March 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?
by Anders Norrbring 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

I'm looking at building a SATA II RAID-5 system, and I'd like to get some thoughts on controllers since there are a multitude out there.. I'm going for either 4 or 8 ports. The rig should be run by a 10.1 x86_64 system with dual opterons. The manufacturers I'm looking at are: Adaptec Highpoint 3Ware Promise Can someone with knowledge about these tell me the pros and cons with each of them? -- Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting

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[opensuse] kotd on opensuse 10.1
by Roger Oberholtzer 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

I would like to install a newer kernel than the one that came with 10.1 so I can take advantage of sata hot swapping that works better than in the kernel that comes with that release. I have added a 2.6.17 kernel on my own and it works fine. But there are little things that are different from the SUSE-supplied one. I know that there are kernel-of-the-day for these. But these are whatever they happen to be. Is there any place where people keep track of which ones were good ones? Given that there is one a day, I guess this is a bit of a moving target. But I have to ask. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] move a Reiser partition, adjustments of GRUB bootloader
by Birgit Kellner 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hi, I have a laptop with openSuSE 10.2 and Windows XP as dual-boot with GRUB as bootloader. SuSE currently has one Reiser partition plus a swap partition, and there are two Windows partitions, one hidden and one, well, not. It turns out that I need more space for XP, so I first shrank the Reiser partition to make space available, but foolishly overlooked that the space would become available in a section where I currently can't make use of it. This is the current partition table: Platte /dev/hda: 40.0 GByte, 40007761920 Byte 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System /dev/hda1 1 230 1847443+ 1b Verst. W95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 231 1741 12137107+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda3 * 1743 3701 15735667+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 4751 4864 915705 82 Linux Swap / Solaris So there's about 8 GB free space between hda3 and hda4. I'd like to format about 1,5 of that with a native Linux format and make it the home of /home. The remaining 6,5 should be merged with the larger FAT32 partition (currently hda2). All of this should be, so to speak, minimally invasive, as I don't have the time to reinstall either Windows or Linux. I don't quite know how to go about doing this. Two things bug me. First, I can't create another primary partition because there already are four on the disk, and it's not possible to create a logical partition because it would need an extended partition, which cannot be created because the limit of four extended/primary partitions has been reached. Second, what changes do I have to make for GRUB to still find the bootable partitions afterwards? And where would I make them? Finally, how, considering the above conditions, do I go about actually *moving* the Reiser partition up so that the free space becomes adjacent to the FAT32 partition, which seems the most economical way to go about things? Thanks a lot in advance, best regards, Birgit Kellner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Grub Boot Loader Question
by russbucket 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Just installed the new kernel update. Grub was effected slightly. Had to add failsafe. Is the following correct? I copied the old menu.lst entry and change the Kernel version. (line wrap caused by kmail). ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- opensuse 10.2 root (hd1,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default root=/dev/hdb5 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi =off apic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.8-0.1-default When I boot with it it still goes to the kde desktop. I thought it was supposed to go to a console? Am I wrong? Also the normal boot has added the elevator= what is it for? Old version did not have it. kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default root=/dev/hdb5 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/hdb1 splash=silent showopts apm=power-off elevator= Any comments or corrections would be appreciated. -- Russ Linux register user 441463 -- 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, IBM ServeRAID, I/O Errors
by Adam Williams 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

