Linux-Misc Digest #142, Volume #20 Mon, 10 May 99 18:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: REDHAT 6, cant get custom Kernel 2.2.6 to boot... (Werner Kliewer)
Re: A Simple Question (Elchonon Edelson)
Bizarre memory problem (Jon Skeet)
Re: Spawning processes via inittab (Villy Kruse)
Re: I am on a quest... (Steve Lamb)
Re: HELP - can't boot after kernel upgrade! (somebody)
Re: Sound and Modem not working after upgrading to RH 6.0 (Eric Bryant)
Re: changing permissions to a mount point ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: floppy stays read only (diahedrial)
Re: linux win'98 (Ed Hurst)
Re: need help (Tom Hall)
Re: "man" problem (suse 5.3) (Peter T. Breuer)
Re: help with glibc-2.1 (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Installing "glib" and "gtk" : how?? (brian moore)
Re: Spawning processes via inittab (Floyd Davidson)
Re: cdrecord thinks CD-writer is CD-ROM ("Thomas T. Veldhouse")
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Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: REDHAT 6, cant get custom Kernel 2.2.6 to boot...
From: Werner Kliewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:23:19 GMT
Can you still boot from your install kernel? If you can then the problem is probably
that either:
1. You did not run lilo after updating the config file. You must always run the command
lilo -v
after updating the lilo config file OR moving/copying/deleting/creating kernels. The
-v is optional but useful.
Perhaps you created a new kernel, just to play with. It booted fine. So you created a
new kernel with the same name in the
same directory, especially without deleting the old one first. Because the name and
logical location had not changed you
did not update the lilo.conf file and did not re-run lilo. But because you created a
new kernel, and then the old one was
deleted by the overwrite process, you effectively moved the new kernel. Without
re-running "lilo" it will still try to boot
the previous one. If anything else was written to that filesystem after the new kernel
was created, it may have partially
overwritten the older version. So lilo is trying to boot something that is not a
kernel.
I have had two things happen to me. I rebuild an existing kernel but the changes don't
show up. The old kernel is still in
the same physical place on the disk and lilo boots it, but is not the one I want. Or I
rebuild it and get kernel
decompression errors or I/O errors or other random boot problems. lilo still points to
where the old kernel was, but the
kernel is either partially or completely overwritten so I get random errors, including
partial boots sometimes.
Remember, every time you create a new or new version of an existing kernel, you MUST
run lilo. If the new kernel has a new
name or is in a new logical location, you MUST change lilo.conf AND run lilo.
2. Your new kernel is partially outside the range of the BIOS's ability to read it. If
it were completely outside the
range, you would not get as far as you are. lilo uses the BIOS to read the physical
CHS to locate and read in the kernel.
If the BIOS cannot read the beginning of the kernel you usually get something like LI.
If it can find the beginning, but
cannot read the whole thing, you can get symptoms similar to what you are seeing. BIOS
limitations: very old BIOS's cannot
read past the 512mb mark on the physical disk. Newer ones read up to the 2gb mark.
Newest ones can read up to the 8gb mark
and some probably can read past that. Linux can use your whole hard drive in one
partition AFTER the kernel is read in, but
the boot process has limitations.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan W. Jurgensen wrote:
>
> Got redhat 6.0 up and running a-ok. Now i'm going to setup a RAID1 mirrored
> partitions...
>
> have downloaded linux 2.2.6 and applied raid0145-19990421-2.2.6
> patch... Now compiled a bzImage and installed via lilo:
>
> boot=/dev/sda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.6
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sda2
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15smp
> label=RHlinux-smp
> root=/dev/sda2
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15smp.img
> read-only
>
>
> When LILO starts booting it, is says uncompressing.... and then nothing
> more.... its like it MIGHT be booting, cause I hear hard drive working...
> BUT no boot messages... no login...ping from another system wont work...
>
> what am I doing wrong?
>
> This is a ultra2 scsi only system... I notice the redhat boot options use
> something called initrd... but Ive never needed that with scsi disks
> before.... They appear to just contain SCSI module ncr53c8xx anyways....
