Linux-Setup Digest #11, Volume #19 Tue, 27 Jun 00 19:13:09 EDT
Contents:
new install error (Lei Wang)
Re: new install error (Greg Yantz)
Re: After reboot, X can start by startx, but when started (Mingyi Liu)
Re: After reboot, X can start by startx, but when started (Mingyi Liu)
apache and DNS on same machine (rickh)
RPM : Problem rebuilding a SRC ("C�dric Chausson")
Re: How to turn on remote root login? (John Thompson)
Re: new install error (Lei Wang)
Re: How to turn on remote root login? (J Bland)
Re: SCSI and network card conflict? Linux refuses to boot. (Martin Tullier)
RedHat 6.2 remote access problems (Eric)
Re: FAT bread failed (Jay)
Re: Actual memory vs top, /proc/meminfo (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Is Samba installed with Redhat 6.2 (danc)
Re: Is Samba installed with Redhat 6.2 (danc)
modem help needed by newbie! ("Tim Bartek")
NFS and mounting ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Is Samba installed with Redhat 6.2 (danc)
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From: Lei Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: new install error
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:41:43 -0500
Hi,
I just got a Dell Pentium III T700r with 30G (7200 rpm), ATA 66 controller.
The RedHat 6.2 installation procedure says:
fdisk /dev/hda cannot be opened.
So it will not proceed. I have never seen this before. Any ideas?
Thanks,
--
Lei Wang
======================================================================
Research Associate
Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry, Box 8134 Tel. office: 314-362-2417
Renard Hospital, Room 6604 Tel. lab: 314-362-6954
660 South Euclid Fax. dept: 314-747-6267
St. Louis, MO 63110 eFax: 208-293-6051
http://cis.jhu.edu/~lei/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: new install error
From: Greg Yantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27 Jun 2000 16:36:21 -0400
Lei Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
> I just got a Dell Pentium III T700r with 30G (7200 rpm), ATA 66 controller.
> The RedHat 6.2 installation procedure says:
> fdisk /dev/hda cannot be opened.
> So it will not proceed. I have never seen this before. Any ideas?
Is your IDE controller supported?
-Greg
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From: Mingyi Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: After reboot, X can start by startx, but when started
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:41:51 -0400
"ne..." wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2000 at 22:26, Mingyi Liu eloquently wrote:
>
> >I'm using Redhat6.0. I recently shutdown linux using ctrl-alt-del and it
> >caused a problem: After the X started up automatically (I configured it to
> >do so), it hanged at grey screen and only mouse is functional. I got kind
> >help here and took the suggestion to use ctrl-alt-F1 to go to console, after
> >which I used Xconfigurator to prevent X start automatically. Then after I
> >log in through console and try startx, X started without any glitch (even
> >though my desktop now has a lot of icons that I don't remember I had
> >before)! However, I can never let X start automatically (it will hang there
> >without letting me log in), I can only log in through console and start X
> >later. Why is that? Is there some loadup script not working, then which one
> >could it be?
> Check your /etc/inittab file. You will need to change
> the default runlevel from 5 to 3.
>
> --
> Registered Linux User # 125653
> How come wrong numbers are never busy?
> 12:36pm up 10 days, 11:44, 7 users, load average: 0.14, 0.17, 0.11
Thanks, I set it to 3 now.
Mingyi
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From: Mingyi Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: After reboot, X can start by startx, but when started
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:41:17 -0400
Craig Kelley wrote:
> "Mingyi Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I'm using Redhat6.0. I recently shutdown linux using ctrl-alt-del and it
> > caused a problem: After the X started up automatically (I configured it to
> > do so), it hanged at grey screen and only mouse is functional. I got kind
> > help here and took the suggestion to use ctrl-alt-F1 to go to console, after
> > which I used Xconfigurator to prevent X start automatically. Then after I
> > log in through console and try startx, X started without any glitch (even
> > though my desktop now has a lot of icons that I don't remember I had
> > before)! However, I can never let X start automatically (it will hang there
> > without letting me log in), I can only log in through console and start X
> > later. Why is that? Is there some loadup script not working, then which one
> > could it be?
>
> gdm or xdm is run from /etc/inittab for runlevel 5 (which is what you
> mean by "X started up automatically")
>
> Did you, by chance, upgrade X11 recently? Is gdm still installed? Do
> you get any errors verifying X11?
