Linux-Setup Digest #818, Volume #19 Fri, 13 Oct 00 01:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: DNS problems w/ Linux in an NT network (Paul Colquhoun)
Re: RH7 wont compile (Roger Atkinson)
Re: Path?? ("dale hites")
Re: Help! recover system (E J)
Re: alsa SBLive drivers on RH7 ("Michael Matthews")
Re: X-Window Setup problem (vn)
to load RH 6.2 & Win98 in one 13G Harddisk. (JIE YUAN)
RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix? ("mnip")
Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix? ("Robert A. Book")
Re: LILO Setup in RH 7.0 ("Tom Ratrie")
Re: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 Problem (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Really dumb question!!! (P. U. Psilanimous)
Re: Problems with RH7 LILO and Win2K ("Nate Deam")
Re: Path?? (Ed Hurst)
Re: Path?? ("bluster")
Re: dual boot large disk problem (David Efflandt)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Colquhoun)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: DNS problems w/ Linux in an NT network
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 01:16:10 GMT
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 16:25:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|Hi all,
|I am having problems using my Linux box in an NT network.
|System administrator complains that my machines tries to
|act as DNS server so I am forbidden to use it :-(
|
|Does anyone know how to avoid this? And have Linux
|live peacefully together with NT (I know it is a nonsense;-)
|or at least make me live peacefully together with my sysadmin
|and enjoy using a real operating system?
Are you sure he was talking about DNS?
If you are running SAMBA, your server may be trying to become
the 'master' for the network for Windows name resolution system
called WINS.
The SAMBA docs should tell you haw to turn this feature off.
--
Reverend Paul Colquhoun, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Universal Life Church http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol
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a leather-clad, New Zealand woman.
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From: Roger Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: RH7 wont compile
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:11:50 -0700
Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:01:50 -0500, havesum2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >i have a news server i am building abit kt7 raid it uses hardware raid
> >in RH6.2 it still sees the 2 - 45GB ibms as 2 drives. I upgraded to RH7
> >and it wont compile the kernel that it came with.
>
> You need to use kgcc for kernels. That is why it is there.
>
If he used the default makefile that came with RH7.0 it should have
called kgcc by default without any changes being made. I was worried
about this myself so I recompiled the kernel and modules without any
problems at all.
I wonder exactly what the problem really was, did he do a "make
mrproper" before building anything ?
HTH Roger A.
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Reply-To: "dale hites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "dale hites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Path??
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 20:17:51 -0500
I walk upon a path darkly... Can't specificly answer as different flavors of
Linux have different files for this. But, your .init file for you login
directory is a good start as is /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions (for RH). Good
Idea to get something like 'Red Hat Linux Bible' from IDG books or
equivalent for your system. Look up path and export
Dale
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! recover system
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:37:15 -0700
Enter your root password to repair the filesystem.
# fsck /dev/hda4 # /dev/hda4 is my linux partition to be repaired.
When prompted, enter the defaults.
Cross your finger and hope it comes back.
If not :(, install your redhat CD and do an upgrade (not server, workstation or
custom install).
Pick a small program to upgrade (i.e. linux game)
"C. Shen" wrote:
> I was browsing the web by netscape. suddenly, my harddisk became very busy
> and then it's dead(no any sound but the light was on, and any key was no
> responding). I have to shutdown the power and restart.
> Then the system recovered the file system, but finially it told me I have to
> use root password to enter to repair the filesystem, or press Crtl+D to
> reboot. If I choose reboot everything will be like the first time. If I
> choose entering as a root. I cann't delete any file, it always show the
> information:"cannot unlink 'XXXX.XXX':Read-Only file system".
> What can I do. :-(
> I don't want reinstall the system.
>
> thank you for any suggestion.
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From: "Michael Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: alsa SBLive drivers on RH7
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 21:35:21 -0400
Thanks for your help
"Bill Pringlemeir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> You must run this script as root. You do have a /dev directory? You
> may need to change some of the permissions on the devices to run them
> as a regular user. Also, check out the /etc/security/console.perms
> file to see if audio has been given permission for a regular users.
>
> Does cat /dev/sndstat do anything?
get no such device.
Perms are ok. THis is something basic. The driver will not load. Going back
to the original messages:
Oct 12 00:19:30 mjmsys kernel: snd: EMU10K1 soundcard #1 not found or device
busy
Oct 12 00:19:30 mjmsys insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/snd-card-emu10k1.o: init_module: Device or
resource busy
Oct 12 00:19:30 mjmsys insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by
incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
Oct 12 00:19:30 mjmsys nsmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/snd-card-emu10k1.o: insmod sound-slot-0 failed
My understanding is that the OS should assign an IRQ for this type of card.
Is there some gotcha in the build instructions?
