Re: [opensuse-factory] Problem booting a new hard drive with openSUSE 10.3

2007-12-04 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 02:25 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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 The Monday 2007-12-03 at 13:07 -, Sid Boyce wrote:
 
  That would be a step a long way back in time. I thought slicing and dicing 
  a 
  separate /boot partition went out with the need for steam trains, when PC 
  BIOS restrictions meant you couldn't boot from a partition extending beyond 
  the first 1024 cylinders.
 
 Saying that is as if the politicians say that there is no need for 
 protection or that your job and savings are secure :-P
 
 The theory is that you do not need a separate boot partition. However... 
 the truth is that in some scenarios it does help, and my xtall ball tells 
 me this /may/ be one of those cases.
 

AFAIK, /boot can not be put in an LVM. everything else can.

hw
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Re: [opensuse-factory] Looking outside the box

2007-10-17 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 15:52 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
 Andreas Jaeger wrote:
  I've just send out to people that report to me the following request and
  like to share it with you so that you know what's going on if you see
  discussions starting and can look at the webpage as well.

  * Ubuntu/Kubuntu 7.10 Beta

  
  I suggest to install at least one of these products on real hardware
  and evaluate the distribution and try to get ideas for our next
  product.
  
  * Look at the installation, what do you like and hate?
  
  * Check the area you're most familiar in, e.g. printing, and see how
it's integrated, e.g. configure a printer and print some documents.
What is different compared to openSUSE 10.3?  Where is the user
experience different?
  
  * Use the machine for some work, play around with it.  How do you like
it?
  
  Please write down your experience on the openSUSE wiki at
  http://en.opensuse.org/Distro_Inspirations - and if you see things
  that you like to discuss, discuss them on the opensuse-factory mailing
  list.
  

  ~~
  
  Andreas
 
 One thing I forgot to mention in my previous post, Ubuntu has a thriving 
 community of contributors. Every week I see a number of articles on how 
 to do this or that on Ubuntu, usually appearing on linuxtoday and 
 slashdot amongst others.
 One such article referred to me on this list did fix a problem I had 
 with grub when I removed a dying hard drive which was /dev/sda and the 
 previous /dev/sdb became /dev/sda.
 Many of the Ubuntu HOWTO articles address how to do stuff that is also 
 applicable to openSUSE, though references throughout is about apt-get 
 and dpkg. Many of the solutions to problems offered on this list would 
 make good articles --- I must have a good look at the opeSUSE wiki, I'm 
 sure there is noteworthy stuff that describes HOWTO on openSUSE, but the 
 openSUSE angle never gets stressed enough.
 If you have Ubuntu and you want to know how to do something specific, 
 there is almost always a result from a google search.
 Regards
 Sid.
 
Hi Andreas, list,

At work, a projectleader forced us to abandon sles10 in favour of
ubuntu. (just because he is using ubuntu at home and he's calling the
shots, no real technical reason)

It's true what Sid mentioned, it's got a thriving community.
With its pro and cons:
Yes, it has much more packages, but the turn-around-time is absolutely
minimal: I rsync about 100GB every week. At work i have unlimited
bandwith, no pain for me. And for the everage user who installs over the
net neither. But for those who want/need to maintain their own
install-server it's less positive (costly)
On the other hand, latest versions of some packages can be found at
ubuntu, but not even on the build server


Second point: if you want to deploy systems with SuSE, the xml-files for
autoyast / xen, works like a charm. Everybody can see that a lot of
effort has been put in it.
OTOH, creating  maintaining pre-seed-files for ubuntu is an absolute
PITA: absolute picky/unforgiving about the syntax, no checking
Definitely not production grade. Ubuntu needs at least several years
before it reach the same stability/functionality for this point.


Third point Ubuntu has a smaller footprint in disk/mem consumption.
Having said that, i agree that 10.3 is a huge enhancement comparing with
10.1 and 10.2. As a matter of fact, a week ago someone asked for the
iso's of 7.3, because he could run it with 64MB!!! I guess, that might
be an unreachable target, but 10.1 was realy getting obesitas


Final point, on the suse-wishlist i read the request of GFS.
Marcus declined that, saying that you choose the use of ocfs2.
Very well, but afaik, currently neither are on the media.
GFS is available for debian/ubuntu and RedHat/Fedora/Centos/Aurora.
(correct me if i'm wrong)

Personally, i prefer SuSE, for it's stability


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[opensuse-factory] 10.3 : no go /part 1

2007-10-13 Thread Hans Witvliet
First shot (with gm) at 10.3

System: hp dl320/G4 with 4GB, no extra hw-installed, was running 10.2
Images were verified

Before i try anything special, i always do a default installation,
nothing fancy selected. No-go this time!

After installation (reboot) it returns
grub 21

Although i know that it's half of life, universe and the rest ;)
It's a bit short.

Looking at http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/errors.html
it got some more details about grub-errors.

However, for 21 it says:

21 : Unknown boot failure
This error is returned if the boot attempt did not succeed for reasons
which are unknown.

Wry thing is, at that stage, its not possible to examine any logfiles
as there is no other os on the system.

Obviously, during the grub-install, something is forgotten, or went
wrong (will investigate further on monday). Would it be possible during
grub-install to perform a test to test if it succesfully installed the
bootloader.

And if it fails this test don't reboot, but fall into the cli?

Hans

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[opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse] Upgrade from RC2 to final

2007-09-29 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 15:44 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
 Matt Standish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  I am installing a few new machines to be used in a conference and I
  would like to show off the latest version of Opensuse.  Will there be
  a way to upgrade from RC2 to the final release?
 
 The following worked for me:
 
 zypper sa ftp-distribution (once it's available)
 zypper update -t package
 

Hi Andreas,

I presume that the mentioned RC2 is an internal release?

Two questions about it:
on RC1 i saw that perl-DBD-mysql is not included any more
As we use mysql a lot from perl-scripts, its an unpleasent surprize.
Will this package be available?

Second one, more or less passed on the list,
the python script that launches xen-guest is not capable anymore to
extract the kernel/initrd from a dom-u disk-image.
That's something that was perfectly working under 10.2.

otoh, when i provide initrdkernel explicitly, i'm perfectly able to run
10.1 guests on a 10.3 DOM-0 (both 64-bit)

Is this solved?
I presume these are known features @suse, thus nothing for
bugzilla

Hans



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Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse-factory] xen on 10.3-B3]

2007-09-23 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 12:06 -0400, Peter Sjoberg wrote:
 On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 20:36 -0600, Stephen Shaw wrote:
   Peter Sjoberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/19/07 7:18 PM 
  On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 00:00 +0200, Hans Witvliet wrote:
   Anybody on the list trying xen on 10.3-B3?
  I have a same/similar problem
  I downloaded the 10.3 x86_64bit dvd and was going to add a new domU on
  my 10.2 system but nothing seems to work.
  
  I have a OpenSuse 10.2 x86_64 AMD AM2 system running xen. Installing
  10.2 domU works ok when done over network or iso image but I can't even
  get the install to start when trying 10.3 beta 3.
  
  Your first problem is that you are using beta3.  :(
  There were some problems with the install,  beta 3 plus clean that up some. 
   RC1
  seems to be working ok.  I haven't done tons of testing on it yet, but 
  haven't run into
  any problems.  Did a few amount on beta3 plus and that seemed to be ok.
 Well, I still have the same problem, at least when using the .iso file
 as source, it can't find the kernel.
 I looked in y2log (3000 lines just for this install) and found some
 things referring to descr/packages. It seems like on 10.3 it's no
 package file, just package.{de,en,fr,...}.gz and when the 10.2
 installer looks it fails with a missing package.
 Checked on the 10.2 dvd and there it's a package file so there it's ok.
 
 Remember that it's a 10.2 installer looking on a 10.3 install dvd, that
 might be why it doesn't work directly.
 
