Linux-Setup Digest #531, Volume #20 Mon, 29 Jan 01 18:13:09 EST
Contents:
ECC hw support ("Plutao")
Re: ignoretest (Thomas Zajic)
Problems With Proftp ..ratio.s ("duke n maria")
daemon launch at boot time problem (Erik Leunissen)
help please ("gvary")
Re: Compiling the Kernel (James Rose)
Re: HELP: Ping Problem (James Rose)
Re: Flash disk / initrd problems *HELP PLEASE!* (Chris)
Re: dhcp delay time? ("S. Umar")
Help! Help! hard disk problems ("Alistair Bryan")
Re: Where to look (3Com 3C905c works sometimes) ("S. Umar")
linux & Btinternet ("andy.deano")
Debian linux and redhat ("GC")
LastChance!FA:IBM ThinkPad 365XD p133/24mb/1gb/cdrom/Linux +MORE!!!!!!!!! (schlomo)
Linux RH 7.0 Insstall on ATA100 & A7V ("john k")
Re: VFS messages (David)
Re: monitor won't power off after screensaver timeout? (David)
Re: ext2 filesystem corrupt (John Todd)
Installation hangs at "uncompressing linux..." ("B. Borg")
Another Lilo problem (Brian Goodyear)
Re: .XML docs, need to print them. (Bob McConnell)
Re: Debian linux and redhat (H.Bruijn)
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From: "Plutao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: ECC hw support
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:56:23 -0000
Hi,
I need a list of motherboards with chipsets supporting ECC memory, supported
by RHLinux. As far as I know, not all VIA Apollo Pro133A (694x based)
motherboards have ECC support, despite the chipset being prepared to offer
that. And the Intel latest chips lack such support... (not interested in
Rambus)
Thank's for your time,
Plutao
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: ignoretest
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:15:02 GMT
On 29/01/01, Ed Aihua Wu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> tes
Could you *please* take this crap to alt.test, where it belongs? Thanks.
Thomas
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From: "duke n maria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems With Proftp ..ratio.s
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:19:23 -0600
I Cannot get Ratios to work in proftp any one have any experience with this
program.
i uncommented
ratio on
and
anonymous 0000
filling in the 0 with different numbers
and people connecting still get leech access
thanks in advance for any help
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From: Erik Leunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: daemon launch at boot time problem
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 20:30:04 +0100
L.S.
I'm trying to launch license manager daemons (the FlexLM system) at boot
time (runlevels 2 and 3).
While I've been succesful at launching them manually after boot, the
same commands fail during boot. I'm clueless and hope that the following
description raises some ideas about the nature of the problem:
Launch sequence of two executables:
- lmgrd (the name of the main daemon) (listening at port 23456)
- lmgrd, in turn, should fire up a so called vendor daemon, in this
case: maplelmg (listening at whatever port is free)
While this works fine after boot time the following happens during boot
time:
the maplelmg daemon, invoked by lmgrd, immediately dies. Thereupon, the
calling daemon lmgrd repeatedly launches maplelmg but again it dies.
After 10 attempts, lmgrd refrains from further attempts.
Slightly modified calls to lmgrd during boot (through startproc and
nohup) do not make a difference to this behaviour.
However, a launch after boot time with 'startproc lmgrd' returns exactly
the same faulty behaviour.
I've been using:
- SuSE Linux 6.4
- on a pentium II
All executables are owned by root and thus far all invocations have been
done by root (which, for security reasons, I'm going to do differently
as soon as launching by root will have been succesful)
I'd appreciate very much some input about the possible reasons for this
kind of problem,
Thanks in advance,
Erik Leunissen.
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From: "gvary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help please
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:18:00 -0500
I just got Corel linux but my problem is when i try to install it the screen
is too large for my monitor, so im unable to see the install button. My
guess is that its something related to my video card. My card is Neomagic
256Avp.
My laptop display is 1024x768.
Can anyone help?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Rose)
Subject: Re: Compiling the Kernel
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 20:16:00 GMT
On 29 Jan 2001 13:44:37 +1100, Jimbob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Scott L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm a newbie to Linux, and I'm trying to compile 2.4.0. I took
>> instructions from Mandrake's website, and have extracted the kernel
>> source and everything, but when I input the command "make xconfig", it
>> doesn't recognize the command "make". Is there something I could be
>> doing wrong? What's wrong?
