February 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Start-up stops at "/sbin/preload /etc/preload.d/kdm"
by David Geiger 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hi folks, after a (working) reinstallation and a full update, my SUSE 10.0 stops at start-up when going into runlevel 5 at the script S03earlykdm which executes "/sbin/preload /etc/preload.d/kdm". When I kill the preload process everything works fine. I've tried to run preload manually with --help and without, but it doesn't say anything and I have to do Ctrl+C to get out again. Maybe this is "normal", I don't know. My System is up-to-date and a reinstallation of preload didn't bring any change. I'm using kernel 2.6.13-15.8-default (also tried 2.6.15-jad2). Nothing in syslog. Any ideas about this strange behaviour? Regards, David -- David Geiger info(a)david-geiger.de

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ntop-like prog for monthly stats.
by pelibali 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hi, I checked the archive and found ntop for preparing stats on the net- work traffic I have e.g. on my eth0. I liked the program itself, but I would rather need simpler and not so comprehensive stats; preferably would like to see a monthly stat with all of the traffic summary with not so much details. Is there a software like that existing? I also tried bandwidthd, but in the case of temporal existence of a particular interface that's quite tricky to load everytime and let it reload the previous stats from logfiles... Thank you, Pelibali

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Nokia pc suite
by Per Qvindesland 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hello All, Has anyone managed to get Nokia PC Suite working on a Suse or Linux box? Regards Per Qvindesland

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Status of XFS resising?
by Marc Christensen 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hi, Does anyone know of the status of resizing XFS file systems? Last I knew, XFS could be grown but not shrunk. Is this still the case? I am interested mostly in this for resizing of LVM volumes. Thanks... -- Marc C. http://blog.mecworks.com

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Re: [opensuse] Frontpage redesign - call for proposals.
by scsijon 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

At 07:53 AM 27/02/2006, you wrote: >On 2/26/06, scsijon <scsijon(a)net2000.com.au> wrote: > > At 08:55 AM 26/02/2006, you wrote: > > >On 2/26/06, Joseph M. Gaffney <CuCullin(a)wtfisthat.net> wrote: > > >My personal opionion is that www.opensuse.org should automatically > > >redirect to the language your browser is requesting. If it doesn't > > >exist, then en.opensuse.org. > > > I disagree here, it should go to a language select page, allowing the > > "visitor" the ability to chose whatever language they wished to use from > > those available. > > Just why everyone is expected to have the same "second language" > > is a "disapointment". > >If you set up you browser properly, with all your languages of >preference, then such a specific page is not required. This of course >is not reality :-) this is not what I answered, what I meant (and obviously not understood) is, from what I read as had been decided is if the system could not supply users language (from browser config or elsewhere), it would supply english instead. what I had sugested is that if the system could not supply the users default language, the user is supplied with a page with all the language choices available and let the user chose. there are many countries out there that don't have english as the second language it's lucky to be the third. scsijon >I totally agree that it should be easy to switch from one language to >another, whether that is on a "splash" screen or incorporated into the >front page, I don't think really matters. As long it is clear how to >get to the other languages (no matter what languages you understand). > >Peter 'Pflodo' Flodin.

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HP Photosmart 8700
by Fred A. Miller 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Is anyone using this printer with SUSE 10.0? If so, your impressions? Problems? Thanks, Fred -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x

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auto login in gdm under 9.3
by Mike McMullin 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Sorry about breaking the thread, but I killed the articles. Would the OP mind checking out the following links? http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-Dec/2039.html and also http://www.bellevuelinux.org/automatic_login.html note the use of gdmsetup

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SuSE 10 won't start after update with apt-get on 24 feb.
by GJE 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hello, I have a problem with starting SuSE, yesterday I did a update with apt/get and after that the problems where there. When starting up it hangs on the point ""starting powersaved" or after that point. I have put back a image and did al the update's again, with the same problems after that. So there is a package that gave this problem, but witch one??? Are there more people with this problem?? And how to solve it? Thanks Gerrit Jan

