March 2013 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse] Root and boot partitions on a sw raid volume (opensuse 12.2 - 12.3 rc1 64bit)
by Christopher Myers 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Ah cool, that makes sense. I was curious if it made a difference since oS sees the original disks as "/dev/sda" and "/dev/sdb", but the partitions from the aggregate device from the fake raid are shown as /dev/mapper/[something] (Sorry if you got this twice, I forgot to make the email plain text the first time, so had to resend it cause it got rejected the first time.) Chris >>> 03/21/13 11:06 PM >>> The primary differences between fake raid and pure software MD are - fake raid is partitioned, software raid usually not - fake raid is seen as single device by BIOS, software raid - as multiple devices So they need different solutions. Fake raid is actually easier to handle. Pure software raid needs more work. Отправлено с iPhone 22.03.2013, в 0:14, Christopher Myers написал(а): > I wasn't sure if I would be able to reproduce the issue or not, since a > fake-raid on Linux seems to be treated similarly as a regular software > RAID :) > >>>> Per Jessen 03/21/13 3:06 PM >>> > Christopher Myers wrote: > >> I'm running oS 12.2 on a small server at home with the Adaptec >> HostRaid (fake RAID) adapter that's onboard the SuperMicro PDSMI+ >> motherboard, with two Seagate SATA drives in RAID1. Is there any way >> to test this without unplugging one of the drives and forcing the >> array into recovery mode? > > Chris, > as you're not using software RAID, I don't quite see what you want to > test? > > > > -- > Per Jessen, Zürich (3.2°C) > http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org > > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.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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Re: [opensuse] vlan frames redirected to the wrong bridge
by mailing lists 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hello, On 03/22/2013 01:30 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > Yo may be interested in this article, which seems to explain what happens here: > > http://www.rackspace.com/blog/vms-vlans-and-bridges-oh-my-part-2/ thank you Andrey, It works with the ebtables rule. -- 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] vlan frames redirected to the wrong bridge
by mailing lists 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hello list, I have a network configuration like this: HVM domU [eth0:10.180.245.100] -> [tap2.0] br1 [eth0.214] -> dom0 [eth0:192.168.0.39] dom0 is a xen host with a typical bridge (br0), but now I need to add several domU machines with vlan tagging whilst dom0 remains untagged. So a new bridge (br1) is used to add vlan tags to this domU, the resulting bridge configuration is: dom0:~ # brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br0 8000.0026b9fc5688 no eth0 br1 8000.0026b9fc5688 no eth0.214 tap2.0 the problem is that for traffic sent from any domU, the ARP-REPLY is returned to the wrong bridge. A simple test with ping to 10.180.245.97 show the wrong path for replies: dom0 frame seen in tap2.0: 12:36:08.490622 00:16:3e:32:16:d6 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 42: Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 10.180.245.97 tell 10.180.245.100, length 28 dom0 frame seen in br1: 12:36:51.498916 00:16:3e:32:16:d6 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 42: Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 10.180.245.97 tell 10.180.245.100, length 28 dom0 frame seen in eth0.214 12:37:23.504996 00:16:3e:32:16:d6 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 42: Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 10.180.245.97 tell 10.180.245.100, length 28 dom0 frame seen in eth0, now with vlan tagging and the corresponding reply 12:38:03.512530 00:16:3e:32:16:d6 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype 802.1Q (0x8100), length 46: vlan 214, p 0, ethertype ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 10.180.245.97 tell 10.180.245.100, length 28 12:38:03.513126 00:0b:fc:fe:1b:02 > 00:16:3e:32:16:d6, ethertype 802.1Q (0x8100), length 64: vlan 214, p 0, ethertype ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Reply 10.180.245.97 is-at 00:0b:fc:fe:1b:02, length 46 dom0 frame appears in br0 and not in br1 12:39:52.533341 00:0b:fc:fe:1b:02 > 00:16:3e:32:16:d6, ethertype 802.1Q (0x8100), length 64: vlan 214, p 0, ethertype ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Reply 10.180.245.97 is-at 00:0b:fc:fe:1b:02, length 46 anyone knows how to get replies to br1 instead of br0? -- 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-chat
