November 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Backing-up an Opensuse system - OK everyone, it's time to get really serious!
by Basil Chupin 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

There is a thread in this forum about making backups of a 'Linux'/ Opensuse OS. I've read them, and I am absolutely and thoroughly 'put-off' by what I have read. I now ask: is it not now the time to get really serious about having a backup facility for Opensuse? I have seen replies about backups for the OS called "rsync", "kdar". etc and etc and etc. All of the these sound like they are aimed at the "geek", or in the period when men wore spats and women had to hide their ankles. Cannot someone, involved with developing/writing, openSuse come up with a backup application, along the lines now available, for the <shudder> and <dreaded> Windows OS, like Acronis et alia, for an Opensuse system? Ciao. -- Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Demand for an Americas KDE meeting?
by Will Stephenson 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Dear all As you know we hold a biweekly KDE meeting. We're thinking of holding the next meeting (28 Nov) at a time to suit those of you in the Americas - probably 2200GMT = 6pm EST, 7pm CST, 3pm PST. Would this be useful to you http://home.kde.org/~binner/kde-four-live/KDE-Four-Live.i686-0.7.iso.torrent fnord or should we keep it at the Eurasian friendly time of 1700UTC? Please answer here or mail me privately. The following meeting will be back at the usual time, anyway. best Will -- Will Stephenson Desktop Engineer K Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Openoffice error after update
by Hans defaber 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

This is problem is yesterday mailed as " openoffice freezes at save command". I re-edited the problem Used: Suse 10.3(x86-64) openoffice 2.3.0 I have upgraded my system from suse 10.2 to suse 10.3 After the upgrade i have the following problem using the wordprocessor or writing spreadsheets (other functionality not tested). 1. The exit command does nothing (menu File Exit or ctrl Q) 2. The save or save-as command freezes the whole application, logoff is the only solution. I set my last 10.2 backup back and everything worked fine. I set my first (immediate after upgrade to 10.3) backup back and the problem was there. I logged in as root and have the same problem I re-installed openoffice, same problem I deleted in my homedir the ooo-2.0 directory then this was recreated by openoffice, same problem I checked all accesrights of the used directories, all correct. Does anybody else have this problems Does somebody have any idea what it can be. Thanks, Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OpenOffice frozen at save command
by Hans defaber 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

hi folks, Suse 10.3 and the last version of openoffice. Sometimes I have to write a letter and want to use openoffice. but this time since some months it went wrong nice letter and save (or save as) it. At that moment the wordprocessor freezes completely the only thing I can do is logoff. I logged in as root, same problem I removed and re-installed open office, same problem I set back my 'immidiate after update to 10.3' imagebackup back, same problem I deleted the ooo-2.0 directory in my homedir, same problem. Has anybody an idea wat it can be ? Thanks, Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Questions on 32-bit v. 64-bit
by Chee How Chua 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hi guys, When I install openSUSE, how does it know whether it should install a 32-bit kernel or a 64-bit kernel? Does any part of the installation reflect that? The complication arises when the system originally has 2GB RAM but will later on be increased to 8GB RAM. If the installed kernel had been 32-bit, is it possible to upgrade the whole installation to 64-bit to support the increase in RAM? Let's take for example the Xeon 5130 processor. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] amarok playlist
by primm 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

