Linux-Misc Digest #858, Volume #23 Wed, 15 Mar 00 15:13:05 EST
Contents:
Help installing linux mandrake. (Jeff)
Re: help with serial port settings (Steve Crow)
Re: Can't get my Rh 6.1 to recognize my NIC 3c509 (Luke)
Re: Cannot start Win/DOS disks and partitions after RedHat6.1 installation
("Christophe Heereman")
AOpen .. Lothar ("Yu, Horace [WDLN2:2X22:EXCH]")
Mysterious Gnome freeze (please help!) (Will Robinson)
Network is unreachable (Olaf Ziebell)
Re: xmms plays nothing, sound is working ("Stephen")
Re: Network is unreachable ("I. Smith")
Re: unkillable linux box ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
learning to compile (Kevin Paul)
mandrake 7.0 installation problem (Jeff)
Re: set -o vi will not work when putting command in .bashrc file ("Stephen R.
Figgins")
Re: lilo and 2*EIDE and 2*SCSI bootproblem (John in SD)
Re: IS fvwm2 KDE or GNOME compliant? (Martin Booker)
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From: Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help installing linux mandrake.
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:30:58 GMT
hi,
I got this error message in the second stage of installation for Mandrake
7.0. Apparently it had trouble loading the X. The message is below:
_x11Trans SocketUNIX Connect: Can't connect error no=111
_x11Trans SocketUNIX Connect: Can't connect error no=111
<Current Date> Gtk Warning Cannot open display : :O at /usr/bin
perl-install/mystk.pm line 139.
then it sends KILL signals to devices for a shutdown.
apparently, I need to replace the autoboot.bat file on the boot disk. The
problem is that there is no autoboot.bat under windows. If someone could
mail me a good disk image of the boot disk with the new autoboot.bat, that
would be great. my email is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks
Je
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From: Steve Crow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.help,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: help with serial port settings
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:26:50 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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See the man page for setserial.
Steve Crow
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Harry Overs wrote:
>
> How do I set the serial port /dev/ttyS1 to so that it recognises the nl
> newline ) character as the eol character. I have tried to use stty but that
> does not seem to work.
>
> I could even do it in code if I knew how.
>
> Regards
>
> Paul.
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From: Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't get my Rh 6.1 to recognize my NIC 3c509
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:37:09 GMT
Don't provide any options. The 3c509 driver autoprobes for them.
> Hi,
> in my conf.modules, I put:
>
> alias eth0 3c509
> options 3c509 io=0x340 irq=10
>
> While the system is booting the message is something like
> can't load module it is busy. Failed.
>
> I downloaded a 3COM diagnostic program for DOS which
> gave the ethernet card io address and irq and other parameters
> Thus it detected the card. So why won't Linux?
>
> I also tried to load the module with modprobe (modprobe 3c509)
> and I got an error message: conf:2: missing module argument.
> Maybe a clue. I just did: depmod -a and got the same error message.
>
> Mike
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From: "Christophe Heereman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannot start Win/DOS disks and partitions after RedHat6.1 installation
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:40:30 GMT
>Hopefully you are setting jumpers properly when switching drives (single,
>master or slave). I don't know what would explain why you cannot even
>boot a DOS/Win98 floppy after installing Linux. I have successfully
>installed RH6.1 coexisting with Win98 on a 27.3G drive (partitioned with
>Linux fdisk from another drive) and on a 9G drive on a laptop (using
>updated anaconda boot images, partitioned with fdisk instead of Disk
>Druid).
The jumpers were always correct. And yes, it's very weird that I can't even
boot a DOS/Win98 floppy. My floppy drive seems to read the disks (I hear
noise and see the drive light shine), but after a while it stops and it's
over.
If the BIOS detects the hard drives, does it also check the MBR/partition
table (not starting it, just checking)? Perhaps a bad installed LILO in the
MBR can cause problems when the BIOS checks the MBR... (and this can
influence the booting of floppys perhaps)? I don't know if this is the case,
but it looks like. However, it stays very weird for me.
