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[opensuse] fstab Drives Listed by id
by William Hammond 23 May '08

23 May '08

I can't create a Bare Metal Disaster Recovery CD. fstab records the Drives listed by ID "/dev/disk/by-id/SCSI-SSEAGATE_ST........" So if a new drive is encountered it can't be mounted. I looked at tune2fs, but I'm not sure it this is the right tool or how to use it correctly. I just need the fstab to list drives/partitions by type. 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] New game release includes a Linux version
by Clayton 23 May '08

23 May '08

This is interesting... http://www.rainslick.com/ Released for Linux as well as the usual Windows/Mac. Might be worth contacting the company and thanking them for the Linux version... the more positive feedback the game devs get for the Linux releases, the more likely it is that they will do the same again in the future. C. -- 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 Weekly News, Issue 23
by Jan-Simon Möller 23 May '08

23 May '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 23 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3 * People of openSUSE: Wolfgang Koller * Status Updates * Duncan Mac-Vicar P.: The greatest unknown openSUSE 11.0 package management feature * Lukáš Ocilka: Function Keys in YaST ncurses Frontend * andi.opensuse-id.org: KDE 4.0.4 on openSUSE 10.3 [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/23 Have a lot of fun! -- Jan-Simon Möller -- 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] fstab Drives Listed by id
by Carlos E. R. 23 May '08

23 May '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2008-05-22 a las 14:35 -0700, William Hammond escribió: You forgot to email to the list. >> > I can't create a Bare Metal Disaster Recovery CD. >> > >> > fstab records the Drives listed by ID >> > "/dev/disk/by-id/SCSI-SSEAGATE_ST........" >> > >> > So if a new drive is encountered it can't be mounted. >> >> Why not? > > > I didn't quite follow this comment. Is it or is it not okay to edit the fstab > manually. Of course it is ok, I do it all the time. I meant that I don't understand why you say a new drive can not be mounted manually. > I can imagine a scenario where booting up is no longer possible without > further repair. > > I also wonder why you would want to list by id in first place... Seems > like replacing a hard drive becomes quite difficult...? Because the names like hda, sda... can change, some even on the boot order. They are no longer stable, unfortunately, so they switched to that scheme. I prefer mounting "by-label". You have several choices: cer@nimrodel:~> ls /dev/disk/ by-id by-label by-path by-uuid and all of them are symlinks to the physical devices (sda, etc). - -- Saludos Carlos E.R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFINffgtTMYHG2NR9URAimjAJ4mEWIEhrICGiE6U80+lBaP1LqsPACfd7AU tk/nVeOF6zoQxP290y4Tgqg= =bkX7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[opensuse] 11.0 Beta 3, kernel source install (helps if I include the error)
by David C. Rankin 22 May '08

22 May '08

Listmates, Ran into an issue installing vbox linux additions on 11 beta3. Looks like the kernel source wasn't fully configured on install. Here is the error received attempting to compile to vbox LinuxAdditions reproduced here with "make modules_prepare". Anyone else seen this one? linux:/usr/src/linux # make modules_prepare HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c:1647: warning: ‘input’ defined but not used HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86/Kconfig *** *** You have not yet configured your kernel! *** (missing kernel .config file) *** *** Please run some configurator (e.g. "make oldconfig" or *** "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig"). *** make[2]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 1 make[1]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 2 make: *** No rule to make target `modules_prepare'. Stop. Other than this hiccup, 11.0 looks like it "will be the best openSuSE ever!" I would still like to see a little sterner warning on the KDE4 checkbox during install. As worded, seems like it is just a complete as KDE3, just less tested. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OSuSE 11.0 devel Q: has pthreads library location changed?
by Linda Walsh 22 May '08

22 May '08

In 10.3 and most linux builds I've run into so far, 'pthreads' is usually in a separate pthreads library. Has this changed in 11.0? Would they have been moved into some library included by default during a build & link (like glibc)? Seems like that would be an odd change to make since outside tarballs that use pthreads would likely have a -lpthreads in the final link stage and if OS11 moves them, all those make files would require a different link line for OS11 (i.e. -- one that doesn't try to include what would be a non-existent pthreads library). The reason I'm asking is I'm looking at a make designed to run on OS11, and I'm getting link errors for the various pthread functions -- all of the functions seem to be missing when the final program is being linked (and it doesn't have an explicit -lpthreads on the link line). Thus my wondering is it the case that pthreads are being moved into one of the standardly linked-with libraries (like glibc -- not requiring explicit naming on the command line), or does linking against against libpthreads happen automatically on the 'gcc' of the future (the one to be in OS11.0)? Thanks!... -Linda -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Postfix config problem - sometimes forwarding loop
by Michael Fischer 22 May '08

