Linux-Setup Digest #859, Volume #19 Thu, 19 Oct 00 07:13:08 EDT
Contents:
e2fsprogs-0.5b.tar.gz ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Hpt370 Question (Rafael - LumesITSupport)
Still halt problem (Rafael - LumesITSupport)
Re: idiot newbie question on kppp (Mark Webb)
Re: [lilo] please critique this lilo.conf (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Html pages (Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6hmer?=)
Re: Bizarre shell problem. =?iso-8859-1?Q?PROBLEM=A0SOLVED.?= THANXS (Paul Kimoto)
Re: How to start Samba with RH 7 (Mogens Kjaer)
Re: Linux + StarOffice 5.2 + TrueType (Sebastian Niehaus)
Re: filesystem in rh6.2? (Eric)
Re: Trouble setting up ext2 partition (Eric)
Re: New to linux-Can't get into a load screen for Gnome or KDE (Eric)
RPM problem ("Jacek P.")
Re: really frustrated newbie! (Mario Frasca)
Re: Trouble setting up ext2 partition (M. Buchenrieder)
/var partition bigger ("Tony")
Adaptec 29160 & Linux, what's the true story? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problems installing RH 6.2 ("Sune Rugbjerg")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: e2fsprogs-0.5b.tar.gz
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 06:12:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am using Slakware 2.3
I do get the error, ext2-fs warning: maximal count reached.
The documentation says:
This message is issued by the kernel when it mounts
a filesystem that's marked as clean, but whose
'number of mounts since check' counter has reached
the predefined value.
The solution is to get the latest version of the
ext2fs utilities (e2fsprogs-0.5b.tar.gz at the time of writing)
[around 1995 I think] from the usual sites.
I did try looking in ftp.funet.fi : /pub/linux but I
could not find it...not even in the indices I searched!
Can anyone out there find it for me?
Thanks in advance!
CCC
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From: Rafael - LumesITSupport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hpt370 Question
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:49:50 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I does the some. Then I patched linux kernel and then you can compile
kernel using make dep, make clear and at the end make bzImage
Any question?
Rafael
Cosmo Kramer wrote:
> Hi
>
> Im trying to install Slackware 7.1 on my Abit KT7 system but I dont
> know what to do with the patch ide.2.2.16.20000630.patch.bz2 file I
> downloaded from www.highpoint-tech.com site. Not a whole lot of
> documentation there. Any help would be apprieciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Greg
>
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From: Rafael - LumesITSupport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Still halt problem
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:47:57 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can shutdown and halt my RedHat 7.0 properly. It stops at:
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
When I press CTRL ALT DEL it do
INIT: switching to runlevel: 6 and waiting for ever.
Thus it no unmount file system and than it takes a long time to start
again. Where the problem is. How to force it to shutdown properly
I was looking at log files ex. /var/log/messages but it seems everything
okay. Where should I look. How to solve this problem??
Rafael
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Subject: Re: idiot newbie question on kppp
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Webb)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 07:32:24 +0100
Sucess!
Many thanks for your kind help
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:. Changing permissions on pppd did the trick
and I can now connect up safe in the knowlege that my root settings are
secure.
Thanks again!
M
> You are most likely having trouble b/c kppp uses
> the pppd program in /usr/sbin. You have to
> change the permisions on pppd to allow users
> other than root to read and execute this
> program. Also, the pppd program must be run as
> the root user, hence the setuid (also a file
> permission). There is probably a much better way
> of doing this that i don't know about... hope
> this helps any way.
>
>
>
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [lilo] please critique this lilo.conf
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:15:38 +1000
observer wrote:
The easiest way, go into 7 and install its lilo in the same partition.
In lilo which resides in MBR add in its lilo.conf.
other=/dev/xxx #your 7 partition
label=rh7 #or any other name.
unsafe #meaning "Don't ask stupid questions just do
what I ordered!!"
And rerun /sbin/lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf.
Now the MBR lilo wakes up and on prompt calls the other lilo which knows
everything about its install.
"man lilo.conf" helps.
Have fun.
Stanislaw
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From: Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6hmer?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Html pages
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:20:16 +0200
Francesco Rossi wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I try to put my html pages and images in the htdocs directory of apache. I
> make these readable, but only the html documents is loaded in the clients
> browser, not the images, even if the directory of any of these are correct.
> How i can make public to the web all document, images, css etc ?
> Thank.
make it simple, give us the html tags in which the images are included
in the html file. (The img tags)
and give us a directory listing of the directory where the pictures are
in, then we'll see.
Greetings Markus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Bizarre shell problem. =?iso-8859-1?Q?PROBLEM=A0SOLVED.?= THANXS
Date: 19 Oct 2000 03:58:47 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Servet Ahmet Cizmeli wrote:
> The advice of Paul Kimoto worked.
> Thanks Paul
>
> I did :
>
> [acizmeli@seawifs acizmeli]$ strings
> /usr/local/matlab5/etc/lnx86/lmhostid | egrep "\.so\."