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wget bug or dumb user?
by Carlos E. R. 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to download the whole 9.3 update tree for a friend without internet access. I'm doing it this way (mind: some very long lines): #!/bin/bash wget --continue --timestamping --quota=1800m -r -l3 --limit-rate=90k \ --no-remove-listing -nH --cut-dirs=5 --output-file=LOGFILE \ --reject "OpenOffice*-af-*rpm,OpenOffice*-ar-*rpm,OpenOffice*-be-*rpm,OpenOffice*-bg-*rpm,OpenOffice*-ca-*rpm,OpenOffice*-cs-*rpm,OpenOffice*-cy-*rpm,OpenOffice*-da-*rpm,OpenOffice*-de-*rpm,OpenOffice*-el-*rpm,OpenOffice*-et-*rpm,OpenOffice*-fi-*rpm,OpenOffice*-gu-*rpm,OpenOffice*-hr-*rpm,OpenOffice*-hu-*rpm,OpenOffice*-it-*rpm,OpenOffice*-ja-*rpm,OpenOffice*-ko-*rpm,OpenOffice*-nb-*rpm,OpenOffice*-nl-*rpm,OpenOffice*-nn-*rpm,OpenOffice*-pa-*rpm,OpenOffice*-pl-*rpm,OpenOffice*-pt-*rpm,OpenOffice*-ru-*rpm,OpenOffice*-sk-*rpm,OpenOffice*-sl-*rpm,OpenOffice*-sv-*rpm,OpenOffice*-xh-*rpm,OpenOffice*-tr-*rpm,OpenOffice*-zh-*rpm,OpenOffice*-zu-*rpm" \ --exclude-directories=/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/x86_64 \ "ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/update/9.3/" It is the "--exclude-directories" option that is causing me the biggest problem: after I added it, it never stops, it goes round and round downloading (skipping, actually) the same files. I had to make it log to a file to make sure, it was flipping by so fast. I track the download marking the ".listing" entries in the log (trimmed for clarity): - --20:30:58-- ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/update/9.3/ => `i386/update/9.3/.listing' 20:31:01 (14.83 MB/s) - `i386/update/9.3/.listing' saved [5412] 20:31:06 (71.81 KB/s) - `i386/update/9.3/deltas/.listing' saved [2574208] 20:31:16 (27.28 KB/s) - `i386/update/9.3/patches/.listing' saved [241797] 20:31:24 (27.75 KB/s) - `i386/update/9.3/patches.obsolete/.listing' saved [121069] 20:31:26 (18.86 MB/s) - `i386/update/9.3/rpm/.listing' saved [5655] 20:31:30 (69.83 KB/s) - `i386/update/9.3/rpm/i586/.listing' saved [6910062] 20:32:02 (46.33 MB/s) - `i386/update/9.3/rpm/i686/.listing' saved [34980] 20:32:04 (22.74 KB/s) - `i386/update/9.3/rpm/noarch/.listing' saved [426240] 20:32:07 (50.95 KB/s) - `i386/update/9.3/rpm/src/.listing' saved [2124577] ... Not descending to `pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/x86_64' as it is excluded/not-included. ... 20:32:13 (70.47 KB/s) - `i386/update/9.3/rpm/i586/.listing' saved [7107435] 20:32:38 (79.04 KB/s) - `i386/update/9.3/rpm/i686/.listing' saved [36146] Notice that it has gone round again to download the same i386/update/9.3/rpm/i586/ directory again! And it continued... ... 20:32:48 (72.20 KB/s) - `i386/update/9.3/rpm/i586/.listing' saved [7304808] 20:33:25 (72.53 KB/s) - `i386/update/9.3/rpm/i586/.listing' saved [7502181] 20:33:57 (70.83 KB/s) - `i386/update/9.3/rpm/i586/.listing' saved [7699554] 20:34:33 (71.51 KB/s) - `i386/update/9.3/rpm/i586/.listing' saved [7896927] 20:35:14 (70.25 KB/s) - `i386/update/9.3/rpm/i586/.listing' saved [8094300] Before I killed it, it had gone round 7 times in 5 minutes - fortunately, it only really downloads the ".listing" files, due to the "--continue" switch. What is happening? :-O [...] Those ".listing" files were increasing in size... yeap, the server was syncing. A while later retried, downloaded some files related to ethereal, and finished normally. Then I tried some hours later, and it also worked normally. Weird... The problem is solved, but... why the fact that the server was adding some new files caused wget to get into a never ending loop? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEBMfntTMYHG2NR9URAinRAJ9KoVoidmQXcmAe53w77lS08bHvOACgj2LF tCluItIMup07DXQ3gY2gb0c= =5pZi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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apcupsd configuration
by Dave Howorth 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

I've just installed apcupsd using YaST on a SUSE 9.3 system and am confused by what I need to do to get it to work. YaST didn't give me any prompts or errors and I haven't found any SUSE README files or anything. Is there a SUSE way to activate the system or do I need to follow the apcupsd generic instructions? The source of the apctest man page is in the packages doc area for example, but neither the man page nor the program itself are installed. It looks like a half-installed package? I've got a Back-UPS CS 350 with a USB connection and the apcupsd config file needs me to specify something like /dev/usb/hiddev[0-15] but I've no idea how to determine the device number. Thanks, Dave

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