September 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] How to set the time when cron.daily executes ?
by Andreas 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hi, how can I set the time when cron.daily executes ? On earlier setups of OpenSuse the scripts in /etc/cron.daily ran very late at night which is OK. On my latest setup they get started at 09:45am. Can I set it back to 04:00am ? -- 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] Dovecot 2.0
by James Knott 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

David C. Rankin wrote: > My entire dovecot.conf is: > > dict { > } > I'll have to give that a try > That's it. I think your issue must be something else. Make sure your > stop/start dovecot after each update or it will refuse to provide > access to mail. Yep. I do that for every change to dovecot.conf. BTW, I want to be able to use TLS and encrypted passwords. Thunderbird complains about unencrypted passwords, but if I try to enable them, I can't connect at all. There also seems to be an issue with creating folders. So far, I have been able to create one, 1, count 'em one. No sent or drafts folders either. Lots of fun! :-( -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] mounting an USB device
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Trying to mount a harddisk connected with a IDE/Sata USB hub. Lsusb tells me : Bus 001 Device 005: ID 152d:2338 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JM20337 Hi-Speed USB to SATA & PATA Combo Bridge Trying to mount this piece of hardware I get the following information: # mount /dev/bus/usb/001/005 /mnt mount: /dev/bus/usb/001/005 is not a block device As I need to do some copying from this harddisk I would like to know what I should do to get this HD mounted. Ideas? -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE and KDE4 on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.4 (i586) Kernel: 3.1.0-rc6-2-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.7.1 (4.7.1) 15:13pm up 0:16, 3 users, load average: 3.67, 2.30, 1.39 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] on-line update error
by Carl Hartung 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Hi All, Just a note to point out the latest on-line update is yielding an error at this end. Running 11.4 x86_64 s/ GNOME: File './rpm/noarch/timezone-java-2011i_2011j-1.2.1.noarch.delta.rpm' not found on medium 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/' regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: Re: [opensuse] Re: Grub, where to find?
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

It would appear that on Sep 20, Constant Brouerius van Nidek did say: > On Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:09:26 AM you wrote: > > It would appear that on Sep 17, Constant Brouerius van Nidek did say: > > > On Friday, September 16, 2011 11:54:40 AM JoePhilbrook wrote: > > ==================== BIG snip ==================== > > > > > > Hope this helps! > > > > > > This helps. No insult ;). I do know how and where to find the menu.lst but > > > the finding out where the grub is installed is important in order to > > > change drives and such. No grub2 yet. And grub was always something that > > > never gave big problems so I never looked into the details. > > > > Well if you mean your not sure which mbr or partition superblock the > > bootstrap part of which loader is initialized from... All I can say is: > > "good luck with that" Of course if that's the issue, once you know where the > > "/boot/grub" directories in question are located then you could use the > > bigger hammer approach and "decide" where you want them, using something > > like supper grub if necessary to "install" them to the mbr(s) and/or > > partitions you desire them to be on now... > > > > By the way, had you intended to send only a personally email reply? I ask > > cause I didn't see your message on the list itself... > > > > Have a good one! > > Thanks for your email. It was originally meant for the list but I > send you this as a personal response. Due to inconsistencies of the > newest kmail the email went to you direct. Sorry. Nothing to be sorry for... I just know that depending on the different behavior of various email clients, and the difference of opinion it seems different email list owners seem to have on "Reply-To:" munging, It's easy to send a private message to group by mistake and or unintentionally deprive the group the benefit of any useful info that might have been included in a thread that was accidentally taken offlist. So since you didn't say it was private I thought I'd give you a heads up. And since you say it was a kmail error, I'll use the "power of Alpine" ;-) to reattach this to the list... > Did not see it. A good idea how problematic kmail can work is, that > my response to you direct got the opensuse address instead(which I > had to correct by hand ;) ) Like I said above. Some email clients make that kind of error easy. Though to be honest, any email client can reattach a reply to a list. The beauty or "power" of Alpine is that it makes it easy to see what it's going to do, which gives one a chance to nip such goofs in the bud... > You are right, I am not sure which MBR or partition superblock the > bootstrap is initialized from. Lucky guess. > When I change the booting from hd 0 to hd1 the booting does not > start. When I change it to hd 2 I get a windows xp boot. If I > disable all boot information it still starts as normal. Have the > feeling that the MBR from disk 0 is where the bootstrap is > initialized from. My logic says that's likely. And {unless the "hd1" not starting means a grub tried to start but failed because it somehow depended on the boot order of the drives to find stage 2 etc...} then I think you've already demonstrated that the secondary grubs are likely installed to superblock. Though that could be determined (at least for your kde system) by looking at the chainloader title in that primary boot menu.lst. In any case it shouldn't hurt to boot the other Linux that I think you said gets booted directly from the primary grub... then check to see if it's got viable looking /boot & /boot/grub directories. If it does you might consider telling it's grub to install to superblock (it's own root partition) to make chain loading it an easy alternative once you have a working grub using the new hd0 mbr to bootstrap from... > That is also the disk I want to swap which started my original > question. This would be the second time I will change this drive > and I cannot remember how I got my system up and running again. Most > probably with supergrub. If your comfortable with supergrub that's a good way to go. Another choice would depend on what the replacement hd0 will have on it. If I was going to replace my primary boot drive, with something having enough available space on it, I think I'd consider giving one of those minimalistic cli only "tiny" Linux distros a small partition for the express purpose of providing a new primary bootloader with it's own small footprint Linux for a configuration tool. And then I'd replicate the old primary boot/grub within it adding a non-default title to start the "tiny" Linux. At least I'd find out how small a partition one of those "small" Linux actually needed... {just an idea} In any case "Have a lot of fun!" ;-7 -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> 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

