Linux-Misc Digest #801, Volume #26 Sat, 13 Jan 01 19:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: FTP using DNS instead of me??? (David Efflandt)
Re: Softball newbie question(s) (John Hanson)
random restarts/reboots (Graham Vincent)
Question about Mandrake (7.2) (Joshua Beard)
Difference between XF86Config & XF86Config-4 ? (Arctic Storm)
Re: Difference between XF86Config & XF86Config-4 ? (Marian-Nicolae V. ION)
user time variability -- why? (Roy Smith)
Re: Linux IDE RAID Cards (mlw)
2.4.0 not booting (David Blado)
Re: Mandrake PATH setting (Bit Twister)
Re: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in ... ("Rick Goh")
LINUXCONF on port 98 ?? ("Tom Edelbrok")
Re: Linux IDE RAID Cards (Tim Moore)
How to select the video card in X ? ("Arctic Storm")
Re: FTP using DNS instead of me??? ("Tom Edelbrok")
Re: $/.bashrc aliases question... (Guy Parry)
Re: linux books, etc. ("Adam J BC")
During boot: can't open dependencies file ?!?!? (Edwin)
Re: $/.bashrc aliases question... ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: random restarts/reboots ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: FTP using DNS instead of me???
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 21:23:31 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:33:50 -0800, Tom Edelbrok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>PROBLEM:
>
>I go into ftp and try to connect to one of my Linux box's (Redhat 6.0,
>wu-ftpd) and sit there forever! It says "connected" but never comes back
>with the "Name:" prompt to get me to log in. I enable "logging" in ipchains
>for all packets, (on the client Linux box) and it indicates that the target
>ftp box (the one I am trying to connect to) is sending out DNS requests to
>my ISP's nameservers. I am not connected to the internet when I do all of
>this.
>
>MY CONFIGURATION:
>
>I have 3 machines in a LAN as follows:
>
>Machine "A" is an NT Server and is a DNS and DHCP server. It has no internet
>connection except via Machine "B".
>Machine "B" is a Redhat 6.0 Linux box with wu-ftp and a ppp connection to
>the internet on a 56k modem.
>Machine "C" is a Redhat 6.0 Linux box with wu-ftp and no connection to the
>internet, except via Machine "B".
>
>I am going into ftp from Machine "B" and trying to connect to Machine "C". I
>am monitoring the DNS requests that originate from Machine "C" via the
>ipchains script running on Machine "B" (where I tried to open the ftp
>connection from).
>
>HERE'S WHAT BAFFLES ME:
>
>Why does ftp need DNS? If the IP address of Machine "B" is 172.17.10.116
>and the IP address of Machine "C" is 172.17.1.2 then why can't I just open
>up an ftp connection to Machine "C"? Why should Machine "C" care about
>names? Or do incoming ftp connections always work that way? (ie: with names
>rather than IP addresses?). Can't FTP say to itself "huh ... no name help
>here! Shucks - I guess I'll just use the address instead, since I know the
>address but not the name resolution".
Unless those IPs were assigned by your ISP, you should really be using
addresses in a private range (like 172.16.x.x) instead of internet IPs
that somebody else may own.
Anything that starts from inetd using tcpwrappers attempts a reverse
lookup to tell if anything in hosts.allow or hosts.deny applies based on
hostname. To get around that, either run your own DNS with forward and
reverse zones for your LAN boxes or add names for your IPs to /etc/hosts
of the box you are trying to log into (assuming that /etc/host.conf has:
order hosts,bind). Also see 'man ftpd' to see if your ftp daemon does a
reverse lookup of its own or how to disable that.
>HERE'S HOW I GET IT WORKING:
>
>I connect to the internet and everything starts happily working! DNS
>requests from Machine "C" are now satisfied and so it prompts for a username
>and password. Everybody is happy (but why?).
If DNS responds right away that the IP has no name, Linux accepts that.
The delay when not connected is timeout waiting for DNS to respond.
>FURTHER BAFFLING STUFF:
>
>When the internet connection is down I can always open an FTP session from
>Machine "C" over to Machine "B". The res-ponse is instantaneous! But when
>the internet connection is down I cannot open up Machine "B" from Machine
>"A". Why is Machine "B" so picky about letting ftp users in when the
>internet is down, but Machine "A" doesn't care???
That is baffling. First you say that there is a delay attempting to
connect C to B when not on the internet. Then you say you get
instantanious connection from C to B when internet is down. If you
actually mean that C to A is always immediate, either NT already knows a
name for the remote (samba or dhcp?) or doesn't care.