>
> rpm --verify XFree86
> rpm --verify gdm
>
> --
> The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
> Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
I verified XFree86, here's the output:
SM5....T /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir
I also verified gdm, nothing was output (I guess it's fine).
Now my run level is set at 3 because I did not want to have X automatically
started.
I also checked inittab, the last several lines are:
# Run xdm in runlevel 5
# xdm is now a separate service
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
Do you think there's something wrong with that?
Thanks a lot for your help!
Mingyi
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From: rickh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: apache and DNS on same machine
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:18:26 -0600
I have a test setup in my office on which I am running Caldera's 2.3
openlinux. In addition I have the appache web server loaded and the
Bind/dns module (named) running. This system is connected to a hub that
also has a win98 workstation connected to it. I think I have the named
modules configured properly on the Linux box as I can run nslookup on
the box and get an appropriate reply. Here is my problem(s).
If I try to access the appache index.html page by entering
Linux.test.com (domain and server name of test box) into the location
box of the netscape browser on the work station, the browser will time
out with the server not found error. I can enter nslookup at the server
console and it will respond with the IP address as it should. If I
enter the IP address of the server into the location box on the work
station, I will get the server not available error but when I click the
OK box on the error, it will load apache index.html page as it should.
If it try to run a cgi script -- http://192.168.0.1/cgi-bin/rpm_query --
this is a known good script, I will get the server not available error.
I have checked the servername entry in the httpd.conf(?) and it is
correct, the scriptaliase lines in the config files are right, the
windows 98 resolver for tcp/ip is setup correctly -- I think. I am at a
lose here. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks
Rick
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From: "C�dric Chausson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPM : Problem rebuilding a SRC
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 23:28:52 +0100
Hello all,
When I try to rebuild an rpm src package (I'm under root), I get the
following error mesage :
Installing packagename.src.rpm Bad owner/group :
usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/packagename.tar.gz
And it stops there.
So anyone knows whats happening ?
Thank you for your help,
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to turn on remote root login?
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:01:22 -0500
Gene Heskett wrote:
CSR> actually, if you "su -" it will act as if you had just
logged in
CSR> as root. I've not been able to find one that root can do
that
CSR> "su -" cannot. It is also *much* safer.
> Yes, and no.
>
> An su'd user first still has his user $PATH, which may or may not be the
> roots $PATH. So to get full functionality on some systems, he will
> either have to give the full path to somethiing thats not in *his*
> $PATH, or manually add to his $PATH.
>
> I've been told that an 'su -- -root' fixes that, but it doesn't on either
> of my systems.
If you use the "su - [username]" syntax, su will start the
session with [username]'s environment. If you just use "su -" su
will assume the username is "root," prompt you for the root
password and then start a session with root's environment. It
does this because the "-" switch tells su to start a "login"
shell for the session, which of course runs the standard login
scripts to set up the environment. From "man su:"
-, -l, --login
make the shell a login shell
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Lei Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: new install error
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:49:29 -0500
I have
Promise Technologies' Ultra 66 controller. Is it not supported?
Greg Yantz wrote:
>
> Lei Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I just got a Dell Pentium III T700r with 30G (7200 rpm), ATA 66 controller.
> > The RedHat 6.2 installation procedure says:
>
> > fdisk /dev/hda cannot be opened.
>
> > So it will not proceed. I have never seen this before. Any ideas?
>
> Is your IDE controller supported?
>
> -Greg
--
Lei Wang
======================================================================
Research Associate
Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry, Box 8134 Tel. office: 314-362-2417
Renard Hospital, Room 6604 Tel. lab: 314-362-6954
660 South Euclid Fax. dept: 314-747-6267
St. Louis, MO 63110 eFax: 208-293-6051
http://cis.jhu.edu/~lei/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
======================================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: How to turn on remote root login?
Date: 27 Jun 2000 21:47:00 GMT
>Yes, and no.
>
>An su'd user first still has his user $PATH, which may or may not be the
>roots $PATH. So to get full functionality on some systems, he will
>either have to give the full path to somethiing thats not in *his*
>$PATH, or manually add to his $PATH.
>
>I've been told that an 'su -- -root' fixes that, but it doesn't on either
>of my systems.
su - root
works, on many systems I've used, setting things as per a standard root
login.
But, this is what ssh and such were designed for anyway ;0).
Frinky
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From: Martin Tullier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI and network card conflict? Linux refuses to boot.
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:59:44 -0400
I am watching with interest the RedHat SCSI problems. This is
the 3 case posted and I too have a problem.
