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Re: [SLE] Installation of 8.2 - Multiple SCSI Adapters
by roncordell＠attbi.com 10 May '03

10 May '03

Yes, I did turn off the onboard IDE stuff as you suggest. Your idea of using the manual installation and specifying the aic7xxx_old driver was something that I hadn't thought of. I'll give that a try. The reason that I wanted to try two SCSI cards is for two reasons: 1. One of the hard drives is not a wide device, so I wanted to put that drive on a different card, with the CD and DVD, keeping the faster wide devices on their own card, just as you mention. 2. I have been experiencing read errors on various devices with everything on the one 2640U2W card, so I was experimenting to see if the problem would go away. Since the card was in PCI slot 2, I was thinking that it may be a shared interrupt issue, but I am not certain. I thought of trying the aic7xxx_old driver to see if this resolved anything as well. I am expecting to receive an Adaptec 29160 card any day now, and I may give that a try, but I don't have a 64 bit PCI slot to place it in. -ronc > On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 06:31, roncordell(a)attbi.com wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I seem to have a problem with installing SuSE (or any Linux, for that matter) > > on a system with multiple SCSI adapters. I think the problem is how the system > > is configured, not with SuSE or Linux itself, so I was hoping someone could > > tell me what I might be doing wrong. > > > > M/B - Abit BE6-II 800Mhz P3 768MB Ram, onboard HPT366 IDE (disabled) > > SCSI Adapter #1 (in PCI slot #2) - Adaptec 2940UW, SCSI ID = 2 > > - CD R/W Drive, SCSI ID = 1 > > - DVD Drive, SCSI ID = 5 > > - Hard Drive #1, SCSI ID = 6 > > SCSI Adapter #2 (in PCI slot #4) - Adaptec 2940U2W, SCSI ID = 7 > > - Hard Drive #2, SCSI ID = 0 > > - Hard Drive #3, SCSI ID = 4 > > > > When I place the SuSE 8.2 DVD installation disk, I get the message on the boot > > screen (BIOS) that a bootable disk is in the DVD drive. The IsoLinux image > > boots (pretty SuSE 8.2 installation Welcome screen), and I see the progress > bar > > load the image from the DVD. Then the screen goes black, with just a blinking > > cursor, and hangs there. I don't see any other information that helps me see > > what's going wrong. > > > > I have tried everything I can think of in BIOS settings, SCSI BIOS settings, > > etc. to make this work, but nothing seems to help. Everything has the latest > > BIOS updates. I've looked on the SuSE support db, and I don't see anything > that > > resembles this problem. I've googled around and haven't found anything, and > the > > folks on my local linux ug list don't seem to know anything. > > > > Does anyone out there have some insight that might be able to help me? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -ronc > > Most of the possible suggestions that I was going to mentioned were > covered quite well by rex(a)nosyntax.net in his responses to your query. > > I have two desktops set up with 2 scsi cards each and they work awesome > with SuSE of all variants including 8.2 > > Your boot hard disk probably should be id "0" and you definitely have to > ensure that the scsi card recognizes the hard disk as "bootable". > Having the boot hard drive on the same scsi card as the cd and dvd will > cause the install to be slow, as the dvd and hard drive will be in use > at the same time and the scsi card will operate at the speed of the > slower device (20 mb/s). If possible, connecting all the the hard > drives (faster devices) to the 2940u2w and leaving the peripherals > (slower devices) on the 2940uw would be a preferable setting. > > BTW the setup I typically use is to install the slower scsi card with > the peripherals in pci slot 1 or 2 (shared irq). The faster scsi card > in pci slot 3 or 4 with the hard drives. The boot drive is always set > to id "0" from the second scsi card. This setup works without problems. > > Because you can get the isoLinux image started and then the dvd hangs I > suspect that my comments above and the suggestions that others have sent > to do not fully address your situation. I did not have any problems > with SuSE 8.2 being installed on my Adaptec 29160 cards, but I and > others had problems with installing SuSE 8.1 and apparently also the > Adaptec 2940 series of cards. The solution was to select a "manual > installation" and then select the scsi module to be loaded. Choose the > "OLD aic7xxx" rather than the new module. Using the "old" module made > the install work for the 29160 and 2940 cards with SuSE 8.1, so give > that a try. > > Of course there is also the common standby with SuSE 8.2 of installing > with "ACPI off". > > ps. Not familiar with the ABIT motherboard that you are using but did > you go in to the motherboard BIOS and switch off the IDE controller and > set the IDE hard drives to "none" and set the boot device to "SCSI"? > > HTH > -- > Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, > rsanford(a)telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? > > DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01 > > > -- > Check the headers for your unsubscription address > For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com > Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com > Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com > >

