Linux-Misc Digest #211, Volume #24 Thu, 20 Apr 00 06:13:25 EDT
Contents:
Disk capacity (alan)
Re: Daylight Savings time, system time, hardware time.... (Paul Kimoto)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Andrew Carpenter)
Re: Disk capacity ("David ..")
Re: xmms freezes randomly. Why? ("J B")
Re: Info about sharing the Internet with Windows 98 clients ("Dirk Gently")
Re: HP DJ 722c with Kernel 2.2.4 ("Me Here")
Re: DOSEMU and MS C7.0 ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Disk capacity (Streamer)
Re: Kernel support for FAT32 ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: AutoCAD R14 on linux? (knud)
Problem unmounting w/ 2.3.99-pre5 (Adam K Kirchhoff)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Re: Where can I get licq RPM? (Buck Rogers)
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1382652, sector=1382589
(Norick Chen)
Trying to use ssh with keys instead of manual password entry (Steve D. Perkins)
Re: smail for debian (John Hasler)
IT Professionals wanted for survey panel (Lester Greenberg)
pt_chown \ devpts (Sergey Grishin)
Re: Does anybody know a gzip-compressor in hardware ? (J Alan Jackson)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation ("Eric Peterson")
installing w/o CD (Master Penguin)
smallest distro w/ KDE+Gnome (Master Penguin)
Re: Can't boot Linux from hard disk (Ken Corbin)
Re: System Commander 2000 vs. Partition Magic ("jeff")
Can't login after crash, removed passwd 4 root same result ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
auto logout in ssh (Siemel Naran)
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From: alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Disk capacity
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 01:30:26 GMT
Just wondering, how does one know how full their Linux Red Hat 6 hard disk
is?
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Daylight Savings time, system time, hardware time....
Date: 19 Apr 2000 21:59:18 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Yan Seiner wrote:
> I have a RedHat 6.0 system, 2.2.13 kernel. I need to configure the darn
> thing to keep the right time. I can't seem to correctly configure the
> hardware clock so that it correctly deals with DST.
>
> I tried setting it to UTC using RedHat's tools, but it had no effect.
> The time zone information must be correct, since the calendar displays
> EDT, but the hardware clock and the system clock are now exactly
> backwards..... The hardware clock is one hour ahead of the system
> clock.
>
> [root@aphrodite /root]# date; hwclock
> Wed Apr 19 13:48:25 EDT 2000
> Wed Apr 19 14:48:26 2000 -0.940635 seconds
Which is right? (It looks like your message was posted at 16:58 ...).
Has your system been (re)booted since the DST changeover? Is your TZ
environment variable set?
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Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Andrew Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 02:02:47 +0930
Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> Andrew Carpenter wrote:
> > Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> > > Clearly it doesn't work with edges, which implies a line. Since a glass
> > > surface has no lines in it.
> >
> > 'Edge' does not necessary imply 'line' as in straight line, of course.
> > If you magnify the surface of glass far enough, you'll see a pitted
> > surface. (Trivia: I understand this is how insects climb glass; they
> > don't "stick" to it, but actually hang on to the surface imperfections.)
> > If you can get an image of that surface such that shows its texture,
> > then any image with a high enough contrast would do the job. (Go to any
> > paint program, and try the 'EDGE detect' filter.) If you found a surface
> > that did *not* have enough contrast to find those 'edges', then you
> > probably wouldn't easily be able to follow movement across that surface.
> > Given current imaging technology, I doubt you'd be able to find a
> > surface that didn't!
>
> Nice comeback, but the original statement is *SEPERATED* by edges, which
> does imply a line in order to have seperation. pits do not seperate
> anything.
Yes, *regions* separated by edges. The quote mentioned surfaces "having
a random surface pattern relatively light and dark areas separated by
edges". If you view a pitted surface, and increase the contrast of the
image to the point that it becomes black and white, you'll get, say, a
white plain with lots of little black crescents where the pits are. That
black/white boundary is an edge.
It is a moot point though, because as other posters have already pointed
out, the patent text says virtually any surface should work, but
*especially* those as described above; I'd say that means the concept is
based on general edge detection and such surfaces are just easier to
process. I'd probably put money on the MS mouse using the same
technique, although I'd be delighted to hear that they have a new and
original technique.
Andrew
[ opinions are my own ]
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disk capacity
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:16:38 -0500
alan wrote:
>
> Just wondering, how does one know how full their Linux Red Hat 6 hard disk
> is?
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
df -h
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From: "J B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: xmms freezes randomly. Why?
