February 2009 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] kpartx -d / activate_device_mapper -d
by Felix Miata 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

During 11.1 devel via https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397816 I setup device mapper on one system in order to access all actual partitions while using ata_piix driver. Now on that system I have a 2.6.29 kernel, so no longer need dm_linear. So far, I've had no luck reversing the process. Neither subject command seems to produce any impact. I ran both kpartx -d /dev/sda and activate_device_mapper -d /dev/sda before running mkinitrd, and still the resulting initrd features dm_linear and kpartx. /etc/udev/rules.d/dm_linear.rules did get a fresh write, while /etc/udev/rules.d/70-kpartx.rules did not. I blacklisted dm_linear & kpartx in /etc/modprobe.conf.local too, but that didn't help either. Short of a fresh install, how do I eliminate them, and go back to mounting directly to /dev/sda* devices instead of /dev/dm-* devices? -- "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up." Ephesians 4:29 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.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] ZYpp switch to aria2c as default
by Duncan Mac-Vicar P. 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

I have submited libzypp 6.1.0 to Factory. Which makes aria2c the default transfer backend for http/ftp. Read about what this means and some new features here: http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/507 I wanted to test a little more, but Factory still has 5.11.0 which is even older than 11.1 updates I think. So be sure to read the post and learn about ZYPP_ARIA2C=0 in case something breaks or you are hit by any regression (may be open issues with proxy, ipv6) ;-) Have fun! Duncan Mac-Vicar P. -- 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] Disable PulseAudio by default
by Alberto Passalacqua 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hello, PulseAudio has been one of the major sources of complaints and of problems for both the 11.0 and 11.1 release, with significant annoyances for openSUSE users, as reported on IRC and on local forums. As a consequence it is worth to consider the possibility to disable it by default on freshly installed systems for openSUSE 11.2. I opened an enhancement request to collect votes and motivations here https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478511 Please, keep the entry on bugzilla as clean as possible. All the discussion should be done here on the ML. To vote, please, don't simply add a "+1", but use the blue button to cast your votes (up to five per each user) in bugzilla. Thanks. With kind regards, Alberto -- 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] Buildnumber of LiveCD and NET isos
by Markus Koßmann 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