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[opensuse] Octave installed by yast cannot use qhull
by Lolo 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

I have installed octave by yast, but the function griddata can not be used. I searched the internet, and found out that it's the lack of qhull that makes the situation. If installed by source, qhull/qhull_a.h cannot be found. The package qhull-devel only provides libqhull.h. What should I do ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] No /dev/lp0 on any 11.4 install
by Mark Hounschell 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

I can manually create /dev/lp0 and the port works just fine but every 11.4 install and update I've done comes without /dev/lp0 being created during the boot process. Anyone else see this? Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] non executing partition
by jdd 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

Hello :-) I have a problem that become annoying. I use for part of my data a /local/data mounted partition (very large). Since the install of 11.4, I can't execute anything on this partition. Executable files are simply not executables there. I know it's possible to make a partition not executable, but I don't see how this happen and so I don't know how to revert it. here is the relevant part of my /etc/fstab: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1001FAES-60Z2A0_WD-WCATR1443583-part7 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1001FAES-60Z2A0_WD-WCATR1443583-part9 /local/data ext4 user,acl,user_xattr 1 2 as far as I can see, the /local/data partition have options very like the / one (where of course I can execute) any clue? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] gpg2 pass phrase problem.
by Joe Philbrook 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

Is there a way to get OpenSuSE's gpg2 (or I suppose it *_COULD_* be pinentry) to recognize and use a symlinked ~/gnupg dir??? And more importantly how do I get it to NEVER EVER cache the passphrase. IE I don't care if I just successfully decrypted a file using the same key from the same command shell 2 seconds ago. if I attempt to decrypt another (or even the same file again) I expect to either have to again enter the passphrase correctly, or for the decryption to fail. If it fails to ask me for my passphrase, or if the pinentry popup passphrase input box doesn't wait for input before closing, I do NOT expect gpg to decrypt the file based on input from a previous command instance. On the other hand, I do expect the pinentry input box to wait for input before closing... {See below} OK first let me say I'm a multi-Linux/multi-boot user. I boot all my installed Linux to a text login prompt on a console (I strongly dislike display managers) And use startx when/if I want to start the gui. My WM/DE of choice is E17. I have a personal data partition that I mount as a user owned partition and use a symlink ~/com so that I can use the same data files regardless of which Linux I boot, while allowing each Linux to have it's own user rc files to avoid any conflicts due to any differences in application versions. And please note that I use another symlink to have all my Linux use the same ~/gnupg directory that is also located on my personal data partition. My use of gpg is minimal in that I only ever use it to encrypt/decrypt sign or verify "ONLY 'text' files" either in a console or if X is running in either an xterm or more likely a "konsole" window. And this has worked reliably from all my installed Linux for years. Except that since gpg2 replaced the old gpg I've had issues on my openSuSE 11.3 installation. First symptom I ever noticed was when I initially log in to the console I've been getting an error that might be related to the fact that my ~/.gnupg directory is a symlink... I used gpm to paste the login/error text below. ===============snip=============== Welcome to openSUSE 11.3 "Teal" {{ 2011-09-15 * 13:21:14 }} Kernel 2.6.34.10-0.2-desktop on an x86_64 (tty1) OpenSuSEme2010 login: jtwdyp Password: Last login: Thu Sep 15 13:15:44 EDT 2011 on tty3 You have mail. Have a lot of fun... gpg-agent[4947]: can't create directory `/home/jtwdyp/.gnupg': File exists GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/gpg-ZZk1JD/S.gpg-agent:4948:1; export GPG_AGENT_INFO; SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/gpg-zD38np/S.gpg-agent.ssh; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; SSH_AGENT_PID=4948; export SSH_AGENT_PID; gpg-agent[4948]: gpg-agent (GnuPG) 2.0.15 started JtWdyP -> /home/jtwdyp > ===============snip=============== I couldn't figure out why it would complain about a directory existing that it should only ever have to create once... Especially since none of my other Linux complained. But {at the time} gpg was still working from the command line, so I didn't see it as a problem... Now however something has changed. I can't really say when it changed. As for a long time I've been spending more time in Arch Linux than OpenSuSE and, as it happens