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From: vn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X-Window Setup problem
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 21:50:47 -0400
Check out Intel's web site. They have a whole page
for i810 and Linux.
I was told by a fellow user Red Hat 7 comes with all the drivers for
the i810 chipset.
Good Luck,
Vic
On Mon, 09 Oct 2000 02:22:00 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi all !
>I am a newbie. I have installed Linux RedHat 6.2 to my systems
>The configuration as follow:
>
>Mainboard: Intel Chipset 810
>CPU: PIII - 333 MHZ
>RAM: 64 MB RAM
>
>The installation is working fine and I can boot Linux and use it now.
>But the problem occured with X-Window setup. I couldn't config any
>video-card for my system to enable X-Window Server.
>Any idea will be appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JIE YUAN)
Subject: to load RH 6.2 & Win98 in one 13G Harddisk.
Date: 13 Oct 2000 02:10:20 GMT
I am to load win98 and rh6.2 in one 13Ghd. My system is:
piii700
system board: cc820 intel
hd: seagate 13g baricuda
i first fdisk in dos 5g for win98. installed it.
then boot by linux. disk druid 2g under / for linux native,
128m for linux swap. successful.
both system works well with lilo. but when i hope to use the
remaining 6g for dos extended partition to setup logic driver,
dos fdisk told me the maximum logic driver i can setup is
648m. i tried but i can't creat bigger logic driver. where is
the remaining more than 5g space gone. but fdisk(dos) do tell me
i have 6g of extended partition.
anyone can tell me how can i use the remaing extended partition space.
george
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From: "mnip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix?
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 02:21:07 GMT
I logged in to my RH6.2 mail and web server for the first time in weeks
today, but the telnet login is now inoperable. I get the RH62 message, but
no login prompt. I then went over to the physical machine, and a similar
thing, login: but any input just returns the login: prompt.
I checked webmin, and that still works, as do the web serrvices, everything
seems to be in order except the login daemon, or the shell or something I
don't quite know enough about linux yet to diagnose.
I figured what the heck, the machine hasn't been rebooted in months. I
issued the reboot signal, and the machine comes back with the same malady.
What is going on, and how can I fix it? RH gives a linuxconf option (I did
install the latest linuxconf rpms), but I don't forsee any magic daemon
fixes in that interface.
Please reply with any ideas ASAP. Fortunately, the intended functions seem
to be uninterrupted, but I'm anxious to login all the same...
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From: "Robert A. Book" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix?
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 22:08:17 -0500
mnip wrote:
>
> I logged in to my RH6.2 mail and web server for the first time in weeks
> today, but the telnet login is now inoperable. I get the RH62 message, but
> no login prompt. I then went over to the physical machine, and a similar
> thing, login: but any input just returns the login: prompt.
>
> I checked webmin, and that still works, as do the web serrvices, everything
> seems to be in order except the login daemon, or the shell or something I
> don't quite know enough about linux yet to diagnose.
>
> I figured what the heck, the machine hasn't been rebooted in months. I
> issued the reboot signal, and the machine comes back with the same malady.
>
> What is going on, and how can I fix it? RH gives a linuxconf option (I did
> install the latest linuxconf rpms), but I don't forsee any magic daemon
> fixes in that interface.
>
> Please reply with any ideas ASAP. Fortunately, the intended functions seem
> to be uninterrupted, but I'm anxious to login all the same...
Something like that happened to me once (with RH 6.0) and I concluded
(perhaps wrongly?) I'd been hacked. It was on the machine I use all the
time, and I was actually doing some configurations tests and frequent
reboots at the time, so I noticed it the next time I rebooted, and
couldn't login; perhaps I stopped the hack in midstream.
Another newsgroup reader suggesting rebooting in single-user mode (e.g.,
type "linux single" at the LILO prompt, or use a boot floppy). I
discovered that the login program (/bin/login ?) had been altered, and
some of the /etc files also. There's a command option to "rpm" that
checks all the installed packages to see if something's changed (I think
it's "rpm -Va" but don't quote me; I don't have access to my home
machine now... cable internet is down).
*IF* that's the case, the best solution is probably a clean re-install.
It's what I did, but that was on my own personal workstation only ab out
two weeks after the original install. I'm most certainly *NOT* an
expert, so don't conclude from what I'm saying that you've necessarily
been hacked or that you necessarily need to re-install, but that might
be the a POSSIBILITY.
In any case, I'm fairly certain that "LILO: linux single" is the way to
get in to see what's going on. I think, however, that your mail and web
servers will not function while you're in this mode, so you may want to
take that into account when deciding if/when to try this.
--Robert Book
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Tom Ratrie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO Setup in RH 7.0
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:21:56 -0400
Eric,
Thanks a lot...that seemed to do the trick!