by General Mail 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hello All, For over 1.5 years, I was under the impression that AlbertoP was the founder of #opensuse-chat when he told me it was approved by the board. Why AlbertoP abuse of power? Regards -- 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] Live update from 11.4 to 12.1 problems
by Claudio ML 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hello all, I am trying to update with internet an OpenSuSE 11.4 to 12.1, then the following steps. But... i have a problem: i have followed the procedure found at this link: http://it.opensuse.org/SDB:Aggiornamento_del_sistema_ad_una_nuova_versione So, i have added the follow repository: # | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh --+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+---------+-------- 1 | Updates-for-openSUSE-12.1-12.1-0 | Updates for openSUSE 12.1 12.1-0 | Yes | Yes 2 | openSUSE-12.1-12.1-0 | openSUSE-12.1-12.1-0 | Yes | No 3 | repo-debug | openSUSE-12.1-Debug | No | Yes 4 | repo-debug-update | openSUSE-12.1-Update-Debug | No | Yes 5 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-12.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes 6 | repo-oss | openSUSE-12.1-Oss | Yes | Yes 7 | repo-source | openSUSE-12.1-Source | No | Yes 8 | repo-update-non-oss | repo-update-non-oss | Yes | Yes The problem is the following: when i do a zypper ref, i have this error: Retrieving repository 'repo-update-non-oss' metadata [error] Repository 'repo-update-non-oss' is invalid. [|] Repository type can't be determined. Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. I have added this repository: zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1-non-oss/ repo-update-non-oss Adding repository 'repo-update-non-oss' [done] Repository 'repo-update-non-oss' successfully added Enabled: Yes Autorefresh: Yes URI: http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1-non-oss/ Because i read on the procedure "if you are upgrading from a version like 12.1 or previous, add this repository" What i am doing wrong? Cordially, Claudio. -- 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] Acrobat Reader unusable
by Marco Calistri 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hello, Someone could kindly explain me why Acrobat Reader is showing this way: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amdturion/8578039776/lightbox/ on my 12.2 Gnome 3.6.2? I tried to re-install the Adobe package without success! Tks, -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) opensuse 12.2 (Mantis) 64 bit - Kernel 3.4.28-2.20-desktop Gnome 3.6.2 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] Remmina clipboard support doesn't work openSUSE 12.3
by Luis González 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hello, I'm trying to use remmina to connect remote Windows host, but sadly the support for the clipboard doesn't work with openSUSE 12.3 or at least not in fresh installation of 12.3 Can anyone has the same issue? I read about freeRDP and the solution posted in https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/issues/13 but I wan to know if exist any patch to apply. thank you! -- Luis González @ GMAIL -- 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] Usual problem with upgrade from DVD to 12.3 with system using mdadm
by Claudio ML 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hello all, I have seen there is the same problem of the previous versions of OpenSuSE also into 12.3. The problem is: If you try to upgrade from a DVD an OpenSuSE with software raid (mdadm), the installer don't see the previous version of openSuSE on the hard disk. This is caused because the kernel don't recognize correctly the md arrays. In example, if i have md0 (/ root file system), md1 (/var), md2 (/srv), the installer see this as md125, md126 and md127. So, no DVD upgrade possible for this machines. I have tryied to edit manually the fstab on the machine, adapting to what the installer see, but after the upgrade the system becomes un-bootable. Anyone have a good workaround for this problem? Cordially, Claudio. -- 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 Version 3.6:build-304 : how to open hidden Directory prefixed with a Dot?
by ellanios82 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hello List-Members - until recently, LibreOffice was willing to open hidden Directory prefixed with a Dot, in "Home" , however since updating to openSuSE 12.3 am unable to do so. - any ideas How to fix please ? thanks best regards -- 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] after upgrade, mythtv seems to be unable to kill the screen-lock?
