August 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Opensuse doesn't wait long enough for the disks to spin up before trrying to configure raid
by Mike Myers 30 Aug '08

30 Aug '08

Hi. I have a Opensuse 11.0 system running as a server with about 18 data disks hooked to the local motherboard SATA ports, and 3 SATA port multipliers hooked to a Adaptec 1430SA controller. Because of how the PMP code works and how long it takes to spin up each disk, it can take awhile before the disks are all spun up and online. About half the time I boot the system, OpenSUSE thinks the disks are already up and proceeds to run the /etc/init.d/boot.md and boot.lvm files, which of course fail to assemble the disks because they haven't fully come online yet, and dumps me into a single-user mode shell to fix the disks. The bottom line is about half the time I try to boot the system, it fails and needs some console work before I can bring it up. Does anyone know if there is a fixed time delay somewhere that waits for the disks to spin up or does it use a different way of telling if it's done? Thanks, Mike -- 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 update
by Danesh Daroui 30 Aug '08

30 Aug '08

Hi all, I have just recently activated update 3rd party in OpenSUSE updater. After that it searched for updates and found 32 updates. When I click install to install updated, it takes a while and then the gauge stops with the text "searching for new updates..." or something like that. I also tested and clicked on "detail" button before installing updated but install software window opens and no update is visible to choose. Have anyone faced such problem? Regards, Danesh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 64-bit multimedia messed up.....AGAIN!
by Fred A. Miller 30 Aug '08

30 Aug '08

For most of the week, updating any multimedia apps. has been a "no go" if you're using 64-bit 11.0, and after all, it SHOULD all just work...right?!! Or, if you're doing a new install with KDE 4.1 or 3.5.9 and, naturally, the client wants full multimedia, you have to tell him/her, "Sorry, but the repositories have files with screwed up dependencies and I can't install them! Once again, there are problems with libxine1 and Amarok....maybe some others. 'Hope someone will get these fixed ASAP. Thanks, Fred -- "Security" in Windows comes from patching a sieve. -- 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] Installing a server - no GUI
by John Bennett 30 Aug '08

30 Aug '08

Pierre Girard wrote: > Hello again, > Just happened to have to install a simple test server today and when > it asks for the window manager you want to use you can select « other » and > there you have to choice to select a basic no gui server. > > > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Pierre Girard [mailto:pierre.girard@gerad.ca] > Envoyé : 25 août 2008 08:59 > À : 'John Bennett' > Objet : RE: [opensuse] Installing a server - no GUI > > De : John Bennett [mailto:hornetster@gmail.com] > > >> Morning all. Need to install a basic Linux server ASAP and would like >> to use Suse, but can't figure out how to install the basics (no GUI) >> without installing all the crap - ie the DVD won't let you choose >> anything without a GUI. >> > > Depending on what you're trying to do, you can just install a GUI but run > the machine without it (i.e. in level 3 instead of level 5). You can change > that either at installation time or after in the /etc/inittab file. > > The other option would be to select a desktop, doesn't matter which one you > won't be using it, and when you get to the review of the configuration go to > the software manager. From there you can remove the gui and add the other > programs that you want if needed. I think all you need is core install. > > Good luck. > > Yep, thanks for that - sorted it out and have installed the base server, with some add-ons.... no GUI - great! I'm still really impressed with Webmin - an amazing product, and certainly a really handy tool, particularly if you aren't a 'command line guru!' And of Course - always forget to "reply all"!! - trying again..... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Mouse stuttering on Dell Precision M4300
by Dominique Leuenberger 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

Hi, I have several Dell Precision M4300 Notebooks, they all suffer from the same problem: Once in a while (to frequent... normally after a short break, while reading something), the mouse stutters and only works again after about 30 seconds. Mostly it happens if the mouse was not used for a while. It is quiet annoying as you can imagine ;) My normal configuration is openSUSE 11.0, with the proprietary nVidia driver, compiz activated. In process of elimination, I disabled compiz, mouse continues stuttering. Next step was to use the nv driver instead of nvidia, mouse stutterig still happens. Does anybody know of a trick that's missing here? Thanks for all your suggestions, Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] xine backend not loaded
by Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

Hi, When ever I login to kde4.1 i get this error message. "Unable to use the Xine Multimedia Backend: The shared library was not found." and "Unable to use the GStreamer Multimedia Backend:The shared library was not found." One after another continuously. -- Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui (C++/C# Developer, IT Consultant) http://safknw.blogspot.com/ "Peace" is the Ultimate thing we want. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] hard drive pause when moving a laptop
by Sergey Mkrtchyan 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

