June 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

apache+php 64 calling elf32 exe
by Riccardo Ghiglianovich 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

Hi all, I am new here; I have found that if I call an ELF32 Executable program from a php page loaded by a 64 bit PHP module then I obtain a shared library error, even if the program does not require the library. practical example: compile this ====== pro.c #include <stdio.h> main() { printf("Hello world\n"); } ------ cc -o pro -m32 pro.c then call it from a php page: ========= r.phtml <?php $s = "/tmp/pro 2>/tmp/er 1>&2"; echo "$s : "; $rrr=exec($s); echo `cat /tmp/er`; echo "<hr>"; // just to test that it works... $s = "ls -al /tmp 2>/tmp/er 1>&2"; echo "$s : "; $rrr=exec($s); echo `cat /tmp/er`; ?> ---- http://localhost/r,phtml issuee? Error?Bug? my fault??? Hints? I cannot recompile at 64 all my programs ... Thanks, regards, Ric

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SK8N SUSE 9.3 problems
by Marcin Zalewski 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hello, I am trying to install SUSE 9.3 on Asus SK8N motherboard running Opteron. I use the built-in Promise SATA controller with two disks in IDE mode. I was able to perfectly run SuSE 9.1 on this system for a long, long time. Now, with SuSE 9.3 I am not even able to get through the installation. It seems that the disk access causes the installation to hang sooner or later. When files are being copied the installation just freezes. It seems that this problem is not specific to SUSE. Any other distro with 2.6 kernel that I tried freezes in the same way as SUSE. Does anyone have a success story installing SUSE 9.3 on a similar setup? And also, is there some way that I can save kernel messages during installation? Thanks, Marcin Zalewski

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xine on AMD64
by Alex 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

Hi I'm using SuSE professional 9.3 on a AMD64. To be able to watch DVD's, I compiled Xine from sources with the needed packages. Compiling xine-lib and xine-ui doesn't make any problems, but after launching xine, I have the foolowing error message: Cannot open display "*". Segmentation fault. After I changed the DISPLAY Variable to 127.0.0.1 and exported it, the first error message doesn't appear, but I get the segfault again. The interesting thing is that DVD's could be read in kaffeine without problems, so I think the problem is in xine-ui. Has anybody a hint?? Thanx Al

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Howto build 32bit apps on amd64 suse 9.3?
by Fred van Zwieten 18 Jul '05

18 Jul '05

Hi all, I am trying to compile syncekonnector-0.2.1 on a suse 9.3 amd64 platform. It depends on synce and synce-devel packages with are both (to my knowledge 32bit packages. configure complains about de synce libraries not being compatible in config.log. So, I instructed configure to use 32bit compile (-m32). Now, it complains it can't find libXext, but I know it's there (devel packages are both in 64bit and 32bit present). I'm not a devel guy, who to get out of this mess?

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Puzzling wild variation of execution time
by Sheo Shanker Prasad 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

I will greatly appreciate help in understanding the puzzling wild variation in the execution time of small test/benchmark program, as explained below. (1) The nature of the benchmark/test program: A floating point arithmetic intensive atmospheric chemistry modeling task. It used to take, in a consistent manner, around 2m 37s on my machine when it was running under SuSe 9.1 Pro. When I run the benchmark program, I shut-off all other programs. Thus, during its run, it is the only active program. THe rest are belonging to root are sleeping. There is no other user. (2) The machine: Dual Opteron 250 with 4 GB of PC3200 (DDR) memory in 4 dimms that fill two dimms on cpu0 and two dimms on cpu1 installed in Tyan Thunder K8 system board that has American MegaTrend AMIBIOS V2-04. It now runs under SuSE 9.3 Pro and the Linux version 2.6.11.4-21.7-smp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Thu Jun 2 14:23:14 UTC 2005 (3) Background of the problem: After only 4 months of the delivery of the machine by the vendor, the mother board failed. The machine was sent to the vendor. He then replaced the mother board with a new one and installed SuSE 9.3 Pro to bring the machine up-to-date with the Linux version 2.6.11.4-21.7-smp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Thu Jun 2 14:23:14 UTC 2005 (4) The problem: After the repair and upgrade to 9.3 Pro, the execution times of the same test/benchmark program varies widely between run to run. It is never consistent. It varies from 2m 37s to more than 6m. A pattern is seen in the variation. Usually, the longest execution time is when the machine is started after remaining shut-off for a few hours. The shortest execution time is obtained after the machine has been constantly on for abot 7 to 10 hours. (5) My puzzle: While a computer is well known to be reproducible, the wild variation by a factor of almost 3 in the execution is very disturbing. What could be the cause? Does it mean that some vital component involved in execution of the numerical modeling (RAM memory or the memory on the CPUs) are loose or erratic and may be about to go bad? I am just puzzled. Any clue from you all will be really very very much appreciated. -- Best regards. Sheo (Sheo S. Prasad) Creative Research Enterprises 6354 Camino del Lago Pleasanton, CA 94566, USA Voice Phone: (+1) 925 426-9341 Fax Phone: (+1) 925 426-9417 e-mail: ssp(a)CreativeResearch.org

