Linux-Misc Digest #931, Volume #27 Wed, 23 May 01 20:13:04 EDT
Contents:
LUG question, please help (aaronBauman)
Re: linux libraries (Dave Uhring)
Re: LILO and Operating System Missing (John in SD)
Re: rh 7.1 driving me nuts ("alik blochin")
Re: libc5 on makdrake 8? ("Olav Fossgaard")
Re: IBM to let Linux fans use mainframe--for free ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
linux password (Jeff)
cdrecord fails only with 2.4.x kernel (Chris Sherman)
Re: cdrecord fails only with 2.4.x kernel
Re: Swapping on RAID1 ("Steve Wolfe")
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From: aaronBauman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,alt.comp.linux.xxx,alt.os.linux.best,comp.os.linux.help,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: LUG question, please help
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 18:11:37 -0400
disclaimer: if this is off-topic, please email me offlist to redirect me.
hi all,
i'm trying to get together a LUG in NYC, specifically in the Columbia U.
community. anyone have any experience with managing LUGs or starting
them, or attending them? I'd really like to talk about linux with other
people who are also into it, but i don't know how to start...
help much appreciated.
-aaron
--
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux libraries
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:12:36 -0500
Lack Mr G M wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> |>
> |> I am running RH 7.1 at work and here at home. I have had a problem with
> |> a couple differnt programs trying to install or compile from source or
> |> from rpm. It is asking for libcrypto.so.0 and libssl.so.0 .
> |>
> |> Now i have both of these files in /usr/lib. And also have the latest
> |> (i
> |> think) of these files in there, libcrypto.so.0.9.6 and
> |> libssl.so.0.9.6.
>
> How did they get there? These are from OpenSSL.
>
> |> I have tried adding /usr/lib to my path
>
> That will have no effect. LD_LIBRARY_PATH is what affects dynamic
> library finding, and /usr/lib is going to be searched anyway. However,
> if you haven't rebooted the system since adding them you might neeed to
> run:
>
> /sbin/ldconfig -v
>
> as root.
>
Red Hat 7.1 - XFS-SGI system, almost everything installed:
/usr/lib/libcrypto.a
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.6
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.5a
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0
/usr/lib/libssl.a
/usr/lib/libssl.so
/usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.6
/usr/lib/libssl.so.1
/usr/lib/apache/libssl.so
/usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.5a
/usr/lib/libssl.so.0
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: LILO and Operating System Missing
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 22:20:26 GMT
On Wed, 23 May 2001 09:29:23 -0500, "LRW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have WinME installed on /dev/hda1, and Linux on /dev/hdb1.
>I set up the install the first time to accidently install LILO onto /hda1
>instead of /hdb1. No biggie, I just had to type "dos" at the LILO: prompt to
>boot up WinME.
>
>However, I had to reinstall Linux, and put LILO on /hdb1 and start from
>floppy.
>
>Now when I boot up w/o the floppy, after the POST I get only "LI" of "LILO:"
>and it stalls. With the floppy in I get the whole LILO: and it boots to
>Linux fine, but if I try to type dos, it says partition doesn't exist.
>During setup with Disk Druid, I made no changes to the FAT partitions.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>IF I have to reinstall WinME, it's no big deal. My WinME OS is partioned off
>on a seperate partition from the other FAT drive, so nothing important
>should be hurt. (Again, I didn't make any changes to the FAT drive.)
>
>My followup question then is if I have to reinstall WinME back onto drive a,
>will it change Linux on the drive b at all? I'm doubting it, since I have a
>boot floppy for it.
>
>And a last question, I tried to edit the lilo.conf (sp?) file that contains
>what OS options to boot too, and while /etc (?) has it, I mounted and ls'ed
>the floppy and there's nothing there. How can I edit it on the floppy to
>make sure the "dos" aprtition is an option?
>
When you first installed to /dev/hda1, LILO should have created a backup file
of the boot record as /boot/boot.0301. A restore of this record may help the
WinME partition. I'd look at the record with "hexdump", to see if it is a
Windows boot record.
Otherwise, the re-install of WinME may be the only option.
--John
LILO version 21.7 (24-Feb-2001) source at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo
patches to -2 at ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo
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From: "alik blochin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rh 7.1 driving me nuts
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 01:27:12 +0200
how exactly do i do it?
