Linux-Setup Digest #571, Volume #19 Thu, 7 Sep 00 07:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Now I'm in trouble with XFee again! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Now I'm in trouble with XFee again! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HELP: XFree86 compilation woes. ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: help: connecting to ISP, can someone help (David. E. Goble)
scsi will not load ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: sorry but i couldnt find a way to rescue (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
rpm question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Kernel Compile Going Nowhere (Alastair Foster)
installing redhat with NT 4 (Lee Friend)
Re: Kernel Panic starting up Redhat 6.2? ("mpierce")
Re: Installing RH 6.2 screwed up Win98 (Fubar X.)
Re: HELP! -- Grub tutorial? -- answer (DaveH)
Can't mount my Win98 drive ("Donald Mided")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Now I'm in trouble with XFee again!
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 08:03:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Why are you trying to install XFree86-3.3.5-3 when RedHat 6.2 comes
with
> XFree86-3.3.6-20?
>
> --
Thanks David for telling me the mistake I've make. Please apologize for
the mistake.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Now I'm in trouble with XFee again!
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 08:01:18 GMT
In article <8p7dlv$kte$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (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. :(
>
>
Thanks Colin for your info, I've tried the solutions and it
worked. But when I tried to install the XFSetup's rpm, it
gives me error:
"failed dependencies: Xserver is needed by
XFee86-XF86Setup-3.3.6-20"
I've looked into all of the RPM in CDROM/RedHat/RPMS but fails
to find the file(Xserver). How can I solve this problem ?
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: HELP: XFree86 compilation woes.
Date: 7 Sep 2000 08:05:43 GMT
In comp.os.linux.help johnny B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: i've downloaded XFree86 version 4.01 and i'm trying to compile it. I
: keep getting errors similar to the following:
: ---------------------------------------------------
: gcc -c -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -ansi -pedantic -Wall
: -Wpointer-arith -I../.. -I../../exports/include -Dlinux -D__i386__
: -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE
: -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO
: -DXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API -DMALLOC_0_RETURNS_NULL
: -DHAS_SNPRINTF -DLIBX11 -fPIC LabGcLC.c
: /usr/include/bits/mathinline.h: In function `__signbitf':
: In file included from /usr/include/math.h:348,
: from LabGcLC.c:37:
: /usr/include/bits/mathinline.h:117: warning: ANSI C forbids specifying
: structure member to initialize
: /usr/include/bits/mathinline.h:117: initializer element for `__u.__f' is
: not computable at load time
And what is this initializer element? Don't keep us in suspense!
That's what you have to fix.
: /usr/include/bits/mathinline.h:122: initializer element for `__u.__d' is
: /usr/include/bits/mathinline.h:127: initializer element for `__u.__l' is
: All the errors seem to stem from mathinline.h. what can i do about this?
Why do you say "seem"? They're stated as being from there and the line
numbers are given. What you can do is go to the indicated line numbers
and make yourself aware of the problem, and fix it.
: i've read the documentation. it says that it's preferable not to use GNU
: make, as, and ld. Could this be the problem? If it is, what other
No. Nonsense. Besides, this is a C compiler message, not from make, or
the assembler or linker. Just rerun configure. It's likely that yoiu
are using an old libc with new C code, or vice versa.
Peter
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From: goble@gtech (David. E. Goble)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: help: connecting to ISP, can someone help
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 08:18:18 GMT
Reply-To: goble@gtech
On 6 Sep 2000 04:38:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mostyn
BRAMLEY-MOORE) wrote:
>
>>>127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.domain gtech
>>>would be fine.
>
>>127.0.0.1 gtech gtech.localdomain
>>127.0.0.1 localhost gtech gtech.localdomain
>
Hi all;
What is the standard or most common format/order of hosts?
--Regards David. E. Goble
goble [AT] kin.net.au
http://www.kin.net.au/goble
Po Box 648 Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, SA 5223
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: scsi will not load
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 08:20:34 GMT
Hi,
I can install Redhat 6.2 succesfully, but the system reboots and
cannot see any scsi hosts, and so kernel panics.
