Linux-Setup Digest #808, Volume #19 Wed, 11 Oct 00 14:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Redhat 7.0 upgrade problems ("Ed Bras")
Re: Redhat 7.0 upgrade problems (Hal Burgiss)
Re: soffice51 install ("C. Shen")
Re: Cant� connect to ISP ("Henrik & Stine")
HELP! ttyS0, external modem problem ("Guennadi V. Liakhovetski")
GUI won't come up | RH 6.00 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Disk recovery advice needed (Jeff Freeman)
Re: configure script fails on gcc test (Sven Mascheck)
Re: GUI won't come up | RH 6.00 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: GUI won't come up | RH 6.00 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: GUI won't come up | RH 6.00 (Mark)
Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cant=B4?= connect to ISP (repo)
enlightenment crashes with new X server (me)
Re: GUI won't come up | RH 6.00 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux Mandrake 7.1 Install (Andrew)
Linux Mandrake 7.1 Install help (Andrew)
Re: Newbie Help - Burning ISO Disks for RH 7.0 (Mickey Stein)
Re: Aureal Sound Cards (me)
Re: Suggestions in Setting up RH7? ("Michael Matthews")
Re: Redhat 7.0 upgrade problems ("Michael Matthews")
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.0 upgrade problems
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:13:17 +0200
"Hal Burgiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:45:51 +0200, Ed Bras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >Hellu there,
> >
> >I did upgrade my machine from RedHat 6.2. to RedHat 7.0 and have some
> >problems:
> >1: First of all I dont' understand the names that appear, for example
> >smb.conf.rpmsave ?, why does this rpmsave extension means and how is this
> >file used ? and what about my original smb.conf, which is renamed to this
> >rpmsave version ?
>
> This is done when a new version comes with a new config file. The old
> one is saved with 'rpmsave' so you don't lose any important
> configuration data that might have been there. It is just there for
> reference in case you need it.
>
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
Thanks Hal,
But which configuration files does it use ??
Ed Bras
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.0 upgrade problems
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:29:52 GMT
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:13:17 +0200, Ed Bras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>But which configuration files does it use ??
The one without the 'rpmsave' on the end. This is generally a clue that
something in the configuration might have changed somehow, eg the syntax
is different or somesuch, or new options are available. I would suggest
not renaming the old ones (with rpmsave) to the new one for this reason.
But hand copy any old config options into the new file.
--
Hal B
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From: "C. Shen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: soffice51 install
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:53:17 -0500
"David .." wrote:
> Mike Oliver wrote:
> >
> > "David .." wrote:
> > >
> > > Mike Oliver wrote:
> > >> If I might ask -- how did you find this out? I saw no hint
> > >> of it on Sun's site (nor, really, any installation instructions
> > >> of any kind).
> > >
> > > I read the directions. ;)
> >
> > Which were where?
>
> I know it's in the first screen after launching the install program for
> staroffice 5.2.
> I don't remember where I found out about it with 5.1 but it could also
> be installed as root and still do the same thing.
in README
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From: "Henrik & Stine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cant� connect to ISP
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:51:41 +0200
When I look in the /etc/ppp/options file all it says is
Lock
I�ve looked through a bunch of config-files but can�t find anyone with a
noauth setting
If someone has stumpled over a file with this setting in RH 6.1, don�t
hesitate to enlighten me!
thanks,
H. Larsen
Sebastian Niehaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Henrik & Stine wrote:
> >
> > Hey!
> >
> > I have for some days now tried to connect to my ISP thrugh an ordinary
> > (proper) modem. In the Gnome/Enligtenment GUI I find the modem in a
program
> > called internet connection. Its placed on /dev/ttyS0 and when I hit the
> > debug button it dials-up fine (that is, I hear the usual noise). But
then
> > the show stops, and nothing more happens. The program says pppd has died
> > (exit code = 1).
>
>
> You might want to remove the "#" before "noauth" in /etc/ppp/options
> (not sure if the file is in that location in your distribution...)
>
>
> Sebastian
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From: "Guennadi V. Liakhovetski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP! ttyS0, external modem problem
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:06:28 +0100
Hello
So, here is the problem: I first installed SuSE 6.3 using a standard
kernel, and the modem worked fine. But the soundcard didn't. Then I had to
re-configure and recompile the kernel (I've never done it myself
before...), I read all those dox about isapnp, but eventually I found out
that the soundcard (ONLY) works if no isapnp.conf file is present and that
linux sets up IRQs, IOs and DMAs correctly (exectly in accordance with
Win... yeah, I had it before on this machine, and I still have this disk
in case of trouble...). But now my modem does not work. So, either:
1) I misconfigured my kernel and either did not include support for it or
included something that I shouldn't really...
or
2) the soundcard and the modem conflict. However a quick check did not
show any conflicts. But maybe I was not doing a right check...
