December 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Precision 380 SATA drive not found in 9.2 install
by Alan Lirette 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

I have recently tried to install Suse Professional 9.2 on a Dell Precision 380. Unfortunately, the OS does not recognize the SATA controller during install. The Dell box has an Intel 82801 GR/GH ICH7R/DH SATA raid controller. There are no drivers available for Suse from Intel and the ata_piix kernel module does not recognize the hard drives. I have tried to switch the SATA controller to "combination" in bios. It can than recognize the drive, setup the partitions but while the drive is being formatted, it just hangs forever. Any ideas?

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Funky DVD / Drive Behavior
by Randall R Schulz 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Hi, Recently I began to have trouble with YaST refusing to use the SuSE 10.0 commercial DVD for new package installations. It claimed there wasn't a distribution on the device, though clearly there was, as I'd installed from it many times already. Examining it via the shell seemed to show everything being in order, but when I went to look at .../media.1/media, I got this: % cat /media/SU1000_001/media.1/media cat: /media/SU1000_001/media.1/media: Input/output error Since I have two DVD recorders in this system, I switched to the other one and when using that drive, everything's working fine. YaST will install from that drive and cat shows the expected contents of the .../media.1/media file. Experimenting further, I tried these commands: % dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=4096 1048575+1 records in 1048575+1 records out 4294965248 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 534.002 seconds, 8.0 MB/s % dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/null bs=4096 2082936+0 records in 2082936+0 records out 8531705856 bytes (8.5 GB) copied, 1089.81 seconds, 7.8 MB/s /dev/hda is the misbehaving drive and /dev/hdc is the one that works. Hda is a Sony DRU-720A dual-layer writer, hdc is an older Sony DRU-510A single-layer writer (both are capable of reading dual-layer media). Both are IDE drives configured as masters of the two separate IDE buses of my mainboard. There are no slaves on those buses and all other mass storage is on SCSI. It seems very odd that while no error was reported, reading stopped on hda after 4.3 GB while hdc when the full 8.5 GB. One might suppose that hda couldn't handle the layer switch yet reported no error when it should have done so. Another oddity I noticed when conducting these experiments was high CPU usage when accessing hda. It turns out its DMA had gotten turned off somehow. I reenabled it and ran the test again. Aside from going about twice as fast, nothing changed. Has anybody seen symptoms like this? Can you shed any light on what might have happened to the malfunctioning drive to account for these peculiar symptoms? Thanks. Randall Schulz

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Re: [SLE] How do I protect a YaST package from upgrades?
by Stephen Carter 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

>>> Stephen Carter 11/28/05 1:17 PM >>> >>>> "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas(a)tiscali.es> 11/27/05 2:57 PM >>> >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >> >>The Sunday 2005-11-27 at 12:56 -0000, Stephen Carter wrote: >> >>> I've customised a package I installed through YaST from the default >>> installation DVD on SuSE 10.0 so never want to have the option to >>> upgrade it via YOU if one should come available. >>> >>... >>> >>> In YaST I can see there is a 'protected' option for a package that's >>> already been installed but when I select this then click Finish, and go >>> back into YaST the package is no longer marked as protected. >> >>Yes, for some unknown reason the "taboo" mark does not stick. It has been >>a feature aka bug for a long time (ie, years). >> >> >>> Is there some way of marking a package 'protected' after it has been >>> installed via YaST? >> >>I change the release nunmber to .999 in the rpm. If that is not enough, >>change the version number. >> >>- -- >>Cheers, >> Carlos Robinson > >So you can't do it if the installation source is non-writable media such as >CD/DVD or a public web source, and the only way is to copy the rpm to > your hard disk, edit it, then install it via YaST. > >Well at least it's a workaround, although an ugly one... > >Thanks Carlos, > >SteveC Found a solution to this issue. It appears the protected option will only stick if any other package installation state in YaST is changed, i.e. installed or removed. This option is also only available to already installed packages. If you want to install a SuSE rpm via YaST and protect it from any future updates via YOU, install it as normal then go back to the installation screen, right-click the package and select 'protected' then select *another* arbitary package and install that as well. Now go back to the installation screen one more time and remove the arbitary package you just installed. You will also notice the protected tag has now 'stuck' to the original package. Cheers, SteveC

