Linux-Misc Digest #996, Volume #26 Thu, 1 Feb 01 22:13:02 EST
Contents:
HELLLLPPP!!!! problem configuring gnome-libs ("dingdong")
Why can't I record data CD-RW's??? (Victor S. Miller)
bash, xterm and avoiding ~/.bashrc (Laith Suheimat)
change pump to dhcpcd ("Londonboy")
Re: Linux on Alpha station ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: reading SunOS formatted Zip under Linux (Dances With Crows)
Re: sharing a printer (Dances With Crows)
Re: DMA channels? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Convert Word-DOC to PostScript (Dances With Crows)
Re: Time to compile a kernel (Phil Durbin)
Gnome term - why does only terminal font work? (webqueen, queen of the web)
Re: Kernel upgrade (Phil Durbin)
Re: Yahoo mesenger and RH6.2 (E J)
Re: linux bootdisk(s) with X support? ("Keith Leite")
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From: "dingdong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: HELLLLPPP!!!! problem configuring gnome-libs
Date: 02 Feb 2001 01:08:35 GMT
Hi,
After I tried installing a few programs (enlightenment-conf, and some
other stuff) I got messages like -
"checking for gnome-config... no
checking for gnomeConf.sh file in /usr/local/lib
configure: error: Could not find the gnomeConf.sh file that is generated
by gnome-libs install
"
doing rpm -q gnome-libs I'd either find that I had a version of helix
gnome or (after mucking around with downgrades) a version of redhat's.
I went out and got the latest (I guess) version of gnome-libs (1.2.9 tar
file) I tried installing THAT and I got message
"checking for umode_t ... no
checking for dbopen... no
checking for dbopen in -ldb... no
checking for dbopen in -ldb1... no
checking for __db185_open in -ldb-3... no
configure: error: your db library is missing db 1.85 compatibility mode
"
Now for all the stuff that didn't work
1) marched over to sleepycat.org and picked up their db .. now that
installs just fine and yes I specified --enable-compat185 in the
configuration thing ie I typed ./configure --enable-compat185
so that installs in my usr/local/BerkeleyDBlahblah
and of course I get the same error messages for the previous programs
2) so I check out configure for gnome-libs and I see an option to -datadir
which I promptly set to /usr/local/BerkeleyDBlahblah
no cigar
3) get smart and download the rpm source for db3 - repeat step (1) (but
without the /usr/local/DB bit. )
4) get real desperate and try compiling the rpm source for rpmdb
5) run out of my house weeping like a woman till neighbors start throwing
shoes at me (ow!)
6) rip out my last remaining hairs
HELP HELP
HEEEELLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I need help :D )
anyway if you can email as well as post, I'd appreciate it, as I am very
desperate for a solution to this.
-dingdong
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Subject: Why can't I record data CD-RW's???
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor S. Miller)
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 01:16:02 GMT
I have a S&F ATAPI Speedwriter Plus. I'm running both RH 7.0 Linux,
and Windows '98 on a dual boot. I had firmware level 1.40, since then
I have upgraded to JVC Firmware level 1.46 (the drive is a repackaged
JVC XR-W4080). I have successfully recorded audio CD's (both before
and after the firmware upgrade, using eroaster on Linux (it is a
front-end for cdrecord, mkisofs, etc.). These have been on CD-R's.
When I try to record data, everything appears to be functioning ok --
according to the progress messages: there are no underruns, the disk
is successfully fixated, etc. I have a very long trace from cdrecord
which I won't burden the group with, but send to anyone who would be
kind enough to try to help. I've tried both Memorex CD-RW Platinum
and IOMEGA Zip CD 650 CD-RW Rewritable media, with the same results.