22 May '08

SOHO setup, server which faces the internet, performs iptables firewalling, masquerading, and runs postfix for my domain. I put in a new box for this purpose last week, replacing a 10-year-old one. a workstation inside the network which uses fetchmail to pop mails from the server, and runs procmail via main.cf mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail and a $HOME/.procmailrc file. This setup has worked perfectly well for years. Since setting up the new server, I have been seeing intermittent bounces on the workstation characterized by lines such as the following in the workstation's /var/log/mail May 16 18:21:12 marlowe postfix/qmgr[14272]: 5D9186FC275: from=<opensuse+bounces-59445-michael=visv.net(a)opensuse.org>, size=5234, nrcpt=1 (queue active) May 16 18:21:12 marlowe postfix/smtpd[11667]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1] May 16 18:21:12 marlowe postfix/local[11669]: 5D9186FC275: to=<username(a)localhost.visv.net>, orig_to=<username@localhost>, relay=local, delay=0, status =bounced (mail forwarding loop for username(a)localhost.visv.net) I substituted 'username' for the actual one in the above. Now, the thing is, is that this is intermittent. Most mails (such as from this list) get delivered just fine. I've even seen the above message immediately followed by a successful delivery of an opensuse list mail. After google'ing, I see that this problem doesn't have a clear recipe solution, but that it can be caused by having entries in /etc/aliases of the form user1: user1, user2, user3 This form does not exist in my /etc/aliases, and I have no .forward file. I can see nothing "obviously" pertainent in main.cf, nor /etc/aliases. The .procmailrc file has not changed since before this nuisance began. As the problem began after I set up the new server, I'm tempted to think something is wrong there, but it is on the workstation that the bounces occur. Any help is very much apprciated. Thank you. 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 do I change my dvd writer permissions?
by Dave Plater 22 May '08

22 May '08

Hi, somewhere along the line my permissions on my dvd writer got screwed up and now I have to burn as root. Can anybody put me on the right track to restore user write permissions? User is a member of cdrom. Thanks in advance Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Amavis doesn't clean house
by Carlos E. R. 22 May '08

22 May '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, My amavis-new leaves a lot of directories under "/var/spool/amavis/tmp/". I have there 172 directories, using around 4 megabytes. The first one is dated Oct 7 2005, and the last five are from today. Each directory is of the form amavis-20080522T130059-00340 (dir) |-- email.txt (file) `-- parts (dir) (empty) Why is not this garbage removed automatically when amavis finishes scanning them? They are not all of them spam, some are from this list. Some are even emails sent from me to myself! Is it a bug, or could be a misconfiguration on my part? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFINV9ftTMYHG2NR9URAsxNAJwNgdGeBil6CObDSfcX21SSejfFyACcDs6+ NP/Fed7PPWe6/0yS54vAfnM= =5Nko -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] More info. - for openSUSE team on 11.0
by Carlos E. R. 22 May '08

22 May '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2008-05-22 a las 11:04 -0400, Larry Stotler escribió: [ You forgot to email to the list ] > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote: >>> No, you can't get them when there's NO OS installed yet.....it barfs at >>> he very beginning of the install, BEFORE it can install "anything." >> >> Actually, yes, you can. >> >> They are not on disk, they are on memory, of course. > > Then it might help if you explain HOW to get to it then since he > probably doesn't know how to. Just telling him it's available isn't > helping him to get to them and post the info. Why should I repeat the info already posted? sigh... Look at the previous mail at <http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2008-05/msg01886.html> It says: ] http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST ] ] Explains various ways to get log files from an installation. ] You go to that page. There are several Q/A relating to log watching: * 1.9 How can I issue shell commands during an installation? * 1.12 How can I redirect YaST logs to a remote computer during installation? * 1.13 How can I redirect YaST logs to an USB stick during installation? * 2.1 I get a red text pop-up telling me "An error occurred during installation". Is there still any way to salvage log files? I would try the last one. Hint: the installation system is a normal linux system, using a ram disk. The logs are in the same place as on any suse linux system: in /var/log/, only that the "files" only exist in memory and will dissapear when you exit or power off or reboot. - -- Saludos Carlos E.R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFINb2gtTMYHG2NR9URAtL6AJ0VcEyiFVOGXXcV1+0w359BW0AMsACgjShR 1ThcU9ALzmESMHeZ2i694oA= =lXI2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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