Linux-Setup Digest #941, Volume #19 Mon, 30 Oct 00 18:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: HELP? Acrobat3 on Debian.... (Walt Shekrota)
Re: Linux on a 66Mhz 486 with a 240MB disk?
Lilo Diagnostics ("Adam H.")
Re: RPM cannot upgrade my kernel - why??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: KDE 2 on RedHat 7 works for non-root user from runlevel 3, but not runlevel 5
(Dale Hennessey)
Re: HELP? Acrobat3 on Debian.... (Paul Kimoto)
fail to post attach file to INN server ("Tin")
Re: Help: RPM cannot upgrade itself ("S. Mittelstaedt")
Re: Help: RPM cannot upgrade itself ("S. Mittelstaedt")
Re: Redhat 5.0 problem! (Keith)
Re: Faster Linux on 486 (Guy Maskall)
Re: Lilo Diagnostics (Scott Nolde)
Re: Lilo Diagnostics ("Bear DuMont")
Password problem Suse 7 ("news")
Re: KPPP stops other processes starting ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Setting the system date (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: Help: getting NO CARRIER when dialing in ISP ("Uncle Meat")
Re: Mandrake Linux Setup (Chris Lord)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walt Shekrota)
Subject: Re: HELP? Acrobat3 on Debian....
Date: 30 Oct 2000 21:13:18 GMT
Sounds like these are the old libs?
I've never gotten it straight in my head. I do have xlib6g installed per
dselect.
Curious does this mean you can't use acrobat3 or can these libs coexist somehow?
Perhaps going to Acro4 will solve the problem, I'll have to investigate.
-Walt
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Walt Shekrota wrote:
> > 2.0.36 kernel deb 2.1
> >
> > untar file ar302_tar.Z and ./INSTALL
> >
> > /usr/local/Acrobat3/bin.acroread
> > generates the message "can't load libXt.so.6"
> > the ".6" libs are there! (including the one in question) So I assume there
> > is an indirect reason for not loading?
>
> Find the offending executable (/usr/local/Acrobat3/bin.acroread?) and run
> "ldd /path/to/executable". If it's a libc5 program, then you need to
> install the xlib6 (not xlib6g!) .deb package.
>
> --
> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Linux on a 66Mhz 486 with a 240MB disk?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:15:54 GMT
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:15:30 -0600, Kurt R. Rahlfs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>"Victor S. Miller" wrote:
>
>> I have an old 66Mhz 486 with a 240MB disk which runs perfectly
>> reliably on Windows 95, but I basically don't use it anymore since we
>> now have -- mostly for my wife -- a Gateway 733 with a 30 GB hard
>> disk, and a 166Mhz Pentium MMX with a 10GB hard disk running RH 7.0.
>> Is it conceivable that I could get some version of Linux (doing
>> something useful) to run on the old machine? If so, what version (and
>> what features) would you suggest?
>
>I've set up SuSE 6.3 on similar machines with 16Meg RAM. I used the minimum
>configuration. On a pentium of similar size I run a router/firewall with three
>machines on it with no problem.
OS/2 ran like a champ on such hardware (how much memory? OS/2 was happy as
a pig in shit w/ 16MB). I see no reason why linux with a kernal trimmed of
anything unneeded like SMP and with an efficient WM like TWM shouldn't run
great.
16MB used to be enough for a VAX 11-780 to keep 40 students plugging away as
long as a queue was used so that no more than 5 concurrent compiles were under
execution.
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From: "Adam H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lilo Diagnostics
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:24:55 +1100
Hi...
I've had problems before on my computer before when trying to boot up
lilo it only gets to a certain point... where it displays "L" or "LI" and
then
jams.
I didn't know what was causing this problem, so I used to change my
machine configuration, and re-install Redhat.
Since then, a friend has told me that he's heard something about those
letters being a diagnostic. ie... if only L appears, then it means this, or
if LI appears then it means that...
Can anyone shed any more light on this? Is their a diagnostic message
within the letters that LILO displays?
TIA
Adam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RPM cannot upgrade my kernel - why???
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:23:26 GMT
Problem solved.
Thanks to all who replied!
It turned out that the rpm file that I downloaded was truncated...
Now, it would be nice if rpm could issue a more descriptive error
message when encountering such a case (as it nicely does with other
errors).
Swengtoo
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From: Dale Hennessey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: KDE 2 on RedHat 7 works for non-root user from runlevel 3, but not
runlevel 5
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:37:26 -0500
Doh! I should've realized that.