 Since auto extracting the kernel doesn't work I did it manually and did
 a Other os install. It worked better but still no go, the console
 window starts up and shows a few things before it just hangs.
 The last message before hanging:
 
 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
 NET: Registered protocol family 1
 XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/768
 XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/832
 XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
 Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k freed
 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
 ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
 SCSI subsystem initialized
 st: Version 20070203, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
 BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
 EDD information not available.
 NET: Registered protocol family 17
 loop: module loaded
 xen-vbd: registered block device major 3
 blkfront: hda: barriers enabled
  hda: unknown partition table
 blkfront: hdb: barriers enabled
  hdb: unknown partition table
 netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
 netfront: device eth0 has flipping receive path.
 squashfs: version 3.2-r2 (2007/01/15) Phillip Lougher
 
 I don't know what to look for here but for me 10.3 is still a no-go, at
 least as long as you have a 10.2 xen host and want to create a 10.3 as a
 guest with yast (didn't test 100% manual install, don't know that much)
 
  
  Note: HVM opensuse guests do not work.  I believe it has something to do 
  with isolinux
 Can't fail that since my Gigabyte M61P-S3 mobo doesn't support HMV (bios
 issue, no update available)
 
  
  Help that helps.
  
  Stephen Shaw
  
  PS.  There is also a #opensuse-xen channel on freenode.  I try to hang out 
  there as much as 
  possible, but do read passed messages.
 Did just join there but it was just me and Uranellus there, will try
 sometime during business hours
 
  
Will do some testing monday, at work.
If a 10.3-DOM-0 only runs 10.3-DOM-u's it's certainly a bugzilla entry.
Current 10.1 and 10.2 dom-0's run every kind of DOM-U, not just
10.1-dom-u, but ubuntu and freebsd as well.

The feature i'm anxious to test, is 32-images on a 64-bit machine.

Hans
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Re: [opensuse-factory] asterisk dropped?

2007-09-17 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 23:27 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
 On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:19:45PM +0200, Andreas Vetter wrote:
  Hi,
  
  I just wanted to install asterisk and could not find it in 10.3b3 or 
  factory. It's in build service.
  
  Why (and when) was it dropped? I miss it!
 
 It has too often security problems and is moving to fast even
 for the 2 year support cycle of openSUSE.

Well, the 1.2 branch won't release too often any more.
It's in maintenance mode.
Curremt development-branch is 1.4 now...

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[opensuse-factory] xen on 10.3-B3

2007-09-17 Thread Hans Witvliet
Anybody on the list trying xen on 10.3-B3?

Seems to be stuck.
On a 10.2 DOM-0, i can run 10.1 DOM-u without any adaption.
Same is not true for 10.1 DOM-U's on a 10.3-B3 DOM-0

Other shot, creating a new DOM-U from yast, seems to be hanging half-way
(reding the repo afair from the top of my head)


HtH, Hans

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[opensuse-factory] http install

2007-06-25 Thread Hans Witvliet
Hi,

Just re-installed a little via-box with 10.2.
After booting, i tried to add the option:
install=suse.a-domani.nl/10.2, my local install  update server.

It looks like during install, IPv6 is not recognized.
Neither by name, nor by adres can the installationsource be reached.
After (DVD-)installation, i can set my installation-source without any
problem to suse.a-domani.nl/10.2 and update.a-domani.nl/10.2, which are
ipv6-only websites

Is this intentionally, or a possible enhancement ;-)

Hans
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Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: How can we integrate OpenVZ into openSUSE ?

2007-06-24 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 18:38 -0400, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote:
 Alexey Eremenko escribió:
  I believe SUSE should not be limited by Xen-only approach.
  
 
 and I believe openSUSE should do one thing, and do it right, not many
 half working virtualization alternatives.
 
 
You wrote about OpenSuSE:
But isn't that the essential idea behind the open source community?
Walk all paths (by the people who know what they are doing).
The best (working/supported) solution will gain the most users.

If you only present a single option, people can not choose...
(Same goes with kde/gnome any many other sw-packages, not?)

If the O.P. can develop a working xen-alternative and put it on the
build-server: fine by all means. Community, and the suse team will look
at it and evalute it. If it's more-of-the-same, it won't be picked up.
If it's better, or has more potential, well, who knows...

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[opensuse-factory] torrent

2007-06-16 Thread Hans Witvliet
Hi,

This morning i started torrent for 10.3-A5,
One completed, one remains hanging, other won't start
(no peers at all)

I can still ping tracker.opensuse.org, but i get unable to connect...
for several hours. Is the site slashdotted???

The one completed (bin-i386) i'll remain seeding, but no-one can find
it, it's pointless.






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[opensuse-factory] install time 10.3-A4, 32-bit

2007-06-07 Thread Hans Witvliet
Hi all,

just obtained a via-board, 1Ghz CPU, 512MB mem
Thought to give it a spin with 10.3-A4
Config: default +kde

Compared with other boxes, it seems to take ages to install.
y2base takes 100% cpu, It is still resolving, and specially the package
zyper-0.7.1-12 seems to be a hard nut to crack...

Even the install of 10.2 on smaller systems (intel 450MHz) didn't take
that long.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-28 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 03:38 -0400, Jonathan Arsenault wrote:
 On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 02:35 +0300, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
  Anyways, I'm not satisfied. I want to have access to my ifconfig from
  normal user.
 
 Yes, lets change the UNIX way for the unsatisfied kid ...
 
 Snip from the FHS.
 
 /sbin : System binaries
 Purpose
 Utilities used for system administration (and other root-only commands)
 are stored in /sbin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/local/sbin.
 
 
 http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SBINSYSTEMBINARIES
 
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Ok,
so why not:

 ln -s /sbin/ifconfig /home/hwit/bin/Ifconfig

Keep the system binaries only for the root-user and give only specific
commands also to a selected group of users.

HW

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

2007-05-22 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 19:31 +0200, M9. wrote:

 Well, since some dirs, like /usr and /var vary from edition to edition,
 it is never clear what the size most optimal should be..
 That is the point...
 If it was easy to rearrange the sizes, like with PQ PM, you could easily
 adapt the size to the needed size...
 That is why should be clear where the growth should be, so the size
 could be adapted in front..(because of the lack of a good partitioner..;-)
 

Well, /opt and /usr can be calculated (yast does it)
Or if you want it QD, install the whole bunch as you think you might
need it, with just a root partition, have a look what you need, and
re-install it properly (opt  usr at 75%)

/srv you can also plan ahead (mysql, apache, ldap, tftp, ...)
/home is always a surprise
/tmp auto-purge weekly
/var/log is your own admin responsibility to keep tidy
btw, i did mean ext3 for small partitions that varies, not ext2 or
reiser:
journaling is nice for systems that change.
But a 100MB reiser-FS is filled for 30% with internal datastructures.
For large partitions (250GB) ext is a pita), it takes ages to make.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

2007-05-21 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 17:25 +0200, M9. wrote:

 We see that the suggestion to create a serious partitioner, like PQ
 Partition Magic was not so bad at all.
 I constantly run into problems, because it is much too difficult too
 change the sizes of existing partitions.

I would suggest using LVM!

 Now, one has too back-up his/her home, throw away all partitions, and
 start all over again.

What's wrong with that?
 More logic would be: Load the files nessesary to create what is needed
 first, (the room for the system, and i am still convinced, that there
 are seperate partitions needed, for: /boot,/,/opt,/usr,/var, (and evt
 /tmp), swap, and /home.) and then, one should be able to change sizes,
 without having to delete /home.

The systems i have to manage, have seperate /boot (normally not mounted)
/usr and /opt (both mounted RO),
seperate /tmp, /var, /var/log, /srv, /tmp and /home.
 It must be possible to reduce the size of /home, if more room for fi:
 /boot, /usr, and/or /var is needed.
Create them at minimum, and resize them when needed
 
 I realy mean that it is totaly anoying, not being able to change your
 available room, without spending hours to back-up the data you want to
 save..

