April 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Samsung ML-1710 stopped working
by Frank Bax 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Samsung ML-1700 usb laser printer. I disconnected the usb wire from the SUSE93 system and connected it to a Win98 laptop to print a few documents; then reconnected usb wire to SUSE93 system. The printer no longer works from SUSE93. In CUPS setup, there is a button for "test connection", that is successful, but no reaction from printer at all. I have tried disconnect printer, delete printer, reboot, add printer, test printer - still nothing. Reconnecting to Win98 still works. What should I try next? Frank

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Sun X2100 (nv)ethernet problem with SUSE 10.0
by Peter Nixon 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hi Guys We have a bunch of Sun X2100 opteron servers running SUSE 10.0 and one of them magically stopped responding to network requests in the middle of the night (after operating perfectly for 1 month). A power down solved the problem, however a simple reboot did not! The log messages are below. Apr 3 11:42:56 server kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Apr 3 11:42:56 server kernel: nv_stop_tx: TransmitterStatus remained busy<7>eth0: tx_timeout: dead entries! Apr 3 11:42:56 server kernel: Badness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:140 Apr 3 11:42:56 server kernel: Apr 3 11:42:56 server kernel: Call Trace: <IRQ> <ffffffff801383c1>{local_bh_enable+49} <ffffffff881b8655>{:ip_conntrack:destroy_conntrack+53} Apr 3 11:42:56 server kernel: <ffffffff802c0c1b>{__kfree_skb+219} <ffffffff8815c29a>{:forcedeth:nv_drain_tx+138} Apr 3 11:42:56 server kernel: <ffffffff8815d3ec>{:forcedeth:nv_tx_timeout+92} <ffffffff802d5e30>{dev_watchdog+0} Apr 3 11:42:56 server kernel: <ffffffff802d5ea8>{dev_watchdog+120} <ffffffff8013c519>{run_timer_softirq+361} Apr 3 11:42:56 server kernel: <ffffffff801385d7>{__do_softirq+87} <ffffffff8010f8db>{call_softirq+31} Apr 3 11:42:56 server kernel: <ffffffff80111380>{do_softirq+48} <ffffffff801113dd>{do_IRQ+77} Apr 3 11:42:56 server kernel: <ffffffff8010eebc>{ret_from_intr+0} <EOI> <ffffffff803047a0>{udp_poll+0} Apr 3 11:42:56 server kernel: <ffffffff8010d2b0>{default_idle+0} <ffffffff88086635>{:processor:acpi_processor_idle+292} Apr 3 11:42:56 server kernel: <ffffffff8010d311>{cpu_idle+49} <ffffffff804a87aa>{start_kernel+458} Apr 3 11:42:56 server kernel: <ffffffff804a81f4>{_sinittext+500} Apr 3 11:44:02 server kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Apr 3 11:44:02 server kernel: nv_stop_tx: TransmitterStatus remained busy<7>eth0: tx_timeout: dead entries! Apr 3 11:45:07 server kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Apr 3 11:45:07 server kernel: nv_stop_tx: TransmitterStatus remained busy<7>eth0: tx_timeout: dead entries! Apr 3 11:46:13 server kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Apr 3 11:46:13 server kernel: nv_stop_tx: TransmitterStatus remained busy<7>eth0: tx_timeout: dead entries! Apr 3 11:47:13 server kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Apr 3 11:47:13 server kernel: nv_stop_tx: TransmitterStatus remained busy<7>eth0: tx_timeout: dead entries! Now these servers are supposedly certified with SLES 9 (See http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/os.jsp#SUSE ) however I have not been able to get SLES 9 to install, although OES SP2 can be convinced to work with much crossing of fingers, hand holding and a serial console cable.. Even OES refuses however to recognise any of the USB keyboards we have tried which is why we run SUSE 10.0. Is anyone else have problems with the nv ethernet interface on their X2100 servers (and USB keyboards)? We have temporarily moved all traffic to the 2nd GigE interface on this server (which uses a different chipset) however this is not a long term solution. I were planning to use link bonding between the 2 interfaces for redundancy to 2 different switches however the fact the the interface doesn't come back up without a complete poweroff means that this is a dangerous bug... -- Peter Nixon http://www.peternixon.net/ PGP Key: http://www.peternixon.net/public.asc

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...packages/SOURCES: getting full?; prod588.spec vs prod.spec; security concerns
by Linda Walsh 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

I was wondering how distribution creators dealt with this problem. It seems that the "sources" part of RPM management gets a bit confusing after a time. There isn't an "erase" or "uninstall" for source packages -- after they are distributed into the the /usr/src/packages directory, there isn't easy way to tell which sources in the "SOURCES" dir go with which package. Sure, one can go through each spec file by hand and attempt to come up with a list of sources one would remove from SOURCES, but it's not like in the "BUILD" directory where everything you need to delete regarding a package is generally in 1 directory. Would it be violating some "spec" or cause major disruptions if the SuSE distro managers/creators were to create package-specific subdirectories under SOURCES to hold the sources for the specific packages? I tend to build packages every once in a while and run into the problem of being able to "cleanup". The BUILD and SPEC directories are simple enough, but SOURCES? Ick. Another "problem", which is less of a problem is when one installs 2 SRPMS (say from suse 93 & suse 10) for the same package so one can compare changes and/or differences, etc. It would really be "useful" if, at least, the _spec_ files were named slightly differently for different major&minor versions. I.e. "Bash-3.0" would have spec bash30.spec, 3.1 -> bash31.spec. While the naming issue isn't too difficult to work around, the idea of putting each RPM's sources in a different subdirectory would be real helpful and significantly less of a security problem. It isn't unlikely that 2 different packages might have the same name for some source or patch, possibly variants on each other, or possibly nothing to do with each other. If one unpacks both, it's possible that one package might be built using the wrong source. I would agree it is an unlikely occurrence, but separate subdirectories under SOURCES would virtually eliminate possible source file name collisions between different packages. Is this doable or desirable? Linda

