June 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Root partition filled
by skyefire＠skyefire.org 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Well, darn. I think I'm in trouble. And I've only myself to blame. Here's the skinny: Laptop running 9.1Pro, with a / partition that was obviously, in hindsight, too small. I actually got started on trying to fix it before it hit critical, using my Knoppix CD and QTParted, but QTP wouldn't touch any hda partitions except the swap (/ and home are both reiserfs) -- the 'resize' option was greyed out. Then I was going to take it to my local LUG meeting this AM, but I had to work instead... and when I booted up, KDE refused to go past the graphical login screen, complaining about insufficient space on /. I'd quote the exact error message, but now KDE won't even give me that -- when I try to logon, I just get the 'waiting' icon for a moment, then I'm back at the login screen. So I figure, okay, I deserve this for procrastinating. I boot back to Knoppix, run parted on my USB backup drive to create an ext2 filesystem, and start trying to do a plain cp * of everything from my hda2 and hda3 into backup directories on the USB drive... and keep getting "read-only filesystem" errors. Say what? Well, I got past that, kind of, I think, and I've got backup copies of all my files (and from now on, I'm going to to full drive backups more regularly). But before I take the plunge, I thought I'd poll the list. From the looks of it, I'd guess I'm probably going to have to destructively re-part the hd, with a bigger / this time, and then copy everything back. Probably have to reinstall some stuff, too. Chalk it up to one more Linux learning experience. But if anyone knows any obvious pitfalls I should avoid while I'm doing this, I'd appreciate any advice offered.

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Firewall
by Gerald Humphreys 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

hi All I need some assistance here please. I go lan gaming quite offen, and use Windows for those games thats not supported by linux. I want to set up a firewall and a virus scanner on my SuSe 9.3 laptop to scan everything that goes out and comes in. I got my desktop connected to my laptop and my laptop connected to the lan. I am using 2 network cards in my laptop one onboard and one pcmcia. Please can someone guide me through the procedures. Regards Gerald Humphreys

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Waiting for 9.3 will 9.2 support the Prism WiFi adaptor
by Sean Rima 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hello suse-linux-e, I am waiting for my 9.3 dvd to arrive. I do have 9.2 but will I be able to use the Prism Wifi adaptor and is it easier enough to upgrade from 9.2 to 9.3 using the new 9.3 dvd? Sean -- ICQ: 679813 YAHOO: thecivvie Jabber: thecivvie(a)jabber.org AIM: tcobone Vodafone +353879120530 Winamp is stopped

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Hörbuch question ...
by James Hatridge 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hi all, My German wife wants to order a Hörbuch (speaking books) on the 'net. She wants to know if I can play it on my system. I use 9.2 at the moment. What format is these speaking books in? What will I need to do to play one? BTW I'm already using MP3 files. Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin/index.php Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection/index.php

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Ypbind port numbers change daily on SLES9
by Mark Andrews 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

I'm administering a SLES9 system. Daily, I receive an automated mail message similar to the following: OLD: /var/lib/secchk/security-report-daily 2005-06-12 00:00:02.528087228 -0400 NEW: /var/lib/secchk/security-report-daily.new 2005-06-13 00:00:02.220556009 -0400 * Changes (+: new entries, -: removed entries): + ypbind root UDP *:755 - ypbind root UDP *:986 This tells me that ypbind changed it's UDP listening socket, but I'm wondering two things: (1) What process or procedure performs the change? The ypbind process is not restarted (2) Why is it done? Thanks

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FTP access INVALID PORT COMMAND
by Alberto E. Gallardo Doñate 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hi everybody. We need to access from our internal network to an external ftp server, but we can't do it because of an "invalid port command" problem. Our internal network is connected to internet via a suse 9.2 linux. I have already installed both modules ip_conntrack_ftp and ip_nat_ftp but it doesn't still work. Last week we coould access to this ftp server (of course, it works in non-passive mode) but since last thursday we can't access. Any idea? Thanks in advance. Alberto

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call back
by Chadley Wilson 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Greetings people, what do we use for callback in Suse 9.3? I know is has something to do with mgetty which is installed but I don't have acallback command like I did in RH. Thanks Chadley