As said, use LVM

with lvm+reiser you can enlarge them on-the-fly, but have to unmount
them for shrinking

 I simply can not understand that nobody else finds this nessesary.
(Some people only create root-partition and root-user ;-()
 
 
 Have a nice day,
 
Same to you,
Final remark, for small partitions (100MB) use ext3, not reiserfs
And for those that never change (usr, opt) journaling is not needed.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Add to wishlist (SSH)

2007-05-12 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 16:32 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
 On Sat 12 May 2007 16:02:42 NZST +1200, Ciro Iriarte wrote:
 
  Isn't that just for commandline?, it would be nice to have an applet
  in KDE to add/delete the keys
snip

Hi list,

Some time ago, i came across a very nice tutorial (some hundred pages)
how to build your own yast(2) applets, and the the main example that the
SuSE-engineer was using, was the management of SSH !!

AFAIR, from FOSDEM-2006, the intention was to include it into the
mainstream distro, but i guess other projects have a higher priority!

I keep the printed tutorial at work ;(. So i can't give you the exact
URL but perhaps might another kind soul give you the exact location.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Topics dist meeting 2007-05-10

2007-05-10 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 09:16 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:

 
 Obviously (to me) we're not talking about a desktop system here, there
 are none with only 128MB of program storage. So what's the point of a
 distro which needs twice as much RAM as it does disk space to even
 install? Obviously: no install - distro is pht.
 

Not so obviously.
Consider (atleast) two options:
1) leightweight desktop (mail, web, im, office)
2) just NX-client (able to connect to appliction server)

Both (should) fit on an USB-stick using some niche-distro's.
But we rather use SuSE! (Name, stability and so-on..)

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Re: [opensuse-factory] yast-tftpboot

2007-05-06 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 00:09 -0400, James Tremblay wrote:
 Hey guys, I know this trivial but ,  I was wondering if it would be 
 acceptable 
 to change the default on yast-tftp from /tftpboot to /srv/tftpboot . I am not 
 sure but wouldn't this be more LSB compliant as well as more friendly to KIWI 
 users?
 James Tremblay
 Director of Technology
 Newmarket School District
 Novell CNE 3\4\5
 CLE \ NCE in training.
 http://en.opensuse.org/education
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Was already entered as Bug 188713 (rejected)
(not only /tftpboot == /srv/tftp, 
but also /var/lib/mysql == /srv/mysql)

And actually, one should also consider /srv/ldap, that currently also
lives under /var/lib

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[opensuse-factory] IPv6

2007-04-12 Thread Hans Witvliet
Does anybody know if its's possible to do torrent on IPv6?

At first glance, it looks like ktorrent and bttrack are v4-only,
eventhough according to the bt-protocol it should be v6-aware...

Hans

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[opensuse-factory] sles-10

2007-04-05 Thread Hans Witvliet
Hi all,

Perhaps i am googling good enough.
I'ce screwed up a system at work and thought i did a quick install with
sles-10 (used to be sles-9)
However, just before i left, i found out that the sles-10 DVD was not
bi-arch, only contained x86, and not x86_64.
And on the net the only 64 i can find is AMD.

Is it released, is it downloadable (iso/torrent)?

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Re: [opensuse-factory] sles-10

2007-04-05 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 22:24 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
 On Thursday 05 April 2007 22:17:33 Hans Witvliet wrote:
  Hi all,
 
  Perhaps i am googling good enough.
  I'ce screwed up a system at work and thought i did a quick install with
  sles-10 (used to be sles-9)
  However, just before i left, i found out that the sles-10 DVD was not
  bi-arch, only contained x86, and not x86_64.
  And on the net the only 64 i can find is AMD.
 
 What do you mean? AMD is also good for Intel. Or are you looking for an 
 Itanium image?
 

Not enough sleep is getting th best of me ;(
Just a multi-xeon blade-server.

I use to install sles with a huge pile of CDROM, and afair, there were
different cd's  i386 and X86_64.

I'll get ktorrent a kick

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Boot speed and services

2007-03-08 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 18:07 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
 James Tremblay wrote:
 
  If the education environments of the world are to have cheap
  computers they are going to have small HD's and limited ram so working
 
 Small HDs ?  Are there any manufacturers that make harddrives with less
 than 20Gb?
 
  to reduce the installation minimum is of high priority.
 
 Yast needs at last 128Mb+swap to run anyway.
 
Forget about harddisks.

Still trying installing SuSE on an usb-pendrive, and also have some
storage-space left.
Hopes that slick-project would fit on a Kobil-mIDentity stick or an
Etoken-flash (only 1GB available)

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[opensuse-factory] 10.2 Frozen stiff after upgrade

2007-02-14 Thread Hans Witvliet
Hi all,

Two days ago, at work, i upgraded a IBM-notebook that was installed with
the 10.2-dvd. That particular machines was allways left non-connected,
so when it was connected to the out-side world it discoverd that about
120 patches were available. After some time (ahum) most patches were
installed (except the java-patches, that failed).
Next day i booted the system, but it hang during startup, without any
clear indication where of why (one time during ntfs, next time during
wireless-setup, each time somewhere else.

Fearing the worst, i let it run memtest for several hours, nothing came
up. Booted the other OS; disk check, nothing wrong.
Booted in resque mode from dvd, and performed filesystem check, nothing
wrong. But still could not boot any more. Still system frooze stiff.
AFAIK, there was no kernel-patch and the initrd was left unchanged
before/after the upgrade.

Because i had work to do, i re-installed the notebook again, hooked it
up the net and had a suspicious look at the patches.
As one of the patches involved lvm (which i allways use), I decided to
install all, except lvm (and java that still failed to install)
Installation and upgrade went well, untill the boot

Is this an isolated incident, or is it something for bugzilla?

Hans
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[opensuse-factory] ccid

2007-02-09 Thread Hans Witvliet
Hi all,

any chance for a recent upgrade of ccid?

In -current it is still:  pcsc-ccid-1.0.1
In the mean time, 1.1 was released, 1.2.0 and 1.2.1

AFAIK, the Midentity tokens from KOBIL need the latest version.
Perhaps a candidate for 10.3?

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Making the basesystem smaller

2007-01-24 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 13:59 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

 
 
  2) Get the base-packages as slim as possible: not even networking!
  If i want ethernet/isdn/i2c/??? OR i want to perform an installation via
  http/ftp/tftp/nfs it is my decision!
  The only thing that a base-package should be able to do, is installing
  other packages. I would suggest to think about the base-package as the
  ground work for embedded systems, that have a minimum hardware
 
 Here we disagree.  This is another purpose than what we need.
Don't think so.
Allthough it's good to keep your mind on what you're doing, it's good to
contemplate what and why one is doing something.
(correct me if i'm wrong or stray to far off ;-)
Currently, when installing you have four starting points with the
installer:
1) standard Gnome desktop
2) standard KDE desktop
3) Minimum with X
4) Minimum

With either of them you have the base package, and a number of
selectable threads (was: selections) and of course individual selectable
packages.

Even with minimal you get a lot of goodies, which should have been
selectable options, but are currently:
a) selectable, but ON by default, instead of off (like tcpdump)
b) have a mis-placed dependancy (like yast modules for radio,tv
blue-teeth, opensc in a system that lacks the hardware)

The first one, you can deselect manually, or create a xml-file for
installing. The second one, you can remove the packages afterwards.

But where are those options are going to?
Some of them, like tcpdump should go back where they orinally came from
powertools, or a networking-thread 

From the top of my head, i remember installation is roughly done in two
stages.
1) running from the initial boot medium (most rpm's ge installed here)
2) after the first boot (in which also configuration is done)

AFAIR, in both stages a hardware scan is performed, not?
Can't you use that to base your descicion on what is initially on or
off?

Coming back to the four starting points isn't that the place to have
more options?
1) feature rich Gnome desktop (current standard)
2) feature rich KDE desktop (ditto)
3) minimal gnome/kde desktop (fits on a pendrive, no autodetect)
4) minimal with X
5) home server 
6) real bare minimalistic starting point (good for XEN DOM-0)
7) suggestion?

 
  3) as you allready stated, you didn't mention the dependancies.
  And I think, here is where 99,99% of the work lies.
 
