Linux-Misc Digest #116, Volume #21 Wed, 21 Jul 99 22:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Is there a source for Slackware .TGZ packages compiled for Glibc2.1? (Kenny
McCormack)
Re: WangDat 3100 DAT, is it a good one? (Will Smith)
Firewall and Gaim ("Donald E. Stidwell")
Microtest DiskZerver-VT (or, does the GPL have teeth?) (L J Bayuk)
Backups using CD-RW, suggestions? (Walter Francis)
Mail and schedule ("Ernesto Gianoni")
Re: Large Swap Help (Leonard Evens)
Re: freshmeat.net (Anita Lewis)
Re: hook a normal printer directly up to a network? (Human)
Quicken clone? (Leonard Evens)
Re: RH6.0 at Boot. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 076a9
(Ivey Cole)
New release of PStill (Frank M. Siegert)
Re: No email to AOL (Robert Nichols)
Re: Compile MegaHAL on RedHat 6.0 (Mark Brown)
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? (Xcott Craver)
Re: Marx vs. Nozick (Stefaan A Eeckels)
Re: logging in is very slow ("MrManny")
Re: Is there a source for Slackware .TGZ packages compiled for Glibc2.1? (Rod Roark)
Re: Problems with LoadLin (Carl Fink)
star office ("Robert J. Schweikert")
Re: freshmeat.net (Gergo Barany)
Re: Large Swap Help (Gergo Barany)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny McCormack)
Subject: Is there a source for Slackware .TGZ packages compiled for Glibc2.1?
Date: 21 Jul 1999 19:28:16 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am running DosLinux, which is an interesting thing, in that it insists of
using the latest, bleeding edge kernel/lib stuff (2.2.6 and Glibc2.1), but
it is based upon Slackware packages as the underlying package format.
An odd combination of latest and greatest, with old and not very well
maintained...
Anyway, I went to www.slackware.org and looked in the 4.0 directory (4.0
being, as far as I can tell, the latest version), downloaded a .TGZ from
there, put it on the DosLinux system, "installpkg"d it, and when I tried to
run something, got the dreaded "No such file or directory" - meaning that it
was compiled for an earlier set of libs.
So, is there any other place to look for current Slackware-ish packages?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: WangDat 3100 DAT, is it a good one?
Date: 21 Jul 1999 21:57:59 GMT
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 15:09:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Gibson)
wrote:
> Since I run multiple OS's and this is cross posted to those different NG's
> you may want to removed cross posted NG's if your answer is specific
> to one OS only.
>
> I'm considering buying a WangDat 3100 SCSI DAT. Any experienced
> comments. Appears to me to be a fine drive.
>
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
I had one and had it required repair 2 times in the 6 years that I had
it. I didn't get it fixed
the second time it failed, less than a year after the first repair. I
don't know that the 3100
is still in production. I think anything that you find for sale is
going to be refurbished. I do
not know what the current pricing is, but with the 3100's limited
capacity <2 gig> and its
slow speed <Max 10 mb/min>, you may want to look at something that is
DDS2 or DDS3
compatible. The 3100 also does not support data compression.
I would recommend that you look at the HP line of DAT drives.
Bill
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From: "Donald E. Stidwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Firewall and Gaim
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 01:18:00 GMT
I am using a WebBeetle on my network for access to the net for the PCs
on my home network. It's a great little box that lets me share my
Internet connection to all my PCs and do modem sharing for my Windows
PCs (The modem sharing part only works in Windows because it requires a
virtual com port).
Everything works as desired, except Gaim (the AOL Instant Messenger
thingy). Do I need to set a proxy or port to access AOL thru my
WebBeetle, which is essentially a firewall and proxy server?
Please don't suggest I use my Linux box as a router - I don't feel like
reconfiguring my entire LAN to do that (although it was originally set
up that way). If it can't be done, no big deal -- I just want to know if
I have to access a certain port to get through to AOL.
