October 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Double check: /boot on RAID 1
by Michael Fischer 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

Being one of the folks who tries to do the Subject, I recently ran across an old thread on the list which confirmed most of my experience with it, but mentioned that Yast (in the installer mode) might not be putting grub, etc. on both disks' MBR or /boot. After some web-digging, I tried the following: grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,0) (hd1,0) Can someone competent in the matter confirm for me that the above does indeed mean that both disks in the array have had a working grub written to both disks, and therefore, in the event of the failure of one drive, the other is indeed bootable into a working system? If not, why not and what should I do to "fix" the matter. TIA. 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] 11.4 - who broke apache? Invalid command 'SSLEngine'?
by David C. Rankin 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

All, Just went to fire up apache on the laptop and got the following: [22:48 alchemy:/home/david] # rcapache2 start Starting httpd2 (prefork) Syntax error on line 48 of /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost-ssl.conf: Invalid command 'SSLEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration The command line was: /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -DSSL failed Hmm... worked find 3 days ago... I haven't had time to dig into it yet, but I thought I would check if anyone else has seen this behavior? I've done package updates, but no config changes, so I'm not sure what's up. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] different types of shell scripts
by George OLson 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

I downloaded a program that I needed off the internet and the installation program was a script file with the extension .sh. The instructions from the developer said to run the script on a command line by typing the command: ./<filename> I thought (mistakenly) that I could run any shell script by typing the command . <filename> (with a space between the dot and the filename). So I tried to run it that way, and I got the error "cannot execute binary file". However, when I followed the developer's instructions and typed in ./<filename>, the script executed perfectly and installed the program. So my question is, what is the difference between running a script file with the command <dot><space><filename>, for example "#> . myscript.sh" and running it with <dot><slash><filename>, for example "#> ./myscript.sh"? G -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] cinelerra on 11.4 won't render though ffmpeg pipe. Work OK with mpeg2enc pipe??
by David C. Rankin 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Guys, I'm having problems with cinelerra. I have a simple 8 second sequence of 4 images I need to render. Cinelerra will not render with ffmpeg, but the mpeg2enc pipe works -- what gives? The error I get is something like: int YUVStream:: write_frame(uint8_t**):write_frame() failed:system error (failed read/write) Here is a screenshot of the error (yep, full host.domain info this time :) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/suse/bugs/114/cinelerra/yumstream-write-error… The setting for the render are: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/suse/bugs/114/cinelerra/render-settings.jpg and the setting for ffmpeg are the default DVD: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/suse/bugs/114/cinelerra/ffmpeg-settings.jpg I really don't understand what I'm missing or how I've managed to mess this up. Anybody with cinelerra experience have any ideas? I have the following installed: cinelerra-2.1.5cv20110222-1.pm.27.13.x86_64 ffmpeg-0.8.4.git.20110927-1.1.x86_64 Thanks for any help you can give. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] installation error
by Fr David Ousley 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Started to intall 11.4 on a new laptop with Windows 7 pre-installed. Installation from DVD downloaded (MDsum checked). After the various choices of partioning and software (accepted defaults for partionning and mostly for software), when installation begins, it stops almost immediately with: failure occurred during following action: creating volume /dev/sd7. System error code was: -1007 sda7 was to be the swap; sda8 root (ext4), and sd9 home (ext4). sda1 is Windows/C; sda2 is Windows/D. I suspect the reason for using 7, 8, and 9 is that this is the third try, and that the first one set up 3,4 and 5. The Windows partition appears to have been correctly shrunk, and Windows will still boot. The installation suggests these three linux partitions be set up (and gives me the chace to alter them), so my guess is that there is space there but unpartitioned. When the error is presented, it asks if I want to go ahead anyway: so far I have said no. Machine specs: Intel mobile i5-241M 2.3Ghz; NVIDIA GT 555M 2GB PCIe; 8 GB DDR-3 1333; motherboard: Intel HM65 Express Chipset Mainboard. Suggestions? Many thanks! -- Fr David Ousley davidousley(a)verizon.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] Yast audio stopped
by Peter Nikolic 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Hi .. System as in sig block OS11.3 x86_64 KDE 4.6.0 kernel 2.6.34.10-0.2 Just done a zypper up about 112Mb of updates now i have lost ysat with the complaint yast2 QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /usr/share/applications/YaST2/groups Directory "/usr/share/applications/YaST2/groups" does not exist QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /usr/share/applications/YaST2 Directory "/usr/share/applications/YaST2" does not exist /sbin/yast2: line 399: 27840 Segmentation fault $y2ccbin $Y2UI_ARGS "$@" Also if i run just yast from within an terminal as root i just get a blank blue screen with no choices showing I generally run zypper up once a day but normally no problems till today This all showed up because i have just found certain audio problems The Audio Playback device HDA ATI SB( ALC662 Rev1 Analouge does not work Falling back to . Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.10-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 20:27 up 10 days 17:36, 4 users, load average: 0.11, 0.07, 0.09 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Notebook/Laptop w/OpenSUSE 11.4 to replace MacBook Pro Lion
