Linux-Setup Digest #676, Volume #20 Tue, 20 Feb 01 22:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: "xterm -fa courier" doesn't work under XFree 4.0.2 (Bit Twister)
pls Help with telnet......? (uttam)
SW processes don't finish, HELP!!! ("andres mackiewicz")
Can't get Xwin to run, problem with (V41) Please help! ("Chig")
After running LILO linux doesn't find the boot drive anymore (Vlar Schreidlocke)
Re: 7.0 to 7.2 Mandrake Upgrade Qs ("Alexander V. Voinov")
Re: pls Help with telnet......? ("Paul R. Woods")
Error when mounting SCSI ZIP Disk ("Jared R. Jones")
Re: pls Help with telnet......? (Dean Thompson)
Re: isa modem setup ("Rich Torti")
Re: how to set up a network printer (Mark Post)
Re: Trouble with cron ("tonygroff")
1st install on Linux (RH 7.0) I hit a snaggg !!! (Chris Nelson)
Re: Error when mounting SCSI ZIP Disk (Travis Casey)
Re: Can't get Xwin to run, problem with (V41) Please help! ("Cameron Kerr")
Re: SW processes don't finish, HELP!!! ("Cameron Kerr")
Re: 1st install on Linux (RH 7.0) I hit a snaggg !!! ("bowman")
Re: Forgot root Password, HelP ("David K. Means")
Re: Slackware 7.1 install problem ("Cameron Kerr")
Re: kernel patch for UDMA 100 card ("Cameron Kerr")
Cups Printing Problems (Jim Bradley)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: "xterm -fa courier" doesn't work under XFree 4.0.2
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:34:34 GMT
Hummm, I did a man xterm and did not see the -fa switch.
Should that be -fn for font name.
xlsfonts will give you the name of the fonts you can use.
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:58:11 +0100, Serge Eric Thiam Nkuiguieng
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I got the source for XFree86-4.0.2-6mdk.src.rpm, made sure that
> "#define FreeType2 /usr"
>was set in the "config/cf/host.def" file and succesfully recompile X.
>I installed it but when I tried to use xterm with the anti-aliased fonts
>with the command:
> "xterm -fa courier"
>I get the error message: (or somthing like this)
> "extension "RENDER" no availble on display :0.0"
>What am I doing wrong?
>I read in the newsgroups and dejanews that the anti-aliased fonts were
>disable by default in X and I just needed to get the source, set the
>#define as above and recompile; but it doesn't seem to work for me?
>
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If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
Do a, man command_here or cat command_here, before using it.
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:11:08 -0500
From: uttam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,linux.dev.net,redhat.config,redhat.general,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: pls Help with telnet......?
Folks,
I have a machine in which Linux is setup. I am able to telnet from
my linux maching...but I am not able to telnet into the machine...I am
on DNS server. we have static IP address.
I check /etc/services,/etc/resolve.com,/etc/inetd.conf....everything
looks fine..I check even tcp deamon is working....
Please let me know what I need to do to make my telnet servces up.
Thanks in Advance...
Uttam
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "andres mackiewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SW processes don't finish, HELP!!!
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:39:41 -0300
I have a Perl program that creates parallel processes.
During its execution some of these processes get the "SW" state, what I see
executing the "ps" command.
Most times, after being a while in this state, the processes return to their
normal execution, but sometimes one of them remains in "SW" state forever
(this is, more than 12 hours when the normal duration is about 1 hour),
having to terminate it with the "kill" command.
I'd like to know why a process can get this state, how to avoid it or taking
it out from such state.
Thanks so much...
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From: "Chig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't get Xwin to run, problem with (V41) Please help!
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:41:12 GMT
Please, Please, Please, can anyone tell me why my X windows system isn't
workin,all i get is the following error log, I've had problems with my
ATA100 HD
controler,and it's taken me 2 months to get this far, now i can't get X
windows to
start. I'm sure i've got all of the settings for my monitor and graphics
card right, below is the bit of the error log that has the problem, but what
can i do about it? Should i try and reinstall Xwindows???