by Per Jessen 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Anyone using mythtv? I've just upgraded a desktop to 12.3, and mythtv is now being interrupted by the screen-lock. I do want screen-locking on this machine, but I also want to allow mythtv to disable/enable it. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (7.2°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- 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] FreeCAD 0.13 / OpenSuSE 12.3 Problem - Missing Modules
by andreil1 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hi, folks, Hi, Juergen, I have installed FreeCAD 0.13 (from repository home:jnweiger:freecad) on OpenSuSE 12.3/x64. Installation went smooth, all dependencies were resolved. However, launch of FreeCAD 0.13 is only partial success, shell is loaded, it immediately gives error message "No module named StartGUI". Workbench -> New -> … always throws the same type of error, for example Workbench -> New -> Arch - "No module named Drawing". Anyone have any clue what might be wrong ? PyQt module is installed. Thanks in advance. Andrei -- 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] Live USB and bulk install
by Anton Aylward 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

In the past I've only ever had to install Linux on single machines at a time, but a new client has raised the question of doing a bulk install on many (more than 20, possibly as many as a hundred) workstations. Step and repeat, all the same. Rather than the long work off an installation DVD, I'm wondering... Is is possible to set up what amount to a LiveUSB stick, (Yes I've seen https://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick) boot from it, then use 'dd' to copy the stick to the hard drive, and then finally do some magic to make the new Linux on the hard drive bootable? Just a few minutes work.inux on the hard drive bootable? Yes I appreciate that I'll have to do much setup before hands for the server that handles the logins and configure the various files on the stick-image. In an ideal world I want to be able to make a couple or more of these sticks and give them to the clients IT staff - or at least the ones enthusiastic about Linux/Suse in the future - with a set of idiot poof instructions. Hopefully that way the "hundred or so" that the manager talks about can be accomplished in a few hours. Then we're down to the step-and-repeat of testing. Of course no-one is going to test a machine he did the install on :-0 -- The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur. - A.N. Whitehead -- 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] Upgrade to 12.3 caused akonadi problems/crash in 11.4
by Marc Chamberlin 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

I have been running an openSuSE 11.4 system with a number of server applications such as Tomcat, James, Bacula etc., and decided it was time I upgrade it to 12.3. I have always followed a model of keeping /home in it's own partition and installing each new version of openSuSE into it's own partition. In this way, my thinking was that I could keep running the older version of openSuSE until I get all the servers and configuration files (found in /etc /srv and elsewhere) upgraded and running under the newer version of openSuSE. That model has always worked in the past and I thought openSuSE developers would continue to adhere to that model as well... In other words, I thought that things, such as configuration files for user applications, put in user's /home directories would stay backwards compatible with future versions of openSuSE and we could upgrade/migrate them at our leisure, if/when we wanted to.. Well, that model, has failed this time on me. After installing openSuSE 12.3, I restarted my 11.4 system and found that there were several akonadi processes that were collectively running the CPU at 100% capacity and within a few minutes the 11.4 system would completely lock up on me forcing me to hard reboot the system... This strongly indicated that the 12.3 installation of openSuSE touched/changed configuration files in the /home user directories, in such a way that broke 11.4, which comes as a surprise.... AND it is scary because I do not know what all got touched/changed. I know that I am making a large version jump in openSuSE, but I thought the whole idea/suggestion of putting /home in a separate directory was to allow exactly this sort of thing, to be able to run different versions of openSuSE with a "constant" home directory. If a change in a configuration file, found on the /home directories, is absolutely necessary, then why not use a scheme that uses some sort of versioning markers or perhaps links and environment variables to differentiate what config (or part of a config) file goes with what version of it's associated application or OS? It really seems like /home dirs and files should stay functional no matter what version of openSuSE is running, and these files should never break the OS. Seems like configuration files that are highly OS dependent should be under /etc Doing some internet searches, I found a set of