January 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] ssh question
by Kai Ponte 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

I'm trying to setup ssh on two systems. I want to remote in to one system from another. On the "host" system I have SSH running... linux-ld60:/home/daniel # /etc/init.d/sshd restart Shutting down SSH daemon done Starting SSH daemon done On the other system, I try to connect. However, i get nowhere. kai@xwing:~/apps> ping 192.168.0.102 PING 192.168.0.102 (192.168.0.102) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.0.102: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=5.66 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.102: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.19 ms --- 192.168.0.102 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.192/3.428/5.665/2.237 ms kai@xwing:~/apps> ssh -Y -l kai 192.168.0.102 ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.102 port 22: Connection timed out xwing:/home/kai/apps # Ideas? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] rsnapshot question
by Bob S 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Hello SuSE people, Is there any advantage ro running rsnapshot over plain old rsync? I don't want to do regular timed backups with chron because my backup disk is usb and I only plug it in when I want to use it. (don't want it running all of the time.) I tried installing dirvish but ran into dependency hell and gave up. Still wish there was a good GUI backup tool. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] One - no, I lie - MANY more 11.1/KDE4 problems
by Anton Aylward 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

... in a long line of little annoyances. On one login the KDE4 panel was scrambled. I couldn't account for why. Deleted and rebuilt. Now the batter monitor has a place there but no icon and the kmix, although reported present by "ps -ef", does not appear in the system tray. Trying ti kill & restart it does not bring it to the tray, although "ps -ef" says its there. No changes to apparmor and reinstalling the packages and rebooting doesn't help. Its annoying as there is no sound from any of the applications.. No, I don't have pulseaudio installed, but I did notice with 11.1 that if the system has bee up a few hours the sound 'pulses" - a vibrato effect. On top of that, the Network manager seems to be running wpa_supplicant even though wlan0 is disabled and the config file says 'manual'. Killing it just causes it to restart. The problems I'm having with 11.1 and KDE4 aren't the dramatic ones that I see discussed here, but lots of small, niggling intermittent ones that are frustrating to find. "Death of a thousand duck bites". -- The only reason to give a speech is to change the world. - John F. Kennedy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Controlling zypper's Timedout when it is updating -- REPOST
by Basil Chupin 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