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 12:27:36 +1000
I had similar problems and discovered that freezing is caused by esd
(Enlightenment Sound Daemon). Turning it off (or killing it) solves the problem.
In recent versions of XMMS you have very good esd plugin and it seems that
works very well with esd.
JB
In article <8dh1rl$ebq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chetan Ahuja
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> The subject just about says it all. I have recently discovered the
> magic of mp3's. I play them with xmms on a celeron 366 system with
> 128 Meg RAM and a Seagate ultra narrow HD. The version of xmms I'm
> ruuning is the one that came with mandrake 7 (xmms-0.95.1). The
> linux installation is more or less mandrake 7.0 with all the
> original gtk etc lib versions. My sound chip is built on to the
> motherboard. It's a C-media 8338. I'm using the latest cmpci.o driver
> from c-media's website. There are two main problems I'm facing:
>
> 1) Running mp3 files directly from netscape is erratic. I'm not
> trying to stream them or anything. All I want is the mp3 file
> to be downloaded to /tmp and then played by xmms. I've directed
> netscape to run the command "xmms %s" just like for any other
> helper application. This seems to work some of the time and not
> for other times (about 60/40 success/fail ratio)
> The downloading is not the problem. The files download
> correctly each and every time. ( same thing happens even if
> the link is to a local file).
>
> 2) This is more serious: Running a lengthy playlist, xmms
> randomly freezes in the middle of a song. The song stops but
> The scrolling song info keeps running. Now if I click one of
> the xmms windows, everything freezes... including the
> scrolling. The only resort at this point is to kill the parent
> xmms process ( which at least cleans up all the other xmms
> processes nicely). There are no messages in any file under
> /var/log when the freeze happens. I can't even begin to
> diagnose the problem.
>
>
> Any hints tips clues etc will be appreciated.
>
>
>
>
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From: "Dirk Gently" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Info about sharing the Internet with Windows 98 clients
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 02:42:46 GMT
You should look at Samba. http://www.samba.org
If you are confused about the BASIC setup (sharing home directories), see
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue50/pollman.html. I recommend you use swat
if you aren't familar with the smb.conf file.
--
Jeff Lacy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux Rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Roland C. Sacramento" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can anyone give me some info about sharing my Dial-up account with 6-8
> Windows clients. I have successfully installed RH61 and I plan to share
> my Internet to 6 clients. I heard that IP masquerading is safer and
> better than Proxy servers softwares like WinGate/ NetProxy etc. I also
> need to authenticate users before logging in to the network. Does Linux
> have a facility similar to the Windows NT domain structure wherein users
> must authenticate to the server before they can have access to the
> network?
>
> Please help....
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> N0D
>
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From: "Me Here" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP DJ 722c with Kernel 2.2.4
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:51:54 -0600
In article <38fe039f$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert R."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> HELP! Can someone tell me how to bring a HP DJ 722c under Linux 2.2.4
> (SuSE
> 6.2) to run!
> Please! THX yours Robert
>
Go here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1322
You'll find the drivers, docs, and links to the mailing lists for pnm2ppa.
...
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DOSEMU and MS C7.0
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 02:49:11 GMT
FWIW, MS C V7.0 won't run under MS-Windows 98 either.
Roger J. Pryor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi:
>
> Anyone (else) trying to run MS C V7.0, (about the last of the 16 bit
> compilers,)
> under DOSEMU ?? If so, any luck? I'm new to DOSEMU, so any help
> would be appreciated, I'm getting an error from DOSX32: Cannot read
> file: MS32KRNL.DLL. Linux is 2.2.10 (SuSE 6.2)
>
> Thanks
>
> --
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
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>
>
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From: Streamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disk capacity
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:59:13 -0500
alan wrote:
> Just wondering, how does one know how full their Linux Red Hat 6 hard disk
> is?
Try 'df -k'. This command works on any standard Linux system.
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel support for FAT32
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 03:03:59 GMT
Tell us what mount command you are using, or the pertinent
line in /etc/fstab.
You wouldn't perhaps be trying the mount the FAT32 filesystem
as type fat32 or FAT32 would you? The correct type is vfat.
