Linux-Misc Digest #290, Volume #25 Mon, 31 Jul 00 01:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux sees only 64 M of RAM ??? (Markus Kossmann)
Re: Windows geek has some linux questions, please advise (Carl Fink)
Re: Can I delete these RPMs on my HDD? (Andrew Purugganan)
RedHat 6.2 to Windows 98 (Steven Hardin)
Re: 2.4-test5 and pppd (Alastair Neil)
Re: Windows geek has some linux questions, please advise (Troutman)
Re: RedHat 6.2 to Windows 98 ("OzEmail News Server")
Re: Only root can run StarOffice 5.2 (Fung Wai Keung)
eth0:transmit timed/locked out, status 0021, resetting (Mat Kelcey)
Re: rpm only supports major number <=3 ("OzEmail News Server")
Re: Netscape Mail Problem (Boddhisatva Troutwaxer)
ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80 (Yumin Lee)
Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users. (Bill Unruh)
Re: rpm only supports major number <=3 (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: Netscape Mail Problem (Boddhisatva Troutwaxer)
ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80 (Yumin Lee)
Netatalk and Red Hat 6.2 (Stephen Gilbert)
Re: "at" command on't work in rc.local ("Micromans")
Netatalk and Red Hat 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux sees only 64 M of RAM ???
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 04:44:02 +0200
Stearns25 wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Is it true that Linux only recognizes 64M of Ram and some modifications to the
> lilo.conf file (involving adding a 'mem=' line or something to that nature)
> is needed to make Liniux sees beyond 64M?
>
> would someone pls point me to the doc on this matter?
>
Well, Linux depends on BIOS routines for memory recognition.
There are three variants of these in use :
int 15h, ah=088h is the old call, , which is available in all BIOSses,
but limited to 64M ( 16 bit return value) .
This is also used as fallback , if the other calls doesn't seen to work.
int 15 ax=0e801h is used by Kernel-2.2 for recognition of more than 64M
But now more and more modern BIOSses tend to provide only int 15h,
ax=0e820h,
, which is used by Windows. This isn't supported by the 2.2 kernel ( 2.4
will support it) .
But you can allwaqys overide the value that is given by memory
recognition routines with the mem= kernel parameter.
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Windows geek has some linux questions, please advise
Date: 31 Jul 2000 02:42:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 30 Jul 2000 21:09:21 -0500 Troutman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Not support - they have Linux running on a palm pilot.
Both. There's also support for syncing with Pilots (running PalmOS).
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum
<http://dm.net>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: Can I delete these RPMs on my HDD?
Date: 31 Jul 2000 03:20:44 GMT
kc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[ In article <8m1e56$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew
[ Purugganan) wrote:
<snip>
[ If you mean, for example, deleting xyz-1.2-3.i386.rpm after you have
[ installed/upgraded it, then yes, you can delete it.
[ Installed package information is kept in separate files maintained by
[ rpm itself [ (IIRC, /var/lib/rpm is where they are kept)
Thanks guys! No i wasn't going to touch /var/lib/rpm, I made it a habit
of keeping d/loaded RPMs in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/ix86, and that was building
up quite a bit
--
jazz
Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
--- OUT THERE??
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From: Steven Hardin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 6.2 to Windows 98
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 03:30:04 GMT
I have RedHat Linux 6.2 on my comp. and I want to go back to Windows 98,
but I am having some trouble figuring it out. If anyone knows how to do
this help me out please. Thanks in advance.
--
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http://www.help.com/
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 03:32:01 +0000
From: Alastair Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4-test5 and pppd
Robert Schweikert wrote:
>
> I just bought and installed a Tekram DC-390U3W scsi adapter and Quantum
> scsi drive. Support for this card is in the new (2.4) kernel. I built
> the new kernel but am having pppd problems. I have pppd set-up to dial
> on demand and when I try to connect to my ISP I get the following in the
> message file:
>
> pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
> Using interface ppp0
> local IP address 192.168.1.1
> remote IP address 10.112.112.112
> Bad file descriptor(9)
> Exit.
