Linux-Setup Digest #587, Volume #20 Thu, 8 Feb 01 03:13:05 EST
Contents:
kernel compile probs. (reebosak)
Re: gnucash/g-wrap/guile problem (Glitch)
Re: gnucash/g-wrap/guile problem (Glitch)
Invisible ".filename" files in user ftp directories (Dan Poynor)
Redhat 7.0: glibc-common = 2.2 is needed by glibc-2.2-12 ("Huy Vu")
LI .. problem ... (maher abedib)
Re: Win 95/ linux ("enness")
Can't mount Floppy or Cdrom (subuno)
Re: No sound in RedHat 7.1 (Lee Laniear)
remove LILO ? (Eric Chow)
Re: Stumped by random X freezes,slow system (Tim Roberts)
Re: weird screen after installation.... (bullwinkle)
Re: remove LILO ? (maher abedib)
Re: LI .. problem ... (maher abedib)
Re: remove LILO ? (subuno)
Re: IWILL RAID Controlloer ("Zayin Krige")
Re: What does Lilo write to boot= ? (Jeff Moore)
Re: What does Lilo write to boot= ? (Juergen Pfann)
Re: Win 95/ linux (Eric)
Re: LI .. problem ... (Eric)
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From: reebosak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel compile probs.
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 21:19:51 -0600
ok, i'm runing rh7 and i know about the probs with old gcc and the rh
kernel. i moved gcc and made a link from kgcc to gcc; still same thing
when i compile kernel [2.2.16]:
make[2]: *** [ksyms.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux/kernel'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux/kernel'
make: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2
it will compile fine if i turn off module support, but i need module
support.
has anybody seen this before? any ideas?
i can compile kernel 2.4.* just fine but i need to use 2.2.16.
thanks,
brien.
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 22:30:12 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: gnucash/g-wrap/guile problem
David wrote:
> Glitch wrote:
>
>> hello,
>>
>> does anyone have a filed called require.scm that belongs to the
>> slib/guile 1.4 package?
>>
>> I downloaded gnucash. I had to end up downloading g-wrap as well. Then I
>> got errors
>> during 'make' for g-wrap about a .scm file. I thought i had to get a new
>> version of guile as that's the package that has other scm files. I
>> downloaded guile 1.4 but I
>> still don't have the file I need to 'make' g-wrap which is needed by
>> gnucash.
>>
>> Can someone send the file to my email or tell me where I can get it
>> since it wasn't included with guile? I got other scm files in the ice-9
>> directory, which is where slib is but not require.scm.
>
>
>
> The "require.scm" file is included in the "umb-scheme" package. At least
> on redhat 6.2
thanks. I got guile compiled and g-wrap now. But stupid Gnucash can't
find g-wrap. I got it to find the g-wrap-config file but it won't file
'g-wrap',whatever that would be. I put the whole g-wrap directory from
/usr/local/ in /usr/bin/ which is in root's path but still Gnucash is
too stupid to find it.
What the hell am i supposed to do? THere isn't a configure option to
specify where g-wrap was installed and I just moved the whole damn
directory to /usr/bin.
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 22:40:04 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: gnucash/g-wrap/guile problem
David wrote:
> Glitch wrote:
>
>> hello,
>>
>> does anyone have a filed called require.scm that belongs to the
>> slib/guile 1.4 package?
>>
>> I downloaded gnucash. I had to end up downloading g-wrap as well. Then I
>> got errors
>> during 'make' for g-wrap about a .scm file. I thought i had to get a new
>> version of guile as that's the package that has other scm files. I
>> downloaded guile 1.4 but I
>> still don't have the file I need to 'make' g-wrap which is needed by
>> gnucash.
>>
>> Can someone send the file to my email or tell me where I can get it
>> since it wasn't included with guile? I got other scm files in the ice-9
>> directory, which is where slib is but not require.scm.
>
>
>
> The "require.scm" file is included in the "umb-scheme" package. At least
> on redhat 6.2
any ideas why g-wrap requires a file that needs to be within it's own
directory tree but yet isn't included? I can see if the file was like a
library that belonged in say /usr/lib but require.scm needed to be
within 2 subdirectories of the g-wrap source. Why woudlnt the authors
provide the file with the rest of the source? that is stupid.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Poynor)
Subject: Invisible ".filename" files in user ftp directories
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 19:41:23 -0800
I can't remember how I made .filename files invisible to users when they
login via ftp. Somehow I thought I was being security conscious and
avoiding questions from users who didn't really need to know they even
existed. But now I need to see the .qmail files in my personal user
directory at least when I ftp into the my server.
