October 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Removing SUSE from adual boot...
by Michael Comperchio 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

Due to a rather unfortunate state of affairs (my laptop windows development system died) I have to reclaim my tower from SUSE. System has two drives : first (master) has the windows installaition and (obviously, I assume) the boot loader. the second (slave) has all the SUSE stuff. Now, I'm sure that to most of the readers of this list this is a simple exercise, but I've done a bunch of googling and haven't discovers a comprehensible answer to this question! So, if you guy's could point me to an intelligable TFM I'd sure like it! I really don't want to give up my linux but I also NEED to bring money in. The dogs are starting to beat me the the bag of dogfood! Thanks Michael -- Michael Comperchio The integrity of the output is dependent on the integrity of the input mcmprch(a)yahoo.com 860 485 8488 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] fglrx - DisplayGetSetModeTimingOverride failed: 2
by David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Listmates: I am trying to chase down a problem that causes sax2 to freeze when trying to configure the display on my Toshiba P35 laptop running 10.3. The driver is the ATI 9600/9700 and all new ATI drivers were built and installed per www2.ati.com. The display works great. Hardware acceleration works great. The problem is that if I try and look at, or change, anything with sax2, the machine will freeze requiring a hard reset. Killing the display with ctrl+alt+bs doesn't even work. The only error I can find in Xorg.0.log is the following: (II) fglrx(0): POWERplay version 3. 1 power state available: (II) fglrx(0): 1. 392/196MHz @ 60Hz [enable load balancing] (EE) fglrx(0): === [swlDalHelperAddCustomizeMode] === CWDDEDI_DisplayGetSetModeTimingOverride failed: 2 (**) fglrx(0): Qbs disabled (==) fglrx(0): FAST_SWAP disabled Does this error matter? Could it be the problem? Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- 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] Cannot create raid 5 opensuse 10.3
by Mike Coan 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

On Thursday 18 October 2007 04:40:00 pm Richard Creighton wrote: > Mike Coan wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. i am indeed using software RAID, not any RAID > > included with the motherboard. Your configuration is much more > > complicated than mine, and your RAID 5 is much larger than mine, so no > > reason mine shouldn't work. I will double check settings in my BIOS to > > make sure it isn't causing problems. I don't think I will put swap and > > boot on RAID, just /. looking at your setup, I couldn't see anything I > > did wrong. > > > > Mike > > ....I forgot to ask...which kernel are you using? If need be, wait to > create the raid until you can upgrade the kernel to 2.6.22.9-0.4-bigsmp > (or default). You can create a stub /home on the root drive with no > users. That works well FWIW. There are some issues with the release > version of the kernel but the 0.4 kernel has been solid for me. Richard, This is a clean install using the release version. So I could do a quick install and upgrade the kernel using a stub /home as you suggest. Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 Tel 914-632-3778 Fax 914-632-5502 -- 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] Cannot create raid 5 opensuse 10.3
by Mike Coan 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

On Thursday 18 October 2007 04:26:15 pm Richard Creighton wrote: > > > >> {stuff deleted} > >> > >>> Doing a clean install of opensuse 10.3. Again the first drive is /swap > >>> (2 GB) /boot (/ext2 50MB) and /storage (ext3 300GB or so). Drives 2-4 > >>> are md0 (460GB ext3) intended to be / > >>> > >>> As Yast is formatting /, at the end of the process I get the following > >>> message: > >>> > >>> Formatting software RAID /dev/md0 (465.7 GB) with ext3 > >>> System error code was -3008 > >>> /sbin/mke2fs -O div_index -j -v /dev/md0: > >>> mke2fs 1.40.2 (12-jul-2007) > >>> ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short > >>> read while creating root dir. > >>> > >>> I tried the installation a second time and got the identical error > >>> message. > >>> > >>> [stuff deleted] > >> > >> My configuration is totally contained in the following > >> http://www.ricreig.com/pub/PartnTbl.png but if you would rather use a > >> partition for swap rather than raid 0, just reserve the space as a > >> primary partition and not assign it as a MD device and add the necessary > >> adjustments in /fstab. I would make the /boot the first physical > >> partition. The arrangement I am using works well. I use EXT3 > >> formatting. Hope this helps. > > > > Thanks for the reply. i am indeed using software RAID, not any RAID > > included with the motherboard. Your configuration is much more > > complicated than mine, and your RAID 5 is much larger than mine, so no > > reason mine shouldn't work. I will double check settings in my BIOS to > > make sure it isn't causing problems. I don't think I will put swap and > > boot on RAID, just /. looking at your setup, I couldn't see anything I > > did wrong. > > > > Mike > > Mike, I think in that case I would try creating 4 partitions on 1 drive, > in the following order: > > /boot approx 2 g to allow for a /boot.save directory also as a backup > emergency restore > / (root) (however much will fit) > /tmp your guess...maybe 10G > swap 2.5 times your ram size > > on the remaining 3 drives, create equal sized single partitions and > assign them to a raid 5 MD0 array and make this /home in FSTAB > > I'm interested in the outcome. Richard, I will give it a try. In the meantime I tried the following, to see if it was a problem with RAID5. I put 4 partitions on drive 1: /boot, swap, and /test. the 4th partition was a RAID partition, the same size as drive 2. then drives 3 and 4 were also made RAID partitions. I made the two partitions on Drive 1 and 2 a RAID 1 (md0) and called it /storage. I made disk 3 and 4 RAID 0, (md1) and called it /. The install created md0, but failed on md1 (the / partition) with the same error message as before. Seems like it doesn't like it when / is composed of entire drives. To give more detail on what I did before, I highlighted sdb, clicked on create, designated primary partition, specified Do not Format and chose RAID in the drop down box for file type. Did the same for sdc and sdd. yast showed 3 Linux RAID partitions labeled sb1, sc1, sd1. I clicked on RAID, then create, chose RAID5, and added all 3 drives to md0. In your example above i suppose you name the partitions primary for each drive. Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 Tel 914-632-3778 Fax 914-632-5502 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Another problem with KMail
by Clive 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Has anyone else seen this problem in Kmail version 3.5.7 "release 72" in SuSE 10.3 ? Going through my mail an deleting the mail I tried to empty the wastebin only to find that 12 messages are deleted. In the right hand pane I see all the messages with lines through them but they won't get deleted. Nothing moves until I move to another folder and back to the wastebin and again empty the wastebin. Again only 12 messages are deleted. -- Clive. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Cannot create raid 5 opensuse 10.3
by Mike Coan 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

