August 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

How do I get the correct file ownerships to show in the client machines?
by Art Fore 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

Starting a new thread as the other thread got into other problems that got solved. Running NFS Server on a server with the /home directory shared. /home/afore ownership afore UID 1000 /home/lilo ownership lilo UID 1002 Client machine (afore) running NFS Client. Mounted remote file system shows /home/afore ownership afore UID 1000 /home/lilo ownership 1002 Other client machine (lilo) running NFS Client, Mounted remote file system shows /home/afore ownership lilo UID 1000 /home/lilo ownership 1002 How can I get the ownership of the shared directories to be corret, that is, the same on both client machines and the server? Art

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webforum
by Carl William Spitzer IV 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

do we have a reader for these inconvenient web forums. one of my support lists for a winblows product is switching from convenient email to inconvenient web forum. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

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Any issues with packages from gnome repository
by Trey Sizemore 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Does anyone know of issues with packages currently in the gnome apt-for-suse repos? I'd heard there might be issues, so was wondering if I should update things like gtk2 packages. -- Cheers, Trey ---- On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks. -- Avery Linux salamander 2.6.11.4-21.8-default i686 GNU/Linux 7:38pm up 5 days 10:26, 3 users, load average: 0.36, 0.50, 0.29

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LSI MegaRaid monitor HOW-TO
by Brad Dameron 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

First off get this package from LSI. http://www.lsilogic.com/downloads/license.do?id=2000&did=7776&pid=2411 It is the driver package for SuSe 9.1. In that drive package is a directory called Utilities/MegaMON. In MegaMON is a file named lsi_v35.tgz. Do a tar -xzvf lsi_v35.tgz. This is the monitor app you will need. Then do a ./install -Suse. This will install the binaries and install the startup script of raidmon in /etc/init.d and set itself to start on the runlevels 2,3,4,5. I have modified my raidmon file to include some other items. Below is mine: ------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh # # chkconfig: 2345 20 80 # description: RAIDMon is a daemon that monitors the RAID subsystem # And generates e-mail to root # processname: MegaServ. # source function library . /lib/lsb/init-functions case "$1" in start) megadevice="megadev0" rm -f /dev/$megadevice 2>/dev/null megamajor=`cat /proc/devices|gawk '/megadev/{print$1}' ` mknod /dev/$megadevice c $megamajor 0 2>/dev/null # New check: 10-31-01: Does node exist if [ ! -c /dev/$megadevice ] then echo " Character Device Node /dev/$megadevice does not exist. Raid Monitor could not be started " exit 1 fi echo -n 'Starting RAID Monitor:' startproc /usr/sbin/MegaCtrl -start > /dev/null sleep 1 ; MegaCtrl -disMail touch /var/lock/subsys/raidmon MegaCtrl -enChkCon # check consistency on a Saturday at 01:00 very 4 weeks MegaCtrl -cons -h01 -w4 -d6 echo ;; stop) echo -n 'Stopping RAID Monitor:' startproc /usr/sbin/MegaCtrl -stop megadevice="megadev0" rm -f /dev/$megadevice 2>/dev/null rm -f /var/lock/subsys/raidmon 2>/dev/null echo ;; restart|reload) $0 stop $0 start ;; *) echo "RAID Monitor is not Started/Stopped" echo "Usage: raidmon {start|stop|restart}" exit 1 esac exit 0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Then just start the raidmon. The above changes tell my system to do a consistency check once a month at 1:00am. This makes sure my RAID5 is working like it should. Also note there will be a log file of /var/log/megaserv.log. I use this setup on about a dozen production machines. It works perfectly. This will work on 32bit and 64bit machines. Brad Dameron Systems Administrator SeaTab Software www.seatab.com

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How to use Logical Volume Management
by James Knott 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

I've just installed SuSE 10.0 beta, using LVM for most of the partitions. I was of the understanding that LVM allowed for the resizing of partitions, without shutting down the computer etc. However, when I try using LVM in Yast, I get an error message, that changing the partition size may result in loss of data. When I tell it to proceed, no change is made. I get similar results in Partitioner. There is some free space in the volume. What am I doing wrong? Have I misunderstood LVM? tnx jk

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Windowmaker will not work with previous version
by houghi 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

When I mount my usual /home on 10.0B1 and I want to use WindowMaker as my windowmanager it crashes. I normaly use 9.1. The error I get is to look in .xsession-errors I have installed the Gnome version. When I use new user it works without any problem. The error I get in .xsession-errors is: /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. *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker terminated X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 42 (X_SetInputFocus) Serial number of failed request: 1340 Current serial number in output stream: 1341 Is this SUSE related or WindowMaker related? houghi -- Stay away from flying saucers today.