Linux does care who is connecting and tries every means at its disposal to
get a second opinion or verification, even if it is just a fake name you
put in its /etc/hosts. That can be disabled if you want your box to be
less secure, but if you uninstall tcpwrappers, don't expect hosts.allow
or hosts.deny to work.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: John Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Softball newbie question(s)
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 22:12:27 GMT
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 03:29:08 GMT, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>Francois Labreque writes:
>>> But, but, but... Linus Torvalds is NOT american.
>>
>>He is now.
>>
>>In any case, the American pronunciation of Linux is 'lie-nux'. The French
>>pronunciation may be different (and the French-Canadian different yet
>>again).
I'm an American and I pronounce Linux lin' ux. It seems only newbies
and Windows users pronounce it lie' nux. At least that is my
experience.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Graham Vincent)
Subject: random restarts/reboots
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 22:14:09 GMT
Hello.
The RH6.2/2.2.18 PC I use for mail, news and internet access on my home
network has run with few problems for months until a few days ago.
Over the last 48 hours the machine has restarted itself at random intervals for
no apparent reason on 12 occasions. There is nothing in any logs to indicate a
problem, only the restart sequence in /var/log/messages and boot.log which
look OK other than I don't know what is causing it:
boot.log.1:Jan 8 17:41:04 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 9 08:50:59 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 9 15:35:13 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 9 16:08:06 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 10 02:06:59 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 10 02:32:33 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 10 04:55:03 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 10 21:00:58 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 11 01:31:26 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 11 12:37:51 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 11 18:44:14 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 13 06:46:15 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 13 09:20:04 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 13 14:54:44 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 13 15:04:24 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 13 15:53:11 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 13 17:57:41 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 13 18:22:04 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 13 18:53:31 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 14 00:40:56 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
boot.log.1:Jan 14 03:10:33 stargate syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
I've checked that the CPU (AMD K5) fan is still spinning.
Can anyone suggest how I can track down the cause of this deteriorating
condition?
Thanks,
Graham
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From: Joshua Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Question about Mandrake (7.2)
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:27:13 -0600
Does anyone know how to get glibc 2.2 to work in Mandrake 7.2? I've
downloaded glibc in rpm format and in a tarball, but am not too good at
getting things like that to work. A few programs I have need version
2.2 and a lot of the programs Mandrake comes with need version 2.1.
What do I do? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Josh.
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From: Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Difference between XF86Config & XF86Config-4 ?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 22:26:32 GMT
Difference between XF86Config & XF86Config-4 ?
In the directory etc/X11/ I find XF86Config and XF86Config-4.
What's the difference between the two?
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From: Marian-Nicolae V. ION <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Difference between XF86Config & XF86Config-4 ?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 23:36:27 +0100
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Arctic Storm wrote:
>Difference between XF86Config & XF86Config-4 ?
XF86Config-4 is for XFree 4, while the former is for XFree 3.3.x.
M. Ion
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From: Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: user time variability -- why?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:47:41 -0500
I've got a 70 Mbyte text file that I ran "wc -l" on a bunch of times in
succession and compared the CPU usage. I got:
[rsmith@rsmith xx]$ time wc -l x10
1338420 x10
2.87user 2.15system 0:06.94elapsed 72%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (17799major+16minor)pagefaults 0swaps
[rsmith@rsmith xx]$ time wc -l x10
1338420 x10
0.87user 0.49system 0:01.57elapsed 86%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (1018major+16minor)pagefaults 0swaps
[rsmith@rsmith xx]$ time wc -l x10
1338420 x10
0.47user 0.21system 0:00.68elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (115major+16minor)pagefaults 0swaps
[rsmith@rsmith xx]$ time wc -l x10
1338420 x10
0.44user 0.25system 0:00.69elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (115major+16minor)pagefaults 0swaps
[rsmith@rsmith xx]$ time wc -l x10
1338420 x10
0.45user 0.23system 0:00.68elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (115major+16minor)pagefaults 0swaps
Why is the CPU time so much higher the first time I ran it? I can see the
elapsed time and/or system CPU time being higher due to disk caching, but why
should the user CPU time vary?
If it matters, this is on an otherwise fairly quiet 700-something MHz P-III
running RedHat 6.2.
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From: mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux IDE RAID Cards
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:55:46 -0500
"Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
>
> Steve Wolfe wrote:
> >
> > > Can anyone recommend a good raid IDE controller for Linux. Preferably
> > > ATA 100. We have tried using the Promise controller with limited
> > > success. We probably want to run 2 controllers in the server (for more
> > > speed) with a total of 6 drives. 4 of the drives running raid 1+0 and
> > > the other 2 forming a separate mirror. The 2 in the mirror we also want
> > >
> > > to boot off of.
> >
> > If you really need that much speed that you're going to go with two IDE
> > RAID controllers, you really might want to look into a SCSI RAID setup.
