June 2004 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE 9.1 on MSI K8T Master-FAR SATA disk i/o problem
by Brock Witherspoon 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Grüss, I have 4 of these systems that will go into production soon. 3 of them are exactly the same, while the 4th has different hard drives. All of them are experiencing the same problem. I have gone from FreeBSD 5.2.1 to Mandrake 10 (amd64 RC1) to SuSE 9.1 Professional (DVD box set) in search of something that will actually work and perform well. I just used YaST to download the most recent kernel patches, so I'm now at 2.6.4-54-5-smp. Here is my configuration: MSI K8T Master2-FAR 2x Opteron 242 2x 512MB OCZ DDR400 RAM ("Specially Engineered and Optimized for the AMD Athlon64 FX platform") 2x WD Raptor 36GB (also WD 160GB SATA drives) 52x IDE CD-ROM 360 Watt Thermaltake PS These will be servers, so they have no video cards in them (therefore no X etc.). I used an old ViRGE PCI card to do the install. (ncurses based YaST could use some work BTW, particularly in setting up the partitions) I have a fresh install of SuSE 9.1 Professional, installed off of the DVD in the box set. I had to disable acpi in order to install, and naturally I went with the Linux software RAID to raid the disks. Watching top is very interesting. Right before a crash, the wa (I/O wait) CPU % goes way up, 50% or more. Then the system becomes unresponsive. I've searched the 'net and this list and still haven't come up with a thorough prescription for how to fix my problem. I seemed to have made some progress after enabling the libata driver, as the test machine lasted a lot longer this time before failing. I've got INITRD_MODULES="via_sata libata reiserfs raid1" in /etc/sysconfig/kernel and append = "resume=/dev/hda11 splash=silent acpi=off apm=off console=tty0" in /etc/lilo.conf. I'm not sure if the libata module "took"; someone else said that I needed to see my SATA drives as sd# rather than hd#. Well, in the boot messages the drives were still called hda and hdc. I am unfamiliar with the entire kernel rebuilding process in Linux, and with how the modules work. Mostly I just want to hear from somebody else who has this motherboard, exactly what they did to get everything working, because I've tried everything I'm capable of doing. I've found some helpful things so far, but I haven't yet hit the magic bullet. Of course I can put up any further needed information. I've just got to get these machines working! Thank you, Brock Witherspoon

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Has anyone built octave-forge on SuSE 9.1 AMD64?
by Paul C. Leopardi 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Hi all, I'm trying to install octave-forge-2004.02.12 downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/ and ./configure fails with the following error message: checking for mkoctfile... mkoctfile /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure: error: Could not run mkoctfile I have submitted this as bug 980116 at http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/ Has anyone successfully built octave-forge on SuSE 9.1 AMD64? How? Thanks

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Can't create driver update floppy
by Kevin.Wilson＠comtrol.com 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Having gone through the howto http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/suse-people/hvogel/Update-Media-HOWTO/html/ for creating an update floppy I still receive the "no floppy found" when linuxrc tries to read the floppy. Specifying /dev/fd0 does not yield any good results either. Does anyone have a x86_64 update floppy that they have successfully used to perform a pre-install driver update load to SuSE 9.1 Professional?

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Re: [suse-amd64] Motherboard & SuSE 9.1
by Kevin Trotman 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

I got the Albatron K8X800 because it was a second-rated board on all the reviews I read and it had many more built-ins, but now it seems to be harder to find. I had problems with a hypertransport Hard Drive, but it turned out to be circutry on the drive and a replaced HD solved it. I use the on-board SATA, Gig-E,USB, Firewire, and sound. Its been rock solid and all HW I've used is completely supported in 9.0. I just purchased my upgrade and probably won't install for a two or three weeks, however. I really hate to bother it. I don't think its even been rebooted in about 3 months. BTW, this board's specs and price are most like the Gigabyte in comparison and uses the same chipset. On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:04 , Laurent GUERBY <laurent(a)guerby.net> sent: >On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 01:27, Laurent GUERBY wrote: >> Thanks for any suggestion and/or experience report. I'd like >> to avoid binary only drivers (no tainted kernel thanks :) and if >> possible gigabit internet. > >Not sure I was clear, I'd like to _have_ gigabit ethernet :). > >Thanks to those who responded, so far: > >ASUS K8V SE Deluxe => ok (gigabit, 125 euros) >MSI K8T Neo-FSR => ok (no gigabit, 110 euros) >Aopen AK-86N => ok (no gigabit, not found on my web sites) > >Here is a list of socket 754 motherboards I assembled, may be people can >complete if they own one of these: > >ABIT KV8 / KV8 Pro / KV8-MAX3 >AOpen AK86-L / AK89-L / AK89 Max / AK89-N >ASRock K8S8X >ASUS K8V / K8V Deluxe >Biostar K8NHA Pro >Chaintech VNF3-250 / ZNF3-150 / ZNF3-250Gb Pro / SK8T800 >EPoX 8HDA3+ / 8KDA3+ >Gigabyte K8VT800 / K8VT800 Pro / K8NS / K8N / K8NS Pro / K8VNXP / K8NNXP / K8NSNXP >MSI K8N Neo-Platinum / K8T Neo-FIS2R >Soltek K8AV2-RL > >Experience with Althon 64 Barebones and SuSE 9.1 would also be appreciated :)

