Linux-Misc Digest #475, Volume #19 Tue, 16 Mar 99 05:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive (David Elliott)
Re: halt for standard users ? ("Philip Quiney")
Re: configuration of AfterStep wm ? (Silviu Minut)
Re: Recompiling Slackware 3.6 (kernel 2.0.35) with IP Forwarding (jik-)
Re: Kernel Panic! NEWBIES: Please read this! (Duane Elmer Smeckert)
Re: Celeron 300 MHz or PII 266 MHz (Ghost)
Re: What happened to http://www.x-plorer.org/? (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Are screen savers necessary? (Kenneth Crudup)
IMAP clients? (Ben Sandler)
Re: Sound not working after upgrade. ("Ing. Joaqu�n G. Mascar�a V.")
Re: what "rc" scripts exist for linux? (Peter Samuelson)
Re: Print API (jik-)
New newsgroup comp.os.linux.security (Erik de Castro Lopo)
Re: halt for standard users ? (Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
Re: Linux 2.2.3 and Ultrix 4.3: incompatible NFS? (Fernando)
Re: Reinstalling applications? -- Cnt+Alt+Del -- Aliases -- Multimedia (Kalle Olavi
Niemitalo)
Re: Opinions Needed for New App Planning (Stuart Eichert)
Re: pdfTeX example.tex won't (Arto V. Viitanen)
Re: Compuserve dialup from linux (Marc Dobson)
Re: debian ftp install? (Stefano Ghirlanda)
unresolved __bzero (cannot load shared library) while using insmod ("Marc Teutelink")
Re: Permissions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: KDE, Debian, and religion (Stuart Miles)
balsa libPropList error (Daniel Kupfer)
[solved]Kernel Panic: No init found. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: David Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 01:18:28 +0000
Greg Waugh wrote:
> Well, there are several reasons I want to move it. First of all, it works
> perfectly, second of all, the drive that it's currently on is slow and very
> old and I don't really trust it anymore. That and I don't really have room
> in the case for it with these new drives. I suppose I could do it that way,
> but like I said, it's a server so I don't really want it down that long... I
> was hoping I could prepare the second disk, reboot and have it ready to go
> in a few minutes...
>
> Wait a second... crazy idea... has anyone ever moved a Linux installation
> using Patition Magic 4.0 for Windows? I know it sounds crazy, but I've used
> it very successfully to move NT before and it claims to do Linux... that's
> just another thought too...
>
> Brett W. McCoy wrote in message ...
> >On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:04:28 -0500, Greg Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>Hey fellow Linux users! I'm going to be moving my current RedHat 5.2
> Linux
> >>server to a new hard drive. Everything in the system is going to be the
> >>same, just a new /sda drive. I'm just curious if anyone has a procedure
> to
> >>do this of if it is documented anywhere. I thought I would do a cp -a *
> (or
> >>a few with correct tmp mount points), then boot from a floppy with the new
> >>HD as root and run LILO, but I'm fuzzy on how to set up the /proc and /dev
> >>filesystem.... and if there are going to be any issues with the swap
> >>space... Thanks everyone! Any help would be very appreciated!
> >
> >The /proc filesystem is a virtual filesystem and is created dynamically by
> >the loaded kernel. /dev is a different story. You may be better off
> >backing up your important stuff (i.e., /home & /usr directories),
> >reinstalling directly onto the new hard drive, and then restoring your
> >backed up stuff.
> >
> >But is there any reason you can't keep your boot partition on the current
> >drive and just create new (and bigger) partitions on the new one?
> >
When I need to move crap between drives I find the tar command to be quite
usefull:
Assuming you have your new drive mounted as /mnt/newdrive, and also assuming
you have this on one large partition (I usually would seperate out /home and
/usr, but it's up to you):
Go through every directory in / excluding /proc and /mnt and do the following:
[root@hostname /]# tar -c dirname/ | tar -xC /mnt/newdrive/
That should tar up the whole directory and pipe it out to another tar that will
be untarring what is coming through the pipe after changing the current
directory to /mnt/newdrive so that it all shows up in the right directory.
Make sure you don't do it for the /mnt directory (duh.. recursion). and just
mkdir /mnt/newdrive/proc but don't put anything in it.
This should work for copying the crap in /dev also (since a distro usually has
a .tar.gz of the proper /dev dir anyway).
You will also need to properly install lilo on the machine (I strongly
recommend creating a bootdisk with the proper kernel and initrd on it while you
still have your old hd up and running, then reboot with the disk giving it the
root=/dev/sdxN. If all goes well, reconfigure lilo, run it, and you should be
in business.
