When I had this problem, it turned out to be the firmware of the DVD
drive that was causing the problem. I swapped it out for another drive,
and the install went smoothly from there.
I later upgraded the firmware on the drive and was able to then use it
to perform the installation.
-Alain
-----Original Message-----
From: Andi Kleen [mailto:ak@suse.de]
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 9:20 AM
To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com
Cc: Pierre Patino
Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Can't load SuSE 9.3 on new motherboard
On Thursday 27 October 2005 17:35, Pierre Patino wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I obtained a newly released Opteron/Athlon64 socket 939 motherboard
from
> SuperMicro. I built the box and put the DVD in and booted. After I
get
What chipset is it?
> through the installation choices, the installer stops and says it can
> no longer "see" the DVD/CD reader (panel becomes painted in red). This
I
> tried with every installation choice (acpi on/off, safe mode etc.).
>
> I tried loading SLE9 and I got a different problem -- it could not see
> the SATA hard disk.
Does 10.0 work? And is it an SATA DVD?
You can check the BIOS setup. If it has something called
"legacy IDE mode" or similar enabling that might help.
> I suspect that the loaded 9.3 kernel module has trouble talking to the
> DVD drive because of some chipset issue. I'm surprised that the
initial
> whatchamacallit that boots and starts the installation process has no
> trouble with the DVD drive. Has anybody conquered this demon?
The initial boot loader uses the BIOS to access the DVD, the later
installation requires a Linux driver.
-Andi
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Hi,
I have an AMD Athlon64 X2 machine running SuSE 10 (x86_64) on an Nvidia
Nforce4 Ultra motherboard, and have noticed that the system clock has
become unstable (it runs too fast). Not sure when it occurred, but I
have been getting a lot of error messages like this in dmesg:
warning: many lost ticks.
Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
rip acpi_processor_idle+0x12f/0x37f [processor]
Is there some parameter I should be passing to the kernel to stop it
correcting for lost ticks? Also, is there some way to track whether the
clock is really gaining seconds - other than by just leaving it, and
watching the clock? :)
Best wishes,
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Hi, all.
In my recent postings to this board I mentioned that 'iptables' gave me
errors like
iptables v1.3.3: can't initialize iptables table `nat': Bad file descriptor
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
iptables v1.3.3: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Bad file
descriptor
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
iptables v1.3.3: can't initialize iptables table `mangle': Bad file
descriptor
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
...[Repeated many times, probalby depending on how many times a script
invokes 'iptables -t ...'.]
I was got these errors regardless of whether I used my own firewall/NAT
script or SuSE's firewall. Just to be sure, I compiled the SuSE stock
kernel myself (I also wanted to "lighten it up" since it comes
configured for all kinds of hardware I don't have); I still got the same
errors.
Then, I downgraded to the version and dependencies on the SuSE 9.3 DVD.
After that, 'iptables' worked flawlessly on my SuSE 10.0. Therefore, I
must conclude that the newer versions of 'iptables' are broken. It
makes no difference if I install the one on the SuSE 10.0 DVD or the
repositories. I suspect this problem is NOT particular to SuSE 10;
therefore earlier versions of SuSE may also be affected by the
"upgraded" versions of 'iptables' in the apt-get repositories.
CF
Hi,
I just upgraded the BIOS of my A8V deluxe to the newest version (1014)
und tried to boot with the Suse 9.3 Live-CD, distributed by the German
magazine c't.
If I activate "software memory hole" in the BIOS, I see only 3GB (with
the "free" comand and also inside the BIOS system information) despite
4GB of physical RAM installed.
dmesg says this:
Linux version 2.6.11.4-20a-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.5
20050117
(prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Wed Mar 23 21:52:37 UTC 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bffb0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000bffb0000 - 00000000bffc0000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000bffc0000 - 00000000bfff0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000bfff0000 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000 (usable)
Warning only 4GB will be used.
Use a PAE enabled kernel.
3200MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
Just as clarification of terms:
- What is HIGHMEM and LOWMEM and shouldn't they be called the other way
round as the big part is counted from 0x00000000 on?
- Isn't PAE for 32bit OS only (I booted the 64bit version)?
So after all, would a full 64bit installation of 9.3 install a "PAE
enabled kernel", so that I would see all 4GB of installed RAM? Is this a
special choice then or simply the standard kernel?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Ciao
Siegbert
The Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 was mentioned on this list before, having few
problems. However, people tend to report "works", which isn't terribly
useful. Specifically:
Does it work with the SUSE 10.0 kernel out of the box (basic
functionality)?
Does the IEEE1394 interface work with SUSE 10.0?
(There is no specific chip specified, and linux1394.org is dead.)