Many thanks for the help. I'll see if I can fix it tonite. :)
Dale.
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:02:35 GMT, "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:On Oct 30, 2000 at 12:04, Dale Hennessey eloquently wrote:
:
:>Hi, everyone.
:>
:>Just installed RedHat 7, without KDE, and then installed the KDE 2
:>RPMs from ftp://ftp.kde.org after-the-fact.
:>
:>Seems that every user can use KDE 2 from runlevel 3 without a problem.
:>(I used switchdesk to set the .Xclients-default to KDE 2.)
:>
:>Non-root users, however, cannot start KDE 2 from runlevel 5 using gdm
:>as the login manager. The screen blanks, then goes right back to the
:>gdm login. Root does not have this problem and can start KDE 2 from
:>gdm.
:>
:>Can anyone tell me what might be going on? What files I can check for
:>diagnostic/error information?
:I'm sure this is a FAQ. gdm is still looking for KDE 1.x stuff.
:You need to manually edit the files in /etc/X11/gdm to set it
:up properly. I guess this will eventually lead you to
:/usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.kde2.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: HELP? Acrobat3 on Debian....
Date: 30 Oct 2000 16:40:03 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Walt Shekrota wrote:
> Sounds like these are the old libs?
Yes. xlib6g has the libc6 X libraries, and xlib6 has the libc5 X
libraries.
> I've never gotten it straight in my head. I do have xlib6g installed per
> dselect.
>
> Curious does this mean you can't use acrobat3 or can these libs coexist somehow?
On Debian 2.{0,1,2} (the libc6 releases) you can run libc5 programs fine
after running the appropriate compatibility libraries.
> Perhaps going to Acro4 will solve the problem, I'll have to investigate.
Dunno. I just use gs-aladdin (via gv) and xpdf (the "unstable" versions).
--
Paul Kimoto
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From: "Tin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.fan.news-admins,alt.free.newsservers,alt.internet.newservers,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.admin.isp,news.software.nntp
Subject: fail to post attach file to INN server
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 05:50:46 +0800
fail to post attach file to INN server
how can enable client post attach file to my news group?
thank you very much
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From: "S. Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help: RPM cannot upgrade itself
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:48:47 GMT
dt wrote:
> "S. Mittelstaedt" wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > >
> > > To install rpm 4.x you first have to upgrade to 3.0.5.
> > > Then use this to install 4.x. This is o RH's site.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
> > > The party adjourned to a hot tub, yes. Fully clothed, I might add.
> > > -- IBM employee, testifying in California State Supreme Court
> > > 8:26am up 13:13, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> >
> > Same problem. RPM upgrade to 3.05 didn't help. RPM 4 wants glibc upgrade. The
> > glibc upgrade isn't compatible with RPM 3. Can't get to EITHER the chicken or
> > the egg...
>
> Get rpm-3.0.5-9.6x from http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ (RH6.2 upgrade).
> Handles RPM 4's as well, and no glibc upgrade required.
>
> --
> -Somebody put something in my drink-
except for the components that require the glibc upgrade to run...
I am guessing I should be able to install about HALF of RH 7. My problem is is that
the RH installation routine has been incompatible w/my Promise U66 controller drivers
since 6.0. I will be VERY happy when the new kernel comes and I don't have to fight
with one piece at a time upgrades!
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From: "S. Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help: RPM cannot upgrade itself
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:48:47 GMT
dt wrote:
> "S. Mittelstaedt" wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > >
> > > To install rpm 4.x you first have to upgrade to 3.0.5.
> > > Then use this to install 4.x. This is o RH's site.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
> > > The party adjourned to a hot tub, yes. Fully clothed, I might add.
> > > -- IBM employee, testifying in California State Supreme Court
> > > 8:26am up 13:13, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> >
> > Same problem. RPM upgrade to 3.05 didn't help. RPM 4 wants glibc upgrade. The
> > glibc upgrade isn't compatible with RPM 3. Can't get to EITHER the chicken or
> > the egg...
>
> Get rpm-3.0.5-9.6x from http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ (RH6.2 upgrade).
> Handles RPM 4's as well, and no glibc upgrade required.
>
> --
> -Somebody put something in my drink-
except for the components that require the glibc upgrade to run...
I am guessing I should be able to install about HALF of RH 7. My problem is is that
the RH installation routine has been incompatible w/my Promise U66 controller drivers
since 6.0. I will be VERY happy when the new kernel comes and I don't have to fight
with one piece at a time upgrades!
