June 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Slow performance when using the cifs module to mount samba shares
by Praise 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Hi all. I have a problem with the cifs module in my gigabit network. I get the following performance: 95 mbytes/s with FTP 65 mbytes/s with samba, windows 7 client 8 mbytes/ with the cifs module on opensuse 11.4 I don't think this a Suse only issue, as I have found NOBODY without my problem. However, I guess there must be some workaround to make it go faster. Praise -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] IOGear USB DVI
by Chuck Payne 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Does anyone know how to get the USB IOGear DVI working with openSUSE 11.4? I found udlfb package, but it for Ubuntu. Pup -- (678) 636-9678 ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.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] Risky ssh + sudo behaviour?
by Edwin Helbert Aponte Angarita 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

I wonder if this behaviour is a kind of security bug or something like that. In the LOCAL MACHINE (openSUSE 11.4) 1. ~> ssh remote_user@remote_host (password) 2. remote_user@remote_host:/> sudo ls / (root password) 3. remote_user@remote_host:/> exit Then, in the REMOTE MACHINE (also openSUSE 11.4): 4. open a new (gnome) terminal 5. ~> sudo ls / _(The sudo command in the remote machine doesn't ask for root password)_ bin boot dev etc home lib ... I think this is a security issue. An unprivileged user that knows that the system is maintained remotely using ssh and, perhaps, sudo, could keep attempting to use sudo until they gets it. PS. I use GNOME. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: [DISCUSS] Possible "inactive" windows software to open source Linux
by Duaine Hechler 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Even though this software only has a special community following, it is the ONLY software of it's kind. A bunch of us have been desperately trying to hold of this guy, but for 3+ months there is no answer (written or email - don't know his phone number. Software to replace worn or missing Piano Roll Box Labels ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * PC w/Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/Windows7(Click here for Windows7 info <http://www.pianorollstuff.com/windows7.html>) * Choose from over 1000 templates * Add text in any color using any font that is installed on your computer * Text can be formatted left/right/centered * Resize fonts as needed to match original label * Resize labels to fit new boxes * Print labels on Color on your color printer * Download new templates online from within the program * Download program updates from within the program * Make labels look old or new * Ampico Wizard to help select Ampico labels * Print out on standard mailing label stock * Extensive help files * Have a label for which there is no template? Simply send me a scan and I will produce a template! * "Batch processing" to prepare a number of labels prior to printing *Basically,* loads a label template file along with a selected predefined label; change fields in the rows; save the updated temple as your newly updated label and print on 2 x 4 or 4 x 6 labels The only thing I know for sure, is that it is written in VB. I have a licensed copy of the real thing. * Assuming this guy has called it quits*, if I wanted to take this over and put it open sourced, how would I get started ? Or how would I solicit this as a project for someone to start and complete Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler(a)att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years

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[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE vs Ubuntu for Enterprise Scientific Computing Environment
by Tejas Guruswamy 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

