Is there a way to disable preload for a given process and/or a set of files? I'm having an issue with MLDonkey, which I configured to run as a service. Apparently, preload is trying to pre-load the temporary files lying under MLDonkey working directory (which are huge), and tis is causing a massive slowdown when booting
View 9 RepliesWhenever I try to use a preload ISO from susestudio.com, it takes me about 5 tries to actually get it to install. I load it up in VirtualBox, and on the screen that warns "you are about to erase all data on /dev/sda, continue?", selecting "yes" will 80% of the time cause it to think you cancelled and waits 30 seconds before rebooting. Every now and then it decides to work, but sadly that's the exception and not the rule. If it makes any difference, the appliance I'm downloading is a custom one based on openSUSE 11.4 Minimal X with GNOME 3 installed on top of it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedFor a number of openSUSE releases now, on a periodic basis (monthly, it seems?) both my laptop and my desktop take forever to start. During this time, the hard disk activity is going berserk. When inspecting this with "iotop", a process called "preload" or "start_preload" is hammering the disk, sometimes up to 10 minutes.
The irony is when you research "preload", you find mostly articles like "drastically speed up your Linux system with preload"- I sometimes think it has to do with running VMs on these machines and maybe it's trying to cache those large disk images? Pure speculation, but I can't seem to find any documentation on this.
Anyway, I did finally find a way to turn this thing off. WARNING: since I do not know exactly what preload does and whether your machine becomes unusable if you turn it off, please only follow these instructions at your own risk. Since preload seems to be a very low-level system/service, I did not want to risk uninstalling it. What I did instead was:
Yast2 - System Services (RunLevel)
Click the Expert Mode radio button
Scroll down to the boot.startpreload entry
[code].....
Since I applied these steps, no long boot times with insane hard disk activity has occurred and I also have not noticed anything else complaining or not working with this service off.
I've built my own kernel and now boot.preload complains about the missing preloadtrace.ko kernel module.
Where can one find the source for this module?
Preload notes the applications I open frequently and preloads them for faster app. startup.
But is there any way in which I can add my own files to preload
I'm using openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) with KDE: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) "release 6"Everytime I visit a direcotorya hidden file ".directory" is created. How to disable that? Is There a possibility to disable that behaviour only for public_html directory
View 9 Replies View RelatedIf this is not the correct place for this question, let me know Basically, I looked on my system and found 2 log files :
hs_err_pid29717.log
hs_err_pid29774.log
I found that they belong to "HotSpot"? But, I never downloaded/installed HotSpot.I did a "last" and saw that only local machines have logged into the one with logs:IP addrsses of 192.168.1.xxx
I have been trying to install openSUSE 11.4 on a Windows 7 laptop, but the suggested partitioning sucks and I lack the skills to do it manually. I would like to format the laptop drive, give up Windows for good and do a fresh install of openSUSE 11.4. openSUSE wants me to keep Windows boot. But I do not want it!
I have tried for an hour now. Can't format, there is no options for that in the openSUSE 11.4 install. There are expert options, but I really do not know how many partitions does openSUSE require. For some strange reason openSUSE wants to keep my Windows partitions. WHY? And if I delete all of the partitions, it wont automatically recreate the needed partitions for openSUSE, it only displays errors and won't let me continue.
For the love of God, do I have to open the laptop, remove the hard drive, put it in another computer and format there?
Why isn't there an option for removing all partitions, formatting the drive and installing openSUSE?
How to disable the forced Win 7 dual boot openSUSE offers and do a fresh install with only openSUSE 11.4 WITHOUT ANY WINDOWS DUAL BOOT BS.
By the way, since my laptops internal DVD is broken and I will not repair it until my daughter is old enough to handle optical drives, I use USB DVD and it won't give me any boot options but starts installation right away. This is also strange.
I am looking for a program that will take multiple avi files and join them into one file
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI was able to convert a Real Estate Firm from using Microsoft OSS to OpenSuse 11.2.The Real estate agents in the firm are pleased and some are not but it's the cost of doing business and saving money.I am at a cross road or should I say I have come to a bump in the road. Most of the agents create their flyers and signs in Microsoft Publisher, I tried Open Office 3.X and I'm unable to open or edit the files in question.Do have any suggestions or could you point me in the direction of a solid solution that will help me either convert the files or a program that can be used with-in OpenSuse 11.2 that can edit the files
View 9 Replies View RelatedI would like to know a way to disable the usb storage capability of the clients computers on a LAN, running opensuse 11.2.
