May 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Data Restore After Fresh Install of 10.1
by Donald D Henson 24 May '06

24 May '06

I am currently running SuSE 10.0 and am preparing to go to 10.1. After following some of the discussions on this list, I have decided to do a fresh install. I have, or will have, backups for /home, /public, /srv, and /etc. I see no problems with restoring all those directories except for /etc. There's a lot of "stuff" in /etc and I'm not sure that restoring it from a backup after a fresh install is a good idea. Any advice from the experts on the list? Donald D. Henson, Managing Director West El Paso Information Network The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules

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k3b no longer finds any devices
by kevin.kempter＠dataintellect.com 24 May '06

24 May '06

K3b was working but now it cannot find any cd devices. I have applied patches recently. Any thoughts on how to debug/fix this? Thanks in advance...

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Can't login 10.1
by Robert Fitzpatrick 24 May '06

24 May '06

I use LDAP authentication, but I don't think that is the issue since I can query the directory and other LDAP users can login to this machine. I logged out after setting some avatar to see if it was working, now after typing the password, it's like X restarts with a couple of black screen blinks and back to the login screen. As I said, all other users and root can login fine. I have no .DCOPserver files in my user folder and cannot see any problems in XFree86.0.log. What can I do to resolve this login issue? -- Robert

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10;1 Software updater Not working
by Doug Currey 24 May '06

24 May '06

I am showing 6 updates in the software updater. Actually 3 everything repeats twice. After clicking Update It goes to resolving Dependance. Then a several seconds later I get an error "Dependency Resolution Failed" If I click on just 1 package to update I get a more detailed message --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Public.ZenException: Failed to lookup resolvable with id '591173' Server stack trace: in <0x00178> Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.RedCarpetBackend SqlTransaction:GetResult () in <0x00081> Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.RedCarpetBackend:ResolveDependencies (Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.IResolvable[] installs, Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.IResolvable[] upgrades, Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.IResolvable[] removals) in <0x00023> Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.PackageManager:Resolve (Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.IResolvable[] installs, Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.IResolvable[] upgrades, Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.IResolvable[] removals) in <0x00038> Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.RemotePackageManager:ResolveDependencies (Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.Public.ResolvableInfo[] installs, Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.Public.ResolvableInfo[] upgrades, Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.Public.ResolvableInfo[] removals) in <0x00000> <unknown method> in (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingServices:InternalExecute (System.Reflection.MethodBase,object,object[],object[]&) in <0x00188> System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingServices:InternalExecuteMessage (System.MarshalByRefObject target, IMethodCallMessage reqMsg) Exception rethrown at [0]: in <0x006dc> System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy:PrivateInvoke (System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy rp, IMessage msg, System.Exception exc, System.Object[] out_args) ----------------------------------------------------- This did work the couple days correctly. What have I done?????

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SuSEconfig information?
by Erik Jakobsen 24 May '06

24 May '06

Hi. On my SuSE 10.1 I have manually changed the /etc/postfix/master.cf. When I after ran SuSEconfig, I got this: Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.postfix... *** WARNING *** Found /etc/postfix/main.cf.SuSEconfig, exiting... *** WARNING *** How is that I should have done that editing ? I seem to remember, that it must not be done manually, but via yast. Is that right ? -- Med venlig hilsen / Best regards Erik Jakobsen DENMARK

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Services in rc<x>.d directories
by Sergey Mkrtchyan 24 May '06

