August 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Problems with wireless devices?
by robbinsc＠email.arizona.edu 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

I'm having a lot of trouble getting my wireless card to work with my wireless AP. I have one of the famous-for-not-releasing-drivers Broadcom chipsets (specifically the Dell Truemobile 1300 (B/G) ). I tried using ndiswrapper, but I had little success. The driver installed properly, and everything else worked fine, but I couldn't get SuSE to ping the router and get an IP address. I tried a few restarts, but nothing happened. I started over again, this time using Linuxant's Driverloader package. The problem remains the same. I've set the configuration quite a few times, both within YaST and by using iwconfig. I've also tried using ifdown to stop eth1 and then restart it and dhcp with ifup. Is this a known bug, or am I doing something wrong? I can confirm the AP is working fine, because the other computers on my network are reporting no problems. The weird thing is - if I execute KWifiManager, the AP is seen, the ESSID displayed, and the signal is reported as 100% (which makes sense, as I'm seated right next to the router), but it can't detect the MAC of the AP, and it says that it's disconnected. Thanks for the help. -Chris

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HFSplus stability
by Greg Freemyer 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Does anyone know how stable the HFS+ is in SUSE 9.3. It is a part of the vanilla kernel, and I assume part of the 9.3 SuSE kernel. FYI: HFS+ is the current Mac OS X filesystem of choice. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century

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RE: [SLE] somehow lost X libs
by James D. Parra 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

> Hello, > > Somehow, while attempting to start X the following errors appear; > > # startx > xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > xinit: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > > I have no idea what happened. Any ideas on how to fix it though? >Sounds like something happened to xorg-x11-libs >Use YaST to reinstall it from the CDs/DVD Thanks Anders. After looking at Yast, can see that "i" means its already installed, but how do you force a reinstall? Thank you again, ~James

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somehow lost X libs
by James D. Parra 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Hello, Somehow, while attempting to start X the following errors appear; # startx xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory xinit: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I have no idea what happened. Any ideas on how to fix it though? Many thanks, James

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RE: [SLE] Kdesktop Locker Signal 11 (SIGSEGV) LDAP
by Urciolo, Kevin 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

The crash is consistent on several machines. One problem area may be that KDM 3.4.1 (I just tried 3.4.2 and it has the same problem) is used along with everything else KDE being 3.2.1. There did not seem to be package dependencies. KDM was bumped up to allow password expiration prompts to function with LDAP. KDM 3.2.1 would prompt the user to change his/her password. However, it would complain that the orginal password was incorrect, even though the prompt did not ask for it. -----Original Message----- From: Anders Johansson [mailto:andjoh@rydsbo.net] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 5:53 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Kdesktop Locker Signal 11 (SIGSEGV) LDAP On Thursday 11 August 2005 23:41, Urciolo, Kevin wrote: > We are using Novell Desktop. We are using LDAP for authentication. > An error is received when the screensaver exits: Kdesktop Locker > signal 11 (SIGSEGV). The screensaver is set to require a password to unlock. > > Any ideas what is happening? > > Here is the trace: It seems to be crashing inside one of the basic functions of qt, the creator function of QString. Usually, when these basic functions crash, it is a signal that there are hardware memory problems in the system. Does it always crash like this, and is the crash backtrace always identical? If it seems to be random, this would be further indication that it is a memory problem. Have you run the memtest program (found on the boot menu) on this machine? If it always crashes at exactly the same place, then it could still be a software error. Do you have all the latest updates installed? -- 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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OpenSUSE is launched
by Andreas Jaeger 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Sorry for the short announcement. We have now launched openSUSE and released SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS Beta1 to the public. All ISOs and FTP trees have been synced out. The ISOs do not contain sources, they are only part of the FTP tree inside the "inst-source" directory. Please note that the OSS edition of SUSE Linux 10.0 do only contain open source software. Therefore java and depending packages are missing atm. This does also include OpenOffice.org for now. We do definitively not want to lock out the open source Java community, so we decided to offer these with an extra YaST installation source on our server ("inst-source-java" directory). OpenOffice.org does live there also. This package repository can be added in the YaST "Installation Source" manager as additionally source. General download instructions and mirrors can get found on this page http://opensuse.org/index.php/Download Have fun and keep in mind to read the "most annoying bugs" page before your download ;) http://opensuse.org/index.php/Bugs%3Amost_annoying_bugs Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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Should we use jigdo for some kind of downloads?
by Guillermo Ballester Valor 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Hello, I would like to OpenSUSE to consider the possiblity of use jigdo to download releases with a lot of save for servers and clients. I wrote a small comment in opensuse wiki I repeat here: We could use jigdo to download the ISO files with a lot few space used in mirrors and saving a lot of banwidth. In addition, OpenSuse could offer more formats (as DVD) with very few effort. This method has been used to reassemble the released double layer DVD for SuSE 9.3 into two single layer DVD. jigdo is used actively in distributions as Debian. You can read more about it at http://www.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Remastering_dvd_with_jigdo This time, OpenSUSE only should have to generate the 'jigdo' and 'template' files, with links to the ftp tree where to download the packages. Assume you have all the CD set of first beta. Then, 10 days later, a second beta is released. In this second beta only 10% of packages has changed. Why have you to download again all the isos, with 90% of repeated RPMS?. jigdo is here for help!. Basically, this is what we would have to do: 1) Download the jigdo and template files. Tipically few MB for a CD/DVD iso. 2) Mount the old version CD or DVD. To mount the ISO files are even better 3) jigdo-lite script will reuse all the needed contain from old media and will download the new files from ftp server, creating the new isos :) As result: A) The mirrors don't have to allocate all the possible set of CD/DVD isos, only the ftp tree with individual packages, and small jigdo files. B) The server save a lot of banwidth C) The clients save a lot of download time. It is interesting for most users with narrow bandwidth. Guillermo -- Guillermo Ballester Valor gbv(a)oxixares.com Ogijares, Granada SPAIN Linux user #117181. See http://counter.li.org/ Public GPG KEY http://www.oxixares.com/~gbv/pubgpg.html

