Linux-Setup Digest #240, Volume #20 Sun, 17 Dec 00 18:13:04 EST
Contents:
SoundCard ("enness")
Kernel panic on bootup ("Ed Collins")
help ksh scripts on linux ("michael thomas")
Re: sendmail questions (David Efflandt)
Re: Mandrake 7.2 error (new install) (Don Hinds)
Re: Swap file consumption (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Mandrake 7.2 error (new install) (Don Hinds)
Can you install Corel 2 over Mandrake 7.2 ? (Don Hinds)
Re: Debian dselect problem: trn, leafnode, inews (Colin Watson)
Re: Epson printer problem ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Help installing Redhat on a laptop with pcmcia cd rom ("Nick Adams")
Internal Zip Drive question (charlie)
screen freezes on "LI" when I try to start linux (MLegan)
Re: not kernel, but user panic, please help me -- solved (Masoud Pajoh)
Re: not kernel, but user panic, please help me -- solved (Masoud Pajoh)
make xconfig error (Phillip Franckel)
Re: rebuild 2.2.16-22 Redhat Kernel for shared mem. and semaphores (Sedeer El-Showk)
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From: "enness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SoundCard
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 19:43:04 GMT
I am running LM7.2. I have a OPL3-SA3 sound card which I am not able to
install. I had replys from LM support and newsgroup members(thanks) saying
run 'sndconfig' from root. But I dont have sndconfig anywhere in my machine.
I tried to install it from a RPM (which said sndconfig-x-y-z...) in one of
the CDs, but the package installer says that an 'Unsatisfied
dependency'(??) - "awesf" exists. I could not find naything like that in the
CDs (That is asking too much of a Brand new newbie like me!!). Doe anyone
know what it is all about?? and help me out.
I have anther simple question: How to know what all files are there in each
linux partition. (Like where is root, /home, /etc, /usr) or the converse,
which file is on which partition?
Thanks
Sri
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From: "Ed Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel panic on bootup
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 19:52:00 GMT
I just installed Linux on the d: drive on a 486DX. I get the following
message and cannot proced further.
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:45
Does anyone know what the problem is? I would certainly appreciate anyone's
help.
ed.
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From: "michael thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help ksh scripts on linux
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 20:02:49 GMT
Hi everyone. Would be real grateful for some help getting 'read' to work
within my k shell scripts. I am running Redhat 6.* on a pc and my login
shell is ksh. I do a fair amount of scripting on other UNIX systems but for
the life of me I can't get 'read' to work within a ksh script :-
#!/bin/ksh
print "hi mike" | read mystr
print $mystr
Would be very grateful for some help or advice on this.
Thank you
Mike Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: sendmail questions
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 20:09:34 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 17:13:21 +0800, tin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hi all:
>i have a problem can't send mail when i changed my mail server computer
>name, then i change back to old computer name, then still have same problem
>cant send mail, anyone have idea? i checked nslookup my DNS MX is no problem
>i using RH6.2
What do your mail logs say (usually in /var/log)? Can internet DNS
resolve either hostname? Did you restart sendmail after changes?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 error (new install)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Hinds)
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 20:21:35 GMT
I'm 99% sure is the memory, 8M video shared form 64M system. So Linux
kernel isn't keeping ram straight.
I cannot boot in text mode at all. I get this error sequence
Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Kernel panic .....
In swapper - not syncing
and it stops booting right there.
Don
>Should be your graphics card or monitor resolution set wrongly.
>Perhaps u
>should configure your XWindows only AFTER u install Mandrake 7.2.
>This is because after u install and everything boots up fine in text
>mode, u
>can do a linuxconf and be able to TEST CONFIGURATION when u alter your
>monitor settings.
>
>"Don Hinds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:x8W_5.1067$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > Don Hinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I can't run anything. Booting into any GUI and the screen messes and
>> then
>> lock.
>> If I try to boot any other way I get this error sequence
>>
>> Aiee, killing interrupt handler
>> Kernel panic .....
>> In swapper - not syncing
>>
>> and it stops booting right there.
>>
>> Don
>>
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Any ideas? Compaq 7470, Trident Blade 3D (video), AMD K6-3D
>> >> 533,
>> >> 20G (5G
>> >> allocated to Linux), 64M
>> >>
>> >
>> >You didn't say what version of X you installed.
>> >I would run it up in runlevel 3 and then manually
>> >try Xconfigurator until I found a setting that
>> >worked. It's a good idea to start with a conservative
>> >version of X, eg. 3.3.6 without h/w acceleration.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Don Hinds
>> http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/eritrea/117/
>>
>
>
--
Don Hinds
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/eritrea/117/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Swap file consumption
Date: 17 Dec 2000 15:22:37 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian wrote:
> When I boot up linux, log in and run "top", my swap file is 100%
> utilized!
