May 2006 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Arch upgrade question
by Joe Morris (NTM) 17 May '06

17 May '06

I have an office server that has been running SuSE since 6.4. It now has 9.3 i386 installed and working fine. The other day the ide controller started going on the motherboard. I decided to replace it with an amd64 based board. I have been running x86_64 at home since 9.1, so I have a few years experience with x86_64, but I thought I would ask this list before I try something stupid. I would love to install the x86_64 version. Can I just pop in the 9.3 DVD and do an upgrade install of 9.3 x86_64 over top of the present 9.3 i386 install? Thanks for any insight and experiences you might give. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871

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RE: Suse sle 9.2 - kernel problem compilation.
by Rosario Chella (R) 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi all, I am trying to upgrade Suse 9.2 SLE with one of the latest kernel BUT I end up with kernel panic error. I have noticed that the partitions are all hde instead of hda and on reboot the boot partition cannot be found. The motherboard is an Asus K8V-SE Deluxe with an AMD 64bit processor. There is a controller on board (promise sata) which has been disabled and the HDD used is a normal EIDE. Can you please give me an idea on this problem. Have you guys had this problem before? PS. I have tried the "reverse" boot option but it doesn't work. Thanks, Rosario Chella ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail and its contents are subject to the Telkom SA Limited e-mail legal notice available at http://www.telkom.co.za/TelkomEMailLegalNotice.PDF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Sound
by Carlos Júnior ..::.. Boa Noite BH 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi folks!! hi upgraded my system, and then, my sound stopped to work...... the message from my alsamixer is alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device alsaconf detect my sound board (intel8x0 ALi M5455 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device).... but on the sound test i can't hear the sound.... alsaconf puts this message ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:955:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device ALSA lib conf.c:3962:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default aplay: main:540: audio open error: No such device can somebody help-me? -- Cordialmente, Carlos Júnior <junior(a)milk-it.net> Analista de Desenvolvimento Web (31) 9244-6543

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10.0 cannot see all ram
by Michael Galloway 16 May '06

16 May '06

i have a newly installed 10.0 box that only sees 6 of its 8GB ram. hwinfo sees the ram: chinstrap:/proc # hwinfo --memory 01: None 00.0: 10102 Main Memory [Created at memory.59] Unique ID: rdCR.CxwsZFjVASF Hardware Class: memory Model: "Main Memory" Memory Range: 0x00000000-0x1fff8fbff (rw) Memory Size: 8 GB Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown as does the bios. free (/proc/meminfo) only sees 6GB: chinstrap:/proc # free -t total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 6115536 263548 5851988 0 45220 134680 -/+ buffers/cache: 83648 6031888 Swap: 8514440 0 8514440 Total: 14629976 263548 14366428 i tried passing mem=8192M to the kernel, but then it only saw 4GB. i don't need a bigsmp kernel do i? the system is currently at this kernel release: chinstrap:/proc # uname -a Linux chinstrap 2.6.13-15.8-smp #1 SMP Tue Feb 7 11:07:24 UTC 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux the installer correctly indentified 8GB as well. thanks for any help! -- michael

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Debugging a 32-bit code by DDD on a 64-bit laptop
by Maura Edeweiss Monville 15 May '06

15 May '06

I compiled one routine (m15gui.c) belonging to a big Monte Carlo package with compiler option -g to build the symbol table just for this routine only. It sounds confusing. But what I did is to append the routine source file "m15gui.c" to the GNUmakefile as follows: SRCS := marsmain.f m1505.f m5gui.c Then I replaced the original compiler and linker options: CFLAGS := -O3 -xarch=v8 LDFLAGS := -fast -xarch=v8 -xlang=f77 -L/usr/openwin/lib with the following: CFLAGS := -g -xarch=v8 LDFLAGS := -fast -g -C -xs -xildoff -xarch=v8 -xlang=f77 -L/usr/openwin/lib It compiled fine. The program I wish to debug resides in /home/mauede/mars15/dev When I launch DDD and open the program a message window pops up. The title is: DDD No Source The message reads as follows: /home/mauede/mars15/dev/sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S: no such file or directory OK Help Please, notice that my laptop is 64-bit and the message above sounds like it's searching for some 32-bit feature ... ? I'm debugging a 32-bit code....... Are the DDD settings to be changed ? If this is the case then how shall I change them ??? Thank you so much for your help, -- Maura E.M

