March 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Re: [Fwd: Re: local network/ADSL router not available after boot - manual reconfiguration needed]
by Peter Breger 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

John Andersen wrote: > On Sunday 04 February 2007, Peter Breger wrote: >> John Andersen wrote: >>>> >>> >>> I thought I had seen where you configured your computer to use >>> a nic rather than USB and then configured the router via a web >>> browser, and the problem was solved. >>> >>> Did I confuse two threads? >>> >>> >> Yes - I think you must have. But the problem is still as vexing as ever. >> Regards, >> Peter >> >> > > Well that was the solution on that other thread, and it was mentioned > that it was the only way you will likely get it working and the usb > interface seems only available to windows, whereas the use of a > standard NIC in the machine works flawlessly and is actually > easier to manage. > > > John, I am afraid that this is not it. The USRobotics router is a cable router, and connected via ethernet cable to the network card. No USB involved. Tested the hardware system with windows XP (bart PE) from CD - perfect, used it even before under win98. The only way it works in Linux Suse 10.1 is manually deleting the Network card config in Yast, running through the finishing sequence in Yast, then reconfigurating the network card with DHCP in Yast, running through the finishing sequence in Yast ---- then it works. After booting - no chance, again no connection. Tried both network manager and ifup = same behaviour. Searched through the boot sequence - yes, network is being connected etc, but cannot get the DHCP address collected. Question - in the boot sequence, what needs to be installed in what sequence to allow DHCP etc to be successfull i.e. if maybe one item is missing or starte din wrong sequence, then network detection, setup etc is not possible during boot. Any suggestions how to detect hickups in boot sequence? (Log file is not very revealing for me, other than to see that DHCP acquisition is not successful - which I know anyway). Peter PS I am posting thsi direct e-mail to the mailinglist in hope of re-establishing finally a working thread. -- 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 fails: bash cannot find libhistory.so.5
by Anders Johansson 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

On Saturday 03 March 2007 17:16, you wrote: > > Are you sure your boot loader is booting what you think it is > > booting? It > > sounds like you have something else there, a ghost from the past of > > some sort > > Sure sounds like it. Thats why I decided to do a full install, > reformatting / > > > Are you using grub or lilo? > > Grub (default) There is no other OS on this machine. > > > I would double check the boot loader installation if I were you > > Sounds like a good idea, but on the other hand, I assume Grub only > loads the kernel. The kernel loads fine. It loads the kernel and initrd. The point being that the kernel panics on loading bash, and this only happens in the initrd. I can see no other place for it to panic just because bash won't run. Which is why I'm thinking maybe it isn't loading properly. Note also that 10.1 and 10.2 doesn't install the boot loader to the master boot record by default. They install to the root partition, and make it active, and rely on the default master boot record to boot the active partition. If you have an older boot loader installed in the MBR, it could be loading just about anything > Also, correct me if I'm > wrong, but if I boot from DVD and then select boot from harddisk, > the kenel is loaded from DVD (right?), Depends on where you select it. If you select it from the initial boot splash screen on the DVD, then it's wrong. That will just transfer control to the boot loader on the hard drive, there is no difference from not having a DVD at all There is another option though, if you start the installation program, you will get to the point where it asks you what you want to do (install/upgrade/boot installed system). If at that point you select "boot installed system", it will use the kernel from the DVD. Perhaps you can try that and see what happens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Paying for a Senior Moment
by Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

