August 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Multiple <gdm[2526]: DEBUG: ...> Startup Error Messages
by Jay Mistry 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

I get muliple <gdm[2526]: DEBUG: ...> Error Messages in openSUSE 11.0, updated to date. This is an x86 version. I have set the boot type to 'verbose' in grub settings (in Yast). After selecting the default openSUSE 11.0 from grub menu, these [debug....] Error Messages scroll down at the same speed (i.e. the boot process does not halt anywhere in between) and ultimately the PC boots up to the Login Screen. The complete bootup log from /var/log/boot.msg is here (Nopaste url): http://rafb.net/p/fUw4Xu28.html Any hints/suggestions towards troubleshooting? Thanks, -- 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] Opensuse doesn't wait long enough for the disks to spin up before trrying to configure raid
by Mike Myers 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

I don't think that's going to fix it. The way the libata driver works is that it spins the disks up one at a time (staggered spinup). Just powering the system on will not cause the disks to spin up. After the start of the boot, / is mounted and the sata driver begins doing all of it's work, finding the PMP's on the SATA ports, and then probing each PMP, id'ing the disks and spinning them up, etc... So this is all happening way after the boot is started. thx mike ----- Original Message ---- From: Ken Schneider <suse-list3(a)bout-tyme.net> To: opensuse(a)opensuse.org Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:26:16 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Opensuse doesn't wait long enough for the disks to spin up before trrying to configure raid Mike Myers pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > Hi. I have a Opensuse 11.0 system running as a server with about 18 data disks hooked to the local motherboard SATA ports, and 3 SATA port multipliers hooked to a Adaptec 1430SA controller. Because of how the PMP code works and how long it takes to spin up each disk, it can take awhile before the disks are all spun up and online. About half the time I boot the system, OpenSUSE thinks the disks are already up and proceeds to run the /etc/init.d/boot.md and boot.lvm files, which of course fail to assemble the disks because they haven't fully come online yet, and dumps me into a single-user mode shell to fix the disks. > > The bottom line is about half the time I try to boot the system, it fails and needs some console work before I can bring it up. Does anyone know if there is a fixed time delay somewhere that waits for the disks to spin up or does it use a different way of telling if it's done? > > Thanks, > Mike > There is a time delay at the boot screen that can be used to delay the boot process. timeout 8 Gives an 8 second delay, no reason you can't make it 30 to allow all of the disks to spin up. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Window decorations in openSUSE 11.0 Compiz/KDE3.5.9
by Jay C Vollmer 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Greetings. I've just installed openSUSE 11.0 from the KDE4 Live CD on my ThinkPad T61p. I'm delighted to see that suspend to RAM now works as well as the ipw3945, neither of which worked right in 10.3. What isn't working for me in openSUSE 11.0 is the window-decoration when I use Compiz with KDE3. The title-bars of non-active windows completely disappear. Can anyone suggest a solution so my inactive titlebars don't disappear? -- JAY VOLLMER TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Fwd: [opensuse] Repartitioning
by Andrew Joakimsen 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew Joakimsen <joakimsen(a)gmail.com> Date: Aug 27, 2008 12:44 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Repartitioning To: Robert Smits <bob(a)rsmits.ca> In theory you can do it in YaST, but it is broken. Bugreport submitted as # 417857. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=417857 On 8/25/08, Robert Smits <bob(a)rsmits.ca> wrote: > Has anyone tried to use the Partition manager to repartition - that is to > resize a partition without losing data? > > I understand I'd need to do it from the install disk so that the partitions on > the hard drive aren't mounted, or something similar. > > All I want to do is trim my /home partition a little and give some to the / > partition. I'm a little too close to full for my liking. I want to add > another 5 GB. > > I used to do this in other OSes with Partition Manager but don't trust in with > ext3 partitions. > -- > bob(a)rsmits.ca > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Tvcard and usbwebcam: an Impossible Marriage?
by ivo.linux 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

