Linux-Misc Digest #526, Volume #21 Tue, 24 Aug 99 16:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Re: max. array size GNU C compiler... (Toon Moene)
Newbie Q: Out of mem when make dep ("Johan Hartzenberg")
Re: BIOS upgrade needs DOS(??) (Doug DeJulio)
Re: File system repair after crash (peter)
Vncviewer, expect & fvwm2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Communicator 4.6 kills itself (Jim Engstrom)
Re: Printer drivers for Linux? Which printer to buy? ("Christopher W. Aiken")
Re: menuconfig boot issue (#2) (Cooper)
Re: What is best HTML Editor for LINUX? (NGUYEN-DAI Quy)
Re: wrong free disk space if I use df-command (Collin W. Hitchcock)
Re: WTF is the difference between Linux and FreeBSD??? (Heeeeeeeez back!)
Re: This is crazy - cannot find stdio.h! (Scott Lanning)
Re: WordPerfect on 24 bit visual? (Grant Edwards)
Re: modules... How can I make it automatically on every startup ? (Craig Stewart)
Re: WordPerfect on 24 bit visual? (Grant Edwards)
Re: password on pine? (Scott Lanning)
Re: Maximum Ram? (Robert Wiegand)
Diamond Stealth II S220 (4M) (Mark Glassberg)
Re: Problems building kernel-2.2.11 (William Burrow)
linux hates my NiN CD! (steve)
Re: upgrade linux kernel (Philip Armstrong)
Re: upgrade linux kernel (Konrad Mierendorff)
Re: File system repair after crash (Gary Millman)
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From: Toon Moene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.c,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.alpha,gnu.gcc.help,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: max. array size GNU C compiler...
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:33:41 +0200
EKK wrote:
> I've tried with an array that exceeds the physical 512MB of memory on
> the Linux box. The compiler does not seem to complain untill
> beyond 1GB, but well before 2GB. It's pretty hard to tell, I guess
> without a machine with 2GB of physical RAM on it, but I am trying
> to decide whether to buy one or not, so...
Arrays in the main program are limited in size to RAM+swap. So if your
swap is 2 * RAM, you could go to max 1.5 GByte (in practice always
somewhat less).
This same limitation leads to problems running the test programs of the
new LAPACK 3.0 library on Linux systems that have significantly less
than half a GByte of RAM.
--
Toon Moene ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 346 214290; Fax: +31 346 214286
GNU Fortran: http://world.std.com/~burley/g77.html
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From: "Johan Hartzenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie Q: Out of mem when make dep
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:19:12 +0200
Hi.
Before I ask the difficult question (for me) I want to ask an easy question.
How do I enable "scroll-back" in a normal tty terminal?
I'm running Red Hat 6.0 with Kernel 2.2.5
Installing it was too easy. I didn't learn anything. You can only learn
when you struggle with things.
So I want to re-ask my above question in a different way: How do I find out
for myself where do I enable scroll-back in a text terminal window?
Another thing:
I edited the /etc/issue file to add a legal notice / warning before login.
It worked immediately, untill I rebooted the machine, at which time it
reverted to the original message. The /etc/issue file was back to what it
was before I modified it.
Now I want to add support for my Olicom Token Ring network card. OK, the
docs says I must compile it into the kernel as a loadable module. From
reading the docs, I gather that's a contradiction in terms, but terminology
is not my problem now.
I want to first just build Kernel 2.2.9, without adding any new device
drivers. I figured that way I increase my chance of getting it right, and
I'll feel way proud of myself when I manage to run Linux on a Kernel I build
myself.
Big Deal if you've done it a hundred times. But it will be my first.
So I read the Kernel HOWTO.
Great - my wonderfull distribution of Red Hat came without GCC. But I found
it on one of the CDs, unzipped it, noticed it's only the binaries, un-tared
these. Kewl the files are now in their correct locations, eg. gcc-2.8.1 is
in /usr/bin
I added a ln -s gcc-2.8.1 gcc
Then I tried again.
No header files.
OK, I figure thsoe are the ones in libc. unzip and untar, hoping they will
go into the right locations. Seemingly they did. It compiles for a minute
or so with various warnings, then exits with an error.
I ran top in a different console while compiling. who-ha! memory use grow
exponentially while this thing is running.
Is my gcc bad?
I tried the compile again, this time 'make dep >& capture'
Here's the capture. I don't know enough to figure out why this is
happening. If this problem is solved somewhere, please tell me where to
read up. Please don't tell me I need to make gcc myself. I don't yet know
how to get the 8.something Mb of gcc form my pc to my linux box.
