January 2002 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Server unreachable
by Bartydeux 23 Jan '02

23 Jan '02

Hello, My problem My e-mail server at work crashed (it was not in production fortunately). It was under SuSE 7.2 PRO for PC, reiserfs filesystem. I think it was a HD crash. Thus Hd is reformatting. I settled then Postfix on a Apple G3/SuSE7.3PPC. I transferred the config files and gave the G3 the ancient IP address of the crashed server. Everything should be fine, but: 1) if I want to make a Ftp connexion from another host I have the answer "server 192.168.20.93 unreachable". 2) I have the same problem with an iBook with SuSE7.3PPC: impossible to make a Ftp connexion to the iBook. 3) But a Ftp connexion is well possible from an external host (with SuSE 7.3 for PC not PPC) to the iBook and the G3. Thus PC host SuSE 7.3 ====> G3 or iBook with SuSE 7.3PPC: OK G3 or iBook with SuSE 7.3PPC ====> PC with SuSE 7.3 not OK 4) If I want now to fetch my mail from an outside host I have the answer "server 192.168.20.93 unreachable" too. 5) but the mail server 192.168.20.93 well receive the mails (the mailboxes /var/mail/users are well inflating) but impossible to get the mails: "server unreachable" 6) I can ping the server without problem and, as I said, the server receives the mails without problem. 7) I thought it was a problem of Firewall but SuSE Firewall is not working. 8) problem Smtp daemon? 9) The Postfix config is normally the same as my old config. It seems to be a problem specific to SuSE7.3PPC (but not SuSE 7.2 or 7.3 for PC). Has anybody had the same problem. -- Alain Barthélemy bartydeux(a)gminformatique.com http://bartydeux.gminformatique.com

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RE: RE: [suse-ppc] SuSEppc 7.3 on iBook: no X...Solved/triple boo t
by Carney, Kevin 22 Jan '02

22 Jan '02

On Tue, Jan 22, Olaf Hering wrote: >>The 'problem' with ybin is that it marks the root 'folder' of the HFS >>partition as bootable, and MacOS doesnt accept that as a valid setup and >>removes that flag again insidethe HFS filesystem structure. With the >>result that you cant boot anymore for that partition. At least with the >>system folder magic '\\:tbxi'. Ah!, you're right. I didn't even think of that since I am using an "Apple_Bootstrap" partition instead of a regular, MacOS mount-able, hfs partition for my bootloader. (I didn't quite follow the SuSe installation partitioning instructions because I already had another linux distro installed and didn't want to re-partition my drive. Sorry if I lead anyone astray.) >>configure the yaboot.conf four you prefered setup. >>run ybin to write the os-chooser file, I think it is called ofboot.b. >>It can be found on the boot partition later. >>Mountit with the hfs utils: >>hmount /dev/hda9 >>hls -l >>hcopy ofboot.b /tmp/ybin.txt >>humount >> >>Now you have the os-chooser script on the linux side. >>run lilo again. >>then copy the os-chooser to the suseboot folder: >> >>houmt /dev/hda9 >>hcd suseboot >>hcopy /tmp/ybin.txt :os-chooser >>hattrib -t tbxi -c chrp os-chooser >>humount >> >>Now the os-chooser should be bootable and gives you the choice at boot >>time. These instructions seem like they should work. I'll have to try them out on my desktop G3 machine. Note that the line "houmt /dev/hda9" should read "hmount /dev/hda9." ('9' being the number of the boot partition.) >>`make install` in ybin might overwrite the lilo files in /boot, if that >>is the case, reinstall lilo from cd1 >>rpm -Uvh --force /cdrom/suse/a1/lilo.rpm I don't think 'make install' for ybin (yaboot) does anything in the /boot directory, but I don't know about anywhere else. I do know that it does install some things in /usr/local/lib. -Kevin Carney <carneykj(a)reading-recovery.org>

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SuSEppc 7.3 on iBook: no X Server = Sax2 won' work
by Bartydeux 22 Jan '02

