I just installed OpenSuse 11.1 64bit, but many things crash and don’t work. I cannot run Firefox, and even Yast crashes when I click on software management with the following message popping up:
/sbin/yast2: line 437: 4717 Bus error $ybindir/y2base $module “$@” “$SELECTED_GUI” $Y2_GEOMETRY $Y2UI_ARGS
is this some sort of a chipset or graphics driver issue?
This is my first Dual CPU workstation, and I’m not planning to install Windows on it.
any suggestions are appreciated
Edit:
It seems like nothing in Yast works, non of the icons except for the Hardware Info, and the firewall work. I cannot install any software using Oneclick install or Yast. Could this be a KDE4 issue?
gorbehnare wrote:
> OK, so I’m doing some testing. I did a full memtest and it seems to be
> ok.
>
> Is there a HDD test utility for linux that can scan for bad sectors and
> such?
>
>
> I’m thinking this could be some sort of hardware problem since I got
> the system used.
>
>
You could use a program like Spinrite. I run Suse 11.1 x64 on a Dual
Xeon without issue, Dell Precision 670.
Ok, so I wiped the HDD and did a new installations, everything seems to be working fine now. I have no clue why the install didn’t work the first time.
Thanks Mr. Beer, Spinrite is a commercial data recovery product. Is there an Open-source equivalent that only scans the HDD for bad sectors or corrupted data? There has got to be something like that for Linux.
I would usually use the Seatools Diagnostics from Seagate, but in my case I don’t have a bootable DOS CD with LSI Logic SCSI drivers on there, so it won’t detect the HDD. OpenSuse and most bootable Linux CDs detect the controller already.
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 22:26 +0000, gorbehnare wrote:
> Ok, so I wiped the HDD and did a new installations, everything seems to
> be working fine now. I have no clue why the install didn’t work the
> first time.
>
> Thanks Mr. Beer, Spinrite is a commercial data recovery product. Is
> there an Open-source equivalent that only scans the HDD for bad sectors
> or corrupted data? There has got to be something like that for Linux.
>
> I would usually use the Seatools Diagnostics from Seagate, but in my
> case I don’t have a bootable DOS CD with LSI Logic SCSI drivers on
> there, so it won’t detect the HDD. OpenSuse and most bootable Linux CDs
> detect the controller already.
>
badblocks?
Of course, that’s a chicken and egg sort of thing if the OS drive
is the one you are wanting to scan.
Ok, I know for fact where the problem is now. Apparently the HDD is failing Sequential Read Test, whatever that is. So I got to get me more 15K rpm drives that work this time!!!
For others who maybe looking to test HP workstations:
HP offers HP insight diagnostics Utility that comes in a bootable CD (Free Download from HP.com) with nice GUI and everything that can do all kinds of hardware tests on HP workstations.
I was thinking of throwing a few of them in Raid0 (it seems like Ican install up to 7 of these puppies per channel (it comes with a two channel LSI logic 53c1020/1030 controller) It just depends if Raid is supported for this device under OpenSuse…
If you boot with the dvd and choose repair (automatic) it will scan you drives
/Geoff
quote=gorbehnare;1945516]…Is there an Open-source equivalent that only scans the HDD for bad sectors or corrupted data? There has got to be something like that for Linux. …[/quote]
>
> Ok, so I wiped the HDD and did a new installations, everything
seems to
> be working fine now. I have no clue why the install didn’t work
the
> first time.
>
> Thanks Mr. Beer, Spinrite is a commercial data recovery
product. Is
> there an Open-source equivalent that only scans the HDD for
bad sectors
> or corrupted data? There has got to be something like that for
Linux.
>
> I would usually use the Seatools Diagnostics from Seagate, but
in my
> case I don’t have a bootable DOS CD with LSI Logic SCSI
drivers on
> there, so it won’t detect the HDD. OpenSuse and most bootable
Linux CDs
> detect the controller already.
>
>
You don’t need the Dos version of Seatools to run on Linux.
SeaGate has a Linux version.
It is a command line version and works with Seagate and certain
Maxtor drives. i used it and found two bad drives that Seagate
replaced, with no additional questions.
Also you could try smartmontools from the opensuse repo’s.
Awesome… Thank you so much. I’m going to familiarize myself with these tools. I definitely rather have all Linux based tools than DOS/Windows based tools. I love to be switching all my diagnostics tools to Linux versions as well since I’m running only Linux on these machines anyways.
It just depends if Raid is supported for this device under OpenSuse… 