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[opensuse] Linux RAID and different version of openSUSE
by Roger Oberholtzer 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

I have an 11.2 system with a software raid disk set. The disks are ext3. I am curious what issues I might encounter if I updated the OS to 12.1 or 12.2. Specifically: - Would the disks be compatible? Seems a silly question. But I have been in situations where lack of compatibility was unexpected. - After mounting on 12.x, could I expect the disks to work if I reverted to 11.2? The disks are data-only. The OS is elsewhere. So the question is not about reverting the OS. It is really about mounting the disks on 11.2, 12.2, and back to 11.2. The info for the disks is below: # mdadm -D /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 0.90 Creation Time : Fri Nov 25 18:06:04 2005 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 293025472 (279.45 GiB 300.06 GB) Used Dev Size : 293025472 (279.45 GiB 300.06 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu Aug 16 15:28:56 2012 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 UUID : d679bc98:c9dcd593:b738ad98:3a9a198a Events : 0.676332 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 17 0 active sync /dev/sdb1 1 8 33 1 active sync /dev/sdc1 # mdadm --detail-platform -v -v /dev/md0 mdadm: checking metadata 0.90 mdadm: 0.90 metadata is platform independent mdadm: checking metadata 1.x mdadm: 1.x metadata is platform independent mdadm: checking metadata ddf mdadm: ddf metadata is platform independent mdadm: checking metadata imsm mdadm: found Intel SATA AHCI Controller mdadm: imsm option-rom not found Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer(a)ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- 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] Thunderbird - losing email (archive stops 2010, inbox empty before 5/2011)
by David C. Rankin 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

Guys, This is potentially critical and I hope it is just because I am doing something wrong in tbird 14. The server is postifx, the mta is dovecot, the mailbox is imap. I was searching for some critical emails from March and April 2011. Checking my inbox, there are no messages prior to 5/31/2011. WTF? So I then looked in the "archive" folder expecting to find them - nothing. There is nothing in "archive" since 12/12/2010. There is another folder called "Archive", but it has nothing in it. Checking the Settings -> Copies & Folders under Message Archives, I have the following: [x] Keep messages archives in: o "Archives" Folder on Rankin Law Firm Archive options... When archiving messages, place them in: o Yearly archived folders [x] Keep existing folder structure of archived messages Checking the actual mail files on the server in ~/Mail, I have an "archive" showing the date of "May 18 2011 archive". However, when I look at the archive in tbird there is nothing shown from 12/12/10 on and nothing in my inbox before 5/31/11. So where is all the mail from 12/12/10-5/31/11? I cannot express the enormity and implications of a potential loss like this. Apparently the mail is still in the "archive" file, but not displayed in the "archive" folder of tbird? How do I get the mail back? -- 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] Xen and KVM on 32 bit
by lynn 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

Hi 12.1 Is there any chance of being able to use Xen or KVM on a 32 bit install of 12.1 with 2GB RAM? It seems that Vbox is my only option on 32. Thanks, 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] Re: Separate /usr?
by Joachim Schrod 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

David C. Rankin wrote: > On 08/09/2012 11:11 PM, Rodney Baker wrote: >> The FHS is complementary to the LSB which (afaik) openSuSE purports to be more >> or less compliant with (but I'm open to be corrected if that is wrong). >> Therefore, openSuSE should also be compliant with the LHS. > > It is the "more or less" part that has led to the complete failure of FHS to > accomplish the purposes for which it was envisioned. The FHS in its present form > is an excellent standard which if complied with would provide for better cross > distro portability of all opensource code and accomplish its intended purpose of > providing a standard framework of file locations to be relied on by those > developing software for Linux. The genesis of the project was to solve the issue > years ago of "why do all the good games only run on ms..." > > However, instead of embracing FHS, the opensource community created libtool, > automake, etc... This is complete and utter bullsh*t. We created libtool, automake, et.al. to cater for the differences between UNIX(tm) systems, not for those puny differences in file system layout people like you whine about. You obviously don't know about the potential differences one has to care about when one wants to develop, compile, and maintain an application for SunOS (not Solaris!, at least not after 2.2), HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, Tru64 Unix, Ultrix, and -- last, but not least -- Eunice. echo "Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice." --Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution (Nowadays Eunice doesn't even have a Wikipedia page anymore.) I was there and was among those people who created this, I am witness. Please do *not* try to rewrite history. You were not part of it. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod, Roedermark, Germany Email: jschrod(a)acm.org -- 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] Printing with Canon IP1600 - cups thinks success, but nothing comes out
by Myrosia Dzikovska 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

