openSUSE PPC July 2002

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am I hacked ?
by Damir Buskulic 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

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

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RS/6000 43p 140 does not boot (SuSE 7.1)
by Alexander Achenbach 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

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

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ANNOUNCING: OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 for PPC Linux
by Kevin B. Hendricks 28 Sep '02

28 Sep '02

Announcing: OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 for PPC Linux What is it? -------------- OpenOffice.org provides a free (source LGPL and no $) almost drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office and is available for Solaris (Sparc and x86), Linux (x86 and PPC), WIN (NT, 200, XP, 98, 95, etc), and coming real soon now (RSN) for FreeBSD, NetBSD, Irix, and Mac OSX. It provides almost transparent file access to Microsoft Office files. Please see http://www.openoffice.org for more info and additional download sites for major platforms. PPC Linux specific download sites are provided below. What's New in This Release? ------------------------------ - built using gcc-3.1.1 pre - improved font handling - new shared dictionary support - user-installed hyphenation dictionaries now possible - huge number of bug fixes and stability improvments For a more complete listing of fixed bugs: http://tools.openoffice.org/releases/changelog.html This version should work on stock Debian, SuSE 7.3, YDL 2.2 and YDL 2.3, and almost any other PPC Linux distribution using at least glibc 2.2.1. Please Note: Debian users may want to use the official Debian builds which include better desktop integration for Debian users and have been built and tested on Debian systems (although this version will work too) DISCLAIMER -------------- This is the usual disclaimer. OOo 1.0.1 should be a rock steady release but please don't complain if you loose everything! I use it constantly and have not experienced any problems but I can make no guarantees. If interested, you can build your own binary direct from source. (see below). Please check out http://www.openoffice.org for more info on the OpenOffice.org project What's Available (English Only)? ---------------------------------- - OOo_1.0.1c_LinuxPPC_installer.tar.gz md5sum: 432cf242c085fb3a3675779b393ed2b4 64939379 bytes - OpenOffice_README.ppclinux inside the installer is a complete installation/setup guide in pdf format. Where can I download it? --------------------------- ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/software/openoffice/ ftp://ftp.suse/com/pub/projects/powerpc/openoffice/ ftp://ftp.stardiv.de/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/linuxppc/ And it is available from up-to-date YellowDog Linux Mirrors: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/resources/ftp_mirrors.shtml Hopefully it will appear on penguinppc.org sites soon. Building your own from Source ---------------------------------- Building your own OOo binary is not for the faint hearted and takes at least 2 gig of free disk space and up to date tools. If you are interested in building your own version direct from source, please contact me and I will try to provide you with and recent or nedded patches and some short build instructions. Right now the build of 1.0.1 requires gcc 3.X. Thanks, Kevin B. Hendricks kevin.hendricks(a)sympatico.ca

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FireWire
by peter brechbuehl 18 Sep '02

18 Sep '02

Hello! I am trying to install FireWire on my PPC Cube. I found on SuSe-Site an .rpm-Packet to install. There are a view problems with it. - It should, as far as I understood, upgrade the Kernel. - This shoud work, according to SuSe, work without problem. But, I have got problems with package-depencies. So, I installed it with rpm -U --nodeps... - now, the system doesn't recognise the datas modules.dep - I tried to remake it with depmode -a... Who can help me? As I know, SuSe 7.3 has got Kernel Version 2.4.12, but when I have a look with uname -r it shows me 2.2.16 why that? There is no support from SuSe-Side..., no Kernel with FireWire, no possibility to make backups from a Cube (But, backups are so important). And, SuSe sais, Cube is a supported PPC. Thanks very much for help! Peter, Berne, Switzerland

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Who here is running linux with OS X ?
by crystalclimb＠yahoo.com 21 Jul '02

21 Jul '02

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problems after yast2 online update
by Friedel Patzak 19 Jul '02

