January 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Partition table destroyed on (still) live system
by Edward van der Jagt 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Hi there, this is a **very** desperate cry for help. In my Suse 6.0 system I have 2 IDE disks (40Gb and 10Gb), and at this moment 1 SCSI disk. While working today I decided to add a new 2Gb partition to the 40Gb disk (/dev/hda). Until now I had only been using 13Gb of the disk. I used linux fdisk to add the partition (/dev/hda9) of size 2000M When exiting with the w command, fdisk exited with the line "unable to read /dev/hda" This is a line from the kernel (from genhd.c) so something is definitely wrong. After creation I alwasy do a fdisk -l to see the result. But now all I got was the "unable to read /dev/hda" message again. I just tried sfdisk -l /dev/hda and this gives: ------------------ Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders read: Success sfdisk: read error on /dev/hda - cannot read sector 25144561 Units = cylinders of 7741440 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 0+ 0 1- 7528+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda2 543 576 34 257040 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 1 542 542 4097520 83 Linux native /dev/hda4 577 5292 4716 35652960 5 DOS Extended /dev/hda5 577+ 780 204- 1542208+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda6 781+ 848 68- 514048 6 DOS 16-bit FAT >=32M /dev/hda7 849+ 984 136- 1028128 83 Linux native /dev/hda8 985+ 1662 678- 5125648 83 Linux native ------------------ The partition table seems allright (except the new partition isn't present). But note the read error on /dev/hda This probably has to do with the fact the the kernel reports the disksize wrong at bootup: <4>hda: Maxtor 54098U8, 8842MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=1023/240/63, UDMA <4>hdb: ST310240A, 9541MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=1023/240/63, UDMA Typical is dat the geometry of hda is the same as hdb, and hda is definitely 40Gb, not 8.8Gb Using cfdisk I get: FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition Press any key to exit fdisk Conclusion would be to repair the partition table. Using rescuept it first seems to detect the correct partitions, but then retracts the partitions in the extended part (hda5 and on). Rescuept also says the total size is 18109035 sectors = 9.2Gb Gpart detects hda1 through hda7 but on it's final guess it only prints hda3, hda2 and hda4 (the extended partition). Where hda4 is wrong: it only spans the space for hda5 and hda6 Fixdisktable only detects my hda1 and hda3 And even the data from the ones all three programs find are not equal. Can anyone help me and tell me what to do ? I am afraid to reboot and then to loose all my data. Backups are ofcourse out of date (ever tried to backup a total of nearly 30Gb onto 2Gb DAT tapes ?) I do have a 20Gb disk lying around somewhere but obviously can't put it in my machine right now. I could put it into another machine, but copying 13Gb would take quite a while with 10Mbit ethernet. There has to be a better way ?! Please help me. -- Edward van der Jagt edward(a)evdj.demon.nl http://www.evdj.demon.nl/ tel: +31-10-4502997 gsm: +31-6-24643561 fax: +31-10-4580632

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Smbmount
by Mark Daglish 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Forgive me what is probably a simple question I should be able to sort out myself. However, in my defense I have read the man pages and failed. I want to mount a shared directory on my laptop from my new Linux box running SuSE 7.0. When I try: mount -t smbfs -o password=whatever //netbios/share /mountdir I get the error about only root being allowed to do this. I am familiar with this problem on a previous Mandrake 7.2 system and I solved it by making smbmount a suid prog. That doesn't seem to work here - same error message. Suggestions please. Mark

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Fwd: [oclug] Linux Destined to Fall by the Wayside
by b stephen harding 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

>From: Trevor Curtis <trevor.curtis(a)home.com> >To: oclug(a)lists.oclug.on.ca >Reply-To: Trevor Curtis <trevor.curtis(a)home.com> >User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i >X-Operating-System: Linux frink.thesimpsons.ca 2.4.0 >Subject: [oclug] Linux Destined to Fall by the Wayside >Sender: oclug-admin(a)lists.oclug.on.ca >X-BeenThere: oclug(a)lists.oclug.on.ca >X-Mailman-Version: 2.0rc1 >List-Help: <mailto:oclug-request@lists.oclug.on.ca?subject=help> >List-Post: <mailto:oclug@lists.oclug.on.ca> >List-Subscribe: <http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug>, > <mailto:oclug-request@lists.oclug.on.ca?subject=subscribe> >List-Id: General Membership Discussion List <oclug.lists.oclug.on.ca> >List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug>, > <mailto:oclug-request@lists.oclug.on.ca?subject=unsubscribe> >List-Archive: <http://www.oclug.on.ca/pipermail/oclug/> >Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:28:12 -0500 > >I don't know enough about the topic to say for sure, but it looks like M$ >have open the FUD gates here. I thought some of you might be interested: > >http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/serverappliance/kempin.asp > >-- >Trevor Curtis >http://members.home.net/jbrabazon/ >-------------------------------------------------------------- >"The only people who have anything to fear from Free Software, >are those who's software is worth even less" --Unknown > > >_______________________________________________ >oclug mailing list >oclug(a)lists.oclug.on.ca >http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug b stephen harding Black & White Rhino Press ----------------------------------------------- "A man is involved in life, leaves his impression on it, and outside of that there is nothing." Jean-Paul Satre The Contemporary World

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stupid question : convertor
by filip 30 Jan '01

30 Jan '01

Hi all, This is probably a stupid question and I'll get probably stupid answers : Is there a software that converts binaries into C or C++ code? Don't ask me my background thoughts!!! Filip.