On 04/06/11 14:51, Di Pe wrote: > This may be slightly off-topic for this forum, but I wanted to hear > what the Suse experts have to say. It's actually quite off-topic for this mailinglist, which is focused on the development of the next version of openSUSE. Probably any further comments should be on the main mailinglist at opensuse(a)opensuse.org (cc'ed) > We are are a research non-profit with about 2500 staff (300-400 part > time Unix users and 100 hardcore Linux users) and about 500 openSUSE > and some SLES and CentOS boxes ( 50 Desktops, 100 servers and a > compute cluster with 350 boxes) Our goal has always been to create a > unified environment which enables researchers to use their NFS mounted > home directory from everywhere and most of our systems are at openSUSE > 11.2 or 11.3. > > In general we really like Suse and have only 3 gripes: > SLES is too different from openSUSE (only small number of packages) In general, openSUSE packages can be used on SLES. If not directly compatible they can at least be rebuilt on the OBS. > KDE support for encrypted wifi is insufficient (Gnome is only slighly better) > > package names change too frequently (but I don't know that any other > Linux distro is doing a better job here) > > I wanted to add that the infrastructure IT people i our organization > moved to CentOS after they found the package manager to be unworkable > in 10.1. (We found it pretty hard to swallow, too ....but we kept > going with Suse) The package management is a whole lot better now, I promise ... to me zypper is pretty awesome these days > We are now starting to re-design our HPC cluster and one of the > questions that came up is which Linux distro we should use in the > future. We also need to upgrade our desktop Linux desktops so this > seems to be a good time to take a deep breath and re-think what we are > doing. > > We only considered openSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora and CentOS. We quickly > ditched CentOS for being always being too outdated and Fedora for > being too bleeding edge. This leaves us with Ubuntu and openSUSE. > > after a few days of research our group came up with this list and we > are still working on it. Please correct > > Advantage openSUSE > --------------------------------- > > * YaST administration tool centralizes and simplifies configuration > and administration. > > * As a team, we have much more experience supporting openSUSE. We have > deployment tools, software repositories, and rescue tools for openSUSE > and have experience building rpm packages (e.g. using the openSUSE > build service) > > * Would have no migration costs to different Linux OS (~$50k - $100k > for migration of 100+ Linux Systems to Ubuntu) > > * 8-month release cycle indicates openSUSE focuses more on stability > > * Single edition of openSUSE supports both servers and desktops, KDE > and Gnome. (KDE in openSUSE is better supported than kubuntu) > > * openSUSE is a Tier 1 distribution that can get bugfixes faster > upstream to the kernel developers (Ubuntu reports bugs to Debian which > reports them to the Linux kernel developers) Not only this: In many cases, the upstream *is* openSUSE ... Greg K-H (stable kernel maintainer) is on this list for example. > > Advantage Ubuntu > -------------------------- > > * About 3x more binary packages are available for Ubuntu, including > scientific applications. Have you seen the OBS (build.opensuse.org / search via software.opensuse.org)? If you have packages you want missing from openSUSE, you can very easily package and deploy them yourself, or just ask for help from the hundreds of buildservice packagers. Even if they're not in the official distro, it's exceedingly easy to add packages to openSUSE via the Build Service. > * Ubuntu is hardware-certified for more Laptops we use. (Gnome and > Unity have better support for ‘encrypted wifi’) Hardware certification, can't help with much. But I'd be very surprised if Ubuntu really has better wifi support, it's the same Gnome/KDE in openSUSE as well ... in fact the SUSE guys are the ones who wrote a lot of that stuff. > * Enterprise "Long Term Support" (LTS) version is actually the > standard disto with longer support cycles and is free (gets > maintenance updates for 3 years on the desktop version and 5 years on > the server version / Suse SLES subscription $350/year) openSUSE Evergreen is an attempt to do an LTS version of openSUSE http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen > * 6-month release cycle indicates that Ubuntu focuses more on keeping > software up-to-date. If you need up-to-date versions of software, it will be on the Build Service, regardless of release timing. Or if your brave you can try out the rolling-release version, Tumbleweed. > * Ubuntu has a larger user community worldwide which is able to > produce more documentation Perhaps. But I would say openSUSE has a higher concentration of actual developers with much more in depth knowledge ... > * better supported in cloud environments (EC2 AMIs, etc) Not true at all - have you seen SUSE Studio? You can customise your own distro images and deploy them (EC2, various VM's, actual installable iso's, etc) ... it's exceedingly cool, and unique to openSUSE as far as I know. > * better supported with configuration management tools like puppet or chef. As far as I know puppet works on openSUSE as well, but I have no experience with it to confirm for sure. > Obviously some of the advantages are highly tailored to our > organization. I would be interested to hear what other advantages we > might find regarding openSUSE. For example, is there interest in more > active support of high performance computing technology in the future > (nfs/rdma, HPC distro using OSS schedulers etc) > > Thanks much for your input. > dipe Regards, Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Mostly Fixed: (was Re: broken samba-3.5.7 package in 11.4 (binary and source)
by Linda Walsh 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

In case others missed this... Stefan Seyfried wrote: > Am Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:45:01 -0700 >> I see no reference to 'libtalloc' -- why not?? > I have no idea. As a workaround, you could try to > "LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libtalloc... nmbd" > Oh, I see you are talking 11.4 here. => bugzilla. ------- I checked nmbd to see what it wanted for dynamic libs using 'readelf' and noted that it doesn't seem to want or need "talloc". Thus I looked at what libs were being pulled in by nmbd using 'ldd -r /usr/sbin/nmbd' (which also showed the sym probs). Looking at the libs it was pulling in, I checked what packages they were coming from. I noted that one of them 'libwbclient0' in "/lib64" belonged to NO package. I removed it (as well as any other unclaimed files under /lib64) and my samba now seems to be pretty much working (not fully tested every aspect, but domain-login is working again as well as nmbd). The only thing I still may report as a bug would be the source rpm problem. (like it not building!).... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] User processes disappearing while idle
by Jeffrey L. Taylor 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

OpenSuSE 11.4, KDE, Lenovo T520: while idle, almost all user processes will disappear. Only two daemons (fetchmail and search) and kde4d w/ 2 child processes remain. The screen brightens slightly on tapping a key or wiggling the mouse, but is still dark gray. I can switch to tty1. Two questions: Any way to prevent it from happening? Any way to restart the desktop environment short of rebooting? While trying to send this e-mail, the keyboard and mouse clicks stopped responding. The mouse could still move the cursor, but nothing else responded, including the 3 finger salute (reboot shortcut). TIA, Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] broken samba-3.5.7 package in 11.4 (binary and source)
by Linda Walsh 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