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4xAMD64: System is stuck
by Holger Froening 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Hello, our four way Opteron 842 (Quartet MB) with 8GB of RAM running Suse 9.1 haves some problems: After some time (always different) the system hangs completely. I've attached a console to check for error messages, but there are none. The system justs hangs without complaining. Next step was to reduce the memory to 4GB, but nothing changed. I've also tried to do the memcheck from the DVD, but immediately after starting the check, an error (something like 'unexpected interrupt') occurs and the test is aborted. Does anybody have a good idea or perhaps the same problem? Until now, I don't even know if it is a software or hardware problem. Regards, Holger -- Holger Fröning (mailto:holger@ra.ti.uni-mannheim.de) University of Mannheim - Computer Architecture Group URL: http://ra.ti.uni-mannheim.de -------------------------------------------------------

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RAID 5 issues
by Johannes B. Ullrich 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

I am currently trying to 'nail down' if problems I am seeing with software raid 5 are related to hardware or software. The symptoms: The last drive in the array (sdg in this example, the array consists out of 6 partitions, each partition is the only partition on a 146 GByte drive) is all for sudden marked as 'failed'. Upon reboot, I did a thorough check of the drive, using the 'validate' tool build in to the scsi card (LSI card) and checking the smart tools self test. No errors where found. I added the partition back to the array, and everything looks fine... until a week later the same thing happened again. I can't take the machine down right now, as it is no "live", but again, smarttools come back empty (see relevant log entries below) 'smartd' logs in /var/log/messages: Jun 28 05:00:20 smartd[2114]: Device: /dev/sdd, starting scheduled Short Self-Test. Jun 28 06:00:20 smartd[2114]: Device: /dev/sde, starting scheduled Short Self-Test. Jun 28 07:00:21 smartd[2114]: Device: /dev/sdf, starting scheduled Short Self-Test. Jun 28 08:00:20 smartd[2114]: Device: /dev/sdg, starting scheduled Short Self-Test. Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: SCSI error : <1 0 2 0> return code = 0x10000 Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdg, sector 85940159 Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: raid5: Disk failure on sdg1, disabling device. Operation continuing on 5 devices Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: klogd 1.4.1, ---------- state change ---------- Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.5-7.75-smp Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: Loaded 24168 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.5-7.75-smp. Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.5. Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled. Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: RAID5 conf printout: Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: --- rd:6 wd:5 fd:1 Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: disk 0, o:1, dev:sdb1 Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: disk 1, o:1, dev:sdc1 Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: disk 2, o:1, dev:sdd1 Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: disk 3, o:1, dev:sde1 Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: disk 4, o:1, dev:sdf1 Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: disk 5, o:0, dev:sdg1 Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: RAID5 conf printout: Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: --- rd:6 wd:5 fd:1 Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: disk 0, o:1, dev:sdb1 Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: disk 1, o:1, dev:sdc1 Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: disk 2, o:1, dev:sdd1 Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: disk 3, o:1, dev:sde1 Jun 28 16:13:56 kernel: disk 4, o:1, dev:sdf1 smartctl -a /dev/sdg smartctl version 5.30 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Device: SEAGATE ST3146807LC Version: 0007 Serial number: 3HY12ZX300007428D5Z4 Device type: disk Transport protocol: Parallel SCSI (SPI-4) Local Time is: Mon Jun 28 17:38:11 2004 UTC Device supports SMART and is Enabled Temperature Warning Enabled SMART Health Status: OK Current Drive Temperature: 41 C Drive Trip Temperature: 68 C Vendor (Seagate) cache information Blocks sent to initiator = 821298259 Blocks received from initiator = 830338302 Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 1895657476 Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 302039058 Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 253913 Vendor (Seagate) factory information number of hours powered up = 766.22 number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 88 Error counter log: Errors Corrected Total Total Correction Gigabytes Total delay: [rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected minor | major rewrites] corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors read: 8489179 0 0 8489179 8489179 13923.322 0 write: 0 0 0 0 0 1255.104 0 verify: 107204 0 0 107204 107204 293.631 0 Non-medium error count: 678 SMART Self-test log Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ] Description number (hours) # 1 Background short Completed - 761 - [- - -] # 2 Background short Completed - 739 - [- - -] # 3 Background long Completed - 726 - [- - -] # 4 Background short Completed - 678 - [- - -] # 5 Background short Completed - 640 - [- - -] # 6 Background short Completed - 614 - [- - -] # 7 Background long Completed - 599 - [- - -] # 8 Background short Completed - 590 - [- - -] # 9 Background short Completed - 567 - [- - -] #10 Background short Completed - 543 - [- - -] #11 Background short Completed - 332 - [- - -] #12 Background short Completed - 2 - [- - -] #13 Background short Completed - 2 - [- - -] Long (extended) Self Test duration: 3072 seconds [51.2 minutes] FWIW: this is a penguin computing altus 3200, two opteron cpus, 16 Gig ram, 7x143 GByte drives, LSI SCSI card (no hardware raid) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Ullrich jullrich(a)euclidian.com contact: http://johannes.homepc.org/contact.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------

