May 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] CPU usage 111% ???
by Adi Nugroho 11 May '07

11 May '07

I'm running virutal box in openSUSE 10.2 While installing freedos in virtualbox, I'm watching "top" on another console. Unbelievable, the cpu usage of virtual box can rise up more than 100%. Sometimes 102%, 110%, 105%, etc. What is wrong? top? VirtualBox? SuSE? Here is the copy-paste when cpu usage rise up to 111%. top - 10:32:26 up 1:56, 4 users, load average: 5.16, 3.25, 2.08 Tasks: 115 total, 1 running, 109 sleeping, 0 stopped, 5 zombie Cpu(s): 38.1%us, 18.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 11.6%id, 31.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 506576k total, 500848k used, 5728k free, 456k buffers Swap: 1052216k total, 148464k used, 903752k free, 58660k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 6537 adi 15 0 353m 267m 12m S 111 54.0 3:43.18 VirtualBox 4887 adi 15 0 54748 15m 3644 S 2 3.2 7:30.62 beagled-helper 179 root 10 -5 0 0 0 D 1 0.0 0:01.96 kswapd0 178 root 15 0 0 0 0 D 0 0.0 0:00.19 pdflush 6445 adi 15 0 2252 732 524 R 0 0.1 0:01.40 top 1 root 15 0 740 56 32 S 0 0.0 0:01.07 init 2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 5 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1 6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.08 events/0 7 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 events/1 8 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread 13 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.04 kblockd/0 14 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1 15 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:03.40 kacpid a -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] hpparm --security-erase
by Greg Freemyer 10 May '07

10 May '07

All, Has anyone experimented with hdparm to have a ATA drive wipe itself of all its data? ie. I just noticed the hdparm parameter: --security-erase PWD Erase (locked) drive, using password PWD (DANGEROUS). Password is given as an ASCII string and is padded with NULs to reach 32 bytes. The applicable drive password is selected with the --user-master switch. THIS FEATURE IS EXPERIMENTAL AND NOT WELL TESTED. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. I do a lot of disk wiping. ie. Anytime we buy a drive, reuse a drive or get rid of one we do a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx bs=4k type of thing to ensure the previous data is gone. I've found I can only do 2 or 3 of those simultaneously on my test box. Using the drive to wipe itself should allow a larger number with no slow down of the process per drive. (We tend to buy drives 20 at a time, so we tend to wipe them 20 at a time.) FYI: I just read that using the security-erase feature of the drive meets a US government wiping standard. See the whitepaper at http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/hughes/DataSanitizationTutorial.pdf Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- 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 onboard Gigabit LAN shows up but doen't work
by Chris (ePortel) 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hi guys, I'm testing a new Asus P5GZ-MZ motherboard with an on board "Asustek Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit " ethernet interface. This LAN connection will not work. OSL 10.2 does "see" it and there are no obvious errors with it. I assumed that I needed a driver. Just for kicks I checked the Asus factory drives CD for WIndows and low and behold there is a drivers folder for Linux....for both the LAN and Audio. I opened up the LAN folder to see what was there and there are two choices, one is "linux6.16" and the other folder is "v8_36" The contents of the "linux6.16" is: "yukonx.htm" and the other is "yukon_xsolx86v6.16.tar.Z" The contents of the "V8_36" is: "install-8_36.tar.bz2" and "README.txt" and "SK98lin.txt" First of all I how now idea which one I should use...if any of them. The install instruction simple don't work for the first folders tar file. It mentions to use the "uncompress" command for the "yukon_xsolx86v6.16.tar.Z" file...but this command doesn't seem to exist. The other file "install-8_36.tar.bz2" will decompress using the standard commands...but when I go to installed it I'm givin a choice of making a patch for the kernal or doing an installation. Either way the installation instructions can't be made for the Suse distro...because nothing works. Any Ideas about this. Usually when the network card shows up in the Network Card applet in Yast the card works....not this time. Thanks Chris -- 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 PuTTY ?
by Jonathan Arnold 10 May '07

10 May '07

Is there an openSUSE 10.2 package source for the PuTTY package? http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: AppArmored FireFox
by Alexey Eremenko 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hi ! I wrote an explanation of what AppArmored FireFox is all about. Look at attachment in OpenDocument format. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov"

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[opensuse] rsync errors
by James D. Parra 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hello, I am getting 'skipping non-regular file' errors when running rsync. Any ideas on why and how to fix them? Using rsync -rpvougt ..... skipping non-regular file "rd/programs/unixODBC-2.2.11/samples/helper.o" skipping non-regular file "rd/programs/unixODBC-2.2.11/sqp/.libs/libsqplc.la" skipping non-regular file "rd/programs/wxwidgets/wxBase-2.6.2/lib/libwx_baseu-2.6.so" skipping non-regular file "rd/programs/wxwidgets/wxBase-2.6.2/lib/libwx_baseu-2.6.so.0" 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] OT Konsole for M$S
by gceruti 10 May '07

10 May '07

Thanks Randall, Philipp, Will and Jonathan. had no intention to split the current thread Sorry G -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] rsync errors
by James D. Parra 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hello, I am getting 'skipping non-regular file' errors when running rsync. Any ideas on why and how to fix them? Using rsync -rpvougt ..... skipping non-regular file "rd/programs/unixODBC-2.2.11/samples/helper.o" skipping non-regular file "rd/programs/unixODBC-2.2.11/sqp/.libs/libsqplc.la" skipping non-regular file "rd/programs/wxwidgets/wxBase-2.6.2/lib/libwx_baseu-2.6.so" skipping non-regular file "rd/programs/wxwidgets/wxBase-2.6.2/lib/libwx_baseu-2.6.so.0" 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] LTSP
by Stuart Murray-Smith 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hi list I'm finding my way around SuSE 10.0... so pls bear with me :-) I need to configure a USB printer on an LTSP terminal. I've: rpm -qa | grep ltsp to find which ver of LTSP, and yield nothing. How can I find what ver it is if it was make installed? Any insight appreciated. TiA, Stuart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: Windows mount is ReadOnly
by Jonathan Arnold 10 May '07

10 May '07

Alan Lenton wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Clayton [mailto:smaug42@gmail.com] > Sent: 10 May 2007 13:11 > To: opensuse(a)opensuse.org > Subject: Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly > >> SuSE 10.2 is mounting my Windows file system read only ( fstab shows >> ro,users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0). >> >> Is there any reason for this? I want to be able to write files in that >> partition. If that was the case would I need to do anything else >> except knock out the 'ro' element? > > > | Is it an NTFS drive that you're trying to mount? openSUSE always mounts > NTFS formatted partitions as | | ReadOnly. > | > > | C. > > It is indeed. Do I deduce from this that it isn't wise to change it to > ReadWrite? I don't think you can using the standard drivers. See this page for some more info: http://en.opensuse.org/NTFS -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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