November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [opensuse] New info about Smart frezing on Suse
by Mike Dzikowski 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Try installing with YaST and see what errors it produces. Michael Dzikowski Support Technician The Harvard Drug Group mdzikowski(a)thdg.com Phone:(734)-743-6258 Fax:(734)-743-7258 -----Original Message----- From: Aschwin Marsman [mailto:aschwin@marsman.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:57 AM To: opensuse(a)opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] New info about Smart frezing on Suse On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) wrote: > Tonight I was installing some packages and I got the already known > Smart freeze on my Suse 10.0 box. After this: > > 8:Installing autoconf > ################################################################### > [ 47%] > > It freezes. Then I went to another terminal: > > # strace -f -p 23016 > (...) > [pid 23070] read(12, 0xbc6b904, 16384) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource > temporarily unavailable) > (...) > > I can reproduce it. Whenever I try to install this set of packages: > > autoconf-2.59-82@i586 libstdc++-devel-4.0.2_20050901-3@i586 > automake-1.9.6-2@i586 ncurses-devel-5.4-71@i586 > bison-1.875-56@i586 pkgconfig-0.19-6@i586 > ctags-2004.11.15-4@i586 slang-devel-1.4.9-127@i586 > flex-2.5.4a-297@i586 task-c++-devel-100-1.netmask.suse100@noarch > gcc-4.0.2_20050901-3@i586 task-c-devel-100-1.netmask.suse100@noarch > gcc-c++-4.0.2_20050901-3@i586 texinfo-4.8-9.2@i586 > glib2-devel-2.8.4-3@i586 zlib-devel-1.2.3-3@i586 > glibc-devel-2.3.5-40@i686 Could you do a rpm -q of each packacge, e.g. rpm -q autoconf etc. I get a freeze when the same package is installed multiple times. This happens a lot lately, yesterday with gcompris (there were two packman versions installed). Running gcompris is also giving me problems with X, the resolution is changed to a lower one and I can't change it back. This happens with a lot of games that my kids play. This didn't happen with SUSE 9.3 (The only thing that was better in 9.3 compared to 10.0). My videocard is a: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. G400/G450 (rev 04) Anybody seen the same behaviour? Best regards, Aschwin Marsman -- aschwin(a)marsman.org http://www.marsman.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help(a)opensuse.org

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apache2-2.0.54-10 looks broken,
by Chadley Wilson 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Greetings, I have configured apache since Suse 7 and redhat 6, never ever had too many issues. This version in Suse 10, refuses outright to start. When I get it started, and try access the site - it says access denied, otherwise it picks on the syntax in my html files which works perfectly fine on the my redhat box running an older apache, not in 5 years have I ever seen this behaviour. It won't even run the site as the defualt site, Has any one here had troubles with Suse 10 and Apache? #rpm -qa | grep apache apache2-prefork-2.0.54-10 apache2-2.0.54-10 TIA Chadley

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10.0 and NTP
by Mike McMullin 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

I've been trying to set up my 10.0 machine as an ntp client. The software is installed but when it tries to validate a server (I've tried several in the Canada and the U.S) it tells me it cannot reach the server. Addresses are provided by YaST's NTP Client module. Has anyone success in setting up 10.0 with a N.A. time server?

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SuSE Wiki Hacked
by Randall R Schulz 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Hi, <http://www.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page> is now an "advertisement" for a variety of pharmaceuticals. Multiple destination Web pages are linked from the long list of drug names. This change was reported on the RSS feed that notifies of recent changes to the SuSE Wiki (<http://www.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss>). Randall Schulz

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Re: [SLE] Script for locating illegal file names?
by Matt Stamm 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "david rankin" <drankin(a)cox-internet.com> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:05:52 -0600 >Mates, > > I manage my own server with 10 clients. The 'not so intelligent' folks I >work with have saved file names that cannot be backed up with growisofs, >etc.., because the file names are too long and violate the Joliet and >Rock-Ridge conventions. This usually happens when they save web pages and >the html title gets used as the filename. I need a way to search the sever >and identify the files that are too long so I can change them without having >to search manually. > > Does anybody know of a tool that will do this? > > I have used "growisofs -dry-run ..." to find them one by one, but this >is quite cumbersome. > David, Have you considered using PHP? Do you have PHP installed on the server? Matt

