May 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Recover Deleted Files?
by David Barton 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Hi Guys, I am in serious strife and I could really use some advice. Scenario: 2 x 120Gb HDD hda1 - reiserfs SuSE 10.1 \ hda2 - reiserfs SuSE 10.1 \home hda3 - FAT32 (No Windows - just common storage) hdb1 - swap hdb2 - reiserfs SuSE 9.3 I wanted to check out 10.1, so I wiped the original Windows partition on hda and installed the default 10.1 options on hda1 & 2. After reading the many negative postings here and my own disappointment, I was about to ditch 10.1 in the too hard basket when I stumbled on Ralph Ellis's post about the "packagemanagement-update-test" fix. So I thought "What the heck" I've got nothing to loose and "bingo" it worked. My previous stuffing around had left me with a fairly crappy user configuration, so I created a dummy user, switched to root and attempted to deleted my original 10.1 user account, with delete user data checked :_(( What I forgotten was that I had copied some of my 9.3 home stuff over to my 10.1 home directory and I now have 2 completely empty partitions (namely hda2 - FAT32 and hdb2 reiserfs). I am not that bothered about the 9.3 stuff that was on hdb2 (anything of importance was backed up), but there were a few really important things on the FAT32 partition that I would, if possible, like to recover. Although I have never used (or needed) it before, I am aware that there is recovery software out there. Can anyone here suggest or recommend a package (open source or commercial, I don't care) that might help get me out of this predicament. Thanks in advance. Dave

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Re: [SLE] SuSE 10.1 and Reiser4?
by lerninlinux＠comcast.net 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Michael James <Michael.James(a)csiro.au> > On Wed, 17 May 2006 02:43 pm, Sbs Bofh wrote: > > I can't find the Reiser4 tools in SuSE 10.1. > > They don't seem to be on the CDs. > > Are they included on the DVD? > > > > I've been running Reiser4 happily on my SuSE 10.0 servers > > for three months, performance is great and reliability 100%. > > It's a bit of a step backwards > > if Reiser4 has been removed from 10.1 :-( > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=140935 states: > > We have no intention of adding reiser4 at this time. > We are seriously cutting down on the number of > out of tree kernel code we include in our product. > > This news is past bad, it's terrible. > > No reiser4progs, no reiser4 module, not in 10.1 > and not even on the rescue CD! > > This means that if you compile your own reiser4 module, > any kernel upgrade on a system with a reiser4 root filesystem, > will break it so bad, the rescue system won't be able to fix it. > > This news is past bad, it's terrible. > Effectively it hasn't just excluded reiser4 it's banned it. > > We have to work to get this reversed, or worked around. > Who wants to help build 10.1 RPMs of: > reiser4progs, reiser4mods, and reiser4rescue ? > > michaelj > I reserve the right to judge this, until the box set is out, I would expect it to be included in that.

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10.1 virgin /etc/ld.so.conf, please?
by Michael Nelson 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

I upgraded my system from 10.0 to 10.1. I would like to see what the /etc/ld.so.conf file looks like on a freshly installed 10.1 system. If someone could please post theirs from an unmodified freshly installed 10.1 I would appreciate it. I would also like to see any files in the /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ directory. Thanks much! Michael -- San Francisco, CA

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YaSt runlevel display is wrong
by S Glasoe 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

SUSE 10.1, KDE 3.5.2 updates. Looking for confirmation that I have found an issue with YaST's Runlevel display. Runlevel starts off in Simple Mode and appears to display the Enabled status correctly. When switching to Expert mode I notice that the Enable status does not _always_ match the Simple Mode status. I almost always select Expert mode ASAP when using YaST Runlevel and began to notice that services I knew to be running showed as "No" in Expert mode. Doing the Refresh on individual processes shows the correct Enabled status. Anyone know of any other command line options to start YaST runlevel in Expert Mode or how to cause a full refresh of all processes' status when in Expert Mode? Thanks, Stan

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KDE supplementary moved to Build Service
by Pascal Bleser 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In case you didn't notice (yet) and while an announcement of the maintainer(s) would have been nice ;)... The KDE supplementary repository is now empty and has been moved to the Build Service: http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/… Note, if you're using smart: - - on 10.0: smart channel --add \ http://software.opensuse.org/download/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/SUSE_Linux_10.… - - on 10.1: smart channel --add \ http://software.opensuse.org/download/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/SUSE_Linux_10.… There's also a backports repository, where popular KDE applications are built against the stock KDE version as shipped with 10.0 or 10.1, respectively. That's a very nice move, but I'd like to make a couple of remarks nevertheless: - - is there already feedback from FTP admins for mirrors ? A lot of people are using that repository to use the latest KDE, and there was a very decent mirror infrastructure available (e.g. skynet, belnet, several mirrors in Germany, ...), but we're starting at 0 at the moment :\ - - please announce such stuff beforehand I know Adrian has written 2 or 3 times that he wants to move suppl. KDE to the BS, but what you guys think is trivial and not important is actually being used by a vast number of SUSE Linux users out there. Some announcement, e.g. a week beforehand + published on the opensuse.org frontpage and feed, would have been desirable, to say the least ;) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser(a)skynet.be> <guru(a)unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEfNd8r3NMWliFcXcRAtiYAJ9ZG/WfjHEZqWkPz9HncIE34G/d5gCbBUYD 14Lnvz5HphRPQ8mrwnJ5iJI= =6qXA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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And another 10.1 showstopper
by Bruce Marshall 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

