March 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Start-up stops at "/sbin/preload /etc/preload.d/kdm"
by David Geiger 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hi folks, after a (working) reinstallation and a full update, my SUSE 10.0 stops at start-up when going into runlevel 5 at the script S03earlykdm which executes "/sbin/preload /etc/preload.d/kdm". When I kill the preload process everything works fine. I've tried to run preload manually with --help and without, but it doesn't say anything and I have to do Ctrl+C to get out again. Maybe this is "normal", I don't know. My System is up-to-date and a reinstallation of preload didn't bring any change. I'm using kernel 2.6.13-15.8-default (also tried 2.6.15-jad2). Nothing in syslog. Any ideas about this strange behaviour? Regards, David -- David Geiger info(a)david-geiger.de

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forcedeth driver on Asus A8N-E hangs
by Michael Monnerie 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hello, I apologize I'm not a developer, but want to try helping in fixing a bug with the forcedeth driver. I use SUSE 10.0 with all updates and actual kernel 2.6.13-15.8 as provided from SUSE (just self compiled to optimize for Athlon64, SMP, and HZ=100), with an Asus A8N-E motherboard, and an Athlon64x2 CPU. The onboard network card is this: 00:0a.0 Class 0680: 10de:0057 (rev a3) 00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N4-E Mainboard Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel, IRQ 50 Memory at 00000000d3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] I/O ports at b000 [size=8] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 and the problem is that it hangs and stops working when there is a higher load. Even before that, there seems to be a disturbance, as I/O was quite slow: Linux server, Apple client: FTP/NFS, etc all slow. I put a Realtek8169 into the system and now it works perfect, so its obviously a driver bug, as I have the same hardware in another place showing the same behaviour (works on very low load, stops when really used). Is there a workaround? Output from the kernel source script "sh scripts/ver_linux": Linux baum 2.6.13-15.8-ZMI #1 SMP Tue Feb 28 16:07:49 CET 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Gnu C 4.0.2 Gnu make 3.80 binutils 2.16.91.0.2 util-linux 2.12q mount 2.12q module-init-tools 3.2-pre8 e2fsprogs 1.38 jfsutils 1.1.8 reiserfsprogs 3.6.18 reiser4progs line xfsprogs 2.6.36 Linux C Library 2.3.5 Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.3.5 Linux C++ Library 6.0.6 Procps 3.2.5 Net-tools 1.60 Kbd 1.12 Sh-utils 5.3.0 udev 068 Modules Loaded vmnet vmmon joydev af_packet iptable_filter ip_tables button battery ac ipv6 ide_cd cdrom sundance mii shpchp pci_hotplug generic ehci_hcd i2c_nforce2 ohci_hcd usbcore i2c_core dm_mod reiserfs raid1 fan thermal processor sg sata_nv libata amd74xx sd_mod scsi_mod ide_disk ide_core -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc --- it-management Michael Monnerie // http://zmi.at Tel: 0660/4156531 Linux 2.6.11 // PGP Key: "lynx -source http://zmi.at/zmi2.asc | gpg --import" // Fingerprint: EB93 ED8A 1DCD BB6C F952 F7F4 3911 B933 7054 5879 // Keyserver: www.keyserver.net Key-ID: 0x70545879

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PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space on x86-64 (Athlon64x2), with solution
by Michael Monnerie 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hello, I use SUSE 10.0 with all updates and actual kernel 2.6.13-15.8 as provided from SUSE (just self compiled to optimize for Athlon64, SMP, and HZ=100), with an Asus A8N-E motherboard, and an Athlon64x2 CPU. This host is used with VMware GSX server running 6 Linux client and one Windows client host. There's a SW-RAID1 using 2 SATA HDs. When we wanted to install a new client, and inserted a DVD into the PC, it behaved like on drugs, showing the following output in /var/log/warn: Feb 28 15:19:30 baum kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz. Feb 28 15:19:47 baum kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz. Feb 28 15:20:26 baum kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz. Feb 28 15:20:45 baum kernel: PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space for 225280 bytes at device 0000:00:08.0 Feb 28 15:20:45 baum kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 12248446 Feb 28 15:20:45 baum kernel: Operation continuing on 1 devices Feb 28 15:20:45 baum kernel: PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space for 221184 bytes at device 0000:00:08.0 Feb 28 15:20:45 baum kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 12248454 Feb 28 15:20:45 baum kernel: printk: 118 messages suppressed. Feb 28 15:20:45 baum kernel: Buffer I/O error on device md0, logical block 1004928 Feb 28 15:20:45 baum kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on md0 Feb 28 15:20:45 baum kernel: Buffer I/O error on device md0, logical block 1004929 Feb 28 15:20:45 baum kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on md0 After that, the SW RAID stopped it's work, some VMware clients crashed and so on. Not a good situation. I found this in dmesg: CPU 0: aperture @ b6c6000000 size 32 MB Aperture from northbridge cpu 0 too small (32 MB) No AGP bridge found Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup This costs you 64 MB of RAM Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 8000000 PCI-DMA: Disabling AGP. PCI-DMA: aperture base @ 8000000 size 65536 KB PCI-DMA: Reserving 64MB of IOMMU area in the AGP aperture The problem is, it's an ASUS A8N-E, and doesn't have AGP but PCI-Express - and therefore no more BIOS setting for the AGP aperture size. The kernel set that IOMMU to 64MB, but it still seems to small. There's a kernel boot option "iommu=...", but using "iommu=off" lead to a frozen system during boot, and "iommu=128M" didn't boot at all. I found a message from Andi Kleen of SUSE suggesting using "iommu=memaper=3", and that helped - at least until now. I just wanted to say thank you for that, and document this fact here for others possibly running into the same problem. Output from the kernel source script "sh scripts/ver_linux": Linux baum 2.6.13-15.8-ZMI #1 SMP Tue Feb 28 16:07:49 CET 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Gnu C 4.0.2 Gnu make 3.80 binutils 2.16.91.0.2 util-linux 2.12q mount 2.12q module-init-tools 3.2-pre8 e2fsprogs 1.38 jfsutils 1.1.8 reiserfsprogs 3.6.18 reiser4progs line xfsprogs 2.6.36 Linux C Library 2.3.5 Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.3.5 Linux C++ Library 6.0.6 Procps 3.2.5 Net-tools 1.60 Kbd 1.12 Sh-utils 5.3.0 udev 068 Modules Loaded vmnet vmmon joydev af_packet iptable_filter ip_tables button battery ac ipv6 ide_cd cdrom sundance mii shpchp pci_hotplug generic ehci_hcd i2c_nforce2 ohci_hcd usbcore i2c_core dm_mod reiserfs raid1 fan thermal processor sg sata_nv libata amd74xx sd_mod scsi_mod ide_disk ide_core -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc --- it-management Michael Monnerie // http://zmi.at Tel: 0660/4156531 Linux 2.6.11 // PGP Key: "lynx -source http://zmi.at/zmi2.asc | gpg --import" // Fingerprint: EB93 ED8A 1DCD BB6C F952 F7F4 3911 B933 7054 5879 // Keyserver: www.keyserver.net Key-ID: 0x70545879