Roland C. Sacramento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> My RH61 tells me that the FAT32 is not supported by the Kernel. How do I
> make my kernel to support FAT32 filesystem. I need to mount it so that I
> can use all my previous files (docs and other txts.) from my Win98
> system. Also, can you help me out on how to share my dial-up account for
> 6 clients. Actually I' wanna put up a cybercafe and I want to use my
> Linux as a proxy server.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> N0D
>
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From: knud <knudATmyselfDOTcom>
Subject: Re: AutoCAD R14 on linux?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 23:08:46 -0400
Check out WINE (which is a play on words meaning Wine Is Not an Emulator). It
is still deep in developement but will reportedly run ALOT of Windows programs
on Linux. Let me know if you're successful! You might also be interested in
Qcad. It's a 2-dimentional CAD program for Linux that saves files as dxf (as in
AutoCAD compatible).
http://www.winehq.com
http://www.qcad.org
I hope this helps!
knudATmyselfDOTcom
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Mark Charland wrote:
>Is there a program that will help me run AutoCAD on linux? I read
>somewheres that there is a program that lets you run winblows or NT on top
>of linux, but I dont remember the program, or if it will help. AutoCAD 14
>is written for either win95 or NT 4.0, win98 is not supported, but it
>works.
>
>TIA,
>
>Mark
>
>--
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>http://www.help.com/
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From: Adam K Kirchhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem unmounting w/ 2.3.99-pre5
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 03:10:29 GMT
When rebooting my linux box, using the 2.3.99-pre3 kernel, my machine tends
to have a difficult time unmounting all the partitions, usually getting stuck
on /usr, but sometimes /var and /home. I think I've traced this problem to
something in the shm code, since, when I recompiled a kernel which didn't
support shm, everything worked fine. Of course, I would like to have shm
working if possible. Any ideas?
Adam
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Reply-To: <btolder>
From: <btolder>
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:30:40 -0700
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.lang.java.advocacy
Jon A. Maxwell (JAM) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> The Microsoft mouse has what, 100,000 times more sensors and samples
> at 100 times the speed? Of course it will work better on surfaces
> without much contrast. But it's not a new idea.
Neither is flying at MACH 5. But does that mean you would have zero respect
for an airplane that carried commercial passengers at that speed to anywhere
in the world for just $300 per trip?
There are very few new ideas. I've seen conveyor belts use a light sensor to
detect that the belt is moving. Same method as used by the mouse. But a
dramatically different scale. As other posters have done, bringing something
like this to the masses at a cheap price is a respectable feat.
It never ceases to amaze me that folks that are working on cloning a 20 year
old operating system are widely regarded as geniuses by their supporters
while Microsoft is regarded by the same crowd as not having an original
thought. It's especially ironic when you see Win2K kick the crap out of
every other OS ever made.
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From: Buck Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Where can I get licq RPM?
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:51:23 +0800
Where did you get these licq files (and qt files)? Also, sometimes
I find RPMs that end with .src.rpm. How do I go about installing
these? When I try to install them with GnoRPM, absolutely
nothing happens when I click on install.
Buck.
Anita Lewis wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:50:34 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >Hi gang.
> >
> >My question is this: where can I get licq RPM's. I've tried
> >www.freshmeat.com and www.licq.org, but none of these
> >licq RPM works because of dependency problems with QT.
> >So far, I've installed at least 2 licq RPMs and 3 different
> >versions of QT, and I still can't get it working (I think it is
> >making my system unstable). Can somebody suggest where
> >I can find ALL licq RPMs and their dependency files in ONE
> >location? I've been trying to get licq working for about 4 months
> >now!! I am using RH 6.0. Thanks in advance
> >
> >Buck
> >
> I seem to remember some problem with that too. I have the following:
>
> licq-0.75.3a-1.rh6.1
> qt-1.44-6
> qt-2.0.2-2
>
> If I remember right, I had to rpm -ivh the second qt. When I did an upgrade
> instead, I lost the use of some other programs. Sometimes what I do when
> this happens is to make a link from the older version to the newer.
> Programs usually do just fine. I didn't do that in this case and I don't
> remember if I tried it.
>
> I haven't had any problems with the system having the two versions of qt on
> it.
>
> I am using RH6.0 as well.
>
> Anita
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Norick Chen)
Subject: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1382652,
sector=1382589
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 03:59:39 GMT
hi everybody, I had a faulty hard drive that has a bad sector (but when I
format it using checking bad sector option in mkfs.ext2 didn't come up with
any error). I am using that hard drive with my old computer as a masquerading
server for my home network.
I got this error from log file and I think everytime when cron runs the index.
kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
Error }
kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1382652,
sector=1382589
kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 1382589
kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
Error }
kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1382652,
sector=1382589
kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 1382589
how do I force the mkfs.ext2 to map that area as bad sector and avoid reading
or writing to that sector ?
my hardrive is 1 gig. here is the print out fromf fdisk of my hd
/dev/hda1 1 1 528 1064416+ 83 Linux native
TIA for all comments and suggestions from any help. Good day.