  For instance ssh has a dependency on opensc (because of libopensc)
  For me no big deal, as i play around with smartcards and tokes, but for
  other people? I really fear that the same is true for other packages.
 
  Are you willing to re-analyse all packages, and rewrite the spec-files?
  Eventhough the effort will be worthwhile, considering the concequences,
  do you think it feasable for 10.3?
 
 I'm not willing to do all this myself ;-) But I hope that all of you
 will help with that and look at the culprits.  This is something we
 should do together ;-)

Centainly!

 Andreas


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Re: [opensuse-factory] Making the basesystem smaller

2007-01-19 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 11:47 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
 Claes Bäckström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  Could we perhaps see a list of what you so far put in the base or do
  you need more time to tinker with it?
 
 Here's my current list - but it depends on the definition that we
 have.  Since I'm not sure whether we have consensus I didn't want to
 share it with you.  The list does not contain YaST modules, they are
 in a different list - and that one needs further time to clean up.
 The next factory sync will contain my current lists as well.
 
 Note that in most cases I omitted dependencies, so e.g. glibc in the
 list below could be removed since it's required by others.  grep is
 not in the list but required by aaa_base.
 
 aaa_base
 aaa_skel
 bash
 bzip2
 coreutils
 cpio
 dbus-1
 dhcpcd
 e2fsprogs
 filesystem
 fillup
 glibc
 gzip
 hwinfo
 insserv
 #if !defined(__s390__)
 kbd
 #endif
 klogd
 ksymoops
 logrotate
 mingetty
 mkinitrd
 module-init-tools
 net-tools
 netcfg
 openssh
 pam
 pam-modules
 procps
 pwdutils
 rpm
 sed
 openSUSE-release
 suse-build-key
 sysconfig
 syslog-ng
 sysvinit
 tar
 util-linux
 
 #ifdef __ia64__
 elilo
 efibootmgr
 ia32el
 #endif
 #if defined(__i386__) || defined (__x86_64__)
 grub
 #endif
 #ifdef __powerpc__
 lilo
 #endif
 
 If you think that something should be removed or added, let's discuss
 it - and explain your definition of base,
 
 Andreas

Hi Andreas,

Some observations:
1) logrotate is a beautifull tool, but should be optional, just like
sed,  (since i'm a perl convert, i abandonned sed, awk)
mkinitrd: afaik, only needed during installation/upgrades, not?
Why have dhcp, *if* one chooses for static address?
syslog-ng: probably can't run without it...

2) Get the base-packages as slim as possible: not even networking!
If i want ethernet/isdn/i2c/??? OR i want to perform an installation via
http/ftp/tftp/nfs it is my decision!
The only thing that a base-package should be able to do, is installing
other packages. I would suggest to think about the base-package as the
ground work for embedded systems, that have a minimum hardware

3) as you allready stated, you didn't mention the dependancies.
And I think, here is where 99,99% of the work lies.

For instance ssh has a dependency on opensc (because of libopensc)
For me no big deal, as i play around with smartcards and tokes, but for
other people? I really fear that the same is true for other packages.

Are you willing to re-analyse all packages, and rewrite the spec-files?
Eventhough the effort will be worthwhile, considering the concequences,
do you think it feasable for 10.3?


Hans


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Re: [opensuse-factory] factory sync

2007-01-19 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 21:14 +0100, Claes Bäckström wrote:
 Is there some problems with the sync to factory?
 
 Been a lot of commits to the commit mailinglist but nothing new at the
 mirrors since 15 Jan.
 
 Warm Regards,
 Claes Backstrom

You mean brand-new or new-upgrades?
yesterday (19-jan) i got in my rsync a new snort-2.4.5-26 rpm
(And lots of others..)

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Making the basesystem smaller

2007-01-18 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 10:02 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
 Claes Bäckström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  Something I would like to see in the base pattern is tools to
  install new software and with that I don't only mean rpm but a way to
  use a network source for installation and update perhaps zypper? And I
  personally never install a machine nowdays without lvm2 so for me that
  is a essential tool (others might disagree). But the update/install
  parts is the most important.
 
 You can always add other packages if needed for installation.  So, if
 there's agreement that lvm is not part of the bare base, you would
 have to add it manually...
 
 Andreas

Hi Andreas,

Well, LVM would be the wrong example.
It should not be a black-or-white situation:

Very early on, a hardware detection should be done.
And, for instance, only if tv-harware is found, only then the yast
modules for confifuring tv should be installed.

If you want to configure your basic system with lvm, you'll need lvm
right away, but only in that case!

I have a feeling that the dependency (for yast-modules) is too rigid:
you get it, wether you need (or want) it or not.
Refining the threads?

The minimal system for 10.1 had a rather large foot print to put it
mildly, and got worse on 10.2.

If (and only if) i decide to install any resource-pig, disk-space and
mem will be claimed. Not for: perhaps they want it perhaps later on or
so. If I want or need it, i'll selected  install it.

I know, that systems tend to grow larger and larger (tnx to M$), but
please, try to have a minimal system realy minimal.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Making the basesystem smaller

2007-01-18 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 16:03 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
 Klaus Kaempf wrote:
  As written before, I'd see such tools as convenience applications.
  
  Maybe we should define the purpose and application of such a 'base'
  pattern first.
  Is it for
  1. installing a really minimal but somewhat usable system via CD/DVD ?
 
 yes.
 
  2. running a (Xen) virtual guest ?
 
 yes.
 
  3. running a chroot environment ?
 
 Hmm ...
 
  For 1., a minimal YaST or zypper would be essential, I agree.
 
 Yep.  I think it should install something roughly comparable to the
 rescue system (plus zypper to install packages and fetch security updates).
 
  For 2. or 3. a bash prompt would probably be sufficient (plus a
  way to install the application you want to run virtualized.)
 
 Xen: no.  You don't use xen guests just to boot to the bash prompt,
 usually you want to do something useful with them.  So you need some
 convinent way to install software.  You also want security updates for
 them.  I don't see how xen guests are that much different than a minimum
 system on real hardware.
 
 chroot: very much depends on what you plan to do with it.  The chroots
 which are created for running daemons in there (named, dhcpd, ...) are
 smaller than any package on the distro ;)  For building packages you
 don't need network, but some other tools such as make and a compiler.
 
 cheers,
   Gerd

You need to slim-down on two fronts:
Disk-space and/or memory
There are a number of tiny (live) distro's that whould run happily from
a CD and are full featured graphical desktop, with OO.o, firefox,
NX/VNC, gaim, 
Which should be able to have it on a 1GB usb-pendrive !!!
While one could use all the mem there is.

On the other hand, for XEN, you want to cut down on mem. Good examples
for DOM-u's are:
-DHCP
-DNS
-LAMP
-Mysql/postgress
-temporary compile engine
You want to run those images with as little mem as needed
At 10.0, i could have those running with as little as 128 MB, with still
unclaimed memory. Now, with 10.2, 512 is hardly enough :(
Here, disk-space if often not such a problem (SAN/NAS)

When thinking of embedded system, then you have to slim down on both...

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Kernel Upgrade 2.6.20

2007-01-15 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 15:52 +0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
 Hi everybody,
 
 Just one question: Does somebody know when the kernel upgrade to 2.6.20
 might be possible? So far, the kernel (in rc4) is there, but an update
 is not possible es for example the wlan-kmp is missing (and yes, I'm on
 a wireless connection). But still, I would like to test on the new
 kernel, as some features of my notebook (Flash Media) should finally be
 supported :-)
 
 Or is there something I can contribute in this case?
 
 Dominique

Time flies when you're having fun..
Minor increment:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.20-rc5.tar.bz2


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[opensuse-factory] kio_http

2006-12-28 Thread Hans Witvliet
Anyone else had a system with a load over 250
and a thousand kio_http processes?

Could not find any references, so I submited Bug 230927

Hans

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[opensuse-factory] no luck with luks

2006-12-20 Thread Hans Witvliet
Just tried to replay an example from the net with luks under 10.2,
without success.


