Linux-Setup Digest #570, Volume #19 Thu, 7 Sep 00 04:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Now I'm in trouble with XFee again! ("David ..")
Re: NEW NVIDIA DRIVERS (Warning) (Bernhard Mogens Ege)
Re: Installing RH 6.2 screwed up Win98 (Eric)
Re: CD writer setup question (Michael Perry)
sorry but i couldnt find a way to rescue ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Now I'm in trouble with XFee again! (Colin Watson)
Re: Begginer questions (David M. Cook)
Re: Red Hat Help (David M. Cook)
Re: red hat 6.2 errors ("Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]")
Re: pop 3 mail (David M. Cook)
Re: sorry but i couldnt find a way to rescue ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
NT/RH 6.2 (LI message when boot) (dmpeca)
Re: help ppp sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <... (Villy Kruse)
Re: In Sydney AUS, Daylight Saving Time in effect already ... glibc-2.1.3 didn't
notice (Villy Kruse)
Re: timezone problem during boot (Villy Kruse)
Re: Now I'm in trouble with XFee again! (Harry Lewis)
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Now I'm in trouble with XFee again!
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 01:08:34 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm having trouble while doing server installation on RedHat 6.2.
> I tried to install XFree86Setup 3.3.5's RPM. It give me an error
> saying:
> "failed dependencies: libtcl.so and libtk.so is needed by
> XFree86-XF86Setup-3.3.5-3".
> I've tried to list these two file from the CD but nothing was found.
> What should I do?
Why are you trying to install XFree86-3.3.5-3 when RedHat 6.2 comes with
XFree86-3.3.6-20?
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: NEW NVIDIA DRIVERS (Warning)
From: Bernhard Mogens Ege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 06:41:00 GMT
I would be very carefull with these new nvidia drivers (version 0.9-5)
as I have just lost my ext2 partition due to a crash caused by these
drivers. I am reinstalling redhat as I type this. Thank God I could
salvage my home directory (which was renamed to something like #348753
and moved to /lost+found. fsck'ing my partition took about 30 minutes
(mainly just holding return for yes (have no idea what I was asked,
but fsck had to be run manually)). After fsck, I still had files I
couldn't move or delete, hence me reinstalling everything.
I don't know why this happened, could be that the nvidia drivers don't
like kernel 2.2.17 for some strange reason).
So my point is, be carefull and take backup of precious files.
Strange thing is, that 0.9-3 was rock stable for me, 0.9-4 cause
random lockups, and now 0.9-5 made me loose my filesystem. If a 0.9-6
showup, it might end of frying my computer. :-(
regards,
Bernhard Ege
>>>>> "StyX" == StyX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you installed RPM, try "rpm -qa|grep NVIDIA" or something like that. And by
> the way: thanks for the tip.
> StyX
> ascii_superstar wrote:
>> BTW
>> I have installed these drivers (over some previous nvidia ones), how can I
>> tell if i am using the new ones? (kernel + GLX)
>>
>> Thanks
>> sergio
>>
>> "ascii_superstar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:BPft5.11300$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > ftp://ftp1.detonator.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english/XFree86_40/0.9-5/
>> > just thought I'd let you know :-)
>> >
>> > sergio
>> >
>> >
>> >
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Installing RH 6.2 screwed up Win98
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 08:59:28 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fubar X. wrote:
>
> Hi,
> On my primary 10 GB disk, I set aside 3 GB for Linux and installed
> WIn98 on the other 7GB. I now installed RH 6.2 w/o any problems.
> Installation was done for 'workstation', meaning the install program
> automatically selected the partitioning. Linux runs w/o any problems.
> However, when I start Win98, all of a sudden I have a new partition,
> which, from Win98's perspective, is unformatted. Therefore, Win98
> slows down terribly for almost any operation. And another bad
> side-effect is that many programs don't run anymore, since they were
> on drive E:, but now they're on F:, because the new drive was inserted
> in the middle. This problem did not happen in RH 6.0.