Norick
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From: Steve D. Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trying to use ssh with keys instead of manual password entry
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 03:56:43 GMT
I've spent a good chunk of the afternoon trying to configure a "ssh"
connection to my ISP account (for purposes of maintaining a CVS tree).
Everything is working properly... as long as I am willing to live with
the drawback of having to enter my password after EVERY cvs command I
send from a client machine through ssh.
I've been trying to setup public and private keys on the ISP and
client machines so that authentication can be handled automatically,
but have run into a strange quirk with that. I've created the keys
properly on the ISP machine in the ".ssh" directory, copied
the "identity" private key to the proper location on my client machine,
and try establishing a test ssh connection with the "-v" option to see
verbose output... and the error being reported is:
Remote: RSA authentication refused for sperkins: bad ownership or modes
for '/home/sperkins/.ssh/authorized_keys'.
The permissions for the "authorized_keys" file referred to on the
ISP machine are 664... I've tried other pemission settings, but have
had no luck. Has anyone else ever seen this issue with "ssh", or have
any idea as to what I may be doing wrong?
Steve D. Perkins
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: smail for debian
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 03:02:17 GMT
billhome writes:
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Upgrade to exim.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:32:31 GMT
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From: Sergey Grishin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pt_chown \ devpts
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 07:47:50 +0300
Hello!
after recompiling 2-2-12 kernel i got the following problems:
1)
when booting
mounting other filesystems
fs devpts does not supported by kernel
what is devpts and what should i do kernel to support it (recompile with
what options)?
2)
when non-root user tries to run Xterm it fails saying
pt_chown must be setuid `root`
???
Thanks
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From: J Alan Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.compression,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Does anybody know a gzip-compressor in hardware ?
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:44:47 +1200
Andreas Vierengel wrote:
>
> Thanks again for the answers.
>
> I'm definetely stuck with gzip, since another compression algorithm is not
> supported by the client program and we have no control over this programs :-(
>
> --Andy
A thought....
GZip has a variety of compression levels.
Does it help if you use the "gzip -0" option (ie no compression,
basically it puts a header and footer and calculates cheksums but does
no actual compression - much faster). A different compression level
would increase the data size but would save a _lot_ of CPU time.
The default with Gzip isusually maximum compression, even turning it
down a couple of steps would save heaps of CPU time without much impact
on the output size.
Good luck.
Alan.
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From: "Eric Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.lang.java.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:59:25 GMT
<btolder> wrote in message news:ubeMEknq$GA.229@cpmsnbbsa03...
>
[SNIP]
>
> It never ceases to amaze me that folks that are working on cloning a 20
year
> old operating system are widely regarded as geniuses by their supporters
> while Microsoft is regarded by the same crowd as not having an original
> thought. It's especially ironic when you see Win2K kick the crap out of
> every other OS ever made.
>
It's not that they are cloning a 20 year old operating system, it's that
they are
making it so it DOESN'T CRASH!
I haven't played with Win2K yet, though. My previous experience with MS
operating
systems makes me just a bit leery of shelling out the bucks until I have to.
Still, Microsoft doesn't do everything wrong, as some would have us believe.
I just get
a bit frustrated with sudden blue screens and other frequent problems.
--
Eric F. Peterson
Politically Incorrect and Proud!
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From: Master Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: installing w/o CD
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:45:26 GMT
How do I install linux w/o internal cdrom? The machine has an external
cdrom that attaches through the par. port and which works fine with
MS-Win, but none of the distros I tried can be installed. They all load
the install prog from cd just fine, but once the install prog (linux)
runs, it does not see the cdrom. I tried Mandrake and Suse. Any way to
install via a network (high speed access is available)?
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From: Master Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: smallest distro w/ KDE+Gnome
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:50:36 GMT
Which distro contains KDE and Gnome but takes the least HD space to
install, not too much memory to run, and is preferably easy to set up?
Especially good is one that can be installed via a network (w/o CD).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Corbin)
Subject: Re: Can't boot Linux from hard disk
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:47:53 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Bratcher writes:
> Ken Corbin wrote:
>>
>> Still trying to get this old 486 to run Redhat 6.0. Got the LILO problems
>> all straitened out. But whenever it tries to run the standard linux kernal
>> image it gets an error while trying to uncompress it. Error varies from
>> "crc error" to "invalid compressed format". The odd thing is that it will
>> boot just fine from a rescue disk with what presumably is a copy of the
>> same kernal image. Tried copying the vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 to the hard disk and
>> setting up lilo to boot from the new copy. Changes the error I get, but
>> still fails while trying to uncompress the kernel.