How do I get it to play the whole list one after the other? No flames please. Love, Lynn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OOffice and sound in Impress
by Lívio Cipriano 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hi all, I'm using OO 2.0.4 in openSUSE 10.2 and I can't play a sound or music during a Impress presentation. Did I misconfigure the sound system or is a "feature" of Impress in Linux. In Windows works. -- Regards, Lívio Cipriano -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ldap - Can't bind to server - will on one 10.0 box won't on another??
by David C. Rankin 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Listmates, I have lost a great amount of hair trying to determine why I cannot connect to/add anything to ldap on a 10.0 server, where the exact same setup works fine on another 10.0 server. Something a simple as a search fails to bind with or without a password. Here as the symptoms and errors: root@nemesis:/home/david # ldapsearch -x -b dc=3111skyline,dc=com "(objectClass=*)" ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (-1) root@nemesis:/home/david # ldapsearch -W -b dc=3111skyline,dc=com -D cn=admin,dc=3111skyline,dc=com "(objectClass=*)" Enter LDAP Password: ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Can't contact LDAP server (-1) The same errors occur with ldapadd as well. The only way I can get data into the directory is by shutting down the server and using slapadd, which works fine, but it is not optimal. slapcat correctly dumps the directory back to ldif. But when the server is running, I cannot seem to connect no matter what. The strange problem is that I have another SuSE 10.0 server, configured the same way, that everything works fine on. So much for consistency. Permissions and ownership of /var/lib/ldap are fine: root@nemesis:/home/david # l /var/lib/ldap total 799 drwx------ 2 ldap ldap 328 2007-11-19 01:00 ./ drwxr-xr-x 50 root root 1312 2007-11-18 11:06 ../ -rw------- 1 ldap ldap 24576 2007-11-19 01:00 __db.001 -rw------- 1 ldap ldap 18759680 2007-11-19 01:00 __db.002 -rw------- 1 ldap ldap 2162688 2007-11-19 01:00 __db.003 -rw------- 1 ldap ldap 450560 2007-11-19 01:00 __db.004 -rw------- 1 ldap ldap 24576 2007-11-19 01:00 __db.005 -rw-r--r-- 1 ldap ldap 48 2006-07-28 12:18 DB_CONFIG -rw------- 1 ldap ldap 8192 2007-11-19 01:37 dn2id.bdb -rw------- 1 ldap ldap 32768 2007-11-19 01:37 id2entry.bdb -rw------- 1 ldap ldap 10485760 2007-11-19 01:37 log.0000000001 -rw------- 1 ldap ldap 8192 2007-11-19 01:37 objectClass.bdb Here is the very basic setup with very little modification from the original (standard comments removed): root@nemesis:/home/david # cat /etc/openldap/slapd.conf include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/rfc2307bis.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/yast.schema argsfile /var/run/slapd/slapd.args modulepath /usr/lib/openldap/modules loglevel -1 access to dn.base="" by * read access to dn.base="cn=Subschema" by * read access to attr=userPassword,userPKCS12 by self write by * auth access to attr=shadowLastChange by self write by * read access to * by self write by * read database bdb checkpoint 1024 5 cachesize 10000 suffix "dc=3111skyline,dc=com" rootdn "cn=admin,dc=3111skyline,dc=com" rootpw {SSHA}<password removed> directory /var/lib/ldap index objectClass eq The startup log looks fine as far as I can tell: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/ldapstartup I'm really stumped on this one. It has to be a setting somewhere, but where and what is the question. This also may be a forest for the trees issue that I just can't see yet. Does anyone have a guess what could be preventing me from being able to connect to the server. I'm working from localhost, so this isn't even a remote connection issue. As always, any help will be appreciated. Thanks! -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] scsi errors
by Coach-X 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Does anyone know if the following errors mean the the disk is failing? Can anyone explain the errors? Did some searches on google with no definitive answers. The system is currently set up as software raid 1 Oct 9 00:15:25 omega kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Recovered Error [current] Oct 9 00:15:25 omega kernel: Info fld=0x1b44e88 Oct 9 00:15:25 omega kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Recovered data - data auto-reallocated Nov 16 08:43:24 omega kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Recovered Error [current] Nov 16 08:43:24 omega kernel: Info fld=0x5d2a613 Nov 16 08:43:24 omega kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Recovered data with error corr. & retries applied Nov 16 09:24:09 omega kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Recovered Error [current] Nov 16 09:24:09 omega kernel: Info fld=0x5d2a65f Nov 16 09:24:09 omega kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Recovered data with CIRC Nov 17 10:43:15 omega kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Recovered Error [current] Nov 17 10:43:15 omega kernel: Info fld=0x5d2a613 Nov 17 10:43:15 omega kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Recovered data with error corr. & retries applied Nov 20 15:45:50 omega kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Recovered Error [current] Nov 20 15:45:50 omega kernel: Info fld=0x5d2a623 Nov 20 15:45:50 omega kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Recovered data with CIRC -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Scripting Question - Converting value to minutes:seconds
by Bryen 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

For all you scripting gurus out there. Can you help me out? I'm trying to convert a value to an output to the user of minutes:seconds. For example: if $A=100 (for seconds) Then echo "This is 1:40 minutes" How would I do this? -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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