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/mkdep
scripts/mkdep.c
In file included from scripts/mkdep.c:13:
/usr/include/ctype.h:0: numeric constant with no digits
/usr/include/ctype.h:0: warning: unrecognized text at end of #line
In file included from /usr/include/ctype.h:26,
from scripts/mkdep.c:13:
/usr/include/features.h:0: numeric constant with no digits
/usr/include/features.h:0: warning: unrecognized text at end of #line
In file included from /usr/include/features.h:134,
from /usr/include/ctype.h:26,
from scripts/mkdep.c:13:
/usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:0: numeric constant with no digits
/usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:0: warning: unrecognized text at end of #line
In file included from /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:24,
from /usr/include/features.h:134,
from /usr/include/ctype.h:26,
from scripts/mkdep.c:13:
/usr/include/features.h:0: numeric constant with no digits
/usr/include/features.h:0: warning: unrecognized text at end of #line
/usr/include/features.h:19: numeric constant with no digits
/usr/include/features.h:19: invalid #line
/usr/include/features.h:21: numeric constant with no digits
/usr/include/features.h:21: numeric constant with no digits
/usr/include/features.h:21: invalid #line
/usr/include/features.h:38: numeric constant with no digits
/usr/include/features.h:38: numeric constant with no digits
/usr/include/features.h:38: invalid #line
/usr/include/features.h:59: invalid #line
/usr/include/features.h:78: parse error at null character
/usr/include/features.h:78: virtual memory exhausted
make: *** [scripts/mkdep] Error 1
Which doc should I read to find out how to fix this? Do I need to inclrease
my swap partition (128 Mb physical ram + 100 Mb swap)
Please help me help myself. Once I manage to build and install a new
kernel, I will take the next step: Add a driver for my network card, which
I downloaded form the Olicom website.
Thanx to all you kewl guru's.
_Johan
P.S. I don't mind reading the docs, but there are so many of them. English
is a second language to me, so this is taking a while. Hope my spelling and
grammar isn't too bad.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug DeJulio)
Subject: Re: BIOS upgrade needs DOS(??)
Date: 24 Aug 1999 13:45:12 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>where do you find a booting ms-dos diskette these days? all i have is
>linux. is there a site with an ms-dos image i can dd to the floppy?
>how do i make a fat12 filesystem?
Try looking at "http://www.freedos.org/". It's an attempt at an
open-source DOS workalike.
It's not far enough along to reliably run all DOS software yet, but in
most cases it should be sufficient for applications like BIOS updates
and hardware configuration utilities.
--
Doug DeJulio | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HKS, Incorporated | http://www.hks.net/~ddj/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (peter)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: File system repair after crash
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:33:27 GMT
In article <yBxw3.17492$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] told us...
>
> I'd like to learn a comprehensive strategy/approach to repairing my file
> system after a crash.
>
there is only one: restore you system-backup ;)
system-crash may confuse your harddisk and there is no way to automatically
restore all data. to restore lost and very import dati there is a way that is
described in a unerase howto !
peter
=================
pilsl@
ANTISPAM
goldfisch.atat.at
cause many people complaining about it:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is a VALID adress.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Vncviewer, expect & fvwm2
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:06:37 GMT
Hi All,
got an expect program to autologin to an NT box via vncviewer so that
I don't have to bother to type in the password at the command line. If
I run the expect program from the command line, it works fine but if I
assign the program to a button or a drop-down menu it fails. It looks
like:
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn vncviewer machine:0
set password blah
expect "Password:"
send "$password\r"
interact
>From a strace, the main difference I see is that, after sending the
password, I get:
ioctl(4, SNDCTL_TMR_STOP, {B38400 -opost -isig -icanon -echo ...}) = 0
which I don't if I run it from a menu.
Any ideas what's going on here?!
Cheers,
James.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Jim Engstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,aus.comuters.linux
Subject: Re: Communicator 4.6 kills itself
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:09:27 +0200
Some time its the Java thats the problem,. turn of the java but let the
java-script be on (if you like that).
If it�s the font problem try this.
chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
IceLava wrote:
> Got this weird prob. Not too sure whether the bug belongs to X or
> Navigator.
> everytime I load up www.ninemsn.com.au it'll close by itself.
> when I try to load it again it'll report a bus error for the new
> process.
>
> anybody know wat's this all about?
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From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer drivers for Linux? Which printer to buy?
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:57:14 -0400
I bought an Epson 740. I got the drivers here:
http://lcewww.et.tudelft.nl/~haver/linux/epson.html
Works great on W95/98/NT and Linux....
...cwa
Jim Williams wrote:
> I need to buy a printer.
> It has to work with Linux, Win95 (gakk!!), and DOS would be nice too.