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New info about Smart frezing on Suse
by Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Tonight I was installing some packages and I got the already known Smart freeze on my Suse 10.0 box. After this: 8:Installing autoconf ################################################################### [ 47%] It freezes. Then I went to another terminal: # strace -f -p 23016 (...) [pid 23070] read(12, 0xbc6b904, 16384) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) [pid 23070] futex(0xbac12f0, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0 [pid 23070] futex(0xbad2f70, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0 [pid 23070] futex(0xbac12f0, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0 [pid 23070] select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 23070] futex(0xbac12f0, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0 [pid 23070] futex(0xbac12f0, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0 [pid 23070] read(12, 0xbc6b904, 16384) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) (...) This error repeated over and over for about 30 minutes. After long time waiting, I got this: --- SIGSTOP (Stopped (signal)) @ 0 (0) --- --- SIGSTOP (Stopped (signal)) @ 0 (0) --- And the smart term shows: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/pm.py", line 253, in _rpmoutthread time.sleep(1) IOError: [Errno 514] Unknown error 514 Then it freezes again, but strace stops and nothing shows after that. I can reproduce it. Whenever I try to install this set of packages: autoconf-2.59-82@i586 libstdc++-devel-4.0.2_20050901-3@i586 automake-1.9.6-2@i586 ncurses-devel-5.4-71@i586 bison-1.875-56@i586 pkgconfig-0.19-6@i586 ctags-2004.11.15-4@i586 slang-devel-1.4.9-127@i586 flex-2.5.4a-297@i586 task-c++-devel-100-1.netmask.suse100@noarch gcc-4.0.2_20050901-3@i586 task-c-devel-100-1.netmask.suse100@noarch gcc-c++-4.0.2_20050901-3@i586 texinfo-4.8-9.2@i586 glib2-devel-2.8.4-3@i586 zlib-devel-1.2.3-3@i586 glibc-devel-2.3.5-40@i686 Unfortunately it freezes randomly. Each time I run this transaction it freezes on a different package. Also, note that task-c-devel and task-c ++-devel don't really exist, they're just two packages I'm porting from Conectiva. Does this help on something? Can someone have an idea of what's going on here? If I understand correctly, it was waiting for an external thread (in this case an rpm thread) that never ended (or did, but smart couldn't see it). # rpm -q smart rpm rpm-python smart-0.40-12.guru.suse100 rpm-4.1.1-222 rpm-python-4.1.1-222 -- % Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) % mteixeira{a}webset{d}net <> Maceio/AL/BR % TI+Telecom Analyst <> Linux Specialist % http://mteixeira.webset.net <> http://pmping.sf.net % [D0CE 6BD4 526B B7D1 6F4E 85FA A7A0 1A6F B23A A9EE]

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USB Serial port problem
by Bruce Ferrell 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Hi All, I have a Dell 5100 and I'm trying to use a USB/serial convertor. I get the following messages when I plug the device in: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for PL-2303 pl2303 4-1.4.4:1.0: PL-2303 converter detected usb 4-1.4.4: PL-2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 usbcore: registered new driver pl2303 drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver v0.12 Attempts to use the serial port gives me the following message: PL-2303 ttyUSB0: pl2303_open - failed submitting interrupt urb, error -28 Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this device working?

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fonts issue with KDE 3.5 upgrade
by Dave Chapman 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

I have just upgraded KDE 3.5-0 to 3.5-2 and after rebooting the fonts are all to pot. All the fonts on KDM are squares KDM also takes longer to start. I can login but KDE takes ages to start and all the fonts are squares same as on KDM I used smart to upgrade and everything seemed to go OK till I rebooted. I did run SuSEconfig and ldconfig manualy after the upgrade. This is all on a SUSE 10GM box. Any help please I would like to sort this but I will be reinstalling soon as I am swopping out a raid card and changing the graphics card soon.

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Re: [SLE] LVM mounting order - complete disaster
by Sunny 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

On 11/28/05, Grahame M. Kelly <grahame(a)wildpossum.com> wrote: > > Hi Svetoslav > > I assume you have lvm included within your initrd setup ! > It is required at reboot otherwise you get the results you have encountered. > Hope this assists you. > -- > Cheers. Grahame > Grahame, thanks for the pointer, I'll check it tomorrow morning. What exactly (i.e. which module) I have to include? But anyway, looks strange, because even my / is on this LVM group, and if it is not included in the initrd, there will be no way to boot the system. Or I'm wrong? Cheers -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

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Install from SuSE 10 DVD hangs
by James Parra 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Hello, Installing from DVD and the installer is hanging at, 'Searching for info file', and doesn't go beyond that point. How do I get around this? Also, as an aside, are there more apps on the DVD or do the CDs and DVD contain the same number of applications? Many thanks, ~James

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