July 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] Xgl, powersave scripts and a couple of issues
by Akin Sisbot 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Hello, I began to use xgl on my t43p (with suse 10.1 and ATI firegl v3200) Generally it's working quite well, but there are some annoying issues. I wonder if anyone here had the same problems and solved them. 1- fn-f3 (turn off the screen) and fn-f7 (external screen) are working on Xorg, but when I passed to xgl, they stopped working. These keys are bounded to the script /usr/lib/powersave/scripts/thinkpad_acpi_events which contains these lines: run_on_xserver() { get_x_user DEBUG "User $X_USER display $DISP $1 " INFO su $X_USER -c "DISPLAY=$DISP $1" } ...... 4099) HOTKEY="Fn+F3" if [ -x /opt/thinkpad/pm/onscreen_pm.sh ] ; then run_on_xserver "/opt/thinkpad/pm/onscreen_pm.sh start" & ACTION="start onscreen_pm applet" else run_on_xserver "xset dpms force off" & ACTION="blank screen" fi ;; 103) HOTKEY="Fn+F7" ACTION="swap monitors" echo video_switch > /proc/acpi/ibm/video ;; I think as the display changed when using xgl, this script have to be modified but I don't how to do it :-/ 2- fonts in X: If I open xemacs, I see that the fonts are too big, and no way to reduce their size. It happens to other x applications too. But in xemacs menu fonts are too big, and text fonts are too ugly. If I change the fonts, nothing happens always same ugly fonts. 3- As the fn-f7 does not work, I can't get any image from the external screen connected to the thinkpad. Any suggestions, tips to solve these issues? Thanks a lot! -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] install linux on acer 2420 laptop
by fereshteh jadidi 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Hi there Has anybody ever install linux on Acer travelmate 2420 laptop (with 14.1" WXGA LCD) ? suse doesn't recognize its monitor. Thanks __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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RE: [SLE] Permissions problem with Zen Updater on startup 10.1.
by steve.goodey＠bt.com 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

