Linux-Setup Digest #721, Volume #19 Thu, 28 Sep 00 20:13:07 EDT
Contents:
XFont Server? Stop the madness! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: configuring the kernel ("Lonni J. Friedman")
Re: 3com 3c509 in ISA mode in windows (brian)
Re: samba errors? (Richard R. Kaufman)
Problems with Linux boot (me!)
Re: XFont Server? Stop the madness! (Chip Piller)
Re: XFont Server? Stop the madness! ("Lonni J. Friedman")
gcc error message (chris)
Re: XFont Server? Stop the madness! (Hal Burgiss)
Please help me install, I'm stuck!! (Exits Funnel)
problem with ftp ("jhuman")
Re: 30 GB free space and still "no enought space"
HELP! Setting up a newsserver (Greg Baumgratz)
Re: How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card ("Winston Kriger")
Re: configuring the kernel (Flint Slacker)
Re: gcc error message (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Install : Boot Image (Chip Piller)
Reinstall linux will loss file? (Xingzhi Zhang)
help: soundcard setup please (Steve Wright)
Re: ssh to Machine (Chip Piller)
RH 7 takes 5 minutes to read boot diskette on Dell XPS750 ("Sridhar Mahadevan")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: XFont Server? Stop the madness!
Date: 28 Sep 2000 21:08:05 GMT
For some reason "x font server" keeps loading up on startup and
I have no idea how to disable it. I can't even find where it's loading it.
I'm running RH6.2. What files should I be looking at where all the
startup stuff is called?
--
-T.
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From: "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: configuring the kernel
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:52:52 -0400
Dan Allen wrote:
>
> Okay, I am following the HOW-TOs, but it just doesn't seem to work. I go to
> /usr/src/linux and type
>
> make xconfig #doesn't work
>
> make menuconfig #doesn't work
>
> make config #doesn't work
>
> How the heck do you configure the kernel. I read the HOW-TO exactly and it
> didn't work. Perhaps you can only configure the kernel if the kernel is
> still in source code form. In that case, fresh off an install, how do you
> configure the kernel.
Yes, that is the case. THe kernel is a binary, and thus can't be
configured. You need to configure the source, which can be obtained at
www.kernel.org.
Go here for more help with Linux:
http://netllama.ipfox.com/stepbystep.htm
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From: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3com 3c509 in ISA mode in windows
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:16:05 GMT
Check device manager!
Try to setup your card in windows with the values you entered when switching
the card to ISA mode. (Remember the dos program ?) Also, be careful that you
don't have a resource conflict with your new settings.
> Dave Jepson wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Hope this is not too OT but there's probably more chance of someone here
> > knowing the answer!
> >
> > To get my etherlink III 3c509B Combo working in linux I disabled the PnP
> > and manually set the IRQ and I/O with the 3c5x9cfg.exe program in
> > windows.
> >
> > This works fine in linux, using isapnptools.
> >
> > However I just can't get it to work in Windows.
> >
> > If I use the ISA mode driver, I am allowed to specify I/O port only and
> > no IRQ.
> >
> > If I use the EISA mode driver Control Panel->System->Device
> > Manager->Network Adaptors->Properties says that the driver could not be
> > loaded, and hence I don't get to specify IRQ & IO at all.
> >
> > Has anyone had/resolved this problem before?
> >
> > I went to the 3com site but the blurb on the driver download page states
> > that 3c509 is only supported in 'classic' (???) and PnP modes, not ISA
> > and EISA.
> >
> > Alternatively............
> >
> > Seeing as windows can see the NIC in PnP mode fine, can I get linux to
> > load it?
> > Currently if I set the card in PnP mode, linux hangs when I try to start
> > the eth0 interface.
> > The card is being loaded in /etc/conf.modules with
> >
> > alias eth0 3c509
> >
> > Does anyone know why it hangs and whatI could do about it?
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From: Richard R. Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: samba errors?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:30:08 -0000
There are a few bits of info you left out that could help provide a
solution to this problem:
1. What version of Windows are you running? (9x/NT)
2. What linux make is it (RedHat, Mandrake, etc) and what ver (6.2, 7.1)
After providing that, the problem can be narrowed down greatly. I have
found that Windows 9x machines are *very* stubborn in accessing samba
shares. Drop me a line if you so desire at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regards,
Richard R. Kaufman
Jordan Thompson wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I have a linux box serving several windoze machines with samba. The
windoze
> boxes are using network login and everything seems to be working fine.