> 0 available. Needless to say, when I run startx I don't have much room
> to play with.
How much (physical) memory does it report that you have?
> I haven't run any program, other than top. What's consuming my swap
> file?
You can get top(1) to tell you how much swap each process is using.
Type "o" at it to change the displayed parameters.
--
Paul Kimoto
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 error (new install)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Hinds)
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 20:22:36 GMT
>Are you saying it does not run in non-GUI mode?
>
>
Yep I get I get this error sequence
Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Kernel panic .....
In swapper - not syncing
and it stops booting right there.
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Can you install Corel 2 over Mandrake 7.2 ?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Hinds)
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 20:35:45 GMT
I've installed MAndrake 7.2 but so far cannot get it to work with my AMD K6
3D processor (shares video RAM with the system).
If Mandrake doesn't have an anwers, can I install Corel over Mandrake or do I
have to remove Mandrake first? (assuming Corel supports my CPU).
thanks
Don
--
Don Hinds
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/eritrea/117/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Debian dselect problem: trn, leafnode, inews
Date: 17 Dec 2000 21:10:38 GMT
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> dselect won't remove packages on that basis, nor will any of Debian's
>> other packaging tools to the best of my knowledge. They will only remove
>> packages due to explicit requests, conflicts, or the removal of
>> dependencies.
>
>You mean that packages dependent on absent packages will be slated for
>removal?
That's right, yes.
>Is there any way to say "no" to remove and "yes" to install
>at the same time?
Well, if you really had to, you could use 'dpkg --force-depends --purge
package', or whatever, I guess. You can override dependencies with 'Q'
in dselect, but as far as I remember that just puts the relevant stuff
on hold until it's fixed (I may be wrong on this). Neither of these is
the best way; read on ...
>I am having a bit of a job stopping debian removing jlex and other
>trivia because I replaced jdk1.1 with jdk1.2 from blackdown ...
Ah. In the general case, the equivs package is the tool to fix this.
That allows you to write a package control file (in roughly the format
of entries in dpkg's available file) and generate a dummy package from
it. The package that's produced will contain no files, but will be able
to satisfy dependencies by way of Provides: lines and so on. You can
then install that with 'dpkg -i generated-package.deb'.
>.. as far as I can see, I have to install the java-virtual-machine-dummy
>package. But trying to download it through apt-get, apt-get bows out
>claiming that I should fix dependencies first. That would remove the
>things I want the dummy package to shore up.
Heh, that's ironic. This is a situation where using dpkg is probably
better; you could grab the package directly from the Debian archive and
install it with 'dpkg -i'. While apt-get is careful to keep global
consistency among your packages, dpkg is only concerned about local
consistency (to a first approximation, anyway), and won't complain about
the existing installation having broken dependencies.
In this specific case, I'd probably use java-virtual-machine-dummy to
sort out dependencies on java-virtual-machine, as the package is already
there and its dependencies are maintained by one of the Debian Java
people. I see that it doesn't provide jdk1.1-runtime, though, which jlex
depends on, so you'll still need to create and install a third package
for that.
The third alternative, of course, is to Debianize Blackdown's jdk1.2
(the Debian JDK maintainer says that it can't be distributed with Debian
as it stands due to some licensing concerns, but there's nothing to stop
people doing it privately). I often do this for bits of software I want
to install long-term rather than just trying them out, but I can believe
that it would be a substantial amount of work for something like the
JDK.
HTH,
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Debian, you *peasant*." - http://www.userfriendly.org/
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Date: 17 Dec 2000 16:42:26 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson printer problem
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Tom Peters;
TP> I bought an Epson stylus color 680, and hung it on my Linux PC
TP> (SuSE
TP> 6.4) through the parallel port: it only prints chinese.
TP> My old HP-DJ-550C worked fine (and I use the same parallel
TP> cable); I tried both the old BSD lpd and lpr-ng; of course I
TP> re-started the lpd, and turned the printer off and on, several
TP> times. I used Yast to install the printer, with apsfilter. The
TP> entries it made in printcap look reasonable. For lack of a
TP> better choice, I chose "epsonc" printer, and manually changed the
TP> default resolution from
TP> 360x180 to 600x600.
TP> Any advice on getting Epson printers to work with Linux are
TP> welcome.
First, use LPRng, and lprngtool to configure it.
Second, the gs thats used for the universal ps interpretor is still a
bit early in the stock distributions.
Get gs6.50, all 6 files (main, 3 libraries, 2 fonts), and unpack them as
directed, and make the linkage to src/unix-gcc.mak as directed, but
don't do the compile just yet.
