Linux-Misc Digest #893, Volume #26 Mon, 22 Jan 01 21:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: .src.rpm Error "File Is Not A Regular File" In Redhat 7.0 ("Peter T. Breuer")
Booting with no console (Harry)
Re: cdrecord+ATAPI burner ("Brian C. Kiefer")
Re: Linux and Vbasic scripts? (Don Grbac)
strange memory report (John Hunter)
Re: strange memory report (Grant Edwards)
Deleting KDE menu item (Dennis Fenton)
How to update glibc to 2.2? (hover)
Re: HELP: General Protection Fault ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: athlon kernel panic is repeatable (gman1)
where to get files? (gman1)
Re: How to update glibc to 2.2? (Bob Martin)
Re: Lexmark printer "drivers" (Bob Martin)
Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux? (Ken Moffat)
Re: USB CDWriter (Dances With Crows)
Re: Basic floppy question (Dances With Crows)
help - building my own package ("datagram")
help - linux, sql server and nt ("datagram")
Why wont my lilo install work? (" LEVELIUS & CO AB")
unresolved symbols with modules (Robert Schweikert)
Re: HELP: General Protection Fault (Dances With Crows)
Re: strange memory report (John Hunter)
Is Debian RPM compatible ? ("Arctic Storm")
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: .src.rpm Error "File Is Not A Regular File" In Redhat 7.0
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:58:35 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Beret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> of struggling and researching I found
> http://www.buberel.org/linux/source-rpm.php I then realized that my
> command " rpm -i whatever.src.rpm" didn't do anything because those
> files, even though they have an extension of .rpm, they also have a
> "pre-extension???" of .src This means that they must be processed
> differently from .rpm's
Isn't that normally ".srpm"? ANyway, why do you want to compile your
own?
> rpm -Uvh ncftp-3.0beta19-2.i686.rpm
That's not a srpm.
> I just got the following error: " File Is Not A Regular File"
I don't know how to use rpm (I don't), but everytime I've made
an install from a srpm, rpm -i has put it in /usr/src/redhat/somwehere,
and it's just then a question of finding the spec file and running
rpm -bc on it.
Not that I'd want to. But reading the spec file and looking at the
patches is sometimes illuminating.
> Also when I try and run the -i rpm command on regular .rpm's I also
> get an error which is roughly "can't install this file"
Then it sounds like you munged them. Downloaded binary files using ftp
in ascii mode, have we?
Peter
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Booting with no console
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:19:20 +0000
I have a "bookshelf" 166MHz pentium with no frills. I'd like to set it
up as a server with no direct console - ie access it through ttyS1 (or
better yet from an x-window across the network but I don't know how to
do that yet...).
Anyway - I can set the hardware up not to stall in the absence of a
keyboard and mouse, but what file edits must I make to stop the
operating system from complaining that they're not there on boot?
Harry
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From: "Brian C. Kiefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrecord+ATAPI burner
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:31:37 -0500
Try running cdrecord -scanbus.... see if you burner pops up.... also, you may
just have a bad set of blank cds...
Brian
Andrew Rounds wrote:
> I can't get cdrecord to work on my machine. Anyone have any ideas? Output
> from a cdrecord session is pasted below. I am on MDK7.2 with kernel 2.4.0
> if that makes any difference (although I think I had the same problem with
> kernel 2.2.18)
>
> A big thanks to anyone who can tell me what I am doing wrong. I know the
> burner (slave on secondary drive, but hdd=ide-scsi emulation switched on)
> works, because it works on that other operating system that I dual boot
> with.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>
> /usr/bin/cdrecord dev=0,0,0 fs=2048k -v -useinfo speed=4 -dao -eject -pad
> -data "/tmp/track-01.img"
> pregap1: -1
> Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg
> Schilling
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> scsidev: '0,0,0'
> scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
> Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
> atapi: 1
> Device type : Removable CD-ROM
> Version : 0
> Response Format: 1
> Vendor_info : 'MITSUMI '
> Identifikation : 'CR-4804TE '
> Revision : '2.2C'
> Device seems to be: Philips CDD-522.
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
> Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
> Drive buf size : 1343488 = 1312 KB
> FIFO size : 2097152 = 2048 KB
> Track 01: data 598 MB padsize: 30 KB
> Total size: 687 MB (68:06.50) = 306488 sectors
> Lout start: 687 MB (68:08/38) = 306488 sectors
> Current Secsize: 2048
> ATIP info from disk:
> Indicated writing power: 6
> Is not unrestricted
> Is not erasable
> ATIP start of lead in: -11740 (97:25/35)
> ATIP start of lead out: 336156 (74:44/06)
> Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
> Manuf. index: 40
> Manufacturer: INFODISC Technology Co., Ltd.
> Blocks total: 336156 Blocks current: 336156 Blocks remaining: 29668
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session.
> Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
> Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
> /usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. mode select g1: scsi sendcmd:
> retryable error
> CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 3C 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 26 00 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x26 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in parameter list) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 200s
> /usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: using default CD write parameter data.
> Mode Select Data 00 10 00 00 05 32 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 96 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> /usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot open new session.
> /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 32 puts and 0 gets.
> /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was
> 100%.
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From: Don Grbac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and Vbasic scripts?
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:00:00 -0500
Jerry Kreps wrote:
> David wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > If ""We, the people" can legislate!" as you put it.
> >
> > Then why would "We, the people" want to help figure out a way to track
> > us on the net?
>
> Or contribute to efforts seeking discard or subvert our Constitution,
> the Bill of Right and our national sovereignty?
>
Oh right, here comes the libertarian response!
I was seeking the more open minded of Linux folks. Hey, even libertarians
could propose legislation, such as to outlaw user tracking on the
Internet. Don't expect the bought and paid for politicians to do it.
Don
--
["We, the People" can legislate!]
http://www.vote.org/
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Subject: strange memory report
From: John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 Jan 2001 17:11:36 -0600
When I do 'free -m' I get a memory report
video:~> free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 251 196 55 33 26 126
even though my box should be mainly idle (196MB is an awful lot of
memory do be doing nothing more than running X, emacs and a few
services).
So when I do ps to try and sniff out the problem I get no major users.
I awk out the 4th column (%MEM) and add them up I get 21.9% usage
which is only 56MB accounted for.
Any thoughts?
John Hunter
RHL 6.2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: strange memory report
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:30:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hunter wrote:
>When I do 'free -m' I get a memory report
>
>video:~> free -m
> total used free shared buffers cached
>Mem: 251 196 55 33 26 126
>
>even though my box should be mainly idle (196MB is an awful lot of
>memory do be doing nothing more than running X, emacs and a few
>services).
It's using most of it (126M) as disk cache.
If you _really_ don't want your Linux system to use all that
RAM, yank half of it and send it to me. ;)
>So when I do ps to try and sniff out the problem I get no major users.
>I awk out the 4th column (%MEM) and add them up I get 21.9% usage
>which is only 56MB accounted for.
>
>Any thoughts?
No worries. Linux does a good job of deciding how to use RAM.
If you need some of that 126M for programs, Linux will use less
of it for caching disk blocks. Until then, be relax and happy
you've got that much RAM.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! My FAVORITE group
at is "QUESTION MARK & THE
visi.com MYSTERIANS"...
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From: Dennis Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Deleting KDE menu item
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:40:47 GMT
I installed Corel Office 2000 and then decided I didn't want it. It and
all its components are still listed in the KDE menu. I deleted every
file and directory I could find related to the Corel suite but the
program group and icons are still there in the menu. How can I get rid
of them?
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From: hover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to update glibc to 2.2?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:26:55 GMT
Hi, all
I met a circle problem when updating glibc from 2.1.92-14 to 2.2-12.
(I have installed Redhat 7.0 and need update the glibc)
The following is the log:
#rpm -i glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
glibc < 2.2-12 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2-12
#rpm -Fvh glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
glibc-common = 2.2 is needed by glibc-2.2-12
/usr/bin/getent is needed by stunnel-3.8-4
Here comes the problem:
glibc 2.2 needs glibc-common 2.2 to install, but glibc-common 2.2
cannot be installed unless glibc is of version 2.2
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Hover
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: HELP: General Protection Fault
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:38:17 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Bury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All you gurus...
>
> I have an IBM laptop in a dual boot
configuration running Redhat 6.2 and
>
> Windows NT 4.0. When booting linux I receive
the following gpf error:
>
> hda: general protection fault: 0000
> cpu:0
> eip: 0010: [<c0125904>}
> eflags:: 00010286
> eav: ffffffff ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000300
>
> When booting Windows NT I receive the following
error message:
>
> Instruction 0x77f88947 referenced memory
at "0x00000018".
> The memory could not be read.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this
problem. Do you think it
>
> is a hardware problem; possibly memory???
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> John
>
>
I am having the same problem... I have a
gateway with a 900mhz amd athlon I get a message
like this:
Checking 386/387 coupling..OK..FPU using
exception 16 error reporting
Checking hlt instuctions..OK
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
General Protection FAult 0000
cpu: 0
EIP: 0010: [<c01065dd>]
EFlags: 00010293
and then there are a bunch of call #'s
I have an old 456 with a 120mgz and I am using
Linux-Mandrake 6.0 it loads and runs fine on the
486 but no matter what i do in the bios or
instilation i always get the same error. I have
tried to dual boot with 98 and 2000 then by
itself. if you get a fix let me know or if you
know someone who can help. I will let you know if
i get a fix
Scot
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From: gman1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: athlon kernel panic is repeatable
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:58:34 GMT
here is the fix
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/ThunderBird-Duron.html
bob wrote:
> I just had a box built with an 800MHz Athalon CPU on an AZZA
> motherboard. I installed RH6.2 and everytime I turn it on I get a
> "Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!"