19 Jul '02

Hi there. I am running SuSe 7.1 on a Apple Powerbook. After doing a 'Yast2 Online Update' I have a lot of Konqueror Crashes (signal 11 SIGSEGV). In my 'boot.msg' I discovered a strange part concerning 'kdm'. Maybe thats a hint. ( That Zope is not running is another topic. Maybe somebody has an idea for that issue too ) You'll find a snip of the 'boot.msg' and the 'y2logRPMShort' in this mail. I'm quite new to linux and have no idea how to undo the update, which package causes the trouble and how to solve the problem. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Friedel ----------------boot.msg----------------------- Starting zope: done Starting CRON daemon done Starting lpd done Starting Name Service Cache Daemon done Traceback (most recent call last): File "z2.py", line 524, in ? import ZServer File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py", line 87, in ? # ;-) File "/usr/src/packages/BUILD/Zope-2.2.2-src/ZServer/medusa/max_sockets.py", line 2, in ? File "/usr/lib/python2.0/socket.py", line 41, in ? Starting service kdm from _socket import * ImportError: shared object not open done Starting inetd done Starting httpd [ SuSEHelp SSL mod_perl ] done Starting personal-firewall (final) [not active] unused Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached ----------------boot.msg----------------------- ----------------y2logRPMShort------------------ Installing WindowMaker ... OK Installing aaa_base Updating etc/rc.config... Updating etc/passwd...unchanged Updating etc/group...unchanged Updating etc/shadow...unchanged Updating etc/gshadow...unchanged gpg: key 9C800ACA: not changed gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: unchanged: 1 ... OK Installing apache-1.3.19-56.ppc warning: /etc/httpd/httpd.conf created as /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.rpmnew 0.843185 ... OK Installing mod_ssl-2.8.1-0.ppc ... OK Installing at Updating etc/rc.config... ... OK Installing bind8-8.2.3-113.ppc 739 ... OK Installing bindutil-8.2.3-113.ppc ... OK Installing cron ... OK Installing fetchmail-5.6.5-21.ppc ... OK Installing fetchmailconf-5.6.5-21.ppc ... OK Installing fileutils ... OK Installing gftp ... OK Installing glibc ... OK Installing glibc-devel ... OK Installing glibc-nssv1 ... OK Installing gpg ... OK Installing htdig ... OK Installing imlib-1.9.8.1-104.ppc ... OK Installing libz ... OK Installing lprold Updating etc/rc.config... ... OK Installing man ... OK Installing mc ... OK Installing mod_perl ... OK Installing nkitb ... OK Installing nkitserv Updating etc/rc.config... ... OK Installing openssh-2.9.9p2-72.ppc warning: /etc/pam.d/sshd saved as /etc/pam.d/sshd.rpmsave .743710 ... OK Installing openssl ... OK Installing samba /etc/inetd.conf is up to date /etc/services is up to date ... OK Installing screen ... OK Installing sdb ... OK Installing sendmail Updating etc/rc.config...Done. ... OK Installing shadow ... OK Installing smbclnt ... OK Installing sudo-1.6.3p6-45.ppc ... OK Installing tcpdump-3.4a6-317.ppc ... OK Installing timezone ... OK Installing vim ... OK Installing w3m ... OK Installing y2c_prnt ... OK ----------------y2logRPMShort------------------

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How do you make backups on your PB?
by Peter Brechbuehl 19 Jul '02

19 Jul '02

Hello! I would like to know, how you are doing backups on your linux-system on PPC-computers which haven't SCSI any more (eg FireWire now) Peter, Berne, Switzerland

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Where is /disks in ftp sites?
by Junior Vazquez 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

Trying to get to /disks directory in the ftp sites and cannot find it in the PPC subdirectories. Did SUSE remove it from the ftp sites? I want to get the image for the PPC to use RAWRITE or DD to create a boot diskette. I get the impression after searching, that I first have to get the SUSE ISO tree, and do the rawrite from there. I will be trying to boot SUSE from a Apple Work Group Server 9650/233.(I believe it is OLD WORLD). Any hints, urls, faqs, will be welcomed nyny(a)ny.com

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root directory gets mounted read only
by Peter Andersson 17 Jul '02

17 Jul '02

Hi! I am having huge problems when trying to boot linux since the root directory gets mounted read only. I have a working fstab which should make sure that "/" gets mounted read and write. fstab reads: /dev/hda12 / ext2 defaults 1 1 i have also tried changing it to: /dev/hda12 / ext2 rw,defaults 1 1 without any improvement. I am not a linux expert so i don´t know what to do, for the moment i have added the line "exec /bin/mount -o rw,remount /dev/hda12 /" at the top of the /etc/init.d/boot file. This makes my system work a little bit better but still a lot of programs doesn´t work. Does anyone know how to fix this "the right way"? If so please let me know, i would hate to be forced to re-install everything since i have spent many hours compiling in order to get everything to work. Regards Peter

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Configure x11
by Stephan Hochhaus 17 Jul '02

17 Jul '02

I am still working on getting my formac proformance 3 to work. Now I have done a clean install using the 8 CD box of SuSE 7.3 that arrived today by mail. For the first time Yast2 worked for me and I have proof that there must be a way to enable a graphical interface using this card. I tried configuring the X-Window system using sax2 and xfree86 but nothing worked. I always get an error message saying: Fatal server errors: no screens found But I am sure that it has to work somehow. Can somebody maybe point me in the right direction? I don't think I will have to re-compile the kernel with a specific patch since yast2 worked flawlessly... Any help is greatly appreciated. Stephan

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