NOVELL FORUMS - SLED: Configure-Administer

Chnage permission of /proc/sys/fs/aio-nr

gbennett-elcom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:35:16 GMT

Hi,

I am running SLES 11.0 and Oracle.

I need to change the value of fs.aio-nr

I can't change the valuie using sysctl, chmod, etc at it is read only and owned by root - even though I am logged in as root:

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 19 16:10 aio-nr

How do I change the permission of this file so I can update the parameter value?

Thanks in advance!

Greg
Elcom

Lack of ppmtompeg

mikewillis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:07:24 GMT

I've just discovered that the netpbm package in SLED 11 is lacking the ppmtompeg executable which was included in the SLED 10 package. There's a comment in the spec file that says "removed ppmtompeg sources [#261140] "

I'm assuming that number refers to a bug report. If I try and view https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=261140 I get 'not authorized'.

Anyone else willing to try viewing it if they can view it and it is related to netpbm and ppmtompeg share what it says?

I am aware I can download netpbm and build it from source but I'm curious as to why ppmtompeg has been omitted from the SLED 11 package.

Focus Window On-Click SLED 11

thajekku — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:34:40 GMT

I have SLED 11 and am using Gnome. I was previously using fedora and when I clicked in a window it would give that Window focus. I can't seem to get this to work in SLED 11. Do others have this problem. Any suggestions as to what to try.

I did try using gconf-editor to set apps/metacity/general focus_mode click and have looked in the Tools->Windows to try and set this but there really isn't anything there that is helpful.

thanks,

Strange problem with phonon

luis_mendes — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:22:08 GMT

Hi

I'm using an updated version of SLED 11 and I'm experiencing a strange problem with phonon on KDE, with different behaviours that I'll try to describe here.

Everytime I start my machine and log into KDE I get an error from phonon saying something like "The audio device with is not working" and I get no sound from it. However if I open a terminal and run alsamixer, I verify that the "Master Palyback Switch" is off (muted) and that my "Master Playback Volume" is set at the maximum value in both channels. I then adjust the settings by unmutting the "Master Playback Switch" and turning the volume down a bit, and then without restarting X, just by opening an audio file, the soundcard plays it. Sometimes I have to do rcalsasound restart before running alsamixer, to get the sound.

I thought that the problem was with my saved card profile, so I did alsactl store, after adjusting the settings, I checked my /etc/asound.state and the settings saved were correct, namely I had the following lines:
control.1
...
name Master Playback Switch
...
value true
...
control.2
...
name Master Playback Volume
...
value.0 48
value.1 48
...

I then rebooted my machine and immediately after the reboot I looked into /etc/asound.state and the values were again Master Playback Switch muted and Master Playback Volume set at maximum value or more precisely:
control.1
...
name Master Playback Switch
...
value false
...
control.2
...
name Master Playback Volume
...
value.0 63
value.1 63
...

Then I logged again into KDE and got the same error message from phonon and no sound again.
At this point I thought that something was setting the volume up just before the alsasound service got halted, so I edited /etc/init.d/alsasound and commented the line
$alsactl -f $asoundcfg store, inside the stop) case, followed by a manual readjust of the sound settings and saved the configuration. The machine was rebooted again.

After the reboot the sound settings were ok and logged into KDE. At this point the phonon error message was displayed and no sound again. I checked the mixer settings and the problem was there again. However in subsequent reboots I get the phonon error message displayed but the correct sound settings prevailed, so I can listen to multimedia content.

This problem is present from the moment I installed SLED 11. While the problem itself is not complicated, it can be annoying because some updates may reset the /etc/init.d/alsasound service script, and otherwise I would like to have my audio settings preserved automatically accross reboots. Could a patch be made available to fix this?

Need to cnfigure LDAP client for users in WIN SER 2003

rakeshhari — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:45:00 GMT

Dear all,

I am new to linux and LDAP.I am setting proxy sever for my workplace.I need to authenticate squid by using the user name in ADS. I need to retrieve the users in Ser 2003 ADS and use it in linux suse 10.3.