>
> I've included the ncr53c8xx in my kernel....
>
> doesn't appear to get that far though....
>
>
Werner Kliewer
Manitoba Public Insurance
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From: Elchonon Edelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A Simple Question
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 20:04:27 GMT
James Youngman wrote:
>
> "Wa;t" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hello-
> > After beating my head against the wall for an hour, I'd like to pose a
> > very straightforward question to linux users: how can I search a
> > filesystem for files meeting a particular patten (e.g. ending with
> > "sql"), which contain a particular string ("crdb")?
>
> find / -name '*.sql' -print0 | xargs -0 grep crdb /dev/null
Why do three commands when you can do two?
find / -name "*.sql" -exec grep -l {} \;
will do it, and doesn't need xargs.
--
Elchonon Edelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IntelliSoft Corp. http://isoft.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Bizarre memory problem
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 16:55:22 +0100
Hi, I'm having a problem with a P2/333 with 192Mb of physical memory. I'm
running kernel 2.2.1 built with gcc version 2.7.2.3 and can probably
provide other specs on demand.
My linux box is running out of memory to the extent that I get:
argent:/proc/sys/vm# free
bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory
quite often. However, when free *does* work I get something like:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 193004 189900 3104 26320 64020 72072
-/+ buffers/cache: 53808 139196
Swap: 128484 0 128484
Now, fair enough, it's using too much buffering/caching and I can
hopefully tweak that (although I'd rather hoped I wouldn't have to - I'd
expect it to kick things out of the caches/buffers automatically when I
needed more memory) but I don't understand why it's not even touching
swap. How can I check whether swap is turned on properly or not? I would
*guess* that if I hadn't turned it on, it wouldn't show up in free, but I
don't know...
When I go into the room with the box in it, I can't hear it thrashing at
all - it genuinely seems to be ignoring the swap file completely.
Can anyone think of anything I'm doing wrong which could cause this? I've
tried running mkswap again on the partition, and giving it a reasonable
priority (rather than the negative ones it gets with just a straight
swapon -a) but I'm having no joy.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Spawning processes via inittab
Date: 10 May 1999 19:18:37 +0200
In article <7h6k30$vsq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>2:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/top tty2
>
>(I get errors that t is an invalid argument to top, which begs the
>question, how does one separate arguments to the process from terminal
>type information? Again the process respawns too fast and is disabled.)
>
You don't separate the arguments from the terminal type information.
What you interpret as terminal type information in the inittab line
is realy just arguments to the getty process. The getty will use this
argument to open the terminal device as standard in, out, and error.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.slackware.linux
Subject: Re: I am on a quest...
Date: 10 May 1999 17:20:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 7 May 1999 18:17:04 GMT, brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 7 May 1999 17:50:59 GMT,
> Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 2 May 1999 17:47:29 GMT, brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Mutt threads and supports multiple accounts via IMAP or fetchmail.
>>
>> Not as well as expected. It is more of a hack that way than anything
>> else. The accounts are not complete and seperate entities in and of
>> themselves.
>Depends on how you configure it.
>Have fetchmail dump the mail from each account in a different mailbox,
>and then have mutt change your settings as you switch mailboxes ('folder
>hooks' are your friends).
I rest my case. I said it was a hack, didn't I? Take a look at what a
REAL multi-accout MUA does compared to that. Take a look at what a REAL
implimentation of IMAP is compared to that. Mutt's multi-account stuff is
nothing but a bunch of hacks. I love mutt for single accounts, but will not
touch it otherwise.
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (somebody)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: HELP - can't boot after kernel upgrade!
Date: 10 May 1999 20:25:59 GMT
You should also keep a backup working kernel ready to boot from lilo too to
avoid problems like these (make sure to re-install lilo after doing this by
executing /sbin/lilo).
