February 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

4.5m boot on 9.2 poss. hwscand at fault
by Stephen Boddy 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Hi list, I think that is the most succinct title I could come up with. I installed 9.2 on a laptop that previously had gentoo and 9.1 on it in recent weeks. With 9.2 the boot up takes an extraordinary long time - 4.5 minutes at last run. In the boot process this happens where the reiser filesystem checks/log replays occur. Around there you can physically see the slow down, as the scrolling of the screen becomes "jerky". I used the nifty bootchart to build a picture of what was going on, and the culprit appears to be hwscand. Strangely even disabling the hwscan init script, still allows this to run. Damned if I can see what is starting this process. However from the chart I can see that this bar is huge, constantly uses big gobs of CPU. The disks hardly look to get hit. For what it's worth this is a Compaq Presario 700 series (712AU I think). I've checked through the dmesg output and the /var/log/messages file, and nothing looks suspicious as far as I can see. Can anyone tell me how hwscand is started, and possibly even why it's pegging out the CPU for over 3 minutes? TIA -- Steve Boddy

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RE: [SLE] An apology to the list
by James D. Parra 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

> A pity indeed, but probably an attempt to cut the volume of the list. > The idea is probably that you have to make an extra effort to send a > mesage to the whole list, and hence make your message relevant to > everyone reading it. Given that the vast majority of replies (at least from me) are intended for the list, this means far more messages require an address change, than not. This also means that sometimes people get two replies, because I occasionally forget to change the address before sending it, thus requiring a resend to the list. ~~~~~~~ I concur. Editing the "Reply To" address is a pain. It would be better if the "Reply To" went to the list. If I want to send to the originator, I'll modify the reply. Just my two cents. James

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Recompiling glibc
by JCVALIERE＠unog.ch 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Hello, I'm running SLES 8 with kernel 2.4.21-273 and glibc-2.2.5.-233. When I try to recompile glibc I got an error because the <gd.h> <gdfonts.h> <gdfontl.h> and <gd_io.h> file is not found. These include files are present in /usr/include of course but not in kernel-header. Does somebody know how to recompile the glibc ?? Thanks in advance. -- Cordialement, Best Regards, Jean-Christophe VALIERE jcvaliere(a)unog.ch

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SuSE 9.2 - Proliant 380 G3
by Ciro Iriarte 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Anybody tried to install the drivers included in the Proliant Support Pack for SLES9?, installed some fancy things (like the storage configuration tool), but couldn't make work the important things like the SmartArray driver. The server is running about 2 months already, but i'm trying to install the PSP because of two problems i've found: Yesterday tried to attach an old DLT IV drive to it and it wasn't detected. Sometimes when moving ~20GB of data from one filesystem to another it seems to freeze for some seconds. All the filesystems are on a hardware RAID5 (SmartArray) Are any difference between the SmartArray module supplied with SuSE Pro 9.2 and the one from the Proliant Support Pack?? Thanks in advance Ciro

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iPOD
by Jerry Feldman 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

During a previous post on another thread, someone mentioned iPOD. Is there Linux software that will work with the iPOD (eg. playlists, etc). I know the iPOD looks like a flash drive and will sync with Palm, etc. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf(a)blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

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Moving Samba PDC from old RH to SuSE 9.2
by Hugo 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hi! We have a Samba domain controller in very old RedHat. How should I move it to a new SuSE 9.2? I need to move the PDC functionality, the users and the files. There are not that many users, so they could all set their passwords again if it's not possible to move them. First thing, how do I import the users to SuSE 9.2? The RH system doesn't use shadow (if that helps). I need to import them to both linux (the normal /etc/passwd) as well as samba... there isn't any import system? Next, what to I need to do to move the computers (windows clients)? Just import them as normal users? To both linux main users as well as samba users? How about synchronization of the passwords from samba (windows client) to unix? Windows users must change their passwords from windows. Then the switch... should I first switch off the old server (at least the samba) and after that configure the new server as PDC to the same domain and start that up. I'm expecting to do as much as possible through the Yast GUI, but as with many other things... I think it's not enough and I need to go to the conf-files. What kind of problems should I expect? -- Hugo.

