Linux-Misc Digest #569, Volume #26 Sun, 17 Dec 00 23:13:01 EST
Contents:
/home settings in fstab ("Evan Panagiotopoulos")
Re: KDE Konsole (John Hasler)
Re: Need help with cdrecord error (Matt Garman)
Re: SuSE 6.4 on a Toshiba Portege 7020 CT (Vincent Phan)
Re: Can you install Corel 2 over Mandrake 7.2 ? ("Dan")
Re: /home settings in fstab (Dances With Crows)
Re: sharing file system between win98 and Linux (Dances With Crows)
Re: /home settings in fstab ("Me")
Mouse scrolls slow in X (vedanta barooah)
PEANUT ON CD... (Jerry McBride)
Re: X slow, graphics problem? (Dances With Crows)
Microsoft Shares Tumble. Is LINUX to blame? (JoeB)
Re: How to check free disk space (Bill Unruh)
Re: /home settings in fstab (Floyd Davidson)
Re: Partition question (David)
Question about KDE2 (David Liana)
Re: /home settings in fstab (Floyd Davidson)
Re: RealPlayer 7 can't open audio device (Eric West)
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From: "Evan Panagiotopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /home settings in fstab
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 19:33:29 -0500
While trying to set user quota I damaged the fstab file. The numbers in the
end of the line what do they mean?
The /home line looks like this:
/dev/hdd1 /home ext2 defaults 1 1
^ ^
The /boot, /tmp and a few other partitions has 1 2.
Thanks,
--
Evan Panagiotopoulos
Technology, Library and Media Director
Poughkeepsie City School District
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE Konsole
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:01:34 GMT
Richard writes:
> I should have thought that by the time something gets to version 2.0 this
> sort of problem should have been ironed out.
This sort of thing is more the fault of the distribution than the upstream
maintainers.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Garman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Need help with cdrecord error
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:21:33 GMT
At what priority level are you burning? Re-nicing the cdrecord process
might help. I could not get consistently successful burns on my drive
until I started using it as root with a high priority.
As root, I always execute my cdrecord as in the following:
nice --adjustment=-19 cdrecord [cdrecord_params_here]
-19 is the highest priority a process can have in Linux (for maximum
confusion, high priority numbers correspond to low priority and low
priority numbers correspond to high priority).
How does this drive do at reading CDs? If it has trouble reading, it
could be a bad drive, or a cabling problem. SCSI can be pretty sensitive
about cables, proper termination, etc.
What type of CD-R media are you using? It is possible that you got a bad
batch of CD-R, or if you bought the el-cheapos then the media could be the
source of your problems.
MG
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:57:25 +0200, Alk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had such errors (retryable...) with Pinnacle 4x4 and upgrading firmware
> ( under Windoze ) was helpful and SCSI and CDR drive tuning instructions
> from www.ahead.de made writing more stable
>
> AG
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > hi
> > >
> > > i've recently been trying to write some music CD's using cdrecord and
> > > during the write process, the following error shows up and causes
> > > cdrecord to exit:
> > >
> > > Performing OPC...
> > > Starting new track at sector: 34387
> > > Track 03: 21 of 43 MB written (fifo 20%).cdrecord: Input/output
> > > error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
> > > CDB: 2A 00 00 00 AC 35 00 00 0D 00
> > > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> > > Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 0C 09 00 00
> > > Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
> > > Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0
> > > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> > >
> > > write track data: error after 22809696 bytes
> > > Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > > Writing time: 76.453s
> > >
> > > I'd like to know if this error is due to a problem with my drive, or
> > > whether it's just a bad CD-R.
> > > Also, i'd appreciate it if someone could tell me where i can find more
> > > information about these kinds of errors (so i hopefully wont have to
> > > bother u nice folks again in the future :))
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > ali
> >
>
>
>
>
--
Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"I may make you feel, but I can't make you think."
-- Jethro Tull, "Thick as a Brick"
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From: Vincent Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,z-netz.alt.linux,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.4 on a Toshiba Portege 7020 CT
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:39:44 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Timo Volkmer wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> has anyone experiences installing and running SuSE-Linux 6.4 on Toshiba
> Portege 7020CT Laptop Computer?
>
> I'll appreciate any comments, THANKS!
>
> -Timo
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No SuSE, but Mandrake 7.2 is really impressed me, everything is up and
ruuning at the first installation. Dualboot Win2K/Mandrake 7.2 on
OmniBook 900B
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From: "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Can you install Corel 2 over Mandrake 7.2 ?
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:59:44 +1100
You most certainly need to remove your old distro before adding a new one,
otherwise you'll have all sorts of problems with multiple config files, etc.
I have to question moving from Mandrake to Corel. I'd be suggesting moving
the other way, especially since Corel just bailed out of Linux.
Dan
"Don Hinds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Bs9%5.1116$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've installed MAndrake 7.2 but so far cannot get it to work with my AMD
K6
> 3D processor (shares video RAM with the system).
>
> If Mandrake doesn't have an anwers, can I install Corel over Mandrake or
do I
> have to remove Mandrake first? (assuming Corel supports my CPU).