Problem
> is in my /var/log/messages, every time someone logs in, I get the
following
> message:
>
> Sep 18 21:13:52 dot PAM_pwdb[2990]: authentication failure; (uid=0) ->
jordan
> for samba service
>
> (Of course the name corresponds to the user, but the uid is always 0)
>
> I also see that it takes a while (~3-4 sec) for my windoze boxes to see
the
> linux partitions and printers that are shared, where it takes no time at
all for
> them to see the other windoze shared partitions.
>
> I have another clue (perhaps)
> There are usually two messages when someone logs in or out (sometimes
there
> are four.)
>
> Are these related? How do I fix them?
>
> Thanks,
> Jordan
> --
> =================================================
> Jordan R. Thompson
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://JordanThompson.freeyellow.com
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From: me! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with Linux boot
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:30:07 -0000
I recently installed Linux Mandrake 6.0 and can't get it to work. When I
try to boot into linux (rather than win98, I have a dual-boot system) it
goes through the init process, then displays the stack, a call trace, and
what looks like multiple two-digit hexadecimal codes simply labeled
"code:". How do I fix this so I can boot properly?
my system:
700mhz Athlon
128mb RAM
Single Maxtor HD (15GB), partitioned for Win98 and Linux
old Trident SVGA vid card
Gateway crystalscan monitor
Soundblaster Live! X-Gamer
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From: Chip Piller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XFont Server? Stop the madness!
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:59:15 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> For some reason "x font server" keeps loading up on startup and
> I have no idea how to disable it. I can't even find where it's loading it.
> I'm running RH6.2. What files should I be looking at where all the
> startup stuff is called?
>
> --
>
> -T.
If your default run level is 3 (check /etc/inittab) then your system
startup files for run level 3 will be found in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/.
These in fact are not actual files but instead these are symbolic links
to the real files located in /etc/rc.d/init.d.
Warning! You should not edit or delete these files by hand.
Instead there are several good tools to use to manage your
startup/shutdown files.
I use the /sbin/chkconfig tool, do a man lookup for chkconfig. For
example to see what services get started in run level 3 do this:
/sbin/chkconfig --list | grep 3:on
There are graphical tools like linuxconf or tksysv.
Regards,
Chip
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From: "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XFont Server? Stop the madness!
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:35:52 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> For some reason "x font server" keeps loading up on startup and
> I have no idea how to disable it. I can't even find where it's loading it.
> I'm running RH6.2. What files should I be looking at where all the
> startup stuff is called?
I'd imagine that its coming from somewhere in /etc/rc.d/init.d
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From: chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gcc error message
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:18:14 GMT
I have a problem with gcc that's inhibiting me from compiling anything. I've
been skating by now with rpms and, obviously this has got to end soon...
Could someone do me a huge favor and decipher this error message for me???
[root@servernamehere php-4.0.2]# ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... missing
Updated php_version.h
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for bison... no
checking for byacc... no
configure: warning: You will need bison if you want to regenerate the PHP
parsers.
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot
create executables.
[root@servernamehere php-4.0.2]# rpm -q gcc
gcc-2.95-4
Thank you!!
chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: XFont Server? Stop the madness!
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:35:49 GMT
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:59:15 -0400, Chip Piller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>There are graphical tools like linuxconf or tksysv.
Also, ntsysv. tksysv seems buggy to me. Man pages for all this stuff
too, BTW.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Exits Funnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Please help me install, I'm stuck!!