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DVD no sound
by John Murphy 10 May '03

10 May '03

I had no problem with this in 8.1 or the XP side of the computer. So I would think hardware is not an issue. I can run the DVD titles in Xine, Kmplayer and they display fine, I just get no sound. All my KDe desktop sounds work, and I can play audio files from the dvd device. Can anyone suggest what might be the problem? messages suggest unsupported audio codec Thanks......... John

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Default browser
by Michael Satterwhite 10 May '03

10 May '03

Running Suse 8.2, KDE desktop, how do you set the default browser? I looked at file associations, but couldn't find anything there. Tried the help file, no help for this.

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RE: NFS changes in 8.2
by The Wizard 10 May '03

10 May '03

All - As recommended by Anders Johansson, I downloaded newer kernel sources and built them with CONFIG_NFSD_TCP=y, which should have brought back the NFS over TCP protocol suite. Rebooted with the new kernel, and the init process reports that nfsserver failed, even though I can see the nfsd processes running: gryffindor:/home/markea 4> ps -aef | grep nfsd root 1490 1 0 15:56 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd] root 1491 1 0 15:56 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd] root 1492 1 0 15:56 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd] root 1493 1 0 15:56 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd] root 1494 1 0 15:56 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd] root 1495 1 0 15:56 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd] root 1496 1 0 15:56 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd] root 1497 1 0 15:56 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd] But, they are not serving TCP for either NFS version: gryffindor:/home/markea 5> rpcinfo -p gryffindor program vers proto port 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper 100005 1 udp 32768 mountd 100005 1 tcp 32768 mountd 100005 2 udp 32768 mountd 100005 2 tcp 32768 mountd 100005 3 udp 32768 mountd 100005 3 tcp 32768 mountd 100024 1 udp 32769 status 100024 1 tcp 32769 status 100003 2 udp 2049 nfs <----- NFS v2, UDP 100003 3 udp 2049 nfs <------ NFS v3, UDP 100021 1 udp 32772 nlockmgr 100021 3 udp 32772 nlockmgr 100021 4 udp 32772 nlockmgr 100021 1 tcp 32770 nlockmgr 100021 3 tcp 32770 nlockmgr 100021 4 tcp 32770 nlockmgr As a result, I still can not Jumpstart or "net boot" Solaris clients, which I could do under SuSE 8.1/2.4.19. I'm not sure what the best way to troubleshoot this is -- turn on nfsd kernel debugging, just trace with "ngrep" and running bootparamd in debug mode, or? Anyone got any ideas? I just wonder why a version upgrade removed earlier functionality(why fix it if it wasn't broke?). Mark Almeida

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No CD/DVD audio
by The Wizard 09 May '03

