Linux-Misc Digest #508, Volume #20 Sat, 5 Jun 99 20:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Dead penguin (Scott Lanning)
Re: RealPlayer RealAudio, Cannot locate RealAudio decoder (Michael Powe)
Re: Code! (Scott Lanning)
Re: Help! Netscape 4.51 Segmentation Fault (Michael Powe)
Re: MicrogarfX Designer 4.1 (Dr Vincent C Jones PE)
can i share the monitor between 2 linux box w switch box? (Alex Lam)
Linux or how to build something very complicated?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Connecting iMac to Linux... (Joe Cheung)
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? (Mohd H Misnan)
Re: Mounting an HPFS partition (Kaya Imre)
Re: crontab to start PPP (Gerald Jensen)
Postgresql starting problem (Philippe L�)
Re: My story ("theoddone33")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Lanning)
Subject: Re: Dead penguin
Date: 5 Jun 1999 22:20:55 GMT
One of the Sussmans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: dev/hda3 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced
: dev/hda3 Duplicate or bad blocks in use!
: dev/hda3 Duplicate or bad blocks found...invoking duplicate
: block
: process
Oh my..
: PASS 1B: Rescan for duplicate of bad blocks
: dev/hda3 Duplicate/bad blocks in inode 32855: dev/hda3: 131798
: dev/hda3:
: 131798 dev/hda3: 131798 dev/hda3: 131798
: dev/hda3 PASS 1C: Scan directories for modes with duplicate
: blocks
: dev/hda3 PASS 1D: Reconciling duplicate blocks
: dev/hda3 There are 1 inodes containing duplicate blocks
: dev/hda3 File/var/log/messages (inode #32855 mod time Sat Jun 5
: 02:41:57
: 1999) has 4 duplicate blocks, shared without file(s): dev/hda3
: dev/hda3: unexpected inconsistency; Run FSCK manually (i.e.
: without -a
: or -p options
Oh dear... WHAT DID YOU DO!?!?! ACK!!
: *** an error occurred during file system check
: *** dropping you into a shell; the system will reboot
: *** when you leave the shell
: Give root password for maintenance or type Control -D for manual
: startup
:
: Linux is on hda3 & hda4 (/usr). I'm using RH 5.2 (Mandrake 5.3
: distro). Oh, & I'm an idiot when it comes to Linux. I can't
: seem to
: run fsck (or much else) in this mode. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Okay, first, don't panic.. well, okay, panic a little, but not
too much.. Afterall, you have *DUPLICATE* blocks. What's it
gonna hurt to have a spare, eh? :)
Second, a caveat/disclaimer: it's your computer. You do
what you want. I ain't responsible. I'll just explain how I
personally did it; maybe it's not the best way. You might lose
some files. Probably your system isn't totally hosed, but if you
have some precious files, you might want to save those to floppy.
After I explain how to do that, I'll explain how to fsck things up.
-=-=- saving to floppy in fsck'ed mode -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
First, for reference, 'man mount'. (That is, after you're
done, since 'man' probably isn't available, or something. See
LDP homepage for man pages.)
It can be a bit complicated when you're in fsck'ed mode, so
I'll explain how to save to floppy. The problem is it's a read-only
filesystem. You try to edit something, only to get yelled at about
trying to edit something. Also, some of your favorite directories
might not be mounted, so some of your favorite applications might
not be available. Also, when I did this, suddenly I no longer
had a /mnt/floppy directory. So, to mount the floppy, you have to
have a little faith; you have to mount the floppy over an already
existing directory.. Yikes! So pick a directory you don't mind
being deleted, just for your peace of mind, but it will come back
after you umount the directory. I promise, really. (mwuhahaha..)
Remember that mounting a filesystem is just an illusion; the kernel
fools you into thinking you're looking at some ordered filesystem
at some certain place, but it's tricking you.
Anyway, to mount your floppy, say for concreteness you picked
the /tmp directory (if it's available), then from the fsck'ed shell,
after you inserted the floppy disk,
(mount floppy to /tmp directory)
bash$ mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /tmp
(Hopefully no errors, so type)
bash$ mount
(and it will tell what is mounted. Hopefully something like
"/dev/fd0 on /tmp type msdos (rw)". Now copy whatever files
you want to into the /tmp directory.)
bash$ cp /path/to/precious/files /tmp
(when you're done, unmount the floppy filesystem)
bash$ umount /tmp
Now, everything precious is saved. You might want to check
your floppy just to be safe.
