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Re: [opensuse] Searching for string in many files [Was: 12.3 + ntfs + ext4 + USB3 + different copying speeds]
by Per Jessen 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 04/04/2013 12:54 PM, Per Jessen wrote: >> You have deliberately prolonged the agony by adding '-n 1' to xargs - >> that means xargs will fork 'echo' once per filename. >> >> Try this: >> >> xargs -0 printf "%s\n" <listadeficheros | wc -l > > or even better: > > $ tr '\0' '\n' < listadeficheros | wc -l Yup, much better. > Isn't it cool to have so many choices? ;-) +1 -- 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] gma500 video and frame buffer
by Ruben Safir 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

Hello I have a fit/PC which has a Intel GMA500 Poulsbo video chip in it. It doesn't function correctly as can be seen in this bug report http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2013-03/msg04778.html The device is connected to a DVI connected screen and everything is scrunched up into the upper left hand corner of the screen. I think it is running through the VESA frame buffer? The device is running on an updated openSuSE 12.2. I managed to get the system to not run through the frame buffer, giving me full console at least, not no X capability. Since I've been using it as a server, that has been fine. But know after the latest upgrade, the boot screen has changed and the viewport is squashed into the corner again. The chips worked with openSuSE 11.3, so I don't even know how it is now working, but please, it is possible, let me know if there is a kernel driver i can install to make it work with X11 properly, or get rid of the frame buffer permanently this time. Ruben PS - Reference: http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/04/12/intel-gma500-poulsbo-drivers-and-ope… http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2013-03/msg04778.html hwinfo output: hid 81709 1 usbhid, Live 0xf81c5000 uhci_hcd 35656 0 - Live 0xf815f000 poulsbo 12553 0 - Live 0xf8115000 ehci_hcd 59456 0 - Live 0xf832b000 usbcore 194042 4 usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd, Live 0xf8194000 usb_common 12526 1 usbcore, Live 0xf8110000 gma500_gfx 138256 1 - Live 0xf80ed000 drm_kms_helper 45454 1 gma500_gfx, Live 0xf80e0000 drm 232083 2 gma500_gfx,drm_kms_helper, Live 0xf811a000 i2c_algo_bit 13198 1 gma500_gfx, Live 0xf809a000 i2c_core 33926 5 i2c_isch,gma500_gfx,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit, Live 0xf80c8000 thermal 18231 0 - Live 0xf80be000 video 18889 1 poulsbo, Live 0xf80a3000 processor 43535 1 acpi_cpufreq, Live 0xf80b2000 thermal_sys 19936 3 thermal,video,processor, Live 0xf8027000 hwmon 12912 2 coretemp,thermal_sys, Live 0xf8091000 ... 12: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.319] Unique ID: _Znp.DlGhUSFiV2D SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "Intel System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x8108 "System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller" SubVendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" SubDevice: pci 0x8119 Revision: 0x07 Driver: "gma500" Driver Modules: "drm" Memory Range: 0xd0080000-0xd00fffff (rw,non-prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0x1800-0x1807 (rw) Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xcfffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xd0040000-0xd007ffff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 16 (no events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00008108sv00008086sd00008119bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: gma500_gfx is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe gma500_gfx" Driver Info #1: Driver Status: poulsbo is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe poulsbo" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown -- 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] Install 12.3 0n Emachine
by A. den Oudsten 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

My desktop is an Acer emachine AMD Athlon (tm) II 160 u processor 800,00 MHz x86_64 nVidia Corporation GeForge nForge 430, 2D drive nouveau, 3D drive nouveau Gallium(7.11) RAM 1.7 GiB, Free memory 998.6 MiB (+306,5 MiB Caches), Free swap 2.0 GiB I installed 12.2 and when I started up I got green diagonal lines on the screen. When I started fail safe, no problems. After installing 12.3 the same, but there was no fail safe mode. Re-installing and Resque gave no solution. KDE Live disk resulted in the same diagonal lines, but with various colours!! and no fail safe!! I was a little bit surprised. Any ideas how to solve this? Thanks André den Oudsten -- 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] Unexpected dual IP-addresses on NIC
by Koenraad Lelong 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

