March 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] dell laptop success with 11.1 - grub question
by kanenas＠hawaii.rr.com 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

got my new vostro 1710 with an xp factory install. I shrunk the xp partition with the 10.3 suse disk, then i installed 11.1. Selected kde 3.5, killed the dog before the initial install, added kernel source && syms && gcc for vmware and possible video card compiles, put grub in the mbr and all went very smooth. Yes, i did get a black eye with wireless, but a step by step procedure is availabe on the net for ndiswrapper, but everything else worked from the very start. and the original xp is still there, as functional as it could ever be, only a keystroke away when in grub, which works just fine. not bad for a not officially supported model. and 11.1-x64 seems to be at least just as good as my trusty 10.3, this is the first time that i am trusting it with real work:) now i have a question: is it possible to hide the grub menu from the screen and set up a keyboard selection of a non-default boot selection? can it be replaced with a splash screen of some sort or even just a blinking "-" at the top of the screen? it would be "kool" in front of "non-believers", no? btw, hiding the menu also implies that the "loading grub..." and stages count down is also hidden, only an error message should be visible, i think i am looking for something more than the hiddenmenu command. d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] lirc daemon fails to start
by Marc Chamberlin 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Perhaps I am not understanding something but I am having troubles getting the lirc daemon to start in SuSE11.1 I have the lirc module installed and I have the lircd.conf configuration file installed in /etc as I have been instructed. (I am using the Hauppauge 350PVR IR card and I understand that all the necessary driver support is now automatically included within the kernel) When I attempt to start the lirc daemon via the YaST System Services (Runlevel) manager I get an error message saying "start returned 6 (program is not configured)" which after looking at the script file, that starts the lirc daemon, this seems to be a somewhat generic and misleading error message. Starting the lirc daemon from a console - "rclirc start" gives a bit more info saying "Error no device found" Looking for /dev/lirc or even /dev/input/ir indeed shows there is no such device(s) being defined. So I am at my limits in understanding what is happening? Can someone tell me what needs to be done to at least get the devices for lirc created? I have googled, read the documentation at LIRC's website (not that I comprehend all of it) and am not finding any answers other than it appears others are having similar difficulties... Many thanks in advance... Marc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] djv FILES
by Maura Monville 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