> Looking in shops , it seems that printers only come with drivers for
> Win95 these days! Double Gak!!
> I'm guessing that people write drivers for Linux when the printers are
> released. Where can I find out what printers have Linux drivers
> availabe? Is there a website somewhere?
>
> PS
> The printer is for low volume personal use, only neeeds to be B&W,
> though colour would be OK too. A buublejet , maybe? Any recomendations?
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jim Williams
>
> "Yup. I've heard that one too so it must be true."
--
===================================================================
Christopher W. Aiken
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SuSE 6.1, Kernel 2.2.7
Mandrake 6.0, Kernel 2.2.9
The box said 'WIN95/98 or better.' so I installed LINUX!
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From: Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: menuconfig boot issue (#2)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:26:39 -0100
Christopher Michael Collins wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> In my new slackware 4.0 install, I've patched
> up to 2.2.10.
>
> At boot I get this message:
>
> Updating module dependencies for Linux 2.2.10
> /lib/modules/2.2.10/fs/autofs.o: unresolved symbol(s)
> /lib/modules/2.2.10/fs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol(s)
>
> etc....... Where do these errors come from???
Typically a recompilation of the same version kernel (specifically, when
doing the "make modules_install") without first renaming what's already
in /lib/modules/<kernel version number>.
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig;make dep;make clean;make zImage;make modules
mv /lib/modules/2.2.10 /lib/modules/oldmods
cd /usr/src/linux
make modules_install
Set up lilo. Run lilo. Reboot.
Cooper
--
I'd like to take this moment to ask you parents out there:
Please close the door when being probed by aliens. Think
of the children...
- Taken from Squee #4 -
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From: NGUYEN-DAI Quy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is best HTML Editor for LINUX?
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:30:05 +0200
Gilbert Groehn wrote:
>
> Does anyone make a HTML editor similar to
> MS 'Front Page' for LINUX ?
I don't know MS..., but I think "asWedit" and "webmaker" also very well !
--
NGUYEN-DAI Quy (http://bobo.ltas.ulg.ac.be/~quy)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Collin W. Hitchcock)
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: wrong free disk space if I use df-command
Date: 24 Aug 1999 14:12:02 -0400
> hi, right now I get the following error-message in my log files.
> "low space on device ..." If I use the df-command it tells me that
> I have a capacity of 98% (= 135 MB)on the device. But if I use the
> du command it shows only 35 MB (=30%). This must be the right size
> because after reboot df shows the same size. (I use RedHat 4.1 with
> kernel 2.0.27) Can I update the df-database without rebooting? Or
> any other comments? Thnx CU Rene
This might be overly paranoid but it's what I'd do with my machine:
1) Shutdown and reboot from an emergency floppy.
2) e2fsck -f /dev/x (replace x with the problem partition)
At least you'll be sure of the integrity of the partition filesystem
before you try anything else.
Collin
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From: Heeeeeeeez back! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WTF is the difference between Linux and FreeBSD???
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:05:37 +0100
Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Well, I will give you my corrections on your corrections below :) I might
> not be right about some of it so let me know what you think. Keep in mind I
> wrote this post for a newbie. They don't need to know the whole history of
> computers starting with the ENIAC,
Starting with Collosus (sp?) you mean....
:)
PDP's and other stuff like that. To them
> Windows and a PC is what a computer is. They didn't know other advancements
> in computers like OS's and platforms have been stepping stones to what we
> have now.
>> AT&T was not interested in making an operating system, specifically.
> Close enough. They were trying to make a system written in some sort of
> language that allowed them to do more things on a computer. That is an OS
> isn't it?
>>
>> Also, Unix is not the first OS by any imagination. What this statement
>> means is not clear, but for sure System 360 existed before Unix, GECOS
>> existed before Unix, Multics existed before Unix, etc.
> Yes, but a newbie to UNIX doesn't know about all that stuff. They think that
> Linux is a "new" OS and while it is somewhat, it really comes from UNIX, a
> system that has many variations and has been around just as long as Windows
> or Apple computers.
Ahem... Try 3 times as long as windows, or twice as long as MacOs...
(Unix started life in the 1960s... MacOs in the early to mid '80s, and
Windows didn't make any significant impact until v3.0 in the early '90s)
>> IBM never wanted Windows. IBM bought copies of MS-DOS for the IBM PC.
>>
>> After a few years, sometime after the 286 was released, IBM decided that
>> a nice GUI OS would be nice, and started development of OS/2 with
>> Microsoft. Bill kept developing Windows on the side, though, and around
>> 1990 released Windows 3.0, dumping the OS/2 project in IBM's lap.
