openSUSE Users December 2008

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by Donald D Henson

I can't seem to find the answer to the following question, not even in "Samba for Dummies". I guess the question is too simple. Anyway... Is it okay to have more than one samba server in a given local network? Or put another way... Do you need a samba server on each linux machine that wants to serve shares? Responses appreciated. -- Don Henson

13 years, 5 months

[opensuse] openSUSE 11.1 - of grub,md/lvm root, and related headaches

by Moby

I have had a system running fine since oss 10.1 (upgraded from there on to the current nightmare that is 11.1). Here is the system disk layout: Two 300 GB SATA hard drives - sda and sdba sda1 and sdb1 are 130 MG, them mirrored using md raid into /dev/md0. /dev/md0 has ext3 mounted as /boot. sda2 and sdb2 are 1 GB, then mirrored using md raid into /dev/md1. /dev/md1 is swap. sda3 and sdb3 are 274 GB, then mirrored using md raid into /dev/md2. /dev/md2 has lvm on it, with / being /dev/system/system. Grub installed in mbr of sda. This system has been running great. I upgraded in-place from 11.0 to 11.1, and everything was still fine. Then I built a custom kernel (as I have done with all other versions - the only thing I change is set the processor type). During the custom kernel install phase, make modules_install worked fine, but I noticed some weird device-mapper "no such file or device" error message during make install. I did not think much of it (probably a BIG mistake). Verified new vmlinuz and initrd were in place and /boot/grub/menu.lst looked kosher. Rebooted the system, and it went to pot. On reboot, the machine displays the word "GRUB" and just hangs there. Only thing I can do at that point is to reboot. Booted from 11.1 install disk, went into "repair installed system", no joy - this "repair installed system" did not see any md devices, nor any lvs. Booted from 11.1 install disk, went into rescue mode. I was able to mount all my partitions successfully, I was able to chroot to my original root, go into yast etc. I reinstalled grub to mbr of sda, no errors. I googled and found a fix for the device mapper errors during mkinitrd (it had to do with a bug in Tools.pm), re-made and installed the kernel etc. Rebooted the system, same behavior, it just hangs after printing GRUB. At this point, I have done about everything I can think of to revive it to no joy. Finally I made a grub boot CD, and have it use the kernel and initrd in place on the hard drives, and the system comes up fine. I am completely lost as to why grub will not boot from the HDD. I have tried reinstalled Grub to theMBR, as well as to the boot sector of the active parition (/dev/sda1) to no avail. During googling for solutions, I read bits and pieces about how oss 11.1 uses a different mechanism for mkinitrd, something about relying on device mapper etc. While I do not fully understand what the changes are, I hope someone on the list does and can readily see what could be ailing my system and suggest a way out. In the meantime, the system continues to run after booting from a CD. Thanks in advance for any help, -- --Moby They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

13 years, 5 months

[opensuse] Wolfgang - 11.0 Tbird, any way to assign the 'del' key to 'd' for messages view?

by David C. Rankin

List (mostly for Wolfgang): On 11.0 in thunderbird is there any way to assign 'del' to the 'd' key to make the 'd' key work as delete while in the message view window? Any of your brilliant: gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command blah blah commands up your sleeve? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. | openSoftware und SystemEntwicklung Rankin Law Firm, PLLC | Countdown for openSuSE 11.1 www.rankinlawfirm.com | http://counter.opensuse.org/11.1/small -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

13 years, 5 months

[opensuse] ATI Graphics Cards on openSuse

by Jim Flanagan

Greetings all, I have moved away from ATi cards for a year or so now, and am considering upgrading the card on one box. Before I blindly go out a get an Nvidia card I wanted to check here to see if the situation with the Ati drivers had improved. Does anyone have any recent experiences with these newer card and openSuse, good or bad. Thanks, Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

13 years, 5 months

[opensuse] madwifi RPMS for 11.1 (temporary)

by David C. Rankin

Listmates, With the trouble getting my Toshiba Atheros wireless working and without madwifi rpms available, I built a set from the latest svn build of madwifi and created a repository for 11.1. I only have 256K of upstream bandwidth, so if anyone else wants to copy them and host them until the Buildservice rpms are done, that would help. You can find the repository and a bit of additional information here: http://www.3111skyline.com/linux/openSuSE111-install.php#madwifi -- 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

13 years, 5 months

[opensuse] Tymeshare ??

by James Hatridge

Hi all, I worked for Tymeshare back around 1980 in Dallas. Does anyone know what happened to this company? Thanks, JIMm -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 Ebay ID: WartHogBulletin ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.WartHogBulletin.de Many Enemies -- Much Honor! Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.manyenemies-muchhonor.info An American in Bavaria http://www.gaubodengalerie.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

13 years, 5 months

[opensuse] KDE Control Login manager module messes up config file

by Joop Beris

Hello listmates, openSUSE 11.1, KDE 4.1.3: Using the KDE Control Center, the Login Manager module, I got the KDM config file messed up: /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc. kdm_config now complains in /var/log/messages about multiple occurrences of the following keys: Languages ShowUsers Theme UseBackground UseTheme I have to go in there by hand to fix it up. It seems to me that this module shouldn't leave kdmrc in a state of mess. Joop ------------------------------------------------------------ Dit bericht is gescand op virussen en andere gevaarlijke inhoud door MailScanner en lijkt schoon te zijn. Mailscanner door http://www.prosolit.nl Professional Solutions fot IT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

13 years, 5 months

[opensuse] openSUSE 11, KDE 3.5...best way to get KDE 4.1 running?

by Joop Beris

Hello listmates, I am happily running an installation of openSUSE 11 on this machine, with KDE 3.5. Everything works nice and I'm really satisfied with the system. However..in the future, I will probably want to move to KDE 4.1. (or .2). What is the best way to get KDE 4 running along KDE 3.5? Should I use the 1-Click Installer? Should I add repos and install it from there? If I want a stable KDE 4 desktop, with regular updates, which repos should I add? Stable? Factory? Questions, questions, questions... The main goal is to give KDE 4 a good, stable run, work with it, get the feel of it. I'll try to create a coherent report of my findings too. So in a nutshell, how do I get the best KDE 4 experience? Thanks for your suggestions! Joop

13 years, 5 months

[opensuse] Image resizing?

by Jerry Houston

Is there a Linux utility that I can use to convert a folder of larger images to 480x234, the native size for the digital picture frame my wife bought me? It occurs to me that it probably would be more efficient if I fed it images that are its default size, so that it doesn't need to scale them down. Thanks in advance! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

13 years, 5 months

[opensuse] Beagle crashes hard my machine. Removing beagle impedes nautilus from running.

by Carlos E. R.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, As is known, the combination of having a root filesystem formatted as reiserfs will hard lock the machine as soon as Beagle runs (Bug 448007). Therefore I removed all related to Beagle. But now Nautilus refuses to run: cer@minas-morgul:~> nautilus nautilus: error while loading shared libraries: libbeagle.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.1-ex-factory) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklOsT8ACgkQU92UU+smfQUmTgCffhf5Zo2J3lqBuTsWtCb8B0lG 3acAn1zitGo3RKu6xaksYeTyqORObHxh =yCH7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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 December 2008