June 2006 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Turning Off/On SATA disk
by Jose Luis Ricardo Chavez 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hello guys (and gals), does anybody know if there is a (safe) way to force a SATA disk to enter the lowest power consumption mode (causing it to shut down) while having the possibility to reset it when needed? I'm looking for something similar to the options provided by the hdparm utility in the case of IDE disks. I plan to perform regular backups on two big SATA disks in an automated way, turning them on just to perform an incremental backup and then turning them off again. This may be a crazy idea, do you think it would be safer to just force the disks to spin down/up or even keeping them in full power mode? - José Luis

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Failed 10.1 Upgrade: systems halts after install
by Jogchum Reitsma 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Hi, I have tried to install 10.1 on a on MSI K8N Master2-FAR, (dual Opteron 240, 2GB mem and Matrox Parhelia). It ran 10.0 without any problems. When I try to upgrade, the upgrade itself seems to succeed, even up to the last step: displaying the release notes. At this moment in the upgrade process the system has already booted the new os from disk. If I click Finish (in Dutch it reads Voltooien), the system reboots, but hangs forever after displaying the step "Starting powerd". When I reset, and reboot, I get a little further: it mounts the 2 disks, enters level 5, but simply halts the system somewhere on the init 5 proces. To be more precise, it displays ¨Starting lampp", then a few seconds later it simply halts and powers off. Any idea what might be going wrong? Can I revert to 10.0 easily? thanks in advance, Jogchum

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USB problems
by m p 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

I recently updated my kernel through yast. Apparently just a security patch: 2.6.11.4-21.12-default I started to experience problems with my usb mouse: it would stop working after a while. Now it doesn't work at all. I haven't found any other report like that around. I'd appreciate if anyone can point me to further info. Looking around to get as much info as possible I checked the KDE utitility USB Devices. It lists the 3 HCI controller I have one EHCI and two OHCI. These last ones appear as having USB version 1.10. How can I check whether my usb port are usb2.0 or not? I'd be astonishing if they aren't USB2.0 compliant as I bought my laptop new just 1 year ago: Compaq Presario R4000 AMD 64 3200. SUSE9.3. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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SuSE 10.1 x86-64 + Crossover Office
by Col Jim Creech 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

I have never had any problem installing & using Crossover Office on any of my prior SuSE installs. However, with SuSE 10.1 x86-64, I immediately run into a "ulimit -v" (virtual memory available) problem. I can over come this issue by doing the following in a terminal as user: ulimit -v unlimited sh -c "/opt/cxoffice/bin/cxsetup" for example, and run Crossover Office setup just fine. I have written small scripts to this effect for each xover command & can run everything; however, I have icons all over my desktop. Surely there is a better way. I have this in /etc/profile.local: # #Setting for Crossover Office" # if test -v "$ulimit"; then ulimit -v unlimited But it doesn't seem to work. I must be doing something wrong. Anyone know how to fix this for the universal Crossover Office app so all commands work? Thanks for thinking on this issue.

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32bit perl
by Dieter Stüken 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

I installed perl-32bit-5.8.7-5.3 on SuSE 10.0 and got a bunch of 32bit shared libs under /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/i586-linux-thread-multi/. I may place my additional 32bit perl extensions here, too, but how can I use it? /usr/bin/perl is a native 64bit executable. So, I need something like /usr/bin/perl32... Dieter.

