Linux-Setup Digest #979, Volume #19 Sun, 5 Nov 00 14:13:14 EST
Contents:
Re: modules trouble in debian ("decvr")
graphic mode problem ("decvr")
Re: My linux system as a PPP server? (Mark R. Holbrook)
no login shell (Josh Karp)
SB Live is Fuzzy!! (Chris Nelson)
qmail question (waffle)
Troubleshooting: starting X-windows ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: My linux system as a PPP server? (Mark R. Holbrook)
3-button Microsoft mouse (Claudio Tasso)
Re: cron jobs on laptop ("bluster")
Re: GNOME toolbar missing ("bluster")
Install issue with RH6.2 and TEAC SCSI CDROM (rico)
Re: linux servers ("bluster")
custom compile 2.2.16-3 gives error about errno.h ("Jeff")
Unable to boot my RH6.2 box ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: qmail question (Darren Wyn Rees)
Re: Linux sees only 896MB of my 1024 MB RAM ("Jeff")
Re: 3-button Microsoft mouse (Zero Piraeus)
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From: "decvr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modules trouble in debian
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:08:51 +0100
U�ytkownik Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w wiadomo�ci do grup dyskusyjnych
napisa�:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 17:23:01 +0100, dec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >I've installed the latest version of Debian (potato) on my computer and
aft
> >er compiling and configuring the 2.2.17 kernel, at boot time depmod
prints o
> >ut: "unresolved symbols in <path to the module>" message, of course I
can't
> >load the modules (e.g. sound). I'm using Debian since 1.3 version and
I've n
> >ever met such problem. In kernel/Documentation there is only a small hint
th
> >at it's somehow connected with the /usr/include/autoconf.h and
/usr/src/linu
> >x/.config files. Should I edit the files manually? There's got to be
another
> >way.
>
> Have you tried running update-modules (as root) after installing the
> modules?
>
> Roger
update-modules only prints the same message (unresolved symbols in <path to
the module>) as depmod during the boot time
decvr
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From: "decvr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: graphic mode problem
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:12:08 +0100
I've changed my graphic card recently (ati rage II pro --> nVidia Vanta 8mb)
and I've lost my favourite graphic mode. Before the change I've edited
lilo.conf, line vga=normal to vga=ask, and scanned my card's bios for the
list of avaible modes. There was my mode (100x30), so I've edited
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/video.S, editing the local modes table. Afer
re-compiling the kernel all run smoothly (vga=<# of my favourite mode>). Now
after "scan" command at the beginning of the boot process (just after lilo
shows up, (vga=ask)) there is no 100x30 mode on the list. I haven't found
anything in the docs, so I would be thankful for any help.
decvr
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From: Mark R. Holbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My linux system as a PPP server?
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 08:29:33 -0800
I appreciate the pointer to "linux dial-up server" and I will give it
a try. I don't appreciate the RTFM.
I had tried searching for Linux PPP server and got THOUSANDS
of documents on how to get your Linux box to connect to a PPP server.
My post simply asked for pointers not flames.
On Sun, 05 Nov 2000 15:02:13 GMT, cfish
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I first saw this on Kannel.org, describing how you can set up your
>cellphone to dial your own WAP gateway.
>
>
>here's an idea: go to google.com and search for "linux dial-up server"
>in short... RTFM
>
>On Sat, 04 Nov 2000 22:05:30 -0800, Mark R. Holbrook
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Well this may sound kinda dumb but...
>>
>>My linux box has a full time internet connection. Recently I lost my
>>Mindspring account that I used to use for dial up connections while on
>>the road.
>>
>>Having never done it, can I setup my Linux box to all my Windoze
>>Laptop to dial in and connect (as it did with Mindspring) and once
>>connected have access to the internet?
>>
>>Seems that this should work but I don't have a clue how to set it all
>>up.
>>
>>Can anyone tell me a) will this work? b) where do I find the details
>>on getting this going?
>>
>>Thanks - Mark
>
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From: Josh Karp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: no login shell
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 08:36:39 -0800
i have a Cobalt Qube 2 with no cd or floppy. we have lost the root
password. i have sudo installed on it, but the problem is this. the one
user who's in the sudoers file has an incorrect path for its home
directory and login shell in the /etc/passwd file, so he can't login.
any ideas? thanks ... josh
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From: Chris Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB Live is Fuzzy!!
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 16:48:19 GMT
Hello:
I am running RH 7.0 and when I run sndconfig it detects my card as a
live with EMU10000. However, whenever it plays the sound sample the
sound is distroted and funny? Any ideas as to what I can do?
Thanls,
Chris
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From: waffle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.mail.qmail
Subject: qmail question
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 17:04:40 GMT
I currently have all mail coming into my domain going to one address
(regardless of the email address used eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] all go to the same physical user account on my
system.) I have been getting a lot of spam sent to my [EMAIL PROTECTED]
address, so I wanted to just dump everything that came to the h2k
address to /dev/null. So, in alias/.qmail-default I have
&[EMAIL PROTECTED] which works fine to send everything to the one user.
Then I added a alias/.qmail-h2k with just /dev/null in it. From reading
I thought that was what you put in there to have it redirect that mail
to a certain file.