After going over ftpaccess and other man pages I don't think I did this via
a flag in the /etc/inetd.conf ftpd line or anything too obvious. If I
telnet in and do "ls -la" in a directory the .filename files are definitely
there.
Now how'd I do that? (Using RH6.2 and wu-ftpd)
DAN
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From: "Huy Vu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 7.0: glibc-common = 2.2 is needed by glibc-2.2-12
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 03:59:34 GMT
Hi all,
I'm trying to run the update of glibc-2.2.12.i686.rpm on my Redhat 7.0 i686
with 2.2.16-22 kernel version.
The command : 'rpm -Fvh glibc-2.2-12.i686.rpm is failed with error:
failed dependencies:
glibc-common = 2.2 is needed by glibc-2.2-12
/usr/bin/getent is needed by stunnel-3.8-4
I only found the glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm from ftp.redhat.com. I think
it's not for my i686 PC. The command 'rpm -Fvh glibc-common-2.2.12.i386.rpm'
did nothing. The command 'rpm -q glibc-common' didn't show anything.
Trying to install with 'rpm -Uvh glibc-common-2.2.12.i386.rpm', it failed
with error: failed dependencies:
glibc < 2.2-12 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2-12
The current glibc installed by default with Redhat 7.0 is glibc-2.1.92-14.
Does someone see this problem before?
Thanks in advance for any help.
DH.
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From: maher abedib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LI .. problem ...
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 12:27:24 +0800
Hi
I try to install redhat 6.2 on my 10GB hard disk.The disk is already
installed with windows 98.I have also made a 50% for windows partition
and 50% for linux partiton.But I still can load the LILO properly in
order.How do I recover this problem?
Every time I boot the machine, the LI and it start to hangs .....
thank you very much,
maher
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Which should I use, BSD or Linux?
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
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From: "enness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win 95/ linux
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 04:42:24 GMT
Here is the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda:
Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads; 63 sectors; 525 cyls
Device boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 297 1197472+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 298 525 919296 85 Linux
extended
/dev/hda5 298 357 241888+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 358 373 64488+ 82 Linux
swap
/dev/hda7 374 585 612832+ 83 Linux
I cannot mount the windows partition: I get an error
VFS: Cannot find a valid MSDOS filesystem on /dev/hda1
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> enness wrote:
> >
> > I have win 95 and linux on my hard disk and it was running well till I
did
> > some changes to partition. Now when I try to boot win 95, I get error
> > "extended partition is not bootable". I can boot from floppy and change
to
> > C, but anything I do in C:\ will give error "Invalid media type reading
> > drive c" and I am forced to Abort. Fdisk shows the partition correctly
but
> > Filesystem is shown as unknown. Scandisk does not recognize drive C:.
Linux
> > is running properly. MBR is written by Linux and I have had no problems
with
> > that.
> >
>
> post the output of `fdisk -l /dev/hda` here
>
> Eric
>
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From: subuno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't mount Floppy or Cdrom
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 03:51:41 GMT
I can't seem to mount my floppy drive or my cdrom drive. I was able to
before and am now having a problem. I am tring to go throught and
Armour my box so I may have messed something up. I have an /etc/fstab
file in place and it says that I have dev=/dev/fd0 and dev=/dev/cdrom
and it says that they are supermount. I also checked my /mount
directory and those directories are there. when I try to 'cd' to
/floppy or /cdrom the terminal locks up. I can alt+F2 to get a new
login so it dosen't lock up the whole system. I have tried to mount as
root and as a normal user and get the same results. I am having some
strange messages when I 'su' from root to a user account. I am able to
do so but I get a message that says bash: /dev/tty2: Permission denied.
Then when I sometimes get 'ls' the directory I get ls: .: Permission
denied. When I looked in the /var/messages file I see a message that
says 'end_request_: I/O Error, dev 02:00 (floppy) sector 0 . When I go
to /dev and try to 'cat fd0' I get the message back 'device not
configured'. Any help would be appriciated as I am tiring of fixing
problems more than learning how to use Linux. Yes this is also a lesson
for me to start backing up files before I make changes.
