Linux-Misc Digest #913, Volume #18 Fri, 5 Feb 99 15:13:14 EST
Contents:
EXT2-FS warning for nonexistant FS? (Mathias Koerber)
Re: Suggestions for new Linux Fortran compiler (Mumit Khan)
Network problems (Matt Cobley)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Arthur)
Re: Dosemu and winndoze partitions? (Bostjan =?iso-8859-2?Q?M=FCller?=)
Installing new software and the C compiler ("The Grogers")
Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Running Linux as Root ("Steve D. Perkins")
Sound Card problems ("The Grogers")
Re: Wich Linux shouls I install (jamie)
Re: Screen capture of Red Hat install menus? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: installing win95 on slave disk ("A.Caluya")
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Johan Kullstam)
Re: module problems with kernel 2.2.1 (MRoman)
Re: how to learn linux? (Dwayne Wallen)
Re: Multidrop Mail Software ("Joseph K. Vossen")
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From: Mathias Koerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EXT2-FS warning for nonexistant FS?
Date: 5 Feb 1999 10:05:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On one of my Linux servers, the following wierd situtation developed
recently:
I get lots of messages like these on the console (also readable via dmesg):
# dmesg
[...]
EXT2-fs warning (device 08:11): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 52848
EXT2-fs warning (device 08:11): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 229646
EXT2-fs warning (device 08:11): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 52848
EXT2-fs warning (device 08:11): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 229646
EXT2-fs warning (device 08:11): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 52848
EXT2-fs warning (device 08:11): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 229646
EXT2-fs warning (device 08:11): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 52848
[...]
However, I do not have a device 08:11:
# cd /dev
# ls -l sda*
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 0 Apr 29 1995 sda
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 1 Apr 29 1995 sda1
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 10 Apr 29 1995 sda10
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 11 Apr 29 1995 sda11
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 12 Apr 29 1995 sda12
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 13 Apr 29 1995 sda13
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 14 Apr 29 1995 sda14
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 15 Apr 29 1995 sda15
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 2 Apr 29 1995 sda2
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 3 Apr 29 1995 sda3
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 4 Apr 29 1995 sda4
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 5 Apr 29 1995 sda5
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 6 Apr 29 1995 sda6
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 7 Apr 29 1995 sda7
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 8 Apr 29 1995 sda8
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 9 Apr 29 1995 sda9
Hmm. So 8:11 is /dev/sda11
# mount
/dev/sda2 on / type ext2 (rw)
/dev/sda5 on /tmp type ext2 (rw)
/dev/sda6 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
/dev/sda7 on /var type ext2 (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /var/spool/mqueue type ext2 (rw)
/dev/sda8 on /u0 type ext2 (rw)
/dev/sda3 on /u1 type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
Not mounted, and
# fdisk /dev/sda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 522 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1 77 618471 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/sda2 262 262 270 72292+ 83 Linux native
/dev/sda3 78 78 261 1477980 83 Linux native
/dev/sda4 304 304 522 1759117+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 304 304 312 72261 83 Linux native
/dev/sda6 313 313 351 313236 83 Linux native
/dev/sda7 352 352 415 514048+ 83 Linux native
/dev/sda8 416 416 522 859446 83 Linux native
Command (m for help):
that device does not even exist..
The system is a Slackware(3.5 or 3.6,can;t exactly remember) upgraded
to Kernel 2.0.36..
# uname -a
Linux joaquim 2.0.36 #6 Sat Jan 23 15:45:37 SGT 1999 i686 unknown
Could it be that I need to upgrade some libraries or the ext2 for kernel 2.0.36?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mumit Khan)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Suggestions for new Linux Fortran compiler
Date: 4 Feb 1999 23:17:17 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Toon Moene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hmm, I thought that the language g77 accepts is a superset of that
>accepted by f2c, but I must confess that I haven't installed f2c for at
>least two years, so I might be behind on its capabilities.
Not really. The base language accepted is essentially the same, at least
the last time I checked a few months back.
>Some features of f2c (-r8 to "promote" REAL variables to 8-byte floating
>point numbers and -C for array bound checking) are not found in g77 yet.
This is a *HUGE* bonus for legacy code. There's code I had written in the
late 80's that I'm still using and on platforms where g77 is my only
practical choice, I end up using f2c on some of these.