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smbfs: unsupported module, tainting kernel.
by detlinux＠gmx.ch 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Hi, I don't suceed with smbmount. The smbfs module seems not to be ok: With "dmesg | grep smb" I get " smbfs: unsupported module, tainting kernel. " I have the 2.6.11.4-21.7-smp kernel. What can I do? Christian Geschenkt: 3 Monate GMX ProMail gratis + 3 Ausgaben stern gratis ++ Jetzt anmelden & testen ++ http://www.gmx.net/de/go/promail ++ -- Weitersagen: GMX DSL-Flatrates mit Tempo-Garantie! Ab 4,99 Euro/Monat: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

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RE: [suse-amd64] Puzzling wild variation of execution time
by Black, Alain 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

It sounds more like why when benchmarks are run, they are run 3 or more times with the first run being thrown out. This is due to the initial loading of data (reading files off of disk into cache) that must be done. The next run will not have as much disk I/O and if the test is small enough, could actually be reading straight from memory, which is significantly faster than disk. After a reboot, or being powered off, the cache is clear, so all data needs to be read into memory again. -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: fabrice piccini [mailto:fpiccini@nerim.net] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:15 PM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Puzzling wild variation of execution time Sheo Shanker Prasad wrote: > I will greatly appreciate help in understanding the puzzling wild variation in > the execution time of small test/benchmark program, as explained below. > > (1) The nature of the benchmark/test program: > > A floating point arithmetic intensive atmospheric chemistry modeling task. It > used to take, in a consistent manner, around 2m 37s on my machine when it was > running under SuSe 9.1 Pro. When I run the benchmark program, I shut-off all > other programs. Thus, during its run, it is the only active program. THe rest > are belonging to root are sleeping. There is no other user. > > (2) The machine: > > Dual Opteron 250 with 4 GB of PC3200 (DDR) memory in 4 dimms that fill two > dimms on cpu0 and two dimms on cpu1 installed in Tyan Thunder K8 system board > that has American MegaTrend AMIBIOS V2-04. It now runs under SuSE 9.3 Pro and > the Linux version 2.6.11.4-21.7-smp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.5 > 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Thu Jun 2 14:23:14 UTC 2005 > > (3) Background of the problem: > > After only 4 months of the delivery of the machine by the vendor, the mother > board failed. The machine was sent to the vendor. He then replaced the mother > board with a new one and installed SuSE 9.3 Pro to bring the machine > up-to-date with the Linux version 2.6.11.4-21.7-smp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc > version 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Thu Jun 2 14:23:14 > UTC 2005 > > (4) The problem: > > After the repair and upgrade to 9.3 Pro, the execution times of the same > test/benchmark program varies widely between run to run. It is never > consistent. It varies from 2m 37s to more than 6m. A pattern is seen in the > variation. Usually, the longest execution time is when the machine is started > after remaining shut-off for a few hours. The shortest execution time is > obtained after the machine has been constantly on for abot 7 to 10 hours. > > (5) My puzzle: > > While a computer is well known to be reproducible, the wild variation by a > factor of almost 3 in the execution is very disturbing. > > What could be the cause? Does it mean that some vital component involved in > execution of the numerical modeling (RAM memory or the memory on the CPUs) > are loose or erratic and may be about to go bad? I am just puzzled. Any clue > from you all will be really very very much appreciated. well, I'm not an expert on this kind of problem, but I'm still interested in problem solving... all you said brings me to think to some kind of memory leakage (stabilization of exec time after a long period of uptime)...supposing your algorithm is consumming a lot of memory... if this is true (memory leakage), the next step is to determine if the guilty is the kernel (9.1 was 2.6.5, 9.3 is 2.6.11 -please, kernel experts, are there a lot of changes in memory management between these two versions, and especially involving smp systems ?), or maybe the compiler (did you compile yourself you algorithm ? did you recompile it after the installation of suse93 ? written in C, C++, Fortran, other ?) maybe an other possibility is hardware/bios related problem (or incorrect bios settings), but I don't have any idea on how to diagnose a faulty cpu...please, tyan hardware experts, it's up to you... Ah, I've just reread your post. You said the longest time is after the machine is started after a long shut-off... What occurs if, after a long period of uptime you reboot the machine and immediately run your algorithm ? - If you get the same good results (2'37") then you certainly have a hardware problem (thermal stabilization problem on some component ?) - If you get bad results (longest time) then it's certainly a software related problem (bios/kernel/compiler) sorry not to be able to help you more...that was only to start the discussion...now it's time for true experts. cheers, fabrice -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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nvidia and no 3D after driver upgrade
by Dima 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Hi, after upgrading nvidia driver from v.1.0-7174 to 1.0-7667 3D stopped working. glxgears run at 15 fps and none of GL screensavers start. I cabn see that "nvidia" module is loaded, "glxinfo" says that direct rendering enabled and correctly identifies the video card and the driver. Also , sax2 says that 3D enabled. Originally, nvidia driver was installed through YOU. The upgrade was done first running "nvidia-installer --uninstall" and after that running Nvidia's installer (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-7667-pkg2.run) since YOU did not fetch any new drivers. Looking at the nvidia-installer log I have not spotted errors, it says that "installed succesfully". What could be the problem? Any advise will be appreciated. Dima. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Ugly fonts in 32 bit apps in Suse 9.2 Pro
by Suleyman Karabuk 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, I installed Suse 9.2 Pro 64 bit version and as expected the fonts looked horrible. Then I followed the usual drill: (1) installed freetype2 srpms, enabled bytecode interpreter, rebuild the rpm and reinstalled it, (2) installed Microsoft true type fonts via Yast online update. Everything went fine, I have gorgeous fonts that rival even MS Windows which I see at some people's PCs. However, when I call a 32bit application eg Eclipse, Thunderbird 32bit etc ugliness comes back. But only with the 32 bit applications. The 64 bits applics are always fine. I looked into the freetype2 srpm searching for a clue as to how to uptade 32bit freetype2 libs with bytecode enabled to no success. As a last resort I downloaded freetype2 sources, enabled bytecode and compiled it on a 32bit machine. Then I copied the directory and installed the binaries on my 64 bit Suse thereby updating the 32bit freetype2 libs under /usr/lib. However, this was not successful. But to my surprise it did not screw up anything either. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com

