Linux-Misc Digest #240, Volume #21 Sun, 1 Aug 99 07:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Star Office 5.0 install? (Gary Cameron)
Re: IDE vs scsi? (Michael Vester)
Kernel Panic on Bootup . HELP ! ("Sid")
Re: Kernel Panic on Bootup . HELP ! (Jeffrey C. Dege)
Re: Increasing the Swap size after Linux Installation ("Rick Westmacott")
Netscape Navigator for Linux can't locate java40 ("Mervin Williams")
LILO & Booting from "hdc", the third hard disk. (Bono)
Yamaha 4416S CDR question (Dave Brown)
Re: RAID1 Questions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: a (GUI) spreadsheet with Perl API ? (brian moore)
Re: Marx vs. Nozick ("Ricky J. Sethi")
Re: Netscape Navigator for Linux can't locate java40 (Michael Perry)
Re: spin down HDD (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Compile kernel --> PROBLEM (Kenny Kim Leung)
unmount samba share gone bad (Tom Shannon)
just for adults 104416 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: helping the Third World (Bev)
Re: backing up system ("Gene Heskett")
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From: Gary Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Star Office 5.0 install?
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 01:48:52 -0400
Every time I run the sosetup after installing the Star Office 5.0 .rpms
distributed with SuSE 6.0, I get the message "Star Office 5.0 OEM is already
installed in the following directory.
/opt/Office50
Sure enough, it seems to be there. But the dialog only gives me the option
to Modify, Deinstall, or Repair. If I cancel, the dialog goes away, but I
am still not able to run star office. All I really want to do is run the
darned thing. Running soffice gives me the same three options, but Star
Office itself does not run. Anybody out there run across this before?
Thanks in advance - I would appreciate any response to solve this!
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Vester)
Subject: Re: IDE vs scsi?
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 06:44:45 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Duy D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm considering to buy a scsi disk to install Linux on. When i do
>hdparm -t /dev/hda on my ide disk, it reads about 15 mb/s most of the
>time. Can somebody give me a number on the fastest scsi disk? Thanks.
>
Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 27.40 seconds = 1.17 MB/sec
is all I get on my 7 year old SCSI, Adaptec 1520 with a 3.5 gig Maxtor. Very
reliable and a breeze to install Linux.
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From: "Sid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel Panic on Bootup . HELP !
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:21:36 +0530
Hi
I've been using Redhat Linux 5.2 for quite some time. I've just upgraded
to Redhat 6.0. But I have a serious problem with my computer. I installed
redhat 6 and configuered it to my needs .Just after setting it up( and after
several Linux Test Reboots ) , I booted into Windows 98 . I worked there
for some time . Then today morning when I tried to boot into Linux, I got a
kernel panic error !!! I spent quite some time customizing Linux to my needs
and I'm pretty frustrated now !!!
Note that I've had such an error about 2-3 times with Redhat 5.2 . I
didn't know why it was happening, but I reinstalled Linux 5.2 four times in
two
months ( each time losing my settings ! ) . I thought that the error might
be because I defraged my Hard Disk thru Windows . So this time , I
decided not to defrag Windows 98 drives . Fine . But yesterday , ALL I
did thru Windows was Surf the net via IE 5 . I didn't do any hard disk
intensive work thru windows !! Yet today morning I got the kernel panic
error . I've typed the error message below, so that you guys can help me
out.
My system config is :
Celeron 266 Mhz
128 MB RAM
6.5 GB hard Disk : Details :-
hda1 -> Windows98 partition
hda5 , hda6 -> Vfat Partitions. ( logical drives on an extended partition )
a 1 GB Linux partition ( hda? , hda4 I think, not sure )
94 MB Swap Partition ( hda? , don't remember )
NO other operating system . Only Windows 98 and Linux.
NO boot manager in use other than LILO.
a CDROM ( primary slave )
a DVDROM (secondary master)
Thank You .
Siddharth Shetye
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS : Could anyone please give me some Linux Help sites / forums ? Thanks !
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( BOOTING SCREEN OUTPUT. Many things seem to be done. The computer
stops when it displays this )
Partition check:
hda : hda : set_multimode : status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda : setmultmode : error=0x04 {DriveStatusError }
hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 > hda3 hda4
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE
kernel panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 03:03
THEN After pressing control+alt+delete to reboot , I get this message;
Stopping all md devices.