> -----Original Message----- > From: Marcus Meissner [mailto:meissner@suse.de] > Sent: 24 July 2006 19:55 > To: Goodey,SJ,Steve,JCACB3 R > Cc: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [SLE] Permissions problem with Zen Updater on > startup 10.1. > > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 09:29:38AM +0100, steve.goodey(a)bt.com wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I did an update on 10.1 with Smart yesterday, Sunday, > several of the > > updates were to do with the Zen Updater, libzyp, etc. On > rebooting the > > PC and logging in I get an error message about needing superuser > > permissions to run Zen Updater. Upon closing this message the tray > > icon disappears as well. This happens on any user. > > > > I found a workaround by running rug ue username then +superuser. Is > > this the correct way of fixing this problem? Can I stop the error > > message for other users without making them have superuser > privileges > > on rug? > > I have not seen this and it is a bug. > > What repositories do you use? > > Have you added unsigned repositories? > > ciao, Marcus Marcus, Sorry about the late reply, work getting in the way. 1. # | Status | Type | Name | URI --+----------+------+--------------------------------------------+------ -------- 1 | Inactive | YUM | yum | http://download.suse.com/update/10.1 2 | Active | ZYPP | 20060723-131738 | http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/suse/update/10.1 3 | Active | ZYPP | SUSE-Linux-10.1-FTP-10.1-0-20060723-223839 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source//?alias=SU SE-Linux-10.1-FTP-10.1-0-20060723-223839 4 | Active | ZYPP | --20060724-071957 | http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.1?alias=--20060724-0 71957 5 | Active | ZYPP | 20060724-202729 | http://software.opensuse.org/download/repositories/KDE:/Backports/SUSE_L inux_10.1 6 | Active | ZYPP | 20060724-202930 | http://software.opensuse.org/download/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/SUSE_Linux_ 10.1 2. yes Regards, Steve Goodey Colchester, England. mailto:stevegoodey@spamcop.net http://www.stevegoodey.com http://www.bbcfactual.com Registered Linux user #372670 http://counter.li.org -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] IMAP HowTo (was re: POP Mail HOWTO?)
by mlist＠safenet-inc.com 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Having read what both Anders and Joanne had to say about setting up a simple mail server at home, I... um... flipped a coin, and went with Anders' version. So I followed the summary, as ammended in the follow-up message. He was specific about his procedure being intended for a fresh system with no previous mail-related config. So... yes... I reformatted and re-installed SUSE 10.1. Blew away everything, including /home - the only untouched partition was /data. I restarted several times while the installer/updater seemed to be working around the Online Update problems that plagued the early days of the release, and I appear to have gotten all the necessary updates installed. Then I tackled the mail setup following printouts of Anders' e-mails with the instructions. I did as much as I could as root, running SuSEconfig every time I turned around. As part of that effort, I created a link to my /data partition, and (as emphasized by Anders) made very sure that the target directory had the same ownership and permissions as the original mail landing spot in /var. Then I started everything and stood back and let it rip. I had been piling up mail on my ISP for some weeks (still am, since I used the 'keep' option until this is working), so fetchmail went and got thousands of messages. I have no idea where they went, but it took more than half an hour to get them all, via ADSL, the first time. Thereafter, connections took a few seconds, so I'm assuming it was getting mail that hadn't already been retrieved in the first lengthy batch. I started Thunderbird to connect to Cyrus on the same machine. I answered its initial questions with responses that made sense to me at the time. At first it wouldn't connect, so I tweaked saslauth config and tried again. Thunderbird prompted for my password and then made satisfied noises, but no mail appeared in my INBOX (in Thunderbird). I spent a few hours reading stuff in the Cyrus docs and didn't really find anything that I was sure I should be tweaking, so I tried something else. I figure that all the downloading activity meant I must have thousands of messages SOMEwhere, and I tried to find 'em. I know that Cyrus doesn't use /Maildir, but I read that it _does_ store messages as individual files, and uses databases to handle all the meta info. I looked every place I could imagine, on both /var and my /data partition, as well as in /home (just in case), to no avail. If I've got a load of downloaded mail somewhere, it's well hidden. Meanwhile, I came into my office this morning and found dozens of bounce mails, from all the stuff that I'd sent/forwarded from office to home over the past several weeks. They looked like this: **************************************************** Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender This is the Postfix program at host junkbox.OURHOUSE. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message. The Postfix program <elefino(a)localhost.junkbox.OURHOUSE> (expanded from <elefino@localhost>): Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=localhost.junkbox.OURHOUSE type=AAAA: Host not found ************************************************************* Of course, I don't have a remote connection to fix anything at home, so it's going to be doing this to all my mailing lists and getting me disbarred, and possibly tarred and feathered. My real e-mail address is kevinmcl-â-magma.ca, my ISP being magma.ca. "Junkbox" is the hostname of the machine on which I've been trying to configure this domestic server, and "OURHOUSE" is a made-up 'domain' that I inserted when it appeared that I had to insert something. I guess that would have been in postfix config (main.cf), but I'm miles away from that box right now, so I can't check. Elefino is the username on that computer. I'm guessing that something, somewhere inserted "localhost" into the mix, because I never wrote that explicitly. Maybe it was a default that I didn't change in some config file, because it was not mentioned in Anders' instructions. Dunno. I thought I read (from Anders) that I should be able to follow his instructions as written to get a working IMAP server, and that if I foolishly _wanted_ to do additional config-file tweaking, that was 'beyond the scope' and asking for trouble. So, does this mean that my mail never did come in? That 30-to-40 minutes of modem activity and disk churning was for naught? Does it mean that the mail is all lying on my hard disk somewhere but Cyrus-IMAP didn't accept it? Does it mean that Cyrus-IMAP is not working? Or that Cyrus-IMAP has my mail, but isn't showing it to me (via Thunderbird) and isn't acknowledging to Postfix? At least, when I left this morning, there was no disk or modem activity, so I'll take comfort in the possibility that maybe I didn't also configure an open spam relay while goofing up everything else... Kevin (unserved, still) PS: Anders, hope your move to Germany went smoothly. PPS: Once all this was working, I was going to set up another address to be <postmaster>. The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] When will delta and patch rpms be supported again?
by William Gallafent 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Hi, Can anybody give an approximate date for the update system's resumption of the use of delta and patch RPMs, which had been working well for a long time? So far this morning, the update has been running for about three quarters of an hour, and has got to "18%". Most of that time has been network traffic (on 1Mb/s ADSL, at about 120-130kB/s), although there's been a lot of CPU as well. On a related note, it seems that downloading and installing updates happen alternately, rather than the download process being continuous, and each update being installed in parallel with the ongoing download process once it has arrived. This strikes me as very inefficient, since downloading data and installing RPMs are approximately orthogonal in their use of resources (the former uses lots of network bandwidth, and a proportionally very small amount of CPU and disc bandwidth, whereas the latter uses lots of disc bandwidth and CPU). Allowing subsequent downloads to continue as each package is installed would surely speed up the process significantly ... anything which does that would be welcome (hence my original subject line!) -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] 10.1 installer broken (in VMware)?
by Sven Jacobs 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Hello, I'm trying to install OpenSuSE 10.1 into a VMware Workstation 5.5.1 machine under Windows XP (but also tried this with VMware-Player under Linux). I've installed previous versions of SuSE into virtual machines before but this time it just won't work :-( The VM is configured as follows: Memory 256 MB (also tried 512) Hard Disk (SCSI 0:0), 10GB (also tried IDE) CD-ROM (IDE 0:0) with mounted ISO image Ethernet Bridged USB Controller Present Audio Auto detect Virtual Processors 1 First I tried to install from the Mini-ISO but the installer froze when loading the catalog or sometimes after selecting the window manager while loading the package selection. Then I tried to install from the Non-OSS DVD-ISO. After selecting the window manager the installer tells me that it couldn't find any catalog on the medium. See screenshot (http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/1290/y2logul6.jpg) of y2log for detailed error messages. The md5sum of the DVD-ISO is correct. What's the problem here? -- Sincerely Sven Jacobs -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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Re: [SLE] Major problems with SUSE10.1 after a clean install and update
by Clayton 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