Get Print-4.0.latest from the gimp site and follow the directions in the
'Ghost' directory of the unpack tree that tell you how to add these new
epson drivers to ghostscript. 2 quickly done edits, one of which is
pure cut and paste, or an editor 'include file'.
Then in the gs6.50 dir, do a make. If successful, remove the old gs
install and then do a 'make install' the new one you just made. Don't
forget the two fonts archives, and the 3 compression libs that gs needs
to compile.
If all this works, then you'll find a whole slew of new options when you
run lprngtool, one of which should be able to make that printer look
very close to the output it made when fed the demo pages in the store.
Oh, and pick up a wider mirror so you can see _all_ the silly grin when
it works. :)
Cheers, Gene
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From: "Nick Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Help installing Redhat on a laptop with pcmcia cd rom
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:56:57 -0500
Use redhat 6.2!
Nick
"Tom Voltaggio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a Toshiba Portege with a Port NW24XCD PCMCIA cdrom.
> I want to install Redhat 6.1. I boot DOS and run rawrite
> and copy the pcmcia.img to my boot disk. When I boot and
> try to install, the pcmcia driver is loaded fine. However
> when I get to screen where I must choose where the redhat
> files are located for installation, it doesn't show the
> cdrom drive; only the hard drives. Apparently, Linux can't
> find the cd rom drive during the install. How can I tell
> Linux the irq and other configuration items of the cd rom
> before Linux is actually installed? The image file
> apparently doesn't do it.
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From: charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Internal Zip Drive question
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 17:18:53 -0500
I have Redhat Linux installed ... sound configured ... dial up
connected properly, and have the zip drive configured and a zip disk
formated for linux .... would someone point me in the right direction so
that I don't have to be logged in as root to mount, cp files, and umount
the drive please??
thanks in advance
Charlie S.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MLegan)
Date: 17 Dec 2000 22:37:16 GMT
Subject: screen freezes on "LI" when I try to start linux
I installed Corel/Debian linux on a hewlett-packard pavillion 4530. The
installation
program reported that the installation was a "success", but when I re-booted
to actually start Linux I got a frozen screen--it freezes on a "LI_" prompt
(not "LILO_", just "LI_"). I would greatly appreciate any help!
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From: Masoud Pajoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,alt.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: not kernel, but user panic, please help me -- solved
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:58:33 GMT
I did go to
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm#Download
downloaded the explore2fs-1.00-pre3.zip, installed. This let me get to my linux
partition and correct the fstab file.
But I love to know one thing.
Since I know I did not add the offending line
/dev/hd19 swap swap defaults 0
0
to fstab. Who is the culprit, RedHat or Partition Magic?
This I have not figured yet.
Masoud Pajoh wrote:
> Using the NT, looking into /etc/fstab, I found the following line in there:
> /dev/hd19 swap swap
> defaults 0 0
> God only know where it came from, I did not have it in there.
> At anyrate somehow I need to be able to get in there and change /dev/hd19 to
> /dev/hda9, as it should have been. I also need to remove the following
> line, because hda11 does not exist anymore:
> /dev/hda11 /mnt/backup ext2 defaults
>
> Does anyone know how to get access to this file?
> Please help.
> Regards;
> Masoud Pajoh
>
> Masoud Pajoh wrote:
>
> > Hi all;
> > Here is what I did. In an attempt to give Linux more space I resized
> > and moved some partitions on my machine using Partition Magic 4.1.
> > Here is the part that is related to Linux:
> > - after taking some space away from Windows NT, i.e. freeing it
> > - I moved linux boot partition to the beginning of this space, this
> > is (and was) /dev/hda8
> > - tried to move the linux swap partition, the option on PM was
> > grayed.
> > - In my great wisdom, I deleted the old swap and created one after
> > the boot partition, this is (and was) /dev/hda9.
> > - Moved the /dev/hda10( has all the linux system files on it) to the
> > beginning of the free space.
> > - Deleted /dev/hda11 (an ext2 file system).
> > - Expanded /dev/hda10 to include the free space.
> > - Exited PM.
> > - Booted to linux.
> > Now I cannot boot to Linux:
> > Here are the error messages I get:
> > - swapon failed.
> > - fsck.ext2: Could this be a zero length partition? Attempt to to
> > read block for the file system resulted in short read while trying to
> > open /dev/hda11.
> > Then I get:
> > - Give root password for maintenance (or type control-D for normal
> > startup)
> > At this point if I give it the root password I get:
> > - (Repair file system) 1 #:
> > The only answer it accepts is "yes/no." If I give it "yes", I get y's
> > on the first column on the screen, with no activities on the hard
> > drive. If I give it "no" I get:
> > - (Repair file system) 2 #: no
> > - (Repair file system) 3 #: no
> > - (Repair file system) 4 #: no
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >
> > This continues forever. I have tried to "linux single" at LILO with
> > no difference.