=================================================================
Thank You for all your help and time.
Siddharth Shetye
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey C. Dege)
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic on Bootup . HELP !
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 07:14:23 GMT
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:21:36 +0530, Sid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>( BOOTING SCREEN OUTPUT. Many things seem to be done. The computer
>stops when it displays this )
>
>Partition check:
> hda : hda : set_multimode : status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda : setmultmode : error=0x04 {DriveStatusError }
> hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 > hda3 hda4
> autodetecting RAID arrays
> autorun ...
> ... autorun DONE
> kernel panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 03:03
>
>THEN After pressing control+alt+delete to reboot , I get this message;
>
>Stopping all md devices.
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Thank You for all your help and time.
What software did you use to create the partitions? Microsoft has been
known to copy partition information from the partition tables where it
belongs, and then use the copies, instead of reading the partitions
themselves, which means that it sometimes doesn't notice when the
partition tables have been modified by non-Microsoft partition software.
This is discussed in the fdisk man page.
--
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that worked ...A complex system designed from scratch never
works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over,
beginning with a working simple system.
-- Grady Booch
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From: "Rick Westmacott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Increasing the Swap size after Linux Installation
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 07:19:08 GMT
In the case of Redhat 5.2, Fips is included on the CDROM installation disk
in the dosutils/... directory.
However, I believe Fips is intended to dynamically adjust DOS partitions
only.
Rick
Biophage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:5n1m3.78$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Use fips. I'm not sure where to download it, so you'll hafta search the
net
> for it.
> Rajesh Radhakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > During linux installation, I had set my swap size (39 MB) , a little
> > more than the size of my RAM(32 MB). When I run StarOffice or Netscape
> > or any other large application, the swap size becomes 0( 'free' command)
> > . The concern is that once or twice, my native partition got jacked
> > after running these big applications.
> > I had to run 'fsck' to clear errors (inode inconsistencies) on my native
> > partition.
> >
> > To be able to run these applications, I was thinking of increasing my
> > swap size.
> >
> > Is there any way of increasing the swap size on my PC without
> > reinstallation.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Rajesh
> >
>
>
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From: "Mervin Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape Navigator for Linux can't locate java40
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 01:50:08 -0500
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,apana.lists.os.linux.redhat,apana.lists.web.java.linux,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.help,free.comp.linux.misc,linux.redhat.development,linux
I am running Netscape Navigator on RedHat Linux 6.0, and everytime I try to
run an html page with a java applet, an error message pops up indicating
that Netscape Navigator can't locate java40 in the java classpath.
Does anyone know how to resolve this issue? What is the name and location
of the file within Linux that contains the CLASSPATH setting?
Thanks in advance.
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Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 16:00:27 +0900
From: Bono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO & Booting from "hdc", the third hard disk.
Hi
I have three hard disks intalled in my system.
Now, I'm trying to write lilo into a floppy to boot from "hdc", the
master drive of the secondary IDE connector.
My Bios doesn't support booting from the drives other than the first.
Well, I get this error message when I run lilo:
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Then, It fails while booting.
This is my lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/fd0
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36
label=linux
root=/dev/hdb1
read-only
other=/dev/hdc1
label=dos
table=/dev/hdc
Any advices will be appreciated
Regards,
Bono
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Yamaha 4416S CDR question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 1 Aug 99 07:48:27 GMT
I just installed a Yamaha 4416S SCSI CDR. I'm connecting to
it with a aha152x scsi adapter, inserting the driver as a
module (as it needs parameters specified--not autoprobing).
My problem is that when I insert the module, the drive is
not recognized unless I have a valid data cd in it. If I
have a CDR blank, the module inserts, but no drive.
Is this a Yamaha problem, or a aha152x driver problem?
(Previous experience as I recall was that as soon as
the module was inserted, all the devices attached to
that adapter were recognized and listed on the screen.
That with a aha1542 adapter card, though.)
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: RAID1 Questions
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 08:16:47 GMT
Thanks for your help. I actually got the latest HOWTO for Software-
Raid. The one on LDP and on my system is from Feb 99, while this one
is dated May... It has a little more detailed method for RAID1 on root..