> > All of which settles down and stops anywhere form 30 minutes to 2 > > hours after a boot up. > > Pardon me for jumping on the thread late.... > Is this a USB keyboard? > If so, do you have a USB drive or USB nic or other high volume usb > device? > > I've seen this kind of thing before when there are high volume > usb devices sharing usb headers with other devices. No problem :-) I appreciate any suggestions... It is a USB keyboard, but I have it plugged into the PS/2 port with the USB-PS/2 adapter. The only USB devices that are plugged in at the moment are: - USB mouse (Logitech) - Logitech USB headset - Card reader with no cards attached/plugged in I have other USB devices (USB hard drive, Canon scanner, etc) but none of them are currently plugged in... so... the only thing to remove at this point are the headset and the cardreader - both of which have been always connected (when the system was working correctly and now when it's broken - they weren't added into the equation.. they've always been there). I've had some off list suggestions... to check hdparm and see what mode the hard drives are running in, to check my drive cables (possible faulty cable - although I'd expect "Drive not ready seek" errors if this was the case), and to check the smartd to see if it's misbehaving. I will check into them later today.. .meanwhile... I'm still open to any other ideas or suggestions. C. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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SPAM: Re: [SLE] Major problems with SUSE10.1 after a clean install and update
by The Nice Spider 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

> So in the end.. I've still got a problem with the computer... a couple > hours after booting it settles into a semi useable state. > > C. > try to remove any partition when do re-install. so, you must: - choose new installation - choose custom partition, why? because suse New Installation doesn't mean really NEW, but it will install on new partition - select Use Entire Partition __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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Re: [SLE] Yast: How to add subdomain of my intranet server to DNS?
by The Nice Spider 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

> The Nice Spider wrote: >> I have an intranet web server named >> "office.mydomain.com" with this IP >> 912.168.0.1, i want to add this entry to DNS. I >> already add >> "office.mydomain.com." (ending with period) in the >> Zone Edit as below: >> Record Key Type Value >> office.mydomain.com. A 192.168.0.1 >> >> but when I do ping office.mydomain.com the result is >> the public IP of >> mydomain.com. how to fixed this? > > If you do not own the domain, do not use it internally. Use a domain > name that's not used on the internet, such as ".local". > it's my own domain. can you show me how to do it? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] courier-imap rpm file for suse 10.0
by Enis Büyükgüner 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Hi all I used to have suse 9.0 and just installed a 10.0 but I realized that it doesn't contain courier-imap rpm. I don't want to waste time for compiling and configuring it from the source file. So where can I find it in rpm format. Or if I use the courier-imap rpm file which comes with suse 9.0 , does it work properly? Regards

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