I saw your posts about the problems you were having. I am
experiencing a similar thing.
Have you had any success? If you figure it out please let me
know how and if i should figure it out I'll let you know.
I am running:
RedHat 6.1 standard kernel (using modules)
Adaptec 1542cf disk -- adapter -- tape -- tape
like you I am not booting from the disk.
I read all of the responses to your post, checked everything
over and when I use "modprobe aha1542" I had the same time
consuming initialization that fails. "lsmod" show that the
module fails to initialize.
Sean Kennedy wrote:
>
> Not that it helps you much but I have almost the same error trying to
> install RedHat 6.x or Mandrake 7.x. I have an Intel EtherExpress 10/100 Net
> card and a Symbios 875 based SCSI card, BIOS is set for Non-PnP OS and I
> even tried to turn off APIC IRQ settings for the normal ones and nothing
> worked. I would also be intersted in hearing suggestions for this as I
> believe it would solve my problem too.
>
> -Sean Kennedy
>
> > scsi: 1 host
> > scsi: aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi 0, channel 0, id 0,
> lun
> > 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
> > scsi: aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi 0, channel 0, id 0,
> lun
> > 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 6.2 remote access problems
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:23:21 GMT
I custom installed RH 6.2, installing all included packages. I'm running
ftp, telnet, smtp, http, and pop-3. I can access my computer remotely on
all
of these ports. Until a remote-session times out.
I am accessing my computer remotely, from my other Win 95 computer
downstairs.
I don't have my two local computers connected via the local net, so I'm
accessing
my Linux box via the internet. If I'm in an active telnet session, and I
walk away
from the computer for a minute or two, the telnet session on my Win 95
box
freezes. After that, I cannot get back into my Linux box, regardless of
which port I try. I walk upstairs to the Linux box, kill the remote bash
session,
and all appears well. Until I try to connect remotely again. No telnet,
no ftp,
no http, etc.
Having exhausted all other routes, the only way I can successfully log
into my
Linux box from the internet is to reboot the Linux machine. I know that
it is the
Linux box, because even after the remote telnet sessions freeze up on my
Windows 95 box, I can still use Win 95 to telnet to other computers --
indicating it's not theWin 95 telnet program causing the problem.
Please tell me what else I can do.
Thanks,
Eric
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FAT bread failed
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:30:04 GMT
arno wrote:
>
> Any ideas???
I have also seen this while updating some packages. I based off Mandrake
7.0 and "spidermonkeyed" gnome up. Then manually added some packages via
rpm -i and got "FAT bread failed".
Are you using a laptop, by chance? If so, have you exchanged your bay
between CDROM and floppy?
Sorry this is not an answer, but if I find one or figure it out, I'll post
it. I'm just trying to collect more info to help find the cause.
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Actual memory vs top, /proc/meminfo
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:34:44 GMT
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:38:39 -0500, Steve Emmett
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Warf
>
>Thanks! Now I guess the question is why I didn't find that in the LILO
>documentation.
Not a lilo problem, per se. This question gets asked so often google
probably has at least one box dedicated to all the posts on this subject. <g>
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
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From: danc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Samba installed with Redhat 6.2
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:46:46 GMT
Ronald Cole wrote:
> Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >When installing Gnome or KDE desktop in Redhat 6.2 does it also install
> > >Samba?
> > >How do i check to see if Samba is installed?
> >
> > in a terminal type whereis samba
> > this should give something like
> > [pat@localhost pat]$ whereis samba
> > samba: /usr/sbin/samba /usr/man/man7/samba.7
>
> Better is "rpm -qa | grep samba". Best is to just get the
> samba-2.0.7-4 rpms off of updates.redhat.com and install those for
> the security fixes.
>
> --
> Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412
> Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (760) 499-9142
> President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152
> My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B
OK, it's installed, but how to get it to work? I've tried everything. I'm at
work on an NT4 ethernet. I have a second desktop machine running Readhat 6.2
as a proof of concept to start replacing
windows with Linux. I need to get SAMBA working. I tried commands like
these, as well as all the permutations, (10.2.1.135 is my NT4 machine on our
DHCP ethernet, shared is the name of the share I
created on it to share to Linux, /root/dchaplin is the directory I created
in Linux to map the NT share to):
smbmount -I //10.2.1.135/shared/ /root/dchaplin
smbclient //10.2.1.135/shared/ -U danc -I 10.2.1.135 -N
can anyone steer me to a simple fool-proof guide to set up SAMBA so I can
access my NT4 workstation through the ethernet with my REDHAT BOX ON THE SAME
ETHERNET?
