August 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] CanoScan LiDE 30 downscaling scans
by Martin Mielke 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Hello, for some reason I still don't know, my scanner isn't scanning at 1:1 scale It's an (old) CanoScan LiDE 30, configured by YaST under OpenSuSE 11.0 using the plustek driver. Both xsane and kooka recognize the device too but both applications fail to get the current document size... instead of 1:1 it might perfectly be 1:3 or 1:4 ... Any ideas?? TIA, Martin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] openSUSE 11 and MythTV probs
by Clayton 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

I have finally updated my MythTV system to openSUSE 11.0. Everything is up and working but I have two issues that I cannot resolve. - First, I have my Hauppage DVB-T Nova-T USB stick configured and working. I can watch a TV channel, but when I press escape on the keyboard to return to the main MythTV menu, I get a segfault, and MythTV exits. I ran it from the terminal, and all it says is Segmentation Fault. Any tips on how to track this one down and resolve it? - Second is a problem I also had in openSUSE 10.3 on this hardware, but NOT with MythBuntu8.04 or Kubuntu 8.04. I experimented first with MythBuntu and Kubuntu before installing openSUSE. The problem is when I change TV channels. Sometimes it changes channels normally, but usually when the new DVB channel is locked, the display shows as if the vertical hold is gone on an old analog TV. The only way to recover is to exit the Watch TV part of MythTV and go back into Watch TV. Then the channel that had vertical hold issues is back to normal. With this exact same hardware, but booted to another Linux distribution, and using the same version of MythTV (built of course for that distribution), the problem doesn't appear... so it seems to be something openSUSE specific here. Any ideas? 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] Lazy rsnapshot
by Joop Beris 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Hi listmates, I'm having a problem getting rsnapshot to do anything (running openSUSE 10.3). It runs and all that, but it fails to actually copy something to the destination. From what I can tell, I have configured everything the correct way and the command "rsnapshot configtest" also mentions all syntax is okay, although it does complain about a missing Lchown. I have tried to find Lchown, but rpm tells me that no package provides Lchown. It's also not in the repositories, AFAICT. When I issue the command to do perform a test backup, all I get is: echo 28716 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid When I issue the command to do a full backup, I get this: require Lchown Lchown module not found Setting locale to POSIX "C" echo 28718 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid The logfile says this: [27/Aug/2008:09:10:22] require Lchown [27/Aug/2008:09:10:22] Lchown module not found [27/Aug/2008:09:10:22] /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: started [27/Aug/2008:09:10:22] Setting locale to POSIX "C" [27/Aug/2008:09:10:22] echo 28718 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid [27/Aug/2008:09:10:22] rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid [27/Aug/2008:09:10:22] /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: completed successfully That's a nice and fast backup, but a bit...empty. :-) Here is my /etc/rsnapshot.conf (comments stripped) config_version 1.2 snapshot_root /mnt/backup/ no_create_root 1 cmd_cp /bin/cp cmd_rm /bin/rm cmd_rsync /usr/bin/rsync cmd_ssh /usr/bin/ssh cmd_du /usr/bin/du cmd_rsnapshot_diff /usr/bin/rsnapshot-diff cmd_preexec /etc/rsnapshotprescript <-- script mounts ext. USB cmd_postexec /etc/rsnapshotpostscript <-- script unmounts ext. USB interval daily 7 interval weekly 4 verbose 5 loglevel 5 logfile /var/log/rsnapshot lockfile /var/run/rsnapshot.pid exclude .thumbnails/ exclude tmp/ exclude wget/ exclude *Trash* link_dest 1 sync_first 1 use_lazy_deletes 1 backup /home/joop/ magrathea/ backup /etc/ magrathea/ The pre and post scripts mount and unmount the external USB drive. When I run them separately, on the command line, they work so I don't believe they are the problem. I have turned on debug logging, but that doesn't tell me more than what I have shown you above. So, what do I need to do to get rsnapshot to actually get busy? Thanks for any help, 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

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[opensuse] Recover md RAID-1.
by Andrew Joakimsen 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

