Linux-Misc Digest #919, Volume #25 Mon, 2 Oct 00 06:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Linux Weekend! October 7th and 8th (William Kendrick)
Re: Your RedHat 7.0 impressions? (David M. Cook)
Re: DAMNIT!! After install of LM 7.2b3, LINUX WON'T BOOT!!! (Eric)
Re: Background job messages after logout/in? (Andrew)
Re: sony vaio F580 Notebook unable to install (Brian)
Booting: --- Invalid Compressed Format ---, ah? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
port LISTENing on strange address ("Alexander K")
Mandrake is a Piece Of Shit!! (Brando)
Re: DISPLAY env variable problem (Andreas K�h�ri)
Re: Mandrake is a Piece Of Shit!! ("J.Smith")
lilo conf for dual boot linux box ("hans eric")
Asus P2B-DS, ok???????????????????????????????????? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Error mouting Floopy (Eric)
Re: rpm confusion (Uncle Meat)
Re: printing problem - ghostscript problem? (Uncle Meat)
Mustek Scanner with Future DOmain SCSI card (Christoph Kukulies)
Re: Does Anyone know How to DO this? ("Jack")
Re: Does Anyone know How to DO this? ("Jack")
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From: William Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Weekend! October 7th and 8th
Crossposted-To:
ucd.cs.club,sac.announce,ucd.general,sacramento.internet,sac.general,sac.internet,ucd.life
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 06:14:25 GMT
LUGOD, The Linux Users' Group of Davis, will be demonstrating
the Linux operating system on Saturday, October 7th at
the Co-Op:
Davis Food Co-Op
620 G Street
Davis, CA
Drop by to learn more about Linux, ask questions, and get free stuff!
The following day, LUGOD and the UC Davis Computer Science Club will be
hosting an Installfest. It will be held from 10am until 6pm:
Engineering Unit II
Room 1131
UC Davis Campus
Davis, CA
An "Installfest" is where you bring your personal computer to us
and we help you install and configure Linux!
The Installfest is being co-sponsored by Taos: The Sysadmin Company
of Santa Clara, CA. There will be FREE PIZZA!
Please RSVP for the Installfest by e-mailing: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LUGOD is a non-profit organization dedicated to the
Linux Operating System which meets twice a month in Davis, CA.
Please visit our website for details:
http://www.lugod.org/
For details on Installfests, see:
http://www.lugod.org/projects/installfests.shtml
-bill!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.lugod.org/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Subject: Re: Your RedHat 7.0 impressions?
Date: 2 Oct 2000 06:41:58 GMT
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 22:48:21 -0600, Michael Pike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>It's 8 gigs in size..... I figure.. no problem! Well, much to my dismay,
>ext2 only can handle 2 gig file sizes on 32 bit architecture..
Red Hat has offered an Enterprise edition with large file support for some
time:
http://www.redhat.com/products/software/linux/eeoracle/
The "enterprise" kernel that comes with this product has been available for
free download for some time. See
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/enterprise/RHSA-2.2.16-4.lfs.html
The enterprise kernel comes standard with RH 7 (though not installed by
default; it's on the first CD).
BTW, 50 Pro boxes is not a good value. IMO a much better value would be a
single box set and some annual per-server support contracts:
http://www.redhat.com/products/support/enterprise/annual/
Dave Cook
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: DAMNIT!! After install of LM 7.2b3, LINUX WON'T BOOT!!!
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 08:57:27 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brando wrote:
>
> I am installing Linux Mandrake 7.2 beta 3 using lnx4win. The install went
>wonderfully.
> Very nice. There were only a few packages that caused an error during the install,
>but I
> continued to finish the install. Now, after everything was done, it came time to
>reboot.
> The GRUB loader comes up with
>
> linux
> failsafe
> windows
> floppy
>
> I choose linux and I get this error and the laptop freezes:
>
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c4000000
> current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
> #pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c01f5acd>]
> EFLAGS: 00010213
> eax: 00000000 ebx: c3f7de36 ecx: fff7de35 edx: ffffffff
> esi: 00000015 edi: c4000000 ebp: 00000001 esp: c3673dec
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Process swapper (pid: 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=c3673000)
> Stack: c02b7ce0 00000001 c37ef200 00000008 00000655 00000086 00000655 000003f6
> c3f7de00 c01a65ea c3f7de36 c020ffe0 c3f7de00 c01a65dc c3f7de14
>00000014
> 00000001 00000246 000000ec c02b7d40 c02b7ce0 c02b7ca0 0000005a 00000246
> Call Trace: [<c02a65ea>] ... (19 more similar to this one)
> Code: f2 ae f7 d1 49 89 cd 39 f5 7c 35 4d 89 74 24 1c b0 00 89 da
>
> What the hell happened??? I'm so frustated right now. I went and tried the failsafe
>and
> even tried to boot to linux from within Windows, but its the same result.
