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[opensuse] Problems (minor?) with 11.2 upgrade
by John E. Perry 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

After seeing a lot of praise for 11.2, and not having seen the early complaints about its killing Intel networking, I decided to upgrade. I followed the instructions provided on the "Upgrade/Supported" page of the wiki. Things went pretty well, I think. One hitch is that I needed two iterations of zypper dup after I'd done all the preparatory actions. When I did the first dup it crunched for 2-1/2 hours installing thousands of packages. I got some warnings about running processes that needed to be restarted. Since there had been a kernel upgrade, I simply restarted the computer. Panic followed :-). Several blank dialogs popped up. Worse yet, when I started yast to do an online update the progress box was blank. So I went back to the command line and did a zypper up Nothing to do. Meantime more blank dialogs popped up. Willing to try anything, I did another zypper dup It installed hundreds more packages. One of the messages mentioned a 2.6.29... kernel, which I recalled was in 11.1. So I rebooted again. Now uname -a says Linux embelex 2.6.31.5-0.1-pae #1 SMP 2009-10-26 15:49:03 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux so I guess I'm ok. I tried embelex:~ # zypper up Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Nothing to do. then embelex:~ # zypper dup Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Computing distribution upgrade... 3 Problems: sesam_srv-3.0.1-171.1.1.i586 kdm-branding-upstream-4.3.1-7.5.i586 kio_sysinfo-branding-upstream-11.2-3.2.noarch (above slightly edited for clarity). I skipped all of them since they don't appear to be particularly useful (except possibly sesam -- I don't know what it is). I had installed the branding-upstream to see if kde looked better than suse, which i suppose is the reason for the upstream branding warnings. Now I can't get rid of them without downgrading dozens of other packages. So far things look good. Firefox is up to 3.5.6 and seems to work well; Tbird is up to 3.0 and looks good; skype still appears to work (can't test it on people at 0200, but the test call was good :-). Oh yeah. wifi doesn't work any more. One of the 11.1 updates broke it, and I was hoping 11.2 would fix whatever that was. It's still doing the same thing it was before: knetworkmanager shows me my SSID, I click on it, it churns for a while, and comes back asking for my passphrase. I give it, and {repeat ad infinitum}. Earlier in 11.1, knetworkmanager simply connected and after a few seconds, I was online again. I didn't need to do anything manually. So I'm still on ethernet. John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.2 yast sw management keeps segfaulting when you press "Accept"
by David C. Rankin 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

Dev, guys, Any body else seeing yast software management crash after you have selected packages, are all done, and then you press "Accept"? There is nothing more frustrating than spending 1/2 hour picking through individual packages to get the setup you need -- only to press the final button and receive the dialog: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid YaST got signal 6 at YCP file String.ycp:128 /sbin/yast2: line 454: 12764 Aborted $ybindir/y2base $module "$@" "$SELECTED_GUI" $Y2_GEOMETRY $Y2UI_ARGS (process:12934): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. I don't have time to bug it right now, but if you want a look at the y2_logs they are here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_bugs/112/y2logs.tgz Also, when I ssh into any box from 11.2, I get: "/usr/bin/manpath: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct" I don't know if this is related, but I don't know how to fix it? -- 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] KDE devs [ Classic (3.5) & 4 ] Great Job, Both Desktop Interfaces Look Great... Much Improved
by David C. Rankin 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Devs, Just dropping a note to say great job with both KDE Classic (3.5.10-51) and KDE 4.3.95 (44beta). KDE Classic is near flawless and KDE4 is much improved between 4.3.4 and 4.4 beta (from Factory). From a user prospective, it is obvious that a great amount of effort has been directed to both desktops and it is much appreciated. The striking difference in 44beta is the actual addition of kde4 tools (like the "Add Widget" drag&drop implementation, etc..) which for the first time look like what must have been envisioned when kde4 was conceived, but were not completed or ready for release until now. As more of the kde4 features are implemented, the 'vision' of what kde4 will be becomes clearer and why kde4 behaves in certain ways now makes more sense -- much of which has been indiscernible to date. There is some cool stuff here. There are a couple of regressions of note: (1) File 'Save/Save As' behavior for jpg files has regressed to jpeg. Following the bugzilla discussions, the plan was to have the 'save/save as' dialog default to saving a '.jpg' to prevent the conflict and incompatibility with the billions of existing .jpg files. 4.3.4 had corrected this. 4.3.95 has regressed to defaulting to .jpg. What's the story? (2) plasmoids for cpu & network monitors - still no way to set graph color (Anders, I know you told me how this works, but I cannot get it to work in 4.3.95 at all). (3) plasmoids for cpu & network monitors - graph lines disappear on widget resize and there is no way to get them back. Not monumental by any stretch, but they need to be fixed as 44beta moves forward. All in all, 4.3.95 is a good step forward for kde4 and the look and feel clearly show a great deal of work has been done on the desktop. It is a great daily driver and for anyone running 11.0+, the install is as simple as adding the following 3 repositories, opening yast software management and choosing 'Package -> Update All Packages -> Update if a newer version exists' and clicking 'Accept'. There were no new dependency issues with the update. repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.0/ repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.0_KDE4_Factory_Desktop/ repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Playground/openSUSE_11.0_KDE4_Factory_Desktop/ Also, for the work that has been done on KDE Classic (KDE 3.5.10), thank you Will and the rest! It really shows. KDE Classic is in such good shape that for older boxes that don't really run KDE4 well, having KDE 3.5.10 for the desktop is worth it's weight in gold. Further, with the newer decorations available for KDE3 (crystal, bespin, smooth, glow, system++ and the deKorator themes), the interface is not far from the kde4 look. I do have another issue with both kde's and compiz that appeared after yesterday's updates in addition to the fact there is not compiz-kde4 compatible with kde 4.3.X (the existing compiz-kde4 is for 4.0.4), but I'll include that in a separate post. Thanks for the hard work! -- 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] RNDIS / WinMo6 / UMTS modem issues
by Wolfgang Rosenauer 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