But now, after a couple of days I get a failure notice in the user
account saying that qmail was "Unable to write to /dev/null: invalid
argument (#4.3.0)" What am I missing? It seems pretty straight forward
(although hard to explain).
By the way h2k is not an actual account on the system, I just have it
set up as an alias.
Thanks, please reply here.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Troubleshooting: starting X-windows
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 17:10:24 GMT
I have currently installed Red-Linux V.8 (based on RedHat 6.1 GPL) on
my second hard drive, using the graphic installation mode (it had
recognised my riva tnt2 and my monitor!), and as it says in the
handbook, all packages for the Xfree86 (and KDE) to start are already
installed. However, when i try to start my KDE with the
command "startx" as a root user, the screen goes black, the music
comes, but when i switch back to the console, it says as follows:
"kpanel: waiting for windowmanager
could not read '/tmp//kfm-cache-0/index.txt
kpanel: ok, commencing initialization"
and it just freezes there and whatever command i type, it doesn't
react. As i am a linux newbie, i am sure it is a fairly simple problem,
but what is it, and how is it to be solved?
thankyou for any help.
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From: Mark R. Holbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My linux system as a PPP server?
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 09:31:43 -0800
After spending about 2 hours searching I found a couple of documents
under the search "linux dial-in server". NOT dial-up server.
It is NOT a trivial task to enable this. Looking at some of your
other posts to people I think you have some problems. I suggest that
if you cannot offer something "helpful" then don't offer anything at
all. Best example of a totally USELESS waste of your time, his time,
and bandwidth:
replay from cfish:
a server is something that sits there and wait for a request to serve.
On Sun, 05 Nov 2000 08:36:44 +0100, Fr�re_Orph�e
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Someone told me a server was not related to internet under linux
>what is a server under linux then?
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From: Claudio Tasso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: 3-button Microsoft mouse
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 17:25:50 +0100
Hi!
I own a common 3-button mouse which uses the Microsoft protocol.
It works perfectly in text-mode (with gpm) and this is the content of
/etc/sysconfig/mouse:
=============================================
MOUSETYPE="Microsoft"
XMOUSETYPE="Microsoft"
FULLNAME="Generic 3 Button Mouse (serial)"
XEMU3=no
=============================================
But with X-Window the middle button doesn't work at all.
This is the "Pointer Section" of /etc/X11/XF86Config:
===================================================
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "Microsoft"
Device "/dev/mouse"
Buttons 3
======================================================
My system is RedHat 6.2.
Please,help me.
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cron jobs on laptop
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 13:10:47 -0500
Andrey Shipsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could anyone please advise on how to use cron jobs on the laptops? There
> are a few cron jobs scheduled to run over night. It is OK for desktops
> since they are running all the time. However, I don't want to have my
> laptop on over night...
>
> Is there any smart way to run those cron jobs other time? Maybe just
> before halting the system or anything else? Please, laptop users, share
> your experience with me.
Take a look at a program called "anacron" it is designed for this,
run it instead of cron.
see: man anacron
Bluster
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GNOME toolbar missing
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 13:18:11 -0500
Andrey Shipsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone seen a weird flickering at the bottom of the screen (it is
> where the GNOME tool bar is normally placed) while starting GNOME?
>
> After a few seconds of flickering, the GNOME starts with icons on the
> left side of the screen but there is nothing at the bottom where you
> usually find a toolbar, clock, virtual desktop control pan, etc.
>
> I am using Redhat 7.0 on Dell Inspiron 5000e notebook running X in
> 1400x1050 mode. Other X-window managers are running OK but GNOME...
The toolbar may be set to "hide" off the screen, does it pop up
when you bump the mouse pointer into the bottom edge of the screen?
Bluster
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From: rico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install issue with RH6.2 and TEAC SCSI CDROM
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 19:42:20 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I've got a computer under RH6.0, installed from a Sony CDU-31A CDROM
(quite old... 2x speed).
I changed my Sony CDROM for a TEAC SCSI2 CDROM.
I tried to install on this machine RH6.2, I downloaded the last boot.img
at redhat.com and I copied the img with "dd" to a floppy disk...
When I reboot and I choose SCSI CDROM (Install), and my Adaptec 2842 in
the list, I have that error message :
Kernel panic : aic7xxxx: unrecoverable BRKADRINT
In swapper task - not syncing
Does anyone know if it is a well known bug, and what is the solution ?
Thanks a lot.
Eric.
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux servers
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 13:38:07 -0500
Fr�re_Orph�e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Someone told me a server was not related to internet under linux
what is a server under linux then?
Hmm, not much to go on...
You may be thinking of the X11 window system "server" also
known as the "xserver". The job of the xserver is to serve
X11 window resources (e.g. screen space, keyboard focus,
mouse clicks, etc...) to X11 programs.
This xserver is the part of X11 which talks directly to the
hardware, translating X11 style requests from programs running
on your PC, (like xclock, etc.) into hardware commands of
the style *your* hardware understands.
This is why you need to use the correct xserver package for
*your* video card.
