January 2014 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Where does LVM Info live
by Anton Aylward 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

Trying to recover a crashed disk.... I was under the impression that using LVM tools like 'pvscan' and 'lvscan' could find the LVM partitions, if you could get past the first few sectors/cylinders of the disk. That is the volume groups info was 'out there' regardless of the tables manipulated by fdisk. I'm having trouble doing the latter, outer cylinder may be corrupted. Ideas? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

6 19

Re: [opensuse] New NVIDIA drivers available
by Alvin Beach 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Alvin Beach <alvinbeach(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 20/01/14 00:07, Basil Chupin wrote: >> On 20/01/14 02:06, Alvin Beach wrote: >>> I tried the RPMs from the nvidia repo (for 12.3) and I would get high CPU usage (80%+) while >>> starting/playing L4D2. In fact, that was just starting the game. The game was unplayable as it would >>> could not get past the menu (joining a game would freeze). Also, as soon as I started the game, and >>> before the menu loaded, the CPU temps would climb above 65C and stay there until I force killed it. >>> >>> [snip] > > As for the temp issue, I discovered that KDE was configured to "Compositing type: XRender" and the > "Suspend desktop effects for fullscreen windows" was unchecked. I changed the compositing type to > OpenGL 3.1 and checked the suspend effect for fullscreen windows. > [snip] > > Alvin I took advantage of having to reboot due to a new kernel update from Kernel:stable:standard[1] and try the RPMs (after --uninstall'ing the .run) provided by the nvidia repo. I am happy to report that they[2] work without any issues. I think the issue was not the RPMs nor the kernel but perhaps how I had inadvertently configured Desktop Effects in KDE. I believe the fix was to switch to "OpenGL 3.1" and disabling for fullsceen windows. Whilst playing L4D2, my CPU(s) never exceeded 15% and the temp never went above 58C (more often it would be 47-50C). [1] Kernel kernel-desktop-3.12.8-1.1.g2caf20a.x86_64 kernel-devel-3.12.8-1.1.g2caf20a.noarch kernel-desktop-devel-3.12.8-1.1.g2caf20a.x86_64 [2] nvidia RPMs nvidia-glG03-331.38-23.1.x86_64 nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop-331.38_k3.7.10_1.1-23.1.x86_64 nvidia-computeG03-331.38-23.1.x86_64 Cheers, Alvin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

1 0

[opensuse] The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled using systemctl.
by Per Jessen 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

I enabled mdadm using "systemctl enable mdadmd": # systemctl enable mdadmd mdadmd.service is not a native service, redirecting to /sbin/chkconfig. Executing /sbin/chkconfig mdadmd on The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled using systemctl. Possible reasons for having this kind of units are: 1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's .wants/ or .requires/ directory. 2) A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has a requirement dependency on it. 3) A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer, D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...). Is there a problem with mdadmd ? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.0°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

3 6

[opensuse] apache log full of wpad.dat
by Patrick Shanahan 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

How do I stop my apache2 logs from being full of: 192.168.1.1 - - [17/Jan/2014:17:15:59 -0500] "GET /wpad.dat HTTP/1.1" 200 796 "-" "Windows-Update-Agent/7.9.9600.16422 Client-Protocol/1.20" tks, -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

9 43

[opensuse] ICH7R setup?
by Per Jessen 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

I'm experimenting with a new installation on SATA RAID with ICH7R - when I started the installation, I was asked if the MD subsystem should manage the RAID device(s), to which I said yes. In the partitioner, I then saw two RAID devices, md126 and md127, which seems a bit odd. Aren't they the ones created when stray superblocks are found? I was also surprised to see two RAID1s, as I only created one. Has anyone else played with such a setup? I'm tempted to revert to md software raid. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.0°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

2 4

[opensuse] Installing 13.1 with NET iso, hangs at "Loading Installation System x/6, arbitrary percentage
by Per Jessen 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