> Maybe IBM never wanted Windows/Dos, but from what I have read they did. It's
> just that they wanted it as their own OS, like Apple and their OS and many
> other computer makers had their versions of UNIX. They didn't want it to be
> a piece of "software" on their computer like Windows is on every PC computer
> nowadays. They wanted to own an OS like the other companies. But Gates
> refused to sell Dos to any particular computer company because he really
> believed he had a good thing.
And unfortunatey, the person who owned the rights to the other OS (which was
much more mature, namely CP/M) was out of reach on a boat at the time, and
they stupidly opted for Gates...
(Even if it was by far the largest computer
> company and one of the fastest growing companies period) So IBM then decided
> to go ahead and find the best way to make a good OS for their platform that
> they owned themselves.
>> Andrew Tanenbaum had developed it for teaching purposes. I believe
>> there is also something called Xinu that was at one time popular for
>> teaching. It doesn't seem to factor into the Linux history, though.
> Do you know if Minix was a free system or what kind of computers it worked
> on?
It worked on x86, I think... Although it has since been ported to many
others... (Even the Sinclair QL)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Lanning)
Subject: Re: This is crazy - cannot find stdio.h!
Date: 24 Aug 1999 18:45:43 GMT
Maxwell MacLeod ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I'm not doing very well here - I can't even get Hello World to work!
: I can't find stdio.h on my system (RedHat 5.2).
It's not at /usr/include/stdio.h ?
If it is, please explain in more detail how you compiled.
--
Scott Lanning: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://physics.bu.edu/~slanning
"How can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man,
that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental
psychic forces in the individual?" --Albert Einstein
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From: grant@nowhere. (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect on 24 bit visual?
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:56:57 GMT
In article <lLkv3.282$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rod Smith wrote:
>> I decided to try out WordPerfect, and overall it seems decent.
>>
>> However, I normally run 24bpp at home (ATI Rage 128 w/ SVGA
>> server) and none of the bitmaps work (buttons just have gray
>> hash on them). At work it runs fine with a 24 bit visual (ATI
>> Mach32 w/ mach32 server).
>>
>> Why does WP work on one X server and not the other, when
>> they're both set up as 24 bpp truecolor?
>It's a bug in WP that interacts with the way 24-bit mode is handled in
>certain X servers. Most XFree86 servers are affected, but I'm told that
>Accelerated-X is immune to this problem. Also, XFree86 4.0 should also be
>immune to the problem.
I have a similar problem with Acobat reader 3.0. It works with
a 24-bit visual using the Mach64 server, but not with a 24-bit
visual using the XVGA ATI RAGE-128 server.
Same issue?
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! When you get your
at PH.D. will you get able to
visi.com work at BURGER KING?
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From: Craig Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modules... How can I make it automatically on every startup ?
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:53:49 -0500
In Red Hat, the directory for startup modules is /etc/rc.d/init.d
Craig
Mircea wrote:
> See the files in /etc/rc.d ; that's what thay are used for. On
> Slackware, the relevant file is /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, but this could be
> different for you, depending upon the distribution you use.
>
> MST
>
> Cl�udio Ant�nio Costa Fernandes wrote:
> >
> > Hi.
> > Everytime I boot, I type manually and add my soundcards module with
> > modprobe. How can I make it automatically on every startup? Does Linux
> > have
> > startup-sequence type of file? I was use hed hat wifh kernel 2.2.5 in
> > pentium II
> > Claudio Fernandes
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From: grant@nowhere. (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect on 24 bit visual?
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:57:55 GMT
In article <37bededd$1$ewyncunz$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jerry Lapham wrote:
>
>> Why does WP work on one X server and not the other, when
>> they're both set up as 24 bpp truecolor?
>
>I don't know why but it also happens with Matrox. I'd suggest going to
>either 16 or 32 bpp.
Does 32 work for you? I was pretty sure I tried 32 and it
didn't work right either...
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Eisenhower!! Your
at mimeograph machine upsets
visi.com my stomach!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Lanning)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: password on pine?
Date: 24 Aug 1999 18:51:48 GMT
Damond Walker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: And wonderfully bloated for a news/mail reader as well. :)
What, do you telnet to ports 119/25 ? (or is telnet too bloated :)
--
Scott Lanning: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://physics.bu.edu/~slanning
"How can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man,
that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental
psychic forces in the individual?" --Albert Einstein
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From: Robert Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Maximum Ram?
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:39:23 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does linux have a problem with 1GB ram? I thought Linux
> on Intel could handle 4Gigs. Also, how do I know that
> now that I installed the RAM that I took out earlier...