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RE: [suse-amd64] wmv files and MPlayer/Xine
by Black, Alain 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

Have you installed the w32codecs? I don't recall if wmv is part of them or not, try either xine's home page or packman.links2linux.org for the windows 32 codecs. -----Original Message----- From: Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas [mailto:fantanas@innocent.com] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 4:57 PM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] wmv files and MPlayer/Xine Hi all. Can MPlayer and/or Xine play wmv files in SuSE 9.3? When I try to play a wmv file with MPlayer, I hear only audio and get the following errors: -----------------SNIP---------------- Requested video codec family [wmv9dmo] (vfm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Requested video codec family [wmvdmo] (vfm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57. Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html! ----------------SNIP------------------ The reason I decided to post this question was that I did read 'DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html', but I did not see anything about wmv files. I perused MPlayer's codecs URL, but I did not see anything there either. I tried different '-vo ' (video output) options, but to no avail (which is understandable if the problem is the codec). Trying to play the same file with kaffeine (xine-based), I get similar behavior: the audio plays fine, but no video. What did I do wrong? I have an nVidia GeForce 440 To Go 64M card (on a Compaq Presario R3000Z-series AMD64-based laptop, which I bought specifically because it had an nVidia card and was 64-bit) . I compiled MPlayer from source because I could not get the rpms from the apt-get repositories to work right. (Other files, like MPEG, play fine, so I am definitely missing a codec.) If I run './configure --help', I do not see anything referring to the missing codec(s) --or did I miss the obvious? TIA for any help. CF -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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Multipath drivers in SuSE9.3 and SLES9
by johncraig01＠netscape.net 26 Jun '05

26 Jun '05

Hi, I am trying to figure out the best way to implement multipath failover for an Engenio RAID storage system. I am running SuSE 9.3 x86-64 on the host. The multipath-tools-0.2.1-3 is installed. The kernel is 2.6.11.4-21.7-smp. I am currently using the storage sytem without multipath. 6 LUNs plus a special access device are mapped (twice each) to devices /dev/sda - /dev/sdm. The redundant device names represent paths via each of the 2 RAID controlers in the system. Each LUN is formatted with a LVM2 partition, and all 6 are joined to form 1 logical volume, using the currently active devices. The problem, of course is that in the event of a failover of 1 of the controllers, the devices assigned to it become inactive, and IO is routed through the other controller, using the other device names. In that event, it should be possible to reboot the host system, and it should be able to reconstruct the LVM volume group, since LVM2 uses the wwid of the LUNS, instead of the device names. But, that involves interruption of serice and downtime, and defeats the purpose of having a dual controller system. So, I need to get multipath working. and so far, I don't know how to do it. From what I have been able to gather from the multipath-tools homepage http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr it work with the dev-mapper system in 2.6.x, and you typically set it up by defining the device maps at the command prompt wth /sbin/multipath. It is not clear from the documentation what makes the dm table persistent across reboots. It does say that you can optionally use a file /etc/multipath.conf but there is no example of this file provided, and I have no idea what the syntax would be. The documentation does say that you should be able to run the command multipath -v and it should come back with a list of paths, multipaths, and device maps. When I do that, it reports nothing. Could it be that this will only work if you have previously defined device maps? Or is it that my hardware is not recognized by version 0.2.1-3 of multpath-tools? I am hesitant at ths point to start adding device maps at the command prompt, because the system is in service, and I can't afford to take it off line right now (beside, I have no idea what I'm doing). Anyway, I should mention that there is a bug in the /etc/init.d/multipathd init script. The "restart" section is missing, but a simple edit will fix that. After fixing the init script, multipathd can be configured with the runlevel editor and it loads normally. Now, I noticed that SLES9 SP1 includes multipath-tools-0.3.6-0.3. This is a more recent version than is included in SuSE Professional 9.3, and was presumably added to improve functionality. Question: How well does SLES9 handle multipath devices? Maybe the soution to my problem is to buy SLES9? Any help or advice on this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John Craig __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp

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Problems building GTK+ apps in 9.3
by edward winston 26 Jun '05

26 Jun '05

I am having problems building application using GTK with the new version of 9.3 professional for AMD64. I am trying to build Xscreensaver. All of the hacks build fine, but when it gets to the demo program, I get errors during linking. So, after doing a configure and build, it fails in the driver directory. The last lines i get are : edward@ws:/buildarea/xscreensaver-4.22/driver> make gcc -pedantic -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wnested-externs -std=c89 - U__STRICT_ANSI__ -L/usr/local/lib -o xscreensaver-demo-Gtk prefs.o dpms.o remote.o exec.o ../utils/resources.o ../utils/usleep.o ../utils/visual.o demo-Gtk.o demo-Gtk-conf.o -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 \ -Wl,--export-dynamic -L/ usr/lib64 -L/opt/gnome/lib64 -lglade-2.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lxml2 -lpthread -lz - lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 - lgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl - lglib-2.0 -lXmu -lXpm -Wl,--export-dynamic -L/opt/gnome/lib64 - lgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl - lglib-2.0 -lSM -lICE \ -lXt -lX11 -lXinerama -lXext /opt/gnome/lib64/ libglade-2.0.so: undefined reference to `gtk_menu_tool_button_get_type' /opt/ gnome/lib64/libglade-2.0.so: undefined reference to `gtk_file_chooser_button_get_type' /opt/gnome/lib64/libglade-2.0.so: undefined reference to `gtk_icon_view_get_type' /opt/gnome/lib64/ libglade-2.0.so: undefined reference to `gtk_about_dialog_get_type' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [xscreensaver-demo-Gtk] Error 1 This is a machine that was updated from Suse 9.1 (no 9.2 in the middle). I don't know if there are older versions of gtk2 that are expected, or what. I also get this message when i try to configure : checking for pkg-config... / usr/bin/pkg-config checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... *** 'pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0' returned 2.6.4, but GTK+ (2.4.4) *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best *** to remove the old version of GTK+. You may also be able to fix the error *** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing *** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is *** required on your system. *** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH *** to point to the correct configuration files I am thinking that they may be related. Has anyone else run into this? If so, what did you do to get around the problem? Thanks, edward

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wmv files and MPlayer/Xine
by Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

Hi all. Can MPlayer and/or Xine play wmv files in SuSE 9.3? When I try to play a wmv file with MPlayer, I hear only audio and get the following errors: -----------------SNIP---------------- Requested video codec family [wmv9dmo] (vfm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Requested video codec family [wmvdmo] (vfm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57. Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html! ----------------SNIP------------------ The reason I decided to post this question was that I did read 'DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html', but I did not see anything about wmv files. I perused MPlayer's codecs URL, but I did not see anything there either. I tried different '-vo ' (video output) options, but to no avail (which is understandable if the problem is the codec). Trying to play the same file with kaffeine (xine-based), I get similar behavior: the audio plays fine, but no video. What did I do wrong? I have an nVidia GeForce 440 To Go 64M card (on a Compaq Presario R3000Z-series AMD64-based laptop, which I bought specifically because it had an nVidia card and was 64-bit) . I compiled MPlayer from source because I could not get the rpms from the apt-get repositories to work right. (Other files, like MPEG, play fine, so I am definitely missing a codec.) If I run './configure --help', I do not see anything referring to the missing codec(s) --or did I miss the obvious? TIA for any help. CF

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9.3: Many conflicts on yast update KDE3.4 -> KDE3.4.1
by Werner Franke 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Hello all, I got very many conflicts on a YAST package update to kde 3.4.1. I downloaded the yast-sources files from ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.3/yast-source/ and ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/x86_64/supplementary/KDE/updat… set the install source to the local directory and start "Install and Remove Software". Then I marked all new packages to be upated. Yast reports me over 800 lines of "not fulfilled dependences", but the missing files and packages are installed. Example: Conflict with amarok 1.2.4-3 not fulfilled dependences: amarok needs libmusicbrainz.so.4 amarok needs libsqlite3.so.0 amarok needs libtunepimp.so.2 but: locate libmusicbrainz.so.4 libsqlite3.so.0 libtunepimp.so.2 /usr/lib64/libmusicbrainz.so.4.0.0 /usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0 /usr/lib64/libtunepimp.so.2 rpm -qal | grep libmusicbrainz.so.4 /usr/lib64/libmusicbrainz.so.4 /usr/lib64/libmusicbrainz.so.4.0.0 A update in the same way on 32bit system under SUSE 9.3 works fine. Does have anybody a hint for me ? Thanks, Werner Franke