"Dave Uhring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> alik blochin wrote:
>
> > i am going just crazy... guys :
> >
> > i am trying to install rh 7.1 for god knows what time
> > and still without success :
> >
> > the installation gets stacked at the point of :
> > "transferring install image to harddrive"
> >
> > and it gives the error
> > "it was an error, maybe you haven't got enough free space"
> > or something like that but that's not true:
> >
> > i have a 14 GB allocated just for linux
> > 512MB swap
> > / 7GB
> > /usr all the rest
> >
> >
> > i tried all the option available :
> > disk druid
> > fdisk
> > with all options with those tools
> >
> > nothing just helps
> > the system hangs on the point of
> > "transferring install image to harddrive"
> >
> > it's driving me nuts....
> > what the hell i am suppose to do to get it work !!!!?????????
> >
> > I know that if i turn to Red Hat
> > god knows when i'll get an answer....
> >
> > if somebody knows something please help..
> > i need to install it...
> >
> > and i don't want to mess with mandrake
> > mandrake just freezes on my machine...
> >
> > Configuration:
> >
> > 900mHZ AMD
> > Chaintech motherboard 7AJA
> > 20GB WD +
> > 30GB Quantum : 14GB for linux
>
> Drop your memory bus speed from 133MHz to 100MHz for the install.
>
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From: "Olav Fossgaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: libc5 on makdrake 8?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 00:17:55 +0200
"Ben Pearre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I just installed Mandrake 8. It's got some problems, but the first one
> to really stump me is this: I can't run any libc5 programs.
>
> (0)diverge@/usr/local/bin% ls -Fla catdoc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root
> 8136 Nov 19 2000 catdoc* (0)diverge@/usr/local/bin% ./catdoc
> zsh: no such file or directory: ./catdoc (1)diverge@/usr/local/bin% ldd
> catdoc /usr/bin/ldd: ./catdoc: No such file or directory
> (1)diverge@/usr/local/bin% ssh gradient "ldd /usr/local/bin/catdoc"
> libc.so.5 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000e000)
> (0)diverge@/usr/local/bin% rpm -q libc5 libc5-5.4.38-3
> (0)diverge@/usr/local/bin%
>
> Yes, I've added /usr/i486-linuxlibc5/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and run
> ldconfig, which knows it's there.
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Please cc me on any replies!
> Thanks very much :)
> -Ben
>
I needed libc5 to run programs like Maple and Matlab on LM 8.0. I installed
libc5-1.0-2.i386.rpm and all was fine.
Olav
--
If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving is not for you.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: IBM to let Linux fans use mainframe--for free
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 18:48:23 -0400
fmc wrote:
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I found this info at:
> >
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010522/tc/ibm_to_let_linux_fans_use_mainfr
> ame--for_free_1.html
> >
> > Anyone knows how to get this access?
>
> Yes, read this:
>
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010522/tc/ibm_to_let_linux_fans_use_mainfr
> ame--for_free_1.html
When posting long URL's please adjust your line length so that they don't
get fucked up
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010522/tc/ibm_to_let_linux_fans_use_mainframe--for_free_1.html
> fm
>
> >
> > Zalek
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff)
Subject: linux password
Date: 23 May 2001 15:59:56 -0700
hi there,
sb set the password for some of the linuxs box in the students lab, I
don't know
where to unset the password, please give me some hints.
the password is right after choosing linux at the boot menu ( a
splash picture with red hat and a menu of OS for you to choose at the
right side)
the password waits for some seconds then gives error message and waits
again so whole screen is full of password input and error messages.
Jeff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Sherman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: cdrecord fails only with 2.4.x kernel
Date: 23 May 2001 23:19:21 GMT
I have the following hardware:
Dell OptiPlex GX1
Pentium III running at 550 MHz
Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI card
Yamaha 8,4,24 CDR/CDRW writer
External SCSI
128M RAM
cdrecord versions:
1.9 (comes with RH 7.1)
1.11a01
kernel versions:
stock RH 7.1 kernel
Linux version 2.4.4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat
Linux 7.1 2.96-81)) #1 Wed May 9 11:09:12 EDT 2001
(compiled myself--all drivers compiled into kernel)
Problem:
I can cut CDR and CDRW under RH 6.2 using a 2.2.18 kernel all
day long without a single problem, but when I (dual) boot to
the 2.4.2 (stock) or a 2.4.4 (built myself) kernel (both 2.4
kernels under RH 7.1), I get all kinds of problems...