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language
by jdd 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

it's probably an evidence, but it should be stated officially on the wiki page what langages are allowed _for opensuse_ beta testing. For now, I should probably be english (work language), even if probably in the future local groups can be setup. jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr

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Installation Problem
by Ulrich Hölscher 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Hi All, I tried to install openSUSE Beta1, but I was not able to finish the installation. System: Intel Pentium D 830 Motherboard: P5LD2 Delux Intel ICH7R SouthBridge Silicon Image 3132 SATA controller ITE 8211F IDE controller ALC882M High-Definition Audio Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit LAN I checked the MD5 sums of all CD's. During the base installation it was not possible to install: bind-libs-32bit gettext-32bit libcrypt-32bit libgpg-error-32bit syslinux Another problem was the Grub installation, I was not able to install it anywhere. After I repaired Grub I could continue the installation. During the installation of info2html the installation the machine hangs. After another reboot the installation continues and I got the Error Message: InstTarget:E_RpmDB_subprocess_failed error:db4 error(-30978) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery For these packages: kernel-docs latex_ucs digikamimageplugins kbear kbiff kdeaccessability3 kdeadmin3 kdeartwork3 kdeedu3 kdegames3-acrade kdegames3-board kdegames3-card kdegames3-tactic kdemultimedia3-video kdenetwork3-IRC kdenetwork3-dialup kdenetwork3-query kdenetwork3-wireless kdepim3-time-managment kdetoys3 kdinstat kfs kimdaba kio_ipodslave I did not continue at this point because I have got no time. At the weekend I will give it another try and will attach y2logs, hwinfo. Ciao, uli

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Portable OGG Player
by Steven Pasternak 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Hi! Does anybody know if there is such thing as a portable OGG player? (like iPod,MuVO,etc. NOT software) -Steven

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Damnit - We're There! My $.02 [crosspost mdk-suse]
by david rankin 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

<great! rant> Mates, Occasionally, I try to reflect and think about were we [Linux] are/[is] and how we are doing. Tonight is one of those occasions. As I look at the lists I am taken by the minimal nature of the problems with the distributions. Sure there are always app hiccups. But.. problems with the core OS components are (happily) NON EXISTENT. That speaks volumes. Gone are the pains of the gcc 2-3 transition. Gone are the horror stories of the kernel 2.2-2.4-2.6 rifts, the apache 1.3-2.0 trans, php and MySQL growing pains. Gone are the errors and seg faults in the infrastructure, such as gcc, bind, dhcp, samba, automount, pick-your-favorite, etc.... (although the "smartest guys in the room" are still dorking with the automount voodoo (don't get sucked into the registry model)) I jumped on board with mdk 7.0 (Air distro) and rode through the stock offering implosion and crippled 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2 releases, picked up SuSE with 8.0, and enjoyed the (albeit bumpy) ride through 8.1, 8.2 (not bad though), and the (fairly stable) ride through 9.0, 9.1, 9.2 and 9.3. I've tried every release. I'm not prejudiced, I have servers and desktops running mdk 7.2 (I'm lazy) , 10.1, 2005LE, SuSE 9.0, 9.2 and 9.3. Today, the point is: SuSE 9.3 and mdk 2005LE are awesome. They are both basically point and shot OS's. Yast and urpmi work (almost flawlessly). Grab a box, shuffle CDs (or DVD), update, configure and you're done. All hardware is amazingly recognized!!! (OK WPA and wireless can still be a challenge) I run both SuSE and mdk servers and desktops along with the Gates crippleware. We have finally gotten to the point (with a recent HD crash) that we are loading Linux as the desktop OS. That is a milestone! Unfortunately, we still require crippleware to run QuickBooks --- try handing your accountant an GNUcash file -- (LOL). And... unfortunately, when I go to trial, I still run crippleware. There are no viable substitutes for Summation, Trial Director, Visionary, power(less) point, and other trail tools. (does anybody hear OPPORTUNITY HERE??) (Summation gets $1900.00 per copy >= $5k for a 5 node license) OO is not yet a contender. (really simple stuff, database to collect transcript notes and issues, ability to search, sync and present transcript text and video, image-slideshows, etc..) The same shortfalls appear in Linux CAD software. Someone needs to contact AutoDesk or develop a similar CAD program with topo capability for land development applications, etc. But (sticking to the subject) -- damnit we're close... That's it though -- think about the other 99% of the business application handling Linux can do. When I, as an attorney and engineer, can utilize Linux for 95% of what I need to do, securely and with confidence, from servers to the desktop, the open source vision is almost complete! My servers have been exclusively Linux since 2000. The core server apps are bulletproof and it has only gotten better. The desktop has made huge leaps in the last 18 months. So much so that people now believe that GUI config tools are the way to configure a Linux box -- go figure... ( so much for # vi /etc/sysconfig/network...) All in all, if a weird lawyer can sit back and objectively say, "I see little or no barriers between transitioning between mickeysoft and Linux for what I do" (subject to the exceptions above), it says -- we have come a long way! On both sides of the fence -- keep up the great work! I can't wait for SuSE 10.0 and mdk 2006 (or whatever the new name may be..) </great! rant> -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN LAW FIRM, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com --

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