Linux-Setup Digest #609, Volume #19 Tue, 12 Sep 00 15:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux-Mandrake totally unstable? (ray)
Re: ALSA Drivers (Rod Smith)
Internet via DHCP on NT server ("Peet Grobler")
Where do you specify your primary WINS server? ("Peet Grobler")
eth0/1 delay initialization after upgrade kernel from 2.0.36 to 2.2.17 (Kelvin Leung)
Re: java40.jar netscape ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: ppp not quite working (Topher Cawlfield)
Q: Cron irregularities on RedHat 6.2 ("The Big CaT")
file creation and system time !!! HELP MEE !!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Can I bypass RedHat installation to recover...? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Promise Ultra66 w/ ide patches *hangs* ("Cymen Vig")
Re: setup linux as a router on an old system (asif)
Re: Alsa and XMMS (Bill Pringlemeir)
no ppp startup (Charles Megnin)
Re: scsi tape drive question (WOOD DAVID M)
Re: no ppp startup (Charles Megnin)
Re: xcdroast on redhat 6.2 doesn't work (exits itself) ("Wolfgang Scholz")
GLIBC 2.1.3 upgrade ("William A. McKee")
Insufficent Space ("Bryce Mitchell")
Re: Insufficent Space ("D F")
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux-Mandrake totally unstable?
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:21:31 GMT
Bill Unruh wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jason Dix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ]I have an AMD K6-3 400 with FIC PA 2013 motherboard. A year ago I created
> ]a linux partition on what used to be a single boot Windows98 machine. The
> ]first time I installed Linux mandrake 6.5 everything went smoothly. No
> ]crashes, no hangs - perfect. Then Windows needed a reinstall which also
> ]forced me to reinstall linux. I first tried 6.5, went fine. Then I had
> ]to change video card from Voodoo 3 2000 to ATI Xpert98 (cheap motherboard
> ]won't run Voodoo card). So I reinstalled mandrake 6.5 again. It worked
> ]but Linux (over many sessions) progressively became unstable. I purchased
> ]Mandrake 7.1 and installed that over 6.5 and the problem kept getting
> ]progressively worse. It took many cycles of trying to install Mandrake -
> ]crash - reboot, before it finally installed. However after two days of
> ]using linux, the system started crashing at shorter and shorter
> ]intervals. Now, it won't boot to linux-period. Linux won't reinstall -
> ]period. Windows 98 works fine, no crashes, all hardware works without a
> ]hitch. What is going on here?
>
> Not enough info here. The log files (/var/log) might contain some
> information. I would completely wipe the Linux of that partition and
> reinstall, not upgrade. But it does sound a bit to me like hardware
> problems.
Bill's right on target, (as usual) I have actually seen this more than
once. I do NOT understand it, but it's not uncommon for linux to misbehave,
Doze to work flawlessly. These issues are almost always memory of some kind,
see if you can borrow some memory and replace yours. Sometimes, merely
removing and reseating the sticks will make it go away, next try turning off
cache in the BIOS, and yes, it's slow, but if stable, there's the culprit.
I have also seen this from a VIDEO card, some timing confusion is all I can
guess, and that's a pure guess.
--
Ray R. Jones
Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP://gordo.penguinpowered.com
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: ALSA Drivers
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:24:12 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <7Prv5.11798$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Bod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> In the docs you may find a statement telling that you must enable sound
>> support in the kernel without activating a specific card. Did you do
>> that ?
>>
> Forgive my ignorance, but how do I do that?? I'm new to Linux.
Chances are Red Hat is trying to load a driver module for the sound
card. Type "cat /proc/modules" to see a list of modules in use. One
should have a name that bears some resemblance to your sound card.
Locate the reference to that module in /etc/conf.modules and comment it
out. If that doesn't work, try moving the module file from
/lib/modules/x.y.z/misc (where x.y.z is your kernel version) to
somewhere else. That'll definitely prevent it from loading.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Internet via DHCP on NT server
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:43:56 +0200
I've installed Mandrake Linux 7.1, on a machine that used to run WinNT. Now
I don't have internet anymore.
We have a domain called LANGROUP, a WINS server (10.0.0.2), and I've got 3
IP's of the ISP's DNS's.
I can point the browser to http://10.0.0.2 and I get the stuff that's on
there, however, once I try to point to e.g. http://www.yahoo.com
it comes back immediately saying host could not be found.