Dave.
P.S. YMMV, but the tar thing is a trick I like much better than using cp.
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From: "Philip Quiney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,fr.comp.os.linux.configuration
Subject: Re: halt for standard users ?
Date: 16 Mar 1999 08:00:27 GMT
Frederic Hoerni wrote:
>
> hello
> how can i do to enable users to halt the system ? (only root can do that on
> my configuration)
On RedHat at least the traditional <ctrl><alt><delete> will initiate a
shutdown & reboot. I assume new ATX systems can be told to power off in
this case?
The traditional unix way is to log in as user 'halt' to halt the system
or user 'shutdown' to shut it down. Check /etc/passwd for these users
and you can see they run /bin/halt and /bin/shutdown instead of a shell.
IIRC there is no password for either of these 'users'.
HTH
Regards
Phil Q
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,fr.comp.os.linux.configuration
Subject: Re: configuration of AfterStep wm ?
Date: 16 Mar 1999 07:35:04 GMT
Frederic Hoerni wrote:
> hello,
> i'd like to configure AfterStep window manager and change some of the menus,
> or put one of my pictures in the background.
> I did not find any file that enables me to configure it (like fvwm2 for
> example).
> Is it possible to configure it and how ?
> thanks
>
> --
> ______________________________________________
> fred ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
In AfterStep-1.6.6-2 the config files are in /usr/local/share/afterstep.
In AfterStep-1.5.? the config files are in /usr/share/afterstep
Note: The first time is run, Afterstep creates a local directory ~/GNUstep in
which it keeps configuration files for each user, which override changes in
/usr/local/share/afterstep. Once you've made the system changes you like,
delete
the old ~/GNUstep, so that AfterStep will install it anew, with the new
settings.
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:48:42 -0800
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Recompiling Slackware 3.6 (kernel 2.0.35) with IP Forwarding
> BIOS hardware startup. At this point the only thing I could do was boot
> from the distribution CD and copy my original 2.0.35 kernel back in (backup
> copy always saves you in cases like this).
Always leave your old kernel at like /vmlinuz.old and add another
section to lilo.conf for the old kernel, then rerun lilo (of
course)....then you always have your good copy in case the new one
doesn't boot.
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:25:03 -0800
From: Duane Elmer Smeckert <"elmer at"@ ptw dot. com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic! NEWBIES: Please read this!
I have an idea about the kernel panic,
but first a message from my soapbox:
In general, adding "URGENT" to the subject is a waste of time.
Please try to cram the exact nature of your problem in the subject
instead of useless fluff.
(eg I just installed linux) Who needs to know that?
Because of the stupid topics (Why linux is lame, why they should...)
I scan the headers looking for things that might help me
and I look for things that might be useful. I don't waste my time on
anything that doesn't meet the above criteria.
Generally, URGENT messages like this one are lacking
in detail required to form an intelligent answer.
Even this one has very little info, but I might offer a hint
as an exchange for a rant..
The problem is probably where the kernel resides.
It should be on the root drive, the partition should not be
mounted by a module loaded filesystem.
If Lilo is on a different drive than the kernel, you
have to do the rdev command (I think, it has been a while)
One of these is probably the deal.
eric malloy wrote:
> I successfully installed Kernel 2.2.3 and well when i boot with it.. it
>
> says this:
>
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:04
>
> Can anyone tell me how to fix this? please ..
>
> Thank you,
> eric
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From: Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Celeron 300 MHz or PII 266 MHz
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:42:11 -0500
Walter Strong wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> : What are your opinions of the Celeron 300 MHz vs a
> : Mobile PII 266 MHz processor for running Linux on
> : a notebook? The Celeron can be overclocked to 450 MHz,
> : can the PII also be overclocked? Any comments?
>
> : Greg
>
> I've hear that the PII's ending in an odd number (i.e., 266) are
> set to a lower bus speed. Can anybody confirm this? Or disconfirm
> it as the case may be.
Yes. The older P-2's run at 66Mhz. New ones at 100Mhz.
Multiply 100 by any clock multiplier and you'll always get a multiple of
10.
66 x clock multiplier on the other hand yeilds 233, 266,333... etc...