I received a book in format "djv". I wonder how I can open it on SuSE. There should be an equivalent tool like Acrobat for reading such files, I guess .. I am still running SuSE 10.3. Sorry, I am lagging behind ... no time for back-ups and installations right now. Thank you very much. Maura -- 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 11.0 and Thunderbird (OT)
by Phil Savoie 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Hi All, Am running version 2.0.0.19 (20081227) of thunderbird. I opened tbird up and in one of my folders, the one I call Personal, I found containers labeled Old Mail, Two Weeks Ago, Last Week, Yesterday and Today. Now I didn't do this. It suddenly appeared.... But... how? Phil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Ah, Sanity Returns to the Release Schedule
by David C. Rankin 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Kuddos to the Project Team, And the rest who had a hand in settling on an 8 month release cycle to replace the six-month shotgun approach that has seemingly killed QA for every distribution that has tried it. Good job. -- 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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Re: [opensuse] Opensuse still not ready for consumers...
by Mukul Singh 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Rajko M. wrote: > On Thursday 12 March 2009 08:36:47 pm Mukul Singh wrote: > ... > >> That has not been my experience. I removed pulse except that library and >> the sound won't work on my laptop unless I do rcalsasound restart. BTW, >> I have tried VLC as suggested by another person and that too did not work. >> >> Regards >> > > Mukul, > > 1) Check is PulseAudio enabled. Use Yast sound module: > YaST > Sound > button Other > PulseAudio configuration > It should say that PulseAudio is not installed. > > I did the check and it does say that PulseAudio is not installed. > 2) Remove you sound card from YaST sound, close YaST sound, then open again. > This should find and reconfigure your card for current sound system. > > If that doesn't help, then > 3) Reboot, to have clean state, and repeat 2) > > I haven't done this bit, but will do it tonight. > If that doesn't help the we can see what means error that Kaffeine is posting > to console. Error message alone without source and previous actions can mean > anything (including bad hard disk). You can start 'tail -f /var/log/messages' > start Kaffeine and catch output when sound works, and without. > > While I missread the error message, bad hard disk sector can affect function > of application that is using it. There is also many other things, bad driver > for your sound card, or bad settings, or bad hardware, but without some > feedback from you no one can tell what it is. > > It is still good to see 'smartctl -a' to see hard disk state. > Will post further information if the above does not work. Regards -- Best Regards, Mukul Singh Analyst Programmer Primus Telecom (Australia) Pty Ltd ( (03) 9923 3982 * msingh(a)primustel.com.au -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Who and why removes permissions to /dev/null ?
by Josef Wolf 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Hello, With opensuse-11.1 and kde4, I have seen three times on two different boxes that the mode of /dev/null was changed to 600. This breaks lots of scripts, which assume /dev/null is writable by anybody. The timestamp of /dev/null is also changed. Since chmod don't change the timestamp, this means the file is removed and recreated. When this happens, I see the following entries in /var/log/messages: Mar 6 15:03:16 raven polkit-grant-helper[13820]: granted authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update to pid 4407 [uid=1000] [auth=root] Mar 6 15:03:22 raven shadow[14072]: default group changed - account=nobody, uid=65534, gid=65533, old gid=65533, by=0 M What is polkit-grant-helper and what kind of system-update is it doing? And why is it removing and recreating /dev/null? Any 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] Eclipse on 11.1
by Wolfgang Rosenauer 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Hi, anyone got Eclipse from 11.1 running? I've tried on two systems (x86-64 and i686) and it doesn't work for me. The i686 system opens the splash but then I only get a completely empty window and the x86-64 system shows an error message which refers to a logfile which doesn't exist and doesn't contain any useful information besides the hint to the (non-existing) logfile :-( Thanks, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Slow japanese rendering in Firefox
by Ciro Iriarte 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Anybody noticed the painful rendering time of japanese web pages?, it happens with stock opensuse 11.0 installation, adding the font from "The WenQuanYi Project" (according to the information from the rpm) solves the issue but I'm wondering why it doesn't work out of the box?, aren't there any Japanese Opensuse users that could have noticed this?, what's the difference between this font and the included in the distro? Ref: http://cyruspy.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/faster-japanese-rendering-in-firefo… Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.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] Re: Opensuse still not ready for consumers...
by JB2 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

David Bolt wrote: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, L. V. Lammert wrote:- > >> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, [UTF-8] Cristian Rodríguez wrote: >> >>> L. V. Lammert escribió: >>> >>>> Wow - thanks for pointing that out! Seems like somebody slipped up ROYALLY >>>> on this one - it was login enabled yet! >>> No. >>> >> Perhaps not functionally, but there **IS** a valid shell in passwd - that >> makes a login possible. > > Having a login shell doesn't mean it's possible to log in. > >> IMHO, best security practices dictate that >> accounts without login capability should have nologin as a shell. > > /etc/passwd:suse-ncc:x:113:115:Novell Customer Center User:/var/lib/YaST2/suse-ncc-fakehome:/bin/bash > ^ > This means there is a password set and you can find the hash of it in > /etc/shadow. > > /etc/shadow:suse-ncc:!:13879:0:99999:7::: > ^ > By using this in /etc/shadow, it is impossible to log in as that user, > or to use su to become that user without being root to begin with[0]. > This is no big deal. HP and Sun have done similar things for years--their systems ship with invalid hashes for the vendor support login -- this allows a customer to enable/disable vendor access to the system without interfering with the customer's own internal processes. Typically the vendor access is also set up to sudo to root without the vendor needing to know the machine's root password. This allows very good security for the system -- a vendor's support specialist, or even kernal hacker can get system access (at the invitation of the customer vie phone call), while allowing the customer to cut off that access once the problem is resolved. > There's more info here: > > <URL:http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-etcshadow-file/> > > with a short explanation in comment 2 of what ! or * in the password > hash location means. > > > [0] On one of my 10.3 systems, the following "users" also exist with a > valid shell, but who you would also not be able to log in as: > > at bin daemon ftp games irc ldap lp mailman man news nobody tomcat uucp And the reason for this is so that root can su to any of those system user id's for testing system software which runs under those ID's (or alternatively, to allow systems programmers to have access to those UIDs -- modify/replace only the software datafiles owned by those UIDs). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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