August 2002 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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FTP Install Trouble
by Tobias Giesen 31 Aug '02

31 Aug '02

Hello, I have purchased SuSE Linux many times, but today I want to do a fresh FTP install on my Blue & White G3 Macintosh. It has an Internet connection via LAN. I followed exactly the instructions on ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/7.3/readme_ftpinstall.txt for Newworld Macs, but the downloaded "install-newworld" kernel doesn't work, it stops immediately with a "standard CATCH" which I assume to be some kind of exception. Any ideas? Thanks. Best wishes, Tobias Giesen ----------------------- Tobias Giesen, Composer Developer of TGTools www.tobiasgiesen.de www.tgtools.com -----------------------

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F40 bios problem
by Capitao Goodnight 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

I have a little problem when using hwclock --systohc: When i reboot, the clock appear to be "stopped" since my last date/time update. For example: if i set time to 28 Aug 2002, 11:37 AM, and reboot it anytime later (for example, 1 September 2002) the CMOS clock is 28 Aug 2002, 11:37 AM Weird huh? Any ideas? _______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! PageBuilder O super editor para criação de sites: é grátis, fácil e rápido. http://br.geocities.yahoo.com/v/pb.html

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Sound server error: bad md5 cookie
by Roger Chrisman 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

Hi, I always get the following error when I start KDE: "Sound server fatal error: bad md5 cookie" Sound is working fine under OSX, but total silence under Linux. Any tips on how to get sound working? my system: - SuSE 7.3 PPC Linux - Quicksilver G4 733MHz Mac - stock Sony R\RW CD drive Thanks, Roger San Francisco

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2.4.19 kernel compilation error
by Stephan Hochhaus 23 Aug '02

23 Aug '02

This is what I have done using a suse 7.3 install (2.4.12 kernel) got my kernel source is from kernel.org, version no 2.4.19 I sucessfully completed these steps: (ie. no errors) make distclean make menuconfig make dep make vmlinux make modules when I did the make modules-install I encountered Error 1 and 2 it lookied like the following: cp: cannot stat `ipt_mark.o´: No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `ipt_tcpmss.o´: No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `ipt_tos.o´: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [_modinst__] Error 1 make[2]: leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19/net/ipv4/netfilter´ make[1]: *** [modinst_ip4v/netfilter] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19/net´ make: *** [_modinst_net] Error 2 Is somthing wrong with the kernel source or the settings in my menuconfig? In the ipnetfilter config I have almost all modules activated as modularized features. Hope this is sufficient info to help me out ;-) Stephan

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Kernel compile errors
by Stephan Hochhaus 22 Aug '02

22 Aug '02

Hello! I've tried several different setup and version of kernels to be compiled on my system but all of them gave me an error when I got the make modules_install. It just installs a couple of files and then gives error 2 messages (always when it came to ipfiltering or something similar) I tried kernel 2.4.19, 2.4.18, 2.4.16 and currently I am compiling the SuSE 2.4.12 kernel (part of 7.3) to see if this one will work at all. Is this a typical error newbies make or are my sources bad? I would really love to compile kernel 2.4.19 since it already includes the driver for my formac proformance 3 stephan

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problems with enabling quota on 2.4.16 kernel
by Aivo Kalu 19 Aug '02

19 Aug '02

Hello, Running 2.4.16-55 kernel with quota-2.00-13 pack. The /etc/fstab shows: /dev/ruum1/data /data ext2 defaults,usrquota 1 2 mount gives: /dev/ruum1/data on /data type ext2 (rw,usrquota) /data/quota.user is there: # ls -la /data/quota.user -rw------- 1 root root 32576 Aug 19 17:12 /data/quota.user However, all other utilities besides 'quotacheck -a' give me usage information, like 'quotaon -a' and 'edquota ftp' and so on. What am I doing wrong ? Aivo Kalu, aivo(a)matti.ee

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