When zypper is downloading upgrades in YaST2 (Online Update), a loss ofconnection to the internet can occur or some other hiccup where zypper either cannot connect to the URL or it cannot get the filename to download. When this occurs zypper sits around for seems like an eternity doing nothing and then announces that an error occurred; it expects a click of the mouse on the OK button after which another window comes up giving you the chance to Retry etc. In 99+% of cases simply clicking on Retry get zypper to get on with the job. This sitting around doing nothing is a PITA for 'hours' - and there is nothing that one can do except to wait until zypper decides to advise you that an error occurred. The ABORT button does not work so one just sits and waits. (Of course, there is always the drastic step of CTRL-ALT-ESC to exit zypper.) Somewhere there must be timer setting which controls how long zypper keeps trying to resume its task. Does anyone know where this setting is located so that the user can set the timeout period. Nothing I can see in zypper help and nothing shows up in /etc/zypp. Can anyone provide an answer, please? Ciao. -- Be nice to people on your way up - you'll see the same people on your way down. -- 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 fileassociations
by Hans de Faber 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Where can I set in KDE4 the file associations ? Prosperous new Year for all Open Software (prod)users !!! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OT: Is the problem the Motherboard or the RAM
by Mike Coan 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Getting ready to install opensuse 11.1 on a new machine, or at leat the motherboard, the RAM, and the CPU are new. M/B: Asrock AMD A780GXE. this is an AM2+ socket M/B, that supports 8GB of DDR2 1066, and Phenom CPU CPU: AMD Phenom quad core 9850 RAM: 4 sticks of 2GB OCZ Platinum DDR@ 1066 RAM. The 4 sticks are actually two pairs of Dual Channel Memory, all the same speed. There is also a 475W Thermaltake power supply, 4 SATA II drives and an aluminum case form the old system. The motherboard includes integrated graphics, so no graphics card. The M/B has four DIMM slots. DIMM1 and DIMM2 are dual channel, as are DIMM3 and DIMM4. Problem: I insert all 4 sticks of memory. CPU fan and all case fans spin as do hard drives. No Post. I remove 2 sticks, leaving DIMM!1and DIMM2 occupied. All fans and drives spin no post. I put 2 sticks in DIMM3 and DIMM4. all fans and drive spin, no post. I remove stick from DIMM2. Computer boots. BIOS correctly detects CPU and CPU speed. Identifies memory as DDR@ 800 (not 1066 as manufacturer claims and is on the memory). Run memtest and memory passes with no errors. Test 2 other sticks in DIMM 1 and both pass memtest with no errors. I test the 4th stick in DIMM# and it passes memtest with no errors. One thing that is curious is that from a cold boot memtest rates the memory at DDR2 667. From a warm boot it rates it at DDR2 800. I put one stick in DIMM1 and one stick in DIMM3 so that it runs in single channel mode. Computer boots fine. Thus it posts and boots with 4GB in single channel mode, but not in dual channel mode. I could find no option in the bios to disable dual channel mode, so there is no way to test 8 GB in single channel mode. I basically left the BIOS defaults, except that I changed the DIMM voltage from auto to 2.2V, which is what is specified for the RAM. I am not trying to overclock or anything exotic. Any ides on a methodology to determine whether it is the M/B or the RAM that is causing the problem? I do have four sticks of 2GB DDR2 667 RAM in the production server that I could test, but I am not that anxious to take down the server. We are a small office and it could be done after hours if need be. I suppose I could fiddle with the BIOS and manually set the RAM speed to low values and see if it posts, but I wanted to seek ideas here before starting that. By googling I found some indications that if it posts with memory in one slot but not two it is the M/B, but other posts seem to indicate that Dual channel memory is sometimes mismatched and can be the problem. My desktop is an Asrock M/B (different model) with 4GB of dual channel memory and it hasn't hiccuped once. Thanks for any feedback. Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 Tel 914-632-3778 Fax 914-632-5502 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Open Office speadsheet question
by James Hatridge 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Hi all, I have a speadsheet that is too wide to print. When I print it Oo uses three sheets of paper. Is there a way to turn the speadsheet just for printing? Thanks, JIM -- 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

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[opensuse] Samba Question
by Donald D Henson 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

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

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[opensuse] NFS client/server problems when an NFS server is offline
by Clayton 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

This weekend I was setting up a small home network for a friend. He has 2 computers on openSUSE, one on 11.0, and the other on 11.1. A third computer is on Kubuntu 8.04, and he will be adding a 4th computer to the mix running openSUSE 11.1. All are on the same subnet over 2 routers (one router acting as a switch). I set up computer 1 as an NFS server, and exported a partition. I went to computer 2, and set it up as an NFS client connecting to computer 1. Then I set up an NFS server on computer 2 and an NFS client on computer 1... and again on computer 2. The idea being that I could export a partition on each computer to be mounted from the other two as standard NFS mounts. This worked perfectly, and I could see the exports nicely mounted on each machine. I set the mount options for each client to: rw,hard,intr OK, so all appeared to be working great. Then computer 2 was powered down. If I opened a file manager (or terminal window and did an ls -al) on computer 1, it appeared to hang the file manager. It just sat there blank.. and then after 20 minutes or more it finally timed out (?) and showed the contents of /home/$USER. Is this normal? Shouldn't the intr option allow for the possibility of a NFS sever not being available, essentially pushing the mount attempts to the background, and silently mounting the NFS when the server comes available? It's possible I've misconfigured something here... but I haven't been able to pin down what the real issue is yet. Is this (using NFS server/client) a reasonable solution in a situation like this? Is there a better way to do this? (no central server, and wanting to share a partition on each drive across a small home network). 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] strange Acrobat Reader problem
by Boris Epstein 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Hello everybody, We've come across a PDF file that prints fine in Evince and KPDF as well as from the command line (lp filename) but would not print from Acroread. The error one gets is a vauge "draw error". The PDF is right here: http://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/14/7160.pdf Any idea what gives? Thanks. Boris. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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