>
> The set up works with the 2.2.16-3smp kernel.
>
> Can any one tell me what's going on here. I would really like to
> transfer my system to my new SCSI drive.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
> --
> Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX
If you read the CHANGES file on kernelnote.org you will find it
recommends upgrading to pppd ver 2.4.0b1. I certainly have had
no trouble.
--
Those who are mentally and emotionally healthy are those who have
learned when to say yes, when to say no and when to say whoopee. -- W.S.
Krabill
Alastair Neil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Troutman)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Windows geek has some linux questions, please advise
Date: 30 Jul 2000 23:37:02 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink) graced us with the following:
>>Not support - they have Linux running on a palm pilot.
>
>Both. There's also support for syncing with Pilots (running PalmOS).
Not what I meant. Not "just" support would have worded it better ;-)
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______________________________
Mike Troutman
http://www.troutman.org/
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From: "OzEmail News Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.2 to Windows 98
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:31:42 +1000
Errr, repartition your hard drive, format and install windows.
You DO have a DOS boot disk with CDROM drivers?!? If not e-mail me and I
can send you a 1.44 Mb disk image that boots Win95 DOS mode with a generic
CDROM driver and has fdisk etc......
Cheers,
James
E-mail: james_gray "at" modusmedia "dot" com
Steven Hardin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have RedHat Linux 6.2 on my comp. and I want to go back to Windows 98,
> but I am having some trouble figuring it out. If anyone knows how to do
> this help me out please. Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: Fung Wai Keung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Only root can run StarOffice 5.2
Date: 31 Jul 2000 04:20:02 GMT
J Bland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Run the file how you did to do your initial install but add: -net to the
: end.
: This makes star office install itself so that other users on the same
: machine or on other networks can then install a minimum install locally
: while using the rest from the -net isstall.
I can have a local install with the root account, but I can't have local
install with any user. What have I missed?
--
Regards,
Wai Keung, Fung
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, N.T.,
Hong Kong.
Tel: (852)26098056 Fax: (852)26036002
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From: Mat Kelcey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: eth0:transmit timed/locked out, status 0021, resetting
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 04:18:25 GMT
hi,
ive got two boxes on a home lan, a redhat 2.2.16 linux server on all the
time and a win2k/95 machine which is only on when i'm using it, which is
becoming less and less :)
maybe once a day, in lots of 3 at a time i get the message...
eth0:transmit timed/locked out, status 0021, resetting
written to whatever terminal is active at the time with nothing being
mentioned in the syslog at the time.
it's not really causing a problem, it's just annoying, any ideas?
cheers,
mat
ps. the nics in the box is very old, maybe it's just reaching the end of
it's life....
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From: "OzEmail News Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm only supports major number <=3
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:37:24 +1000
I got this error a little while ago doing exactly the same thing on a RH6.1
box. I thought the error was in reference to version of RPM, not sendmail.
I have since done a rom -Uvh rpm.latest.i686.rpm (I build my own from the
src.rpm). Then tried sendmail again - voila! Try http://rufus.w3.org for
the latest RPM's et al.
Of course, if this is a different error.......can't help :-(
Cheers,
James
Random Chaos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I usually consider myself a well versed linux user/system admin.
> Unfortunately i got a little gung-ho a while back and may have trashed my
> system when i upgraded libstdc++. My problem isn't that my system is hung
> or not functional. In fact the system is working great. With one MAJOR
> exception. when i tried recently to upgrade to the latest 8.11 sendmail, i
> got a strange error. "this version of rpm only supports packages with
major
> numbers <=3". I am running RedHat 6.1 on a intel platform. I have tried
> reinstalling rpm, upgrading rpm, anything i can think of. but nothing
seems
> to work. I even tried last night rolling back to the previous version of
> libstdc++ that came with 6.1. Still it doesn't work.
>
> If someone has run into this problem before and could shed some light on
> the subject, please let me know. Otherwise i will be forced to reinstall.
>
> Thanx in advance for any help.
>
> R.C.
