July 2014 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] convert a folder into a block device
by lynn 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

Can I make /home a partition? Without repartitioning? If someone can reply with an acronym, I think I've got it. But the documentation doesn't make it easy. 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] Where is keepassX 1.X in repos? (not security, that has 2 alpha and CANNOT ready my files)
by David C. Rankin 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

All, Where is a version of keepassx 1X in the repositories. To my surprise, the current keepassx 2.0 in security CAN NOT read my keepass files (.kdb). This is a panic moment - I have hundreds of entries I must be able to get to. This is crazy. Not a good first exposure for 13.1... If you find a link let me know. Otherwise, I'll keep picking around. Also, How can I get a status bar on this firefox... whatever it is. Status4Evar cannot even get a bottom status bar and now it is trying to put all url status on my address bar - looks horrible... I love updates :) -- 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] SSD with disabled TRIM capability?
by Olav Reinert 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

I have two SSD in a machine running a fully updated openSUSE 13.1. For the first disk, I can verify that TRIM is supported by the disk's firmware, and that the kernel knows it has this capability: blackbox:~ # hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep TRIM * Data Set Management TRIM supported (limit 8 blocks) * Deterministic read ZEROs after TRIM blackbox:~ # lsblk -D /dev/sda NAME DISC-ALN DISC-GRAN DISC-MAX DISC-ZERO sda 0 512B 2G 1 ├─sda1 0 512B 2G 1 ├─sda2 0 512B 2G 1 ├─sda3 0 512B 2G 1 └─sda4 0 512B 2G 1 However, for the second disc, things look different: blackbox:~ # hdparm -I /dev/sde | grep TRIM * Data Set Management TRIM supported (limit 8 blocks) * Deterministic read data after TRIM blackbox:~ # lsblk -D /dev/sde NAME DISC-ALN DISC-GRAN DISC-MAX DISC-ZERO sde 0 512B 2G 0 ├─vgsys-kvm 0 512B 2G 0 └─vgsys-xfer 0 512B 2G 0 Why, or on what basis, does the kernel decide that the DISC-ZERO capability should be disabled for sde? What difference does it make when lsblk reports a 0 value for DISC-ZERO ? As is evident from the output above, sde is a physical device in the LVM volume group vgsys. I have set "issue_discards = 1" in the devices section of /etc/lvm/lvm.conf (but that doesn't seem to make a difference to lsblk). Suppose the ext4 file system in vgsys-xfer is mounted and fstrim is run on it, will that result in TRIM ATA commands being sent to the SSD? Regards, Olav -- 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] download.virtualbox.org has 12.3 rpms. Will those work on 13.1?
by David C. Rankin 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

All, I need usb support for virtualbox vm. I have generally always downloaded the rpm from virtualbox along with the extension pack. Currently, the download site only has 11.4 and 12.3 rpms. Will the 12.3 rpm work in 13.1? If not, does the download.opensuse.org package for 13.1 have usb available. Thanks. -- 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] boot error 13
by Fr David Ousley 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