I am trying to get a Canon IP1600 to print in OpenSuse 12.1. There are ubuntu instructions on the web, that I am trying to adapt http://askubuntu.com/questions/41615/how-to-install-canon-pixma-ip1600 I downloaded the drivers, tracked down older libraries (gtk1), and installed the rpms. The ppd file needed minor corrections, to say resolution 600x600 instead of 600/600, but with that passed the cupstestppd. Yast print setup happily detects the printer, reads in the ppd file, and lets me choose the ip2200 driver (which according to the docs should support ip1600 as well) . But when I print a test page, nothing comes out of the printer. The cups error log is attached. It contains no errors - cups clearly thinks that all is well. I tried using the command it logs from the command line, with a ps file, but that just got a bunch of stuff printed on the console instead of going to the printer. What could be going wrong here? (logged command) /usr/bin/gs -r600 -g4958x7016 -q -dNOPROMPT -dSAFER -sDEVICE=ppmraw -sOutputFile=- -| /usr/local/bin/cifip2200 --imageres 600 --papersize a4 --media plain --quality 3 --bbox 9,14,585,834 Thanks Myrosia

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[opensuse] Debug versions of local libraries
by Roger Oberholtzer 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

I would like to make debug information for libraries we make. Of course, I can compile and link the libraries this way, and install them. But I see that for openSUSE libraries, a better method is used: An RPM is made that contains the debug version of the library. This version of the library is not used when the application is run normally. This is used by gdb when running an application or examining a core file. There seems to be some intelligence to this so that gdp knows which version of the debug RPM is needed, and even suggests the command to get that version installed. These debug version of the librarys are perhaps installed in an alternate location from the regular use versions. Is there a description for how this is accomplished on openSUSE? Of most interest is how to set it up so that the debug version of the library is available to gdb. I looked around on the openSUSE site, but could not find anything. I guess I do not know where best to look... Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer(a)ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- 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 submit bug reports that actually get to a package maintainer
by Karl Ove Hufthammer 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

Dear list members, I have read http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Submitting_bug_reports on submitting bug reports. And about a year ago I submitted a bug report on a packaging bug in the ‘neverball’ package (official OSS repository), using the above guidelines: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699124 This never got a reply, and it looks like the assignee (which was automatically selected by Bugzilla) is a person that haven’t worked on openSUSE for *many* years, and probably will never look at the bug report (since he’s now at Canonical). Since the official way of reporting bugs in packages (like this one) doesn’t work, who should I contact, or where should I submit packaging bug reports so that they get to people that actually are able to do anything about them? I’d be grateful for any advice. -- Karl Ove Hufthammer http://huftis.org/ Jabber: karl(a)huftis.org -- 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] Re-directing e-mails to alternate lists [WAS: Re: Debug versions of local libraries]
by Greg Freemyer 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Lars Müller <lmuelle(a)suse.com> wrote: <snip> > > Thanks Roger for your feedback. > > I'm redirecting your question to the opensuse-buildservice(a)opensuse.org > list. > > The initial posting was: > http://lists.openSUSE.org/opensuse/2012-08/msg00328.html > > Instead to complain any of us is able to do the same by replying to the > correct list, set Reply-To, and by this the discussion is moved forward > to the correct list. > > Thanks, > > Lars Lars, Are most of the technical opensuse mailing lists now open to non-subscribers. I know some went that way a year or two ago, but I don't know where it is documented about which are open to non-subscribers and which aren't. Further, it means the reply-all model needs to be followed on those lists for this to work. Not sure if the subscribers of those lists are aware of that or not. fyi: I'm a big fan of the "open to non-subscribers" model. A few spams get in, but it makes it easier to live with the large number of lists opensuse has. 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] Weird behavior of Thunderbird when working "offline".
by Carlos E. R. 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Right now I'm working offline in Th, no internet for at least 2 days. I told Th. to sync and store locally mail so that I could read it after leaving. And it works. I'm reading posts in a thread in the stored factory mail list (for example), but now and then I hit mails that I can not read, often my own. Th displays this text instead: +++························· The body of this message has not been downloaded from the server for reading offline. To read this message, you must reconnect to the network, choose Offline from the File menu and then uncheck Work Offline. In the future, you can select which messages or folders to read offline. To do this, choose Offline from the file menu and then select Synchronize. You can adjust the Disk Space preference to prevent the downloading of large messages. ·························++- But that is precisely what I did! I can read most emails in a folder, and some emails in that same folder are not retrieved - often my own mails. WHY! It is not that I want to read those posts, I did that previously. I want to mark them as read, so that collapsed threads do not show in bold with posts still needing to be read. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.1-ex-factory) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlApphIACgkQja8UbcUWM1yS3wD8CqXKZAgBr3MmznAG3L7Uec1Q eeUENDTclQVCbebAW7wA/0H6MtKr+WZGq4DHc+aQNFQhpTAPx6fT8Rm3ykHy7lru =tW7L -----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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Re: [opensuse] Partition Recovery? Is it even missing to begin with or just shifted?
by David C. Rankin 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