by LLLActive＠GMX.Net 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Hi all, I need a serious Notebook/Laptop with OpenSUSE 11.4. At the moment I use MacBook with Snow Leopard. I tried Lion, a disaster. OSX is also not as usable as openSUSE for serious System Administration in the IT environment. Apple has excellent hardware! The incompatibilities of it's FS with the more modern ext3/4 FS's is a pain. openSUSE reads OSX's FS without problems, but it is a pain the other way around. I was considering the newest MacBook Pro, but it has limitations if used with openSUSE dual boot with OSX. I use VirtualBox with openSUSE and Win's if needed. There are other manufacturers that has excellent hardware, and work flawlessly with openSUSE. I do not need OSX really, but it comes with a Mac. Other considerations are that most Notebook Companies use manufacturers like FoxConn that has highly questionable work ethics toward it's employees; this was lately exposed by an Apple manufacturing assembly line. The problem is that most source their hardware components from FoxConn, even Dell sold it's Irish plant to them. I read on Toshiba's English Japanese website that they keep the highest ethical practices in human rights, but they 'urge' their supply chain manufacturers to adhere to the same standards. Which companies do keep such standards. Now, who has been occupying the same questions lately. What was your conclusions. Which hardware has the highest compatibility with openSUSE (also maybe RH, Deb, C-OS) and keep to the minimal ethical standards? I was looking at something like the Toshiba X770 range, with dual SSD HD's and Full HD Video. It should have the same or better standard than the MacBook Pro 17". Money is of lesser importance, because it gets written off by the business in three years. It must also be usable for multimedia and CAD type of applications, and have Raid 1 possibility with two SSD's. Any experiences are highly appreciated! :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] enigmail fails since pinentry does not fire up
by Andre Massing 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Hi there! Since yesterday evening, enigmail stopped working. (I removed my KDE DE just before that and installed newer boost libs but I don't see how could affect my problem). For some reasons the pinentry-gtk-2 does not fire up anymore (still installed). So the symptoms are that thunderbird seems to do nothing after pressing "Send" and then after a while I get the message: Send operation aborted. Key 0xDBABD766 not found or not valid. The (sub-)key might have expired. gpg command line and output: /usr/bin/gpg2 gpg: problem with the agent: Timeout gpg: skipped "0xDBABD766": Operation cancelled gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: Operation cancelled I pasted the output of the error console at http://susepaste.org/54964472 Any pointer for how to debug why pinentry-gtk-2 is not showing up anymore would be really great! BTW my version are Repository: @System Name: MozillaThunderbird Version: 7.0.1-3.1 Arch: x86_64 Vendor: obs://build.opensuse.org/mozilla Installed: Yes Status: up-to-date Installed Size: 39.7 MiB Summary: The Stand-Alone Mozilla Mail Component Description: Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla Mail component. It is written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It is a stand-alone application instead of part of the Mozilla application suite. Information for package enigmail: Repository: @System Name: enigmail Version: 1.3.2+7.0.1-3.1 Arch: x86_64 Vendor: obs://build.opensuse.org/mozilla Installed: Yes Status: up-to-date Installed Size: 4.1 MiB Summary: OpenPGP addon for Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Description: This package contains the Enigmail OpenPGP Addon for Thunderbird and SeaMonkey. No signed email today :( Cheers, Andre -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] multiple fixed dhcp addresses
by Hans Witvliet 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Hi, Im trying to give all of my hosts multiple fixed addresses, So if one host is (accidentily) repluged from one lan to another lan, i will still get predictable results. Avvording to the dhcpd.conf info that should be possible: "If it is desirable to be able to boot a DHCP or BOOTP client on more than one subnet with fixed addresses, more than one address may be specified in the fixed-address declaration, or more than one host statement may be specified matching the same client." So i tried at my 11.4 box multiple addresses in a single host declaration. The deaemon responds however with: dhcpd: /var/lib/dhcp//etc/dhcpd.conf line 18: Only one fixed address declaration per host. Any comment at the unexpected behaviour? (sure, i can put multiple host definitions, but it should work, not?) hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Major boot problem
by oszko＠chem.u-szeged.hu 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Hi all, The other day I switched on my computer in the morning and waited for the oS 11.4 to start (the other system on it is Win XP). The bootsplash screen disappearad and then lines of text were printed on the screen. After a while a prompt appeared telling me to give my root password. I typed it, but it was not accepted. Repeated the boot sequence a couple of times, but to no avail. Finally I chose Failsafe from the GRUB menu and somehow I could get some response from the system. It turned out that I was in / directory and nothing else was mounted. This morning I found the 11.4 install CD and thught I would refresh or reinstall the system. Refresh did no change, I still could not boot into the system. The fresh instaal insisted to format even the /home directory, which I really do not want. Additionaly It told me that it is not posibble to mount some volumes - there are 3 HDDs in the computer. The only thing I want to preserve is my home directory. Could anybody help me how to advance? Many thanks: Albert Oszko ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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