it's been a long time since I happened to have occasion to use gpg while running OpenSuSE. But when I tried to use it today it failed to prompt me for the passphrase ===============snip=============== JtWdyP -> /home/jtwdyp > gpg --output ~/com/.crossfile/.words.out --decrypt ~/com/.crossfile/.words.asc You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook (JtWdyP) <jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>" 1024-bit ELG key, ID 225FDC6D, created 2004-05-17 (main key ID 6C2163DE) gpg: problem with the agent: End of file gpg: encrypted with 1024-bit ELG key, ID 225FDC6D, created 2004-05-17 "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook (JtWdyP) <jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>" gpg: public key decryption failed: General error gpg: decryption failed: No secret key JtWdyP -> /home/jtwdyp > ===============snip=============== So I did some empirical testing and replaced the ~/.gnupg symlink with a hard copy of the the directory the symlink pointed at. And when I tried again gpg worked properly... At least I thought it did. It did work with the above command line from a konsole window under E17. At least it did the first time. I thought I was happy, except for the fact that I want all the installed Linux to use the same ~/gnupg dir to access the same keyring files etc... However When I rebooted I decided to test it some more on the way back in. I decided to test first if gpg was again working also from the console when X wasn't yet running. It did. I got a verbose passphrase prompt embedded within the console screen. It worked. it did decrypt the file. Then I ran startx, opened a konsole and ran the command again. it didn't prompt me. it simply decrypted .words.asc into a new instance of .words.out. This behavior is quite unacceptable. After several reboots I've found that it seems unstable, most times if I don't run the command from a console prior to running startx, decryption fails. (sometimes I can see the pinentry pop-up flash on the screen and disappear without waiting for input) If I use an <ctrl>+<alt>+<F-key> shortcut to get to one of the available console screens, & login to run the decryption command in a console while X is already running the console freezes up as if it was waiting for a pinentry pop-up, which of course doesn't happen. ^C gets me back to a command prompt... If on the other hand I did run the decryption command from a console while X wasn't running and typed in the correct passphrase. Then run startx and wait several minutes before running the decryption command from a terminal window the pinentry window will appear and actually wait for input. Though subsequent calls will decrypt without prompting (unless I again wait several minutes.) ARRRRRGHGH! all I want is for gpg to prompt for the passphrase every time. And for the pinentry prompt to always wait for my input before failing. ===============snip=============== Assuming the above "passphrase skipping" auto decryption and/or decryption failure is solved. I'd be mostly happy... That is I can live with not being able to use the symlink. Though it does bug me that an identical symlink works reliably with Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, Arch, & Sabayon Linux. Especially since, if I don't use the symlink then every time I add a key etc... I'll have to remember to boot into OpenSuSE and either: rm -r ~/.gnupg/ && cp -r ~/sig/.gpg/.gnupg/ ~/.gnupg/ OR: rm -r ~/sig/.gpg/.gnupg/ && cp -r ~/.gnupg/ ~/sig/.gpg/.gnupg/ Depending on whether I'd been running OpenSuSE or not when I added the key or whatever. In which case I just hope that when I get around to remembering to do that I haven't accidentally added some keys while running OpenSuSE and added others while running any of the other Linux... Any suggestions??? -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> 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

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[opensuse] Re: software RAID vs BIOS RAID
by Joachim Schrod 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

James Knott wrote: > Per Jessen wrote: >> John Andersen wrote: >> >> >>> At one time there was a problem having /boot on raid, and its been a >>> while since I had to reconfigure a fresh box, so I don't know if this >>> is still the case. >>> >> With lilo it works fine, but I don't know about grub. >> > It doesn't work with grub. With RAID and also LVM, /boot has to be on a > regular partition. Here LVM is the problem, not RAID-1. With RAID-1 via md and no LVM, /boot on a mirrored ext3/ext4 filesystem definitively works with grub. We use it since several years, and had enough disk errors to prove it working. One needs to take care that grub bootloader is installed on both disks, though, openSUSE doesn't do this itself during installation. Extra robustness comes with stanzas that name both disks, in case hd0 is not visible to the BIOS any more and hd1 suddenly gets hd0. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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