Linux-Setup Digest #382, Volume #20 Tue, 9 Jan 01 10:13:08 EST
Contents:
Genius GE2500III SE network card (Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?W=FCrthner?=)
Re: Newbie: start 'infinite' loop (Steve Martin)
Re: Booting new kernel (2.4) question (Neil Watson)
Re: can't execute an executable file..... (Lew Pitcher)
Re: startx doesn't start X ("Robert Lock")
Re: Out of primary partitions (M. Buchenrieder)
Problem with Sound in isapnp under Slackware 7.1 ("E. Bruce Lynn, II")
CD-ROM boot unresponsive (David Lockwood)
Swap Space ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: GRUB Boot Order (Peter Kadau)
physical disks (Me)
Processes stop in do_poll with 2.4 kernel? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: need to add Ethernet Module...How? (Hilton Day)
Re: Processes stop in do_poll with 2.4 kernel? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: Out of primary partitions (David Lockwood)
Re: Swap Space ("Martin Schmidt")
HELP! : mysterious ext2 undeletable directory (Dorin Ioan MARINCA)
Re: Acknowledgement please? (Hilton Day)
Re: startx doesn't start X (Eric)
/dev/console permissions
Procmail ("Zayin Krige")
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From: Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?W=FCrthner?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Genius GE2500III SE network card
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:03:55 +0100
I am running SuSE 6.4 with kernel 2.2.16 and I have a Genius PCI ehternet
card: GE2500III SE. Under Windows, this is installed as a Realtek RTL
8029(AS) card and works fine.
The Genius Web site claims that this card can be installed as a NE2000 PCI
compatible card, so I have put the following line in /etc/conf.modules:
alias eth0 ne2k-pci
However, during booting, I get the following message:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable
and the log (/var/log/messages) contains the following line:
<... other boot messages deleted>
Jan 9 13:43:19 escher kernel:
ne2k-pci.c:vpre-1.00e 5/27/99 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html
Jan 9 13:43:19 escher kernel: WARNING: The PCI BIOS assigned this PCI
NE2k card to IRQ 0, which is unlikely to work!.
Jan 9 13:43:19 escher kernel: You should use the PCI BIOS setup to assign
a valid IRQ line.
Jan 9 13:43:19 escher kernel: ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek
RTL-8029' at I/O 0x9400, IRQ 0.
Jan 9 13:43:19 escher kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0x9400, IRQ
0, 00:C0:DF:F2:5E:84.
<... other boot messages deleted>
In the BIOS, I have set the IRQ of the card to "Auto". Windows 98 uses the
card at 0x1000 with IRQ 10.
Has anyone got this card working without compiling their own kernel?
I would like to get it to work with the standard kernel, if possible.
Martin
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Martin Wuerthner MW Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie: start 'infinite' loop
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 13:23:31 GMT
Frederick McLean wrote:
> I set up the "/etc/X11/Xsession" file as per the instructions in the
> "Debian for dummies guide, but now it seems that startx is called after
> each xlogin.
>
> How do I change this file? I cant log in as each time I do I am returned
> to the
> logon screen.
I would guess that the system can not execute (for whatever reason) the
commands you put in Xsession. I did this once, got in the same shape...
turned out I had pointed Xsession to a script that did not have execute
permission, so the system couldn't execute it. Kicked me right back out.
As for logging in to fix it, try hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1. This should take
you back to a text-based login prompt, from where you can get in and
fix what's wrong. Alt-F7 will take you back to the X screen.
You might post the contents of your Xsession file, it might give
us a chance to see what's wrong.
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From: Neil Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Booting new kernel (2.4) question
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 13:28:09 GMT
Craig Kelley wrote:
> Neil Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I've compiled my new 2.4 kernel in /home/nwatson/tmp/linux and copied
> > bzImage to /boot. I added an new entry to grub so that I can still boot
> > my old kernel (2.2.17).
