June 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Keyboard stops working
by Mike 04 Jul '09

04 Jul '09

This has been happening for a while. Originally it was noticed when running citrix, but that is no longer the case. When typing the keyboard just stops working. It's a PS/2 keyboard. Without using the keyboard how can I reset it? I could pull out the laptop and ssh back in but what command would I need to run. linux-zlo2 2.6.22.19-0.3-default #1 SMP 2009-05-27 10:35:34 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux open suse 10.3 Kde 3.5 -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] athlon unable to run qemu-kvm, poosibly caused by cpu-parameter
by Julien Michielsen 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

I tried to get WinXP installed under kvm, and noticed I could not get it installed, because the MS-Win setup-procedure got confused. I had run two commands: qemu-img create -f qcow2 ./winxp.img 10G this command worked fine, to prepare a WinXP- immage on disk (in direc- tory /mnt/a14). Secondly I wanted to install the XP on disk such that qemu-kvm can work on it, and therefor I used the command qemu-kvm -M pc -m 1G -cpu athlon -cdrom /dev/sr0 -boot d /mnt/a14/winxp.img Having given this command the Windows setup started to run, but ended in failure with the message "Cannot load file SETUPREG.HIV into memory. Errorcode is 3072. Push any key to stop the installation program" Even though setup complained of not being able to find the SETUPREG.HIV-file, this file was present in the subdirectory I386 of the Win-XP-CD. I assume the setup-procedure got confused by the cpu-parameter of the qemu-kvm - command: qemu-kvm -cpu athlon. If the parameter had had i386 as its value, I suppose the setup-procedure of MS-Win would have searched the I386 directory, and everything had worked fine. Is this a known problem of the installation of WinXP under qemu-kvm, and does a work-around exist? If I could use my present allready installed XP-version on a separate partition as an input to the qemu-kvm command (instead of the MS Win CD) the problem might be side-stepped. Is this possible at all? Thanks for your interest. -W- Julien Michielsen julien(a)michkloo.xs4all.nl -- 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] New ATI driver released... And works! -- NOT!
by David C. Rankin 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Dave Plater wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: >> >> Dave, >> >> Your english was fine, I was just suffering from a momentary cranal-rectal >> inversion :-( >> >> >> > By the way, Peter didn't seem to have solved his problem which I think > may be due to his not having the devel versions installed. I have no > experience with ATI only nvidia, in fact from what I've seen on this > list I don't want to have any ATI experience. Does the installation of > his driver require the development versions to be installed? Maybe you > can put him on the right track. > Regards > Dave P > > > Dave, The devel versions shouldn't be required. When I checked my 11.0 version, all I have is compat-libstdc++-5.0.7-121.1 (which I understand is libstdc++33 in 11.1), but: [01:44 alchemy:/srv/www/htdocs/wordpress] # rpm -qa | grep libstdc++ compat-libstdc++-5.0.7-121.1 ------------- I do have other unrelated devel packages installed: libstdc++44-4.4.0_20090316-2.1 libstdc++43-devel-4.3.3_20090126-2.3 libstdc++43-doc-4.3.3_20090316-2.1 libstdc++44-32bit-4.4.0_20090316-2.1 libstdc++-devel-4.3-39.1 but nothing on the system related to libstdc++.so.5 [02:16 alchemy:/srv/www/htdocs/wordpress] # rpm -q --whatprovides libstdc++.so.5 compat-libstdc++-5.0.7-121.1 I have never had a compile problem with the ATI driver related to a missing library. ATI botched a couple of driver releases that not even Stefan could compile for 11.1. The key here I think is 11.1. ATI hasn't released a driver to date that will work with my hardware and 11.1. Anders and others are doing OK with the 9-3 release (although I suspect if they compare the 11.1 fglrx driver performance to that of the Sept. 08 driver running on 11.0 or 10.3 they would be wildly disappointed by the comparison.) The problem is there is no "measuring stick" or a good performing driver that will compile against 11.1. I know in my experience with the 8-10, 8-11, 8-12, and 9-1 fglrx drivers, my graphics performance on my laptop with an X1200/x1300 chipset all the foregoing drivers suffer greater than a 40% performance loss compared against the 8-9 driver. I would like to see the test results of others who think the 9-3 driver is doing OK, comparing (1) the glxgears frame rates w/default window size, and (2) the overall feel and responsiveness of the graphics subsystem against their same hardware running 11.0 or 10.3 with the 8-9 driver. I would be willing to wager their would be a bunch of bruised chins from all the "jaw dropping" that would occur when the performance penalty of the recent ATI drivers is actually measured in black-and-white. It's almost impossible to tell how much of a performance hit you have taken just by looking at the screen and saying "yes, it looks OK" without doing an actual comparison. As for Peter, the only thing I can think of is just to plug libstdc++.so.5 into webpin on 11.1 and see what packages come back and then install those packages to get around his compile problem. The search on 11.1 says the package is provided by the following. Since I don't run 11.1 (primarily due to the ATI issue (to be fair other things as well)), I haven't had to beat my head into the wall over this yet, but if it were me, I would just go down the list of the 1-click installs below, find my architecture and install every damn one of them that matched until I had a usable libstdc++.so.5 on my system to compile against: Results from http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/ libstdc++33 (3.3.3) The standard C++ shared library contains /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 1-click: http://api.opensuse-community.org/searchservice//YMPs/openSUSE_111/3ca198ef… libstdc++33-32bit (3.3.3) The standard C++ shared library contains /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 Results from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/gcc/openSUSE_11.1 1-click: http://api.opensuse-community.org/searchservice//YMPs/openSUSE_111/19e75469… libstdc++33 (3.3.3) The standard C++ shared library contains /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 1-click: http://api.opensuse-community.org/searchservice//YMPs/openSUSE_111/f12e9978… libstdc++33-32bit (3.3.3) The standard C++ shared library contains /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 1-click: http://api.opensuse-community.org/searchservice//YMPs/openSUSE_111/c7de6099… libstdc++33-64bit (3.3.3) The standard C++ shared library contains /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5 1-click: http://api.opensuse-community.org/searchservice//YMPs/openSUSE_111/8d311289… And if that didn't work, I'd just grab a copy from 11.0 and see if that would work. Looking closer, the libstdc++.so.5 isn't even a real file, on 11.0 it is just sym linked against libstdc++.so.5.0.7: 02:18 alchemy:/srv/www/htdocs/wordpress] # l /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2008-07-26 17:47 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5 -> libstdc++.so.5.0.7* [02:37 alchemy:/srv/www/htdocs/wordpress] # l /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5.0.7 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 855856 2008-06-06 16:45 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5.0.7* Hell, Peter's problem may be as simple as just recreating the sym link. Peter, give this a try [as root]: [[ -f /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5.0.7 ]] && ln -s /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5.0.7 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5 -- 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] OpenOffice 3.1.0 problems
by Peter Nikolic 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Hi . Is anyone having problems with the latest Openoffice 3.1.0 it seems it does not like documents with tables in them the doc opens but the only thing to be seen is the header and footer everything else is missing but there is no problem using 2.4 , This is with the Opensuse version not the vanilla version Pete .