Harland
In article <7gijj5$22p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>
>I tried to upgrade to the 2.2.6 kernel today from the standard RH 5.2 kernel
>(2.0.36). Everything appeared to be fine. I didn't get any errors when I
>ran all the different 'make's, etc. The problem is that when I rebooted, I
>get this:
>
>LILO boot:
>Loading Linux........
>Uncompressing Linux...
>
>ran out of input data
>
> -- Sustem halted
>
>What happened? Did it not compile correctly? I'm running a Cyrix P150+
>chip. It's an older one, so I chose the 5x86,6x86 processor option in make
>xconfig, rather than the PPRO, 6x86MX choice. Should I have chosen the
>other? Please help out a poor idiot.
>
>Aaron Dershem
>
>
>
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From: Eric Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Sound and Modem not working after upgrading to RH 6.0
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 16:45:32 -0700
I'm kind of a newbie, but I had very similar things happen to me when I
upgraded to kernel 2.2.5 while still in RH 5.2. I still needed to do this in RH
6.0 as well. My modem would regularly give me "modem busy," and my sound was
gone. I had to disable isapnp in my startup (etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit - comment out
the lines with a # on each line under where it says # set up pnp, down to the
next setting). Then I went in to configure my sound like this
sndconfig --noprobe
Then I configured my sound, then rebooted my machine and all has been well since
then.
Hope this helps!
Eric
Jeff Hudson wrote:
> I have recently upgradded to 6.0 After this upgrade my sound card and
> modem stopped working. Also some funking things were showing up at boot
> time as fail. I have included my Dmesg and most recent part of boot.log
> below. They are giving me some errors but I don't know how to fix them.
> They are both still working fine in Win98. Would appreciate any ideas on the
> matter
>
> **************This is my Dmesg file from /var/log******************
> Linux version 2.2.5-15 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
> egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Apr 19 22:21:09 EDT
> 1999
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 149.50 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 30668k/32768k available (996k kernel code, 412k reserved, 632k data,
> 60k init)
> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
> CPU: Cyrix 6x86L 2x Core/Bus Clock stepping 02
> Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb0e0
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> Initializing RT netlink socket
> Starting kswapd v 1.5
> Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
> Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9)
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
> RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
> SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09
> SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hda: ST52520A, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: ST52520A, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: CREATIVE CD1220E, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: ST52520A, 2446MB w/112kB Cache, CHS=621/128/63
> hdb: ST52520A, 2446MB w/112kB Cache, CHS=621/128/63
> hdc: ATAPI 12X CD-ROM drive, 240kB Cache
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
> raid5: measuring checksumming speed
> 8regs : 243.459 MB/sec
> 32regs : 185.166 MB/sec
> using fastest function: 8regs (243.459 MB/sec)
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.
> md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
> hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 >
> autodetecting RAID arrays
> autorun ...
> ... autorun DONE.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed
> Adding Swap: 52380k swap-space (priority -1)
> YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft
> 1993-1996
>
> **************This is my Boot.log file******************
>
> May 6 16:00:34 Atlantis atd: atd startup succeeded
> May 6 16:00:26 Atlantis rc.sysinit: Setting clock : Thu May 6 16:00:26 CDT
> 1999 succeeded
> May 6 16:00:26 Atlantis rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space succeeded
> May 6 16:00:27 Atlantis apmd: apmd startup succeeded
> May 6 16:00:30 Atlantis network: Bringing up interface lo succeeded
> May 6 16:00:31 Atlantis network: Bringing up interface eth0 succeeded
> May 6 16:00:31 Atlantis network: Bringing up interface ppp0 succeeded
> May 6 16:00:31 Atlantis portmap: portmap startup succeeded
