April 2008 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] modules gobble disk space with built kernel
by Felix Miata 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

/lib/modules/(stock2.6.21kernel)# du -s 60804 . /lib/modules/(my2.6.21kernel)# du -s 538292 . That's a 785% increase in space consumed by my modules over stock modules. Does that happen for anyone building their own Factory kernel? Can a more normal space consumption be made to happen by a mere mortal kernel building novice like myself? What I did was: 1-apply the patch from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7513 2-zcat /proc/config.gz > .config 3-make menuconfig to add smbfs and change the CONFIG_LOCALVERSION 4-make 5-make modules_install 6-INSTALL_PATH=/boot make install 7-fix the resulting broken /boot/grub/menu.lst -- "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] AIGLX
by Francis Giannaros 30 May '08

30 May '08

Users tend to ask about AIGLX quite a bit. Why do we not have this enabled by default, where possible? Xgl is nice and a lot of people prefer it (including myself), but a lot of people prefer using AIGLX too. Having it enabled by default where possible of course also provides the possibility of switching between compiz/kwin/metacity easier too. If not setting it up by default, perhaps we could consider having a script similar to gnome-xgl-switch for setting it up a little more easily for users. Any thoughts? Regards, -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] FYI: Freetype is broken in FACTORY
by Andreas Jaeger 30 May '08

30 May '08

FYI: Current freetype in FACTORY is broken, use the version from Alpha4 instead of updating, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-factory] Unused direct dependencies
by Christian Morales Vega 28 May '08

28 May '08

I make a quick test on openSUSE 10.3, not sure about how it's in Factory but I don't see a better mailing list. I just run "ldd -u -r /usr/bin/*" and... the list is big!!! Someone has looked the problem in detail? Is memory usage or startup time notably increased because of this? In any case these unused direct dependencies, even if they are indirect dependencies, end like *unneeded* "requires" in RPM metadata, correct? What impact have them in metadata size and resolver time? There are some cases where the number is *really* high. $ readelf -d /usr/bin/vumeter | grep NEEDED | wc -l 61 $ ldd -u -r /usr/bin/vumeter | wc -l 53 Note that I have no idea what vumeter is, it's just a random example I saw it in the list. There are easy solutions? I suppose that if right now all packages aren't built with -Wl,--as-needed is because that would break a lot of things. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] no automagic reboot?
by Peter Czanik 28 May '08

28 May '08

Hello, Is there any way to disable the automatic reboot at the end of installation? I know, I have ten seconds to cancel it, but it is quite boring to wait for it :-) If there isn't (and I could not find anything related on http://en.opensuse.org/linuxrc ), then I'll add a feature request for it. Background: I have a PPC machine, where the installer does not install a bootable kernel. Right now all I can do is to boot inst32, go through all of the linuxrc menus up to the point where I can start an installed OS. Then once installation is finished, then go to the command line and run: mkzimage --vmlinux /boot/vmlinux --initrd /boot/initrd --cmdline root=/dev/sdaX --output /boot/zImage (or just mkzimage --vmlinux /boot/vmlinux --initrd /boot/initrd --output /boot/zImage , as most users prefer to add boot parameters at firmware level, and it would also make scripting of it simpler). Of course, the ideal situation would be, if Olaf did not oppose this solution, and it was done automagically on each kernel install/upgrade. But until that I would like to do this before rebooting the machine and without needing to catch that 10 seconds, so going through linuxrc menus could be avoided and the real kernel could be used. BTW: this is especially problematic now, due to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569 Bye, CzP --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Feature request: open-vm-tools as part of the release
by Sunny 16 May '08

16 May '08

Hi, I always try new test releases in a VMware virtual machines. The current opensuse 11.0 alpha 2 fails to compile the supplied vmware-tools modules, as the VMware package does not support 2.6.24 kernels. VMWare have open-sourced the tools here: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ I have tried to build from these sources, and the modules build OK and integrated in 10.0 alpha2. So, I suggest that an rpm is build out of these sources, and included as standard with any opensuse release, so it can flawlessly be used in virtual machines. Is there a better place than this mailing list to post such a feature request? Like bugzilla, or something else? 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] Experiences with Beta 1
by Michael Schmuker 05 May '08

05 May '08

I just installed Beta 1 (x86_64), and I must say I'm impressed! It feels faster than 10.3 overall, and especially zypper has finally become fast enough to outperform smart. Even most rough edges of KDE4 have been smoothened out. Kudos to the developers! But I also noticed the following two issues: 1) I can't drag-and-drop from the KDE4 desktop to Dolphin, e.g. when I download something with Firefox and it gets saved to ~/Desktop by default. That's sort of inconvenient. 2) I can't connect to my WPA-encrypted WIFI-network with NetworkManager in KDE4. The connection seems to time out. Apart from that, I'm very fond of Beta 1 already, and much looking forward to Beta 2! Cheers, Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Error message when trying to update with openSUSE updater
by Doctor Who 05 May '08

05 May '08

The message that appears as a pop-up is: "--terse is not implemented, does nothing" Where does this come from and how can it be circumvented or suppressed? It appears that it may keep a number of packages from being updated. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] dhcp not working anymore
by Putrycz, Erik 02 May '08

02 May '08

I upgraded last night from alpha 1 to factory and my network controller cannot get a DHCP address anymore. There is no error message anywhere, just the dhpcd timeout on waiting for an address... My computer is a Dell Precision 390 and the integrated controller is a Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02). I have the 64 bit version installed. Erik. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] 11.0B2
by Ken Schneider - Factory 01 May '08

01 May '08

Will delta rpm's be used for the B1 - B2 update? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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