Guys, I was wondering if it is safe to move laptop around while turned on. When I first got it (with Vista) there was some software which was pausing the hard drive while moving. Well, after couple of days I fot rid of vista, so I was thinking if there is any similiar program for opensuse and if it is necessary. Thanks Sergey p.s. laptop is thinkpad t61 with opensuse 11.0 kde 3.5 -- Sergey Mkrtchyan, Graduate Student @ Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo -- 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: hard drive pause when moving a laptop
by Joachim Schrod 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

Brian K. White wrote: > > It's a Thinkpad, you can probably hammer nails with it. Then > again... > It's a Thinkpad, it was so expensive you probably want to encase > it in thick foam with silk lining and guarded by a large dog > every time you turn it off. Well, quite the other way round, IMHO: I spend the money for Thinkpads *because* they are stable systems and I do _not_ need to put them into silk lining. They are work horses, and good at it. (Lenovo just should start to produce one 15" variant again without that f"§$%ing wide screen. I don't watch TV or DVDs, I work with that damn ding, and for that I want more screen height!) I've got 6 of them, starting with the Butterfly, aka CS701 -- which is from 1996 -- and still runs(!) -- Linux of course, although an older Slackware distribution, current SUSE is much too large for it. Boys, the pains and struggles to get Linux running on a laptop in 1997, you won't even know about it. We're in heaven right now... Though this is for work. If I would pay these prices for a private laptop, I don't know; I've never bought a laptop privately. :-) 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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RE: [opensuse] sftp, howto chroot users to their home directories
by James D. Parra 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

> If you want FTP use FTP. You actually have more > control with a typical ftp server. If you wouldn't trust them to ssh into > your server you shouldn't allow them to sftp into the server. What? Of course you can chroot an sftp user and of course you can make a user that can only sftp and nothing else, not even get a login via ssh. I've been doing so for years, and on several OS's let alone linux. It's merely easier with ftp since there are point and drool options right in yast. I've been doing this: http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/docs/chrootedsftp.html for years and years, on sco open server, linux, freebsd, solaris But today you don't even have to do that. Just get the latest openssh from source (which means probably updated versions of several libraries it depends on too) and use the new built-in ChrootDirectory feature. I think there needs to be a new acronym RTFGR (... google results) A reasonable question for here would have been does anyone know of a pre-built opensuse rpm of openssh that's new enough to include the new feature, or does anyone have a simplified, opensuse specific recipe for updating openssh to the latest source version. Google again tells you in far less time nd with far more authority than waiting for responses from a mail list, that opensuse 11.0 uses openssh5.0 already, and so, no hackery required. Not only don't you need source, you don't even need to use a factory or build-service repo, just plain old stock opensuse 11.0 Then if the regular docs are't simple enough, this dude made a not exactly great, but, simple and working recipe to follow here. Install opensuse 11.0 or at least the openssh from opensuse 11.0, then go here and skip to step 7. http://adamsworld.name/chrootjail5.php Then run "rcsshd restart" before trying to test. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thank you, Brian. That was exactly what I was looking for; an out-the-box solution. I had found several sites referring to downloading the latest openssh, but I was hoping that there was an rpm package out there that I could try beforehand. Thanks for the instructions and I'll post my results. Best, ~James -- 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] sftp, howto chroot users to their home directories
by James D. Parra 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:27 PM, James D. Parra <Jamesp(a)musicreports.com> wrote: > Outside clients want the security of sftp and I > would want them locked into their home directory without the ability of > 'cd'ing up the dir tree and into other client's home directories. Why would they have that ability to cd into other people's directories? If the machine is set up correctly they can't see other people's directories. You seem to be lobbying for a daemon to do the administrator's job of properly setting directory permissions. If the machine is set up in-securely adding another Kludge on top of that is just wrong. Use the tools at hand before you ask for new ones. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chrooting is the proper tool to achieve the goal of locking ftp users into their dir's. Since they also don't have a shell, that is yet another approach to security. Integrating ssh into file transfer, as I've mentioned, ensures that the data is secure during the file transfer. That's the beauty of Linux, many different ways of achieving a common goal. Finding an out-of-the-box solution and putting it into service is hardly kludging. ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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