Suse (finally) running
It didn’t come by itself, but at this moment,, SUSE 10.2 is up and running on Iona – a laptop I used for work previously. A few hicks and kinks, though. I leaned quite quickly that the on-board video card does not support 3D acceleration, required to do all sorts of funny things with video. The system did start but the graphical engine crashed. I found out I could start the configuration program from the command line and was able to restore the settings back to no accelleration and no funny tings (it did work but way, way too slow), and ended up with a resolution of 1600 x 1200, and I originally had 1280 x 960. Ok, that’s no big deal, just a bit hard to read….
Next, some settings are a bit different from version 10.1 – and had to be tweaked, but at this moment it’s doing it’s work.
Then only nasty thing: DHCP won’t get it an address so all network configuration is fixed. This needs to be solved one day, but for the moment, it looks gooed.
Web development
gets on. The new structure is forming slowly, but by and by the existing travel diaries are added to the /Travels entry. Scotland is finished but the pictures need to be added as well. Once all is in place, I’ll publish it all.,
26-Jul-2007
Suse update
It took some attempts but the latest OpenSUSE DVD has been downloded – by using Diana, in batch; it took just over 5 hours but the DVD image came in complete, using a mirror in the UK. So no more downloads – in this scale – from German universities!
Next copied the image to Aphrodite and burned it on platsic (well, sort of) and started the installation on Iona, as a new one. It had be be finished the next morning because installation takes more than two hours, I added a few things to be installed. It looks like DHCP still doesn’t do a proper job, I couldn’t access the network….After reboot, the screen went black and stayed that way, so I simply shut the box off.
Other developments
On the web: The pictures of our trip to Scotland have been finished, I just have to get out some typo’s. It’s 566 images all together, so there’s a lot to screen. If published, it will be in the new structure, and gradually I;ll move over the other ones as well, but with the other issues (like OpenSUSE…) it’s a longer way to go.
Once in a while, attempt are be made to push files on the anonymous FTP site. had one yesterday:
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 26-JUL-2007 15:35:30.32 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user TCPIP$FTP on DIANA
User Name: anonymous
Source: p5B05FD47.dip.t-dialin.net
Status: NOPRIV -- File access violation
Object: WEB_DISK2:[public.anonymous.070726163527p]
but the FTP logs are no longer copied to the operator web so I cannot look into it at the moment.
Another fake Ebay
Looks impressive, doesn’t it?
Ebay has nothing to do with it: Where’s my name????
The message text is crappy as well – Ebay wouldn;t be as dunb as this.
It originates from Japan. If the two links are scrutenized, you see a non-ebay address:
<p>If you feel you have been suspended in error or want to appeal this decision by providing additional information, please
<a href=3D"http://ns.maple-soft.co.jp/eBay">click here</a>.</font></p>
<p><tt><font size=3D"2" face=3D"Arial">Due to recent activity, including possible unauthorized listings, we have temporarily suspended activity
on your account in order to allow us to investigate this matter further.
If you believe that this action may have been taken in error, or, if you
feel that your account may have been tampered with, please
<a href=3D"http://ns.maple-soft.co.jp/eBay">click here</a> to provide
additional information and regain your full access on eBay.
Even on the bottom link, it’s this same link.
The header reveals some detail as well:
Return-Path: support@ebay.com
Received: from ftp.pcw.pcw.net (66.70.223.111)
by *** my server *** (V5.6-9, OpenVMS V8.3 Alpha);
Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:12:32 +0100 (CET)
Received: from User (cable-62-205-81-65.upc.chello.be [62.205.81.65])
(authenticated (0 bits))
by pcw.pcw.net (8.12.10/8.11.6) with ESMTP id l6QJTnR5009737;
Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:29:50 -0400
This could be the originator, or some dude that has his mailserver set as an open relay.
I haven’t tried the link to ns.maple-soft.co.jp yet.
Ebay? Not really!
This looks like a valid Ebay message:
but it is not: Knowing how Ebay sends mail: your registered name will be on top, embedded and not via a link. It’s missing here so the message is bogus.
Secondly, I hardly ever sell things on Ebay so it wasn’t meant for me anyway, so why would I get this message? well, because of the two “interesting” links from this message: both are leading to a site not related to Ebay, and likely to run a script intercepting you username and password:
Be sure to sign up today--it's FREE! Visit <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://193.113.58.199/.signin.eBay.com/index.html"
target=_blank>www.ebay.com/powerseller</A>
and, at the bottom:
See the
PowerSeller icon next to your User ID <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://193.113.58.199/.signin.eBay.com/index.html"
target=_blank><IMG
src="http://emailpics.ebay.com/xsl/789751217/images/psIcon_50x25-1.gif"
align=absMiddle border=0></A>
193.113.58.199 = still have to locate that one. Stay tuned.
23-Jul-2007
T4
T4 works now, at least, I get the .CSV and zipped HTML files with chart sent by email), and as far as I can see, it looks good on first glance. The graphs are just the IO and interrupt stack usage, there must no doubt be more, that will just be a matter of defining the right stuff in the collector script. Second, there must be another way to publish the charts, but I’ll have to look for a way to incorporate these in the operator web. It requires, no doubt, some enhancements to t4collect.com.
Another thing to add is the weblog-to-t4 translator I created during the bootcamp. That’s still be retrieved from the laptop….
Suse
Novell’s SUSE desktop has been installed on my old Compaq laptop, it did connect to the network and got it’s address by DHCP (at least, that’s my idea) but the performance is very, very bad. The machine has 512 Mg internal memory – and video takles some of that, the current requirements stated that 256 could do but 512 is highly recommended.
Anyway, DHCP doesn’t work anymore. That is, the address is not within the range where it should be. However, Diana showed an address for this machine (iona) so I made fixed this address to the NIC.
Next version of OpenSUSE is 10.2, I downloaded the single DVD-image on Iona but I couldn’t get it off the disk: I tried using Samba connection to Aphrodite but that broke at about 30%. FTP to Diana faled at about 35%….Nor could I get it by FTP: connection refused – so no access at all. The configyration doesn’t show an FTP daemon – it might not be present…
Now I put Diana to work – I downloaded bot the Enterprise server and desktop via the VMS box, FTP’d the to Aphrodite and burned a DVD there – which can than be used to update Iona.
It might, or might not be the right solution. See if I can get some memory for Iona.
MySQL crash
but a different this time:
070723 22:39:20 InnoDB: Error: the OS said file flush did not succeed
070723 22:39:20 InnoDB: Operating system error number 12 in a file operation.
InnoDB: Error number 12 means 'not enough core'.
InnoDB: Some operating system error numbers are described at
InnoDB: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Operating_System_error_codes.html
InnoDB: File operation call: 'flush'.
InnoDB: Cannot continue operation.
Might be pgflquota fro the MySQL_SERVER process? There is sufficient page file available (I hope!). Just restarted it.