openSUSE PPC May 2002

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27 discussions

by Damir Buskulic

Hi, I got some problems (disk access denied, bus errors,...) that led me to go into single user mode and fsck my partitions. I noticed then that there were some directories created in the tmp directory, called "dev" and "etc", and one file in the / directory called "success" with 0 length. At reboot, these files disapeared. Does anybody know if this could be a sign of a hacked computer ? I mean could someone have installed a rootkit or some such ? I'm not paranoid but this indeed seems strange. Cheers Damir -- ===================================================================== | Damir Buskulic | Universite de Savoie/LAPP | | | Chemin de Bellevue, B.P. 110 | | Tel : +33 (0)450091600 | F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex | | e-mail: buskulic(a)lapp.in2p3.fr | FRANCE | ===================================================================== mailto:buskulic@lapp.in2p3.fr

12 years, 5 months

RS/6000 43p 140 does not boot (SuSE 7.1)

by Alexander Achenbach

Hello everybody. Did anyone manage to successfully boot Linux on an RS/6000 43p 140 ? I tried using ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/7.1/unsorted/prep/43p_140/zImage.140.chrp and followed the instructions in the German SuSE manual (ie copied the image to an MS-DOS formatted floppy disk, renaming the image to "zimage" there). At the OpenFirmware prompt I typed boot floppy:,zimage root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 fake_initrd I also tried using ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/BETA/deflt/zImage.prep and followed the instructions on http://sdb.suse.de/de/sdb/html/olh_ppc_43p140.html (ie copied the image as a raw disk image using dd). At the OpenFirmware prompt I typed boot floppy:,\zImage In BOTH cases, the symptoms are identical: The floppy is read (takes half a minute or so). The OpenFirmware cursor moves to the next line or the line after that. The system freezes (or reboots after a long time). (None of the IPL or memory messages ever appear.) So obviously, none of these approaches works for me. What is the difference between the images copied as raw disk images and those copied as files on an MS-DOS disk? Which approach is *supposed* to work? Both are declared as solutions for 140 43p. BTW: The firmware version of the machine I tried this on is TIG97251. Thanks in advance for any hints or solutions. Alexander Achenbach

18 years, 4 months

crash in mod_php4

by Uwe Hees

Hello all, while developing a php based website hosted on my up-to-date SuSE 7.3/PPC box, I found apache crashing each time I tried to POST a form with encoding="multipart/form-data". The following patch applied to mod_php4 helped: --- main/rfc1867.c.orig Mon May 27 22:20:41 2002 +++ main/rfc1867.c Mon May 27 22:21:09 2002 @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ if (*bufp) efree(*bufp); *bufp = emalloc(n + 1); + va_start(ap,fmt); vsnprintf(*bufp, n + 1, fmt, ap); return; } This is pretty much the same problem that occurred with earlier squid builds. On the PPC it seems impossible to reuse a varargs list without first re-initializing it. Can someone point me to the principle problem with varargs on PPC? Is this a compiler bug? Is the reuse illegal? Greetings, Uwe

18 years, 8 months

Re: Re: [suse-ppc] ssh: Bash command not found

by comito＠infinito.it

Hi people hav anyone experienced to install KDE 3 on Linux SuSE PPC 7.3? I downloaded KDE from suse site, but after installation with yast the login is always with KDE 2. Infact KDE not update the old version but it addict itself on /opt/kde3. Plus, if I start kde 3 from failsafe it run in a very slow mode, such KDE 2. Anyone has some advice? Thanks in advance. Salvatore Segreterie VIP: attori, comici, personaggi TV! Voci famose rispondono per te! Scoprile qui http://genie.omitech.it/voicemail/