> >
> > When I attempt to boot the new kernel I get past grub and the kernel
> > begins
> > to load until it's time to mount the drives. The message:
> >
> > EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock.
> >
> > Then the kernel panics and fails to boot.
> >
> > I can still boot kernel 2.2.17 no troubles and I can still boot to
> > win2k.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong?
>
> I've never used 'grub', but it sounds like your new kernel doesn't
> know which drive to boot from. A default linux kernel will try to
> boot from /dev/sda1 (first SCSI disk), the last time I checked.
>
> You can either:
>
> o configure grub to tell the kernel image which partition contains
> the root filesystem (ie, under lilo you'd include root=/dev/mydrive)
>
> o use rdev to tell the kernel image what drive to boot from
>
> rdev /boot/bzImage-2.4.0 /dev/mydrive
>
> (substituting 'mydrive' for the proper one)
I tried rdev /boot/bzImage /dev/hda5 which is the correct partition but it
didn't work. I'm still getting the same error. The entry in grub shows
the same boot partition as my working 2.2.17 kernel so that can't be it
either.
I checked the kernel messages more carefully this time and I saw:
partition check: wrong partition table
or something very similar.
How can their be something wrong with the partition table when both my old
kernel and win2k boot without issues?
Thanks,
--
Neil Watson
http://webhome.idirect.com/~neilw
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: can't execute an executable file.....
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 13:40:57 GMT
On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 07:10:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James
Rose) wrote:
>>
>>What can be wrong? Why doesn't it execute?
>Well your error lies in assuming that . (your current directory) is in
>your path. That is where bash and others look for commands. Type
>/a.out and see what happens.
Make that
./a.out
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: "Robert Lock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: startx doesn't start X
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:54:56 +0200
Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Robert Lock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > After months of relatively painless use of Mandrake 7.0, the following
has
> > occurred:
> >
> > type "startx" <cr>
> >
> > Screen blanks out for approx 20 sec and then returns this -
> >
> > _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect. Can't connect: errno = 111
> > Failed to set default font path 'unix/:1'
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
> > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> >
> > This problem showed up today for no apparent reason since yesterday I
spent
> > quite a lot of time working in the X environment and shut the system
down
> > normally. No errors or warnings were generated on startup today except
the
> > above.
> >
> > I really have no idea where to start looking for the cause or the repair
of
> > this so
> > any help is welcome.
>
> Make sure xfs (X11 Font Server) is running:
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs status
> xfs (pid 683) is running...
>
> If it isn't, then start it up:
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start
>
> And then try to run X11. It could be that you erased the 'fixed' font
> by accident, in which case re-installing X11 from your Mandrake CD
> will work:
>
> rpm --force -i /mnt/cdrom/blah/blah/XFree86-3.3.xxxxxx.rpm
>
> (the 'fixed' font is included in the main XFree86 RPM file)
>
> --
> The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
> Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
=================================================
Thanks for your help gentlemen. This is what I found:-
typing "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs status" returns "xfs dead but subsys locked"
Typing "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start" returns " starting X font server" then
[OK]
typing "startx" returns the same error as my original posting on this
subject.
typing "df" returns
Available use mounted on
/dev/hda1 0 100% /
/dev/hda6 72% /usr
/dev/hdb1 16% /home
typing "fdisk" returns:
device boot start end blocks id system
/dev/hda1 * 1 102 205600+ 83 linux
/dev/hda2 103 1023 1856736 5 extended
/dev/hda5 103 255 308416+ 82 linux swap
/dev/hda6 256 1023 1548256+ 83 linux
/dev/hdb1 1 525 4217031 83 linux
I assume that this means that the root (/) partition is full and therefore
causing the problem.
Question1: What is the recommended way of dealing with this situation?
Question 2: How do I prevent this from recurring?
Thanks again
Rob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Out of primary partitions
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:57:15 GMT
David Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I'm a low-end intermediate win98 user, total linux/unix newbie, trying
>to set up dual boot win98SE/Red Hat 7 on single HDD (20G).
