 9.3 Pro resolves them just fine. I've checked and rechecked the settings in YAST and all of the machines are configured with the same entries. I've tried to research this problem but haven't found anything that would tell me why the versions are behaving differently. Does anyone have an idea why they are behaving as they are and what I have to do to make them work correctly? Thanks in advance for your help. David Christensen IT Manager Brokers International, Ltd 1200 E Main St Panora, IA 50216 Phone: 641-755-2775 Ext: 1032 Toll-Free: 800-362-1097 Fax: 641-755-2381 Email: dchristensen(a)theimg.net

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The Continuing MultiMedia Challengein 9.3
by David Johanson 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Requesting still more help on my two installs of 9.3; one at work, the other at home. Not having ANY luck with getting xine or the like to function, I was pointed by a colleague to: http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/dvdplay/ Now this is one nice site and I highly recommend it to anyone having problems playing video media. I followed the instructions at work and bingo, dvds now PLAY perfectly, but still no sound, so that remains an issue, and one I'd love to solve. At home with an identical install and current updates - granted different box -- the install resulted in two problems. First, running xine gives the following error (the first time I ran xine a very nice configure xine dialog appeared but I can't find how to get it back): - xine engine error - There is no input plugin available to handle 'dvd:/". Maybe MRL syntax is wrong or file /stream source doesn't exist. Second, running kaffeine gives the following error: xine Message - Kaffeine Player No plugin found to handle this resource (dvd:/). Seems odd that following the same set of instructions, step by step identically, can give such different results. Any thoughts on this problem are welcome. thanks, dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe

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ssh agent in 9.3
by Hamish 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Hello I have just upgraded to 9.3 and ive been really impressed so far, just a few bits to iron out now. In 9.2 I was able to run ssh-add and be asked for my passphrase for my key, once I put it in, I could open up konsoles to different servers without being asked for my key again. This seems to be broken now, as it only "remembers" the passphrase in the same konsole it was started in. Has anyone got this working properly? Any hints appreciated, Thanks, H

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MS Access MDB file useing from PHP
by Alexandr R. Ogurtzoff 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Hey where! Does anybody know how I can to use M$ Access database file from PHP? I have SuSE 9.2 apache+MySQL+PHP installed and some additional packages: devel:/home/iscander # rpm -qa | grep -i odbc MyODBC-unixODBC-3.51.06-150 libgda-odbc-1.0.3-51 php4-unixODBC-4.3.4-26 perl-DBD-ODBC-1.06-225 unixODBC-devel-2.2.8-55 unixODBC-2.2.8-55 mdbtools-odbc-0.5-236 OK. I hope I'm right about useing ODBC, am I? But what is it my next step? How can I start these gears turns? I have a foo.mdb file, empty /etc/unixODBC/ entry, no GUI(remote server), user and root access. What do I need to do? I hope I don't need a Windows box only for working with one file. Could someone help to me? Thanks in advance, -- Best regards Alexandr R. Ogurtzoff { UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are }

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Installation cd cannot be mounted
by Jean-François Simon 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Hi guys, I've just bought a AOPEN laptop (http://solution.aopen.com.tw/products/nb/1559-AS.htm) and I'm trying to install the suse 9.3 on it. The installation starts by detecting hardware and activating the usb, firewire, etc. Next, the installation stops and tells me that the installation CD was not found (or could not be mounted). Then I fall back on the linuxrc interface. The hardware panel gave theses informations on the dvd drive: /dev/sr0 and the ata_piix module loaded. I push on the eject cd button (in linuxrc) but it doesn't work. I decided to try the Ubuntu hoary live cd to see if it detects my dvd drive and the "installation" also end up with a "Installation cd cannot be mounted". So it seems that my dvd drive not supported I really don't know what to do. Do I have to upgrade the firmwire of the laptop or load a module ? If I perform a network installation, will the dvd drive be useable after ? Thanks in advance. Jean-François P.S : I don't know if this list is the most appropriate place for my question. If it is not the case, please redirect me.

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Changing runlevel priorities
by Thiago Vinhas de Moraes 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Does anyone knows how to change the order of the runlevel scripts? I have a particular init script that I would like to be executed before all other scripts?? I tried with yast and chkconfig, but it didn't work. Thanks -- Thiago Vinhas de Moraes CODIN - Cia. de Desenvolvimento Industrial do Estado RJ Departamento de Informática email: tvinhas(a)codin.rj.gov.br Tel: (21) 2517-5411 "Somos aquilo que fazemos consistentemente. Assim, a excelência não é um ato, mas sim um hábito."