09 May '03

After recent upgrade to 8.2, I get no audio from any of the multimedia players, XMMS, Xine, Kscd, Mplayer, Xmms, nada. KDE sound is working (I have some of the system notification sounds turned on) and the sound card is working, Kmix controls it OK. The strange thing is, all the players behave as if they're playing correctly, even to the point of indicating play volume. Under 8.1, I had KMplayer working and playing DVDs with audio. This is on my Sony VAIO laptop, running SuSE 8.2 with a recently upgraded kernel (2.4.20-62 from Mantel source). I setup the kernel with "cloneconfig" and then changed only "CONFIG_NFSD_TCP=y" and built/installed the kernel(why I did that is another story). Hardware details are Pentium 4M 1.6GHz w/512MB RAM, Sony ATI Radeon 7500LW video running 1600X1200@75Hz, Sony CRX810E CD-RW/DVD-ROM, TOSHIBA MK3018GAS 30GB hard drive, Logitech USB wireless Trackman mouse. Any one had a similar experience? Mark Almeida

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Date and time in 8.2
by Bill Wisse 09 May '03

09 May '03

Haia Has anybody tried to adjust the date and time in 8.2? I wanted to change the time , went to Yast, put a new time in and clicked on apply. Then a box comes up with >>invalid date<< The date is set to DD-MM-YEAR. Input is 09-05-2003. Any ideas? Thanks -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. My holy cow is a penguin.

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How to check for which http library is being used?
by Matthew Johnson 09 May '03

09 May '03

Main program from e-music does start to open on SuSE 8.2, but then segfault, have a question thats listed in below: Bug #003 - Crashes/segfaults on startup. This is caused by the app dlopen()-ing libraries that are incompatible with it on certain distros. There is a hack to force it to use older versions of the libraries via an LD_directive. This dlopen-ing is being blamed on wxWindows, but I doubt it. What library is doing the HTTP work? I did see libhttp that was part of gnome, but kinda doubt this was the answer...How can I reliably check this? Thanks, Matt

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re[2]: [SLE] Cluster FTP
by Greg Freemyer 09 May '03

09 May '03

>> * Greg Freemyer (freemyer(a)NorcrossGroup.com) [030509 13:36]: >> > SuSE seems to recommend "heartbeat" for HA clusters. >> > >> > "heartbeat" is also known as Linux-HA. >> I don't know if we'd recommend that for ftp though. It's hard to >> imagine the address take-over and things like that working properly >> with a complex protocol like ftp since you have two connections (the >> data and the control) plus all the complications of passive versus >> active mode. Of course, I'm not a cluster person so I don't really >> know for sure. Hopefully Lars will have time to answer. >> In the past we've used load-balancing routers and round-robin dns >> for ftp.suse.com when needed. Your right. During a fail-over, all logged in ftp users would be disconnected and forced to login again (to the new HA service node). It may even be worse than that, but hopefully the ftp client would fairly cleanly handle the loss of a socket. Linux-HA with the appropriate shared disk (or replicated disk) would ensure any uploaded data survived the failure. I think the ncftp client may even re-login and resume the upload/download from where it was. To do it seamlessly seems very difficult to me. (And I do a lot of clustering.) routers and round-robin dns does not help with a seam-less failure. I think SSI Linux has a goal to do this type of seamless HA fail-over, but I think they have a long way to go before they are even close. For now, SSI Linux is close to a 1.0 release with LVS used to do load-balancing, but seamless failovers are not supported. FYI: I've been tracking SSI Linux and there is no way I would put the 1.0 release into a mission-critical setup. In this case I think 1.0 means: Consider for use in limited production environments. Few SPOFs still exist. Greg -- Greg Freemyer

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re: [SLE] Cluster FTP
by Greg Freemyer 09 May '03

09 May '03

>> Hi all: >> Is there a solution to get Linux in cluster for the FTP service? >> Thank You, >> Martin. SuSE seems to recommend "heartbeat" for HA clusters. "heartbeat" is also known as Linux-HA. IIRC, it is included and supported in SLES. There are also many other Linux clustering solutions. Some of them are listed at: http://lcic.org/ Greg -- Greg Freemyer

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Anyone using OpenNMS on 8.2?
by VANTASSLE, GEORDON M (SBCSI) 09 May '03

09 May '03

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