Hi, At home, I recently started seeing two ip-adresses on different /24-subnets on the NIC's of my laptop, running OS12.2. To be more precise, "ifconfig" shows one ip-address, the expected address : 192.168.185.x, but "ip address show" shows two ip-addresses, 192.168.185.x and 192.168.1.y. "route" shows two routes for each NIC, just as "ip route show" does. The laptop is a dual-boot with ubuntu 10.04 and there I don't have this. I looked in the network-settings of yast, but I can't find anything problematic. I have been experimenting with a router that hands out addresses in the 192.168.1.x-range, but they never were present on the same network. And the lease-time of the router is less than a day. And it's not been active for more than a week now. Where could I look to get rid of that second address ? Thanks, Koenraad Lelong -- 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] DLNA video problem
by lynn 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

12.3, minidlna streaming to WD TV live /etc/mindlna.conf ... media_dir=V,/home/lynn/Videos ... Hi Certain videos, usually .mp4's, sometimes don't appear on the client. They can sometimes be made to appear by restarting the server and client (a pain). I think that this is an openSUSE or minidlna issue since I can transfer the same .mp4 to my Android tablet and DNLA it from there where it _always_ appears. I observe the same behaviour with the firewall turned off. I've checked the file and folder permissions and they're all lynn:users. The logs seem fine: [2013/04/01 10:19:15] minidlna.c:884: warn: Starting MiniDLNA version 1 .0.25 [SQLite 3.7.14.1]. [2013/04/01 10:19:15] minidlna.c:990: warn: HTTP listening on port 8200 and photos and mp3's always appear without fail. Any dlna users? 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] False positives about trojans in libreoffice-3.4.5.5-4.5.1.src.rpm
by Peter Maffter 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

I just had some shock after downloading updates for SuSE. There are viruses in libreoffice-3.4.5.5-4.5.1.src.rpm ! Rechecked, downloaded from http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/src/ checked again and so on. Can someone please add a warning to this file in the repositories pointing to the posting at http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-September/018749.html ? Would have saved me some time. ;-) -- 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] Process in disk sleep state
by Martin Zhang 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

Hi, when process in disk sleep sate, i can not do any other work, even shutting down the machine, is it a bug? it is horrible experience to my first using Suse. Could anyone help? :( -- 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] Disk Drive Technology and partition alignment [WAS: ]Re: 12.3 + ntfs + ext4 + USB3 + different copying speeds
by Greg Freemyer 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

