Linux-Misc Digest #41, Volume #27 Tue, 6 Feb 01 18:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: PCI: "the same IRQ is used by device" problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
? run 'other' partition - How2 ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to check for process existence (Jean-David Beyer)
kernel null pointer on dual cpu-celeron (Chris Pelton)
Re: Compile from Micro soft access to Linux (Carl Kvanvig)
Re: Where to find a RH 7.1 beta CD? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Peter T. Breuer")
Stumped by random X freezes,slow system (Chet Vora)
help: can't login (Alexandre L Cunha)
Re: Problem with Redhat 7 and XFree86-4.01 System freezes for no (Frederick
Bartlett)
Re: help: can't login (Michael Heiming)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else (Mark Bratcher)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else (Mark Bratcher)
mounting bloc device ("Fr�d�ric Hoerni")
Re: Newbie: programming? (Andy Bonaffini)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: PCI: "the same IRQ is used by device" problem
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 20:39:33 GMT
In article <95pc88$e1b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My PCI subsystem (kernel 2.4.1) issues "the same IRQ is used
> by device..." message when I try to use, for example, my network
> card running the adsl-start script. The IRQ in question is 9 and
> it's shared by my network card (3Com 3c905B "Cyclone"), the sound
> card (SB 256 Live!) and the USB controller (VIA chipset); my
> motherboard is Asus A7V.
>
> Any suggestions how to get the PCI working? Thanks.
>
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>
The easiest way to deal with this is to go into your BIOS and set the
irq's for these items. to see what irq's are availible you can do a
lspci -v, hope this helps
--
Tim Coble
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ? run 'other' partition - How2 ?
Date: 6 Feb 2001 20:59:00 GMT
Hi,
I'm running RH6.2 from /dev/hda6.
And I've also got an instalation on /dev/hda5.
A script:
#!/bin/csh
fails on my /dev/hda6 installation, but another machine which
was installed from the same CD runs this script.
I'm thinking/hoping that perhaps my /dev/hda5 installation can handle
the #!/bin/csh script. I'm booting from a floppy to /dev/hda6.
How can I boot to /dev/hda5 - which was installed previously.
I can/do access /dev/hda5 for data-storage.
BTW. is it difficult to change the default shell from bash to csh.
The dud partition has got /bin/csh s-linked to /bin/tcsh, so
something else is 'failing'. Since this Nwsgroups 'scrolls fast',
I'd appreciate any advice also emailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
Chris Glur.
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to check for process existence
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:00:37 -0500
Chris Coyle wrote:
>
> "Jean-David Beyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Thomas Hahn wrote:
> > >
> > > OK, so I want to find out within my C program if process "foo" exists, and I
> > > want to
> > > do it efficiently. Doing system("killall -0 foo") or popen("/bin/ps -e") takes
> > > too long
> > > (like 30ms). I don't want to pay for execing a shell or starting a new process.
> > >
> > > I could probably grovel around and find some old ps source, but I was hoping
> > > someone
> > > could just go "I've done this, here's the code". Oh, and it needs to work on
> > > Irix too.
> > >
> > Do you happen to know the pid of process foo? If so, you could kill(2)
> > it and look at the return code. kill(pid, 0), so you do not annoy pid. I
> > worked on a system with a very large (> 200) number of cooperating
> > sequential processes, and we did this to see if particular ones were
> > still alive.
> >
> Some processes write their pid into a file at startup.
> If you own `foo' why don't you make it do this.
> Then you can read the pid from the file.
It might be that the overhead of opening the file and reading it is too
high; perhaps as high as the system(3) call (though I imagine it is
less).
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 3:55pm up 9 days, 24 min, 3 users, load average: 2.49, 2.31, 2.14
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From: Chris Pelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel null pointer on dual cpu-celeron
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 14:22:07 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hello,
we're running several dual-cpu celeron 466 machines with Redhat 6.2,
kernel 2.2.16-3 with SMP support, and get the following error:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
0000000a
which will completely lock up the machine. it seems to be relatively
random, i.e. not traceable to a single process. Any ideas?
thanks for any help,
chris
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From: Carl Kvanvig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compile from Micro soft access to Linux
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 21:30:04 -0000
GYULAI Mihaly wrote:
>
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Carl Kvanvig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Is there software that will compile a micro soft based access
> > program into linux?
>
> I've read in MySQL doc, that it can import data from MS Access
> database, however you should write the program to use those data.