According to the aricle Datan verschlussen mit dm-crypt fur Linux
from 11 december 2006 (rather up-to-date, I thought)
i should do:

 dd if=/dev/zero of=crypt.img bs=1M count=100
 shred -n 1 crypt.img
 losetup  /dev/loop0 crypt.img
 cryptsetup luksFormat -c aes-cbc-essiv:sh256 -s 256 -y /dev/loop0

According to the man-page of cryptsetup that should be ok.
cryptset up however fails with:
WARNING!

This will overwrite data on /dev/loop0 irrevocably.

Are you sure? (Type uppercase yes): YES
Enter LUKS passphrase:
Verify passphrase:
Failed to setup dm-crypt key mapping.
Check kernel for support for the aes-cbc-essiv:sh256 cipher spec and
verify that /dev/loop0 contains at least 258 sectors.
Failed to write to key storage.

Well, crypt.img is large enough (100MB) in this example.

A quick glance in /proc showed:
#  zcat /proc/config.gz |grep -i aes
CONFIG_RADIO_MAESTRO=m
CONFIG_SND_MAESTRO3=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_586=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_PADLOCK_AES=y

And a deeper look in /usr/src/linux (default 10.2GM kernel) showed
config 10.2 kernel:
* Cryptographic options
*
Cryptographic API (CRYPTO) [Y/?] y
  HMAC support (CRYPTO_HMAC) [Y/?] y
  Null algorithms (CRYPTO_NULL) [M/n/y/?] m
  MD4 digest algorithm (CRYPTO_MD4) [M/n/y/?] m
  MD5 digest algorithm (CRYPTO_MD5) [M/y/?] m
  SHA1 digest algorithm (CRYPTO_SHA1) [M/y/?] m
  SHA256 digest algorithm (CRYPTO_SHA256) [M/n/y/?] m
  SHA384 and SHA512 digest algorithms (CRYPTO_SHA512) [M/n/y/?] m
  Whirlpool digest algorithms (CRYPTO_WP512) [M/n/y/?] m
  Tiger digest algorithms (CRYPTO_TGR192) [M/n/y/?] m
  DES and Triple DES EDE cipher algorithms (CRYPTO_DES) [M/y/?] m
  Blowfish cipher algorithm (CRYPTO_BLOWFISH) [M/n/y/?] m
  Twofish cipher algorithm (CRYPTO_TWOFISH) [M/n/y/?] m
  Serpent cipher algorithm (CRYPTO_SERPENT) [M/n/y/?] m
  AES cipher algorithms (CRYPTO_AES) [M/y/?] m
  AES cipher algorithms (i586) (CRYPTO_AES_586) [M/n/y/?] m
  CAST5 (CAST-128) cipher algorithm (CRYPTO_CAST5) [M/y/?] m
  CAST6 (CAST-256) cipher algorithm (CRYPTO_CAST6) [M/n/y/?] m
  TEA, XTEA and XETA cipher algorithms (CRYPTO_TEA) [M/n/y/?] m
  ARC4 cipher algorithm (CRYPTO_ARC4) [M/y/?] m
  Khazad cipher algorithm (CRYPTO_KHAZAD) [M/n/y/?] m
  Anubis cipher algorithm (CRYPTO_ANUBIS) [M/n/y/?] m
  Deflate compression algorithm (CRYPTO_DEFLATE) [M/y/?] m
  Michael MIC keyed digest algorithm (CRYPTO_MICHAEL_MIC) [M/y/?] m
  CRC32c CRC algorithm (CRYPTO_CRC32C) [M/y/?] m
  Testing module (CRYPTO_TEST) [M/n/?] m

So what am i misssing?
All available crypto parts are build as modules.

Where should i check for:
Check kernel for support for the aes-cbc-essiv:sh256 cipher spec

(Not tried it yet on older machines, but will do)

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[opensuse-factory] XEN @ sles10

2006-12-18 Thread Hans Witvliet
I've been browsing through the roadmaps / release notes of SLES-10
And i wonder if/when xen-3.0.3 will be released for sles 10

On the DVD contains XEN-3.0.2, (just like Boxed 10.1)

Latest SuSE release uses XEN-3.0.3 which contain a number of important
patches (full system freezes)

a) Will it be in SP1 (many months to go)
b) Can i upgrade (this part of sles) manually?


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[opensuse-factory] GFS @ 2.6.19

2006-12-03 Thread Hans Witvliet
Hi,

Perhaps i'm just too eager...

latest release notes of the 2.6.19 kernel indicated official support for
GFS (which looks promissing).

Unfortunately, the official kernel was released much too late to be used
in 10.2.

Seeing the truckload of patches in the releas-notes of 2.6.19 (3.6MB)
and the version in factory (kernel-source-v2.6.19_rc3-16.6.src.rpm )
it's not clear what made it, and what is still pending.

I wonder when i can experiment with it.. (kernel-patch)

It's been a longe time, that i was persueing latest kernels, but this
seems to be worthwhile, imho.


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Re: [opensuse-factory] synchronizing with ZENWorks

2006-11-30 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 18:17 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
 during final installation after first boot takes much too long to not
 have a progress indicator to tell that it isn't hung.


Perhaps i've been impatient... (I'd considered it to be hanging.)

But after (re-)launching update it returned immediately...
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[opensuse-factory] root space, was Udate to 10.2 RC1 on 32bit PIV 1.8 Ghz. IBM..248M Ram.

2006-11-29 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 12:22 +0100, Robby (M9.) wrote:
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 Hi,
 
 Install went better, this time the graphical installer worked without
 any complaints.
 Something strange happens though:
 Message from updater shows: no room on /root: -750kb.
 But realy there is room enough: 377.2 M, from 502,0 M.
 I also got a message during install, almost no room left, continue
 install anyway?
 Ofcourse i ignored that, and the install went on without any errors..

Look like a re-emerging of # 158785
At that time, root-space was not calculated correctly and was blocking.
AFAIK, that was already solved

hwit

 
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Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 18:04 +0100, Lukas Ocilka wrote:
 Pascal Bleser wrote:
  What do you think ? 
  
  I'd rather vote for enhancing the firewall module ;)
  FTP server isn't a bad idea though, help about that is asked now and
  then on #suse (IRC).
 
 I have plans (and features) to enhance the firewall module in 10.3 but
 it would be nice to hear what exactly users need.
 

IPv6 

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 10:26 +0100, Jiri Srain wrote:
 Hi!
 
 On Saturday 25 November 2006 19:35, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
  Hi all !
 
  As 10.2 release nears I think into future - 10.3 features - and I
  would like to request massive updates in Yast - that is - new modules
  that I would like to see:
 
  1. Swap Manager (Yast GUI to manage swap files  partitions)
  2. FTP Server (Yast GUI to manage vsFTPd)
  3. SSH Server (Yast GUI to manage openssh)
  4. NX Server (Yast GUI to manage FreeNX terminal server, based on ssh)
  5. Sax3D (Yast/Sax GUI to manage XGL/AIGLX  Compiz for 3D Desktop Effects)
 
 Before you start writing any new module, please, get in touch with someone 
 from the YaST team in SUSE in order to check that the module is notbeing 
 developed by us and won't appear in next Alpha snapshot ;-) AFAIK FTP server 
 module is already being developed (but don't know the state of it ATM). SSH 
 server module is being used as example in the YaST tutorial.
 

Any plans for:
-NIC-bonding?
-VLAN-config
-Asterisk configuration (zaptel, chan-capi, chan-iax )


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Re: [opensuse-factory] xen

2006-11-25 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 06:36 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
 Hans Witvliet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  Im not sure i would call it a feature, let even alone enter it into
  bugzilla..
 
  With B2, selecting minimal, text only PLUS XEN
  == kernel-xen got selected and installed ==
 
  However, the grub-menu was not extended.
 
 There was a bug that was marked as fixed, so it should have worked.
 Please file a new bug with log files.
 
  re-installing kernel-xen (Uvh) did no good.
  while forcing kernel-xen from yast did append the xen-section into grub,
  and making it even the default option (thanks for that change!!)
 