Thanks,
subuno
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From: Lee Laniear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No sound in RedHat 7.1
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 04:52:31 GMT
Kevine,
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried sndconfig, it first suggested that I
"NOT" run it in a window (but I did anyway <G>). The sndconfig
recognized the sound cardm as a Rockwell card and then said that it is
not supported. I'm wondering whether the fact that I was running
sndconfig through a window may have had anything to do with it. Here's
a slightly related question. How can I startup Linux in text mode
(ocassionally)? I tried switchdesk but it only gave me other graphical
options.
Thanks for the help,
Lee
On Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:37:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>try running "sndconfig" at the command line. it should find your card
>(and test it for you), but if it doesn't try visiting the
>manufacturer's homepage for support. my guess is, though, that
>sndconfig will find it just fine.
>
>good luck
>
>KE
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com
>http://www.deja.com/
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From: Eric Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: remove LILO ?
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 04:49:04 GMT
Hello,
Is it possible to remove LILO from other OS ?
I delete the Linux NAtive partition. And formated the hard-disk. But
when reboot, it still open the LILO, how can I disabled the LILO ?
Best regards,
Eric
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From: Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Stumped by random X freezes,slow system
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 21:08:36 -0800
Chet Vora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>... There doesn't seem to be any pattern to the freezes. The one thing worth
>mentioning is that the system seems to be using the SCSI driver for the PCI bus.
>
>Relevant o/p of dmesg:
>-------------------------
>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
>ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 2, device 0, function 0
Come on, that's silly. Your SCSI controller is a device ON your PCI bus.
That's all it means.
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- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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From: bullwinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: weird screen after installation....
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 05:30:03 -0000
Paul McCosker wrote:
>
>
> I have installed mandrake.....did everything by the book....when the
screen
> comes up i get a window in the centre which seems to be fragments of
about
> 20 similar windows. When i move the window from side to side it gets
better
> or worse until it disappears off the edge of the screen....then all looks
ok
> until i activate an icon at the bottom of the screen and up comes 20
> expanded little windows instead of one. Any help appreciated.
> I have erased mandrake and reinstalled with same problem.....
> my next idea is to erase mandrake and install red hat.....
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul McCosker.
>
>
Greetings from Bullwinlkle
>> Can you tell us what video card are you using, and what chipset does it
>> have? This seems somewhat similiar to common problems associated with
>> the SiS6326 chipset and XFree86.
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From: maher abedib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: remove LILO ?
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 14:02:38 +0800
In your dos enviroment or whatever ....
type: fdisk /mbr
maher
Eric Chow wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to remove LILO from other OS ?
> I delete the Linux NAtive partition. And formated the hard-disk. But
> when reboot, it still open the LILO, how can I disabled the LILO ?
>
--
Which should I use, BSD or Linux?
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
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From: maher abedib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LI .. problem ...
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 14:04:19 +0800
Opssssssss....actually "I still can load the LILO properly order" is
mistaken.
The correct one is I still can not load the LILO properly order.
maher
maher abedib wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I try to install redhat 6.2 on my 10GB hard disk.The disk is already
> installed with windows 98.I have also made a 50% for windows partition
> and 50% for linux partiton.But I still can load the LILO properly in
> order.How do I recover this problem?
>
> Every time I boot the machine, the LI and it start to hangs .....
>
> thank you very much,
> maher
> --
> Which should I use, BSD or Linux?
> "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
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"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
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From: subuno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: remove LILO ?
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 05:13:42 GMT
Use your windoz boot disk. When you get the A: prompt type SYS C: this
will transfer files that are necessary to boot. Then type fdisk /MBR.
It worked for me.
sub
maher abedib wrote:
>
> In your dos enviroment or whatever ....
>
> type: fdisk /mbr
>
> maher
>
> Eric Chow wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is it possible to remove LILO from other OS ?
> > I delete the Linux NAtive partition. And formated the hard-disk. But
> > when reboot, it still open the LILO, how can I disabled the LILO ?
> >
>
> --
> Which should I use, BSD or Linux?
> "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
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From: "Zayin Krige" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IWILL RAID Controlloer
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 08:24:53 +0200
sorry... they're striped... W2k sees them fine, but linux doesnt seem to
know about the hpt368 chipset... the manufacturer page has no linux support
at all
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"mst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Zayin Krige wrote:
> >
> > I've got 2x20giggers on an IWILL RAID Controller, usings RAID LEVEL 1.
The
> > iwill has an hpt366 chipset.
> >
> > Now linux detects each drive individually, on the hpt366 ide controller,
but
> > its not meant to. I can seem to get it to detect on single 40gig
drive...