Is is intended that the Buildnumber of the isos was reset today ? The LiveCD was at Build0007 and is now at Build0001 and the NET ISO was at Build0020 and is now at Build0003. -- 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] gconftool-2 makes factory update slow
by Markus Koßmann 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Just updating factory I noticed that many gnome applications need a lot of time for running several instances of /usr/bin/gconftool-2 with --makefile- install-rule or --makefile-uninstall-rule arguments. in their install script. Compiz installation comsumed over 5 minutes for doing that Is this expected ? -- 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] rpm -e kernel runs mkinitrd
by Felix Miata 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Is this intended? This is happening when removing old kernels left by multi-version enabling, which makes each kernel package (2 or 3 per kernel) removal take an absurd long time to accomplish. Or, is what looks like mkinitrd in fact perl-bootloader tripping over a large menu.lst that started with about 9 kernels? -- "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up." Ephesians 4:29 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.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] Could we move to this version of prm [Rpm-maint] RPM 4.7.0 beta1 available
by Boyd Lynn Gerber 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Hello, I received this email and it would really assist us in our memory foot print if we could use this version of rpm. It seems we (openSUSE) are still using 4.4X. See message below. -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> 801 849-0213 ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:10:39 +0200 (EET) From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai(a)redhat.com> To: rpm-maint(a)lists.rpm.org, rpm-announce(a)lists.rpm.org Subject: [Rpm-maint] RPM 4.7.0 beta1 available Didn't expect a new version this soon? Frankly, we didn't either :) In the months that RPM 4.6.0 spent in stabilization phase of numerous release candidates we had plenty of time to work on new things, and as things have been fairly stable for a while now, it started looking like a good time to cut out a release. By far the most visible improvements over previous versions are in the area of performace: - Memory consumption in transactions has been reduced dramatically. A testcase of "everything install" of Fedora 10 used to top at near 1.5GB memory consumption, now the peak with the same package set is just over 300MB. Also gone is the quadratic memory consumption on large number of identical basenames. After the peak during Preparing-stage, heap consumption drops to mere megabytes during the actual transaction. - File conflict checking / fingerprinting runs an order of magnitude faster, especially for upgrades and erasures. There are of course lots of other improvements and fixes too, for more details (and download information) see the draft release notes: http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.7.0 On behalf of the rpm-team, - Panu - _______________________________________________ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint(a)lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint -- 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] Language Support improves itself on factory
by Markus Koßmann 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Something seems to be broken here. Everytime I run zypper dup it installs two new language bundles: ypper dup Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Computing distribution upgrade... The following packages are going to be upgraded: bundle-lang-common-fr bundle-lang-gnome-fr The following NEW packages are going to be installed: bundle-lang-common-hu bundle-lang-gnome-hu Overall download size: 12.0 M. After the operation, additional 4.3 M will be used. Continue? [YES/no]:Y Retrieving package bundle-lang-gnome-hu-11.1-11.3.noarch (1/4), 1.6 M (4.4 M unpacked) Retrieving: bundle-lang-gnome-hu-11.1-11.3.noarch.rpm [done] Installing: bundle-lang-gnome-hu-11.1-11.3 [done] Retrieving package bundle-lang-common-hu-11.1-11.2.noarch (2/4), 537.0 K (1.9 M unpacked) Retrieving: bundle-lang-common-hu-11.1-11.2.noarch.rpm [done (496 B/s)] Installing: bundle-lang-common-hu-11.1-11.2 [done] Retrieving package bundle-lang-gnome-fr-11.1-18.1.noarch (3/4), 9.3 M (14.4 M unpacked) Retrieving: bundle-lang-gnome-fr-11.1-18.1.noarch.rpm [done (556.2 K/s)] Installing: bundle-lang-gnome-fr-11.1-18.1 [done] Retrieving package bundle-lang-common-fr-11.1-16.4.noarch (4/4), 607.0 K (2.0 M unpacked) Retrieving: bundle-lang-common-fr-11.1-16.4.noarch.rpm [done] Installing: bundle-lang-common-fr-11.1-16.4 [done] # zypper dup Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Computing distribution upgrade... The following packages are going to be upgraded: bundle-lang-common-hu bundle-lang-gnome-hu The following NEW packages are going to be installed: bundle-lang-common-it bundle-lang-gnome-it Overall download size: 7.0 M. After the operation, additional 9.9 M will be used. Continue? [YES/no]:Y Retrieving package bundle-lang-gnome-it-11.1-11.3.noarch (1/4), 4.6 M (8.4 M unpacked) Retrieving: bundle-lang-gnome-it-11.1-11.3.noarch.rpm [done (655.1 K/s)] Installing: bundle-lang-gnome-it-11.1-11.3 [done] Retrieving package bundle-lang-common-it-11.1-11.2.noarch (2/4), 474.0 K (1.7 M unpacked) Retrieving: bundle-lang-common-it-11.1-11.2.noarch.rpm [done (37.7 K/s)] Installing: bundle-lang-common-it-11.1-11.2 [done] Retrieving package bundle-lang-gnome-hu-11.1-18.1.noarch (3/4), 1.4 M (4.0 M unpacked) Retrieving: bundle-lang-gnome-hu-11.1-18.1.noarch.rpm [done (73.0 K/s)] Installing: bundle-lang-gnome-hu-11.1-18.1 [done] Retrieving package bundle-lang-common-hu-11.1-16.4.noarch (4/4), 613.0 K (2.0 M unpacked) Retrieving: bundle-lang-common-hu-11.1-16.4.noarch.rpm [done] Installing: bundle-lang-common-hu-11.1-16.4 [done] # zypper dup Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Computing distribution upgrade... The following packages are going to be upgraded: bundle-lang-common-it bundle-lang-gnome-it The following NEW packages are going to be installed: bundle-lang-common-ja bundle-lang-gnome-ja Overall download size: 7.1 M. After the operation, additional 6.4 M will be used. Continue? [YES/no]: -- 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] smbnetfs
by Joachim Reichelt 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Hi, does it make sense to include smbnetfs into openSUSE? -- Joachim -- 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] why three kernel rpm on 11.1 system? how to apply kotd package(s)?
by cagsm 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

hi there, i am wondering why i have there kernel rpm packages installed on my opensuse 11.1 system? i think it used to be only one kernel rpm package still back in opensuse 11.0 atm i have: kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.7-9.1 kernel-pae-extra-2.6.27.7-9.1 kernel-pae-2.6.27.7-9.1 and i wanted to fool around with kotd a bit. i suppose i need to look at the "pae" named rpm files in http://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/SLE11_BRANCH/i586/ in what way and in what order do i apply those newer pae rpm packages from the kotd directory above? its been a while since my last manual kernel package installations. is there any current howto or best-practices document about opensuse kernels as of 11.1 or factory? i dont seem to find any kind of kotd documentation and i fail to find about the reason and origin why we are having three kernel packes in 11.1 installed. thanks for pointers explanations. -- 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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