>
> thanks
> Don
>
>
>
>
> --
> Don Hinds
> http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/eritrea/117/
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: /home settings in fstab
Date: 18 Dec 2000 01:01:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 19:33:29 -0500, Evan Panagiotopoulos staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
>While trying to set user quota I damaged the fstab file. The numbers in
>the end of the line what do they mean? The /home line looks like this:
>
>/dev/hdd1 /home ext2 defaults 1 1
> ^ ^
>The /boot, /tmp and a few other partitions has 1 2.
First number is 1 if the partition is supposed to be checked for errors
on bootup, 0 if otherwise. ext2 partitions are almost always 1, while
FAT, UFS, HFS, and network filesystems are almost always 0. The second
number specifies the order of checking. If it's 1, the partition is
checked first, if it's 2, the partition is checked only after the
partition with 1 as the 2nd number is checked. Usually, / is "1 1"
while all other ext2 partitions are "1 2". HTH,
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: sharing file system between win98 and Linux
Date: 18 Dec 2000 01:01:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 17:20:27 -0500, matt staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>I have win98 and Linux installed on my machinge on one physical drive.
>win98 is installed on a fat32 partition. I need to find a way to get
>files from my win98 partition to my linux partition. I've successfully
>moved small files from win98 to linux using a floppy formatted FAT, but
>I need to move and copy larger files. What can I do to make part of my
>win98 partition visible to my linux installation. Thanks so much for
>any help.
Linux can read and write FAT16 and FAT32 filesystems without problems.
All you have to do is mount these filesystems somewhere, like so:
# mkdir /mnt/win
# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
Then all your Windoze files will be available under /mnt/win . (You
only have to do the "mkdir" once, ever.)
You may wish to add this line to your /etc/fstab file:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win umask=000 0 0
"man fstab" to find out what that does.
For going the other way, there's a program called "explore2fs.exe" that
allows you to read/write Linux filesystems from Win9x/NT. HTH,
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
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From: "Me" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /home settings in fstab
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:29:05 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Evan Panagiotopoulos"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While trying to set user quota I damaged the fstab file. The numbers in
> the end of the line what do they mean? The /home line looks like this:
>
> /dev/hdd1 /home ext2 defaults 1 1
> ^
>
> ^
> The /boot, /tmp and a few other partitions has 1 2.
>
>
> Thanks,
doing a "man fstab" will explain them.
5th field is used by dump (1 for "dumpability" else 0), and the 6th
determines which order the filesystems are checked at reboot(root should
be 1, all others 2, or 0 for no check--generally a bad idea).
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From: vedanta barooah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mouse scrolls slow in X
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:30:05 -0000
hi,
can any one help me to fix it ? thanx if someone does.
well, my machine is a PIII - 700Mhz and 128M of ram, it's got mandrake7.1
installed. everything is fine but, i am not able to scroll my documents
properly.... ie, scrolling is very slow.... i use gnome , and text
documents do not scroll propery, for eg gedit & netscape scrolling is very
slow. it doesnot help, even if i use the arrow key ? what should i do to
get it right. will a wheel mouse help.
thanx in advance.
:-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry McBride)
Subject: PEANUT ON CD...
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 02:00:29 GMT
Would someone be willing to burn me a copy of the latest PEANUT distro to cdr?
I'll happly pay for your trouble...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: X slow, graphics problem?
Date: 18 Dec 2000 02:35:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:30:05 -0000, vedanta barooah staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>can any one help me to fix it ? thanx if someone does.
>well, my machine is a PIII - 700Mhz and 128M of ram, it's got mandrake7.1
>installed. everything is fine but, i am not able to scroll my documents
>properly.... ie, scrolling is very slow.... i use gnome , and text
>documents do not scroll propery, for eg gedit & netscape scrolling is very
>slow. it doesnot help, even if i use the arrow key ? what should i do to
>get it right. will a wheel mouse help.
I don't think this is a mouse problem, but a problem with the X server
installed. The hardware is certainly capable of doing things quickly,
but if the graphics card is configured incorrectly, screen drawing might be
slow. Which graphics card do you have, and how did you configure it?
If you have an ATi card, you want the Mach64 server, not the SVGA one.
If you have the i810 wretched integrated video, then search
comp.os.linux.hardware for advice on how to deal. If you don't have any
swap space enabled (use "free" to see swap status) then make some and
enable it, as that will speed everything up even if you do have lots of
RAM.
Certain (cheap, brain-damaged) video cards will not work unless you put
the option "no_accel" into the XF86Config file. This turns off all
graphics acceleration features and makes the display run very slowly.
Or, if you're using the framebuffer X-server (not likely, but possible
if you have a framebuffer console and a wonky video card) things will
also be slow. Basically, there are a number of things that could be
going wrong and more information about the hardware, the software
configuration, and exactly what's going wrong would help a lot.
Enlightenment can tie up a lot of CPU time, especially if you have all
the bells and whistles turned on. Sawfish/Sawmill is lighter-weight,
and Blackbox lighter still.
