January 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

YOU on SuSE 9.0 fails
by Peter Onion 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

Hi, FIrst of all, I have two Three SuSE 9.0 machines that are running fine! I just tried to install it on a slightly old AMD-K5 based machine, and everything works fine (so far) except when I try to run YOU to get it upto date. No matter which of the servers I try, it always fails in the same way. ERROR Signature check for patch info files failed. Cannot load patch information Patch: xf86tools-44811 Anyone had similar problems ? Peter

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Predictable crashes-SOLVED
by plain 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

At last i listened to my 15 year old son and canned my asus a7s333 mobo. He found a biostar---something for me, with an Nvidia chipset. so far i have not seen a single "bug" from the long list i had identified before. I have even "upgraded" to 9.0 and my vmware is rock solid. i have not tried the 166 kernel yet and i have not tried the 3d drivers yet, i am just enjoying the stability for a while:)) the asus board is still being used in the house. as long as there is no scsi card on it and as long as only one ide channel is used, it can run xp ok. the hardware problem was not a mobo specific problem. i had tried 3 different boards, under warrantee. after the third time i tried to trade it in for another asus mobo (i would pay the difference), asus refused. no more asus anything for me. Dimitris

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Ht://dig
by Tim Nicholson 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

Having successfully used ht://dig to produce a search db i have come across a minor hiccup when running it that I have failed to solve and have now run out of ideas! The engine runs fine as cgi-bin/htsearch, however the output page specifies its image URI as the relative "images/htdig.gif", for example. As set up by default (with the images directory as www/htdig/images) this results in no images displayed. I have tried copying the images dir to many places to try and restore them but to no avail, none of the following seem to work:- www/cgi-bin/images www/images www/htdocs/images I suppose the real question is, what is a relative URI branched from when you call a cgi-bin file? Anyone have any ideas please? -- Tim Nicholson BBCi at http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.

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Re: [SLE] little problem with reiserfs and bad blocks
by Carlos E. R. 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

El 2004-01-30 a las 23:54 -0700, c_nelson77 escribió: > Anychance you can help me down this path a little more? What is it I am > suppose to do? I found this: > http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl8_hdparm.htm Simply "man hdparm" -- too many cookies there. > The best thing I see is "-D Enable/disable the on-drive defect management > feature" That's right, I was thinking about that. I think it is enabled by default, but you can enable it if on doubt. > Coudl you elaborate on what I should do? Not right now, I have to go out in a few minutes. We talked about this same issue on the list not longer than a few months ago. Simply trying to write to a bad block triggers the relocation. I did that by copying the partition with errors elsewere, reformating twice (as ext3, check badblocks, nothing found, back to reiser) and restoring every thing. Too conlvoluted, I know: I was testing. If the sectors is known, write to it, or simply move the file over somewhere else. Or do a badbock testing with write - I don't know if it is destructive. Issue this command: smartctl --all /dev/hda|less You will see, amongst other things, a log of your hard disk error, as seen by SMART - if enabled. For example: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 059 054 025 Pre-fail - 176948510 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 097 096 000 Pre-fail - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 020 Old_age - 1184 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 098 098 036 Pre-fail - 23 .... That table shows some parameters predicting if the HD is near failure. For a disk with solved errors, I see: Error 325 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 4275 hours When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER:40 SC:64 SN:9c CL:16 CH:70 D/H:51 ST:51 Sequence of commands leading to the command that caused the error were: DCR FR SC SN CL CH D/H CR Timestamp 00 d0 00 00 15 70 51 40 3.514 00 d0 00 00 14 70 51 40 3.476 00 d0 00 00 13 70 51 40 7.384 00 d0 00 00 12 70 51 40 3.537 00 d0 00 00 11 70 51 40 3.499 You can do testing of the disk (long and short) while on use (without stopping the OS): SMART Self-test log, version number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short off-line Completed 00% 5613 - # 2 Extended off-line Completed 00% 4918 - # 3 Short off-line Completed 00% 4915 - # 4 Short off-line Completed: read failure 90% 4272 0x0170169c You see, info is very complete. I don't know if it is saved on disk EPROM memory, or a track. -- Saludos Carlos Robinson

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Yast partitioning failure
by Ferdy Bassi 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

hi! I'm trying to install 8.1 in such a Hard Disk: hda1 NTFS partition hda2 extended hda5 Logical Fat32 hda6 logical fat32 all the partitions have been created by using MS-Dos fdisk (then hda1 converted to NTFS) During installation, Yast doesn't see any of those partitions and keeps telling me that hda is empty. I booted ramlinux floppy, knoppyx and phlak 0.2 and they correctly see all the partitions. Reading boot messages during Yast starting I saw a line saying: checking hda...... hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6> So, what's the problem? I also checked the mailing list archive, but... Thanks Ferdinando

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little problem with reiserfs and bad blocks
by c_nelson77 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

I have a drive that failed fsck after a power outage. I find out it reported bad blocks, and so fsck can't do it's thing. Now that drive is data, the bulk of it replaceable with a lot of time. (70 gigs, what can I say, I'm a pack rat) But anyways. I would like to be able to get this drive usable and salvage what I can. Using the badblock command, it reports 4 blocks bad. I have yet to find anything usefull on bad blocks, etc with reiserfs. Heck, I think if I could just force mount it, I should get most of it right? Any help here? I know ext2/3, fat, fat32, hpfs, ntfs, all have ways to deal with this, but I have yet to find anyone in linux w/ reiserfs.

