August 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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System freeze
by Chip Cooper 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

I am running suse 9.2, KDE 3.4.2 and kernel 2.6.8-24, and have been having an annoying problem that seems to be getting worse. Whenever I play either a mp3 or listen to streaming music from the net, the system will freeze completely--not even able to switch to terminal & I end up having to reboot. Now it is happening if I play mpegs as well. No luck with Google and not sure how to proceed in debugging this issue. I am beginning to wonder if it is a hardware problem or IRQ issue, because a while ago I gave 9.3 a try, and it would still freeze when playing mp3 or streaming music. Pretty clueless. Any advice or pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Chip

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RE: [SLE] Need to use an MTA with Fetchmail??
by Marlier, Ian 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

what's wine for, then? Ken's right; Outlook and fetchmail won't run on the same system, unless you run Outlook inside of an emulator on Linux, or fetchmail within Cygwin. But goodness knows, you're _definitely_ going to want to run Outlook as your mail client. (Note: this is sarcasm. I use Outlook by necessity for my work e-mail account, and am not a fan. Try Thunderbird or another client.) Ken: Nice solution to the "reply/reply-to-list" problem. - Ian -----Original Message----- From: Ken Schneider [mailto:suse-list@bout-tyme.net] Sent: Wed 8/3/2005 10:10 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Need to use an MTA with Fetchmail?? On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 19:04 -0400, Aaron Bridge wrote: > James Knott wrote: > > >a.bridge(a)insightbb.com wrote: > > > > > >>I have fetchmail setup to download messages from my companies ISP. It is doing > >>that correctly for my test account. However when I use the email client > >>(Outlook in this Case) i cannot download the messages to Outlook. > >> > >>Am I missing a part here. Do I need to also be using Sendmail or Postfix along > >>with fetchmail in order to allow Outlook to download the messages. Although I > >>am not new to Linux this is my first attempt at something like this so any > >>additional help or ideas would be very helpful. The end result I want is to use > >>SpamAssasin to filter Spam before the User can download it. > >> > >> > > > >You need to set up a local pop or imap (preferred) mail server. > > > > > > > Isn't that was fetchmail does? > > I wasn't aware of fetchmail running on a system running Outlook. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge -- 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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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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Network printing on 9.3
by Ulrich Leopold 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Dear list, I am running SuSE 9.3 on a Dell Inspiron 8200 Laptop. I am currently trying to configure the network printer properly. I managed to configure a ricoh Aficio 2045 on an LPD server. When I print a test page it works perfectly. But whenever I want to print as a user or root later, nothing happens. I don't know whether the printjob gets stuck somewhere. 'lpq'doe snot give much information. Just that it's ready to print and that there are no print jobs queued. Any idea how to solve this and where to look. I am using gnome. I tried from gnome applications and via 'lp' and 'lpr'on the command line either as root and a user. Nothing works except printing test pages. I would appriciate your help. Cheers, Ulrich

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Re: [SLE] Reiserfs corrupting on IDE HD with 9.3 (and not 9.2)
by Carl E. Hartung - SuSE Mail List Account 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hi again to everyone who's responded so far, I'm using webmail that times out if I take too long to respond, so here's what's up: In addition to the JDB error, there has been a change in the IDE controller module. The 9.2 boot sequence contained a remark about the SiS IDE controller chip being "not 100% native mode" and "will probe ??? later". Could this be related?

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Re: [SLE] Reiserfs corrupting on IDE HD with 9.3 (and not 9.2)
by Carl E. Hartung - SuSE Mail List Account 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

> verify your hard disk with the manufacturer's testing tools... Hi Cristian, Thanks, but that was done first thing. It all checked out, so I reinstalled 9.2 and ran it for a few days and rechecked to rule out temperature effects. I have some new clues: from dmesg: "JBD: barrier-based sync failed on hdc3 - disabling barriers" Note: The affected partition is EXT3. If I 'sync' manually when a process 'hangs' with the hard drive activity indicator stuck 'on', all seems to be OK. So how do I fix this error? Thanks - Carl --

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Video editing in Linux
by Audrius 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hi, where I can find info on how to capture video from DV cam, then edit it and then encode it to fit on CD or DVD? It could be free soft or commercial soft if price is normal ;-) Audrius

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