Thanks
Don
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L J Bayuk)
Subject: Microtest DiskZerver-VT (or, does the GPL have teeth?)
Date: 21 Jul 1999 22:23:16 GMT
Guy I work with just bought a Microtest DiskZerver-VT, which is
a little box on which you load CD images (up to 14 of them), and
it acts as a multi-protocol network CD server (at higher performance
and lower cost than using a CD-Tower). Neat box.
So he sets it up, goes to the web interface, clicks Event Log, and
there's Linux syslog output showing Kernel 2.0.27 booting up, etc.
He's surprised, because it isn't mentioned in advertising, user
manual, etc. that this box is Linux-based.
What puzzles me is that they seem to be distributing binary-only
GPL code (the Linux kernel, at the very least), without attributing
it or including (or offering) source code. What's up with that?
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Backups using CD-RW, suggestions?
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 15:42:34 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a CD-RW drive and I'd like to use it to backup my system, but I'm
not sure what the best way to do it would be.
Any suggestions on backup software that I can set the media size on and
have it prompt me for the next piece of media (which I am thinking just
about any would, given tapes of all different sizes, CD shouldn't be
different in that respect) and continue writing until done.
I looked at taper and it seemed pretty insistant on tapes (maybe the
name should have been a clue :) but I'm sure there has to be something
out there.
I would be happy just using a CD-RW per partition if they weren't too
big, I need something to split up the pieces into appropriate (650M,
620M?) sizes.
I appreciate any suggestions!
--
Walter Francis
http://wally.hplx.net Powered by RedHat 6.0
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From: "Ernesto Gianoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.uu.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.act.admin,linux.act.configs,linux.new-tty
Subject: Mail and schedule
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 21:24:06 -0400
Is any product that you can compare with Microsoft exchange ?
With schedules and Intranetwork productibity etc....
Please help, we WANT to migrate from Exchange to something else my pocket
and my wallet are hurting big time $$$$$ :-(...
THANX THANX THANX
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large Swap Help
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 19:48:22 -0500
Andrew wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently running linux kernel 2.2.10 with a couple of personal
> modifications, and I need swap partitions that are slightly larger than 2GB
> (1GB = 1024^3 bytes). I have created partitions that are 2100MB, but when I
> mkswap, it truncates down to 2047M. Any suggestions on how to get this to
> work would be greatly appreciated. I think it's a file size limitation
> problem, but if anyone knows of any fixes, that would be great.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
>
> --
> We cannot endeavour to know that which we do not take the time to learn.
>
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RedHat recommends that the Swap partition should be 128 MB or
the size of memory, whichever is smaller. They claim there
are inefficiencies with swap partitions larger than 128 MB.
Instead they suggest multiple swap partitions.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: freshmeat.net
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:32:30 GMT
I just went there. http://www.freshmeat.net/ right?
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From: Human<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: hook a normal printer directly up to a network?
Date: 22 Jul 1999 01:07:27 GMT
But then the problem will be how could I print postscript or from
netscape to that printer on the network using external print server?
Ihave successful in putting the printer on the network which share by
some windoz (NT/98) machines with some linux machines. The only problem
I have is I can print plain text tto the printer from linux but dont
know how to put in filter for print under netscape or others. The
HOW-TO only mentioned the filter if you are connecting the machine to
the linux machine directly, but didnt mention if the printer is on
network. Would someone able to give me some hints on that?
TIA.
In
comp.os.linux.hardware David A. Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote: : On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:01:28 GMT, Gaiko Kyofusho
: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> speaketh saying:
:>I was wondering if there was a way that I could hook a normal (hp desk
:>jet model ???) directly to my home network (consisting of 1 winnt box
:>and 2 linux boxes) without having to hook it directly to one of the
:>computers? (I admit that it would be for purposes of convenience
:><arranging the network ing the house> not necessity, for those that
:>might ask "why")
: Netgear's print server and hub combination is $124.09 at CDW. This assumes
: you have an ethernet network.
: Cheers,
: dar
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Quicken clone?
