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[opensuse] dvd drive going nuts
by Frank Steiner 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Hi, after burning a DVD I rsync'ed the whole DVD back to the hard disk to check if there are no read errors. Suddenly a bad sector appeard and the log file started filling with entries Oct 10 13:08:38 galois kernel: hdd: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Oct 10 13:08:38 galois kernel: hdd: media error (bad sector): error=0x34 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x03 } Oct 10 13:08:38 galois kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Oct 10 13:08:38 galois kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 16613856 Oct 10 13:08:38 galois kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 4153464 Oct 10 13:08:38 galois kernel: hdd: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Oct 10 13:08:38 galois kernel: hdd: media error (bad sector): error=0x34 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x03 } Oct 10 13:08:38 galois kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Oct 10 13:08:38 galois kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 16613856 Oct 10 13:08:38 galois kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 4153464 Now, I tried to stop this somehow: - the rsync can't be killed, not even as root with kill -9. - umounting with -l claimed to work, but I couldn't eject the DVD - finally, after about 10 minutes I ejected the DVD physically from the drive, but Linux doesn't care about this? rsync is still running and can't be killed, and the logfile still fills with entries like above every few seconds (with increasing sector numbers), although the DVD has not been in the drive for more than 15 minutes now. How can I stop this? Why can't I kill the rsync and how can I make the drive recognize there is no DVD anymore? Some way to reset the drive or sth.? cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] SPAM: Meeting for new features for OpenSuSE 10.3 or 11.0
by Jordi Massaguer i Pla 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Dear OpenSuSE guys, When OpenSuSE 10.2 is finished, will be a meeting for discussing the new features of the new OpenSuSE? Will it be before finishing OpenSuSE 10.2? Is there any mechanism than people from the comunity can collaborate on the definitionn of the new OpenSuSE a part from the wishlist? thanks, jordi ----------------------------------------------- Jordi Massaguer Pla openTrends Solucions i Sistemes phone: +34 93 320 84 14 fax: +34 93 300 35 27 jordi.massaguer(a)opentrends.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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SPAM: iriver
by Steve Reilly 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Hi, anyone using an iriver clix here? Do they mount like an rca lyra as a mass storage device? or do you have to mess around to get it to work. thanks! Steve Reilly Blog: http://72.227.4.163/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail.

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FW: [SLE] Need help switching from connecting through router to direct connecting
by Greg Wallace 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

On Wednesday, October 11, 2006 @ 7:25 AM, Darryl Gregorash wrote: >On 10/10/06 20:56, Greg Wallace wrote: >>On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 @ 6:41 PM, Darryl Gregorash wrote: >> >> >>>On 10/10/06 15:48, Greg Wallace wrote: >>> >>>>My router just went out and I'm trying to set up my Linux box to connect >>>>directly through my cable modem. Under DNS and Hostname, there is a box >>>> >>at >> >>>>the bottom that says -- >>>> >>>>Update Name Servers and Search List Via DHCP >>>> >>>>That's what I want, but the box is grayed out. I seem to recall that >>>>something has to be shut down before that can be changed. I went to the >>>> >>>> >> >> >>>For 9.3 (other versions may vary), in Yast/Network devices/Network >>>cards, click on "Change" (already configured devices), next highlight >>>the device you wish to reconfigure, and click "Edit". The next panel >>>gives the choice of setup method, DHCP or static IP. Change this to >>>DHCP, and you will be able to change the name server over to DHCP update >>>(if it doesn't get done automatically, that is). It should not be >>>necessary to bring down the network before doing any of this. >>> >> >>Well, going through Network Devices/Network Card did let me switch to DHCP. >>However, nothing seemed to change on my system until I re-booted. Then, >>when I went back into DNS and Hostname, I got the following -- >> >>The resover configuration file (etc/resolv.conf) has been temporarily >>modified by /usr/bin/Networkmanager. You have two choices >>1. Modify the current (changed) version of the file >>2. Press "Accept" now and continue editing other (nonresolver) data. You >>could return to this dialog later when the above service has terminated. >> >>No matter which of these I choose, the screen comes up looking identical. >>Now, the "Update Name Servers and Search List Via DHCP" box is checked, >>which is what I want (and it's grayed out as well, which I guess is no big >>deal since it's set like I want it to be). But I'm not picking up any of >>the IP name servers. All of those are blank. If I try to go to the Web via >>firefox, I get "Server Not Found..." for any web site I try. Somehow, it >>needs to pick up those name servers, but I thought that would happen >>automatically since I'm now set to use DHCP. Any idea what's causing this >>latest problem? >First you need to make sure your ISP is actually sending the name server >information in its DHCP replies (it should). >Depending on which dhcp client you are using (I use the ISC dhclient, it >is far simpler to configure for just a single interface), your lease >information will be stored in either /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases or >/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth?.info. Check the one in use on your system >for name server information, in the former case it is in the form >"option domain-name-servers <list>", in the latter it is "DNS=<list>". >I don't use any network manager, because the init scripts achieve all I >need to do. If you don't have any special needs, such as switching >between a wired/wireless setup, you probably don't need a network >manager either. It is possible there is a conflict between it and the >init scripts. The following is for a no-network manager setup: >There are two variables in the network config that might prevent >/etc/resolv.conf from being modified. The first of these is >MODIFY_RESOLV_CONF_DYNAMICALLY. If this is "no", then nothing will >change the file. With DHCP, the other is DHCLIENT_MODIFY_RESOLV_CONF. >You can change both of these in the Yast sysconfig editor, the first in >Network/Hardware/Config, the second in Network/DHCP/DHCP client. If >necessary, bring the system into runlevel 1 or 2 to make the changes (I >think that shouldn't be necessary, though). Yast should restart the >network automatically when it runs suseconfig, but if necessary, run >rcnetwork restart after you exit Yast. Well, I checked and both of those variables were set to Yes, so that's not the problem. Thanks anyway. Greg Wallace