> > Having used SCSI RAID, I can say that it just makes you go "ooooooh" with
> > delight. It's definitely worth the extra money.
>
> Not only that, but you can put all your disks on ONE SCSI channel
> and STILL get better performance than IDE.
>
> Especially under Linux.
This depends on many factors.
My personal favorite RAID controllers are SCSI to SCSI raid controllers.
They work on all platforms.
Infortrend, www.infortrend.com, makes a great box. Plug one end into a
standard SCSI or fibre channel card, plug a number of disks in the other
end (up to some silly number like 60).
The SCSI to SCSI boxes have a great number of advantages. When asked
professionally, I say to stay away from RAID controller boards, and go
with a SCSI to SCSI raid device. They work with any OS that supports any
SCSI card with main stream drivers (very important for stability!), and
offload any possible CPU cycles to an external box.
I have had too many problems with software RAID (like what happens when
the OS crashes?), I have also had too many problems with PCI solutions
in that the newest versions of OS lag in support.
--
http://www.mohawksoft.com
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From: David Blado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2.4.0 not booting
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 18:02:40 -0500
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Mandrake PATH setting
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 23:04:25 GMT
On 13 Jan 2001 17:06:24 -0400, * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I choose high security level when installing mandrake and found that
>my PATH setting in /etc/profile no longer work any more (at least
>for the root). Instead, the comment hints that the Mandrake security
>management is taking care of it.
>
I have created /etc/profile.d/xx_local.sh
with my changes and did a
chmod +x /etc/profile.d/xx_local.sh
I am running at SECURE_LEVEL=3
--
The warranty and liability expired as you read this message.
If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
Do a, man command_here or cat command_here, before using it.
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From: "Rick Goh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in ...
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 07:24:53 +0800
cool!! no more such warnings.
However, there're new warnings:
depmod: not an ELF file
depmod: not an ELF file
Has anyone seen this before??
"Bill Shirley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:kZ_76.19213$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> delete the modules ( /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/fs/lockd.o,
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/fs/nfsd.o, etc.)
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make modules_install
> depmod -a
>
> should fix it.
>
> Bill
>
>
> "Rick Goh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:3a6075af$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > This always appears when i first start up linux mandrake 7.2; after i
have
> > recompiled the kernel.
> > As a result, my xircom pcmcia card could not be detected anymore. How do
i
> > resolve these depmod issues?
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> >
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/fs/lockd.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/fs/nfsd.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/appletalk.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/iBCS.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/cops.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/ipddp.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/ltpc.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/3c574_cs.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/3c575_cb.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/airo.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/eepro100_cb.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/epic_cb.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/fmvj18x_cs.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/ftl_cs.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/ibmtr_cs.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/memory_cs.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/netwave_cs.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/nmclan_cs.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/ray_cs.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/smc91c92_cs.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/tulip_cb.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/wavelan_cs.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/wvlan_cs.o
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.o
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "Tom Edelbrok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LINUXCONF on port 98 ??
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:23:33 -0800
I am setting up a Linux box as a webserver (as well as internal LAN access
to the internet) and have removed extraneous stuff from it, leaving only the
services that I want.
To check it out I have run the nmap port scanner and found the following
ports open:
21/tcp open ftp
80/tcp open http
98/tcp open linuxconf
113/tcp open auth
8080/tcp open http-proxy
QUESTION: Why does LinuxConf show up on port 98, tcp? Why is LinuxConf a
service? I can easily remove it from chkconfig and erase it from
/etc/rc.d/init.d, but what use is LinuxConf as an available service on a
port? I thought that LinuxConf was just an internal configuration utility in
Linux. Why would someone want remote access to LinuxConf (or is the 98/tcp
there for some other reason?).
Also, what good is auth? Can it safely be trashed too?
Tom.
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux IDE RAID Cards
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 23:26:59 GMT
http://www.ami.com/products/subpage.cfm?CatID=5&SubID=14
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: "Arctic Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to select the video card in X ?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 23:26:44 GMT
When configuring XFree86, is there a way to choose a specific video card?
I have two.
0:2:0 and 1:11:0
By default, 0:2:0 is chosen, but if I want to use the other card, is there a
way to choose that card?
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From: "Tom Edelbrok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP using DNS instead of me???
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:32:21 -0800
Sorry. I worded things incorrectly a bit in the last part of my message.
What I really meant was this:
"Whether the internet connection is up or down I can always open an FTP
session from Machine "C" over to Machine "B". The response is instantaneous!
But when the internet connection is down I cannot open up Machine "C" from
Machine "B". Why is machine "C" so picky about letting ftp users in when the
internet is down, but machine "B" doesn't care??"
