May 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RealPlayer for 8.0 ?
by W.D.McKinney 22 Jul '03

22 Jul '03

Is there any RealPlayer available on the ftp site ? It's my DVD but not via apt-get ? Thanks /Dee -- W.D.McKinney (Dee) http://3519098920

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SuSE8.2 Prof.(DVD) install problem: Stalls on "Evaluating package selection"
by Magnus Hagebris 16 Jul '03

16 Jul '03

I tried to install SuSE8.2 on my Dell Laptop(8100 Inspiron with SuSE8.1) last day and when using the DVD the installation process stalls on "Evaluating package selection". When I used the ordinary CD's the install proceeded. So what's up with the DVD? What's the point having the DVD if they don't work? I used the DVD for 7.3, 8.0, 8.1 and I have no intention to switch to CD's now... :-) Cheers, Magnus

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DialIN Server on Suse 8.1
by Vishal Khanna 08 Jul '03

08 Jul '03

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gftp broken in 8.2
by fsanta 05 Jul '03

05 Jul '03

Here is the command line message. I've uninstalled and reinstalled gftp from the 8.2 cd's but no luck. Can anyone help me? Thanks, Steve. gftp gFTP Warning: Skipping line 130 in config file: use_default_dl_types No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig library is not correctly configured. You may need to edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual page and on http://fontconfig.org

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Re: [SLE] Why does loopback encryption only work when loopback is compiled as a module
by Bo Jacobsen 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

> >> >When "loopback device support" and "Twofish encryption for loopback device" is compiled > >> >INTO the kernel, the "losetup -e twofish /dev/loop0 /encrypted-file" command fails with the > >> >error: "ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: invalid argument" > >> > > >> >If they are compiled as modules, everything works OK. > >> > > >> >I have tred it with many versions of the SuSE kernels, and the result is always > >> >the same !. > >> > > >> >Any suggestions on how to get it to work. > >> > >> Yeah, I have my own kernel compiled with the various different algorithms > >> built-in. > >> There were 2 patches which I had to apply to the vanilla kernel. > >> One was the patch-int-2.4.20.0 > >> and the other was > >> loop-jari-2.4.20.0.patch > >> > >> So I will hazard a guess that you don't have the patched loop built > >> into the kernel. > >> > >> The files are at: > >> http://ftp.linux.hr/pub/linux/kernel/crypto/v2.4/testing/ > > > >Yes but the strange thing is that it works when "Twofish encryption for > >loopback device" is compiled as a module, so it must be included in the source. > >I use SuSE kernels, the latest I have testet is 2.4.20-13. > > Well SuSE is heavily patched and they do everything with modules, so > maybe the loop module isn't getting loaded right when you build twofish > into the kernel. Have you tried to manually load the loop module first, > before any attempt to use the encryption? I don't understand. What do you meen by "manually load the loop module" ?. No matter if "loopback device support" is compiled into the kernel or not, as long as "Twofish encryption for loopback device" is compiles as a module everything works OK. I have not tried compiling the "loopback device support" as a module and the "Twofish encryption for loopback device" INTO the kernel, if that's what you meen.

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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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Patched SuSE kernel still incompatible with aic7xxx or fixed?
by Patriiiiiiiiiick 23 Jun '03

23 Jun '03

Hello! I have an Adaptec Utra160 SCSI card and I wonder if the following problem is solved with the SuSE version of the kernel. http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Oct/3179.html http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Oct/3600.html To summarize the issue, when using this kernel, the system totally hangs when loading both new or old version of the aic7xxx module. This forces you to use the manual install on an IDE drive. The only solution found by then to access the SCSI drives was to compile my own kernel. I wonder if this has been somehow solved since October of last year and if the 8.2 version doesn't have that issue anymore. Thank you for the info! Patrick

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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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Kernel Panic
by Ron Joffe 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

Was wondering if someone with a bit more kernel knowledge could take a look at this output from /var/log/messages. This is an SLES-8 machine one a dell 2600 with dual Pentium Zeon's (Hyperthreading is on as you can see by the CPU#3). Here is the interesting part, after this occured the machine was still usable, but had the performace equivelant of an 8086 :(. (it took about 5 minutes just to log in from the console. Thanks, Ron May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 79726173 May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: printing eip: May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: c029ce60 May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: *pde = 00000000 May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: Oops: 0000 2.4.19-64GB-SMP #1 SMP Wed Apr 16 12:42:15 UTC 2003 May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: CPU: 3 May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: EIP: 0010:[tcp_v4_rcv+400/1392] Not tainted May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c029ce60>] Not tainted May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202 May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: eax: 79726173 ebx: 9c1000c2 ecx: 9c1001c6 edx: c2ebb300 May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: esi: 071000c2 edi: ce159300 ebp: ec14a044 esp: c281fdb8 May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c281f000) May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: Stack: 00000000 c281fe34 c0282b90 c0490248 00000000 13ed0104 00000002 000013ed May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: 00000000 00000006 ce159300 ec14a030 c0282cde ce159300 c281fe54 c382c000 May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: 00000000 00000006 00000000 00000001 00000000 c0282b90 c0272307 ce159300 May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: Call Trace: [ip_local_deliver_finish+0/368] [ip_local_deliver_finish+334/368] [ip_local_deliver_finish+0/368] [nf_hook_slow+263/480] [ip_local_deliver_finish+0/368] May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: Call Trace: [<c0282b90>] [<c0282cde>] [<c0282b90>] [<c0272307>] [<c0282b90>] May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: [ip_local_deliver+83/128] [ip_local_deliver_finish+0/368] [ip_rcv_finish+537/642] [ip_rcv_finish+0/642] [ip_rcv_finish+0/642] [nf_hook_slow+263/480] May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: [<c0282913>] [<c0282b90>] [<c0282f19>] [<c0282d00>] [<c0282d00>] [<c0272307>] May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: [ip_rcv_finish+0/642] [ip_rcv+416/592] [ip_rcv_finish+0/642] [net_rx_action+542/880] [do_softirq+217/224] [do_IRQ+251/304] May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: [<c0282d00>] [<c0282ae0>] [<c0282d00>] [<c026a64e>] [<c012d459>] [<c010b66b>] May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: [default_idle+0/80] [call_do_IRQ+5/13] [default_idle+0/80] [default_idle+44/80] [cpu_idle+50/80] [printk+23/32] May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: [<c0107110>] [<c010e2e8>] [<c0107110>] [<c010713c>] [<c01071b2>] [<c0127ff7>] May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: Code: 39 18 0f 84 30 03 00 00 8b 40 10 85 c0 75 f1 f0 ff 02 31 c0 May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: <0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: In interrupt handler - not syncing May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: klogd 1.4.1, ---------- state change ---------- May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.19-64GB-SMP May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: Loaded 21658 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.19-64GB-SMP. May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.19. May 19 14:28:56 sciremc-CADOPS kernel: Loaded 867 symbols from 27 modules.

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LINUX GETTING MORE VIABLE ON THE DESKTOP
by Fred A. Miller 11 Jun '03

11 Jun '03

LINUX GETTING MORE VIABLE ON THE DESKTOP (Source: InfoWorld.com) Features such as virtual desktops and solid e-mail clients help to make Linux desktops viable for business. http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742196 -- Fred A. Miller Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fm(a)cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org

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