Cherz
-Chig
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) Loading extension XIE
(II) LoadModule: "v4l"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module v4l
(II) UnloadModule: "v4l"
(EE) Failed to load module "v4l" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) LoadModule: "nv"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nv_drv.o
(II) Module nv: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.0.1a, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.2
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o
(II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.0.1a, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver
ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.1
(II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA128, RIVATNT, RIVATNT2,
RIVATNT2 (Ultra), RIVATNT2 (Vanta), RIVATNT2 M64,
RIVATNT2 (Integrated), GeForce 256, GeForce DDR, Quadro, GeForce 2
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
Please reports problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: After running LILO linux doesn't find the boot drive anymore
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:01:14 GMT
I recently recompiles a kernel and after running LILO my computer can
no longer find the hard disk. I am running Mandrake 7.2. When I do an
install/upgrade it can find my hard drive again. What do I need to do
to avoid problems like this in the future? I have a 20GB Western
Digital drive on an oldeer Dell P90 with an updated BIOS that allow
the drive to be seen. It is set up as LBA I believe.
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 17:18:26 -0800
From: "Alexander V. Voinov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 7.0 to 7.2 Mandrake Upgrade Qs
Hi Brian,
"Brian E. Parker" wrote:
> >
> > Can you DL individual packages? If so, what would be a good FTP site for
> > this?
Yes, you can. Main Mandrake site lists mirrors, which you can try.
> Side note - I know where to get qt-devel for 7.2 (
> qt-devel-1.44-28mdk.i586.rpm ). Will this one work
Extremely unlikely, unless you download an src.rpm and rebuild it
locally.
> or do I need to find the
> one that was shipped with 7.0?
This is better.
> Also, I see this on the ftp site: qt2-devel-2.2.1-3mdk.i586.rpm
>
> Is this a newer version that I should install instead?
My feeling is that a program, developed for 1.44 will have problems
compiling with 2.2. You have, in general, to _port_ it to such a new
version.
WBR
Alexander
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From: "Paul R. Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pls Help with telnet......?
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 17:30:51 -0800
Check your /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure for hints, like a
statement about a telnet connection refused. Also, check your
/etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny that they will allow connections.
--
P. R. Woods
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From: "Jared R. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Error when mounting SCSI ZIP Disk
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:43:20 -0500
==============970291831BFFA8701F03C09D
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello,
I have several ZIP disks that I use with Win98. I have an
IOMEGA ZIP-100 SCSI drive on RedHat 6.2, Kernel 2.4.1. I have a
symbolic link /dev/zip which points to /dev/sdc4. I tried mounting as
root both the link and the real device with types msdos, and vfat. Any
help would be appreciated! Thanks.
Jared
==============970291831BFFA8701F03C09D
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-15
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Hello,
<p> I have several ZIP disks that I use
with Win98. I have an IOMEGA ZIP-100 SCSI drive on
RedHat 6.2, Kernel 2.4.1. I have a symbolic link <i>/dev/zip</i>
which points to <i>/dev/sdc4</i>. I tried mounting as root both
the link and the real device with types <i>msdos</i>, and <i>vfat</i>.
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.
<p>Jared
<br> </html>
==============970291831BFFA8701F03C09D==
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,linux.dev.net,redhat.config,redhat.general,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: pls Help with telnet......?
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:56:09 +1100
Hi Uttam,
> I have a machine in which Linux is setup. I am able to telnet from
> my linux maching...but I am not able to telnet into the machine...I am
> on DNS server. we have static IP address.
>
> I check /etc/services,/etc/resolve.com,/etc/inetd.conf....everything
> looks fine..I check even tcp deamon is working....
>
> Please let me know what I need to do to make my telnet servces up.
Have you actually got your telnet-server daemon loaded onto your system. If
you try telnet back to your own host: "telnet localhost" or "telnet
127.0.0.1", do you get a connect message or do you get a connection refused.
If you get a connection refused message, it would indicate to me that the
telnet server has not been loaded onto the system. It all stems back to what
sort of option you selected when you did your install: "a workstation, a
server, a gnome workstatation or custom".
