Linux-Misc Digest #942, Volume #19 Sat, 24 Apr 99 23:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: WordPerfect 8 Installation (Ranjit Solomon)
Re: Windows NTDETECT (Gene Wilburn)
Re: Linux-Win95 Long Filename Preservation (jerry jesse jaskierny)
Process hung on removed lm_sensors /proc entry, caused kernel oops (jason)
Re: Two questions (jik-)
Re: problems with starting kde (emily)
Linux <--> Win95 networking: urgent guru-level help needed (Do-Hoon Kwon)
Re: System frozen at boot-up (Jim Richardson)
Re: Who's knocking at my door? (Jim Richardson)
Re: Slow Login due to large /etc/passwd (brian moore)
Re: booting problem. (Joe Harvell)
Open Source Who's Who ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Ranjit Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 Installation
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 19:31:17 -0400
Thanks a lot for responding.
I downloaded the large file (23MB-WordPerfect.tar.gz) rename the file to
Wordperfect.tar
and did " tar -zxvf WordPerfect.tar" as you mentioned and the installation was
perfect..
thanks again.
Ranjit
Brandon wrote:
> jullian ortmann wrote:
>
> > Ranjit Solomon wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am a newbee and trying to install WordPerfect 8. I downloaded the 7
> > > files and untar them When I run the Runme, I get this message
> > >
> > > "Did you unzip and untar files you downloaded ?"
> > >
> > > if I type "y" - Error: Nothing to install.
> > > "n"- Please refer to the Readme file if you have
> > > questions.
> > > I can't get pass these error messages.
> > >
> > > I would be very much appreciate if someone could help.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Ranjit.
> >
> > Hi,
> > I'm a newbie too but managed to install and use WP8. I'm assuming when
> > you type 'y' the computer repy is 'Error: Nothing new to install'.
> >
> > If this is the case, look the in the directory where the WP files are and
> > find the directory /wpbin. In it should be *xwp. In midnight commander
> > (mc) just double clicking on it invokes Wordperf.
> >
>
> and how might this help? he hasn't eveni nstalled it yet suposedly so
> trying to run the program isn't going to work.
>
> Make sure the files are indeed untarred or whatever they need to be. I
> downloaded the one big file last night. I did 'tar -zxvf GUILG00.GZ'
> I believe and itworked fine. I did './Runme' or whatever its called and it
> ran the install script. After i did the tar command about 8 files got
> crreated so make sure those files exist, and since u downloaded the
> individual files you willnow have a little more than twice the number u
> started wiht in that directoy b/c a README and the Runme files are extracted
> as well.
>
> Brandon
>
> > If I'm wrong about the error message, I'm not too sure what to do.
> > good luck
> > ju
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From: Gene Wilburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows NTDETECT
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 01:00:26 GMT
The most straightforward way is to install in this order:
1. W95
2. WinNT
3. Linux(es)
Use the NT bootloader to load each system, unless you want to use a
3rd-party product. It will automatically dual boot NT and 95. Make your
C: drive 2Gb. That way W95A can handle the partition. Do NOT allow LILO
to write to the MBR. Install LILO into the Linux partition itself. (Be
sure to create boot diskettes as insurance.)
Then, read the Linux+NT HOWTO. Get the program that scrapes off the boot
tracks for Linux and makes them accessible to the NT loader.
This is not the only way to do it, but it's the safest. If you try to
let LILO be the boot loader, you risk BSOD on the NT. This happened to
me once and it took a complete NT reinstall to get NT back in action.
Gene
Dave wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I recently upgraded my machine and want to create a boot configuration
> similar to yours. I have Win95 on the primary dos and extended dos
> partitions on an existing drive. I also have Linux kernel 2.0.34 on
> /dev/hda3 and use Lilo to boot.
>
> I now have a new 17.5GB drive and want to run Win95A, WinNT4.0, Linux
> 2.0 and Linux 2.2, with one of the Linux partitions to be a test bed for
> upgrades and new software. Eventually, with any luck win95 will go
> away.
