February 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] upgrade from 11.4 to 12.1 can't boot from software raid
by James D. Parra 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

Hello, Had a software of raid 1 for /dev/md0 = boot and /dev/md2 = /, however after the upgrade the system boots with the grub error; root=/dev/md2 - Cannot mount selected partition. What can be done from the rescue mode to get the system back online? Many thanks in advance. Best, James D. Parra Music Reports Inc. Sr. Systems Administrator jamesp(a)musicreports.com PH: 818-558-1400 x7023 FX: 818-558-3484 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Forums?
by Steven Hess 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

I inadvertently sent this message to Carlos instead of the list. This is one feature of gmail I do not like and constantly forget. Replies to the list are sent instead to the last respondent. My public apologies Carlos for a private reply that was unintended. On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Steven Hess <flamebait(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:51 AM, Carlos E. R. > <robin.listas(a)telefonica.net> wrote: >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 2012-02-25 08:38, Steven Hess wrote: >> > Has the server the openSUSE Forums are on gone south? I am getting the >> > following error when I try and log on >> > >> > Status: 500 Internal Server Error >> > Description: Access Gateway couldn't find the needed policy from >> > service provider. Service Provider is not healthy. It might be just >> > coming up. If refreshing the browser after a few seconds doesn't clear >> > this error condition, please contact your Administrator." >> > If this condition persists, please contact the helpdesk. >> >> >> They are at least very slow, it took a minute for me to get the main page. >> I see some recent messages. >> >> - -- >> Cheers / Saludos, >> >> Carlos E. R. >> (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAk9Iy0sACgkQIvFNjefEBxoShACfSkxwdbivyXIqzW9HB7FLJAUT >> fVUAniNsAx5TQTQGjA/Udsyp9k/qoY6w >> =Qq+u >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org >> > > I am no longer getting the error message but I am still waiting for > the forums to come up and it has been some time (over a minute.) > It seems this all has been going down hill for some time to me. The > forums keep getting slower and slower to resolve and small issues that > can not be handled by forum volunteers are not attended to. It's very > worrying. The forums should never be left in a broken state on the > weekend in any case. > > Steven > > -- > ____________ > Steven L Hess ARS KC6KGE DM05gd22 > Skype user flamebait Cell 661 487 0357 (Facetime) > Google Voice 661 769 6201 > openSUSE Linux 11.4 -- ____________ Steven L Hess ARS KC6KGE DM05gd22 Skype user flamebait Cell 661 487 0357 (Facetime) Google Voice 661 769 6201 openSUSE Linux 11.4 -- 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] ipv4 forwarding - any known issues?
by Per Jessen 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

I'm setting up a new box and started out with ip forwarding enabled. This seemed to prevent internet access, so I tried disabling forwarding with yast, but this only caused a hang. I ended up having to walk to the datacentre to access the physical console. Just wondering before I start digging into this - are there any (more or less) known issues wrt ip forwarding and/or the enabling/disabling thereof in 12.1 ? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (2.5°C) -- 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] XEmacs anyone?
by Dr. Werner Fink 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

Hi, as current maintainer I'd like to drop the Xemacs. This because we have GNU-Emacs which with real wide character support as well as better maintained in comparision to Xemacs. Werner -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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reply-to-list vs. reply-all [WAS Re: [opensuse] zypper]
by Greg Freemyer 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Ken Schneider <snip> > > > PLEASE keep replies to the list. And no, using gmail is *not* an excuse. > > Why the frack people cannot understand that using the list automatically > sends a copy to the list members and you have to be a list member to post to > the list. > > > -- > Ken Schneider > SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 Ken, I'm on a dozen plus lists. Several are mandatory reply all (lkml and its siblings). Some are reply-all desired (opensuse-kernel, opensuse-project, and few more in this family.) Mostly these are ones where the serious developers hang out. They like reply-all for reasons I won't go into. Most lists are indifferent. And then there is opensuse(a)opensuse.org. It's netiquette here that it be "reply to list" only. I've for years tried to remember that it is special, but at this point I'm no longer willing to try. So you have 2 choices. 1) Accept I'm a pain in your behind and get past it. 2) Ask me to blackball your posts so I won't answer them again. You'll probably want to blacklist me in turn so you don't waste energy answering some question of mine. ==> others I know Ken's not the only one who dislikes it when people reply-to-all. Feel free to ask me to blackball your posts from my inbox as well. Greg -- 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] Need help with systemd
by Lew Wolfgang 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