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: "Rich Torti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: isa modem setup
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:01:49 -0600
Use
pnpdump > isapnp.conf
You will then need to edit the isapnp.conf file to reflect the configuration
you need.
Next run
isapnp isapnp.conf
Good luck, Rich
"Ninja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:96um7s$9lr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a usrobotics 56k fax int modem installed in an isa slot and am
trying
> to get it working.
> I cannot find it using statserial /dev/... though when i use pnpdump it
> comes up with an output about the modem but i dont know how to use isapnp
> can someone help me please
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Subject: Re: how to set up a network printer
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 02:21:14 GMT
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:25:29 -0800, Yongsheng Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I set up a network printer by using control-panel tool. Later on when I
>checked /etc/printcap, it appeared as following:
> ##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE ljet4 300x300 letter {} LaserJet4 Default {}
>is01:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/is01:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:\
> :rm=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:\
> :rp=raw:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/is01/filter:
Adding
:lp=/dev/null:
to the printcap entry will probably help.
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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Reply-To: "tonygroff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "tonygroff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trouble with cron
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 07:01:28 -0600
You have to tell cron what user to run it as, and how to run it. Try
adding 'root' and '/bin/sh':
0,30 * * * * root /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/webalizer
That should do it.
Tony G.
"Doug Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am running RH7 with 2.2.18 kernel. I am trying to run webalizer
at
> the top and hlafway through the hour. Here is what is in my
crontab:
>
> 0,30 * * * * /usr/local/bin/webalizer
>
> It doesn't seem to be running though. If I manually run webalizer,
it
> works fine. I have been running this on another RH7 machine and
cron
> has been working fine.
>
> Is there something I should be looking for? (and yes, crond is
> running)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug
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From: Chris Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.python,alt.os.linux
Subject: 1st install on Linux (RH 7.0) I hit a snaggg !!!
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 02:30:19 GMT
Hello I've been using BeOpen python on Windows for a while now. I have
converted one of my home systems over to RedHat 7.0. I installed the
actual 2.0 rpm just fine. However..when I tried to install
Tkinter-2.0-8.0-3.i386.rpm I get the following errors
"Tkinter-2.0-8.0-3 requires libtcl8.0.so"
"Tkinter-2.0-8.0-3 requires libtk8.0.so"
I thought that TCL/TK was installed
I show the following RPMs as beeing installed...
tksysv 1.3-2
tcl 8.3.1-46
tcl 8.2.0-46
tk 8.3.1-46
tkinter 1.5.2-27
BeOpenPython 2.0
tcllib.0.4-46
What am I missing?
Also...How do I access the IDLE in Linux??
Many thanks,
Chris
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From: Travis Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error when mounting SCSI ZIP Disk
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 02:38:24 GMT
Jared R. Jones wrote:
> I have several ZIP disks that I use with Win98. I have an
> IOMEGA ZIP-100 SCSI drive on RedHat 6.2, Kernel 2.4.1. I have a
> symbolic link /dev/zip which points to /dev/sdc4. I tried mounting as
> root both the link and the real device with types msdos, and vfat. Any
> help would be appreciated! Thanks.
What's the actual error that you're getting?
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From: "Cameron Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't get Xwin to run, problem with (V41) Please help!
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:42:40 +1300
In article <I8Ek6.3186$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chig"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server
> Extension, version 0.1
> (II) Loading extension XIE
> (II) LoadModule: "v4l"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module v4l
> (II) UnloadModule: "v4l"
> (EE) Failed to load module "v4l" (module does not exist, 0)
> (II) LoadModule: "nv"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nv_drv.o
> (II) Module nv: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> compiled for 4.0.1a, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Video
> Driver ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.2
> (II) LoadModule: "mouse"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o
> (II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> compiled for 4.0.1a, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86
> XInput Driver ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.1
> (II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA128, RIVATNT, RIVATNT2,
> RIVATNT2 (Ultra), RIVATNT2 (Vanta), RIVATNT2 M64, RIVATNT2
> (Integrated), GeForce 256, GeForce DDR, Quadro, GeForce 2
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
> (EE) No devices detected.
>
> Fatal server error: no screens found
It would seem you don't have a card that the nv driver supports.
