July 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] missing list instructions
by Dave Howorth 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

I've just noticed that Andreas' mails to the list don't have the list instructions at the bottom of them. There's an example of what I see below. Not a problem, just interesting. Cheers, Dave -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [opensuse] YaST updates Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:52:52 +0200 From: Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)suse.de> To: Peter Bradley <p.bradley(a)dsl.pipex.com> CC: SuSE Linux <opensuse(a)opensuse.org> References: <48903736.1010509(a)dsl.pipex.com> Peter Bradley <p.bradley(a)dsl.pipex.com> writes: > Is this a problem my end, or is it something more general? We have currently some downtime, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj(a)suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- 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 raid1 device not working
by Don Raboud 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hi all, Sometime in the last few days, swap has stopped working (it was on a raid1 device /dev/md3). Three other raid1 devices seem to be working normally. I do not know what happened, but as it was swap nothing was lost. I am trying to reset this up, but am running into dificulties. As a starting point, I deleted the entry for /dev/md3 in /etc/mdadm.conf and rebooted (I could not find any other way to stop /dev/md3). cat /proc/mdstat showed only the three working raid1 devices. Next, using the YaST Partitioner I create a new raid1 device and add /dev/sba6 and /dev/sdb6 (the same partitions used orignally) to the raid, format the raid device as swap and set the mount point to swap (this is what I did at initial installationas well). This now fails with an obscure error message: ------------ Failure occured during follwing action: Formatting software RAID /dev/md3 (2.0 GB) with swap System error code was: -3004 ------------ At this point cat /proc/mdstat shows for the mew raid device md3 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 sda6[1] sdb6[0] 2104468 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU] resync=PENDING bitmap: 9/9 pages [36KB], 128KB chunk Looks like it needs to be resynced(?) but I don't understand. Isn't this a new raid device, and wouldn't the formatting as swap initialize everything to a correct state? At the same time, the output from /var/log/messages at this time is (sorry for the wrapping) Jul 29 11:34:00 raboud-office2 kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Jul 29 11:34:00 raboud-office2 kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx Jul 29 11:34:00 raboud-office2 kernel: st: Version 20080221, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 Jul 29 11:34:00 raboud-office2 kernel: Driver 'st' needs updating - please use bus_type methodsroot 4221 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 11:34 0:00 [md3_raid1] Jul 29 11:34:41 raboud-office2 kernel: md: bind<sdb6> Jul 29 11:34:41 raboud-office2 kernel: md: bind<sda6> Jul 29 11:34:41 raboud-office2 kernel: md: md3: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction Jul 29 11:34:41 raboud-office2 kernel: raid1: raid set md3 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors Jul 29 11:34:41 raboud-office2 kernel: md3: bitmap initialized from disk: read 1/1 pages, set 16442 bits Jul 29 11:34:41 raboud-office2 kernel: created bitmap (9 pages) for device md3 It is now over two hours later and nothing has changed. There is a process running that seems related but not promising (no memory, no cpu time). root 4221 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 11:34 0:00 [md3_raid1] I am lost at this point. I would try to do this outside of Yast (just in case it is a bug), but I don't know the right steps. Unfortunately I am not a raid expert. I would appreciate any insight on this. -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] YaST updates
by Peter Bradley 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Is this a problem my end, or is it something more general? Repository 'Main Repository (NON-OSS)' is invalid. Curl error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/non-oss/content': Error code: Unrecognized error Error message: connect() timed out! Please, check if the URLs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Disabling repository 'Main Repository (NON-OSS)' because of the above error. Repository 'Main Repository (OSS)' is invalid. Curl error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:10.3/standard/content': Error code: Unrecognized error Error message: connect() timed out! Please, check if the URLs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Disabling repository 'Main Repository (OSS)' because of the above error. Repository 'X11:XGL' is invalid. Curl error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XGL/openSUSE_10.3/repodata/r…': Error code: Unrecognized error Error message: connect() timed out! Please, check if the URLs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Disabling repository 'X11:XGL' because of the above error. Repository 'openSUSE BuildService - OpenOffice.org' is invalid. Curl error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_1…': Error code: Unrecognized error Error message: connect() timed out! Please, check if the URLs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Disabling repository 'openSUSE BuildService - OpenOffice.org' because of the above error. Can't provide file ./rpm/x86_64/dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-287_287.2.x86_64.delta.rpm from repository openSUSE-10.3-Updates Problem downloading the package file from the repository: Curl error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/rpm/x86_64/dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-287.2.…': Error code: Unrecognized error Error message: connect() timed out! Please, see the above error message to for a hint. SuSE 10.3, AMD64. Any advice would be appreciated - even if it's just to sit tight until it's sorted out. Thanks Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] bridging / proxy arp