18 years, 8 months

ANNOUNCE: OpenOffice.org 1.0.0 is released for PPC Linux

by Kevin B.Hendricks

Hi, The official 1.0.0 release of OpenOffice.org for PPC Linux is now available! OpenOffice.org basically supplies an almost drop in replacement for Microsoft Office (and is getting better with every release). New in this release ---------------------- - new hyphenator - new "install" script to make installation easier - lots of stability improvements and bug fixes - improved KDE and GNOME desktop integration - lots of new dictionaries available from: http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/download_dictionary.html For more information including the full source code/ release notes / FAQs, etc check out the OpenOffice.org website: http://www.openoffice.org System Requirements ------------------------ - any ppc linux system with glibc 2.2.X or higher, - XFree86 4.0 or higher - 200 meg of free disk space This includes YellowDogLinux 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2, SuSE 7.3 and higher, MandrakeSoft 8.1, 8.2 Beta and Debian PPC. If you have success with any other PPC distributions, please let me know. Installation Instructions ------------------------- Please read the OOo_1.0.0_README for complete install instructions (installation is very different from most unix programs). If you run into trouble there is now a full OOo_install_guide.pdf to help. Download Locations ----------------------- The home for PPC Linux OpenOffice.org releases is: ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/software/openoffice/ Graciously mirrored at: http://ftp.penguinppc.org/projects/openoffice/ ftp://ftp.penguinppc.org/projects/openoffice/ ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/powerpc/openoffice/release-1.0.0/ Please let me know if you can/will mirror this release/ Thank you Dan Burcaw (YDL) for providing a new home of the PPC Linux OpenOffice.org project. And thanks to Olaf Hering ( of SuSE) and Jeramy Smith for (penguinppc.org) for graciously providing download locations for this (and earlier releases!). Please support our PPC Linux distributions and buy the latest distributions, they are helping to bring great new software to you! Thanks, Kevin Hendricks kevin.hendricks(a)sympatico.ca

18 years, 8 months

Linux on PPC

by Tobias Kerscher

Hi, this is a quit general question but I am interested in your knowledge: - Can you recommend installing Linux (e.g. SuSE) on a Mac? - Isn't OS X better? - Do you run OS X (or similar) parallel to Linux? Or do you run Linux under OS X (similar to vmware there are some "emulators" I think?) Thank you for your answers, yours Tobias

18 years, 9 months

Recompiling Apache

by Olivier Dobberkau

Hi, I'm running currently into some questions: My Setup: SUSE PPC 7.0 Apache/1.3.19 Server PHP 4.0.6 (manually compiled) Now im wondering. I would like to recompile apache myself, so that i works like the SuSE one. I managed to compile PHP and MySQL so that they are like the distributed ones. Short said: I want to Upgrade some Packages without breaking the SUSE PPC 7.0 Scheme... Any hints.. Thanks. Olivier -- Olivier Dobberkau . . . . . . . . . . . . d.k.d - creating your webspace digitale kommunikations dienste fon: 069 - 430561-70 fax: 069 - 430561-90 mail: olivier.dobberkau(a)dkd.de home: http://www.dkd.de

18 years, 9 months

UNSUSCRIBE

by Tarik ANSARI

UNSUSCRIBE

18 years, 9 months

KDE 3 working yet?

by Joss Winn

I made the mistake of installing an early version of SuSE KDE 3 from the ftp server. Are the latest rpms working now? Joss --

18 years, 9 months

installing 7.1/PPC on IBM Power Series 850

by Rainer Fuegenstein

hi, I tried to install suse linux 7.1/PPC on an IBM Power Series 850 machine (Model 6070-A2L, Power 604 processor, 64MB ram, 340 MB IDE disk, IDE cd rom drive, firmware 1.10) with no success. while this machine isn't explicitely listed as supported on the suse web site, according to http://penguinppc.org/projects/hollis/carolina/ it should be possible. I dd'ed zImage.prep and ramdisk.image.prep.gz to two 1.44 disks, booted from the first, entered the kernel parameters "root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 fake_initrd ramdisk_size=50000" and inserted the 2nd disk. the installer came up, I selected installation via ftp, entered the IP & server configuration, the installer successfully loaded the data into the ramdisk. the "starting yast" window came up but the progress bar stopped at 50% and didn't continue. I waited for more than 30 minutes, but nothing happened. I successfully installed AIX 4.4 on this machine so I don't think that the hardware is faulty. Any ideas ? Did anybody ever succeed installing suse linux on an IBM PPC 850 ? tnx in advance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rainer Fuegenstein rfu(a)kaneda.iguw.tuwien.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Why are you looking into the darkness and not into the fire as we do ?", Nell asked. "Because the darkness is where danger comes from," Peter said, "and from the fire comes only illusion". (from "The Diamond Age") ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

18 years, 9 months

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