Linux-Misc Digest #115, Volume #28 Fri, 15 Jun 01 14:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Kernel messages: is it really hd? (rennix)
Workaround to get HP Colorado IDE tape drives to work under RH7.1 (2.4 (Leonard
Evens)
OpenOffice BUILD 625 (stable) Issues (Michael Lavallee)
Re: gtk-config (Jack Lewis)
optimizing for pentium, worth the bother? (Alex K)
Re: Problems using RH 7.1 with SiS 630 Graphics Card (Yongchun Zhang)
linux and Fritz X Pc ("sliver")
Re: Matt Blaze's CFS on Linux - readdir problem. (Kevin Buhr)
Re: ? :fs type msdos not supported by kernel ("joseph")
Re: Fast NICs (Jean-David Beyer)
How to stop runaway print jobs? (Andrew Nesbit)
Re: Fast NICs (Alexander Wasmuth)
bad python display (Holland King)
Re: How to stop runaway print jobs? ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: ? :fs type msdos not supported by kernel (Markus Kossmann)
Porting from FreeBSD to Linux (Richard)
Moving from PMMail to Kmail ("FEEB")
bluewave ("Dave Stanton")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (rennix)
Subject: Re: Kernel messages: is it really hd?
Date: 15 Jun 2001 09:12:46 -0700
"Peet Grobler" <peetgr at absa.co.za> wrote in message
news:<3b287da0$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> /snip/
> >
> >The 2.4.X kernel is your problem here. Boot from the 2.2.XX kernel and
> >your problems will disappear.
> >
> >I installed Red Hat 7.1 on a system which gave the exact same error
> >messages with RH's 2.4.2 kernel and got rid of the problem by installing a
> >2.2.19 kernel.
> >
> >Fundamentally, if you are using legacy hardware then use a legacy kernel.
>
> I've had the same messages in 2.0.35 and 2.2.18. I don't think it's a kernel
> problem.
hmmm, so is it the hd then? I don't dare to boot the damn thing
because I don't know if I can trust the backup which I quickly made
after these messages apeared. I mean, if it can't read from the hd,
how is it going to backup?
I use Arcserve 7.0 on my backupServer and the Agent on my faulty box
didn't report any problems, but who knows?
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Workaround to get HP Colorado IDE tape drives to work under RH7.1 (2.4
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:10:54 -0500
Robert Davies wrote:
>
> Leonard Evens wrote:
>
> > Denis Leroy wrote:
> >>
> >> Ga Mu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >> news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >> > HELP!
> >> >
> >> The solution is to use the device in SCSI emulation mode, it'll work just
> >> fine.
> >>
> >> modprobe ide-scsi
> >> modprobe st
> >>
> >> drive is now available as /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0
> >>
> >> -denis
> >
> > I tried this, but attempts to access the device through mt or
> > tar respond that there is no such device. Of course, there is
> > such a device, but something can't find it. Any suggestions?
>
> Yes, you need to pass some options on boot in your lilo append line.
>
> To set a drive hdc to scsi emulation I have :
>
> append = "reboot=warm hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi"
>
> This is needed to tell the IDE drivers that they don't 'own' this drive.
>
> I had to put the modprobe ide-scsi in a file called 'boot.local' which is
> run before the rc?.d stuff.
>
> Rob
I think that as long as I don't try to access the tape drive first
as /dev/ht0 (and thus load the ide-tape module), then Denis's
fix works fine. I think I could just put this is rc.local
or just load the modules when I need them to use the tape drive.
I know several people had complained about not being able to use
the HP Colorado IDE tape drives under RH7.1. I've been trying
to track them down without success. I just came upon Denis's
solution by luck, and I think it should be better advertised.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Michael Lavallee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OpenOffice BUILD 625 (stable) Issues
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:54:51 -0400
Hello,
I recently downloaded the latest stable binary of OpenOffice, and
installed it to /usr/local/share/openoffice/
When I run /usr/local/share/openoffice/soffice the script returns to the
bash prompt after a few seconds. If I run
/usr/local/share/openoffice/program/soffice.bin it returns the following:
./soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libsfx625li.so:
cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory
This file exists in /usr/local/share/openoffice/program/ There must
be a path statement that I am missing that will allow the program to
find this file. Would anyone be able to advise me as to how I can get
this up and running?
Thanks,
Michael
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From: Jack Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: gtk-config
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:56:22 -0500
Did you use apt-get to install gnapster?
Wroot wrote:
> Hi
>
> My question is Debian-specific.