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RE: [SLE] Fwd: [oclug] Linux Destined to Fall by the Wayside
by Dee McKinney 30 Jan '01

30 Jan '01

-----Original Message----- From: b stephen harding [mailto:dk983@ncf.ca] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 3:54 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: [SLE] Fwd: [oclug] Linux Destined to Fall by the Wayside >From: Trevor Curtis <trevor.curtis(a)home.com> >To: oclug(a)lists.oclug.on.ca >Reply-To: Trevor Curtis <trevor.curtis(a)home.com> >User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i >X-Operating-System: Linux frink.thesimpsons.ca 2.4.0 >Subject: [oclug] Linux Destined to Fall by the Wayside >Sender: oclug-admin(a)lists.oclug.on.ca >X-BeenThere: oclug(a)lists.oclug.on.ca >X-Mailman-Version: 2.0rc1 >List-Help: <mailto:oclug-request@lists.oclug.on.ca?subject=help> >List-Post: <mailto:oclug@lists.oclug.on.ca> >List-Subscribe: <http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug>, > <mailto:oclug-request@lists.oclug.on.ca?subject=subscribe> >List-Id: General Membership Discussion List <oclug.lists.oclug.on.ca> >List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug>, > <mailto:oclug-request@lists.oclug.on.ca?subject=unsubscribe> >List-Archive: <http://www.oclug.on.ca/pipermail/oclug/> >Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:28:12 -0500 > >I don't know enough about the topic to say for sure, but it looks like M$ >have open the FUD gates here. I thought some of you might be interested: > >http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/serverappliance/kempin.asp > What a hoot. This is like watching a stupid commercial about competition between pizza companies :) I know of several organizations dumping MS for Linux, and once done, it will be history for MS. /Dee

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RE: [SLE] ftp and telnet access
by Abdullah Al-Juaid 30 Jan '01

30 Jan '01

Check your /etc/hosts file, it should contain 127.0.0.1 localhost -----Original Message----- From: Charles Yurek [mailto:cyurek@bellatlantic.net] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 9:40 AM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: [SLE] ftp and telnet access I have a WinMe computer networked with linux Suse 7 .when I try to connect from the winme box to the linux with ftp or telnet it can take up to 3 mins to get a logon screen sometimes it just times out. Also have the same problem with sendmail but not as bad. I don't have any problem with httpd that works fine. anyone have any ideas. Chuck -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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Re: [SLE] SB PCI
by Cliff Sarginson 30 Jan '01

30 Jan '01

> Well I've problem with MIDI, so I think thaht, as I am a newbie, I could > have not well installed my soundcard (Ensoniq SBPCI 1371). Alsa doesn't work for 1371's. You have to do it the old-fashioned way. Like so much progress (?) Alsa doesn't work properly for one of the most common sound card chips there is. -Ditto- Xfree86 Version 4 doesnt work for common S3 video cards. according to Suse they are "too complicated". Cliff

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Mixer failure
by Romain Boulanger 30 Jan '01

30 Jan '01

Hi all, I just managed to install my soundcard... So thanks a lot for your helps. But now I have another problem: when launching KDE, I have an error message Mixer failure kmix: Could not open mixer. Perhaps you have no mermission to access the mixer device. Login as root and do a 'chmod a+rw /dev/mixer*' to allow the access. That's pretty fun, because it says it to me even when I AM connected as root... So I think that the problem is anything else that a permission problem...:) Anybody can help me? Romain

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ypchsh
by Paul Zimdars 30 Jan '01

30 Jan '01

Hi, I have a problem when trying to use the ypchsh command, the error that follows is this: ogin shell [/bin/bash]: /bin/csh Error while changing the login shell. The login shell has not been changed. In the /var/log/messages on the yp server is this : Jan 30 10:25:46 sagan kernel: fh_verify: //pazz permission failure, acc=1, error=13 Any help appreciated, thanks, Paul

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Re: [SLE] 2.4.1
by Daniel Casey 30 Jan '01

30 Jan '01

So, if I've got a system I just upgraded from 6.4 to 7.0, what the pre-req's, if any, to go to the new kernel? Do I *have* to wait until SuSE comes out with a 2.4.x kernel to download? Is it better to wait? ----- Original Message ----- From: Matthew <matthew(a)psychohorse.com> Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 2:49 pm Subject: [SLE] 2.4.1 > Its out, now I won't have to try (and fail) to patch the Kernel to get > Reiser support, yay! Plus all those other things I can break, I mean > enable with this Kernel. > > Matt > > > -- > To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com > > Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq > >

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