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RE: [opensuse] admin??
by Murphy, James (Tech) 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Guys For any linux distro to be successfull what we need to come up with is a combination of releases based on the following. 1 desktop [ lightweight kde] with yast set up with the 4 or 5 repositories 2 server distro with webmin and easy integration into a active directory network 3 multimedia distro that OEM builders could use on new home media centers, people have to have 1 company that will build on this, there is no other way to make linux into a household item. -----Original Message----- From: Marcus Cooper [mailto:fmwt.marcus@gmail.com] Sent: Wed 8/10/2005 1:44 PM To: opensuse(a)opensuse.org Cc: Subject: Re: [opensuse] admin?? urm I think it means administrator your own account. On 10/08/05, jdd <jdd(a)dodin.org> wrote: > loging out of opensuse, I fall in a page with left column > for account admin > > http://www.opensuse.org/ICHAINLogout/?%22http://www.opensuse.org/cmd/ICSLog… > > is that normal? i'm not an admin :-) > > (I know, it needs a pass to make things, but it's gives bad > ideas :-) -- Photos : www.flickr.com/photos/marcusc Blog : marcusbrain.blogspot.com `The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.' HST --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help(a)opensuse.org

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Kdesktop Locker Signal 11 (SIGSEGV) LDAP
by Urciolo, Kevin 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

We are using Novell Desktop. We are using LDAP for authentication. An error is received when the screensaver exits: Kdesktop Locker signal 11 (SIGSEGV). The screensaver is set to require a password to unlock. Any ideas what is happening? Here is the trace: [New Thread 1094642048 (LWP 1705)] (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...0xffffe410 in ?? () #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () #1 0xbfff9a24 in ?? () #2 0x00000000 in ?? () #3 0x00000000 in ?? () #4 0x41199163 in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 #5 0x407223d2 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #6 <signal handler called> #7 0x40db4b89 in QString::QString () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #8 0x4168d3a2 in KClassicGreeter::KClassicGreeter () from /opt/kde3/lib/kde3/kgreet_classic.so #9 0x4168ddea in create () from /opt/kde3/lib/kde3/kgreet_classic.so #10 0x08052ae6 in PasswordDlg::PasswordDlg () #11 0x080550c1 in LockProcess::checkPass () #12 0x08056a07 in LockProcess::x11Event () #13 0x40765362 in KApplication::x11EventFilter () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #14 0x08051614 in MyApp::x11EventFilter () #15 0x40a0bf07 in qt_x11EventFilter () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #16 0x40a189d9 in QApplication::x11ProcessEvent () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #17 0x40a2da85 in QEventLoop::processEvents () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #18 0x40a96a31 in QEventLoop::enterLoop () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #19 0x40a96876 in QEventLoop::exec () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #20 0x40a808df in QApplication::exec () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #21 0x08058d3f in main ()

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What linux should be
by Murphy, James (Tech) 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Guys I honestly think that opensuse should have a base system , ie KDE [ but lightened up] repositories built into YAST [ BUT NOT ENABLED] Suse/novel did a great job integrating open office 2.0 and I think they should continue this. In the event that legal issues require no codec sect for multimedia programs in YAST before being allowed to enable the sources a legal signoff should appear releasing opensuse from all legal liability. There should be a team of coders that should take a bunch of the leading multimedia apps such as mplayer,acidrip,grip,streamtuner and others and build them into more attractive programs , I find when I try to get people to use linux that even though we have programs that do exactly the same thing as the windows counterparts everyone will say right off that they just look lame!

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