Symbios NCR8x SCSI controller PCI card:
0 disks
Adaptec 7800 SCSI controller on board:
0 disks
Netraid 3si SCSI RAID controller PCI card:
8 disks @ 18Gb configured:
0 disks on controller0
4 disks on controller1
(first two disks are RAID1)
4 disks on controller2
(second two disks on controller1 and all disks on controller2 are
RAID5)
During the install process the system correctly detects the Netraid
3si scsi controller and loads the megaraid driver. The disks are
visible to the install OS, and after partitoning /boot on sda1, / on
sda5, and swap on sda6, the OS formats the partitions and installs the
packages.
The system then reboots and gets as far as detecting the IDE CDROM.
Then it kernel panics because it has not loaded the megaraid scsi
module, and therefore it cannot see the root partition on sda5.
I have used a rescue disk to access the system, and gone into the
initrd file using losetup /dev/loop, and I saw that the megaraid.o
driver was under /lib/modules, and I even added insmod megaraid.o to
the linuxrc file.
The problem remains.
Does anyone have any ideas...?
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: sorry but i couldnt find a way to rescue
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 08:33:35 GMT
[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 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!!!
You can get Findpart at http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm,
boot do DOS or Windows, do
findpart all +fat fp.txt
and post the content from fp.txt in a follow-up to this message.
Depending on the situation I might be able to help you.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: rpm question
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 11:01:18 +0200
Hello,
i have a RH6.0 and i installed a few packages that i would like to
uninstall.
So i do rpm -e my_package.rpm
and i get an error saying that package is not installed.
But then if i do rpm -i my_package.rpm
then i get an error saying that package is already installed!!!
There's something wrong!! How can i get rid of those packages i want to
squeeze out??
Thanks for your suggestions,
Jean-Marc
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From: Alastair Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel Compile Going Nowhere
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 09:19:18 GMT
When I type 'make xconfig', I get a little bit of commentary, but it
ends when it gets to the following:
cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk
It stops at this point, although it doesn't lock up. It just sits there
until I terminate it by pressing [ctrl]+[z].
If I try 'make menuconfig', it ends with:
Preparing scripts: functions, parsing........done.
I have also tried 'make config'. This got me through the configuration
process okay, but when I tried 'make dep', it ended with:
nothing to be done for 'dep'.
make[1]: leaving directory '/home/ala/linux/arch/i386/boot'
scripts/mkdep init/*.c > .depend
Any help would be much appreciated. I've just spent a lot of money on a
new Zip drive and I understand that it won't work on kernels older than
2.2.14 so it's very frustrating not being able to use it.
--
- Alastair Foster
http://users.netaccess.co.nz/ala/
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From: Lee Friend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing redhat with NT 4
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 09:26:54 GMT
hello there
I am planning to have a multi Os with red hat linux and nt on one
machine.
i already have NT installed. what is teh best way to go about
installing Red hat. should i reformat and install red hat, then NT,
or the other way around?
ideas?
cheers
Lee
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From: "mpierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic starting up Redhat 6.2?
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 20:48:29 +1000
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Your problem is not that serious even though it seems to be. I encountered
the same problem after an upgrade to 6.2 and I pulled my hair out trying
to find a solution. Change the kernel - upgrade the kernel to 2.2.16-3 and
make sure you go to RH errata section and upgrade the rpm installer to
the new rpm. Both the kernel and the installer have some bugs. This will
solve your problem and prevent some future problems. In the interim,
simply log on using your boot disk (you did make a boot disk?). I hope, I
know this will solve your problem.
Marvin
In article
<8p6kom$qv6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm having a little trouble with the Redhat 6.2 I just installed. It
> went through the installation without a hitch, but when I tried to boot
> it the first time (and every time since), I get the following output:
>
> ----
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Proccessor Stepping 02 Enabling extended fast FPU
> save and restore...... Done. Disabling CPUID Serial number.... general
> protection fault
>
> Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! In swapper task - not
> syncing
> ----
>
> Some info about my system -
>
> CPU: AMD "Thunderbird" 750 Linux: Redhat v6.2 Mobo: Asus A7V RAM: 256
> HDD: 8GB linux partition Swap: 280 MB
>
> Anyone have any idea as to what the deal is? Any help is greatly
> appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> -Andrew
>
>
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From: Fubar X. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Installing RH 6.2 screwed up Win98
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 13:31:40 +0300
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 08:59:28 +0200, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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
With help from a Linux guru, the problem was solved:
a) Use FDISK to partition the 3GB partition, using 'linux native'
only, since the 'extended' is seen by Windoze.
b) After that, LILO would hang. Running FDISK again, I noticed that it
displays a warning that my HD has 1232 cylinders, but anything above
1024 might cause problems, for example (surprise!) to LILO.
c) So I assigned 128MB for the swap, and the rest up to cyl #1024 to /
and everything is cool now.
