Linux-Misc Digest #101, Volume #28 Wed, 13 Jun 01 17:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: ftp downloads stall at 30K (peter pilsl)
Re: localhost.localdomain (karl)
Cannot open master raw device '/dev/rawctl' (No such device) (Sean Marshall)
Re: switching workspaces in Gnome (Ravi Ambros Wallau)
Re: mnt vfat ("kyi")
Re: What to use to write my thesis? (Floyd Davidson)
Re: Slackware 7.1: Lilo and X problems (Dave Uhring)
Re: alsa sound (Dave Uhring)
"GDM Mysteriously Murdered"? (Missy)
Re: gcc 2.96 and Mandrake 8.0 (root)
Re: Timers in threads ("Robert L. Klungle")
is WINE super slow? (Marc Ulrich)
Re: Using CD-RW for backups (Lee Allen)
Re: Compile kernel in rescue mode ("Dave")
adjusting linux partitions (Jonnie)
Reiserfs problems or hardware ? (VP)
Re: Nine questions for newusers (set clock , set services ) (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
Re: Encryption : What is the easiest secure way to encrypt a file in linux (Pascal
Schuppli)
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From: peter pilsl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftp downloads stall at 30K
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 21:13:23 +0200
Ronald Haynes wrote:
> Hi, I have been trying to download a .rpm file onto my PIII Dell
> Latititude notebook
> with a xircom combo card using the modem interface. Downloading
> from the website directly using netscape would continually stall. So I
> logged on to unix account elsewhere and ftp'ed the file to my local
> account there.
> Now I have been trying to download the file to my laptop over a dial-up
> connection.
>
> The file is approx 6 megs. When I attempt to ftp the file it always
> stall at just
> over 30K (not always at the exact same size but always just over 30K).
> My connection
> is working fine, as I am using it to send this message. Any help or
> suggestions would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
did you try downloading other files ?
when the download stalls, can you still view webpages on other hosts ?
did you try other web-clients than netscape ...
are there any hints in the syslogs ?
peter
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From: karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: localhost.localdomain
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 05:23:09 +1000
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Dave wrote:
>Can I change these names to something cooler, or will it corrupt the
>dummy interface in Red Hat Linux?
>
>Ta!
>
>dave.
>From a terminal as root type
hostname [your new hostname]
thats it.
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From: Sean Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Cannot open master raw device '/dev/rawctl' (No such device)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:19:32 -0400
After upgrading from the standard redhat 7.0 kernel to kernel 2.2.19 I
find I cannot access rawdevices such as hard drives. When I run the raw
-qa command I get the following error message Cannot open master raw
device '/dev/rawctl' (No such device)
I need to be able to access raw SCSI devices because I'm running
sanergy, can anyone help me fix this problem?
Thanks,
Sean Marshall
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ravi Ambros Wallau)
Subject: Re: switching workspaces in Gnome
Date: 13 Jun 2001 12:20:50 -0700
There are some mistakes hear:
Gnome is not your Window Manager. Gnome is only a set of applications
and library's that run on your system (The panel and other things).
You should know what is your Windows Manager (It's probally Sawfish,
but there are others), verify how many desktops you have and, in the
Window Manager configuration (Sawfish inside Gnome Control-Panel),
configure the shortcuts. Try delegating other keys to some shortcuts.
In Sawfish, you can use "dead keys", or "win keys".
Good Luck.
"Paul Gallant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> All,
>
> I have a stupid question about using Gnome.
>
> How do I set up my keys so that I can toggle through workspaces easily. For
>example, I
> have 4 workspaces set up. I want to be able to Alt-Tab through them. I
> could do this in KDE, but how do you set this up in Gnome?
>
> Thanks,
>
> pg
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From: "kyi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mnt vfat
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:49:13 -0700
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It's the same as the other lines in the fstab file just place vfat
instead of ext2 of iso9660, like....
<file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat defaults 1 2
just make sure that you use <tab> instead of <space> . Below is what
my fstab file looks like.
kyi:/home/kyi# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options>
<dump> <pass>
/dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro
0 1
/dev/sdb5 none swap sw 0
0
proc /proc proc defaults
0 0
/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom iso9660
defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb6 /var ext2 rw 0 2
/dev/sdb7 /usr/local ext2 rw 0 2
/dev/sda5 /home ext2 rw 0 2
I hope that this helps.
- -Jayson
http://linux.microbsys.com
Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Successfully mounted a vfat partition in Linux. Can't write to it
> though...
>
> what's the right line to put in /etc/fstab
>
> help strongly appreaciated!!
>
Dave.
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc,comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: What to use to write my thesis?
