openSUSE Users September 2011

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by Tracer Bullet

Hi all, Reading some mails on the GIMP mail list, I ran across the procedure to install some more fonts for not only Gimp, but the system and StarOffice to use also. Well, I installed the fonts, went to the shell and issued the command xset fp+ <font directory> and then the rehash command and all fonts are there! Ok, that went well, but each time I restart the system, I have to do it all over again? Is there a way to make it permanent and read the new fonts like it does the ones the system installs or is that a no-no? end of line Tracer Shell commands: xset fp+ <new font directory> xset fp rehash -- ---KMail 1.2--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb(a)sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb

4 years, 3 months

Where can I get genIS_PLAINcache

by Chuck Payne

Hi, I am trying to set up a simple repo, I read on the opensuse site about a binary called genIS_PLAINcache, because I can't see to find it or the package yast2-packmanager either. Can someone help. I am setting this repo up for SLE9, I have tried to use createrepo but I keeping getting errors. -- ---------------------------------------- When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. -- Robert Heinlein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

5 years

virtualbox in 11.4 with kde3

by kanenas＠hawaii.rr.com

ok, been playing w. 11.4, but i have installed kde-3:) .(just some personal issues with widgets and plasmoids, please don't attack:)) the only problem so far is virtual box, it fails to start. rerunning setup does reconfigure it, still it fails to open an x window. any pointers? thanks, d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 4 months

opensuse 11.3 DNS not working

by Bruce Samhaber

Hi, I have a DNS server setup on a desktop machine thatis also my print and SAMBA servers. The DNS server is responding but Wireshark is reporting a DNS Server Error as the replies to what appear to be the DNS queries. **** WireShark output **** No. Time Source Destination Protocol Info 69 7.811350 192.168.0.50 192.168.0.12 DNS Standard query A samhaber2.sampathome.ca Frame 69: 83 bytes on wire (664 bits), 83 bytes captured (664 bits) Ethernet II, Src: Ibm_13:63:8a (00:11:25:13:63:8a), Dst: D-Link_07:7d:d3 (00:05:5d:07:7d:d3) Internet Protocol, Src: 192.168.0.50 (192.168.0.50), Dst: 192.168.0.12 (192.168.0.12) User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: 41883 (41883), Dst Port: domain (53) Domain Name System (query) [Response In: 70] Transaction ID: 0x0c06 Flags: 0x0100 (Standard query) Questions: 1 Answer RRs: 0 Authority RRs: 0 Additional RRs: 0 Queries No. Time Source Destination Protocol Info 70 7.811845 192.168.0.12 192.168.0.50 DNS Standard query response, Server failure Frame 70: 83 bytes on wire (664 bits), 83 bytes captured (664 bits) Ethernet II, Src: D-Link_07:7d:d3 (00:05:5d:07:7d:d3), Dst: Ibm_13:63:8a (00:11:25:13:63:8a) Internet Protocol, Src: 192.168.0.12 (192.168.0.12), Dst: 192.168.0.50 (192.168.0.50) User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: domain (53), Dst Port: 41883 (41883) Domain Name System (response) [Request In: 69] [Time: 0.000495000 seconds] Transaction ID: 0x0c06 Flags: 0x8182 (Standard query response, Server failure) Questions: 1 Answer RRs: 0 Authority RRs: 0 Additional RRs: 0 Queries *** End of WireShark output *** Also, very interesting is that I thought the DNS deamon was dnsmasq but when I turned that off in the Services menu I expected to get no response or at least something different but it is exactly the same Network traffic. Logically I sohuld conclude that the process 'dnsmasq' is not the DNS server process as indicated by the man page. DNSMASQ(8) DNSMASQ(8) NAME dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server. SYNOPSIS dnsmasq [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION dnsmasq is a lightweight DNS, TFTP and DHCP server. It is intended to provide coupled DNS and DHCP service to a LAN. Where does the 'dnsmasq' command line get run from? I would like to review the commadn line and possibly turn on the logging. Does anyone have the DNS server working in OpenSUSE 11.3? Does anyone have the SAMBA server working in OpenSUSE 11.3? Thank you, Bruce -- Bruce Samhaber Tel/Fax: 613-724-5987 112 Kenora St. Cell: 613-297-6961 Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 3L1 mailto: bruce.samhaber(a)samhaber.ca http://www.samhaber.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

