January 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

DVD/K3B Questions
by kai 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Two questions. On my laptop I have a DVD +/-R burner. When I recently went to put a DVD in to perform a backup, I got the following message after K3B (automatically) came up: Writing device _NEC - DVD+-RW ND-6500A is automounted. Automounting can cause problems with CD/DVD writing, especially with rewritable media. Although it might all work just fine it is recommended to disable automounting completely for now. Solution: Replace the automounting entries in /etc/fstab with old-fashioned ones. What's that? If I disable automounting then wouldn't my DVD/CD's not mount like they're supposed to? Second question: The DVD I put in is 4.7 GB. I had used DAR to make DVD slices of 4.3 GB each. When I went to burn them on the DVD, K3B balked and told me I couldn't make DVD's larger than 4GB. Huh? This is the first time I try to make a large DVD on 10.0 but on this same machine under 9.3 I don't recall having that issue. (I'm not sure I was using the same DVD media.) I copied the files over to my Win2K machine, where they wrote just fine. (Though I did get about fifty viruses and spyware installs - JK.) What's up with that? -- kai www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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TinyCA vs TinyCA2
by Josef Wolf 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Hello! About one year ago (that was on suse-9.0) I created a CA with TinyCA. I set the validity for the root-certificate to 10 years. Then I created several server certificates with validity of one year. Since then, I upgarded to suse-10.0 and the server certificates expired. Now I tried to create new server certificates. But TinyCA2 (which is bundeled in suse-10.0) refused to accept the CA passphrase. I tried several times, thus I can definitely disclaim that there was a typo. Then I copied the old TinyCA files from a backup onto the new suse-10.0 box and tried that. It accepted the passphrase on the first try and happily created the new server certificates. Any ideas what is broken here?

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gmane
by jdd 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

I was told gmane can be a good news front end for opensuse lists. why not :-) but on the gmane site, I'm unable to find the opensuse list. I found the site very confusing. going to "subscribe" I found a sheet asking for adding a _new_ list. I'm prety sure opensuse lmist is already there. so could it be possible to have a link in the "communicatee page, right on the good gmane place? and this can be even if a opensuse news server is made, is ever somebody preferes gmane thanks jdd - http://www.dodin.net Quelques images: http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html

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mail trail question
by mlist＠safenet-inc.com 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Summary: I'm doing a lot of backtracking in my simple little quest, because the task keeps getting interrupted for weeks at a stretch. Anyway, I'm still trying to set up a simple mail server in my tiny home network. I have the following picture in my head: - fetchmail grabs mail from my ISP's POP3 server and hands it off to... - some interim mail handling service/app and - magic happens, before - an imap server catches and holds that mail and serves it out to my clients on a couple of other computers at my house. I have not gotten past stage 1 yet. Yesterday, I ran one pass of fetchmail (with --keep) just to see what would happen. What happened is that 1545 messages came in, over a period of several minutes and went.... somewhere... I figure that they are on my hard disk somewhere in either MBOX format or maildir format (or maybe even mailboxes.db, but I doubt it) and: a) I don't know where they went. b) I don't know what format. QUESTION: What's the most straightforward way to find all that mail (before it gets mysteriously flushed or something), so I can begin to piece together how it's being handled now and what to do to have it handled the way I need? QUESTION 2: With only a few users on a few machines, and maybe a couple of hundred thousand messages stored for IMAP serving, is my best server option: - plain, vanilla imap - courier-imap - Cyrus-imap I understand that each of these also has preferred mailbox formats, so where in the mail trail does the incoming mail get mushed into one or another format? It seems to come from the ISP as single files, so I ASSume that the "conversion" to MBOX or maildir or [other option?] takes place either in fetchmail in the next app that handles the mail (procmail? sendmail? postfix?) before it reaches the resting place that imap will use. As for choosing a flavor of IMAP, I just don't know. I don't really want to get into setting up additional authentication databases (sasl? LDAP? other?), but if that would be simpler than the PAM or shadow requirements... well maybe... Last night, I had 22 browser windows open with a variety of Howtos and FAQs (many contradicting each other) for fetchmail, imap, Cyrus-imap, courier-imap, procmail, postfix, sendmail, qmail (no, I don't think I have qmail installed, but...). Basically I have an overload of info and an underload of knowledge or direction. I gave up and went to bed a 2:30 ... and got up at 5:30... oi! Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it.

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What Web Forums Are Good For
by Randall R Schulz 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Hi, Perhaps the perennial issue of adding a Web forum to the SuSE mailing lists is what really deserves a Web forum? RRS

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SuSE doesn't config Epson perfection 2450 PHOTO scanner
by Gracia M. Littauer 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

I'm using suseSUSE 10. It 'sees' it but comes up with 'not configured' & epkowa says 'no active scanner for this driver. I have had no trouble using it in SUSE 9.3 Any ideas?? > gracia@Vigor10:~> /usr/sbin/lsusb > Bus 003 Device 003: ID 04b8:0112 Seiko Epson Cor > p. Perfection 2450 > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05e3:0700 Genesys Logic, > Inc. SIIG US2256 CompactFlash Card Reader > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 -- Gracia...Cooleemee, NC Registered Linux user #263390 - SuSE 10 Pro My country, right or wrong. If right, to be kept right, if wrong, to be put right.