>
> I am thinking its a MB/OS issue. The OS can't or doesn't know how to
> talk to the MB. I have sent an email to AZZA but I doubt they will
> reply. The shop that built the box is clueless about linux. They think
> you have to buy it. :-) I read in the RH HW support section that
> certain athlon MBs have problems. Great.. But, supposedly, RH 7.0 loads
> no problem. We'll see.
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From: gman1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: where to get files?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:08:34 GMT
I have redhat 7.0(fully installed)....
I downloaded kde 2.0.1, qt 2.2, etc... from KDE....
to install KDE I need:
libjscript.so.2
libkdecore.so.2
libkdevi.so.2
libkfile.so.2
libkfm.so.2
libkhtmlw.so.2
libkimgio.so.2
libmediatool.so.2
Where the heck are they? Where does everyone get all their miscellanous
RPMS from? I know their has to be a site out there that lets you get
any files you need....
thanks in advance....
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to update glibc to 2.2?
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:09:40 -0600
hover wrote:
>
> Hi, all
>
> I met a circle problem when updating glibc from 2.1.92-14 to 2.2-12.
> (I have installed Redhat 7.0 and need update the glibc)
>
> The following is the log:
> #rpm -i glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> glibc < 2.2-12 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2-12
> #rpm -Fvh glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> glibc-common = 2.2 is needed by glibc-2.2-12
> /usr/bin/getent is needed by stunnel-3.8-4
>
> Here comes the problem:
> glibc 2.2 needs glibc-common 2.2 to install, but glibc-common 2.2
> cannot be installed unless glibc is of version 2.2
>
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks.
>
> Hover
>
To update something like glibc you have to use the --nodeps and
maybe the --force option for rpm. but be careful soemthing could
break, usually recompiling will fix if it does.
--
Bob Martin
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lexmark printer "drivers"
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:15:18 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hum? "Linux drivers"???
>
> The only kind of support for printers in the Linux kernel has to do
> with supporting things like parallel port interfaces to printers.
>
> Are you perhaps instead talking about a Ghostscript driver, which
> hasn't the _slightest_ thing to do with Linux, seeing as how
> Ghostscript runs quite happily on a whole variety of platforms,
> including Windows, VMS, MS-DOS, and others...
Lexmark has released linux drivers for some of their printers, see
their web site.
--
Bob Martin
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From: Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc,alt.os.linux.suse,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux?
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:20:37 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I artikeln <93l3gv$mcm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> > I could spend a week trying every MUA in linux.davecentral, but
> > reliability would still be a question. So I'm asking for
> > recommendations from folks who've been using a program for at least a
> > couple of months and who know that it fulfills the above (admittedly
> > long and picky) wishlist.
> >
> > Heartfelt thanks in advance!
> >
> > Mark S Bilk, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Try Balsa - best effort I've seen so far on Linux.
>
> /Mats
Probably needs kde2 or gnome.
:-(
--
Ken Moffat
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: USB CDWriter
Date: 23 Jan 2001 01:28:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:33:16 -0700, Web Daemon staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>Is there a way to use a USB or PCMCIA CDWriter??
>I have the MiniCDRW from Archos. But I cannot figure out how to get it
>working.
>Is there a driver like usb-scsi, pcmcia-scsi??
http://linux-usb.org/ and sniff around. Support for USB interfaces is
in kernel 2.2.18 and kernel 2.4.0; many distros shipped kernels with
backported USB support that works pretty well. The problem is that not
every device with a USB plug is supported, though devices that conform
to the published specs for USB Mass Storage Devices should work.
PCMCIA CD-RWs should work like regular SCSI devices, provided the PCMCIA
SCSI adapter you have is supported. Check the PCMCIA-HOWTO at
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ and see what you can find.
--
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!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Basic floppy question
Date: 23 Jan 2001 01:28:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:51:53 GMT, Kyle Parfrey staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>I have had suprising difficulty getting floppies to work properly for
>me. If I just copy files from the terminal they go to md-dos system and
>my file names get wrecked. I tried formatting the disk as ext2 with
>kfloppy but then I can't write to it. Is there a way to use a floppy
>normally, except with it being recognised as a linux disk, with proper
>file names and all??