Hi, I'm trying to use a Windows Mobile 6 phone as UMTS modem under openSUSE 11.2. (The same hardware setup works with Windows XP w/o any issues). Once I connect the phone NetworkManager gets the setup done and everything seems to work at this point. I can even ping internet hosts and can establish tcp connections. But once real data should be transferred everything just stops. Below is the log from connecting the device via USB. I don't really have an idea if the issues in the log are connected to the problem. I don't see more interesting information in the logfile when the connection fails. Anyone got something like this working or any idea what's wrong here? Thanks, Wolfgang Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.692065] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.834201] usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0bb4, idProduct=0303 Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.834221] usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.834235] usb 1-5: Product: Generic RNDIS Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.834244] usb 1-5: Manufacturer: HTC Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.834254] usb 1-5: SerialNumber: 3fbf5000-7351-0801-3575-590193103780 Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.834451] usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.929338] rndis_host 1-5:1.0: dev can't take 1536 byte packets (max 1536), adjusting MTU to 1478 Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.938330] rndis_host 1-5:1.0: RNDIS_MSG_QUERY(0x00010202) failed, -47 Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.955478] eth1: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:00:1d.7-5, RNDIS device, 80:00:60:0f:e8:00 Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp ifup: Service network not started and mode 'auto' -> skipping Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp kernel: [ 741.003854] martian source 255.255.255.255 from 192.168.0.1, on dev eth1 Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp kernel: [ 741.003874] ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:82:00:60:0f:e8:00:08:00:45:00:01:18:15:3c:00:00:80:11:63:f0:c0:a8:00:01:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:44:00:43:01:04:35:23:01:01:06:00:54:46:53:4d:0a:00:80:00:00:00:00:00 Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp kernel: [ 741.004448] martian source 255.255.255.255 from 192.168.0.1, on dev eth1 Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp kernel: [ 741.004462] ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:82:00:60:0f:e8:00:08:00:45:00:01:49:15:44:00:00:80:11:63:b7:c0:a8:00:01:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:43:00:44:01:35:1b:c5:02:01:06:00:54:46:53:4d:00:00:80:00:00:00:00:00 Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2p1 Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp dhclient: Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium. Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp dhclient: All rights reserved. Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp dhclient: Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth1/80:00:60:0f:e8:00 Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth1/80:00:60:0f:e8:00 Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback Jan 26 23:27:17 tvp dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Jan 26 23:27:17 tvp avahi-daemon[1712]: Registering new address record for fe80::8200:60ff:fe0f:e800 on eth1.*. Jan 26 23:27:17 tvp dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1 Jan 26 23:27:17 tvp kernel: [ 742.892629] martian source 255.255.255.255 from 192.168.0.1, on dev eth1 Jan 26 23:27:17 tvp kernel: [ 742.892648] ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:82:00:60:0f:e8:00:08:00:45:00:01:49:15:47:00:00:80:11:63:b4:c0:a8:00:01:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:43:00:44:01:35:71:83:02:01:06:00:8b:bb:45:3c:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] md RAID5 problem, Sata hard reset I/O error, ICH9R, driver bug in opensuse 11.2?
by Dan Kopparhed 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hello! Has anyone else seen this problem? Could it be a bug in 11.2? Description: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I installed 11.2 on my server last weekend, moving from 11.0 (new install). For many years I've been running RAID5 over three partitions of three HDDs using md and ext3, without a hitch. I've also had other RAID constellations running in parallel on the same HDDs and others, also for years without any problems. When installing 11.2 I also changed the partitioning and created a new, otherwise identical RAID5 setup. However, when copying back the data from my backup the array suddenly broke down with 2 of the drives marked faulty and removed! I retried a number of times to try to understand what was happening. I tried both the default and the Xen kernel (both x86_64). I always got the same error. When testing, I saw that first one drive would get an exception and "hard reset" and be removed from the array - always the last raid device (2). This happened after copying several GB of data (usually after around 8 GB). If I then stopped and re-added the "faulty" drive it would get back in sync and I could continue copying another several GB until it got the hard reset again. If I didn't stop to re-add, then the second last raid device (1) would get a hard reset and be removed as faulty - obviously causing the 3-disk raid5 to break down. After trying this for a while I tried instead to create a RAID1 setup using the same 3 partitions and ext4. I've had no problems at all with this setup, filling 90% (about 80 GB) and running for 5 days. Worth mentioning is that I've never had any problems with these physical HDDs which are now around 4-5 years old. I'm also running root and other partitions and a few VMs using LVM and Xen from the very same HDDs. I checked smart incl long self test without finding any errors. I've been running exactly the same hardware for a few years without any problems. When googling a saw a similar problem reported but with nvidia (sata_nv) and some change introduce in the 2.6.26 kernel or around there. I don't know if this issue is related. In this case it's Intel ICH9R. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Product: OpenSuse 11.2 (final) uname -a: Linux serv 2.6.31.8-0.1-xen #1 SMP 2009-12-15 23:55:40 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux dmesg: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ 2.992003] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 2.997047] ata3.00: ATA-7: SAMSUNG SP2004C, VM100-33, max UDMA7 [ 2.997049] ata3.00: 390721968 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) [ 3.002142] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 ... [15431.871709] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [15431.871723] ata3.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 [15431.871724] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [15431.871733] ata3.00: status: { DRDY } [15431.871739] ata3: hard resetting link [15432.355696] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [15432.365819] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 [15432.365825] ata3.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 [15432.365831] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 185181205 [15432.365836] md: super_written gets error=-5, uptodate=0 [15432.365840] raid5: Disk failure on sdc5, disabling device. [15432.365841] raid5: Operation continuing on 2 devices. [15432.365853] ata3: EH complete [15432.443698] RAID5 conf printout: [15432.443706] --- rd:3 wd:2 [15432.443711] disk 0, o:1, dev:sda5 [15432.443715] disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb5 [15432.443718] disk 2, o:0, dev:sdc5 [15432.463691] RAID5 conf printout: [15432.463696] --- rd:3 wd:2 [15432.463700] disk 0, o:1, dev:sda5 [15432.463703] disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- sudo /usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/sdc: OK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model Family: SAMSUNG SpinPoint P120 series Device Model: SAMSUNG SP2004C Serial Number: S07GJ10Y946521 Firmware Version: VM100-33 User Capacity: 200,049,647,616 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 4a Local Time is: Fri Jan 29 07:59:58 2010 CET ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lspci -nn: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2922] (rev 02) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobo: Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Strange WiFi problem
by Clayton 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Ok, this one has me stumped. I'm trying to figure out why the WiFi on a friend's netbook is not working right. Hardware/software: - Asus EeePC 1005HA-H - Atheros WiFi that is known to work well with the ath9k driver - openSUSE 11.2 and KDE.4.3.1 default install plus standard updates I have the exact same netbook model running openSUSE 11.2 and it works fine on my system. Now, what it's doing... we've enabled WiFi using the KNetworkManager, and entered the WEP key for his WiFi router. It finds his router fine, and requests/receives and IP address. But.. here's the weird part... he can't get past the router on the network. We can browse the local network, and even admin the router from the EeePC, but going past the router onto the internet just fails. We cannot ping etc anything outside the local LAP. If I connect my identical laptop into the same router, it's fine... receives an IP, and I have full access to the local LAN as well as the internet. If we connect his netbook to a CAT5 cable then everything works as expected. So.... WiFi is working on the netbook, we can access the LAN, but beyond that doesn't seem to exist. This is on a brand new default install of openSUSE. No extra apps added to the install. We've also reinstalled a couple of times just to see if something went odd in the install. Anyone have any ideas what is going on here? I don't know what to look for in the logs.... 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] 11.0 Any other keepassx users? I'm still segfaulting - Sadly works fine from VirtualBox on the same box...
by David C. Rankin 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Listmates, Something was introduced a month or two ago in 11.0 that prevents keepassx from opening and causing it to segfault. When run from the command line, you receive the following error: 11:40 alchemy:~/.dcr> keepassx kpx.kdb Found Metastream: KPX_CUSTOM_ICONS_4 Found Metastream: KPX_GROUP_TREE_STATE Segmentation fault It isn't keepassx, it is some library somewhere because I can open the same database from VirtualBox (with a shared local directory being my ~/ directory) with the same version of keepassx running in XP. I can also open keepassx in Arch Linux without error. Are there any 11.0 keepassx users on the list that have a working install on 11.0? I'll try to find time to build the same version from source to enable debugging, but if anyone else out there is having similar problems or has a work-around, I would appreciate it if you would let me know. 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] more Tosh troubles
by Peter Nikolic 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

