April 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

DialIN Server on Suse 8.1
by Vishal Khanna 08 Jul '03

08 Jul '03

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Strange raid init sequence
by Carlos E. R. 24 Jun '03

24 Jun '03

During the boot up sequence (suse 8.1), the kernel autodetects and tries to mount a software raid partition I have with data, and fails: <6>md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. <6> [events: 0000032b] <6> [events: 0000032b] <6>md: autorun ... <6>md: considering hdb14 ... <6>md: adding hdb14 ... <6>md: adding hda11 ... <6>md: created md0 <6>md: bind<hda11,1> <6>md: bind<hdb14,2> <6>md: running: <hdb14><hda11> <6>md: hdb14's event counter: 0000032b <6>md: hda11's event counter: 0000032b <6>md: RAID level 1 does not need chunksize! Continuing anyway. <3>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k md-personality-3, errno = 2 <3>md: personality 3 is not loaded! <4>md :do_md_run() returned -22 <6>md: md0 stopped. <6>md: unbind<hdb14,1> <6>md: export_rdev(hdb14) <6>md: unbind<hda11,0> <6>md: export_rdev(hda11) <6>md: ... autorun DONE. I suppose I should add that "md-personality-3" module to the initrd, but there is no such module. In fact, the ramdisk is read later than this phase: <5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 <6>Freeing initrd memory: 247k freed <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). and a bit latter, raid is mounted successfully: <5>Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay <6>Freeing unused kernel memory: 164k freed <6>md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. <6> [events: 0000032b] <6> [events: 0000032b] <6>md: autorun ... <6>md: considering hda11 ... <6>md: adding hda11 ... <6>md: adding hdb14 ... <6>md: created md0 <6>md: bind<hdb14,1> <6>md: bind<hda11,2> <6>md: running: <hda11><hdb14> <6>md: hda11's event counter: 0000032b <6>md: hdb14's event counter: 0000032b <6>md: RAID level 1 does not need chunksize! Continuing anyway. <6>md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3 <6>md0: max total readahead window set to 508k <6>md0: 1 data-disks, max readahead per data-disk: 508k <6>raid1: device hda11 operational as mirror 0 <6>raid1: device hdb14 operational as mirror 1 <6>raid1: raid set md0 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors <6>md: updating md0 RAID superblock on device <6>md: hda11 [events: 0000032c]<6>(write) hda11's sb offset: 3124544 <6>md: hdb14 [events: 0000032c]<6>(write) hdb14's sb offset: 3124544 <6>md: ... autorun DONE. So... Why does it fail at first, and how how could I make it succeed? Or, how could it be told not to try the mounting so early? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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Patched SuSE kernel still incompatible with aic7xxx or fixed?
by Patriiiiiiiiiick 23 Jun '03

23 Jun '03

Hello! I have an Adaptec Utra160 SCSI card and I wonder if the following problem is solved with the SuSE version of the kernel. http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Oct/3179.html http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Oct/3600.html To summarize the issue, when using this kernel, the system totally hangs when loading both new or old version of the aic7xxx module. This forces you to use the manual install on an IDE drive. The only solution found by then to access the SCSI drives was to compile my own kernel. I wonder if this has been somehow solved since October of last year and if the 8.2 version doesn't have that issue anymore. Thank you for the info! Patrick

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apm for laptop
by Michael Sacco 19 Jun '03

19 Jun '03

Hello all, I have a brand new laptop, yet the battery monitor and some other things are not working. I have acpi turned on, and klaptop complains of an incomplete acpi setup for the kernel. Also, I have a radeon mobility u1 card...SaX doesn't detect it, and when I try to use the radeon driver and test the setup, I get this error: (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device) (EE) No devices detected. I'm using the updated 2.4.19 kernel from SuSE, and when I try booting with the options "apm=on acpi=off" and then type "rcapmd status", it says unused. So I try "rcapmd start" it says "apmd not supported by kernel". Is this going to require a kernel compilation? And if so, how do I compile a kernel so that it still uses the SuSE bootscreen and bootsplash and all those pretty bouncing icons? :) BTW: SuSE 8.1 Thanks in advance! Mike S.