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SPAM: [SLE] Video, keyboard and mouse dies requiring reboot
by Robert Lewis 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

| A month so back during updates from SUSE I started having problems. | | I am wondering if any of you are configured like I am and might have | observed this bug. | | I am running SUSE 10.1. I also run the NVIDIA 8774 driver. | | I DO NOT see problems when only one person is logged on. | | However, two people use this machine such that one is on F7 and | the other person is on F8. So switches to the two different | environments happen multiple times a day. | | After about 5-12 hours one of the users starts seeing white tiny | dots at the very top edge of their desktop. Within a few minutes | (and especially if an F-key switch takes place) the keyboard stops | working and the mouse and the screen goes away. (I need to describe | what the screen looks like when it goes away but I can't at the moment). | | I can login with ssh from another machine and everything looks ok, | except that "top" reports that X is using 100% of the resources. | I usually do a reboot at that point and then the machine works again, | usually for several hours. | | I have a gut feeling that this started when Xorg-x11-server-6.9.0-50.24.rpm | was delivered via the software updater mechanism. I notice that Xorg | now has | version 7.1 available but I would prefer to try that via a SUSE delivery | than to do it myself. If I prove that it is the X server I wonder how I | can get SUSE to release the newer one? | | Questions: Is anyone out there configured to have two or more desktop | users? | Has anyone seen this behavior? | Should I write the Xorg people? | | I know that I need to dig deeper and get more facts but was hopeful that | someone might | have seen this and solved it. | | Cheers, | Bob First if this message looks weird to anyone sorry. I deleted the original thread so found it on the SUSE web site and cut and pasted. The card I am using is an ASUSTek GeForce FX5200. I switched back to the native "nv" driver supplied with SUSE 10.1. The problem of switching screens went away. Of course so did 3D. I am convinced that either a kernel upgrade RPM or the Xorg-x11-server-6.9.0-50.24.rpm and the NVIDIA driver don't like each other when screen switching is going on. I do see in the kdm.log kdm.log:(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate video overlay kdm.log:(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** which is not good. Anyone care to comment further? Do I report this to NVIDIA, or to Xorg ? Do I just wait for 10.2 and see what happens then. Cheers, Bob

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itunes and linux?
by kevin.kempter＠dataintellect.com 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

I have a new Motorola SLVR L7 phone, the itunes one. I can see the directory structure of the phone if I attach it via usb to my SuSE box. I see that the itunes files are staged as audio mp4's however the filename is not the same as the song name that shows up in the play list. I'd like to find a way to rip my CD's to audio mp4's and push it to the phone in a way that makes the itunes bit add it to the playlist correctly. Any thoughts?