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:40:55 GMT
Hello,
I'm trying to install Redhat 6.2 on a machine which is currently running
NT Server 4.0. I'm trying to install from a CD. I put the CD in the
machine and reboot. Everything begins OK, it reads the CD at startup
and I get the first installation screen. I then press <ENTER> and the
following information is displayed (there are a few lines missing off
the top which I can't quite catch):
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.2.14-5.0BOOT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
egcs-2.9
1.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Tue Mar 7 20:31:32 EST 2000
Detected 199743029 Hz Processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 199.07 BogoMIPS
Memory: 110964k/114688k available (1000k kernel code, 412k reserved,
1416k data, 60k init, 0k bigmem)
general protection fault: 0000
CPU: 0
Then there's some stack information and a Call Trace and finally:
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In swapper task - not syncing
And than it just hangs. I have no idea what the problem is. I don't
know much about the machine (it's just an extra one at work) other than
it seems to run NT without any difficulty. Since my intention is to let
hte installation program reformat the drive and start over and since the
machine seems to run NT without any difficulty I can't imagine that I
shouldn't be able to install Linux, but I'm stuck? Any suggestions
would be greatly appreciated.
-Exits
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "jhuman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: problem with ftp
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:14:53 -0400
I get this error when trying to ftp to one of my linux boxes on private
lan....
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
What does this mean and how do I fix it....
thx in advance
--
JD Durick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AT&T Laboratories, ISC
Washington, DC
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: 30 GB free space and still "no enought space"
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:20:04 -0000
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 20:39:08 +0100, Kevin Lawless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I don't know if this is the problem but Linux may not be able to handle
>drives larger than the 12Gb that you are able use. As with some other OS
Nope. I've been using 20G & 30G drives for some time now.
[deletia]
I've had partitions as large as 18G. However, I tend to keep
them smaller these days. It makes suffling things around a
bit easier that way. A spare 10G partition can be quite handy.
--
You have a strong desire for a home and your family interests come first.
IBM Pollyanna Principle:
Machines should work. People should think.
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From: Greg Baumgratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP! Setting up a newsserver
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:28:42 -0400
I am looking for information on setting up a newsserver with a
newsfeed. Anyone have any suggestions for what to use (software) and
info on configuring it? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Greg
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From: "Winston Kriger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:34:28 -0500
"Andrew Werden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:d6Jy5.7061$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've just loaded Redhat 6.2 on an old Gateway 166 previously running NT
4.0.
> Linux does recognize the 3Com ISA Etherlink III card (model 3C509B-TPO).
It
> neither starts the ethernet adaptor, nor recognizes any interrupts for it.
>
> Any idea how I can get my network card working?
I have RedHat 6.2 running on an old Zeos 486 Mobo with Etherlink IIIB Combo
card.
I first installed it with the WIN-95B OS and disabled the PNP mode using the
3COM
utility. Then, when I did the Text install of LINUX, I was prompted to
install 2 devices
that were not configured. One was the SCSI adapter (Adaptec 1520B) and the
other was the Etherlink III. While I had to manually configure the SCSI
parms, LINUX
figured out the PORT and IRQ for the Etherlink III all by itself. It worked
without any
problems--including figuring-out that I was using the 10-base-2 Coax mode.
Winston K.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Flint Slacker)
Subject: Re: configuring the kernel
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:29:56 GMT
if /usr/src/linux exists, the kernel might just be there, maybe you
didn't install the development portions of linux D1.
Flint
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:07:03 -0700, "Dan Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Okay, I am following the HOW-TOs, but it just doesn't seem to work. I go to
>/usr/src/linux and type
>
>make xconfig #doesn't work
>
>make menuconfig #doesn't work
>
>make config #doesn't work
>
>How the heck do you configure the kernel. I read the HOW-TO exactly and it
>didn't work. Perhaps you can only configure the kernel if the kernel is
>still in source code form. In that case, fresh off an install, how do you
>configure the kernel.
>
>These questions I am asking seem to be pretty fundamental and it would be
>great if you guys could help me out.
>
>Thanks!!
>
>Dan Allen
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: gcc error message
Date: 28 Sep 2000 19:38:44 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <GsPA5.1432$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, chris wrote:
> checking for bison... no
> checking for byacc... no
> configure: warning: You will need bison if you want to regenerate the PHP
> parsers.
(This might be an important message.)
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot
> create executables.
A functioning gcc need other packages installed, such as binutils, libc
development, and (possibly) kernel headers.
(What would you do with a C compiler without them? Please file a bug
report with your distributor.)