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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Subject: Re: Netscape Mail Problem
From: Boddhisatva Troutwaxer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 21:28:02 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin) wrote:
>Kppp has got jack to do with mail;
>you say you can surf, so PPP and DNS are cool.
>The connection is OK; leave it alone.
>
>>> Any suggestions?
>
>Why don't you try this:
><replace mailserver and login details as appropriate>
>================================
>1.
>telnet mailserver.domain.com 110
>
>You'll get something like:
>"Mail server so-and-so: date , versino , blurb..."
>
>2.
>user myusername
>pass mypassword
>list
>================================
>
>See if you get a list of mails in your POP box.
I tried that and did get a list of mails at Pac Bell. I am
therefore assuming that Netscape, or some other part of my system
is at fault. Before I remove Netscape, do you know of any place
else on my system where information about my connection to Pac
Bell, such as DNS numbers and/or name/password information should
exist?
Thanks for your help.
T.
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From: Yumin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:34:02 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a desktop Pentium III running
Redhat 6.2. Recently the machine hangs
after idling for 5 or 6 hours, with the
following error messages that repeat
ad infinitum:
ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=xxxx
ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
hda:status timeout, status=0x80 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 2097184
hda: drive not ready for command
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_write_inode: untable to read
inode block
- inode=123913, block=262148
hda: status timeout, status=0x80 { Busy }
hda: drive not ready for command
I have a Seagate ST38410A (UDMA 66, 8623 MB)
HD. Also, I tried disabling the power
management functions in the bios, but that
didn't help the problem.
Any ideas? Any help will be greatly appreciated ...
Yumin Lee
My e-mail is yuminlee -at- cc -dot- ee -dot- ntu -dot- edu -dot- tw
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users.
Date: 31 Jul 2000 04:35:20 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Andrew N. McGuire "
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]Greetings,
] I thought that I would share this little piece of news with you
]all, as I could not believe it myself. I am a Slackware user, and
]recently decided to try Mandrake 7.1. I have noticed some bugs
]but this one is just too much:
][anm@hawk ~] file /etc/passwd
]/etc/passwd: ASCII test
Dear oh dear. Mandrake must definitely be on its last legs. First they list
their man version (man -v) as 1.5f when it is really 1.5g, and now they have a
misprint, putting in "test" rather than "text". Definitely a complete
disaster-- the whole operating system no longer works-- noone can do
anything, no program runs. The Horror, The Horror.
And oh dear, it is worse than that. That Mandrake did not write "file"
and uses the same source as does Slackware is irrelevant. Mandrake has managed to
infect
Ian Darwin, the author of "file", so that the version 3.30 (the one
included in Mandrake) on the file page ftp.astron.com/pub/file also contains
the same error. I can see it now. Soon even Slackware will be infected,
and the world will end.
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Subject: Re: rpm only supports major number <=3
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 04:39:27 GMT
Random Chaos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I usually consider myself a well versed linux user/system admin.
> Unfortunately i got a little gung-ho a while back and may have trashed my
> system when i upgraded libstdc++. My problem isn't that my system is hung
> or not functional. In fact the system is working great. With one MAJOR
> exception. when i tried recently to upgrade to the latest 8.11 sendmail, i
> got a strange error. "this version of rpm only supports packages with major
> numbers <=3". I am running RedHat 6.1 on a intel platform. I have tried
> reinstalling rpm, upgrading rpm, anything i can think of. but nothing seems
> to work. I even tried last night rolling back to the previous version of
> libstdc++ that came with 6.1. Still it doesn't work.
>
> If someone has run into this problem before and could shed some light on
> the subject, please let me know. Otherwise i will be forced to reinstall.
>
> Thanx in advance for any help.
<snip>
Red Hat is making a transition to RPM 4.0 very soon so some of the
packages out there were built to this new format which is not backward
compatible unless you get the latest and greatest RPM 3.0.5 which add
in the compatibility. So either use the proper sendmail RPM, update to
RPM 3.0.5 or recompile sendmail manually.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Netscape Mail Problem
From: Boddhisatva Troutwaxer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 21:36:20 -0700
Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>log as root
>
>rpm -e -vv plugger
>rpm -e -vv netscape
>rm -R -f ~/.netscape
>rm -R -f /home/___your_user___/.netscape
>
>
>reinstall both plugger
>and netscape
I do not have plugger on my system or on the free CD that my
Mandrake Linux came on. What is plugger, where can I get it, and
why do I need it?