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
The floppy is now accessible under /mnt/floppy. The "-t vfat" mounts
the MS-DOS floppy with support for long file names, or you can change
the order the "auto" option you probably have specified in /etc/fstab
probes filesystems by editing /etc/filesystems and making sure "vfat"
is before "msdos" and then MS-DOS floppies will be mounted with long
filename support by default. Of course, you have to remember to umount
the thing before ejecting the disk. 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!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "datagram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: help - building my own package
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:30:01 GMT
Hi and thanks for reading,
I'm trying to build my own package from a tar file. It's the first time I'm
doing this,
my spec file seems to be all right, everything works fine except the %file
part
I don't understand what I have to put in there.
example:
I'm trying to build an rpm package of bluefish so I send a copy of the
tar.gz file in the /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and build my spec file in the
/usr/src/redhat/SPECS
in the files I type
%files
%doc README (only one that works) :)
/usr/local/bluefish-0.6/bin/bluefish
after the compilation and everthing I see a message saying that it was
unable to find the file
/var/tmp/bluefish-0.6/usr/local/bluefish-0.6/bin/bluefish...
what da !?
help please I've gone throught my books and simple tutorials on the web and
I can't make this thing work!
by the way I'm on RH 7.0
thank you very much for you time!!
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From: "datagram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: help - linux, sql server and nt
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:33:22 GMT
Hi and thanks for reading,
this is my situation.
at work, we have few NT servers running SQL Server.
Our main production server is a Linux Server RH7.0 apache PHP.
my problem is that our php code must be able to query the sqlserver on the
nt boxes.
any solutions ?
Thanks for you time and help, I appriciate it.
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From: " LEVELIUS & CO AB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why wont my lilo install work?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 02:36:51 +0100
I have a problem with running Win98 and Linux (slackware 7.0) on the same
computer. Even if I�ve tried to install LILO several times now, windows
doesnt seem to give a damn, and it gladaly boots directly into this, now
annyoing, windows logotype. I guess windows does something to mbr that lilo
doesnt, but I cant figure out what?
Max Levelius
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From: Robert Schweikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: unresolved symbols with modules
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:37:52 -0500
I just got a RedHat6.2 distro installed on a dual boot (NT & Linux)
machine. Since the stock kernel 2.2.14-5 did not have support for NTFS I
recompiled the kernel, edited lilo.conf etc. However, when I boot up I
get loads of unresolved symbol messages. The messages appear to be
originating from the stock kernel, which was 2.2.14-5.0smp. All
unresolved symbol messages refer to a path with that kernel version in
it.
I figure this has something to do with System.map and/or module-info,
both links pointing to stuff from the original kernel. I know there is a
new System.map file in /usr/src/linux and that file was copied to /boot.
Then the link from System.map was changed to point to the new System.map
file, this however didn't appear to take hold, after rebooting I still
got all the unresolved symbol messages and looking at the link of
System.map it was reset to point to the original smp kernel again.
Any help to fix this is appreciated.
Thanks,
Robert
--
Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
[EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: HELP: General Protection Fault
Date: 23 Jan 2001 01:44:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[inappropriate NGs trimmed]
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:38:17 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered
into the Black Sun and said:
> I am having the same problem... I have a
>gateway with a 900mhz amd athlon I get a message like this:
> Checking 386/387 coupling..OK..FPU using
>exception 16 error reporting
> Checking hlt instuctions..OK
>
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> General Protection FAult 0000
> cpu: 0
> EIP: 0010: [<c01065dd>]
> EFlags: 00010293
This is *NOT* the same problem, unless the original poster has an Athlon
in his laptop (wow). The kernel thinks (incorrectly) that you have a
PIII, and is attempting to disable the PIII serial number. Since the
Athlons don't have serial numbers, this attempt causes a hideous crash
soon after boot. The fix is to pass the kernel the parameter
"x86_serial_nr=1" (NSS about the exact spelling, Deja is being
uncooperative even though I know this has been posted within the last
month.)
--
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!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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Subject: Re: strange memory report
From: John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 Jan 2001 19:45:29 -0600
>>>>> "Grant" == Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Grant> It's using most of it (126M) as disk cache.
[snip]
Grant> No worries. Linux does a good job of deciding how to use
Grant> RAM. If you need some of that 126M for programs, Linux
Grant> will use less of it for caching disk blocks. Until then,
Grant> be relax and happy you've got that much RAM.
Ok, thanks for the reassuring response. My darkest fear was that some
hacker had planted a root kit on my system and hacked the ps command to
hide its presence.
What is the RAM disk cache? Is this the flip side of virtual memory,
caching frequently accessed hard drive memory into RAM?
Thanks,
John Hunter
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From: "Arctic Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is Debian RPM compatible ?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 02:03:43 GMT
I read somewhere that certain Linux distributions are RPM compatible while
others aren't.
The Debian Linux web site does not mention anything about RPM compatibility.
Is Debian Linux distribution RPM compatible?
Has anyone installed RPM's in a Debian distribution?
Does RPM stand for "RehHat Package Manager" or "RPM Package Manager?
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