Hi Folks, On a fresh install of 64-bit 12.1 I decided to try sshguard instead of the block-hosts package I've been using for years. sshguard was installed from the security repository. After fiddling with /etc/init.d/sshguard and /etc/sysconfig/sshguard I managed to get it working. The big problem was the iptables entry to allow ssh appeared before the sshguard entry. But now it doesn't work on bootup. The changes sshguard makes to iptables are overwritten by a subsequent process. If I run "/etc/init.d/sshguard restart' after the system is up in runlevel 5 everything is fine. So I need to figure out how to delay sshguard so that it appears later in the boot sequence. Would it be as simple as changing the order of the entries in /etc/init.d? Does anyone know how to do this right in a default systemd system? I don't want to experiment too much because the system is remote (Vancover) and the KVM/IP thing doesn't work with SuSE. (that's a matter for a later date) Thanks, Lew -- 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] nfs and windows acl woes
by lynn 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Original of a post sent to samba(a)lists.samba.org. It would be great if anyone here could help too. <quote> Hi everyone We're really struggling with nfs4 <--> windows acls. Scenario Samba4 share --> cifs --> win7. Samba4 share --> nfs4 --> Linux. win7 <--> Linux acl's not inherited e.g. It is not possible to create files with group rw on a umask 0022 nfs4 share. nfs4_setfacl cannot override umask. Using POSIX or windows acls this works fine. I've approached the nfs4 devs and they've said that they'll look into it, but so far. Exporting nfs4 with -o noacl (in the hope that the windows acl would take effect) has no effect. 1. Is it possible to get Samba to override the nfs4 acl and use whatever I've set on windows security acl instead? Or vica versa? 2. Is there a way to export a single directory with a umask of my choice? 3. Would it be reasonable to ask my distro (openSUSE) to consider this problem as a feature request? Perhaps as a patch over nfs4_setfacl? Thanks, L & S at lcb </quote> Salu2 L x -- 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] TBird icon
by Robert Benjamin 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

When I set up open Suse v 11.10 as a Newbie I somehow got all the icons on the desktop I wanted except for Thunderbird, It is there at the top left in the sidebar(windows) and in the Applications box. But it won't let me drag it to the desktop to keep it there. Can anyone help? Thanks. Bob -- 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] destructor in LD_PRELOADed *.so file not run on SuSE
by Bernhard Voelker 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

In the GNU coreutils project, there was a discussion about a new test which uses a destructor in an *.so file loaded into program space via LD_PRELOAD: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-02/msg00173.html However, the destructor is not run on OpenSuSE (nor on SLES10.x btw.), but works fine on other systems (e.g. Redhat). This is Jim's commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=b29db6767612cf70e… Attached is the relevant C code which intercepts the system calls getxattr() and lgetxattr(). The number of calls is counted and should be stored in a file "x" by the destructor print_call_count(): void __attribute__ ((destructor)) print_call_count (void); Compile / link it: $ gcc -fPIC -O2 -c k.c $ ld -G k.o -o k.so Run it: $ LD_PRELOAD=./k.so ls --color=always -l . Now, the file "x" should be created, but it isn't. (How) are LD_PRELOADed destructors disabled on SuSE? Ah, yes - I'm running this: $ head -n 1 /etc/SuSE-release openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) $ gcc --version | head -n 1 gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.6.2 $ uname -rvmspio Linux 3.1.9-1.4-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 27 08:55:10 UTC 2012 (efb5ff4) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Have a nice day, Berny

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[opensuse] intermittent wireless connection drops
by Fr David Ousley 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

We're having trouble with dropped wireless connections from a laptop. It connects when laptop is booted, and then stays on for an hour or three or six hours, and then is lost. Then in manually reconnecting, one of two things shows up. Sometimes, Network Manager shows "activating", which is usually that it has connected to the router but has not been able to get a network address. This can usually be fixed by going into the Network Manager, and reentering the password (or one character of it). Other times, if one "scans" in network manager, no networks appear. In this case, "rcnetwork restart" will usually restore the connection. So the problem is not that we cannot connect, but that once we connect it is not reliable, and gets dropped at unpredictable intervals, usually but not always once or twice a day. I'm using knetworkmanager in kde (rather than ifup), but the same behavior has occurred in gnome. If I recall, it has also happened with ifup. Opensuse 11.4, kde 4.6. Any suggestions as to how to troubleshoot this? Thanks. -- Fr David Ousley davidousley(a)verizon.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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