Are SATA disks recognised during installation and give no trouble for
booting and otherwise?
Does the gigabit LAN work reliably/at all at 100M and at 1G?
Thanks for any confirmation, + or -,
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Hello everybody.
Today (errrrrr, yesterday, since it is now well past midnight and I am
still pulling my hair off!), UPS brought me 10.0. With eager
anticipation I started upgrading 9.3 to 10.0 on my Presario 3240 laptop
(2.2 GHz AMD64 based, nVidia chipset, nVidia GeForce4 440, Go with
64MB dedicated video memory). Now I regret it ever doing this upgrade.
Below I describe some of the many problems I am facing after the upgrade
and then provide what I think are pertinent syslogs.
--What happened to alsaplayer? It seems it has disappeared, even from
the repositories!
--Often the cursor does not "grab" when it is supposed to (left-clicking
on sliders or window frames for resizing or when attempting to "block"
text to be pasted by left-clicking and dragging --I use KDE).
--The internet connection unexpectedly freezes after about 10 minutes of
uptime (it did not do it just before the upgrade and after the upgrade I
tested it with a 32-bit system; the ethernet cable and the cable modem
seem to work fine with the 32-bit system --running 32-bit SuSE 9.3).
This happens even if there is virtually no internet activity. See the
pertinent syslogs below. Could this be a kernel problem? 'uname -r'
responds '2.6.13-15-default', the stock SuSE kernel.
--Shutdown takes forever (maybe over a minute) to commence.
--Lost ticks are reported in the syslogs, even booting with the
'no_timer_check' kernel directive. (And no, I need ACPI because this is
a laptop!) See the pertinent syslogs below.
--DMA and IRQ errors also get registered in the syslogs, as you can see
below.
--The upgrade trashed all my "politically incorrect" media players! (I
remember that before SuSE was aquired by Novel, it offered, on the
installation CD/DVD, rpms for hard-to-install media players. Those were
the days!) with some effort, I can tolerate "politically correct"
libraries, such as 'xine-lib', if I know what I have to delete and
install from other sources. But in my case it insisted on replacing
perfectly good libraries, claiming inconsistencies. When the upgrade
was done, kaffeine, xine, and MPlayer, which worked reasonably well
under 9.3 (with the exception of some --not all-- .wmv files) had been
virtually eviscerated. None could play DVDs, or mpegs, or whatever
else! None! I uninstalled 'xine-lib', reinstalled 'libxine1',
uninstalled and then re-installed kaffeine, and made sure that
'w32codec' was installed, but the end result was the same. (It could be
that some packages are 32-bit and some others 64.) At least, if the
user has "politically incorrect" libraries and executables installed,
the upgrade procedure should make an attempt to leave them alone!!!!
Some libraries, such as 'libdvdcss' are not even available in the
apt-get repositories and one has to go on a treasure hunt to find them
--if he is able to at all. Hear me out, SuSE/Novell! I cannot spend
all my waking hours and cut into my sleep hunting for dependencies to
get my computer to do the things I want. I am seriously thinking about
switching to Mandriva or some other distribution which has all the
software I want ready to go. If this had been a friend's computer, most
probably I WOULD have gone with Mandriva. (Where is the ease of use,
advertised on the box my10.0 came in? Novell has been quoted in the
newsmedia about its desire to pernetrate the desktop. How are they going
to attract people away from Windows with problems like these? Sure, I am
no guru, but I am no novice either.)
--Why does 'lspci' report my video card as '01:00.0 VGA compatible
controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M] (rev a3)',
while I know it is a *64MB* GeForce *440* Go?
Now some snippets of the syslogs (obtained via 'tail -n 100 -f
/var/sys/log/messages'):
Internet connection hangs:
Oct 25 00:04:53 presario gconfd (nonsense-7105): GConf server is not in
use, shutting down.
Oct 25 00:04:53 presario gconfd (nonsense-7105): Exiting
Oct 25 00:06:25 presario kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Oct 25 00:06:25 presario kernel: eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0c 0055
c07f media 10.
Oct 25 00:06:25 presario kernel: eth0: Tx queue start entry 5131 dirty
entry 5127.
Oct 25 00:06:25 presario kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 0008a047.
Oct 25 00:06:25 presario kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 0008a063.
Oct 25 00:06:25 presario kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 0008a047.
Oct 25 00:06:25 presario kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 0008a047.
(queue head)
Oct 25 00:06:25 presario kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex,
lpa 0x41E1
Oct 25 00:06:37 presario kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Oct 25 00:06:37 presario kernel: eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0c 0055
c07f media 10.
Oct 25 00:06:37 presario kernel: eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty
entry 0.
Oct 25 00:06:37 presario kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 0008a047.
