May 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Macs account for two-thirds of sales of PCs costing $1,000 or more
by Fred A. Miller 21 May '08

21 May '08

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1900&tag=nl.e539 -- "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Sir Winston Churchill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Suse 10.3 install - oh dear
by John 21 May '08

21 May '08

I have had several really bad days getting this machine up and running. Rough history is as follows. Any comments? Going on web searches many people seem to have had the same sort of problem. In my case things seem to be worse following a change to none raid with xp is on disk 1.with an additional ntfs partion on disk 0. Disks were fake raided which caused the installer to give grub something it couldn't cope with. All files were correctly installed. I unraided them and suse still insisted it was a raid disk. I deleted the device mapper partitioning from the set up. Got the black screen of death the 1st time I did it. 2nd time it accepted it but still got the same grub failure. Then used NT to rewrite the boot sectors and things got a bit better. The suggested installation seemed to get better each time I tried it. I eventually managed to get a suse install to look like I wanted it to. It made use of a pre existing swap partition that it had put there itself several installs ago. But does it boot - no. Will it dual boot no. It still insisted that the xp partition was on disk 0 even though I swapped over the C and D drive mappings. The suse boot screen now shows 2 windows installations! Maybe one of them works I haven't tried them yet. I'm getting there with bootmagic. I must have done at least 10 installs in total and it still isn't correct so I may have to manually install grub to tidy things up. Bootmagic wont boot xp either even though I've told it where it is. Same problem. The really bad thing about this is that the grub install comes very late in the process well after the point where all of the software is installed. A bit late in the day if there are going to be problems. It wastes a lot of time. All in all it leaves me thinking that the installers assume a windows user trying linux with one disc in the machine - not raided. And that they don't look at the drives in the right way or take sufficient notice of what the user wants to do. Also why ask me to define a /boot when I've defined /. Seem's quote " I'm bound to have problems if I don't " No wonder suse is going down in the rankings. Having used suse 9.?, 10.0 and now 10.3 it seems that this area is getting worse. 10.0 had no problems at all with intel raid and made it clear that it would pack of my existing installation into another directory. 10.3 did something different. Right at the end it noticed a home directory with my user name and changed the ownership for me. Fine in this case but what if it had been 10.0. I might just be installing because I've re arranging or updating my machine. I was but I could equally well be updating everything. John Out of interest a number of people on the web seem to think that ntldr is the way forwards. It just needs a little prog a la wubi to send things the right way. I've tried to use the same code but it seems to be hard wired. I could make use of the wubi actual grub install but don't expect to keep it. Wubi has no problems at all with disk mappings by the way. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Hint: Update your root.hint file if you use bind
by Joachim Schrod 21 May '08

21 May '08

Hi folks, SUSE's root.hint file lists an old DNS root server. (The IP address of l.root-servers.net changed November last year, see http://blog.icann.org/?p=227.) As reported on the blog http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/05/identity_theft_hits_the_root_n_1.shtml, there are several root servers on this address -- probably only one of them (Bill Mannings's) might be related to ICANN. IMHO, the security consequences of using a DNS root server that can not be trusted is obvious. You might want to fetch ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.root and update your root.hint file yourself. FWIW, I opened a Bugzilla ticket, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=392173; maybe SUSE will issue a security update. (The story is already on Slashdot, i.e., as public as it can get; no need to keep it on private channels.) Cheers, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: subversion
by Jay Jesus Amorin 20 May '08

20 May '08

Hi everyone, Can anyone show me the link where i can download a subversion rpm and links on how to install subversion on sles10? Thanks, Jay -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] dvd and filenames
by jdd 20 May '08

20 May '08

Hello, I have to copy on dvd files from a wiki. Being french, several filenames (pagenames) of the wiki have accented characters. no problem for the wiki, but K3b refuses to add them any idea? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] sles10 does not recognise HP 920 external sas tape drive
by mourik jan c heupink 20 May '08

