November 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Ripping out hair - Update for 10.3 Broken?
by LLLActive＠gmx.net 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hi all, I'm ripping out my hair. Since last week I have continuously update problems from opensuse 10.3: In CLI (Ctrl-Alt-1) and init 3 (because I need updates for acpi that freezes system when KDE is up): running yast: Error message occurs - curl error from http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/ Error Code: Unreconized Error Error Message: connect() timed out! Then I press OK, Then I press Retry ....then it downloads and works every time !!! (IPV6 deactivated - as some advised when searching Internet for similar problem) When I click on retry, it does it fine. It does it on many-many 'patches' - ALWAYS the SAME patches like 'patch-evolution-4878.xml' or 'patch-flash-player-5161.xml' . It will take hours to click retry every time. How can retry be automated? :-( Al -- "Feel free" - 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] package verification?
by Greg Freemyer 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

All, I had a new client call me today. They believe their system has had an intruder in it. Possibly, just a worm/robot. Possibly a human. (The system is now offline.) I believe it's running an unpatched version of SLES 9.0 I'd like to verify if any of the executables have been altered from the beginning. Is there a way to have RPM / Yast do that? Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.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] Apache2 Parse Error on 11.0 x86_64
by David C. Rankin 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Listmates, I am getting an error trying to start apache2 on opensuse 11.0. The error is: [17:07 alchemy/usr/local/lib/apache2] # rcapache2 reload Reload httpd2 (graceful restart) Syntax error on line 189 of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf.local: Invalid command 'AuthDBMGroupFile', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration The command line was: /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -DSSL unused Line 189 is: AuthDBMGroupFile /usr/local/lib/apache2/dcraccess The syntax appears correct: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_auth_dbm.html#authdbmgroupfile Is this a bug or am I misreading something? -- 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] fixing Grub and MBR
by James D. Parra 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hello, Try to fix the MBR, but running into some problems. After an clean install the system hangs at boot. Doesn't even get to the boot loader. Used the Suse 10.3 rescue cd and ran fdisk; /boot is on /dev/sda1 / is on /dev/sda3 mounted /boot on /dev/sda1 made dir /tmp/rootold mounted /dev/sda3 /tmp/rootold chrooted to /tmp/rootold cd to / ran 'grub-install', but it shows; grub > setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,0) (hd0,0) Error 21: selected disk does not exist. <snip> How can I fix this? Thank you, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] TFT monitor blinking
by Istvan Gabor 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hello: I have changed my CRT monitor to TFT flat panel. The monitor was recognized and set up by openSUSE 10.3 automatically, the resolution is set to 1400x1050, color depth is 24. I have an ATI Radeon VE/7000 videocard. Interestingely the monitor is blinking frequently, ie. turns completely to black just for a second. This occurs eg. when I change the with of name, ext or other colums or change directory in krusader, save file or change tab in Opera browser. The screen comes back to normal after this transient one second blank state. I never experineced similar with my CRT monitor, though its resolution was only 1024x768. Any explanation, suggestion to solve this or trace the cause? TIA, suseuser04 ______________________________________________________________________ 30% kedvezménnyel Ken Follett, Nora Roberts, Dan Brown és más szerzők művei! Könyvszerda - több mint 500 féle könyvvel! http://bookline.hu/control/news?newsid=397&tabname=book&affiliate=frekszkar… -- 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] Bye bye SuSE?
by Dotan Cohen 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

2008/10/21 Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon(a)decoulon.ch>: > On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I very much recommend Kubuntu, though it is .deb based. Fedora is just >> too unstable for daily work. What proprietary software do you depend >> on? > > I did not like the Ubuntu setup the last time I tried it, but I'll take a look > at the latest version. > > I don't depend on any proprietary software (except iScan perhaps, but I can > use another scanner, and Opera). I mainly use Gimp, OpenOffice, VLC, and > several KDE tools. > > This being said, I can live with KDE 4 based apps if I can get a decent > desktop with a sensible file manager. Which KDe 4 does not seem to provide > now, and the developpers don't seem to care about for the future. > Then maybe it's been a while since you've tried dolphin. As much as I hated that app when it first came out, I really like it now. And don't let anyone tell you that you can still use Konqi for a file manager: it calls dolphin and behaves more like dolphin than the Konqi we knew from KDE 3. But that's really just fine: like I said, dolphin has come a long way and it really is a good piece of software. This is what's holding me back from KDE 4.x: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165402 (No "show keyboard status" indicator in KDE4 ) -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