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suse + ldap/kerberos/afs
by D'Arcy A MacIsaac 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hello everyone, Having a bit of difficulty. In our environment we use kerberos (heimdal) for user authentication, afs for home dirs, with user information being stored in ldap (ver 3, no tsl/ssl for it). On linux clients /etc/passwd is still used however. Trying out SUSE 9.3, and I want to set it to use the above setup, minus using /etc/passwd (I want it grab that info from ldap instead, and limit passwd's usage to system accounts, root, etc.). I can get kerberos tickets, have my home dir be in afs, however I've been unsuccessful with regards to the ldap integration, that is it only seems to be working if the user account is specified in /etc/passwd. We did some debugging to make sure that the SUSE client was in fact talking to the ldap server, it was, but it still wasn't working. One problem was that it was looking for POSIX as being the objectclass. I changed that, however still no go even in setting the object class correctly. One very bad thing I did see however was that SUSE was sending out the account password over the net (in plain text of all things...) Again, I want kerberos to be taking care of that side, ldap for account info such as home dir, uid, etc. I'm thinking the solution to the problem lies somewhere in pam_unix2.conf or something, but the documentation is a bit on the sparse side. Any one have success in trying something along these lines? Thanks, D'Arcy MacIsaac

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Controlling umask on specific directory
by Chadley Wilson 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hello Any one know how to control the umask, and ownership of a specific directory? I need anything created by anythng to be able to access the /var/spool/uucp folder as I run uucico in many different user profile and none of them can delete the lock files TIA Chadley Wilson

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autoinst.xml for dual boot.
by Ajay Mulwani 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hello List, I have about 30 laptops to be installed as dual boot (Windows and SLES9). Currently the laptops are installed with Windows and other linux (most of them with redhat). Is it possible to create a single autoinst.xml file which should delete all the existing Linux partitions, if any and install SLES on that space? If yes, could you suggest the contents of that autoinst file. Thank you, Ajay

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Samba mount question
by Osho GG 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hi, I am using Suse 9.1 with which i mount remote samba share which is served by a Linux samba server. I can mount the remote samba share just fine and can use the files from there also. However, I have one problem. Some of the links on the remote samba share points to absolute file paths such /usr/ etc. When I mount this samba share, such links point to /usr etc. in my local file system and not the one in the remote samba share. Is there anyway to force smbmount such that these symbolic links work properly (ie. they refer to absolute path names on that samba machine). Note that these absolute pathnames arei inside the remote directory that is being mounted. I do not have permissions to change such paths to relative paths (such as ../../usr etc.) on the remote samba server. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Osho

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distcc is not in 9.3?
by Steven T. Hatton 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Was distcc not included in 9.3? I can't seem to find it. Was this an intentional omission? -- Regards, Steven

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Re: [SLE] Master slave devision for 3 hd and 1 dvd-rw
by Tom Peters 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

At 10:35 PM 6/11/2005 +0200, Richard Bos wrote: >How should I devide 3 HD and 1 DVD-RW over the ide master slave channels? >There is 1 HD already connected to the system, which is at the moment booting >the machine (of course ;). I want to add the 2 HDs in a raid. The current >HD should be kept so data can be copied from it, but there is no need to from >it. > >Is it okay to have a configuration, like: >Current HD on ide0-master >New HD in raid on ide0-slave >New HD in raid on ide1-master >DVD-RW on ide1-slave > >The HDs are in raid(1) for backup not to improve read access. I think that most IDE controllers write to one drive or the other (not both at the same time) so for reasonable performance, I was always advised to place the devices I wanted to perform best, especially when copying to each other, on different controllers. That said, I think you need to have the DVD as a slave device. So your sample config with the mirrored drives split across two controllers (IDE0 and IDE1) should work a little better than, say, putting both of them on the IDE1 controller as master and slave. My 0,015 [Government]A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. --George Bernard Shaw --... ...-- -.. . -. ----. --.- --.- -... tpeters(a)nospam.mixcom.com (remove "nospam") N9QQB (amateur radio) "HEY YOU" (loud shouting) WEB ADDRESS http//www.mixweb.com/tpeters 43° 7' 17.2" N by 88° 6' 28.9" W, Elevation 815', Grid Square EN53wc WAN/LAN/Telcom Analyst, Tech Writer, MCP, CCNA, Registered Linux User 385531

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NFS user space vs. Kernel space daeomn?
by Steven T. Hatton 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

I am aware of at least one difference in behavior between the userspace NFS package (nfs-server-2.2beta51-209) , and the kernel space version (nfs-utils-1.0.7-3). Experimentation indicates that the user space version supports the sharing of a dvd (by exporting the parent directory /media). I recall in years gone by there were certain automounting functions that only worked with the user space package, but I have not recently reproduced that behavior. Unless, of course the dvd sharing is actually a result of the same behavior. Can anyone say what the advantaged and disadvantages of each of the NFS server packages is in comparison to the other? -- Regards, Steven

