October 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] openSUSE 11.0 on Dell Precision 490: Reboot problems
by Bernd Nies 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Hi, We noticed that some of our Dell Precision 490 workstations do not power cycle with openSUSE 11.0. When typing "reboot" it halts but does not poweroff or reboot. One has to manually press the power button. The 490 workstations had BIOS A06 installed, but an update to A08 did not help. Other 490 workstations that worked fine previously had BIOS A00. We're preparing a migration from Suse 10.1 to openSUSE 11.0 and during the Autyast installation the system should boot 4 times. Are there any known issues about this or does someone have have a clue? I didn't find something in the BIOS settings. Bye Bernd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE4 multirow task manager prob?
by Clayton 02 Nov '08

02 Nov '08

Is it just me or is the new multirow task manager misbehaving a bit (KDE4.1.71)? Observations/problems: - When there is one application running, the "button" in the task manager spans the entire width of the available space in the task manager - If I set the Maximum Rows to 1, it still insists on 2 rows unless I open the Task Manager Settings.. then to drops back to 1 row. Nothing major.. just annoying.. was wondering if it's just me or has anyone else bumped into this? I did some searching, but didn't find much.. just loads of requests for this feature to be added. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] MKL (Math Kernel Library)
by Danesh Daroui 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

Hi, I have installed Intel MKL on OpenSuSE 10.3 but even samples can not be compiled due to internal error. The error message is: ld: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.17.50.20070726-14 (SUSE Linux) internal error, aborting at ../../bfd/reloc.c line 5285 in bfd_generic_get_relocated_section_contents ld: Please report this bug. The Intel's web site says that SuSE (Enterprise) and RedHat are supported. Has anyone experienced MKL on OpenSuSE? D. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Fetching updates once for two boxes
by j debert 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have two SuSE boxes both running OpenSuSE 11.0. I run two separate updates and download almost all updates twice. Because of limits imposed by ISP's, I am concerned that the typically huge updates will exceed the limits. This month I have had over 12Gb total for both boxes. How can I fetch all the updates required for both boxes once without having to become a repository and download everything--which would far exceed isp's limits. This would probably be some sort of proxy agent that can read the installed database for each box then fetch each package once and only once for both boxes. Is there yet a utility to do that? == jd -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJCmbmhpL3F+HeDrIRAqXsAJ94ybcGquwTAYTZCCrWN9BCCN68yACdEkRJ rKd56KAkJuXto75TSWHy1dc= =rAl8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Sandy, - Squirrelmail
by David C. Rankin 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Sandy, If you have a real email address, shoot it to me privately and I'll send you additional information about looking at the current svn for sqmail 1.5. japantest my foot. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] bonding interface causes udev error after reboots
by Veloxx Swiftfox 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

While testing a redundant network interface in an OpenSUSE 11.0 I ran into an error condition which prevents bonded interfaces coming up again on reboot. It appears to be related to the udev persistent net naming scheme, and can be easily reproduced. eth0 and eth1 were configured as off, bond0 was configured as active- backup using eth0 and eth1 as slaves, largely as configured by yast, plus: > BONDING_MODULE_OPTS='mode=1 miimon=100 use_carrier=0 primary=eth0' > BONDING_SLAVE_0='eth0' > BONDING_SLAVE_1='eth1' added to /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-bond0. On rebooting to restart the network and initialize the bond0 interface all worked perfectly. On a second reboot, however, the eth1 interface was renamed to "eth1_rename". since there was no eth1 slave the bonded interface failed to start (itself very odd because the redundancy of the bond should only require one working interface). I noticed eth1's MAC address had been replaced by one identical to eth0. This is evidently a normal thing for the bonding interface to do. on reboot this confuses udev's persistent net naming rules, which use the MAC address to assign the interface name, into naming the interface eth1_rename_ren. It did not happen the first reboot because the interface had not yet reprogrammed the MAC address. I was able to create a workaround for this problem by using lspci to determine the PCI bus ID, and changing lines in /etc/udev/rules.d/70- persistent-net.rules ("You can modify it,as long as you keep each rule on a single line"), such as changing: SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1c:c0:33:00:5b", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0" to use the PCI bus ID to identify the devices: SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", KERNELS=="0000:02:00.0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0" Is there a different or easier workaround for this problem, and is it likely to cause problems, if the network card are not moved or PCI addresses change? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Unable to play audio.