(queue head)
Oct 25 00:06:37 presario kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 0008a047.
Oct 25 00:06:37 presario kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 0008a047.
Oct 25 00:06:37 presario kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 0008a047.
Oct 25 00:06:37 presario kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex,
lpa 0x41E1
[This pattern repeats itself.]
Sound, DMA, interrupt, and timing problems (disregard the errors about
skype segfaulting; it was happening under 9.3, too):
Oct 25 00:14:17 presario kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
Oct 25 00:14:27 presario kernel: hda: DMA interrupt recovery
Oct 25 00:14:27 presario kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Oct 25 00:14:50 presario hp: unable to open /var/run/hpiod.port: No such
file or directory: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 75
Oct 25 00:15:23 presario kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
Oct 25 00:15:33 presario kernel: hda: DMA interrupt recovery
Oct 25 00:15:33 presario kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Oct 25 00:17:04 presario kernel: Losing some ticks... checking if CPU
frequency changed.
Oct 25 00:20:40 presario kernel: ALSA sound/core/pcm_lib.c:2126:
playback write error (DMA or IRQ trouble?)
Oct 25 00:20:50 presario kernel: ALSA sound/core/pcm_lib.c:2429: capture
read error (DMA or IRQ trouble?)
Oct 25 00:20:59 presario kernel: skype[6459]: segfault at
0000000057318920 rip 0000000057318920 rsp 00000000567e742c error 14
Oct 25 00:21:09 presario kernel: ALSA sound/core/pcm_native.c:1451:
playback drain error (DMA or IRQ trouble?)
Oct 25 00:21:15 presario su: (to root) nonsense on /dev/pts/1
Oct 25 00:21:42 presario kernel: ALSA sound/core/pcm_lib.c:2126:
playback write error (DMA or IRQ trouble?)
Oct 25 00:21:52 presario kernel: ALSA sound/core/pcm_lib.c:2126:
playback write error (DMA or IRQ trouble?)
Oct 25 00:21:58 presario kernel: skype[6508]: segfault at
00000000572f1920 rip 00000000572f1920 rsp 00000000567e742c error 14
Oct 25 00:22:08 presario kernel: ALSA sound/core/pcm_native.c:1451:
playback drain error (DMA or IRQ trouble?)
presario:~ #
Here is output of 'vmstat 5'; I am used to seeing *five* times as many
interrupts under the same conditions (idling system):
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy
id wa
0 0 0 32140 150092 360188 0 0 109 31 300 377 7 1
88 4
0 0 0 32156 150100 360188 0 0 0 16 255 284 0 0
100 0
0 0 0 32156 150100 360188 0 0 0 6 253 276 0 0
100 0
CF
Hi. I just updated to 10.0, and everything seems to work except Eclipse. I
get an unsatisfied link error. The error message doesn't make much sense
since the file it is complaining is present.
Anyone know what's going on? I suspect 32 vs 64 bit issues, but SuSE's
approach to java configuration is so bizarre I haven't been able to figure it
out.
Thanks!
!SESSION 2005-10-24 14:29:27.405
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eclipse.buildId=I20050627-1435
java.version=1.5.0_03
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86, WS=gtk, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86 -data /home/mike/.eclipse
!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 2005-10-24 14:29:31.189
!MESSAGE Application error
!STACK 1
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /home/mike/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.1.1/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/69/1/.cp/libswt-pi-gtk-3138.so: /home/mike/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.1.1/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/69/1/.cp/libswt-pi-gtk-3138.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1751)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1660)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:822)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:992)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:123)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS.<clinit>(OS.java:19)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:63)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:54)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.<clinit>(Display.java:122)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createDisplay(Workbench.java:381)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createDisplay(PlatformUI.java:155)
at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.createDisplay(IDEApplication.java:128)
at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.run(IDEApplication.java:79)
at
org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:226)
at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:376)
at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:163)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:334)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:278)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:973)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:948)
!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 2005-10-24 14:29:31.193
!MESSAGE Bundle
update(a)plugins/org.eclipse.platform.source.linux.gtk.x86_3.1.0/ [45] was not
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!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.osgi 2005-10-24 14:29:31.194
!MESSAGE Missing host org.eclipse.platform.source_3.1.0.
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Is there an 10.0 iso image for network installation? There was one in
the 9.3 tree.
I realize I can use CD1 with manual=1 to start a network install, but I
need to do a network install of x86_64.. Is there another flag for that?
eric
(Sorry for the top posting, I have yet to figure out how to get Outlook to properly inline post)
I'm running 10.0 x64 and have had no network issues. My system is a desktop and not a laptop.