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PCI BAR1 register
by Pierre Patino 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Greetings I'm working on a driver for a PCI card. During the installation, I read the BAR0 and BAR1 registers two different ways and I get two different results for BAR1. pci_resource_start(0) = A pci_read_config_dword(0x10) = A pci_resource_start(1) = B pci_read_config_dword(0x14) = B+8 Any ideas anyone? I've tried this on two systems, same hardware. Kernels 2.6.5-7.155 and 2.6.11.xxx. x86_64 flavo(u)rs. TIA & cheers -- To unsubscribe, email: suse-programming-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, email: suse-programming-e-help(a)suse.com Archives can be found at: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-programming-e

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subfs troubles
by Philippe Andersson 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

Hello list, I'm fighting for a few months now with a brand new Athlon 3.2GHz-based workstation that I would like to get installed with 9.3, but it's causing me an unusual amount of headaches. The first issue I'd like to raise with you: I can't get subfs/submount to work for DVDs and blank medias. Its working like a charm for plain CDs and USB media (keys, CompactFlash cards, digital camera, etc.). submount of DVD media worked once, right after the (one of the very many) installs, but then stopped working. Current install is pretty vanilla. Not fully patched yet, but I installed the following ones, in the hope they might help: - hal-0.4.7-26.3.x86_64.rpm - hotplug-0.50-19.2.x86_64.rpm - submount-0.9-61.2.x86_64.rpm - udev-053-15.2.x86_64.rpm They don't. Here is a short run-down of the hardware I'm using: Motherboard: ASUS K8N-E Deluxe (BIOS flash-upgraded to release 1006, dated 08/10/2004) CPU: AMD Athlon-64 @ 3.2 GHz RAM: 1 GB (2 x 512 MB, Kingston) Disk: 2 x Western Digital 200 GB SATA (WD2000JD) CD/DVD: Plextor DVD-ROM PX-116A CD/DVD burner: Plextor DVD+/-RW PX-716A Graphic card: Asus V9570 TD 256 MB AGP (= GeForce FX 5700) Mouse: Logitech Click! Optical USB Network board: 3Com 3C905CX Etherlink XL 10/100 PCI Sound card: Turtlebeach Santa Cruz Would any of you have some experience to share on this issue (or on the hardware involved) ? More technical details are at hand, if needed. TIA Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- ----------- | IBA | /*-----------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* Ion Beam Applications, S.A.| Philippe Andersson */ /* Av. Albert Einstein, 4, | Unix Admin. Control Team */ /* B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve | pan(a)iba.be */ /* BELGIUM | +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-475.837 */ /*-----------------------------------------------------------------*/

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SuSe 9.3 installer.
by Brad Dameron 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

The installer under SuSe 9.3 64-bit, could be 32-bit but didn't test, appears to install the MegaRAID driver incorrectly. In the /etc/sysconfig/kernel file the INITRD_MODULES line should only need the "megaraid_mbox" driver which then loads the megaraid driver. However in 9.3 you do the following: "megaraid_mbox megaraid" which then tries to reload the megaraid driver causing several lines of errors. Thank you, Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com

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Need Suse 9.3 Guru cpuspeed Help
by Col Jim Creech 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