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 19:55:40 -0500
Are there any open software checkbook programs out there?
Since 1982 I have been using my own program which I wrote
on an original IBM PC (without a hard disk) in Pascal.
I recently started using Quicken for reasons I won't go
into here, but comparing it with my program, it does not
seem to do that much more. Of course Quicken has a nice graphical
user interface and lots of bells and whistles, but that
doesn't seem so hard to arrange with the programming tools
now available. And one could easily store the data in
Quicken QIF format for interchangeability. I can't imagine
that I am the only one who has ever written such a program.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Ivey Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.kernel.general,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH6.0 at Boot. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
076a9
Date: 22 Jul 1999 01:31:11 GMT
The problem turns out to be related to APM.
I removed APM support from the BIOS and RH6.0
now boots. The motherboard is a CompuAdd
EISA/VESA with SCSI on board. If anyone were
to happen to have one of these and
experiences the problem, I can provide a
change to the BIOS.
Ivey Cole wrote:
> Machine: 486 DX2, EISA/VLB, 32M, Adaptec
> AIC7770 on motherboard, IDE boot drive,
SCSI
> CDROM
>
> After what appears to be a perfect install
> the boot fails with:
> Code:<1>Unable to handle kernel paging
> request at virtual address 000076a9
> current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 =
00101000
> #pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000
> EFlags: 00010086
> eax: 000076a9 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000001
> edx: 00000001
> esi: 00096800 edi: c0fae000 ebp: c2800000
> esp:c0fadd90
> ds: 0018 es:0018 ss:0018
> Process swapper (Pid:1, Process
> nr:1,stackpage = c0fad000)
> Stack: ...
> Call Trace: ....
> Code: 0f b6 0c 03 89 4c 24 14 51 68 d0 cb
1d
> c0 e8 6e 9f 00 00 83
> Aiee, killing interrupt handler.
>
> At this point the system is completley
locked
> up.
>
> I have tried two different systems with the
> same motherboard and both fail the same.
> RedHat 5.2 and Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 will
> install and run on both systems. Older
> versions of Linux have worked on these
> systems too.
>
> I've removed the L2 cache, changed CPU
speed,
> changed BIOS and EISA config settings,
tried
> to install on SCSI hard drives and IDE hard
> drives, but all tries have failed the same.
> The last message that appears on the screen
> before the failure is the ATA IDE drive
> initialization message when installed on
IDE.
> When installed on SCSI the last console
> message before the failure is ROM drives
> initialized. To date RedHat support has
been
> of no help. Their suspicion is that it is
> the AIC7xxx driver, but I don't see any
> messges that would suggest we have gotten
> that far. On RH5.2 there is a message
> regarding the floppy drive before the
Adaptec
> driver messages. I don't see the floppy
> drive controller message using RH6.0.
Anyway
> I'm not well versed on debugging Linux and
> don't know where to go next. Anyone have
any
> ideas as to how to determine where the
> problem lies or how to interpret the screen
> full of information at failure time? I
have
> taken an stab at matching the call trace to
> the map (I boot from a RH5.2 hard drive and
> mount the 6.0 drive). The call trace
entries
> are:
>
> c3000000 - can't match to map
> c0109635 - die
> c01dcbd8 - error_table
> c01de00e - error_table
> c010ecb3 - do_page_fault
> c01de00e - error_table
> c0107838 - do_apm_timer
> c01097cd - error_code
> c0107838 - do_apm_timer
> c01071be - apm_bios_call
> c0107838 - co_apm_timer
> c0100018 - startup_32
> c01072c3 - apm_bios_call_simple
> c0111839 - sys_ssetmask
> c0107702 - get_event
> c0107831 - check_events
> c01078ac - do_apm_timer
> c0111b60 - timer_bh
> c0118769 - do_bottom_half
> c010a769 - do_IRQ
> c0109764 - ret_from_intr
> c0190018 - ide_cdrom_dev_ioctl (I have
SCSI!)