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LINUX GETTING MORE VIABLE ON THE DESKTOP
by Fred A. Miller 11 Jun '03

11 Jun '03

LINUX GETTING MORE VIABLE ON THE DESKTOP (Source: InfoWorld.com) Features such as virtual desktops and solid e-mail clients help to make Linux desktops viable for business. http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742196 -- Fred A. Miller Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fm(a)cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org

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[OT]Apache file extensions
by Ahbaid Gaffoor 17 May '03

17 May '03

I have been using the SuSE packaged Apache and PHP RPMs. Now I am trying to setup an apache install with php support uisng the tarballs from apache.org and php.net. I have downloaded Apache 1.3.27 and PHP 4.3.1 Everything works except, I have to put the extension on the file name I want in the URL... for example instead of saying "http://site/test" I have to say "http://site/test.html" same goes for my PHP scripts, If I add the ".php" extension to the URL I am ok, without it the page does not come up. What configuration directives should I be using to not have to use the extensions? I have the "handmade" install in /opt/apache_1.3.27 and SuSE's is started via. /etc/init.d/apache so I swap between the two as I try to narrow this down. Many thanks, Ahbaid.

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Hardware upgrade
by Dennis Nigbur 16 May '03

16 May '03

Dear list, I've had a delivery of some new hardware components, including everything but the kitchen sink - a new mainboard, CPU, video card, memory, CD-RW, and floppy drive. I'm keeping my HDD from my previous set-up. This is my first hardware upgrade since I've been using Linux (SuSE 8.0), and to tell you the truth I'm a bit wary. All the new components should be compatible with Linux (see my previous post), but I don't really understand how hardware setup, configuration and drivers work in SuSE. Yes, I'm of the lazy generation where one grew up just waiting for Windows to auto-detect the new hardware, try to find a driver, and copy one off a disc where required. :-( I take it the way to go is to put together the hardware, start up the system, and then use YaST to configure the new components? Will there be drivers required (e.g., for the ATI Radeon 7000 video card) that might not be immediately available and need to be downloaded from the web? Where is a good place to start looking for drivers? I'm very grateful for any help and tips you can offer. Dennis

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thermo cooling fan
by Landy 11 May '03

11 May '03

does anyone know if the thermo cooling fan on the dell laptop works with linux? i notice the laptop is not turning the thermo cooling fan

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Problem with traceroute
by Michael Satterwhite 09 May '03

09 May '03

I'm having a problem with traceroute. When I run it (e.g. traceroute weblore.com), it pauses for a bit, then prints out a series of hops with absolutely no information. After a bit, it repeats this. Here's a sample output: linux:/home/michael # traceroute weblore.com traceroute to weblore.com (198.65.246.22), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 * * * 2 * * * 3 * * * 4 * * * 5 * * * 6 * * * Is there something I'm missing?

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Swap partition makes hard disc "grate"
by Federico Damonte 06 May '03

06 May '03

Dear list, thanks to a pointer by Jerry Feldman (thanks!) I found out that what made my hard diic grate during boot was indeed the swap partition. To solve the problem, i tried refomatting the sawp partition, but could not find any way to do that (I have SuSE 8.0), neither in Yast nor with command line tools. I tried deleting the swap and recreating it as a reiserfs partition, in yast, iand always got an "fdisk failed" error. After several tries, i decided to "continue" instead of "reboot", and i had an extra reiserfs partition and no grinding. When i deleted that partition and put the swap back in, though (again after several fdisk failures), i got the same grinding back. What i was going to do now, is to delete swap once and for all and never touch my partition table again, but i would like to be sure nothing else is going wrong wth my hard disk. So i would like to know: 1. is there something like "scandisk" under linux (sorry for the "MSism"!) that checks the *surface* of the partition? 2. how can i reformat the swap filesystem (if there is such a thing)? thanks again to all in advance! federico

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