Downside - unused 1.5 BG on my 10GB disk.
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Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 20:57:15 +1000
From: DaveH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: HELP! -- Grub tutorial? -- answer
"Edward A. Falk" wrote:
>
> In article <8p41v1$11en$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Edward A. Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi all; yesterday I tried to remove Caldera technology preview from
> >my system and install redhat. The redhat install aborted (my
> >mistake) and now when I reboot I get this "grub" prompt and can't
> >get any further.
>
> A bit more web browsing found the answer. The commands I was
> looking for were:
>
> chainloader (hd0,0)+1
> boot
>
> My, how very obvious. Not.
>
> At least I got my machine back up, with another OS installed now.
>
> Between the eight-hour install procedure, and this POS booter,
> and the broken x86 config, I'm never touching Caldera again.
>
A win-win solution for everyone :-)
Cheers DaveH.
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From: "Donald Mided" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't mount my Win98 drive
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 11:09:12 GMT
I am a newbie, and I've installed Red Hat Linux on a Pentium II that has
dual hard drives. The boot drive has a single Win98 partition, and the
second drive has a Linux native partition and a Linux swap partition.
Using LILO, I can successfully boot either Linux or Win98, but I'm not able
to mount the Win98 drive in Linux.
I've already gotten a lot of help with this in alt.linux, but we've hit a
dead end and I was referred here in the hope of finding someone more
experienced/expert.
Here are the facts so far. This command:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win95
generates the mount version, followed by several lines of mount parameters,
followed by these error messages:
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 03:01.
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many
mounted filesystems
mount /dev/hda1 /win95
produces the same result, and an analogous line inserted in fstab also does
the same.
I have two questions about the VFS error message. Why does it complain
about no "valid MSDOS filesystem" rather than no "valid vfat (or FAT16 or
FAT32) filesystem"? Also, how and why does it convert /dev/hda1 to dev
03:01?
fdisk reports my boot drive as follows:
Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 623 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 622 1253920+ b Win95 FAT32
So, there is only one partition on hda, it is the boot partition, and it is
a Win95 FAT32 type. And, I'm certain that it is a valid, uncorrupted
partition because I can boot into it and work on it.
fdisk reports my second drive this way:
Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 460 927328+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hdb2 461 525 131040 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 461 524 128992+ 82 Linux swap
And, as noted, there's no problem in mounting this drive (it mounts through
fstab entries along with my CD-ROM).
I have verified that /win95 and /dev/hda1 exist in my Linux setup because I
can cd to either directory.
The man mount pages document the various names that can be used for the
filesystem parameter and none of them is Win95 FAT32. However vfat is
listed and I assume that that is the correct "alias" for Win95 FAT32. The
man mount pages also refer to a listing of valid
filesystem names at linux/fs/filesystems.c, but that file does not exist on
my system.
find / -name filesystems.c -print or
find / -iname filesystems.c -print
produce no result. Furthermore, if I do:
find / -iname files*.*-print
I get 5 files in various sub-directories, but filesystems.c is NOT among
them.
Would the lack of filesystems.c cause the problems I've been having? It
doesn't seem to matter to the mounting of the Linux and CD-ROM drives that
get mounted by fstab.
Is it possible that I just have a bad install? I did not accept the default
packages list (long story as to why not) but supposedly RedHat would warn me
about required packages and install what was needed anyway if something was
missing. I got no such warnings!
I guess I could re-install, but it may not solve the problem and I'd like to
avoid the hassle. There is nothing critical on the system as it now exists,
it's just a playground for learning.
Thanks for the help,
Don
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