Linux-Misc Digest #952, Volume #27 Sun, 27 May 01 13:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Kppp fails in KDE V2.x (Ulrich Brachvogel)
Re: Strange GCC problem on LINUX box (Tiikuli)
Sound cuts off in Xwin and stalls (LRW)
Re: microphone volume level? (ivo welch)
Re: Why ext2 filesystem check after some time? (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
Re: Apache now working (Chris Ahlstrom)
Re: iBCS 2.1 and Kernel 2.4.x ("John G. Sandell")
Re: Why ext2 filesystem check after some time? (Dave Uhring)
Re: Weird problem - Eterm and rxvt use one minute to start up, xterm (Ian Northeast)
Re: Strange GCC problem on LINUX box ("bowman")
Re: [Q] how to compile/link against older libc? ("bowman")
Re: how to undo a ramdisk ( /dev/ram* ) ? (Michael Heiming)
Re: Resize the swap file? ("Brian Davis")
Re: Resize the swap file? (Michael Heiming)
Re: shutdown quirk (John Thompson)
Re: Mandrake-8.0 + Realtek 8139B ether card? (Zac)
Need Lexmark Z31 printer driver ("Al Llorca")
Java support for Opera (Gaetan Paquette)
AD : Multichannel OD Test Cards For Sale �25 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Kwrite for Gnome? (LRW)
Re: FAT32 mounting problem....please help ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: Resize the swap file? (LRW)
Re: Kwrite for Gnome? ("bowman")
Re: Help needed with Lilo dual boot ("DMcBee")
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From: Ulrich Brachvogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kppp fails in KDE V2.x
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 11:16:07 +0200
Hi,
since I have installed KDE 2.1 I�m not able to execute kppp successfully
because apparently there is a problem with the parameters given to
pppd by kppp.
This is what kppp says
pppd died unexpectedly Return Value 2
Apr 19 13:00:37 Ulli pppd[5401]: /usr/lib/passwordfd.so: undefined symbol:
chap_passwd_hook
Apr 19 13:00:37 Ulli pppd[5401]: Couldn't load plugin /usr/lib/passwordfd.so
The mentioned lib exists under /usr/lib
In the meantime I did a workaround by using the kppp V1.x
( disadvantage: modemlights appear on the Desktop, not in the panel.)
Under KDE V1.x kppp works fine.
I already tried deja.news without success.
TIA for hints Ulrich
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tiikuli)
Crossposted-To: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Re: Strange GCC problem on LINUX box
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 12:11:37 GMT
On Fri, 25 May 2001 11:28:57 -0400, "Jonathan G. Campbell"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Another case is that of MS-DOS/Windows. There, in physical files, lines
>are terminated with '\r' '\n'. However, C insures that a program never
>sees the '\r'.
You mean, C gets rid of '\r's during i.e. fgets()?
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tiikuli
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From: LRW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Sound cuts off in Xwin and stalls
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 07:53:08 -0500
Having a problem with my Turtle Beach Montego (AU8820) where after
playing one or two wav's in KDE, the sound will stall and no longer play
anything until the next reboot.
When that happens, I'll "ps wux" and see if anything's using the sound
and kill it, but that doesn't make any difference.
Anyone else have that problem, or know a work around?
I have the latest AU8820 driver I could find and using RH6.2 with k:
2.2.14*
Thanks!
Liam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ivo welch)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: microphone volume level?
Date: 27 May 2001 05:58:52 -0700
To relieve the mystery, I have put a small program that seems to
reliably detect the microphone audio volume at
http://welch.som.yale.edu/audiovolume.cc
I will probably take it down from my website in a month or two, so, if
you are interested, grab it while you can.
/ivo welch
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
Subject: Re: Why ext2 filesystem check after some time?
Date: 27 May 2001 15:03:51 +0200
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Dave Uhring wrote:
> Because small file corruptions can occur. If the filesystem is
> unmounted normally, they are not detected. In order to prevent a
> serious accumulation of these corrupt inodes, the system undergoes a
> file system check after some number of mounts.