> > any ideas?
> >
>
> I have no idea about the iwill controller, but just to set things
> straight, if you put 2 drives 20G each in a raid1 configuration, you
> don't get a 40G device, but a 20G mirrored one. If you want to add them
> together, use raid0 or raid-linear mode.
>
> MST
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What does Lilo write to boot= ?
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 01:02:09 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lilo does not write to /boot. It writes executable code to the boot record
of the drive you select, or master boot record of your first drive, which
ever you select. This is not a partition, but it is a program written into
the boot track of your hard disk. You can clear the master boot record in
dos by running fdisk /mbr. This will overwrite lilo and restore your dos
boot record. /boot is for mounting the initial filesystem, modules, system
map, and such.
Jeff Moore
Brian Goodyear wrote:
> Does it always write the same thing to the boot partition or whereever is
> indicated with the boot= parameter?
>
> I'm wondering cause I'm still having this LI thingie from my second Linux
> installation on drive 3 but I 'm wondering if I told it to boot from hda5
> for example if after that it would pick up the image from hdc1.
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Brian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Juergen Pfann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What does Lilo write to boot= ?
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:47:51 +0100
Jeff Moore wrote:
>
> Lilo does not write to /boot. It writes executable code to the boot record
> of the drive you select, or master boot record of your first drive, which
> ever you select. This is not a partition, but it is a program written into
> the boot track of your hard disk. You can clear the master boot record in
> dos by running fdisk /mbr. This will overwrite lilo and restore your dos
> boot record. /boot is for mounting the initial filesystem, modules, system
> map, and such.
>
Please don't mix up things !
While you are right with the fact that most distributions keep their
kernel file proper and the corresponding "System.map" in /boot, this
is OPTIONAL, and is defined in /usr/src/linux/Makefile as variable
"INSTALL_PATH". You could as well write "/" there, and a "make (b)zlilo"
make target would search for the current kernel and System.map file
in /, to back them up and to install the new ones there.
Secondly, you're right about the executable code in the MBR or
the PBR, depending of the "boot=.." option of lilo.conf.
BUT : LILO *does* normally write a file in /boot, and that file
is called simply "map" - AFAIK this really is the map of the sectors
(in CHS and/or LBA (?) notation) of the (start of the) kernel file(s)
to boot, the "other" partition boot sectors' locations etc. pp.
I realize that this file gets bigger, the more bootable systems you
add in your lilo.conf.
So, if I understand things right, the machine code in the MBR/PBR
is LILO's first stage - limited to 446 bytes. It then jumps to the
location of /boot/map, to read all configurations from that file,
and to go further to the resp. sectors according to the user's choice.
If you have several configurations in several partitions, like me,
the one with the kernel in the same /boot location is just one
of them - no more special than the others....
Juergen
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win 95/ linux
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:51:05 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
enness wrote:
>
> Here is the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads; 63 sectors; 525 cyls
>
> Device boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 297 1197472+ b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2 298 525 919296 85 Linux
> extended
> /dev/hda5 298 357 241888+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 358 373 64488+ 82 Linux
> swap
> /dev/hda7 374 585 612832+ 83 Linux
^^^^^^
I suppose this is a typo????
>
> I cannot mount the windows partition: I get an error
>
> VFS: Cannot find a valid MSDOS filesystem on /dev/hda1
>
> > >
> > > I have win 95 and linux on my hard disk and it was running well till I
> did
> > > some changes to partition. Now when I try to boot win 95, I get error
> > > "extended partition is not bootable".
Sounds like the FS on C: is gone.
try if the disc itself is still okay.
run the following command:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/null
If you get any errors, the disc has bad sectors.
Whatever happens, I hope you made a good back-up.
What did you exactly do when you made "changes" to the partition table?
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LI .. problem ...
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:54:32 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
maher abedib wrote:
>
> Opssssssss....actually "I still can load the LILO properly order" is
> mistaken.
> The correct one is I still can not load the LILO properly order.
>
> maher
>
> maher abedib wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I try to install redhat 6.2 on my 10GB hard disk.The disk is already
> > installed with windows 98.I have also made a 50% for windows partition
> > and 50% for linux partiton.But I still can load the LILO properly in
> > order.How do I recover this problem?
> >
> > Every time I boot the machine, the LI and it start to hangs .....
> >
I guess linux' /boot is above cyl. 1024.
If that's true, update lilo to a version of 21.4.3 or use a floppy to
boot linux
Eric
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