I have just upgraded my linux machine to a 64bit AMD CPU. I also went from the 32bit openSUSE v9.3 to the 64bit v10.3. However, the systemboard only has one IDE connectir and I had three IDE HD's that I wanted to install in the new system. So I installed a IDE to PCI card that has two IDE cable slots. I also put a new 250GB SATA HD on the system and unstalled the OS on that so I can boot the new machine. In fact, this message is being sent via that medium. The machine finds all of the HD's on boot, ans I can see them in Krusaders Mountg-Manager. However, when I attem;pt to mount the IDE drives in the Mount-Manager I get: Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so Here is the fstab: /dev/sda5 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/sda6 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/hdc1 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 /dev/hdb /hdb ext3 defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /hdc ext3 defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd /hdd ext3 defaults 0 0 I added the last three lines in an attempt to find the drives, obviously the file system is incorrect. I accepted the openSUSE installer defaults, which is why sda5 and 6 are ext3. Here is the output of dmesg (at least the parts that I think are for the IDE HD's) hdb: WDC WD400EB-00CPF0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hdb: max request size: 128KiB hdb: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) hdb: cache flushes not supported hdb: hdb1 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: WDC WD1200JB-00GVA0, ATA DISK drive hdd: WDC WD400JB-00ENA0, ATA DISK drive ide1 at 0xffffc20000024c80-0xffffc20000024c87,0xffffc20000024c8a on irq 50 hdc: max request size: 64KiB hdc: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) hdc: cache flushes supported hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdd: max request size: 64KiB hdc: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) hdc: cache flushes supported hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdd: max request size: 64KiB hdd: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) hdd: cache flushes not supported hdd: hdd1 It seems to me, in my rather naive way of looking at hardware issues, that I don't have the corrects fstab entries for the IDE drives. Is that information buried in the dmesg resuls? I need a solution to this problem (there's a lot in installed software and files on those HD to which I need access) and any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Finally, my apologies for the length of this message, I don't know what of the above (if any) will be useful Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] boot fails: bash cannot find libhistory.so.5
by Jan Wielemaker 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

Hi, Today I rebooted after installing the upgrades on my 10.1 installation which included a new kernel. The kernel panicked while starting bash with the message that it could not find libhistory.so.5. I was a bit surprised. This is the first such severe upgrade problem since I run SuSE (since 5.x). Worse, starting the rescue system didn't show anything wrong with the libhistory.so.5. Mounted /dev/hda1 on /mnt. I could not run any command using LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/lib command All crashed on a segmentation fault. Not sure this should be possible, as the rescue system is running an older version of libc. When I copied libhistory.so.5 to a new dir and used that using the tick above, the shell runs just fine ... Now comes the real problem. Thinking it wasn't a too bad idea to upgrade to 10.2, I installed a fresh 10.2 from DVD (from the box). Complete install, keeping the old partitions, but make it reformat / using reiserfs (old was also reiserfs). Installation was totally smooth, but when rebooting the installed system, the same cannot find libhistory.so.5 error was back!?. Started rescue system. All looks right, and it is indeed a 10.2 root partition on /dev/hda1. Tested memory. No issues. Ran fsck /dev/hda1. No issues. The machine is about 4 years old, dual AMD 2600+, two IDE harddrives. Has always been running SuSE and never failed on me. I'm starting to panick. This surely looks like a software problem, but why on two different SuSE releases. Couldn't find any related messages in this list or on the net in general. If nobody has the same issue hardware might be the problem, but disc and memory test fine!? Any clue? Thanks --- Jan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] FreeNX problem on 10.2
by Sunny 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

Hi, I have exactly the same problem as Elvis in this thread: <http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2006-12/msg02820.html> Unfortunately, this is the only place I have found at least someone mentioning this problem. I have tried all the suggestions in the thread, but still no success. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? The server is 10.2 x86_64, running FreeNX-0.5.0-25 -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- 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] Disk mounting problems
by Carlos E. R. 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2007-03-02 a las 21:37 -0500, Darren Bowen escribió: (You forgot to send to the list) > Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > > As the audio cds are not data cds, no, you can not browse them. I understand > > that konqueror "emulates" browsing them, but not nautilus, AFAIK. You can > > run konqueror fine inside gnome, you do not need to be tied to one > > environment only, you can have all of them: this is Linux! :-) > Hello, > on my suse 10.0 nautilus could browse the cd`s until i did an online > update then i couldn`t browse them anymore. I have a test computer that right > now has fadora core 6 and nautilus browses the cd`s, > I was wondering it had something to do with the fstab file. Curious. If I try to open an audio CD with Nautilus in SuSE 10.2 it opens helix banshee to play it. I would like to disable that, I prefer manually firing which program I want. - -- Saludos Carlos E.R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF6VnjtTMYHG2NR9URAigaAJwLvLgW2HfCS5ZZBKvPBLO0gXfRlwCfT180 liIGyFomYIbkq/RHB+M/DgI= =DCCr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[opensuse] suse 10.2 main-menu process uses up too much amount of memory?
by Zhang Weiwu 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