Dear Friends i have big trouble with my TV card and my usb webcam. I can not use two item together. TV pci card 00:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01) webcam ID 093a:2468 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Cammaestro 2.5DU/X-EYE/Orite SC-120/ICGear TravelCam/Easy Snap Snake Eye WebCam this is the work done out until now my TV card (chip saa7134) is recognize automatically in suse 11 (but not in 10.3) and it do not need any manual configuration. I usually user tvtime My webcam require the driver gspcav1-20071224.tar.gz to work webcam Just installed work very well togheter with tv card but after th reboot my tvcard disappeared and tvtime recognized my webcam 8exactly tvtime said hat is impossible open the output Pixart Imaging however lsmod give me this result tuner_xc2028 35728 1 tuner xc5000 26884 1 tuner firmware_class 25984 2 tuner_xc2028,xc5000 tda9887 25860 1 tuner tuner_simple 24328 1 tuner mt20xx 27912 1 tuner tea5761 21508 1 tuner saa7134 153684 0 compat_ioctl32 17664 1 saa7134 v4l2_common 27776 2 tuner,saa7134 videobuf_dma_sg 30724 1 saa7134 videobuf_core 35460 2 saa7134,videobuf_dma_sg ir_kbd_i2c 26384 1 saa7134 ir_common 53764 2 saa7134,ir_kbd_i2c tveeprom 31376 1 saa7134 gspca 690148 0 videodev 48000 3 tuner,saa7134,gspca v4l1_compat 29572 1 videodev I putted sa7134 and gspca in my blacklist and now i can chose which module start and so i can chose if use webcam or see tv but hover not together Interesting if I load the TVcard module amsn and gqcam showing television has webcam, and If i load gspca my tv car disappear (is not important if I have loaded before tv card module) This issues appear too hard for me!!! thanks in advance for any help. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Need help!
by Chuck Payne 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

Guy, My main partion, crash. I am getting I/O errors, which I know means the drive is dead. What I need is to get on that partition so I can get my config off or any thing that I can. I have ran reiserfsck --fix-fixable, I get these error, cannot read teh bock 5672. reiserfsck is tell me I can use a -B flag to fix it but when I try to use that flag, I get the help menu. Please some know what I can do to get my data. Thanks Payne -- -- Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] gnucash help not ok in OpenSuse 11.0
by Amedee Van Gasse 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

When I open the GnuCash help: Help -> Tutorial en concepten gids I get the error Er is geen documentatie beschikbaar voor /usr/share/gnucash/gnome/help/gnucash/C/gnucash-guide.xml. But this works: yelp /usr/share/gnucash/gnome/help/gnucash/C/gnucash-help.xml I found a bug report on OpenSuse 10.2 claiming that this was fixed, but apparently that is not true? https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=232640 A regression test should have caught this bug... -- Amedee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 'mousetweaks' error message
by Jay Mistry 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

I have a Logitech 2-button, scroll wheel, laser (optical) mouse. Model No. (if relevant) is M-BT68. openSUSE 11.0 (updated). Kernel 2.6.25. So as to be able to scroll a greater number of lines, I installed 'mousewteaks'. However, on running mousetweaks from the konsole, I get the error message : "Assistive Technologies not enabled. Mousetweaks requires assistive technologies." What do I need to do to enable 'Assistive Technologies'? Or is this a separate program that needs to be installed? -- 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
by Donald D Henson 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

Does anyone know of an open source application that will convert PDF into something more useful. Any leads appreciated. -- Don Henson

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Re: [opensuse] Opensuse doesn't wait long enough for the disks to spin up before trrying to configure raid
by Mike Myers 30 Aug '08

30 Aug '08

They devices are being created. But what happens is the driver find the PMP, probes it, goes to the first port, tries to talk to the disk, finds it not ready, resets it (causing it to spin up), tries again, fails, tries again 5 secs later, finds it, tries the next port, same thing happens, resets the PMP, then probes the first port again, finds it ready, finds the 2nd port ready, then goes to the next port, resets it, etc... This can take quite awhile. It appears that the last PMP doesn't get probed and udev events triggered until some time after udevs from the 2nd and a1st PMP's are already created. So boot.md is already going, and after it more devices are being created. Sounds like if I change the mdadm device timeout to 2 mins or so, that may fix it... I'll try it and report back. If you want, I can post a dump of the tsratup log showing this behavior. As for starting the disks all at once, I don't think the liata architecture is set up to do that, and I think you really don't want it to. Starting up 20 disks at the same time will put quite a load on the +12V line of the PSU. Doing them one at a time means you need a much smaller PSU, so staggered spinup is the right thing to do I think. thx mike ----- Original Message ---- From: Anders Johansson <ajohansson(a)suse.de> To: opensuse(a)opensuse.org Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:33:54 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Opensuse doesn't wait long enough for the disks to spin up before trrying to configure raid On Saturday 30 August 2008 21:03:34 Mike Myers wrote: > The bottom line is about half the time I try to boot the system, it fails > and needs some console work before I can bring it up. Does anyone know if > there is a fixed time delay somewhere that waits for the disks to spin up > or does it use a different way of telling if it's done? I'm not sure what exactly is failing here. Once the disk identifies itself on the bus, a udev event causes the device node to get created. Does it get created? What exactly is the error message when boot.lvm fails to assemble the logical volumes? boot.md will wait 60 seconds for all udev events to get processed. Would it help to increase that (in /etc/sysconfig/mdadm, the value is MDADM_DEVICE_TIMEOUT)? Otherwise, you have to let us know exactly where in the chain things fail Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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