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SUSE9.1 updates from SUSE
by Yasunari Tosa 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Hi, I did Yast to update the NVidia driver and the kernel (2.6.5-7.75-smp) after SUSE9.1 installation. Is this normal to get the following message in /var/log/messages? Jun 25 18:05:47 minerva kernel: 1: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table Jun 25 18:05:47 minerva kernel: 1: NVRM: not using NVAGP, kernel was compiled with GART_IOMMU support!! Thank you. Tosa -- Yasunari Tosa, Ph.D. Email: tosa(a)nmr.mgh.harvard.edu NMR Ctr, Mass. General Hospital TEL: 617-726-4050 Building 149, 13th Street Charlestown, MA 02129 USA

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RE: [suse-amd64] Motherboard & SuSE 9.1
by Creamer, Mark 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

When I built my system a few weeks ago, I started with a Chaintech ZNF3-250 board. I had non-stop problems - system hangs, malfunctioning peripherals etc. I took it back and in its place bought a Gigabyte GA-K8VNXP. I have had no problems whatsoever. To me, it's important that a manufacturer releases frequent BIOS updates to correct problems and respond to consumer issues. Gigabyte is on release 6 for this board, whereas Chaintech has released no updates for theirs, as far as I know. Just my experience - YMMV. <mc> -----Original Message----- From: Laurent GUERBY [mailto:laurent@guerby.net] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 7:28 PM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] Motherboard & SuSE 9.1 Hi, I'm looking for a fully supported by SuSE 9.1 Athlon 64 (socket 754) motherboard, my latest http://hardwaredb.suse.de/ search provided only three "unknown status" results, the database is likely out of date. Thanks for any suggestion and/or experience report. I'd like to avoid binary only drivers (no tainted kernel thanks :) and if possible gigabit internet. Laurent -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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Re: [suse-amd64] glibc problem too :-(
by Steve 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

I get the following error when trying to install Loki's port of Civilization: Call to Power: "This installation of CivCTP doesn't support glibc-2.1 on x86_64" Is there any way around this? Thanks, Steve > I think that i have this glibc problem too, > (SuSE 9.1 AMD64) > when i try to install my Lokigames i got > an error that i have to install a newer glibc > or just that my glibc is incompatible (the messages > are slightly different but all games are crashing > when i start the installer ... ) > They work perfectly with SuSE 8.1 > (i don't have 8.2 or 9.0 to test this too but i guess > that it would work ) > I couldn't ask Lokigames for help - they're no more > :-( > Is it possible to use the SuSE 8.1 glibc ? > What is the exact error message? > Try LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.21 your-app > Andreas

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Question about movie players - AVI, QT and DVDs
by Creamer, Mark 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

I wondered if anyone has had success with any of the various movie players in being able to play AVI files and/or QuickTime. So far, Xine and Kaffeine don't allow me to play the video. Sound works fine through these players, but no video. I figure I'm probably just missing one or more packages, but what I've located so far doesn't seem to work with x86_64. I haven't been successful in getting MPlayer to install, since it's not part of the SuSE distribution. Ultimately, I'd like to be able to play AVI, QT and MPEG video, and also DVDs - although from what I'm reading, there's a licensing issue with DVD players so SuSE doesn't ship Xine ready to do that. Just looking for any guidance on what to try, especially if there's a recommended 'all-in-one' solution. Thanks! Mark

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