January 2009 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] How to set PAM language?
by Hans Petter Jansson 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

How do PAM modules determine which language to use for their messages? -- Hans Petter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] linuxrc crash ?
by Günther J. Niederwimmer 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Hello, have any a idea ? on a Intel P43 Chpset Board Asus P5QL it is nor possible to start a SUSE Installation (11.0, 11.1) The starting stop after starting Udev .. ld.so "ld-open.c : 324 : RT_CONSISTENT failed" "linuxrc crashed :-((" in console 4 i can see a "init[1] general protection ip:7f586f91fd7a sp:7fff7862fb90 error:0 in libc-2.9.so-[7f586f8a7000+14f000]" Win... and other Linux have no problem to install ? -- mit freundlichen Grüßen / best Regards, Günther J. Niederwimmer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Hardware Question (megaraid driver)
by Günther J. Niederwimmer 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Hello, have any a Board running like "Intel Server Board SE7520AF2" with Hardware SCSI Raid (megaraid) ? I have two Problems ? When I activate (Intel SROMBU42E) the SCSI RAID (1 x Raid 5, 1 x Raid 1) (/dev/sda, /devsdb), then I lost my drive's by the installation, /dev/sda /dev/sdb is after near 100 packages gon ? When I deactivate the Hardware Raid, the distribution is waiting near 3-4 Minutes by starting Udev ? OK, next step I install a other Disri to Test The Raid ? -- mit freundlichen Grüßen / best Regards, Günther J. Niederwimmer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] java libraries packaging - integrate maven repository to zypper?
by Putrycz, Erik 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

I read http://en.opensuse.org/Java/Packaging/Cookbook and it states "the convient approach in Linux distribution is use of the system jars" for third party jars. I don't know if you are aware of the maven repository but packaging third party jars in rpm manually is currently a little redundant. The maven repository provides a lot of meta data including dependencies on java archive files and is kept quite up to date plus is mirrored. Wouldn't it make more sense to integrate somehow the maven repository to zipper and be able to retrieve dependencies from a java program from maven? Or another approach could be a gateway from maven to rpm. Erik. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-kernel] Squashfs
by Rob OpenSuSE 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

2009/1/15 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm(a)suse.de>: > > Rob OpenSuSE wrote: >> 2009/1/15 Matt Sealey <matt(a)genesi-usa.com>: >>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Rob OpenSuSE >>> <rob.opensuse.linux(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >> There are end user benefits to mountable initrd's, and would have been >> a much better workround for one bug, than what I actually had to do. > > Actually you would have been just as stuck with squashfs. It's a > read-only file system. You can't loopback mount it and change it. In the > end, you end up having to do the same thing you'd have to do with cpio - > you just replace "zcat initrd | cpio -id" with "mount -o loop". If it's RO and you can't alter it, then there wouldn't seem to be any end user benefit apart from casual browsing, to overcome the "if it ain't broke don't fix it". Just developer benefit through supporting fewer formats. This is what led me to believe, SquashFS was permitting easier modification, I think I misunderstood that. 2009/1/14 Matt Sealey <matt(a)genesi-usa.com>: > >> What advantages do you know of? > > Appending files is a breeze compared to a cpio archive. Replacing the same > file in a cpio usually means dumping and remaking it. mksquashfs can get rid > of the original file and relink the new one at the end.. it would mean you > can do clever tricks like building half the initrd or filesystem image, > doing something else based on that result, and then appending further > processed data. Though mounting, copying to disk, and then re-building the formatted file, is more like making iso files. "zcat initrd | cpio -id" and then rebuilding, wasn't obvious enough to get suggested when I had an issue with replacing the driver with mkinintrd on a live system. It is still a nice to have, as udev generating it's own module list, to be combined with INITRD_MODULES, doesn't make the change methodology clear to the sysadmin. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Plan for 11.2?
by Rob OpenSuSE 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

2009/1/15 <pczanik(a)genesi-usa.com>: > Rob OpenSuSE írta: > Well, my main desktop machine is dual core with 4GB of RAM, still when I > upgrade it to the latest SuSE, the first thing I do is to remove / > disable unnecessary services. Even here it makes a marked difference. For 10.3, Coolo made an optimisation of start up, which involved letting YaST install the stuff needed, and set up scans. According to him, to the daemon start up is parallelised. If there is additional stuff to remove that speeds boot times, everyone will be pleased if it's moved to an on demand. An X terminal setup, has very much reduced software requirements, a lot of what you require on your desktop then becomes 'bloat'. The right optimisation goes much deeper than, just "turning off uncessary services". It would be wrong to inconvience the majority, by reduced default functionality in that case. > And while a few years ago one of the benefits of Linux was that it ran > on any old hardware, where Windows was not an option, this is not the > case any more. openSUSE is not Linux, it has always had suggested hardware that was much greater than typical embedded systems, because it is a general purpose server and desktop OS. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Squashfs
by Matt Sealey 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

I just noticed that while squashfs 3.4 kernel module is used on the -default kernel, the squashfs tools on both PowerPC and x86 repos are stuck at 3.2 neko@frodo:~> mksquashfs -version mksquashfs version 3.2-r2 (2007/01/15) Is there any particular reason for this? Is there an update planned? Also, more for the kernel guys.. is there any reason why the mkinitrd etc. stuff relies on cpio archives when the SUSE kernel is built with squashfs (granted as a module), all the rescue/install images are squashfs? It does not provide any remarkably better compression - in fact I tested 100k larger filesystem with mksquashfs 3.2 but then mksquashfs 3.2 refuses to use large block sizes so the compression is lower than it could be, also mksquashfs 3.4 supposes a 10% improvement and unsquashfs supposes a 40% improvement in speed in creation and extraction (we will ignore the kernel improvements as, they are in the kernel already).. .. But a few tests in performance usually always show that accessing a squashfs initrd mounted to RAM is faster than a cpio initrd in RAM. It also has a few extra little advantages here and there but I do not know if they are worth it, but I do know that managing squashfs filesystems is a billion times easier than pushing cpio archives around. Since squashfs is going to be in the kernel mainline at some point (it's in Linus' tree) and everyone and his dog makes squashfs initrds, are we going to see a move to it at some point and have the thing built in with more use of the format? -- Matt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Factory Repo
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Hello Friends, since yesterday i have in my home Repo in my Factory Repo the Status "blocked". Does anyone know, when the Factory Packages builded? cu Sascha -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team (Weekly News) openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] YaST Backup: User-Defined Scripts
by Lukas Ocilka 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Hi, I've implemented a new feature "user-defined pre- and post-backup scripts" that allows you to call whatever you like right before and after the backup. There are several use-cases including database backup and uploading the resulting backup archive to a central server or to tape. See more at http://kobliha-suse.blogspot.com/2009/01/yast-backup-user-defined-scripts.h… Use it well ;) Bye Lukas -- Lukas Ocilka, YaST Developer (xn--luk-gla45d) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ano, ano. Moudry rozkaz. Sam jsem nemel v tech gratulacich jasno.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Plan for 11.2?
by Peter Czanik 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Hello, Rob OpenSuSE írta: > You're the person pushing the hardware with 128MiB RAM and 1MB/s disk; > it's not suitable for a general default configuration. IMO it is nor > reasonable to expect openSUSE to customise the system to meet your > requirements. > Well, my main desktop machine is dual core with 4GB of RAM, still when I upgrade it to the latest SuSE, the first thing I do is to remove / disable unnecessary services. Even here it makes a marked difference. And while a few years ago one of the benefits of Linux was that it ran on any old hardware, where Windows was not an option, this is not the case any more. Bye, CzP -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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