>Don't forget to enter the mail. Make sure you have dns numbers
in /etc/resolv
I don't have an /etc/resolv. I do have an /etc/resolv.conf, which
I presume to be the same file under a slightly different name.
The only information it contains is a line with my system's name
in it. How should the DNS be specified in this file? Does the
file need any other information, such as my login or password, or
the name of my mail server at Pac Bell?
Also, I don't know what you mean by "Don't forget to enter the
mail."
Thanks in advance for you hwlp.
T.
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From: Yumin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:40:50 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a desktop Pentium III running
Redhat 6.2. Recently the machine hangs
after idling for 5 or 6 hours, with the
following error messages that repeat
ad infinitum:
ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=xxxx
ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
hda:status timeout, status=0x80 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 2097184
hda: drive not ready for command
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_write_inode: untable to read
inode block
- inode=123913, block=262148
hda: status timeout, status=0x80 { Busy }
hda: drive not ready for command
I have a Seagate ST38410A (UDMA 66, 8623 MB)
HD. Also, I tried disabling the power
management functions in the bios, but that
didn't help the problem.
Any ideas? Any help will be greatly appreciated ...
Yumin Lee
My e-mail is yuminlee -at- cc -dot- ee -dot- ntu -dot- edu -dot- tw
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From: Stephen Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netatalk and Red Hat 6.2
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 03:32:54 GMT
Has anyone gotten Netatalk to work with Red Hat 6.2? It's not part of
the distrib, and I have been unable to get any version of the source
code to compile under 6.2. I found a binary tarball at
contribs.redhat.com, but it gives errors trying to start up atalkd. It
says...
socket: Invalid argument
socket: Invalid argument
atalkd: can't get interfaces, exiting.
Any ideas anyone?
- Steve
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From: "Micromans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "at" command on't work in rc.local
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 21:53:56 -0700
The 'sleep' command works excellent!!! Far superior to 'at'. Thanks very
much.
However, I am still curious to know why the 'at' command, when run from
rc.local, will launch a job for a future time, and when that time arrives
the job just sits there (forever) and does nothing!
Micromans
"brian moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:22:28 -0700,
> Micromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have RedHat 6.0. I have a command that starts a program, and the
command
> > is in a file as follows:
> >
> > /usr/local/squid/bin/squid &
> >
> > The above line (stored in a file called squidbatchstart) can be
successfully
> > run with the "at" command from the command prompt as follows:
> >
> > at now + 1 minute < /usr/local/squid/bin/squidbatchstart
> >
> > I can use "atq" to show the job in the batch queue, and it runs
successfully
> > after exactly one minute. However, when I put this same sequence into
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.local it doesn't work properly. It gets into the batch
queue
> > alright, but sits there foreever, even past the scheduled time of
execution.
> > Here is the line I put into rc.local:
> >
> > at now + 1 minute < /usr/local/squid/bin/squidbatchstart &
> >
> >
> > Why does the "at" command not work properly when executed from rc.local,
but
> > works just find when executed from the command prompt???
>
> ( sleep 60 ; /usr/local/squid/bin/squidbatchstart ) &
>
> --
> Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
> Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be
waiting
> Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
> Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: Stephen Gilbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Subject: Netatalk and Red Hat 6.2
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 03:47:33 GMT
Has anyone managed to get netatalk to work under Red Hat 6.2? I found
and installed many tarballs and rpms with the source, but could never
get any of them to compile. Then, I finally found a binary
distribution on contribs.redhat.com, but it gives errors whenever
atalkd starts.
# /usr/sbin/atalkd
socket: Invalid argument
socket: Invalid argument
atalkd: can't get interfaces, exiting.
I know my NIC is fine, I'm using it right now to send this message.
Any ideas anyone?
- Steve
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