March 2008 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] No SMB authentication during install
by Sunny 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

I'm just trying a new network install from factory (alpha 2plus?). The diff I see with 11 alpha 2 from the dvd is, that when it comes to the stage to enter a system user, the dvd install had the option to use SMB authentication method. The factory install offers only local /etc/passwd. I think this is a "downgrade". Any ideas why the SMB was removed? Cheers -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Curl (and thus zypper) and proxy auto configuration scripts
by Dominique Leuenberger 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

Hello, in our company, for Internet Explorer, Firefox and the like, we have setup a proxy autoconfiguration script (proxy.pac) to have centralized management of how browsers connect and what proxy they use, including possible exception rules. Can such a PAC also be used by curl? So far I did not find anything that seems to work (in fact it might be a bit to complex for curl, as a PAC is a JS file... and thus ajavascript engine would be required). But it would be very handy to have this feature.. and maybe I'm just missing out on how to set things up? Otherwise: do you think an enhancement request has any value to get added at a future point? Dominique --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Installation: lightweight VNC server
by Lukas Ocilka 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

Hi, I just went through the new installation images searching for any huge binaries or libraries (or any other big files). I've found that we use Xvnc server (for remote installation). Only the binary takes 3.8 MB (of course, installation image is compressed). I'm asking here because FACTORY users have often broad knowledge of several alternatives. Don't you know any 'better' and smaller (binary size, memory consumptions, less libraries) than the current Xvnc? Ideally we have it in build service... Of course, it has to cover the same range of features we currently use. Some hints: * FreeNX http://freenx.berlios.de/ * TightVNC http://myprogs.net/program/44ec3a0569499cc480f1fafabb8aebbb/TightVNC * any other? http://nixbit.com/search/vnc-server/ Any ideas, opinions, experience? Thanks and Bye Lukas -- Lukas Ocilka, YaST Developer (xn--luk-gla45d) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ano, ano. Moudry rozkaz. Sam jsem nemel v tech gratulacich jasno.

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[opensuse-factory] (resent) Mastered openSUSE 11.0 Alpha2plus
by Stephan Kulow 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

[This is what I just announced to our internal community, please take it as an extended status report for Factory] Hi, As Alpha2 is already a month ago and we need more testing before publishing Alpha3, I decided to master a snapshot - and call it (out of tradition) Alpha2plus. This release won't be published (of course everyone can do Factory installations and will get the same snapshot), it's merely to have a fixed snapshot with a name. It also has many bugs still, but ever since hackweek I tried to get a snapshot without blocker bugs and this one is the first one, so I want to have it out for more testing - even if we're aware of several critical: - the package bindings do not work correctly, so every decision yast does based on packages installed fails (bug 367210). This includes: * wrong runlevel chosen * no Xorg config in second stage * always tries to use gdm even if not installed - ncurses frontend in second stage (always used, see above) will complain about `back_rep twice (bug 367213) - second stage will ask about auth method even if you created user in first stage (bug 364066) Now that you're aware of the most annoying bugs, let me list some highlights produced since alpha2 (partly during hackweek): - zypp speed improved dramatically (faked statistics speak about factor 10) - a new theme is used for installation - tons of bug fixes and new versions of packages, only to list a little selection: * kernel 2.6.24.1 * cups 1.3.6 * gimp 2.4.5 * GNOME 2.21.91 * KDE 3.5.9 * KDE 4.0.1 * OpenOffice.org 2.4 RC2 Greetings, Stephan -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] 11.0 default filesystems again
by Sid Boyce 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Not wishing to reopen old flames and wounds, but in the last 2 days I have had problems with ext3. On this 11.0 Alpha2 box I have /dev/sdb1 as / (JFS) 500G SATA /dev/sdb2 /boot (reiserfs) /dev/sda1 /ftp (ext3) 320G SATA Suddenly there was a system freeze that needed a hard reset and when booting, after the grub selection, a black screen appeared. I had to boot from 11.0 Alpha2 CD and run fsck. The ext3 partition was the one with the problem and it took ages to get through. The fsck for the reiserfs and JFS were all clean. Last night on a box belonging to a relative on which I did a fresh 10.3 install to a new HD /dev/sda1 (160G PATA ext3), with the old 10.0 HD as /dev/sdb2 (80G PATA reiserfs), I inadvertently pulled the wrong plug and powered the box off. The ext3 drive drive took over an hour to fix, the reiserfs drive took minutes, complaining of 3 errors, quickly fixed with --fix-fixable. Is there any chance we could have JFS as an install choice for 11.0? Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] YaST Backup is using a new .process SCR agent
by Lukas Ocilka 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Hi, I would like to announce that YaST Backup package [0] has been changed to use the new ag_process [1] instead of the obsolete ag_background [2]. Less technically it means that the layer that communicates with the backup scripts under the UI has been replaced with another. Er, was it really 'less technically' ;)? If (you use YaST Backup) { Please; Check that the new version does the same as the old one before; // It might be also a bit faster now. // It may contain nuts! } else { Please; Make sure you backup your data somehow else; } This applies to package yast2-backup-2.16.2 and later. Have a nice day Lukas [0] http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Modules/System_Backup [1] http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/yast/trunk/core/agent-process/ [2] http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/yast/trunk/core/agents-perl/ -- Lukas Ocilka, YaST Developer (xn--luk-gla45d) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ano, ano. Moudry rozkaz. Sam jsem nemel v tech gratulacich jasno.

