July 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] source for installer?
by Bruce Ferrell 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

I've become curious about the working of the installer. Where can I find the sources? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Problems with sound, USB in general, USB drives etc.
by Clayton 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

Couldn't think of a better subject line. I've been having some odd problems that I can't seem to fix. I recently upgraded to the latest kernel (32bit) from the repositories (I had been running the stock 10.2 32 bit kernel). The update itself went ok, but on restart the problems started. First, I had no sound. To "restart" sound, the only solution that works repeatedly is to start YAST, delete the sound card (Sound Blaster Live5.1) and add it back in again. But... when I delete the sound card, the desktop crashes. This happens every single time with no errors logged (that I can see) in messages or the xorg logs. To restart the desktop, the easy solution is to log out and back in again... and then all seems OK. Then... this weekend, I plugged in my USB drive. It was mounted properly, and I started deleting (a lot of) files... 2 Java programming projects.. exports of a svn and a cvs repository. This went OK for a few seconds, and then an error popped up saying that it was unable to delete a file (changes each time I try this). I cannot delete files or write to the USB disk after this happens. If I remount the drive ("safely remove", unplug and plug it back in) I can continue... for a few files, and then it errors out again. I tried this as root from terminal, and again, it works for a few files, and then all of a sudden the drive becomes a "Read Only Filesystem", and I cannot delete files again until I remount the drive. Sometimes I can delete a lot of files before this happens, sometimes none. Remount.. try again. The exact same thing happens when I try to copy files to the drive.. the first one or two files are copied successfully, and then the drive changes to ReadOnly (which of course generates errors by the copy process that it cannot write to a RO device), and has to be remounted to get RW back. I tried reformatting the USB drive, but all it would do (after unmounting and attempting to repartition or reformat) is error out with a "system error". This happens both on the terminal/console, and with the YAST partitioner. I rebooted back to the old kernel to see if things were messed up there. There I had sound, but no USB at all (and nothing I did would convince it to work even though all USB hubs were shown in the hardware list, and lsmod showed the USB module loaded)... boot back to the new kernel... no sound until I reinstall the sound card in YAST, and then of course.. log out and back in to fix the crashed desktop... but at least USB devices (mouse/keyboard) work with this kernel. So... that's the long story... now the questions (I've asked some of them here before but not got any answers).. these are the two I'd really like to solve.. or at least understand: - Why does deleting the sound card crash the desktop? This happens each and every time I delete the sound card with YAST. This has happened to me before on previous SUSE versions, and no one either believes me :-) or has ever seen this behavior and has no suggestions. But I'm hoping maybe... just maybe I can get to the bottom of this. - Why is my USB drive being mounted as RW, but at some point during accessing it does it magically convert to RO? This happens when attempting to delete files and when trying to copy files to the drive. (yes I checked, there is loads of room on the drive.. it's a 40GB drive (FAT32) partition with only about 5GB of data). C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] policy kit won't allow usb access
by Gordon J. Holtslander 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

Hi: On one of my opensuse 10.2 systems when I try to open a removavble usb device - camera or usb stick - I get the error message: cannot look up privlege from policykit. If I do this as root I get no error message. Any hints? Thanks, Gord -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Rearraging the Kmenu
by Adam Jimerson 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

Is there a way that I can manually rearrage programs in the Kmenu, for some reason programs are not being put under the right category, or they are in more than one. For example Supertuxcart, which is an arcade game, is under Kmenu > Games > Arcade and Kmenu > Graphics. I know that a game should not go under the Graphics category. Thank you in advance

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[opensuse] Burning CDs
by jpff 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

I used to use xcdroast with no problems (and cdrdao for audio CDS) but since 10.2 I have been pointed at K3B, which seems very iffy at best. First I do not run KDE or Gnome, and the way in which k3b keeps jammering about integration to some non-existent system is irritating. Worse is that it does not always work. Today it burnt the CD but then it froze when verifying. the CD is OK, but I could not even get k3b to quit afterwards. Is there an alternative software base to burn data CDs? One that does not want KDE or Gnome? ==John ffitch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] postfix smtp auth
by Chuck Payne 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