Now, I cant get RAID to start. I setup the raidtab file, and fdisked
the two other hard drives just as my root drive is. After which, I ran
mkraid /dev/md0. It first tells me that it sees an ext2 filesystem on
the partition, but that is not so since I just fdisked and didn't
format the partitions. To solve this I used the -really-force flag.
It then creates the raid superblocks on both drives and then says
mkraid aborted. It never initializes the RAID...
Did you run into this problem? Also, I know this is later on, but what
is the best way to copy the entire contents of my root drive to the new
postion? I don't want to miss anything..
Thanks.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jon Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I am running RH 6.0, with kernel 2.2.10 and am trying to add
> > mirroring. I read the Software-RaidHOWTO and compiled the kernel
with
> > RAID1 support. I created the raidtab file just as shown in the
HOWTO.
> > Unfortunately, when I try to start RAID on md0, it doesnt work
becaus
> > my drive is mounted.
> >
> > My questions are:
> >
> > Can I add RAID1 to my root drive, even while it is mounted?
>
> No. At least, I couldn't find any way of doing so. To set up RAID-1
> recently I temporarily added a third drive to the machine, installed
> Linux on that drive, booted it, set up the RAID device on the other
two
> drives, copied the installed Linux over onto the new RAID device,
edited
> /etc/fstab to make the RAID device the new root, created a new initrd
> (that included loading the raid1.o module so I could mount md0 as
root)
> and updated LILO accordingly to generate the proper boot params. (Yes,
> it's as much of a pain as it sounds.)
>
> > What's the
> > best and safest way of doing this?
> > Also, the raidtab file specifies partitions being mirrored. I would
> > like to mirror the whole drive which has two partitions and a swap
> > space. How do I go about doing that?
>
> I don't think you can do swap. There's a note in the software RAID
HOWTO
> that says you can't, anyway. If you're worried about drive failover I
> don't know of any solution except to run without swap. (Or use
hardware
> RAID.)
>
> As for the other partition, you could just set up the second drive
with
> the exact same partition table and then make each pair of partitions
> (sda1/sdb1, sda2/sdb2, etc) into a separate RAID device. You end up
with
> the same number of resulting mountable partitions as you have now.
>
> Jon
> --
> Jon Bloom, KE3Z
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Electronic Publications Manager (Software, CD-ROMs and Web site)
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: uw.linux
Subject: Re: a (GUI) spreadsheet with Perl API ?
Date: 1 Aug 1999 08:34:46 GMT
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 19:15:24 GMT,
Christopher B. Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 31 Jul 1999 16:33:30 GMT, Jan Vicherek
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
> > does anybody know of a spreadsheet, or even better a GUI
> >spreadsheet like applix, etc., that would have the capability
> >of being manipulated through a Perl API ? (Or some other
> >high-level scripting language) ? Even just plain read, write
> >and recalculate functions would be enough.
>
> See the URL below for links to:
> - SIAG, programmable in Scheme, Tcl, and Python
> - Gnumeric, programmable in Scheme and Python
> - MOODSS - written in Tcl
>
> I don't believe that any of 'em integrate in Perl.
Gnumeric does.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: "Ricky J. Sethi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Marx vs. Nozick
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 02:41:45 -0700
Ashley Penney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
[SNIP]
> People often say you should treat others as you'd like to be treated
yourself,
> and if I was *ever* in the situation I described above, I'd hope someone
had
> the courage to kill me, because I wouldn't want to live a life whereby I
was
> locked inside my own head.
>
[SNIP]
Hmm... I'm just glad Stephen Hawking thought differently. Despite the
(admittedly) glib answer, this is a tough topic... I do see your point but
still respectfully disagree. Maybe it's overly simplistic, but I think if
someone wants to stay alive, we help em stay alive; if someone wants to move
on, we allow them the dignity to choose their own way out.
That's my $.02,
Rick.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,apana.lists.os.linux.redhat,apana.lists.web.java.linux,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.help,free.comp.linux.misc,linux.redhat.development,linux
Subject: Re: Netscape Navigator for Linux can't locate java40
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 07:29:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999 01:50:08 -0500, Mervin Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I am running Netscape Navigator on RedHat Linux 6.0, and everytime I try to
>run an html page with a java applet, an error message pops up indicating
>that Netscape Navigator can't locate java40 in the java classpath.
