September 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

dvdrip problems
by wmeler 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

I downloaded the dvdrip RPM package from http://packman.links2linux.org/index.php4?action=175&vn=2 for SuSE 10.1 and it installed just fine. When I try to run dvdrip from the command line I get the following: Can't locate Locale/TextDomain.pm in @INC (@INC contains: lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /usr/bin/dvdrip line 21. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/dvdrip line 21. In other words, it's not finding "Locale::TextDomain" in the dvdrip script. (Running through the SuSE "start" menu doesn't do anything except fail out too.) Ideas as to how to get it to see the right files? Thanks! wmeler

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close login of user
by James D. Parra 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hello, Short of rebooting, how to close an open session of a user who is logged in? Thank you, James

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[opensuse] Cisco Aironet driver and recent firmware revisions
by Steven Lawrance 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Hi all, On my laptop system, I have a Cisco Aironet MPI350 that works great with firmware revision 5.60.21. Unfortunately, the wireless/airo driver in 2.6.16 does not work, though the 2.6.17 version of that driver does. As a result, I've been compiling the 2.6.17 version of wireless/airo every time a new kernel upgrade from openSUSE comes in. This process for me is still much better than using the previous firmware (forgot the exact version number) with the 2.6.16 and earlier drivers, which occasionally dropped the connection and could only be recovered by either rebooting or rmmod/modprobing airo (and, sometimes, froze during the rmmod). I thought it's probably time to mention it in case if it's possible to get the 2.6.17 version of wireless/airo patched into openSUSE's default kernel (my feelings won't be hurt if the answer is no). I've been using the 2.6.17 wireless/airo driver with the 5.60.21 firmware since May, and it's worked very well for me, but I'm only one data point.. The relevant kernel changelog for wireless/airo exists at http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17. Search for "airo" If including the 2.6.17 wireless/airo driver in openSUSE is acceptable, then I can also help out by transforming it into a patch that can go into the RPM build, if that helps. Thank you for your consideration, and thanks for the awesome product that is openSUSE :-)! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ As a related item, one of my servers connects using the 2006090409 CVS version of the rt2570 driver for a USB wireless adapter, and it's worked great with SuSE and openSUSE since this time last year (using earlier versions of that driver, of course). It would be nice if openSUSE included that driver, too, as I also have to compile that one when a new openSUSE kernel becomes available, though I can put the detail into another email message. Again, thanks for the great work you all have put into openSUSE :-)! -- Steven Lawrance E-Mail: slawrance(a)yahoo.com <mailto:slawrance@yahoo.com>

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"Permission denied" to creating files in a home directory
by Xiaofeng Zhao 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

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

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packman automated updates
by Robert Lewis 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Does anyone know if there is a way or intention in the future of supporting packman where the software updater orb on the bottom right knows that an update is available from packman, like it knows that an update is available from SUSE. I have packman in YaST Sources and that works. I don't want to hear anything about switching to smart and other stuff. What has to happen and who needs encouragement to make this happen? Cheers, Bob

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[opensuse] Adding multiple IP addresses to existing NIC
by Bacchu, Anjan 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Hi All, Thanks for any pointers. On Suse 9.3(CONSOLE only, no GUI), what are the steps needed to add multiple IP addresses to the NIC ? Previously, while using Redhat (not Fedora), we used to a) make a copy of ./etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 b) rename the copy to ./sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth01 c) edit the contents of the new file and d) reboot and lo and behold, we had multiple IP addresses for the NIC. What are the equivalent steps for Suse 9.3 ? Thank you so much, BR, ~A

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Re: [SLE] kernel update version 2.6.16.21-0.13-default
by Carlos E. R. 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2006-09-15 a las 22:11 -0400, Ed McCanless escribió: (You forgot to email to the list) > > That's not the last update. I have 2.6.16.21-0.21-default for SuSE > > 10.1; just installed and booted fine an hour ago. > Thanks Carlos, I just checked again and found that it was 2.6.16.21-0.21 that > I installed. I got my numbers confused while switching back and forth between > computers, and checking old mail. Guess that sort of makes the subject line > confusing; Sorry, That's ok. Well, it's a bit clearer now. I would say that what happened to you was a "glitch" from Yast, but using the word could be a bit risky right now :-P Hope you solve it. It has happened to me also. I wrote some instructions to the list a minute ago. - -- Saludos Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFC8kqtTMYHG2NR9URAg3kAKCLVrZ/aeT32rKKytnz5oxqNVJyvgCgjolB Ve6+8N/GnohiSifgva6VCeE= =afFD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Server 10.0 sending a lot of packs.
by Tage Danielsen 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

God morning I have a linux 9.3 and experienced that some times it start to send a lot of packs. I can not find the process doing that. Now I upgrated to 10.0 and it is doing the same thing, and my net is overloaded then. I hope to find what is doing this, a way is to make a new installation, but then I could get the same again a time. I experience some sh processes in defunct, and some syslogd with some process time. I hope that some one could guide me to find this stupid thing Regars Tage

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2.6.16.21-0.21 kernel update on 10.1
by rmyster 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

After allowing YOU to upgrade to kernel 2.6.16.21-0.21(and no other upgrade changes) and rebooting, the next run of YOU showed a delete icon near the kernel with the available version matching the installed version(2.6.16.21-0.21). Allowing to proceed(with no apparent changes) followed by another run of YOU showed an upgrade icon for the kernel (again with available=installed version 2.6.16.21-0.21) and no apparent changes while running. Running YOU yet again gets back to the delete icon and the cycle repeats. Is anyone else seeing this behavior after upgrading the kernel via YOU? The upgrade appears to have occurred and I don't notice any problems other that the repeated cycle between the kernel delete and upgrade icons showing up with each successive run of YOU. Neither case appears to actually delete or install anything.

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Low disk space
by Jose Thadeu P. D. Cavalcante 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Hi, After update to the last kde, kdebase3-3.5.4-64.1, I frequently receive the following message: "You are running low on disk space on your home partition (currently -52% free), would you like to run Konqueror to free some disk space and fix the problem?" Looking on properties of my home directory (I am the unique user) I get the information that the size is 14.GB and the free disk space is 102.GB. What is this? Thank you Thadeu

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