I'm stuck. Where do I start? I've read :
Ethernet-HOWTO
Networking-HOWTO
WWW-user-HOWTO
What can I do??
THanks,
Peet
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where do you specify your primary WINS server?
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:57:07 +0200
Where in the Linux (specifically Mandrake 7.1) configuration can I specify
the name of the primary WINS server?
THanks,
Peet
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kelvin Leung)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: eth0/1 delay initialization after upgrade kernel from 2.0.36 to 2.2.17
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:38:00 GMT
It's strange, I have a working system (more than 1 year) with kernel
2.0.36 with two network cards installed. Network card modules are
loaded at boot up by have them listed in /etc/conf.modules. It's been
fine. Yesterday I upgrade the kernel to 2.2.17 (you can tell I
haven't done any upgrade for a while), compile the modules and install
them. I've checked the modules sit on /lib/modules/2.2.17, including
the required network card modules which are ne.o and ne2k-pci.o.
However, when I reboot the machine with new kernel, the following
message come out :
Delaying eth0 initialization
Delaying eth1 initialization
It's a RH system, no clue at all, next thing I'll try manually load
the modules and activate the eth0/1.
Any comment are welcome!
Kelvin
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Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: java40.jar netscape
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:01:04 -0500
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Guy-Armand Kamendje quoth:
GK> I have the following problem. Even though my CLASSPATH is
GK> correct, netscape (Java is active in the preferences) can not find
GK> java40.jar, and is not able to start java
GK> applets. The only copy of java40.jar is locate under
GK> /usr/lib/netscape/java/classes. I symblink it to
GK> /usr/jdk-1.1.6/classes/javar40.jar but it was not enough.
GK> Do anybody have an idea how I can get netscape finding java40.jar?
GK> Thanks for any hint
- fire up an xterm
- if CLASSPATH is set, unset it
- set MOZILLA_HOME to the directory where netscape is installed
- netscape &
See if it works that way, if it does adjust your initialization
files approporiately, if not, sorry.
anm
--
BEGIN { $\ = $/; $$_ = $_ for qw~ just another perl hacker ~ }
my $J = sub { return \$just }; my $A = sub { return \$another };
my $P = sub { return \$perl }; my $H = sub { return \$hacker };
print map ucfirst() . " " => ${&$J()}, ${&$A()}, ${&$P()}, ${&$H()};
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From: Topher Cawlfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ppp not quite working
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:20:52 -0500
Hi, and thanks a lot for responding to me on this.
Bill Unruh wrote:
...
> axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html
> is a step by step guide and also tells you how to set up and read the
> debugging information. It sounds like you may not have teh defaultroute
> option set up or your dns server set up.
This site looks great -- very specific help on debugging a connection.
I'll look into this some more tonight when I get home.
I think I do have the DNS servers set up correctly, though I can't be sure
yet. I have problems even reaching computers (including the DNS servers)
by IP address. Packets are sent, but not returned. And my routing table
looks to me to be okay, also. I will look at it more carefully, though.
I'm not an expert, but the routing table looks the same as it does when I
dialup into the servers that always work, except the server's IP is
obviously different. Is it possible to somehow have packets received
ignored or sent elsewhere?
The one time I did get the desired dialup working, I had played around a
lot with my hostname/identity stuff. Unfortunately, after disconnecting I
was not able to connect properly again, and I haven't been able to repeat
that ever since. I've been working on this problem for a couple months
now!
I'm wondering if there's anything stupid I could have done in setting up my
hostname? I think I had it set to "queeg500.mynet", with the idea in mind
that "mynet" refered to 192.168.0.0. I haven't been able to find anything
that describes exactly how I should have this set. Could anything in this
configuration confuse the dialup server and cause it to send packets
intended for my computer elsewhere? Maybe my computer is receiving packets
and re-routing them? But I'm fairly certain I don't have routed operating.
Well, I'll print out your ppp web pages, and work more on it tonight.
Thanks again for the info.
- Topher
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From: "The Big CaT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: Cron irregularities on RedHat 6.2
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:24:03 GMT
I recently installed RedHat 6.2 and there is a default cron
job for root. This job runs every 10 minutes all day. Every
time it runs it exits with the following error:
/bin/sh: 1: Ambiguous redirect
Here is the crontab entry.
0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /dev/chr/.../sc >/dev/null 2>&1
Also, when I try to use my own entries for Perl scripts
the all fail with the following error message:
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/date: No such file or directory
Any info to help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Karl Oberlander
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: file creation and system time !!! HELP MEE !!!!