> > I Have tried to use the installation CD in "recover" "maintenance" mode,
> > but I cannot figure out how to use this mode.
> >
> > Is there anything to save me from reinstalling Linux.
> > Please help.
> > Any help is appreciated.
> > Sincerely;
> > Masoud Pajoh
> >
> > BTW, I use RH7.1 (Guineas) on an stand alone x386 PC
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From: Masoud Pajoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,alt.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: not kernel, but user panic, please help me -- solved
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:58:33 GMT
I did go to
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm#Download
downloaded the explore2fs-1.00-pre3.zip, installed. This let me get to my linux
partition and correct the fstab file.
But I love to know one thing.
Since I know I did not add the offending line
/dev/hd19 swap swap defaults 0
0
to fstab. Who is the culprit, RedHat or Partition Magic?
This I have not figured yet.
Masoud Pajoh wrote:
> Using the NT, looking into /etc/fstab, I found the following line in there:
> /dev/hd19 swap swap
> defaults 0 0
> God only know where it came from, I did not have it in there.
> At anyrate somehow I need to be able to get in there and change /dev/hd19 to
> /dev/hda9, as it should have been. I also need to remove the following
> line, because hda11 does not exist anymore:
> /dev/hda11 /mnt/backup ext2 defaults
>
> Does anyone know how to get access to this file?
> Please help.
> Regards;
> Masoud Pajoh
>
> Masoud Pajoh wrote:
>
> > Hi all;
> > Here is what I did. In an attempt to give Linux more space I resized
> > and moved some partitions on my machine using Partition Magic 4.1.
> > Here is the part that is related to Linux:
> > - after taking some space away from Windows NT, i.e. freeing it
> > - I moved linux boot partition to the beginning of this space, this
> > is (and was) /dev/hda8
> > - tried to move the linux swap partition, the option on PM was
> > grayed.
> > - In my great wisdom, I deleted the old swap and created one after
> > the boot partition, this is (and was) /dev/hda9.
> > - Moved the /dev/hda10( has all the linux system files on it) to the
> > beginning of the free space.
> > - Deleted /dev/hda11 (an ext2 file system).
> > - Expanded /dev/hda10 to include the free space.
> > - Exited PM.
> > - Booted to linux.
> > Now I cannot boot to Linux:
> > Here are the error messages I get:
> > - swapon failed.
> > - fsck.ext2: Could this be a zero length partition? Attempt to to
> > read block for the file system resulted in short read while trying to
> > open /dev/hda11.
> > Then I get:
> > - Give root password for maintenance (or type control-D for normal
> > startup)
> > At this point if I give it the root password I get:
> > - (Repair file system) 1 #:
> > The only answer it accepts is "yes/no." If I give it "yes", I get y's
> > on the first column on the screen, with no activities on the hard
> > drive. If I give it "no" I get:
> > - (Repair file system) 2 #: no
> > - (Repair file system) 3 #: no
> > - (Repair file system) 4 #: no
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >
> > This continues forever. I have tried to "linux single" at LILO with
> > no difference.
> > I Have tried to use the installation CD in "recover" "maintenance" mode,
> > but I cannot figure out how to use this mode.
> >
> > Is there anything to save me from reinstalling Linux.
> > Please help.
> > Any help is appreciated.
> > Sincerely;
> > Masoud Pajoh
> >
> > BTW, I use RH7.1 (Guineas) on an stand alone x386 PC
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From: Phillip Franckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: make xconfig error
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:00:33 GMT
I am trying to configure my kernel, unfortunatly I only get the error
below.
I am in directory /usr/src/linux
I then type make xconfig
And I get
make: *** No rule to make target `xconfig'. Stop.
What does this mean?
I have Mandrake 7.0 with kernel 2.2.14
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
From: Sedeer El-Showk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rebuild 2.2.16-22 Redhat Kernel for shared mem. and semaphores
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:04:29 GMT
Have a look at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Stevie wrote:
> Help,
>
> I need to change the following parameters in my kernel. (Redhat 7.0 distro)
> for a new Oracle database.
> (SHMMAX, SHMMIN, SHMMNI,SHIMSEG, SEMMSL, SEMMNS, SEMOPM, SEMUNX)
>
> I searched numerous websites and newsgroups for some 7.0 specific
> documentation/instructions
> on where and how to change the above parameters. From what I've read, the
> kernel needs to be rebuilt
> but none of the emails or notes suggested how to exactly do this...arg!!!
>
> Can anybody help or suggest some good step by step notes?
>
> Cheers,
> Stevie
>
>
>
>
>
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