instructions at http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=154&t=88771&start=15 which described how to disable akonadi. This was done by renaming a bunch of files (as described in this forum) which are found in the users home directory under various .directories. By disabling akonadi, the 11.4 system is able to run ok, but I am not familiar with akonadi and the descriptions of it is not helping me to grok what the impact of disabling it may be on the 12.3 system. I don't know if I will need akonadi or not in the 12.3 version of openSuSE, and since it was enabled and running after the installation, I fear I might be in for some agonizing debugging if things do not work correctly in 12.3. So how should I best proceed? Is there a way to disable akonadi when I am running 11.4 and enable it when I am running 12.3 automagically? Marc.... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- 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] Using duinsoft.nl script to update Java Sun
by Marco Calistri 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Hello, I need Sun Java to access an Internet Banking account and so far I always used the manual update way. I would like to know if in OpenSuSe are there any chances to install the deb package or in alternative to adapt the script available in www.duinsoft.nl in order to run it inside a crontab to check Java download and install the new JRE. http://www.duinsoft.nl/packages.php?t=en#hand Thanks. Cheers, -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) opensuse 12.2 (Mantis) 64 bit - Kernel 3.4.33-2.24-desktop Gnome 3.6.2 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] OpenSUSE Hyper-V 'An error occurred during initrd creation'
by Paul Groves 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

I am having a problem installing OpenSUSE on a Hyper-V VM an was hoping someone could help me with this issue. I install from the cd as usual but when it gets to 86% it gives me this error: An error occurred during initrd creation error disk: 'hd0,2' not found It then tells me grub failed to install. I tested this same install on a physical machine from the same physical CD and it worked fine so I thought this must be a compatibility issue with Hyper-V. I read online and discovered I apparently has to install the drivers for the Hyper-v machine for this to install correctly. I checked and these are already in the repositories and selected by default. (The package is called hyper-v). I did however, try to install them manually, it told me they installed correctly but when I continued with the install the same error occurred. I decided to configure the machine on SUSEStudio and download the pre-made .vhd for Hyper-V I installed a VM with this .vhd file and it booted up fine. I can reboot the server at this point and every time it boots fine :) But.... if Iog-in then try to reboot (even if I log straight back out without making any changes) I get the following error after the GRUB boot screen has finished: waiting for device /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-14d5346542020202000000000000000000000000000000000-part1 to appear: ..............................Could not find /dev-disk/by-id/scsi-14d5346542020202000000000000000000000000000000000-part1. Want me to fall back to /dev-disk/by-id/scsi-14d5346542020202000000000000000000000000000000000-part1? (Y/n) I even tried installing the hyper-v integration tools and drivers again before I rebooted but this makes no difference. I have installed ubuntu, fedora and CentOS on Hyper-V as I read this issue affected any Linux system but they all work fine, OpenSUSE has the same errors every time I try to install on versions 12.3, 12.2, 12.1, 11.4. I even tried a copy of SLES 11.4 I was given with the exact same errors! Has anyone else come across this issue? I have spent more than a day trying to find a solution to this online! -- 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] apper with 12.3
by Greg Freemyer 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Just a note that apper with 12.3 seems much better behaved. I've left it installed and have used it a few times to pull down updates in the last couple weeks. In 12.2 and before, I would have got mad at it by now and removed it. People that haven't used it in a while may want to give it a chance again. 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] Re: [smartmontools-support] WARNING: smartmon-tools 6.1 locks Areca-SAS driven system
