October 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE 9.2 and DPT/Adaptec RAID Report
by L. Mark Stone 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Using the Live Evaluation CDROM (KDE only) for SuSE 9.2, I was pleased to see that, at least as far as I was able to test, SuSE have fixed the dpt_i2o module. After booting from the CDROM, I opened a command prompt and ran "modprobe dpt_i2o". The module loaded successfully, and all of the SCSI disks were seen correctly, comprising one RAID-1 array and two single SCSI disks. (Under 9.0, at least one of the disks was seen twice; 8.2 was the last SuSE version that correctly supported this controller). I was able to copy and delete files on each of the disks with no errors. In total, I copied some 20GB of data across disks and onto the same disk(s). Throughput was comparable to what I see with the box running 8.2. Using the i2o subsytem on 9.1, file transfers this large (some files are 2GB in size) exposed a memory leak that would crash the system. I did not test the i2o subsytem on 9.2, nor even check that the i2o modules are available. I next unmounted the disks, rmmod'd dpt_i2o, and then ran YaST to see if it would detect the controller correctly. It did, and the dpt_i2o module loaded fine via YaST. In both cases after loading the module, SuSEWatcher noticed the "new" disks and offered to set them up for me by running YaST's partitioner module. The controller I used is a DPT 2865U3 RAID controller, in the same family as Adaptec 2100s. (Adaptec acquired DPT and repackaged their products as Adaptec's a few years ago). These few sample tests are encouraging, so I will be ordering 9.2 Pro to test further. I would like to hear from other DPT/Adaptec RAID users on this as well, please, if you don't mind downloading a few hundred MB and burning a CDROM. Thanks you, SuSE. Mark -- __________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 (207) 772-5678

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Samba - SuSE 9.1
by AV 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Hi, I have problem with mounting Windows sharing. For that I am using linneighborhood. When i try to mount I get error: Can't resolve address. linneighborhood is 0.6.5 version, samba-client is 3.0.7-1.1. How I can investigate problem to get all working OK? -- AV SuSE 9.1 Pro RLU #128180

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Suse Linux and DLink-DWL-G650
by Praise 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Hi all! I see that this card should work on Linux. Do those drivers come with Suse 9.1 or should I install them by hand? I have to install them on a friend's computer, so I would like not have to spend some time configuring it:) Thanks, Praise

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signature PGP
by steve-ss 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Is there any way I can avoid having this from members of the list? Surely it's not necessary. What use does it have? Here is a recent example: Message was signed with unknown key 0x7382241C0FA80BB1. The validity of the signature cannot be verified. Status: No public key to verify the signature

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9.2 at Amazon
by Cleary_Mike＠emc.com 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

SuSE 9.2 Pro is now available on amazon.com w/ free shipping... :-) Mike ------------------------------- Cleary_Mike(a)emc.com ------------------------------- A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse.

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SuSE 9.1 Crashes - HD Problem?
by Lucky Leavell 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

OS: SuSE 9.1 Pro with current patches FS Type: ext3 HD Type: IDE I was doing an online update when the system crashed displaying the following syslog entry on all screens: <host> kernel: Assertion failure in journal_dirty_data() at fs/jbd/transactio.c:977: "jh > b_transaction == journal -> j_committing_transaction" Would this be an indicator of a hard drive problem or what? What can be done about it? Thank you, Lucky Leavell

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[9.1] Gnome don't display fonts
by Regis FLORET 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Hello I've got a really big problem with SuSE 9.1 Personal upgraded with apt tool. First : I download Gnome 2.4 desktop and its libraries - everything worked fine until last Friday. Gnome system menu lost its icons. After a simple reboot, every thing went wrong. No font displayed, No icons. KDE had problem too... I decided to reinstall the system and reinstall Gnome Desktop too with downloaded packages. Nothing works (no font, no icon) except when I log as root. I tried few commands such as gconftool-rebuild, deleting .gconf directory. It seems its a right access. But where should I search ! Regards -- Regis FLORET

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Re: [SLE] mplayerplug-in ...70 acts like a trojan horse
by Jim Worrest 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:29 , Anders Johansson <andjoh(a)rydsbo.net> sent: >On Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18.15, Jim Worrest wrote: >> I decided to install the new mplayerplug-in for Mozilla on a computer >> using apt-get. BIG MISTAKE! Now I can't get Mozilla or Synaptic to boot up. >> The boot up of my 9.0 Pro from grub even doesn't act the same. >> Is there a cure for this? ---Jim > >A little terminology: > >A trojan horse is a program that pretends to be one thing while in reality it >does something completely different, usually reserved for malicious programs. >Please don't call programs trojan horses just because you don't think they >work, that's like calling people criminals when they're not. It's not very >sociable > >A program doesn't boot, a system boots, a program starts Ah, well, I didn't call it a trojan horse --on my computer-- it acted like one. However, I did not try these programs from the command line, unless you mean, the box you get from pressing alt-F2, and I don't think you mean that. I will try it from the non-graphics command mode and see what I can see. Grub not acting the same, means instead oging right into the graphics that hold the users' names, it asked if I wanted to boot from hard-drive floppy etc. I probably should have tried rebooting the computer several times and see if it settled in it's old pattern. > >Now, when you say "doesn't act the same", what does that mean? Could you be a >little more specific? > >If you start mozilla or synaptic from a command line, do you get any error >messages? > >FYI I have mplayerplug-in 2.70 installed and everything works perfectly I am happy to hear that it worked perfectly for you, but not having Mozilla not start up, even with replacing it with the one that came with the distro, and even more surprisingly not having synaptic start up, has ruffled my feathers. I'm just happy I have put SuSE on more than one computer! ---Jim > >-- >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 > > > --- Msg sent via DIT Online WebMail http://mail.ditol.com

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Re: [suse-security] Tripwie Segmentation Fault on Suse 8.2
by Ryan McCain 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

I use "afick" .. Its very simple and gets the job done. Search for "afick" on freshmeat or sourceforge. thanks, ryan >>> Milind Nanal <milindyn(a)rolta.com> 10/20/2004 4:55:35 AM >>> I am in the process of migrating my service from RedHat to Suse. I was sing tripwire to carry out file level audit on RedHat. I am facing problem in setting up the same on Suse 8.2. It is giving Segmentation Fault. Need your help on this. Also any alternative file integrity tool for suse may be suggested. Regards, Milind -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help(a)suse.com Security-related bug reports go to security(a)suse.de, not here

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WINDOWS MEDIA TEST
by Paul 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Hallo I have the problem that every time I try to watch a video stream I get the message " WINDOWS MEDIA TEST We have detected your browser does not have the required Windows Media 9 plug-in to play this video." Everything worked ok (ok some vidios were a little blurry) untill I installed Netscape . Since then I have removed Netscape reinstalled Mozzilla, Kaffeine, Mplayer,Xine, Mplayer plugen,Xine Plugin and many other things. No matter what I do I get the same message with all browsers (Mozilla,Firefox,Opera and Konquerer) I'm sure that this is a link thing but I dont Know where to look or what to edit in it. Thanks in advance Paul Ryan

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