Linux-Misc Digest #15, Volume #24 Sat, 1 Apr 00 05:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Strange KDE lib location for RH6.1 ("Jason Byrne")
about mkisofs ("Eddy")
Electric Eyes VS fvwm (Rick)
Re: SCSI and IDE disk problems ("D. Stimits")
When will Mandrake ship new distro? (Oktay Altunergil)
Re: Eth. cards with more than on interface? (Lincoln Yeoh)
mp3 jukebox? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mp3 jukebox? (Dowe Keller)
Optimizing directory structures for ext2 fs and lots of files. (Lincoln Yeoh)
can't mkfs ?!?! ("Ohad M. Somjen")
Re: Error reading for memory (Dances With Crows)
Re: about mkisofs (jpkarrer)
Re: When will Mandrake ship new distro? (Edmund)
shared libraries: libkdecore.so (Manuif)
Re: Sound ("Kenny Colle")
Non-root PPP connection - THANKS ! (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Smith)
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Strange KDE lib location for RH6.1
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 21:32:47 -0800
It would be helpful if you could explain exactly what the problem is...
errors, etc..
For example... did you try telling 'configure' where the libraries are via
available switches?
Daniel Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Because of the unusual KDE include and library location for RedHat
> 6.1, I have a hard time
> in compiling many of the free software applications in the net.
>
> For example, I could not compile the kdbg source file. Any suggestion?
>
> Daniel
>
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From: "Eddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: about mkisofs
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 13:39:11 +0800
how can I use mkisofs to make image for a directory instead of the content
inside a directory ?
say,
mkisofs -o image /home
it will make the image of the files and directories inside home, like httpd,
ftp....
how can I make the image of /home with home as top directory ?
Eddy
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From: Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Electric Eyes VS fvwm
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:47:02 -0500
I have just started having a problem with electric eyes. I can start it
froma menuin fvwm2, but I cnat get it to do anything. But, when I start
it from an xterm or from another user account (not using fvwm2) it is
fine. Nay ideas on what is going on?
Any and all help appreciated.
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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 22:58:06 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI and IDE disk problems
"Knut A. Nilsen" wrote:
>
> About 6 months ago I installed a new Seagate Barracuda ST39175LW 9,1 Gb SCSI
> disk on a small fileserver. The disk has one partition taking up the entire
> disk, most of which is 'shared' to Windows clients using Samba (2.0.5a). The
> system has been running happily until yesterday, when I discovered that
> files and directories were missing over the samba share. Trying to list the
> files in linux gave me IO errors. Unmounting the drive and running e2fsck
> gave the following output:
>
> Error reading block XXX (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in
> short read) while doing inode scan. Ignore error<y>?
>
> Ignoring the error would give me more messages like this. Running e2fsck -c
> caused the scsi bus to attempt to reset several times. Finally, after
> several hours of errors, SCSI bus reset attempts etc etc, rebooted the
> machine, unmounted the drive and ran e2fsck -c, which now seamed to work.
> The disk is up and running again with no new error messages...
>
> /var/log/messages:
> Mar 29 12:29:01 arthur kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
> return code = 28000002
> Mar 29 12:29:01 arthur kernel: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:01:
> sense key Not Ready
> Mar 29 12:29:01 arthur kernel: Additional sense indicates Logical unit is in
> process of becoming ready
> Mar 29 12:29:01 arthur kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 8536140
> Mar 29 12:29:01 arthur kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)):
> ext2_write_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=1067
> 010, block=4268070
> Mar 29 12:29:06 arthur kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
> return code = 28000002
> Mar 29 12:29:06 arthur kernel: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:01:
> sense key Not Ready
> Mar 29 12:29:06 arthur kernel: Additional sense indicates Logical unit is in
> process of becoming ready
> Mar 29 12:29:06 arthur kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 2
> Mar 29 12:30:03 arthur kernel: (scsi0:0:0:-1) Unexpected busfree, LASTPHASE
> = 0x40, SEQADDR = 0x5f
> Mar 29 12:30:07 arthur kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
> return code = 28000002
> Mar 29 12:30:07 arthur kernel: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:01:
> sense key Not Ready
> Mar 29 12:30:07 arthur kernel: Additional sense indicates Logical unit is in
> process of becoming ready
> Mar 29 12:30:07 arthur kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 983962
> Mar 29 12:30:07 arthur kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
> return code = 28000002
>
> (same message repeated a _lot: of times)
>
> Mar 29 12:36:11 arthur kernel: scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half
> of retries.
> Mar 29 12:36:11 arthur kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
> Mar 29 12:36:14 arthur kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
> return code = 28000002
> Mar 29 12:36:14 arthur kernel: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:01:
> sense key Not Ready
> Mar 29 12:36:14 arthur kernel: Additional sense indicates Logical unit is in
> process of becoming ready
> Mar 29 12:36:14 arthur kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 2883722
>
> Can anyone explain this behaviour?