First, do not expect to get used to Linux/UN*X without
reading documentations. Lots and lots of it.
>Problem: Installation from floppy starts OK (see separate question about
>cd boot). Proceeds normally to partitioning section. Under fdisk(DOS) I
>have primary DOS partition (2G) and extended DOS partition with 3
>logical drives (2G + 2G + 3G) - all using FAT32.
OK.
>In the Disk Druid partition table this is shown as four separate
>partitions, (hda1, 5, 6, 7). I expected to see 2 partitions (one for
>primary DOS, another for extended DOS) but otherwise the listings are
>the same as under DOSfdisk.
There is basically no difference in primary part. vs. logical volumes.
It's just a different name for the same thing - a partition. Due to
the way the partition table layout has been defined decades ago, though,
the partition table may not hold more than 4 primary partitions.
To overcome the obvious limitation, one of these primary ones may
be of type "extended", and then itself contain logical volumes.
Linux' fdisk just shows you all the partitions at once. You can
see what they are by looking at the partition numbers assigned:
E.G. , on an IDE disk, the partition numbers will be
hda1 - hda4 --- primary partitions
hda5 - hda16 --- logical volumes
This would be disk device /dev/hda , AKA the MASTER disk on your
first IDE channel . On a SCSI disk, it would be /dev/sda, etc.
>I have another 11G left unallocated by
>DOSfdisk to put linux into. The first partition (and I think the 2nd as
>well) are created normally, and given numbers hda3 and hda4. Any further
>partitions (no matter what name) fail to be allocated because there are
>no primary partitions left. Space is obviously not a problem.
See above. As the partition table does only allow up to 4 entries
for primary partitions (think of it as a strictly limited table),
you _can't_ have more than 4 primary partitions on one disk.
>I am not ready to abandon my win98 and really like having 4 drives. Also
>to put all of this into one partition will obviously be tedious. For
>similar reasons I want multiple (at least 5) limux partitions. I can't
>find any mention of this problem in the major HOWTO's. Can anybody help?
What you have to do is to
- backup your important data on the existing logical volumes
(just in case...)
- get a copy of PartitionMagic 4.x or 5.x (this isn't free ,
but it is well worth the money) and install PM in Windows
- enlarge the existing extended partition to be including
all the rest of the unassigned diskspace. Note: You may
have to delete the newly created Linux partitions using
Linux' fdisk first (they're probably still empty, anyways, unless
you already have setup Linux there), otherwise PartitionMagic
might not be able to enlarge the existing extended partition.
The nice thing is that PM can do this non-destructively,
though it may take some time to complete the process (maybe
10 - 20 minutes, depending from the disk size).
- After successfully having included the unassigned space,
boot from the Linux CD and start the installation. You may
now safely create new logical volumes within the extended
partition.
Michael
--
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Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: "E. Bruce Lynn, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with Sound in isapnp under Slackware 7.1
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 08:05:28 -0600
I am trying to set up my sound card in Slackware 7.1, after recompiling
kernel, and am getting the following message:
> root@slack:~# isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
> Don't know what to do with IO 0x378,2 on or around line 40
> /etc/isapnp.conf:40 -- Fatal - Error occurred parsing config file --- no action
> taken
I did not configure the kernel to setup my sound as a module, but to
compile it within the kernel. Can someone advise me as to what this
problem is or the man page to check?
Thank you in advance
--
_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ = E. Bruce Lynn, II =
_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ = Running SlackWare 7.1 =
_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ = Running SuSE 6.4 =
_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ = Running Windows 98 =
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From: David Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-ROM boot unresponsive
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:20:35 +1000
This is really a hardware question but I'm sure someone here will know
the answer. My BIOS has a boot sequence option of CDROM, C, A. This is
the only sequence in which the CDROM comes before C. I wanted to use
this to install Red hat 7 from a disk which came with a beginners book
(published by SAMS). When I reboot I get a "prompt" like this:
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM :
The activity light on the CD goes off and nothing happens.