have you ever experienced this problem? On my desktop workstation a user 'yuliansu' always have problem with her "Computer" menu (the main menu in Gnome) => click it have no response, and sometimes cause gnome-panel to halt (the gnome-panel no respond). top shows this user's process 'main-menu' have used up around 40% memory. I am not sure if this means 40% of total amount of virtual memory (4GB x 40% = 1GB) or physical memory (2GB x 40% = 512MB) but anyway this figure looks wrong. Even for a normal user (zhangwei) his main-menu took 7% amount of memory, either (4GB x 7% =) 280MB or half of it looks like too much for such a small application. Do you have similar problem on SuSE 10.2? This is my top(1) output (sort by memory usage) top - 12:17:10 up 17 days, 17:04, 6 users, load average: 0.19, 0.32, 0.39 Tasks: 305 total, 1 running, 298 sleeping, 0 stopped, 6 zombie Cpu(s): 12.0%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 86.2%id, 0.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2068136k total, 2010692k used, 57444k free, 22828k buffers Swap: 2104472k total, 1128164k used, 976308k free, 265084k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 27380 yuliansu 25 10 971m 804m 18m S 0 39.8 353:40.81 main-menu 16645 zhangwei 15 0 253m 149m 18m S 0 7.4 6:53.74 main-menu 27659 yuliansu 15 0 310m 87m 25m S 5 4.3 11:51.32 firefox-bin 27482 zhangwei 15 0 306m 82m 26m S 0 4.1 0:13.14 evolution-2.8 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Installling a second OS...
by JB 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

Hiya gang, SuSE 9.3 is the only OS I have on my system. I have two hdd's though. I (unfortunately) need to install W98 on the second (blank/empty spare) hdd. If I open the case and remove the main hdd from the cabling, so that if the system's restarted all the bios will see is one hdd, the 'spare', and install the W98 on that, then once it's all done hook my main hdd back up and start the system, will I be able to just go into YaST and have it find the new OS and add it to fstab? Is there an easier way than the above? Thanks for any suggestions. Oh, for the curious, I play an online rpg and use kmuddy but since I can't touch type and haven't been able to learn to code (can't afford a course and get lost too easily with a 'learn-to' book(s)), and nobody else in the game uses kmuddy, no one has any scripts I can use to fight better (curing and healing). I tried TF, but can't even figure out how to start it and it takes a fair bit more typing than kmuddy. Soooo, I figured I'd break down and use zmud <shudder> on windows, since there's a couple folk in the game who are willing to make me a whole '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] Format fat32 with badblocks range
by Teemu Nikkilä 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

Hi, I have an old iRiver IHP-120 hard disk ogg vorbis and mp3 player whose disk has got partly damaged. It still works and I'd like to format the disk so that the range of blocks where the damage is will be marked bad. I've already tried to format with -c option but it takes way too long. At the moment I'm scanning the disk with badblocks to get an idea where the damage is (the range of blocks that are mostly bad). How should I format the disk or how do I choose the correct block size and should I first create a file with a long list of block numbers and give this file to mkdosfs with the -l option? Cheers, Teemu -- 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] unsubscribe
by Rajko M. 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

On Thursday 01 March 2007 22:16, eegilbert(a)mindspring.com wrote: > I apologize for this automatic reply to your email. > > To control spam, I now allow incoming messages only from senders I > have approved beforehand. > > If you would like to be added to my list of approved senders, please > fill out the short request form (see link below). Once I approve you, > I will receive your original message in my inbox. You do not need to > resend your message. I apologize for this one-time inconvenience. > > Click the link below to fill out the request: > > https://webmail.atl.earthlink.net/wam/addme?a=eegilbert@mindspring.com&id=1 >hmZc46GM3Nl3pX2 Hmm. I tried to keep this quiet, but: If the link below doesn't work in your mail client EarthLink Zoo Mail 1.0, mailto: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org the one in browser should work: http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate#User/Support_Lists Don't forget to confirm cancellation email that will come, usually, in a few minutes after you send request, as it is described in: http://en.opensuse.org/Mailing_Lists#Unsubscribing -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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