> c0189ad8 - delay_50ms
> c0189f9f - do_probe
> c018a319 - probe_hwif
> c018ad00 - ide_probe_init
> c0106000 - get_options
> c0106000 - get_options
> c010615f - init
> c010820f - kernel_thread
>
> Any assistance will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ivey Cole
>
> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux
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>
http://www.searchlinux.com
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http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank M. Siegert)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.sgi.apps,comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.text.pdf
Subject: New release of PStill
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 01:08:36 +0200
I'd like to announce the availability of a new version of PStill - my
PostScript to PDF converter program. The release 1.20 features a number
of enhancements in the field of compatibility and unifies the engine with
the Windows version.
PStill 1.20 is currently available for Linux/Intel, Solaris/Sparc and
IRIX 6.x/MIPS and can be downloaded from
http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html
Also available on the page is the current Windows release 1.06 which is
based on the same engine as the new *NIX versions, the fully supported
Mac OS X program, the NeXTSTEP/OpenStep releases and older versions for
FreeBSD and HPUX. PStill 1.20 too will be ported to FreeBSDm HPUX and
BeOS.
New usage policies: Starting with version 1.20 all UNIX command line
versions except the Mac OS X release may be used freely for private and
educational purposes - this includes converting your student or research
work to PDF. Commercial users of the free version still must register.
I would like to hear from you should you find it useful or find an error
or shortcoming.
Frank Siegert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Nichols)
Subject: Re: No email to AOL
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:14:05 GMT
In article <7n4ij8$i8c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Nichols) wrote:
:> I strongly suggest not trying to route mail directly to other systems
:> if you are get a dynamic IP address when you connect to your ISP
:
:I've been doing this for years, without any problems so far.
:
:> since you are likely to get SMTP traffic intended for the previous
:> user of that IP address.
:
:How exactly would that happen?
I'm not sure of the underlying mechanism, but I found that when I made
an SMTP connection to a remote machine for the purpose of sending
outgoing mail I sometimes got back traffic intended not for me but for
another customer of my ISP, who I presume had previously connected to
that system and used the same IP address that I was now assigned. Since
my smail installation had no prohibition against relaying, it accepted
that traffic and immediately sent it back out again. This went
unnoticed for several months, until one day I noticed my modem was
strangely busy with what turned out to be a multi-megabyte e-mail
message on its way back out, and that caused me to take a close look at
my logs. I found a few small relayed messages listed there, and a
couple of other huge ones. At the time I was using a 14.4 Kb/s modem,
so that sort of traffic was completely intolerable.
At that point I decided there was absolutely no point in routing e-mail
directly, handling the retries if the remote system wasn't accepting
mail while I was on line, etc., and configured my system to use smart
host routing for anything that couldn't be delivered via local
transport. It has made life a lot simpler.
--
Bob Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP public key 1024/9A9C7955
Key fingerprint = 2F E5 82 F8 5D 06 A2 59 20 65 44 68 87 EC A7 D7
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From: Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compile MegaHAL on RedHat 6.0
Date: 22 Jul 1999 01:36:33 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Ransburg) writes:
> Did anybody of you get MegaHal to compile on a RedHat Box (6.0)? And if
> yes,
> which modification did you do to the source to get it working?
You may get some inspiration from looking at the Debian source package
(look at ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/source -
it should be there somewhere). The chances are that it's an
incompatibility with glibc2.1 or something, which is what the next
release will be using (it is already in use on Sparc), and there will
be a fix in there.
--
Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Xcott Craver)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
Date: 22 Jul 1999 00:54:55 GMT
Matthew Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>On 16 Jul 1999, Xcott Craver wrote:
>
>> I see. Just point me to where I can buy a four-processor
>> MacIntosh, and I'll throw away this early-80's junk.
>
>www.apple.com
Okay, I'll bite. I must be some kinda moron utterly incapbable
of navigating a web site, because I can't find any 4-processor
MacIntoshes on www.apple.com.
Perhaps you can help this poor idiot by providing a specific URL?
