openSUSE Users June 2009

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by kanenas＠hawaii.rr.com

a few days ago i posted that my month old 11.1 suse install suddenly lost the ability to start the nfs server automatically or from Yast, now the server only starts from the command line. today i found out that the samba server is also screwed up, something about the smbfs not being capable of starting, also an old, circa suse 9.2 complaint about "can not write pam settings" when trying to install windows membership in yast. this is a vanilla install, with the addition of kernel sources (for vmware install), the basic suse repositories, also packman and vlc for the multimedia apps, the only kde ever installed and used has been kde3. again, both samba and nfs were working fine a week ago. it is very probable that some "security update" did the damage, but I have allready tried the downgrade s to samba and winbind without success. any help on both of these issues would be appreciated. thanks, d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

11 years, 6 months

[opensuse] Legacy hardware support in openSUSE 10.3

by Roger Oberholtzer

I have had a request by a client to see if some legacy hardware is supported by openSUSE 10.3. Most of the things they asked about I could sort out. It just left me with this: ASUS P2B-S Motherboard (CPU - Pentium 2 350/512/100/2.0 S1) ATI Mach 64 PCI The system should run KDE 3.5. No fancy graphics effects. I suspect it could be pushing it with a 350 MHz P2. Even id the graphics card is decent. Aside from suggesting a hardware upgrade, any constructive opinions? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

11 years, 6 months

[opensuse] kernel version mismatch

by Shawn Protsman

I've been running 11.1 for some time now without a hitch (mostly). After an update this morning I noticed a very odd issue. When I boot I have one selection for the 2.6.27.23 kernel. Once I log in and check uname it displays the old kernel. Any ideas how I can remedy this oddity? ~] uname -r 2.6.27.21-0.1-default ~] rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-default-extra-2.6.27.23-0.1.1 kernel-default-base-2.6.27.23-0.1.1 linux-kernel-headers-2.6.27-2.28 kernel-syms-2.6.27.23-0.1.1 kernel-default-2.6.27.23-0.1.1 kernel-source-2.6.27.23-0.1.1 --Shawn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

11 years, 6 months

[opensuse] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue #78 is out

by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns

We are pleased to announce: Issue 78 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE Forums hits 30,000 Users * Google Summer of Code Status Reports * Jigish Gohil : Stop ssh brute force attack using SuSEfirewall * metaverse: More Free and Open Source Tools for Writers * openSUSE Forums: How to Read a .docx file in SUSE? For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/78/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/78 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Features Screening Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

11 years, 6 months

[opensuse] Audio problems with the HP vs 15

by John Meyer

Has anybody had problems with the audio from the HP vs15 and web streaming? I can't seem to get any audio through my browser (firefox or opera) even though it plays well through other applications. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

11 years, 6 months

[opensuse] A single 80mm exhaust fan can make an 18 deg. difference in drive temps

by David C. Rankin

Listmates, For the avid tinkerer and opensuse devotẽ note that the loss of a single exhaust fan can cause internal case temps to skyrocket and the addition of a single exhaust fan where none existed before can drop internal temps by close to 20 deg. C. An additional note is separating/staggering/spacing hard drives in your hard drive carrier within the case, leaving an empty drive bay open between each hard drive can have the same cooling effect. Both solutions are near zero cost and help fight the worst enemy to the life of your computer/server -- heat. I routinely check drive temps using the package hddtemp called from a simple script that will check all drives and give a single line readout of the temperature of each drive: #!/bin/bash for i in $(cat /proc/partitions | egrep sd[abcdefgh]$ | sed -e 's/^.*s/s/'); do hddtemp /dev/$i done I just put the script in /usr/local/bin as 'hdtemp' and call it from cron with an email sent to myself. Yesterday, I noticed the drive temps on a file server had jumped 18 degrees C to: /dev/sdb: ST3250410AS: 55°C /dev/sdc: ST3250410AS: 56°C Drive manufacturers routinely recommend not exceeding 60 deg. C, but a number of independent test have shown that keeping drive temps below 43 deg. C is more or less the gold standard with drive lifetime dropping rather sharply above 45 degrees. In my case, the culprit was the rear exhaust fan on the case. Simply replacing the 80mm fan brought the airflow in the case back up to normal and the drive temps back down to a reasonable level: /dev/sdb: ST3250410AS: 37°C /dev/sdc: ST3250410AS: 40°C You can find hddtemp here: 10.3 - repositories/home:/houghi/openSUSE_10.3 11.0 & 11.1 - packman Give it a try and see how your cooling measures up. 10 degrees can make a big difference in drive life. -- 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