Linda Walsh <suse(a)tlinx.org> wrote: >Greg Freemyer wrote: >> >> It is time for you to enter the 21st century in respects to disk >geometry. >---- > Greg, stop showing your ignorance. Ignorant of disk drive tech? Me? I'm open to learn, so let's see where we end up. >The LBA still corresponds to CHS *internally* -- just that the nums are >internal >to each HD. > My statement, which I stand by, is that the CHS value returned by the drive is meaningless in modern rotating drives. Obviously drives still have cylinders, heads, and sectors, they just don't try to relate that geometry via the CHS info that was so important prior to 1995 or so. Further, I state that the S value for sectors per track is not constant for the entire drive. You say there are lots of zones. I'm open to the idea that there are lot of values for S, depending where on the disk you are. Ignoring any zoning effects: Ie. S = int( (PI * D) / L) Where D = diameter L = linear length of a sector I'm open to the idea that a disk drive would have the cylinders grouped into zones of fixed S (sectors / track). I state that S and RPMs drive the transfer rate, so that is why you see different rates for different parts of the drive. Ie. Transfer rate = (RPMs / 60) * S * 512 / 1,000,000 = x MB/sec Hdd drives run at a constant rpm, so the reason for the variation in transfer rate is the variation in S from one zone to another. So for a drive spinning at 7200 rpm and transferring 120 MB/sec for the outer cylinders, that is about 2000 sectors/track. >> >> For at least the last decade the linear density of sectors is >typically constant over the whole platter. Since you know >circumference of a circle is PI * D, a track 3 inches from the center >holds 3x the sectors as one 1 inch from the center. That means number >of sectors per track isn't even a constant for a modern drive. >---- > Wrong. Right! > Modern HD's have been divided into zones for the past >15+years... Zones == collections of cylinders with the same # of sectors/track? If so, we both agree, but I have no idea why you said "wrong". Anyway that means there is a fixed S (sectors/track) for each zone. How can you know what the zones are and what the sectors per track are for any given zone? Without that info you can't attempt to align your partitions, so I'm still at a loss that you say partitions are aligned to tracks in drives made since 1995 or so. >Modern HD's have almost 1 zone/TB, but you can see a most modern >examople at: I guess you meant GB? If a track has 2000 sectors per the above, and a drive has 4 heads then that's 4 MB per cylinder. Thus 1 GB is 250 cylinders. So I guess your saying a zone has roughly 250 cylinders. I have no feedback about that, but it seems reasonable. >http://media.bestofmicro.com/E/N/362111/original/throughput-diagram-wd4001F… > >Latest 4TB HD... That isn't a smooth curve -- Each notch is a zone.. >Across >each zone the >number of sectors is constant. > >Very odd on that graph... notice as some have noted the first 50-100GB >are slightly >lower than just past the 100GB mark -- for READS... writes seem to be >very smooth >but likely due to internal disk buffering... > >> >> Fyi: both modern windows and linux align to 1MB boundaries with no >concern how that aligns with tracks. >---- >Depends on what disk partition tool you use, but I don't know of any >that use MB. Hmmm... I do computer forensics for a living. I see lots of real world drives, but mostly windows. The first partition on most of them starts at sector 63 or 2048. 63 is from partitioning tools that try to align the first partition and believe the lie that the CHS data provides. Windows xp does that. 2048 is what newer computers typically have. They no longer worry about tracks and just align to 1 MB boundaries. Vista and win7 do that. Linux partitioning tools in general got updated a couple years ago to default to MB alignment. My favorite tool for listing partition setups is mmls (it only outputs info since it is a reporting only tool). (Install sleuthkit it you want to use mmls). For my laptop, by chance in Jan I put in a brand new unformatted drive in Jan and then did a full openSUSE 12.2 install. Nothing fancy and I accepted the partition alignment as proposed by the installer: > sudo mmls /dev/sda DOS Partition Table Offset Sector: 0 Units are in 512-byte sectors Slot Start End Length Description 00: Meta 0000000000 0000000000 0000000001 Primary Table (#0) 01: ----- 0000000000 0000002047 0000002048 Unallocated 02: 00:00 0000002048 0004208639 0004206592 Linux Swap / Solaris x86 (0x82) 03: 00:01 0004208640 0012595199 0008386560 Linux (0x83) 04: ----- 0012595200 0046153727 0033558528 Unallocated 05: 00:02 0046153728 0255866879 0209713152 Linux (0x83) 06: ----- 0255866880 0976773167 0720906288 Unallocated Note that mmls shows not only the allocated partitions, but also the unallocated space between partitions. So the the line starting with 02: is the first partition and you can see it starts at sector 2048. Note that 4208640 and 46153728 are also both multiples of 2048, thus all 3 real partitions are 1 MB aligned. Thus it is clear that whatever default openSUSE partitioner is used during install does 1 MB alignment. Now I happen to have a 1.5 TB external drive hooked up. What does mmls show for it: > sudo mmls /dev/sdb root's password: DOS Partition Table Offset Sector: 