Software RAID 1 on SuSE 9.2
Thursday, July 28th, 2005Here is a brief description of what I had to do to migrate my running SusE 9.2 filesystem to a RAID1 made of my current hard drive and a new (identical) one.
Linux
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KDE 3.4 and KMail 1.8 on SuSE 9.2 error
Sunday, April 10th, 2005Yesterday night I updated to KDE 3.4 and, as usual, I got a weird error
Authorization failed, An error occured during authentication: SASL(-4): no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found authentication not supported
Appart from the error string being built wrong, something which is more clearly seen on the spanish version of it (strings are mixed), this looks like that some plugin is missing. Kmail uses SASL as an authenthication abstraction layer, and each protocol supported by SASL is built as a plugin and packaged in its own RPM, or at least that’s what SuSE does.
Getting DVD playback to work on SuSE Linux 9.2 64 bit
Monday, February 14th, 2005As you might know, DVD support in SuSE is crippled due to legal restrictions. In addition to not distributing a binary capable of encrypted DVD playback, they are not distributing the source code to xine-lib, most probably because of legal concerns as well.
Luckily enough, they do distribute de RPM .spec file they use to build the package, and it is ready to build all the plugins, even the “forbidden” ones. Using it to obtain a fully functional xine-lib for your AMD64 in a nice SuSE aware RPM is quite straightforward. You can either follow the instructions here, or forget about it and download the packages I prepared.
Amarok’s cover fetcher.
Saturday, February 5th, 2005Doesn’t Amarok’s cover fetcher work on the latest SuSE’s 9.2 build? Here I’m talking about Amarok 1.2beta3, the audio player for KDE.
Having wondered for a while what was wrong, and just in case somebody happens to experience this very same problem, I’ll say here for the record that there is no bug (at least here).
Simply choose a locale setting inside Amarok’s Cover Manager (you’ll find a drop down list at the top of the window) and everything will work.
Anyone should work, but if you find that some of your covers were not fetched, you can try on a different locale (i.e. server). I got lots of covers from the german server which were not on the british one.
By the way, lots of covers are not well matched. And I mean lots. It’s funny (or rather disgusting) to see “Chill Out XXX” while listening to Brahms…