Date: 13 Jun 2001 11:07:32 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wroot) wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm wondering what software or standars people would recommend
>for writing technical scientific papers and a thesis?
>
>If I understand correctly, the main options are MS Word and
>LaTeX. If I choose the former, I'll have to find a Windows
>machine or a Mac (I prefer Linux and FreeBSD). OTOH, LaTeX
>requires considerable learning.
You will never be sorry about the time spent learning LaTeX or
Plain TeX (which is what I use).
I have a well worn copy of "TeX for the Impatient" which I cannot
imagine living without!
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Slackware 7.1: Lilo and X problems
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:57:10 -0500
Stefano Ghirlanda wrote:
> "Michael Pye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> # lilo
>> Fatal: Kernel /vmlinuz is too big.
>
> This is really weird, especially since bare.i is a small kernel... I
> can just confort you by saying that I am as puzzled as you are.
>
>> $ startx
>> Fatal server error:
>> open_framebuffer: failed to open /dev/fb0 (no such device)
>
> Apparently the X server is configure for using the framebuffer. If the
> error is veridical, than you have to create the /dev/fd0 device:
>
> # mknod -m 660 /dev/fb0 c 29 0
>
> You can also read the documentation in the kernel sources,
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/*.
>
> If you are unable to configure the framebuffer, you can set up X
> normally to use your video card, jut use xf86config as usual.
>
> Good luck,
>
I have installed Slackware-7.1 several times and never did it get Lilo
right. During the installation you are offered the opportunity to make a
boot flopppy and you should do so, not only with Slack but with any other
distribution. You will have to manually edit /etc/lilo.conf then execute
/sbin/lilo.
Slackware install configures only the framebuffer. You have to configure
your Xserver yourself with xf86config or XF86Setup.
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: alsa sound
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:00:41 -0500
croc wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Have an onboard sound chip and had it working nice under rehatd 6.1 and
> then drake 7.2 .. upgraded to drake 8.0 and there is nothing now. I did
> origially have the startup sounds working and I could play mp3 files
> (all legal of course ;) )So I tried installing alsa (which is what I did
> sucessfully under redhat 6.1). I can compile and install the drivers and
> the libraries but the utils fail with this upon make:
>
>
> Making all in include
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/usr/local/packages/alsa/alsa-utils-0.5.10/include'
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/local/packages/alsa/alsa-utils-0.5.10/include'
> Making all in alsactl
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/usr/local/packages/alsa/alsa-utils-0.5.10/alsactl'
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -g -O2 -c alsactl.c
> In file included from alsactl.c:22:
> alsactl.h:42: parse error before `snd_switch_t'
> alsactl.h:42: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
> alsactl.h:44: parse error before `}'
> alsactl.h:47: parse error before `snd_ctl_hw_info_t'
> alsactl.h:47: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
> alsactl.h:49: parse error before `}'
> alsactl.h:52: parse error before `snd_mixer_element_info_t'
> alsactl.h:52: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
> alsactl.h:53: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> alsactl.h:54: conflicting types for `next'
> alsactl.h:43: previous declaration of `next'
> alsactl.h:55: parse error before `}'
> alsactl.h:59: parse error before `snd_mixer_info_t'
> alsactl.h:59: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
> alsactl.h:62: conflicting types for `next'
> alsactl.h:54: previous declaration of `next'
> alsactl.h:63: parse error before `}'
> alsactl.h:67: field `info' has incomplete type
> alsactl.h:71: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
> make[1]: *** [alsactl.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/local/packages/alsa/alsa-utils-0.5.10/alsactl'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I am using the 2.4.4 kernel and had tried installing BOTH the 0.5.10 AND
> 0.90beta4
>
> Now even though I cannot compile the utils the bin 'amixer' comes up if
> I just type 'ami' and then hit 'tab' but when I try to unmute the
> channels it then says:
>
> The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system.
>
> I just know that if I can get the utils installed then I can unmute this
> darned stuff and have sound.
>
You do not need amixer. aumix is included with MDK-8.0. After modprobing
your sound modules execute
# aumix -v100 -w100 to get full volume on pcm. Read the manpage to
configure the other settings.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Missy)
Subject: "GDM Mysteriously Murdered"?
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 20:00:49 GMT
For the first time, I recompiled my Mandrake kernel - never saw so
much text whiz by at once! lol But, I did something wrong, and it
doesn't really work - I can't get Xwindows to work, so I was stuck
with a console. And when I wasn't typed it kept spitting the same
message at me:
according to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (1312), but
seems to have been murdered mysteriously.