> I reinstalled RH 6.2 in custom mode, and selected the main Linux
> partition as 'Linux native' (I assume it means ext2), but the problem
> persists.
> I searched the HOWTOs, but didn't find an answer.
>
> Thanks.
Thjis isn't really a big problem, all you need to do is make sure that
windows is unaware of the linux partition.
This means change the partition ID of the extended partition linux is in
to linux extended(this can be done without danger) It now probably has
the ID extended, and windows sees this partition, and then will assign a
drive letter to it. Change this, and your windows system is back in the
old state.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: CD writer setup question
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 22:13:16 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 18:37:28 GMT, Kyle Parfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yikes !!! Thanks for all that. I tried it but it isn't working, loads upas ide
>drive instead. Does this have anything to do with generic scsi? I have all the
>sg0, sg1, should I link to them .
>
>I'm using caldera, I think I might do Mandrake or RH, might work then.
>
>Kyle
>
>
Try as a test rmmoding the ide-cd module and then placing the ide-scsi
emulation module in manually. You may have to move around a bit with
Caldera to do things. I could not get debian potato to work with the advice
either. I do it more manually now when I reboot (which is rather
infrequently). I rmmod the ide-cd driver and then insmod the ide-scsi
emulation driver and when I do cdrecord -scanbus the hp cdrw shows right up.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: sorry but i couldnt find a way to rescue
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 07:12:19 GMT
i really didn't make any thing strange it was all ordinary .I were
using a partition table
like this;
6gb fat32
10mb boot
3gb ex2 debian potato
250mb swap
again 5gb fat32 (full of mp3'es) hda4 "aah ah"
Then i set-up mandrake with same partition table and formated linux
related partitions.After reboot mandrake said "couldn't mount
hda4"(which was my second fat partition full of mp3's).When i switch
windows it said "disk d: is not formated or been bloked by
another application"
Fdisk didn't start either said "there is an corraption" or some thing
like that.
After all i setup potato again on first installatin it gived fatal
error and want to format hda4!! i said
-NO NO NO dont do that I want them back please!!
On my second try potato installed right but couldn't mount hda4
again.But at least it helped fdisk to work show 5 GB FAT as primary dos
partition.
Am i losing my favorite mp3's because i try to set up linux between
two fat partition?I think this can't be a reason to lose all my Philip
Glass ,Micheal Nyman songs and also Cakewalk 9 pro and other important
serious sound programs that really cant be abandoned at all.
Last thing i've tried was "fdisk /mbr" it didnt help either.Just
cleaned MBR(i can see it cleaned because before i run fdisk /mbr there
were an "MBR" not an startup screen before "windows is starting"
notice)
But now it seams i started to understand what is going on around
hda4 .It must be something related with ,hda4 is now an primary drive
with MSDOS drivers .(fdisk says like that ;-)
I'm confused !!Does anybody like fusion,ethnic jazz ,turkish
jazz,minimalist classical and progressive rock music .CAN ANY BODY HELP
ME I AM ABOUT TO CRY!!!
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Now I'm in trouble with XFee again!
Date: 7 Sep 2000 06:47:27 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi, I'm having trouble while doing server installation on RedHat 6.2.
>I tried to install XFree86Setup 3.3.5's RPM. It give me an error
>saying:
>"failed dependencies: libtcl.so and libtk.so is needed by
>XFree86-XF86Setup-3.3.5-3".
>I've tried to list these two file from the CD but nothing was found.
>What should I do?
Install the tcl and tk packages (tcl-8.0.5-35 and tk-8.0.5-35).
I wish Red Hat packages wouldn't depend on *installed files*, it's
incredibly confusing for users. :(
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Ye GODS! NT crashed the microwave!" "Hmmm. Am thinkink we should put
Elder Sign seal on microwave now. Leave alone." - User Friendly
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Subject: Re: Begginer questions
Date: 7 Sep 2000 07:28:11 GMT
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 01:58:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Saying so, where can I find relevant information on such projects?
