February 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

plotters and graphical tables in Suse 9.2
by jose 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

When did we have the possibility using plotters and graphical tables in Suse 9.2? jose

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Suse 9.2 installation on external HD
by Jaydeep Majumder 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Hi everybody, I am having seriouy problem installing Suse 9.2(64-bit version). I have an external hard drive(a Seagate Barracuda 160 GB, 7200 RPM IDE HD put in a Nexstar USB hard dtive enclosure) connected to the USB port of my laptop(an AMD 64 system). My internal HD is not big enough, so this is why I am installing linux on an external HD. The problem is as follows : Once booted from the CD/DVD ROM drive, the suse 9.2 installation DVD gets stuck at a point showing the message "init.14 soft raid"; it gets stuck there forever. I have no RAID options on my laptop. If I disconnect the external HD, then there is no problem and Yast starts running immediately. I thought that since the external HD is not partitioned(I read it somewhere in linuxquestions.org forum), the installation CD can not read it. After I partitioned it from a linux environment running gentoo(80 GB with win95 FAT32 and 80GB with linux), I had the same problem. The installation gets stuck exactly at the same point. Next, I tried gentoo 2004.3 live CD; same thing here. It gets stuck at autoconfiguring the hardware section. Since external USB device appears as a SCSI emulated device to a linux system, I thought it's better to pass the 'noapic' option while booting. This time the gentoo live CD booted without hitch and the external HD was located at a strange place : /dev/ud/apart1 and /dev/ud/a/part2(I had two partitions). Encouraged with it, I booted the suse 9.2 DVD with 'noapic' option. This time I had no problem and Yast's graphical environment started quickly. But I found that the external disc is not detected. The only option I am left with is to partition my internal HD. This may have to do with the kernel. It loads the external HD as a removable USB device and apparently I can not install the OS there. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I spent the whole morning without any result. Thanks Jaydeep

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easyboot & Suse 9.2 Live
by Chen Su 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Hi, does anyone sucessfully integrate suse 9.2 Live-Eval to Easyboot for a multi-boot DVD? I was doing all right with suse 9.0, but failed with 9.2. Any experience to share? Thanks -- Best Wishes Chen

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Suse 9.2 amd64 and NFS service
by Ahmon Dancy 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

Has anyone successful used Suse 9.2 amd64 as an NFS server? My NFS clients are being denied access. rpc.mountd is doing new and interesting stuff with /proc/net/rpc/auth.unix.ip/channel and /proc/fs/nfsd/filehandle which seem to be the source of the problem. The export is /var/backups/oraback: # Log "authenticated mount request from..." message sendto(6, "<13>Feb 16 18:27:58 rpc.mountd: "..., 153, 0, NULL, 0) = 153 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, NULL, 8) = 0 stat("/var/backups/oraback", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=472, ...}) = 0 stat("/var/backups/oraback", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=472, ...}) = 0 open("/proc/net/rpc/auth.unix.ip/channel", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = -1 EROFS (Read-only file system) open("/proc/fs/nfsd/filehandle", O_RDWR) = 7 fstat(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2a9556d000 write(7, "* /var/backups/oraback 64 \n", 27) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) read(7, "", 4096) = 0 close(7) = 0 munmap(0x2a9556d000, 4096) = 0 write(5, "\200\0\0\34\'n\200\217\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 32) = 32 select(1024, [3 4 5], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [5]) poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 35000) = 1 read(5, "", 4000) = 0 close(5) = 0 select(1024, [3 4], NULL, NULL, NULL notes: nfs-utils-1.0.6-113 kernel-smp-2.6.8-24.11

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kiobuf missing?
by Ed Sherman 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

I look in /proc/slabinfo and I don't see kiobuf. Is this normal for kernel 2.6 on SLES9? animal:~ # uname -a Linux animal 2.6.5-7.139-smp #1 SMP Fri Jan 14 15:41:33 UTC 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux animal:~ # cat /proc/slabinfo | grep kio kioctx 0 0 384 10 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 kiocb 0 0 512 7 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 Thanks, Ed

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SUSE 9.2 on Simics 2.0
by Robert Schiele 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Hello. Did someone succeed in installing the 64 bit version of SUSE Linux 9.2 on Simics 2.0? For me linuxrc segfaults immediately after being started from the installation media. Is Simics just too broken for installing SUSE Linux 9.2 or is it just me being to stupid writing a working configuration file? Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de

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DSL Problem
by Anirban Biswas 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Hi I am connecting to internet using Bell South DSL. I use westell DSL modem given by Bell South to connect. I used yast to configure the DSL connection & it is working fine & getting started as soon as I log in , but getting disconnected after some time. I am giving the error log I am getting pppd[0]: No response to 4 echo-requests pppd[0]: Serial link appears to be disconnected. pppd[0]: restoring old default route to eth0 [192.168.1.254] pppd[0]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500 pppd[0]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500 pppd[0]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 7528), status = 0x0 Status is: disconnected pppd[0]: Connection terminated. pppd[0]: Connect time 44.5 minutes. pppd[0]: Sent 22001324 bytes, received 29648237 bytes. pppd[0]: Connect time 44.5 minutes. pppd[0]: Sent 22001324 bytes, received 29648237 bytes. pppd[0] died: Lack of LCP echo responses (exit code 15) My system is compaq laptop with AMD Athlon 64 bit processor & SuSe 9.2 64 bit. TIA Anirban Biswas. -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't.

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Re: [suse-amd64] sun v20z dual 250 opteron - grub install error
by Mark A. Garcia 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Erich Boleyn wrote: >"Mark A. Garcia" <suse-lists(a)hamletinc.com> wrote: > > >>Has anyone successfully installed 9.2 on the following piece of hardware: >> >>- Sun v20z >>- Dual 250 Opteron >> >>I recieved an install error when attempting to write the MBR and install >>grub config. >> >>Before I post the full length error, I figured I would see if anyone had >>success with an install on this particular set of equipment. >> >>If you installed 9.1 successfully, then that would be nice to know too. >> > >I didn't run an installer, but I booted an IDE disk with SuSE 9.1 that >had been partly updated to 9.2 on one of these with 2 Opteron 248's >installed (I'm sure that last part wouldn't have made a difference). > >Anyway, the IDE disk had the GRUB bootloader and it booted fine, for what >it's worth. Maybe your situation has something to do with the the SCSI >setup usually in these boxes. > I'm trying to remember, but does anyone know if there is an option to select a specific kernel version when going through the yast install? I know it is detecting the LSI chipset as it loads the module for the scsi controller (inserting the modules2 floppy) -.mag

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sun v20z dual 250 opteron - grub install error
by Mark A. Garcia 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Has anyone successfully installed 9.2 on the following piece of hardware: - Sun v20z - Dual 250 Opteron I recieved an install error when attempting to write the MBR and install grub config. Before I post the full length error, I figured I would see if anyone had success with an install on this particular set of equipment. If you installed 9.1 successfully, then that would be nice to know too. Cheers, -.mag

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anybody tried Suse 9.2 Live-Eval to Easyboot
by Chen Su 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

I am trying to integrate Suse Linux 9.2 Live-Eval to Easyboot to build a multi-boot DVD including some other OSs, winXP, win2000 and etc. However, it failed after several trials. I can do Suse Linux 9.0 Live-Eval without any problems. Anyone has a successful experience with Suse Linux 9.2 Live-Eval. Thanks a lot -- Best Wishes Chen

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