>
> --
> GYULAI Mihaly
Thanks for your response. I have a program that is developed in Access and
would like to compile it into Lenux format to operate on a lenux web host.
Thus I would like to convert the entire program into Lenux. Is that
possible?
> http://gyulai.freeyellow.com
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Where to find a RH 7.1 beta CD?
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 21:40:31 GMT
>> Does anyone know of a website which sells a RH 7.1 beta CD? (probably
>> 2 CD's) I checked some of the sites like Cheapbytes, LSL, and KRUD,
>> but no luck. Any suggestions?
>>
>
>Good God, man! They just released the beta a week ago or so. I highly
>doubt anyone would be selling it yet. Come to think of it, I don't
>think I have _ever_ seen any distributor selling a _beta_ release of
>RedHat. Just download the ISO's yourself and burn them. Or find
>someone w/ fast access nice enough to do it for you and mail you the
>CD's for a small fee.
>
>
Thanks for the reply, but LSL *just today* put up a 7.1 RH beta CD
for US$3.78 (it wasn't there yesterday when I looked)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 22:27:33 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you worded it. The two sentences refer to different subjects. The
> first sentence makes a declaration about what "I" believe, whereas the
> second talks about what is believed by people in general.
> If you kept it consistent, you would have:
> I deny that the continuum hypothesis holds. I simply don't know
> whether it holds or not.
> Sounds more like a person who is very confused about what they really
> believe (ie, the sentences aren't really consistent).
More like, but not equal to. The point that I was trying to make was
"I hold that the truth value of the CH is not 1.0. But I don't know what
value it is exactly". I.e. that the second statement adds to the
first, and IS consistent with it. That's at least one reading of "I
don't agree that god exists. I simply don't know whether he does or
not" (and you can replace "know" with "can't prove" or any other
modality to taste).
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 22:28:44 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Then there was the "agnostic dyslexic insomniac" who used to lay awake
> all night wonding if there really was a dog.
Nice attempt to end a thread by darwinizing it.
Peter
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From: Chet Vora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Stumped by random X freezes,slow system
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:42:58 -0500
Hi,
I recently installed RH6.2 on a HP Kayak XA workstation which used to host a
Win9X system before(removed). After having lots of problems with the display
(because of incorrect resolution settings) and the mouse (cursor would position
itself on the LH corner and not move from there. Cured by choosing the right
driver for it), I was able to get XFree86 running on it. But I've been
experiencing sudden random freezes while in Gnome. Also, things seem to be very
slow, though that observation might also hold true when in console mode (without
X). There doesn't seem to be any pattern to the freezes. The one thing worth
mentioning is that the system seems to be using the SCSI driver for the PCI bus.
Relevant o/p of dmesg:
=========================
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 2, device 0, function 0
ncr53c8xx: 53c875 detected with Symbios NVRAM
ncr53c875-0: rev=0x04, base=0xfbfff800, io_port=0xe800, irq=10
ncr53c875-0: Symbios format NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
ncr53c875-0: initial SCNTL3/DMODE/DCNTL/CTEST3/4/5 = (hex) 05/4e/80/01/00/24
ncr53c875-0: final SCNTL3/DMODE/DCNTL/CTEST3/4/5 = (hex) 05/46/a0/00/08/24
ncr53c875-0: on-chip RAM at 0xfbffe000
ncr53c875-0: resetting, command processing suspended for 2 seconds
ncr53c875-0: restart (scsi reset).
ncr53c875-0: enabling clock multiplier
ncr53c875-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - version 3.2a-2
scsi : 1 host.
I am also attaching the XF86Config file.
Would appreciate any help.
TIA,
Chet
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From: Alexandre L Cunha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help: can't login
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 16:42:19 -0500
After I enter my login or root at the login prompt the computer just
hangs! It doesn't even go to the passowrd prompt. All I can do is
control+C or reboot the machine. How can I fix that ?
Running Red Hat 6.2 on a Pentium Pro.
Thanks,
- Alex.
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From: Frederick Bartlett <FredB'ignore@silly'optonline.net>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with Redhat 7 and XFree86-4.01 System freezes for no
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 21:46:47 GMT
Hal,
I seem to have been running 3.3.6 on my nVidia card.
