May 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] How do I make the installation system pick the network interface it was PXE-booted from?
by Per Jessen 31 May '12

31 May '12

It is a bit annoying to boot up an openSUSE installation system via PXE, PXE and then have to wait for the first few dhcp attempts to time out before the right interface is hit. For instance, I've just started an installation on a system with four interfaces. Unfortunately it was the last one (eth3) that had the physical connection :-( Is there an automatic way of letting the installation use system use the interface it was PXE booted from? I think the init system is meant to be passed a "dhcp_macaddresses" parameter, but I don't think this is happening: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725684 -- Per Jessen, Zürich (24.9°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Secure Wireless Authentication Not Working [WPA2/TKIP/PEAP]
by Adam Tauno Williams 31 May '12

31 May '12

With my new laptop [HP DV7-6B32US] I'm unable to connect to our corporate wireless [PEAP (MS-CHAPv2) /TKIP; 802.1x]. I can connect to our 'public' WPA-PSK as well as my home WPA-PSK wireless. On the RADIUS server used by the WAPs I don't see any activity when I try to authenticate. My previous laptop [DV7-3085DX] connected to the secure network without any issues. Any tips or suggestions are appreciated. I don't see any messages that help to clarify where the problem is occuring. lspci ===== 07:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01) /var/log/messages ================= May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu kernel: [48114.324498] wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:13:19:31:29:41 by local choice (reason=3) May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu vmnetBridge: RTM_NEWLINK: name:wlan0 index:3 flags:0x00001003 May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu vmnet-natd: RTM_NEWLINK: name:wlan0 index:3 flags:0x00001003 May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu kernel: [48114.340306] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu vmnet-natd: RTM_DELADDR: index:3, addr:10.66.49.108 May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu avahi-daemon[1128]: Withdrawing address record for 10.66.49.108 on wlan0. May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu avahi-daemon[1128]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 10.66.49.108. May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu avahi-daemon[1128]: Interface wlan0.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS. May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu kernel: [48114.343846] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated: May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu kernel: [48114.343849] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp) May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu kernel: [48114.343852] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu kernel: [48114.343855] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu kernel: [48114.343857] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu kernel: [48114.343860] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu kernel: [48114.343862] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu dbus[1150]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' (using servicehelper) May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu dbus-daemon[1150]: dbus[1150]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' (using servicehelper) May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu dbus[1150]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu dbus-daemon[1150]: dbus[1150]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' May 31 08:10:13 linux-nysu kernel: [48114.541254] userif-2: sent link down event.

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[opensuse] Virtualizing Win XP for Games.
by Roger Luedecke 31 May '12

31 May '12

I want to run a VM of Win XP on my laptop for games. Though I'd get more power from native, I don't want to damage the current installation of openSUSE. I have used VMware... and it doesn't seem very stable. Haven't tried VirtualBox yet. Was wondering if I should go with KVM. Frankly, I'd like to get about as close as possible to running it straight on the hardware, which is what KVM seems to do. One possible problem is that openSUSE can only use the Radeon driver, though XP has the appropriate proprietary driver. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] sysctl -w kernel.shmmax=100000000
by Peter Maffter 31 May '12

31 May '12

I was trying Avast on SuSE 12.1. But I always got an error message "avast: can not initialize avast! engine: Invalid argument" when scanning files. In the web I found the following site with a solution: http://manoftherambla.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/avast-can-not-initialize-ava… which states that I have to do sysctl -w kernel.shmmax=100000000 as root, which did the trick. Now the question: is this something that I can tune in SuSE 12.1? Some setting to make it permanent (beside compiling a new kernel)? Any disadvantages? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Serial ports on openSUSE 12.1
by Roger Oberholtzer 30 May '12

30 May '12

We are trying to use serial ports on openSUSE 12.1. Nothing fancy or different from how they have been used in the past. Except nothing shows up on the open port. Are there any changes to installed services in 12.1 compared to earlier releases that could have a basic change to simply reading from the serial port? I can see that there is no problem with opening the port or setting the properties. The system calls proceed without complaint. It is our own software as well as other apps that simply read from the ports that do not provide data. Unfortunately, the systems are also new model computers. Never change a single component at a time... We looked around in the BIOS and see nothing related to the serial ports. So I can't guess how the serial ports could be messed up at that point. We have used serial ports on Unix and Linux for a zillion years. The code is not new. Coupled with that fact and that other apps are not seeing data, I can only suspect the PC or the OS. Suggestions welcome. Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer(a)ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Ipv6 and dns
by Carlos E. R. 30 May '12

30 May '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a local dns server (bind 9), and I wonder if there is some setting so that it doesn't do any IPv6 query to outside. Would that be AAAA records? Perhaps is it possible to block such queries in the firewall? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/DxZwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9W0cwCdFIFAcFmuDNKxDHz2Kolck2+3 BsIAnil9bBShX8UMTGxPTX9fcjkY5Pl1 =/R+K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] YaST fails online update, claiming there is no room left on /
by Ted Byers 30 May '12

30 May '12

This is in OpenSuse 12.1, running in a VM created using Oracle's virtual machine software (VirtualBox). Here is the exact error message: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: installing package dbus-sharp-0.7.0-5.3.1.noarch needs 32KB on the / filesystem The disk usage analyzer tells a very different story: Device Mount Point Filesystem Total Size Available /dev/sda2 / ext4 9.8GB 307.4MB /dev/sda3 /home ext4 14.1GB 12.3GB If I read this right, it says that the file system at mount point / has over 300 MB left, and /home has over 12 GB left. How? That looks to me like home is a subdirectory of the / directory and so I don't understand how a subdirectory can have so much more space available to it than its parent directory. First, I don't understand this as I created it with only one virtual drive that ought to have been plenty big enough. As I know nothing about administering a Linux box (though I can write programs to run on one easily), I just accepted the defaults (except the obvious things like setting the correct time zone). Second, I don't understand this device business when the VM was configured with only a single virtual drive. I did see sda2 and sda3 on one or another of the screens during the install process, but I don't know what they're supposed to be, or if they relate to the drive at all. Can someone explain to me what I am seeing, what I need to do to properly diagnose the problem, and most importantly, what I can do to fix the problem so that I can install any updates YaST finds? If the problem is / has too little space left, can that space be obtained from /home without sacrificing any data? After all, apparently /home has 12 GB of room available. Cheers Ted -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] How to cache openSUSE repositories with Squid
by Per Jessen 30 May '12

30 May '12

I think I've seen people ask about this occasionally - I've finally managed to take a few hours and write up how I do it: http://wiki.jessen.ch/index/How_to_cache_openSUSE_repositories_with_Squid I've had this setup working since beginning of the year, it saves a lot of time. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (23.2°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.3 repositories
by James Knott 29 May '12

29 May '12

My firewall runs openSUSE 11.3. I've noticed lately that the repositiories are no longer available. Have they been shut down? tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] What file indexers &c to kill, remove on 12.1?
by jd 28 May '12

28 May '12

Turns out I must upgrade to 12,1 after all. I want to avoid killing a 3rd disk, though, so I won't use encrypted swap oR filesystems. I am also not installing disk indexers and want to ensure that any that get installed are killed off with great prejudice, as well as any other such resource hogs. I found packagekit installed despite being tagged "taboo" and uninstalled it. I see it's a "large" python set of apps. a major resource hog. "Killer apps" in python really can kill. Is there anything else I should look for that could be bad news? some indexer or other that may cause problems for small systems? thanks, jd -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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