May 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse] Is OpenSuSE 12.1 crypted swap a disk killer?
by j debert 19 May '12

19 May '12

So now I have 10.3 set up again. Finally. On 2012年05月03日 23:25, Per Jessen wrote: > jd wrote: >> no errors from the long test. But it now fails to seek when powered >> up. The >> disk is now definitely toast. I think too much unnecessary disk io >> cooked the >> disk's chipset, something i've seen happen before, w/ seagate & >> maxtor disks. > > The SMART test really ought to have picked it up. It definitely should have given some clue. I meant instead of io that all the seeking probably cooked the head motor drivers. hard to tell because the disk wasn't unusually warm, whereas the older disks mentioned got too hot to touch under similar conditions. The disk still spins up OK but the heads, while they do move, keep dropping back to the power-off position. After leaving the second disk for a couple weeks, it worked long enough to copy and run several long tests. All the SMART tests passed but as time went on it began to have io problems. Still, no errors were logged or reported by SMART. Reimaged the third disk with 10.3, the last known (mostly) good version for this machine. It's been running almost 2 weeks without any complaints or errors. > >> System is hp laptop, intel coppermine & piix chipset. hard to prove >> hardware >> is @ fault when it works just fine w/ other releases. > > Yeah, but DMA errors are pretty unusual. I've never seen that kind of DMA error before. > >> mem usage was not unusual but kswapd was using 93% of cpu. no cron >> jobs. > > That's different - any chance that swapping was being attempted but > not succeeding? That would keep kswapd busy I expect. If kswapd were blocked would it behave the same? I would expect kswapd to complain loudly and clearly in any case. I don't recall seeing any messages from kswapd or the crypt module used for encrypting swap. I recall only three messages that complained about disk io timeouts and another about disabling disk DMA on several subsequent reboots using both now dead disks, which stopped occurring after a few days. After that, up to the moment they died, there were no DMA problems at all. It's been recently mentioned elsewhere on the list that Akonadi and packagekit start going insane in the background. It may be that one of these or some other badly behaving disk/file indexer/searcher, something not started by at/cron, was causing the problem. I had forgotten about those evil disk/file indexing monsters. I've had horrible problems with them in the past. Usually those problems surface almost instantly after an upgrade/install though, and are dealt with. This problem didn't appear until quite some time later, while I was asleep, actually. It would be nice if they weren't mandatory dependencies for KDE & Gnome, and that they could be easily, quickly disabled, preferably by default. I don't understand how anyone could possibly think they're so absolutely vital and that everyone *MUST* use them. I seem to recall that because they were a serious problem for so many users it was decided they would be disabled or not installed by default. > >> noticed that since 11.0 older system support has been either broken and >> neglected, or removed entirely. that's really too bad. > > Can't say I have experienced the same - 12.1 was a poor release due to > systemd, but otherwise I have not noticed any lack of support for > older hardware. (except the GUI needing more resources, but that's to > be expected). > Pegasus driver is still broken. It's been broken since 10.3. If you're lucky it'll just cause an oops, not a crash. Still requires a reboot as it silently breaks USB when it fails. Only a small subset of Prism2/2.5/3 functions are now supported and it seems a bit fragile. It seems Orinoco, Proxim and Ricochet are also no longer fully supported. Some PCMCIA cards are no longer detected such as SunDisk/SanDisk PCMCIA Flash cards and Flash memory on otherwise supported PCMCIA cards. Haven't checked lately but noticed that Palm USB support disappeared after being reintroduced. Silicon Motion support for X was seriously crippled when it was allegedly improved in 2008, disabling hardware acceleration and 3d, and it hard-codes allocation of too much screen memory, and those were never fixed. Older ACPI support has been broken or at least incomplete since 11.0 and that was never fixed. Can't get APM to work right since 11.0. Some problem with motherboard i2c support since 10.1 broke the cooling fan control, especially for many laptops and someone said that was a known problem fixed in the next release but it wasn't. wpa-supplicant oopses and probably doesn't work with CPU's without crypto functions. Just to mention a couple off the top of my head. jd -- -- 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] Hibernation failure on 12.1
by Marco Calistri 19 May '12

19 May '12

Hello openSUSers, Today I lack attention on my screen and I have not noticed that my laptop battery was near to the limit so system had shutdown abruptly. I thought it will get hibernate but this has not happened, it really shutdown totally then I had to reboot. Wonder if this is a known issue or not. More system details on my signature below. Cheers, -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) opensuse 12.1 (Aspargus) - Kernel 3.1.10-1.9-desktop x86_64 Gnome 3.2.1 Intel® Core™ i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4 - Intel® Sandybridge Mobile -- 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] libreoffice cannot open smb:// files
by lynn 18 May '12

18 May '12

Hi This is really annoying. If we e.g. in Nautilus: smb://server/share and then attempt to open a file using libreoffice, the splash screen appears for a few seconds and then disappears. We have to mount the share locally to be able to open the file. The beauty of the smb:// method is that it mounts under ~/.gvfs with the uid of the user. Can only find me-too's and unresolved bug reports on this one. Does anyone here have a workaround? 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]
by Joseph Comfort 18 May '12

18 May '12

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[opensuse] Re: [Fwbuilder-discussion] Dual-homed NAT question
by James Knott 18 May '12