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From: Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 5.0 problem!
Reply-To: "Keith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:52:28 GMT
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 16:49:34 +1000, Jason Pell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have a 486DX2-66 with 8mb ram and a 250mb hdd. I have installed
>Redhat 5.0 because it is relatively small to install.
Most likely it is occurring when you boot up, the linux kernel
installs the module for the cd-rom. You need to edit your /etc/mtab
file and see if that helps.
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From: Guy Maskall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Faster Linux on 486
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:12:16 +0000
> Hmmm, then after some days it dawned on me: that
> assinine feature called the "Turbo" switch. I guess designers put
> that feature on 486's so people felt like they had some control over
> the system speed or something like that. Anyways, that is one
> remotely possible cause for your systems problems. It seems to me
> that your high end 486 system should be capable of running RedHat
> at a reasonable speed out of the box.
>
>
> --
> Dave Clark
> Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Actually, (anecdote warning!), I seem to recall - from the depths of my
deepest memory, that the turbo switch is there on the older systems so
that they could run legacy code that did stuff like perform timings and
would die if it calculated a silly speed. Turning the turbo switch off
effectively cripples the system into running at a bus speed etc of an
old 8086 etc (or something a like that - remember this has just surfaced
(unbidden) from my memory!) so that such code could be run. Anyway, my
warblings do kinda ring a bell and do sound plausible (to me at least
*g*)
Guy
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo Diagnostics
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:02:36 GMT
"Adam H." wrote:
>
> Hi...
>
> I've had problems before on my computer before when trying to boot up
> lilo it only gets to a certain point... where it displays "L" or "LI" and
> then
> jams.
>
> I didn't know what was causing this problem, so I used to change my
> machine configuration, and re-install Redhat.
>
> Since then, a friend has told me that he's heard something about those
> letters being a diagnostic. ie... if only L appears, then it means this, or
> if LI appears then it means that...
>
> Can anyone shed any more light on this? Is their a diagnostic message
> within the letters that LILO displays?
>
> TIA
>
> Adam
Yes, it's in the lilo help files.
- Scott
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Linux! No streaks, haze or | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
glaze! |
5:01pm up 20:26, 1 user, load average: 1.21, 1.15, 1.10
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From: "Bear DuMont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo Diagnostics
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:07:07 -0500
If you don't have a /boot partiton it mean the drive goes over 1024
cylinders or your /boot partition is over 1024 cylinders.
Jeremy "ߣ�R" DuMont
"Adam H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi...
>
> I've had problems before on my computer before when trying to boot up
> lilo it only gets to a certain point... where it displays "L" or "LI" and
> then
> jams.
>
> I didn't know what was causing this problem, so I used to change my
> machine configuration, and re-install Redhat.
>
> Since then, a friend has told me that he's heard something about those
> letters being a diagnostic. ie... if only L appears, then it means this,
or
> if LI appears then it means that...
>
> Can anyone shed any more light on this? Is their a diagnostic message
> within the letters that LILO displays?
>
> TIA
>
> Adam
>
>
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From: "news" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Password problem Suse 7
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:15:35 -0000
Hi,
Suse 7 installed and functioning correctly until new user login added using
the 'kuser' (kde) package. It used to work fine on Suse 6.4 but seems to
have corrupted the user data and now I cannot login as 'root'. Anyone help
?? Having just spent half a day installing and configuring I'd rather not do
it again!!
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: KPPP stops other processes starting
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:27:09 +0100
In article <8tjr1n$e8u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Alistair McLuckie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> When I start my KPPP dialer from KDE it logs in and works fine with
> Netscape, Opera etc, but unless I start these apps before connecting I
> cannot start them after the connection is made !! Each time I click an icon,
> it seems access the disk but not start the app.
> Does anyone know why this is happenning and how to stop this ?
> Its really annoying to have to disconnect start a new app i might need while
> online then reconnect.
> I'm using Mandrake 7.0
>
> Thanks (I hope)
>
> Al.
