October 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669
by Randall R Schulz 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Hi, <https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=336669> This is a very uncool situation. I encounter these processes hanging in D waits quite a lot and it is very disruptive. Whatever the problem is, and it seems to be one of those bugs exacerbated by multi-core systems that we've known was going to be haunting us as multi-core CPUs proliferate, this one, apparently in the Reiser filesystem code, is particularly pernicious. Had I know about this, I'd never have gone with Reiser for my file systems when I installed 10.2 (now 10.3). How close is Novell to releasing a fix? Alternately, is there any good way to convert file systems? I've never had to do it before, and the only way I can think of is to dump, mkfs and restore, and I don't know what sort of pitfalls that presents. Peeved and alarmed, Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Burned DVDs all Coasters!
by Robert Smits 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

I'm running OpenSuse 10.2 on one of my desktops, which also has a dvd writer. Lately, whenever I burn a data DVD with K3B, the program goes through all the motions as if it's correctly burning and verifying the DVD. Yet when I examine the disk that's been burned, Konqueror tells me the disk I just burned is blank. My Sony DVD DRive is working just fine, and if I boot to Windows, I can successfully burn a disk with Sonic Record. I have also tried burning a disk (all DVD-R) with GnomeBaker and I get the same result as with K3b. Does this mean the problem is with growisofs? When I look at the K3B site there seem to be many bugs all related to not being able to burn a dvd. Does anyone have a handle on this? Bob -- Bob Smits bob(a)rsmits.ca Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home...David Frost -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Suspicious Update
by Bryen 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

I just got a notification for a security update for Opera via my applet. I do not have opera browser installed on this machine and I scanned my machine to see if it might have been installed without me knowing about it. Not sure why I'm getting this notice. -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OS 10.3 Problem with digital camera Canon Powershot A550 reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8
by Franz Petri 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

Hi, I have the following problem with a Canon Powershot A550 digital camera: When plugging it into an arbitrary free usb-port it is recognized by KDE right away, but it takes ages (about 20-30 seconds) until it is accessible via konqueror. When copying images from the camera to a folder on the local hard disk the overall transfer rate is really slow (the image is copied ok, but after each image the progress "hangs" for several seconds). All this is acompanied by the folling dmesg-messages: usb 1-1.1.2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8 usb 1-1.1.2: new device found, idVendor=04a9, idProduct=3150 usb 1-1.1.2: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 1-1.1.2: Product: Canon Digital Camera usb 1-1.1.2: Manufacturer: Canon Inc. usb 1-1.1.2: SerialNumber: 1E0C3F55EADF4F628CC92B882CE79D34 usb 1-1.1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usb 1-1.1.2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8 usb 1-1.1.2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8 usb 1-1.1.2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8 usb 1-1.1.2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8 usb 1-1.1.2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8 usb 1-1.1.2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8 usb 1-1.1.2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8 usb 1-1.1.2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8 usb 1-1.1.2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8 I have an Fujitsu Amilo M 7400 notebook with opensuse 10.3 with all the latest updates installed. Any advise? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] "Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository' cache" always takes a lot of time.
by Aniruddha 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

I have noticed this behavior on multiple machines. It takes a lot of time to finish "Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository' cache". Any ideas what might be the problem? -- Regards, Aniruddha Please adhere to the OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade
by Stan Goodman 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

The new DVD disk did run, and I was able to start the installation. Nevertheless, things have not run smoothly. There were some problems with packages that could not be updated, but I will leave them aside for the moment, because there is a much more serious problem. When the first reboot happened, I left the DVD in the drive, which I am sure is correct. After the reboot, what came up was the installers main screen, offering the choice of booting from the Hard Disk, Installation, etc. Choosing "Installation" brings me back to the beginning of the upgrade process (language, accept the conditions, etc.), which I do not think is where I want to be. In other words, I appear to have lost the thread of the upgrade process. I hope someone will explain to me why this has happened, and what I can do about it. Removing the DVD and rebooting causes a black screen to come up, with a prompt like "grub >". In other words, the upgrade process has decided on its own initiative to install GRUB in the Master Boot Sector. This is dirty pool: When I first installed v10..2, I put GRUB into a very small partition all by itself; I did this for a very good reason, and I was allowed to do it, and there is something very wrong with the upgrader/installer moving it about in this way without asking me. I'll fix this, but it should not have happened. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel REAL similes/metaphors by high school students; #19: The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Pgadmin3
by Juraj Trenkler 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