>
> I know that MS software can be somewhat picky (not to mention buggy)
> :-). What I am wondering is, are there any restrictions as far as which
> physical disk or partition it is installed in or how it is booted?
>
> I would appreciate any practical suggestion on how to do this.
>
> Thanks
> Dave
>
--
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Gene Wilburn, Northern Journey Online, http://www.interlog.com/~njo
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From: jerry jesse jaskierny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux-Win95 Long Filename Preservation
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 18:17:11 -0500
i'm not sure if this works in kde, but it works at the command line.
depending on when you mount the partition, you have to specify the correct
format for the partition. i'm guessing you have it set as msdos. change
it to vfat . you probably have your win partition automatically
mount at boot through /etc/fstab. just change msdos ---> vfat.
Tomorrow has been cancelled due to lack of interest.
Jesus died for your sins. Make it worth his time
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anyone know how to preserve the long filenames used in windows 95
> when using the KDE file manager? That is, if I want to transfer files
> to-from win 95 when booted into linux, how do I preserve the long
> filenames in win95? Thanks much in advance,
>
> Jason
>
>
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From: jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Process hung on removed lm_sensors /proc entry, caused kernel oops
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 21:05:34 -0400
Hi,
I think I might have hit a race condition. Just a few moments ago, I was
using 'rmmod' to remove various modules from the lm_sensors package, at just
the same time that a process was doing a 'cat' on an entry that these modules
make in the /proc filesystem. This caused the kernel to 'oops' (see below),
and the 'cat' process is now hung, and cannot be killed, even with 'kill -9'
by root. (A 'ps' shows that it's hung in function c01baca8, which does not
appear in /boot/System.map -- would that be a function in one of the modules?)
I'm still running along fine, and aside from the hung process (which is not
consuming any CPU, it just bothers me that it's there) and the fact that I can't
'rmmod' one of the modules (which still seems to work properly, and is probably
the one that the cat process is stuck in) due to a "Device or resource busy" error,
the system is remaining very stable.
More specifically, there is an entry made in the /proc/sys/dev/sensors/lm79-i2c-0-2d/
directory called 'temp' (one of several entries there), which is the item that
was being 'cat'ed above. After immediately reinserting the modules I had removed
up to that point, there are now 2 'temp' entries in that directory, and doing a
'cat /proc/sys/dev/sensors/lm79-i2c-0-2d/temp' gives "Segmentation fault" or
"Not a directory" when run by root, and "Operation not permitted" when run by a user.
In the case where I get "Segmentation fault", I get another kernel oops logged.
Anybody have any clues as to what has happened? Is this a kernel bug, or a module
bug? I'm not sure what to call it, since my kernel is flying along just fine
despite this problem. A sample oops is given below.
