Author Archive for Jigish Gohil
Cheat ocfs2-tools
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 by Jigish GohilWhen running ocfs2 on cLVM, openais+pacemaker setup, you may run into something like described below.
The symptoms:
umount /data1
mspx1d0:~ # tunefs.ocfs2 –fs-features=sparse,unwritten /dev/system/data1
tunefs.ocfs2: Unable to access cluster service while opening device “/dev/system/data1″
mspx1d0:~ # mount /dev/system/data1 /data1
mspx1d0:~ # tunefs.ocfs2 –fs-features=sparse,unwritten /dev/system/data1
tunefs.ocfs2: Configuration error discovered while opening device “/dev/system/data1″
Here is how to get past cluster check when running ocfs2-tools.
From hb_gui or crm stop mounting of the file system and ocf::ocfs2:o2cb resources.
Install ocfs2-tools-o2cb package
Do normal stack configuration using /etc/init.d/o2cb configure, but do not auto start on boot. Read the fine ocfs2 manual.
Bring ocfs2 online: /etc/init.d/o2cb online ocfs2
Start ocfs2 service: rcocfs2 start
Update cluster stack on your partition with ocfs2 filesystem: tunefs.ocfs2 –update-cluster-stack /dev/system/data1
Do your thing with ocfs2-tools, such as: tunefs.ocfs2 -v –fs-features=sparse,unwritten /dev/system/data1
Stop ocfs2 service and unload o2cb: rcocfs2 stop && /etc/init.d/o2cb offline ocfs2 && /etc/init.d/o2cb unload
Re-enable ocf::ocfs2:o2cb resources and run tunefs.ocfs2 –update-cluster-stack /dev/system/data1 again. Re-enable mounting from hb_gui. Hope there is a simpler way somewhere that I am not aware of.
Baroda IT Association(BITA) Show 2010
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 by Jigish GohilEclipse on Stellarium
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 by Jigish GohilStellarium is a free software available for Windows, Linux/Unix and MacOSX. It renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time.. With stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope. Packages for openSUSE are available from Education repository on openSUSE Build Service via 1-click install.
India and many parts of Asia witnessed the longest annular solar eclipse of the millennium, next such event will take place after 1000 years. Stellarium helps to re-live the moments of this eclipse and explain what exactly was going on during the eclipse.
Select Southern most tip of India from the location menu (hit right side of the screen with mouse), set date and time : 11:30 am 15 January 2010. Search for “Sun”, sparebar to center it, zoom in with mousewheel. Give few clicks on the “Fast Forward” button.
The dialog boxes has strange rendering bug, for a workaround create /home/yourusername/.drirc with the following content:
<driconf>
<application name=”stellarium” executable=”stellarium”>
<option name=”texture_tiling” value=”false” />
</application>
</driconf>
Enjoy!
openSUSE Edu Li-f-e at FOSS.in
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 by Jigish GohilLast week was one of the biggest gathering of FOSS geeks from all over India and some from abroad at foss.in in Bangalore. Unfortunately it was not as big as I had expected. Here are some of the pictures from the event, also managed to get some “FOSS celebrities” to pose with our DVD. It was fun meeting many people only known to me via IRC nick or Planet India. Over 250 Li-f-e DVDs were distributed, many students from various parts of India were also part of the event, students from DA-IICT and IIIT helped burn some DVDs too. Thanks Pradeepto and Srinivasa for KDE and GNOME t-shirts, it was great pleasure meeting again with openSUSE B’lore team, puthali, girishks, srinidhibs, ravim85, abharath and Ex-Novellite Hardik Dalwadi(Cannonical).
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openSUSE Edu Li-f-e : creating open minds
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 by Jigish GohilopenSUSE Education community is proud to announce openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e: Linux for Education based on openSUSE 11.2 . Li-f-e flavor bundles the best of softwares openSUSE has to offer, such as most popular Desktop Environments, educational application, development suites, multimedia, great user experience out of the box, and a lot more that is expected in a modern Operating System.