> -is it still available to the Linux OS in its totality
> -i.e. it is not using just 512MB. I am not sure if the
> second part of the question makes good sense, but if
> someone could throw some light on memory use under
> Linux, I would much appreciate it.
The limit on RAM is slightly less than 1G.
What I have seen recomended is to use "mem=960M".
--
Regards,
Bob Wiegand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Glassberg)
Subject: Diamond Stealth II S220 (4M)
Date: 24 Aug 1999 15:02:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If anyone has managed to get dosemu video graphics working with this board,
I would really appreciate their sending me the dosemu version number and the
video settings in their dosemu.conf file.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: Problems building kernel-2.2.11
Date: 24 Aug 1999 15:27:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:12:19 BST,
Lack Mr G M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The actual error message woudl be helpful.
>
> However - one quick check. Did you set the "memory-model" parameter
>in the second(?) screen on "make xconfig" (to 1GB or 2GB)? Without it
>you will get errors about PAGE_OFFSET definitions.
When moving a .config file from an earlier kernel to a newer kernel,
ALWAYS RUN make oldconfig. It will fix up problems with new conditions
being introduced, such as the memory-model parameter.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux hates my NiN CD!
Date: 24 Aug 1999 19:52:06 +0100
Reply-To: steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I get these messages with my Nine Inch Nails 'broken' album.
I've got a Adaptec UW-2940 and a Plexwriter 4/2/20. Kernel-2.2.9
No problems with any other albums.
kernel: sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Read TOC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00
kernel: extra data not valid Current error sr0b:00: sense key Hardware Error
kernel: Additional sense indicates Tracking servo failure
Perhaps its that this cd has 99 tracks? (7-97 are empty tho)
Anybody else get the same problem?
Steve.
--
Stephen Kennedy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Armstrong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: upgrade linux kernel
Date: 24 Aug 1999 19:48:01 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Hung P. Tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When I try to recompile the kernel using "make zImage",
>I receive an error of duplicate variable from
>/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/checksum.c. Further inspection
>reveals that the variables are not duplicate. It's just that they
>are very long and have the same 1st 17 characters, and so
>appear the same to the compiler when they are truncated.
>How do I overcome this problem ? Do I need to update my
>gcc compiler (curently ver 2.7.2.1) or can I modify a makefile
>somewhere to add a switch ??? Please advice ...
gcc 2.7.2.1 is *very* old. You should at least upgrade to 2.7.2.3
which should compile the kernel without problems.
Don't go to a 2.3 kernel. They're not at all stable and may eat your
system :)
Phil
--
nosig
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From: Konrad Mierendorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: upgrade linux kernel
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:38:54 +0200
"Hung P. Tran" wrote:
> Should I just update the kernel to 2.2.5 or should I go all the way
> to the newest one available (which I believe is 2.3.14) ???
> Does newer necessarily mean better or that some version is
> more stable than other ???
Certainly you shouldn't upgrade to any of the 2.3.* Kernels if you don't
need any of the features which haven't gone into the stable kernels yet.
The parity of the minor(second) version-number indicates wether it is a
stable (even number) or a developer version (odd number). So if you
don't want to help bug-tracing you should stay away from these versions.
As to 2.2.5, I'd suggest to take 2.2.10 which is known to be very
stable. (I heard of some problems with 2.2.11 - nothing definite)
Maybe the compilations problems are also solved if you take 2.2.10
Good luck
- Konrad Mierendorff
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From: Gary Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: File system repair after crash
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:06:36 +0000
Steve wrote:
>
> We had a power outage here yesterday, and when I came home I noticed that
> Linux was stalled upon reboot due to file system errors. The instructions
> on the screen said I should run fsck without the -a or -p options, ie: to
> run it manually.
>
> So I did that, and I always chose to fix the inodes that were corrupted.
> After each fix, it asked if I wanted to clone the file and place it in
> lost+found. I noticed that most of the files were kde applications.
>
> After rebooting, KDE appeared to start fine, but nothing on the desktop
> worked. I would hit a button, and there would be no response. I could even
> view the menus, but nothing would happen when I selected anything. I ran
> Gnome and it wasn't much better. However, I found I could run things off
> the gnome menus, and open a shell window.
>
> Fortunately, I had just installed Linux on this system, so it was easier for
> me to simply reinstall this time, while moving some data and downloaded RPMS
> to a DOS share drive.
>
> However, I don't want this to be my solution.
>
> I'd like to learn a comprehensive strategy/approach to repairing my file
> system after a crash.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Steve
You can fsck using a backup superblock ( the first is 8193 ) e.g.
# fsck -t ext2 -b 8193 /dev/sd??
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