It is possible that you installed linux without installing the make
command.
make sure you have a command called make, otherwise it will never
work...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Rose)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: HELP: Ping Problem
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 20:20:56 GMT
>Have a Sparc with RedHat 6.2, IP Address 192.168.0.2, and an 800MHz AMD
>with SuSE6.4, IP Address 192.168.0.1, I can see the lights on my Routing
>box flash when I do a ping with either Linux, but I get the
>"unreachable' error?
>
>ANy ideas?
Are you sure that eth0 on both boxes are up? if there is power to the
card and and physical connection to the network (ethernet cable) then
you will see the link light and any broadcast packets on the activity
light. This is where a ping request falls.
type: ifconfig <enter>
and see what is displayed look for eth0 and an ethernet address like
you mention above.
If you do not see that,
run: ifup eth0 <enter>
and watch the messages.
Hope this helps,
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.embedded
Subject: Re: Flash disk / initrd problems *HELP PLEASE!*
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 20:23:35 +0000
Jem wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am just finishing off development of an embedded system but I'm having
> a bit of a problem with an ATA Flash disk that I'm trying to use.
> #!/bin/sash
> aliasall
>
> # This mounts the flash card into /mnt
> mount -t minix /dev/hdc1 /mnt
>
> # This is unnecessary but I'm doing it just to make sure
> mkfs.minix /dev/ram 2000
>
> # Extract the new root file system to the ram disk
> zcat /mnt/boot/rootfs.img.gz >/dev/ram
Errm.
I get the impression that /dev/ram is already
mounted at this stage, since you unmount it
later. Randomly scribbling over a mounted
filesystem (even if you are replacing it with
a new valid filesystem) sounds like a bad
move to me.
What happens if you umount /dev/ram before this
step, then remount it afterwards?
[...]
> # unmount the ram disk (as initrd will re-mount it)
> umount /dev/ram
--
Chris Lightfoot -- chris at ex dash parrot dot com -- www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/
"Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it
depends on what you put in to it." (Tom Lehrer)
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From: "S. Umar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dhcp delay time?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:19:38 -0600
Well I have an ethernet card and the network is configured since half
the time I
am connected to the network via dhcp. When I take my notebook home for
example then
I do not have a direct network connection but the networking script
still tries to
look/establish a network connection...for a number of minutes!
--
Prof. S. Umar
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235
Tel : (615) 322-2459
Fax : (615) 343-7263
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://compsci.cas.vanderbilt.edu/~umar/resu.htm
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From: "Alistair Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! Help! hard disk problems
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 20:54:37 -0000
Hi there,
I'm having problems with my machine running Suse 6.4. It has 2 Seagate hard
disks one 6.4 Gb, the other 1.2 Gb.
The 1,2 gb disk crashed the other day and I barely managed to recover some
of the files on it using e2fsck -b 8193.
The larger disk is now giving me problems. The last bootup produced an
error :-
hda: lost interupt
>From time to time the machine makes noises like the hard disk is spinning
down and then picks up again.
The large disk has 3 partitions:- win 98, a small boot partition (ext2), and
the main linux partition (approx 3 Gb - filesystem ReiserFS)
The small disk had a swap partition, a home partition and a partition with
downloaded files.
The machine is an old (approx 7 years old) Escom P75 upgraded with an
Evergreen AMD k6 400 MHz chip.
Thanks in advance
Regards
Alistair
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From: "S. Umar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Where to look (3Com 3C905c works sometimes)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:08:35 -0600
In 2.4.0 the 905C driver has been rolled into 3c59x driver....I have
been using
it for a while ( there is no 90x driver).
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Prof. S. Umar
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235
Tel : (615) 322-2459
Fax : (615) 343-7263
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://compsci.cas.vanderbilt.edu/~umar/resu.htm
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From: "andy.deano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux & Btinternet
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:29:06 -0000
Hi all
I`m quite knew to linux (i`m running m7.2)and are having problems connecting
to the internet. I recently signed up for bt surf together. I Linux i have
has far as i can tell configured kppp correctly as it will connect to
btinternet, but as soon as i run netscape or mail client it comes back with
no route host or carn`t find server. Any help would be much appreciated
Thanxs
Andy
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From: "GC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Debian linux and redhat
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:37:38 -0600
hi,
i read before taht Redhat is better for beginners and such things. what
about distributions like Debian? what is that geared for? i'm trying to get
one of the distributions, but i don't want to download for so long.
so far, i hvae used redhat 6.0 for about a month or so, and its been pretty
good. i like the RPM feature for install packages. does debian have such a
thing? w
well, any input for these 2 distributions would be great. thanks
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From: schlomo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: LastChance!FA:IBM ThinkPad 365XD p133/24mb/1gb/cdrom/Linux +MORE!!!!!!!!!