After a recent power failure (several, actually, each lasting only 5-15 seconds), the kernel entry (3.7.10-1.36.1) will not boot, returning: Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format. Failsafe using the same kernel boots without problems. Grub options for the regular kernel are: resume=/dev/disk/by-id/raid-pdc_djiegecc-part6 splash=silent quiet showopts Suggestions? Thanks -- Church of St Michael the Archangel Fr David Ousley 6611 Ardleigh Street Philadelphia, PA 19119 215-247-1092 davidousley(a)verizon.net -- 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] I can not delete some files and directories.
by Carlos E. R. 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a Linux based multimedia box (not openSUSE), to which I connect via telnet. It has an external hard disk via usb, formatted as ext2 (2, not 3 nor 4). It runs kernel 2.4.21-xfs, and BusyBox v1.01 (2006.11.30-16:43+0000). As the disk is connected via usb, I can, when not in use, connect it to my openSUSE machine. I use that sometimes for maintenance of the disk. Other times, I use the fsck facility on the machine itself. After one of these runs, I found some files on the lost+found directory; I copied them to my openSUSE machine via ftp, for later inspection, then attempted to delete them on the machine. FTP (with 'mc') deleted most, but not all. Looking via telnet, I see very strange permissions: [root@Moria:/usb/lost+found]# ls -l - ---xr-S--t 1 -2099230 16108097 36864 May 24 1985 #4047692 drw-rw---T 2 -2069826 10738976 40960 Jul 11 2036 #4048177 d-wxrw-r-x 2 11331111 3129454 45056 Aug 18 1969 #4049358 - ---sr----T 1 82196912 10913612 49152 May 22 1990 #4049402 drwxr-s--T 2 -2128562 -1594398 45056 May 13 1970 #4065600 - ---x--x-w- 1 79724563 23907546 40960 Dec 26 1974 #4066597 - ---Sr---wt 1 14976932 -2813512 45056 Feb 9 1902 #4079810 - --w-rwxr-x 1 -7658286 -2018176 49152 Feb 18 1971 #4083190 dr--r-s--T 2 85894704 85786717 36864 Sep 10 1948 #4083819 [root@Moria:/usb/lost+found]# rmdir \#4065600/ rmdir: `#4065600/': Operation not permitted [root@Moria:/usb/lost+found]# I'm not familiar with those permissions. But I can not delete them. I can not change the permissions either: [root@Moria:/usb/lost+found]# rmdir \#4065600/ rmdir: `#4065600/': Operation not permitted [root@Moria:/usb/lost+found]# chmod u+r+w \#4065600/ chmod: #4065600/: Operation not permitted [root@Moria:/usb/lost+found]# chown root \#4065600/ chown: #4065600/: Operation not permitted [root@Moria:/usb/lost+found]# The current permissions are: drwxr-s--T 2 -2128562 -1594398 45056 May 13 1970 #4065600 How can I delete those files? What means the 'T' and 't' attributes? Ideas? Of course, I'll try, when the device is not needed, to connect the disk to openSUSE and try from here, to see if things are different :-? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlPBqEsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9X/fQCfTclCwuYIb4IoGKYxePUF00OZ OiwAoI0qyHBMj+cPPLar7TXsDPiUgKXa =vxWe -----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] Why is our SpamAssassin version so old?
by Carlos E. R. 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, My SpamaAssassin headers say: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on Telcontar.valinor It is dated 2011. I would think that openSUSE 13.1 would have a release dated 2013 at least... Yes, I know that devel:languages:perl has the latest version (3.4.0), but my question is why the default version is so old. Was there a problem? The mail:server repo does not have any version :-? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlO38osACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XZNQCfSkR10m48ECBXR1cHz29Y0+Q3 9KoAn3HyOa0HxXBccK2ovcOnnUvbUpH/ =rG8j -----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] Disks not starting...
by Brendan McKenna 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

Hi all, I'm having a bit of a problem with the newer 3.11.10-11 and 3.11.10-17 kernels. When I try to boot to either kernel, for some reason my disk partitions are not starting. I get a message indicating that there's a start job running for my disk partitions (I have two partitions, /boot and /), which eventually times out and the boot fails. When I boot using the 3.11.10-7 kernel, everything starts with no problems. I am using LVM, both partitions are on the same physical disk. Not sure what additional information would help debug the problem. Any suggestions as to how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated! I've tried fsk'ing the partitions, but that seems to have no effect. Brendan -- 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] duplicating current drive to new drive via usb and dd?
by David C. Rankin 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

All, I have had a few bad blocks show up on my laptop hard-drive. I have a new drive (larger) and I would like to duplicate/clone my entire drive by attaching the new drive to the laptop through the usb port, booting from the openSuSE install disk and then using dd to clone the old drive to new. Having never attempted a clone-by-usb, I don't even know if that is possible with the software on the install CD. So before spending a couple of hours to find out it won't work, I'll ask the brain-trust: (1) Does the install CD provide sufficient USB connection capability to attach a second drive by USB and make the device available to receive the contents of the original using dd? (2) presuming I can get the usb drive up as /dev/sdb (or wherever it end up), can anyone suggest any further optimizations for the dd clone beyond: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror,sync -- 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] Searching OBS Crashes Server ???
by David C. Rankin 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

All, Searching OBS for a keepassx that will work I entered my search term 'keepassx' and hit search, and WHAM! The obs search crashed with the following: 500: Internal Server Error Oooops, something went terribly wrong, our application crashed :-( We think it's best if you search if this issue is already reported on github. I just want to find a keepassx 1X version so I can get to my data! -- 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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