11 years, 6 months

[opensuse] java install problem

by Dave Howorth

The reason I turned my 10.3 box on is to play with an application written in Java. But it needs 1.6 while 1.5 was installed, so I selected 1.6 and installed that and then started running the update, which was now progressing well until: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: /usr/bin/build-jar-repository: error: JVM_LIBDIR /usr/lib/jvm-exports/java does not exist or is not a directory error: %post(tomcat55-server-lib-5.5.23-113.10.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 5 When I look at that directory, I find a maze of twisty little passages: # ls -l /usr/lib/jvm-exports/java lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2007-11-29 17:23 /usr/lib/jvm-exports/java -> /etc/alternatives/java_sdk_exports # ls -l /etc/alternatives/java_sdk_exports lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 2009-06-29 15:51 /etc/alternatives/java_sdk_exports -> /usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.6.0.u7-sun # ls -l /usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.6.0.u7-sun lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2009-06-29 15:51 /usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.6.0.u7-sun -> java-1.6.0.u7-sun-1.6.0.u7 # ls -l java-1.6.0.u7-sun-1.6.0.u7 ls: cannot access java-1.6.0.u7-sun-1.6.0.u7: No such file or directory # cd /usr/lib/jvm-exports # ls -l java-1.6.0.u7-sun-1.6.0.u7 ls: cannot access java-1.6.0.u7-sun-1.6.0.u7: No such file or directory I looked at <http://en.opensuse.org/Installing_Sun's_Java_on_SUSE_Linux>, which says: "Make sure your repositories include the openSUSE non-oss repository." I don't have that: # zypper lr # | Enabled | Refresh | Type | Alias | Name --+---------+---------+--------+------------------------+----------------------- 1 | Yes | No | yast2 | openSUSE-10.3-DVD 10.3 | openSUSE-10.3-DVD 10.3 2 | Yes | Yes | rpm-md | openSUSE-10.3-Updates | openSUSE-10.3-Updates but java apparently installed OK so is that a suse version difference? The web page didn't seem to say anything else of relevance, so again, please can somebody point me in the right direction? Thanks, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

11 years, 6 months

[opensuse] Disable "Empty Trash" confirmation in KDE4?

by Rodney Baker

Hi all. There is one niggling little issue with KDE4 that neither kde.org nor google have been any help with - how does one disable the "Are you sure you want to empty the trash can?" warning message in KDE4? I cannot find a config option anywhere (but maybe I just haven't looked in the right places) but I'm hoping that there will at least be an as-yet undocumented (at least for users) entry in a back-end config file that can e changed until a proper configuration option is added to the KDE control centre. Any KDE gurus have any idea on this one? Cheers, Rodney. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker(a)iinet.net.au ===================================================

11 years, 6 months

[opensuse] can't update - "it would change the vendor"

by Dave Howorth

I've just turned on a 10.3 system that hasn't been run for a while and I tried to update it. I have a huge list of conflicts like this: atom:cups-libs cannot be installed due to missing dependencies There are no installable providers of cups-libs >= 1.2.12-22.8 for atom:cups-libs-1.2.12-22.8.i586[openSUSE-10.3-Updates] === atom:cups-libs-1.2.12-22.8.i586[openSUSE-10.3-Updates] === atom:cups-libs-1.2.12-22.8.i586[openSUSE-10.3-Updates] is needed by patch:gnomefixes-4996-0.noarch[openSUSE-10.3-Updates] (cups-libs == 1.2.12-22.8) (null) Conflict Resolution: ( ) Install cups-libs although it would change the vendor ( ) do not install cups-libs ( ) Ignore this requirement just here In this case, and others that I've looked at, the installed Vendor is "SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany" and the alternate Vendor is "". I remembered some traffic on the list about vendor changes but the threads I found don't seem to deal with this situation. Can somebody please point me to an explanation and instructions of what I should be doing? Thanks, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

11 years, 6 months

Re: [opensuse] SuSE 11.1 problem with mouse model detection

by Maura Monville

Sure. I tried out all options. Then I figured out that the last changes take place only on next rebooting (X starting). That's very misleading ... especially dealing with a laptop provided with the touch-pad as well. Regards, Maura --- Lun 29/6/09, auxsvr(a)gmail.com <auxsvr(a)gmail.com> ha scritto: > Da: auxsvr(a)gmail.com <auxsvr(a)gmail.com> > Oggetto: Re: [opensuse] SuSE 11.1 problem with mouse model detection > A: opensuse(a)opensuse.org > Data: Lunedì 29 giugno 2009, 15:03 > On Monday 29 of June 2009, Maura > Monville wrote: > > I cannot get SuSE 11.1 correctly recognize either a > DELL USB mouse or a PS2 > > LOGITECH mouse. The problem in either case is that the > wheel is recognized > > as a middle button but it won't scroll regardless of > the brand, model, and > > options choice from the list popped up by Yast (DELL > is not in the list). > > It looks like the drivers are not there .... > > Thank you in advance for any help. > > Maura > > Did you try setting "Activate Mouse Wheel" in yast/mouse > properties? > > Regards, > Peter > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.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 Users June 2009