> May 6 16:00:32 Atlantis mount: mount: backgrounding "pinkfloyd:/"
> May 6 16:00:32 Atlantis mount: mount: RPC: Program not registered
> May 6 16:00:32 Atlantis netfs: Mounting NFS filesystems succeeded
> May 6 16:00:32 Atlantis mount: mount: backgrounding "pinkfloyd:/"
> May 6 16:00:32 Atlantis mount: mount: RPC: Program not registered
> May 6 16:00:32 Atlantis netfs: Mounting other filesystems succeeded
> May 6 16:00:32 Atlantis random: Initializing random number generator
> succeeded
> May 6 16:00:35 Atlantis crond: crond startup succeeded
> May 6 16:00:35 Atlantis rc: Starting pcmcia succeeded
> May 6 16:00:35 Atlantis inet: inetd startup succeeded
> May 6 16:00:36 Atlantis named: named startup succeeded
> May 6 16:00:37 Atlantis lpd: lpd startup succeeded
> May 6 16:00:38 Atlantis nfs: Starting NFS services: succeeded
> May 6 16:00:39 Atlantis nfs: rpc.statd startup succeeded
> May 6 16:00:40 Atlantis nfs: rpc.rquotad startup succeeded
> May 6 16:00:40 Atlantis nfs: rpc.mountd startup succeeded
> May 6 16:00:41 Atlantis nfs: rpc.nfsd startup succeeded
> May 6 16:00:41 Atlantis keytable: Loading keymap:
> May 6 16:00:41 Atlantis keytable: Loading
> /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz
> May 6 16:00:41 Atlantis keytable: Loading system font:
> May 6 16:00:41 Atlantis rc: Starting keytable succeeded
> May 6 16:00:42 Atlantis sendmail: sendmail startup succeeded
> May 6 16:00:43 Atlantis gpm: gpm startup succeeded
> May 6 16:00:44 Atlantis httpd: httpd startup succeeded
> May 6 16:00:44 Atlantis sound: Starting sound configuration: sound
> May 6 16:00:44 Atlantis rc: Starting sound succeeded
> May 6 16:00:46 Atlantis xfs: xfs startup succeeded
> May 6 16:00:46 Atlantis linuxconf: Linuxconf final setup
> May 6 16:00:47 Atlantis rc: Starting linuxconf succeeded
> May 6 16:00:47 Atlantis rc: Starting local succeeded
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: changing permissions to a mount point
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:53:03 -0700
Reply-To: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Oliver.Natt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Take a look at /etc/fstab maybe it includes an entry like
>
> /dev/hda1 /windows vfat ro,noauto,user 0 0
>
> the 'ro' means 'read-only'. Remove it and the problem should be fixed.
>
>
> Mladen Gavrilovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The win95/dos partitions have mount points at /win95 and /dos
> > respectively. Everything works fine, except I can't give normal users
> > write access. I tried it with dos, and it didn't work (the command
> > worked but ls -l showed users not being able to write to it). I thought
> > that this may have been because it confused the directory /dos with the
> > command dos (dos emulator) but even when I type chmod -v 777 /dos, it
> > says /dos changed to rwxrwxrwx or whatever, but when I type ls -l it's
> > still rwxr-xr-x. How can I do this so that it works?
1. The permissions of the mount point have nothing to do with the
permissions of the files in the mounted file system.
2. The option "ro" in /etc/fstab is a total blocker, even root can not write
files on a file system that is mounted as ro
The correct answer can be found in the Linux FAQ, question
3.2 How do I access files on my DOS partition or floppy?
with further details in the man page of fstab (see the section about options
for the msdos file system).
jue
--
J�rgen Exner
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From: diahedrial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: floppy stays read only
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 14:22:50 -0700
Check the file "/etc/fstab", it sounds like it has the floppy
access specified with a read-only flag, (ro). If so, change
it to "rw". cache buffers won't have anything to do with a file
system being mounted read-only, but if you've copied files to/from
a floppy, I would recommend typing 'sync' a few times before
unmounting the floppy. Hope this is of help.
-diahedrial.
David Magda wrote:
>
> Why is it that Linux keeps telling me that my floppy is read only? I mount
> one floppy that is, but every other floppy after that is also RO even if it
> is not. When I umount the first one, flip the tab to make it R/W, and
> remount it, it still says it's R/O. As far as I can tell it has something
> to do with the cache/buffers but running 'sync' doesn't seem to do
> anything. Even the command 'dd' says that it's R/O, and 'mdir' (from the
> mtools package) keeps spitting the same contents even though I've changed
> floppies.
