June 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] A bothering "find" in SUSE10
by JunJun Liu 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi everybody, I've SUSE10 installed in my personal computer. I'm always being bothered by a "find" process. It makes the computer very very slow when I'm working(reading something). I have to kill the find process by hand everyday! It looks like a system schedule. But I can't find it out :( Can anybody here please help me disable this "find"? Thanks in advance! =========== liu@linux:~> ps ax| grep find 13786 ? SN 0:00 /usr/lib/find/frcode -0 13790 ? SN 0:00 su nobody -c /usr/bin/find / $ -fstype nfs -o -fstype NFS -o -fstype proc -o -fstype afs -o -fstype proc -o -fstype smbfs -o -fstype autofs -o -fstype iso9660 -o -fstype ncpfs -o -fstype coda -o -fstype devpts -o -fstype ftpfs -o -fstype devfs -o -fstype mfs -o -fstype sysfs -o -fstype shfs -o -type d -regex '\(^/mnt$$\|$^/cdrom$$\|$^/tmp$$\|$^/usr/tmp$$\|$^/var/tmp$$\|$^/var/spool$$\|$^/proc$$\|$^/media$$' \) -prune -o -print0 13791 ? RN 0:10 /usr/bin/find / ( -fstype nfs -o -fstype NFS -o -fstype proc -o -fstype afs -o -fstype proc -o -fstype smbfs -o -fstype autofs -o -fstype iso9660 -o -fstype ncpfs -o -fstype coda -o -fstype devpts -o -fstype ftpfs -o -fstype devfs -o -fstype mfs -o -fstype sysfs -o -fstype shfs -o -type d -regex $^/mnt$$\|$^/cdrom$$\|$^/tmp$$\|$^/usr/tmp$$\|$^/var/tmp$$\|$^/var/spool$$\|$^/proc$$\|$^/media$$ ) -prune -o -print0 ============= -- 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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[SLE] Segmentation fault with yast2 - Usue 10.1
by ianseeks 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi folks Anyone else the following? And anyone know of a resolution? It didn;t work from the GUI (it just didn't load or give an error) so I tried from the command line. # yast2 Command: /sbin/yast2 inst_source & /sbin/yast2: line 233: 3920 Segmentation fault $ybindir/y2base $module "$@" qt "$Y2_GEOMETRY" $Y2QT_ARGS regards Ian -- 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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[SLE] wondering what to do - messed upgrade 10.0->10.1 ?
by Emils 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hello! my situation is a bit messy. I would probably reinstall from the scratch, however, since the server is pretty far away in another town across the country, I would appreciate, if you had any tips that might help me get a ~ working system before I go there again. I was upgrading from OpenSuSE 64bit 10.0 to 10.1 (via FTP if it's of any significance) and managed to run out of space during the upgrade (I was a bit confused and it was my 1st upgrade try, even though I've been installing dozens of SuSEs at my work -- from scratch only). Upgrade seemed to complete OK, then I noticed I have 0 bytes free on / (that includes /usr and /var) and started to clean out whatever I could find. I have now OK free disk space, but I am stuck with these problems at startup/reboot (and not sure if all the system packages have had installed OK): #1 /dev/ directory is missing majority of files. eg. tty2, tty3... sda, sdb... hda... tty1 thankfully is there as a number of other devices -- ttyI1, ttyI2 etc. I tried to reinstall devs package which creates those files, but at next reboot they are missing again. Puzzled at what I should do/check? #2 network is not coming up. boot.msg shows these errors/warnings (removed most of stuff that completed ok) notice>checkproc: /sbin/udevd 974 udevd already runningdone ... Setting up network interfaces: lo lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8 doneWaiting for mandatory devices: eth-id-00:13:8f:32:cf:e8 __NSC__ 19 [acpid]: client connected from 1881[0:0] [acpid]: 1 client rule loaded 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 eth-id-00:13:8f:32:cf:e8 No interface found failedSetting up service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .failed Nothing else in /var/log/ regarding eth... Soo, I assumed for some reason the eth device id was different or something, even though no hardware was changed prior/post upgrade. Went to YaST, tried to reconfigure eth0 device. Wrote a new IP address, then wrote old one back, clicked OK, Finish. That made rescan network devices, write all neccessary info and that brought up eth0 no prob. But again... at reboot the problem reappears! Any ideas of what could be done beside reinstall? TIA, Emils -- 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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[SLE] Yast repository for 10.1?
by Greg Freemyer 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