-=-=-=- fsck'ing your filesystem -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Once you've backed up your precious files, you can hose....erm,
I mean, repair your filesystems. For reference, 'man fsck' (but
'man' probably isn't available right now. See LDP webpages for
manpages.)
bash$ fsck -A -V; echo == $? ==
This says (-A) check (fsck means "filesystem check") ALL of
the filesystems, (-V) and be VERBOSE about it (that is, provide
every bit of information possible). Normally your kernel boots
up with the -a option, and that means non-interactive, so you
don't have any say in what fsck is doing. That makes booting
easier, I guess. But now you want full command...kinda...well,
maybe you'd rather not have any command, but too bad, you've
got it... There, I said it. The 'echo' part, will just tell
whether you're screwed or not; if you see a number less than
4 between the equals signs, you're okay and can just reboot.
Otherwise....well, let's hope for the best, m'kay?
Now, you will be subjected to a barrage of questions which
you have no idea how to answer. I don't have experience with
duplicated blocks, so keep that in mind. Probably you just
want to answer humbly "yes, master" to each question fsck poses.
Have some faith here. Probably it will back up the files it
unlinks in the "/lost+found" directory anyway, though they'll be
named weird things like #36041, or something. You could even
try 'less #36041' and maybe be pleasantly surprised. When it's
done fsck'ing (probably it'll spew numbers at you; don't be
offended--it's a gesture of friendliness), do what it says,
which may be to reboot.
That's the gist of it. Now you know what sysadmin people
mean when they say "What the fsck?!?!?".
Happy hosing. :)
--
Scott Lanning: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://physics.bu.edu/~slanning
"If lightning is the anger of the gods, the gods are concerned mostly
with trees." --Lao Tse
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Crossposted-To: linux.debian.usr
Subject: Re: RealPlayer RealAudio, Cannot locate RealAudio decoder
From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05 Jun 1999 15:41:36 -0700
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>>>>> "Kaya" == Kaya Imre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kaya> Graham Beint wrote:
>> henk van der knaap wrote: > > Dear Readers, > > I have
>> installed RealPlayer 5.0 on my Linux Debian 2.1 box. However I
>> have > struck the following problem, every time I try to play a
>> realaudio file I > get the following message: >
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > File compression not supported. Cannot locate the requested
>> RealAudio > decoder. Error 38. >
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > > I have tried to find more information from the Real Audio
>> website, but I > have not been able to get any further. > > Is
>> there anybody who can help me solve this problem. > > Many
>> thanks, > > Henk > > Henk van der Knaap, > 92 Halswell Junction
>> Road, > Christchurch, New Zealand. > Phone/fax 64 3 3229185 >
>> > My Operating system is Linux Debian 2.1 >
>> =================================================== > My e-mail
>> address is as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
>> ===================================================
>>
>> It seems updating /etc/ld.so.conf is not enough
>>
>> run it via a wrapper such as the following
>>
>> /usr/X11R6/bin/rvplayer -----------------------
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> #set this appropriately RVPLAYER_LOCATION=/opt/rvplayer5.0
>>
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$RVPLAYER_LOCATION:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH exec
>> $RVPLAYER_LOCATION:rvplayer ${@:+"$@"}
Kaya> I tried to run your shell program but received an error
Kaya> stating that ${@:+"$@"}:bad substitution
Well, one thing that needs to be changed is
$RVPLAYER_LOCATION:rvplayer to $RVPLAYER_LOCATION/rvplayer
That works and gets rid of the "error 38" at CNN -- but now I get
"error 1" as the player starts loading. I didn't bother checking to
see what caused that.
As far as "bad substitution" goes, what version of bash do you have
installed? You may need to upgrade.
mp
- --
Michael Powe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Portland, Oregon USA http://www.trollope.org
"There are certain rights that a woman loses when she becomes a
wife." -- Farrah Fawcett
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Lanning)
Subject: Re: Code!