>
> PLEASE, I BEG OF Y'ALL. Can anyone help me get this thing booted??
>
> Brandon
Well you got your first kernel oops, cannot tell you what caused it
though. All you can really do is reinstall, and if that fails too, I'd
go for distributor support and ask them what is wrong. (appearantly the
failed packages, wheren't that harmless)
Eric
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From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Background job messages after logout/in?
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 07:12:57 GMT
Thanks!
this is great, I used screen before but this is much "lighter" thing :)
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Wolfgang Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
> >
> > Anyone knowing how to see messages of a background job (started with
&
> > or bg) after I logged out and logged in back?
> >
>
> Start the job with
> nohup job &
> The output will be logged in the file nohup.out.
> see man nohup
>
> > Regards,
> > A.
> > --
> > ___________________________________
> > Have a nice day there!
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
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From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: sony vaio F580 Notebook unable to install
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 07:17:26 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
One other thing to look out for. I'm running it on F-560 and had
everything working great. I'm using framebuffer mode, figured I'd play
around with it. Now lilo boots my win 98 in what looks like a
framebuffer mode. I know it not. But my screen is now only displaying in
640X480 when booting lilo when I go to linux no problems but win98 is
another creature. I can't get the thing out of 640X480 and it only in
the center of my display.
Even changing the lilo boot paramater now does no good.
if anyone else has suggestions please post.
Brian
Ming Kee =?big5?B?qfqwTw==?= in Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have similar problem when installing RH 6.1/CLE 0.9-2
> choose text mode, type "text" on welcome screen
>
> visor-palm John wrote:
>
> > Sony VAIO PCG-F580: Pentium III 650Mhz, 256Mb RAM, 6Mb video
memory, 12 G
> > hard-drive
> > Display Adapter: NeoMagic MagicMedia256XL+ (v016)
> > Display: 15" XGA TFT
> >
> > RedHat 6.1 CD's
> >
> > The machine has Win98 on 2 partitions and there are 3 GB left to
install
> > Linux.
> >
> > However, when I boot to the CD (or floppy) I first get the entry
screen
> > which asks what type of install I want to do...Install RedHat Linux
(this is
> > the DOS-ish text window with the "boot:" prompt).
> > Then I press <enter> to do an install...the system goes through its
image
> > loading (vmlinux...) and then it says something like "unrecognized
> > card"...and it croaks...to the point where it says, system is safe
to
> > reboot.
> >
> > Here is the output (that can be viewed)
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > No valid modes found.
> >
> > When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the
full
> > server output, not jst the last messages
> >
> > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> > File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 144, in ?
> > from gui import InstallInterface
> > File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gui.py", line 9, in ?
> > from gtk import *
> > File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 29, in ?
> > _gtk.gtk.init()
> > RuntimeError: cannot open display
> > install exited abnormally
> > sending termination signals...done
> > sending kill signals...done
> > unmounting filesystems...
> > /mnt/source
> > /dev/pts
> > /proc
> > you may safely reboot your system
> >
> > I have taken all network cards out of the system and it still does
not allow
> > me to continue with the installation.
> > I have already checked out the stuff on
> > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ and
> > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~and1000/vaioF-series.html but it did not
help.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Booting: --- Invalid Compressed Format ---, ah?
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 07:26:08 GMT
Hi,
I am currently trying to make a bootable CD but I
end up with a problem after the kernel is
loaded... --- Invalid Compress Format ---??
The kernel image is 'dd' from a bootable floppy
disk. And I use mkisofs with -b, -c and -data to
create the CD. The CD boots ok. it prints out to
the screen like:
Loading ...........
Uncompress Linux...
invalid compressed format (err=1)
-- System halted
The floppy image is fine and I can boot the kernel
and get uncompress right if I used the floppy. But
I can't get it work with CD. Can anyone help?
Thanks..
Wilson
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From: "Alexander K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: port LISTENing on strange address
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:58:16 +0200
hello!
i am making a prog in python. it is supposed to open a socket on
port 1234 and listen for connections. it seems to work. but
doesnt (it doesnt answer when i try connecting from other
scripts).
when i do a netstat i get this:
[alex /home/alex/python]# netstat -a | grep 1234
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.1:1234 *:* LISTEN
what does that mean? i am referring to the local address
(0.0.0.1:).
other services are listed with *:port so this sure seems broken.
and funny thing is, until 2 days ago it worked fine. i am not
completely sure, but i think that that script opened a socket
that listened on *:port
so what could have happened?
i am on a slackware7.1 (added 2.2.16) and python 1.52 (just
installed 1.6 though).
i tried reinstalling python, but it didnt help.
i got 1.6 this time. now it complains it cant import 'thread'.
but it finds 'socket' just fine.
tia / alex k
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From: Brando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Mandrake is a Piece Of Shit!!