>
> I'm trying to install gnapster, but ./configure fails (can't find gtk-config)
> Somebody told me that gtk-config is in libgtk*. I tried installing libgtk1.2,
> libgtk-dev and libgtk1.2-dev with
> apt-get install libgtk1.2
> apt-get install libgtk-dev
> apt-get install libgtk1.2-dev
>
> but all of these fail because of unresolvable dependencies:
>
> For example:
>
> $ apt-get install libgtk1.2-dev
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> gnapster: Depends: gdk-imlib1 (>= 1.9.10-3) but 1.9.8-4 is to be installed
> Depends: libart2 (>= 1.2.13-6) but 1.0.56-3 is to be installed
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-1) but 2.1.3-18 is to be installed
> Depends: libdb3 (>= 3.2.9-1) but it is not installable
> Depends: libesd0 (>= 0.2.22-4) or
> libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.22-4) but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: libgnome32 (>= 1.2.13-6) but 1.0.56-3 is to be installed
> Depends: libgnomesupport0 (>= 1.2.13-6) but 1.0.56-3 is to be installed
> Depends: libgnomeui32 (>= 1.2.13-6) but 1.0.56-3 is to be installed
> Depends: libgnorba27 (>= 1.2.13-6) but 1.0.56-3 is to be installed
> Depends: libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-1) but 1.2.7-1 is to be installed
> Depends: liborbit0 (>= 0.5.8) but 0.5.0-5 is to be installed
> Depends: xlibs (> 4.0.3) but it is not installable
> libgtk1.2-dev: Depends: libglib1.2-dev but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a
>solution).
>
> Is this a bug in the packaging of Potato?
>
> Wroot
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From: Alex K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: optimizing for pentium, worth the bother?
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:57:29 +0200
hello!
i have just been using slackware7.1 on a p3 for quite a while. now i
want to try something else, and am considering if pentiumoptimizing is
worth the bother. problem is though that i am not quite sure what
p-optimizing means:)
what does mandrake mean by being p-optimized? that they use pgcc instead
of gcc? afaik gcc can not even p-optimize, right?
if i install debian, what would i loose in efficiency in my p3 cpu by
not having a "pentium optimized system" (if such a thing even exists)?
and, if i would choose to try out pgcc later, how do i make the system
use pgcc? just change the /usr/bin/cc symlink?
any thoughts and suggestions are welcomed. and links to benchmarks if
that is available.
tia / alex k
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yongchun Zhang)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problems using RH 7.1 with SiS 630 Graphics Card
Date: 15 Jun 2001 10:22:24 -0700
Hi, Jesper,
I have been trying to recompile the kernel as described in your reference for several
times. Unfortunately, the link phase failed due to the following error:
drivers/video/video.o: In function `SetCRT2Group':
drivers/video/video.o(.text=0xa02e): undefined reference to 'VBInfo'
drivers/video/video.o: In function `GetRatePtrCRT2':
drivers/video/video.o(.text=0xa1dd): undefined reference to 'VBInfo'
drivers/video/video.o(.text=0xa2b9): more undefined references to 'VBInfo' follow
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
As I greped thru all .c .h files in that directory, there's no "VBInfo" defined,
nor can I find the above two functions. Have you ever encountered these problems?
What should I do in the config phase to avoid this problem?
Thanks a lot!
Yongchun
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From: "sliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux and Fritz X Pc
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 19:22:30 +0200
I want to install Fritz X Pc under Linux but i couldn't find a driver.
Someone told me that there want be any driver for linux because AVM wouldn't
produce one.
Is this true?
How i install Fritz X Pc under linux?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Buhr)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Matt Blaze's CFS on Linux - readdir problem.
Date: 15 Jun 2001 12:20:21 -0500
[[ Followup-to: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.development.apps ]]
"Binesh Bannerjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Have you done much with cattach -l ? Do you know how that works?
"-l" suppresses the creation of what Matt calls perturbation vectors.
A perturbation vector is randomly generated for each newly created
file, and it's XORed against each plaintext block before encryption.
The perturbation vector is then stored in a symlink:
.pvect_<<name of encrypted version of file>>
whose value is the hex representation of the vector. If a file "xxx"
has no associated ".pvect_xxx", the perturbation vector is taken to be
all zero.
The nature of the ECB+OFB encryption scheme used in CFS means that two
files in the same CFS filesystem with the same perturbation vector
value (which will always be zero if you use "-l") will encrypt
plaintext blocks having the same value and located at the same offset
within a file to the same ciphertext.
For example, try:
cattach -l /some/cfs/filesystem x
cd /crypt/x
echo 12345678abcdefghx2345678 >1
echo x2345678abcdefgh12345678 >2
Note that the first and third 64-bit blocks differ between the two
files, but the second 64-bit block of these two files is the same. If
you compare the encrypted versions of these files, you'll discover
that the second 64-bit blocks of the two encrypted files are the same.
