July 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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by Johnny Jones 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

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[SLE] Setting User Quota
by Parvinder Raheja 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

How can I assign quota to a user in "GB's" ? When I use "edquota -u username" it opens the user in vi editor and expecting to me to enter blocks, soft-hard-inodes etc. Is there a formula to use ? Thanks for the help. -- Parvinder S Raheja

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[SLE] kmenu icons
by lostson 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hello Is there a setting somewhere where i can shrink the kmenu icons down some, they are way to big stretches the menu way out. I don't remember these icons being so big in other distros. Is this just a SuSe thing ? Thanks -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org /\ \ \ \__/ \__/ \ \ (oo) (oo) \_\/~~\_/~~\_ _.-~===========~-._ (___________________) \_______/ I Want To Believe -- 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] can't connect to the internet
by Seth 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hi everyone, I'm trying to connect to the internet with suse 9.3, but have not been able to. When starting up it will say that the dhcp daemon wasn't able to establish an ip address, and that is backgrounding. Eventually it will fail. However, when I type ifconfig in the console, it gives me an ip address. Any help is very much appreciated. --Seth

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[SLE] export DISPLAY problems
by Malte Neumann 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hi, I encountered some problems loging from a SUSE Linux pc onto a HP-UX server and redirecting the DISPLAY to the Suse pc. Here is what I am doing (suse and hpux stand for the names of the two boxes): [suse]$ xhost + hpux [suse]$ rlogin hpux [hpux]$ export DISPLAY=suse:0.0 [hpux]$ xclock Error: Can't open display: suse:0.0 - Networking works fine, both "ping suse" and "ping hpux" work. - The Xserver listens to tcp port 6000, "ps -edaf | grep xdm" gives root 6123 6113 2 11:41 tty7 00:00:07 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br :0 vt7 -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-N9wgXF - "netstat -ln" confirms that: tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::6000 :::* LISTEN - "ssh -X" is no alternatice as there is no reliable ssh available for the (very old) HP-UX server. I could not find any other configurations that should hinder the DISPLAY or any advice what else to do. Do you have any ideas what else I could try? Thanks a lot for your help. Malte -- Malte Neumann Institute of Structural Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Germany http://www.ibb.uni-stuttgart.de/members/neumann/ -- 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] KAudioCreator - Ogg quality
by michael norman 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hi I'm trying to find an option to set the quality/bitrate foe Ogg encoding in KAudiocreator, but I can't find anything, can somebody advise please ? TIA Mike -- 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] Using local update mirror during install of 10.1
by Mark Gray 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> writes: >> Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> writes: >> [snip] >>> I do it during the installation. I do not remember the questions >>> exactly and I was unable to find any screen shots. The question >>> is do you have any additionall pacakges to install? This allows >>> you to add the additional sources. You click on it and then add >>> all your local sources. >>> I have added the following. >>> nfs://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/local/suse/suse/i386/10.1/inst-source >>> nfs://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/local/suse/suse/i386/10.1/non-oss-inst-source >>> nfs://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/local/suse/suse/i386/update/10.1 >>> I add the packman stuff after the original installations. >>> ftp://packman-mirror/suse/10.1 >> Many thanks -- I will give it a try on the install. > I finally found a screen shot. This is shows it marked. > http://queens.db.toronto.edu/~nilesh/linux/suse-10.1-install/?id=16 > This will then prompt you for your addtional sources. Just add them. I gave it a try, but I kept getting an "invalid repository" reply, so I gave up and wrote a perl script which I run after installation. Much faster with a lot of machines to do. Thanks anyway. -- 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] Using local update mirror during install of 10.1
by Mark Gray 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Marcus Meissner <meissner(a)suse.de> writes: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:15:28PM -0400, Mark Gray wrote: >> While a brief bout of googling revealed how to add a local update >> mirror after install using rug, I could find no mention of how to >> specify a local mirror for updates during the initial install of >> the boxed set of SUSE-10.1. With a lot of computers to install on, >> this would be most useful, especially since doing an update during >> the install seems to be the cleanest way to fix 10.1's update bug. >> (My apologies if this is a FAQ as I have been too busy to read >> mailing lists lately.) > During Installation its quite difficult to change and not easily > possible (i tried by changing /etc/hosts in the background to my > testmachine). (suseRegister pushes the urls pretty directly into > yast) > Later it is possible. > In 10.2 it will be a bit easier (in 10.2 alpha you can edit > /etc/suse_register.conf to set the urls explicitly). I may give Alpha 3 (and those following) a try. Right now I am going to use a perl script I wrote which does a: rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME} %{VERSION}\n' and then performs a rpm -Uvh on all the rpm's in my mirror which do not match the installed version. Much faster and easier to do than monkey about with zen-updater or yast online_update. (I will post the script if anyone is interested (but since it has to run as root, I would suggest it only be used by people who know enough perl to write their own script :)) -- 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] installation fails or instable system - SL 9.3 / SL 10.0-OSS / SL 10.1 (english + german text)
by Paul Neuwirth 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