by Anuj Gopal Kulkarni 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Hi All ! I have been trying to troubleshoot this issue; every time I feel I am getting closer but left nowhere. I have a SoundBlaster 5.1 soundcard and multimedia. The OpenSUSE 11.0 recognises the h/w and loads drivers does everything fine for a few minutes. Alsamixer is working fine. PulseAudio manager is going to mode :Connection Refused a few minutes after startup. I have tried removing Pulse and tried to work around through the alsamixer. Bad luck :(. Reformatting and re-installing the OS did help to a great extent but am still short of getting to play audio. I am a newbie to Linux, I have installed it and using it just from last two weeks. I would say am in a lot better position than when all the problems started. bash alsa-info.sh: │ upload=true&script=true&cardinfo= │─ │ !!################################ │ │ !!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.51 │ │ !!################################ │ │ │ │ !!Script ran on: Fri Oct 31 09:14:27 IST 2008 │ │ │ │ │ │ !!Linux Distribution │ │ !!------------------ │ │ │ │ Welcome to openSUSE 11.0 (i586) - Kernel \r (\l). openSUSE 11.0 (i586) │ │ │ │ │ │ !!Kernel Information │ │ !!------------------ │ │ │ │ Kernel release: 2.6.25.18-0.2-default │ │ Operating System: GNU/Linux │ │ Architecture: i686 │ │ Processor: i686 │ │ SMP Enabled: Yes │ │ │ │ │ │ !!ALSA Version │ │ !!------------ │ │ │ │ Driver version: 1.0.16rc2 │ │ Library version: 1.0.16 │ │ Utilities version: 1.0.16 │ │ │ │ │ │ !!Loaded ALSA modules │ │ !!------------------- │ │ │ │ snd_emu10k1x │ │ snd_usb_audio │ │ │ │ │ │ !!Soundcards recognised by ALSA │ │ !!----------------------------- │ │ │ │ 0 [Live ]: EMU10K1X - Dell Sound Blaster Live! │ │ Dell Sound Blaster Live! at 0x2000 irq 24 │ │ 1 [Webcam ]: USB-Audio - AOC Webcam │ │ Suyin ,VC0332 AOC Webcam at usb-0000:00:1d.7-1.4, high speed │ │ │ │ │ │ !!PCI Soundcards installed in the system │ │ !!-------------------------------------- │ │ │ │ 06:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X │ │ │ │ │ │ !!Advanced information - PCI Vendor/Device/Susbsystem ID's │ │ !!-------------------------------------------------------- │ │ │ │ 06:01.0 0401: 1102:0006 │ │ Subsystem: 1102:1001 pulseaudio -vv D: main.c: Started as real root: yes, suid root: no I: core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11. D: main.c: Can realtime: yes, can high-priority: yes W: main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is specified). I: main.c: This is PulseAudio 0.9.13 D: main.c: Compilation host: i686-pc-linux-gnu D: main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -march=i586 -mtune=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -W -Wextra -pedantic -pipe -Wno-long-long -Wvla -Wno-overlength-strings -Wconversion -Wundef -Wformat -Wlogical-op -Wpacked -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wold-style-definition -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math D: main.c: Running on host: Linux i686 2.6.25.18-0.2-default #1 SMP 2008-10-21 16:30:26 +0200 I: main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes D: main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no D: main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no D: main.c: Optimized build: yes I: main.c: Machine ID is 1d55fc11cdd77e91e0668fb1484e644e. I: main.c: Using runtime directory /root/.pulse/1d55fc11cdd77e91e0668fb1484e644e:runtime. I: main.c: Using state directory /root/.pulse. I: main.c: Running in system mode: no W: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. I: main.c: Fresh high-resolution timers available! Bon appetit! D: memblock.c: Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total size is 64.0 MiB D: cli-command.c: Checking for existance of '/usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-hal-detect.so': success I: module-hal-detect.c: Trying capability oss D: module-hal-detect.c: Not loaded device /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1102_6_sound_card_0_oss_pcm_0_0 D: module-hal-detect.c: Loading module-oss with arguments 'device=/dev/dsp sink_name=oss_output.pci_1102_6_sound_card_0_oss_pcm_0 source_name=oss_input.pci_1102_6_sound_card_0_oss_pcm_0' D: oss-util.c: capabilities: DUPLEX MMAP REALTIME TRIGGER I: module-oss.c: Device opened in O_RDWR mode. I: module-oss.c: Input -- 2 fragments of size 2060. I: module-oss.c: Output -- 8 fragments of size 2060. W: module-oss.c: mmap(PROT_READ) failed, reverting to non-mmap mode: Input/output error I: source.c: Created source 0 "oss_input.pci_1102_6_sound_card_0_oss_pcm_0" with sample spec s16le 2ch 44100Hz and channel map front-left,front-right I: sink.c: Created sink 0 "oss_output.pci_1102_6_sound_card_0_oss_pcm_0" with sample spec s16le 2ch 44100Hz and channel map front-left,front-right I: source.c: Created source 1 "oss_output.pci_1102_6_sound_card_0_oss_pcm_0.monitor" with sample spec s16le 2ch 44100Hz and channel map front-left,front-right D: module-oss.c: Thread starting up D: rtpoll.c: Acquired POSIX realtime signal SIGRTMIN+29 D: module-oss.c: trigger D: module-oss.c: trigger: 2 Soft CPU time limit exhausted, terminating. Hard CPU time limit exhausted, terminating forcibly. Aborted Anuj -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: Fetching updates once for two boxes