>Sincerely,
>Matthew Baldwin
Hoping this isn't some lame attempt at a bluff,
-Caj.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefaan A Eeckels)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Marx vs. Nozick
Date: 21 Jul 1999 22:05:47 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus) writes:
> It was the 20 Jul 1999 23:41:50 GMT...
> ..and Stefaan A Eeckels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Where on earth did you get that idea? The only thing that I
>> argued was that we should stop consider ourselves "outside"
>> nature.
>
> We're inside nature, just like animals or plants, but nevertheless,
> we're neither animals nor plants.
Couch potatoes apart, we're not plants. But we are, no matter
how much you might dislike it, animals. Genetically, we differ
about 1.5% from chimps, IIRC; it might be even less.
We're not chimps, or elephants, or dolphins --I never argued
that. But the fact we're different from other animals doesn't
make us *not* animals, just *different* animals. Elephants
are pretty different from all other animals (and arguably as
different from them as we are), but that doesn't make them
not animals. We're not so very special.
>> We're just as natural as termites, and a human city
>> is, because it's made by humans, a natural phenomenon.
>
> No. There is a fundamental difference between a human city and a
> termite hill. The only influence that may cause new and different
> types of termite hills to be built is evolution. Animals aren't
> creative.
So creativity was poured into us by God Almighty?
Brains got more complex, and hey presto, we became what we
are. 100% natural.
>> Nature didn't end with what we term our "intelligence".
>
> Note that I did not claim this.
>
>> > You're making a ridiculous proposition.
>> The Bible made us believe that we're somehow a finality,
>> placed on earth to rule it.
>
> That's wrong, obviously. But anyway, why do you keep lecturing me
> about the Bible? Religion is irrelevant to this issue.
Because your idea that we're not animals stems directly from
your judeo-christian background, which is exactly my argument.
It's the subliminal remainder of the belief ...
>
>> That we're made in the image
>> of our creator, a favour not extended to the rest of
>> creation. We've nominally abandoned that idea, but replaced
>> it with the equally erroneous concept that we're not part
>> of nature. The things we make are not natural, but artificial.
>
> We are not animals. We are not part of nature in the way termites are
> a part of nature. But of course we do not live in complete isolation
> of nature. Why do you keep on evading the issue? You tried to prove to
> me that there was no difference between men and animals, didn't you?
No. You're the one that tries to assert that we're *not* animals.
I didn't say that there are no differences between us and other
animals. It's obvious there are, just as there are significant
differences between doplhins and other animals.
> No. You misparsed me. BTW, our species not having a lot of instincts
> and collective knowledge (f.ex. all our means of higher communication
> are artificially acquired) is another indicator that we are not
> animals.
Arbitrary. Again, the use of "artificial" as if using our brains
is somehow unnatural (or super-natural, or "outside nature").
We're as much part of nature as anything else living on this
planet.
--
Stefaan
--
PGP key available from PGP key servers (http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/)
___________________________________________________________________
Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add,
but when there is no longer anything to take away. -- Saint-Exup�ry
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From: "MrManny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: logging in is very slow
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 01:51:03 GMT
I have RH6.0 and was plagued with the same problem. I installed the latest
XFree86
drivers (vers 56 or 52 can't remember for sure). I updated 4 rpms two fonts,
the general
one and the one for my video card. You can get them from the updates section
at redhat.
I got this tip from a post from jay someone from redhat.
Of course I have only rebooted fine a couple of times .. who knows what next
week will bring...
--
Regards - from the home of Paula & Wayne
Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> scable wrote:
> >
> > I'm running RH6.0 Frequently (about one in four times) when I power up
> > my machine and log in under my personal account, getting from the little
> > login window to a full desktop takes a long time -- as much as five
> > minutes. I give it my name and password; the window goes away leaving
> > only the RH logo on the screen; and then it just sits there for several
> > minutes before anything else comes up. This only happens with my
> > personal account. It never happens with the root account and it never
> > happens with a second user account I have on the machine. Anybody know
> > what to do about this?