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Sync problems with Palm Zire
by Paul W. Abrahams 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

I have a Palm Zire and I've been trying to use the Linux programs kpilot and jpilot with it. The results have been disappointing: 1. Kpilot consistently fails when trying to sync the datebook database, though it syncs the address database. 2. Jpilot is very inconsistent about recognizing the connection. It sometimes does and sometimes doesn't. The basic connection is clearly there, but I wish I knew how to get it to work consistently. Generally the sequence I've been using is: 1. Plug in the unit and turn it on. 2. Start up the program. 3. Tell the program to do a sync. 4. The program says "press the hotsync button". So I press the button on the unit. Sometimes jpilot actually does the right thing, but more often it gives an error. Clearly the basic setup is right since I am getting some communication with both kpilot and jpilot. Any suggestions about how to tame these beasts? Paul Abrahams

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keep time in sync?
by Leen de Braal 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

Hi all, I have troubles with a server getting time right. On boot the time is synchronized with the ntp-server of my ISP (xntpd is started at boot). After that nothing seems to be done any more. This machine has a clock, that runs about half an hour behind in 24 hours, so timesync is something, that could be usefull :-) What do I miss?? Leen.

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testing postfix and courier-imap
by Rikard Johnels 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

Hi! Trying to install postfix and courier-imap. I get to a point where i am instructed to start the services. From what i can tell they DO start.. But then my instructions tell me: "Start up your favorite mail client and verify that all connections you've started work for receiving and sending mail. Now that the basics work, we're going to do a whole bunch of stuff at once to get the rest of the system running. Again, please verify that what we've installed already works before progressing." Now the question is: How do i do that easiest? How do i test postfix? I tried to send mail to root (aliased to my ordinary external mail adress) That works. But how do i test sending to other adresses in my system? How do i test courier? -- /Rikard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh(a)norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 (0)735 05 51 01 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >

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KDE Problems That Have Been Getting Worse and Worse
by Tom Reagan 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

Last night, At the start of this evening, I was running the version of KDE that comes with Suse 8.1 (on the CDs), which I believe was KDE3.0.3. (Can someone verify that?) I was running the version of konqueror that comes with SuSE 8.1 (In addition, I had everything looking how I wanted it to look, but I digress.) I have been having problems with K3b burning properly and as I had the version that comes with the SuSE 8.1 CDs, I thought I should install a later version before trying to get it to work. I have read a lot that says the later versions are a lot nicer and fix a lot of bugs. I was aiming for version 0.10, with hopes that I could get version 0.11.1 working, but I knew that was a stretch. In the process, I found out that I hade to update KDE to KDE3.1, which I did. Only problem was, to do so meant ultimately I couldn't have kdebase3-SuSE. So I uninstalled it thinking that things wouldn't look how I wanted, but that was more of a minor annoyance, and relative to getting k3b version 0.10 installed, it seemed worth it to me. Well, immediately I saw problems: 1)k3b version 0.10 still wouldn't install--I don't remember why at this point, but that's I didn't really notice, because 2)konqueror was no longer working AT ALL So, I installed the updated kdebase3-konqueror.rpm from the suse.com website, and in the process installed the updated kdebase3-kdm, kde_base3-ksysguardd,kdebase3-nsplugin, as well as the four different kdeaddons3-xxxxxx. I also installed kdelibs3.rpm and a few other "base" KDE packages (and glib packages). I believe most if not all were for KDE3.1. Anyway, they were all straight from the SuSE 8.1 KDE pages. I figured this would cure the problem. No dice. In fact, after rebooting it seemed worse, because I wasn't seeing any of the SuSE stuff anymore (on my background, etc.) although that was to be expected. And konqueror still didn't work. So, I then re-updated back to the KDE3.0 versions straight off the CDs (including kdebase3-SuSE). Now, the problem has gotten even worse. I get a login prompt to my box, but I don't get the nice SuSE login from before and I never get into KDE at all. I have no idea what to post, but let me know and I'll do exactly as you ask (although it's going to be tough posting the exact messages as I am having to write you from a separate Windoze machine). Thanks, Tom --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!

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