>
> This is on Linux 2.2.3, on a majorly updated Red Hat 5.0 distribution.
>
> --
> David Magda <dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca>, 2nd Year Electrical Eng.
> "Well," said Pooh, "what I like best--" and then he had to stop and think.
> Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a
> moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were,
> but he didn't know what it was called. -A.A.Milne,The House at Pooh Corner
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From: Ed Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux win'98
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:27:46 -0500
Tom Chu wrote:
> Is it possible to view a linux file under Win'98?
> The reason I'm asking is that I want to synchronized my Netscape settings
> under both linux and Win-98.
> I know this is possible using Win NT and Solaris.
Try Exceed. I believe they even offer a free download. I apologize for not
havinga URL; use any search engine.
Ed
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From: Tom Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need help
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:50:27 +0100
matgorb wrote:
> I want to use a win95 prog on linux is it possible ?
> This is a very good html editor in french named Webexpert (Aceexpert in US)
> so if it's not possible i search a linux html editor like it (it mean
> notcomplete WYSIWYG but with some function and in french if possible) My
> other proble is that i don't know how to install new program on linux
> especelly those which i dowload on the ne .
> IF someone could help me...
If you want to run windows programs under linux you could try wine
(www.winehq.com), as for installing new programs what format are the programs
you want to install .tar.gz , .rpm, etc different install procedures apply
depending on the format you have the programs in.
Hope this helps
--
tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter T. Breuer)
Subject: Re: "man" problem (suse 5.3)
Date: 10 May 1999 17:20:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Carsten Gaebler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: There seems to be a problem with my SuSE 5.3's man: if I execute man as
: a normal user, it says: "man: can't set effective uid: Operation not
: permitted". mandb says: "the suid man user "man" does not exist".
Huh - that's nothing! My suse 5.3 does:
bambam:/usr/oboe/ptb% man man
man: internal manpath equates to NULL
!! And nothing I can do will fix it. It works for root. I've scanned
path, manpath, the whole environment for diffs, and I can't find any.
I've straced the executables, and so on. I think I'll
just replace their executable.
Oh, and "xman" works fine! It's a complete mystery.
Yes, I know about what they've done to/with man_db.conf and so on.
What a mess.
: Can I simply create a user "man" to fix this? If yes, what are the user
: and group id? If no, what else?
Anyone you like, I'd say. If you care, look for who owns some of the
man dirs.
: Regards,
: Carsten.
--
Peter
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: help with glibc-2.1
Date: 10 May 1999 12:46:53 -0400
Fran�ois Patte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have loaded the glibc-2.1 and have a lot of problem now:
i have glibc-2.1 (from a redhat 6 source rpm) on a redhat 5 system. i
experienced the same problems as you.
> 1- octave no more works:
>
> Octave, version 2.0.13 (i386-suse-linux-gnu).
> Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998 John W. Eaton.
> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> For details, type `warranty'.
>
> error: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
> error: attempted clean up apparently failed -- aborting...
> Abort (core dumped)
recompile octave. i have a nice rpm spec file for 2.0.14. email me
if you want it.
the libstdc++ format has changed. you'll want to rebuild your
compiler and c++ library before attempting the octave build.
> 2- MuPad no more works:
>
> /usr/local/MuPAD/share/bin/../../i386/bin/mupad: error in loading shared
> libraries: libg++.so.2.7.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory
find a libg++.so.2.7.2 and stick it in /lib.
for binary only apps (eg netscape) needing legacy libraries i have also
/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7
/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8
in addition to a glibc-2.1
/lib/libstdc++.so.2.9
> 3- g++ no more works:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lstdc++: Aucun fichier ou r�pertoire de ce
> type
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
rebuild gcc/egcs first.
> 4- Staroffice worked no more but I found a solution; same for apmd which
> I could rebuild with rpm.