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Kernel failure on nsfserver activation
by SOTL 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Hi All I just updated OpenSuse 10.1 from Beta 1 to Beta 2. My next action was immediately see if nfsserver was operational. It was not in Beta 1. When I attempt to activate nfsservices in System Services Run Level I get the following error message. /etc/init.d/acpid start returned 5 (program is not installed): acpid: no ACPI support in kernel..skipped This is exactly the error message I got in Beta 1. At that time I issued a bug report indicating that one could not activate nfsservices and that this was the error message generated. Since this has not changed I have to assume that I am thus doing something wrong. Does anybody have a clue as to what the issue is? Thanks SOTL

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Upgrading Firefox on SuSE 9.1
by John N. Alegre 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Hello list, I am running a SuSE 9.1 Pro system. For lots of internal reasons we are not able to upgrade for at least the next year and will stay on 9.1. We want to upgrade Firefox from 1.0.x to 1.5.x. If I go out to rpm.pbone.net and check the requires for the package MozillaFirefox-1.5-3.1.x86_64.rpm I get a million unprovided dependencies. The 9.1 system is up to date with the exception of the kernel which is version 2.6.5. Is there a way to do this? Am I going for the wrong package? Are there one or two packages that would provide the needed libs? All comments welcome. john

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Help with Amavis and Spamassassin
by Jim Flanagan 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Thanks to all who helped, and especially Sandy, I've got my suse 10.0 box running my mail server now. My 8.2 box soon to be re-tasked. Mostly default postfix with cyrus imap. I do plan to add pop at some point for some email users. I've never used amavis before, nor spamassassin, and was wondering if someone could help me get kick started. I have amavisd-new installed from the 10.0 dvd, not yet installed spamassassin. I'm under the impresson that these both work together? I am getting mail in and out, but /var/log/warn shows many many of the following: Jan 25 18:53:16 cammee amavis[24374]: (24374-07) WARN: all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups Jan 25 19:01:26 cammee amavis[24336]: (24336-08) WARN: all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups Jan 25 19:01:52 cammee amavis[24374]: (24374-08) WARN: all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups Jan 25 19:02:11 cammee amavis[24336]: (24336-09) WARN: all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups I assume that I don't have anything actually configured in amavisd.conf, but not sure what to enable. And not at all sure how spamassassin fits into all this. Any pointers most welcome. Jim

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Re: [SLE] OpenGL screen savers don't work?? Problem with Nvidia installation?
by Jonathan Brooks 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Okay - trying to get to the bottom of this. Why is it that 3Ddiag fails to detect that I have nvidia drivers installed, when they patently are installed, and everything 3D related is working???? Here's the output of 3Ddiag, and it's a PCI-E card. If I look with nvidia-config it reports that I have the 8178 driver installed? So what's up??? /etc/X11 # 3Ddiag 3Ddiag version 0.728 Verifying 3D configuration: Using 3dinfo ************************************************************ Verifying 3D configuration for 3D board "nVidia Corporation GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM) (10de@0161)": Verifying driver installation: nvidia ... failed! ======================= !!! WARNING !!! ======================== Due to license issues only a Dummy Nvidia 2D/3D driver with Software 3D/OpenGL rendering is provided. Please download the official 2D/3D Nvidia driver from the nVidia webserver (http://www.nvidia.com) if you want to use 3D hardware accelerated 3D/OpenGL. ================================================================ Tests for X.Org configuration: Config File /etc/X11/xorg.conf ... done. Driver ... done. Extensions ... done. Options ... done. Checking GL/GLU/glut runtime configuration: GL/GLU ... done (package xorg-x11-Mesa) glut ... done (package freeglut) Kenneth Jennings wrote: > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 07:22, you wrote: >> OK, the solution was to add myself to the video user group in /etc/group >> - login is being handled by LDAP server. To be honest, if I'd bothered >> to read the NVidia support pages properly, I would have seen that this >> was a required step for GL applications to work properly. >> >> However, even with this step - 3Ddiag still thinks that my drivers >> aren't installed properly. What's that all about? > > This is what 3Ddiag tells me here (when run as root) (Suse 9.2): > > wolverine:~ # 3Ddiag > 3Ddiag version 0.722 > Verifying 3D configuration: > Using 3dinfo > ************************************************************ > > Verifying 3D configuration for 3D board "nVidia Corporation 0x0322 > (10de@0322)": > > > Verifying driver installation: > nvidia ... done. > > Tests for X.Org configuration: > Config File /etc/X11/XF86Config ... done. > Driver ... done. > Extensions ... done. > Options ... done. > > > Checking GL/GLU/glut runtime configuration: > GL/GLU ... done (package xorg-x11-Mesa) > glut ... done (package freeglut) > > > > > Here are some select parts of myXF86Config that metion things related to the > card/3D/nvidia: > ... > Section "Module" > Load "dbe" > Load "type1" > Load "freetype" > Load "extmod" > Load "glx" > Load "v4l" > Load "vnc" > EndSection > ... > Section "Device" > BoardName "GeForce FX 5700VE" > BusID "1:0:0" > Driver "nvidia" > Identifier "Device[0]" > Option "ConnectedMonitors" "DFP" > Option "usevnc" "yes" > Screen 0 > Option "Rotate" "off" > VendorName "NVidia" > EndSection > > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Layout[all]" > InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard" > InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer" > InputDevice "Keyboard[2]" "ExtraKeyboard" > InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "ExtraPointer" > Option "Clone" "off" > Option "VNC" "3 2" > Option "Xinerama" "off" > Screen "Screen[0]" > EndSection > > Section "DRI" > Group "video" > Mode 0660 > EndSection > > > > I never use SAX2 to setup the XF86Config. It is the tool of the devil (;-). > It rarely works, it almost always messes up the modelines and mouse settings. > I set things up by hand once and keep a backup of the XF86Config on another > computer. > > Thanks, > Ken Jennings > -- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Research Assistant. PaIN Group, Department of Human Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX tel: +44(0)1865-282654 fax: +44(0)1865-282656 web: http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~jon

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