October 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

File permissions restore?
by Anders Norrbring 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Is there a quick and easy way to restore all file permissions in /etc and underlying directories? A friend of mine did a recursive chmod 644 on /etc, and of course the system is totally screwed up now.. It's a 10.1 installation. -- Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting

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[opensuse] removing fake raid
by RutePoint 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

just to elaborate more on my previous post, i get the following warning on installation: warning: this system has at least one hard disk with a raid configuration presented by the bios as raid that is in fact a software raid. the following disks were detected as part of such a raid: /dev/hda /dev/sda /dev/sdc the linux kernel 2.4 supported some of these systems (like promise fastrack and highpoint rocketraid). but the linux kernel 2.6 does not support them at all. if you install onto these disks, your raid configuration and any data on the raid will be lost- refer to http://portal.suse.com to learn how to migrate to a linux software raid. the thing is that, ive got 6 drives plugged in, 2 ide and 4 sata on an msi k8n diamond. some of these drives were in use in various scenarios of which one was on an asus k7v880 mobo running on via raid with windows. now i used knoppix and used fdisk to repartition the disks just to make sure, but still on boot i get that warning, how can i resolve or fix that? -- Regards -RP- ___________________________ If computers were made in heaven, would they be perfect? ___________________________

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[opensuse] Split the packages
by Jan Engelhardt 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Hey, in Solaris, many packages are split in two (e.g. SUNWzebrar and SUNWzebrau, just to pick a random one), of which one (the 'u' one) contains data that can be shared over NFS. This is an interesting concept because it allows a smaller install image for diskless and diskful clients and potentially chroots. What's the SUSE opinion on doing the same? -`J' -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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no sound
by Doug McGarrett 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Hello again-- Altho I am pretty sure I had sound when I had 10.0 on this machine, I now have 9.3, and no sound comes out. I first found that Skype was not outputting anything, then I tried a music CD. All the titles display as they should, but not a peep out of the speakers. I have checked the mixer settings, and everything is turned up, there is no mute bar thru the speaker in the bottom tool bar, or whatever it's called. I even tried other speakers. Running KDE. What do I do next? --doug

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Antivir on 10.1
by Jay C Vollmer 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Hi Everybody. Has anyone been able to successfully use Antivir on SuSE 10.1? Can anyone tell me why updates to the antivir.vdf file are disabled? -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER(a)VISI.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK - IGNORE FULLWISE

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[opensuse] how can I remove software raid "tag" from a disk
by RutePoint 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

greetings i threw in a number of disks to create a raid5 volume and one of the disks used to be in a system that was running windows using the via raid feature. now when i attempt to install opensuse 10.1 it warns me of it, yet it doesnt show me how i could remove that makring from the disk to use it normally. i might be missing something here as this is a bit too simple yet little known :) -- Regards -RP- ___________________________ If computers were made in heaven, would they be perfect? ___________________________

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Login manager changed after updates
by Robert Fitzpatrick 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

I have two SuSE 10.1 machines here and after doing updates recently on both of them, now both login managers have changed. The backgrounds are gone and the user list is no longer embedded in the screen, instead is now in a box center screen with the user name and password fields, black surrounds the box. Also, I've noticed my remote administration does not work, just hangs trying to connect via VNC. I can go to the terminal and type 'vncserver', which created a session on :2 and then use that with no problem. Can someone tell me what these updates may have done and how to fix them? I have several configured catalogs in the software updater. Thanks in advance, -- Robert

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[opensuse] xfonts packages
by Diego Rostagnol 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Hi. I'm new in Linux and in this list. Sorry for my poor English. I speak Spanish. I need to install these packages but I can found it's for Suse (9.3 and 10.0) xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi-transcoded xfonts-100dpi-transcoded xfonts-base-transcoded Can somebody helpme ? Thanks in advance. Diego Rostagnol Info Club Srl., Acostumbramos a dar Soluciones Vistenos en www.infoclub.com.uy "Hoy en día la programación es una carrera entre los ingenieros de software, afanándose por construir mejores y más grandes programas a prueba de idiotas, y el Universo, intentando producir mejores y más grandes idiotas. Hasta ahora, el Universo va ganando." - Rick Cook

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Problem with printing
by arnab mitra 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Hi all I am having this very strange problem I am using SuSE10 with KDE as my desktop . We have a network printer(Xerox Phaser 5500DN PS) and i have configured the printer as my default printer. Its prints just fine except that i cant turn on the Duplex printing option available . I had printed documents with this option before but suddenly i am not getting this duplex printing option at all Can anybody please help, Thanks in advance Regards Arnab

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[opensuse] Why "patterns" were born in openSUSE ? and UI idea.
by Alexey Eremenko 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

hi all ! Sorry for the stupid question, but I really want to know the direction of this idea. Generally, I believe in order to make newbies feel "at home", so they could learn Linux easier. Advanced ppl don't really need patterns (but it saves time even to advanced ppl)... I have opened a discussion about his topic: do we need to add "every" package to pattern to make it full, or just keep patterns *compact* ? This idea was used by RedHat from the ancient ages... Also in RedHat when a user selects a pattern so packages are "must-have" and are auto-selected while others are not. Do we wanna keep their principle ? =============================================== I have a better idea of organizing patterns UI: Ability to make one of 4 choices on each pattern, perhaps with a radio button. A. Unselected pattern (if user does not choose) B. Default Selected pattern. (if user chooses pattern, but doesn't touch the packages) C. Custom selected pattern. (if user chose pattern, and selected/deselected some packages - this must be shown) D. Fully selected pattern.(if user chose this with a radio button, or if he manually chose *every* package in this pattern) This idea is based on the concept that *every* package is included in at least 1 pattern. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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