I appreciate it!
Tom
"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Tom Ratrie wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if someone could help me configure my LILO.CONF file
> > properly.
> > I have a UDMA 66 controller w/ 2 - 20g drives attached to it. In order
for
> > me to get RH 7 installed I had to specify
> > IDE2=0xd400,0xd800 IDE3=0xdc00, 0xe000 during the installation and
> > everything went fine....but....
> > when it got to the part about where to put LILO I forgot to add these
> > parameters during the install....soooo....
> > Now everytime I want to boot RH 7, I have to CTRL-X to the BOOT: prompt
and
> > type these parms in...
> >
> > Now I did a little digging and discovered that you can add such parms to
the
> > LILO.CONF file located in the ETC directory.
> > Well, I've tried adding the line:
> >
> > append="ide2=0xd400,0xd800 ide3=0xdc00"
> >
> > to the LILO.CONF file but everytime I boot linux, it halts saying it
can't
> > load the kernal. I end up having to drop to the BOOT: propmt and
manually
> > entering the parms. Its as if it doesn't even recognize the append
line. I
> > have tried adding it to both the beginning of the file and to the linux
> > stanza. It seems no matter where I put this in the file, it doesn't
have
> > any effect.
> >
> > Any, suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
>
> rerun /sbin/lilo after you made changes to the lilo.conf?
> LILO is only rewritten when you do this, otherwise the changes take no
> effect.
> (You have to create some sort of a BIOS executable (by running
> /sbin/lilo), since the lilo.conf file isn't read on runtime)
>
> Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 Problem
Date: 12 Oct 2000 23:21:33 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <39e65179$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alexander Lindhorst wrote:
> /usr/Java/jre1.3/bin/i386/native_threads/java: error in loading shared
> libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory
> Judging by the name, I'd guess that lib is part of the GNU libstdc++
> package. However, I've just compiled and installed that package (version
> 2.90.8) together with gcc (version 2.95.2) on my box. That lib is still
> nowhere to be found.
It's the libstdc++ library that goes with egcs-1.1.2 (the predecessor to
gcc-2.95.*).
> Something amazes me a little bit: Even though I just compiled version
> 2.90.8, there is no new libstc++-*so* on my machine - just the old ones.
> However I got a new lib by the name of libstdc++.a.2.10.0 - is that a
> "shared" library, too?
No, that's the "static" equivalent. To build shared libraries, you
probably need to configure with "--enable-shared".
--
Paul Kimoto
This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: P. U. Psilanimous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Really dumb question!!!
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 03:45:14 GMT
Thank you!!
I knew it was something very simple.
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:38:47 GMT, "Mladen Gavrilovic"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You can't just burn the image files onto CDs... that would be like burning
>a zip file onto a CD. You have to open them in whatever program came
>with your burner (something like "Create CD from Disc Image..." in Adaptec
>Easy CD Creator, although you may be running different burning softare)
>and burn the actual files onto the CD. You should end up with a CD that
>looks very similar to the "current" directory at ftp.redhat.com or one of
>its
>mirrors.
>
>Regards,
>Mladen
>
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From: "Nate Deam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with RH7 LILO and Win2K
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:04:30 -0500
Carlos-
My situation is very similar to yours. I am trying to boot Red Hat 7.0
using the NT boot loader, but LILO hangs at "LI." Nothing new there.
However, previous to that, I tried using PowerQuest BootMagic to boot Win2k
and Red Hat, and I encountered the exact same problem. I don't have any
experience with System Commander, but I doubt it could be too different from
boot magic. I don't think this is a problem with the NT loader, but rather
with some property of our hardware setup. I know this doesn't solve the
problem; just thought another perspective might help.
Nate
"Carlos Dominguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8s4s0k$ova$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> I have a friend with a PC configured as follows
>
> Intel SE440BX Mainboard
>
> Iomega ZipCD 12x4x32 ATAPI CDR/CDRW
>
> Promise FastTrak 66 RAID controller (1.30b12)
> 2 x IBM 30GB Deskstar 7200RPM drives
>
> Adaptec 2940UW (1.35.4)
> 2 x IBM 4GB Wide SCSI drives
>
> Since Promise has not released source yet for the FT66, the RH7 install
> only sees the 2940, and the ATAPI CDROM. RH7 installed with no problems,
> and only needed minor tweaking to recognize a AHA1505 SCSI card used to
> attach a ZIP drive and HP scanner that is used occasionally.
>
> We then installed Win2K onto the Promise RAID array with no problems.
