April 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] PTH Package creation for zypper
by Ruben Safir 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

hello I need to create a package for PTH threads that can drop in and replace the current standard one for opensuse 11.2 is there a resource to help me do that, or walk me through the steps I need to make sure that the pth threads has the –enable-syscall-hard flag set for the OKWS web server. Uninstalling pth with zypper would seem to be a disaster for a whole slew of core suse utilities. Ruben -- http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Interesting Stuff http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://fairuse.nylxs.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 "Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME" "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society." "> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be damned.< You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt. I guess you missed that one." © Copyright for the Digital Millennium -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Script wizards help needed
by Peter Nikolic 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

Right the this is a fun one involving web pages i use a page of basically the following line <a class="thumbnail" href="#thumb"><img src="stagepics/car4-0.jpg" width="100px" height="75px" border="0" /><span><img src="stagepics/car4-0.jpg" /><br /></span></a> to display a gallery of images from one of our recent rallys but i have somethingh like another 300 photos yet to go on lots of typing can someone point me in the direction of scripting this to automatically read the dir with the pictures in and fill in a line as above for each picture Pete . PS the web site is "qmc.org.uk" click on Photo Galleries and the D'Isis . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 09:05 up 2 days 23:02, 4 users, load average: 0.23, 0.18, 0.10 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] HEADS UP: Your devices' UDMA may not be set correctly!
by Basil Chupin 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

A bug in the kernel has reappeared after being reported as fixed way back in 2009. It concerns the UDMA of your device/(s) not being set to the maximum limit because the kernel thinks that the device(s) is/are connected with a 40-wire cable when, in fact, an 80-wire cable is in place. This is my setup: IDE #1 connector- ata1.00 HDD with UDMA 133 ata1.01 CDROM with UDMA 33 IDE #2 connector- ata2.00 HDD with UDMA 100 ata2.01 DVDRW with UDMA 100 however the devices on line #2 are being configured for UDMA 33 because it is "limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable". Devices on line #1 are correctly configured (133 and 33 UDMA, respectively). There is a work around to this but I sincerely hope that someone who has access to the kernel maintainers can "hard code" this into the kernel rather than have this "workaround" inserted in the grub menu on boot time. The work around is this: add this to the boot parameters in the grub message: libata.force=X:=80c where X is the IDE line number (for example 1 or 2); in my case the problem is with devices on line #2 so I have added "libata.force=2:80c" and now these devices are both being correctly set to UDMA 100 - which makes a damn big difference to the transfer rates on these devices! ADDENDUM. The above fix is applicable when the libata is statically embedded in the kernel - and this is the case with the kernel in openSUSE 11.4 (2.6.37.1-1.2) - but when it isn't embedded then use "force=X:80c". (For those interested you can find discussion on this if you google or you can go to this bug report on another distrubution (Ubuntu) here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/195221 . BC -- Any experiment in life will be at your own experience. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] bacula sources
by Koenraad Lelong 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

Hi, I'm trying to install the bacula sources. I downloaded the src-rpm from the factory buildservice. Then I did : # zypper install bacula-5.0.3-19.49.src.rpm Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... '_tmpRPMcache_:bacula=0:5.0.3-19.49' not found in package names. Trying capabilities. 'bacula-director-mysql' providing 'bacula = 0:5.0.3-19.49' is already installed. Resolving package dependencies... Nothing to do. So it seems I can't install the sources because I have installed the binaries ? Any solution, --force does not help ? Also, why is bacula not included in the standard repo's for OS 11.4 ? B.T.W. the same problem exists with the 11.4 version of the buildservice. Is there a way to see the contents of an rpm ? On OS 11.1 I use krpmview, which seems not to exist in OS 11.4. Thanks for any pointers, Koenraad Lelong. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Barry backup for balckberry
by Peter Nikolic 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

Hi all Well i have barry backup working on opensuse 11.3X86_64 with KDE4.6.0 i have put the file on dropbox the links are below if anyone wante totry or use it , It seems to work ok for me i cant promise it will for you but may well do .. these rae the shortened links . http://db.tt/lfRtd63 http://db.tt/ggy6iP6 http://db.tt/DrLQ9vs http://db.tt/fMzbFSU http://db.tt/Uan5i2f Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 00:07 up 2 days 14:04, 4 users, load average: 0.69, 0.39, 0.30 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] SSD alignement-option in partitioner usefull ?
by Hans de Faber 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Hi folks, After a disaster with hdparm security-erase before an action to align the partions and the filesystem properly on an ssd, my ssd became fully uncommunicative. Now to my opinion,it is desirable that the opensuse partitioner has an ssd option to align partition and filesystem properly on this this type of devices. Is this a good idea and a reasonable expectation ? For reference only see the ocz website, for instance this thread. http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?77769-A-Simple-How-T… 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] Formatting an External Hard Drive
by Stephen P Molnar 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