Some highlights of what makes this a very special distribution:
openSUSE 11.2 + Ubuntu Karmic Launch party report
Saturday, November 14th, 2009 by Jigish GohilJust back from the combined openSUSE 11.2 and Ubuntu Launch party. We had over 120 people attending the event, much more than we had expected. Luckily we had enough of pizza slices and DVDs for all
The event started with the welcome by Prof. Vupul Kalamkar, PhD of Bachelors of Computer Application Department, Faculty of Science, the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Vadodara. The first presentation was by Kartik Mistry, Debian Developer on how to get started with contributing to Free Software world.
Next up was my talk featuring all the goodies we have packed in openSUSE Edu Li-f-e based on the latest openSUSE 11.2. A very passionate discussion on “user friendliness” of GNU/Linux distributions vs M$ Windows erupted when asked from the audience what was preventing them from using Linux, hopefully we were able to convey the ease of use by demonstrating many softwares that are present on Li-f-e and live demonstration of coding java, and C# by Nitin. How much easy can it get then getting IDEs such as MonoDevelop, Netbeans, Eclipse and compilers of all major programming languages out of the box.Some videos were also shown, among them Shayon’s(he is the the dude behind the camera in all pictures) promo and the stylish arrival of the geeko ending the presentation with this great video.
The hybrid iso technology was really a WOW! factor, many participants didn’t know something like this was possible and were thrilled with seeing it in action.
There were few laptops getting Linux installed, some running Ubuntu and some openSUSE, tons of live USB sticks were created and every participant went home with Ubuntu and the Li-f-e DVD.
We ended the event with a lucky draw, 3 Ubuntu t-shirts, 2 openSUSE Li-f-e t-shirts, and 2 USB sticks with Li-f-e installed on them were the prizes. Kartik Mistry had a random number generator script picking numbers, unfortunately it kept calling people who had already left or repeating numbers, so we went old fashioned with everyone present writing their names on a piece of paper and esteemed faculties of MSU BCA doing the honors of drawing the name of the winners.
Some of the pictures from the event.
We surely had a lot of fun…
Linux launch party in mainstream press
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 by Jigish GohilThis appeared in todays The Times of India country’s number one English newspaper.
Be there for the launch party in your town.
openSUSE 11.2 + Ubuntu Karmic Launch party invitation
Monday, November 9th, 2009 by Jigish GohilYou, your friends and family are all invited to the double bonanza launch party of Ubuntu Karmic and openSUSE 11.2.
- When: 14th November 2009, 5 pm onwards
- Where: B.C.A. Dept., Faculty of Science, The M.S.University of Baroda, India Map
- Agenda: openSUSE 11.2 and Ubuntu Karmic launch party, check out two of the most popular Linux distributions while having a party, bring laptops, USB sticks or your computer box for installation.
- RSVP here
openSUSE Edu Li-f-e at iFest
Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by Jigish GohilThanks to hard work of faculties and IEEE student branch of DA_IICT, ifest turned out to be good event. Here are some of the pictures from the event:
openSUSE Education team from Baroda: Samyak Bhuta, Biswajyoti Mahanta and me, were all wearing either Li-f-e or openSUSE t-shirts, many students got the latest edition of Li-f-e based on openSUSE 11.2 installed on their USB sticks. DA-IICT will also be hosting iso image and presentations on their internal network for everyone on campus to download.
The sessions were interactive demonstrations of Li-f-e, http://susestudio.com, and Blender(by Biswa) the presentations openSUSE-Edu-Li-f-e.pdf and Blender.pdf used are available here.
openSUSE Edu: Li-f-e t-shirt
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 by Jigish GohilHere is openSUSE Education Li-f-e: Linux for Education t-shirt for your viewing pleasure only
Designed and modeled by Samyak Bhuta
We will be proudly wearing this when presenting Li-f-e at ifest celebrating 125 years of innovation, imagination, implementation and engineering with IEEE at the DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India on 2 November 2009.






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