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Re: QuickCam 3000 Pro
by Bryan Tyson 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

On Friday 10 June 2005 19:02, Volker Paul wrote: > back in 2002 you wrote in a mail I found through google: > I suggest the Logitech QuickCam 3000 Pro. Works great in Linux. > Now I have a QuickCam 3000 Pro: > # lsusb > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:08b0 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam 3000 Pro > [pwc] > but in Kcontrol->Peripherals-Digital camera, I don't find its entry. > Can you tell me (or send me a link about) how I can use the camera? You did not state what Linux version you are running. With the 2.6 kernel the pwc situation changed. The pwc module is now being maintained here: http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/ On my 9.2 system I could not get the pwc offered on this site to compile. I don't remember the errors. Finally I found a site where someone had posted a pwc module compiled for 9.1. It worked for me on 9.2. On my 9.2 system I have pwc.ko in this folder: /lib/modules/2.6.8-24.14-default/kernel/drivers/usb/media As you can learn from the saillard site, there is no longer a separate pwcx module. Plugging in the camera usually, but not always, gives me a popup window saying that a digital camera was detected and do I wish to open it. It does not do anything, as apparently it is intended for a digital camera with flash memory that has pictures stored on it. Sometimes it takes 30-60 seconds to pop up. If it does, I just say no. Then do lsmod to verify your pwc module loaded. If pwc is loaded you should be able to view the cam with camstream or xawtv. I use webcam to upload snaps from my cam: http://home.earthlink.net/~bryantyson/bryanscams.htm This cam gives me audio problems if plugged in when the computer is rebooted. In this case the USB audio for the cam mic takes over and I do not have my Sound Blaster mixer. Therefore I recommend you wait until Linux is up and running, then plug in the cam. Bryan ******************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 9.2 Professional KDE 3.3.0 KMail 1.7.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ********************************************************

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simple sound recording ?
by Paul Cartwright 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

I am trying to do a simple voice recording using my microphone. using alsamixer I can HEAR sound coming from the microphone through my speakers, but I can't figure out how to make a recording. I have tried krecord & audacity with no luck. Am I missing something simple?? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc

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Importing cyrus imap folder into KMail?
by Steven T. Hatton 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

It looks as though Cyrus has met his Queen Tomyris on my server. For now, I have given up on trying to restore the imap server. I still have about 1300 messages in the imap folder that I would like to recover. The KMail import tool doesn't seem to have an option for this, and different tricks such as cat *. > catall, then treating catall as a mailbox file, did not work. KMail understand each file in the directory as being a mail message, but when I tried importing them, the import tool created a directory for each of the 1300+ messages. Not quite what I was looking for. Ideas? -- Regards, Steven

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Transparent KDE Menu - SuSe 9.2 PRO
by list＠lpgc.net 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Hi all! Im trying to tune my KDE desktop so it has a better look, but ive found a few problems ... First of all, why is my KDE 3.3.0 transparent menu option disabled?? (as usr or root). Second i cant change the parameters from the XanalogTV screen saver.It uses SuSe wallpapers and i would like to use mines. Allso ive been browsing http://www.kde-look.org/ but there isnt much related to SuSe distros. Is there a better place, if possible, specific to SuSe Linux distro? Nice and reliable Linux makes me happy ... Thanks in advance for any help. Bye

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linux raid question
by Hans du Plooy 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Hi guys, I was wondering, if I have a machine running two discs in a kernel based raid-1, and one of the discs go south, what are the steps involved in removing the one disc and getting the other one up and running again? Just change the fstab entries? Then, if I have an identical disc as a replacement (say I was smart enough to buy three discs and keep one for incase ;-) how do I go about adding the second disc and creating a new raid without putting the installation and data on the good disc in any danger? Thanks -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com

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Master slave devision for 3 hd and 1 dvd-rw
by Richard Bos 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

How should I devide 3 HD and 1 DVD-RW over the ide master slave channels? There is 1 HD already connected to the system, which is at the moment booting the machine (of course ;). I want to add the 2 HDs in a raid. The current HD should be kept so data can be copied from it, but there is no need to from it. Is it okay to have a configuration, like: Current HD on ide0-master New HD in raid on ide0-slave New HD in raid on ide1-master DVD-RW on ide1-slave The HDs are in raid(1) for backup not to improve read access. Is this okay or is it better to have the first raid disk on ide0-master? -- TIA, Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