9 years, 1 month

Double check: /boot on RAID 1

by Michael Fischer

Being one of the folks who tries to do the Subject, I recently ran across an old thread on the list which confirmed most of my experience with it, but mentioned that Yast (in the installer mode) might not be putting grub, etc. on both disks' MBR or /boot. After some web-digging, I tried the following: grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,0) (hd1,0) Can someone competent in the matter confirm for me that the above does indeed mean that both disks in the array have had a working grub written to both disks, and therefore, in the event of the failure of one drive, the other is indeed bootable into a working system? If not, why not and what should I do to "fix" the matter. TIA. Michael -- Michael Fischer michael(a)visv.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

9 years, 1 month

different types of shell scripts

by George OLson

I downloaded a program that I needed off the internet and the installation program was a script file with the extension .sh. The instructions from the developer said to run the script on a command line by typing the command: ./<filename> I thought (mistakenly) that I could run any shell script by typing the command . <filename> (with a space between the dot and the filename). So I tried to run it that way, and I got the error "cannot execute binary file". However, when I followed the developer's instructions and typed in ./<filename>, the script executed perfectly and installed the program. So my question is, what is the difference between running a script file with the command <dot><space><filename>, for example "#> . myscript.sh" and running it with <dot><slash><filename>, for example "#> ./myscript.sh"? G -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

9 years, 1 month

installation error

by Fr David Ousley

Started to intall 11.4 on a new laptop with Windows 7 pre-installed. Installation from DVD downloaded (MDsum checked). After the various choices of partioning and software (accepted defaults for partionning and mostly for software), when installation begins, it stops almost immediately with: failure occurred during following action: creating volume /dev/sd7. System error code was: -1007 sda7 was to be the swap; sda8 root (ext4), and sd9 home (ext4). sda1 is Windows/C; sda2 is Windows/D. I suspect the reason for using 7, 8, and 9 is that this is the third try, and that the first one set up 3,4 and 5. The Windows partition appears to have been correctly shrunk, and Windows will still boot. The installation suggests these three linux partitions be set up (and gives me the chace to alter them), so my guess is that there is space there but unpartitioned. When the error is presented, it asks if I want to go ahead anyway: so far I have said no. Machine specs: Intel mobile i5-241M 2.3Ghz; NVIDIA GT 555M 2GB PCIe; 8 GB DDR-3 1333; motherboard: Intel HM65 Express Chipset Mainboard. Suggestions? Many thanks! -- Fr David Ousley davidousley(a)verizon.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

9 years, 1 month

OpenSuSE 11.4: E17: menu: YaST (Administraitor Settings) FAILS

by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook

OK now while I don't like yast's package management interface, and thus use zypper, there are times when I need yast or yast2 to do something else... Now If I understand correctly yast2 is supposed to be the gui version of yast that required X and yast is the curses equivalent that can be run in a virtual console such as tty1 without X... But while I'm glad that there is a curses equivalent, I find the gui version less confusing. Ever since kde4 proved incompatible with my brain, the only gui's I use are E17 and E16 Or under extreme duress xfce... And by default, I use E17 And if it matters I boot to runlevel 3 and use startx when/if I'm ready for a gui. Though admittedly, most of the time my first user command is startx... E17's applications menu only mentions yast once. And that is at menu->applications->System->YaST (Administrator Settings) Since there isn't a separate choice for yast2 I would tend to assume that the menu choice would actually point at the gui yast2, but I can't prove it. You see when I select yast from the menu, I get a small popup that prompts me for the password. I don't know if it's based on the sudo settings or not but since my sudoers file has "targetpw" on the defaults line it shouldn't matter because it should want root's password. Which appears to be true because if I use my own the pop-up simply exits immediately. But if I enter my root password, some text output that looks like the stdout and/or stderr I'd expect in an xterm if I call a gui application from it. But this text scrolls by so fast I can't read any of it before "Poof" the popup window closes. And yast2 doesn't start. I guess it's possible that it's trying to start the curses version of yast, but in that case it should be opening an xterm to run it in, and that doesn't happen either. I've tried starting yast2 from an "xterm" (actually a "konsole" window, {konsole being one of the few KDE apps I still use in spite of kde4}): I've done this in three ways with different results: su -c /sbin/yast2 which yields over 300 lines of stderr (see http://pastebin.com/AgwCap3W ) and no yast of any kind... sudo /sbin/yast2 which actually starts the curses version in the current konsole window... But if I open a root shell first: su - yast2 I get only about 9 lines of stderr (see http://pastebin.com/CwJtbKLS ) before the gui yast2 control center does actually open a functional window. This bothers me because I much prefer to use either: 'su -c "command arglist"' or 'sudo command arglist' to start an admin level gui than to leave an open root shell that I might forget to close hanging around. And of course because there should be a working yast menu choice in the gui menu on an OpenSuSE system, shouldn't there??? Can anybody tell me how to fix this? TIA -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