>
> We then tried to get the NT boot loader to load linux by following
> the NT-Boot-Loader MINI-HowTo. But no matter what we do, we only see
> "LI" whenever the NT boot loader tries to load linux. This means that
> the 1st stage has loaded, but the 2nd stage failed, indicating perhaps a
> geometry problem. Since the disk geometry hasn't changed, perhaps
> Micro$oft has changed the NTLDR code to prevent it from boot-strapping
> LILO?
>
> I can boot my RH7 install by using a boot floppy, a custom el-torito
> boot CD that I burned, or by going into my SE440BX BIOS, and placing
> the /dev/sda drive (aka ID 0) as the first bootable hard-drive before
> the Promise RAID controlled drives. All are kludgy and a chore.
>
> I may be forced to backup the partitions on the RAID array, destroy
> them, create a 100MB FAT16 primary partition, recreate the other
> partitions and restore the backup images, then install my copy of System
> Commander on the FAT16 partition and let that take of my booting
> problems. This would be a time-consuming chore, and the virtual
> equivalent of using a sledge hammer to kill a mosquito. ;)
>
> If anyone knows how to get the Win2k's NTLDR to bootstrap LILO
> I would appreciate it.
>
> --
> Carlos Dominguez
> send all email;CC's;replies to
> myfirstname at mylastname dot com
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Ed Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Path??
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:07:31 -0500
Jason wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set up vnc on my linux box and whenever I try to launch
> ./vncserver I get the error message: Xvnc not found in path I know how to
> find and set the path in windows but I'm at a loss as how to do it in linux.
>
> Anyone care to enlighten a linux newkid on how to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
Assume Xvnc's path is /sbin/Xvnc. Temporary solution: type at your terminal
prompt -
export PATH=$PATH:/sbin/
This will append the /sbin/ directory to your current path until you logout. To
make it more permanent, add the above line to your .bashrc or perhaps your
.bash_profile file (these are usually found in your home directory and are
invisible normally. Try the command - "ls -a" without the quotes, of course).
Ed
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Path??
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 00:38:19 -0400
Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set up vnc on my linux box and whenever I try to launch
> ./vncserver I get the error message: Xvnc not found in path I know how
to
> find and set the path in windows but I'm at a loss as how to do it in
linux.
>
> Anyone care to enlighten a linux newkid on how to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
If you use the bash shell then system wide environment settings
(for all users on the system) should be found in two files:
/etc/profile --> System wide environment and startup programs (PATH)
/etc/bashrc --> System wide functions and aliases
Custom settings for an individual user are found in that
user's home directory in the cooresponding "hidden" files:
/home/jim/.bash_profile --> Sys wide env. and startup programs (PATH)
/home/jim/.bashrc --> System wide functions and aliases
note: "ls -a" will list all files (even if hidden)
I usualy put most stuff into the system wide files unless only
one user should have the settings.
Hope this helps!
Bluster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: dual boot large disk problem
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 04:59:38 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to install RedHat 6.2 on a machine that already has Windows
>> 98 running on it. The machine has one 42 GB disk. I ran fips to
>> shrink the 42 GB partition down to 18 GB and plan to place linux in the
>> remaining space.
>>
>> Unfortunately I encountered a problem at the install stage that
>> specifies the partitions. I tried to create a linux native parition
>> for "/" of size 2000 MB, but the installer complained that the
>> partition was too big. I believe it is complaining because it thinks
>> the windows partition is too big (and hence the boot partition can't be
>> placed at the front of the disk).
>>
>> I don't want to wipe my disk and place a boot partition within the
>> first ~500 MB of the disk. Surely there must be a way around this
>> problem.
>>
>> Any help or advice?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> Before you buy.
>
>Both linux and windows require their OS loaders to be present in the MBR.
>And this lies in the very begining of a hard disk i.e. within 1024
>cylinders. Now, you have two options here: - Use partition magic, it will
>do the necessary stuff of allocating MBR for Linux or wipe out your system
>and allocate first few megs say 10 megs and start using the remaining
>space for win 98 and linux. Remember to have the first partition as FAT.
Take this with a grain of salt. The MBR is unrelated to the 1024 cyl
limit. The MBR is the first thing on the disk which can be either the
Windows MBR or LILO (or LILO could be on any of the first 4 partitions).
There is also nothing that says the first partition has to be FAT, I
happen to have a couple of 16 MB Linux /boot partitions first (to boot
different Linux versions), and then Win98se.
However, there is a 1024 cyl limit for current Linux distributions (a new
LILO available separately can get around that). Bascially LILO and /boot
have to be entirely below the 1024 cyl limit.
On a large drive ( >8 MB using LBA) you need to shrink Windows down to not
more than 1022 cyl, so you have at least 1 cyl (~16 MB) under cyl 1024 for
Linux /boot. The rest of Linux can go anywhere and you can create an
additional logical FAT partition if you need it, as long as the extended
partition is a suitable type (type f instead of Extended)
--
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