22 Jan '02

Hello, I already installed SuSE-PPC 7.1 without problems on this iBook (small box, bought beginning of 2001, I don't know how it is called) Today I updated => SuSEPPC 7.3. I was almost sure to have no problem but .... Update went without problem except ghostscript-library Impossible to start KDE (with startx). At general boot, I have the following error message: creating X11 framebuffer configuration ... /usr/X11R6/bin/xsfb : error while loading shared librairies : /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/ppclinux/auto/IO/IO.so/ ecannotuopencshared objectefile:tNonsuchbfileeuorsdirectory d I checked: there is no /etc/XF86Config file (it is empty) Sax2 won't work: you have a lot of error chat: can't locate Storable.pm in @INC (@INC contains : /usr/X11R6/lib/sax/modules /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ppc-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ppc/linux ....) at /usr/X11r6/lib/sax/init.pl line17 Thus: no X server and I don't know how to solve the problem: the lib files seem not to have been installed properly, there is no /etc/XF86Config file Update seems to be uncomplete. Any idea about what is wrong? BTW I updated with Yast1 -- Alain Barthélemy bartydeux(a)gminformatique.com http://bartydeux.gminformatique.com

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RE: [suse-ppc] Unable to install - kernel freezes: more details
by Herouth Maoz 22 Jan '02

22 Jan '02

At 11:26 +0100 on 15/1/2002, Markus Lischka wrote: > Did you try the 2.4.16 kernel from > <ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/2.4.16/> ? > That's the version I finally succeeded with. 2.2.16/2.4.2 as of Suse > 7.1 were able to boot with any setup in my case, by the way. I tried the vmlinux-2.4.16.gz from yesterday. Doesn't work. I really narrowed the problem down to the SCSI device. Finally, I contacted SuSE installation support. They told me to download the vmlinux.elf-pmac from the beta kernels directory. Problem is, if I try to use that with BootX, it freezes the Mac without ever entering into boot mode. I am wondering if anybody could explain the secret of the kernel images directory. Why are some kernels gzipped and others are not, why the non gzipped images will not load on my Mac etc. The lady from SuSE acknowledged, anyway, that there seems to be a kernel bug regarding SCSI and that they are working on it. I don't know how long that will take. So in the meantime any other suggestions may be helpful. I am at my wits end. Herouth -- EMAIL: herouth(a)netvision.net.il HOME PAGE: http://www.herouth.f2s.com/

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crash of X Server
by Damir Buskulic 22 Jan '02

22 Jan '02

Hi, I installed Suse 7.3 on a powerbook wallstreet. It uses the accelerated ati driver for X. If I leave it unattended for a while, the screensaver comes up and the mouse and keyboard get freezed. I cannot enter again my session. Very frustrating. This happens only after a long while, making me think that there is a bad interaction between screensaver/ati driver/screen sleep. Does anybody have a clue ? Cheers Damir -- ===================================================================== | Damir Buskulic | Universite de Savoie/LAPP | | | Chemin de Bellevue, B.P. 110 | | Tel : +33 (0)450091600 | F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex | | e-mail: buskulic(a)lapp.in2p3.fr | FRANCE | ===================================================================== mailto:buskulic@lapp.in2p3.fr

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RE: [suse-ppc] first XFree86 4.2.0 rpms uploaded
by Jaap-Jan 22 Jan '02

22 Jan '02

Olaf, Does 4.2.0 support the ATI Rage128 Ultra that's in the most 2001 iMacs (instead of the Rage128 Pro). It has a different pci device id, and sax2 with 4.0.x complaints about it (on 7.1 which I have) Jaap-Jan >===== Original Message From Olaf Hering <olh(a)suse.de> ===== >On Tue, Jan 22, Schlomo Schapiro wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> thanks for the fast RPM creation !! >> >> What about RPMs for 7.1 ? Or can I savely install the RPMs for 7.3 on 7.1, >> too ? I saw that for i386 they already made RPMs for all 7.x versions. >> >> Also, >> >> can you explain the relation between X 4.2.0 and certain kernel modules >> (e.g. what exactly is required, agp* ?, fb-radeon ?, what should NOT be in >> the kernel) > >Dont use them right now, someone droppend the keyboard patch, its all >screwed right now... > >7.1 rpms will follow when it is a bit more tested ;) > > >Gruss Olaf > >> On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Olaf Hering wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > the first XFree86 4.2.0 packages can be found here: >> > ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/supplementary/X/suse73/4.2.0/ >> > >> > >> > Only Rage128 is tested so far. >> > Radeon should work now, you might need kernel 2.4.16 or later. >> > Mach64 seems to work, but I havent testet it on the Powerbook and iBook. >> > Matrox does not work right now. fbdev should work as usual. >> > >> > Download all rpms (maybe that way): >> > wget -r -l 1 -A .rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/supplementary/X/suse73/4.2.0/ >> > >> > Then install them: >> > rpm -Uvh *.rpm >> > Then run `ldconfig ; SuSEconfig`. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Gruss Olaf >> > >> > >> >> -- >> Schlomo Schapiro >> Senior System Administrator >> MobilEye Vision Technologies Ltd. >> >> 24 Mishol Hadkalim St.,97278 Jerusalem, Israel >> Telephone: + 972-2-586-6989 Ext. 131 >> Mobile: + 972-55-767898 >> Fax: + 972-2-586-7720 >> >> email: schapiro(a)mobileye.com >> WWW: http://www.mobileye.com > >-- > > > >-- > $ man clone > >BUGS > Main feature not yet implemented...