(german text below) architecture: x86 applies to: SuSE Linux 9.3 Professional, SuSE Linux 10.0 OSS, openSuSE SuSE Linux 10.1 hwinfo: http://www.swabian.net/hwinfo Hallo, sorry for my bad English at first. After about 30 tries of installation (different configuration of hardware/bios/installation-settings), i didn't get a stable system or in most cases the installation failed. On this Computer SuSE Linux 10.0 and previous distributions worked fine before, but i wanted to upgrade to SL 10.1. After the backup of my data, i burned the net-boot-image (SUSE-Linux-10.1-GM-i386-mini.iso) onto cd to do an internet installation. The first 5 tries leaded to a crash of YaST during the configuration part after installing the packets / before the reboot - following message shown: /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.call: Line 306: 3309 segmentation fault (core dumped) $OPTFBITERM y2base "$Y2_MODULE_NAME" $Y2_MODE_FLAGS $Y2_MODULE_ARGS $Y2_MODE $Y2_UI_ARGS on syslog: cannot open file us.map.gz.map I could avoid this, as i told my BIOS to initiate my AGP graphics card first. But the installation also failed. Now these configuration steps have all been made, but after the reboot, a complete system hangup (even num-lock didn't work, no syslog entry) occured in different steps of configuration, i.e. before setting up the root-password or network setup. Sometimes error messages like "cannot write to ZYBB device" were shown. I thought that could be caused by the new zmd-stuff (i dislike at SL 10.1!). After not having luck with the installation of SL 10.1, i wanted to install 10.0 again, therefor i installed SL 9.3 in minimum configuration again to download and burn the 10.0 cds. The installation of SL 9.3 worked fine, but the system wasn't very stable, some actions of hardware configuration in YaST lead to a complete hangup without a syslog entry. But the download and cd-burning worked. So I installed SL 10.0 with minimum configuration/text-mode. The installation worked glad. But after that i had an instable system too. some actions in YaST lead to such a hangup. The easiest way to cause that hangup is running BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu), in the step "running CPU benchmarks" this hangup occurs. i can exclude following sources of error: installation media (SL-10.1: internet, DVD-iso (contents in path on /dev/hdb2); SL-10.0-OSS: CDs; SL-9.3: CDs) hardware: videocards, monitors, soundchip, firewire, isdn-card, periphery (modems, printers), USB i ran the memory-check of the SL-10.1 cd about 20 hours, no errors. i don't know what i can do... info: the repair system of the installation cd crashes, when i run it i would be glad if you could help me Paul Neuwirth ---- German text (less detailed) Architektur: x86 betrifft: SuSE Linux 9.3 Professional, SuSE Linux 10.0 OSS, openSuSE SuSE Linux 10.1 hwinfo: http://www.swabian.net/hwinfo Hallo, nach ueber 30 Installationsversuchen (unterschiedliche Hardware/BIOS/Installations-konfigurationen) habe ich kein stabiles System erhalten, bzw. in den meisten Faellen schlug bereits die Installation fehl. Ich habe auf diesem Rechner bereits erfolgreich einige Linux-Distribtuionen, zuletzt SuSE 10.0, betrieben. Ich wollte kuerzlich auf SL 10.1 updaten, ich sicherte meine Daten brannte mir die Installations-CD ohne Quellen (für