September 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

keyboard freeze / kaccess???
by Regis Matejcik 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

I installed Suse 10.1 on my girlfriends home computer. It's run without issue for the past year. She really only does email and web browsing and has been very pleased with her "non Windows" box - until about a week ago.... There was no response from the keyboard. The mouse worked fine, and I tried the keyboard on another box - it worked fine there. Just to be sure I also tried a working keyboard from another computer on the Suse box - still no response. When logged out, the keyboard worked fine at the login screen. If I logged in as root, the keyboard worked fine. I started looking for any processes that might be running that might be interfering with the keyboard. I discovered that when I killed "kaccess" the keyboard came back to life. Problem: kaccess seems to start at boot, but doesn't cause a problem at first, but after a couple of days - the keyboard freezes again. also - I noticed that kaccess runs on two other of my Suse computers without issue. Any thoughts? Thanks Regis Matejcik

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Re: [SLE] keyboard repeat
by James Knott 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

M Harris wrote: > On Saturday 16 September 2006 21:51, you wrote: >>> I have noticed this on my laptop as well as my primary desktop. >> I occasionally see that on my ThinkPad. > Do you think its a hardware thing (some keyboards) or some kind of > software timing? Ever heard anyone else whine about it? Thanks... > Ps. My ThinkPad is an R30... which one you using? R31

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Connecting SLED10 Into MS Active Directory
by Waters, James T 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Has anybody tried to connect SLED10 into an MS Active Directory environment? I am getting Samba 'winbind' errors when I use YaST Windows Domain Membership'. I have to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and set up the proxy settings to authenticate into Active Directory. When I run 'Windows Domain Membership' and join my domain it says I have successfully jointed but I get error a Samba 'winbind' error message later in the script. I have installed all SLED10 patches. I would be interested to talking to anybody that has successfully joined an Active Directory environment or is having similar problems. Jim

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kdebase latest version problem
by Istvan Gabor 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hello all: I don't know what these guys are doing at suse. I've just updated to the latest kde core packages (from 3.5.4- 42.1): kdebase3-3.5.4-64.1 kdebase3-kdm-3.5.4-64.1 kdebase3-session-3.5.4-64.1 kdebase3-extra-3.5.4-64.1 Now I get strange error messages when I want to open eg file manager. They come after each other: "There was an error loading the module Icon View. The diagnostics is: /opt/kde3/lib/kde3/konq_iconview.so: undefined symbol: _ZN6KParts16BrowserExtension12itemsRemovedERK8QPtrListl9KFileItemE" and the same messages with MultiColumn View, TreeView, Info List View, Detailed List View and Text View. When I start Start Menu/Run command/ksnapshot the background image disappears and is replaced by a black blank page. Last time they already messed up so kde-session could not start up aftert login. There are also minor problems (they are also present in the 3.5.4-42.1 version) like: The greeter does not show the background image but only a black blank screen. The greeter's theme is reset to an internal default (earlier it was preserved) during updates. I had to change back to 3.5.4-42.1. Fortunately I had them on my HD since from the repositories they are already removed (at least smart can't see them). I think SUSE people should be much more careful before releasing updates. IG _______________________________________________________________________ A világ gyors, de mi még gyorsabbak vagyunk! Az [origo] már mobilon is elérhető! http://origo.hu/adsminisites/mobil/index.html

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RE: [SLE] "Permission denied" to creating files in a home directory
by X Z 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

> > On Saturday 16 September 2006 11:45, Xiaofeng Zhao wrote: > > Everything of my system works fine until yesterday when I started to > > getting "Permission denied" whenever I try to create new files or new > > directory in my home directory. This is so even when I su to root. > > > > Please help me! > > > > xz > > Hozed hard disk. > > If your /home is on a reiserfs partition unmount home and reiserfschk it. > If you can't unmount home separately, then boot with your Cd/DVD to the rescue > system and reiserfsck it that way. > > I had a similar thing happen the other day due to a very short duration > power hit. One machine out of 8 crapped on its hard drive. > Reiserfschk restored functionality with no loss. > I kind of accepted the default setting when I install SUSE 10.1. So the entire / is in one LVM. My fstab looks like this: /dev/sda1 /boot reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/SG00/LogVol00 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/SG00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 I tried to run reiserfsck on /dev/sda2 but I got a message saying something about bad super block. I think it's not the right way to run it, isn't it? xz _________________________________________________________________ Search from any Web page with powerful protection. Get the FREE Windows Live Toolbar Today! http://get.live.com/toolbar/overview

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Re: [SLE] Gutenprint revisited
by Russbucket 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

On Thu September 14 2006 22:53, you wrote: <snip> > The problem with that, is that a cups-devel rpm is not available for SUSE > 10.0, at least not in the current cups-1.1.23-21.2 version. There would > seem to be no .src.rpm for it either, so you wouldn't be able to create > your own .rpm version. So I have given up on creating gutenprint for SUSE > 10.0. I notice that SUSE 10.1 has cups-devel-1.1.23-39.i586.rpm, which > explains why a gutenprint rpm could be created for 10.1. I got this to compile with the package you sent. I have cups-dev-1.1.23-21 on my system and it appeared to work. I have both the RPMS and SRPMS files. YaST sees the rpm for install. Is the a way to check if the PPD files exist before I try to install. I don't want to kill the tar version that I installed. Also I think the tar had a prefix of /usr. Is there a way to check that? The RPM was built for /usr/local. Thanks for your help on this. -- Russ

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keyboard repeat
by M Harris 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

hi folks, I have noticed an annoying snag in konsole terminals since upgrading to Suse 10. Basically, it appears that "keyrelease" is not seen for some keys while I am typing fast. So a key will go into repeat and never come out of it unless the key is hit again (doesn't always work) or the terminal is killed. Sometimes starting another terminal takes right off with the same repeating key still repeating. I am wondering if anyone else has seen this. I have attempted to work around it for now by turning off the key repeat in control center. I haven't seen the problem since doing so. I have noticed this on my laptop as well as my primary desktop. -- Kind regards, M Harris <><

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PDF converter
by Marek Chlopek 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hi, I'm looking for working well pdf converter. Printing to pdf in KDE unfortunately do not produce acceptable documents (there are some errors around letters X or $ char). PS. I'm going to convert doc/xls files from wine Codeweavers Office. Any links? Regards and Thanks, -- Marek Chlopek

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RE: hotplug issue once again - SuSE10.1
by Martin 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hi experts, hotplug mounts everything correctly (cd, usb, CF) but nothing gets unmounted automatically when removed (cd can't be even removed unless root does eject cdrom). Ideally what I would like to have is automatic mount/unmount when media is inserted/removed. Anyone can offer some solution? Also, I'd like to get usb stick and CF mounted like /media/usb instead of /media/IBM_MEMKEY. Is there any solution? Thx, Martin --------------------------------- Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small Business.

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SUSE = Ubuntu?
by PerfectReign 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Heh - just was looking at the SMART webpage ( http://labix.org/smart ) and noticed someting really funny. Here we've been comparing the differences between SUSE and Ubuntu. I've been talking about how I use SMART now to update SUSE since the Zen thingy is FUBAR. Well, guess who has been funding SMART? "Canonical Ltd. - Is funding Smart development since September of 2005." Canonical, for those who don't know, is Mark Shuttlesworth's (http://www.markshuttleworth.com/) company, which funds and employs the people who actually make and distribute Ubuntu. I found it kind of ironic. -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com "Missed it by that much."

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