After the first failure (all of them have the same symptoms -- see
below) I tried it in steps -- I used mkisofs to make an ISO9660 image,
which I verified in Linux -- the files were there -- they were mp3's
-- I could play them from the image without problem. I then used
cdrecord to burn the CD (at speed 2). It said that it was making
progress and fixated the disk, with no errors. However, when I tried
to mount the disk in the CDRW drive I got a message (after a long
pause):
Wrong Media Type
When I inserted it into my Mitsumi CD-ROM drive it said:
No media present.
I also tried this in Win '98 usind Adaptec Easy CD creator (which can
record ISO images). After 1/2 hour and progress messages saying that
everything was ok, the CD's couldn't be read either. In windows in
the CDRW drive, there was a long pause (almost a minute while the
green light of the drive flashed on and off), and then it showed an
empty disk. On the CDROM drive it claimed that there was nothing in
the drive. I'm really at a loss to figure out what's going on here.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
I did notice one peculiar thing with cdrecord: When trying to get the
ATIP info on the disks it just returns -- unknown manufacturer (in
fact unknown everything). However, on Win '98 I have a program I
found called cdrinfo, which is able to return plausible looking
manufacturer's data on 3 different kinds of Media, all of which
cdrecord can't.
Here's version info:
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
mkisofs 1.13 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Victor
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From: Laith Suheimat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bash, xterm and avoiding ~/.bashrc
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 01:13:59 GMT
my bash /etc/profile calls another bash script for a particular group
of users that sets up additional aliases, functions, etc.
this works fine when logging in interactively via su, rlogin and
telnet, but doesn't work when logged into the console and launching a
new xterm, because, of course, /etc/profile is not sourced by xterm
unless xterm is launched with the -ls option.
So, how can I get /etc/profile (and thus the script it calls) to be
sourced for new xterms, ideally without editing and distributing
~/.bashrc files (too much admin overhead) or modifying the default
behaviour of xterm?
Laith Suheimat
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From: "Londonboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: change pump to dhcpcd
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 01:23:23 GMT
I am running RedHat 7.0 and I have some problems with dhcp client, PUMP (I
was told by people on the newsgroup, coz I am newbie). So, can anyone please
tell me how to switch PUMP to DHCPCD?
Thanks in advance
Newbie N.B.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux on Alpha station
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 01:29:13 GMT
>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stephen> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gregorie) writes:
>> My last project used this version of UNIX (though on a max size
>> Alphaserver 8400) and we ported a lot of PD software to it wothout
>> any problems apart from the then current version microEmacs, which
>> would not compile for reasons I never had time to sort out. I bet
>> the latest Martin Whittaker Linux port of 4.00 would be OK though.
Stephen> `microemacs' is a small-footprint emacs clone, isn't it? I
Stephen> should have thought that vanilla emacs/xemacs would run
Stephen> acceptably on a 600MHz Alpha with 512M of RAM...
Ah, but if it's not 64 bit clean, _that_ would introduce some
issues...
--
(reverse (concatenate 'string "gro.mca@" "enworbbc"))
http://vip.hex.net/~cbbrowne/rdbms.html
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- Alan Perlis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: reading SunOS formatted Zip under Linux
Date: 2 Feb 2001 02:00:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 1 Feb 2001 20:11:07 GMT, Alex Yung staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I have some old Zip100 disks that were created under zip drive
>> connected to Sun running SunOS. I can't mount them under Linux...I
>> get "wrong fs type" error. Is there any way around this?
>Did you specify the fstype in your mount command?
>mount -t ufs /dev/partition /mountPoint
ITYM:
mount -t ufs /dev/device /mountpoint -o ufstype=sun
or maybe ufstype=sunx86 if this is an x86 box running Solarisx86. The
ufstype= parameter is important; there are a lot of different versions
of the UFS format around, and autodetection is unreliable. Read the man
page for mount to learn more than you probably wanted to know.
--
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 a printer
Date: 2 Feb 2001 02:00:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:12:45 +0100, Xavier Houppertz staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>I would like to know how to share a printer on a subnet.
>I would like to ba able to use lpr -Premoteprinter file.txt where
>remoteprinter is not local but on another computer.