Is anybody preparing pgadmin3 rpm files for openSUSE 10.3? I tried compilation but without success,. configure: error: Could not find your PostgreSQL installation in /var/lib/pgsql/data/ juraj -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Can I do this with rsync? (scripts)
by Carlos F Lange 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

Bob, Your reply just made me notice that I replied to you directly, instead of to the mailing-list. So, I resent my message for the benefit of the others. On Wed October 24 2007 20:06, Robert Smits wrote: > What does the first line with "#!/bin/bash" do? I understand it's a > descriptive comment, but what does the !/bin/bash do for you. It is not a comment. While # starts comments anywhere else in a bash script, if the script starts with "#!/bin/bash", bash will be used to interpret the script, even if someone's login shell is csh or tcsh. For example, if I had used the Bourne shell syntax, I should start my script with #!/bin/sh. > Second, I've been using rsync in the form rsync -a source file > location destination file location. Is it because you want to do this > interactively that you've added all these other options? The fundamental difference is that both ends are active. If I was just mirroring my home to a passive backup destination, then a pure --archive option would suffice and I would probably do it on my entire $HOME. But in my case, I synchronize only key directory trees between the 3 machines and any of the 3 can have a more recent version of a document. --compress: speeds up synchronization between office and home. --update: prevents overwriting a newer version on the destination, if I forgot to update it in the source first. Say I change Projects/ABC/file1 in the office and forget I changed it. Then I work on Projects/ABC/file2 at home. If I didn't use update, I would revert to the old version of file1 when I archive Projects/ to the office. --partial --delay-updates: keep partial transfers if the connection breaks, so a restart only transfers the rest. The problem is the time of a partial file is always newer, since the time stamp is adjusted at the end. So, at restart a partial file would not only look complete, but also more recent, and when I synchronize back, I would corrupt the source, hence delay-updates. --progress: just to see that the connection is not hanging in case of large files. > > I found that sometimes I forgot that I created a new file in the > > office, say under Projects/ABC/, and when I work from home and I > > want to "syncsend Projects", it asks if I want to delete that new > > file. I then say "no" and subsequently run "syncget Projects" to > > bring that file to my desktop at home. > > But if i use the rsync command without the --delete parameter it > won't delete any files at all on the receiving side, right? And if I > have an extra one in either receiving or sending side, it'll add it, > right? Your synchronization is always one way, never back and forth at once. Without --delete, rsync will notice that there is an extra file at the destination, which would normally mean you deleted the corresponding file in the source, but rsync will not synchronize this deletion. rsync cannot know that in my case the destination side is not a pure backup site and that it can also generate new content. I have to run "rsync office home", which is "syncget" in this case, for rsync to bring the new file to my home machine. > Well.my scripts were much more primitive and I'll study yours to see > how they add functionality. Once I have the scripts working I just > want to run them daily with cron. These are just different scenarios. I would use a cron job to sync to a true, passive backup site. Since all my sites are active and I am somewhat absent-minded, my initially simple interactive script evolved to this. :) -- Carlos FL Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Don't know which IDE driver to use for MSI N1996 motherboard
by Scott Simpson 03 Nov '07

03 Nov '07

I'm trying to move my drives from an old motherboard to an MSI 1996 motherboard. When I boot though, I get "Waiting for device /dev/hda2 to appear" which means that the IDE driver for this motherboard isn't in my initial RAM disk. Does anybody know which driver I need to add to the RAM disk? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ATI Driver - Which Version?
by Jim Flanagan 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

I have an ATI Radeon 9000 AGP card, and am unsure which version of the ATI driver I should run in opensuse 10.3. The one click method says this newer version 8.41.7 is good for radeon 8500 and newer. But he ATI site shows the older version 8.28.8 from Aug 18, 2006 to be the last version that supports this card. Which one should I install?? Many thanks, Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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