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Re: [suse-ppc] KDE2.2.2 terminates upon start-up
by Jutta Buschbom 22 Jan '02

22 Jan '02

Hi Olaf, I feel silly to have to ask you for every single step in troubleshooting the libraries for KDE. But try as I might reading about linking, configurations, filesystems & libraries and looking at the output of ldd or ldconfig etc. are two very different pairs of shoes. Actually, following your instructions things tend to become clearer and I am learning. Still, I am wondering how I made it past elementary school... >Something is going on here, maybe some mixed library versions? >What is the content of /etc/ld.so.conf, is there /opt/kde2/lib? Mine >looks like that: >/lib-aout >/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95 >/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d >/usr/X11R6/lib >/usr/powerpc-suse-linux/lib >/usr/ppc-suse-linux/lib >/usr/local/lib >/usr/openwin/lib >/opt/kde/lib >/opt/kde2/lib >/opt/gnome/lib /opt/kde2/lib was missing in my ld.so.config. Manually I added it into the file and then executed ldconfig -v as root. The result of which is part of the attachment "linkS". There are two libraries where ldconfig complains that they are not symbolic links within /opt/kde2/lib. >what is the output of ldd /opt/kde2//lib/libkdecore.so.3? See see the end of "linkS". >Maybe some shell scripting: > >(for i in /opt/kde*/bin/* /opt/kde*/lib/* ;do echo $i;ldd >$i;done)>/tmp/ldd.txt 2>&1 > 100+ pages of libraries attached only to you (ldd.txt) What do you do with all those library links??? I checked for ksmserver, kdeinit (mentioned in the error log after a KDE2 crash): there is an error in /opt/kde2//lib/libkdecore.so.3. Your shell script showed: /opt/kde2/bin/kdeinit libkdecore.so.3 => /opt/kde2//lib/libkdecore.so.3 (0x00fbb000) /opt/kde2/bin/ksmserver libkdecore.so.3 => /opt/kde2//lib/libkdecore.so.3 (0x01627000) /opt/kde2/lib/libkdecore.so.3 is found with a bunch of dependencies (For KDE1: /opt/kde/lib/libkdecore.so.2 is found) Now lgconfig -v tells me that: /opt/kde2/lib: libkdecore.so.3 -> libkdecore.so.3.0.0 Going back to the printout of the shell script: /opt/kde2/lib/libkdecore.so.3.0.0 is found with a bunch of dependencies I didn't check those dependencies of libkdecore.so.3 and .so.3.0.0. I wouldn't know how to decide if they are the right version or not. I also couldn't find a definition of // in a pathname, nor could figure out what it does. But I guess that that is not the problem. >Buying 7.3 is certanly an good option, but I think we can fix it :) The evening before I got your email I broke down and bought a copy of 7.3. It is not opened yet. I have no idea how close we are to solving this problem. Should we be close and more importantly should you be willing, I would be very interested in going the troubleshooting to the end. It would give me a template how to go about troubleshooting in the future. Should this all be too convoluted and weired, drop me a note and I will initiating updating. Jutta -- ____________________________________ Jutta Buschbom University of Chicago Field Museum of Natural History Committee on Evolutionary Biology Botany Department 1025 E. 57th Street, Culver Hall, Rm. 402 1400 South Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60637, USA Chicago, IL 60605, USA Tel: (312) 665 7846 Tel: (773) 702 4697 Fax: (312) 665 7158 Fax: (773) 702 4699 email: jbuschbo(a)midway.uchicago.edu email: jbuschbom(a)fmnh.org