by Joachim Schrod 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Amedee Van Gasse wrote: > j debert schreef: >> I have two SuSE boxes both running OpenSuSE 11.0. I run two separate >> updates and download almost all updates twice. >> >> Because of limits imposed by ISP's, I am concerned that the typically >> huge updates will exceed the limits. This month I have had over 12Gb >> total for both boxes. >> >> How can I fetch all the updates required for both boxes once without >> having to become a repository and download everything--which would far >> exceed isp's limits. This would probably be some sort of proxy agent >> that can read the installed database for each box then fetch each >> package once and only once for both boxes. Is there yet a utility to >> do that? > > So what you need, is something like apt-proxy on Debian, but for > OpenSuse RPMs? If anyone knows about it, please post it on the list, > because I'm also interested. Why can't you share the cache directory via NFS or Samba? I don't use zypper, but for my apt/smart usage I do this all the time; works like a charm. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Help for the LDP
by jdd for http://tldp.org 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Hello :-) As jdd, I work with and for openSUSE from the beginning :-). But now I'm also in charge of the LDP as coordinator (LDP=Linux Documentation Project). As you should and may know, the LDP is probably the older Linux documentation Web site, and the HOWTO origin. Our HOWTOs are still included in openSUSE (very good, thanks). Some month agos we noticed that our old staff was wearing, many have other business, authors are often working on other tasks and the HOWTO collection was soon to be obsolete. So we decided to make an effort to prevent this. This effort is still running and the new Web site become to be visible :-). See http://wiki.tldp.org. We try to make the life as easy as possible to authors. Now the HOWTO authors can submit they work on technical formats (docbook, linuxdoc...) but also through our wiki as wiki markup, and we are working on text/html converters All this need hands and we are really short on this respect. We have to manage the wiki, write documentations for new authors, browse the old HOWTOs and see what the authors want to do, found new authors... So we have to ask for help. If you have some time spare and you have wiki knowledge, html or script (bash and python) knowledge, if you have any Linux knowledge allowing you to review a HOWTO, If you have simply human relation knowledge to contact previous authors, please answer to me (privately not to bother this list too much). And thanks! jdd -- jdd for the Linux Documentation Project http://wiki.tldp.org http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] How to monitor Linux systems from a focal/central point (was: ranting and raving about removing the MTA).
by Per Jessen 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Anton Aylward wrote: > Per Jessen said the following on 10/24/2008 03:58 AM: [snip] >> I completely fail to see any security issue in having a postfix MTA >> listening on localhost:25 on a desktop machine. > > If you want to make this a security issue then the whole thing of > applications sending out alerts by mail is the security issue. I have no desire to turn this into a security issue - that topic was introduced by somebody else. > In a enterprise setting this is normally handled by a central syslog > mechanism for the enterprise and there is some very sophisticated > software supporting this. In the enterprise, SNMP is by far the preferred method for real-time alerts, failing that email. The syslog is primarily for auditing and post-mortem purposes. If the syslog was really so central in enterprise real-time monitoring of Linux systems, it's difficult to understand why popular monitoring tools typically provide an email option, very often also an SNMP MIB, but usually no plain syslog option. (ex: mdadm, smartd, HPs Proliant Support pack tools). > I'm perfectly well aware of how to set up Postfix, and, for my sins, > sendmail before that. I've been using Postfix for over a decade both > on my home system and in large (> 50 server, > 1,000 users) enterprise > settings as well as for ISPs. I run it on my own home network on a > dedicated mail hub. However before I installed openSUSE none of my > non-mail hub machines and in the specific not my laptop or desk > workstation ran Postfix, exim, sendmail or other such MTA. Which distro were you running? Maybe it was a better option for you. I'm curious though, how did you manage to receive the various systems alerts and messages without a local MTA? Did you write your own /usr/sbin/sendmail to drop the text directly into the filesystem? > But more to the point while I *can* configure Postfix, the > installation process should configure the mail forwarder. As it does too, it just assumes that no forwarding is necessary and that the enterprise admin person with a central mailserver will probably be capable of using vi to correct the single line in /etc/postfix/main.cf. It's hardly worth writing up a YaST2 module for. >> Anton, I think I'm going to say "troll". No enterprise monitors >> events via syslog - they are far more likely to use SNMP, HP >> Openview, BMC Patrol, Tivoli and such tools. > > Having worked in IT & Security at large banks and telcos I can assert > that syslog *is* a primary central monitoring tool in large > corporations. Having done roughly the same for the last 25 years, I submit that the syslog is primarily for auditing and post-mortem purposes, and that SNMP (and/or similar) is certainly the real-time alert mechanism of choice where many Linux systems are involved. /Per -- /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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