- Lin, ux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: What happened to http://www.x-plorer.org/?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 20:01:38 GMT
And here I thought that I was doing something wrong... ;-)
http://208.244.78.174/ gives the "Plutonium Inc. - Cedar Rapids, Iowa 56K Internet
Services" page, not anything to do with x-plorer.
nslookup says that www.x-plorer.org is at 208.244.78.174 (the last time I looked)
which, of course, returns the above erroneous web page.
It's too bad; I heard good things about x-plorer.
On 15 Mar 1999 12:42:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M Sweger) wrote:
>Jesus M. Salvo Jr. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
>: The only thing that I now is:
>
>: www.plutonium.net = 208.244.78.9
>: www.x-plorer.org=208.244.78.174
>
>: John Salvo
>
>: "Jesus M. Salvo Jr." wrote:
>
>: > http://www.x-plorer.org/ shows a page called Plutonium Inc.
>: >
>: > Is it just me? This happened to me before with blackdown.org, showing a
>: > different site.
>: >
>: > John Salvo
>
>Yeah! This is happening to me also. The explorer information disappeared
>about a three weeks ago. I emailed the site admin and got no response.
>Considering how expensive it is to have net info there, I don't blame
>the person for moving - I would too!
>
> Mike,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
Toronto Dominion Bank
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Subject: Re: Are screen savers necessary?
Date: 16 Mar 1999 00:36:25 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeff Shern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
>So not only would I be trying to break RC5 encryption schemes, I'd be searching
>for intelligent life... Imagine when I meet the aliens, I could tell them all
>about RC5 64 bit encryption schemes.
... at which point, aliens technologically advanced enough to get all the way
here would sit down and write out an algorithm that would break it in no time
flat. :-)
-Kenny
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From: Ben Sandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IMAP clients?
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 06:07:23 +0000
Anyone know of a good GUI IMAP mail client for linux?
Thanks!
--
Ben Sandler
email me: sandler at ymail dot yu dot edu
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From: "Ing. Joaqu�n G. Mascar�a V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound not working after upgrade.
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 02:00:19 -0600
I would suggest to see the /etc/conf.modules file to see the IRQ settings of
your sound card.
Eric Hesselberg escribi� en mensaje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I updated my kernel to 2.2.1 and now my sound has stopped working. I get
>a IRQ conflict at startup. What file needs to be changed to fix the IRQ
>problem? Thanks
>
>
>Eric Hesselberg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Samuelson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: what "rc" scripts exist for linux?
Date: 16 Mar 1999 01:16:42 -0600
Reply-To: Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[M Sweger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> Wouldn't it make more sense for all flavors of Unix to put all the
> "bootup scripts" the "rc" ones in the directory where the kernel is
> stored? The "/boot" subdirectory. In this way anthing pertaining to
> booting Unix is segregated from the rest of the system and is in one
> place as a subdirectory under /boot called perhaps
> "init.scripts".
No, for three reasons I can think of:
First, they really *are* configuration options -- you rearrange your
runlevels like config files, and thus they belong in /etc.
Second, /boot may be very, very small -- I've had situations where it
was a 5MB partition safely below the 1024-cyl BIOS boot boundary and
the rest of my system was up elsewhere, or on different drives. No
good cluttering /boot with anything the BIOS won't have to see, in that
situation -- and where would it end? /sbin/init needs to be there too,
since the kernel wants to run it first thing ... /etc/fstab ought to go
there because you mount partitions pretty early.... Besides, since
often it makes sense to put /boot in its own partition, it might not be
accessible when the init scripts need to run.
Third, init scripts are not *just* for booting. Many things can be
done with runlevels, not least shutting down or going into single-user
mode. Runlevels can signify the difference between running X/xfs/xdm
or not, that sort of thing.
> Lets face it, the rc scripts do the same thing as Msofts autoexec.bat
> files with the Unix "conf" files being the Msofts ".ini" files.
The analogy (fortunately) does not carry very far....
--
Peter Samuelson
<sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>
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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 00:40:44 -0800
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Print API
Jacques Oosthuizen wrote:
>
> Is there a print API for Linux
Not really. There is PostScript which is more of a language, there may
soon be a library which does some sort of postscript transformation, and
there is X Print which takes X messages and produces a printable
document.
Right now, everyone must do thier own conversion to PostScriopt and then
there must be a GS driver for the printer. This is the only way to
print in linux currently afaik. Though the Xprt server does exist, and
could be used even with the lack of a PDM, you can only use it in X....I
don't think libPrint is ready to be used yet, but do a search at
freshmeat for it and find the websitre.