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.html has advice. The machine
that is attached to the printer must be making that printer available to
the network in some manner--check the HOWTO for details on doing that.
Once that's set up, you need an entry like this in your /etc/printcap :
lpnet:Remote Printer:\
:lp=/dev/null:sh:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\
:rm=hostname.of.printserver:rp=UL8K7:
Then restart lpd and "lpr -Plpnet thingy.ps" to get things going. One
caveat: The printserver I was using here accepted PostScript input; you
may have to mess with filters if your printserver doesn't. 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)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: DMA channels?
Date: 2 Feb 2001 02:00:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 06:30:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>How can I find out if I have DMA channels? Reading "help" in kernel
>xconfig made me think that DMA may be unreliable on some computers. How
>can I test it?
DMA means different things to different hardware parts.
In the Old Days on the x86, before the PCI bus, ISA devices could use
a limited number of "channels" to bypass the CPU when they wanted to
directly access memory. There are 7 of these (1-3, 5-7) and only ISA
hardware uses these. Channel 2 is always used by the floppy drive(s).
Channel 3 is used by ECP parallel ports. Many ISA sound cards need 2
channels, and there were some SCSI cards that used DMA channels as well.
PCI devices do not use these DMA channels, but generally do "bus
mastering", taking control of the PCI bus for a certain time and
reading/writing pretty much directly into memory. IDE controllers do
this. Whether IDE DMA is reliable or not depends greatly on the chipset
you're using and the kernel version you're using. Certain older
chipsets (cmd640) had problems, and some VIA boards have problems--see
the Kernel Traffic of a couple weeks back.
You seem to have a lot of questions. Go buy a good book on hardware (
_Upgrading and Repairing PCs_ by Scott Mueller is reasonable) and read
that sucker--you will learn an awful lot.
--
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: Convert Word-DOC to PostScript
Date: 2 Feb 2001 02:00:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 13:18:52 GMT, -ljl- staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:46:43 GMT, -ljl- staggered into the Black Sun
>> >In article <958n7n$g9dan$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> > "[BRDLocutus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> can anyone here tell me where to find a Linux-Tool to convert
>> >> Word Documents to PS (PDF would be ok, too) ?
>> >While not exactly a tool, StarOffice might do that. Also, can't
>> >Word produce PS output.
>>
>> StarOffice will do that, but MS Word's "Print to File" option doesn't
>> quite do the right thing--the PostScript files it generates have the
>> .PRN extension instead of .ps , even though they're (mostly) real
>> PostScript. I have had success in taking these .PRNs, renaming them,
>> and using various things like ps2pdf on them.
>
>I tried to load a ps file into StarOffice running on NT4 and got an
>error message ACRODIST.EXE not found, or something like that.
>Anyone have any ideas? Surely they don't require DISTILLER, do they.
Most PostScript files are not really editable by anything, so opening
one up in an office suite is... an iffy proposition. If you just want
to look at it, that's what GhostScript is for. If you want to print it,
either use lpr or change the extension to .PRN and drag it onto a
printer icon. (Or use Win32 GhostScript!)
PostScript is (de facto) an output format--things are converted from Foo
format to PostScript, and then printed. Editing is best accomplished
while the document is in Foo format.
--
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: Phil Durbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Time to compile a kernel
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 21:04:09 -0500
I reflashed my BIOS an viola I have a screaming athlon box. Build time was about
5 minutes with about 90 processes running (servers and such). I am amazed at the
difference a bad bios makes.
Phil Durbin wrote:
> I am trying to figure out why my box is so slow compiling the kernel.
> My AMD k7 600 takes 35 minutes to compile the 2.4 kernel (nothing special
> here , just
> SCSI, ethernet card, usb, and sound as extras ) in single user mode on RH 7.0
> .
> My old 386 40 compiled 1.2 in less time. I am scrathcing my head about this;
> I have 384 MB
> and a SCSI disk (not necessarly faster than ide but respectable 40 mb) .