Date: 5 Jun 1999 22:39:57 GMT
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--
Scott Lanning: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://physics.bu.edu/~slanning
"I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it
in misery." --Edgar Allan Poe
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Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: Help! Netscape 4.51 Segmentation Fault
From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05 Jun 1999 15:48:01 -0700
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>>>>> "Franklin" == Franklin Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Franklin> I am unable to start up Netscape. 1) I was running
Franklin> Debian 2.0 with the libraries that came in the package
Franklin> (Nov. 1998) 2) I found that I had to make soft links of
Franklin> libc.so.5, libXt.so.6, libSM.so.6, etc., in /lib to
Franklin> "similar" libraries located in various directories to
Franklin> avoid "Can't open lib**.so.**" or "Can't load
Franklin> lib**.so.**" errors 3) Then I started getting "Can't
Franklin> resolve symbol '__res'" error in addition to
Franklin> "Segmentation fault" error 4) I downloaded
Franklin> nets-2.0.tar.gz from Theofilu Andreas to try if
Franklin> libc.so.5.4.33 and libXpm.so.4.6 would solve the problem
Franklin> 5) I'm now down to getting only "Segmentation fault"
Franklin> errors everytime.
Run ldd on the program that is segfaulting to see what it thinks is
missing. E.g.,
bash-2.03# ldd `which xterm`
libXaw3d.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.6 (0x4000c000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4005e000)
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40069000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4007b000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400bd000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400c6000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400db000)
libtermcap.so.2 => /lib/libtermcap.so.2 (0x4017b000)
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4017e000)
Any missing libs will show up as `not found.'
mp
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Michael Powe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Portland, Oregon USA http://www.trollope.org
"There are certain rights that a woman loses when she becomes a
wife." -- Farrah Fawcett
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Subject: Re: MicrogarfX Designer 4.1
From: Dr Vincent C Jones PE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 22:32:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Martin Schreck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I need to read the files in Linux so that I can for instance continue
>working on them with Appluic Office, Gimp or Star Office.
I've got the same problem. Plus NONE of the Designer programs from at
least 3.1 on up will run under WABI or WINE, forcing a reboot to even
export anything. By the way, the best mode of export I've found so far
to get stuff into Star Office in an editable manner is WMF (windows
metafile), but even that requires rediculous amounts of hand fixing.
If you or anyone else come up with a solution, please post it!
--
Dr. Vincent C. Jones, PE Expert advice and a helping hand
Computer Network Consultant for those who want to manage and
Networking Unlimited, Inc. control their networking destiny
http://www.networkingunlimited.com
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From: Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can i share the monitor between 2 linux box w switch box?
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 14:11:22 -0700
can i share the monitor between 2 linux box?
one of the box is a server, which does not need the
monitor all the time. Both have identical video cards.
Thanks.
Alex Lam.
--
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** no more M$ Windoze. It RIP.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux or how to build something very complicated??
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 21:40:02 GMT
I try to install red hat linux 5.2 and a lot of crash...I mean lot of
problem...partition problem Can someone tell me if the difference
between Win 98 and linux (mean compare) Thanks
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Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Joe Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Connecting iMac to Linux...
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 18:51:51 -0400
Does anyone out there know how to do it? I want to put my parallel Zip
drive to good use rather than putting it in the attic to collect dust,
and build a small Ethernet network at home. I got a DaynaPort ISA
Ethernet adapter that comes with 2 cables RJ-45 10Base-T and BNC 10Base
2, T-Connector, install guide and software for Windows. Now running
Redhat 5.2. iMac has a ready-to-use 10/100Base-T plug, and suggests an
Ethernet hub. What brand and model should I use in my case? Or what
kind? Too many out there. Confusing. Do I really need a hub when I just
want to hook up 2 computers?
TIA.
Joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd H Misnan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: 5 Jun 1999 15:49:31 GMT
On 5 Jun 1999 10:10:47 GMT, Keven R. Pittsinger wrote:
>In article <7j8hk9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Reinier Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>>For one thing, where does SuSe stash my *mail*???? It
>>>sure ain't /var/pool/mail, unless I screwed something up...
>>
>> It's in /var/spool/mail, as expected.
>
>Heh. The first time I installed it and got onto the net to get my mail,
>it tossed the incoming mail into the bit bucket. This installation, it
>seems to work ok.
>
>But what *RILLY* maxxes me off is sendmail. It's not a mail handler, it's
>a *religion*, requiring the sacrifice of small cute furry animals on a
>regular basis to work properly. <sigh> IMNSFBHO, the *only* thing
>holding Linux back from being a true desktop OS is its lack of *EASILY*
>configurable mail tools. By this, I mean, you edit a flat ASCII file (or
>run a tool provided by your friendly distro compiler), fill in some info
>about your SNTP mail server, such as IP number and name, and *ALL* your
>mail goes to it on a send. This *shouldn't* be that hard, dammit.