by Hans-Peter Jansen 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Dear Alex, On Mittwoch, 20. März 2013 11:38:49 Alex Samorukov wrote: > On 03/19/2013 06:51 PM, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > Dear Stanislav, dear smartmontools developers, > > > > I've upgraded one of my servers to smartmontools 6.1 today, that happens > > to > > drive a Areca SAS controller, specifically: > > > > <5>[ 7.206669] Areca RAID Controller6: F/W V1.46 2009-01-06 & Model > > ARC-1680 <6>[ 7.270516] scsi6 : Areca SAS Host Adapter RAID > > Controller( RAID6 capable) <6>[ 7.270516] Driver Version 1.20.00.15 > > 2010/08/05 > > > > Thing is, the system freezes immediately after running (updating) smartd. > > rpm stopped at 89%, and the system was *locked*. While I can switch > > consoles, even Sys-Req S and U doesn't finish anymore, while B worked. > > :-( > > Sounds scary. Please do some tests: > > 1) Test on smartd from fresh svn to make sure that local patches are not > affecting the result. > 2) Test if smartctl --scan and --scan-open commands works. > 3) try to run it with smartd -d -r ioctl and provide resulted output. Will do that soon (hopefully I can do these tests in single user mode). > Also i would recommend to make sure that RAID firmware is up to date, > because this could be caused by wrong firmware. Honestly, I don't buy this argument. This behavior points to a serious *kernel* problem in this area, since a system app, even running as root, should never ever be able to firmly lock the system, no matter what firmware version it is running. But such issues must be analysed and fixed, of course.. This mail was intended to both: warn users about it, and harvest some hints on how to preceed. Thanks for sharing the tests, Pete -- 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] Duplicate NFS mounts in Places
by Alvin 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Hello all, I upgraded from openSUSE 12.1 to openSUSE 12.3. Both were running KDE 4.10. I have noticed that some of my NFS mounts are duplicated in the "Places" panel in Dolphin (left-hand side). The duplicated items have an additional '/' in the name (e.g. //docs). My NFS server is openSUSE 12.2. I am using NFS4. My fstab entry is: server:/docs /mnt/server_docs nfs4 default,intr,hard,user 0 0 When I select the entry that has a single '/' I get a notification that: "Could not mount the following device: /docs on server." and the text in the red bar in Dolphin states: "An error occurred while accessing '/docs on server', the system responded: mount.nfs4: /mnt/server_docs is busy or already mounted" If I select the entry with two forward slashes ('//'), it works just fine. I suspect this is an issue caused by the upgrade (e.g. mixed up config file?). Does anyone know of a way to force Dolphin or KDE to refresh its listings? Thanks, Alvin -- 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] kwin and minimized windows
by Roger Oberholtzer 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

On an openSUSE 12.1 system, a user has accidentally set an app's window property so that it is always minimized. They claim that they cannot get to the window decoration part that lets them change this, as they could before it became permanently minimized. I see that the settings that control this are in: $HOME/.kde/share/config/kwinrulesrc Is there a GUI to change this? Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer Ramböll RST / Systems 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] Live upgrade with jump?
by Claudio ML 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Hello all, Just a simple question: Is officially supported the network upgrade with a jump from versions ? Like 11.4 ---> 12.3 or similar. Or is always better upgrade without jumps? 11.4 -> 12.1 -> 12.2 -> 12.3 .... Cordially, Claudio. -- 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: Live USB and bulk install
by Malcolm 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

On Wed 20 Mar 2013 09:27:49 AM CDT, Anton Aylward wrote: >Malcolm said the following on 03/20/2013 09:01 AM: >> Hi >> And PXE boot them..... >> > >Client/manager says no. >These weren't thin 'client' machines to start with. > > Hi To do the install.....? if your using your laptop, set up the pxe server, connect a switch and hookup a few systems at a time to do the install then switch off the pxe boot (assuming the systems in question have the ability). -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop up 2 days 17:10, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.11 CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520(a)2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake 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] Re: Live USB and bulk install
by Malcolm 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

On Wed 20 Mar 2013 01:56:43 PM CDT, Per Jessen wrote: >Anton Aylward wrote: > >> In the past I've only ever had to install Linux on single machines at >> a time, but a new client has raised the question of doing a bulk >> install on many (more than 20, possibly as many as a hundred) >> workstations. Step and repeat, all the same. > >AutoYaST ? > >If that's too much effort for a one-off, and if the machines are all >the same, how about installing one and then cloning it? Just a >tar-copy will do. > > > Hi And PXE boot them..... -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop up 2 days 16:30, 5 users, load average: 0.17, 0.13, 0.13 CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520(a)2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake 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] No text in Acroread - 12.3
by James Knott 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

