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Window manager problem

by Bruce Linnell

Hi everyone, I'm running openSuSE 10.2, and decided I wanted to try some of the 3D Desktop effects. So I tried activating them through the YaST control panel. Now not only do I not have 3D effects, I seem to have lost my window manager as well. I can open apps and applets, utilities and folders, but none have a title bar to grab for moving the window, and none have the max, min, and close buttons, and if it doesn't have a close or quit option in a drop down menu, I can't close it (them). So I end up with a screen full of unmoveable, unresizeable, and in some cases, uncloseable windows. It reminds me of an old steamer trunk with decals plastered all over it. The boot screen only shows 2 icons just prior to opening the desktop: the desktop icon, and the Gnome footprint icon. The double window icon is no longer there. Booting as root is normal with all 3 icons in the splash screen, and full window(s) functionality. So this problem seems contained to my user account. I'm hopeful that restoring the window manager will also let me configure the 3D effects, but if not, I'd like to get back to normal. Any suggestions? Bruce

March 3, 2007

Re: [Wlug] SATA chipset Sil 3132

by Eric Stein

I figured this exact solution out before I went to dinner, but I hadn't gotten around to emailing it out yet. Here's the link I got the info from: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=42a7ff7f4422b32a30… See edM's second post. Thanks for your help, though! My RAID is now building for the first time! glamdring proc # cat mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0 : active raid5 sde[4] sdd[2] sdc[1] sdb[0] 1172133888 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3] [UUU_] [=============>.......] recovery = 69.1% (270093056/390711296) finish=34.2min speed=58640K/sec unused devices: <none> Eric Jamie Guinan wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Eric Stein wrote: > > >> Hi all, >> >> I've recently acquired some more hard drives and I just plugged one in >> to the secondary SATA ports on my motherboard for the first time. >> However, my Gentoo box isn't seeing it. I have an Abit AN8-32X >> motherboard (the other drives are on the Nvidia SATAII controller). For >> info about the board, go here: >> >> http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/an8-32x/ >> >> In make menuconfig (from the kernel I am running right now (2.6.18)): >> <*> Silicon Image chipset support >> > > I'm have 2.6.19 handy, and I see, > > Device Drivers ---> > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support ---> > < > Silicon Image chipset support > > but also, > > Device Drivers ---> > Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers ---> > < > Silicon Image SATA support > < > Silicon Image 3124/3132 SATA support > > I think the latter is what you might need. Its the new libata... > reworked IDE... thingy. I haven't followed it that closely, but this > link might be of interest, > > http://lwn.net/Articles/198344/ > > -Jamie > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

March 2, 2007

Re: [Wlug] SATA chipset Sil 3132

by Jamie Guinan

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Eric Stein wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently acquired some more hard drives and I just plugged one in > to the secondary SATA ports on my motherboard for the first time. > However, my Gentoo box isn't seeing it. I have an Abit AN8-32X > motherboard (the other drives are on the Nvidia SATAII controller). For > info about the board, go here: > > http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/an8-32x/ > > In make menuconfig (from the kernel I am running right now (2.6.18)): > <*> Silicon Image chipset support I'm have 2.6.19 handy, and I see, Device Drivers ---> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support ---> < > Silicon Image chipset support but also, Device Drivers ---> Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers ---> < > Silicon Image SATA support < > Silicon Image 3124/3132 SATA support I think the latter is what you might need. Its the new libata... reworked IDE... thingy. I haven't followed it that closely, but this link might be of interest, http://lwn.net/Articles/198344/ -Jamie

March 2, 2007

SATA chipset Sil 3132

by Eric Stein

Hi all, I've recently acquired some more hard drives and I just plugged one in to the secondary SATA ports on my motherboard for the first time. However, my Gentoo box isn't seeing it. I have an Abit AN8-32X motherboard (the other drives are on the Nvidia SATAII controller). For info about the board, go here: http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/an8-32x/ In make menuconfig (from the kernel I am running right now (2.6.18)): <*> Silicon Image chipset support My BIOS lists a drive in the Sil SATA display during IDE/SATA scanning. I have swapped the drive to the other controller to see if it is a hardware problem with the drive. It shows up in LSPCI, but it doesn't show up in fdisk -l. glamdring dev # lspci 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2) 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2) 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2) 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2) 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2) 00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:09.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a4) 00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a4) 00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2) 00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2) 00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a4) 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2) 00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f3) 00:10.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3) <====== works fine 00:11.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3) <====== works fine 00:12.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2) 00:13.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3) 00:14.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3) 00:15.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3) 00:16.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3) 00:17.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:00.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller (rev 01) <====== look, there it is 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)] (rev a1) 04:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) 08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)] (rev a1) glamdring dev # fdisk -l Disk /dev/hdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/hdc doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 17 136521 83 Linux /dev/sda2 18 516 4008217+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 517 1513 8008402+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 1514 9729 65995020 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/sdc: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/sdd: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/sdd doesn't contain a valid partition table glamdring dev # Where's /dev/sde hiding? Eric

March 2, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Comprimised servers?