>
> Now, for chapter two:
>
> In 'panic', while I was fsck'ing the SCSI drive, I went an bought a second
> 10GB IDE drive, to backup my disk in case I needed to try some extensive
> data recovery. I makde this dosk inot one big partition also (/dev/hdc1).
> Running mke2fs, /var/log/messages is filled with this kind of errors:
>
> Mar 30 11:27:44 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Mar 30 11:27:44 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x10
> { SectorIdNotFound }, CHS=770/0/137, sector=197074
> Mar 30 11:28:02 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Mar 30 11:28:02 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x10
> { SectorIdNotFound }, CHS=1666/0/79, sector=426450
> Mar 30 11:28:21 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Mar 30 11:28:21 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x10
> { SectorIdNotFound }, CHS=3650/0/23, sector=934354
> Mar 30 11:28:22 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Mar 30 11:28:22 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x10
> { SectorIdNotFound }, CHS=3650/0/22, sector=934354
>
> ..and runing e2fsck on this disk gives:
>
> Error reading block 3358818 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted
> in short read) while doing inode scan. Ignore error<y>?
>
> ...which is the same message I got on the SCSI disk in the first place!
>
> Which means that I can't get my brand new 10 GB drive to work at all. The
> drive is an IBM DTTA-371010 CHS=19590/16/63
>
> On top of this, as I am writing this post, I see that I get the same error
> messages on /dev/hda and IO errors as I am parsing through /var/log/messages
> to copy the error messages. This disk is an IBM DTTA-350640 CHS=790/255/63
>
> This is beginning to become frustrating! Any ideas, anyone?
>
> Knut Nilsen
The faster the data setup, such as newer 80 MB/s versus old 20 MB/s,
the stricter the cable requirements. And cable connectors, constantly
warming up and cooling down, can become unseated...not necessarily
enough to be obvious, but enough to cause errors. If you were writing
to a drive when it was marginal, you might have lost data, but not
have lost the drive. Do the simple test: keep yourself grounded to the
computer case, and unseat/reseat all cable connections related to the
drives. Try again to run e2fsck.
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From: Oktay Altunergil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: When will Mandrake ship new distro?
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 06:30:07 GMT
Hi,
Redhat released version 6.2 a few days ago. Does anybody have any
information about when Mandrake will release the never version of its
distribution?
Oktay
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lincoln Yeoh)
Subject: Re: Eth. cards with more than on interface?
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 06:51:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:48:37 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn?= T Johansen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi.
>
>Does Linux support network cards with more than 1 ethernet interface,
>e.g 4 interfaces? And if it does, which ones?
Yes.
Currently using the following on Redhat 6.1, kernel 2.2.14
Adaptec (Cogent) Quartet ANA6944.
The kernel module/driver is tulip. The card uses DEC chips. The card I have
seems to work fine with "new" tulip driver.
Four 10/100 ethernet interfaces on one single card.
http://www.adaptec.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?url=%2Fproducts%2Fdatasheets%2Fspecs%2Fana6944a.html
No problems in installation, except it might be a tight fit physically. The
card requires a FULL LENGTH PCI SLOT. It is very LONG physically. Make sure
you have enough physical space- no cables/heatsinks/etc in the way.
Good card. Low CPU usage. Possibly top of line in its time. Worth the money
if someone else paying for it ;).
Not sure about the new ones listed in:
http://www.adaptec.com/products/index.html
Have no experience with those.
Cheerio,
Link
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mp3 jukebox?
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 06:46:04 GMT
What's the best mp3 Jukebox for Linux and where can I get it?
Either mpg123 sucks or I misconfigured my sound card, but the sound
(perfect under Windows) is very distorted when loud.
Thanks.
Wroot.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dowe Keller)
Subject: Re: mp3 jukebox?
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 07:13:24 GMT
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000 06:46:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What's the best mp3 Jukebox for Linux and where can I get it?
>Either mpg123 sucks or I misconfigured my sound card, but the sound
>(perfect under Windows) is very distorted when loud.
You might want to check that sound card because mpg123 works great on
my box.
How do other sound formats sound on your system? If only mpg123 sounds
ugly. You are well assured that it's the culprit. However, if quality
is lacking in other sound formats. You need to check your drivers and
card settings.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lincoln Yeoh)
Subject: Optimizing directory structures for ext2 fs and lots of files.
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 07:26:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I've heard that ext2 fs becomes less efficient if there are tons of files
in a directory.
OK what if I have lots of files. How should they be split?
By 100s?
e.g.
/opt/d0/file0
..
/opt/d0/file99
/opt/d1/file100
..
/opt/d1/file199
/opt/d99/file9900
..
/opt/d99/file9999
Or by 200s? 500s? or 1000s?
Basically how much time does it take to change one directory level, vs scan
through 100 files. How flat should the "pyramid" be.
I'll probably consider other file systems in the future (they have to be
fast, cheap, reliable, robust and SMP safe). But meanwhile I'm sticking
with ext2.
Thanks,
Have a nice day!
Link.
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From: "Ohad M. Somjen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't mkfs ?!?!