However, every once in a while, it works. I just get these
errors most of the time (90% or higher). Bouncing the drive
power has no effect on results. Neither does changing the
recording speed (tried 4x and 8x, both failed consistantly,
though 1x has seen some success). Nor does having a GUI
running or not.
When the recording halts, it could be on the 0th byte written,
the 2nd MB written, or the 11th. It has never halted (yet)
when it has gotten past 11, however. It usually halts
somewhere around 2-6 MB written.
If I boot back to the RH 6.2 image, everything runs perfectly.
There are 3 other SCSI CDROM devices (non-writers) on the scsi
chain and they all work perfectly under all kernels.
Here is the log from my most recent attempt. (Sorry for the
extra script stuff, but some may want to look at the way I
call cdrecord).
#!/bin/bash -xv
prog_name=`basename $0`
basename $0
++ basename /home/sherman/bin/cdr
+ prog_name=cdr
image_to_cut=$1
+ image_to_cut=/tmp/burn2
if [ -f $image_to_cut ] ; then
cutting="f"
elif [ -d $image_to_cut ] ; then
cutting="d"
else
echo "Not a file or directory: $image_to_cut"
exit 1
fi
+ '[' -f /tmp/burn2 ']'
+ '[' -d /tmp/burn2 ']'
+ cutting=d
if [ $cutting = "d" ] ; then
if [ -f ${image_to_cut}/VOLSER ] ; then
volser=`cat ${image_to_cut}/VOLSER`
else
volser="654123"
fi
fi
+ '[' d = d ']'
+ '[' -f /tmp/burn2/VOLSER ']'
+ volser=654123
if [ $prog_name == "cdr" ] ; then
speed=8
filesystem="-R -r -J -VV"
elif [ $prog_name = "cdrw" ] ; then
speed=4
filesystem="-R -r -J"
blank="blank=fast"
else
echo "Who is ${prog_name}?"
exit 1
fi
+ '[' cdr == cdr ']'
+ speed=8
+ filesystem=-R -r -J -VV
if [ $cutting = "d" ] ; then
IMG_SIZE=`mkisofs -f -R -r -J -q -quiet -print-size $image_to_cut 2>&1 \
| grep Total | sed -e "s/.* = //"`
echo "Size is $IMG_SIZE"
eval "[ "0$IMG_SIZE" -ne 0 ] && mkisofs -f $filesystem -quiet -f \
$flags1 $flags2 $image_to_cut \
| cdrecord -v -eject speed=$speed $blank dev=/dev/sgd \
tsize=${IMG_SIZE}s -data -"
else
cdrecord -v -eject speed=$speed $blank dev=/dev/sgd $image_to_cut
fi
+ '[' d = d ']'
mkisofs -f -R -r -J -q -quiet -print-size $image_to_cut 2>&1 | grep Total | sed
-e "s/.* = //"
++ mkisofs -f -R -r -J -q -quiet -print-size /tmp/burn2
++ grep Total
++ sed -e 's/.* = //'
+ IMG_SIZE=154130
+ echo 'Size is 154130'
Size is 154130
+ eval '[ 0154130 -ne 0 ] && mkisofs -f -R -r -J -VV -quiet -f /tmp/burn2
+ | cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=/dev/sgd tsize=154130s -data -'
[ 0154130 -ne 0 ] && mkisofs -f -R -r -J -VV -quiet -f /tmp/burn2 |
cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=/dev/sgd tsize=154130s -data -
++ '[' 0154130 -ne 0 ']'
++ mkisofs -f -R -r -J -VV -quiet -f /tmp/burn2
++ cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=/dev/sgd tsize=154130s -data -
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jvrg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '/dev/sgd'
devname: '/dev/sgd'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
atapi: 0
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities : SYNC
Vendor_info : 'YAMAHA '
Identifikation : 'CRW8424S '
Revision : '1.0f'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Drive buf size : 3172848 = 3098 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 301 MB
Total size: 345 MB (34:15.09) = 154132 sectors
Lout start: 346 MB (34:17/07) = 154132 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 4
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
Disk sub type: Medium Type B, low Beta category (B-) (4)
ATIP start of lead in: -11580 (97:27/45)
ATIP start of lead out: 333226 (74:05/01)
Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 9
Manufacturer: Kodak Japan Limited
Blocks total: 333226 Blocks current: 333226 Blocks remaining: 179094
RBlocks total: 343358 RBlocks current: 343358 RBlocks remaining: 189226
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 9 seconds.8 seconds.7
seconds.6 seconds.5 seconds.4 seconds.3
seconds.2 seconds.1 seconds.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
Performing OPC...