The rest of the blocks will all be different.
An attacker could use this to discover which encrypted files had
common headers or, perhaps, to decrypt certain common blocks at some
positions. If the attacker can trick you into storing certain files
(like a large file of all NULLs or files of the repeated string
"Istanbul" at various offsets), he or she can locate chosen
8-character strings in your files.
Dropping "-l" and using pvects prevents this attack.
If you want more information about this, your best bet is to post a
question to "sci.crypt".
> Basically, with cattach -l after I add enough directory entries,
> the _entire_ directory becomes invisible... (There still there, just
> ls or find, whatever won't find them, but you can cd to the directories,
> vi files etc.)
It's probably a different problem, since the bug I described should
always return at least one page of files for a directory read.
I'm not familiar enough with the CFS code to answer your other
question, though.
Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ? :fs type msdos not supported by kernel
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:37:58 -0400
-t vfat
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:9gd977$95h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> From the same CD, I've installed 2 copies of RedHat 6.2.
> To /dev/hda5/ and to /dev/hda6/
>
> When running /dev/hda6/ , I can mount the msdos partitions of C: , D:
> ie. /dev/hda1 , /dev/hdb1
>
> The actual one line script to do this is:
> ( mount -t msdos /dev/hdb1 /dosd; mount)
>
> The script for partition /dev/hda5/ which fails looks like:
> echo MOUNT D:
> mount -t fat16 /dev/hdb1 /dosd
> mount
> cd /dosd
> The error mesg is:
> mount: fs type fat16 not supported by kernel
>
> OK, so the 'good' one uses "msdos", and the 'failing' one uses "fat16".
> So when I run the /dev/hda6/... script (or command) from the /dev/hda5/
> installation it still fails, with error:
> mount: fs type msdos not supported by kernel
>
> I can't believe that the 2 kernels differ ?!? copied from same CD !!
> ----
> So I look at the 2 fstab s (while in the /dev/hda5/ installation):
> /mnt/hda6/etc/fstab ==
> /dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1
1
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0
0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0
0
> none /proc proc defaults 0
0
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0
0
> /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0
0
>
> {I haven't actually got a CD installed on this machine. }
>
> /etc/fstab ==
> /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1
1
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0
0
> none /proc proc defaults 0
0
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0
0
> /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0
0
>
> Which doesn't help me; so I look at both mtab s:
> /etc/mtab ==
> /dev/hda5 / ext2 rw 0 0
> none /proc proc rw 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> /dev/hdb3 /mnt/Partn-b3 ext2 rw 0 0 <--- shows
> /dev/hdb2 /mnt/Partn-b2 ext2 rw 0 0 <--- manually mounted
> /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 ext2 rw 0 0 <--- partitions
>
> /mnt/hda6/etc/mtab ==
> /dev/hda6 / ext2 rw 0 0
> none /proc proc rw 0 0
>
> Please someone advise me what's wrong ?
>
> Thanks, email also to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in case I miss this NewsGroup
> Chris Glur.
>
>
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Fast NICs
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:44:32 -0400
Chema wrote:
>
> Hi everybody:
>
> I am looking for fast and reliable 10/100Mbs NICs for a new cluster. I
> can not find pure speed benchmarks published or press reviews about it.
> The NICs should be well supported under GNU/Linux and I do not mind the
> price, the matter is top speed and a good manufacturer support.
> Please give me your opinions or point me to an adequate URL.
>
I have an Intel EE-Pro 100+ in each of my two machines. This one is a
Linux-Only machine, and the other runs either Linux or Windows95. I
have never had any trouble with these cards, and they run at 100MHz
full-duplex according to the LEDs on the cards and the fancy-dancy
graphic configuration tool for Windows. When booting the machine, it
does say:
kernel: eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
kernel: eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.20.2.10 $ 2000/05/31
Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others
kernel: eth0: Intel PCI EtherExpress Pro100 82557, 00:90:27:43:12:75,
I/O at 0xef00, IRQ 17.
kernel: Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around. <---<<<
kernel: Board assembly 721383-006, Physical connectors present: RJ45
kernel: Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
kernel: General self-test: passed.
kernel: Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Jkernel: Internal registers self-test: passed.
kernel: ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
kernel: eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
kernel: eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.20.2.10 $ 2000/05/31
Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others
But the line indicated by <---<<< does not seem to be a problem; i.e.,
the work-around must be working.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 1:35pm up 8 days, 2:30, 4 users, load average: 3.43, 3.26, 2.75
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Subject: How to stop runaway print jobs?
