July 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Damn Fam!
by Randall R Schulz 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Hi, From time to time with no pattern I can discern, I'll find an instance of "fam" running consuming as much CPU as it can get. It bears my UID but can only be killed by root. Does anyone know why this happens and / or how to prevent it? Thanks. Randall Schulz

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Console CD Ripping
by Bill M. 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Anyone recommend their favorite (or one they've heard about) console-based CD rip-encode application? I have verified that CDparanoia and Jack are loaded, also the Java RE is running fine (jEdit loads great and FreeMind (my favorite brainstorming tool.) I would like the choice of MP3 (LAME encoding installed already) or OGG encoded files. If the app can do the rip and encoding without creating an intermediate WAV file, that would be great. I've googled on this, but there are so many apps out there -- other's experiences and opinions would be a great help. TIA -- your responses are much appreciated! -*-Bill

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Re: [SLE] Suse 9.3 disappearing Nics
by Doug Currey 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:08:04 -0400, Cristian Rodriguez wrote > 2005/7/21, Doug Currey <doug(a)curreycentral.com>: > > I am rebuilding an old redhat 7.1 firewall box the hard drive failed. All > > other hardware remained the same. > > > > Anyway setup 9.3 fully patched no problems. Go to setup the second nic card > > and problems start. Everything seems to have worked both card installed and > > configured. However if I reboot the system both nics drop. They still show > > up is yast as being configured. "ifup eth0" and "ifup eth1" both say ERROR: > > Interface eth0 is not available. If I do a cold boot they both come up > > correctly. I figured it had to be something with plug-n-play in the bios. I > > have tried both pnp enabled os and no pnp enabled os same results. > > > > What else can cause this. I am so confused. > > > > 1. delete all the interfaces configuration > 2. reboot > 3. reconfigure the nics again > 4. if not working.send me the log file. > Tried that. Looking in yast again I notced if does have the netwrok cards listed as installed but also wants to install them again. First install set them up in the form of eth-id-<mac-address> second round tries bus-pci-<don't know what this number is> Log files only show interface not found.

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installing SuSE 9.3 Pro from live DVD to hard drive
by Joe Zien 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

I was given a SuSE 9.3 Pro live DVD. Can you install it on the HD? If so, how.? Thanks in advance, jozien

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font path
by Mitja 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

/etc/X11/xim: Checking wether an input method should be started. INPUT_METHOD is not set or empty (no user selected input method). Trying to start a default input method for the locale en_US.UTF-8 ... There is no default input method for the current locale. xset: bad font path element (#72), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax Hi! Above is an error from .Xerr. I have fonts installed and there are in path. Bellow is result of xset. What i have wrong, pleae? Mitja ===== Result of xset q: Keyboard Control: auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000002 auto repeat delay: 250 repeat rate: 30 auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf fadfffdfffdfe5ef ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 Pointer Control: acceleration: 20/10 threshold: 4 Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 600 Colors: default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 16777215 Font Path: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled,/opt/kde3/share/fonts Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 1020 Suspend: 2220 Off: 2820 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On File paths: Config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Modules path: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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XBC Installation in SuSE 9.3
by Art Fore 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

There is an earlir thread about gtapecalc where I mentioned XBC. I tried to install it along with several others. I have communicated with the developer and here is how I installed it. Download XBC 2.0 from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/x-bc/x-bc2.0.tar.gz?download Download the .bc extensions from http://x-bc.sourceforge.net/download.html Install the gtkmm developement libraries from the Suse dvd or cdrom. There is another you need, but forgot what it is. When you do ./configure, it will tell you that is missing. Install that developement library from the Suse dvd or cdrom. After the ./ configure completes successfully, the su to root and do a make instead of make install. Create a .xbc directory in your home cirectory and copy the .bc extension files into it. Copy the xbc2.0/src/xbc executeable to a location of your choise. I put it in my home directory. Create a link to XBC on the desktop. Good Luck. Art

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no sounds on IBM T41
by Janne Karhunen 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Hi, Is there some invisible mute button on T41 besides the one on keyboard? Alsaconf & yast say everything is fine when it comes to drivers, and so do applications but T41 just doesn't make a single beep. Adjusting volume affects nothing. Tried to adjust it via yast, alsamixer, kmix, kamix, .. yet nothing. Ideas? -- // Janne

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Mozilla-FireFox as a User
by Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

I installed the SuSE v9.3 FireFox rpm. It works fine as root, but when I atteipt to open it as a user I get: computation@abnormal:~> firefox & [1] 16138 computation@abnormal:~> (Gecko:16145): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_parent_window: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed (Gecko:16145): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_is_viewable: assertion `window != NULL' failed (Gecko:16145): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_parent: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed /usr/bin/firefox: line 254: 16145 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM $MOZ_LANG Assistance will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry

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Example of rc.local for Suse
by Adrian 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Hi. I was missing a rc.local (as in redhat/fedora) in order to launch some programs/daemons AFTER the whole system has booted. I found "/etc/init.d/boot.local", but there we can read: # /etc/rc.d/boot.local # # Here you should add things, that should happen directly # after booting before we're going to the first run level. This is, things are launched BEFORE going into the first runlevel. In fedora's rc.local, things are launched AFTER the system has booted: # /etc/rc.d/rc.local # # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts. # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff. Well, I've made a script that simulates Fedora's rc.local. I show it since it can be useful for many people. It would be nice if Suse guys include something similar into next releases of Suse. Steps to simulate rc.local in Suse: 1) Create a "/etc/rc.d/rclocal" script, with this content: ---------------------------- #! /bin/sh ## This script simulates redhat's rc.local (Add commands at the end) ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: rclocal # Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network # X-UnitedLinux-Should-Start: $ALL # Required-Stop: # X-UnitedLinux-Should-Stop: # Default-Start: 3 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6 # Short-Description: Simulates rc.local # Description: Simulates redhat's rc.local: contains # commands to execute after system has booted (all services are already # available) ### END INIT INFO ## Execute ony when service is started case "$1" in start) ## commands will be executed ;; *) exit 0 ;; esac # vvvvv Add your commands bellow this line vvvvv ---------------------------- 2) Add executable permision: chmod +x rclocal 3) Create symlink to make it easy to find: ln -s rclocal rc.local 4) Activate the service by using yast2: yast2 > System > Runlevel editor > rclocal > Enable You can add/remove commands to /etc/rc.d/rc.local anytime you wish.

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SquirrelMail update broken?
by Jeffrey L. Taylor 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

It seems to me that squirrelmail-1.4.2-64.5 is broken. There are at least two calls in src/mime.php to function that are not defined, sq_defang() and sq_unspace(). Is anyone else seeing this? TIA, Jeffrye

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