Hi Well yet more trouble with this Toshiba A30 Laptop . Having not been able to solve the first problem he went for a complete reinstall now comes the first reboot the system just sits there sayin "Setting Clock to Hardware Clock" it will sit there for sometimes a few seconds right thru to just hanging there this is only on the first reboot after initial install (the automated reboot) . Once you get it past that it will only boot up in safe mode until you have completed everything then it will come up fully with no problems Toshiba Satelite A30 Intel 855GM graphics 512Mb Ram P4 2.8Ghz Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.30-rc6-git3-4- default KDE: 4.2.86 (KDE 4.2.86 (KDE 4.3 >= 20090514)) "release 1" 11:21 up 8 days 2:04, 4 users, load average: 0.14, 0.19, 0.44

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[opensuse] 11.0 kde 4.3.4 -- Alt+F2 using 'bbrun -w' instead of 'krunner' after 4.3.95 Downgrade?
by David C. Rankin 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

Will, All KDE Guys, When I loaded kde 4.3.95, I noticed the Alt+F2 run command was using the blackbox 'bbrun -w' as its run command instead of krunner. After downgrade to 4.3.4 kde is still using bbrun as its run command: 21:16 alchemy:~/.icons/Ecliz/Sources> ps ax | grep run 1993 ? S 0:00 hald-runner 2007 ? S 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket 2352 ? Ss 0:02 wpa_supplicant -iath0 -c/var/run/wpa_supplicant-ath0.conf -Dwext -P/var/run/wpa_supplicant/ath0.pid -B 3564 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/powersaved -d -f /var/run/acpid.socket -v 3 3613 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -o PidFile=/var/run/sshd.init.pid 12208 ? Sl 0:11 kdeinit4: krunner [kdeinit] 12264 ? Ss 0:35 syndaemon -d -p /var/run/dcr/syndaemon.pid -K 16564 ? Ss 0:00 bbrun -w ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 16878 pts/3 R+ 0:00 grep run I do use bbrun for blackbox, openbox, sawfish, fluxbox, etc.. (I prefer it over fbrun because of the history it provides and the better interface), however, I have never changed either the kde3 or kde4 run commands. Kde4.3.95 pulled this command in for its run command 'all by itself'. If I run krunner manually, the kde4 will pick it up as the default run application, but on next restart we are back to bbrun. What's up with that? What file holds this default? How can I fix it? -- 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] Does openSuSE Ever run fsck on disks in dmraid array with nvidia controller?
by David C. Rankin 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

Filesystem gurus, When checking the filesystem boot count or when faced with a filesystem error, "Does openSuSE ever actually fsck 'the disks' in the array?" If so how? It is impossible to properly fsck the individual disks in an array on some controllers, like nvidia, without first disabling the dmraid BIOS function and you cannot update the 'bad block table' of an array. How is this handled? Or,... is this just an unmentioned disadvantage of dmraid with some controllers? I ask because I just stumbled through confirming this for myself with a nvidia dmraid chipset on one box. I know I have been able to fsck individual disks with the 'Promise' dmraid controller. What about those like nvidia? Even after booting from install media or a live-CD, e2fsck will refuse to run on the individual disks claiming this the disk is 'mounted or under the exclusive control of another process'. It is not until the array is destroyed that fsck will run. Is there some software workaround employed by openSuSE? -- 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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