> Perfomance isn't great but its not awful either . top, vmstat, graphical
> performance monitors seem ok. Disk swapping is non-existent. Just compiling
> really sucks ! I am going to grab a different distrubtion (debian) and
> do an install to see if I screwed up some libraries (I did the RH 7.0 glib
> upgrades ). I am also wondering if its a hardware issue. I haven't seen
> anything in the logs, but when I tried to load USB module it was spewing
> messages to console about not liking the usb (I am not loading the modules
> currently). Has anybody else had this kind of problems ? How long does it
> take other AMD 600's to compile ?
>
> Eggert Ehmke wrote:
>
> > On 18 Jan 2001 06:18:50 GMT, Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >I am still using a K6-2 450 with 128M EDO Ram, running kernel 2.4.0.
> > >It takes me about 9.5 minutes to compile the kernel :(
> > >Could some of you running fast machines (Thunderbird, P-III, P-4)
> > >tell me how long it takes you to compile your kernel ?
> >
> > What do you expect ? Faster machines will compile faster. On my old P120 it
> > took one hour. On my PIII860 a few minutes.
> >
> > --
> > Eggert Ehmke
> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: webqueen, queen of the web <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gnome term - why does only terminal font work?
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 02:03:08 GMT
Any other font I chose spaces the cursor like 20 spaces from the prompt,
and most insert a space between every character I type, plus the text is
all garbled. I set it back to terminal (which offers only 1 size) and
its OK again, albiet tiny and none-too legible.
I tried installing "font deuglification" (which in itself was an ugly
process resulting in me having to initialize my disk and re-install
redhat) and that didn't help. Gnome help doesn't mention these problems
that I can see.
Although there is much to love about Linux, I can't count fonts among
them.
HUG,
WQ
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RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
Alone, only a harmless pet...
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From: Phil Durbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel upgrade
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 21:18:11 -0500
Also if you did do make modules AND make modules_install and still get
unwanted
modules errors (modules you changed to be in the kernel) remove them from
/etc/modules.conf
Noname wrote:
> I don't remember doing "make modules" or "make modules_install"
>
> What I usually do is:
> "make dep clean bzImage bzlilo"
>
> Thanks for the advice
>
> >
> > You should have already had a directory /lib/modules/2.4.0, after
> running
> > "make modules" and "make modules_install". Do you have a new enough
> > version of modutils installed? See Documentation/Changes in the
> kernel
> > source code.
> >
> > --
> > Paul Kimoto
> > This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any
> images,
> > hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
> > and may be a violation of international copyright law.
> >
>
> --
>
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yahoo mesenger and RH6.2
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 02:09:33 GMT
My Yahoo messager worked 2 months ago, but when I log in it gives the
following message:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
I guess Yahoo must have changed something at their end to cause this
problem.
I recommend that you go to the web based Yahoo messenger until they fix
the linux version.
suri wrote:
> Hi
> iinstalled yahoo messenger beta RPM and istallation went properly,
> but messenger just hanging up, and doing nothing,
> any idea??
> thanks in advance
> suri
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From: "Keith Leite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux bootdisk(s) with X support?
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 02:30:54 GMT
Have you taken a look at QNX
http://www.qnx.com
"Jan Vandesompele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:95bk5c$apl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to make let's say two disks, which allow you to boot a
linux
> kernel and provide basic X support? I need some kind of boot disk to run
an
> ICA client (terminal server client). I can't install anything on the
> harddrive of the machines, it are NTFS partitions which I can't delete and
> may not boot into.
> So what I need is: TCP/IP stack to connect to the Citrix Terminal Server,
X
> support so I can load Citrix ICA Client.
> Maybe I can make a bootable CD somehow? But how do I do that? I certainly
> would have 'a bit' more space to put everything on.
> What are the basic files needed to run Xfree?
>
> Maybe a difficult problem...
>
> Cheers, Jan Vandesompele
>
>
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