May 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Resilient Device Copy Utility?
by Randall R Schulz 01 May '05

01 May '05

Hi, A while back someone wrote here (I think it was this list) about a dd-like utility that would deal with I/O errors more intelligently (or at least more flexibly). In particular, it could be made to continue on after an I/O error on the input side, skipping the output side commensurately so the output was a copy of the input with those portions that were unreadable filled with zeros. If anyone knows of such a thing, please let me know. Thanks. Randall Schulz

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Runaway "fam"?
by Randall R Schulz 01 May '05

01 May '05

Hi, Twice now since installing 9.3 I've found an instance of fam (/usr/sbin/fam) soaking up all the CPU cycles it could get. This morning when I awoke was the most recent occurrence. When I noticed it, it had just passed the 8-hour mark of cumulative CPU time. I had remained logged in and do not lock the screen, though I have a screen saver configured as well as DPMS enabled. There was no trouble accessing the existing session. Other, probably related symptoms include hang of KMail during start-up (its window displays but does not get drawn and subsequently must be forcibly terminated) and Mozilla not getting far enough to even display a window before hanging. The fam process appeared to be owned by my UID, but neither I nor root could kill it ("Operation not permitted"). Attempting to renice it gave the same error message. I was able reboot without further incident (I was worried that the unkillable process would wedge the shutdown process) but afterward the "kdm is changed to xdm" problem reoccurred. Has anybody seen this or anything like it? Have you solved it, perchance? I have fam-2.6.10-123 installed. Thanks. Randall Schulz

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Upgrading to Suse 9.3
by Scorpy 01 May '05

01 May '05

Hello all! I want to upgrade from Suse 9.2 to 9.3 over the FTP install. I guess I only need the first CD then? Where can i get the iso images for Suse 9.3? (some fast server) Thanks for the help. Scorpy

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Why /dev/sda [WAS: can no longer see usb drive]
by Greg Freemyer 01 May '05

01 May '05

On 4/30/05, Colin Carter <colincarter(a)exemail.com.au> wrote: > On Sunday 01 May 2005 01:35, Greg Freemyer wrote: > Off topic a little, but can you explain the philosophy of SuSE emulating > SCSI connection? (I assume that that is what they are doing above.) > This emulation actually prevented me from installing SuSE 9.0 as it > was reading my DVD drive as IDE until it started to install and then > it switched to emulating SCSI and then said it couldn't read the same > drive which it had been reading. Ahhhhh! > I had to go out and buy 9.1 which (quote SuSE) "fixed that issue". > I didn't have an issue with the IDE drive being an IDE drive; why > do SuSE make it an issue? I have been told that SCSI is faster, but > surely that statement only applies when it is true SCSI and not just > and *extra* emulation filter/process? > snip It is not a SuSE issue, it is a Linux Kernel issue, so all the distros should behave similarily. As I understand it, the difference between /dev/hdx and /dev/sdx is which basic block driver set you use. The /dev/hdx series is only used by traditional Parrallel ATA (PATA) drives as far as I know. In addition to SCSI, all the newer drive technologies (SATA / USB / Firewire / FC / SAS / iSCSI) are being handled exclusively by the /dev/sdx block driver. The sata kernel library (libata) is slowly being enhanced to support PATA drives, so in a year or two I would expect /dev/hdx to simply go away for new 2.6 kernels. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century

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Virus, Worm on Linux or what is it?
by Martin Deppe 01 May '05

01 May '05

Sorry for the previous mail - I sent it unintentionally unfinished. So here comes it finished: I got five of the following mails "back" (I didn't send them). I think either I have a Virus/Worm on MY system and in that case I think it would have to be my Linux box (and I can't believe that) or somebody else in the list must be the one. Can anybody tell me something about that to solve the mystery? I mean, do I have to clean my system up? And if then I would like to FIND that Virus/Worm before removing it. Martin The following is what I got "back": -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Postfix program at host linux.local. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program <gbrown(a)localhost.linux.local>: host localhost[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in processing, id=02097-05, virus_scan FAILED: NO VIRUS SCANNERS AVAILABLE (in reply to end of DATA command) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reporting-MTA: dns; linux.local Arrival-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 14:24:45 -0600 (MDT) Final-Recipient: rfc822; gbrown(a)localhost.linux.local Action: failed Status: 4.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host localhost[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in processing, id=02097-05, virus_scan FAILED: NO VIRUS SCANNERS AVAILABLE (in reply to end of DATA command) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: [SLE] Please help: SuSE 9.1 lockups during high CPU/disk activity From: Martin Deppe <Martin.Deppe(a)web.de> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 00:58:50 +0200 To: "SuSE Linux E..." <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> Pieter Hulshoff wrote: > On Saturday 23 April 2005 00:16, Martin Deppe wrote: > > >> Maybe it is a combination of the heat problem and a too low voltage >> problem which only leads to the lock up if the temperature raises above >> a certain point so that the voltage goes even further down to the point >> that it finally causes the lock. >> > > > I think it's mostly heat. I've currently got the door open, it's > freezing in here, and my computer's rock stabily ripping a DVD to avi. > CPU temperature is at 48C right now. If a Tagan 480W PSU (and one with > very good reviews I might add) isn't capable of handling a 2 year old > system, Athlon XP2000+ with radeon 9000 AIW card, then there's a > serious problem I think. > > > >> I don't actually know whether you can use two or more PSU in one and the >> same box (I still have to check that for myself), but if this is >> possible it might be part of the solution beside the point to get the >> air better circulating inside your box for better cooling >> characteristics. >> > > > Using two or more PSUs is not a good thing. The voltages of those two > PSUs will never be exactly the same, so you get internal power leakage > (don't know the exact term for it in English I'm afraid). I wouldn't > recommend it. As said though: a good 480W PSU should be more than > enough for a system like mine. > > Regards, > > Pieter > I meant to use another PSU with the additional drives. Since they are connected only through the datacables it doesn't really matter that the voltages aren't exactly the same (I think). I think I will try it (or at least research on that) myself some time. I have a system with two CPU's which are 76°C to 77°C "warm" (always), if I can trust gkrellm and actually the BIOS too. So 48°C shouldn't be a problem at your side (I guess). However, I need to sleep now! Good luck Martin -- 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