I'm not sure how this ever passed QA, but when I try to load 'nmbd', I get: /usr/sbin/nmbd: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/nmbd: undefined symbol: _talloc_realloc_array. ldd -r shows a bunch of similar undefined symbols (shown further below). my samba rpm is samba-3.5.7-1.17.1.x86_64. --- In checking, I found: lrwxrwxrwx 1 18 Jun 5 17:49 /usr/lib64/libtalloc.so.2 -> libtalloc.so.2.0.1* -rwxr-xr-x 1 43280 Mar 1 04:21 /usr/lib64/libtalloc.so.2.0.1* (Note: there was only libtalloc.so.2, I moved it to it's 'real version', and created the symlink to be consistent with other libs -- to see if that would solve the problem (it didn't)). looking at the lib, # readelf -s libtalloc.so.2|grep realloc 34: 0000000000000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND realloc(a)GLIBC_2.2.5 (2) 49: 0000000000007000 47 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 12 _talloc_realloc_array 62: 0000000000006ff0 7 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 12 talloc_realloc_fn 65: 0000000000006b80 1124 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 12 _talloc_realloc I see the symbols. When I try to load nmbd with ldd: Ishtar:packages/rpms/x86_64> ldd /usr/sbin/nmbd linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffe610a000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib64/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007fa6d18db000) libnsl.so.1 => /lib64/libnsl.so.1 (0x00007fa6d16c3000) libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fa6d14bf000) libwbclient.so.0 => /lib64/libwbclient.so.0 (0x00007fa6d12a1000) libpopt.so.0 => /lib64/libpopt.so.0 (0x00007fa6d1095000) libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x00007fa6d0e5f000) libkrb5.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libkrb5.so.3 (0x00007fa6d0b94000) libk5crypto.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x00007fa6d096c000) libcom_err.so.2 => /lib64/libcom_err.so.2 (0x00007fa6d0768000) libldap-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libldap-2.4.so.2 (0x00007fa6d0521000) liblber-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib64/liblber-2.4.so.2 (0x00007fa6d0312000) libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007fa6d00fa000) libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fa6cfd8d000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fa6d1af2000) libkrb5support.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x00007fa6cfb84000) libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib64/libkeyutils.so.1 (0x00007fa6cf981000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fa6cf764000) libsasl2.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libsasl2.so.2 (0x00007fa6cf549000) libssl.so.1.0.0 => /lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0 (0x00007fa6cf2ed000) libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (0x00007fa6cef3c000) I see no reference to 'libtalloc' -- why not?? ---- Note, I then tried to build the package from source and had it fail in multiple ways -- there's no way the source could build the binary -- the spec has error in it. 1) It references: vendor_tag=$( grep ^Release: ${RPM_SOURCE_DIR}/samba.spec | \... "samba.spec" is in the "SPEC" dir along with other 'spec' files. How could this build work on a standard system, while the source files are in the RPM_SOURCE_DIR (sources/samba-3.5.7 on my system, sources on standard). The spec file is NOT in the sources dir. 2) MAJOR FAIL in trying to build binaries & source packages: Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /usr/src/packages/BUILDROOT/samba-3.5.7-1.17.1.x86_64 error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/share/man/man1/ad2oLschema.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/oLschema2ldif.1.gz /usr/share/man/man3/ldb.3.gz RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/share/man/man1/ad2oLschema.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/oLschema2ldif.1.gz /usr/share/man/man3/ldb.3.gz ---- So how could the source build if files are being left over? Is some special rpm being used on build machines that ignores errors? Of course none of the above explains why nmbd isn't linking with libtalloc, which was the root problem of this mess! ;-) (up-to-butt in alligators; meant to drain swamp?).... So Does anyone have ideas as to what's going on? -- especially, why nmbd isn't linking against libtalloc and how it ever got released that way? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Problem with e-mail login
by Robert R 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

I just got a new pc on which I installed opensuse 11.4. I tried setting up Thunderbird 3.1.10 but I kept getting errors with login. It always reported that I had used a wrong id or password. I had set it up just as my win7 Thinderbird 3.1.7 which works. after messing with it for a while I gave up and changed to kmail where I have the same problem. I am using the KDE manager. I haven't found any google items with this problem. Can anyone give me some help or direction? Bob Rawlinson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE vs Ubuntu for Enterprise Scientific Computing Environment
by Hans Witvliet 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 06:51 -0700, Di Pe wrote: > This may be slightly off-topic for this forum, but I wanted to hear > what the Suse experts have to say. > certainly slightly o.t. but is is an important subject anyway. > In general we really like Suse and have only 3 gripes: > SLES is too different from openSUSE (only small number of packages) > KDE support for encrypted wifi is insufficient (Gnome is only slighly better) > package names change too frequently (but I don't know that any other > Linux distro is doing a better job here) .... > Thanks much for your input. I'm more-or-less in same situation. My personal dislike against Ubuntu is basically twofold: Some time ago somebody presented a patch for openssl-lib at the ubuntu community, which was accepted blindly. As it was either a rogue patch or a mistake, i don't remember, but it left all ubunty system vulnarable. The fact that a single person can do that is a nightmare for anybody who is responsible for a number of servers. I brought it up here, and marcus said that each patch is reviewed by several people before it is released. So no chance that it ever happening here. My other gripe is that certain security related packages (smartcard related) are years out-of-date on mainstream Ubuntu. Either you include them in a distro and maintain them, or you don't. But not offering a package based on code from 2009 (while many newer versions are available) and never upgrade them. That's is why i feel secure & confident with SuSE, Allthough i have to admit that ubuntu get's a lot of momentum. Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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