>>
>> I stumped. For now the system is usable as long as I keep the rescue disk
>> in the floppy drive. But it is annoying and I would sure like to figure out
>> what is going wrong with the hard drive boot. Anything else I can try???
>
> Are you sure your hard disk doesn't have a low-level error in the /boot
> area? You might want to error check the disk from your BIOS if the BIOS
> supports it.
I did think of that, but I think I can rule that one out.
Formatting the partition under linux and Partition Magic found no disk
errors.
Copying the kernal image from the floppy to a different filename in
/boot directory, persumably to a different disk location, and having LILO
boot from that didn't help.
Erassing the disk and building a new ex2fs partition 5 Meg higher the the
previous attempt didn't help either.
Any other ideas???
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From: "jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System Commander 2000 vs. Partition Magic
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 22:01:08 -0700
Partition Magic is a partition management tool, not a multi boot loader. To
dual boot, you COULD use System Commander, but Win2K will dual boot just
fine as it is. Check out...
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html (It says NT, but
Win2K worked the same way for me.)
-jeff
"TBrown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I would like to dual boot between W2k and Linux. Does anyone know which
> would be better, SC2k or Partition Magic?
>
> Tony
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can't login after crash, removed passwd 4 root same result
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 05:02:01 GMT
Hello to Gurus or want to be Gurus,
I tried to download a years worth of mail and I somehow ended up
crashing my mandrake 7 linux system. When I rebooted and tried to login
I couldn't. I got my X window (kde) login prompt but it refused to let
me in as root or any other user. I alt-ctrl-F4 to a virtual consol and
got the same result.
I logged in as single user linux (init=/bin/sh at lilo promptp) and
remounted my root partition as read/write. I fsck my disk and I edited
my /etc/passwd file so that there was no password for root. Same result
after trying to login.
My next step is to do something to the /etc/shadow or the
/mnt/etc/shadow but I don't know what to do to it. Appended are
entries from my /var/log/messages. Any pointers would be appreciated.
Regards,
Tim L
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localhost smb: smbd startup succeeded
Apr 19 02:36:04 localhost smb:
nmbd startup succeeded
Apr 19 02:36:05 localhost PAM_pwdb[609]: (su)
session opened for user news by (uid=9)
Apr 19 02:36:06 localhost
PAM_pwdb[609]: (su) session closed for user news
Apr 19 02:36:06
localhost linuxconf: Linuxconf final setup
Apr 19 02:36:07 localhost rc:
Starting linuxconf succeeded
Apr 19 02:36:07 localhost rc: Starting
local succeeded
Apr 19 02:36:08 localhost kdm[681]: Cannot open server
authorization file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/A:0-HqUpo8
Apr 19
02:36:25 localhost PAM_pwdb[676]: get passwd; pwdb: structure is no
longer valid
Apr 19 02:36:27 localhost login[676]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM
(null) FOR root, Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication
info.
Apr 19 02:36:31 localhost PAM_pwdb[676]: get passwd; pwdb:
structure is no longer valid
Apr 19 02:36:32 localhost login[676]:
FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM (null) FOR root, Authentication service cannot
retrieve authentication info.
Apr 19 02:36:36 localhost PAM_pwdb[676]:
get passwd; pwdb: structure is no longer valid
Apr 19 02:36:37 localhost
login[676]: FAILED LOGIN 3 FROM (null) FOR root, Authentication service
cannot retrieve authentication info.
Apr 19 02:36:39 localhost
PAM_pwdb[676]: get passwd; pwdb: structure is no longer valid
Apr 19
02:36:40 localhost login[676]: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM (null) FOR
root, Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.
Apr 19
02:36:45 localhost PAM_pwdb[690]: get passwd; pwdb: structure is no
longer valid
Apr 19 02:36:46 localhost login[690]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM
(null) FOR root, Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication
info.
Apr 19 02:37:22 localhost innd: actived -9 succeeded
Apr 19
02:37:22 localhost xfs: xfs shutdown succeeded
Apr 19 02:37:22 localhost
gpm: Shutting down gpm mouse services:
Apr 19 02:37:22 localhost gpm:
gpm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Siemel Naran)
Subject: auto logout in ssh
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 05:09:48 GMT
Hello.
How can I turn off or change the time of auto-logout in ssh1 and ssh2?
It seems to auto logout after 30 minutes of no activity.
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siemel naran
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