I have a fileserver running SuSE 8.0 with 2 IDE Drives and a
SCSI RAID (RAID5). The system boots up to one of the IDE drives,
and the SCSI RAID drive runs as a mounted filesystem (/dev/md0).
(all filesystems are REISERFS).
Problem:
The SCSI RAID drive has crashed (won't boot up), and I need to
recover it (repair it, through some utility).
Further:
The software does not seem to want to mount the disks, even though
the SCSI BIOS (Adaptec) recognizes the disks, and they are listed as
OPTIMAL.
I tried to repair the disk(s) (with reiserfsck), but it produced an
error message:
reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 2
reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 16
reiserfs_open: neither new nor old reiserfs form found on /dev/md0
The literature suggested that this error message is hardware related
(either a disk is physically damaged, or maybe the RAID isn't
recognized), but again, the disks are recognized (and therefore,
so is the SCSI Card).
I tried to boot up with SuSE CD 1 in Recovery mode, but not sure
what to do there (i.e., after the root prompt - just run reiserfsck?).
Literature suggests there are plenty of tools to handle disk recovery,
and especially RAID support, I can't find reference to them
anywhere.
The installation of the RAID was trivial (using the YAST2
partitioning GUI window on startup), and yet recovery seems to be a
mystery. This can't be right.
Does anyone know where there are "decent" and "usable" recovery tools?
OR ... does anyone know what "specifically" to do in this case? Can
I re-partition without formatting, and recover the existing data?
Any help is appreciated - I'm sure I'm missing something "obvious", but
can't find "obviously" what to do in the literature, docs, etc.
Thank you.
Robert Amodeo
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of California, Los Angeles
Linux Magazine (Linux Pro in the US) has a 4 page review of the 9.3
release in the June 2005 issue, pgs 44-47.
"Novell's Suse Linux 9.3 is a feature-rich, and robust Linux
distribution. At first glance, the new version does not seem much
changed from 9.2, but a lot of work has gone on under the hood. The
distribution is definitely good for new users.
If you already have Suse Linux 9.x or a similarly recent system, the
update is only worth the effort if you are unhappy with your current setup.
If you use external media on a regular basis, the update is definitely a
good idea. . . . "
dave
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David C. Johanson
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Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3
People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond
it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to
think at all. -- Goethe
A new AMD64 bit machine, new SUSE 9.3, should be heaven.
Machine hangs after a few minutes of use, but I can't tell why.
I hope someone recognizes a problem part so I can address it.
Parts:
Motherboard: Asus A8V-E includes:
Disk controller: VIA SATA and IDE drives
Network: Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E gigabit
sound, usb, firewire on board
CPU: AMD Athlon64 XP3500+
Graphics: Gigabyte PCI-Express 6600GT (NX66T128D)
Attempts:
WinXP: Embarassingly stable.
SuSE9.3 (64bit) crashes
Fedora Core 4 64-bit crashes
Ubantu64 crashes
DamnSmallLinux (embedded under XP with QEMU) stable!!!
Obviously SuSE is my choice. I keep trying online update, hoping that the
system will stay up long enough to complete and that a fix is coming.
Any thoughts?
Paul Alfille
Some weeks ago I inquired here about assistance for those who have difficulty
seeing, as I am one, at present. I am effectively blind in the left eye and
have cataract in the right. Some of this may be ameliorated in the future,
some will probably not be. Nothing came back at all.
The font in K-Mail out-going is about 8 point on my 17" screen, as is the
font on the message names for the incoming mail. I have not been able to
change this, altho the actual incoming message font I was successful in
changing.
I do not have access to my Windows machine at present, due to mechanical
failure, and this is the only way I have to communicate. Is there no way
to make SuSE Linux friendly to optically-challenged users?
Please, someone, reply.
--doug
Hi List,
I have belatedly made the change from lilo to grub carefully
converting my lilo config to grub'ese. It seems to work as
expected.
However, I have a couple of questions which I cannot track down
in any off-line source (man, info, howto's etc.) and I am not able to
trawl google or list archive with a time-limited unmetered dial-up
connection at present.
1. In lilo I always used the boot-floppy option so as not to upset
WinME. How do I do something similar in grub?
2. When the bootloader menu appeared in lilo I could interactively
overide the default runlevel (ie: boot to runlevel 3 not 5)
when necessary. How is this achieved in the grub menu?
I will accept a URL to the appropriate list archive entry or web page.
Apologies if this has been dealt with before.
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Hi,
I have used NTP in previous SUSE 9.X, but on 9.3 I used YAST to set up NTP.
YASTs dialog says that it will sync to a time server at bootup. In the past I
am sure that the local PC was re-sync'd quite often. I rarely ever saw a
difference of more than a second between my "Atomic" wall clock or watch.
But now I see the PCs time getting more and more 'off' the longer it has been
booted. This is irritating and non-intuitive. The systems should stay in sync
with the 'official' time servers. One should NOT have to re-boot just to get
the clock back in sync.
Is the a way to tell the system to regularly 'sync up'? Has anyone out there
found a way to keep a 9.3 system time accurate?
PeterB
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 18:42, Peter Nikolic wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 August 2005 00:26, Donn Washburn wrote:
> > You will also need a completely configured kernel source for NVidia's
> > file to run
> > You might also check subfs in /usr/src/kernel-modules
>
> SNIP
>
> Say WHAAAAAAA! if it is a stock SUSE keernel you need to do NO SUCH THING
> AT ALL .
>
> if you play with fire with the kernel.org kernels then maybe but the stock
> suse upgrades do not need touching at all install all four kernel update
> files then you need do nothing but what i said previousley as i have been
> doing for too long to remember ..
>
What you said previously:
> cd to the place you have the driver stored the for suse 9.2 do
> " ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667-pkg1.run -q" accept the driver answer yes to
the
> rest of the questions about the installed driver , Driver installs then "
> init 5" bingo X and KDE or the other one up and running if you had a
> previous NVIDIA driver installed there is NO NEED for the sax2 bit (that
> always fails big time for me any how so i hand brew things )
That didn't work for me with the latest upgrade. When I executed the file
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667-pkg1.run it said there was no matching driver found
and offered to compile it for me -- which worked just fine.
I am running the SMP kernel. Don't know if that is why it couldn't find the
driver.
# uname -a
Linux paulsen 2.6.11.4-21.8-smp #1 SMP Tue Jul 19 12:42:37 UTC 2005 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux
If you examine the executable you will see that it is a script file with some
binary drivers embedded into it. The text portion of the file lists the
supported kernels and the list doesn't include the latest SuSE kernel (smp or
not). The script then checks the Nvidia ftp server and can't find it there
either.
For the compile to work, you do need to first install the kernel source and do
the following, as root:
# cd /usr/src/linux
# make cloneconfig
# make prepare
What are people using for anti-virus software? I've got BitDefender
running on my machine, but I'd like to find something zero-cost that
has a nice GUI so that when I set up boxes for friends and family,
they can use it.
Regularly (and automatically) updated virus definitions are a must,
here.
Dave
Hi
SuSEWatcher tells me that new security updates are available
so I run Yast>Online Update
But I get an error:
Retrieving acroread: "Adobe Reader for PDF Files" ... Retry
Retrieving acroread: "Adobe Reader for PDF Files" ...
Aborted
ERROR(You:RPM has invalid signature.)
Any ideas how to get rid of this?