If you meant "The mouse moves awfully slowly," then open the GNOME
control center, look for "mouse" and adjust the speed there. A wheel
mouse will not help at all.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
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From: JoeB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Microsoft Shares Tumble. Is LINUX to blame?
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 02:41:16 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Microsoft shares have tumbled after issuing a profits warning.
Is Linux to blame? Please let me hear your opinion.
Visit http://www.computercontractor.net to join in the discussion.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: How to check free disk space
Date: 18 Dec 2000 02:50:30 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Also, what's the deal with xxxx/yyyyyy files on fsck? Is there a limit to
>> how many files a system can hold, independent of the file sizes?
>?? yes, it's the max inode count. What did you think? That you can
>hold 2G 2byte files on a 4GB FS? No. You made the decision about how
>much space to reserve for the file pointers when you made the FS.
>If you now wish that you'd allocated more (because your file system
>contains many small files instead of few big ones), well, back up,
>reformat, and restore.
Running out of inodes is one of the more obscure errors. Mandrake 7.1
had a bug in which logrotate would create a new .gz file for every file
already in the /var/log/mail and /var/log/news directory. Ie, everytime
logrotate ran it would double the number of files in those directories.
It did not take long to run out of inodes, and the system then became
almost useless. df would report lots of disk space levft (most of those
created files were 0 bytes long). Mind you
df -i
will tell you what the inode situation is.
althole[unruh]>df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda5 195167 47139 137950 25% /
/dev/hda6 643927 466769 143896 76% /usr
/dev/hda1 603600 245472 358128 41% /mswin
althole[unruh]>df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree %IUsed Mounted on
/dev/hda5 50400 2963 47437 6% /
/dev/hda6 166624 30684 135940 18% /usr
/dev/hda1 0 0 0 0% /mswin
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /home settings in fstab
Date: 17 Dec 2000 16:52:26 -0900
"Evan Panagiotopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>While trying to set user quota I damaged the fstab file. The numbers in the
>end of the line what do they mean?
>The /home line looks like this:
>
>/dev/hdd1 /home ext2 defaults 1 1
> ^ ^
>The /boot, /tmp and a few other partitions has 1 2.
That is poorly explained in the man page for fstab, but you'll
want to read it.
The fifth field in fstab is either 0 or 1, with a 0 indicating
that fs should not be backed up. That would apply to swap,
cdrom's, floppies, /proc, and the like.
The sixth field indicates the order in which the fs should be
checked, and will 0, 1, or 2. A 0 indicates the fs should not
be checked. Otherwise, the root fs should be a 1 and all others
should be a 2. The same list that would be 0 in the fifth field
might all be 0 in the sixth field.
Also, if your system does not use dump(8) for backups, you might
set the fifth field to 0 for all filesystems.
Clearly the /home fs shown above should be "1 2" or "0 2", but
not "1 1".
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition question
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 21:12:20 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello...I am new to Linux and am trying to figure out which partitions
> are identified by which names. I have three hard drives and 10
> partitions and I can't keep them straight in Linux. Is there a command
> or program that will list all of the HD partitions that are available
> even if they are not mounted?
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
df -h
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From: David Liana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Question about KDE2
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:15:23 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just bought Red Hat 7.0 and would like to upgrade to KDE 2.0.1. I
downloaded all the files from their ftp server for it... Just have a
few questions:
1. It complains about dependencies.. how do i fix?
2. I force the install, and some of the menu icons are bigger than the
others. How do i fix it?
3. KDE is the default desktop on my system. How do i fix the login
screen because it looks messed up? (some of the graphics arent there)
Dave
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /home settings in fstab
Date: 17 Dec 2000 18:18:15 -0900
"Me" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>the 6th determines which order the filesystems are checked at
>reboot(root should be 1, all others 2, or 0 for no
>check--generally a bad idea).
I have one filesystem (root) set to 1, seven filesystems set
to 2, and _fifteen_ filesystems set to 0.
Generally it is a GOOD idea to set it to 0 for /proc, a CDROM
or a floppy, all swap partitions, and certainly any NFS
filesystems.
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eric West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RealPlayer 7 can't open audio device
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 03:49:51 GMT
In article <90mk1v$dpd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeff Lacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I realize this isnt a solution, but a workaround.
>
> I just wrote a script that I call as root:
>
> #!/bin/csh
>
> cd /dev
> chmod a+r audio mixer dsp
> chmod a+w audio mixer dsp
>
> Ill try the OSS thing the last guy said next time I get to my
> machine.
>
> Jeff
>
No. The chmod thing won't help. This is apparently an ESD problem. I too
was stymied by the "unable to open audio device" msg. The problem was
resolved by changing the Realplayer preference from using ESD drivers to
"Use native sound drivers" as per a previous poster suggested.
What I wonder is if it is possible to get whatever lock is held on which
ever audio device released w/o a system reboot. I did try to kill and
restart esd. This did not rectify the locked device issue. I was also
unable to determine if this locking is through fcntl() or via a lock
file.
Regards,
--Eric
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