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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: New newsgroup comp.os.linux.security
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 19:57:31 +1100
Hi all,
I am the proponent of a new newsgroup which currently undergoing
a call for votes (CFV). You can read the the proposal and the charter
for the new group in news://news.announce.newgroups where there is
information on how to vote on whether the new newgroup proposal is
accepted.
Cheers,
Erik
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From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: halt for standard users ?
Date: 16 Mar 1999 10:16:21 +0200
"Frederic Hoerni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hello how can i do to enable users to halt the system ? (only root
> can do that on my configuration)
I changed /etc/inittab so that ctrlaltdel (although I have it
relocated to a different key combo) runs shutdown -h now. Thus
anyone who gets to the console can halt the machine. This makes
sense since the power button is there too.
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From: Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.3 and Ultrix 4.3: incompatible NFS?
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:37:27 +0100
Hello
I've got an Ultrix 4.2A (rev47) at work and I want to know if it's Y2K compliant.
Can somebody help me ???
Thanks
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From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reinstalling applications? -- Cnt+Alt+Del -- Aliases -- Multimedia
Date: 16 Mar 1999 09:08:09 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bengt Richter) writes:
> Is there no standard approach to locking a display/keyboard from
> unauthorized use, and using ctl-alt-del as a reserved way of
> *guaranteeing* that the d/k is uniquely and securely reserved to
> a trusted login session/process? Otherwise, how can one approach
> a d/k and be sure that one is not typing into a trojan?
There's the Secure Action Key which kills all processes using
that virtual terminal -- except "init", which then notices the
lack of processes and spawns a new login prompt.
Unfortunately, it seems some daemons (I can't remember which
ones) don't properly detach themselves from the terminal, so
pressing the SAK on tty1 will kill more processes than it should.
I believe the default keymap doesn't bind SAK to any key, so
you'll have to use "loadkeys" to enable it. Another approach is
to enable "Magic SysRq" in the kernel configuration; then you can
get SAK by pressing Alt+SysRq and a letter (I think it was S).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Eichert)
Subject: Re: Opinions Needed for New App Planning
Date: 16 Mar 1999 08:06:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A java based browser would not bother me.
Eddy Ferguson "@cs.utexas.edu> ("eddyf<spamsucks) wrote:
: Prerequisite for reading this article: Suspension of disbelief
: ------------------------
: Myself and a couple of friends have an original idea for a web
: browser(remember that suspension of disbelief prereq.?? ;) ) but, we are
: unsure as to which direction to go for the Linux port.
: Question: Would you anyone be willing to try a web browser
: "environment" (it's original..remember?) that is pure Java or would you
: prefer something built around Mozilla? Would Java cause you, as a Linux
: user, to shy away?
: Any responses are greatly appreciated as they could save me a huge
: amount of time and allow me to "get it right" the first time!!
: Thanks one and all!!
: :)
: -Eddy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arto V. Viitanen)
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: pdfTeX example.tex won't
Date: 16 Mar 1999 10:05:45 +0200
>>>>> "pajer" == pajer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
pajer> Anyway, now I have what I hope is a consistent set of pdftex and
pajer> example.tex (they both came from the same RPM package).
You should take the newest teTeX (from ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de,
/pub/local/misc/teTeX-beta/). With it the example.tex works fine (but you
have to change all image.png to {image.png}, since \pdfimage has changed).
It's only available as source, but its quite easy to compile.
--
Arto V. Viitanen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Tampere, Department of Computer Science
Tampere, Finland http://www.cs.uta.fi/~av/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Dobson)
Subject: Re: Compuserve dialup from linux
Date: 16 Mar 1999 07:07:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Philipp,
Thank you for your post. I had not found the numbers for the name servers etc...
yet. I am sure you info will be very usefull.
I have not tried to access compuserve with ppp yet as I have not had the time to
try out the help/scripts people have suggested but I will as soon as possible.
I will post to this newsgroup when I get it setup correctly and let everyone know
how it did it.
Thank you
Marc
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CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Subject: Re: debian ftp install?
Date: 16 Mar 1999 08:09:06 GMT
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 18:36:13 GMT, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Stefano Ghirlanda writes:
>> I am used to install redhat via ftp and I find it good way. However, it
>> seems from the docs I read that this option is not available when
>> installing debian, am I wrong?
>
>Yes. Install the base system and choose the 'apt' method in dselect.