Thanks in advance,
-jason
(to reply via email, make the appropriate substitution in my email address)
Sample oops:
kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 083ccff0
kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 02533000, %cr3 = 02533000
kernel: *pde = 02114067
kernel: *pte = 00000000
kernel: Oops: 0000
kernel: CPU: 0
kernel: EIP: 0010:[<083ccff0>]
kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246
kernel: eax: 083ccff0 ebx: c127fac0 ecx: 0804aef8 edx: 0804aef8
kernel: esi: c302e7e0 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00001000 esp: c2ee1f50
kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
kernel: Process cat (pid: 24905, process nr: 112, stackpage=c2ee1000)
kernel: Stack: 00000000 c302e7e0 0804aef8 c2ee1f70 c302e7e0 0804aef8 0804aef8 00001000
kernel: 00001000 c01177dc 00000000 c302e7e0 0804aef8 00001000 c302e7f4 c302e7e0
kernel: c0123c46 c302e7e0 0804aef8 00001000 c302e7f4 c2ee0000 00001000 0804aef8
kernel: Call Trace: [proc_readsys+28/36] [sys_read+190/220] [system_call+52/56]
kernel: Code: <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 083ccff0
kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 02533000, %cr3 = 02533000
kernel: *pde = 02114067
kernel: *pte = 00000000
kernel: Oops: 0000
kernel: CPU: 0
kernel: EIP: 0010:[show_registers+619/668]
kernel: EFLAGS: 00010082
kernel: eax: 083ccff0 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c01facd8 edx: c2568000
kernel: esi: 0000002b edi: c2ee2000 ebp: c4800000 esp: c2ee1e94
kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
kernel: Process cat (pid: 24905, process nr: 112, stackpage=c2ee1000)
kernel: Stack: c2ee0000 c3fde160 c01face2 c302e7e0 00000000 00001000 083ccff0 c127fac0
kernel: 0804aef8 0804aef8 083ccff0 00010246 c4800000 c5000000 c0108f6c c2ee1f14
kernel: c01bdb0c c01beaf4 00000000 00000000 c010df16 c01beaf4 c2ee1f14 00000000
kernel: Call Trace: [<c4800000>] [<c5000000>] [die+48/56] [stext_lock+4348/8540]
[stext_lock+8420/8540] [do_page_fault+710/792] [stext_lock+8420/8540]
kernel: [error_code+45/52] [__down_interruptible+156/184] [do_rw_proc+130/160]
[proc_readsys+28/36] [sys_read+190/220] [system_call+52/56]
kernel: Code: 0f b6 0c 03 89 4c 24 38 51 68 04 db 1b c0 e8 3a 98 00 00 83
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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 18:03:01 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Two questions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> (1). What's the name of FORTRAN compiler under linux and where can I get it?
> I use RH5.1 and couldn't find any program like f77 or f90 in the CD, and
> the only place I've seen words related to FORTRAN was in Emacs, which I
> don't know how to use.
g77 I think...you will find that a lot of the gnu programs have g, gnu,
or something prepended, or replacing the first letter oif the program it
clones....kinda silly, but thats the way it is.
>
> (2). I installed crxvt & xcin(gb version, 2.1d), crxvt runs fine, but when I
> issue the command "xcin" I got a core dump saying couldn't find some path
> or something. If I type "Xcin" instead, the program runs, the window
> popped up, and the options did change when clicked them, however that's
> all I get, I can't input anything! Anyone knows what I'm doing wrong?
Don't know what these programs are, sorry.
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From: emily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems with starting kde
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 17:17:38 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am using redhat 5.1 with kernel 2.2.5. I have installed KDE. I have a
> problem with starting KDE. My default window manager is fvwm. How can I
> startup KDE? Startx KDE didn't work. Please reply to my email address.
>
> Bert
>
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HI, back when i was using redhat.. the way to initally type 'usekde'
before typing startx. You only have to do this once, as it is a script
which makes your .Xclients for you.
good luck!
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From: Do-Hoon Kwon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Linux <--> Win95 networking: urgent guru-level help needed
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 22:02:54 -0400
Hello, fellow Linuxers.
I need a guru-level (tm) networking help urgently. Here is the
situation.
My friend has a notebook running Win95 with nothing fancy. It
has a parallel port available. She wants to install something
with the installation file size of about 20MB stored on a
Zip disk.
I have a Win98/Linux-2.2.6 dual boot machine with a SCSI Zip
drive, but I cannot use Win98 and its "direct cable connection" or
whatever they call it to do the job because my numerial analysis
code on Linux has been running for 2 days and it's expected to
take 2 more days to finish. In short, I cannot afford to shut
down the machine!
My Linux have the parallel port and the PC style parallel
printer support as modules. I hope there's a way to do the
file transfer using the parallel port.
What should I do?
Do-Hoon Kwon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: System frozen at boot-up
Date: 25 Apr 1999 01:55:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 14:02:44 -0400,
test, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
> This is kind of weird. When I booted-up by Linux box this morning, it
>freezes during boot-up... shortly after switching to runlevel 3 and during
>the process:
>
>"Starting sendmail: sendmail"
>
> The last time I was in it... I changed the hostname (from "localhost" to
>"linux") with LinuxConf, and made a few changes to Samba through WebAdmin.