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SUSE Firewall not like ZoneAlarm...
by Shriramana Sharma 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

I wonder how SUSE Firewall works. Back in Windows, with ZoneAlarm, when I first install it, it asks me for permission and preconfigures my default browser and mail client to access the net. After that, every new application that tries to access the net or every incoming connection from the net, it asks me for permission. But SUSE Firewall never asks me anything. How do I know which applications it forbids and which it allows? How does it know which applications to forbid and which to allow? I would much prefer a ZoneAlarm-like firewall that tells me what it is doing. Please share your knowledge with me. Thank you. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.51 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-03-10 W10-5 UTC+0530

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Kaffeine questions
by Gil Weber 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hello, everyone. I am using SuSE 9.3 with Kaffeine 0.5 (Using KDE 3.4.0 Level "b"). At the conclusion of every video clip, Kaffeine displays a black screen with a picture of a coffee bean and the words "Kaffeine Player." Is there any way to stop this final screen from displaying so that when a video clip finishes playing Kaffeine simply closes? I've looked in the Kaffeine help but did not see a solution. A second question... I am stumped trying to figure out how to create a playlist of video clips that I can play using Kaffeine when I lecture. What I'd like to have is a playlist of clips (maybe 20), and to be able to play the first one and then have Kaffeine pause while I discuss the clip with my audience. While paused I'd like Kaffeine to show me the playlist so that I could either click on the same clip to play it again or click on clip #2 and have it play, then Kaffeine would pause again and I could repeat the process through the entire playlist to the end of the lecture. I have tried to create a playlist but without success. It seems as if it should be easy, but I must be missing a key step or two. Thanks, gurus! :o) Gil

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LinuxTag 2006 Staff
by Henne Vogelsang 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hi there, so Sonja just announced in the Status Meeting [1] that we will be at the LinuxTag in Wiesbaden [2]. We will have a booth and a one-day conference called openSUSE Tag [3]. We will have a special IRC meeting next tuesday on that topic. What i wonder now is who will be there and who can do booth dutys. I would love to avoid novell only personal at the booth. Novell is just a small part of the openSUSE project. So if you are at the LinuxTag, or consider to come, speak up now so we can together plan who does what :) Also if you have ideas what we could demo at the booth it would be great. So far we have only general topics (openSUSE, SUSE Linux) we need to fill with real content. So what would you like to see/do at the booth? Henne [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Status_Meeting_2006-04-04 [2] http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/ [2] http://en.opensuse.org/LinuxTag_Wiesbaden_2006 -- Henne Vogelsang, Core Services "Rules change. The Game remains the same." - Omar (The Wire)

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suse 10.0 ftp installation
by Kai Zhang 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hi, i am downloaded and burned the first CD OSS installation CD. Due to limited number of CD and fast internet connection, i wish to install via ftp. After mounting the NIC, I can't find installation file on ftp server. I am using ftp://mirror.ac.uk/edunfs/mirrors/sites/ftp.suse.com/i386/10.0/iso/ Is this the right place to install via ftp? If not, can you point me to a right directory. I am fast access to mirror.ac.uk and wondering if there is direct installation files available on the ftp server. Thanks for your help! Regards, Kai

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ftp special access
by jdd 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

for some kind of works (storing openoffice slides...), we need a ftp repository for opensuse stuff _not for SUSE Linux_, but openSUSE. I don't think we can afford to open the upload to server command, it's far too risky. so we should find a way; For example a page on the wiki for "data proposal", or an e-mail address (ftp(a)opensuse.org???) where we could propose our data this is not so an easy thing as this could also be usefull for various wiki stuff, so it could need a validating staff... 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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OT - Perl / CPAN question
by kevin.kempter＠dataintellect.com 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hi List; Sorry for the OT post but I could not find a relevent perl list. I want to create a perl process that will go to a specified list of web pages and retrieve the data for each page so i can parse it. Ideally, the perl process would download the requested web pages in XML format. Anyone know of a method, CPAN Module, etc that will help pull this off? Thanks in advance for your help...

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two installations of openoffice (fwd)
by Istvan Gabor 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

I am resending this mail. I sent it yesterday mornig but it still has not appeared on the list. Hello suse users: I am running suse 10.0 with kde 3.5.1 I have the official suse version of openoffice installed. I would like to install beside this the hungarian version from fsf. With version 1.x I could do it easily since the original openoffice version was not in rpm format. Now I don't know how I can install both these two openoffice versions since both are distributed in rpm form. What is the solution? Thanks in advance, IG _________________________________________________________________________ Több ezer állás Magyarországon és Európában. Állást keres ? Mi segítünk! Jobpilot.hu - http://ad.adverticum.net/b/cl,1,6022,87367,144754/click.prm

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