November 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] How to determine the number of bad blocks?
by Jeremy Figgins 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

I have a USB external harddrive that I suspect is on its last leg. I would like some definitive way to determine the number of bad blocks. I've run "fsck /dev/sdb1 -c" several times, but the only output is: /dev/sdd1: 11/30539776 files (9.1% non-contiguous), 1006495/61049000 blocks where that first number (1006495) goes up with every run of fsck -c. Is that number the number of bad blocks? And if not, then how can I find out? Thanks in advance! Jeremy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] zmd: ShutdownManager (WARN): Preparing to sleep...
by Daniel Bisaillon 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

We are installing Suse and using iScsi to mount some drives. We can get access to the mounted drives okay. But overnight when no one is using the system the following message appears in the /var/log/messages file. zmd: ShutdownManager (WARN): Preparing to sleep... In the morning the mounted drives no longer exist and we must manually load them again. Could this message have anything to do with it? If so how can I correct? ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Undoing a delete
by Bryen 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

Is there any way to undo an rm in terminal? Probably not, but thought I'd ask... -- ---Bryen--- -- 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] Undoing a delete
by Bryen 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 15:30 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Saturday 17 November 2007 14:40, Bryen wrote: > > Is there any way to undo an rm in terminal? Probably not, but > > thought I'd ask... > > The short answer is "no." There's no "trashcan" or "wastebin" involved. > Only with tremendous luck and heroic effort could you hope to recover > the contents of the file to which you applied the stock "rm" command. > You'd think, since I googled and see enough people have done this same thing accidentally, that a trashcan folder would be standard. Oh well... > I've known users (dare I say, "lusers") to override rm with a script > that moves the target files to a trashcan folder. > Hmm... That would be an interesting project to try to create. What a way for me to flex my current knowledge and expand on it. :-) > > I don't suppose it will be long now before we have a Linux counterpart > to the latest Mac OS's "Time Machine" functionality. > > There's a python script that I downloaded a few weeks ago but haven't really tried it yet. It is supposed to mimic TimeMachine. It's called Flyback. You can find it at http://code.google.com/p/flyback/ Maybe I better look at it again now before I screw anything else up! :-) -- ---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] OpenSUSE Updater, Error, ZYpp transaction is already in progres
by williamkow 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Panel show warning icon (!) and the error message is as follow: OpenSuSE Updater - Error: A ZYpp transaction is already in progress. This means, there is another application using the libzypp library for package management running. All such applications must be closed before using this command. helper program returned: Exit Status: 4 Could you please advise me how to i go about solving it. Thank you. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Installation disk detection problems
by Michael Fischer 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

New machine: Asus M2N-VM mobo (NVIDIA GeForce 6100 chipset) 2 WD800JD 80G SATA2 PIONEER DVD-RW SATA SuSE 10.1 (10.3 on the way, but I wanted to test the box) This thing has 4 SATA slots on the mobo. Near as I can figure it the order (when looking in the box at the board looks like 2 3 1 4 by experimentation with cables and what the BIOS says. All drives are recognized by the BIOS. Here's the problems: Only with the DVD-RW in slot 1 can SuSE figure out that the installation media is present (c.f. http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CD_not_found_problem) but it *is* an SATA drive, one which works fine for installation in the machine on which I am typing this email. With the DVD-RW in slot 1, Installation begins, but the installer says it can't find any hard drives. Kernel messages show ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0) Install with "Safe Settings" didn't help. Google shows various people having similar issues, but seemingly with different motherboards. Not sure if there's a driver which needs to be loaded or what. Following url has decent-looking specs of this motherboard: http://www10.uk.shopping.com/xPF-ASUS-ASUS-M2N-VM-DH-mainboard-micro-ATX-nF… Does SATA2 put me in trouble here? Thanks in advance. Michael -- Michael Fischer michael(a)visv.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] How to create banners in Linux?
by Ronald Wiplinger 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Which program I can use to create banners in Linux? Gimp can not make animation gifs nor the new apng. Any ideas? bye Ronald -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Attyempted Update Stymied
by Dennis J. Tuchler 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

I was notified by the updater that I have need of cifs-mount, for Samba. The updater tried to install it but the effort ended with this message: Failed to mount cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 on /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001: No medium found (mount: No medium found) Problem downloading the package file from the repository: Failed to mount cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 on /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001: No medium found (mount: No medium found) Please, see the above error message to for a hint. What is this all about? How can I cure the problem? -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler 7330 Kingsbury Boulevard University City, Missouri 63130 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Firefox Question
by Kai Ponte 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

I notice that my Wintendo box (vista) at work upgraded last week the Firefox version to 2.0.0.9 and then very quickly to 2.0.0.10. Is this a security release we'll see in openSUSE 10.2? I only see 2.0.0.8 out there. (Not that I'm worried about those evUl h4xx0rz on my system!) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] vsftpd ports
by primm 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

I've opened ports 20, 21 and 1025 to 1029 via SuSEfirewall2 on 10.3. If all the ports are taken is there a way of telling the next user to wait or try again later? As it is it just leaves them wondering and waiting and allowing more users makes the system too slow. Am I correct in assuming it's one port per user? Cheers, Steve. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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