0 Units are in 512-byte sectors Slot Start End Length Description 00: Meta 0000000000 0000000000 0000000001 Primary Table (#0) 01: ----- 0000000000 0000002047 0000002048 Unallocated 02: 00:00 0000002048 2930272255 2930270208 NTFS (0x07) 03: ----- 2930272256 2930277166 0000004911 Unallocated Now that drive was formatted by Seagate at their factory, and guess what, they too start the first partition at 1 MB. The rest of your email I'm going to ignore because it seems to be about how the tools report partitions, not how they create them. If you want me to test any particular partitioner, just ask. That 1.5 TB external is a scratch drive. I can use dd to wipe the partition table and then use whatever tiool you want to create new partitions. I don't know which have been updated to default to 1 MB alignment, but I hope most have by now. Greg >The default display in fdisk:...sd > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >/dev/sdc1 63 25398764 12699351 83 Linux >/dev/sdc2 25398765 42009974 8305605 83 Linux >/dev/sdc3 * 42009975 44130554 1060290 83 Linux >Shows POSIX standard 512 byte sectors. > >parted.. >Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > 1 32.3kB 13.0GB 13.0GB primary xfs type=83 > 2 13.0GB 21.5GB 8505MB primary xfs type=83 > 3 21.5GB 22.6GB 1086MB primary xfs boot, type=83 > 4 22.6GB 146GB 123GB extended type=05 > 5 22.6GB 31.2GB 8595MB logical linux-swap(v1) type=82 > 6 31.2GB 47.3GB 16.1GB logical xfs type=83 > 7 47.3GB 58.0GB 10.7GB logical xfs type=83 > 8 59.1GB 145GB 85.9GB logical type=83 > >Hmm....looks like kB is the lowest unit >well...nope... >(parted) help unit > unit UNIT set the default unit to UNIT > > UNIT is one of: s, B, kB, MB, GB, TB, compact, cyl, chs, %, kiB, MiB, > GiB, TiB >default is 'compact'... > >As for my other two sd's, they both start at 17.4kB -- that's not a 1MB >boundary >either... >it's actually 34 sectors -- I guess thats a gpt size -- >and boot drive is sdc... starting at the 63 sector >Looking at the # blocks/partition and dividing by 2*1024*1024 >(sectors->MB): >fdisk -l /dev/sdc|cut -c41-49|grep -P '^\s*[0-9]+$'|while read secs;do >printf "%10d %s\n" "$secs" "$(pcalc "$secs/(2*1024*1024)"|grep -P '= >\d')" >done > 12699351 = 6.05552244186401 > 8305605 = 3.96042108535767 > 1060290 = 0.505585670471191 > 120278655 = 57.3533320426941 > 8393931 = 4.00253820419312 > 15735636 = 7.50333595275879 > 10490413 = 5.00221872329712 > 83883366 = 39.9987058639526 >---- > >I would say those are track aligned -- That's a 21st century 15K SAS >drive. > >MB alignment?... I don't think even windows is that dumb. >Track alignment is still an issue -- ask anyone running RAID -- 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] From the April 1st News: Systemd Ditches Gnu C Library for Their own
by Linda Walsh 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Systemd Ditches GNU C Library for Their Own Posted by Unknown Lamer on Mon April 01, 11:25 from the watch-the-world-fork dept. In his typical fashion of replacing perfectly working software with useless broken-by-design crap, our dearest Lennart has decided that the time has come for systemd to gain an email program. He determined that the GNU libc was insufficient for the task of a dbus-enabled cpu hogging email client, leading to the new systemd libc: " Technically, this move makes perfectly sense, too. We are sick of supporting unstable glibc APIs and ABIs, and we believe that we greatly benefit from the fact that we now finally have everything the OS userspace consists of in one single repository. Of course, this new libc is not available to Ubuntu and other Linux distributions that have not yet adopted systemd. However, after deliberately choosing a home-grown display server (Wayland) over the generally accepted one (Mir) we decided creating an incompatible libc would be the best approach to create a strong platform following a strict release cadence." On the bright side "We also renamed the API call creat() to create()..." ---- Well, at least I won't have to worry about incompatible patches in the first release or two... As for the API call -- if only programming editors had spell check built-in back in the 60's.. Above was from slashdot.org...a 'reputable' source...usually... Though in this case...all I can say is this is really gonna screw compat with other apps... ;-| -- 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] XFdesktop on 12.3
by Wojciech Paszkowski 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Hi all. My XFCE destkop on Dell XPS 1640 dying rendomly with this message in konsole : wojciech@XPS-1640:~> xfdesktop (xfdesktop:5105): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed (xfdesktop:5105): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/56-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated. xfdesktop: Fatal IO error 11 (Zasoby chwilowo niedostępne) on X server :0. wojciech@XPS-1640:~> xfdesktop (xfdesktop:5770): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed (xfdesktop:5770): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/56-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated. On same hardware in 12.2 haven't this problem ... -- Pozdrawiam Regards Wojciech Paszkowski SP5RDU loc.KO02ID OpenSUsE user. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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