April 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

06 Apr '06

As you may know, when installing 10.1 (at least beta 8), if you stop the install after the first cd, you get stuck by a wrong root login. having this problem, and knowing the lost root passwd is very frequent on the net, I setup a sdb page (in french, sorry). I nearly invented a new way to circomvent a somewhat better protection on the new (10.x) systems - it's no more sufficient --at least in this case-- to blank the passwd field. http://fr.opensuse.org/J'ai_perdu_le_mot_de_passe_root given the hardness of the subject I would be glad if some of you could check the solution on a testbed system (NOT on production system, please :-); I did this on a VMware install. thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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DMA in SUSE Linux?
by Shriramana Sharma 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Forgive the question of ignorance: Does (SUSE) Linux have this Direct Memory Access (DMA) thing or not? Windows seems to have it, and while I am not saying that Linux should have everything Windows does, I find that accessing optical discs from Linux is somewhat slower than from Windows. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.52 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-04-04 W14-2 UTC+0530

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udev nfsroot on suse
by Rene Salmon 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hi, I am trying to boot a suse client with nfsroot. The Suse client is diskless which is why I need it to boot from a server with nfsroot("/") readonly. Everything seems to be working fine except for udev. When the client boots it complains about /dev being read only. I need /dev to be entirely a tmpfs and to get populated at boot time by udev. I changed this line in /etc/init.d/boot.localfs: echo "Mounting local file systems..." mount -fv -t proc proc /proc mount -fv -t sysfs sysfs /sys mount -fv -t tmpfs tmpfs /dev ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ mount -fv -t tmpfs tmpfs /dev/shm rc_status but that did not work. I still get the message that /dev is read only here is the boot message: Mounting local file systems... proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5) done Starting udevd touch: cannot touch `/dev/devperms': Read-only file system Can anyone point me in the right direction or have any idea how to get /dev to be a tmpfs and get populated by udev at boot? Thanks Rene -- - -- Rene Salmon Tulane University Center for Computational Science Richardson Building 310 New Orleans, LA 70118 http://www.ccs.tulane.edu Tel 504-862-8393 Fax 504-862-8392

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connect to cellphone
by Richard 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

My new cellphone charges thru USB cable, dmesg says, "usb 1-10: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 9" when it is connected. What is this telling me about how I might access the linux file system on the phone? How do I discover the/a device name to use? Thanks for guidance to the confused. Richard

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Creating manual bootloader entries in YaST
by Shriramana Sharma 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hello people. I've installed Fedora 5 and ZenWalk 2.4 alongside my default-boot SUSE 10.0 for testing purposes. I did not want to disturb my SUSE GRUB so I told Fedora's and ZenWalk's installers not to install any boot-loader. Now I am unable to boot into them without a boot-loader entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst I am however at a loss how to create the entries. The YaST bootloader setup asks for: Kernel Initial RAM Disk Root Device VGA Mode Other Kernel Parameters However I don't know what to give as entries. Fedora is located at /dev/sda9 and ZenWalk at /dev/sda10. This is the only HDD on my system, so I presume the GRUB IDs would be hd(0,8) and hd(0,9) -- but beyond that I know not what to do. Last time when I installed Fedora 4, I used the SUSE installation DVD's repair feature to create a new boot loader -- and that feature automatically identified and created an entry for Fedora 4. But now it does not detect Fedora 5, or ZenWalk. Please advise. Thanks. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.52 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-04-06 W14-4 UTC+0530