Netzwerkinstallation). Bei ca. 5 Installationen kam ich auf das Ergebniss, dass bei der Konfiguration nach dem Installieren der Pakete (vor reboot) YaST crashte, mit folgender Meldung: Zitat: /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.call: Line 306: 3309 segmentation fault (core dumped) $OPTFBITERM y2base "$Y2_MODULE_NAME" $Y2_MODE_FLAGS $Y2_MODULE_ARGS $Y2_MODE $Y2_UI_ARGS syslog: cannot open file us.map.gz.map dieses Problem liess sich vermeiden indem ich im BIOS auswaehlte, dass die AGP Grafikkarte zuerst angesprochen werden sollte. Mit dieser Konfiguration versuchte ich es erneut, scheiterte aber dennoch. YaST haengte sich bei der Installation nach dem reboot (Konfiguration) auf, d.h. das komplette System stand still, noch nicht einmal die taste num lock funktionierte... es erfolgte kein Eintrag im syslog. Bei der minimalen Installation im Textmodus kam ich manchmal weiter, bis zum abschluss der Installation/Konfiguration, jedoch erhielt ich ein instabiles System, bei bestimmten Vorgaengen in YaST haengte sich der PC auf. Teilweise erhielt ich noch waehrend der Installation Fehler: "cannot write to ZYBB device", o.ae. also irgendwas mit dem neuem zmd packetmanager(?). Es stellte sich dann heraus, dass die rpm-datenbank beschaedigt war. Bei den Installationen konnte ich folgende Fehlerquellen ausschliessen: Installationsmedien (SL-10.1: Internet, DVD (Imageinhalt in Verzeichnis auf /dev/hdb2); SL-10.0-OSS: CDs; SL-9.3: CDs) Grafikkarten, Monitore, Soundchip, Firewire, ISDN-Karte, Peripherie (Modem, Drucker), USB ich versuchte es mit allen denkbaren Hardwarekonfigurationen und BIOS-Einstellungen. Zum ausschliessen von Fehlern im RAM, fuehrte ich den memorytest der SUSE-10.1-CD über 20 Stunden lang aus, ohne dass ein Fehler erkannt wurde. Nachdem alle Installation von 10.1 fehlschlugen, entschloss ich mich es mit 10.0 zu probieren, welches zuvor bereits lief. hierzu installierte ich zunächst SL-9.3 mit textmodus, lud mir die images der 10.0-cds runter und brannte sie. Allerdings merkte ich schon, dass auch SL-9.3 nicht stabil lief. Mittels "BOINC" (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/) brachte ich den PC auch zu einem system hang, etwa 30 sekunden nach der BOINC-Meldung "running CPU benchmarks". kein syslog eintrag. trotzdem wollte ich mein Gluek probieren, und installierte SL-10.0-OSS im Textmodus. Installation verlief Problemlos, jedoch selbes Ergebnis, diverse Arbeiten bringen den Rechner zum Absturz, BOINC auf jeden Fall. ich bin mit meinem latein am ende. da bei diesem sys-hangs keine syslog eintraege gemacht werden, und ich die hardware-fehlerquellen bis auf wenige dinge ausschliessen kann, weiss ich nicht mehr weiter. die Ausgabe von hwinfo habe ich mitgeliefert, oben ein Link. ich hoffe mir kann jemand weiterhelfen. gruss Paul Neuwirth -- 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] What does this log entry mea?
by Martin Hochreiter 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hi! I get that log entry many times on my mailserver (Suse 10.1, Courier with Openldap) authdaemond: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server ldap: Exactly each time I click on an Imap folder in the mailclient. What does that mean? lg Martin -- 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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