RE: my Sager 4750 64-bit laptop with Suse 9.3 x86-64 I'm stuck at 800Mhz & want to run at 2400Mhz! cpuspeed and cpufrequtils are installed. cpuspeed in Suse 9.3 is renamed from cpufreq from earlier versions & I can't find very much info. My relevant dmesg info: ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2]) ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (39 C) powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09e) powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x10 (2400 MHz), vid 0x2 (1500 mV) powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0xa (1300 mV) powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0xe (1200 mV) powernow-k8: 3 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x12 (1100 mV) cpu_init done, current fid 0x0, vid 0x0 Runlevel_Editor shows: acpid not enabled cpuspeed not enabled powersaved enabled In yast, /etc/sysconfig-Editor, system, powermngt, CPUFREQ_MODULE I have powernow-k8.ko (for x86-64) In yast, /etc/sysconfig-Editor, system, powersave/cpu/powersave_CPUFREQD_MODULE I have a blank space but it says: "The powersaved startscript will load this module for CPU frequency scaling support. If nothing is specified here, the most common cpufreq modules will be tried. Entering the correct module will reduce the warnings in syslog during boot and probably speed up booting a bit. Entering "off" will skip trying to load cpufreq modules and avoid warnings on machines with no cpufreq-capable hardware." In /lib/modules/2.6.11.4-21.7-default/kernel/arch/x86_64/kernel/cpufreq I have these modules available to use: acpi-cpufreq.ko, and powernow-k8.ko jim@laptop:~> cpufreq-info cpufrequtils 0.2: cpufreq-info © Dominik Brodowski 2004 Report errors and bugs to linux(a)brodo.de, please. analyzing CPU 0: driver: powernow-k8 CPUs which need to switch frequency at the same time: 0 hardware limits: 800 MHz - 2.40 GHz available frequency steps: 2.40 GHz, 2.00 GHz, 1.80 GHz, 800 MHz (--all of which are the same as the data in the files in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq) available cpufreq governors: userspace, performance current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 2.40 GHz. The governor "userspace" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency is 800 MHz. jim@laptop:~> man userspace No manual entry for userspace jim@laptop:~> man cpufreq No manual entry for cpufreq man cpuspeed This daemon needs cpufreq support in the kernel. If this is build as modules you have to load the modules 'speedstep-centrino' or 'speed‐ step' for mobile Intel processors or 'powernow-k6' or 'powernow-k7' for mobile AMD processors. After that you still need the module 'userspace'. note: I can't find the module 'userspace' & don't know where to put it if I could find it! Readings: 1. /usr/share/doc/packages/cpuspeed/README.SuSE CPU frequency scaling This package (cpuspeed) has been renamed. It's former name was cpufreqd. It can be found on the author's (Carl Thompson) homepage: http://carlthompson.net/Software/CPUSpeed/ This package is an alternative to the powersave package that provides the default daemon to control the frequency of your CPU and has a lot additional features concerning powersave issues. Consider that you can only run one of the daemons. To adjust the frequency of your CPU to the current workload you may use the cpuspeed. Start it via 'rccpuspeed start'. If you like it to be started at bootime, call 'chkconfig cpuspeed on' or use the YaST2 runlevel editor. The configuration variables are placed in /etc/sysconfig/powermanagement. Look for variable names starting with 'CPUSPEED_'. You may also use YaST sysconfig editor for configuration. If you need always full power for a certain period, you may call 'rccpuspeed high'. This will set the CPU persistent to it's maximum clock speed. If you want to save battery power you may call 'rccpuspeed low'. This will set the CPU persistent to it's minimum clock speed. To switch back to a variable CPU clock sleed call 'rccpuspeed reload' The cpuspeed startscript loads some needed kernel modules. At first one of 'speedstep-centrino', 'speedstep', 'powernow-k6' or 'powernow-k7'. This provides some CPU clock management information in /proc/cpufreq (2.4.x kernels) or /sys/devices/system/cpu*/cpufreq/* (2.6.x kernels). Have a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/cpufreq/ for details. The following processors are currently supported by cpufreq in 2.4.21 kernels(number is steadily increasing): AMD Elan - SC400, SC410 AMD mobile K6-2+ AMD mobile K6-3+ AMD mobile Duron/Athlon K7 AMD Athlon64 (should all support frequency scaling) Cyrix Media GXm Intel mobile PIII [*] and Intel mobile PIII-M on certain chipsets Intel Xeon Pentium M (Banias, Dothan) National Semiconductors Geode GX Transmeta Crusoe Multiprocessor machines (Opteron and EM64T) should work as well if they support CPU frequency scaling. If not try a BIOS update. [*] only certain Intel mobile PIII processors are supported. If you know that you own a speedstep-capable processor, pass the option "speedstep_coppermine=1" to the module speedstep.o See also the manpage cpuspeed(1). 2. /usr/share/doc/packages/cpuspeed/USAGE cpuspeed v1.2.1 This program monitors the system's idle percentage and reduces or raises the CPUs' clock speeds and voltages accordingly to minimize power consumption when idle and maximize performance when needed. This is the default. The program may also optionally be configured to reduce the CPUs' clock speeds if the temperature gets too high, NOT minimize their speeds if the computer's AC adapter is disconnected or maximize their speeds when the AC adapter is connected. By default this program will manage every CPU found in the system. Usage: cpuspeed [Options] Options: -d Tells the process to daemonize itself (run in background). -i <interval> Sets the interval between idle percentage tests and possible speed changes in tenths of a second (default is 20). -p <fast up> <threshold> Sets the CPU idle percentage thresholds. <fast up> is the idle percentage below which a CPU will be set to the highest possible speed. <threshold> is the idle percentage above which a CPU's speed will be decreased and below which a CPU's speed will be increased (defaults are 10 and 25). -m <minimum speed> Sets the minimum speed in KHz below which a CPU will not be set. -M <maximum speed> Sets the maximum speed in KHz above which a CPU will not be set. -t <temp file> <maxtemp> Sets the ACPI temperature file and the temperature at which CPUs will be set to minimum speed. -T <interval> Sets the interval at which the temperature will be polled in tenths of a second (default is 10). (Requires the '-t' option above.) -a <AC file> Sets the ACPI AC adapter state file and tells the program to set the CPUs to minimum speed when the AC adapter is disconnected. (This is the default but is changeable by the '-D' option below). -A <interval> Sets the interval at which the AC adapter state will be polled in tenths of a second (default is 50). (Requires the '-a' option above.) -C Run at maximum speed when AC adapter is connected. (Requires the '-a' option above.) -D Do NOT force minimum speed when AC adapter is disconnected. (Requires the '-a' option above.) -r Restores previous speed on program exit. -s <CPU> Manage only a single CPU. <CPU> specifies the number of the CPU to manage and is in the range 0 to (n-1) where 'n' is the number of CPUs in the system. Without this option the program creates copies of itself to manage every CPU in the system. To have a CPU stay at the highest clock speed to maximize performance send the process controlling that CPU the SIGUSR1 signal. To have a CPU stay at the lowest clock speed to maximize battery life send the process controlling that CPU the SIGUSR2 signal. To resume having a CPU's clock speed dynamically scaled send the process controlling that CPU the SIGHUP signal. Author: Carl Thompson - cet [at] carlthompson.net (copyright 2002 - 2005) This guy has had success with Gentoo install on the same laptop here: http://www.ser1.net/Files/Reviews/Sager4750.html "4.4. PowerManagement Make sure you compile the cpufreq_* modules for the kernel, load them on boot, emerge powernowd, and use rc-update to start it by default. It'll control adjusting your CPU frequency on demand. If you've compiled ACPI, which you should, the CPU temperature is in /proc/acpi/thermal_zones/THRM/temperature. Just 'cat' it. CPU information is in /proc/cpuinfo. You can also compile all of the i2c modules, emerge the lm-sensors package, and get some information from the motherboard. I don't know much about this, but there are several sensors, none of which I've been able to get any useful information out of. On the other hand, I don't know what I'm looking for, so..." What are 'i2c modules'? What is 'emerge the lm-sensors package'? I don't know either! That's all the info I have on the subject. I have tried various combos of modules in yast, /etc/sysconfig-Editor in various places to no avail. Ergo, I turn to the community for help getting cpuspeed functional -- thus getting my laptop to run at 2400Mhz. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