I notice that your are running 4.0.1a (aplha?). You might like to upgrade
to the lastest stable server.
What kind of graphics/video card do you have?
-- Cameron Kerr
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From: "Cameron Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SW processes don't finish, HELP!!!
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:46:52 +1300
In article <96u62i$tbq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "andres mackiewicz"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Perl program that creates parallel processes. During its
> execution some of these processes get the "SW" state, what I see
> executing the "ps" command. Most times, after being a while in this
> state, the processes return to their normal execution, but sometimes one
> of them remains in "SW" state forever
> (this is, more than 12 hours when the normal duration is about 1 hour),
> having to terminate it with the "kill" command.
>
> I'd like to know why a process can get this state, how to avoid it or
> taking it out from such state.
>
> Thanks so much...
S means sleeping
W means it is without a resident page (probably means it's a thread, or
something)
Therefore, it would seem that you have a deadlock somewhere in you code.
Check your synchronisation code.
HIH -- Cameron Kerr
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From: "bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.python,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: 1st install on Linux (RH 7.0) I hit a snaggg !!!
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:53:46 -0700
Chris Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Tkinter-2.0-8.0-3 requires libtcl8.0.so"
> "Tkinter-2.0-8.0-3 requires libtk8.0.so"
> I show the following RPMs as beeing installed...
> tcl 8.3.1-46
> tcl 8.2.0-46
> tk 8.3.1-46
welcome to rpm hell. tcl8.0 is not tcl8.3. unless you have some
dependencies, you might remove the 8.3 rpms and install 8.0. I don't know if
the problems were resolved, but there were some issues with 8.3 that caused
people building packages that required tcl/tk to revert back to 8.0. rpm's
are fine things, but they imply your machine has all the bits and pieces
that the build machine had, which is not always the case.
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From: "David K. Means" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,linux.dev.net,redhat.config,redhat.general,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Forgot root Password, HelP
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:11:36 -0800
"James M. Wadkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just biult my RH6.2 Server a couple of wweks ago, then I went on
> vacation, noe I cannot remember my root password. Is their a way to
> change it short of doing an upgrade install of the same version?
> --
Yah shore, you betcha.
At the console, boot the Linux box with the command
LILO boot: linux single
This should get you a command-line prompt logged in as root.
Then you can just say
#passwd root
New UNIX password:
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From: "Cameron Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Slackware 7.1 install problem
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:00:56 +1300
In article <96uhtu$n52$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Eric Ho"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have moved the 13G Linux drive the primary-slave, everything is
> working fine now, thanks a lot.
>
> Best Regards, Eric Ho
Ahhh, how I love that warm tingly feeling of spreading knowledge
Yeh, bring em on -- Cameron Kerr
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From: "Cameron Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel patch for UDMA 100 card
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:03:30 +1300
In article <96u40c$2sm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Marc Ulrich"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This info did it! It isn't perfect yet though. I'll ask another question
> or two in this newsgroup if I can't find anything via the web.
>
> I downloaded & compiled kernel 2.4.1 using Joshua Go's instructions I
> found on the web. Sure enough, I found the Promise controller there.
> There was the option of checking the PCI IDE before the onboard so that
> when I switched the harddrive to the promise controller, it remained
> hda. So, fstab is fine -- I think.
>
> There was one problem in the middle that confused me. Linux is on hda3,
> and windows2000 is on hda1. After the switch, linux could not mound hda1
> saying there was a problem with it -- I forget exactly. I'm in
> windows2000 now, so it isn't a problem at boot time.
>
> Thanks again, Marc
AFAIK Linux cannot yet read NTFS5 filesystems, which is what Win2000
uses.
HIH -- Cameron Kerr
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From: Jim Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cups Printing Problems
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:09:39 -0600
I have recently installed the CUPS printing demon over LPD. When
printing with lpr/lpd, a page sent to my postscript laser printer was
ejected after printing. With CUPS, the page is not ejected, and I can't
find anywhere to change a setting to enable it to do so. Does anyone
know of how to setup CUPS to eject a page after printing?? Thanks.
Jim Bradley -- Maryville, MO USA
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