March 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] SuSe 10.2/64 4Gb memory problem
by Bas hendriks 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hello, I am fairly new to SuSe Linux having used mostly FreeBSD in production. I am building a vmware server with SuSe10.2/64 as host os. The problem is that only 2 Gb ram is available in SuSe, while 4 Gb is installed. BIOS, memtest64+ and FreeBSD all report 4 GB. The system becomes unresponsive during boot at "agpgart: Detected an Intel 965G Chipset.", I had to add mem=4096M to grub arguments to boot into the system. The BIOS setting "Memory Remap future" is enabled. Any help would be appreciated! Best regards, Bas Hendriks bas(a)cybox.nl System information: ------------------- Asus p5b motherboard with latest BIOS CPU: Intel E6600, 2,4Ghz core dual Mem: 4x1GB dimm (Kingston 1GB 128M x 64-Bit DDR2-667), all the same and tested individually. 1x250Gb, 2x500Gb samsung sata disk's intranet:~ # uname -a Linux intranet 2.6.18.8-0.1-default #1 SMP Fri Mar 2 13:51:59 UTC 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux intranet:~ # dmesg|grep Mem Memory: 2028308k/4194304k available (1915k kernel code, 68008k reserved, 1282k data, 188k init) intranet:~ # cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 2031576 kB MemFree: 1778028 kB Buffers: 6756 kB Cached: 162384 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 110912 kB Inactive: 104284 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 2031576 kB LowFree: 1778028 kB SwapTotal: 2104472 kB SwapFree: 2104472 kB Dirty: 112 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 46088 kB Mapped: 16748 kB Slab: 18556 kB PageTables: 3204 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB CommitLimit: 3120260 kB Committed_AS: 138420 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 12244 kB VmallocChunk: 34359723251 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB intranet:~ # intranet:~ # dmesg|head -16 Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/sda2 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/sda1 mem=4096M) Linux version 2.6.18.8-0.1-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Fri Mar 2 13:51:59 UTC 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007ff90000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000007ff90000 - 000000007ff9e000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000007ff9e000 - 000000007ffe0000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000007ffe0000 - 0000000080000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000180000000 (usable) DMI 2.4 present. -- 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] Root's password]
by Per Qvindesland 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hmm the manual is rong, really rong, open a terminal become su and type in passwd root hit enter, type in new root password twice and thats it, just don't forget the new password, you could also do this in Yast. Regards Per Qvindesland On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 23:45 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: > The manual seems to indicate that once the password for the root has > been fed into the system during installation then it cannot be changed > by any means. > > I would like to change my (root) password. Can this be done? Or do I > need to reinstall the whole sheebang? > > Cheers. > > -- > Never believe anything until it's been officially denied. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 10.3 alpha2
by Kenneth Schneider 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

There is no mini iso for the 10.3A2 release therefore I cannot install via ftp without problems. Will one be released soon? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Retaining the correct timestamp
by Basil Chupin 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

I copy files between computers using an USB flashdisc. One undesirable effect is that the timestamp of the original file is 'destroyed' and overwritten by the timestamp when the copying occurs. I want to be able to retain the original timestamp. There is the 'noatime' parameter which can be added to the HD entries in fstab but will this solve my problem (if I add this 'noatime' parameter on all the computers)? Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Cheers. -- Never believe anything until it's been officially denied. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] User profile management
by Andreas 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hi, I've got an old PC that's called server which runs SuSE 9.3. Basically it's a samba file server for 5 Windows clients. It "knowes" every user so that they can access Samba. There is no local user access besides that. Up until now I configured all our (few) users on every PC so that they could ... well ... roam would be a rather big word. Would it be possible keep all profile infos on the server and let Windows (2000) grab it on login-time from the server? Actually it's like that. I talked to a buddy on weekend who is currently starting a new business. He'll have within a year 25-50 desktop workplaces with very limited needs. It might end up with a browser that runs a web-based application. So I boldly proposed a pure Linux play. Some other guy - who advised him in IT stuff until now - told him that he needed a Windows small business server to host Active Directory and an Exchange server plus MS-SQL. Could someone point me to a Howto for windows-profile management with Linux? A nice groupware for mail, adresses and dates would be handy, too. The database should be PostgreSQL, I guess. -- 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] setting up a raid (Suse 10.0)
by James D. Parra 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

-----Original Message----- From: Wade Jones [mailto:wjones@hughes.net] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:23 AM To: opensuse(a)opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] setting up a raid (Suse 10.0) On Thursday 15 March 2007 07:57, James D. Parra wrote: > I have two identical drives, mirrored as /dev/md0 > One drive is a system drive and I'd like to mirror it. Which is it? Perhaps you should post your fstab and raidtab...................................... > I am unable to carve out mount points on it or put a swap partition on it. Isn't mirroring a swap partition a bad idea, or at the least wasteful? Why not create a (or two) swap partitions on the disks, then create the RAID partitions on the remaining space? ~~~~ This is a fresh install. I don't really want to mirror the swap partition, just get the system mirrored. During the install, after many different attempts to get the system to boot from the hard disk, I have now set up /dev/md0 with 90GB and mounted as /var, however after the loading of packages is complete and the system reboots, the system won't boot from the hard drive. The mount point /boot is on /dev/sda1. 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] PDF, Konqueror, KPDF and Adobe reader
by LLLActive＠GMX.Net 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hi, I scanned documents with the Epson Perfection V100 Photo and saved directly as PDF's. I can read them with Konqueror & KPDF. Adobe Reader 7.0.8. 05/22/2006 on SUSE 10.1 only shows white pages, sometimes with the wrong page format; should be A4. I noticed that Acrobat Professional 6 & 7 on Windows also displays blank pages. I then tried to read them with Scribus, without success. It says: ... not in an acceptable format. 2 Questions: 1. How can I convert them to be read by Adobe and Scribus, or 2. With what application can I put together separate PDF files into one document under SUSE 10.1? :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] New USB Device Pop-up
by LLLActive＠GMX.Net 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hi, System: SUSE 10.1 Boxed Version - KDE When I insert a USB memory stick or USB drive, one system presents a pop-up where you can choose what you want to do to mount the device. On another system this pop-up stopped working for some reason. The systems are Identical HW and SW. I know some program must run in the background to pick up the new devices. I have forgotten what it was called. It can be started in the terminal session and set to start automatically next time. :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] mini ISO and maxi ISO
by Alexey Eremenko 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hi all ! If there is a mini-ISO available (for Internet setup), I would like to see maxi ISO as well.... (like Debian, to include everything, full FTP tree into several DVDs) It is very important for me to have the full FTP tree = maximum number of packages available offline. Until now I have to spend a lot of time downloading and rebuilding repository at Home, but it would be much easier if I could just download the DVD images, and everything included already on them. Please build a Dual-DVD set for download. Also, since no 64-bit computers have CD-ROMs (all have DVDs), I think it is safe to remove the 5-CDs for x64 architecture from the net. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] SOLVED - Konqueror Image Preview
by Kai Ponte 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Some time ago, in this thread - http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-01/msg00512.html - I mentioned that my Konqueror was having problems previewing JPEG files. It worked at some point and then suddenly stopped working. You can see my original image here: http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/suse/2007/suse101_konq_preview.jpg The top was root the bottom was me. Well, today, I was pasting some files from my digital camera and noticed that the preview is suddenly working: http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/suse/2007/20070318_konqueror_jpegs.jpg In addition, I can right click a jpeg and choose any number of programs to do stuff. Previously I could only click on krita. The only thing I can think of is that I did my weekly update on Friday from SMART. Whatever got fixed must have been in there. Thanks to whomever!! -- k -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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