I have an IBM Thinkpad X30 with a SmartLink winmodem inside of it. This has always been supported by SuSE. The previous release I was running was 9.3. 10.1 has a lot of SmartLink stuff on the DVD (retail) but only for a USB SmartLink modem. I've just spent about 3 hours trying to figure out why there is no 'slamr' module provided but I can't find one. New releases are supposed to get easier to install. Not 10.1

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[Suse Linux 10.1] Network Install - Internet connection lost
by Frederic 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

Hello, I installed suse linux 10.1 by ftp, but 5minutes before the end of installation my dsl connection was broken... Why don't you have an option says " connection lost, do you want to retry?" See you Frédéric

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Re: [SLE] SuSE 10.1 Installer: D
by Steve Miller 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

> Kenneth, > > Yes. I ran the md5 sums on my disks in addition to > the > fact that k3b seems to have done something of the > sort automagically before I burned each CD. (I could > be wrong, but I wouldn't trust sucha feature > anyway.) > > I also verified each CD in the media check stage of > the install. So I am nearly as sure as I can get > that > I (a) had the right ISOs on hand and (b) made good > CDs > from them. > > As for speed, I don't expect my ancient 'puter to be > fast, but it did seem slower. Some subsequent actual > use has put that into perspective, though. Using > FVWM > (my preferred window manager anyway) feels about the > same overall as before. Perhaps things seemed slower > after fighting the installer all day and being > unable > to boot from the hard disk.... :-/ > > In fairness, I have heard from others who tried 10.1 > (but the boxed set) and had no problems installing > it. > > > But still. Mine's a fairly simple setup. It > shouldn't > have ended up FUBAR like it has. > > Steve > > --- "Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no" > <kenneth(a)grafikern.no> > wrote: > > > Steve Miller wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > > > (c) The system is a LOT slower. I use a Pentium > > III > > > 450 MHz at home, so maybe this is a bit unfair, > > but > > > still. This is NOTICEABLY slower than it (8.2) > > used to > > > be. Really. > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > Hi > > > > Did you check the md5 sum on your install cd? Did > > you install the gold > > master or one of the release candidates? I have > > successfully installed > > SUSE 10.1 GM on a 700 mhz, 512 mb ram Siemens > > scenic machine and ten > > other(more recent) machines. Aside from the new > > package manager being > > broken I think the installations has gone very > > smooth. > > > > Your hardware is also very old and you can't > expect > > suse 10.1 to run > > faster on a box like the one you described than > 8.1. > > > > Other than that my suse 10.1 is more responsive > than > > both suse 9.1, 9,2, > > 9,3 and 10 compared with the following: boot time > > (50 sec), launching > > firefox first time (4 sec), launching konq (1 > sec), > > shut-down (15 > > seconds). > > > > -- > > Kenneth Aar > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Live Installer DVD
by Francis Giannaros 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

Seems like these days more distributions are adopting the Live Installer method as an option as a quick-and-easy install. Obviously there are many advantages to this, and some scenarios that it avoids. For example, never tried out Linux and want to try SUSE Linux? Sure, there's a completely painless way -- try out the Live DVD that installs absolutely nothing to your HD permanently. Play with it for hours, and then finally reach the conclusion that you want it on your computer permanently, installed to hard disk. Oops! You have to download another DVD or 5 CDs (or just three, arguably) and burn them, ouch. There are certainly other cases where it'd be damn useful, but that's the most clear one in my mind. It would be just the DVD I could happily always throw out to people for them to try. Problems? I really wouldn't have any idea how it would be implemented exactly, and as aka_druid notes on IRC -- talking about it is easy. Perhaps some more knowledgable with the idea could give some input. Thoughts? Ideas? Regards, apokryphos.

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Alternate firewall (Guarddog) on SUSE 10.1
by Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

Hi I wondered if anyone here has any clue as to how I could install Guarddog as my firewall in SUSE 10.1. I read a review and it seems more in line with my own technical level than the yast firewall... But the rpm wont work. Here is a link: http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/linux/Guarddog-Review-23019.shtml -- Regards Kenneth Aar

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