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
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
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.
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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.
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.
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
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/
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?
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
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Hello,
after the update to suse 10.1 i tryed to configure my vmware
(workstation 5.5.1 build-19175) but it failed:
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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:~ #
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Have anybody the same problem ?
Have anybody a solution ?
thanks in advance
detlef
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