Linux-Misc Digest #825, Volume #19 Mon, 12 Apr 99 16:13:08 EDT
Contents:
make dep & make menuconfig fail with kernel 2.2 (Scott Waye)
Re: When did parallel port printing performance go to HELL? (Grant Taylor)
Problems installing glibc 2.0.7 with SUSE 6.0 (Berry Goossens)
Re: Moving Linux... (Andrew)
cp and increase filename *.1 *.2 ,... (Christophe Zwecker)
Re: Can we switch from Redhat linux to Debian?? (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Re: RPM utility under Windows? (Christophe Zwecker)
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From: Scott Waye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: make dep & make menuconfig fail with kernel 2.2
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:18:37 +0100
I am trying to upgrade my 586 system from 2.0.34 to 2.2 but I get the
following error trying to run "make menuconfig" :
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog'
/bin/sh scripts/Menuconfig arch/i386/config.in
Using defaults found in arch/i386/defconfig
Preparing scripts: functions, parsing...............................done
.
[H[JThere seems to be a problem with the lxdialog companion utility
which is
built prior to running Menuconfig. Usually this is an indicator that
you
have upgraded/downgraded your ncurses libraries and did not remove the
old ncurses header file(s) in /usr/include or /usr/include/ncurses.
It is VERY important that you have only one set of ncurses header files
and that those files are properly version matched to the ncurses
libraries
installed on your machine.
You may also need to rebuild lxdialog. This can be done by moving to
the /usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog directory and issuing the
"make clean all" command.
If you have verified that your ncurses install is correct, you may email
the maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or post a message to
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for additional assistance.
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 139
I have rebuilt lxdialog with no problems. ncurses appears to be OK as
the test programs in /usr/doc/ncurses-devel-4.2-10 work fine.
What does this error(139) really mean?
"make config" works ok, but when I get to "make dep" I get the following
similar error:
scripts/mkdep init/*.c >.depend
make: *** [dep-files] Error 139
Any help greatly appreciated.
--
Scott 3-)
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: When did parallel port printing performance go to HELL?
Date: 12 Apr 1999 14:05:37 -0400
yan seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Let me know if you fiugre it out. I turned on IRQs, and a 20MB print
> job took 8 hours to print. Installing RH 5.2 seems to have improved
> performance (it's now polled), but it's still far below what it should
> be.
The fastest printing will usually happen with either well-tuned
polling frequencies or good parport hardware and interrupts.
Since you are running 2.0, you can use tunelp to adjust the polling
frequencies and print at the full speed of the printer. man tunelp.
> I can't upgrade to 2.2.x as it would break the digiboard driver.
Why? Is it a binary-only driver or something? It may be just as
well; there are a host of little things to fiddle with when you
upgrade. There's no rush...
>> I'd like to assure you that it is, but in the week since I upgraded from
>> 2.0.36 to 2.5.5, I've been wondering what the hell happened to turn my
>> 4ppm (stop laughing, dammit!) LaserJet 4L into a 3ppm model.
>> (Turning on TRUST_IRQ to optimize as suggested by the log suceeded only
>> in breaking printing...)
That sounds as if your system has an interrupt confusion. All too
often, the parport's IRQ will get used by something else since most
systems don't use an interrupt-driven parport driver. You can either
figure out what the interrupt problem is or just don't bother.
In 2.0.x, there are a number of polling frequency-related parameters
you can fiddle, and they work wonders. You need to find the
equivalent in the parport_pc driver. Consult the source!
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: Berry Goossens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems installing glibc 2.0.7 with SUSE 6.0
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 20:08:22 +0200
Hi,
I'm trying to install StarOffice 5.0 on my SUSE 6.0 Linux system but I
can't get it done
because of library problems. I tried to install the glibc 2.0.7
libraries both manually and
automatically (using soprep) but in all cases my Linux system is not
accesible anymore.
Normal commands like ls or mv cannot be found anymore, I can't login
anymore, etc.
This is in short what happens: Everytime the original runtime Linker
"ld-linux.so.2" is
removed, my system stops functioning. When I (after booting a rescue
system) copy the new
runtime linker to "/lib", my system is still not functioning. Only
reinstalling the original
"ld-linux.so.2" restores my system. I'm very sure I'm doing exactly what
has to be done according to the glibc 2.0.7 libraries README but I
cannot get it done.
Does anyone know a solution for this or does this mean I cannot use
StarOffice 5.0 with SUSE 6.0 Linux?
I hope someone can help me with this problem because I don't know it
anymore.
Thanks!
Berry
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From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Moving Linux...
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 14:22:08 -0500
Partition Magic is your friend. Buy (or find) it.
Andrew
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Christophe Basset wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently running Linux (RH5.1) and win95 on the same hard drive,
> but I'm running out of space.
>
> So I decided to buy a new 8.4Go hard drive and reorganize the system
> with win95 using all its drive and Linux using all (and only) the new
> drive.
>
> I know how to create the new partitions (swap+native) with fdisk, but is
> there an easy way to move Linux to the new drive without having to
> re-install and re-configure everything?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Christophe Basset
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christophe Zwecker)
Subject: cp and increase filename *.1 *.2 ,...
Date: 12 Apr 1999 18:01:16 +0200
Hi,
I want to copy logfiles and increase the filename by xx.1, xx.2
depending what is the last numeber, how do I do it with a shell script
?
thx alot
--
Christophe Zwecker
Hamburg, Germany
mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fax: +49 40 22715433
sms: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (120 chars, subject only)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: Can we switch from Redhat linux to Debian??
Date: 12 Apr 1999 18:36:54 GMT
Al Dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Need Pros and cons of debian over redhat...
Check out the debian-user mailing list archives
(http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/); Debian versus Red Hat is a
discussion that resurfaces every once in a while.
HTH,
Ray
--
ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old.
I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking
his name in vain.
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christophe Zwecker)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RPM utility under Windows?
Date: 12 Apr 1999 17:49:57 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Now, is there something available that will let me
>untar an archive so I can reduce it to floppy-sized
winzip can do that
--
Christophe Zwecker
Hamburg, Germany
mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fax: +49 40 22715433
sms: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (120 chars, subject only)
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