In any case, I think you have shed some light on what my problem is. Thanks
very much. Sorry to confuse you.
Tom.
> That is baffling. First you say that there is a delay attempting to
> connect C to B when not on the internet. Then you say you get
> instantanious connection from C to B when internet is down. If you
> actually mean that C to A is always immediate, either NT already knows a
> name for the remote (samba or dhcp?) or doesn't care.
> David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
> http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
> http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: $/.bashrc aliases question...
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 10:32:10 +1100
Well, if I've put the same aliases in my *root* bashrc and they
work I'm forced to conclude that I *am* using bash :)
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:00:22 +0100, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Guy Parry wrote:
>>
>> I have copied my bashrc file over to my Home dir and made it a
>> dot file, but I *still* can't get my aliases recognised. What am I
>> missing? I've played with permissions and so on. Odd.
>> I'm using Mdk 7.2. Is there something unusual about this distro
>> that I don't know about???
>> tia...
>
>How do you conclude it doesn't work?
>I can't tell if you're even using the correct syntax.
>You may not even be using bash, for all I know!
>
>`man bash` is your friend.
>
>Eric
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From: "Adam J BC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux books, etc.
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 23:36:42 -0000
> You've multi-posted this message to at least two newsgroups. In the
> future, please don't do this. If a message is really on-topic and
> appropriate for multiple newsgroups, cross-post it by listing both
> newsgroups on the Newsgroups line, separated by commas. This conserves
> bandwidth and reduces wasted time as people read the post twice and
> perhaps give multiple substantially-similar answers in both groups. It
> also ensures that people who read just one group get the benefit of
> answers posted by people who read just the other group. You should not,
> however, cross-post to more than two or three groups, except under
> truly extraordinary circumstances.
Just curious, but what would you call "truly extraordinary circumstances"?
Adam
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie
Subject: During boot: can't open dependencies file ?!?!?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin)
Date: 13 Jan 2001 23:58:33 GMT
Hi,
I've downloaded and compiled kernel 2.2.12 on my RedHat 7 installation. Went
through all the moves:
make dep,
make clean,
make bzImage,
make modules,
delete old modules directory,
make modules_install,
copied System.map to /boot/System.map-2.2.12
copied bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12
(LILO was already configured for this kernel name)
Then, when I boot up the new kernel, I get this:
...
Jan 14 00:35:50 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
Jan 14 00:35:50 localhost rc.sysinit: Initializing USB controller (usb-uhci):
failed
Jan 14 00:35:50 localhost fsck: /: clean, 106161/384768 files, 373048/769104
blocks
Jan 14 00:35:50 localhost rc.sysinit: Checking root filesystem succeeded
Jan 14 00:35:50 localhost rc.sysinit: Remounting root filesystem in read-write
mode: succeeded
Jan 14 00:35:51 localhost depmod: depmod:
Jan 14 00:35:51 localhost depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/eicon.o
Jan 14 00:35:51 localhost rc.sysinit: Finding module dependencies: succeeded
Jan 14 00:35:51 localhost modprobe: modprobe:
Jan 14 00:35:51 localhost modprobe: Can't locate module es1371
Jan 14 00:35:51 localhost rc.sysinit: Loading sound module (es1371): failed
Jan 14 00:35:51 localhost fsck: /boot: clean, 29/6024 files, 4012/24066 blocks
Jan 14 00:35:51 localhost fsck: /home: clean, 704/384768 files, 13483/769104
blocks
Jan 14 00:35:51 localhost rc.sysinit: Checking filesystems succeeded
...
However, modules.dep is there in /lib/modules/2.2.12:
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan 14 00:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 14 00:12 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 00:12 block
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 00:12 fs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 00:12 ipv4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 00:12 misc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4724 Jan 14 00:35 modules.dep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99 Jan 14 00:35 modules.pcimap
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 00:12 net
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 00:12 video
What's wrong here? Shouldn't this work? Have I forgotten something?
Regards,
Edwin
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: $/.bashrc aliases question...
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 00:05:22 GMT
Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ in the WRONG place ]
> Well, if I've put the same aliases in my *root* bashrc and they
> work I'm forced to conclude that I *am* using bash :)
No, you'd conclude that root is using bash. Not you.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: random restarts/reboots
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 00:00:25 GMT
Graham Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Over the last 48 hours the machine has restarted itself at random intervals for
> no apparent reason on 12 occasions. There is nothing in any logs to indicate a
I'd look into:
-Intermittent power (I use APC UPS's on all my home machines, well worth it)
-Bad power supply
-Bad RAM
-Overheating CPU (-seized fan, except that you already checked that
-dust maybe?)
-Bad MB
These aren't the only possibilities, but I've seen them all present
this sort of behavior.
--
Jim Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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