I have a new Seagate 1GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive. I would like to install OpenSUSE 11.4 on the disk and I should like some expert guidance on partitioning the drive. I would like to have a 2 GB vfat partition so that my Win OS computers (laptop and a tower) will be able to recognize the external drive. Currently, as a result of an abortive installation on linux, there is no vfat partition of the external drive. I am willing to accept the I 11.4 installer defaults, suitably adjusted for the 2.0 GB to be allocated to the vfat partition. How should I partition the drive? Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] SiI SATA raid set is not detected in openSUSE
by Istvan Gabor 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Hello list members: I have a Silicon Image (SiI) 3512A PCI SATA raid controller, and two hard disks that contains a SiI mirrored raid set. The raid set was set up in the card's BIOS, and at boot it is detected correctly by the card's BIOS. In openSUSE 11.2 however the raid set in not detected. dmraid gives the following results: linux:~ # dmraid -s no raid disks linux:~ # dmraid -r no raid disks linux:~ # dmraid --version dmraid version: 1.0.0.rc16-3 (2010.01.12) dmraid library version: 1.0.0.rc16-3 (2010.01.12) device-mapper version: 4.15.0 linux:~ # linux:~ # ls -l /dev/mapper total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 60 Apr 24 20:17 control linux:~ # I tried openSUSE 11.4 live CD (KDE version) which gave the same result, except for it has newer device mapper, 4.18.0. If I boot knoppix live CD, however, it detects the raid set correctly: root@Microknoppix:~# dmraid -s *** Active Set name : sil_bhaedgcfdjde size : 320168895 stride : 0 type : mirror status : ok subsets: 0 devs : 2 spares : 0 root@Microknoppix:~# dmraid -r /dev/sdb: sil, "sil_bhaedgcfdjde", mirror, ok, 320168895 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sda: sil, "sil_bhaedgcfdjde", mirror, ok, 320168895 sectors, data@ 0 root@Microknoppix:~# dmraid --version dmraid version: 1.0.0.rc16 (2009.09.16) shared dmraid library version: 1.0.0.rc16 (2009.09.16) device-mapper version: 4.18.0 root@Microknoppix:~# ls -l /dev/mapper total 0 crw------- 1 root root 10, 236 Apr 24 20:05 control lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 24 20:05 sil_bhaedgcfdjde -> ../dm-0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 24 20:05 sil_bhaedgcfdjde1 -> ../dm-1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 24 20:05 sil_bhaedgcfdjde2 -> ../dm-2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 24 20:05 sil_bhaedgcfdjde3 -> ../dm-3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 24 20:05 sil_bhaedgcfdjde5 -> ../dm-4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 24 20:05 sil_bhaedgcfdjde6 -> ../dm-5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 24 20:05 sil_bhaedgcfdjde7 -> ../dm-6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 24 20:05 sil_bhaedgcfdjde8 -> ../dm-7 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 24 20:05 sil_bhaedgcfdjde9 -> ../dm-8 I can mount and use the mirrored partitions. I would like to use this raid set in openSUSE 11.2 too. How could I set it up to work as expected, and what can be the cause for not being it detected? Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] How to re-shuffle disk partitions
by Anton Aylward 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

This is not a question about what tool to use, but about how to avoid a major screw-up. On a laptop I have an OpenSuse 11.3 with the disk configured thus: Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x94e494e4 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 1276 2530 10080787+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 2551 9729 57665317+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda4 * 2531 2550 160650 83 Linux /dev/sda5 2846 9729 55295698+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/sda6 2558 2836 2241036 83 Linux /dev/sda7 2837 2845 72261 82 Linux swap /dev/sda8 2551 2557 56164+ 82 Linux swap Partition table entries are not in disk order Please not that last line! This was originally a dual boot machine, but when I asked when was the last time you booted into Windows I was met with the kind of glassy stare you expect from a deer caught in your headlights. DUH! So C: (/dev/sda1) and D: (/dev/sda2) go. Maybe make /dev/sda1 into /boot and some swap? In an ideal world .... * I'd drag /dev/sda4 (/boot) to the beginning of the disk * I'd drag /dev/sd7 and /dev/sd8 to follow it as swap and merge them * I would somehow expand the LVM to use the space left over in C: and D: But my problem is what will happen to the naming/numbering? My concern is that everything else gets re-numbered. In that ideal world, I suppose, a /etc/fstab that exclusively uses uuid might be immune to a renaming of the partitions in /dev/sd? terms. But that's not what I've got with this client. I'm hesitant to take a step here lest I end up with an unbootable system. What do the Disk Layout Gurus advise? [And yes, in a perfect world we would be running Grub2 and all this could have been put in a LVM and the Windows stuff could have been a virtual machine and none of this would be a problem since LVM is much smarter about naming "partitions". But ... ] -- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -- Voltaire -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Lock/Logout Widget
by Ian 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Hi I have 3 of logins on my machine and i have added the widget to each main menu panel. One 2 of the 3 users select logout and it gives a menu of options but on the other, clicking the logout doesn't give the menu and goes straight back to the login screen. Is there a local file somewhere i need to delete to allow the logout to work properly? The widget config options are all set the same on all logins. I can logout okay via the menu option. Regards Ian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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