Can you give an example of these small file corruptions which would
remain undetected? Are they specific to ext2fs?
(I think not rebooting is not a solution for anything, for if I don't
reboot, fsck doesn't get executed, either. But I'm no expert on
this.)
kai
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From: Chris Ahlstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Apache now working
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 13:18:58 GMT
Lamar Thomas wrote:
>
> It turns out that Apache was working all along. The problem was that @Home was
> blocking web access to my server from other @Home users. When tried access from a
> dial-up account everything worked just fine!
You can change port numbers, but then all your visitors will have to
know which port you're using, and add it to the URL. Sigh. @Home
restricts upload rates; shouldn't that be enough protection of their
precious bandwidth?
Chris
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From: "John G. Sandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: iBCS 2.1 and Kernel 2.4.x
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 13:57:14 GMT
Bob Schreibmaier wrote:
>
> Has anybody gotten ibcs-2.1-981105 to compile under any of
> the 2.4.x kernels? The kernel documentation hints that they
> might still have some work to do, but if anyone has any
> secrets to making it work now, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bob
>
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iBCS apparently is being replaced by abi (application binary
interface). Look for it on Sourceforge.
John Sandell
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why ext2 filesystem check after some time?
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 09:05:12 -0500
Kai Gro�johann wrote:
> On Sat, 26 May 2001, Dave Uhring wrote:
>
>> Because small file corruptions can occur. If the filesystem is
>> unmounted normally, they are not detected. In order to prevent a
>> serious accumulation of these corrupt inodes, the system undergoes a
>> file system check after some number of mounts.
>
> Can you give an example of these small file corruptions which would
> remain undetected? Are they specific to ext2fs?
>
> (I think not rebooting is not a solution for anything, for if I don't
> reboot, fsck doesn't get executed, either. But I'm no expert on
> this.)
>
> kai
I don't record what fsck does on a boot when the mount count reaches its
limit. Besides, my system doesn't ever do a fsck since I use XFS
filesystem. And the Solaris system which I also have installed on this
drive is set up as a journalled filesystem. Occasionally, you will see
that an inode has an incorrect dtime and is repaired during that fsck.
No, it is not specific to ext2fs. These small file corruptions also occur
in UFS and Windows fs also. That is why you should set up a weekly
maintenance check on your Windows system. The equivalent 'fsck' in Windows
is 'scandisk'.
If you don't reboot, the mount count will not increase and thus the
automatic fsck will not occur. If an inode does get corrupted and detected
before any self repair occurs, the system bitches loudly and sometimes just
crashes.
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From: Ian Northeast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Weird problem - Eterm and rxvt use one minute to start up, xterm
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 15:05:52 +0100
Wim Koorenneef wrote:
>
> Rune Jacobsen wrote:
>
> > I'm having a weird problem. When I try to start an Eterm or an rxvt (without
> > any special options) on my Linux box, weird things happen. It takes about a
> > minute to start them up!
>
> I'm having the same problem. It doesn't take a whole minute though, more
> like 15 seconds. Running Gnome (redhat 7.1) on a PIII 733 and 256MB.
Problems like this are often name/address resolution related. Ensure
that all interfaces including loopback can be resolved by name and
address. Put them in /etc/hosts if necessary.
Regards, Ian
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From: "bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Re: Strange GCC problem on LINUX box
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 08:16:22 -0600
"Tiikuli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> You mean, C gets rid of '\r's during i.e. fgets()?
I wouldn't blame it on C, but CRLF can get translated to '\n' on Windows if
text and binary usage gets confused. ftp will gladly do the same if the
'bin' mode isn't set. A great way to zap a .exe file is to ftp it from Linux
to Windows using an 'ftp' that defaults to text mode.