Hope this helps,
Bluster
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From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: custom compile 2.2.16-3 gives error about errno.h
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 18:38:02 GMT
I downloaded all the kernel packages from RH for this kernel
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/kernel-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
What is the deal? When I use the rpm kernel released from RH(RedHat) it
does not
compile (a custom kernel) it spits out errors about not finding errno.h but
yet it is there and in my path? Is the problem in the source itself?
If I download the generic 2.2.16 from kernel.org it compiles a customized
kernel with no issue.
I have installed and built many RH kernels in the past and am quite
comfortable with the process.
I don't think I need a lesson on make mrproper, make config, make dep, make
clean, make bzImage.
What I do want to find out is where this error message really points...
since I looked at the scripts and the line numbers stated in the error
messages, and I can locate what it is complaining about and the permissions
look right (errno.h) but yet the script can not find errno.h?
line 25 of /usr/include/bits/errno.h calls <linux/errno.h> and
/usr/src/linux/errno.h exists
as well as /usr/include/errno.h which is calling /usr/include/bits/errno.h
Should there really be a /usr/include/linux/errno.h ?
<<<<
# make bzImage
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o
scripts/split-include scripts/split-include.c
In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36
from scripts/split-include.c:26:
/usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [scripts/split-include] Error 1
>>>>
I think there is a link or path issue here but I am not sure where the fix
is?
I know I could use the generic kernel but I want to use the rpms from RH to
keep
better revision control as well as maintain the RH enhancements.
Any commentary/pointers would be appreciated.
thank you
jeff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Unable to boot my RH6.2 box
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 18:42:38 GMT
Hi,
Need some help here... I have RH6.2 running all by itself (no other OSs)
on a box with an AMD-K5 processor and 32Mb RAM. The box has died on me.
Symptons are as follows:
- Normal boot procedure (without boot disk - using LILO)
LILO boot prompt goes on after timeout to start booting (without myself
providing any special parameters).
What I see on my screen is something like this:
LILO boot:
Loading linux.....................
Uncompressing linux...
incomplete literal tree
--System halted
- Booting from boot disk:
I get a "LILO boot" prompt, with a message saying that the machine will
boot from /dev/hda1 in 10 sec if left unattended. I do so, and get the
following screen output:
Loading linux...
Error 0x04
After this I keep getting "LILO boot" prompts that default after 10
secs to trying the same process, getting the same error message every
time.
I have tried accessing in single-user mode issuing a "linux -s", but
results do not differ.
Any help anybody may provide as to how to proceed will be greatly
appreciated. Pointers to specific documentation indicating how to
approach this problem will alse be of great value.
Regards,
Santiago
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From: Darren Wyn Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.mail.qmail
Subject: Re: qmail question
Date: 5 Nov 2000 19:05:57 GMT
In alt.comp.mail.qmail waffle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> account saying that qmail was "Unable to write to /dev/null: invalid
> argument (#4.3.0)" What am I missing? It seems pretty straight forward
> (although hard to explain).
Your .qmail-<foo> file should contain simply
#
and that only, as the first character. All mail to that address
will then be thrown away.
The qmail man pages, FAQ etc. do not make this CLEAR enough. AFAICT
the 'man dot-qmail' pages could be a LOT more explicit.
Responses set to alt.comp.mail.qmail.
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From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux sees only 896MB of my 1024 MB RAM
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 19:05:35 GMT
I am running three boxes each dual CPU 866 and 1GB RAM. Kernel 2.2.16-3smp
(from RH) with no customization done to the kernel. (seems I can't build a
custom kernel using the 2.2.16-3 no matter what machine, smp box or not, I
get errors about errno.h...but that is another post.)
My point is I am running that kernel and ALL current updates/erratta from
RedHat and I get no messages or warnings at all about memory from dmesg. I
even went back through /var/log/messages just to see if I missed anything. I
looked through my kernel config (default config)
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig
CONFIG_1GB=y
CONFIG_BIGMEM is not set
"Free" reports all of my physical memory as well as gtop and other sysinfo
utils.
I know this offers little help in bringing resolution to your issue but I
thought it may help to note that it appears to possible to run straight out
of the shoot with a smp kernel and 1GB ram without recompile needed.
good luck and keep us posted on what you find as root cause.
jeff
"FEEB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> During the boot process of kernel 2.2.16-22smp on 2x CPU machine with
> 1024MB RAM I am getting:
>
> kernel: Warning only 896MB will be used
>
> Is there a limit as to how much memory can kernel utilize?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Frank Bures, <grandial at softex.cz>
>
>
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From: Zero Piraeus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: 3-button Microsoft mouse
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 19:05:56 +0000
Hey:
> I own a common 3-button mouse which uses the Microsoft protocol.
[...]
> But with X-Window the middle button doesn't work at all.
> This is the "Pointer Section" of /etc/X11/XF86Config:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Section "Pointer"
> Protocol "Microsoft"
> Device "/dev/mouse"
> Buttons 3
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> My system is RedHat 6.2.
Check that the Pointer section doesn't also have this:
# Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice
# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)
Emulate3Buttons
Emulate3Timeout 50
If it does, comment out or remove the offending lines.
-[z].
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