Thanks. The devlinux link was a great help! kw /* Keith Warno ** Developer & Sys Admin ** http://www.HaggleWare.com/ */ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Angerhofer" To: Cc: Sent: 09 May 2000, Tuesday 12:38 Subject: Re: [SLE] reiserfs In reply to Keith Warno's letter who wrote on 9 May:

Hello SuSE ppl.

I went out and grabbed SuSE 6.4 over the weekend for US $30. Not a bad deal. Currently it's still sitting in the box.

I have plans to upgrade our production servers to 6.4 and would like to use reiserfs. However before I do this I'd like to know some details about reiserfs. I'm interested mainly in performance and reliability statistics as compared to second extended. I'm aware that reiserfs is a journaling file system and recovers nicely after unclean reboots or power downs. What about day to day performance on a box that goes down *maybe* twice a year for whatever reason? ;-)

Hi, I am using reiserfs happily on my home PC ever since I installed SuSE 6.4 (about two months ago). It does recover quickly from an unintended shut-down which is quite important for me, running with one 13 GB (IDE) and one 41 GB (SCSI) harddrive. My main applications are: running scientific calculations, generating scientific graphs and text processing. I also run Windows 98 on vmware on the machine. The only problem that I noticed was that WS_FTP doesn't distinguish files from directories anymore when I use it from within vmware to access files on the main OS. That could have other reasons, though, and I haven't had the time to investigate this more deeply.

Also what exactly was involved in developing reiserfs? I'm assuming

there's

a custom kernel involved and if so is the code going to be merged with mainstream kernel development? Ie, is reiserfs going to be available outside of the SuSE distro?

Just mosey on over to http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/ and see whether that answers most of your questions :) Best regards, Alex. -- Dr. Alexander Angerhofer Associate Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry The University of Florida Box 117200 Gainesville, FL 32611-7200 USA Tel.: (+1) 352 846 3281 alt.: (+1) 352 392 9489 lab : (+1) 352 846 3283 FAX : (+1) 352 392 0872 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

ryan@aa.net writes:

This used to work perfectly, then I rebooted. Now the only user that can get a window manager is root!

Regardless which window manager I select in kdm, all I get is a gray screen, with the blue counsel in the lower right hand corner (this is the x server running with out a window manager). It is a useless state, without the ability to execute programs.

Has anybody seen this? Is there a fix? What caused it to begin with? How can one troubleshoot this?

I take it this happened after updating to xfree-4.0, I have this happeningon 2 machines which I upgraded to xfree86-4.0. What I did to fix it (which really isn't a fix at all) was to change the default init level to 2, and just startx from the command line. It works like it it did before but without kdm.

I would like to add a flag to xdm/kdm for verbose logging, but got lost in a maze of startup (rc.d) scripts.

Thanks in advanced!

-- Ryan

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On Mon, 15 May 2000 10:25:08 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

This used to work perfectly, then I rebooted. Now the only user that can get a window manager is root!

Regardless which window manager I select in kdm, all I get is a gray screen, with the blue counsel in the lower right hand corner (this is the x server running with out a window manager). It is a useless state, without the ability to execute programs.

This looks much the same as my problem. After a fresh install of SuSE 6.4 I added a few users using YaST but only root is able to use the full KDE (init 3). Other users get the standard SuSE background with just a few icons on the left side for the drives. After searching and reading several scripts I found a logfile in the users home directory with several errors. It must be something with rights. The question is where to search... When a user logs in the file .xsession-errors contains: bash: /etc/SuSEconfig/profile: Permission denied grep: i: No such file or directory Creating Floppy icons... Creating CD-ROM icons... Creating Harddisk icons... Starting kcontrol -init...Done. No sound device available. kaudioserver not started. No sound device available. kwmsound not started. Starting krootwm...Starting kfm...Done. Done. Warning: Cannot convert string "False" to type ScrollMode Starting kbgndwm...Done. Starting kpanel...Done. Starting kimon...Done. Starting khotkeys...Done. Max Entries = 38 QDir::readDirEntries: Cannot read the directory: /opt/kde/share/applnk/SuSE PID could not get read. When root logs in he gets: grep: i: No such file or directory Creating Floppy icons... Creating CD-ROM icons... Creating Harddisk icons... Starting kcontrol -init...Done. No sound device available. kaudioserver not started. Some pixmaps are not valid: GimmickMode dissabled No sound device available. kwmsound not started. Starting krootwm...Starting kfm...Done. Done. Starting kbgndwm...Done. Starting kpanel...Done. Starting khotkeys...Starting kimon...Done. Done. Max Entries = 38 PID could not get read. Maybe this has nothing to do with the problem but it's all I have found so far. Pieter -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/