June 2006 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Hanging SuperMicro Intel Suse 10.0
by brandon 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Hello, All seems perfect with this machine, however, it is hanging sometimes as quickly as 1 day, and sometimes 1 week. Nothing written to syslog. Dual Intel 2.8Ghz / Adaptec SCSI Zero Channel RAID 2010S SuperMicro - SuperServer 6024H-8R Motherboard - Super X6DH8-G Pheonix Server BIOS 3 Release 6.1 Adaptec Bios v001.62 i2o block driver I've tried default kernel from install. And compiled a 15.0, 15.8, and 15.10 kernel myself. All have same problem. I've tried desperately for crash dump functions. - lkcd: no patches for 2.6.13 kernels - kdump: patch for mkinitrd no good for automatic dump capture - mdump: no patches for suse kernels >From what I read I thought Suse was supposed to have lkcd already built into the source, but when I go to configure the kernel via 'make menuconfig' I don't see an option. Please help I'm at a loss to figure out how to stabilize this machine if I cannot capture a dump of these crashes. Brandon

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Error in service module
by Rene Salmon 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hi list, Got this error on suse 10.1 and was not able to login. Found this post that fixes the problem. > When receiving this message in SUSE 10.1 that means that in the file > /etc/pam.d/login the 3 last lines are wrong. Please comment out these > 3 last lines and everything will work fine. Just wondering is there are any security issues with commenting out the last 3 lines in /etc/pam.d/login? Thanks Rene -- - -- Rene Salmon Tulane University Center for Computational Science Alcee Fortier 102B New Orleans, LA 70118 http://www.ccs.tulane.edu Tel 504-862-8393 Fax 504-862-8392

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Parallel 32bit and 64bit installations of some apps
by Dylan 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hi all, I'm running 10.1 x_86-64 on my laptop. The only gripe I have is with certain media apps. In particular, the lack of x_86-64 builds of the Flashplayer plugin and the windows media codecs. So, I was wondering if it would be possible to have 64bit and 32bit versions of the affected apps installed. They would be Firefox and Mplayer, presumably with all their associated libraries. How complex would that end up being? Any comments welcome. Dylan -- "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." (Chinese Proverb) -- "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." (Chinese Proverb)

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SuSE64 and USB problems
by Leo [ListasLinux] 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi everybody! I just received my new notebook (ASUS A6KM, Turion MT32,1GbRam,Nvidia GeForce 7300 ...) and when i try to install any suse 64 bits version the system stops at this message: PCI: probing pci hardware (bus 00). I desactivate USB in BIOS and the system starts normally, but I want my usb working !!! With 32 bits SOs USB works and with Kubuntu 6.06 with acpi=off works, too. Anybody knows any solution to this problem ???? Thanks for all. Leo

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mounting USB drives on SUSE 10.1
by Michael Steinhauser 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hi, does anyone know how I can mount USB-drives in SUSE 10.1 with another windowmangager than kde/gnome? I?m usually running enlightenment with xfce-panel and taskbar. At time I?m only running XFCE, waiting for enlightenment 1.7 to come. I managed to mount the cdrom-device manually, but can?t do that for usb-devices. There is no entry in fstab for usb. There is an mention to use autofs, but i don?t know how to handle this. It seems, autofs is only loaded when nfs or samba is started. I have not found a way how to start the autofs-demon in sysconfig. I think it?s very sad there is no (little) support for Windowmanagers other than kde/gnome, those "wannebebetterthanwindows". Starting always in kde to read/write on usbdevieces is no real solution.

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dual boot 10.1 and XP
by Colin Carter 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

Hi, I installed XP (work related reasons only) on my 40 GB laptop. No problem. I then booted with SuSe 10.1 (64 bit) SuSe recommended re-sizing Windows and certain partitions. I accepted all recommendations. SuSE did well, all hardware came up properly. SuSe installed GRUB. Re-boot gives option of XP or SuSE. SuSe starts up as expected. But when I select XP the Windows splash screen appears and things hold up for about 10 seconds and then the BIOS starts its re-boot cycle and I get GRUB again. Because the Windows splash screen appears it is as though GRUB is re-directing correctly to Windows, and because it fails I suspect that SuSe has, somehow, upset Windows (maybe during the re-partitioning). Any ideas? Maybe, before I install SuSe, I need to either (a) switch off XP's 'recovery' function (I tried that, but it fell over) or (b) prevent the use of a swap file (I can't find such an option) Any ideas ? Thanks for any suggestions. Colin

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Re: [suse-amd64] libzypp for 64 bit
by patheve 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Hello All what you need at : http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/x86_64/update/10.1/rpm/x86_64/ Regards Pascal ============================== Message-ID: <20060615223246.53304.qmail(a)web81603.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:32:46 -0700 (PDT) From: <jwsthree(a)sbcglobal.net> Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] libzypp for 64 bit ----- Original Message ---- From: Thomas F. Williams <thomasfwilliams(a)mchsi.com> To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 2:43:03 PM Subject: [suse-amd64] libzypp for 64 bit Has the patch for libzypp for the updating 64 bit OS yet? Haven't seen it yet. Tom ------------------------------------- Try re-running Online-Update Configuration in YaST. Doing that set up a new update source for me and then the libzypp update showed up all of a sudden.

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kde screensaver has quit working...
by Tom Corr 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

I recently updated my system with the new libzypp updates. I then downloaded and installed all of the patches that it recommended. Now, however, I noticed my KDE screensaver has quit running. I can go to kde->configure desktop->screensavers and select any screensaver that i want and they all appear to work from there. I can even right-click my desktop and "lock" my screen, and the screensaver kicks right in. However, my screensaver does not start automatically after its designated time has lapsed. I have tried this with and without DPMS enabled, with no luck. Does anyone have any idea what went wrong? I'm using SuSE 10.1 with all of the latest updates, on an AMD Athlon 64, with a NVIDIA graphics card. Its a compaq r3000 series laptop.

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libzypp
by Thomas F. Williams 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Well, I changed the online update repository and I am getting libzypp 1.1.0-1.11 as the newest package. Is this correct? I am still having problems with the update. I see many when I try to do the update and sometimes it looks as if it does it. But when I go back in immediately to see the updates available or reboot afterward the same ones are there. Any ideas? I added a couple of mirrors to SMART and it says there are no interesting updates. Tom -- Gator's One Stop, LLC 130 Ga. Hwy. 93 N. Cairo, Ga. 39827-5715 229-377-4090

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libzypp for 64 bit
by Thomas F. Williams 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Has the patch for libzypp for the updating 64 bit OS yet? Haven't seen it yet. Tom -- Gator's One Stop, LLC 130 Ga. Hwy. 93 N. Cairo, Ga. 39827-5715 229-377-4090

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