January 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] su no longer working
by Terry Eck 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

I've been doing some rearrangement on my system (SUSE 11.1) using the command su in order to run root required commands. All of a sudden the su command no longer works. The following is an example of what has happened: eck@linux-dria:~>su Password: linux-dria:/home/eck # df linux-dria:/home/eck # cd / linux-dria:/ #ls -lag linux-dria:/ # Notice that nothing happens. What might of happened to cause this? I can login to one of the virtual terminals as root and there is no problem. Thank for any ideas, Terry -- 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] Yast Seg Faulting on Fresh 11.0 i386 Install
by David C. Rankin 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

Anders Johansson wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2009 00:39:46 Anders Johansson wrote: >> On Thursday 22 January 2009 23:57:01 David C. Rankin wrote: >>> David C. Rankin wrote: >>>> Everything else I have tried with the new install works great. Zypper >>>> works great, this is yast or something yast relies on. >>>> >>>> What other tests can I perform to help narrow it down? >>> Anders, >>> >>> What do you think about the prospect of trying to reinstall all of yast >>> with zypper using --force to simply reinstall everything? >> I'm not sure you have to. The yast logs you sent to me contains a nice >> backtrace of the crash, and it seems to be clear that it's crashing in the >> qt 4.5 beta libs you have installed. > > and the core shows it too. The problem here is with qt, and you should > downgrade to a stable version > > Anders > Anders, You nailed it! I got rid of qt45 and then forced a downgrade of all the qt ver. 4.4.4 to 4.4.3 and yast works fine now. Thank you for taking the time to help. I would have pulled all my hair out trying to solve this one. I have since disable the qt45 repo for good. -- 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] Please help - scratchy noise (and other issues) with 82801 ICH9
by Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Hi ! I have the same issue with both 11.0 (32 bit) and 11.1 (64 bit) on my Quad Core 2.4 GHz, Gigabyte P35DS4 m/b, 4 GB RAM. and built-in 82801 ICH9 sound device. 1) With both fresh 11.0 (32 bit) and 11.1 (64 bit) I have scratchy noise coming from the sound-out. Its quite noticeable and is well above usual hum generated by audio devices. With Windows everything works just fine. 2) Installing sound blaster SBLive 5.1 partially solves this problem, noise level is lower (scratching almost gone) but still above normal level (comparing to iPod for example at the same output signal level). This looks like driver and not hardware/cabling issue. 3) Installing 11.1 64-bit (fresh install, not upgrade) renders some other sound troubles apart from excess noise level. Pushing "Play Test Sound" button in YaST produces nothing, yet sound works, I can play music/films with amarok, VLC, Kaffeine. However, Flash player is silent as dead. Anyone can help me to identify source of these problems? Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] What's with my wireless
by Simon Roberts 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Hi all, My girlfriend says Mercury is retrograde, so I can't expect technical things to work properly. I prefer to think that this is not just bad Juju, but that something can be done to explain and resolve my problems. Basically, I have two systems I've been reinstalling. Both have wireless network hardware, in both cases the hardware is "recognized" to a greater or lesser extent. Both systems have run successfully, and had full wireless connectivity using the current hardware. However, now I find that if I install 11.0 on these systems, the cards are recognized, but don't scan. That is the NMApplet shows the wireless interface grayed out, and does not list any networks. Also, iwlist scan says there's nothing there (I know that's not true, as I'm writing this on another laptop that is using one of those access points :) It doesn't seem to matter if I install and don't do the patches, (there's a wired connection available too) or if I let it do the patches. This behavior basically "can't happen" What can I do? What debug information can I get to help track this down? TIA Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz -- 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 RW detected as CD ROM only
by Linux 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

i m using opensuse 11.1 64 bit and somehow my DVD RW detected as CD ROM only. No burning can be done :( It worked fine with opensuse 11.0 32 bit before. Any clue how to make it detect as DVD RW? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Setting up a virtio(_net) device
by Frans de Boer 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Using Suse 11.0 and 11.1, I try to use the virtio network device. However, does anybody has an idea how to set this up under SuSE, since suse complains that it needs an physical eth0 or wlan0 device and does not allow to setup the virtio network device. Any suggestions? Thanks, Frans. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Software RAID5 problem in VM
by Frans de Boer 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

