openSUSE Users June 2007

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by Nick Zentena

Is there something small and simple? All I want is to set up a simple home database. Items,serial numbers maybe a couple more fields. Every time I go looking all I seem to find is stuff geared at running a Fortune 500 company. Thanks Nick -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

14 years, 10 months

[opensuse] OpenOffice.org:/UNSTABLE repo

by Michael Riess

hi to all readers, i recognized the new repo OpenOffice.org:/UNSTABLE but there are no langugage packs like OpenOffice_org-de-2.2.99-211-2.1.i586.rpm does anyone know or tried if the UNSTABLE packages could be used with lang ones of OpenOffice.org:/STABLE ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

14 years, 10 months

[opensuse] Filesystem becomes read-only

by Tim Donnelly

I am using Suse 10.2 on two different machines. One is a new Dell Poweredge 2970, the other is an older (2002) "no-name" server. Both have experienced a strange and severe problem since I installed Suse. Basically the file system is put into a read-only state. While the OS and all apps are still running and I can log in a view files/logs etc. nothing can write to the disks. Obviously this causes all kinds of problems. The only way to get the filesystem into a more interactive state is a hard reboot. The first two times this occurred, there were messages in the /var/log/messages file relating to megasas, however as soon as the system was restarted, these warnings disappeared. I believe the file was not actually written to the disk when the system freaked out so once logging resumed those entries were lost. The messages are somewhat similar to these that I found via a Google search: sd 1:2:0:0: megasas: RESET -286287 cmd=8a megasas: [ 0]waiting for 12 commands to complete megasas: [ 5]waiting for 12 commands to complete megasas: [10]waiting for 12 commands to complete megasas: [15]waiting for 12 commands to complete ... megasas: [170]waiting for 12 commands to complete megasas: [175]waiting for 12 commands to complete megasas: failed to do reset sd 1:2:0:0: megasas: RESET -286287 cmd=8a megasas: cannot recover from previous reset failures sd 1:2:0:0: megasas: RESET -286287 cmd=8a megasas: cannot recover from previous reset failures sd 1:2:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery Saturday the problem happened on the Dell server, although this time there is no mention of megasas in the logs files. A search of this list did not find any reference to megasas and all too many unrelated results for a read-only filesystem :). System Specs: Dell PowerEdge 2970 Opteron 2.0GHz 64-bit 4 GB memory 3x 73GB Hard Drive (RAID 5) PERC 5i "No-name server" Dual P3 1GHz 1GB memory Dual 36GB hard drives (no RAID) I appreciate any help. Let me know if more information is needed. Thanks Tim Donnelly Systems/Network Administrator Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (303)759-3399 x106 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

14 years, 11 months

[opensuse] avahi in opensuse 10.2?

by Nate Pearlstein

Anyone actually seen this work with 10.2? It never seems to attempt to join the 224.0.0.251 multicast group. Mar 18 03:39:47 tlaloc avahi-daemon[32653]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 107) and group 'avahi' (GID 109). Mar 18 03:39:47 tlaloc avahi-daemon[32653]: Successfully dropped root privileges. Mar 18 03:39:47 tlaloc avahi-daemon[32653]: avahi-daemon 0.6.14 starting up. Mar 18 03:39:47 tlaloc avahi-daemon[32653]: Loading service file /etc/avahi/services/sftp-ssh.service. Mar 18 03:39:47 tlaloc avahi-daemon[32653]: Loading service file /etc/avahi/services/ssh.service. Mar 18 03:39:47 tlaloc avahi-daemon[32653]: netlink.c: packet not from the kernel Mar 18 03:39:47 tlaloc avahi-daemon[32653]: Registering HINFO record with values 'I686'/'LINUX'. Mar 18 03:39:47 tlaloc avahi-daemon[32653]: Server startup complete. Host name is tlaloc.local. Local service cookie is 2476043156. Mar 18 03:39:47 tlaloc avahi-daemon[32653]: Service "Remote Terminal on tlaloc" (/etc/avahi/services/ssh.service) successfully established. Mar 18 03:39:47 tlaloc avahi-daemon[32653]: Service "SFTP File Transfer on tlaloc" (/etc/avahi/services/sftp-ssh.service) successfully established. Mar 18 03:39:47 tlaloc avahi-daemon[32653]: netlink.c: packet not from the kernel -- =========================================================== Its A Smallworld is in Fantasyland =========================================================== Nate Pearlstein - npearl(a)sgi.com - Product Support Engineer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

14 years, 11 months

[opensuse] Something weird with Firefox in Opensuse 10.2

by Phil Savoie

Hi All, Am having weirdness with Firefox Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20061023 SUSE/2.0.0.4-1.1 Firefox/2.0.0.4. Seems that I am getting what appears to be raw html script where the headlines should be in a local on-line newspaper. I have included a screenshot to demonstrate what I am experiencing. This is something that just appeared as I don't recall having done anything to precipitate this. Any help in how to fix this would be great. Thank you, Phil