I can't type anything in, although it isn't "hung", ie Numlock activates
its light and ctrl/alt/del reboots immediately. FWIW I can't see
anything in the top directory of the CD which looks like it will boot
anyway, but I don't really know what I'm looking for. The book it came
with says it should boot from this disk after appropriate alterations to
BIOS.
I have made a boot floppy which seemed to work OK (although I haven't
successfully installed yet - see my partition question) but would like
to know why I couldn't boot from CD-ROM as planned.
Many thanks
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Swap Space
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:07:13 GMT
HI -
I was wondering how much swap space to set up
when installing red hat linux v6. I have 128 MB
of ram on a 400 MHz P2. I have heard to set up
anything from 1 to 4 times the amount of physical
memory as swap space. Also, is swap space the
only disk space used for virtual memory? So if I
set up 128 megs of swap space, I have only 256 MB
of addressable memory locations? Any info and
help is greatly appreciated
thanks,
Pete
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Kadau)
Subject: Re: GRUB Boot Order
Date: 9 Jan 2001 14:16:02 GMT
Manni Heumann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08 Jan 2001:
:
: >> RTFM on http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.en.html#faq
: >
: >in LILO you'd want the "default=" option, I would expect GRUB
: >to have an equally obvious option.
: >
:
# example , adjust to your needs
timeout 30 // maybe you want more than 5 secs chance
default 1 // starting from zero - so default is win
fallback 0 // if win is broken try linux
title linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 // and more (maybe)
# initrd /boot/initrd.img // presumably you need that
title M$win
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
#EOF
HTH
peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me)
Subject: physical disks
Date: 9 Jan 2001 13:56:20 GMT
Is it /etc/fstab where I learn about what physical hard disks I have? Where
can I learn more about this?
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Processes stop in do_poll with 2.4 kernel?
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:25:41 +0100
Hi
I just upgraded to 2.4.0 on a server.
However nearly all processes now hang on startup in do_poll. These include
syslogd, sshd, su, named, httpd etc. etc... 'netstat --inet' hangs too -
but 'netstat --inet -n' does not? My DNS is correctly configured.
I have added the /dev/dhm fs. Do I need to do something more?
It really nags me, as it means that clients take a looooong time to
connect to news, mail etc. - if it does not time out...
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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From: Hilton Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need to add Ethernet Module...How?
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:28:20 GMT
Hi Bert,
I've just had a check - if you look on the floppy disk that came with the
ethernet card, NetGear provide instructions in the /help/linux directory on the
disk for compiling the drivers into the kernel, and adding to Redhat... I use
the FA310 and FA312 cards in my masquearding box, which is now (as of Sunday)
using Rhat 7.0, with kernel 2.4, and works fine. However, there is a simpler
route than that (IMHO :-)...
First, try just installing the card in your machine, and booting linux... if
your kernel is the default Redhat one, it'll probably pick it up automatically
(mine did)... if not, you'll need to compile support into the kernel, either by
following the instructions from the floppy disk, or just recompiling the kernel
adding the DEC/Tulip driver in the PCI/EISA section of the kernel's network
configuration (the FA31x cards use Digital's chipset).
Hope this helps,
Hilton.
bert RdeC wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to add a Netgear Ethernet card FA311, on a RH v 7.0 box. The
> card comes with drivers under linux, source files, a ".o" file, and a
> makefile. What is the best way to add this to my system so it will recognise
> the card??
>
> Thanks
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Processes stop in do_poll with 2.4 kernel?
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:33:16 +0100
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Rasmus B�g Hansen wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just upgraded to 2.4.0 on a server.
>
> However nearly all processes now hang on startup in do_poll. These include
> syslogd, sshd, su, named, httpd etc. etc... 'netstat --inet' hangs too -
> but 'netstat --inet -n' does not? My DNS is correctly configured.