> /lib/ld-linux.so.1
> libc.so.5
>
> and saw that these two libraries were missing in my RedHat 7.0.
> Replacing them solved the problem.
>
> Now another problem :
>
> I try to run matlab but it would not:
>
> acizmeli@seawifs acizmeli]$ matlab
> /usr/local/matlab5/bin/lnx86/matlab: can't load library 'libXt.so.6'
>
> To run matlab, the following libraries
>
> libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1.7.14
> libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0
> libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1
> libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6.0
> libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.3
>
> are needed. I checked my system :
> [root@seawifs acizmeli]# ls /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0
[et cetera]
If "matlab" is a libc5 program, then you need the libc5 versions of the X
libraries (libXt, libX11, etc.). On libc6-based systems (like RH 7), the
versions in /usr/X11R6/lib are the libc6 versions.
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From: Mogens Kjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to start Samba with RH 7
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:34:09 +0200
Didier G wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded my system to RH 7 and with this new version, I didn' t
> find how to start Samba at boot-up.
>
> Any help ?
If it's installed, give the command:
chkconfig smb on
Then samba will be started on the next boot.
To start it immediately, execute
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
Mogens
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From: Sebastian Niehaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Linux + StarOffice 5.2 + TrueType
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:30:42 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jack Orenstein wrote:
>
> How can I get TrueType fonts to show up in StarOffice 5.2?
They probably dont appear in the drop down menue? just type them in,
this should work.
Sebastian
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: filesystem in rh6.2?
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:37:15 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JIE YUAN wrote:
>
> i want to mount my win98 fat32 partition in rh6.2. so i want to
> rewrite fstab. but i still can't mount it after reboot.
>
> i find later that there is not a fat32 type definition in my /proc/file-
> systems. how should i define it in rh6.2 environment?
>
> george.
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win98
change the numbers/names to match your system
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trouble setting up ext2 partition
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:46:15 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mike Oliver wrote:
>
> Mike Oliver wrote:
>
> > So I went into cfdisk and made a little 2-cylinder, 16MB
> > partition, /dev/hdb9. But it just showed it as "Linux"
> > rather than "Linux ext2". fdisk showed it the same as
> > my other ext2 partitions, though: type 83h.
> >
> > When I tried to format it with mke2fs, I got the
> > following error:
> >
> > /dev/hdb9: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while
> > setting up superblock
> >
> > Anyone know what's wrong here?
>
> New info and a new question:
>
> One of the things I was doing wrong was trying to add a logical
> partition when my extended partition was already full. Why
> cfdisk didn't twig to this I don't know. But it's a serious
> problem -- I have lots of space left on that physical disk and
> I don't want to have to split it into just two primary partitions.
> Can I make the extended partition bigger, non-destructively?
>
> Or can I have more than one extended partition on that physical
> drive? NT disk administrator doesn't allow this, so I assume
> there's a rule against it, but I can't think of any reason
> for such a rule.
No you can have only one extended partition per HDD.
You can extend the extended partition even further with Partition Magic
(non free) and perhaps you can use GNU's parted (which is free) although
I'm not sure that can do this.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New to linux-Can't get into a load screen for Gnome or KDE
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:59:03 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Taylor wrote:
>
> I installed Red Hat Linux 7 to a second partition (Win2K on the other) and
> I have to boot with a floppy, which is ok.
well if you say so...
there's no need though.
> The problem is that I boot to
> a command prompt. When I've used linux in the past it would boot to a GUI
> screen that gave me an option to go into GNOME or KDE. This is probably
> easy to solve, but I know a lot about the windows environment and nothing
> about Linux.
You can always at the lilo prompt give the runlevel to start in
so instead of just entering linux, you'd enter linux 5 to start in
runlevel 5
You can make this default by changing the entry in /etc/inittab
the runlevel 3 should be changed to runlevel 5
I too advise against this, since I think it's no problem to type startx
and it's definitely less trouble than rebooting whenever there's a
problem with you X setup. But it's obviously your choise, and if you
know your X-setup to be OK, and you're not likely to change it, there's
no real reason not to use runlevel 5 as default
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to learn
> Linux on my own. Thanks,
Have fun :-)
Eric
> Taylor
>
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From: "Jacek P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPM problem
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:14:30 +0200
Hi!
When I was installing a rpm (rmp -ivh package_name), I noticed message:
cannot get shared lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packeges
(I don't have this directory on my system)
cannot open Packeges index using db3 - operation not permitted (1)
-> The rpm database cannot be opened in db3 format. If you have upgraded the
rpm package you need to convert your database to db3 format running
"rpm --reduilddb" as root.
Afer this messages I saw progress bar and software was placed in target
directory. Then I uninstalled package. And when I enter:
rpm -qa shows, that packeg is istalled
rpm -e can't uninstall package, 'cos it is not installed
rpm -i cant install package, 'cos it is installed
I have no problem when I try to install or uninstall others packeges.
My system is: RH 7.0.
What is going on? How to install this package and what to do that command
rpm -qa doesn't show message that package is already installed?