9 years, 1 month

bash -- Where in the heck are "^M...80 spaces...^M" getting written by tee?? (can I catch it?)

by David C. Rankin

Guys, This is baffling... another rankinism... I get that this is a carriage return in the file and it is usually associated with dos/unix editing of files, but I can't tell if I'm causing it or if it is just dvgrab. If I output sdtout/stderr to a terminal all looks good, but when I check the log file, I have two spaces between every line. Here is the console output: Found AV/C device with GUID 0x08004601017ede99 Waiting for DV... Capture Started "dcrv-1999.05.08_09-37-33.dv": 467.72 MiB 4087 frames timecode 00:02:16.13 date 1999.05.08 09:41:49 "dcrv-1999.05.08_16-23-57.dv": 784.15 MiB 6852 frames timecode 00:06:05.03 date 1999.05.08 16:37:40 "dcrv-1999.05.08_19-03-13.dv": 718.69 MiB 6280 frames timecode 00:09:34.19 date 1999.05.08 19:06:42 Here is the log: Found AV/C device with GUID 0x08004601017ede99 Waiting for DV... Capture Started "dcrv-1999.05.08_09-37-33.dv": 467.72 MiB 4087 frames timecode 00:02:16.13 date 1999.05.08 09:41:49 ^M ^M"dcrv-1999.05.08_16-23-57.dv": 784.15 MiB 6852 frames timecode 00:06:05.03 date 1999.05.08 16:37:40 ^M ^M"dcrv-1999.05.08_19-03-13.dv": 718.69 MiB 6280 frames timecode 00:09:34.19 date 1999.05.08 19:06:42 Literally, every line output from dvgrab has an extra: '^M.....80spaces.....^M' It's easy enough to kill in vi with '%s/^v^m//g' and '%s/^ *//', but I want to figure out what is causing this garbage. The script I'm using is straight forward. 2 temporary files are written to get the information in the order I want it, and the information is then appended to a log file and a tape index: <snip> # initialize vars and files tmpfn=/tmp/dvtmp.log tmpapp=/tmp/dvapp.log :>$tmpfn :>$tmpapp # write stuff echo -e "\nTape: $tapect -- \n" >> $tmpapp echo -e "\nCapture Started: $(date '+%b %e %T')\n" | tee -a $tmpfn # this is the command that is giving me garbage dvgrab -rewind -timestamp -autosplit=3600 -format raw dcrv- 2>&1 | tee -a $tmpfn dvcont rewind # append capture log cat $tmpfn >> /dat_e/dv/capture.log # get list and append dvgrab log to bottom ls -l >> $tmpapp cat $tmpfn >> $tmpapp # add all that stuff to the tape index cat $tmpapp >>/dat_e/dv/tape-idx.txt I can't see where I'm causing the carriage returns and 80 spaces to get appended to the dvgrab output... It could be me, but I can't see it! Anybody else see anything wrong with the tee call or anything else that could be causing it? Other than me doing something dumb, it looks like it is just dvgrab spitting out 'a carriage return + 80 spaces + another carriage return' with every dv clip it processes... If it is dvgrab, then is there a way I can have bash strip this info before it gets written to the files? The terminal does it by default evidently, because the output I get from stdout/stderr looks correct in konsole, so can I pipe the output through something (hopefully lighter than sed) that would strip it before I pipe it to tee? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

9 years, 1 month

Where to get Firefox 5?

by Thomas Taylor

Hi fellow foxers; Does anyone know where I can get an rpm for the REAL Firefox 5? Every link I've followed brings me FF 6 even when the rpm name says it's ver 5. Want to revert back to version 5. Don't like the newer ones. Thanks, Tom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

9 years, 1 month

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openSUSE Users September 2011