July 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Installing 9.3 - "time is in the past" ?????
by Per Jessen 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

I've just spent about an hour configuring a new install - I wanted a fairly small footprint. Now that I'm ready to go, yast tells me "Time is in the past - please correct it". I try to correct it, but it has no effect. Seriously, this p...... me off. What does YasT care about the time? (never did before) - and I don't care anyway, it will be set via NTP when the box is up. Assuming I'll have to set the time via the BIOS setup, I'm now stuck with having to start over, customizing the config etc - at least another hours worth of work. Where's the YasT override for this sort of idiotic sillyness?? /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/freetrial - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution. Sign up for your free 30-day trial now!

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Lost partitions!
by Anders Norrbring 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Anyone with any great ideas on partition recovery? One of my servers went to a hang yesterday, I rebooted and nothing happened.. Both the first and second volumes on the Compaq Array has lost their partition tables, how that now can happen... The first volume contained the root and swap file systems, the second carried the /home sub tree. I've made disk copies with dd to files, but how would I go on from here? gpart doesn't find anything on any of the volumes, I haven't tried Partition Magic yet, someone suggested that one, but I can't see how it would do any good. Suggestions are really welcome! Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting

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Internet Problem Over LAN
by James Wright 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hello, I have Suse 9.2 running on 2 PCs in a Windows domain. The main domain server is Windows 2003. All of the thin clients and Windows machines are connecting to the internet fine. The Suse machines connect to the internet as well, but there are quite a few pages that are unreachable. Windows will load these pages, even running in VMWare on the Suse machines. Apparently I have a DNS problem, but I can't seem to figure it out. For my DNS I had two local addresses (for the Windows Server 2003 boxes). I added one of the ISPs DNS to the list, but it did not resolve the problem. I removed the Windows Server 2003 DNS entirely, and replaces with the ISPs DNS addresses, but still have the same problem. I must be missing something, but what? I am happy to post my DNS if necessary, is there a command line program that I can use to list this, so it is easier to send via e-mail? I would rather that than transcribing from Yast. Thanks. James Wright

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Dule boot question
by Mister 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

I have another version of linux on another partition and i installed SUSE. now Grub does not see the other version of linux. How can i fix this ? Regards, Dab Gordon -- Sat Jul 30 14:46:07 EDT 2005 2:46pm up 22:47, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.02, 0.01 "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." -- Mark Twain

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Proposals for SUSE list managers
by Arun Khan 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hello members, In the past couple of weeks I have sent a few suggestions to the list owner but have not received any feedback from him/her. Basically here are my suggestions: a) "Reply To" header - each SuSE list must use the "Reply To" header in the messages sent to members e.g. for this list, it should be "Reply To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com" All other lists that I am a member of use this feature. When members reply, they do not have to worry about editing the "To" header or right clicking in their message body or whatever. With this header the response _simply_ goes to the relevant SuSE list. I don't understand why SuSE list manager is not configured to do so. b) Digest mode - provide a digest option when member subscribes to any of SuSE's list. Again, all other lists that I am a member of provide this feature. Personally, I prefer the digest since the messages downloaded are fewer. I am sure the mailer program for SuSE lists has the digest feature. c) Google search bar for each of SuSE list archives. At http://lists.suse.com/archive/ I did not see any search capability. Perhaps they will listen if enough people voice their opinion. Thank you. -- Arun Khan <knura at yahoo dot com> Linux is a wigwam: No Windows, No Gates, Apache inside.

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Re: [SLE] swap space question in 9.3 install
by Carlos E. R. 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2005-07-29 a las 00:41 +0100, Jonathan Brooks escribió: You forgot to email to the list. > Huh, what has swap got to do with suspending to disk? I thought it just > mirrored what physical RAM you have installed????? Well, ask the kernel developpers :-) They decided to use swap space as space for swapping or suspending to disk. It makes sense to me, tasks are just swapped out completely before swapping out memory pages; it is a raw partition, no drivers involved: just ideal. In fact, when restoring, some memory pages are not swapped back in, they stay off for days. Look: top - 02:42:07 up 16 days, 4 min, 25 users, load average: 0.08, 0.22, 0.27 Tasks: 166 total, 1 running, 165 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 8.3% us, 2.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 88.4% id, 0.3% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 775852k total, 682772k used, 93080k free, 13196k buffers Swap: 1052216k total, 224240k used, 827976k free, 404580k cached Notice the used swap area, and ram used, free and cached. - -- Saludos Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFC6Xw5tTMYHG2NR9URAuJFAJ9CAB5Fju519deoTTdYnrC4ytvuJQCdHa8+ F4YxwOW784L6jm3ezoLSD7k= =S9Vq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Samsung Yepp YP-T7Z on SuSE 9.2
by Marc Christensen 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hi all, I just purchased a Samsung Yepp YP-T7Z 1GB flash MSP/OGG player which I'm very happy with. Ahem...The tuner works great but I would like to get my ogg collection onto the player and I don't have windows at home. http://product.samsung.com/cgi-bin/nabc/product/b2c_product_detail.jsp?prod… So, from what I understand, the player should appear as a USB mass storage device with some folders inside for music, pictures, etc. to which I should be able to copy my music. The problem is that when I connect the player to the USB hub on my SuSE 9.2 box (with all available updates), the machine cranks away for about ten seconds before it stops and then I click on "My Computer" where nothing shows up. This behavior is unlike my 64MB USB flash drive that I use which shows up perfectly and unlike my 60GB USB harddisk which also works fine in this system. So, what's up? Anyone else seeing this behavior? Anyone else using a Samsung player with Linux? Thanks. -- Marc Christensen http://www.mecworks.com http://blog.mecworks.com http://gallery.mecworks.com

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RE: [SLE] Spamassassin and spamd
by James D. Parra 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

>I typically upgrade SpamAssassin using the cpan method, however this >does occasionally cause a number of issues, some of which can take >some time to identify the cause of and resolve (the upgrade from >SpamAssassin 2.* to 3.* was particularly problematic in this respect, >due to a change in policy by the SpamAssassin maintainers in where >certain binaries were by default installed). >However, rather than building it yourself (or using cpan), you might >want to try: >http://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/choeger/spamassassin/i386/9.3/ Thank you for your response. Not sure which I should use. I built the rpms for the tarball with rpmbuild which created the following; Wrote: /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/spamassassin-3.0.4-1.i586.rpm Wrote: /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/spamassassin-tools-3.0.4-1.i586.rpm Wrote: /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.4-1.i586.rpm Should I uninstall "spamd"? Also, should I install these using Yast or just use rpm -Uvh? Thank you, ~James

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Trouble with YaST...
by JB 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hey gang, Today for the first time I tried to use the runlevel editor in YaST on my 9.3 system, but when it started it got to about 'cron' and then just sat there and did nothing more. Everything below 'cron' remained with the question marks. I even let it sit for an hour and a half and still nothing happened, it just sat there with the little clock next to the cursor. Anyone else had this problem? Any 'fix' anyone knows of? I'm updated with YOU since yesterday by the way. Thanks, JB

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firefox
by Mitja 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hi! SuSE 9.3, KDE 3.4.1, Firefox 1.0.6 I tried to open web page http://www.newsforge.com/articles/05/07/19/1824234.shtml but Mozilla-Firefox crashes all time. Konqueror open page correct. Thanks, Mitja

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