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DWL-G520+ and SuSE 9.3
by Matthias Haenel 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Hi, I bought a brand new DWL-G520+ and want to run in on SuSE 9.3 64bit. Did anyone run this PCI-card with success? I realized it crashes if I try to configure it with yast. That means configuration runs properly but the activation procedure seems to be broken and my entire PC hangs. I YOU-updated my wireless packages and firmware. And I tried with DHCP and without with no success. Do you have any ideas? best regards Matthias

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Marvell GigE chip under SuSE 9.x
by Mikhail Kuzminsky 19 Jun '05

19 Jun '05

I've heard somewhere (may be here in our maillist, but I didn't find nothing in mail archive) about some problems w/Marvell Gigabit Ethernet chip on ASUS A8V mobos at work w/SuSE Linux 9.x. Sorry, is it simple my "imagination" ? It may be important for mobos choice, because Marvell chips are presenetd in a lot of mobos, in particlular in a set of Gigabyte mobos for Athlon64. Yours Mikhail Kuzminsky Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry Moscow

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QLogic HBA failover
by johncraig01＠netscape.net 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

Does anyone know if failover is implemented in the QLA2300 drivers in SuSE 9.3 x86-64, and how to use it? QLogic has software utilities to manage their cards, do you know which version is compatible? I just installed a dual controller Engenio storage array, and the LUN mappings keep switching around, which is apparently handled by a failover driver either in the HBA or a separate driver. Without such a driver, you have to access the data by different device names when failover occurs in the storage controller, which means you would have to remount the data. And this is a big problem if you want to manage multiple volumes with LVM. Any help would be appreciated. John Craig __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp

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Gnomemeeting on SuSE9.3
by Yoriaki FUJIMORI 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

Dear listers, I started testing the stock gnomemeeting on SuSE9.3 for amd64. It fails at the end of execution; the gdb gives the following clue: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00002aaab342ac88 in scim::ReferencedObject::unref () from /usr/lib64/libscim-1.0.so.6 I am running kernel 2.6.11.4-21.7-default. Is there any new libscim.so without this bug? Thanks for your attention. yoriaki fujimori