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laptop battery and SuSE 9.3
by Kurt R. Rahlfs 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

I made a clean install of SuSE 9.3 on my IBM thinkpad A20M laptop. It previously had 8.2. The battery drains unmercifully when in APM mode whenever I close the lid. It doesn't fully charge in ACPI mode. I use configure-thinkpad in APM mode and powersaved in ACPI mode. Currently the laptop is useless because it must be on AC all the thim or I have to shut it off so that the sleep mode dosn't drain the battery in a couple of hours. tia, KurtRR

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Novell server with Suse
by Mike Dewhirst 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

I'm looking for some comprehensive advice, study materials or book titles so I can figure out how to migrate my company to Linux file servers. We have two Novell 5.1 and one 5.0 servers which are going really well. They have performed flawlessly for years. It is time to think about putting them out to pasture and replacing them with something bigger. Sort of reward them. The 5.0 machine is in another LAN in another office totally unconnected. I would like to put a monster SuSE server alongside the Novell 5.1 servers and another alongside the 5.0 chappie and somehow slide them into place and remove the old boxes without the users noticing. I'm not being devious - I just don't want to disturb their work patterns. We also have a Windows 2000 Terminal Server machine to permit remote Novell login to the LAN. We don't store anything on the WTS it is just used as a terminal. I'm not very experienced with Linux. I've had a SuSE 9.1 box under my desk for few months and that's it. I live and work in the Windows world and that ain't gunna change overnight. Any advice will be very much appreciated. Thanks mike

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RE: [SLE] Little_endian.h errors
by Khanh Tran 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Morris (NTM) [mailto:Joe_Morris@ntm.org] > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:54 AM > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [SLE] Little_endian.h errors *snip* > Thanks for that feedback, but it does confuse me some, and I > am hoping > you could 'unconfuse' me. How is glibc not involved? I > mean, and I am > just trying to understand, > joe@jmorris:~> rpm -qf /usr/include/linux/cdrom.h > glibc-devel-2.3.4-23 > joe@jmorris:~> rpm -qf /usr/include/linux/types.h > glibc-devel-2.3.4-23 > joe@jmorris:~> rpm -qf /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h > glibc-devel-2.3.4-23 > joe@jmorris:~> rpm -qf /usr/include/asm/byteorder.h > glibc-devel-2.3.4-23 > All the files seemingly involved are from glibc-devel. How > is glibc not > involved here at all. BTW, the kscd author said and I quote, " *snip* Agreed! Furthermore, this exact same source compiled fine under SuSE 9.0. So, it is related to the version of glibc given in at least 9.2, and 9.3 as you've pointed out. -Khanh

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OO & bub buddy
by Mike Roy 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Hello everyone: I'm having a real problem with something called Bug Buddy. If I create or open an older OpenOffice (OO) document - no problem. However, if I open a MS Word doc, everything seems to be fine until I try and 'save' the document. It doesn't seem to matter if I want to retain the original file type or use the OO default file type. Quite often the Bug Buddy appears and, after a series of menus, offers to 'recover' the document. The problem is that the recovery does not include the changes. So, this means that the automatic backup inside OO is not working nor is the 'save' command in OO. Bug Buddy does return me to the original document but I lose all the changes. Any ideas? cheers, Mike

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Re: [SLE] ssh agent in 9.3
by Bruce Marshall 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 11:22 am, Hamish wrote: > On Wednesday 15 June 2005 16:15, Bruce Marshall wrote: > > Maybe this is a better method: > > > > Once you have a key generated: > > > > ssh-copy-id -i <keyname.pub> user@machinename > > > > Once you do the above, you can login to <machinename> as <user> without > > needing the password. > > This is *exactly* what i am tryng to do. The thing about this is, that you > need to type a passphrase to unlock the key every time you connect, so it > is not very useful. With ssh agent, it "remembers" your key passphrase, so > you dont have to type it in every time. > Thanks, > H Not in my case.... I hit enter for the passphrase when I make the key. Maybe that's your problem. I never, ever have been asked for the passphrase. (Please reply only to the list)