>
>Does anyone know how to resolve this issue? What is the name and location
>of the file within Linux that contains the CLASSPATH setting?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
The readme which comes with netscape discusses setting the MOZILLA_HOME
variable which has worked for me.
--
Michael Perry - No one can give you wiser advice
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .o O than yourself" -Cicero
' Gnome: at www.gnome.org
"Happiness is a state of foot!"
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: spin down HDD
Date: 30 Jul 1999 15:01:46 -0700
Simon Hosie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> xander:
> Why is it that it does that all the time, even when there is nothing to
> flush? Why doesn't it check?
There're always things going on--log entries, cron/at jobs, things like that.
The Laptop HOWTO has some good tips making adjustments to the system
for decrease disk activity.
-ckm
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From: Kenny Kim Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Compile kernel --> PROBLEM
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 17:28:24 +0800
I finally can compile the kernel. This was accomplished by removing libc5
and its headers and reisntalling glibc headers. I wasn't aware that my
RedHat 5.2 is glibc2-based and, being adventurous, carelessly installed the
libc5 RPMs from other vendors, messing up my /usr/include/.
--
Everything is not as it appears to be.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Shannon)
Subject: unmount samba share gone bad
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 19:34:16 -04-59
Our network is extremely slow and overworked at the moment. What this
means is that samba occasionally loses contact with my NT share and
drops it. When I try to remount the share, it tells me that my /mnt
directory is busy. When I try to unmount the share, samba refuses.
Essentially what this means is that I need to kill the share and
everything associated with it. How can I do this?
Thanks in advance,
Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: just for adults 104416
Date: 31 Jul 1999 23:49:10 PDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sweet XXX!
http://207.240.225.250/
RZqkNe88
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From: Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: helping the Third World
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 18:09:26 -0700
Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:37:11 -0700, Bev wrote:
> >Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>
> >Uhh, I just got here, so I must have missed a lot. Is somebody trying
> >to collect old linux CDs for distribution in 3rd world countries, or is
> >somebody going to STEAL them from us to send there? Seems like more
>
> The socialists have said that they don't want to distribute the linux CDs
> to third world countries until the government mandates it. Apparently, they
> ware talking about using a "wealth tax" to fund the scheme (-;
The bastards! What are they doing now, making the starving downtrodden
peasants use win98? Goddam tyrants, I swear, we always drop the bombs
in the wrong places.
Isn't there a newsgroup that takes care of this sort of thing?
--
Cheers,
Bev
=================================================
It's not the speed that kills, it's the stopping.
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Date: 27 Jul 99 01:12:56 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: backing up system
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Derek Ealy;
If you have the 5.1 distro, then you have bru on the second disk. In
any event you may want to tell st0 that it is to use block sizes longer
than 512 bytes. I've heard of folks using high as 32768 for a block
size. That IHBT will save some space used by formatting overhead. I
haven't tried it. I have 120 meter tapes, and 3.8 gigs fit the last
time I did one.
DE> Hi,
DE> I have RedHat 5.1 upgraded to Kernel 2.0.36. I recently installed a
DE> 4mm DDS2 DAT drive on my linux box. I used "tar cvf /dev/st0 /" to
DE> backup my system but it didn't fit on a single 90M tape. The DU
DE> command reports that I have 2.6 gigs worth of data, and I believe I
DE> have compression enabled on the drive via a jumper. Normally I would
DE> expect at least 3 gigs to fit on a 90M tape with compression. Is there
DE> something that I'm supposed to do via software to tell the tape drive
DE> to compress the data? Or is tar just really inefficient in the way
DE> that it uses a tape?
DE> How do most people do backups on their linux machines? Both tar and
DE> cpio seem pretty damned crude. Even NT's included NTBackup program
DE> seems to be quite a bit more useful. Is there any decent backup
DE> program for linux other than BRU2000? If not how does BRU2000 compare
DE> to a serious backup program like Seagate's Backup Exec?
DE> Thanks in advance, Derek
DE> Remove nospam from my email address when replying to
DE> me. My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DE> Need consultants for Win32 C++ VB Java DCOM and Unix development?
DE> Check us out at http://www.grandprixsw.com
Cheers, Gene
--
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|Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
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