-- I tried the modprobe -r usb-storage , but nothing happend
-- I tried the nousb option when loading the kernel, it worked, but mouse which was connected through usb port was also disabled
-- Also there is no usb-storage.ko driver inside the /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop/kernel/drivers/usb/storage folder... there isn't the storage folder itself
I am wondering what the easiest way for me to disable su and perform all root stuff using sudo, the way Ubuntu works. I am using a shared system, openSUSE 11.3, and notice that the only item that gets logged in su is who su'd. I need more information and sudo + command gets logged to /var/log/messages so I can see who did what and when. How can I get openSUSE 11.3 to work similiar to Ubuntu when it comes to running elevated commands or editing files that a normal user doesn't have rights to?
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View 8 Replies View RelatedI've just installed openSuSE 11.2, and I need to disable the feature that causes the laptop to suspend when you close the lid (and it's plugged in to the wall). I've already done this for my user profile, and I've attempted to do it for the root profile, as well, but when the GDM login screen is shown, the laptop still suspends when you close the lid.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen I install wine the add/remove program wants to install both 86_64 and i686 files. I have the x86_64 version of Fedora 14. I am having problems with counterstrike and have installed it using Wine, have noted problems when both types of files are installed.
I would like to have Fedora set up just right but as with all Linux distros, am having trouble keeping my head above water with fc14. I have success up to a point and then want to go back to Windows for its simplicity. Just this wine problem
I have managet to customize my logon screen the way i want it,
1.
Problem is i do not wish to have background imege at bootsplash screen (still want to receive option how to boot just simple text);
2.
And later when system is loading modules and starting i just want to have simple black background on my screen, with nice text (verbose) telling me what is done.
Running 11.3 x64 opensuseSUSE
In installation time I leave checked auto log in for the first created user. Now when the machine starts in automatically enter to first user account with the last used desktop environment. In does not prompt for log in, password, and desktop environment choose. When I want a second user, I must log out from the first created, and e log in as second. How can I now disable this option of the auto log in?
View 1 Replies View RelatedKernel parameter vga=0 or vga=normal does not work as expected - First it works as expected text mode resolution is 80x25, but after some seconds the kernel, or the initramdisk does switch resolution of console again! I hate to say but it looks like OpenSuSe (again) thinks it is more clever than the user.Since rmmod radeon in runlevel 3 says "ERROR: Module radeon is in use", I do think that somehow SuSe ignores my vga=0 ... Is it the kernel or the ramdisk, I do not know where to search, since the parameter vga=0 is accepted and used in the beginning - it switch again after "doing fast boot" or 1-2 lines later..
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a OpenSuse Linux system that needs to use only one core of its four core processor. I tried putting this in the menu.lst file.
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 10.3
root (hd0,1)
[code].....
Am I placing the nosmp and maxcpus options in the proper location?
well I want to get the latest version of java on my opensuse. (java is just an example, the rest of programs are similar)Default I had JRE 1.6.0-u17 and I want to have 1.6.0-u20 both JRE and JDK.Choices:1. I added some yast repositories and installed JRE, JDK and java browser plugin2. download from site the .bin file, chmod +x and ./runit!First, I tried the 2nd version but I had some problems:1 - this didn't affected the classpath so when I used java -version still u17 it was, not u202 - the browser plugin wasn't updated3 - how cand I uninstall it (u20)? Latelty I come back to the 1st choice, it works, but I want to learn opensuse so.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have compiled the proprietary nvidia drivers for 11.3. When I boot, even using the nomodeset boot option, the nouveau module still loads, causing gdm/X to fail. I am able to manually remove the modules with rmmod and restart gdm. Everything then works normally. I have added the line "blacklist nouveau" to both 50-blacklist.conf and 99-local.conf in /etc/modprobe.d
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm using NoMachine's FreeNX client on my Vista PC to access my Fedora 12 box. Mostly works a real peach and I'm very impressed with it. But...... Working through some of the stuff I'd "like" it to do I'm struggling with enabling sound.I've enabled the Multimedia setting in the NX Client. I've loaded via Add/Remove Software,
Sound support with ESD
gg2-esound-2.3.0-13.fc12 (i686)
PulseAudio EsounD dameon compatibility script
[code]...
I have installed Preload (0.6.4-1) on Xubuntu 11.04. How do I know if it is running/working? I can't seem to find any reference to Preload in the task manager.
View 3 Replies View RelatedTo prevent various problems in Wine, I'd like to use OSS through PulseAudio, via padsp. I've tried preloading it with this line in /etc/profile:
Code:
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libpulsedsp.so${LD_PRELOAD:+:$LD_PRELOAD}
But that causes stuff to fail when KDE starts. What can I put in /etc/profile or .bashrc to preload padsp only for Wine? If nothing can do that, how else can I make Wine always use padsp without having to run it from a console every time?
I just installed openSuse, i tried to install skype, chrome.
I got this error:
"A problem that we were not expecting has occurred.Please report this bug with the error discription Details
In sysv-rc-conf, I notice that lxde is an option to add to the boot. Would it be possible to use sysv-rc-conf to preload lxde?
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