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Media Errors
by Jesse L. Purdom 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Hi. I am running into difficulty while installing software via YAST. Applications appear to install correctly but at the end I get a window saying that errors were reported during the install and listing which applications failed. A look at /var/log/messages shows the following: kernal: hdg: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} kernal: hdg: cdrom_decode_status: error=0xb0LastFailedSense 0x0b kernal: Buffer I/O error on device hdg, logical block 91941 kernal: hdg: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} kernal: hdg: media error (bad sector): status=0x30 kernal: hdg: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} kernal: hdg: media error (bad sector): status=0x30 kernal: end_request: I/O error, dev hdg, sector 367824 I get several iterations of the above. I am getting this on two identical workstations, both brand new. I have tried replaing the IDE cable and verified the CDROM drives are jumped properly. I know that my SUSE cd's are in good condition and I do not have any problems with them on other systems. I am wondering if the problem could lie somewhere else in the system. Any ideas? Thanks! Jesse

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Phone program
by Gerald Humphreys 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Hi All My phone(house phone) is connected to my modem of my computer. Is there a program that can answer, dial and like a normal phone. So i connect my microphone to my pc and can talk like that. Regards Gerald

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trackpoint disable
by Francesco Scaglioni 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Hi, Running 9.1 on an Inspiron 8500 laptop and I have come up against the (well documented) problem of a wandering mouse cursor. Is there a way of disabling the trackpoint without disabling the touchpad? Cheers in advance, F

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Re: [NFS] NFS tuning - high performance throughput.
by M. Todd Smith 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Roger Heflin wrote: >Are you using the same dd test on the local machine test? If so >cache will be a major factor. > >Also, raid5 stripe size, bigger is almost always better, I would >do some testing with different strip sizes and see how it affects >the speed, I have never seen less than 32k be faster than 32k. > >Are you using md for the raid5 setup or something else that has >not been mentioned? > > Roger > > > Roger, Yes the same dd test is being used on the local machine, however a 5G file should blow out all the caches no? If not can you explain? Cheers Todd -- Systems Administrator ---------------------------------- Soho VFX - Visual Effects Studio 99 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 303 Toronto, Ontario, M6K 3J8 (416) 516-7863 http://www.sohovfx.com ----------------------------------

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[SLE] Changing runlevel priorities
by Greg Wallace 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

On Wednesday, June 15, 2005 @ 4:16 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 >The Tuesday 2005-06-14 at 21:39 -0700, Joseph Loo wrote: >> The only way I know how to change the order of execution is by hand tweeking >> it. I would go to the /etc/init.d/rc5.d and rename the link say from S18.xdm >> to S10.xdm. This will then execute before all startup scripts lexically S10. >> Note that the capital S is essential otherwise it will not execute/ >But that method is guraranteed to fail sooner or later, because Yast will >revert it as soon as it has a chance. This is documented. >- -- >Cheers, > Carlos Robinson >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) >Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 >iD8DBQFCsBvytTMYHG2NR9URAtoXAJsG8qgifmZxiCnSIk+M0WT+p9P2AACglgbi >J9zvBLVYM7lYJM4kG/w04Jc= >=jrAg >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- I guess YAST could revert it, but it hasn't happened to me on 8.1. One thing though. If you want take something out of Runlevel 5 and then put it back later, it isn't guaranteed to go back to the same place. As a matter of fact, it probably won't. To avoid that, I simply go into the script itself and add an exit as the first line. Then, to re-activate it, I remove the exit. I'm sure that could definitely get wiped out with a YAST patch, but nothing I have stopped that way would be a problem if it suddenly started running again, so I don't worry about it. I originally had to do this re-ordering because YAST set up my samba NMB daemon ahead of CUPS. My startup would then hang with a message saying it was waiting for CUPS. So, I moved NMB to after CUPS and eliminated that problem. Otherwise, I wouldn't have ever felt the need to do it. By the way, according to Ken Schneider, you can no longer do this type of re-ordering in latter versions of SuSE, so this may or may not be an option for the person trying to solve the original problem. Greg Wallace

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Little_endian.h errors
by Khanh Tran 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