24 May '06

Hi folks! I have got some questionS concerning the services which starts at runlevels. First one is: In the /etc/init.d/rc<x>.d directory symbolic links to the appropriate executable files, And there are two links for each program(one for killing it - the name starting with "K", and one for starting - name starting with "S"). So first question is: How the two links pointing to the same file works in a different way, in one case the same file kills the process, in the next it starts...As I know there isn't any parameters for the links? Do I understand it correctly? And next one is: I just want to add something(for example xmms) to start automaticaly in runlevel 5, so in my /etc/init.d/rc5.d directory I created symbolic link to /usr/bin/xmms executable file with a name like S22xmms, I was thinking how to create another link with K22xmms, but didn't find the answer. Anyway it didn't worked after restarting...I tried to add it using chkconfig...like linux:~/Install # chkconfig -a /usr/bin/xmms /usr/bin/xmms: unknown service /usr/bin/xmms: not a runlevel service and in yast's part of System Services (Runlevel) I didn't find anyway to "add" something Is it some default set of programs to start at booting and there can't be added anything? And I was wondering why the numbers of links is not in the increasing order...In my case the /etc/init.d/rc5.d content is: . K05nscd K10microcode and so on...with .. K05postfix K10splash appropriate "S" ones K01cupsrenice K05xdm K10sshd K02powersaved K06cups K12nfs K03haldaemon K07mdnsd K12nfsboot K04cron K10acpid K14portmap K04smbfs K10alsasound K14splash_early I can assume that the same numbers is for the processes to start simultaneously(please correct me if I am not right), but why for example From K07mdnsd comes K10acpid and not K08 acpid? Any help greatly appreciated :) and sorry for a long post Best regards, Sergey -- Sergey Mkrtchyan Scientific Researcher Department of Molecular Physics, Faculty of Physics, Yerevan State University Tel: (374-10) 55-43-41 Fax: (374-10) 57-76-89

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10.1 wireless problem
by Paul Kaplan 24 May '06

24 May '06

I have a DLink DWL650 wireless card which has worked (and still does) under other distros for 2 years. In a cleanly installed opensuse 10.1, I have added the packman madwifi-kmp package. The card is recognized by the hardware probe since it shows up when I attempt to configure internet access through it. Moreover, KNetwork Manager shows several wireless access points, so it appears that the card is detecting the broadcast signals from several different 11b and 11g transmitters in the area. The problem is that nothing I have tried yet allows me to use the connection. ifconfig shows the card under wlan0 (witht the correct MAC hardware address), but doesn't report an ip address. I also can't ping my router. dhcpcd wlan0 doesn't seem to do anything for the wireless card, but it causes my wired (eth0) connection to loose it's ip address. I've turned off my firewall and there's no encryption on the wireless side so I'm stumped. Any suggestions? TIA Paul

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SUSE 10.0 subfs and media size / free space
by Roger Oberholtzer 24 May '06

24 May '06

On SUSE 10.0: If I let a disk be mounted via subfs, the disk is mounted fine and is available to a user for writing. I can use tools (command line and KDE) to see how much is on the media. What I cannot see is how big the media is and thus how much space is available. In my case, it is an external firewire disk that is formatted as ext3. If the media is mounted via /etc/fstab in the traditional manner, I can see all this information, but then I have the problems with users having write access. I don't mind using subfs if there is some way to see how much space is free. Am I not seeing something very obvious? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems AB Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23

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lpq/lpstat segfault - cups problem - SuSE V9.2
by Peter Sutter 24 May '06

24 May '06

Hi Folks, I am having an awful problem with cups. Restarting the system after a controlled shutdown, the printers are not working anymore on a SuSE V9.2 system. I removed cups server and client using YaST, the removal was successful basilisk:~ # lpq -bash: lpq: command not found basilisk:~ # lpstat -bash: lpstat: command not found as I expected. Installing cups using YaST, I tried two methods: 1. Hardware -> printers, this tells me no printing system installed, select the cups installation type, where I check cups full server installation. This actually installs cups, (reading package information etc), then enters SuSEconfig, then goes into printer configuration, where YaST crashes in 'load current settings'. 2. Installing cups server manually via install software menu. This succeeds, step two is then again Hardware -> printers where YaST crashes in the 'load current settings' step too. running lpq or lpstat results in: basilisk:~ # lpq Segmentation fault basilisk:~ # lpstat Segmentation fault How do I fix this? What caused it? Thanks Peter

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for suser-guru
by GJ 24 May '06

24 May '06

Committing changes... Preparing... ########################################### [100%] file /opt/kde3/share/mimelnk/application/x-bittorrent.desktop from install of kdelibs3-3.5.2-9 conflicts with file from package ktorrent-2.0_0.1-1.guru.suse101 E: Error while running transaction E: Handler silently failed -- Thanks, Gerrit Jan Eldering OS: SuSE 10.1 KDE-versie: 3.5.2 Level "a" kernel: 2.6.16.13-4-default

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