I want to add an online repository to my yast sources so I don't have to have the CD/DVD installed. I've tried my local mirror and http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/ Neither are being accepted. Am I supposed to be referencing a subdirectory of the above or is something broken? Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- 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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[SLE] a tool to let me download faster from many mirrors? (download accelerator?)
by 张韡武 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hello. I am in a bit hurry to get a file around 1GB. This file is available on about 20 mirros, but each mirror only give me around 10KB/s (starting from around 40KB/s and dropping to 10KB/s). From whatever mirror I can get this file in two days, but that's too late. If I can find a tool to let me download 50MB from mirro site A, 50MB from mirro site B.... then I can get this file just in one hour. (my connection is 2,000bps DSL, can afford 200KB/s, if I really have such a tool to get the file from 20 different sites). All the mirrors are anonymouse FTP. A quick response is really appreciated! I am in a bit hurry. -- 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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[SLE] weird behaviour of seamonkey/firefox
by Daniel Bauer 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hello all As somebody asked something on this list about the site http://www.hasznaltauto.hu/kereso1.auto?hirdeteskod=651329&command=ugras&sc… I wanted to look at it. The page loaded, I clicked on the car-photo to open a pop-up, and then the browser starts to act somehow weird: - the "waiting-watch" shows up and remains "for ever" - when I move the window the contents of the windows don't fresh up anymore and the frame of the window stays on the screen like a "cascade" (sorry, I know my english is far away from good...) - I can't switch to another seamonkey window anymore (all open browser windows show the same problem) - when I want to close a browser window seamonkey/firefox doesn't react. After a while a kde message shows up, telling me this and asking, if I want to kill the application. It also happened on other websites before, too, and its always reproducible, also after log-out /log-in and even after reboot. I use Suse 10.0, KDE 3.5.3 SeaMonkey 1.0.2 or firefox 1.5.0.4 (it does not happen with opera 8.54.) There are always a lot of messages in .xsession-errors (I post this in a separate thread), maybe there is a interrelationship? Doesn anybody else see this browser behaviour, too? Is it a brwoser bug or have I messed up something in my settings? What, how can I find out? Thanks for any hints... Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com special interest site: http://www.bauer-nudes.com -- 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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[SLE] What Kind of DVD?
by Donald D Henson 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

I'm not up on DVD technology so I hope this is not a stupid question. I wanted to make a copy of the SuSE 10.1 distribution for a friend. However, the only recordable DVDs I could find have a max capacity of 4.7 GBytes whereas the distribution DVD holds more than 8 GBytes of data. What kind of DVD is SuSE using and where can I get one? Donald D. Henson, Managing Director West El Paso Information Network The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules -- 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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[SLE] Garmin GPS Kernel Module Stability Problems?
by Randall R Schulz 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi, I recently bought a Garmin GPS device (Forerunner 301) and since then I've had two system crashes. I'm not actually accessing the device from Linux, but rather from Windows software running under Windows XP Pro via VMware. But every time I attach the device, the garmin_gps kernel module is apparently loaded automatically and the device claimed by it. When I connect it to VMware, it asks me to confirm deactivating Linux access to the device before allowing Windows to see it. But in both cases, the device was not even attached to the system at the time of the crash, but had been and Windows / VMware was still running after accessing the device and downloading its track logs. I cannot find any log file entries in /var/log that seem to pertain to the crash, just the reboot activities afterward. The first time the crash happened, I was not around. Today it happened and I was in the same room as the computer, though not using it. One of the CD trays happened to be out and when it retracted it caught my attention. It seems the system may have reset itself, as if I'd pressed the hardware reset button on the front panel. Until these past few days, this system has been extremely reliable and stable, so something appears to have happened, and the addition of this new hardware coincides with the onset of the symptoms. I'm running under SuSE 10.0 with the latest kernel (2.6.13-15.10-smp) on a Pentium 4-based Intel motherboard system. So I'm wondering if anyone else is using a device handled by the "garmin_gps" kernel module and if so, have they encountered any stability problems related to it? Thanks. Randall Schulz -- 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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RE: [SLE] 10.1, LVM2, and inaccessible snapshot-related logical volumes
by Marlier, Ian 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Anyone? > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Marlier [mailto:ian.marlier@studentuniverse.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:56 AM > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: [SLE] 10.1, LVM2, and inaccessible snapshot-related logical > volumes > > So, I'm working on setting up a system that's going to run a series of Xen > virtual machines. > > Each of these virtual machines are going to be basically identical, with > only slight differences in a specific application for testing. > > Rather than duplicate the initial setup in whole, I created it as a > logical > volume, and created a second as a snapshot of the first, with a couple of > gigs of wiggle room. > > These partitions, at the time of creation, were addressable as > /dev/xen/vm1 > and /dev/xen/vm2 (alternately, /dev/mapper/xen-vm1 and /dev/mapper/xen- > vm2). > > However, after doing a reboot of the host machine, the partitions are no > longer addressable via the /dev/<vol group name>/<logical volume name> > syntax. They're only available as /dev/dm-1 and /dev/dm-2 > > `ls -altr /dev/xen/` shows that the device files for vm1 and vm2 do not > exist. The device files for my other logical volumes, which are not > snapshots, do exist. > > Doing `lvscan` shows this: > ACTIVE '/dev/xen/vm0' [20.00 GB] inherit > inactive Original '/dev/xen/vm1' [20.00 GB] inherit > inactive Snapshot '/dev/xen/vm2' [2.90 GB] inherit > ACTIVE '/dev/xen/vm3' [20.00 GB] inherit > > So, I'm assuming that the "inactive" state is somehow related to the > device > files being missing; and that the inactive state is somehow related to the > snapshot-nature of the partitions. > > Can anyone point me to what I need to do to get those device files back? > > (Though I agree that it could be done, I don't really consider manual > creation of the files to be a good option; I'm going to be creating and > destroying virtual machines on this box quite often, and need the > management > tools to be working.) > > On a side note: I _can_ mount these partitions, read data from them, etc, > as > /dev/dm-1 and the like. The problem with that is that the device files > don't necessarily refer to the same partition all the time. If you have > dm-1..dm-6, and delete dm-2, then dm-3..dm-6 slide up one and become > dm-2..dm-5. Not handy when those device files are entered into config > files > for virtual machines. > > > > -- > 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 > -- 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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[SLE] Installing SUSE VM on FC-Xen
by Claris Castillo 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

I have not been able to find one useful link on how to make a chroot installation of Suse (to boot a Suse VM). Is there any other way this can be accomplished? I found one link but it was too much haking.I am sure someting simple must be outhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated. cc

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