I am using suse 10.3 Server edition linux.KIndly guide me to use LDAP here, i mean to authenticate the users in Server 2003. Kindly guid me pls.
i am getting error connection to LDAP server cannot be established. "LDAP ERR"

Thanks and Regards,
Rakesh

gnome-web-photo

mikewillis — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:31:09 GMT

Can someone using SLED 11 with all latest update installed try running this:

Code:

$ gnome-web-photo http://news.bbc.co.uk bbcnews.jpg

and say if it works? Doesn't work for me. I suspect that it's borked because of an issue with xul-runner since Firefox was updated to 3.5 and that is in turn breaking thumbnail generation in Nautilus if it encounters an HTML file.
(Nautilus uses gnome-web-photo to generate thumbnails for HTML files.) If I disable thumbnailing for HTML files and kill/restart nautilus thumbnail generate works again.

I observed in another thread that a build of Firefox 3.5 from openSUSE build service broke Epiphany and gnome-web-photo. I'm wondering if when putting Firefox 3.5 build in to SLED 11 Novell have paid attention to the Epiphany issue and fixed it but neglected gnome-web-photo.

I get:

Code:

me@mine:~> gnome-web-photo http://news.bbc.co.uk bbcnews.jpg

(gnome-web-photo:29775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `GtkMozEmbed'



** (gnome-web-photo:29775): CRITICAL **: void gtk_moz_embed_size_allocate(GtkWidget*, GtkAllocation*): assertion `GTK_IS_MOZ_EMBED(widget)' failed



(gnome-web-photo:29775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `GtkMozEmbed'



** (gnome-web-photo:29775): CRITICAL **: void gtk_moz_embed_realize(GtkWidget*): assertion `GTK_IS_MOZ_EMBED(widget)' failed



(gnome-web-photo:29775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `GtkMozEmbed'



** (gnome-web-photo:29775): CRITICAL **: void gtk_moz_embed_get_nsIWebBrowser(GtkMozEmbed*, nsIWebBrowser**): assertion `GTK_IS_MOZ_EMBED(embed)' failed



** (gnome-web-photo:29775): WARNING **: Couldn't attach the listener!





(gnome-web-photo:29775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `GtkMozEmbed'



** (gnome-web-photo:29775): CRITICAL **: void gtk_moz_embed_load_url(GtkMozEmbed*, const char*): assertion `GTK_IS_MOZ_EMBED(embed)' failed

SLED 11 Development tools

thajekku — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:13:35 GMT

I just installed SLED 11 and I am wondering where I might find many development tools (eclipse, glade, quanta, javac JDK (or IcedTea), etc..), are these not included as RPM's for SLED 11?

Am I missing a repo maybe (I've already had to add an openSuSe repo to get thunderbird which I really didn't want to do but the thunderbird tar.gz requires libstdc++.so.5 which I also can't seem to find)?

Have I made poor choice for a developers desktop, seems there are many things that I am missing that I've gotten used to getting with my other linux distros (even Red Hat has most of these things packaged)? I'm really only going to SLED because it's the only distro that is supported for running Unigraphics NX 5.

I've certainly had to do my share of manually installing apps from .tar.gz but it seems some of these things like eclipse and glade (or glade-2) are pretty standard?

Have I missed something. Thanks,

Firefox Won't Load

dsf79 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:22:49 GMT

Greetings all:

I am running SLED 10.2. Firefox 3.5 x86_64 upgraded through on-line updates but will not load. When I try to load from a terminal both as my user and as root I get:

Couldn't load XPCOM.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling both firefox and xulrunner with no joy. Also tried renaming my .mozilla directory and the app directory after uninstalling. Still not joy.

I have searched on other forums but none of the suggestions have worked.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Donna

SLED 11 NCL 2.0 SP2 novfs

lovlienr — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:18:17 GMT

I have just done a fresh SLED 11 install, with NCL-2.0-SP2 as an add-on. I have installed gcc, gcc-c++, kernel-source, kernel-syms, kernel-headers, make, novell-LUM.

The machine is set to LDAP authentication (When I install with eDir Auth, it fails). At the end of the installation and first boot, GDM accepts LDAP credentials. When the desktop is loaded, ncl_tray autostarts.

My Issues / What I would like to do:

***On LDAP auth/login, i get an error: "The novfs kernel loadable module is not installed correctly."

***Contextless login seems to work fine with one user, but once i try to log in as another (From the same context, or a differing one) the client freezes.

***I'd rather start gnwlogin instead of ncl_tray at startup. Is there a way to disable ncl_tray for all users and replace it with gnwlogin?

***I know everyone wants this, but is there any way to map drives to dynamic users desktops instead of their home folders (In the NCL-2.0-SP2 settings wizard, the default location is "%HOME") I cannot find other variables to replace %HOME with.