>Configuring sendmail can be a *nightmare* for somebody who knows a *bit*
>about what they're doing; for a rookie, it's almost impossible to deal
>with without a lot of headbanging. <sigh> It *SHOULDN'T* require buying
>a $30 book just to email the planet.
On the first place, you dunnot need sendmail if you've your mailbox somewhere
else (ie. inside your ISP mailserver). You can run Netscape and get it run in no
time.
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|iMac/233 RevB+MacOS 8.6 |http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/3319/ |M|
|Mitac 5033/AMD K6-2/300 |We want to take over the world, but we don't have |a|
|Linux 2.2.9 i586 |to do it tomorrow. It's OK by next week - Linus T.|c|
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From: Kaya Imre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting an HPFS partition
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 22:49:52 +0000
Ed Lentz wrote:
>
> I tried to mount a HPFS partition on mf HD
> I used this command
>
> mkdir /hpfs
> mount -t hpfs /dev/hda6 /hpfs
>
> and I got this error
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda6,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> My question is this: What did I do wrong?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ed Lentz
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That works here nicely. Did you include HPFS in your kernel
definition?
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From: Gerald Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: crontab to start PPP
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 18:27:42 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Juergen Heinzl wrote:
> In article <7jbdhk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerald Jensen wrote:
> >I'm having trouble getting a crontab to start a PPP session at 11:59pm
> >every night. I've tried ....
> >
> >59 23 * * * /etc/ppp/ppp-on
>
> /etc/ppp/ppp-on ought to be a script run by the pppd, not to start
> up a connection.
> [...]
>
> Cheers,
> Juergen
>
> --
> \ Real name : J�rgen Heinzl \ no flames /
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That is correct ... ppp-on is a shell script I use to start PPP sessions.
>From the command line, if I type ppp-on, the dialer initializes the modem
and dials. I need the crontab to do it for me unattended.
Gerald Jensen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philippe L�)
Subject: Postgresql starting problem
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 23:14:40 GMT
Hi
I installed the Mandrake 6.0 Linux distribution based on the Red-Hat
6.0.
I automaticaly installes the postgresql program. I want to try out
this
database but I can't connect to it as explained in the doc file, I get
a
message "Missing or mis-configured pg_hba.conf file", this file
doesn't exist
on my computer.
In the doc file there is always made mention of a /usr/local/pgsql
directory,
this directory is not on my computer.
The rest seems fine, the postmaster process is runing and I use the
postgres
account that was automaticaly create to loggon.
So if someone knows what to do I would be very happy.
Thank-you:
Philippe L�
Paris, France
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS: I also tried the initdb command and I get this message
"initdb does not know where to find the files that make up Postgres
(the
PGLIB directory). You must identify the PGLIB directory either with a
--pglib
invocation option, or by setting the PGLIB enviromment variable, or by
having
a program called 'postconfig' in you search path that outpouts an
asignment
for PGLIB."
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From: "theoddone33" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My story
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 18:58:24 -0500
Sitaram Chamarty wrote in message ...
>On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 21:35:57 -0500, theoddone33
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>later. Anyway, Red Hat didn't handle the kernel version change well. It
>>says the system map has the wrong kernel version. How do I change this?
>
>---excerpt from another post I made just today----
>
>I got the same thing when I moved from stock RH 5.2 (2.2.36) to
>2.2.6. I think I solved it by copying the System.map that's
>generated in /usr/src/linux onto /boot. If the one in /boot is a
>symlink, remove it first, since it's likely pointing to an older
>system.map with a version specific name. (Simply cp-ing
>/usr/src/linux/System.map to /boot will be very misleading!)
>
>If that doesnt make sense email me - I will be a little more
>coherent tomorrow ;-)
Makes perfect sense. I wasn't aware that the kernel build generated a
system.map
>---end excerpt----
>
>>Also, does anyone have any tips on manually setting up a network in Red
Hat?
>
>The usual commands:
> ifconfig eth0 a.b.c.d
> route add -net a.b.c.0 dev eth0
> route add default gw a.b.c.x
>
>If you have PCMCIA and DHCP it's also pretty easy - in fact I have
>found it's easier than messing with linuxconf etc. Let me know if
>you need help there.
What file would I put these in? I think the main problem is that RH won't
automatically load my card's module. I'll mess around with the scripts a
little today and see what happens.
Thanks
--
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