14 years, 11 months

[opensuse] [bug] GTK+ file selector freeze - [bug] Firefox spellchecking in French environment

by Christophe Osuna

I am sorry to send bug reports on this mailing-list instead of using Novell Bugzilla, but the latter requires creating an account and leaving personal data that I am reluctant to give. Product: openSUSE 10.2 Severity: major Reproducible: always Summary: GTK+ file selectory freezes when running an application with an user that does not own the current GNOME session Details: Steps to reproduce the bug: 1. Log in with a GNOME session (only GNOME is affected) 2. Open a GTK+ application as another user (for instance open "gedit" as root) 3. Open the GTK+ file selector ("File->Open" or "File->Save as...") 4. The application will freeze then. Product: openSUSE 10.2 Severity: minor Reproducible: always Summary: Mozilla Firefox uses an English dictionary to check spelling in a French environment Details: This is a small annoyance: even in a French environment Mozilla Firefox uses an English dictionary to check spelling in the text areas. It probably affects all non-English environments. Possible solutions: either use an appropriate dictionary or disable spelling. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

14 years, 11 months

[opensuse] using mailing list with Evolution

by James Tremblay

Hey guys, Is there a way to use the "ctrl L" command without hijacking a thread or some other shortcut key to open a new mail to a mailing list? -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket,NH http://en.opensuse.org/Education "let's make a difference" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

14 years, 11 months

[opensuse] Network install frustration

by John Bennett

I have spent the last 8 hours trying to install on a PC with a CD and no floppy..... I have an Opensuse 10.2 DVD, and a PC running it on the network, but for the life of me, haven;t been able to connect via FTP, HTTP, SMB, NFS and various other options. I can run up the PC using a Bart disk, create a partition and copy files to that.... but still no luck. One of my main queries is: when pointing to an SMB share with the install, what is the install supposed to look like?? ie is it just the DVD (ie share the dvd drive and put the original dvd in) or is it a "special" mix of files.... or a directory on the DVD??? So many questions.... But regardless of that, I am sure I have tried all those options, just to continually get a message similar to "invalid installation image...." HELP!! Then again.... I am trying to replace XP on my wifes PC, with a decent OS, but it just aint workin'! It may be an omen.... this is my wifes PC, and I am the local "Desktop Support" rep!! :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

14 years, 11 months

[opensuse] openSUSE 10.2, desktop PC, disk being constantly written to. Any way to reduce it?

by Tero Pesonen

Hi all! I subscribed to this list to ask about this issue. I've not found almost any coverage on this topic, or then I've searched for wrong keywords on Google and on various mailing lists. My issues is as follows: I've recently upgraded to openSUSE 10.2 from SuSE Linux 9.3 on my desktop PC. This is no server or anything, and I'm the only user. I've noticed that at least on my upgraded installation the system seems to be almost constantly accessing through file I/O's the "/" mounted disk and also the "/home" partition. I realised this as I studied the output given by "iostat." If I leave it to monitor the system while running X and KDE, it shows constant "blocks written" action on hda, which contains both the root partition "/" and home partitions. I tried and mounted my /tmp to hdb, to see if the temp directory would be the subject of constant disk I/O (rather logical), especially while running KDE. But the /tmp partition actually shows only very limited read and write actions. If my KDE runs idle without me doing anything in particular, with some applications running such as Kontact, couple of konsoles, Firefox, couple of Konquerors, etc., the tmp sees almost no activity unless some application is operated on. Still, hda is constantly being written to. How does it show? Well, first of all, there's constantly (every few seconds) from some 8 to few dozens blocks being written, according to iostat. Almost no reading at all. Then, every so often, maybe after every 2 or 3 minutes (I'm not sure yet if this varies), it writes a bigger burst of data, one that I can easily hear the hard drive doing, and it can least a few seconds, but less than 10 seconds I'd say. This constant writing (constant writing plus regular bursts) is done irrespective to the activity of the desktop. Whether I do something or not, this happens. Even when back on pure console on run level 3. I've studied my memory utilisation. I've 512MB of RAM, and despite what "free" shows, this happen. My swap partition is on hdb, so it is not that, and it is almost always zero Kb any way. So the system is not swapping under low memory or anything. My swappiness is "60"; altering this value has no effect. And my memory utilisation (+/- buffers in cache) never seems to go below 300MB free. Anyway, as mentioned, the amount of free memory seems to have no effect on the constant writing on hda. I've searched the web to find something related to this, but have come up with nothing useful. I've closed down all unnecessary processes I know I can, but that has as little effect as anything else I try. None of the logs seem to be flooded with data, and I even turned off firewall logging. I uninstalled all Apparmor etc. stuff and even closed sshd and similar. No effect. I didn't find any way to monitor which files are constantly being written to. One command listed all open files per process, but it prints hundreds of lines, and seems to be of no use for knowing where the constant disk output is headed. So I tried to find via kfind which files have most recently been written to (access date changed to current.) There were tons of those, but at least it seems that in /sys and especially in /proc huge amount of files are updated so that they're always marked as having been updated at the same time as the current time shown by system clock. Not even a minute behind, never. Might this folder be the subject to this constant disk output? It seems it could be, or at least could be one of the culprits. All my hda partitoons were formatted for SuSE 9.3 when it was installed, and are ReiserFS. According to Yast partitioner, they seem to have been set to "ordered data mode" from the three possible (journal, ordered, writeback.) This is what was then set by default, as I don't remember to having changed those. Why is this constant I/O a problem? Well, I have a feeling my old SuSE 9.3 did not do this. What is more, I'm worried if my poor IDE hard drive can take all this strain the system is putting on it. If my hard disk is writing 24h/day, how long will it last before it dies under such server-level use? The heads need to constantly move and write... and these standard IDE HDD's are definitely no server level units that are designed to perform under constant stress. Linux being a server OS, it may not care by default about my hardware all that much. So I would definitely want to know if there was any way to make the system (Kernel?) not to write non-stop (to /proc? and/or elsewhere), and if this was a symptom of something being wrong somewhere. I've also read on the web about "laptop modes" etc. that avoid excess and unnecessary disk I/O to allow spinn-downs etc. Could something like this be employed on my desktop PC? Would there be anything in /etc/sysconfig to edit--I already even turned off all weird sounding man pages related jobs put there in "cron". And above all, do others' systems show similar disk I/O behaviour? Oh, almost forgot: I don't offer any network services etc. Not even SSH like I used to. Thank you for providing any insight you might have on this. Any kind of advice will be appreciated. I may have forgotten to mention something very elementary that I've tried or looked at, so feel free to ask if you believe I've not checked something obvious. Thank you, Tero Pesonen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