20 May '08

Hi all, I know this list is about opensuse and this is a sles10 question, but I'm sure there are people here that have valuable clues. I am running sles10sp1 64 bit on IBM xSeries 3650, and want to connect an HP 920 ultrium external sas tape drive using a straight through mini sas cable. This works fine at the bios level: the RAID controller (ServeRAID 8k) identifies the tapedrive, and the bios diagostics work. However: suse 10sp1 (fully patched) sees absolutely nothing. According to the novell website, this particular tapedrive is "fully supported" on suse linux enterprise 10. The tape drive is connected (according to the bios diags) to SCSI Bus 1 (ID 1, LUN 0) and the harddisks are connected to Bus 0 (ID 0, 1, 2 and 3) "modprobe st" loads the module, but still gives no /dev/st0. server:~ # lsmod |egrep '^(sd|st|sg|aic|scsi)' st 42532 0 sg 40248 0 sd_mod 25728 4 scsi_mod 156856 6 st,sg,aacraid,sr_mod,libata,sd_mod I tried the ubuntu 8.04 server live cd, and it sees the tape drive immediately, no problems whatsoever. I happen to have a second, identical machine, tried to connect it there too: same problem. What could be the problem here? Do I need to do anything else to get suse to see the tape drive? I did not install any drivers, because I'm under the impression that I don't need those. Am I wrong? Any ideas would be very much appreciated!! Regards, MJ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: Suse 10.3 install - oh dear (rant only)
by Jim Henderson 20 May '08

20 May '08

On Tue, 20 May 2008 16:53:42 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote: > To begin with, I am NOT answering for "Sam" but for myself. > > In the second place, I do not know what "TPTB" stands for so my response > has to be taken in this context of ignorance. TPTB = The Powers That Be. > For the 'answer': KDE4 is NOT included in 11.0 as an OPTION per se. Regardless of where it appears in the menu, if it's not a required component, it's an optional component and thus an option. > The bottom line to your question about "what ... answer would make [you] > happy?" is that KDE4 should be placed in the "OTHER" option of the > installation process and only be listed as a main item when it is really > ready of that ranking. What if (and understand I'm speaking from a position of no ability to make the change happen - as far as openSUSE is concerned, I'm just another user) there were a dialog or some other indication that KDE4 was beta quality? Maybe requiring an additional prompted agreement (kinda like the installer does for afga-fonts, acrobat reader, etc)? Just a thought. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 802.1x
by Mark Misulich 20 May '08

20 May '08

Hi, the company that I work for uses WinXP, IE6. and refuses to go to Vista because of its problems. They also won't support linux. They have recently installed 802.1x WEP wireless in our hub, and don't maintain the cable ethernet connections anymore. The working connections have dwindled to one or two outlets. I have Opensuse 10.3 and Vista on my laptop and their .1x program won't work with either of those OS's. I have tried to install Open1x on my computer. In vista, it installs but doesn't work. In linux, it won't even begin to compile. Does anyone know of a way to get 802.1x working on Opensuse? Thanks, Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] install opensuse on fujitsu t2010?
by Gang Qin 20 May '08

20 May '08

Since Fujitsu T2010 has received Novell YES Certification for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED), I am wondering if it is easy to install open suse on it? Maybe I just install the os and everything is ready without configuration? Is there a guide? I am new for suse but with debian and fedora experience. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: Hint: Update your root.hint file if you use bind
by Joachim Schrod 20 May '08

20 May '08

Joe Morris wrote: > On 05/20/2008 01:15 AM, Joachim Schrod wrote: >> >> You might want to fetch >> ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.root and update your root.hint >> file yourself. >> > I have used a script for years to update the root servers, that I call > nsrootup, and have put in /etc/cron.monthly to make sure my root servers > are current. I believe I got this off the internet when setting up my > DNS server with 6.4. In this script: > dig @e.root-servers.net . ns >root.hint.new 2>&1 Be careful. You won't get all root server records this way. AFAIR, the number of records returned by one query is restricted. Better to substitute that statement with wget ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.root Cheers, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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