>I must also note that the g77 team had a hard time to beat the f2c+gcc
>combination (for a g77/gcc build together). For COMPLEX operations, it
>might still be true that f2c+gcc delivers faster executables.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I have some heavy numerical f77 codes, chock
full of COMPLEX ops, that does upto 20% better using f2c; for another set,
also chock full of COMPLEX ops, g77 does a bit, and sometimes a lot, better
than f2c. How's that for an objective comparison ;-?
Regards,
Mumit
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From: Matt Cobley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Network problems
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 18:03:53 +0000
Hi,
I'm running RedHat 5.2 and any network access seems to be really
slow. Netscape is the worst, occasionally failing to find host names
which I know exist. The DNS servers I am using are the same as when I'm
using win95, and never seem to give any problems then. I also have
access to a 486 running Debian (which works perfectly and quickly), and
compared the results of "netstat -r", and there doesn't seem to be
anything different other than the line :
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0
lo
in the redhat version. The other difference is that on the Debian box it
gives the irtt field as 300 rather than 0. However, simply running
netstat -r takes a long time to resolve the last line (starts: default
then gives nameserver details). I have a 3Com 3C509B network card if
that's important. If anyone could help, I'd be very grateful. It's very
annoying that my win95 box can access the network many times faster than
Linux...
ttfn
Matt
________________________________________________________________________
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Girton College, than physical love? No, nor any
Cambridge CB3 0JG. which is more unreasonable" - Plato
Tel :- (01223) 276778
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From: Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 09:41:14 -0800
David Martin wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Arthur wrote:
> >>
> >> Does anybody know who built the first analog computer?
> >>
> > I'm tempted to say, might be the British again, with that Stonehenge
> > astronomical computer thingie. :-)
>
> That wasn't the first. It was the 50 Megalith upgrade.
>
> Avesbury was one of the earlier 33 megalith models.
This would be the earliest Sun workstation then?
Arthur
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From: Bostjan =?iso-8859-2?Q?M=FCller?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dosemu and winndoze partitions?
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 19:09:33 +0100
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Marius Gedminas wrote:
>
> Bostjan M�ller wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >I have a problem concerning dosemu that has problems because my dos is
> >on a windooze partition and when startiong dosemu it wants to start win.
> >Is there a away around this ?
>
> I had the same problem (even though my MSDOS.SYS file says BootGUI=0). The
> solution for me was to create a fake WIN.BAT (e.g. `echo No windows under
> DOSEMU!')
> file in the DOSEMU hdimage. Your Mileage May Vary.
>
> Yours,
> --
> Marius Gedminas
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am using win95 :( Is there a way to work around it - I have currently
set up the config menu every time I start win95 so that I have an option
to boot into the old ms-dos (6.22) and I am ruunning the win on 16 bit
partition.
Any Clues?
THX in advance
Bostjan
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From: "The Grogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing new software and the C compiler
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 13:54:37 -0500
What does this message mean?? I get it when trying to install most
anything. Please help me!! Am I just missing something I need to install?
I have gcc, egcs at least. Why would the gcc be there, but not working? I
have RedHat 5.2.
[root@localhost /eplus]# ./INSTALL
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i486-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i486-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i486-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -DNDEBUG ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot
create executables.
Compiling eplus.
make: *** No targets. Stop.
Installing eplus.
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
*************************************************
ePlus should be ready to run!
Just copy the file eplusc to ~/.enlightenment/
Please read the README and CHANGELOG
*************************************************
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 18:45:13 GMT
I'm also using a K6-2 300 (overclocked to 100x3.5) and 128mb of PC100 RAM in
Linux just fine.
This is on an Asus P5a motherboard (Alladin V chipset I think).
As for the TX chipset, it can't cache more than 64mb of RAM.
Chris
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
see-signature-for-email-address---junk-not-welcome wrote:
> "Javier Pulido" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> |Problems with the booting of linux in a computer AMD K6-2 (300 MHz) with
> |i430TX (no AGP) and 128 MB, two hard drives and 1 CDROM. Can you help me?
>
> Does an "i430TX" motherboard support a 300 MHz K6-2 processor and
> 128 MB of RAM?