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RE: [suse-amd64] Tyan S2881 network problem
by Black, Alain 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Joe, What do you consider large files? I've got a 2 servers with MSI mother boards with the BCM5704 (don't know what the C difference is) chip and we nfs/sftp/rcp multi gig files. Nothing larger than 12 GB at this point though. We are quite pleased with their performance. This is both under SLES8SP3 and SLES9. -Alain -----Original Message----- From: Joe Georger [mailto:jgeorger@ll.mit.edu] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 12:17 PM To: Brad Dameron Cc: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Tyan S2881 network problem We've got 7 of these units. On one the ethernet is dead. Some of them have qlogic cards and are serving 2-3 3TB raids. When we try to move copy large files over nfs or rcp, the machines like to lock up. We have gone from Suse 9.1 Pro to 9.2 Pro to SLES9 and nothing is staying up. Is the BCM5704C really that bad? I can't blame the OS because I just can't believe SLES9 would lock up like that. Joe Brad Dameron wrote: >Actually the 2881 has been know to have Ethernet issues. I have had to >return a few because the ethernet would stop working after pushing a few >hundred MB over it. But they would work at first. The above message >would indicate either a delay from spanning-tree turned on your switch, >auto-detect on the port not working thus setting it to something like >half-duplex and the BCM trying to communicate at full duplex, bad >ethernet cable (Verify link lights are on), or bad ethernet. > >Have you ran "ethtool eth0" to see if you have a link, etc? Can you get >us that info? Also is it loading the BCM5700 driver or the TG3? > >Brad Dameron >SeaTab Software >www.seatab.com > > > > -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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SuSe 9.2: Athlon 64 wireless network problem
by Ivanov Pavel 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Dear All, i am trying to get working my 64-bit SuSe 9.2 with Linksys Wireless PCI network adapter. I was trying to use ndiswrapper, but it does not really work ("modprobe ndiswrapper" freezes the Linux). I use 64 - bit Broadcom drivers under WindowsXP 64 bit and with ndiswrapper. Can anybody help me with the problem? Thanks a lot, Pavel ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag

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IOMMU Error on Suse 9.3
by Markus Jungemann 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Hello, today our HP XW9300 dual opteron workstation with 8GB memory and Suse 9.3 reported problems with the ReiserFS and became unreachable. In the logs the beginning of the problems can be traced back to a PCI-DMA kernel messages complaining about IOMMU space. The relevant part of /var/log/messages is attached. Has someone seen this problem before and is there a way to avoid it? Many thanks, Markus Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space for 524288 bytes at device 0000:00:07.0 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 453070313 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda7, logical block 53722000 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda7 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda7, logical block 53722001 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda7 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda7, logical block 53722002 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda7 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda7, logical block 53722003 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda7 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda7, logical block 53722004 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda7 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda7, logical block 53722005 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda7 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda7, logical block 53722006 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda7 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda7, logical block 53722007 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda7 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda7, logical block 53722008 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda7 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda7, logical block 53722009 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda7 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space for 524288 bytes at device 0000:00:07.0 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 223241777 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space for 524288 bytes at device 0000:00:07.0 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 223242801 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space for 524288 bytes at device 0000:00:07.0 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 223243825 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space for 524288 bytes at device 0000:00:07.0 Jun 15 04:29:09 fe72747 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 223244849 Jun 15 04:30:02 fe72747 kernel: ReiserFS: warning: is_tree_node: node level 23871 does not match to the expected one 1 Jun 15 04:30:02 fe72747 kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: warning: vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 33434. Fsck? Jun 15 04:30:02 fe72747 kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: warning: zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry Jun 15 04:30:02 fe72747 /usr/sbin/cron[7739]: (root) CMD (/etc/venus/2.1.0/bin/scCronRunner /etc/venus/cron/every15Minutes /var/venus/logs/cron/every15Minutes 5 90 >/dev/null 2>&1) Jun 15 04:30:02 fe72747 /usr/sbin/cron[7741]: (root) CMD (/etc/venus/2.1.0/bin/scCronRunner /etc/venus/cron/every5Minutes /var/venus/logs/cron/every5Minutes 5 90 >/dev/null 2>&1) Jun 15 04:30:02 fe72747 kernel: ReiserFS: warning: is_tree_node: node level 23855 does not match to the expected one 1 Jun 15 04:30:02 fe72747 kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: warning: vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 33235. Fsck? Jun 15 04:30:02 fe72747 kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: warning: zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry Jun 15 04:30:02 fe72747 kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: warning: vs-7000: search_by_entry_key: search_by_key returned item position == 0 Jun 15 04:30:02 fe72747 kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: warning: zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry Jun 15 04:30:03 fe72747 kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: warning: vs-7000: search_by_entry_key: search_by_key returned item position == 0 Jun 15 04:30:03 fe72747 kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: warning: zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry Jun 15 04:30:09 fe72747 kernel: PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space for 524288 bytes at device 0000:00:07.0 Jun 15 04:30:09 fe72747 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 233707817 Jun 15 04:30:09 fe72747 kernel: PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space for 524288 bytes at device 0000:00:07.0 Jun 15 04:30:09 fe72747 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 233708841 Jun 15 04:30:09 fe72747 kernel: PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space for 524288 bytes at device 0000:00:07.0 Jun 15 04:30:09 fe72747 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 233709865

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