I'll retest it on monday morning with RC (instead of B2)
If still there: bugzilla

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[opensuse-factory] xen

2006-11-24 Thread Hans Witvliet
Im not sure i would call it a feature, let even alone enter it into
bugzilla..

With B2, selecting minimal, text only PLUS XEN
== kernel-xen got selected and installed ==

However, the grub-menu was not extended.

re-installing kernel-xen (Uvh) did no good.
while forcing kernel-xen from yast did append the xen-section into grub,
and making it even the default option (thanks for that change!!)

Hans


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[opensuse-factory] grub timeout

2006-11-24 Thread Hans Witvliet
Did anybody notice that the default timeout of eight seconds disapeared
from grub?

I had to add that line over three times now
After booting it just waits in the grub menu.

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[opensuse-factory] selections/threads/add-ons

2006-11-24 Thread Hans Witvliet
Hi all,

just went through the xml file intended for cloning a system.
One thing struck me.

Before the change from selections=threads, i had a simple selection,
with a couple of add-ons.

Now i get a thread with dozens add-ons.

Intended, or side-effect?

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[opensuse-factory] default packages

2006-11-24 Thread Hans Witvliet
Perhaps i should enter it as a requested enhancement ;-)

When wanting a bare minimal system, (by selecting text-mode only)
i expect a real-minimum, however

I find a lot of packages installed, which might be very nice and
helpfull, but i did not select them. they are in three catagories:

a) nice be not requested:
like tcpdump.
This is something a often select, but it should be included into the
catagorie of power-tools for experienced users, not default.

b) not wanted.
If i want printing, i will select them:
cups, cups-drivers, cups-libs, gutenberg, yats2-print should belong to a
sub-thread

c) waste of time/disk space
hardware scan should know what kind of hardware there is.
Why of why is yast2-scanner, yast2-irda, xfs-tools, dos-stuff
installed

My MOBO does not have a sound-card: so why do i get alsa?
(new sound-thread)


All of these packages are probaly nice for some people to have.
But there are also lots of people who don't need them.

Reasoning is this.
Either if i select a packages manually, or it it gets installed by
default, i have to claryfy its presence with an security officer.
Same if its gets installed by default, i i decide to get rid of it.


I rather have it not installed unless the it is really needed,

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[opensuse-factory] crypt

2006-11-18 Thread Hans Witvliet
Remarks on the notes for last dist-meeting started me wondering
Why is losetup not pam-aware?

Is that easily patched (include libpam or something like that), or
should i solve it in an other way?


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Re: [opensuse-factory] topics next dist meeting

2006-11-16 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 23:53 +0100, Christian Boltz wrote:
 Hello,
 
 Am Mittwoch, 15. November 2006 21:17 schrieb Andreas Jaeger:
  for tomorrow's meeting we have one topic so far:
 
  Encrypted Home Partitions:
 
  - Use dm-crypt and LUKS by default for newly encrypted
  partitions
 
 From what I remember from the german Linux Magazin some time ago 
 (multiple passwords per partition, passwords easily changeable etc.), 
 this is a very good idea :-)
 
 [... more good ideas snipped ...]
 
  Any comments, suggestions etc?
 
 I'd propose to check how useful /etc/cryptotab is.
 I see several disadvantages compared to an entry in /etc/fstab:
 
 a) /etc/cryptotab needs an explicit /dev/loopX entry
 
YaST2 always puts the first (at partition creation time) available 
device (usually /dev/loop0) to /etc/cryptotab
 
This becomes funny if you manually add a loop mount to your fstab 
which is mounted at boot time - in fact, you won't be able to mount 
the encrypted partition because /dev/loop0 is already in use.
 
In fstab, you don't need to specify which loop device to use - you 
specify the loop option and it simply uses the first available, 
whatever number it has.
 
Yes, you can specify which loop device to use in /etc/fstab or you
can modify /etc/cryptotab to use another loop device - but this are
ugly workarounds.
 
 b) if you skipped mounting your encrypted partition while booting, you 
can't mount them with mount afterwards if they are not listed in 
fstab. See also https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=209647
(which might be invalid for yast2-storage, but not for the whole 
story)
 
 In short, there's no additional value by using a separate file 
 (/etc/cryptotab) for encrypted partitions, but several disadvantages 
 and problems. OTOH, I see no disadvantages when using /etc/fstab for 
 encrypted partitions.
 
 Did I already mention that I suggest to drop /etc/cryptotab completely 
 and to put all partitions, including encrypted, to /etc/fstab? ;-))
 
 
 Regards,
 
 Christian Boltz
 
 PS: If you decide not to drop /etc/cryptotab, please consider to drop 
 the loop device column.
 I proposed this some time ago [1], but this was (understandable) 
 WONTFIX because it would be an incompatible change. Now that you are 
 going to do major changes, compatibility could get rated lower.
 
 [1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=77126 (9.3 bug, 
 therefore not public unfortunately)
 
 Oh, and /etc/cryptotab bit back in 10.0 ;-)
 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=105020 (public bug)
 Short summary: The installation/update now ignores the loop 
 device column...
 

It's been a while ago since i experimented with crypto (beginning
10.1 ;-)
But from what i recollect...
1) Using the general partitioner, with yast, results in a partition that
gets mounted at startup. works well, but the partition gets mounted
allways.

2) Some people (not me) wants to encrypt EVERYTHING, inluding swap and
root. AFAIK, that is still not possible. Perhaps its should be pointed
out, that it both a) irrelevant, and b) counter productive.
a) 90% on the harddisk is opensource and general available
b) encrypting cost cpu-cycles,so hard disk will be slowed down.

3) best solution (imho) is to have for each individual user a seperate
container, which gets mounted on his home directory after login
(pam_mount)

4) for the the paranoia, have also /var/spool/mail en swap encrypted
Nothing else is worthwhile

5) for the super-paranoia, encrypt with the key from a smartcard.

I still use loop-aes on my usk-stick and i would highly recommend it..

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[opensuse-factory] Out of memory - endless loop

2006-11-14 Thread Hans Witvliet
Gents,

I know  that in certain circles, PHP has not a good
reputation( security) Untill know, i had never any problems.

I have a machine, not directly connected to the Net, and the only php
application on it is cacti.

Yesterday, coming home i found the machine unresponsive, it did reply to
ping, but that was all i could see (console dead, no reply to ssh)

After rebooting i found this in messages (below).
This section of messages repeated about hundred times
Is this a know feature of 10.1??

If there's a runaway process, too bad, that's life, it can happen.
But ending up in an endless loop is not good at all.
As it states free swap = 0kb it looks like a kernel process has eaten
all the mem, and that php gives the final trigger!

As it only happened once: i'll guess it's not reproducable.