I've been trying to compile MythTV 0.18.1 on SuSE 9.2, however I keep getting the following errors. Anyone know what to do? make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mythtv/download/mythtv.18.1/mythtv-0.18.1/libs/libmyth' g++ -c -pipe -O2 -march=i586 -mcpu=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -march=pentium4 -I/opt/kde3/include -pthread -I/opt/gnome/include/glib-2.0 -I/opt/gnome/lib/glib-2.0/include -Wall -W -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT -DPIC -fPIC -DMMX -Di386 -DUSING_IVTV -DUSING_XRANDR -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\" -DUSING_OSS -DUSE_ALSA -DUSE_JOYSTICK_MENU -DUSE_LIRC -DUSE_ARTS -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -I/usr/lib/qt3/mkspecs/default -I. -I/usr/local/include -I../libmythsamplerate -I../libmythsoundtouch -I../.. -I/usr/include -I/usr/lib/qt3/include -o mythcdrom-linux.o mythcdrom-linux.cpp In file included from /usr/include/asm/byteorder.h:59, from /usr/include/linux/cdrom.h:14, from mythcdrom-linux.cpp:3: /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:43: error: syntax error before `(' token /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:47: error: syntax error before `*' token /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h: In function `__u64 __le64_to_cpup(...)': /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:49: error: `p' undeclared (first use this function) /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:49: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h: At global scope: /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:51: error: syntax error before `(' token /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:55: error: syntax error before `*' token /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:59: error: syntax error before `(' token /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:63: error: syntax error before `*' token /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:67: error: syntax error before `(' token /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:71: error: syntax error before `*' token /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:75: error: syntax error before `(' token /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:79: error: syntax error before `*' token /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:83: error: syntax error before `(' token /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:87: error: syntax error before `*' token make[2]: *** [mythcdrom-linux.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/download/mythtv.18.1/mythtv-0.18.1/libs/libmyth' make[1]: *** [sub-libmyth] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/download/mythtv.18.1/mythtv-0.18.1/libs' make: *** [sub-libs] Error 2

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Seeking speech recognition solutions packaged for SuSE
by Carl E. Hartung 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Hi All, Anyone know of a working/promising *non-commercial* Linux speech recognition solution that has been packaged for SuSE users? If one exists, Google has *not* been my friend. I'm aware of ViaVoice, from IBM, and I'm currently studying Sphinx-4 (http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/sphinx4/) but I'd rather not recreate the wheel if I don't have to. :-) Thanks in advance for any guidance and a special "Hi!" to my favorite regulars (you should all know who you are :-) All is well. I just haven't had much reason or time to post recently. regards, Carl -- _______________________________________________________________________ C. E. Hartung Business Development & Support Services http://www.cehartung.com/ carlh(a)cehartung.com Dover Foxcroft, Maine, USA Public Keys 68396713 & F8207216 Reg. Linux User #350527 http://counter.li.org/ ----->>>>>http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/supportlinuxbios.html <<<<<-----

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[Fwd: Re: [SLE] How about users "desupporting" Suse 9.3 and later.]
by Alfredo Yunes 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

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http remote install + dns weirdness
by D'Arcy MacIsaac 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Has anybody had a problem in doing remote installs in that giving the FQDN of the install server fails, but going by IP + the sources directory works, even though you point your host to a legit name server? (eg. 127.10.10.10/suse/install/directory (fake IP there obviously)) With http get on the network, you'll see it emitting stuff like: http://127.10.10.10/suse/install/directory/i586/libvisual-0.2.0-4.i586.rpm HTTP/1.1 I seem to remember seeing this in the past, and last night was reminded of it when someone did an install from a server I have here, and it gave him this problem initially. Ideas? D'Arcy

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Exiting the system from within a script
by Dana Jaeger 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Hi, Overview of what I want to do. Allow a user to log on to an account, automatically exuecute a script that will allow them to change there samba password and exit the script, the logout of the account. I do not want them to get a command line. I have done something like this in AIX successfully but I am not sure how to do it in Suse or Redhat. I have a script and at the end of it I want to exit the shell (bash or ksh) then logoff the id. There is no logout command on the box. (Suse 8) Script would be something like trap "" 2 (commands) Allow entry of user id echo ... more ... ./smbpasswd $USRID exit How can I go about doing this. Thanks Dana Jaeger Hartford Hospital Hartford, Connecticut, 06102 jaeger(a)harthosp.org 860-545-4212 ----------------------------------------------- Confidentiality Notice This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential or proprietary information which is legally privileged. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please promptly contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.

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autoyast how-to
by Chadley Wilson 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Greetings, Isn't there an autoyast how-to? I swear if google crashes today it will be my fault? I have searched every criteria I can think of and all I get is posts regarding issues. I have not used autoyast before and have no idea where to start? -- -- Chadley Wilson Production Line Superintendant Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================

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