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:44:51 GMT
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11" Display
24MB Ram
1.0GB HD
Internal CD-ROM
External Floppy (IBM p/n 10h3980)
AC Adapter (IBM p/n 85G6709)
56K PCMCIA Fax/Modem
Two button mouse
External 1.0GB Sparq Drive including
removable cartridge w/ installed Linux driver
Linux Slackware 3.6 original 4 disc set included
Pre-installed software including Netscape 4.74,
Corel Wordperfect 8, and more...
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From: "john k" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux RH 7.0 Insstall on ATA100 & A7V
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:52:23 +0100
Hi folks
Subject: Install RH 7.0 on ATA100 disk on a ASUS A7V
Take a closer look at the following reference ...
http://mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hbits5.html#udma
What should I do, if I have 2 disk's mounted as/on ATA100 ???
Plz hlp me :-)
John K
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VFS messages
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:59:39 GMT
Johnny Choque wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> In /var/log/messsages (or debug) several messages like the following one
> appear:
>
> Kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64)
>
> What I should make so that those messages don't appear?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Johnny
I fixed mine with:
rpm -e magicdev
Magicdev is a daemon that runs within the GNOME environment and detects
when a CD is removed or inserted. Magicdev handles running autorun
programs on the CD, updating the File Manager and playing audio CDs.
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Completed more W/U's than 99.023% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: monitor won't power off after screensaver timeout?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:00:55 GMT
Nevin Wong wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm running RH7 on an i586, for some reason, my monitor won't power off
> after the screensaver timout (say, 5 minutes, which I set with GNOME
> control center). How can I deal with that?
man xset
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Completed more W/U's than 99.023% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Subject: Re: ext2 filesystem corrupt
Date: 29 Jan 2001 21:17:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You could attempt to force e2fsck to run, with
e2fsck -f -b 8193 /dev/hdxx
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:22:28 -0800, Ryan Lovett
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had installed linux onto the second parition of my second IDE disk
>(first partition was swap). I had also installed BeOS onto the second
>partition of my first IDE disk. Everything was groovy. Yesterday I
>installed Win98 onto the first partition of my first disk. I then tried to
>reboot into Linux, but it froze when it couldn't mount the root partition.
> I used a linux rescue disk (Toms boot floppy) and verified that the
>partition could not be mounted. e2fsck wouldn't work and suggested
>invoking 'e2fsck -b 8193' which didn't work. None of the filesystem
>utilities on the boot floppy could examine the ext2 filesystem. (The empty
>linux filesystems on my second disk were fine and could be mounted.)
> I then went into BeOS which was able to mount the ext2 filesystem! All
>my files are there. I tried copying these files off onto a new vfat
>partition or even onto the BeOS partition, but BeOS would freeze or fail
>to copy parts of large files.
> How can I rescue the linux filesystem? Are there any rescue disks
>especially good at repairing ext2 filesystems? Any help would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>Ryan
>
>PS- If this helps, here's the layout
>
>Disk one Disk two
> 10GB 45GB
>|------| |------|
>| Win98| | swap |
>|------| |------|
>| BeOS | | Linux| <- hosed in Linux, BeOS can read it (bad at copying it)
>|------| |------|
>| vfat | | ext2 | <- fine
>|------| |------|
> | ext2 | <- fine, empty
> |------|
>
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From: "B. Borg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Installation hangs at "uncompressing linux..."
Date: 29 Jan 2001 22:21:12 GMT
Reply-To: "B. Borg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hey there-
I'm trying to install linux on a box I just built, and the installation
hangs at "Uncompressing Linux..."