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suse 10.1 runs out of memory, then kernel panic
by Kevin Lewandowski 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Hello, I've installed suse 10.1 (amd64) on a new system and it hangs after a few hours of being up. The hardware is dual Opteron with 4 gigs of ram. After booting the system there are no applications running but my available memory (given by top) eventually goes from 4 gigs down to zero, giving this message on the console: "Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory and no killable processes...". I'm running kernel version 2.6.16.13-4-smp and have also tried 2.6.16-20-smp with the same results. Does anyone know what could be causing this problem? thanks, Kevin

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SuSE 10.1: Non-tls version of glibc?
by Bernd Paysan 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

We use Cadence here, and they compile parts of their software against a horribly old glibc without tls. So far, that has been no problem, since SuSE always provided a non-tls version of glibc, so the only thing to do was to set up the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a way that Cadence loads this version. Now 10.1 drops the non-tls version, and certainly the non-tls glibc from 10.0 won't run on 10.1, either. Any ideas what to do (ok, issue a bug report to Cadence, but you get what you pay for, when you pay too much: arrogant assholes, driving Porsches and not caring about customers ;-). -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/

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vsound no-record problem
by Chris Hegan 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

I have started running the 64-bit version of vsound (http://www.vsound.org/) on my 64-bit Suse 10 AMD system. The command to load a stream works and after the following message realplayer launches and plays the stream. Warning: LD_PRELOAD="/usr/local/lib/vsound/libvsound.so" ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/local/lib/vsound/libvsound.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. However, after I kill the stream vsound exits with its standard error message, leaving no sound file behind. /usr/lib64/vsound.so is present. I have tried linking /usr/lib/vsound.so to it. No joy. Any ideas?

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kernel update screwed my system
by Jonathan Brooks 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

Hi, I *was* running SuSE 10 x86_64 with no problems up until this morning when I installed the latest security patch (a new kernel). Now I have no network connection, my system is running at a snail's pace, and I can't even reboot the machine. I'm used to having to recompile my Nvidia graphics driver, and reconfigure vmware whenever I get a new kernel like this. Now the problem I seem to have is with my on-board NIC. In the past I have used Nvidia's nvnet kernel module to support the CK804 network interface, but this now seems to be screwed. Has anyone else noticed this behaviour? Anyone using an Nforce4 motherboard might think twice before applying this update, rather than just accepting it as I did. Any hints/tips on how I might fix this would be greatly appreciated. Sys details: Giga-byte Ultra9 Nforce4 mobo Athlon64 X2 4400+ SuSE 10.0 x86_64 Yours, Jon -- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Research Fellow PaIN Group, Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics Le Gros Clark Place, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX tel: 01865-282654 fax: 01865-282656

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suse 10.1 vmware problem
by detlef oertel 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

Hello, after the update to suse 10.1 i tryed to configure my vmware (workstation 5.5.1 build-19175) but it failed: --------------- sepia:~ #cd /usr/src/linux && make cloneconfig && make modules_prepare sepia:~ #cd sepia:~ # vmware-config.pl Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped. Stopping VMware services: Virtual machine monitor done Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 done Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 done DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 done NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 done Virtual ethernet done Configuring fallback GTK+ 2.4 libraries. In which directory do you want to install the mime type icons? [/usr/share/icons] What directory contains your desktop menu entry files? These files have a .desktop file extension. [/usr/share/applications] In which directory do you want to install the application's icon? [/usr/share/pixmaps] Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel. None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. Building the vmmon module. Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config40/vmmon-only' make -C /usr/src/linux/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.13-4' WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.16.13-4/Module.symvers is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions. CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config40/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o In file included from /tmp/vmware-config40/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:20, from /tmp/vmware-config40/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:49: /tmp/vmware-config40/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:37:5: warning: "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined /tmp/vmware-config40/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:43:5: warning: "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined In file included from /tmp/vmware-config40/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:20, from /tmp/vmware-config40/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:49: /tmp/vmware-config40/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:60: error: conflicting types for 'poll_initwait' include/linux/poll.h:45: error: previous declaration of 'poll_initwait' was here /tmp/vmware-config40/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:145: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type /tmp/vmware-config40/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:149: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config40/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config40/vmmon-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.13-4' make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config40/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module. For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and "http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html". Execution aborted. sepia:~ # --------------- Have anybody the same problem ? Have anybody a solution ? thanks in advance detlef -- detlef oertel Hafenstr. 15 55118 Mainz Tel +49 6131 963929 Fax +49 6131 963928 oertel(a)uib.de

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