by Per Jessen 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

All, I'm trying to set up a new router/firewall using proxy arp "bridging", (for instance as described here: http://www.sjdjweis.com/linux/proxyarp/ ) I've got one box with 2 NICs. The both have the same IP-address, netmask, broadcast addr etc.: eth2: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast link/ether 00:50:da:4e:ff:a6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet nn.nn.nn.66/27 brd nn.nn.nn.95 scope global eth2 eth1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast link/ether 00:01:03:bb:20:1a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet nn.nn.nn.66/27 brd nn.nn.nn.95 scope global eth1 eth1 is external, eth2 is internal. The network is a /27. I've got proxy_arp enabled on both interfaces, although I don't quite understand why I need it on eth2. I've got forwarding enabled. # route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Iface nn.nn.nn.65 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH eth1 nn.nn.nn.64 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.224 U eth2 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U lo 0.0.0.0 nn.nn.nn.65 0.0.0.0 UG eth1 If I try to ping an external host from a machine (nn.nn.nn.70) on the internal(eth2) network, I see the ICMP echo request go out through router, and I see the ICMP echo response come back in on eth1. But ... it is not forwarded onto eth2 and the origin machine. It is as if it is just dropped. It's not getting caught by the firewall - I've also tried it with the firewall disabled. Even worse - I did manage to make this work from _one_ internal host, but couldn't make it work from others. This is pretty difficult to describe properly, but if you understand about proxy arp etc. the description is probably not too bad :-) What am I missing here?? /Per Jessen, Zürich -- 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 question
by J Beris 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hello list-members, I have a question about Rsync. Like several people here, I use an external USB disk to make daily backups of my critical data. For this, I have written a shell script which mounts the disk as necessary and then calls rsync to do the actual backup. This works very well, except that if I delete a file in my home directory, have rsync do its thing at night, then the next morning that deleted file is gone from my backup too, so I can only go back one day. This is nice for a disk crash, but not for restoring data that was deleted 4 days ago, for instance. Can someone tell me if it is possible to have rsync retain the data in the backup for say another 14 or 30 days before purging them? I have looked at the man page, but haven't found an answer to my question there. Does someone have an idea, please? I use the following command in my shell script to do the rsync backup: $RSYNC -alvz --delete --exclude=Cache --exclude=.beagle --exclude=trash --exclude=.thumbnails /home/<username> $MPOINT --log-file=/var/log/rsync Thanks in advance, Joop -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] kde 4.1 picture frame
by primm 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hi everyone. Dragging and dropping a jpg from my desktop folder view widget gives 'error loading'. Dropping from any other folder (eg. my home folder view widget or dolphin) works fine. The same for the other way around: I create a picture frame widget and drag jpg's to it. It works with all except the desktop widget. I thought it may be permissions. But no. Can anyone reproduce this? Fix it? 11.0 64 bit 4.1 factory. Thanks L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Priority: YaST>>Hardware>>Graphics Card and Monitor vs Hardware Information
by Mark V 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hi Group, I'm using openSUSE 11.0 (latest patches). I replaced my HP 2335 (22") monitor with a HP 2408 (24") monitor. I expected to need to do some re-configuring via: YaST>>Hardware>>Graphics Card and Monitor The old monitor config entry is there, but I could not find an entry for the new monitor. I looked up the harware information via: YaST>>Hardware>> Hardware Information And the new monitor has been recognized. My question is: Is in necessary to reconcile the "Graphics Card and Monitor" data to the new monitor or is as things stand now fine? How can I sync the "Graphics Card and Monitor" data with that shown by "Hardware Information" Cheers Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Toshiba P205D - Clockevents; lapic is not functional; no switch to high res on CPU1
by David C. Rankin 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Listmates, The second issue encountered on a fresh 11.0 install on the Toshiba P205D laptop looks like a combination error between ACPI AND APIC preventing a switch to high resolution mode on both CPU cores on the AMD Turion X2 processor. All ACPI and APIC values are at their default values as "splash=silent vga=0x317 showopts" are the only kernel parameters passed at boot. The machine runs fairly well, but seems sluggish. Like the last post, take a look if you can and advise me on whether this may be avoided by manipulating the apic and nolapic values or whether this one looks like another bug to author: ACPI: RTC can wake from S4 Clockevents: could not switch to one-shot mode:<6>Clockevents: could not switch to one-shot mode: lapic is not functional. Could not switch to high resolution mode on CPU 1 lapic is not functional. Could not switch to high resolution mode on CPU 0 system 00:01: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff could not be reserved system 00:01: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff could not be reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0x1080-0x1080 has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0x220-0x22f has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0x40b-0x40b has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0x4d6-0x4d6 has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0x530-0x537 has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0xc00-0xc01 has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0xc14-0xc14 has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0xc50-0xc52 has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0xc6c-0xc6c has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0xc6f-0xc6f has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0xcd0-0xcd1 has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0xcd2-0xcd3 has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0xcd4-0xcd5 has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0xcd6-0xcd7 has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0xcd8-0xcdf has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0x8000-0x805f has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0xf40-0xf47 has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0x87f-0x87f has been reserved system 00:08: ioport range 0xfd60-0xfddf has been reserved system 00:09: iomem range 0xfff00000-0xffffffff could not be reserved system 00:09: iomem range 0x0-0x0 could not be reserved PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0 IO window: 9000-9fff MEM window: 0xf8000000-0xf81fffff PREFETCH window: 0x00000000f0000000-0x00000000f7ffffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:05.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: disabled. PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:06.0 IO window: a000-afff MEM window: 0xf8300000-0xf83fffff PREFETCH window: 0x000000008c000000-0x000000008c0fffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:07.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: 0xf8200000-0xf82fffff PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bus 30, cardbus bridge: 0000:1d:04.0 IO window: 0x00002000-0x000020ff IO window: 0x00002400-0x000024ff PREFETCH window: 0x88000000-0x8bffffff MEM window: 0x90000000-0x93ffffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4 IO window: 2000-2fff MEM window: 0xf8400000-0xf84fffff PREFETCH window: 0x0000000088000000-0x000000008bffffff PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:05.0 to 64 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.0 to 64 Let me know if I need to send anthing else to add a few more pieces to the puzzle. Thanks. -- 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] 11.0 AMD64 Remote admin can't change keyboard layout
by Gary Baribault 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hi all, I remotely control my computer with VNC... I'm unable to change the keyboard layout for that remote VNC client. I changed the keyboard for the local user to French Canadian, but when I log in with the same user remotely, I get the english keyboard. I tried starting Yast to change the keyboard layout, but when I click on keyboard layout, it doesn't start. Where can I make that change? y2log gives: 2008-07-29 15:23:53 <1> papa-laptop(14885) [qt-wizard] QY2Styler.cc(setStyleSheet):34 set stylesheet style.qss 2008-07-29 15:23:53 <1> papa-laptop(14885) [qt-ui] YQUI_core.cc(initUI):227 Forcing /usr/lib64/libQtGui.so.4 open failed 2008-07-29 15:23:53 <2> papa-laptop(14885) [qt-ui] YQApplication.cc(loadPredefinedQtTranslations):119 Can't load translations for predefined Qt dialogs from /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_en.qm Thanks -- Gary Baribault Courriel: gary(a)baribault.net GPG Key: 0x4346F013 GPG Fingerprint: BCE8 2E6B EB39 9B23 6904 1DF4 C4E6 2CF7 4346 F013 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Driver 'sd' Needs Updating? for [sda....]
by David C. Rankin 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Listmates, Another curiosity are the following dmesg errors related to a 'sd' driver that needs updating. The new 11.0 system seems to run OK, but there does seem to be an occasional read-write head full-swing excursion that has caught my attention. The dmesg output is below with the hwinfo information for the disk drive that follows: Driver 'sd' needs updating: Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA 01:53 alchemy~/linux/ati-compiz> sudo hwinfo --disk 31: IDE 200.0: 10600 Disk [Created at block.234] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_SATA_SAMSUNG_HM320JIS16LJD0PC03486 Unique ID: 3OOL.cnjxKRlyi73 Parent ID: CLZK.2iJtRy_bMBD SysFS ID: /class/block/sda SysFS BusID: 2:0:0:0 SysFS Device Link: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0 Hardware Class: disk Model: "SAMSUNG HM320JI" Vendor: "SAMSUNG" Device: "HM320JI" Revision: "2SS0" Serial ID: "S16LJD0PC03486" Driver: "ahci", "sd" Driver Modules: "ahci" Device File: /dev/sda Device Files: /dev/sda, /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HM320JIS16LJD0PC03486, /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HM320JI_S16LJD0PC03486, /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:12.0-scsi-0:0:0:0, /dev/disk/by-id/edd-int13_dev80 Device Number: block 8:0-8:15 BIOS id: 0x80 Geometry (Logical): CHS 38913/255/63 Size: 625142448 sectors a 512 bytes Geometry (BIOS EDD): CHS 620181/16/63 Size (BIOS EDD): 625142448 sectors Geometry (BIOS Legacy): CHS 1023/255/63 Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #24 (SATA controller) Primarily, I have no idea what 'sd' driver should be updated to attempt to correct this issue. Any thoughts from anyone else on how to further diagnose and fix this would be appreciated. -- 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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