Now, could anybody, please, tell me shat EXACTLY components I MUST
configure my kernel for on a standalone computer, having, among optional
hardware ONLY a soundcard and a modem (including PPP networking, of
course). And how EXACTLY can I check if there are any conflicts? And do I
REALLY need isapnp.conf? When I did try to use it I only got some conflict
messages...
dmesg (boot-time messages) show 'approximately' the same ttyS* records for
both kernels, but at different stages... I am away from that computer now,
so, can't tell exactly.
Can I find out how the kernel on the cd was configured?
Please HELP!
Thanks
Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Sheffield Centre for Earth Observation Science
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield
Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road
Sheffield S3 7RH
phone: +44-(0)114-222-3798
fax: +44-(0)114-222-3739
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: GUI won't come up | RH 6.00
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 16:24:57 GMT
I've been running my Intel-based RH 6.0 server just fine for >1 year,
without a crash - ostly administering it by telneting into the
machine. On the rare occasion when I need (or prefer) to use
Linuxconf, I've been using Gnome or equivalent just fine - on a
reboot, the basic RH splash screen and login screen come up fine.
Until now - for some reason, if I reboot the machine now, the GUI
doesn't come up at all. The system initializes just fine, and does all
its usual server things just fine, but it refuses to bring up the GUI.
The only thing I've done to the machine in the last 2-3 months is
update some of the RPM from the RH site. No hardware changes, no
application additions (other than the RPM updates noted) - nothing.
Thats about it - as far as I know, the GUI problem is recent.
Any suggestions? While for 95% fo what I use the machine for I can
telnet in just fine, I need the GUI for a couple of things, and can;t
figure out what to try.
Thanks in advance...
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From: Jeff Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Disk recovery advice needed
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:24:14 -0400
After moving from Iowa to Tennessee, I find that my /home
drive gets mounted with a lost+found file, a Image directory,
and an image1.raw file. e2fsck claims there is no problem
with the file structure, even if I force it to use a different
superblock when checking the disk. The image1.raw file contains
all of my user files. How can I recover it?
--
Jeff Freeman
Associate Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace and Engineering Science Department
University of Tennessee
443 Dougherty Engineering Building
Knoxville, TN 37996
(865) 974-5245
(865) 974-5274 (FAX)
http://www.engr.utk.edu/~freeman/
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From: Sven Mascheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: configure script fails on gcc test
Date: 11 Oct 2000 18:34:18 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have this problem on two platforms now, AIX and Linux, we'll try linux
> and i'll fix AIX later:
> I'm running the configure script from GIMP 1.1.27 and it fails early
> with: [...]
> config.log contains:
> configure:1104: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works
> configure:1120: gcc -o conftest conftest.c none 1>&5
Yes, "none" shouldn't be here.
Seems configure reused the result (output) from an earlier test, "none".
(I guess it's not a hardcoded bug in that configure script.)
If this doesn't happen with another configure from another major
package (say bash), this one is a bit buggy.
Or immediately try an older version of gimp if you don't insist in
an 1.1.27 feature.
Sven
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: GUI won't come up | RH 6.00
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 16:42:59 GMT
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 16:24:57 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I've been running my Intel-based RH 6.0 server just fine for >1 year,
>without a crash - ostly administering it by telneting into the
>machine. On the rare occasion when I need (or prefer) to use
>Linuxconf, I've been using Gnome or equivalent just fine - on a
>reboot, the basic RH splash screen and login screen come up fine.
>
>Until now - for some reason, if I reboot the machine now, the GUI
>doesn't come up at all. The system initializes just fine, and does all
>its usual server things just fine, but it refuses to bring up the GUI.
>The only thing I've done to the machine in the last 2-3 months is
>update some of the RPM from the RH site. No hardware changes, no
>application additions (other than the RPM updates noted) - nothing.
>Thats about it - as far as I know, the GUI problem is recent.
>
Should add that what isn't coming up is the RH login/password
graphical screen - all I get is a grey background, with an 'X' cursor
in the middle of the screen - the cursor respons to the mouse, but not
much else.
Help!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: GUI won't come up | RH 6.00
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:08:41 GMT
Tried something else - brought the system up in console, command line,
by entering linux 3 at the LILO prompt. OK - logged in as a particular
user, and then tried bringing up the Gnome desktop with startx.