>>My configuration: Asus P3BF mainboard, P3-600 CPU, Maxtor 13,6 Gb hard
disk,
>>disk drive, CD-ROM drive, big tower, network card, gfx card.
>>Installation: I created a partition of 7 Gb with fdisk (DOS version). I
>>formatted this partition under DOS and installed Win98. Then I started the
>>Linux installation (boot disk + CD-ROM) and created 3 partitions with Disk
>>Druid: 16 Mb (swap), 16 Mb (/boot) and the rest of the HD (/). I asked to
>>put LILO in the MBR.
>
>It might help if you list what Linux fdisk shows for your partition table.
>This might shed some light on whether something is using incorrect
>geometry (like if Win98 is using LBA and Linux is using linear).
That's another problem I have. I'm totally new to Linux (I used to be an
Amigan, but now Linux will probably conquer my heart :)) , and I've found
fdisk, but i'm not able to start it...
>If your Linux is on primaray (rather than logical) partitions, I was going
>to suggest that you put LILO on the /boot partition, restore the MBR with
>Win98 'FDISK /MBR' and then set the /boot partition as active (instead of
>Win98 partition). But if Linux is all in an extended partition, you would
>need to put LILO on that instead. But first you have to figure out how to
>get a Win98 boot floppy to boot.
I already asked Red Hat for help. The future will tell... an interesting
problem though :))
Thanks!
Padre Pedro
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From: "Yu, Horace [WDLN2:2X22:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AOpen .. Lothar
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:35:20 -0500
Hello ...
I am using Mandrake 7 and I have an AOpen FM56-P (which I believe
is NOT a winmodem) ... the manufacturer says that it's not
Linux-compatible; however, when I went out to buy anAOpen FM 56K/ITU-2
ISA internal yesterday, the salesperson told me that he is using the
FM56-P on Mandrake 7, and it works fine for him!! ... he said he used
Lothar ... I tried it last night .. but still Lothar shows no modem
whatsoever ...
Has anyone done it successfully?? .. or do I need a more updated
Lothar (I have the Jan version)??
Thanks ...
Horace
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From: Will Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Mysterious Gnome freeze (please help!)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:47:30 -0800
I've had a fair amount of success with my new Linux installation, but
I'm running into a mysterious problem and I need to turn to a higher
authority (you people):
I'm running the helixcode desktop (from helixcode.com) which is
basically Sawmill on top of GNOME. However, this problem was present
before I installed the helixcode desktop (I was previously running the
GNOME/Enlightenment combination installed by default by my Redhat 6.1
distribution).
Here's what happens:
I'll do something innocuous like move the mouse away from the panel and
then the
panel stops responding. The unresponsiveness increases; at first I can
right-click on the desktop to get a menu, but trying to run anything
from there makes that stop working. I can't logout of GNOME (there's no
way to access the logout button), and so what I end up doing is pressing
CTRL-ALT-F1 to get some text on the screen, then CTRL-C to kill X. So
I'm back at a text prompt. If I try to run startx again it stops
loading at the gray screen that shows just before the "GNOME Desktop"
pretty window usually appears. I can hit CTRL-ALT-F1 and CTRL-C again
from here to get back to the text prompt, but there's no way for me to
get back into X from this account without rebooting the system.
However, if I logout of my normal account and log in as root, I can run
X without rebooting (root is also set up to use the helixcode desktop).
The same thing has happened to me as root,
although less frequently (this could just be because I'm not usually
logged in as root).
So this one's got me stumped; I don't know where to begin! Does anyone
have any ideas? Or even ideas on what steps I should take to more
effectively diagnose the problem?
Thanks,
Will Robinson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olaf Ziebell)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Network is unreachable
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:53:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am trying to set up my linux box in a MS-based environment (I don't
thing this is the problem as such). When I try to ping 127.16.0.2 (my
own adress) I get: Network is unreachable. If I ping anything else, I
get 100% packet loss. To me it looks as if the signal never reaches
the hardware. On the other hand does tcpdump produce quite reasonable
output if anywhere else in the network something goes on. It does also
produce output (
19:04:26.315761 arp who-has 129.168.0.3 tell
guenter.uke.uni-hamburg.de
) if I ping to another computer.
has anyone any idea what might be wrong or missing?