This weekend I was working on upgrading an old system to 13.1. It has no PXE support, so I had to use the NET iso. The process kept stalling at "Loading Installation System 1/6" at some percentage. The machine would appear locked, sometimes Ctrl-Alt-SysRq-B would work, some times not. I thought this was probably due to the machine being _very_ old, but I tried swapping the NIC, no change. Then this morning I decided to try with a newer box. Same result .... Anything wonky with the network installation process? I'll try to use our local mirror and see how that goes. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.0°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

9 24

[opensuse] Accessing User Directories in Apache
by Jim Sabatke 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

I need to access user directories on my 12.3 installation. I got this working fairly easily some years ago, probably around version 7 or 8, but I've spent a lot of time going around in circles. I can sort of get access with a virtual server, but I can't get the index file to auto-load and I want this to be available as easily as possible from a DVD player or other streaming device into my home theater system (maybe Roku would help). Because of the size of the files, I need to be able to access them on other drives and that is also a problem I just can't get past this time around. It was so easy last time I tried to do this. I've gone through the Suse Apache documentation and it really doesn't seem to address this in any way that I can see or understand. I'd be happy with being pointed to documentation that addresses this. I found lots of questions about this subject with Google searches and very few answers, and most solutions are Ubuntu specific and haven't worked for me. I've also read in the Suse documentation that this functionality is turned on by default, and my Yast2 setup shows "directories" are enabled. I'm trying to serve mkv files from non-copy-protected DVDs. This is a bit different from my earlier question about serving copy protected BD disks where I've decided that it's much easier, legal, and much more cost effective to pay for VUDU streaming for my BD and DVD collection. The disks I'm trying to do are music instructional DVDs that will almost certainly never have VUDU or other streaming service support. TIA, Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

2 1

[opensuse] Piping emails to a script in Postfix with virtual domains
by Stefan Gofferje 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Hi, any Postfix gurus here? I have a setup with virtual domains on my server and would now like to feed the incoming mails from some virtual addresses to the rt mail processing script. In /etc/aliased, I can simply add a line like email-address: "|/directory/script" which will do what I want. That does, however, not work in the virtual address table. If I use it there, I get a 550 5.1.1. Of course, I could create a local alias for each of those virtual addresses but there must be a more elegant way, right? Any ideas, anyone? -Stefan -- (o_ Stefan Gofferje | SCLT, MCP, CCSA //\ Reg'd Linux User #247167 | VCP #2263 V_/_ Heckler & Koch - the original point and click interface

1 0

[opensuse] Failed to backup certificate from Firefox
by Vojtěch Zeisek 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Hi, I generated S/MIME certificates for e-mails using https://www.startssl.com/ it installs certificates to the browser. I have to export it from the browser and then import to mail client. I use Firefox 26 (openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.12). When I try to export the certificate, I get an error "Failed to create the PKCS #12 backup file for unknown reasons.“ As only hint I found how to avoid this problem [1] was to restart FF in safe mode (without addons). It didn't help me, I still get same error. Does anyone have same problem? Any idea how to solve it? As StartSSL authenticates users with certificate (which I can't export), I can't use another browser. Thanks in advance, Vojtěch [1] http://ngs.ac.uk/ukca/certificates/certbackup Other problems dealing with similar issue, finally not useful for me: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-968684-start-0.html and https://superuser.com/questions/586245/pull-certificate-from-firefox-withou… -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.opensuse.org/ http://trapa.cz/

2 2

[opensuse] windows 98 emulation
by Istvan Gabor 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Hello: I would like to run windows 98 in in my openSUSE 12.2 in a virtual environment. Unfortunately Virtualbox is useless for emulating windows 98 (terribly slow, graphics glitches, guest OS support can not be installed). I also tried QEMU, but since my processor (despite of it is a Core2 Quad processor) does not support virtualization, QEMU cannot use the kvm kernel module, and therefore is very slow. Several years ago I used VMware and it could run windows 98 with reasonable speed on much less advanced hardware using its own kernel module (which did not require cpu support if I remember correctly). What options do I have currently to run windows 98 with a decent speed on my system? I would prefer something opensource or free software at least. Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

7 19