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[opensuse] glibc compatibility
by Ansgar Esztermann 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Hello everyone, we're experiencing segfaults in binaries created on openSUSE 10.2 when run on 11.1 systems. These occur in getpwuid(), so I am wondering what the expected compatibilty between glibc versions is -- shouldn't the linker complain if the user tries to execute a binary that's too old? When compiling on 11.1 and executing on 10.3, the linker gives an error: : lee$; /usr/local/gromacs/405/fftw312-gcc412/bin/pdb2gmx -f 1UBI.pdb /usr/local/gromacs/405/fftw312-gcc412/bin/pdb2gmx: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by /usr/local/gromacs/405/ fftw312-gcc412/bin/pdb2gmx) A quick check seems to indicate that 11.0 will run binaries compiled on either 10.2 or 11.1, so we have some leeway. Is there any hope to compile a binary that will run on both 10.3 and 11.1? Thanks, A. -- Ansgar Esztermann DV-Systemadministration Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Abteilung 105 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] delete partitiontable
by Hans de Faber 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

How can I delete or completely erase a partition-table. The feature "delete partitiontable" is removed in the opensuse partitioning tool. Thanks, Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] SW Mgmt. Update error: %post(gjdoc-0.7.9-2.10.noarch) scriptlet failed
by David C. Rankin 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

Listmates, Peter: I have experienced a Yast SW Management update package failure that stops the update process: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: install-info: menu item `gcc' already exists, for file `gcc' error: %post(gjdoc-0.7.9-2.10.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 Frustrating part is that when you start an update that will take several hours, leave and then check back hours later (like at lunchtime) only to find the update has stopped at 17% and you still have hours to go :( I guess this is just a bad gjdoc rpm that needs to be rebuilt. P.S. kde4.3 Beta 2, just keeps getting better! It should be in great shape for 11.2. -- 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] 11.1 nfs and samba problems
by kanenas＠hawaii.rr.com 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

a few days ago i posted that my month old 11.1 suse install suddenly lost the ability to start the nfs server automatically or from Yast, now the server only starts from the command line. today i found out that the samba server is also screwed up, something about the smbfs not being capable of starting, also an old, circa suse 9.2 complaint about "can not write pam settings" when trying to install windows membership in yast. this is a vanilla install, with the addition of kernel sources (for vmware install), the basic suse repositories, also packman and vlc for the multimedia apps, the only kde ever installed and used has been kde3. again, both samba and nfs were working fine a week ago. it is very probable that some "security update" did the damage, but I have allready tried the downgrade s to samba and winbind without success. any help on both of these issues would be appreciated. thanks, d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Legacy hardware support in openSUSE 10.3
by Roger Oberholtzer 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

I have had a request by a client to see if some legacy hardware is supported by openSUSE 10.3. Most of the things they asked about I could sort out. It just left me with this: ASUS P2B-S Motherboard (CPU - Pentium 2 350/512/100/2.0 S1) ATI Mach 64 PCI The system should run KDE 3.5. No fancy graphics effects. I suspect it could be pushing it with a 350 MHz P2. Even id the graphics card is decent. Aside from suggesting a hardware upgrade, any constructive opinions? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] kernel version mismatch
by Shawn Protsman 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

I've been running 11.1 for some time now without a hitch (mostly). After an update this morning I noticed a very odd issue. When I boot I have one selection for the 2.6.27.23 kernel. Once I log in and check uname it displays the old kernel. Any ideas how I can remedy this oddity? ~] uname -r 2.6.27.21-0.1-default ~] rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-default-extra-2.6.27.23-0.1.1 kernel-default-base-2.6.27.23-0.1.1 linux-kernel-headers-2.6.27-2.28 kernel-syms-2.6.27.23-0.1.1 kernel-default-2.6.27.23-0.1.1 kernel-source-2.6.27.23-0.1.1 --Shawn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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