January 2006 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[WARNING] Don't use drpmsync while repository is broken
by Robert Schiele 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Hi everybody! I recommend not using drpmsync with the Factory repository at the moment until https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=143260 is fixed because if you run drpmsync at the moment you will lose about 1/3 of all your packages what will lead to the annoying situation that you have to redownload them as _full_ packages instead of deltas again when the problem is fixed. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."

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faster reboot with kexec, debugging panics with kdump
by Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Hi, it seems kexec support was merged in the latest SUSE 10.1 snapshot. This enables you to skip the BIOS when rebooting. Especially if your BIOS is slow/buggy/whatever, this is a really nice feature to have. To test it, install kexec-tools from latest factory snapshot and a recent kernel (those from factory are recent enough). Boot into single user. # kexec -l --command-line="`cat /proc/cmdline`" --initrd=/boot/initrd /boot/vmlinuz # remount ro / # kexec -e You should now see the new kernel booting. I have had success with both my recent Samsung laptop and an old 600 MHz machine with SCSI. The time saved (compared to a normal reboot) was: Samsung laptop, 1600 MHz: 12 seconds No-name machine, 600 MHz, SCSI disks/cdrom: 31 seconds If you always hated the time it takes to reboot a server or your home machine, that might make you happy. Benefits of kexec: - Reboot is faster - The BIOS has no chance to throw errors on you - The above is especially true if you use FakeRAID controllers - You don't have to wait until the SCSI controller has enumerated all devices - You don't depend on a working GRUB or LILO configuration - You could even abuse it to install a newer version of SUSE Linux without booting from CD/DVD/floppy Caveats: - Some hardware might not work after kexec'ing the new kernel. This can be fixed in the driver for that hardware - Video problems like no display or corrupted display are possible. Please try "kexec -e --reset-vga" as last command or disable vesafb - Somebody needs to hack /sbin/reboot to kexec an already loaded kernel if there is one Additional cool features (kdump): - You might use kexec to load a special crashdump kernel which is started if your kernel panics. That kernel can save all relevant debugging info and write it to disk safely, even if the panic happens while you're using X11 or there is some other reason why you can't see or capture the panic - Unfortunately, I can't get kdump to run on my machine, but you might be luckier Hey, if we're lucky and it works for everyone, we might even get kexec supported as optional fastrebooting solution. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/

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Could not load any usb module
by Juan Erbes 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

With versions alpha 3 and 4, I could'nt use any usb device, and yesterday, I found that the system not loads anu usb module, and if I will to load with "insmod usbcore", the system not finds this module; I must give the full path (/lib/modules../../../usbcore.ko). If I will to load the usb-storage module with "insmod /lib/modules../../../usb-sorage.ko", the system says that could'nt find /lib/modules../../../usb_sorage.ko. Note the diference betwen usb_sorage.ko and usb-sorage.ko. Thanks

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new beta1 version
by Chema Ollés 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Hi all: I see this another time with other alpha version. beta1 version will appear on Jan 19 but if I download now Jan 6 suse-release-oss-10.0.42-9.i586.rpm from http://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse... I can see this: SUSE LINUX 10.0.42 (i586) OSS Beta1 Is possible that it does not have importance but bothers that differences of dates... Regards -- Chema Ollés Usuario Linux: #198057 Linux 2.6.15-rc5-git3-2-smp #1 SMP Wed Dec 14 13:10:38 UTC 2005 i686

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Udev rules
by Juan Erbes 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

I could'nt configure any usb device, because yast do'nt detect it, because not loads any usb module (for example, the usb printer). I have updated the system via apt, and have the kernel from the date 29/12/05, but the yast modules are not completely updated. For configure the sound, I must run alsaconf, and later the yast, and restarting the kde, and then the sound works; but if I restart completelly the system the sound do'nt works, because not loads any sound module, and the sound devices has disappeared. I mean that the problem, is that yast do'nt writes the udev rules. Can You tell me how it works? Thanks, Juan

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ppc boot cd
by Peter Czanik 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Hello, boot.ppc.iso does not seem to be useable. It does not contain a bootable kernel :( Any timeframe, when it will be fixed? I wanted to test it this year... Bye, CzP

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boot problems
by Peter Czanik 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

Hello, I downloaded opensuse factory yesterday (dec. 27.) for i386 and ppc. First of all: I could not find a bootable kernel image on the PPC boot disk (boot.ppc.iso), so PPC testing is postponed until I can start installation... And my problems on x86 (a Compaq nx8220 notebook): - there was an unsolved dependency, that 'alsa-tools' needs 'alsa-firmware 1.0.10'. Later I saw, that it was actually installed :) - and a show stopping bug (for me): the installed grub does not work on my machine: when I choose 'windows' from the menu, it reboots, when I choose any of the Linux menu entries, it just freezes, and nothing happens (the wonderfull christmas tree remains on screen). So, I put back 10.0... Bye, CzP

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opensuse 10.1alpha4 - no Networking
by Daryl Creedy 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Hello, I have just installed 10.1alpha 4 and can not get networking to work. This has worked in all previous versions. Network card is :Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Marvell* Yukon* 88E8050 PCI Express* Gigabit Ethernet Controller The sysKonnect driver is supposed to work with it, but no joy. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Daryl

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