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Timothy J. Lee timlee@
> Unsolicited bulk or commercial email is not welcome. netcom.com
> No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
>
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Running Linux as Root
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 14:03:57 -0500
With my latest Linux installation, I just got lazy and decided to
run as root all the time (I didn't even bother to create any user
accounts until yesterday)... but after reading all the horror-story
postings about how this is such a bad idea, I finally decided to buckle
down and resolve the issues that kept me from using a plain user's
account in the first place.
Here are some of the main points that I was unable to fix, I am
hoping that other people know easy solutions for them... as I am sure
they would probably benefit alot of people reading this newsgroup
<smile>:
1) I use KDE, and have never been able to get KPPP (the built-in
internet dialer) to work properly when run by any user other than root.
I can access the modem (when I run the "Query Modem" command from within
KPPP setup, I do get all the AT responses from the modem)... but it
won't actually dial in and establish an internet connection. When you
click on connect, it pauses on "Initializing modem"... the phone line is
never even picked up. I found a way around this by giving my user
account "Super-User Equivalence" using "linuxconf"... but I imagine that
is is a dangerous and lazy shortcut.
2) I have tinkered with "linuxconf" as much as I possibly can, but
cannot find a way to give ordinary users read-write access to my Windows
FAT32 partition (ordinary users have read-only access). There's GOT to
be an easy way to fix that!
3) I really need to find a comprehensive reference somewhere on just
all that "linuxconf" does and is capable of. It scares me to have all
of these security equivalence options selected for my user account (and
also frustrates me that they oftentimes still don't correct any
problems!).
Thanks for any help anyone is able to give!
Steve
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From: "The Grogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Card problems
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 14:01:54 -0500
I downloaded the isapnp program, and if I look as the computer is booting
up, I see that it detects my sound card, which is a OptiI931, I think.
Anyway, when I try to run the soundconf program that came with the oss
drivers I downloaded, I get this error:
> [root@localhost X11]# cd /usr/lib/oss
> [root@localhost oss]# ./soundconf
>=== Loading soundbase module failed. ===
>
>Please read "Major version incompatibilities" in
>/usr/lib/oss/Readme for more info.
>
>*** Hard kernel incompatibility error ***
>[root@localhost oss]#
I checked the Readme file, and under that section it says:
>Message: "*** Hard kernel incompatibility error ***"
>
>You should not get the above message. It means that you are using a kernel
>which is radically incompatible with the "standard" one (perhaps you have
>installed some patches to the kernel). This may also happen if you try to
>install a non-SMP OSS package to a SMP system or vice versa (we have a
separate
>installation package available for SMP systems).
>
>DON'T USE -f PARAMETER OF insmod TO LOAD THE DRIVER. THIS METHOD >BYPASSES
>IMPORTANT SANITY CHECKS AND ALMOST CERTAINLY VIOLATES INTEGRITY OF >YOUR
SYSTEM.
>
>As the last resort you can install the "official" kernel sources from
>ftp.kernel.org and recompile the kernel. After that just try to install OSS
>again.
What does this mean? How do I recompile the kernel and install the kernel
sources?? I have RedHat 5.0.
Thanks!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jamie)
Subject: Re: Wich Linux shouls I install
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 20:07:51 -0600
Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>You can install RedHat 5.2, but I suggest that you go to
>an ftp search tool like "http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/"
Just what would be the point of doing an ftpsearch on kde, qt, and
netscape? I can see if you're looking for something obscure, or some
old version, but wouldn't it be easier just to go to
ftp.kde.org, ftp.troll.no, and ftp.netscape.com ?
--
jamie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"There's a seeker born every minute."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Screen capture of Red Hat install menus?
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 15:55:51 GMT
All you need is a 35mm and a Tripod. :)
-chad
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Guertin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to put together a tutorial for installing Red Hat Linux,
> and I'd like to include screen shots of the ASCII menus. I've seen
> them in the Red Hat manual, so I know it can be done, but I can't for
> the life of me figure out how.
>
> I can capture normal virtual consoles on a running system with `cat
> /dev/vcs*', but during the install procedure the vcs* devices are not
> available, so that option doesn't work.
>
> I thought there might be a way to display the menus from a running
> system, but when I try that I just get insulted (justifiably, of
> course) with the message: "you're running me on a live system! that's
> incredibly stupid."