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Re: [opensuse] KDE accessibility. was Bye bye SuSE?
by Dominique Leuenberger 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 13:10 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: > Actually I think Europe is better. It's not a question of sueing for > damages, it's enforcing rights under equal-opportunity employment laws. > In the UK one would use the Disability Discrimination Act, I believe. > But I can't believe the TUV certification given to LiMux won't already > require compliance with applicable legislation. Even so, the TUV certification is valid for the current version of LiMux... which contains KDE 3.5... so what's the point? Nobody, but really NOBODY forces you to go to openSUSE 11.2 (which won't have kde 3 shipped anymore)... Having an old product removed from a package is nothing unusual.... ever tried to sue the competitor for not having IE6 shipped with Vista anymore? You can't tell me IE7 is equal to 6, as I know some sites which refuse to work with anything else than IE6 But this is getting really far off what this list should all be about. If you don't agree to steps taken by a distro, recompile the old packages for your favorite version and install it... I'm sure with some effort you can even get KDE 2 to run on openSUSE 11.1 and laters. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Is the a list of Switches that support link bonding?
by Greg Freemyer 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

All, I considering setting up link bonding for the first time. The server would have 2 NICs. Possibly a couple of the clients would have the same, but most of the clients only one NIC. I've checked a couple switches and I'm confused. I found one old comment that there was a 8-port Netgear 1Gbit switch that supported it for $100 which sounds great. But I need about 24 ports, and from my initial looks I haven't found one yet that does. My method is to drill down into spec sheets, but I'm hoping someone has already done that and built a nice list? Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.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] internet MAC address
by Richard 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

I have been having intermittant connectivity problems, so started trying to fix like an auto mechanic: replace a part at a time and see what works. Router is linksys, fairly new so not suspicious. Cable modem was maybe 5-6 years old or more, so replaced that. Not much change, still lose connectivity at an odd time, nothing can get me back up, then some hours later, voila!, I am back on...so rush to get out emails, or questions like this while possible. New cable modem has new MAC address, which I registered with ISP, but am not sure how to re-set in SUSE 11. On the one hand, I am online now, but check with eth0 in YAST, Network Devices, shows old MAC address. I assume I can manually change in a file probably in /etc, but I did not find one that seemed obvious. Any suggestions? Thanks for any assistance, including other thoughts on the random outages. Cable company has been by and replaced lines, splitters, like that, assures that signal is good. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] mdadm --grow
by Greg Freemyer 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

All, I'm conceptually putting together a NFS server in my head. (I will build it once I know what it is!!) What I want is something flexible. ie. Have it start with 3 or 4 drives, then add a drive when I need the capacity. Remove a drive when I don't. replace the drives with bigger drives as the become available. All without losing my data. (Or having to back it up / restore it.) I'd like to start with a 4 disk Raid 10 providing 2 TB of space, but then have the ability to add disks, change raid techniques etc. (ie. convert to raid 6 without data loss!!). mdadm --grow implies it can do this, but there is not much there and my google searches did not turn up much either. Can anyone tell me how well it works and what sorts of things can actually be done. And can it be used to "shrink" a volume. (I believe XFS supports shrinking a filesystem, so I would first shrink the filesystem, then hopefully use mdadm to shrink the raid array.) If mdadm can't do any of this, is there a hardware controller card that can? FYI: The Drobo (www.drobo.com) can do the above as I understand it, but the performance is apparently very slow. Only 5 to 8 MB/sec from the reviews I saw. I want at least 80MB/sec when reading large files. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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