This automatic translation can be interesting. if you stat a text file,
allocate a buffer based on the stat'd filesize, do bytes = read(.....); and
the translation is getting done, read will NOT be equal to the filesize
returned by stat. do a linecount on the file, and you'll find the
shortage -- one byte for each line.
doing the 'right thing' with cross platform newlines isn't as easy as it
would seem at first glance. Apple was also different, though I don't know
about their latest greatest OS version.
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From: "bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Q] how to compile/link against older libc?
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 08:21:20 -0600
"Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> i'm trying to work out whether it is possible to link against an older
> version of glibc?
http://www.imaxx.net/~thrytis/glibc/Glibc2-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.3
the definitive glibc HOWTO should be on the gnu site, but I can't find a
live link at the moment.
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Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 16:55:03 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to undo a ramdisk ( /dev/ram* ) ?
SammyTheSnake wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Heiming wrote:
> > df -h | grep ram
>
> why not
>
> df -h /dev/ram0
Cause df will show it, if it's mounted or not, second you get the first
line:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
Wich is sometimes not desired, case you want to reuse the output.
Michael Heiming
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From: "Brian Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Resize the swap file?
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 14:57:51 GMT
There's no way to put that reclaimed space in the root partition, is there?
Thanks,
Brian
"Chris Elvidge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Liam Watts wrote:
> >
> > I've been monitoring my swap file, and it almost never gets over 5%
> > used.
> > I have 128 MB RAM and 250 MB swap file. That's a lot of unused HD space
> > I'd like to get back.
> >
> > Is there a way to resize that partition and reapply the space to the
> > root partition? Or at least take a chunk of it as another partition?
> >
> > Thanks for any assistance!!
> >
> > Liam
>
> Single mode. Swapoff. Fdisk. Delete swap partition. New patritions size
> x and 250-x. Make one type 83, other 82. Write and quit. mkswap
> /dev/hd{whatever}. Swapon. Reboot. makefs /dev/hd{otherwhatever}.
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Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 17:30:38 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Resize the swap file?
Brian Davis wrote:
>
> There's no way to put that reclaimed space in the root partition, is there?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
Unless you're using LVM (Logical Volume Manager) I fear there is no
possibility.
However, you can mount the reclaimed space where you like.
Michael Heiming
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shutdown quirk
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 08:16:25 -0500
faeychyld wrote:
> With all the redhat installations I have
> done, I have noticed initialy, that shutdwon
> can be called from the command line by user and root.
>
> After some time as the system ages, it suddenly refuses
> user access to shutdown and declares root use only.
>
> Subsequent to this, shutdown then requires the full path
> " /sbin/shutdown " before it will work.
>
> I know this can be fixed by changing the permissions
> of 'shutdown' and editing the path statement to include
> 'sbin'.
>
> But it did initialy work!!! anyone?
I haven't seen that on my RedHat systems here, but I suspect the
problem may be that pam is configured to allow only the console
owner to run shutdown. Perhaps pam is getting confused about who
owns the console?
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From: Zac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake-8.0 + Realtek 8139B ether card?
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 14:01:21 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ish Rattan wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a working MAndrake-9.0 system using ne2000 compatible NIC. I
> just got another NIC Realtk-8139B, what is the module name for this
> card, I did see 8139too in /lib/modules/2.4.3*/kernel/drivers/net
> but did not use it yet! Any pointers?
You have to use module 8139too.o for your card and it works ok.
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From: "Al Llorca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need Lexmark Z31 printer driver
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 15:44:15 GMT
Does anyone know where I can get the driver for a Lexmark Z31 inkjet
printer?
Are there any gotcha's I should know to make this printer work?
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From: Gaetan Paquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Java support for Opera
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 12:06:28 -0400
Hi,
I downloaded and installed the latest Opera browser for Linux and I love it!
It's fast, pages are rendered perfectly (no fonts problems) and it's loaded
with features. The only problem is that there is no java support on the
version that I downloaded, what's the story here?
Why is there no java support on the free version?
I will defenitly use Opera as my only browser whenever java support is
included.
Pic.
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From: LRW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Kwrite for Gnome?