Hardware:
EPoX 7KXA Mobo
Athlon 800 mhz cpu
256MB pc-133 ram
seagate 30gb udma hdd
cdrw
fdd
soundblaster pci
3c509b isa nic
O/S:
RH 7 (I've also tried 5.2)
I've booted from floppy and cd, with the same results:
1. Installation menu appears
2. Choose option 1
3. Installation script loads initrd.img
4. Script loads vmlinuz.
5. Script begins to uncompress linux, then hangs ofter about 3 seconds.
Any ideas?
TIA,
Brent
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From: Brian Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Another Lilo problem
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:31:40 -0500
Lilo setup problem
From:
Brian Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
2001-01-28 10:03
Groups:
alt.os.linux.caldera
no references
Hi...Here's the setup
sda- main boot drive (os/2, windows etc)
hda5- Suse Linux
hdc1- Caldera Linux
OS/2' s Bootmanager is installed as primary bootmanager.
Entry 1 iof Bootmanager menu is Suse and 2 is Caldera.
Suse is on hda5 and from Bootmanager it fires up Lilo and it works.
Calder is on hdc1 but from Bootmanager it doesn't work.
Bootmanager is pointing to hdc1.
In desperation, I put Caldera in the Lilo menu on the Suse partition and
copiedt the bootimage to /boot of Suse's partition and this way I can
access Caldera.
Problem is that now I need to set up Win4lin on the Caldera partition but I
believe it will modify the lilo.conf there so it will never come up.
How can I get the Caldera distribution to boot from Bootmanager?
Here is the lilo.conf from Suse (the working one)
boot=/dev/hda5
vga = normal
read-only
prompt
timeout=100
disk = /dev/sda
bios = 0x80
disk = /dev/hda
bios = 0x81
disk = /dev/hdb
bios = 0x82
disk = /dev/hdc
bios = 0x83
default=caldera
#Added by TreLOS for Win4Lin kernel
image = /boot/win4lin
label = win4lin
root = /dev/hda5
# Caldera
image = /boot/vmlinuz-pc97-2.2.14-modular
label = caldera
root = /dev/hdc1
And here is the one on Calder;s partition which doesn't work (comes up with
the LI and hangs):
boot=/dev/hdc
timeout=250
default=linux
vga=normal
disk = /dev/sda
bios = 0x80
disk = /dev/hda
bios = 0x81
disk = /dev/hdb
bios = 0x82
disk = /dev/hdc
bios = 0x83
image = /boot/vmlinuz-pc97-2.2.14-modular
label = linux
root = /dev/hdc1
Any ideas?
Brian
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Thanks,
Brian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Bob McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: .XML docs, need to print them.
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:54:12 GMT
IE 5 or later, Netscape 5 or later, maybe Opera? If the XML file is
valid, all of them should be able to render it readable and printable.
Now if you want it validated, that may take a little more effort.
Bob McConnell
N2SPP
On 29 Jan 2001 0:6:4 -0500, "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi all;
>
>The new bind 9.1.0 has its main docs in .XML format. Is there any way I
>can get it onto paper, preferably in duplex like acrobat4 can do for
>.pdf's?
>
>I tried doing a search for 'xml' on freshmeat and got nearly 300 hits,
>but scanning that list didn't make me pick out the right 'interpreter'
>for XML.
>
>Is there a prefered convertor/print tool for this?
>
>Cheers, Gene
>--
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> email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: Debian linux and redhat
Date: 29 Jan 2001 23:09:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:37:38 -0600, GC allegedly wrote:
>hi,
>
>i read before taht Redhat is better for beginners and such things. what
>about distributions like Debian? what is that geared for? i'm trying to get
>one of the distributions, but i don't want to download for so long.
>
>so far, i hvae used redhat 6.0 for about a month or so, and its been pretty
>good. i like the RPM feature for install packages. does debian have such a
>thing? w
>
>well, any input for these 2 distributions would be great. thanks
First, the lack of capitols ought to become a capitol offense.
Well a good start would be the distribtion Howto.
http://www.hermanbruijn.com/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Distribution-HOWTO.html
If you don't want to donload; buy a cd with a distribution, or go to your
local bookstore and purchase a good book with cd's with the linux
distribution you want.
http://www.cheapbytes.com has very cheap cd's.
The most basic utillities for debian are only 14 MB and then you can
skip the remainder of the installation procedure. Then use the apt-get
utility to download and install only those packages you want. That way
you avoid all problems with installing stuff you don't use.
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