But doing (finally) the sensible thing and reading /var/log/messages, I
see that the freeze happens after crond runs rmmod, as follows:
Feb 4 14:40:00 ool-18be6c45 CROND[1033]: (root) CMD ( /sbin/rmmod
-as)
Feb 4 14:41:29 ool-18be6c45 kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2
Feb 4 14:41:29 ool-18be6c45 apmd[415]: System Suspend
Feb 4 23:50:00 ool-18be6c45 CROND[1031]: (root) CMD ( /sbin/rmmod
-as)
Feb 4 23:50:01 ool-18be6c45 kernel: hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB
Cache
Feb 4 23:50:01 ool-18be6c45 kernel: hdd: ATAPI 6X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive,
768kB Cache
Feb 4 23:50:36 ool-18be6c45 kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2
Feb 4 23:50:36 ool-18be6c45 apmd[414]: System Suspend
Feb 5 20:20:00 ool-18be6c45 CROND[11731]: (root) CMD ( /sbin/rmmod
-as)
Feb 5 20:21:05 ool-18be6c45 kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2
Feb 5 20:21:05 ool-18be6c45 apmd[439]: System Suspend
So I'm guessing that I should try removing USB support from my kernel.
Can you point me to where I can find out how to do that?
Thanks,
Fred
Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 01:35:17 GMT, Frederick Bartlett
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >I'm relatively new at this -- but would recompiling the kernel so as to
> >leave out all sound modules perhaps help?
>
> Probably not. I would suspect somekind of X server problem. RH7 comes
> with both 4.01 and 3.3.6. Just guessing you are using 4.01, I would try
> 3.3.6. You might also look for IRQ conflicts (cat /proc/interrupts).
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 22:35:18 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help: can't login
Alexandre L Cunha wrote:
> After I enter my login or root at the login prompt the computer just
> hangs! It doesn't even go to the passowrd prompt. All I can do is
> control+C or reboot the machine. How can I fix that ?
> Running Red Hat 6.2 on a Pentium Pro.
>
> Thanks,
> - Alex.
Hello,
how far does your machine boot, syslogd gets on my distro (SuSE) started
in runlevel 1.
Try booting from floppy/CD, boot some kind of rescue system on them,
mount your /var where ever
it is to /tmp and take a look if something got logged in the depending
on your syslog.conf various files
in /var/log/, this could give some help what goes wrong..
Hope you have a hardcopy of your fstab handy or know on which partition
it is...:-)
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 21:57:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.misc Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Then there was the "agnostic dyslexic insomniac" who used to lay awake
>> all night wonding if there really was a dog.
>
>Nice attempt to end a thread by darwinizing it.
>
Not really. Just a lost attempt at levity. :-)
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply, remove both underscores (_) from my email address
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 21:58:52 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.misc Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> you worded it. The two sentences refer to different subjects. The
>> first sentence makes a declaration about what "I" believe, whereas the
>> second talks about what is believed by people in general.
>
>> If you kept it consistent, you would have:
>
>> I deny that the continuum hypothesis holds. I simply don't know
>> whether it holds or not.
>
>> Sounds more like a person who is very confused about what they really
>> believe (ie, the sentences aren't really consistent).
>
>More like, but not equal to. The point that I was trying to make was
>"I hold that the truth value of the CH is not 1.0. But I don't know what
>value it is exactly". I.e. that the second statement adds to the
>first, and IS consistent with it. That's at least one reading of "I
>don't agree that god exists. I simply don't know whether he does or
>not" (and you can replace "know" with "can't prove" or any other
>modality to taste).
>
If you replace the word "deny" in the original with "don't agree"
then I agree.
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply, remove both underscores (_) from my email address
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Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: "Fr�d�ric Hoerni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mounting bloc device
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 22:27:03 +0100
is it possible to mount /dev/sga (cd writer) which is in bloc mode, as a
filesystem ?
i get an error.
thanks
--
Frederic Hoerni
Soci�t� Jet Multim�dia Hosting
05 62 74 47 20
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andy Bonaffini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie: programming?
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 12:22:34 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Go to www.sun.com and download the java SDK and forte development
environment.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have recently switched to Linux, and am ready to get started
> programming. I have a little experience programming with Borland C++
> Builder, and M$ Visual Basic, both of which are exclusively for
> Windows. Now, I took a look at GTK, and I have NEVER seen anything so
> complicated! I also could not figure out Glade, which is obviously a
> tool for making GTK programs.
>
> Where should I start? Should I start with C++? I would like to make
> programs with GUI's (not text-based). Any guidance would be a HUGE
> help. What language, how to get started, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason.
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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