>
> I have added the /dev/dhm fs. Do I need to do something more?
>
> It really nags me, as it means that clients take a looooong time to
> connect to news, mail etc. - if it does not time out...
An update:
When I try to restart the network, I get a process with the name
eth0. Output from 'ps axl':
040 0 4554 1 9 0 0 0 end SW ttyp0 0:00
[eth0]
Btw. I am running RedHat 7.0 with all available updates.
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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From: David Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Out of primary partitions
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:36:34 +1000
Thanks very much Michael.
As it happens, I can start again on the extended partition having
emptied it first, so I don't need partition magic to extend
non-destructively. (Still thinking about getting it). After this I will
have (under DOSfdisk) only the primary DOS partition.
I will need to have both FAT32 drives and linux partitions on the
extended partition I then create. Am I better off creating this extended
partition under DOS-fdisk (on win98SEstartup disk, which I am familiar
with) or linux fdisk?
"M. Buchenrieder" wrote:
>
> David Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >I'm a low-end intermediate win98 user, total linux/unix newbie, trying
> >to set up dual boot win98SE/Red Hat 7 on single HDD (20G).
>
> First, do not expect to get used to Linux/UN*X without
> reading documentations. Lots and lots of it.
>
> >Problem: Installation from floppy starts OK (see separate question about
> >cd boot). Proceeds normally to partitioning section. Under fdisk(DOS) I
> >have primary DOS partition (2G) and extended DOS partition with 3
> >logical drives (2G + 2G + 3G) - all using FAT32.
>
> OK.
>
> >In the Disk Druid partition table this is shown as four separate
> >partitions, (hda1, 5, 6, 7). I expected to see 2 partitions (one for
> >primary DOS, another for extended DOS) but otherwise the listings are
> >the same as under DOSfdisk.
>
> There is basically no difference in primary part. vs. logical volumes.
> It's just a different name for the same thing - a partition. Due to
> the way the partition table layout has been defined decades ago, though,
> the partition table may not hold more than 4 primary partitions.
> To overcome the obvious limitation, one of these primary ones may
> be of type "extended", and then itself contain logical volumes.
> Linux' fdisk just shows you all the partitions at once. You can
> see what they are by looking at the partition numbers assigned:
> E.G. , on an IDE disk, the partition numbers will be
>
> hda1 - hda4 --- primary partitions
> hda5 - hda16 --- logical volumes
>
> This would be disk device /dev/hda , AKA the MASTER disk on your
> first IDE channel . On a SCSI disk, it would be /dev/sda, etc.
>
> >I have another 11G left unallocated by
> >DOSfdisk to put linux into. The first partition (and I think the 2nd as
> >well) are created normally, and given numbers hda3 and hda4. Any further
> >partitions (no matter what name) fail to be allocated because there are
> >no primary partitions left. Space is obviously not a problem.
>
> See above. As the partition table does only allow up to 4 entries
> for primary partitions (think of it as a strictly limited table),
> you _can't_ have more than 4 primary partitions on one disk.
>
> >I am not ready to abandon my win98 and really like having 4 drives. Also
> >to put all of this into one partition will obviously be tedious. For
> >similar reasons I want multiple (at least 5) limux partitions. I can't
> >find any mention of this problem in the major HOWTO's. Can anybody help?
>
> What you have to do is to
>
> - backup your important data on the existing logical volumes
> (just in case...)
> - get a copy of PartitionMagic 4.x or 5.x (this isn't free ,
> but it is well worth the money) and install PM in Windows
> - enlarge the existing extended partition to be including
> all the rest of the unassigned diskspace. Note: You may
> have to delete the newly created Linux partitions using
> Linux' fdisk first (they're probably still empty, anyways, unless
> you already have setup Linux there), otherwise PartitionMagic
> might not be able to enlarge the existing extended partition.
> The nice thing is that PM can do this non-destructively,
> though it may take some time to complete the process (maybe
> 10 - 20 minutes, depending from the disk size).