It was that same message over and over, but with different numbers
(1339, 1350, 1361, etc). Then when I logged in as root, it told me
that I had mail. :P That's impossible! The modem doesn't work with
Linux, and I'm not on a network. lol I used to make xconfig to
compile, and cut out all the networking stuff (I'm not a on a network
anyways), most of the soundcards. What could have caused this? It also
told me a I had modules missing (one was 180 I think). Like I said
alot of text whizzing by.....
Melissa
http://missy842.tripod.com/
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gcc 2.96 and Mandrake 8.0
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 02:20:12 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I read an article yesterday whic said it might have been deliberate that
redhat and drake were latelty shipped with this unstable compiler.. the
reason being it will speed up the development of the compiler as we all
act as a testbed and will report all the problems. JUst widens the
develpment base.
>
> Sud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > I came across this information about how gcc 2.96 is not an official
> > release and would not recommeded in a production enviro.
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html
>
> > well, i checked the gcc version on my Mandrake 8.0 box and sure enuf it was
> > version 2.96. wuold you suggest that i install the recommended(by gnu gcc)
> > version 2.95.2. if so what are the steps to do that.
>
> Download the sources and reade the README and INSTALL files..
>
> - ishwar
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From: "Robert L. Klungle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Timers in threads
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 20:15:40 GMT
Steve Wolfe wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to set/reset multiple interval timers
> > in threads?
> >
> > The man page says there can be one setitimer for
> > each process, however when setting one in each of two
> > different threads, they interfere with each other.
>
> Are you specifying CLONE_VM? If you are, then the two processes are
> sharing the same memory space, and that may be causing some of the
> interferance. If you don't specify that, they will run in seperate memory
> spaces, which may fix the problem - but would not allow you to write to
> the same memory, which deprives you of some of the benefits of threading.
>
> steve
Hi Steve,
Nope, not specifying CLONE_VM. See earlier posts.
cheers...bob
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From: Marc Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: is WINE super slow?
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:30:40 -0400
I saw this question in a corel newsgroup w/o an answer so I decided to
ask the same over here:
I installed Corel's photopaint 9 (b/c I'm used to corel & think it is
easier than the Gimp) for linux on my Redhat 7.0 / 2.4.2 kernel.
However, the windowing runs extremely slowly (meaning dialog boxes,
menus, etc.) Is this a standard problem with the WINE or is it possibly
something in photopaint? My system is a Pentium III 800Mhz running
XFree86 4.0.3 on a Matrox G400 dualhead, 32MB.
THanks,
Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Allen)
Subject: Re: Using CD-RW for backups
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 20:18:28 GMT
Thanks for your response. I should have pointed out, the stuff I will
be backing up will fit on a single CD.
-Lee Allen
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:17:54 -0400, Jean-David Beyer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lee Allen wrote:
>>
>> We are considering using CD-RW for backups, instead of tape drives. I
>> know it's possible, but does it really really work -- reliably?
>
>I would not know since I have never tried using CD-RW for backups. But
>for my backup paradigm, I would need an awful lot of CD-RWs since I
>write a little over 4GBytes to tape every morning (while I am asleep),
>and I guess I would need a CD-RW drive with an autochanger in it to
>keep stuffing new blanks in and removing the written ones.
>
>Also, my 4Gbytes is not all that large. Many need much more backup
>capacity. I have only 2 9.1 GByte hard drives and much of it is
>ephemeral. I was talking with a friend who runs a photolab and does
>extensive digital image processing. He has multiple 60 GByte drives on
>SCSI controllers on just one of his machines. He could not possibly do
>backups onto CD-RW; he would need to hire a full-time employee to do
>backups all day.
>>
>> Does anyone have actual experience of performing backups to CD-RW on a
>> regular basis over a long term?
>
>Again, not me. But I have a lot of experience performing backups to
>magnetic tape, and that is no joy either. I have experience with 75
>i.p.s. 200 bpi 7-track reel-to-reel tapes, 800 bpi 112.5 i.p.s.
>9-track reel-to-reel tapes, QIC tapes, DDS-2 tapes, and now VXA-1
>tapes. None are as reliable as I would like.
>
>> Thanks for any & all feedback.
>>
>> -Lee Allen
>
>--
> .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
> /V\ Registered Machine 73926.
>/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
>^^-^^ 10:10am up 5 days, 23:05, 3 users, load average: 3.22, 3.11,
>2.93
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From: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compile kernel in rescue mode
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:27:12 -0700
"Dave Uhring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> You should have had no problem whatever with booting the system after the
> install. What motherboard are you using? I have MSI K7T Pro2-A with the
> same South Bridge and had no difficulty whatever, although I am now using
> the SGI-XFS kernel. Before installing XFS I had standard RedHat-7.1
> running OK on this system.