On 7/29/07, Chuck Payne <terrorpup(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/29/07, Joe Morris (NTM) <Joe_Morris(a)ntm.org> wrote: > > On 07/29/2007 07:35 PM, Chuck Payne wrote: > > > On 7/28/07, Joe Morris (NTM) <Joe_Morris(a)ntm.org> wrote: > > > > > >> On 07/29/2007 04:43 AM, Chuck Payne wrote: > > >> > > >>> I got a question. I need to set my server up so that users can auth > > >>> before sending because easier that adding the couple hunder ip for > > >>> access. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >> Check out Yast, System, etc/sysconfig Editor, Network, Mail, Postfix, > > >> POSTFIX_SMTP_AUTH_SERVER, and set it to yes. > > >> > > >>> Do I have to install courier or cyrus-sasl? I am looking at a simple > > >>> way of setting it up. > > >>> > > >>> > > >> No > > >> > > Unless I read it wrong, it does use cyrus-sasl. That is a dependency > > for postfix, since cyrus-sasl provides libsasl2.so.2, which postfix > > requires. So unless you have done something odd, if you used SuSE's > > postfix, cyrus-sasl IS installed. > > >> > > > Well I have done that is it's seem let mail be sent thru without > > > asking for a password. I think I have to have another program. > > Postfix will do it, it doesn't need another program. Did you read the > > help for that variable? > > ## Type: yesno > > ## Default: no > > ## Config: postfix > > # > > # Configure postfix to enable users to auth against postfix > > # to be able to relay mail independent of being within > > # the local network/domain. > > # You may want to edit /usr/lib64/sasl2/smtpd.conf to fit > > # your needs. > > # See /usr/share/doc/packages/postfix/README_FILES/SASL_README > > # for more details. > > # > > POSTFIX_SMTP_AUTH_SERVER="no" > > > > Maybe check out those files. > > > > -- > > Joe Morris > > Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Well it looks like that was installed, so I guess I need to trouble > shoot it. Thanks for the help. > > -- > -- > Command, n.: > Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in > such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control. > well I set up, but I am getting this now. smtp pid 16015 exit status 1 Jul 29 19:43:28 magi postfix/master[9363]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling Jul 29 19:43:28 magi postfix/master[9363]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 16014 exit status 1 Jul 29 19:43:28 magi postfix/master[9363]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling Jul 29 19:44:02 magi postfix/smtpd[9423]: connect from inferno.magidesign.com[66.23.219.83] Jul 29 19:44:05 magi postfix/smtpd[9423]: warning: unknown smtpd restriction: "permit_sasl_authenicated" is there a way to tell it to use pam because I hate to have to set up all the users in that file. Thanks, Payne -- -- Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] A real problem: splitting files
by Alexey Eremenko 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

Hi all ! I came across a problem: splitting files. How to best approach this problem ? I have used "split" command: Like that, to split 1 ISO file into many 1 MB files. split -d -b $[1000*1000] --verbose ../visopsys-0.62.iso But I came across a problem, how-to merge them back? I did something *very* ugly: alexey@opensuse102:/F/OSes/test> cp x00 finalfile.iso alexey@opensuse102:/F/OSes/test> cat x01 >> finalfile.iso alexey@opensuse102:/F/OSes/test> cat x02 >> finalfile.iso alexey@opensuse102:/F/OSes/test> cat x03 >> finalfile.iso alexey@opensuse102:/F/OSes/test> cat x04 >> finalfile.iso alexey@opensuse102:/F/OSes/test> cat x05 >> finalfile.iso alexey@opensuse102:/F/OSes/test> cat x06 >> finalfile.iso alexey@opensuse102:/F/OSes/test> cat x07 >> finalfile.iso alexey@opensuse102:/F/OSes/test> cat x08 >> finalfile.iso alexey@opensuse102:/F/OSes/test> cat x09 >> finalfile.iso alexey@opensuse102:/F/OSes/test> cat x10 >> finalfile.iso alexey@opensuse102:/F/OSes/test> alexey@opensuse102:/F/OSes/test> md5sum ../visopsys-0.62.iso f76eea3e3bbb441570984a7f6fb8d646 ../visopsys-0.62.iso alexey@opensuse102:/F/OSes/test> md5sum finalfile.iso f76eea3e3bbb441570984a7f6fb8d646 finalfile.iso Is there any beautyful command, that is "anti-split" ? I have tried "join", but this command is very bad: it can only join up to 2 files. I have heard about the possibility of multi-volume TAR archives, but I could not find the right keys in the tar info pages. Please help me finding the convenient commands to split/join files -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] alias failure
by Felix Miata 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

I'm having no luck figuring out why alias Vol='tune2fs -l $1 | grep volume' causes a usage message when 'Vol /dev/hda7' is run. Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong, or provide a better method to discover a volume label? -- "All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteoousness." 2 Timothy 3:16 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.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] simple firewall scripts
by Wolfgang Rosenauer 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

Hi, for smaller installations (using a Linux gateway) I used to use SuSEfirewall2 which basically has everything I needed so far. Now I'd something for another usecase: An old Linux gateway (with SuSEfirewall) got a hardware gateway in front of it now which blocks traffic from outside. So there is no need anymore to do extensive filtering and also masquerading on the old gateway while it's still there as kind of second stage hiding the internal network behind it. Now I still need to control which traffic is allowed from the inside to the internet which was done via FW_MASQ_NETS in SF2. Since I want to get rid of a second masquerading, SuSEfirewall has no mechanism to control this traffic anymore. Now I could write all iptables rules on my own (which is possible but I'm kind of lazy in that case) but I wonder if there is no other simple iptables "generator" outside which does it already. I plan to look at shorewall but thought I'd just ask here for recommendations. Thanks, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Mplayer and Yahoo conference calls
by John Andersen 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

I use Mplayer (the default player suggested by Suse/KDE for conference calls from http://biz.yahoo.com/cc ) to listen to financial conference calls. In windows, starting any archived call triggers it to start immediately. (using media player). Mplayer launches, Clicks, and then just sits there. One becomes convinced it will not work. 20 minutes later it will start playing the lead-in music. It might do that for another 20 minutes. Then the call will start, and it works fine (other than having no ability to use the position slider to step backward and forward like Media Player). Under Windows Media player, the call starts instantly at the dialog portion. No music lead in. Is there any Linux player that works with these calls? (alledgedly they are ASX format)? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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