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Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 and SUSE 9.3, /dev/vbi
by Claes＠work 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Hello, has anyone managed to get the Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 card to work with SUSE 9.3? Especially, on an Athlon64 system. YAST did not work, but after googling I managed to install firmware by extracting it from the supplied windows drivers. Now ivtv detects my card and loads the firmware. However, there seems to be something wrong with my /dev/vbi* files. When I start kdetv, it ends with: kdetv: WARNING: VBIDecoder: vbi_capture_v4l_new error: Sorry, /dev/vbi4 (Vanilla iTVC15 card) cannot capture any of the requested data services. kdetv: WARNING: [VBIDecoder::restart()] no permission to access device kdetv: WARNING: MainWindow::setupInfraRed(): Lirc not available kdetv: WARNING: SaverControl: Error in DCOP communication. Unable to disable KDE Screensaver. kdetv: WARNING: ... failed. kdetv likely does not to work with your device and/or your current filter config. And if I run scantv it looks like this: claes@linux:~> scantv ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217728;index=1;name="44.1 kHz";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217729;index=1;name="Layer 1";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217730;index=1;name="[L1/L2] Free fmt";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217731;index=1;name="Stereo";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217732;index=1;name="Subbands 4-31/bound=4";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217733;index=1;name="None";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217734;index=1;name="CRC off";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217735;index=1;name="Copyright off";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217736;index=1;name="Copy";reserved=176): Invalid argument please select your TV norm 0: NTSC 1: PAL 2: SECAM nr ? 1 please select a frequency table 0: us-bcast 1: us-cable 2: us-cable-hrc 3: japan-bcast 4: japan-cable 5: europe-west 6: europe-east 7: italy 8: newzealand 9: australia 10: ireland 11: france 12: china-bcast 13: southafrica 14: argentina 15: australia-optus 16: russia nr ? 5 [global] freqtab = europe-west [defaults] input = Television norm = PAL invalid value for input: television valid choices for "input": "Composite 0", "Composite 1", "Composite 2", "Composite 3", "Tuner 0", "Composite 4", "S-Video 0", "S-Video 1", "S-Video 2", "S-Video 3" vbi: open failed [/dev/vbi] open /dev/vbi: Invalid argument What is /dev/vbi, and why does it not work? Thanks, Claes

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How to master all channels on emu10k1 and how to set up 5.1
by Rikard Johnels 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Hello all! I have a (or rather two) slight problem(s) with my emu10k1 (SB live! value) card. 1. I have no idea on how to controll both front and rear volume at the same time. My front speakers are set in the "1" jack on the card, and the rear in "2". I have sound in rear system as long as "Wave surround" in kmix is above zero. Master controls the front, so does PCM (playing mp3's via xmms) But the rear system is at set volume regardless of master/pcm Only the "Wave surround" can change the level. Not even "Mute" disables sound in the rear system. Is there a way to set a true master volume so i can mute both front and rear at the same time?? 2. How do i connect a 5.1 system to the card? I have a "ordinary home stereo amplifier system" for all 5 speakers. (3 amps, 5 line level inputs, 5 speaker outputs, no special decoder) I haven't found too much info on how to connect things to that card.. -- /Rikard " Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something." -R. Stallman --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh(a)norweb.se Mob : +46 763 19 76 25 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [SLE] simple sound recording ?
by Mark Gray 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot(a)pcartwright.com> writes: > On Sun June 12 2005 8:25 am, Ken Schneider wrote: >> Make sure you don't have the mic muted. This messed me up a couple >> of times. Change it in alsamixer just to make sure the toggle isn't >> the opposite of what you think it should be. You may want to turn on >> the PCM function as well if the input is to low. > in alsamixer PCM Out Path says muted, but I can't figure out how to > UNmute it... >From man 1 alsamixer: M toggles muting for the current channel (both left and right). If the hardware supports it, you can mute left and right independently by using , (or <) and . (or >) respectively. [snip]

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Problem - Apollon/Gnutella network
by andreil1＠starlett.lv 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Hi, Anyone have used apollon (available in guru´s directory) for gnutella network? I have latest version with all gift libs installed and corresponding TCP/UDP ports open. However, apollon connects to FastTrack and OpenFT networks, but not to Gnutella and Ares. Info status just says ¨Connecting...¨ and this stays for forever. There are no much settings in preferences to adjust gnutella settings. Anyone have a clue how to solve this problem? Thanks. Andrei

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recommended bittorrent client
by Walt Frampus 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

I am looking for a bittorrent client to use in Suse 9.3. Anyone have any recommendations? TIA Walt

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