On 08/10/2012 07:44 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2012/08/10 19:02 (GMT-0500) David C. Rankin composed: > [...] >> The sfdisk -l information seems to point to the problem: start: (c,h,s) >> expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1). How to repair that? > > Part of what you get by buying a DFSee license is problem analysis by its author > that commonly results in the return of a repair script that will fix problems > found. It includes an analysis script that generates logs and such you email to > support to enable such analysis. It's the only way I ever partition any HD for > over a decade. It includes functionally equivalent executables for 5 different > operating systems, so you can run it when necessary from a DOS CD or a live > Linux CD or DVD, in addition to BartPE and Hirens. www.dfsee.com Thanks Felix, At this point I'm really curious to learn what happened and try and fix it in the process. Worse case scenario, I nuke the drive and put another one it and go through the pain of reinstall. What I think happened, is some corrupting information got written to the first part of sda1 that is causing the partition table to see it as a separate partition. As such, it has renumbered the primary partition present sda1->sda2. Since sda1 starts on sector 29 and ends on sector 29, it looks like the answer will be along the lines of deleting sda1 and making sure sda2 ends up back as sda1. I have mounted sda2 to test and make sure the original xp partition is in tact. It appears to be: 16:13 killerz:/home/david # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /windows/c -o gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). The file system wasn't safely closed on Windows. Fixing. 16:14 killerz:/home/david # l /windows/c total 4192197 drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 8192 Aug 7 14:21 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 1 2011 .. drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 16384 Mar 5 2011 4629192f8fdea65e703a5362c88fd1 drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 Oct 20 2011 Documents and Settings drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 Jun 15 14:40 Fraps drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 Nov 22 2011 glassfish3 drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 Oct 20 2011 HammerAutosave drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 Mar 1 2011 Inetpub drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 0 Mar 1 2011 Intel drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 0 Mar 26 2011 .jagex_cache_32 drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 0 Mar 1 2011 MSOCache drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 0 Mar 1 2011 NVIDIA drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 16384 Jul 24 20:04 Program Files drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 0 Mar 1 2011 RECYCLER drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 Mar 1 2011 System Volume Information drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 155648 Aug 6 10:10 WINDOWS -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 0 Mar 1 2011 AUTOEXEC.BAT -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 211 Aug 3 08:15 boot.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 0 Mar 1 2011 CONFIG.SYS -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 2146816000 Aug 6 10:10 hiberfil.sys -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 0 Mar 1 2011 IO.SYS -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 0 Mar 1 2011 MSDOS.SYS -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 47564 Mar 1 2011 NTDETECT.COM -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 250048 Mar 1 2011 ntldr -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 2145386496 Aug 6 10:10 pagefile.sys -rw-r--r-- 2 root users 77346 Aug 2 13:48 TDSSKiller.2.7.48.0_02.08.2012_13.48.30_log.txt Slowly I'm learning a bit more about repair, but that nagging 'uncertainty' of "do I really want to try X" certainly hangs heavy over my head. That's why I'm hoping some smart person on the list has done this before and can point me in the right direction :) -- 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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