Hans
==
nov 13 18:55:01 fw3 /usr/sbin/cron[963]: (wwwrun) CMD (
php /usr/share/cacti/poller.php  /dev/null)
Nov 13 19:00:01 fw3 /usr/sbin/cron[998]: (wwwrun) CMD (
php /usr/share/cacti/poller.php  /dev/null)
Nov 13 19:05:11 fw3 kernel: printk: 504 messages suppressed.
Nov 13 19:05:11 fw3 kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0
Nov 13 19:05:11 fw3 kernel:
Nov 13 19:05:11 fw3 kernel: Call Trace: 8015ae11{out_of_memory
+53} 8015cc81{__alloc_pages+552}
Nov 13 19:05:11 fw3 kernel:
8015e4af{__do_page_cache_readahead+149}
802ceaf4{thread_return+0}
Nov 13 19:05:11 fw3 kernel:8015a477{filemap_nopage
+323} 80164b59{__handle_mm_fault+911}
Nov 13 19:05:11 fw3 kernel:802d1f7e{do_page_fault+965}
8018c9c7{sys_select+795}
Nov 13 19:05:11 fw3 kernel:8010b449{error_exit+0}
Nov 13 19:05:11 fw3 kernel: Mem-info:
Nov 13 19:05:11 fw3 kernel: Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
Nov 13 19:05:11 fw3 kernel: cpu 0 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0
Nov 13 19:05:11 fw3 kernel: cpu 0 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0
Nov 13 19:05:12 fw3 kernel: cpu 1 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0
Nov 13 19:05:13 fw3 kernel: cpu 1 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0
Nov 13 19:05:13 fw3 kernel: Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
Nov 13 19:05:13 fw3 kernel: cpu 0 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:20
Nov 13 19:05:13 fw3 kernel: cpu 0 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:24
Nov 13 19:05:14 fw3 kernel: cpu 1 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:8
Nov 13 19:05:14 fw3 kernel: cpu 1 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:61
Nov 13 19:05:14 fw3 kernel: Node 0 Normal per-cpu: empty
Nov 13 19:05:14 fw3 kernel: Node 0 HighMem per-cpu: empty
Nov 13 19:05:14 fw3 kernel: Free pages:8016kB (0kB HighMem)
Nov 13 19:05:14 fw3 kernel: Active:104983 inactive:112014 dirty:0
writeback:0 unstable:0 free:2004 slab:13709 mapped:204535
pagetables:15090
Nov 13 19:05:14 fw3 kernel: Node 0 DMA free:4016kB min:44kB low:52kB
high:64kB active:3400kB inactive:3208kB present:12056kB
pages_scanned:16107 all_unreclaimable? yes
Nov 13 19:05:14 fw3 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 993 993 993
Nov 13 19:05:15 fw3 kernel: Node 0 DMA32 free:4000kB min:4008kB
low:5008kB high:6012kB active:416532kB inactive:444848kB
present:1017828kB pages_scanned:2416680 all_unreclaimable? yes
Nov 13 19:05:15 fw3 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Nov 13 19:05:15 fw3 kernel: Node 0 Normal free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB
high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0
all_unreclaimable? no
Nov 13 19:05:15 fw3 /usr/sbin/cron[1069]: (wwwrun) CMD (
php /usr/share/cacti/poller.php  /dev/null)
Nov 13 19:05:15 fw3 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Nov 13 19:05:15 fw3 kernel: Node 0 HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:128kB
high:128kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0
all_unreclaimable? no
Nov 13 19:05:15 fw3 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Nov 13 19:05:15 fw3 kernel: Node 0 DMA: 0*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB
1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4016kB
Nov 13 19:05:15 fw3 kernel: Node 0 DMA32: 0*4kB 2*8kB 7*16kB 1*32kB
0*64kB 4*128kB 1*256kB 2*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4000kB
Nov 13 19:05:15 fw3 kernel: Node 0 Normal: empty
Nov 13 19:05:15 fw3 kernel: Node 0 HighMem: empty
Nov 13 19:05:15 fw3 kernel: Swap cache: add 420648, delete 420648, find
82842/99473, race 0+39
Nov 13 19:05:16 fw3 kernel: Free swap  = 0kB
Nov 13 19:05:16 fw3 kernel: Total swap = 1052248kB
Nov 13 19:05:16 fw3 kernel: Free swap:0kB
Nov 13 19:05:16 fw3 kernel: 262080 pages of RAM
Nov 13 19:05:16 fw3 kernel: 5020 reserved pages
Nov 13 19:05:16 fw3 kernel: 9462 pages shared
Nov 13 19:05:16 fw3 kernel: 0 pages swap cached
Nov 13 19:05:16 fw3 kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 32061 (php)
score 62063 and children.
Nov 13 19:05:16 fw3 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 32065 (php).
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Re: SPAM: Re: [opensuse-factory] SPAM: 10.2 beta1, software install don't start

2006-11-05 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 08:21 +0100, jdd wrote:
 Anders Johansson a écrit :
 
  may be one hour later a firefox session was running when the
  whole computer crashes (no mouse, no keyboard, completely
  stuck). I had to leave, so I switched off the computer and
  did not have the time to bring it up again.
  
  That sounds strange. After an hour, you say? Overheating?
  

Sounds familiar ;-((
Boot from CD/DVD and run memtest for atleast 24 hours

My own experience:
Sometimes the addresses in red turn up in 15 minutes, sometimes after
several hours. I have been running it each day. each time giving
different malfunctioning addresses, never even once the same address.
Several causes could be:
1) Power supply can not cope (after inserting or replacing pci-boards or
drives.
2) Leaking elco's on the MOBO
3) Damaged mobo or mem (Recent lightning in the neighborhood, or not
working ESD-safe?)
Solution for either is costly.

Hans

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Re: [opensuse-factory] feasibility of porting opensuse to SPARC

2006-10-01 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 11:29 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
 Alexey Eremenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  Actually, openSUSE is very good OS and is more convenient than Solaris.
 
  So if you have powerful multi-CPU SPARC Server and want a convenient OS,
  openSUSE is the only way to go.
 
  This way you can reutilize Sun Servers as Linux Workstations or Servers.
 
  But this would require a very serious rebuild of the whole distro.
 
  Question:
  How much time it would require for 1 Linux expert to port all openSUSE from
  x86 to SPARC ? (including installer  full FTP repository) provided he know
  both architectures  works full-time.
 
 It's not that easy to give any timeframe.  It depends on various
 issues, so let me give some commands based on my work getting SUSE
 Linux running on x86-64.
 
 The challenge is getting the base system running:
 * gcc
 * glibc
 * binutils
 * kernel
 
 The problem is that in these projects only a few folks take care of
 SPARC.  I do not know whether current versions of these do run at all.
 
 
  1 week, 1 month, 1 year ?
 
 If the above is done, there are two challenges:
 * packages
 * yast changes
 
 yast changes should be only partitioning and booting, the rest should
 be generic.  So, this is is something of a few weeks.
 
 With packages it's lots of time to rebuild everything (bootstrap) and
 fix problems.  Since we already support i386, x86-64, ppc, ppc64,
 s390, s390x and ia64 most of the problems where packages are not
 portable (endianness, 64-bit) should be fixed already.  The problems
 arise when packages are failing through the build.  This is initially
 quite often a problem in the toolchain but could also be a
 non-portable package.  So, this needs somebody that can debug bugs at
 a low level and fix them.  If somebody has these skills, this is
 something of a few person months.

 
 Andreas


Hi Andreas,

I would hope that the real core basis (gcc, glib, binutils, kernel) were
already sorted out for the old SuSE-sparc-port (rel 7.0...7.3)
But at that time, not everything was open afair.

If i'm not mistaken, icecream was able to cross-compile (for sparc,
HP-PA etc). Is there any docu, HOW2 for that?
It might speed-up the work that needs to be done...

If there is a minimal installation, that can perform an install or
upgrade from externally build packages, it would be easily for the
community to add the rest.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Discussiong about Yast pattern-category for Network Admins

2006-09-25 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 20:52 +0800, Truth wrote:
 Oh, and wireshark (originally called ethreal). Maybe you've already added 
 that?
 

How about Open-NMS 
Nice competitor for Cacti  Nagios
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Re: [opensuse-factory] Pre-Beta Beta comments

2006-09-12 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 13:24 +0200, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
 * Stanislav Visnovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Sep 12. 2006 13:21]:
  Dňa Po 11. September 2006 19:15 Ricardo Cruz napísal:
   Em Segunda, 11 de Setembro de 2006 05:12, o Keith Goggin escreveu:
2.Would it be reasonable to have the CD tray open automatically when the
next CD is required?
  
I agree, not because of laziness to press the eject button :), but 
   because
   it notifies the user to insert the next CD who may be elsewhere in the 
   room
   doing something else.
I have seen other distributions automatically ejecting the CD btw.
  
  I object - the tray might need attention for opening, just imagine your CD 
  medium dropping off your drive, because you have your CD vertically.
 
 Or your computer case has a (closed) door in front of the CD drive.
 
 We might add a automatically eject checkbox in the please insert CD x
 popup which is initially off.
 

Splendid, now everybody is satisfied!

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Pre-Beta Beta comments

2006-09-12 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 14:10 +0200, Juergen Weigert wrote:

 While reading the first CD, we have plenty of time to present the user with
 a choice: eject, beep, popup, explode.
 If he has not chosen before the CD is done, default to 'popup', and keep the
 choice on screen.