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first XFree86 4.2.0 rpms uploaded
by Olaf Hering 22 Jan '02

22 Jan '02

Hi, the first XFree86 4.2.0 packages can be found here: ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/supplementary/X/suse73/4.2.0/ Only Rage128 is tested so far. Radeon should work now, you might need kernel 2.4.16 or later. Mach64 seems to work, but I havent testet it on the Powerbook and iBook. Matrox does not work right now. fbdev should work as usual. Download all rpms (maybe that way): wget -r -l 1 -A .rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/supplementary/X/suse73/4.2.0/ Then install them: rpm -Uvh *.rpm Then run `ldconfig ; SuSEconfig`. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

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Re: [suse-ppc] SuSEppc 7.3 on iBook: no X Server = Sax2 won' work
by Bartydeux 19 Jan '02

19 Jan '02

Le Vendredi 18 Janvier 2002 22:45, vous avez écrit : > Hi, > > Make sure you have installed the latest perl from SuSE 7.3 I just updated SuSE7.1PPC => SuSE7.3PPC and there is only one perl version on the SuSE7.3 CD's (perl-5.6.1-36) and there is no update or bugfix of Perl in SuSE web-site > > Both errors are related to perl: Well, I suppose so. How to solve it. Did anyone have the same problem? I reinstalled perl without success. There was a flaw in the update I suppose. > > usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/ppclinux/auto/IO/IO.so/ ecannotuopencshared > > can't locate Storable.pm in @INC (@INC contains : > > /usr/X11R6/lib/sax/modules /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ppc-linux > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ppc/linux ....) at /usr/X11r6/lib/sax/init.pl > > line17 For example /usr/X11r6/lib/sax/init.pl exists but there is nothing on line 17. All the perl scripts exists in /usr/X11r6/lib/sax/ and what is @INC? > > Also notice those are two diffeernt perl versions involved (5.6.0 vs > 5.6.1). > Well! I did not interfere in the update. There seem to be a bug in the update => SuSE 7.3 > Hope this helps, > > Kevin > > On January 18, 2002 04:32, Bartydeux wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I already installed SuSE-PPC 7.1 without problems on this iBook (small > > box, bought beginning of 2001, I don't know how it is called) > > > > Today I updated => SuSEPPC 7.3. I was almost sure to have no problem but > > .... > > > > Update went without problem except ghostscript-library > > > > Impossible to start KDE (with startx). > > > > At general boot, I have the following error message: > > > > creating X11 framebuffer configuration ... /usr/X11R6/bin/xsfb : error > > while loading shared librairies : > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/ppclinux/auto/IO/IO.so/ ecannotuopencshared > > objectefile:tNonsuchbfileeuorsdirectory d > > > > I checked: there is no /etc/XF86Config file (it is empty) > > > > Sax2 won't work: you have a lot of error chat: > > > > can't locate Storable.pm in @INC (@INC contains : > > /usr/X11R6/lib/sax/modules /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ppc-linux > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ppc/linux ....) at /usr/X11r6/lib/sax/init.pl > > line17 > > > > Thus: no X server and I don't know how to solve the problem: the lib > > files seem not to have been installed properly, there is no > > /etc/XF86Config file > > > > Update seems to be uncomplete. > > > > Any idea about what is wrong? > > > > BTW I updated with Yast1 -- Alain Barthélemy bartydeux(a)gminformatique.com http://bartydeux.gminformatique.com

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upgraded kernel - kde now freezes.
by Jonathon Wallen 17 Jan '02

17 Jan '02

Hi all, sorry to repost this but I'm still stuck ... don't even know which log files to look at. I've upgraded from 2.2.16 kernel to 2.4.2-11, I installed the k-deflt rpm on the linux side .. put the 2.4.2-11.gz file in the /boot directory and use the copy option in lilo to copy the vmlinux file over to the hfs partition so I can boot it with bootx.. I also upgraded ppp and modutils. now I can boot into my new kernel but I only get about 5 minutes in kde before it freezes completely forcing me to hard reboot the machine. what am I doing wrong? I'm using a B&W G3 with a Suse 7.0 install. many thanks, -- - ____________________________ - Jonathon Wallen - B,DES College of Fine Arts, UNSW - z2213441(a)student.unsw.edu.au - jwal707(a)cse.unsw.edu.au - jonathon(a)fridge.unsw.edu.au - ____________________________

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