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From: "Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xmms plays nothing, sound is working
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:54:05 GMT
"Mark J. Tilford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 12:59:23 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I have xmms-1.0.1-1. I've been upgrading gnome's and many packages
> >now I found out it stopped working. It launches, and seems it plays
> >but I hear nothing. It also looks it parses the file too fast.
> >
> >What could have been ?
> >gnome-core, gnome-audio ? I've always used rpm to install things so
> >I don't know what could have been. And going back to the CD packages
> >will be a pain.
> >
> >I tried to install latest gnome but I couldn't because it complains
> >it needs the package windowmanager. That I couldn't find.
> >
> >Please help me .
> >
> >
> >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> >Before you buy.
>
> Check the installed input / output filters.
>
>
> --
> -----------------------
> Mark Jeffrey Tilford
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the output is set wrong, it creates a wav file of the mp3
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From: "I. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Network is unreachable
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:57:28 -0600
Olaf Ziebell wrote:
>
> I am trying to set up my linux box in a MS-based environment (I don't
> thing this is the problem as such). When I try to ping 127.16.0.2 (my
> own adress) I get: Network is unreachable. If I ping anything else, I
> get 100% packet loss. To me it looks as if the signal never reaches
> the hardware. On the other hand does tcpdump produce quite reasonable
> output if anywhere else in the network something goes on. It does also
> produce output (
> 19:04:26.315761 arp who-has 129.168.0.3 tell
> guenter.uke.uni-hamburg.de
> ) if I ping to another computer.
>
> has anyone any idea what might be wrong or missing?
How about trying to give us a readout of `ifconfig -a`.
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: unkillable linux box
Date: 15 Mar 2000 13:49:48 -0500
>>>Boot via a distrib floppy or cdrom and when it asks you to partition
>>>the thing, use fdisk and just wipe the things out.
>
>You aren't listening to me. I've *tried* booting to the floppy. Repeatedly,
>in fact. It won't, even with the BIOS set to do it. I'll try the first
>guy's password advice, and if it works I'll see if I can get the A: drive
>to mount and read a floppy. If it won't, I'll try swapping out the floppy
>drive.
>
>>>> I inherited an old 486 Red Hat 5.2 box,
>>>> password. I've set the BIOS to boot to the A: drive, rebooted with a
>>>> bootable DOS disk (to trash the partitions with) and watched as Linux
>>>> cheerfully booted from the hard drive. How can I kill this Linux off
>>>> so I can get on with my fiendish plan to create a better Linux box?
>>>>
>cathyy
If you have another hard drive, ANYTHING, it doesn't matter, make that the
master drive and the Linux drive the secondary. DONE, it CANNOT boot anymore
without a loader on your new drive. Then kill it how you like.
The booting from the a: drive is all about the BIOS, maybe yours is messed
up? You can remove the battery for the BIOS for a few hours to reset it.
Write down the Hard drive parameters first.
-John
ps. incorrectly installed floppies, the old ones have jumpers so check yours,
can do strange things like you've mentioned.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Paul)
Subject: learning to compile
Date: 15 Mar 2000 19:25:23 GMT
I'm trying to move beyond RPM's and compile my own programs. Sometimes I
succeed, but usually not. When I don't, I usually can't even begin to figure out why.
How can I learn what I need to know to troubleshoot? I have no fear of editing files,
reading FAQ's, man pages or anything else necessary to solve problems. Any guidance
and
direction is greatly appreciated.
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From: Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mandrake 7.0 installation problem
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:30:23 GMT
hi,
i'm not sure if my message got through last time. So, I am redoing it.
While in the second stage of installation of Linux Mandrake 7.0, I got this
message,
_x11Trans SocketUNIX Connect: Can't connect error no=111
_x11Trans SocketUNIX Connect: Can't connect error no=111
<Current Date> Gtk Warning Cannot open display : :O at /usr/bin
perl-install/mystk.pm line 139.
Apparently it was problem booting the X. I also found that I need to
update the autoboot.bat file because of my configuration. The problem is
that there is no autoboot.bat file in windows. Do I need linux to get it?