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Failed 10.1 Upgrade: RPM Crashing During Install
by Jason Vertrees 15 May '06

15 May '06

Howdy, I tried upgrading from 10.0 to 10.1, first through the network install, then through the ISOs. Both methods result in the same problem: the RPM installer in the background crashes time and time again. More specifically, when I finalize the package selections and start the upgrade, RPM first tries to remove some packages and then installs the new packages -- it crashes during removal and install, many many times. Pretty much after each crash, I get a dialog asking to Retry, Ignore or Abort. Retry works sometimes. By switching to console I see that RPM is dying and leaves a segfault RIP w/address trace for each crash. The installer GUI does not crash, just the RPM. My BIOS is fresh, the hardware is known good on other versions (most notably, SuSe Linux AMD64 9.2, 9.3, 10.0), different mirrors and sources were tried, ACPI/APIC have been en/disabled, and I've Googled and read lots of documentation. Some folks are having RPM issues, but I haven't found this one. Hardware: Dual Opteron 240 MSI K8T800 Master2-FAR, NVidia 5950 Ultra, 1GB RAM, SATA. Comments, ideas? Many Thanks, -- Jason -- Jason Vertrees BSCB Graduate Student @ UTMB, Galveston javertre(a)utmb.edu :: http://www.bscb.utmb.edu

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Re: [suse-amd64] Failed 10.1 Upgrade: RPM Crashing During Install
by dennis mueller 15 May '06

15 May '06

Hi > > Howdy, > > > > I tried upgrading from 10.0 to 10.1, first through the network install, then > > through the ISOs. Both methods result in the same problem: the RPM installer > > in the background crashes time and time again. > > > i had more or less the same issue. i used the unsupported kde updates and every time the installer wanted to install a package, that was already installed he printed a dialog to "retry abort or ignore". the point is that the installer thinks you just used the YOU updates. but if you updated your system with some other stuff there will be some rpms on your system, which the installer doesn't expect there. if this is your problem you have two options. 1) click a thousand times abort during install for every package that already exists. or 2) (that did the trick on my system) abort the install. put cd1 back in and start again the update to 10.1. then go to your software managment and update all packages. (right click ->update all in list) than continue with your installation. everything works fine for me... if this is not your problem i have no idea by now. :/ best wishes and good luck dennis.

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Migration
by Carlos Júnior ..::.. Boa Noite BH 15 May '06

15 May '06

Hi people! I'm newbie on Suse Linux... prev I used Debian, but I wanted try Suse. I have a question: Wat are the particularitities of Suse that makes it different of the others Linux distros? -- Cordialmente, Carlos Júnior <junior(a)milk-it.net> Analista de Desenvolvimento Web (31) 9244-6543

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Better multiprocessor support in 10.1?
by Jim Kroger 13 May '06

13 May '06

Hi, I have 9.2 and was told by a tech as Suse that 10.1 would be better suited for machines with multiple processors (my IBM has dual 248 Opterons, 8 gigs of ram). Can anyone help me understand how this will impact me? I do number crunching with matlab. I'd like to run two matlabs at once (it is not multi threaded). Thanks Jim

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Erratic behavior of the System tray applet
by Sheo Shanker Prasad 11 May '06

11 May '06

Please help. I will greatly appreciate it if anyone could help me in fixing the erratic behavior of the various components (or parts) of Systray Applet that can be added (at user's desire) to the Panel bar. I am using SUSE 9.3 on a dual Opteron machine. Yesterday, I was getting the bluetooth, Kinternet, SUSE Hardware tool, KPowersave, Kclipper, KAMix, SUSE Watcher, a button to start KsCD, a button to adjust the resolution of the monitor, and most useful butter named Ethernet Connection. This last named button was very useful because it enabled me to disconnect and connect to the Internet without the need to execute ifdown eth0 & ifup eth0 as a Superuser. However, on all a sudden today I cannot get the Ethernet connection button and I also cannot get the button for adjusting the monitor ? This had happened before also. But previously, I could remove the System Tray from the menu and then add it again then both the missing buttons would come back. But now I cannot do even that. I cannot get it even after reboot. Please help in regaining the Ethernet connection button in the System Tray. 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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