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cdrecord writes nonportable DVDs
by Paul W. Abrahams 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Cdrecord is giving me a problem: the DVDs it writes are readable only on the machine where they were written. It wasn't always this way; older ones from the same drive/machine/software are readable anywhere. I suspect that the drive has somehow gotten out of calibration, but I'd like to avoid replacing it. One indicator is that cdrecord gives me the message: cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150 I googled the message and got many results, but none seem particular to this message. I don't even know if the message is relevant to the problem, or if there's anything I can do to make it go away. Is there some way to write the DVDs more conservatively that's likely to cure the problem? Paul

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KDE 3.5 Upgrade Problem -- python-qt
by Robert Paulsen 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

I have the pre-release KDE 3.5 installed OK on SuSE 9.3. Got it from SuSE supplementary source via YaST's "Install and Remove Software" about a week ago. Now I want to update to the official 3.5 release but ran into a problem. It has a missing dependency: kdebindings3-python requires python-qt which is apparently not available. The pre-release 3.5 version does not have this package but it also didn't call it out as a dependency. kdebindings3-python is required in turn by hplip -- needed by CUPS to support my HP Laserjet printer. So, it seems I cannot install the official KDE 3.5. Does anyone have a way around this? Bob

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Fatal: LILO internal error:
by Peter Sutter 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

The hard disk has a one GB partition (/dev/hda1) with MS-DOS V5.0 on it, this is to be preserved. The remaining 79 GB are free for Linux. New installation of SuSEV9.2, changed bootloader from Grub to LILO. When the system is ready to install the bootloader, I get the message Fatal: LILO internal error: would overwrite Partition Table Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed Warning: boot record relocation is necessary: /dev/sda in lilo.conf, boot is set to /dev/sda. I can't see any reason why the boot sector could not be in the MBR. When I change the bootloader to Grub, it works and the system is bootable. All the other machines we have run LILO as the boot loader, and for consistencys sake, I would like to boot this one too using LILO. Why can Grub use the MBR as boot sector but LILO can't? What do I do to get LILO going? Thanks Peter

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Client DHCP (no IPv6 routers present)
by Renato S. Yamane 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

I install Suse 10 (CD-GM version) in my Laptop Toshiba M45 S355, but my laptop don't get IP from my DHCP Server (modem router conected in ADSL). Detail specs of my laptop: <http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/product/pdf_files/detailed_specs/sa…> The error in /var/log/messages is: "no IPv6 routers present". In other distros (Conectiva/Mandriva Linux, Fedora and include WinXP) I obtain connect normally. Anybody can help-me? Renato S. Yamane BRAZIL

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source list
by boricua 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

can someone plse provide a list of suse severs to add to source instalation media?

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Getting 10.0 onto a Mac G4?
by Rikard Johnels 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hello all! Tried installing SuSE10 (from the ISO's at gwdg.de) But it fails on the partitoning. It used to be a OsX on it, but the company i got it from had erased it. So i booted it up on the first CD, and told it to erase all partitions and use the whole disk for linux. It crashed yelling about not being able to create partition. I rebooted into rescue mode and ran fdisk " There is a valid Mac label on this disk. Unfortunately Linux cannot handle these disks at the moment. Nevertheless some advice: 1. fdisk will destroy its contents on write 2. Be sure that this disk in NOT a still vital part of a volume group. (Otherwise you may erase the other disks as well. if unmirrored)" Google suggests mac-fdisk. But the cd doesnt seem to have that. Bug or feature? How do i proceed? -- -- /Rikard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- email : rikard.j(a)rikjoh.com web : http://www.rikjoh.com mob : +46 (0)736 19 76 25 ------------------------ 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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10.0: Amarok issues: freezes when handled & won't play files with odd charachters
by JW 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Just installed SuSE 10. Amarok, which was a fairly nice application in 9.3, will "freeze" for about 5, 10 seconds whenever I do anything, such as queue a track, add media, or use the sidebar. If a song is playing it will "pause" while the app is thinking about doing what it needs to. Is there anything I can do about this? It's incredibly annoying. I'm always queuing the next few tracks I want to listen to while it's playing and the little "freeze" routine in the new version just makes me unhappy. Another problem is that it won't play songs with unusual charachters in the ID3 tag, like a question mark: "What Child Is This?". never realized so many Christmas songs had questions marks in the title until now ;-) What's worse is it won't skip them, if just sits there claiming it's playing and never making sound, or moving on to the next track. Anyone else having these problems? XMMS plays all the files just fine, just like always. If I could get the Wake Up Alarm to compile on 10.0 I'd leave amarok alone and go back to XMMS. Thanks. -- ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com

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