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 08:02:10 GMT
What a crappy distribution. No matter what I do, the installation fucks up somehow. No
matter how many times I try to install LM 7.1 using lnx4win (Linux for Windows), there
is
always atleast one or two packages (and always a different package) that causes an
error
during installation. There's errors in perl scripts, like for detecting pcmcia cards.
Can't even use expert mode because there's errors in perl scripts when trying to format
the partition.
Now, this time I get an error during bootup that it can't find the image file for
initrd!! WTF!! What, did LM just forget to create one during the installation? What
image
file is it looking for? linuxsys.img perhaps?
So, if anyone possibly knows what it means when it can't find the image file for
initrd,
please let me know a way to fix it.
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Subject: Re: DISPLAY env variable problem
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2 Oct 2000 10:19:11 +0100
In article <8r9694$tfq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Trying to install Oracle 8i. I'm typing the following & receiving the
>following error:
>
>DISPLAY=192.168.0.5
>export DISPLAY
>xhost + 192.168.0.5
>Xlib: connection to "192.168.0.5:0.0" refused by server
>Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
>xhost: unable to open display "192.168.0.5:0.0"
>
>I'm running this from within Xwindows on the linux box itself.
...but not as the user that started X. Am I right? Try giving the
command "xhost + localhost" as the user who started X, then try your
stuff again.
/A
--
Andreas K�h�ri,
Uppsala University, Sweden.
===================================={ GNU it yourself: www.gnu.org }====
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From: "J.Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Mandrake is a Piece Of Shit!!
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:28:29 +0100
Let me correct that title. That should read 'lnx4win is a piece of shit'.
And that goes for every distribution you try to use lnx4win with. Just do a
standard installation where you either boot from the CD-rom, or boot from
boot disks and it will all be ok again.
"Brando" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> What a crappy distribution. No matter what I do, the installation fucks up
somehow. No
> matter how many times I try to install LM 7.1 using lnx4win (Linux for
Windows), there is
> always atleast one or two packages (and always a different package) that
causes an error
> during installation. There's errors in perl scripts, like for detecting
pcmcia cards.
> Can't even use expert mode because there's errors in perl scripts when
trying to format
> the partition.
>
> Now, this time I get an error during bootup that it can't find the image
file for
> initrd!! WTF!! What, did LM just forget to create one during the
installation? What image
> file is it looking for? linuxsys.img perhaps?
>
> So, if anyone possibly knows what it means when it can't find the image
file for initrd,
> please let me know a way to fix it.
>
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From: "hans eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lilo conf for dual boot linux box
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:23:00 +0100
Hello!
I have a dual boot linux machine. Don't ask why.
The partition hda2 (approx. 5MB) is mounted as /boot for one Linux-OS. As
you can imagine the kernel is located there.
hda6 is " / ".
Now I added a second Linux on hda3.
In the LILO howto i read, that I have to copy the kernel of the "second OS"
to " /boot " (on hda2) as well. I did that.
Currently I boot the second linux as follows:
LILO: kernel2 root=/dev/hda3
My question is:
How can I boot without writing this every time?
Thanxx hans eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Asus P2B-DS, ok????????????????????????????????????
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 08:33:28 GMT
Hi there,
I'm planning to use an Asus P2B-DS in a web-server because of the
onboard SCSI. Can anyone tell me if this is a good and stable board?
..and is the onboard SCSI (U2W) based on Adaptec AIC-7890 fully
supported by Linux? (...i'm thinking of using RH7.0)
Thanks in advance,
Kees.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error mouting Floopy
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 10:41:39 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yuri wrote:
>
> David Efflandt wrote:>>> On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 22:30:04 -0000, Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:> >Hey, I use Red Hat 6.2, Kernel 2.2.15. When trying to mount my floppy I get>
>>a error saying "Error mounting floppy major or minor bad numbers". I was> >thinking
>of recompiling the kernel, but I wanted a few suggestions first.> >So can you please
>instead e-mail the answer if you know.>> What command did you use? For example to
>mount a DOS/Win floppy (assuming> that you have an existing /mnt/floppy dir) would
>be:>> mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy>> --> David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.de-srv.com/> http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/
>http://www.berniesfloral.net/> http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
>http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/>Yeah I did that, but the termimal responds by saying
>/mnt/floppy has badmajor or minor numbers.