>
> Is there another method that someone can recommend?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Dave Guertin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: "A.Caluya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.windows95,alt.windows95,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: installing win95 on slave disk
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 11:27:35 -0800
I used a similar approach to Matt's just that I have my system setup this way:
Primary IDE controller -- Master = Quantum (Win98)
Slave = Quantum (Data)
Secondary IDE Controller -- Master = Seagate (Linux/RH 5.2)
Slave = ATAPI CDROM
I've found fewer conflicts this way. To boot to Linux, just disable the Primary
Ide in bios. It's messy, but I didn't want to haggle w/boot managers ;)
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Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 01 Feb 1999 23:55:10 -0500
Mark Stolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus" wrote:
> >
> > G'day...
> >
> > > Great wine (we send seedlings *back* to France when they had a blight),
> > > though Chile, Australia and South Africa are catching up
> > > quickly...
i enjoy montes alpha from chile.
> > *LOL* Australia wines catching up with Californian... You really need to
> > take a look at the internation wine awards listings much more...
why can't i abide by any cali wines? do they all have to taste like gallo?
> > Ciao...
> >
> > Michael.
>
> Aww, I was just trying to be humble. But since you insist, California
> r0cks, everywhere else sucks! ;)
argh! california wines are the worst. all of them seem to be sickly
sweet. is there something about california which precludes a *dry*
red? is it the land or the american palate?
give me a decent burgundy (bourgogne) like haute c�te de nuits any day
of the week. i don't care if the seedlings came from france, went to
the united states and then returned by way of mars.
hell, vinto tinto (some swedish blend of spanish vin de pays
d'espagne) from systembolaget is better than california swill.
> Actually, I have had Australian wine that compared *very* favorably
> with California wine -- had a nice bottle of can't-remember-what for
> Christmas dinner. Of course, I'm not an expert...
some of the oz wines are in fact very nice.
--
Johan Kullstam [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: MRoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: module problems with kernel 2.2.1
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 05:03:58 -0600
After u do 'make zImage, make zlilo' _AND BEFORE_ you do 'make modules,
make modules_install', make sure you get all the old modules from the
old kernel out of /lib/modules first!!!
I made the same mistake, and confused depmod to no end. Basically do a
'mv /lib/modules/[old kernel version] /lib/backupmods, then do 'make
modules, make modules_install' in the linux src dir. Then finally
depmod -a.
Important, change ur scripts. Make sure kerneld is not invoked, the new
kernel does not like kerneld (it has kmod now)
Charles Mulks wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade to kernel 2.2.1 on my RedHat 5.2
> linux box. Everything seems to go well except that no
> *modules* are being loaded
>
> make mrproper
> make xconfig
> make dep
> make clean
> make modules
> make modules_install
>
> no errors during any of the above, but when I
> boot I get an error message:
>
> finding module dependencies
> depmod... error loading shared libraries
> undefined symbol: __bzero
>
> I get the same error when I try depmod -a in an xterm
>
> I'm sure I have the minimum requirements satisfied-
> modutils-2.1.121, libc5-5.4.46, procinfo-15, etc
>
> I've checked dejanews and tried the suggestions I found
> there (only 2), but they didn't have any effect.
>
> I just remembered - I downloaded a patch file,
> patch-2.2.1.gz when I downloaded the source.
>
> I tried to apply the patch -
>
> gzip -cd patch-2.2.1.gz | patch -p0
>
> and got an error message something like
>
> "can't find file to patch" (don't remember exactly)
>
> Then tried to apply it a second time and got a different
> error message something like
>
> "patch already applied"
>
> so...
>
> 1. what does the patch do and how is it properly applied?
>
> 2. any other ideas re module problems
>
> TIA
> Charlie Mulks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dwayne Wallen)
Subject: Re: how to learn linux?
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 19:05:13 GMT
Take the FREE online class at http://basiclinux.hypermart.net/basic/index.html
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From: "Joseph K. Vossen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multidrop Mail Software
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 07:28:25 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tom Furie wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I am looking for some software that will allow me to pick up mail for
> multiple accounts on a Linux box from a single POP account.
>
> I looked at Fetchmail, but the documentation advises against using Fetchmail
> for this purpose. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what other
> packages might offer what I am looking for?
>
I use fetchmail which feeds the msgs into procmail that does exactly
what you would like to do.
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