March 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Strange raid init sequence
by Carlos E. R. 24 Jun '03

24 Jun '03

During the boot up sequence (suse 8.1), the kernel autodetects and tries to mount a software raid partition I have with data, and fails: <6>md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. <6> [events: 0000032b] <6> [events: 0000032b] <6>md: autorun ... <6>md: considering hdb14 ... <6>md: adding hdb14 ... <6>md: adding hda11 ... <6>md: created md0 <6>md: bind<hda11,1> <6>md: bind<hdb14,2> <6>md: running: <hdb14><hda11> <6>md: hdb14's event counter: 0000032b <6>md: hda11's event counter: 0000032b <6>md: RAID level 1 does not need chunksize! Continuing anyway. <3>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k md-personality-3, errno = 2 <3>md: personality 3 is not loaded! <4>md :do_md_run() returned -22 <6>md: md0 stopped. <6>md: unbind<hdb14,1> <6>md: export_rdev(hdb14) <6>md: unbind<hda11,0> <6>md: export_rdev(hda11) <6>md: ... autorun DONE. I suppose I should add that "md-personality-3" module to the initrd, but there is no such module. In fact, the ramdisk is read later than this phase: <5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 <6>Freeing initrd memory: 247k freed <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). and a bit latter, raid is mounted successfully: <5>Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay <6>Freeing unused kernel memory: 164k freed <6>md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. <6> [events: 0000032b] <6> [events: 0000032b] <6>md: autorun ... <6>md: considering hda11 ... <6>md: adding hda11 ... <6>md: adding hdb14 ... <6>md: created md0 <6>md: bind<hdb14,1> <6>md: bind<hda11,2> <6>md: running: <hda11><hdb14> <6>md: hda11's event counter: 0000032b <6>md: hdb14's event counter: 0000032b <6>md: RAID level 1 does not need chunksize! Continuing anyway. <6>md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3 <6>md0: max total readahead window set to 508k <6>md0: 1 data-disks, max readahead per data-disk: 508k <6>raid1: device hda11 operational as mirror 0 <6>raid1: device hdb14 operational as mirror 1 <6>raid1: raid set md0 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors <6>md: updating md0 RAID superblock on device <6>md: hda11 [events: 0000032c]<6>(write) hda11's sb offset: 3124544 <6>md: hdb14 [events: 0000032c]<6>(write) hdb14's sb offset: 3124544 <6>md: ... autorun DONE. So... Why does it fail at first, and how how could I make it succeed? Or, how could it be told not to try the mounting so early? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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apm for laptop
by Michael Sacco 19 Jun '03

19 Jun '03

Hello all, I have a brand new laptop, yet the battery monitor and some other things are not working. I have acpi turned on, and klaptop complains of an incomplete acpi setup for the kernel. Also, I have a radeon mobility u1 card...SaX doesn't detect it, and when I try to use the radeon driver and test the setup, I get this error: (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device) (EE) No devices detected. I'm using the updated 2.4.19 kernel from SuSE, and when I try booting with the options "apm=on acpi=off" and then type "rcapmd status", it says unused. So I try "rcapmd start" it says "apmd not supported by kernel". Is this going to require a kernel compilation? And if so, how do I compile a kernel so that it still uses the SuSE bootscreen and bootsplash and all those pretty bouncing icons? :) BTW: SuSE 8.1 Thanks in advance! Mike S.

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[OT]Apache file extensions
by Ahbaid Gaffoor 17 May '03

17 May '03

I have been using the SuSE packaged Apache and PHP RPMs. Now I am trying to setup an apache install with php support uisng the tarballs from apache.org and php.net. I have downloaded Apache 1.3.27 and PHP 4.3.1 Everything works except, I have to put the extension on the file name I want in the URL... for example instead of saying "http://site/test" I have to say "http://site/test.html" same goes for my PHP scripts, If I add the ".php" extension to the URL I am ok, without it the page does not come up. What configuration directives should I be using to not have to use the extensions? I have the "handmade" install in /opt/apache_1.3.27 and SuSE's is started via. /etc/init.d/apache so I swap between the two as I try to narrow this down. Many thanks, Ahbaid.