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[opensuse-factory] Upper Limit RAM?
by Stefan Kunze 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Is there an Upper Limit for RAM in Opensuse? I just had a customer with Opensuse 10.3 and 64 GB ! of RAM. he reported a extremely slow performance. The computer used Xeon processsors (i don't know the exact motherboard) and a single hard drive ( 2 GB Swap Partition). Its of course an 64-bit Architecture. The memory setup was 16 Slot x 4 GB module. Is there any blatant reason (other then too much RAM) for this. I assume that it will be maybe a topic for the future , thats why i am asking over the factory list? Any help is appreciated. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Question about udev
by Sid Boyce 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

I end up with interface names such as "wlan0_rename_re". Used rescue to rm /proc and /sys, followed by "md proc sys", also renamed "wlan0_rename_re" to "wlan0", yet udev keeps giving me "wlan0_rename_re". I couldn't find any reference in /dev. What's the way to fix this? "yast2 lan" only ever gives me a choice of "WEP" and I need "WPA-PSK". I hand edited the sysconfig file and got it to work, but upgrading to dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-308/309 results in a buffer overflow on 3 boxes so far..... WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - wlan0_rename_re (DHCP) . *** buffer overflow detected ***: /sbin/dhcpcd terminated Submitted bug #366789 - error during boot and with "rcnetwork restart". Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 10
by Stephan Kulow 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

Hi, Since Hackweek I'm waiting for a build to make Alpha2+ out of it, but unfortunately there were several reasons why this did not work out yet. Right now factory will start yast in gdb for some weired "bash reason" and will crash while creating users. Both issues were FIXED today, so possibly I have something tomorrow. I do not plan to publish this release though as it will just be a snapshot, but we'll use it internally to test and improve installation. The overall status of Factory is pretty good these days, the "new zypp" project went pretty smooth, even though there were some glitches - that we expected, we just didn't know how they would look exactly :) We have 22 build failures at the moment for i386 (44 for ppc, there seems to be a generic problem on that arch). This is excellent progress from the ~70 we saw ever since we started with releasing alphas. So hopefully beta1 will see a 0. Ah! in case you wonder why there hasn't been an update to the factory live cds after my initial announcement: there was always another problem with them. Right now kiwi seems to create a broken initrd, so you can't boot them ;( Greetings, Stephan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] IcedTea (Java 1.7) and Juniper VPN Software
by Dominique Leuenberger 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

Hello, For the transition to Java 1.7 (IcedTea) I tried on factory to connect to our Corp VPN. With Java 6 plugin for firefox, this worked so far. Unfortunately, with the new Java 1.7, the website only tells me that there is no JRE installed. The verification on java.sun.com, to check if java is installed, works and it detects Java 1.7 being there. Where can I report this (hopefully somewhere else than Juniper..) Dominique --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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