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Yahoo messenger problem after YOU update
by Mohamed Kamil Mansor 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hi all, I face a problem with Yahoo messenger after updating new packages using YOU. I'm using SuSE 9.0. It's happened last 3 weeks before but at the first i think it may problem with yahoo messenger itself. After asking my friends and they have not a problem with that. The problem are my buddies online status are not shown. it seems they are offline or in invisible mode but they are not. Did any one can help me fix this problem. regards, -- Mohamed Kamil Mansor Axiomatic Solutions Sdn Bhd Block F1, UPM-MTDC Technology Incubation Center One, Lebuh Silikon, 43400 Serdang, Selangor. Telephone: +603-86567824 Fax: +603-86567827 E-mail: kamil(a)axiomsol.com Website: http://www.axiomsol.com --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude AntiVirus] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude AntiVirus]

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wget downloading DVD
by it clown 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hi All, How do you download files larger than 3GB using wget?When i try to download a 3GB iso wget says: Length: -931,424,256 (unauthoritative) Thanks Regards ______________________________________________________________ http://www.webmail.co.za the South African FREE email service

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Re: [SLE] Sometimes Linux makes me crazy.
by AndyYankovich 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Andre Truter wrote: >Anyway, I think that Linux is wonderful, especially if you think that >this is software written and maintained mostly by people doint it in >thier free time and it competes with software written by people that >get paid to do it. I am quite happy with Linux, and if something >does not work, then I can help out by trying to fix it. -- >Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 >ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org Well guys, Linux is a wonderful piece of work **if you are a software engineer**. But for one who is not an engineer of any kind, one who used Windows only when Win95 came out because it was easier than DOS, etc., and one who like many, many *new computer users* had no one sitting next to them (like at work) to teach the little things of how to do anything, I feel Linux won't get to be mainstream until Linux becomes standardized and much more user friendly with live tech support. I used Mandrake 10.1 first, gave up on that, then bought and installed SuSE 9.2. I had no trouble installing it and in understanding how to use the basic functions. But other *little* things have me stumped - like how to install a software (firefox) upgrade when it isn't in RPM format. And a lot of functions in the same "class" of differentness (a word?) where I have trouble finding documentation explaining how to do it. I am fairly intelligent, can read, and understand things. I was able to go from Win 95 to Win XP Pro by myself and get to a point where I could help others with their Windows problems. BUT, after a few months in SuSE 9.2, I don't think I will ever get to that point in Linux. I know I used to spend hours on the phone waiting to talk to a Microsoft tech support *live* human being. But it was worth it because I got specific answers to my specific question. I was willing to spend money to get the answers because I wanted to "use a computer". Simple reason, but one that was totally achievable with Windows and *live* tech support. IMHO only, THIS is where Linux needs to change. How on earth can a person like me begin to truly "understand" how Linux works if I cannot *talk* to someone who will lead me to even *ask* the *right* questions? I will pay for the help. But where do I get the help? I am quite serious about this post. Please feel free to contact me directly by email if you know answers to this. I have tried to find someone who is willing to spend time - for a fee - with me on the telephone to answer questions as they come up. I know of at least two other people who would do the same thing. I got them to try Linux, but they went back to Windows. This is the kind of help we new Linux users need. Thanks for listening. Andy PS: Another thing. I just tried to print out this email before I sent it to be sure it said what I wanted to say. Can't figure out how to print it before I send it. I saved it as a draft but still can't print it out. I am using Evolution in SuSE Pro 9.2. Andy

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raid question
by Richard Bos 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

I'm looking into RAID, and as such I started to read the suse manual and the raid howto on the web. I still have some questions that someone on this list can answer. 1) Is it possible to add a soft raid after installation? The system I want to extend with raid (raid 1) is already up and running on single disk system (it has 2 disks). 2) How does one enable hardware raid. The motherboard has an onboard hardware raid controller. The controller does not really seem to be supported by linux (Promise 378). Anyway, I ask this out of interest ;) In case of hardware should it be done via the bios or completely different? -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

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