I have an IBM xSeries with an IBM ServeRAID controller running openSUSE 10.1. Previously, for years, this server ran SuSE 9.2 and was absolutely ROCK solid. However, now it is constantly logging I/O errors, but no drive ever goes offline. It really seems to be a problem with the logical drive. ipssend says: Controller type : ServeRAID-3L Actual BIOS version : 7.12.02 Firmware version : 6.10.24 Boot block version : 3.00.21 Device driver version : 7.12.05 And there are four active drives, and one hot spare. Each report as active with no PFA. The status of the logical drive is "Okay" But dmesg is full of: sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x70000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 4319748 sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x70000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 4319748 sda is the logical drive # uname -a Linux cfsgroup 2.6.16.27-0.9-smp #1 SMP Tue Feb 13 09:35:18 UTC 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux SCSI subsystem initialized scsi0 : IBM PCI ServeRAID 7.12.05 Build 761 <ServeRAID 3L> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sda: 106641408 512-byte hdwr sectors (54600 MB) SCSI device sda: 106641408 512-byte hdwr sectors (54600 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Anyone have *ANY* suggestions? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Off Topic List ?
by M Harris 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Is there an off topic list officially? I went out to the openSUSE site and looked through the mailing lists... but don't find it... if it exists. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Strange dependency problem during distribution upgrade
by Michael Schmuker 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Dear list, I tried to update 10.1 to 10.2 using the download-iso. Yast was resolving the dependencies, and I followed the suggestions. Now, after two iterations of dependency display and resolving, the dependency-resolver-screen reappeared, but it was blank! No package displayed, no choice offered, just blank. I tried re-checking several times, to no avail. Tried various combinations of settings for the problematic packages that yast displayed in the main window, also with setting everything to be deleted - without success. Yast won't let me continue the upgrade process. It might have to do with the fact that I kept my system current with smart - including the guru and packman channels. Did anyone observe this behavior before? I was tempted using smart for a distribution upgrade, but hesitate since I can't afford sending this system to nirvana with a failed upgrade attempt. I grateful for any suggestions on how I can upgrade my system! Thanks in advance, Michael -- Michael Schmuker Neuroinformatics & Theoretical Biology Freie Universität Berlin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] setting up a raid (Suse 10.0)
by James D. Parra 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hello, I have two identical drives, mirrored as /dev/md0, however I am unable to carve out mount points on it or put a swap partition on it. One drive is a system drive and I'd like to mirror it. What is the best way to accomplish this? Thank you, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] very weird error on make install for netspeed-applet
by Abstract 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hello All, I was trying to install the netspeed gnome applet because i could not find it in any of the repos i normally trust with smart. The configure ran just fine, so did the make... then on the make install I get this at the end /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 sv/figures/settings.png /usr/local/share/gnome/help/netspeed_applet/sv/figures/settings.png /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 C/figures/wavelan.png /usr/local/share/gnome/help/netspeed_applet/C/figures/wavelan.png /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 C/figures/wavelan.png /usr/local/share/gnome/help/netspeed_applet/de/figures/wavelan.png /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 C/figures/wavelan.png /usr/local/share/gnome/help/netspeed_applet/sv/figures/wavelan.png /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/share/omf/netspeed_applet /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 netspeed_applet-C.omf /usr/local/share/omf/netspeed_applet/netspeed_applet-C.omf /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 netspeed_applet-de.omf /usr/local/share/omf/netspeed_applet/netspeed_applet-de.omf /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 netspeed_applet-sv.omf /usr/local/share/omf/netspeed_applet/netspeed_applet-sv.omf scrollkeeper-update -p /var/lib/scrollkeeper -o /usr/local/share/omf/netspeed_applet /bin/sh: line 3: 11269 Segmentation fault scrollkeeper-update -p "`scrollkeeper-config --pkglocalstatedir`" -o "/usr/local/share/omf/netspeed_applet" make[2]: *** [install-doc-omf] Error 139 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tester/Desktop/netspeed_applet-0.14/docs' make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tester/Desktop/netspeed_applet-0.14/docs' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 This makes no sense to me, what is this? I did run it as root, just in my test users home directory -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Mount problem
by Bob S 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hello SuSE people, First the background. (Please be patient - needed to understand the problem) Have three hard drives hda, which has Windows on it and several ext3 partitions where I put backups, work on graphics, etc. hdb, which has SuSE 10.0 on it, and sda which has a new 10.2 on it. When I am using 10.0 I can see the partitions on hda. (Backup, Workspace. etc.) and am able to mount them just fine. When I am using 10.2 I cannot. I can of course, mount them manually. I want 10.2 to be able to do the same thing as 10.0. (mount them at boot) I used the 10.0 fstab as an example to mount the hda partitions for my 10.2 fstab and added the hda lines I needed. No good. When I boot 10.2 it boots to a console and X is not started. I had to delete the new 10.2 fstab to restart the system. Don't know why this would happen. Ideas? Suggestions?? Bob S. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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