I couldn't find a really good site for this, but check some of these:
http://sourceforge.net/
http://freshmeat.net
http://developer.gnome.org
http://www.gnu.org
>Is there any good book on Linux programming, ie, kernel, low-level
>calls, exception handling, memory management, etc?
Note that exception handling is called signal handling under unix.
See http://members.home.com/davecook/devel/#prog
Dave Cook
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Subject: Re: Red Hat Help
Date: 7 Sep 2000 07:32:35 GMT
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000 17:06:46 -0400, Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Samba howto
Pedant point: SMB Howto
Red Hat has a bunch of docs collected at
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/samba.html
Dave Cook
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From: "Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: red hat 6.2 errors
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 08:15:48 +0100
pj wrote:
>
> I have downloaded the redhat iso, I have extracted the files to a spare hard
> drive and have sucsesfully installed Redhat 6.2
> from that drive. Now I have taken those files and wrote it to a cd but if I
> try to run then installation using the cd and a boot
>
Hi,
Why didn't you simply burn the .iso image to a CD since that is what it
is for?
I would suspect you have either missed some files the installer expects
or if you have let a Windows box near the files it will have mangled the
case of the filenames.
I have not had any trouble since burning the .iso file - I used XCDRoast
to do it. IIRC I had to rename the file to .raw before it recognised it.
HTH
Regards
Phil Q
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Subject: Re: pop 3 mail
Date: 7 Sep 2000 07:36:28 GMT
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 18:25:57 +0800, Edmond Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I am trying to set up a POP3 server on a RH 6.1.
o Install the imap package from the first Red Hat CDROM:
mount /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
rpm -Uhv imap*
o Uncomment the pop3 line in /etc/inetd.conf if necessary.
o Edit /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny to taste.
o "HUP" the inetd superserver:
killall -HUP inetd
Dave Cook
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: sorry but i couldnt find a way to rescue
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 07:29:55 GMT
rescue me get 5gb mp3's and greatest sound apps
In article <8p7f4a$npb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i really didn't make any thing strange it was all ordinary .I were
> using a partition table
> like this;
> 6gb fat32
> 10mb boot
> 3gb ex2 debian potato
> 250mb swap
> again 5gb fat32 (full of mp3'es) hda4 "aah ah"
>
> Then i set-up mandrake with same partition table and formated linux
> related partitions.After reboot mandrake said "couldn't mount
> hda4"(which was my second fat partition full of mp3's).When i switch
> windows it said "disk d: is not formated or been bloked by
> another application"
> Fdisk didn't start either said "there is an corraption" or some
thing
> like that.
> After all i setup potato again on first installatin it gived fatal
> error and want to format hda4!! i said
> -NO NO NO dont do that I want them back please!!
> On my second try potato installed right but couldn't mount hda4
> again.But at least it helped fdisk to work show 5 GB FAT as primary
dos
> partition.
>
> Am i losing my favorite mp3's because i try to set up linux between
> two fat partition?I think this can't be a reason to lose all my and
>also and other important serious sound programs that really cant be
>abandoned at all.
> Last thing i've tried was "fdisk /mbr" it didnt help either.Just
> cleaned MBR(i can see it cleaned because before i run fdisk /mbr there
> were an "MBR" not an startup screen before "windows is starting"
> notice)
> But now it seams i started to understand what is going on around
> hda4 .It must be something related with ,hda4 is now an primary drive
> with MSDOS drivers .(fdisk says like that ;-)
> I'm confused !!Does anybody like fusion,ethnic jazz ,turkish
> jazz,minimalist classical and progressive rock music .CAN ANY BODY
HELP
> ME I AM ABOUT TO CRY!!!
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: dmpeca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NT/RH 6.2 (LI message when boot)
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 09:24:55 +0100
Hi,
I have to problem to set up dual boot (NT/Linux) on large disk. 15GB
The partions are laid out as
/dev/hda1 * 1 277 2094088+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 * 278 1940 12572280 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 278 887 4611568+ 7 FAT16HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 888 1870 7431448+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 1871 1940 529168+ 82 Linux swap
lilo.conf is as follows
boot=/dev/hda6
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda6
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
In boot.ini for NTFS the pointer to file (bootsect.lnx) with first 512
bytes of /dev/hda6 is added. bootsect.lnx is created with
dd if=/dev/hda6 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
It has been transfered to floppy with mcopy command.