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 09:35:14 +0200
hi,
i use redhat 6.2beta (Piglet)
when i installed it i partitioned my disk
and left some space for future growth.
now i want to add a new partition (for /var/squid).
partitioning is no problem,
#fdisk /dev/hda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 524 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 7 56196 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 8 24 136552+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 25 216 1542240 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 217 524 2474010 5 Extended
as you can see i ran out of primaries so i created an extended and
now added logical partitions:
# fdisk /dev/hda -l
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 524 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 7 56196 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 8 24 136552+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 25 216 1542240 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 217 524 2474010 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 217 262 369463+ 83 Linux
now i want to format the partition:
# mkfs.ext2 -c -b 4096 /dev/hda5
mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/hda5: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up
superblock
Please help me !!!
TIA,
Ohad.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Error reading for memory
Date: 01 Apr 2000 02:40:59 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 21:17:19 -0600, David ..
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I hate to disagree but the following is directly out of a RedHat book.
>boot =
>map=
>install=
>prompt=
>timeout=
>image=
>label=linux
>root=/dev/hda1
>initrd=/boot/initrd-x.x.xx.img
>read-only
>append="mem=xxM" # xx= amount of memory.
>
>Flames go to /dev/null.
$ cat flame.txt | tee /dev/null nnpost -f -
(cough. this is not a flame, merely an... explanation.)
Were there any *other* "image=" labels in what they published? That would
work fine, as long as you were only booting that particular image. There
is a reason for having "append=" lines declared within "image=" blocks
being local to that particular image.
For example:
boot=/dev/hda
prompt
timeout=100
append="mem=192M SCHEME=work"
root=/dev/hda1
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=work
image=/boot/vmlinuz.test
label=worktest
image=/boot/vmlinuz
append="mem=192M SCHEME=home"
label=home
This is, say, for a laptop that's used mostly at work. The append= line
before the image= lines is used as a default for any image= section that
doesn't include an append= line. This saves typing in lilo.conf. OK, so
it's not too onerous for the average user, but still...
Please also note that documentation can have errors in it. The SuSE 6.1
manual left out the "table=" line in an /etc/lilo.conf described as being
suitable for dual-booting Win98/Linux. Took me a week to figure out what
went wrong there. Errors happen, and only direct experience can keep them
down.
--
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There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: jpkarrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: about mkisofs
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 01:36:59 -0700
mkdir tmpisofs, ln -s home tmpisofs/home, then mkisofs tmpisofs...
should work!
Jim
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From: Edmund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: When will Mandrake ship new distro?
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 16:09:25 +0800
Oktay Altunergil wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Redhat released version 6.2 a few days ago. Does anybody have any
> information about when Mandrake will release the never version of its
> distribution?
>
> Oktay
>
Which version is this? I'm having trouble keeping up to which version
Mandrake
is up to. Last time I checked at a local software store, it's at 7.0
(apparently,
shipped in a standard and Deluxe version...).
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Subject: shared libraries: libkdecore.so
From: Manuif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:15:55 -0800
I am using Red Hat Linux 6.1. But I have some problems with
shared libraries. Some programs report errors while compiling
and/or executing:
1. Configure reports an error that a small KDE app can't be
compiled. I have watched the log-file of configure and found out
that a file called "libkdecore.so" has unresolved links to
several functions.
2. Some precompiled apps don't execute and report that there was
an error in loading shared libraries and there are undefined
symbols.
I think that I have all these errors because the there are
conflicts with the file /usr/lib/libkdecore.so. This file is
installed correctly, so I don't understand why there are poblems.
Does anyone know how to fix the errors?
Thanks in advance,
Manuel.
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From: "Kenny Colle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,linux.redhat.list,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Sound
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 18:14:37 +0200
Go To http://www.cybercomm.nl/~freak/compleet/
Dean Maluski heeft geschreven in bericht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf
>This will rebuild your isapnp.conf file?? Might be what you are looking
for??
>Look in /usr/doc/isapnp.tools for help
>Good luck!!
>
>Karl von Muller wrote:
>
>> I have installed Rh6.1 for the seond time rencently and last tim i did it
i
>> got sound. Could anyone help me on this. I have tried to recompile the
>> kernel, but it will not work as my linux partition is one of the last
>> partitions on the drive and i can only boot off the floppy. I have tried
>> rewriting the the boot sector with lilo but that does not work.
>>
>> Thanks Karl
>
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Non-root PPP connection - THANKS !
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 12:04:17 -0100
Greetings,
I would like to give a thousand THANKS to all people (especially MM.
Bill Unruh & Bill Staehle) who kindly helped me to set the rights for a
PPP-connection as a non-root user. I just set the commands
'/usr/sbin/pppd' & 'usr/sbin/chat' UID, then copied the commands
'ppp-go' & 'ppp-off' from /usr/sbin to /usr/bin. Who told that there was
no technical support for Linux ? And it's more than for Windows apps !
--
Beno�t Smith
Just A Rhyme Without A Reason
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