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:21:01 GMT
When a file is created the date on the file is not correct.
The problem is explained below:
blr.india.com:mahesh(7)% uname -a
Linux blr.india.com 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Tue Mar 7 21:07:39 EST 2000 i686
unknown
blr.india.com:mahesh(8)% date
Fri Sep 8 17:08:32 IST 2000
blr.india.com:mahesh(9)% touch hello
blr.india.com:mahesh(10)% ls -l hello
-rw-r--r-- 1 mahesh mahesh 0 Sep 8 11:38 hello
I see the the file creation date is wrong....
What is the problem and how to correct it ....
PS: we have used timeconfig but still the problem is there...
the timezone is Asia/Calcutta and hardware clock is st to GMT using
timecconfi
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can I bypass RedHat installation to recover...?
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:22:52 GMT
Hi,
I am/was running RedHat 6.1 until I modified rc.local to try to start
the font server but it fails and the boot process halts. I am looking
for a way to edit the rc.local file but I do not have a boot diskette
except for the RedHat installation CD/diskette. Is there a way I can
bypass all the installation so that I just get a root login from which
I hope to be able to mount the hard disk partition and edit the file?
Alternatively, I do not suppose there is any utility which allows me to
access a Linux partition from Windows (just a thought).
Could you please email a copy of your response to me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks very much,
Phil
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Cymen Vig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Promise Ultra66 w/ ide patches *hangs*
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:49:21 -0500
I've used the Ultra66 in a couple of linux machines here without any problem
(all have intel 440bx chipsets). Now I have a Celeron 366 with a Tekram
P6L40-A4E motherboard (intel 440lx chipset) and am having problems.
1) install went fine, I booted, did "cat /proc/pci", found device, rebooted,
"linux ide2=0xd400", etc...
2) get 2.2.17, get 2.2.17 ide patches (www.linux-ide.org)
3) recompile, boot, hangs like so:
*****************************
PDC20262: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 48
PDC20262: chipset revision 1
PDC20262: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20262: ROM enabled at 0xe4000000
PDC20262: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.
PDC20262: FORCING PRIMARY MODE BIT 0x00 -> 0x01 MASTER
PDC20262: FORCING SECONDARY MODE BIT 0x00 -> 0x01 MASTER
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xe408-0xe40f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA
hda: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1202, ATAPI CDROM drive
hde: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide2 at 0xd400-0xd407,0xd802 on irq 11
_ <- blinking cursor
*****************************
Now I have to do a hard reset (can't do a soft one)...
Tried:
0) put Promise card in PCI slot #1 just in case
1) make zlilo instead of bzlilo because someone posted to deja w/ "not
working when using bzip2
2) updated Promise Ultra66 BIOS to latest on promise.com page
3) got 2.2.16 and tried the ide patches on it
4) played with all the options in the BIOS
Now I'm stuck... WTF is wrong with this thing!
Thanks,
Cymen Vig
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To:
alt.binaries.warez.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,corelsupport.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: setup linux as a router on an old system
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (asif)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:54:37 GMT
Freesco is what you are looking for.
http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~router/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Cox) wrote in
<z13v5.598759$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>try www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux
>
>They have a firewall script generating questionnaire
>
>
>"Marco Dissel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Hello
>>
>> I want to use my old P100 with 32mb as a router .
>>
>> I'm looking for a following mini-linux distribution which support:
>> - routing capabilities between my Cable modem (DHCP) and my LAN (NAT)
>> - firewall
>> - port forwarding
>> - FTP non-anonymous (i want to start an ftp session from the internet
>> on
>my
>> linux pc, so i can start a download from my work and when i come home
>> the download is finished
>> - DNS caching
>> - easy to setup (i'm not a linuxpro)
>> optional:
>> - ISDN setup for an internal ISDN adapter (as backup for my cable
>> internet connection)
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Marco
>>
>>
>
>
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Subject: Re: Alsa and XMMS
From: Bill Pringlemeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:08:07 GMT
>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Pringlemeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
Bill> I couldn't find documentation on XMMS supporting Alsa, but it
Bill> does use the OSS and my mixers and other programs seem to work
Bill> with the alsa driver. Will a newer versions of the XMMS
Bill> (1.2.x) fix this or should I go about it another way.