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 0 of 301 MB written.
Track 01: 1 of 301 MB written (fifo 96%).
Track 01: 2 of 301 MB written (fifo 100%).
Track 01: 3 of 301 MB written (fifo 100%).
Track 01: 4 of 301 MB written (fifo 100%).
Track 01: 5 of 301 MB written (fifo 100%). 3.25% done, estimate finish Wed May 23
17:22:54 2001
Track 01: 6 of 301 MB written (fifo 100%).
Track 01: 7 of 301 MB written (fifo 100%).
Track 01: 8 of 301 MB written (fifo 100%).
Track 01: 9 of 301 MB written (fifo 100%).
Track 01: 10 of 301 MB written (fifo 100%).
Track 01: 11 of 301 MB written (fifo 100%).
cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 16 29 00 00 1F 00
Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 04 01 00 00
Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x04 Qual 0x01 (logical unit is in process of becoming ready) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
write track data: error after 11618304 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Writing time: 67.030s
Fixating...
Fixating time: 35.045s
cdrecord: fifo had 247 puts and 184 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 156 times full, min fill was 95%.
Also, here is another failure messeage (slightly different):
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 2 of 301 MB written (fifo 100%).
cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 04 F7 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 21 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x00 (logical block address out of range) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
write track data: error after 2603008 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Writing time: 57.260s
Fixating...
Fixating time: 33.175s
cdrecord: fifo had 105 puts and 42 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 15 times full, min fill was 95%.
So, what changed with the new 2.4.x kernels (wrt burning under
scsi)? Why does my hardware hate those changes so much? I
really want to get this working so I can shift completely to the
2.4.x kernels. Till this works, I have to stick with the older
kernels (at least for burning)... Which is a totally bummer.
Also, can anyone tell me what the error message are actually
saying?
Thanx very much for any help!
(Of course, if you need more information from me, please ask.
I'll try to turn around questions very quickly. And if you
want me to try different options in the kernel builds, just
say so, and I'll try it. Also, is there another newsgroup
or mailing list I should post this question to?).
--
Chris Sherman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
JAPH / UNIX RE / STO
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: cdrecord fails only with 2.4.x kernel
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 23:30:41 GMT
On 23 May 2001 23:19:21 GMT, Chris Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have the following hardware:
>
> Dell OptiPlex GX1
> Pentium III running at 550 MHz
> Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI card
> Yamaha 8,4,24 CDR/CDRW writer
> External SCSI
> 128M RAM
>
> cdrecord versions:
> 1.9 (comes with RH 7.1)
> 1.11a01
>
> kernel versions:
> stock RH 7.1 kernel
> Linux version 2.4.4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat
>Linux 7.1 2.96-81)) #1 Wed May 9 11:09:12 EDT 2001
> (compiled myself--all drivers compiled into kernel)
>
>
>Problem:
>
> I can cut CDR and CDRW under RH 6.2 using a 2.2.18 kernel all
> day long without a single problem, but when I (dual) boot to
> the 2.4.2 (stock) or a 2.4.4 (built myself) kernel (both 2.4
> kernels under RH 7.1), I get all kinds of problems...
It works perfectly on my system. I have both the ide-scsi and scsi cdrom
drivers build into my system.
CDRW is another matter. It'll only write 200M and then lock up the drive
requiring a reboot to eject the disc.
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Swapping on RAID1
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:29:31 -0600
> I am running a software raid on 2 x ide drives - one is bigger than the
> other so I utilise the difference in space by filling that one with the
> swap. Works fine. I think that as the swap only stores temporary data it
> does't matter if it ever goes west.
Uh.... if the data you've swapped out is lost, expect "real bad things"
when the machine tries to swap them back in.
steve
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