No, no, no.

Only appropiate when doing the install on location in a buddist
monastary. Installation sites are often noisy rooms, making more noise
hardly usefull. 
Just as unhelpfull as a pop-up window, when your console is kvm-switched
to another machine ;-)

Leave the noise making to the managers, they are paid for that job!

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Pre-Beta Beta comments

2006-09-12 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 22:39 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
 On Tuesday 12 September 2006 22:34, Hans Witvliet wrote:
  On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 14:10 +0200, Juergen Weigert wrote:
   While reading the first CD, we have plenty of time to present the user
   with a choice: eject, beep, popup, explode.
   If he has not chosen before the CD is done, default to 'popup', and keep
   the choice on screen.
 
  No, no, no.
 
  Only appropiate when doing the install on location in a buddist
  monastary. Installation sites are often noisy rooms, making more noise
  hardly usefull.
  Just as unhelpfull as a pop-up window, when your console is kvm-switched
  to another machine ;-)
 
  Leave the noise making to the managers, they are paid for that job!
 
 You don't actually stand in a server room while installing, do you? This is 
 what ssh or vnc is for
 
 But about the options, what's wrong with choice? If you don't like it, don't 
 enable it
 
What Klaus suggested (optional checkbox, default: off) is the best
solution.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Packages in default installation

2006-09-10 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 03:11 +0200, Azerion wrote:

 
   yast2-dhcp-server
   yast2-dns-server
   yast2-instserver
   yast2-nfs-server
   yast2-nis-server
   yast2-samba-server
   yast2-tftp-server
 
  Configuring servers is not needed for clients, it could be in some
  server-related pattern.
 
   Recommended (should have):
   SuSEfirewall2
 
  It's only recommended...
 
  Lukas
 
 I tatally agree with this. We have talked about this earlier but can't find 
 it 
 now. Andreas said that they are Required by YaST, but then is my question: 
 does openSUSE not manage YaST also? We have to delete those requirements so 
 1. It does not have to be installed (duhhh) and the server-stuff won't appear 
 in YaST (one of my wishes for default install).
 

The dependency should be at an other point.
IF (and only *if* ) i install nfs-software (f.i.), the appropiate yast
modules should be installed. Ditto for the others.
Same for TV, midi, isdn, blue-teeth, wifi (what else can people NOT
install) and other hardware related yast-modules.
If one only uses ext2 and ext3, why installing reiserfs?

If you startup yast, all not installed options should be grey-ed out, so
that people are aware, that if they install the hardware, support will
be there.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Games on openSUSE 10.2

2006-09-10 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 15:35 +0200, Herbert Graeber wrote:
 Ludwig Nussel schrieb:
  On Wednesday 06 September 2006 10:23, Stefan Dirsch wrote:

  On SUSE Linux 10.1 we had about 5 small game packages in our default
  installation + an additional Games selection used for all game
  packages. Should we do it similar for openSUSE 10.2? Any other
  proposals?
  
 
  This one is nice:
  http://ri-li.sourceforge.net/

 Really nice. My childs will love it!
  This one looks interesting (check the video). I didn't try it yet as
  it has some exotic build dependencies:
  http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/uv/fretsonfire/

 Looka interesting. There is a link to another game:
 http://keyboardsonfire.net/
 

My kids like gcompris (gcompris.net and packman)
But probably too large for the distro...

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Re: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE 10.2 Features and Roadmap

2006-09-08 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 21:19 +0200, Luc Willems wrote:
 On Friday 25 August 2006 13:36, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
  Michael Löffler is currently on vacation and asked me to discuss the
  following, it's based on his latest draft.  All errors are mine
  naturally ;-)
 
  Please give feedback and of course if there's something missing - tell
  us.
 

 
 pcsc-lite-1.3.1 (from 1.2.9) : card reader interface , also updated the card 
 drivers ( pcsc-acr38)
 
Not just pcsc: all of opensc/openct and muscle

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[opensuse-factory] [Bug 169636] eth devices renamed

2006-06-27 Thread Hans Witvliet
Hi,

Doing some more regression tests, I was looking at some old problems.
What is the purpose of this feature? I mean why should the kernel decide
to start renaming eth-devices in the first place?

I mean, if you have three (pseudo) ethernet devices, all with UNIQUE-mac
address, on what ground is the kernel doing such drastic action...

Hans


Apr 21 16:02:42 ldap1 kernel: eth0 renamed to eth9
Apr 21 16:02:42 ldap1 kernel: eth1 renamed to eth10
Apr 21 16:02:42 ldap1 kernel: eth2 renamed to eth11

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[opensuse-factory] smartmontools for cciss

2006-06-18 Thread Hans Witvliet
Any one else using HP DL360 or Dl380 ?

last week i found out that current (10.1) release had an version (5.33)
of smartmontools, which works on dl320. but not on larger iron.

I came across a patch :
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-cvs-commits/2006-May/msg00581.html

It is intended for tool version 5.36 and deals with the cciss driver.
For correct for me (x86_64), so i added a enhancement request #186013


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Re: [opensuse-factory] directory install ?

2006-05-07 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 09:02 +0200, Günther J. Niederwimmer wrote:
 Hello,
 
 Am Samstag, 6. Mai 2006 23:26 schrieb Hans Witvliet:
  On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 18:05 +0200, Günther J. Niederwimmer wrote:
   Hello,
  
   can any make a install in a directory ?
 
  On which version?
 
 I have RC3 :(.
 
 This YaST2 Modul is total broken.
 
 YaST2 tell me the RPM datas are in use, when I say run YaST and SuSEconfig on 
 first boot, next reboot the MAIN System was new configured, all default 
 catalogue are in use .
  
  With rc2 no problem.
  Have not tried rc3 yet.
 ;)
 
Bummer!

Will try GM first thing tomorrow at work. (Downloading now)
Because our project with XEN, dirinstall is rather important to me

otoh, perhaps they are working on my feature-request: being able to use
the auto-install XML-files, which would save at lot of time during
installations!

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Re: [opensuse-factory] directory install ?

2006-05-06 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 18:05 +0200, Günther J. Niederwimmer wrote:
 Hello,
 
 can any make a install in a directory ?
 
On which version?
With rc2 no problem.
Have not tried rc3 yet.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] opensuse-commit up running

2006-03-29 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 12:08 +0200, houghi wrote:

 
 Nice to know that Beta 9 is out. ;-)
 
Forgive my ignorance, but on the download site it is still B8

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Default Root Partition Size

2006-03-17 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:09 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
 David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  Just a word of warning regarding the new default partition sizes suggested 
  by 
  YaST. I have a 10GB root partition on my laptop and just went to install 
  IBM 
  Rational Software Architect. The install files take up around 2.5GB of 
  space 
  and the installed program itself takes another 2GB (I eliminated some of 
  the 
  options I didn't need)
 
 We could change the parameter for the calculation, currently we use 10
 GB as maximal size for root - but this is just one parameter to
 change...
 
 So, what do others think?
 
 Andreas

It's only because you're asking it, and i surely don't want to start an
unholy war on the subject, but i was in the impression that it was good
practice to keep root as small as possible (leaving some space to
breath)
/boot also as small as possible, RO, or not mounted at all
/var should be big enough for any data for spool/mail/log
/usr  /opt big enough for binaries (should not grow normally)
/tmp whatever one needs as playground
/home  /srv as much as possible

So why should the root partition be so big anyway?

Hans

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Re: [opensuse-factory] AVM/SUSE/Novell long-term relationship endangered

2006-02-15 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 13:55 +0100, houghi wrote:
 On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:26:14PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
  Correct in the case of non-GPL drivers - but e.g. AVM or any developer
  could make their own CD and ship it with their products like they do
  for Windows.  Now we only need a stable kernel ABI ;-(
 
 They could do both.  Having the drivers on teir CD would be a great thing.
 They then could put a Penguin on their box and just suport it as anything
 else. :-)
 
 houghi

Ever thought of the possibility that they will ditch support for linux
enterly?

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