If anyone could send me a disk image updated with the autoboot.bat file,
that would be great. my email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or you could suggest
a fix.
thanks
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From: "Stephen R. Figgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: set -o vi will not work when putting command in .bashrc file
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:41:20 GMT
joe flasch wrote:
>
> After I put the command "set -o vi" into the .bashrc file it will not
> work for vi or emacs after the shell comes up. Using mandrake 7, Had
> the same problem
> since redhat 6.0. Has anyone fixed this problem or found a work around.
>
> Joe
Yes, I answered this in an FAQ at:
http://faq.oreillynet.com/linux/FAQ_25_166.shtm
Basically, there are some conflicting commands in /etc/inputrc. To turn
off /etc/inputrc, you need to get rid of the INPUTRC variable set in
/etc/profile.
Stephen R. Figgins
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo and 2*EIDE and 2*SCSI bootproblem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:52:18 GMT
Remember, at boot time the LILO boot loader only uses the BIOS. So,
what disks are visible from the BIOS?
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:08:56 +0100, Joachim Haendel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hello guys,
>
>since several nights I tryed to run lilo well on my pc. Have someone a
>good idea?
>
>Configuration of PC:
>
>1.scsii have sci_id=0 boot win98 ( 4/2/2 GB partition )
>2.scsii have id=2 data disk dos ( 2/2 GB partition )
>
>1.ide hda have w95 ( 2/1/1 GB partition )
>2.ide hdc have linux ( 1/0.05 GB partition )
>
>If I install lilo in mbr of 1.ide or 1.scsii everytime I can only launch
>linux or the OS of the booting
>disk, but never the OS of the other system.
>Booting on 1.scsii, selecting w95 responded only "no system on disk" or
>if I tryed lilo.conf with
>disk= <parameters> same result for 0x82 or with 0x83..0x85 ERR 0x01.
>
>Allthough 1.ide w95 is on first partition, linux named this hda3 and not
>hda1 (?). Maybe 1024 cylinder problem?
>
>For all ideas thank you very much.
>
>
>:-) Regards Joachim
>
>
>###############################
>attached find lilo.conf for the scsii HD
>###############################
># LILO Konfigurations-Datei
># Start LILO global Section
>#
>boot=/dev/sda
>backup=/dosd/linux/test22.02
>message=/dosd/linux/message.txt
>install=/dosd/linux/boot.b
>map=/dosd/linux/map
>disk = /dev/sda
> bios= 0x80
>##disk = /dev/hda
> ##bios= 0x81
>#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
>#read-only
>prompt
>timeout=50
>vga = normal # force sane state
># End LILO global Section
>#
>#
>#dos95
>#other = /dev/hda3
> disk=/dev/hda
> bios=0x83
> other = /dev/hda3
> ##disk=/dev/hda
> label = d
> ##loader = /dosd/linux/chain.b
> table = /dev/hda
>#
>#
>#dos WIN98
>other = /dev/sda1
> label = 8
> loader = /dosd/linux/chain.b
> table = /dev/sda
>#
>#
>#Linux
>image = /dosd/linux/vmlinuz
> root = /dev/hdc1
> label = l
>#Linux ends
>#
>#
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From: Martin Booker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: Re: IS fvwm2 KDE or GNOME compliant?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:00:50 GMT
Rick wrote:
> Does anyone know if fvwm2 is KDE or GNOME complaint.
>
> Or.. is there a window manager that is fairly small and can be easily
> customized to look like fvwm2.. no taskbars, using mouse buttons for
> application lists/launchers, etc.
>
> Any and all help appreciated
> --
> To reply by email remove NOSPAM from my address.
Accourding to the RedHat Linux Unleashed book, GNOME should support
fvwm2. The example .xinitrc
looks like:
panel &
background-properties --init &
keyboard-properties --init &
mouse-properties --init &
exec fvwm2 -f .fvwm2rc.gnome
If you do not want the panel you could delete that line. What I could
not find in the book was the
.fvwm2rc.gnome example that would be a Redhat supplied config file for
fvwm2.
MAB
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