> - After successfully having included the unassigned space,
> boot from the Linux CD and start the installation. You may
> now safely create new logical volumes within the extended
> partition.
>
> Michael
> --
> Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
> Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
> Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: "Martin Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Swap Space
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:22:40 +0100
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
93f5ud$lv0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> HI -
>
> I was wondering how much swap space to set up
> when installing red hat linux v6. I have 128 MB
> of ram on a 400 MHz P2. I have heard to set up
> anything from 1 to 4 times the amount of physical
> memory as swap space. Also, is swap space the
> only disk space used for virtual memory? So if I
> set up 128 megs of swap space, I have only 256 MB
> of addressable memory locations? Any info and
> help is greatly appreciated
>
> thanks,
> Pete
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
I think if you take 128 MB as swap space you should
have no problems . I had and have slower computers than
you with less ram and had no problems , although i took
below 128 MB swapspace most times .
Martin
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From: Dorin Ioan MARINCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: HELP! : mysterious ext2 undeletable directory
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:38:48 GMT
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Hi!
I need help for the following problem:
Context: RH 6.2 original kernel
First symptom: ext2 root filesystem full.
I have searched for a big file (+10M).
Result: a (mysterious) junkbuster (web browsing filter) log directory:
/var/log/junkbuster : size +11M
'drwxr--r-- 2 73 73 11067392 Jan 8 14:04 junkbuster'
the directory and not the contents!!!
a 'ls' inside blocks...
a '# rm -rf /var/log/junkbuster' run in a infinite loop.
How can I remove this file?
I have tried (forced) fsck without results. No bad blocks also...
Thanks for any sugestions...
d.i.m.
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From: Hilton Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Acknowledgement please?
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:40:04 GMT
Saw your post on comp.os.linux.setup... so you are indeed sending
***[EMAIL PROTECTED]*** wrote:
> Aside from my linux woes, could someone reply to the fact that they read this
> post? I've posted several times to this group with never any response what so
> ever. I have no idea if this is getting posted. ? ?
>
> tia
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: startx doesn't start X
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:48:49 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thanks for your help gentlemen. This is what I found:-
>
> typing "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs status" returns "xfs dead but subsys locked"
>
> Typing "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start" returns " starting X font server" then
> [OK]
>
> typing "startx" returns the same error as my original posting on this
> subject.
>
> typing "df" returns
>
> Available use mounted on
>
> /dev/hda1 0 100% /
> /dev/hda6 72% /usr
> /dev/hdb1 16% /home
>
> typing "fdisk" returns:
>
> device boot start end blocks id system
> /dev/hda1 * 1 102 205600+ 83 linux
> /dev/hda2 103 1023 1856736 5 extended
> /dev/hda5 103 255 308416+ 82 linux swap
> /dev/hda6 256 1023 1548256+ 83 linux
> /dev/hdb1 1 525 4217031 83 linux
>
> I assume that this means that the root (/) partition is full and therefore
> causing the problem.
Correct assumption
> Question1: What is the recommended way of dealing with this situation?
What do you mean?
You must free up some space.
> Question 2: How do I prevent this from recurring?
You check the filling more frequently?
Probably /var/log contains a (few) large logfile(s)
xfs will not start when /tmp is filled, and as they are on the same
partition,
filling one, automatically means the other is filled too.
I'd say put /tmp and/or /var on hdb, as you have plenty of room there.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: /dev/console permissions
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:51:06 -0000
I recently upgraded my debian system and now when I log in
I don't receive ownership of /dev/console. Where is this supposed
to be handled?
-r
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From: "Zayin Krige" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Procmail
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:51:55 +0200
I have 2 people sharing one incoming account. Mail is retrieved using
fetchmail, and processed with procmail.
If the mail is addressed to either one (and only one) of the recipients it
works fine, but as soon as I include both recipients in the "TO:" line, the
first recipient in my procmailrc file receives the message twice.
What can I do to fix this?
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