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[9.3] apcupsd as netslave broken?
by T. Ribbrock 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hi all, I'm just after trying to get apcupsd to run in netslave mode on a SuSE 9.3 box. I was using the exact same configuration that I have working on a SLOX 4.1 box, but apcupsd would just start and exit immediately upon launch. Running an strace against apcupsd (as I couldn't find any error messages in the logs or using the -d switch) revealed that some subprocess exits with a segmentation fault. I then tried a step-for-step configuration changing one parameter in apcupsd.conf at a time until I finally discovered that apcupsd would crash as soon as I chose "UPSMODE net". I did not find any update for apcupsd for 9.3, nor did I manage to find the bugtracker for 9.3 on Novell's site (yuck, yuck, yuck - the olde SuSE site was much better...), so I decided to ask here... Has anybody come across this? BTW: I ended up installing the apcupsd from SuSE 10.0, which worked without a problem with the same configuration, hence, I think it is a bug in 9.3... Cheerio, Thomas

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Ekiga - no success
by Mr Jiff 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Is anybody using Ekiga (Gnomemeeting) successfully? If so are you having to use a stun server or even making holes in your firewall to get a connection? As you can tell I'm not having much success!

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Media mount failure on adding DVD source of installation?
by Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hi all, Recently I posted a question about a compatible DVD RW. I was able to get a LiteOn drive and had it inserted into the box. On next under-privileged user login the drive was detected automatically and added into the /etc/fstab file. I have had an ongoing problem with kppp (http://devel-home.kde.org/~kppp/index.html) and my external modem, and kinternet just doesn't do it for me. I decided to update the 9.2 kppp with the one on the Linux Magazine SuSE 10 DVD I had received in the hope that it might solve some or all of my kppp problems. Into Yast to change the source of installation:->Add->DVD. This failed though with the message box that it was unable to locate the installation source (Media mount failure). I clicked Yes to try again with the same result. The box has two optical devices on the same IDE cable: A CD-Rom which I initially installed from marked as Secondary slave and this new DVD-RW marked as Secondary Master. The fstab entry is: /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 What is causing me to be unable to read from this DVD-RW as the fstab entry for the CD-ROM is exactly the same(after the mount point entry, and I can use that one? -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.2 Professional with KDE ========================================================================

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edit video
by Francesco Scaglioni 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hi, What would be your best choice to edit video files in suse 10, mainly avi and asf files. TIA F

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Re: [SLE] [OT] Another good windows glitch - like we needed another one.
by Greg Wallace 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

On Thu, 2006-04-06, Art Fore Wrote >On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 07:35 -0400, Michael W Cocke wrote: >> I'm trying to laugh about this because the alternative will be to kick >> my computer off the roof. >> >> I need to run XP occasionally so I have a dual-boot config. This >> morning I tried to boot Win XP and was told 'windows needs to be >> activated' - and it wouldn't log me in. I did that last year and I >> haven't changed anything, but what the hell - I have a legal copy, so >> I clicked yes. Then it said 'this copy of windows is already >> activated' and logged me off... rebooted - and the same thing. It >> won't let me log in and it won't activate. I have to reinstall from >> scratch AGAIN! What a design. <sigh> >> >> Mike- >> -- >> If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough. >> -- >> Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed >> site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, >> try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments, >> >If you are connected to the internet, it might be there is another >machine that is using the same serial that you are. For example, if you >install XP on one machine, then using the same disk and install on >another machine, the first machine that is logged on to the internet >will get the registration, any other machine where XP was installed with >the same disk would refuse to operate. They don't even have to be on the >internet, if they are on the same network it can happen. We had this >problem at a former company I was at. >Isn't that nice of Microsoft? >Art Reading this post, and going back to some earlier posts about what's on a SuSE boxed set CD (GPL + Proprietary apps.) and what's available for download (just GPL), would it be legitimate to let a friend install SuSE from your purchased CD? I don't recall whether Novell required me to register my 10.0 product when I installed it, but, just the same, for any parties/companies who have allowed Novell to include their proprietary software as part of the SuSE boxed set, they would, in essence, be losing revenue when a single set of DVD's is passed around among friends (assuming they're getting a buck or two off of each boxed set sold). Then again, maybe I misunderstood those earlier posts regarding the proprietary products on the boxed set DVD's vs the downloads only having non-proprietary software. Greg Wallace

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