I am in the process of building a new server for our small business. The current server is running opensuse 10.2 and has 4 SATA I drives. The first drive has /swap, /boot (ext2 50 MB) and /storage (reiserfs 75 GB). then there are 3 80GB drives as md0 in a raid5 configuration with reiserfs. Al of this was configured via Yast when it was set up. The new server is basically the same, except the processor is a dual core Opteron as opposed to single core and the drives are bigger. Drive 1 is a 320GB Western Digital Sata II drive, and drives 2 -4 are each identical Western Digital 250GB SATA II drives. Doing a clean install of opensuse 10.3. Again the first drive is /swap (2 GB) /boot (/ext2 50MB) and /storage (ext3 300GB or so). Drives 2-4 are md0 (460GB ext3) intended to be / As Yast is formatting /, at the end of the process I get the following message: Formatting software RAID /dev/md0 (465.7 GB) with ext3 System error code was -3008 /sbin/mke2fs -O div_index -j -v /dev/md0: mke2fs 1.40.2 (12-jul-2007) ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while creating root dir. I tried the installation a second time and got the identical error message. I then tried using reiserfs instead of ext3. but got the follwoing error. Failure occurred during following action Mounting /dev/md0 to / System error code was -3003 mount -t reiserfs -oacl user_xattr /dev/md0 /mnt mount: erro wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/md0 missing codepage or helper program, or other error Motherboard is a TYAN S2925G2NR with nvidia nforce 3400 professional northbridge and Western Digital CAviar SATA I drives, all new. I ran memtest for about 4 hours, two complete passes and on the third with no errors prior to installing. SMART and the BIOS all indicate the hard drives are good. Googling on "short read" raid 5 errors and so forth didn't yield anything useful. Any ideas would be appreciated. I could try other filesystems, or i could try designating the RAID 5 as home. it is working fine as ? in my current system. Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 Tel 914-632-3778 Fax 914-632-5502 -- 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] boot problem
by Coach-X 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

> Sure looks to me that grub is installed correctly. Your BIOS is set to > also boot from HD isn't it? >> I also booted a windows floppy and tried fdisk /mbr and the reinstalled >> grub again without sucess. Any help with this issue would be appreciated. >> > So booting from a floppy also works. And booting from the install DVD > works to boot from the HD, so I believe your HD MBR is also correct. > Looks to me like a BIOS boot selection problem. Since floppy, cd, and > HD via DVD all work, looks like your BIOS is either not setup to boot > from HD, or its settings cannot read it correctly, i.e. maybe try > changing LBS for Large or something like that. I can boot to a floppy yes, but I have not tried to boot to suse from the floppy. I have changed the bios to only use the hard drive and it still will not boot to the hard drive without the dvd booting first and then selecting the option "boot from hard disk" I even wiped and re-installed and the same issue is still there. This was a working 9.3 system until this upgrade. I may try re-installing 9.3 and if the issue is still there, it would probably mean bios/hardware issue. Also, Don Raboud/GT Smith, it is a single drive system. Thanks again for your replies. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Unable to login to Opensuse after successful installation
by Biju CP 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

I have successfully installed OpenSuse10.3 in my system, It now shows a prompt with the Host name which i gave during the installation, somehting like "Linux-4js Login:", Linux-4js Login is the host name that was by default there during the installation. And if i enter the user name which I created or thry to Login as root, it says that the "Login is Invalid" Please help. Regards, ------------- Biju. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] gnucash-2.2
by Hans van der Merwe 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Hi all, Is there a version of gnucash-2.2 (latest) for 10.2 somewhere? (I can see it for 10.3 in the official repo) Hans E-mail Disclaimer http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] nvidia GF 7300 LE and opensuse 10.3
by Guillermo Ballester Valor 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Hello, This is a continuation of a recent thread about kmail blocking/freezing the system. See thread http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-10/msg01020.html My hardware Motherboard: Asus A8n32-SLI DELUXE AMD Athlon 64 DualCore 4500+. 2 Gb RAM Graphic Card: GeForce 7300 LE. 2 Sata drivers 1 IDE DVD RW openSUSE 10.4 x86_64 (nvidia driver) All begun after update from 10.2 to 10.3 As it has said, kmail is not the culprit because we have system freezes without kmail. I'm suspecting something related with graphic card, nvidia kernel module or X system. It seems that graphic cards using GForce 7300 LE chip can use system memory as cache, having them only 128 MB can use up to 512MB. And this is the problem (I think) : When system is overloaded and the requirements of X system are high, something happens that freezes the system. A cache corruption? , graphic card invading other resources memory?. The problem here is that we have no log in any file about the problem. The system hangs and we have to reset it manually. A curiosity is that sometimes only hangs part of X, because the mouse and all processes managed by cron still continue. Any other user suffering of this problem?. Any light in this. I will change my graphic card if I can't find a solution. It didn't happen with opensuse 10.2. Regards, Guillermo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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