18 May '12

Whit Blauvelt wrote: >> I'm not an expert here but so far as I'm aware there's nothing in the IP >> > packet which has information about which interface it arrived on. Without >> > that information it can not be routed predictably for the return journey. > Think you're right. When it's being handled on just the firewall system, I > believe it's the kernel's rp_filter that's enabling it to work. But that's > lost when it goes on by DNAT. Thus the desire to use a port. There's_got_ > to be a way to implement the logic "if it comes from 192.168.1.xyz on port > 24, route it out through interface X on port 22" - except iptable's > limitation on outward port translation blocks the easy and obvious way. > If I put a daemon on the firewall box, with my current setup it just works. > Putting it on a separate system behind it though, I haven't found an > appropriate way yet to have the firewall recognize which outgoing interface > to use, to have it match the incoming. As has been mentioned before, there is no way for the firewall/NAT to determine which port is to be used. The packets behind the firewall will have a destination address and the routing tables will determine which interface will be used. Unless there is a specific route for a given address, the default route will always be used. You're looking for something that's not possible. Perhaps you could run a proxy on the firewall instead. -- 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] libreoffice calc import CSV
by Felix Miata 18 May '12

18 May '12

I don't use this suite much, sticking mostly to Quattro Pro for DOS, where file->import->CSV works fine only as long as the line lengths aren't too long. How long is too long I've been unable to figure out. QPro's been rejecting Fedex CSV files, so I want to import CSV file(s) into LibreOffice Calc, but it has no import menu I can find, only export. How does one get a CSV file into a spreadsheet? Is there a separate package for this function that I don't have installed? # rpm -qa | grep eoffi libreoffice-3.4.5.5-97.1.i586 libreoffice-base-3.4.5.5-97.1.i586 libreoffice-branding-upstream-3.4.5.5-97.1.noarch libreoffice-calc-3.4.5.5-97.1.i586 libreoffice-icon-theme-crystal-3.4.5.5-14.1.noarch libreoffice-kde-3.4.5.5-97.1.i586 libreoffice-pyuno-3.4.5.5-97.1.i586 libreoffice-writer-3.4.5.5-97.1.i586 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- 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] opensuse 11.4 a User in group video has unexpected access to NFS share
by Bob Cregan 18 May '12

18 May '12

Hi I have just had a rather confusing experience. I have an NFS mount with permissions as follows. /mount/point server1:/var/log # ls -l /mount/ total 64 drwxrwx--- 2 user1 group1 32768 May 18 12:54 point server1:/var/log # And I noticed that a username "user2" who is not in group1 could enter and write to the area. Lots of experimenting eventually gave the following user2 could only have this unexpected access to the share if it was in the group "video" (group 33) - when the user was removed from this group access to the share was denied as expected. I ran in updates and rebooted (the last update prior to this one was 22/04/2012) and the behaviour disappeared. There were no kernel updates and the current kernel version is 2.6.37.6-0.11.1 x86_64. Has anyone seen anything like this? As far as I know the video group just gives access to various device drivers. Thanks Bob -- Bob Cregan Senior Storage Systems Administrator ACRC Bristol University -- 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] how to protect from govt monitoring and anti p2p with opensuse?
by George Olson 18 May '12

18 May '12

As we all know, there are plenty of legitimate uses of torrent files that don't involve piracy. I downloaded my opensuse distribution using ktorrent. I have been reading about how to protect from having one's own computer logged with one of the anti-p2p groups and government monitoring. Whether or not one is downloading legitimate or copyrighted material, none of us like to be monitored. In a google search, the protection software and services out there that I could find are for windows or mac based computers, except BT Guard, which is a pay service. So I am wondering, what are opensuse users using to protect themselves from government monitoring and having their ip addresses logged? Is there another service like BT Guard which is not a pay service? What about a utility that blocks IP addresses from known anti-p2p groups, like peer guardian? -- G.O. Box #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.3 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB RAM Box #2 12.1 | KDE 4.8.3 | Pentium 4 (2core) | 32 | Intel 82915G | 2GB RAM Lap #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.3 | Core2 Duo T8100 | 64 | Intel 965GM | 4GB RAM Lap #2: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.2 | Core Duo T2400 | 32 | NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120 | 2GB RAM learning openSUSE and loving it -- 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] Skip the update of a specific version of a package
by Carlos E. R. 18 May '12

18 May '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-05-18 01:19, John Andersen wrote: Please remember to post to the list. > Yeah, its manual, but this is such a seldom required use-case its > silly to ask for a special new feature. I have 4 or 5 packages in this circumstance. - -- 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 Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+1iPcACgkQIvFNjefEBxqb3gCgrRhcT5AgVnDEiZhdcLW7d10F 70sAn3xzx5H1nr/Vjad1xR+xJVpcLNzd =Ni3V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] html5 problem
by jdd-gmane 18 May '12

18 May '12

Hello, I have a curious problem. I try to make an html5 page work with video if I try the very same index and video file on my local computer, the video runs. On the server it don't http://dodin.org/uploads/ source is below the video file is test2.ogv. I have a lot of video codecs installed idea? I don't know where are logs (nothing in apache logs) thanks jdd <html> <head> <title></title> <meta content=""> <style></style> </head> <body> <h1>test</h1> <p><video width="480" height="270" controls="controls" poster=""> <source src="test2.ogv" type="video/ogg" /> <source src="test2.mp4" type="video/mp4" /> <source src="test2.webm" type="video/webm" /> <img src="/.jpg" width="480" height="270" /> <br />Your browser does not allow HTML5 video. </video> </p> </div> </body> </html> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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