I am trying to build an software RAID5 composed out of 4 drives, in addition to the basic boot drive. I start qemu with the following command: qemu-system-x86_64 -net vde,vlan=0,sock=/var/run/vde2/tap0 -net nic,vlan=0,model=e1000 -m 256 -localtime -boot c -cpu qemu64 -vga std -name vnfs-server -hda /media/vms/vnfs-server.img -drive file=/dev/sda,if=virtio,media=disk,cache=writethrough -drive file=/dev/sdb,if=virtio,media=disk,cache=writethrough -drive file=/dev/sdc,if=virtio,media=disk,cache=writethrough -drive file=/dev/sdd,if=virtio,media=disk,cache=writethrough -cdrom /dev/dvd1 -usb -usbdevice disk:/dev/sdf -usbdevice tablet I tried both SuSE 11.0 as well as 11.1, with KVM enabled. Also, I tried various other (newer) kernel version, all with the same result. Inside the quest I used the 'yast2 disk' command to create a software RAID5 from the then available vd[abcd]1. The creation works, but looking at 'mdadm --detail /dev/md0' showed that vdd1 is being rebuild. Apparently this is normal behavior. What is not normal, is that after the rebuild, partition sdd1 has been removed from the array. It's not the drive, since doing the same outside a virtual machine gives exactly the same result except for the removal of the drive. So I wonder, is there a problem with virtio block devices within qemu or has someone an answer or a pointer to a solution? Thanks, Frans. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.1 PPC on Old Powerbook
by Luciano Mannucci 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

The hard disk of my old Powebook G4 died yesterday, Nothing unexpected: the video did the same few months ago, and the internal DVD burner is long gone, making the installation a bit of a challenge... I bought a new HD (160 Gig, the HW sees it, pheew...), reinstalled Tiger on a small partition, and then went to Opensuse 11.1, with a fresh install (my 11.0 was an upgrade chain since 10.0). I burned the DVD on a PC, and booted it from my external USB DVD burner. The thing went alive, though at the first screen it did complain not beeing able to set up a repository, and started to ask me a name and a device. /dev/sr0 was the correct DVD, but I found no ways to make the installer use it. After aborting, I did a media check that passed. I tryed with the 11.0 and all seemed ok. I stopped just before the beginning of installation. The hardware seemed ok to me. So I tryed again with 11.1, got the same result as the firts time, went through the alt-FX screens and noticed a small "Could not start hald". Found a sharp (#) prompt, typed "hald" and... magic! The installer could find its repository! After that, the installation was ok. I noticed I have no OpenOffice on the DVD, all the rest was there and seems fine. I haven't found OpenOffice after the installation, even after having added almost all community repositories, so I've taken one from the 11.0 DVD. A bit tricky: I had to use --nodeps and had to restore the various libicu version 38 files from my backup. And gave up on the mailmerge, not wanting to mess-up with python versions. The other thing that seems problematic is gdm: when it shuts down it destroys the console fonts, so no message after that is readable. Nothing vital, tough it seems to indicate a hidden bug somewhere. I've noticed that gdm shows a users list (which halves the security) at the logon request. Is there a way to get rid of that? Cheers to everybody, luciano. -- /"\ /Via A. Salaino, 7 - 20144 Milano (Italy) \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN / PHONE : +39 2 485781 FAX: +39 2 48578250 X AGAINST HTML MAIL / E-MAIL: posthamster(a)sublink.sublink.ORG / \ AND POSTINGS / WWW: http://www.mannucci.ORG/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Recomended display resolution/DPI
by Xavier Callejas 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Hi, My laptop has a 15.4" wide screen, with a resolution of 1680x1050. The system says that my current resolution is 129x129 dpi but, I have seen that the most common dpi is 96. It's OK that my system has 129 dpi? Witch resolutions is better, 96, 120, or 129? I'm running openSUSE 11.1 Thanks. -- Xavier Callejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ttyUSB1 disappeared?
by Simon Roberts 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Hi all, I've been using JPilot to sync my palm device for a while and it's worked quite happily with a connection to /dev/ttyUSB1 There was an update this morning (to bind, so I suspect it's irrelevant) but no other changes I'm aware of. However, today, nothing will sync, and my /dev/ttyUSB1 device has vanished. Neither it, nor any other likely looking device (e.g. ttyUSB3) shows up when I put the palm device into hotsync mode. Ive restarted my system, and I've reset the palm device, but to no avail. Any ideas? Any ideas how I can debug this even? I don't know where the messages should be, or how to find out if the USB device is being recognized. Sigh, seems to be a bad week for me and computing devices, TIA for any help or encouragement... Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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