Sorry, it works fine. The problem was the /dev/dsp->/dev/dsp0 file
permissions. I did a chmod a+rw /dev/dsp0 and everything works now.
Bill
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From: Charles Megnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: no ppp startup
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:22:15 -0700
Hi there
I've been battling this for a while now & can't seem
to find a solution.
My modem connects to the ISP but ppp won't start up.
I'm fairly confident that the chat script is ok. I've tried
to add an empty expect/send line before the expect "ogin:"
prompt to no avail.
Any suggestions really appreciated.
Thanks!
Charles
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From: WOOD DAVID M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scsi tape drive question
Date: 12 Sep 2000 22:17:21 GMT
Kenneth Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You don't "mount" a tape drive.
> Use tar, cpio, dd, etc to write to it. There are some backup programs
> available which probably write and read it for you, but I can't remember
> the names of any of them off the top of my head. I'm sure there have
> been posts about backups on the newsgroups. A search on deja.com should
> give you some pointers.
> Todd Sussman wrote:
>>
>> I have a Seagate scsi tape drive on my system.
>> The computer at boot tells me it has a scsi tape at st0.
>> When I try to mount it I get an error that it isn't in the fstab or mtab
>> files.
>> Sometimes it tells me it is not a block device.
>> What do I need to do to mount it. I want to transfer my backups over to it.
The mt command can be used to move around on a tape,
e.g., mt -f /dev/st0 fsf 1
will skip the first file on tape
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
will rewind the tape, etc. See the man pages for mt.
What did Todd mean by 'transfer my backups over to it'? To use the
tape for backups, or to move existing backup files onto tape?
Perhaps the most familiar set of tools for backup (by partition) are
dump and restore: see their man pages. I have found them very useful
over the years.
--
David M. Wood
Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401
Phone: (303) 273-3853; Fax: (303) 273-3840
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; NeXTMail welcome
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From: Charles Megnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: no ppp startup
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:24:49 -0700
I should have added that my ISP claims they are not getting a reply
from their login prompt.
Thanks
C
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From: "Wolfgang Scholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xcdroast on redhat 6.2 doesn't work (exits itself)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:36:31 +0200
Thanks for answer,
but I have only a SCSI harddisk. Where should I place at such a system the
mount point for the image files?
Thanks
Wolfgang
"f.g.a.m.wouters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:01c01cce$563e0640$f52513ac@HT9810221904...
>
>
> Wolfgang Scholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in artikel
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > I installed xcdroast v0.96ex (rpm package from redhat server) on my
> redhat
> > Linux 6.2.
> > After I start xcdroast and do the setup, I select the button "Copy
> Data-CD".
> > Now the next screen appears for 1 seconds and xcdroast exists itself
> without
> > any message.
> > Also everytime I start xcdroast, it says, that something has changed on
> the
> > SCSI bus, but there wasn't something changed.
> >
> > Knows anyone where I can find some add. information about my problems
> with
> > xcdroast or knows anyone such problems?
> >
> > I use
> > TEAC CD-R56S CD-Writer
> > PLEXTOR PX-40TS CD-Drive
> > Adaptec AHA2940UW SCSI-Adapter
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for help
> > Wolfgang
> >
> I had the same problem with xcdroast .
> The problem with me was that I had the wrong mounting point for writing
the
> image files.
> You can log in as root and change the setup (don't forget to save).
> If you have a SCSI harddisk you can cannot chose this as a mounting point,
> and there are several forbidden points.
> I hope this helps it did with me.
>
> Frans Wouters
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Reply-To: "William A. McKee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "William A. McKee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GLIBC 2.1.3 upgrade
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:39:04 GMT
How do I upgrade my Corel linux to glibc 2.1.3?
TIA,
Will McKee.
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From: "Bryce Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Insufficent Space
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:44:03 +0100
I am having a difficulty trying to create Partitions in the installation
routine, I keep getting the message that their is not enough space - this is
cannot be true because I have a formatted partiton that is empty.
Thanks for any help
Bryce
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From: "D F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Insufficent Space
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:50:03 -0400
Bryce Mitchell wrote in message
<8plti9$iih$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I am having a difficulty trying to create Partitions in the
installation
>routine, I keep getting the message that their is not
enough space - this is
>cannot be true because I have a formatted partiton that is
empty.
>
>Thanks for any help
>Bryce
>
You'll have to delete that formatted, vacant partition and
then create the Linux partitions you require within that
unpartitioned space.
Dave Fluri
North Bay, Ontario Canada
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