>
>
>
Al
this happens when your provider changes your host name.
standard its local host, and its changed to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Then X can not connect to the new host and start any application.
edit /etc/sysconfig/network
change localhost into a name you like (eq mymachine)
edit/etc/hosts
be sure it contains at least
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
127.0.0.1 mymachine.linuxfan mymachine
where linuxfan is a name you choose.
be sure /etc/host.conf contains at least:
order hosts,bind
reboot your machine
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Repo
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Linux Red Hat 6.0 Kernel 2.2.5-15 on an i586
11:25pm up 13 days, 22:51, 2 users, load average: 1.04, 1.20, 1.18
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: Setting the system date
Date: 30 Oct 2000 22:45:02 GMT
In article <vncL5.137335$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Horrorshow wrote:
>
>"Marc Balsys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> JNN wrote:
>> >
>> > I have a real newbie question I'm embarassed to ask, but I was
>> > recently forced to switch to a dedicated server with Cobalt Linux
>> > release 5.0 installed, so I'm having to learn this stuff as I go.
>> >
>> > What's the exact command and format to change the system date? I know
>> > it's "date" followed by a certain format. Any help is appreciated.
>> > TIA.
>>
>> just check out : man date.
>> this should help you.
>
>Yeah right...the man page for date makes the one for bc look real
>newbie-friendly.
[-]
After N years of Unix -- I can't get it right yet. You should be
able to do this though given GNU date is installed ..
date > /tmp/date
.. edit /tmp/date ..
date -s `cat /tmp/date`
..
Hope it works ;)
Juergen
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From: "Uncle Meat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: getting NO CARRIER when dialing in ISP
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:14:24 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jinho Choi"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having problem getting on the internet. I tried minicom, kppp to
> dial in to ISP using my USR ISA internal modem. The modem is fine and
> it is not winmodem. It's just that I get this NO CARRIER error after
> authorization.. Any solutions? Thanks.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> T S7=45 S0=0 L1 V1 X4 &c1 E1 Q0
>
> OK ATDT 2801100 CONNECT 31200/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS
>
> Username: jchoi Password:
>
> nvcrbc01-intgw01>ppp
>
> Entering PPP routing mode. Async interface address is unnumbered
> (Ethernet0) Your IP address is 208.181.237.142. MTU is 1500 bytes Header
> compression will match your system.
> ~�}#.!}!i} }4}"}&} }*} } }%}&[u�.}'}"}(}"5.~~�}#.!}!j} }4}"}&} }*} }
> }%}&[u�
> .}'~
>
> NO CARRIER
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
What's in /var/log/messages? If it has to do with pppd, try;
chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd (or wherever pppd is on yours)
And see if that helps.
Actually, without error messages, ESP isn't too viable an option.
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From: Chris Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake Linux Setup
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:59:33 GMT
Derek Battams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've just installed Mandrake Linux on my system and to my surprise it
> was rather easy to install, almost too easy. The installation found
> all of my hardware (including soundcard) during setup and configured it
> all without me having to tell it anything - very impressed! It even
> automatically configured my DSL connection - all I had to do was give
> it my id and password - again very impressed.
> However, after installing I come to find that I've installed a beta
> version of Mandrake Linux (7.2). When I downloaded the ISO images from
> one of the FTP mirrors I downloaded the files from the current/iso
> directory, I wasn't expecting to get a beta version, but I can learn to
> live with it for now since I'm just playing around and learning a bit
> about Linux setup and administration (I'm dual booting with WinME).
> Which brings me to my questions. First during the install I was never
> asked anything about setting up my network preferences (hostname,
> etc.). Now my system is called localhost.localdomain (yucky). As I
> said, my DSL connection is configured and working, but I'd like to
> change the hostname to whatever.battams.com (I have DNS hosting for my
> domain, battams.com, elsewhere). I've done some exploring and reading
> and playing around in Linux and haven't been able to successfully
> change my hostname. How do I go about this?
> Also, it seems that either the installation didn't install a web server
> (Apache) or the httpd service isn't being started on boot up. In
> either case, I can't connect to a web server, FTP server, or telnet
> session on my Linux box through the Internet (i.e. http://64.x.x.x is
> being refused). But I am able to send e-mail out to the Internet
> through Pine. Doesn't Mandrake install the web, FTP and telnet
> services on install? How can I go about getting that configured?
> Finally, as stated above I want my Linux machine to be known as
> whatever.battams.com (haven't decided on a hostname yet) and I have DNS
> hosting elsewhere on the Internet. With my DSL connection using
> dynamic IPs I will be using a CNAME record to point my domain for the
> Linux box to another domain (such as dyndns.org) which will then have
> my up to date IP address. Will this pose any problems?
> This Linux newbie appreciates your help.
> Thanks,
> Derek Battams
try using 'linuxconf' as it has most options you require.
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