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USB KVM Flakiness
by Randall R Schulz 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Hi, I apologize in advance for the length of this posting. The executive summary is: USB KVM mouse and keyboard switching is unreliable on a couple of Linux boxes. All the gory details: I've got a new shiny new box (running next to my trusty 10.0 system) on which I've installed alpha 5 of OpenSuSE 10.2 (but this question is not about that version of SuSE Linux per se--it's actually behaving fairly well). Now that I've working regularly with two systems, or trying to get set up to work that way, I've added a KVM to the hardware mix. Since both the Linux boxes have DVI cards and since I also have a couple of Macs that can supply dual video outputs, I chose a four-way KVM: an IOGear model GSC1764. This particular KVM is extra fancy, in that it switches audio (speaker and mic) and a pair of auxiliary (non-keyboard, non-mouse) USB ports. And it can switch the KVM, the audio and the auxiliary USB ports independently. Wow. If only it worked as it should. But the Linux boxes (both of them) seem to have trouble keeping up with the USB switching and after a while, sometimes just one or two switches, they stop accepting USB input. They also show a seemingly inconsistent set of kernel messages in /var/log/messages when the USB environment changes. Since the message show manufacturer information, I can readily see what devices are connecting and disconnecting. But even though each occurrence of the KVM inputs switching from one system to another always redirects the keyboard and mouse together, the kernel messages often show only one of those devices changing. Furthermore, lsusb will show connected devices that are in fact not connected and even when a devices is connected and shows up in the lsusb output, the system does not resopnd to input from that device. I've tried the KVM device's built-in, hot-key-triggered USB reset command, but that does not help. I've gone through their very painful procedure for dealing with eratic behavior (shutting down all the computers and then powering down the KVM switch for 30 minutes follwoed by powering up the KVM first followed by the computers). None of this as well as a lot of other standard voodoo has helped. I would suspect the KVM itself, but the iMac has no trouble with it (I haven't connected the Mac laptop, yet. Sadly, IOGear disavows support for Linux, simply providing a link to <http://www.linux-usb.org/>, which i found none too helpful, especially since there's not listing in their product database for this KVM or its two-port sibling and much of the information on that site seems rather old.. Incidentally, while IOGear makes the KVM product, apparently a company called ATEN International Co., Ltd. manufacturers the USB components used in that product. I'm really at my wits end. I have been able to find no good information on the Web and I'm quite frustrated. Can anybody clue me in to what might be happening and how I could fix it or at least work around the problem? Thanks. Randall Schulz

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SPAM: [OT] command line encoder options
by Francesco Scaglioni 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Hi, Not pure SuSE but any help appreciated. Am trying to pass the command line options "-h -V 9" to the abcde ripper and encoder front end (it will concatenate wavs on the fly which is what I want for audio books). The man page implies tht abcde -1 -o mp3:"-h -V 9" Should do the trick but it errors out with unrecognised output format. leave off the "-h -V 9" and all works, but at 128 K TIA F

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SPAM: module warning during boot
by Anders Damm 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Hi! Been messing around with one of my opensuse10.0-PC in order to fix a faulty soundcard. After replacing the soundcard the sound is working, but I get a lott of warning messages from modprobe during boot about "/etc/modprob.d/sound contains a invalid character "||" at line 8" and at the line are ignored. However, ther is no "||"-character and no line 8 in the sound-file, and removing the sound-file still generates the same warning! Dose anyone knows what going on? Regards Anders D:

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[opensuse] main page at opensuse.org
by Pavel Nemec 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

${SUBJ} have mistake Cesky -> Česky could anyone with proper rights corect this? Thanks Pavel -- Pavel Nemec package-maintainer http://en.opensuse.org/Czech_Packagers_Team --------------------------------------------------------------------- SuSE CR, s.r.o. e-mail: pnemec(a)suse.cz Lihovarska 1060/12 tel:+420 2 9654 2373 190 00 Praha 9 fax:+420 2 9654 2374 Ceska republika http://www.suse.cz

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