Ok, I see. It seesm to me that this needs 8-10 diskettes for the base
system. I was used to the 2 needed for a redhat ftp install, but I can
live with it. Thanks,
Stefano
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From: "Marc Teutelink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,linux.dev.kernel,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: unresolved __bzero (cannot load shared library) while using insmod
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:59:57 +0100
Hello,
I have a problem running insmod or depmod. I keep getting the error:
unresolved symbol (__bzero): cannot load shared library.
People tell me it is a glibc version problem. Is that correct. Did someone
experience this before. My system is a mandrake 5.3 upgraded to 2.2.1. I
installed all necessary packages before.
Kind regards,
Marc teutelink (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Permissions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:49:35 GMT
Blair Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to find out how to convert from symbolic to numeric permission
> values. I worked out how to do it if r, w, x are the symbols but what do
> you for s and t values. I'v seen s = 4000 setid 2000 setgid and t = 1000
and none of the above = 0
rwxrwxrwx = 0777
rwsrwxrwx = 4777
etc...
man stat
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From: Stuart Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE, Debian, and religion
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:37:46 +0000
**Nick Brown wrote:
> put something with an @ in it, so [EMAIL PROTECTED] (there it goes
> again, hello spambots) seemed like a fun idea at the time.
It also comes under the heading of forged headers and/or addresses, is probably
against the AUP of your service provider and could get your companies account
terminated. Still seem like a fun idea?
--
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Alenia Marconi Systems Phone: +44 1276 63311
Views expressed are mine and not those of Alenia Marconi Systems
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From: Daniel Kupfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: balsa libPropList error
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 10:57:49 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I'm trying to compile balsa on my linux-box (2.0) and have compiled and
installed libPropList.
Still while configure-ing balsa it complains it can't find libPropList.
Has someone encoutered this yet and found out what this is about?
Thanks,
Daniel Kupfer.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [solved]Kernel Panic: No init found.
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 05:44:53 GMT
In article <7c9u0m$8c1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> >--> FS: Mounted root (ext2 files system) readonly.
> >--> Freeing unused kernel memory: 92k freed
> >--> Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
I ended up wiping the directories / & /usr and starting over with a fresh
install of 2.0.3-0.7kernel. Then used the new 2.2.3 kernel;
make mrproper; make menuconfig; make dep; make clean; make zlilo; reboot
But during this reinstall I noticed that my first scsi card, the one with the
root partition was PNP(needed turn off!!), was reordering the dive devices
when the second card differental-scsi came on line. I let the kernel probe
the second card (normally a endless loop - 2.0.3 doesn't like raid?) then
shut down the raid to see that when it gaveup one the raid my devices had
changed, /dev/sda had became /dev/sdb. No wonder the kernel panic, it could
not find the root partition. My problem was drive reordeing, once I fixed so
that the scsi card with the root partition was seen first. After that and
couple of victory laps around the building ;-) I am up and running.
Other solutions to same kernel panic message;
"... I had bad rpm builds of iniscripts and modutilites. ..."
"... I had two scsi cards set to the same scsi host id. ..."
"... The problem turned out several binaries in /sbin were corrupted. ..."
"... If you have a scsi card compiled into the kernel and as a
module (left over from a previous build), the kernel tends
to see the card twice and then choke and die. ..."
I also had the above problem with /boot/initrd.img & /etc/conf.modules &
/lib/modules/2.2.3 not getting along (until the reinstall of '/').
I suggest if you have scsi cards compile them into the kernel and module
out something else if your kernel gets to large.
I would like to thank the several people that responed to my inquires.
> After many days of trying to get a scsi raid on line I finally got
> the 2.2.3 kernel to see all the luns on the raid, but I ended up with
> the Kernel Panic. I have spent many hours seaching and reading
> docs and have found that many other people are having the same error.
> Tho it may be in diffrent parts of the boot process, the three lines above
> show up in most listings of errors involving kernel panic & init. And the
> freeing of kernel memory is a brand new message to me, first I have seen
> it past 5 years of linux use, is this a result of something else? or is
> this the problem?
>
> I can boot the 2.0.23-0.7(or something like that, orginal cd install)
> with the new scsi luns powered down, but I can not boot the recompiled
> 2.2.3 kernel with(or without?) the new luns. It sees the partion
> /dev/sda1, which is the root dev, and I have even set root=/dev/sda1
> on the lilo command line to no avail. I don't think it is a currupted
> /sbin/init (a FAQ responce to a bsd kernel panic init error) or maybe
> (2.0.23)/sbin/init is not compatable with 2.2.3?
>
> Anyone else solved this problem with kernel panic & init?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help or comments!
>
> Brian McCullough
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