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From: danc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Samba installed with Redhat 6.2
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:52:54 GMT
Ronald Cole wrote:
> Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >When installing Gnome or KDE desktop in Redhat 6.2 does it also install
> > >Samba?
> > >How do i check to see if Samba is installed?
> >
> > in a terminal type whereis samba
> > this should give something like
> > [pat@localhost pat]$ whereis samba
> > samba: /usr/sbin/samba /usr/man/man7/samba.7
>
> Better is "rpm -qa | grep samba". Best is to just get the
> samba-2.0.7-4 rpms off of updates.redhat.com and install those for
> the security fixes.
>
> --
> Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412
> Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (760) 499-9142
> President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152
> My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B
OK, it's installed, but how to get it to work? I've tried everything. I'm at
work on an NT4 ethernet. I have a second desktop machine running Readhat 6.2
as a proof of concept to start replacing
windows with Linux. I need to get SAMBA working. I tried commands like
these, as well as all the permutations, (10.2.1.135 is my NT4 machine on our
DHCP ethernet, shared is the name of the share I
created on it to share to Linux, /root/dchaplin is the directory I created
in Linux to map the NT share to):
smbmount -I //10.2.1.135/shared/ /root/dchaplin
smbclient //10.2.1.135/shared/ -U danc -I 10.2.1.135 -N
can anyone steer me to a simple fool-proof guide to set up SAMBA so I can
access my NT4 workstation through the ethernet with my REDHAT BOX ON THE SAME
ETHERNET?
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From: "Tim Bartek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem help needed by newbie!
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:57:14 GMT
My modem used to work on LM 6 but now on LM 7 nothing I do seems to work.
I've tried the setserial command, and also setting the irq to autoconfig but
can't get anything out of it. On windows my modem is com3 irq 5. It is not
a "winmodem". Does anyone have any ideas please?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NFS and mounting
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:49:03 GMT
I have a CD-ROM drive that is part of my Linux box. I want to install
software on my SGI machine using the CD-ROM that is a part of the Linux
box. So I thought I could edit the /etc/exports file and the hosts.allow
file on the Linux box and then edit the fstab file on the SGI. Well, I
did
that and I got this error when I tried to mount:
# mount -a
mount: chum.seas.ucla.edu:/mnt/cdrom server not responding: Program not
registered
NFS version 3 mount failed, trying NFS version 2
And it never worked. So I thought I needed to start the daemons. So on
the
Linux box I typed:
# rpc.nfsd
# rpc.mountd
So now when I tried to mount I got this:
# mount -a
mount: chum.seas.ucla.edu:/mnt/cdrom on /cdrom: Unknown error
mount: giving up on:
/cdrom
Anyone know what might be wrong? I really need this to work since I must
install the software ASAP.
Thanks in advance,
Taison
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: danc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Samba installed with Redhat 6.2
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 23:00:10 GMT
Ronald Cole wrote:
> Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >When installing Gnome or KDE desktop in Redhat 6.2 does it also install
> > >Samba?
> > >How do i check to see if Samba is installed?
> >
> > in a terminal type whereis samba
> > this should give something like
> > [pat@localhost pat]$ whereis samba
> > samba: /usr/sbin/samba /usr/man/man7/samba.7
>
> Better is "rpm -qa | grep samba". Best is to just get the
> samba-2.0.7-4 rpms off of updates.redhat.com and install those for
> the security fixes.
>
> --
> Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412
> Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (760) 499-9142
> President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152
> My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B
OK, it's installed, but how to get it to work? I've tried everything. I'm at
work on an NT4 ethernet. I have a second desktop machine running Readhat 6.2
as a proof of concept to start replacing
windows with Linux. I need to get SAMBA working. I tried commands like
these, as well as all the permutations, (10.2.1.135 is my NT4 machine on our
DHCP ethernet, shared is the name of the share I
created on it to share to Linux, /root/dchaplin is the directory I created
in Linux to map the NT share to):
smbmount -I //10.2.1.135/shared/ /root/dchaplin
smbclient //10.2.1.135/shared/ -U danc -I 10.2.1.135 -N
can anyone steer me to a simple fool-proof guide to set up SAMBA so I can
access my NT4 workstation through the ethernet with my REDHAT BOX ON THE SAME
ETHERNET?
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