I have the Asus A7V133 with VIA KT133A chipset using VT82C686B southbridge.
Are you SURE that you have a B-suffix, and not the A-suffix? I'm just
making sure... The A-suffix is similar, but it DOES work with kernel 2.4.2.
The B, however does not, as far as I know, and from what I have read on the
linux-kernel mailing list. Let me know.
David Grant
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From: Jonnie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: adjusting linux partitions
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 20:30:08 -0000
How do you adjust partitions in a linux system, every time I have changed my
partitions I can't boot to linux again. Is there a way to change fstab to compensate
for the changes. I have a usless partition but can't add it to the linux instillation.
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From: VP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Reiserfs problems or hardware ?
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 20:51:55 GMT
I can't mount my sdb7 reiserfs partition (I have there some importante
files, my sources codes)
When I going to mount the partition the kernel(2.4.5) crash with this
logs
..Jun 12 23:12:32 zendo kernel: ReiserFS version 3.6.25
..ernel: reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 08:17) ...
..kernel: scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 1,\
lun 0, CDB: 0x28 00 01 13 54 70 00 00 08 00
.. kernel: Info fld=0x1135470, Current sd08:17: sns = f0 3
.. do kernel: ASC=11 ASCQ= 0
.. kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00\
0x03 0x01 0x13 0x54 0x70 0x18 0x00 0x00 0x00\
0x00 0x11 0x00 0x00 0x80 0x00 0x35 0x00\
0x00 0x10 0x66 0x00 0x00 0x0c 0x6e 0x02 0x6c 0x00 0x6c 0x00 0x00
.. o kernel: I/O error: dev 08:17, sector 50256
l: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer\
dereference at virtual address 00000034
.. kernel: printing eip:
.. kernel: c019843f
.. kernel: *pde = 00000000
..Jun 12 23:13:51 xxx kernel: Oops: 0000
...Jun 12 23:13:51 xxx kernel: CPU: 0
.. kernel: EIP: 0010:[journal_transaction_is_valid+15/416]
.. kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282
.. kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: dcffde40 edx: dcffde40
..kernel: esi: db3f2000 edi: 0000188a ebp: ddd14800 esp: d994de10
..kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
..kernel: Process mount (pid: 589, stackpage=d994d000)
..ernel: Stack: 00000000 db3f2000 0000188a ddd14800\
dcffde8c c0198db2 ddd14800 00000000\
..kernel: d994de74 d994de78 00000817 0000188a\
00001000 ddd14800 00000000 c032f720
...kernel: 00004000 00000001 00000001 db6ad000 00000014\
000016fb 3b26a22c 00: Call Trace: [journal_read+482/1056]\
[journal_init+678/832] [reiserfs_read_super+237/1040]\
[get_empty_super+76/416] [read_super+99/176]\
[get_sb_bdev+347/448] [error_code+52/60]
.. kernel: [do_mount+373/688]..
Is a Hardware problem i try averything with the reiserfs utilities ,
but nothing ..
Any hlep is apreciated
Thanks
VP
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From: Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Nine questions for newusers (set clock , set services )
Date: 13 Jun 2001 21:01:40 GMT
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is no real use for the wheel group in Linux. su is by default
> available to everyone. There is an interesting rant/explanation by RMS
> in the Solaris man page for "su", but it's vanished from the Linux man
> page. GO figure.
Well, maybe there used to be such in the Solaris "su" man page, but
there isn't now. (At least as of Solaris 7 11/99.) I just checked a
FreeBSD 3.2 system, and it doesn't have one either, so I'm not sure what
you're remembering. I do recall seeing that rant, though. It always seemed
pretty pointless to me, as you could always make a "wheel" group and make
/bin/su only runnable by group wheel if you wanted. Then again, enforcing
that on everybody regardless of local policy also seems kind of silly, so
maybe RMS had a point.
JDW
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From: Pascal Schuppli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Encryption : What is the easiest secure way to encrypt a file in linux
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:15:56 -0400
Jason LaPenta wrote:
>
> Encryption : What is the easiest secure way to encrypt a file in linux?
>
> thanks in advance
> Jason
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GPG / PGP is a private/public key system. If you are encrypting files for
your own personal use (or rather, to keep others from using your files),
that's not what you want. If you basically want to share files with other
people and ensure nobody else gets to see them, then GPG is perfect for you.
Encrypting a complete file system is supported by various means; read the
loopback encrypted filesystem howto for the simplest solution. The hardest,
but probably the coolest, is the stegfs file system, which not only
encrypts your data transparently, but also lets you deny that you even HAVE
files on your HD. It's currently only working on kernel 2.2.18, though.
Pascal
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