When I select Linux option from
NT Server
NT Server (VGA mode)
Linux
LILO hangs up in LI
NT works fine and Linux can be boot from floppy.
Do you any suggestions why LILO hangs up with LI and how to configure
partioions and lilo to have option to boot NT or Linux?
Sincerely,
Peca
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: help ppp sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <...
Date: 7 Sep 2000 07:49:25 GMT
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000 13:23:28 GMT, David. E. Goble <goble@gtech> wrote:
>Hi all;
>
>I can connect etc.. but I am having router problems (I think).
>
>Once connected I try to ping the nameserver 230.48.5.1 or anyother ip
>and it just sits there doing nothing until I press ctr-c. Then it says
>it lost 100% packets... etc
>
Try ping 203.48.5.2 instead
>I have narrowed it down to the;
>
>sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <
>sent [CCP ConfRej id=0x1 <
>rcvd [CCP ConfRej id=0x1 <
>
These are all normal, and not releated to the problem. If you look
further in the log you see you are connected with a remote and local
IP number. The most likly cause is a missing default route through
the ppp0 interface.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: In Sydney AUS, Daylight Saving Time in effect already ... glibc-2.1.3
didn't notice
Date: 7 Sep 2000 07:55:52 GMT
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000 23:41:52 +1000,
Chris Rankin <au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc> wrote:
>Hi,
>I think that Sydney Australia has entered Daylight Savings Time early
>because of the Olympics. At any rate, my current locale for Sydney has
>not noticed the change. Is there an updated locale for glibc-2.1.3
>anywhere?
>
Try: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
The home of timezone related tables and codes.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: timezone problem during boot
Date: 7 Sep 2000 08:00:29 GMT
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000 16:34:26 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I started building some modules today, which caused me to notice a boot
>problem with timezones.
>
> My hardware clock is local time. /etc/timezone contains "US/Central"
>(no quotes). /etc/default/rcS contains "UTC=no" (no quotes).
>
> Once the system is booted, the time is correct.
>
> The problem is that in rcS.d, S20modutils runs before S40hwclock.sh. It
>is S40hwclock.sh that sets the time correctly, but S20modutils run
> depmod, which regenerates /lib/modules/2.2.13/modules.dep with the
>wrong time (5 hours too early). The files time is not my local time
>(GMT-5),
> nor is it GMT. It is being set to GMT-10. It is as if the HW clock was
>GMT, and 5 hours are subtracted from it for local time.
>
What happens if you push up hwclock.sh to, say, S10hwclock.sh ?
Villy
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From: Harry Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Now I'm in trouble with XFee again!
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 09:06:18 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry to butt-in, Colin, but as a corollary, is it possible to search
uninstalled RPMs with GnomeRPM? The interface has a "find file" feature,
but it doesn't seem capable of searching the RPMs on the installation
CD-ROM to tell you which one you need to install to get the dependent file.
Harry
Colin Watson wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Hi, I'm having trouble while doing server installation on RedHat 6.2.
> >I tried to install XFree86Setup 3.3.5's RPM. It give me an error
> >saying:
> >"failed dependencies: libtcl.so and libtk.so is needed by
> >XFree86-XF86Setup-3.3.5-3".
> >I've tried to list these two file from the CD but nothing was found.
> >What should I do?
>
> Install the tcl and tk packages (tcl-8.0.5-35 and tk-8.0.5-35).
>
> I wish Red Hat packages wouldn't depend on *installed files*, it's
> incredibly confusing for users. :(
>
> --
> Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> "Ye GODS! NT crashed the microwave!" "Hmmm. Am thinkink we should put
> Elder Sign seal on microwave now. Leave alone." - User Friendly
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