14 years, 11 months

[opensuse] lmtp socket - permission denied / Postfix + Cyrus + LDAP.

by lauro＠npd.ufsc.br

I'm on opensuse 10.1. I read the mailing list and noticed many people with the same problem. Cyrus and Postfix are on the same machine. Postfix cannot connect to the ltmp socket and deliver mail to Cyrus, so it can then deliver to users: --- host postfix/lmtp[7070]: A8721F25E: to=<xx@xx>, relay=none, delay=17, status=deferred (connect to /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp]: Permission denied) --- srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 25 10:33 /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp drwxr-x--- 13 cyrus mail 4096 Jun 26 08:03 imap (/var/lib/imap) --- user cyrus is cyrus.mail user postfix is postfix.postfix --- I tried to stop apparmor, but even so it didn't work, with the same message. I went thru the apparmor profiles and there was nothing about the postfix user/group neither the executable or that particular diretory. The apparmor profiles are the same from default install, and all mentioned software are from the 10.1 repositories. When I add the postfix user to the mail group, it works ok. But I don't want to do that, it might cause some misbehavior(?), I would like a different more "correct" approach, say to change apparmor config to let the postfix user or the executable from postfix which tries to use that socket to do so. What do you think would be more appropriated? thanks, lauro --------- imapd.conf sasl_mech_list: PLAIN sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_auto_transition: no configdirectory: /var/lib/imap defaultpartition: default partition-default: /var/spool/imap partition-news: /var/spool/imap/news newsspool: /var/spool/news altnamespace: no unixhierarchysep: no admins: cyrus allowanonymouslogin: no popminpoll: 1 autocreatequota: 0 umask: 007 sievehomedir: false sievedir: /var/lib/sieve hashimapspool: true allowplainttext: yes lmtpsocket: /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp idlesocket: /var/lib/imap/socket/idlei notifysocket: /var/lib/imap/socket/notify sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail tls_cert_file: /var/lib/imap/server.pem tls_key_file: /var/lib/imap/server.pem tls_ca_file: /var/lib/imap/server.pem tls_session_timeout: 1440 tls_cipher_list: TLSv1:SSLv3:SSLv2:!NULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!LOW:@STRENGTH servername: xx.xx (masked) postmaster: postmaster reject8bit: no quotawarn: 90 timeout: 30 poptimeout: 10 dracinterval: 0 drachost: localhost lmtp_overquota_perm_failure: no lmtp_downcase_rcpt: yes --------- cyrus.conf START { recover cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -r" idled cmd="idled" } SERVICES { imap cmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=0 pop3 cmd="pop3d" listen="pop3" prefork=0 sieve cmd="timsieved" listen="sieve" prefork=0 lmtpunix cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=1 } EVENTS { checkpoint cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -c" period=30 delprune cmd="cyr_expire -E 3" at=0400 tlsprune cmd="tls_prune" at=0400 } --------- main.cf (postfix - just some parts) ... mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp mail_spool_directory = /var/mail ... --------- end ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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openSUSE Users June 2007