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Installation of SuSE 9.2 on an older Box
by Martin Deppe 01 May '05

01 May '05

Dear Listmembers, I tried to install SuSE 9.2 on the following machine unsuccessful: BIOS Report is as follows: Pentium MMX, 166 MHz 192 MB main memory Primary Master Maxtor 91360U4 (13.6 GB) Primary Slave Maxtor 92732U8 (27.3 GB) Secondary <none> Card-01 OPL3-SAX Sound Board Adaptec AHA-2930CU SCSI BIOS v1.34.1 SCSI ID: 4 TEAC CD-R55S SCSI BIOS Not installed A report of "yast2 hwinfo" (SuSE 9.0) is also available (~80 Kb). The installation of SuSE 9.2 hangs at the following last line: >>> SUSE Linux installation program v1.7.17 (c) 1996-2004 SUSE LINUX AG <<< The last thing I could see it doing, was changing the Font on the Textscreen. After that it is doing nothing anymore. That even happens when I try to install it by using "Installation (save settings)" in "Text Mode". Can anybody give me some advice how to get SuSE 9.2 installed on this box, please? Best regardss Martin

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Alert
by Erik Jakobsen 01 May '05

01 May '05

Hi. Have just installed SuSE 9.3. Installed Mozilla Mailer, and have the Alertmessage shown on: http://www.urbakken.dk/alert.png. I have copied my Mozilla Mailers's mailcontent from SuSE 9.2. I think it is a permission error, but what error ?. 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init script help
by Sunny 01 May '05

01 May '05

Hi, I'm trying to run my RAID adapter monitoring tool. Unfortunately, Dell provide this tool only for RedHat. Eitherway, I installed this rpm and it is running good on SuSE 9.3. Now I want to make it integrate good with the system. So, using the skeleton, and the original script provided with the rpm, I created something ... which is not working really OK. It starts the service, but the status and the stop parts are ... well, I'm not a scripting guy at all :) So, from the RH script, they start the service with: daemon MegaCtrl -start ans stop it with daemon MegaCtrl -stop /usr/sbin/MegaCtrl is a symlink to /usr/sbin/MegaCt32, which is binary executable. After starting the service from CLI with: #MegaCtrl -start the service is started, and ps aux | grep Meg produces: linux:/home/sunny # ps aux | grep Meg root 13715 0.0 0.0 1340 488 ? Ds 10:49 0:00 /usr/sbin/MegaServ MegaCtrl So, it seems that the real executable is MegaServ, and it breaks how all the SuSE init subroutines like killproc, rc_status, etc. work. As I said, I'm not a scripting guy, neither I have used RH, so I do not know what daemon command in their script does and how it works, so I can implement a similar functionality for my SuSE init script. I understand that maybe the info provided is not enough, and I have only these binaries, so I have no control over them, but any help will be highly appreciated. Attached is the script I created. As and addition, if I invoke this script with "start" it starts the service, but reports failed. So I guess there is a collision in how startproc and rc_status work and query the status. And it can not stop the service. Any suggestions how to change it are very welcome. Or, would you suggest that just starting this tool from boot.local (even if it is not "beautiful") is an option? Cheers Sunny

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directory listing daemon ?
by Laurent Renard 01 May '05

01 May '05

Hello everyone, i'm looking for something that could listen to a directory content ( console ) and dynamicaly display it ( and display changes in real-time ) Do you know something ? -- Laurent Renard

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Hosting my webpage
by Chaitanya Krishna A 01 May '05

01 May '05

hi all, I want to host my home page from my computer. Any guidance as to how this can be achieved is very much welcome. I want to know where to put my index.html and how to access the web page from the net. I think something like setting up the web server is involved. What do I need to type in the browser to get to my home page after it is hosted? I am on SuSE 9.1 Pro. Thanks for any help Chaitanya. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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