by Karl Hiramoto

What gives you evidence they were compromised? To what extent was security breached? Was just a website defaced, did they get user, or root access? Do you know how they got in? You may want to audit all of your running services and check if there are known exploits. Unfortunately your best option may be to backup your data, format disks, and reinstall the OS. It can be hard to tell if a back door was installed. .. karl Michael Zarozinski wrote: > Hi all, > > It appears as if 2 servers we have were compromised. Does anyone know of > someone or a business we can get to examine our servers and tell us what > to do? Our hosting company is not the easiest to deal with and I'm > having trouble getting anything beyond level 1 support from them. > > Thank you in advance, > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >

Feb. 28, 2007

Comprimised servers?

by Michael Zarozinski

Hi all, It appears as if 2 servers we have were compromised. Does anyone know of someone or a business we can get to examine our servers and tell us what to do? Our hosting company is not the easiest to deal with and I'm having trouble getting anything beyond level 1 support from them. Thank you in advance, Michael

Feb. 28, 2007

Ham Radio meeting about GNU Radio...

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Gang, FYI: I thought some of you might be interested in this meeting regarding GNU Radio. I think I'm going to attend, but admittedly its a lot closer to my house than it probably is to yours. Later, Andy - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [PART/WB1GOF] FW: 2/24 CWA Meeting on Gnu Radio Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:02:48 -0500 From: Steve Telsey <steve.n1bda(a)verizon.net> To: PART <PART-L(a)wb1gof.org> - -----Original Message----- From: Gordon Pettengill [mailto:ghp@space.mit.edu] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 2:27 PM To: CWA Members Subject: 2/24 CWA Meeting Dear CWA Members, As you already know, there will be a meeting of the Colonial Wireless Association next Wednesday evening, 28 February at 7:30pm, in the Concord-Carlisle High School on Thoreau St. The invited speaker is Dr. Gregory D. Troxel, N1DAM, who is a network researcher at BBN Technologies working on software radios for the Department of Defense. Greg will give an overview of software-defined radio, a new technology that is already changing Ham Radio, and will talk about a free software radio package called GNU Radio. Greg will also describe a hardware front-end for software radios, the USRP, that uses daughter-boards for various functions, from transceivers for 440, 902, 1296 and 2400 MHz to boards for IF use. Greg's talk will highlight the challenges in changing GNU Radio from receiving continuous signals to packet radio. Following the talk, Greg will demonstrate GNU Radio and the USRP with several daughter-boards. Unfortunately, I will be unable to join you, but hope for a good attendance. As a result of generous donations over the past month, our treasury now stands at $2194.28. 73, Gordon Pettengill W1OUN - -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.0.412 / Virus Database: 268.18.3/696 - Release Date: 2/21/2007 _______________________________________________ Police Amateur Radio Team (PART) of Westford Post messages to: PART-L(a)wb1gof.org (Un)Subscribe at http://PART-L.wb1gof.org - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF4OekHl0iXDssISsRAs5MAJoD+48OSb+BkTaeE1idTvCDUvHvOgCfVvWw wdMkFN4H2sDsAePHOavWgOo= =J4// -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Feb. 25, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Amarok

by Hanley.net

Eric Stein wrote: > Wow, I use amarok nearly constantly and I never heard this before. > > Eric I just checked Wikipedia and there is a mention of the pop-up (Easter Egg) towards the bottom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarok_%28audio%29 I noticed I said "flec" in my post. That should have been "flac", of course. :-) -- Gary

Feb. 23, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Amarok

by Eric Stein

Wow, I use amarok nearly constantly and I never heard this before. Eric Gary Hanley wrote: > I picked up a Cowon iAudio U3 a few weeks ago after and exhaustive > search for a player with a good amount of memory (2GB) and plays > ogg and flec files. > > Anyway, I've been burning my CDs to ogg/vorbis as time allows to build > a library for myself and recently burned my old copy of Mike > Oldfield's _Amarok_. > > I honestly never made the connection between the name of the album and > my new favorite media player, but when I started playing amarok.ogg > in the Amarok player this morning this popped up: > > "One of Mike Oldfield's best pieces of work, Amarok, inspired the name > behind the audio-player you are currently using. Thanks for choosing > Amarok! > Mark Kretschmann > Max Howell > Chris Muehlhaeuser > The many other people who have helped make Amarok what it is" > > Cool! Just thought I'd share that. :-) > > -- Gary > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Feb. 23, 2007

Amarok

by Gary Hanley

I picked up a Cowon iAudio U3 a few weeks ago after and exhaustive search for a player with a good amount of memory (2GB) and plays ogg and flec files. Anyway, I've been burning my CDs to ogg/vorbis as time allows to build a library for myself and recently burned my old copy of Mike Oldfield's _Amarok_. I honestly never made the connection between the name of the album and my new favorite media player, but when I started playing amarok.ogg in the Amarok player this morning this popped up: "One of Mike Oldfield's best pieces of work, Amarok, inspired the name behind the audio-player you are currently using. Thanks for choosing Amarok! Mark Kretschmann Max Howell Chris Muehlhaeuser The many other people who have helped make Amarok what it is" Cool! Just thought I'd share that. :-) -- Gary

Feb. 22, 2007