--
Paul Kimoto
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and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: Chip Piller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install : Boot Image
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:37:07 -0400
Don wrote:
>
> Hi, I've been trying since day 1 to upgrade from Redhat 6.2 to 7.0 and
> it's been a nightmare. I can't get more than 2 minutes in. I tried
> downloading the ISO and loading that onto a CD. I then created a boot
> disc, and when it asks for Hard Drive or CD-ROM install I choose CD, and
> it can't find the CD. Redhat 6.2 never had a problem with the CD. I even
> tried booting off the CD and it gave the same problem. The boot image was
> the newest one I could find. 2nd thing I tried was to FTP it off of a
> server I've got local. I used the network boot image and when it asks me
> for my Network Card it's(SMC Ultra) not listed. Is it just me or did they
> cut down on the NIC's they support during install? Any help would be
> appreciated, and thanks in advance.
>
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I downloaded both RedHat 7.0 iso images, burned them to CD, booted from
the CD and installed using graphical install without any problems at
all.
Check to see if your iso image is correct. Run this command on your iso
file to get an MD5SUM: "md5sum -b 7.0-i386-disc1.iso".
The correct MD5SUM values are:
626b7d18033e320c27c8cd58cc37a288 7.0-i386-disc1.iso
c9899d398ca675c1e80a7bdb68d701bf 7.0-i386-disc2.iso
In addition I checked the /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net directory and found
smc-ultra.o and smc-ultra32.o. So it appears that your network card is
supported.
Regards,
Chip
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From: Xingzhi Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Reinstall linux will loss file?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:42:41 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear linux fellows!
If I reinstall Redhat 6.1 linux, will I loss all the files I have on the
hard disk? Because my system can not boot up after I moved to a new
address because all the network parameter is different from old set
numbers. So I want to reinstall it.
Is there other way to boot it up?
You help is greatly appreciated.
Xingzhi Zhang
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From: Steve Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help: soundcard setup please
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:49:53 +0000
I've held off posting this for a month. I'm stumped!
OPL3SA2 soundcard.
Peanut-Linux:~# modprobe opl3sa2 io=0x220 irq=7 dma=0 mss_io=0x330 dma2=1
/lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/opl3sa2.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
/lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/opl3sa2.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/opl3sa2.o failed
/lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/opl3sa2.o: insmod opl3sa2 failed
Peanut-Linux:~# cat /proc/dma
4: cascade
Peanut-Linux:~# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 4472065 XT-PIC timer
1: 5073 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 266478 XT-PIC serial
4: 46576 XT-PIC serial
8: 0 XT-PIC rtc
13: 0 XT-PIC fpu
14: 137547 XT-PIC ide0
NMI: 0
Peanut-Linux:~# cat /proc/modules
soundcore 2596 0 (autoclean)
ppp_deflate 39936 1 (autoclean)
bsd_comp 3912 0 (autoclean)
Peanut-Linux:~#
TIA
Steve
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From: Chip Piller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ssh to Machine
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:50:40 -0400
Kouros Owzar wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I have installed Redhat 6.2 on a Sparc 4.
>
> I have succeeded to install the ssh client that allows me
> to ssh from my box.
>
> I would like to be able to ssh to my box as well.
> Any pointers on how to do this would be appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Kouros
OK, this is pretty easy to do. What you want to do is to get the sshd
daemon process to run on your machine so that it will accept ssh
connections.
The easiest way to do this is to get the ssh rpm files and install them,
this will setup your rc.d entries and everything. On my RedHat 6.2
system the command "rpm -qa | grep ssh" returns:
ssh-clients-1.2.27-7us
ssh-1.2.27-7us
ssh-extras-1.2.27-7us
ssh-server-1.2.27-7us
You can also get the source and follow the directions to compile and
install (http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh/).
Or, I just installed RedHat 7.0 and it installed OpenSSH and this works
just fine as well. You will have to check to see if you can find the
ssh packages for the sparc architecture, otherwise get the source.
Regards,
Chip
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From: "Sridhar Mahadevan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 7 takes 5 minutes to read boot diskette on Dell XPS750
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 20:09:22 -0500
It takes forever for RH 7 to read the boot diskette before the kernel is
loaded.
Every period (.) seems to take a minute!. Anyone else experience this
problem? Exactly the same thing happens with this machine in our lab at
work, and also at home (I have the same machine in both places).
RH 6.2 used to take long also, but not quite as long. Any clues?
- Sridhar
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