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ntop-like prog for monthly stats.
by pelibali 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hi, I checked the archive and found ntop for preparing stats on the net- work traffic I have e.g. on my eth0. I liked the program itself, but I would rather need simpler and not so comprehensive stats; preferably would like to see a monthly stat with all of the traffic summary with not so much details. Is there a software like that existing? I also tried bandwidthd, but in the case of temporal existence of a particular interface that's quite tricky to load everytime and let it reload the previous stats from logfiles... Thank you, Pelibali

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Nokia pc suite
by Per Qvindesland 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hello All, Has anyone managed to get Nokia PC Suite working on a Suse or Linux box? Regards Per Qvindesland

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Status of XFS resising?
by Marc Christensen 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hi, Does anyone know of the status of resizing XFS file systems? Last I knew, XFS could be grown but not shrunk. Is this still the case? I am interested mostly in this for resizing of LVM volumes. Thanks... -- Marc C. http://blog.mecworks.com

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Re: [opensuse] Frontpage redesign - call for proposals.
by scsijon 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

At 07:53 AM 27/02/2006, you wrote: >On 2/26/06, scsijon <scsijon(a)net2000.com.au> wrote: > > At 08:55 AM 26/02/2006, you wrote: > > >On 2/26/06, Joseph M. Gaffney <CuCullin(a)wtfisthat.net> wrote: > > >My personal opionion is that www.opensuse.org should automatically > > >redirect to the language your browser is requesting. If it doesn't > > >exist, then en.opensuse.org. > > > I disagree here, it should go to a language select page, allowing the > > "visitor" the ability to chose whatever language they wished to use from > > those available. > > Just why everyone is expected to have the same "second language" > > is a "disapointment". > >If you set up you browser properly, with all your languages of >preference, then such a specific page is not required. This of course >is not reality :-) this is not what I answered, what I meant (and obviously not understood) is, from what I read as had been decided is if the system could not supply users language (from browser config or elsewhere), it would supply english instead. what I had sugested is that if the system could not supply the users default language, the user is supplied with a page with all the language choices available and let the user chose. there are many countries out there that don't have english as the second language it's lucky to be the third. scsijon >I totally agree that it should be easy to switch from one language to >another, whether that is on a "splash" screen or incorporated into the >front page, I don't think really matters. As long it is clear how to >get to the other languages (no matter what languages you understand). > >Peter 'Pflodo' Flodin.

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amarok built without --with-helix=/whaterever/you/need/?
by Sven Burmeister 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hello! When I installed the Realplayer with Beta3 in order to use the helix-engine with amarok, I still had to set the paths, because the were just set to "/common", "/plugins" and so on. I think this could be avoided by the configure-parameter --with-helix=/PathToRealPlayer. I know that Beta 3 is quite old, that's why I did not want to file a bug before asking, whether this is still an issue. Sven

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Name of an update tool for Suse?
by Eric Jackson 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hi, I'm looking for some software for Suse that is used to update and install software. I don't remember the name but I'm pretty sure it begins with the letter "K" I'm not talking about Kyum but another package. Eric Jackson

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HP Photosmart 8700
by Fred A. Miller 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Is anyone using this printer with SUSE 10.0? If so, your impressions? Problems? Thanks, Fred -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x

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