How do I recover a broken MD RAID-1.... Since there is no way to make a backup with easy restore? I boot the system and it says: md: radi5 personality registered md: raid4 personality registered md: md0 stopped. md: bind<sdb1> md: bind<sda1> md: md0: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction raid1: raid set md0 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors md0: bitmap file is out of date (8 < 9) -- forcing full recovery md0: bitmap file is out of date, doing full recovery md0: bitmap initialisation failed: -5 md0: failed to create bitmap (-5) md: peers -> run() failed... mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md0: Input/output error mdadm: device /dev/md0 already active - cannot assemble it Trying manual resume from /dev/sdb2 Invoking userspace resume from /dev/sdb2 boot/82-resume.userspace.sh: line 48: /proc/splash: No such file or directory resume: libgcrypt version: 1.4.0 Trying manual resume from /dev/sdb2 Invoking in-kernel resume from /dev/sdb2 PM: starting manual resum from disk Waiting for device /dev/md0 to appear: ok /dev/md0: unknown volume type invalid root filesystem -- exiting to /bin/sh $ Before this system was working fine. I shut it down correctly with the 'halt' command. I plugged in a USB KVM that makes the system hang at boottime (to provide needed info for Bug # 412476) after the system hung I powered it off, unplugged the kVM and then booted it back, only to get the above messages. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Upgrade from 10.0 to 11.0 In Place
by Lucky Leavell 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

Can I upgrade a 10.0 to 11.0 by choosing the Installation ==> Upgrade option from the DVD? (I tried this by installing 10.0 under VMware but when booting from the DVD and attemting the install, it cannot see the virtual hard drive. I am running an older version 1.0.3 of VMware Server.) Thank you, Lucky Leavell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Certification for SUSE - does it exist ?
by Alexey Eremenko 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

Certification for SUSE - does it exist ? http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/08/certified-to-suck.html -- -Alexey Eromenko "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] Printer Recommendation?
by Lew Wolfgang 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Hi Folks, After completing a rather arduous install* of 11.0 on a new HP m9340f desktop, I'm left with a printer issue. I purchased a nice Canon MX7600 multi-function printer knowing full well I'd probably have problems. I figured I'd at least be able to print to it, but no! This Canon is as proprietary as they come. This is ok, I'm able to use it via VirtualBox and Win-XP and the stand-alone fax and copier are valuable. So I'll keep the printer. But this leaves me still needing a printer I can use directly from 11.0 with cups. Can anyone recommend a fairly good color printer that will work well with cups? A network interface is also desirable. Thanks for any suggestions, Lew * footnote: My install problems were interesting indeed. First, I ran into the reiserfs freeze-up problem. I've made a few other 11.0 reiserfs installs without issue, but this one bit me in the nether regions. Must be something with the mobo or cpu (Core 2 quad) configuration. The install would finish, then freeze up after a variable amount of time. Then, the on-board NIC (Realtek) was unreliable. At times it wouldn't be seen by the install process, and when it did install it would spin off billions of RX overrun and some read errors. Readtek had an updated driver that I compiled in, but still no joy. This wasn't a SuSE problem, Knoppix showed the same symptoms. The fix for the NIC was to install a D-Link PCI-e x1 NIC and to ditch reiserfs in favor of ext3. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE4 breaking KDE3
by skx 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

I am using openSUSE 11 with KDE 3.5.9 on Inspiron 600m. I have installed KDE4 from one click installer to try it out. Since then, even when I am using previous KDE version, the volume control buttons don't work and closing the lid have no effect. What went wrong and how do I fix it? -- skx, http://skxpl.eu.org -- 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] Printer Recommendation?
by Fred A. Miller 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Lew Wolfgang wrote: > Fred A. Miller wrote:__ >> Re: Canon pixma mx7600 >> Canon does not, in any way, provide Linux hardware support for this >> printer. They do, however, have MacOSX CUPS drivers. If you can extract >> the files, and install them manually, you might be able to get it to >> work. After all, CUPS is CUPS, regardless if it's running on Linux or >> OpenBSD (what OSX is based on). >> >> EDIT: You can find information on how to open Mac's dmg files here. Or >> you can just mount the file. DMG files are just disk images of Apple's >> file system: HFS. >> >> to mount it: >> Code: >> >> sudo mount -t hfs -o loop printerdriver.dmg /mount/point >> >> EDIT2: You must install the following packages first: >> hfsplus >> hfsutils >> hfsprogs >> libhfsp0 > > Thanks Fred. Actually, I saw this too and tried it. Alas, I > couldn't even get the loopback to work! After this I realized > that the Canon is not a Postscript device, and has some kind > of a proprietary print language. I think the Mac cups driver > must include some kind of a binary program to do the actual > conversion. I can't imagine this running on a Linux system. No.....not at all. > I give up and am happy to buy another printer, I can use them > both. Sorry.....was the only "answer" I found. I can't recommend HP printers enough. I have a large format pro. photo printer from them.....AWESOME. Epson is a second choice. Best, Fred -- Linux is an old Latin word meaning, "I don't have to support your Windows anymore." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] pim / kmail 1.10.0 (using kde 4.1.1) crashing on paste in message body
by Wolfgang Woehl 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Yes, well, I'd rather not try and paste the subject line, which pretty much says it, in here. Major annoyance. What can be done? Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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