> >
> > (I tried increasing my swap space, so i now have 127meg of swap and
> > 64meg real memory, but it did no good.)
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> This is a known problem with the session manager. It has
> been reported to the gnome project, but they haven't fixed
> it yet. It seems to be sporadic, so it may be difficult
> to replicate. I have the problem on a laptop but not
> on two desktop machines I use which also have RedHat 6.0.
> I installed a relatively recent version of the gnome-core
> package, but it didn't help.
>
> If you look at the file .xsession-errors before logging
> out, you will probably see complaints about authentication
> and MIT MAGIC COOKIES.
>
> In my case, it seems to happen almost without fail immediately
> after I've rebooted, but only if I login as an ordinary user,
> not if I login as root. And it does not happen thereafter.
> I just use Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to get out as soon as it clear
> what is happening. This logs me out and I login again without
> trouble.
>
> It could have something to do with the gnome settings for
> the user.
>
> You can try posting your error with at www.gnome.org. If
> they get enough different examples, it might help them
> locate the source of the problem.
> --
>
> Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a source for Slackware .TGZ packages compiled for Glibc2.1?
Date: 22 Jul 1999 02:01:45 GMT
Kenny McCormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am running DosLinux, which is an interesting thing, in that it insists of
>using the latest, bleeding edge kernel/lib stuff (2.2.6 and Glibc2.1), but
>it is based upon Slackware packages as the underlying package format.
>
>An odd combination of latest and greatest, with old and not very well
>maintained...
>
>Anyway, I went to www.slackware.org and looked in the 4.0 directory (4.0
>being, as far as I can tell, the latest version), downloaded a .TGZ from
>there, put it on the DosLinux system, "installpkg"d it, and when I tried to
>run something, got the dreaded "No such file or directory" - meaning that it
>was compiled for an earlier set of libs.
>
>So, is there any other place to look for current Slackware-ish packages?
4.0 is indeed the latest Slackware but it includes glibc 2.0.7,
not 2.1.
-- Rod
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: Problems with LoadLin
Date: 22 Jul 1999 00:50:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 19:01:25 +0200 Jordi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I can�t load Linux from Windows 98 in a DOS window and I know it can be
>done (I have seen it) .
While that may be possible, why not just Shut Down and switch to
MS-DOS mode, then start LOADLIN from there? It would only take a few
more seconds and you'd have the benefit of a clean shutdown from
Windows.
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From: "Robert J. Schweikert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: star office
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 22:08:12 -0400
So, I got Star ofiice downloaded and installed, but now what?
I am using GNOME on RH6-0, what do I need to do to get this thing (Star
Office) started? Where do I start looking?
Thanks,
Robert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gergo Barany)
Subject: Re: freshmeat.net
Date: 22 Jul 1999 01:52:10 GMT
In article <7n5sgm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Justin B Willoughby wrote:
>
>Anita Lewis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
>> I just went there. http://www.freshmeat.net/ right?
>>
>
>Its still not up as far as I can tell... 2130EST 07/21
Have you tried using a mirror?
Gergo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gergo Barany)
Subject: Re: Large Swap Help
Date: 22 Jul 1999 01:58:12 GMT
In article <7n5ade$4pi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew wrote:
>I'm currently running linux kernel 2.2.10 with a couple of personal
>modifications, and I need swap partitions that are slightly larger than 2GB
>(1GB = 1024^3 bytes). I have created partitions that are 2100MB, but when I
>mkswap, it truncates down to 2047M. Any suggestions on how to get this to
>work would be greatly appreciated. I think it's a file size limitation
>problem, but if anyone knows of any fixes, that would be great.
On i386 systems (and probably most others, too), Linux can only access
up to 2 GB of total memory (physical+swap); that's why your partition is
truncated. If you need more, consider getting a new system, or get the
program that needs this much memory to write stuff it doesn't need to
the disk by itself (which is going to be a pain).
Gergo
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