Lo and behold, worked fine. So, the problem seems to be when it tries
to bring up the graphical login screen - it absolutely refuses to.
I'm wondering if there is a switch somewhere to turn this screen off
(security?) which I'd very much like to turn back on!
Thanks!
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From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GUI won't come up | RH 6.00
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 16:58:09 GMT
First question is, do you get a valid logon prompt, and can you log on
normally? Or, does the machine automatically start in graphic mode and
hang?
Then, how are you starting X? startx?
Did the machine normally boot into GUI? If yes, and you can logon
normally, check /etc/inittab for the line that tells it which run level
should be executed on initdefault. Run level 5 is gui.
Mark
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been running my Intel-based RH 6.0 server just fine for >1 year,
> without a crash - ostly administering it by telneting into the
> machine. On the rare occasion when I need (or prefer) to use
> Linuxconf, I've been using Gnome or equivalent just fine - on a
> reboot, the basic RH splash screen and login screen come up fine.
>
> Until now - for some reason, if I reboot the machine now, the GUI
> doesn't come up at all. The system initializes just fine, and does all
> its usual server things just fine, but it refuses to bring up the GUI.
> The only thing I've done to the machine in the last 2-3 months is
> update some of the RPM from the RH site. No hardware changes, no
> application additions (other than the RPM updates noted) - nothing.
> Thats about it - as far as I know, the GUI problem is recent.
>
> Any suggestions? While for 95% fo what I use the machine for I can
> telnet in just fine, I need the GUI for a couple of things, and can;t
> figure out what to try.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
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Before you buy.
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From: repo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cant=B4?= connect to ISP
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:09:49 +0200
Henrik & Stine wrote:
>
> Hey!
>
> I have for some days now tried to connect to my ISP thrugh an ordinary
> (proper) modem. In the Gnome/Enligtenment GUI I find the modem in a program
> called internet connection. Its placed on /dev/ttyS0 and when I hit the
> debug button it dials-up fine (that is, I hear the usual noise). But then
> the show stops, and nothing more happens. The program says pppd has died
> (exit code = 1).
>
> When I look in /var/log/messages it says
>
> pppd[28662]:the remote system (ppp2) is required to authenticate itself but
> I couldn�t find any suitable secret (password) for it to do so
> ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp2 on /dev/ttyS0 at 115200
> modprope: can�t locate module char-major-108
>
> These 3 lines are apparently repeated in the log-file for as long as I try
> to connect.
>
> The OS is RH 6.1 and I had everything up and running 6 months ago, but I
> just can�t remember what to do to get the modem working!!
>
> Any help will be much appreciated
>
> H. Larsen
Hi
This is caused by a pppd-2.3.10 finding a default route on the eth0
interface. The error message has be clarified in ppp-2.3.11.
Fix this by:
editing /etc/sysconfig/network and
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
and deleting everything after the equal sign for GATEWAY= and
GATEWAYDEV=
If you are using the GUI admin tool, remove the bogus gateway then
verify
that the above files are fixed.
--
Good Luck
Repo
http://beginnerslinux.saxen.net/
http://beginnerslinux.org/
Linux Red Hat 6.0 Kernel 2.2.5-15 on an i586
7:08pm up 2 days, 18:38, 1 user, load average: 0.31, 0.37, 0.31
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:39:05 +0200
From: me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: enlightenment crashes with new X server
hi
i'm using slackware 7.1 and i've decided to upgrade my X server from
3.3.6 to 4.0.1.
The X server successfully installs, but when i try to run enlightenment
(0.16.4), it reports the error:
"Xlib: This server does not support the shape expansion.
Either your Xserver is too old or misconfigured.
Exiting"
When compiling the Xserver i performed the routine make World and make
install. I used this server on
an older redhat 6.0 system with enlightenment 0.16.3 and i had no
problems.
What's the problem?
thanks
ali
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: GUI won't come up | RH 6.00
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:23:37 GMT
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 16:58:09 GMT, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>First question is, do you get a valid logon prompt, and can you log on
>normally? Or, does the machine automatically start in graphic mode and
>hang?
The latter - I do not get the graphical (GUI-based) login screen at
all.
>
>Then, how are you starting X? startx?
>
>Did the machine normally boot into GUI? If yes, and you can logon
>normally, check /etc/inittab for the line that tells it which run level
>should be executed on initdefault. Run level 5 is gui.
>
It is set in the /etc/inittab file to start with run level 5.