From: Andrew Nesbit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:47:38 GMT
hi... sometimes when I'm printing big postscript files, I notice that
after one page or so has come out, the formatting or something similar is
wrong, so I want to cancel it so that I can fix stuff up and recompile,
etc. The problem is that usually, by this stage, lpq shows that there
are no entries (so I think this means that the job is further down the
line somewhere), and so I have no way of stopping it! I am using an
HP LaserJet III, and magicfilter which formats the output with gs.
Taking the printer off line and resetting it doesn't help. Neither
does turning it off then on again. The only way I can get things back
to a sane state is by rebooting, because I don't want to have to waste
200 pages of paper! Ugh.
Can somebody please tell me a way of stopping these runaway print jobs?
TIA
-Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Wasmuth)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Fast NICs
Date: 15 Jun 2001 17:51:39 GMT
* Chema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I am looking for fast and reliable 10/100Mbs NICs for a new cluster. I
> can not find pure speed benchmarks published or press reviews about it.
> The NICs should be well supported under GNU/Linux and I do not mind the
> price, the matter is top speed and a good manufacturer support.
> Please give me your opinions or point me to an adequate URL.
Perhaps this link is helpful:
http://www.fefe.de/linuxeth/
Alex
--
http://alexander.wasmuth.org/
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From: Holland King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.python
Subject: bad python display
Date: 15 Jun 2001 17:59:36 GMT
sorry for the cross-posting but i am not real sure what is causing the
problem.
i have a python program using the tkinter module to create a gui. my
local system is running woody debian with kde. i am running the program
on a soloris box. on both my system and the solaris system i am using the
same version of ssh, python, and tkinter lib. the problem is when i try
to export the display from the solaris box to my local machine all i get
is the frame and half the boxes and buttons. when i run it locally i get
the correct display and when i try to export the display on other machines
i get the correct display. i think it has something to do with ssh, but i
have tried everything i can think of. can anyone think of what might be
causing the display on my machine to be unusable?
ssh -V == 2.5.2p1
python -v == 1.5
tkinter -v == 1.127
thank you.
--
---
Joseph Holland King | "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our
| conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His
| megaphone to rouse a deaf world." C. S. Lewis
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to stop runaway print jobs?
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:50:55 -0600
> hi... sometimes when I'm printing big postscript files, I notice that
> after one page or so has come out, the formatting or something similar
is
> wrong, so I want to cancel it so that I can fix stuff up and recompile,
> etc. The problem is that usually, by this stage, lpq shows that there
> are no entries (so I think this means that the job is further down the
> line somewhere), and so I have no way of stopping it! I am using an
> HP LaserJet III, and magicfilter which formats the output with gs.
You're not also using some sort of network print-server, are you?
steve
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ? :fs type msdos not supported by kernel
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:57:54 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> From the same CD, I've installed 2 copies of RedHat 6.2.
> To /dev/hda5/ and to /dev/hda6/
>
> When running /dev/hda6/ , I can mount the msdos partitions of C: , D:
> ie. /dev/hda1 , /dev/hdb1
>
> The actual one line script to do this is:
> ( mount -t msdos /dev/hdb1 /dosd; mount)
>
> The script for partition /dev/hda5/ which fails looks like:
> echo MOUNT D:
> mount -t fat16 /dev/hdb1 /dosd
> mount
> cd /dosd
> The error mesg is:
> mount: fs type fat16 not supported by kernel
>
> OK, so the 'good' one uses "msdos", and the 'failing' one uses "fat16".
> So when I run the /dev/hda6/... script (or command) from the /dev/hda5/
> installation it still fails, with error:
> mount: fs type msdos not supported by kernel
What says a "cat /proc/filesystems" about the filesystems supported by
your kernel ?
maybe you need to load the FAT-filesystem support as module.
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard)
Subject: Porting from FreeBSD to Linux
Date: 15 Jun 2001 11:07:08 -0700
Can anyone provide me some links to websites which might provide me
general help in porting from FreeBSD (3.4) to Linux.
Thanks for your help!
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From: "FEEB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Moving from PMMail to Kmail
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:59:26 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: "FEEB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I am planning my move from OS/2 to Linux. I've been using Linux since 1995
on various servers, but now I am contemplating to move my workstation to
Linux as well. I have a very large archive of PMMail, which I would not
like to loose.
Is there a way how to convert PMMail folder structure to Kmail?
Any comment would be appreciated.
Thanks
Frank Bures, <grandial at softex.cz>
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From: "Dave Stanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bluewave
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 19:10:23 +0100
Hi
I noticed in comp.os.linux announce, a new version of the Bluewave
software. We used to use this on Fidonet, are people still using fidonet
?. Or can Bluewave be used for other things ?. Just interested.
Cheers
Dave
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