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
My god what a mess you made of this posting! I can hardly read it!
Could you please list the result of `ls -l /dev/fd0`
It should list
brw-rw-rw- 1 user floppy 2, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/fd0
^^^ ^^^
major minor
Check for the right major/minor numbers, if these are wrong, run MAKEDEV
fd0
as root (and are in /dev)
And post the EXACT error message you get. (/mnt/floppy doesn't even have
a major and minor number!)
Eric
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From: Uncle Meat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm confusion
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 18:49:44 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carsten Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi out there,
>
> I think I confused rpm.
>
> 1) I try to install MySQL:
> 'rpm -ihv mysql-3.22.32-36.i386.rpm'
> I get: 'package mysql-3.22.32-36 is already installed'
>
> 2) I try to query MySQL:
> 'rpm -q -i MySQL'
> I get: 'package MySQL is not installed'
>
> 3) I try to update MySQL:
> 'rpm -Uhv --force mysql-3.22.32-36.i386.rpm'
> Everything seems to be ok, but
>
> 4) I try to query MySQL:
> 'rpm -q -i MySQL'
> I get: 'package MySQL is not installed'
>
> Is there anybody out with an idea ??
If what you show here is what you're actually doing, you'll
never get a correct answer.
In unix and linux and lots of other "ixes" upper- and lower-
case are two entirely different things. Try:
rpm -q mysql
and see what it says. Upper-case names won't show unless
that was the way the original package was named.
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From: Uncle Meat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printing problem - ghostscript problem?
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 18:55:48 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexis Bilodeau
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have trouble configuring my printing system on a Mandrake 7.1 system. I tried
>using CUPS, LPR
>
> and even PDQ (all of them with ljet4 driver), but neither of them would solve the
>problem :
>
> When I try to print on an Optra E+ B&W Laser printer from any program that output
>Postscript (
>
> as StarOffice, Sketch, etc.) the text is misaligned on the page (eg. too much space
>on the top
>
> of the page and on the left).
>
> When I print raw text or pdf files, everything's ok...
>
> What could it be?
>
> Which conf. file should I fiddle with to correct it?
On RH its /var/spool/lpd/lp/postscript.cfg where the
various margin options are at the bottom. If you have
printtool installed (try running it from the command
line) it has a place somewhere in the config section to
set margins (memory failing me at the moment on
which part).
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From: Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mustek Scanner with Future DOmain SCSI card
Date: 2 Oct 2000 09:35:13 GMT
I would like to install scanner software under RH 6.1.
Scanner is a Mustek with a separate (believe it's a Future Domain SCSI)
card.
Should I go 'SANE'?
--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Anyone know How to DO this?
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:29:54 +0100
Many thanks Andre. I had to use
vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5, rw
in order to be able to write to the /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf files.
Now its all done (95%), with a small problem outstanding.
I have an LS-120 drive and I tried creating a bootdisk using
mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.2.x-yy
but it hangs without any floppy disk activity.
Since my floppy/LS-120 is /dev/hdc, I tried
mkbootdisk --device /dev/hdc 2.2.x-yy
This creates the boot disk with all the needed files on the floppy.
However it doesn't boot. If I change the boot line in the lilo.conf
on the floppy from /dev/hdc to /dev/fd0 it boots partially ie LI
Any Ideas? Many thanks in advance.
>
> - since you have NT you can get a copy of explore2fs
> and see if it can see the partition.
> - if you take the installer disk/CD and when you get
> into the option screen type:
> vmlinuz root=/dev/hda?
> where ? is the partition id - it has been a while
> since I have used this, but I believe that is the
> right line.
>
> Andre
>
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From: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Anyone know How to DO this?
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:34:41 +0100
You're right, that's where I was going wrong. However I tried another method
suggested by someone on this NG, i.e. at the boot prompt (from CD), type
vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5, rw (the rw option is what I added to write to
/etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf files)
One I have another problem.
I have an LS-120 drive and I tried creating a bootdisk using
mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.2.x-yy
but it hangs without any floppy disk activity.
Since my floppy/LS-120 is /dev/hdc, I tried
mkbootdisk --device /dev/hdc 2.2.x-yy
This creates the boot disk with all the needed files on the floppy.
However it doesn't boot. If I change the boot line in the lilo.conf
on the floppy from /dev/hdc to /dev/fd0 it boots partially ie LI
Any Ideas? Many thanks in advance.
>
> I doubt that the mount -t ext2 /dev/hda5 / command worked. This would
have
> mounted /dev/hda5 over the existing / filesystem. Try mounting /dev/hda5
on
> /mnt and looking at /mnt/etc/fstab
>
> Kent
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