If I start in run level 3, and then login from the command line and
then run 'startx', the Gnome desktop comes up just fine. I first get
the grey background, witht he 'X' cursor, and then enlightenment fires
up and all is well.
What is NOT happening is that the graphical login screen is NOT coming
up - this is where it hangs.
>
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From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Mandrake 7.1 Install
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:30:04 -0000
I made a fresh new full install of Linux Mandrake 7.1 last night and
everything seemed fine. When the system rebooted to Linux for the first
time after the install process finished, I see some graphic "bugs". The
cursor has turned into a big square blob and there are two lines running
vertically on the left side of the screen.
I double checked the x-configuration and even tried changing to the
generic devices with no luck.
Does anybody have any advice?
Compaq 2000
Pentium I 233 MMX
3.2 gig hard drive with full install
Matrox Millinum II AGP video card - 4 meg
Gateway Crystalscan 1572
No network, printers, or modems yet.
Andrew
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From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Mandrake 7.1 Install help
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:30:05 -0000
I made a fresh new full install of Linux Mandrake 7.1 last night and
everything seemed fine. When the system rebooted to Linux for the first
time after the install process finished, I see some graphic "bugs". The
cursor has turned into a big square blob and there are two lines running
vertically on the left side of the screen.
I double checked the x-configuration and even tried changing to the
generic devices with no luck.
Does anybody have any advice?
Compaq 2000 Deskpro
Pentium I 233 MMX
3.2 gig hard drive with full install
Matrox Millinum II AGP video card - 4 meg
Gateway Crystalscan 1572
No network, printers, or modems yet.
Andrew
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From: Mickey Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Help - Burning ISO Disks for RH 7.0
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:39:53 -0700
Eric:
I've always done my OS upgrades by ftp'ing everything under the RedHat
dir (like instimage, RPMS, base) and booting from boot.img on a floppy and
upgrading. This time I'm missing something and wouldn't mind trying the
ISO's. I don't have a cd-writer so maybe this is impossible but thought I'd
ask: Is there a way (once I've downloaded the ISO's into some linux dir) to
access them as if they're mounted cd's and perform an upgrade from there?
The obvious problem for me is that they're not where the upgrade floppy's
are looking for them and I've got no idea how to boot from an ISO mounted
image that's not on cd-rom.
tia
Mick
Eric wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I purchased RH 6.2 and want to upgrade to RH 7.0.
> > I downloaded the two RH 7.0 ISO files
> > (7.0-i386-disc1.iso & 7.0-i386-disc2.iso) When I
> > look at an ISO file, it looks nothing like the
> > disk that came with RH 6.2. Obviously, I have to
> > do something to these two files, before I burn
> > them to CDROM. I am stumped. Can anybody give
> > me a hand here? Thanks. E. Moore
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
> No you need to do nothing to them, just burn them *as disc images*
> You can try to mount them on a loopback-device to see what they contain
> This is done by
> mount -o loop 7.0-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/cdrom
>
> No you can access the image as if it was already burned on a CD
>
> Eric
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From: me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Aureal Sound Cards
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:42:45 -0700
The folks over at SourceForge have improved the Aureal driver, and
their modified version is supposed to work much better. You can get
the modified driver, and information abvout it, here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal/
I am currently having trouble getting it installed under RedHat 7, but
that may be a problem just with that distribution. The SourceForge
driver apparently works great with RedHat 6.2, and many other
distributions.
PS - Anyone know how to make the driver work under RedHat 7?
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From: "Michael Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suggestions in Setting up RH7?
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:52:34 -0400
RH will partition your disk automatically if you select an install mode. Or
it has a custom partitioning utility which is pretty simple to use.
"Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
>
> I am going to install RH7 in my computer. I decided to allocate 5GB to
> install RH7. However, I have no experience how to partition the
> system. Is there anyone kindly suggest me how to partition the hd?
>
>
> Regards,
> Francis
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From: "Michael Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.0 upgrade problems
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:00:01 -0400
> 3: Swat problems. Swat doesn't work anymore, while the files /etc/services
> and /etc/inetd.conf contain the required lines. ONLY the files inetd.conf
> has been renamed to inetd.conf.rpmsave!!
> In the log file messages appears: "Swat disabled, removing"
> Then I like to know where it is disabled ??? someone has an idea ??
To my surprise I found RN7 uses xinetd instead of inetd by default. A
completely different animal. You have to configure the xinetd.conf file. But
I did a new install not an upgrade.
See if xinetd is running instead of inetd.
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