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 11:30:07 -0500
I LOVE KDE's kwrite as a super-notepad; but I can't quite find something
like that in Gnome's applications. What I mean is, kwrite allows you to
change color tagging depending on what style you want--HTML, Pearl, C,
etc, and I LOVE that. But I can't find that feature in either of Gnome's
native word editers.
I ask because I'm going to be using a workstation that only have Gnome
and no KDE, otherwise I'd just use kwrite even in Gnome.
Thanks!
Oh, BTW, what are people's opinions between KDE and Gnome? Just
wondering. =)
Thamks again!
Liam
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FAT32 mounting problem....please help
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 16:40:32 GMT
"Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9eoibr$n1t$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I am trying to mount a logical FAT32 partition in RedHat 7.1. It gives
me
> a somewhat cryptic error message when I try to do so.
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda7 /mnt/data
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda7,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> Here is my drive setup given by fdisk:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 5005 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 765 6144831 b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2 766 770 40162+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 771 5005 34017637+ 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 771 1535 6144831 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 1536 1584 393561 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda7 1585 5005 27479151 b Win95 FAT32
>
> I am able to mount the primary FAT32 partition (hda1) without a problem.
> Windows sees the logical FAT32 and can write to it just fine. The logical
> FAT32 was created by the Linux fdisk. I notice that some others are
having
> this problem but can't find a solution. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
Your extended partition (/dev/hda3) has an incorrect type. For containing
FAT32 logical disks, the extended partition type should be 0x0f.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: LRW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Resize the swap file?
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 11:47:08 -0500
Well I wouldn't think so, but I didn't know if Linux had some builtin
partition utility that would do it. I don't think Partition Magic will
will it?
Liam
Brian Davis wrote:
>
> There's no way to put that reclaimed space in the root partition, is there?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> "Chris Elvidge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Liam Watts wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been monitoring my swap file, and it almost never gets over 5%
> > > used.
> > > I have 128 MB RAM and 250 MB swap file. That's a lot of unused HD space
> > > I'd like to get back.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to resize that partition and reapply the space to the
> > > root partition? Or at least take a chunk of it as another partition?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any assistance!!
> > >
> > > Liam
> >
> > Single mode. Swapoff. Fdisk. Delete swap partition. New patritions size
> > x and 250-x. Make one type 83, other 82. Write and quit. mkswap
> > /dev/hd{whatever}. Swapon. Reboot. makefs /dev/hd{otherwhatever}.
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From: "bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Kwrite for Gnome?
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 10:55:38 -0600
"LRW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> I LOVE KDE's kwrite as a super-notepad; but I can't quite find something
> like that in Gnome's applications. What I mean is, kwrite allows you to
> change color tagging depending on what style you want--HTML, Pearl, C,
> etc, and I LOVE that. But I can't find that feature in either of Gnome's
> native word editers.
have you ever used gVim? ( www.vim.org ). It does syntax highlighting for
about any language, indentation and formatting, and so forth. It also is
quite happy on any number of platforms, wm's, and desktops.
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From: "DMcBee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help needed with Lilo dual boot
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 13:15:23 -0400
I'm dual-booting win98&RH6.2 . It work well fro me as well. I ran fdisk and
created two partitions. Installed Win98 on primary partition, then Linux
after. Set win (dos) as lilo boot partition.
If you do it with linux first, then Win98, you'll have to reinstall
Lilo.
I'm pretty pleased with it so far.
Drew
"Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello everyone.
> Please forgive the newbie-ness of this post. I have just installed
> Redhat Linux version 7.1 on and 8 Gig drive. What I would like to do
> is partition the drive so that I can boot to Win98 and Linux. I have
> read that Lilo can do this, but I have been unable to find any
> directions for this.
>
> I am willing to start all over from scratch, but I dont know what to
> do. Do I install Windows first, then Linux? Should I make 2
> partitions first?
>
> If someone could point me in the direction of a URL that can explain
> the process I would really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks a lot.
> Mike
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