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Project Management Software for linux
by Ricardo 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

I search the software packaged with SuSE and couldn't find any project management software. Is there any that I might be missing? If not, where can I find a good one? Is there any compatible with MSProject? Ricardo. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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Dell 2650/Perc3 Raid Controller easy switch??
by shado＠mc.net 25 Apr '03

25 Apr '03

I am currently using a Dell 2650 Poweredge server without a raid controller. It's using the standard adaptec onboard SCSI as it stands. I'm wondering if anyone has installed the Perc3 raid controller and had the Linux install just pop right up (assuming the megaraid module was loading)? I wouldn't need to reformat if all I was doing was switching controllers and hardware mirroring, right? Thanks, Rich shado(a)mc.net

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x console ?
by lee 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

My 12 y o son asked me what ws the purpose of the x console, I honestly couldn't come up with an answer..so..I ask this list..just what is the purpose of the x console ? Thank you all very much for your time. Lee

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SuSE-8.2 Professional or Professional Update
by ghugh Song 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

I dislike SuSE as much I like SuSE. Whenever update time comes, their wrapping of the product is so insincere and confusing. Their object is so clear: To allure people to buy their CDROMs. Fine. This time, I will buy one. There are two packagings that I need to know about. Why the hell, did they differentiate "Professional" from "Professional Update"? My concern is to update from SuSE-8.1 to 8.2, and I installed 8.1 from the scatch through their FTP copy. The reason I installed from scratch is because I was not able to get the necessary choice for update although they said that there is such a kernel option in the boot screen. That must be called a "BS". Thanks. G Hugh

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Ethernet hubs question
by Derek Fountain 11 Apr '03

11 Apr '03

I have, amongst my collection of bits, two ethernet hubs. One is by Netgear and one by Linksys. Both work. I have 3 machines, 1, 2 and 3. I plug them all into the Netgear hub. I log onto box 2 (at the console) and ping 3. Away to goes, every second. I open a tcpdump on 1 and watch the packets going by. I now plug all the cables into the Linksys hub and repeat the experiment. Nothing! When the machines are connected via the Linksys hub, tcpdump can't see the packets going from one machine to another, unless, it turns out, the machine running tcpdump is the one being pinged. The Linksys device is a hub, not a switch! I know, I paid for it! Anyone know why this is the case? Does Linksys stuff have some anti-snooping, don't-pass-through-to-promiscous cards sort of thing in it? -- Microsoft Palladium: "Where the hell do you think YOU'RE going today?"

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A [different] Telnet problem
by Vince Littler 07 Apr '03

07 Apr '03

I have 2 pcs, A and B and a router R. raffic is routed from A to the internet via B acting as a router to R and R routing to an ISDN line. Router R has some capability of operating as a name server on behalf of the internat. If I telnet R from A or B, it immediately opens the ISDN connection, which I don't want, because it costs. Why is this and how can I stop it? More info. B has eth0 and eth1 interfaces, and runs SuSE 8.0. It also does OS/2, in which case everything works perfectly. I think ping causes the same problem on Linux, but again not on OS/2. I am wondering whether Linux sees the connection out and goes sniffing for routing info or Name Server info or some such. If this is the case, I would appreciate knowing what, and how to turn it off. Any help on this appreciated, so I can complete the migration of B to Linux TIA Vince Littler

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[SLE] Spamassassin
by Franklin Maurer 07 Apr '03

07 Apr '03

I installed spamassassin the other day, but it is identifying a piece of mail as spam when it is info that I requested. Right now it just goes into the folder caughtspam, but eventually I'll toss 'em in the bit bucket or take some other action with them. How can I avoid having this piece rated as spam? I can do it through kmail with another filter, but I'd rather have spamassassin not rate this as spam. I read about the spam rating(>5.0), and am reluctant to set it higher because some spam that I receive regularly is a 6 - 6.5. Is there a "mail from these addresses are not spam" file I can make? TIA -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.1

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