>When I was activating the LinuxConf change, it gave me the error message
>"httpd is taking too long to restart"... but I didn't think too much of it
>and skipped it.
>
> I know how to get into my Linux box by typing "linux single" at the LILO
>prompt... but I'm not sure what it is I need to "fix" once I'm in. Anyone
>have any idea?
>
>Steve
>
>
>
The problem is probably that sendmail is doing a dns query.
does your /etc/host.conf file set the order to host,bind or bind,host? You
want the former. As for booting in single mode, no need, just boot up,
sendmail will (in about 5-10 minutes) timeout and the bootup will continue.
This wa all caused by changing from localhost to linux for hostname.
--
Jim Richardson
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
All hail Eris
"Linux, where do you want to go tomorrow?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: Who's knocking at my door?
Date: 25 Apr 1999 01:55:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:34:15 -0500,
Adrian Silveanu, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>Hi,
>
> tcpdump is what I am looking for. While it doesn't tell you
>literally that you are being pinged, you can tell from the difference
>of the messages when you ping yourself from a remote host. Another
>neat feature I noticed with tcpdump is that I can see which
>computers on the our residence hall's network is using the network
>at the moment.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adrian
>
Another great program for this is iptraf.
--
Jim Richardson
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
All hail Eris
"Linux, where do you want to go tomorrow?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Slow Login due to large /etc/passwd
Date: 25 Apr 1999 01:16:17 GMT
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 22:55:05 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At the University I work for, we are running a Linux host that has grown a
> relatively large /etc/passwd (aprox. 3800 accounts). When we upgraded to
> RedHat 5.2, the login process turned too slow (more than 15 seconds and some
> times more than 60 seconds).
>
> Is there any way to solve this problem? (other than a hardware upgrade :-)
> Maybe a more efficient version of /bin/login?
Are you sure it's slow because of looking them up in the password file?
Or is it slow because of things like checking disk quota and mail
status?
(The last slowdown I saw on a machine with roughly as many user as you
cite was because of checks on quota and mail: both of which were NFS
mounted on a noisy as hell network.)
It could also be something as simple as slow DNS: where exactly is the
slowdown occuring?
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: Joe Harvell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: booting problem.
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 00:45:43 +0000
Sung-Ho:
As a first guess, I would check the ownership and permissions on /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
and /etc/rc.d/rc.
These are scripts which need to be executed for the system to initialize properly.
It sounds like your rescue disk just loaded up the basic tools into a ram disk. If
you want to fix the problem on your root filesystem, you need to mount your partitions
under /mnt once you get the rescue disk booted.
For example:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/usr
(etc. ...)
This assumes your root partition is on /dev/hda1 and your /usr partition is on
/dev/hda5. You can mount and unmount any partitions you need, but is sounds like you
only
need to mount your root partition (mount /dev/hda1 /mnt). Then you can 'cd' into
/mnt/etc and do an ls -l on rc.sysinit. Good luck.
Sung-Ho Maeung wrote:
> ===============================
> .......
> INIT: version 2.74 booting
> INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit"
> INIT:entering runlevel:3
> INIT:cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/rc"
> INIT:ld"1" respawing too fast:disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT:ld"2" respawing too fast:disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT:ld"3" respawing too fast:disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT:ld"4" respawing too fast:disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT:ld"5" respawing too fast:disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT:ld"6" respawing too fast:disabled for 5 minutes
> no more processes left in this runlevel.
> ==============================================
> How can I fix these error messages?
> I tried to get into the system using the resuse.img booting disk,
> but there was not any command to fix it.. it was like base directory and
>
> files in there when I get into there using the rescued disk,
> I got it from Redhat ftp site.
>
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| Nortel Networks ESN 445.4886 |
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Subject: Open Source Who's Who
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 02:37:04 GMT
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