Best regards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mario Frasca)
Subject: Re: really frustrated newbie!
Date: 19 Oct 2000 09:55:29 GMT
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:41:24 GMT, Jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[...] I had to first initialize the CD during the installation by
>manually putting in the parameters for the CD (I/0 0x230 port 0)
>because Linux could not automatically find the CD upon first trying to
>install...Well, after the install I found my cdrom under mnt [...]
it looks like you managed to have Linux see your nonstandard cdrom as a
new device, that's very good, surely for a newbie! you don't really
need to add an entry to fstab to mount it during install. just mount
the device (possibly /dev/cdrom, otherwise look at any entry like
/dev/hd* made during the boot process) explicitlty on the mount point
you say you see under /mnt (or mkdir /mnt/cd).
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cd
>[...] modem and PPP dial up
>[...] ISP [...] user and pass
maybe you could have a look at PAP and Chap, they provided me some
headaches months ago. I can't remember how I solved it, it was not
difficult, just a bit confusing. look at /var/log/messages or
whatever it is called. you will see a log of the session (possibly
quite a lot of them), it will surely provide the hints you need.
>Any advice would save my sanity....
hope this helps!
ciao,
Mario
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Trouble setting up ext2 partition
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 06:50:09 GMT
Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Mike Oliver wrote:
[...]
>One of the things I was doing wrong was trying to add a logical
>partition when my extended partition was already full. Why
>cfdisk didn't twig to this I don't know.
Bug ?
>But it's a serious
>problem -- I have lots of space left on that physical disk and
>I don't want to have to split it into just two primary partitions.
Create 2 more primary partitions.
>Can I make the extended partition bigger, non-destructively?
Yes. Use PartitionMagic, which works with ext2 filesystems as well.
>Or can I have more than one extended partition on that physical
>drive?
[...]
No.
Michael
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From: "Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /var partition bigger
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:06:00 +0200
Hi,
I have an active RH6.2 system and need to make the /var partition bigger.
How can I do that ?
Regards
Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Adaptec 29160 & Linux, what's the true story?
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:15:24 GMT
Hi,
Does anyone know the correct story about Adaptec 29160 support under
Linux? I've got a '160 which I'd like to use - the box says that linux
drivers are available from independant sources, and indeed Adaptec's
site doesn't mention linux under its driver downloads section (they
seem to support just about everything else though - bah!)
Looking at usenet posts, I've seen all kinds of information. That it's
supported directly by Adaptec, that it's supported under Redhat 6.2's
kernel (2.2.14 I think), that it's not supported at all, that it will
work with RH6.2 but in a degraded state etc. - comments from anyone out
there actually using this card are welcome :)
Also, at some point I need to buy a decent system to surround this card
- I saw some reference to most motherboards with 64 bit PCI slots using
some chipset which Linux doesn't support (sorry, can't remember the
number now!); what chipsets should I be looking out for which will be
supported correctly?
cheers,
Jules
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From: "Sune Rugbjerg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Problems installing RH 6.2
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 13:03:52 +0200
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my RH 5.2 to RH 6.2. But there is a problem.
I have copied the files from a sunsite from the directory /i386. There are
4000 files in 370 dirs (windows reported). Their size altogether is
644.355.439 bytes.
I put the files on a CD-RW (normal, not bootable). The filesystem I used was
joliet.
They top of the directory structure is as follows:
du-s.txt
boot.cat
index.html
RPM-GPG-KEY
RELEASE-NOTES
Readme
Copying
autorun
/RedHat
/misc
/images
/dosutils
/doc
So that should be sorted.(?)
I've made a boot disk with the boot image "boot.img" found in /images
When the systems boot, the first screen where install method is selected
pops. When I select the the first option (i.e. press ENTER) the initrd.img
and vmlinuz is loaded. The latter however is not loaded fully, and it
terminates with the following screen:
running install
rinning /sbin/loader
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 31, in ?
import gettext_rh
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gettext_rh.py", line 43, in ?
import os, string, iutil, gzread
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 2, in ?
import types, os, sys, isys, select, string, stat, signal
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 1, in ?
import kudzu
ImportError: No module named kudzu
install exited abnormally
sending termination signals...done
sending kill signals...done
disabling swap...
unmounting filesystems
/mnt/source
/dev/pts
/proc
ejecting cdrom
you may safely reboot your system
That's it. I get the same response if I use the "text" option. If the expert
mode is enabled the final result is the same. After the dialog box where
devices can be added is closed with the "Done" option, it's the same again.
E:\misc\src\anaconda (i.e. the \misc\src\anaconda\ on the CDrom drive)
contains the following directories
balkan
collage
CVS
ddcprobe
docs
gnome-map
help
isys
iw
kudzu
libfdisk
loader
minislang
pixmaps
po
pump
rpmmodule
stubs
textw
usr
utils
Pleaase! Help me. Any suggestions (or solutions :) ) will be appreciated. If
you even feel like inquiring :) for more details, please feel free.
cheers,
Sune
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