The x64 system was a fresh install, but I have a 32bit system that I upgraded from 9.3 (with politically incorrect media players as well). Those players were marked in YAST as do not upgrade. They were preserved through the upgrade and continue to work quite nicely under 10.0. My 32bit system that I upgraded is running MythTV.
If you want to re-install the "good" versions of the media players again, I would suggest heading over to http://packman.links2linux.org he even has a YAST repository setup that will plug right in.
-Alain
-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@suse.de]
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:32 AM
To: Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas
Cc: suse-amd64(a)suse.com
Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] MANY-MANY PROBLEMS AFTER UPGRADING TO 10.0
Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas <fantanas(a)innocent.com> writes:
> Hello everybody.
>
> Today (errrrrr, yesterday, since it is now well past midnight and I am
> still pulling my hair off!), UPS brought me 10.0. With eager
> anticipation I started upgrading 9.3 to 10.0 on my Presario 3240 laptop
> (2.2 GHz AMD64 based, nVidia chipset, nVidia GeForce4 440, Go with
> 64MB dedicated video memory). Now I regret it ever doing this upgrade.
Interesting, I haven't heard about such problems and I'm running 10.0
on all my AMD64 machines without problems.
> Below I describe some of the many problems I am facing after the upgrade
> and then provide what I think are pertinent syslogs.
>
> --What happened to alsaplayer? It seems it has disappeared, even from
> the repositories!
>
> --Often the cursor does not "grab" when it is supposed to (left-clicking
> on sliders or window frames for resizing or when attempting to "block"
> text to be pasted by left-clicking and dragging --I use KDE).
If you have any problems that are reproduceable, please file them in
our bugzilla, for details check: http://www.opensuse.org/Submit_a_bug
> --The internet connection unexpectedly freezes after about 10 minutes of
> uptime (it did not do it just before the upgrade and after the upgrade I
> tested it with a 32-bit system; the ethernet cable and the cable modem
> seem to work fine with the 32-bit system --running 32-bit SuSE 9.3).
> This happens even if there is virtually no internet activity. See the
> pertinent syslogs below. Could this be a kernel problem? 'uname -r'
> responds '2.6.13-15-default', the stock SuSE kernel.
This looks like a kernel problem of the ethernet driver.
> --Shutdown takes forever (maybe over a minute) to commence.
This should be only at the first time.
> --Lost ticks are reported in the syslogs, even booting with the
> 'no_timer_check' kernel directive. (And no, I need ACPI because this is
> a laptop!) See the pertinent syslogs below.
>
> --DMA and IRQ errors also get registered in the syslogs, as you can see
> below.
>
> --The upgrade trashed all my "politically incorrect" media players! (I
> remember that before SuSE was aquired by Novel, it offered, on the
An update removes SUSE Linux packages that are not on the media
anymore - this is the default for all cases. The details of the
package selection shows this. Leaving some of the libraries might
give you a working program either.
> installation CD/DVD, rpms for hard-to-install media players. Those were
> the days!) with some effort, I can tolerate "politically correct"
> libraries, such as 'xine-lib', if I know what I have to delete and
> install from other sources. But in my case it insisted on replacing
> perfectly good libraries, claiming inconsistencies. When the upgrade
> was done, kaffeine, xine, and MPlayer, which worked reasonably well
> under 9.3 (with the exception of some --not all-- .wmv files) had been
> virtually eviscerated. None could play DVDs, or mpegs, or whatever
> else! None! I uninstalled 'xine-lib', reinstalled 'libxine1',
> uninstalled and then re-installed kaffeine, and made sure that
> 'w32codec' was installed, but the end result was the same. (It could be
> that some packages are 32-bit and some others 64.) At least, if the
> user has "politically incorrect" libraries and executables installed,
> the upgrade procedure should make an attempt to leave them alone!!!!
> Some libraries, such as 'libdvdcss' are not even available in the
> apt-get repositories and one has to go on a treasure hunt to find them
> --if he is able to at all. Hear me out, SuSE/Novell! I cannot spend
> all my waking hours and cut into my sleep hunting for dependencies to
> get my computer to do the things I want. I am seriously thinking about
> switching to Mandriva or some other distribution which has all the
> software I want ready to go. If this had been a friend's computer, most
> probably I WOULD have gone with Mandriva. (Where is the ease of use,
> advertised on the box my10.0 came in? Novell has been quoted in the
> newsmedia about its desire to pernetrate the desktop. How are they going
> to attract people away from Windows with problems like these? Sure, I am
> no guru, but I am no novice either.)
>
> --Why does 'lspci' report my video card as '01:00.0 VGA compatible
> controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M] (rev a3)',
> while I know it is a *64MB* GeForce *440* Go?
No idea,
Andreas
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