I installed Acroread in openSuSE 12.3. There is a problem where boxes appear in place of text in the menus etc. The document appears fine. Any idea on the cause & fix? tnx jk -- 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] Upgrade to 12.3 caused akonadi problems/crash in 11.4
by Marc Chamberlin 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

On 3/18/2013 11:01 AM, Jan Ritzerfeld wrote: > Am Sonntag, 17. März 2013, 22:12:50 schrieb Marc Chamberlin: >> I have been running an openSuSE 11.4 system with a number of server >> applications such as Tomcat, James, Bacula etc., and decided it was time >> I upgrade it to 12.3. I have always followed a model of keeping /home in >> it's own partition and installing each new version of openSuSE into it's >> own partition. > I am doing the same. I updated to 12.3 this weekend. > >> In this way, my thinking was that I could keep running >> the older version of openSuSE until I get all the servers and >> configuration files (found in /etc /srv and elsewhere) upgraded and >> running under the newer version of openSuSE. That model has always >> worked in the past and I thought openSuSE developers would continue to >> adhere to that model as well... >> [...] > I am not a "openSUSE developer" but I always clearly stated, when being > asked or when I advised a KDE update, that you should not do that. You > should backup your old /home. You should never go back after KDE has updated > and migrated(!) its configuration and databases. If it worked for you in the > past, it was pure luck. > > Sorry > Jan Thanks Jan for replying. I guess that makes it even harder to do upgrades of openSuSE. I wish the openSuSE developers/designers, along with the Linux community in general, would give some more thought and directions on how we users are suppose to be able to migrate to newer releases of an OS while at the same time being able to regress back to previous releases when we have to. Having to maintain separate /home directories-partitions for each release would be a major PITA because of the divergences that will happen, and keeping data synchronized between them (can you say mail databases for example?) while running under different versions of openSuSE. Some of us poor users don't have the luxury of setting up separate servers and client computers when migrating from one OS to the next, and must do it in place. And getting a new system up and running takes time and we cannot afford to have our computers down during production/work hours, so the migration process can take a long time to complete. I know, I been through this process quite a few times now. I have a few tricks in place that help, for example I yank a lot of stuff out of /etc for different server configurations files and link them back in to versioned directories (in a separate partition which then retains configuration files for running the servers under different versions of openSuSE as well as different versions of the servers themselves.) Guess I will have to start doing something similar for the /home directories and figure out what stuff KDE/openSuSE is likely to touch and yank that stuff out to a separate partition with versioned directories as well. Either way it is a PITA and I wish there was a well defined (and adhered to) model for laying out partitions and directories so we can easily support regressing back when it is necessary to do so. Marc... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- 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] WARNING: smartmon-tools 6.1 locks Areca-SAS driven system
by Hans-Peter Jansen 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Dear Stanislav, dear smartmontools developers, I've upgraded one of my servers to smartmontools 6.1 today, that happens to drive a Areca SAS controller, specifically: <5>[ 7.206669] Areca RAID Controller6: F/W V1.46 2009-01-06 & Model ARC-1680 <6>[ 7.270516] scsi6 : Areca SAS Host Adapter RAID Controller( RAID6 capable) <6>[ 7.270516] Driver Version 1.20.00.15 2010/08/05 Thing is, the system freezes immediately after running (updating) smartd. rpm stopped at 89%, and the system was *locked*. While I can switch consoles, even Sys-Req S and U doesn't finish anymore, while B worked. :-( Reverting to version 6.0 resolved it for me. I'm using the simplest of all cases of /etc/smartd.conf, since that worked reasonably well: DEVICESCAN -d removable -m root While userspace is rather old (openSUSE 11.1/i586), it's controlled by a reasonably current kernel: <5>[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.8.3-3-pae (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP Fri Mar 15 08:16:33 UTC 2013 (1ca6928) All packages are built on OBS, smartmontools here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=smartmontools&project=home%… I would seriously consider reverting the 6.0 -> 6.1 transition in the openSUSE repos, until this issue is fixed. Let me know, what additional information I can provide in order to resolve the issue. Thanks, Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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