>
> Is there a solution, keeping this library?
yes. you will need to rebuild your compiler, octave and ncurses. get
the legacy libstdc++ and libg++ binaries and install by hand. after
that, i have had fairly smooth sailing.
hope this helps.
--
johan kullstam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Installing "glib" and "gtk" : how??
Date: 10 May 1999 21:34:51 GMT
On Mon, 10 May 1999 20:52:36 +0200,
Judy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm new to linux, and one of the first steps I'm trying to take in my
> transition phase (from win98, or course) is get a good MP3 player :o) I've
> been trying to install X11Amp for 3 days in vain.
>
> The problem lies in when, in the readme file, it says to install glib 1.2
> and gtk 1.2 . After several attempts I managed to install glib/gtk and their
> respective 'devel' through rpm. But when I try to install X11Amp, it goes
> fine until something like this is printed:
>
> GLIB - version >= 1.2.1... yes
> GTK - version >= 1.2.1...no
>
> I tried re-compiling gtk from the tar.gz files, but I'm stuck at ./configure
> where after checking the GLIB version, it says something like "X....no" then
> dies :))
Most likely it's either not finding X or you have an older version of
GTK it's finding instead of your new one. (The latter one bit me until
I figured it out.) Remove any old version of gtk, or the gtk-config
program found won't be correct.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
Subject: Re: Spawning processes via inittab
Date: 10 May 1999 16:51:04 GMT
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Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[posted and emailed]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm wondering what the proper way is of spawning a process via the
>inittab is. What I want to do is set the inittab to respawn tn5250,
>which is a login to our as400, versus doing the current /sbin/mingetty.
>
>Here's what we have:
>1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
>2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
>3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
It might be a good idea to use a different designator as the
first entry on the inittab line. Instead of 1, 2, and then 3,
you might want to consider m1, m2, m3 for the above. And
maybe t3 for your entry below. Note that the designator must
be unique for each entry line in the inittab file.
(I have a 1993 man page for inittab which says the identifier
entry for a login process must be the characters which identify
the tty, 1 for tty1, S2 for ttyS2, etc. otherwise login
accounting does not work correctly. It also says login will be
fixed to remove that restriction.)
>I've tried the following
>..
>3:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/tn5250 newton -s TESTPC tty3
>
>(When specifying tty3, I get an error indicating that the process is
>respawning to fast and is being disabled. When I take out the tty3 the
>process doesn't respawn when ended, and shows up on the first terminal.)
>
>For kicks I tried this as well
>..
>2:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/top tty2
>
>(I get errors that t is an invalid argument to top, which begs the
>question, how does one separate arguments to the process from terminal
>type information? Again the process respawns too fast and is disabled.)
Init and inittab know nothing about terminal information! The
final field (of four, each separated by a ':' character)
specifies a process, which amounts to a command to execute and
the arguments to it.
Hence to figure out what should be specified for tn5250, you must
read the man page for tn5250 (which I don't have and cannot assist
you with).
Floyd
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From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrecord thinks CD-writer is CD-ROM
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:30:43 -0500
He probably also has an ATAPI device, which means he should add SCSI
emulation and choose SCSI CDROM support. Also, he should pass the
parameter: "hdx=ide-scsi" where hdx is the device that the burner attaches
to as an ATAPI device. This will force the device to use SCSI emulation
instead.
Tom Veldhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric Potter wrote in message <7h72go$2d4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>[Posted and mailed]
>
>Greg enlightened this group thus:
>> When I try to write to my CD-writer with
>> 'cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=5,0 cdimage.raw'
>> it fails to write because it thinks the
>> device is a CD-ROM. I've tried to boot with
>> the cd-writer turned off, then turning it
>> on after the boot completes but get the
>> same results. I'm using PPC Linux 4.1 which
>> is based upon Red Hat 5.0, with a Philips
>> CDD 2600 cd-writer. How can I write the
>> image to the CD-R?
>>
>> Greg
>You need to recompile your kernel with SCSI generic support enabled.
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