Linux-Setup Digest #682, Volume #20 Wed, 21 Feb 01 21:13:14 EST
Contents:
Re: Modem -- lights flash but no-ones in... Cont... (Linus)
mount can't find hda1 (Marc Ulrich)
Re: mount can't find hda1 (H.Bruijn)
Shutdown hangs ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Re: Boot from NT boot loader (delete-me)
Can't get dot matrix printer to print ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What's the best way???--installing 2.0 and IDLE on RH 7 (Chris Nelson)
linux booting problem ("X.P. Wei")
Re: hangs on verifying dmi pool with hard drive ("Dave Thompson")
Re: LILO, boot problems (Vlar Schreidlocke)
Re: linux booting problem (David)
Re: mount can't find hda1 (Gregory Davis)
Re: help with SOffice please (Gregory Davis)
mounting udf cds as nonroot (Gregory Davis)
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From: Linus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Modem -- lights flash but no-ones in... Cont...
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 00:01:40 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You are almost there. kppp->Setup->Modem->"Query Modem"
> Does it find your modem and respond back?
> If it does, click on Terminal and try "ATDT123-4567" and see it dials.
> If it does, click on "Modem Commands" LOOK HARD AT "DIAL STRING".
> It should say "ATDT"
> If everything is in place you should be able to dial out using kppp.
No I'm not, it seems. In fact, I'm not all there!?! ;-)
However, the terminal in kppp works. When I Query the modem in kppp it
appears to find the modem but it looks like the modem's not reponding
after its been found.
Yast can't do it either. But I think I'm runnign Yast v1 (I just type
"yast" after logging in) and not yast 2. I can't run it from the CD
because it won't boot from the CD (I can't change the "boot" sequence
the bios, as it only gives me a choice of C then A, or A then C) so I
have to use a floppy.
wvdial doesn't wanna know and nothing in else will get any response in
yast. It just witters on about about me being the problem not it; like
have I got the correct port set? Well how come the terminal in kppp can
find, eh?
Funny, though I managed to install MySQL and get it working. I even
created a table. I got a tip lurking about from somebody else's
problem... The thing is I'm not sure what exactly I did ;-7)
I'm thinking of returning to psychotherapy...
Linus
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Linus
London UK
Beige G3 266 DT Mac OS 8.6
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http://pages.britishlibrary.net/linusrees
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From: Marc Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mount can't find hda1
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:42:22 -0500
Well I can't find the answer. Perhaps someone will know. I have linux on
hda3 and win2000 on hda1. Lilo can boot the win2000, but I cannot mount
the win2000 partition. The mount command gives the following error:
mount: /dev/hda1 has wrong major or minor number.
The source of this error will probably tell an experienced user what to
do. I think I'm looking in the right direction but I am not sure what to
do. The source: This computer uses a Promise PCI IDE controller. To get
linux on the system and using the controller, I put the harddrive on the
motherboard IDE, installed linux 2.2.16. Then I compiled the 2.4.1
kernel with the Promise PCI IDE support and told it to look for the PCI
IDE before the motherboard. (That should result in the harddrive being
hda when on the PCI IDE instead of hde.) After compiling the kernel and
editing lilo, I shut down, switch the harddrive to the PCI IDE and
reboot. It works -- except for that mounting problem and the following:
NFS lockd: lockdsvc: Invalid Argument [FAILED].
I think there's something like fstab that I must edit to fix these
things, but I am not sure.
Does someone know?
Oh -- cat /proc/pci gives me the following information:
I/O at 0x1188 [0x118f]
0x1194 [0x1197]
0x1180 [0x1187]
0x1190 [0x1193]
0x1100 [0x113f]
Thanks for any help,
Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: mount can't find hda1
Date: 22 Feb 2001 00:29:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:42:22 -0500, Marc Ulrich allegedly wrote:
>Well I can't find the answer. Perhaps someone will know. I have linux on
>hda3 and win2000 on hda1. Lilo can boot the win2000, but I cannot mount
>the win2000 partition. The mount command gives the following error:
>
>mount: /dev/hda1 has wrong major or minor number.
ls -l /dev/hda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 Feb 23 1999 /dev/hda1
date/group may be different, but 3, 1 should be identical.
>The source of this error will probably tell an experienced user what to
>do. I think I'm looking in the right direction but I am not sure what to
>do. The source: This computer uses a Promise PCI IDE controller. To get
>linux on the system and using the controller, I put the harddrive on the
>motherboard IDE, installed linux 2.2.16. Then I compiled the 2.4.1
>kernel with the Promise PCI IDE support and told it to look for the PCI
>IDE before the motherboard. (That should result in the harddrive being
>hda when on the PCI IDE instead of hde.) After compiling the kernel and
>editing lilo, I shut down, switch the harddrive to the PCI IDE and
>reboot. It works -- except for that mounting problem and the following:
>
>NFS lockd: lockdsvc: Invalid Argument [FAILED].
NFS is the network fileSystem, a way to accesfilesystems/directories
accross a network. Such an error shouldn't appear when mounting local
drives.
What are the entries of /etc/fstab?
>I think there's something like fstab that I must edit to fix these
>things, but I am not sure.
What are the entries of /etc/fstab?
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Subject: Shutdown hangs
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 01 00:30:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm running SuSE-6.3 on my PC with kernel version 2.2.18 and have
enjoyed troublefree performance until a few days ago, when the
"shutdown" process ceased to work. After the customary lines
URGENT: broadcast message from root:
System going down IMMEDIAETLY!
... for maintenance; bounce, bounce...
that appear on the console after invoking "halt", "reboot" or
"shutdown -h now", the following message is now added:
Sending SIGTERM to mortals...
This line is repeated once again after some minutes, but nothing more
happens.
The only solution is to use the reset button (or power down).
On reboot, everything works normally (after the inevitable partition
checks) until it's time to shutdown or reboot again.
Any help will be gratefully received!
TIA
--
Robin Cosby
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From: delete-me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Boot from NT boot loader
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:31:51 +0100
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:37:45 +0800, "news.hk.super.net"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am using Acer notebook Travelmate 350TE (PIII 600, 192M RAM, 10G HD). I
>have create 4 primary partition.
>
>1st (3G), 2nd (2G) are in NTFS
>3nd (3G) is the root partition and 4th (1G) is the swap space.
>
>After installing the Redhat 7.0 on 3rd partition, it can successfully boot
>from floppy. When I try to make linux boot from NT boot loader by
>#dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/bootsec.lnx bs=512 count=1
>
>I find the content of bootsec.lnx is all zero (using hexdump). What's wrong
>with that ?
>
>I have try using that bootsec.lnx and boot from NT boot loader but
>unsuccessful
>
>Thanks
>
>John
John,
Step 1: Confirm where Linux is installed.Type
mount
You should see something like:
/dev/hda3 on / type ext2 (rw)
If this does not match, then for all further parts of my instructions,
substitute the drive you have installed to in place of /dev/hda3
Step 2: Confirm where lilo will attempt to write the boot sector. If
you type
head /etc/lilo.conf
You should see something like:
boot=/dev/hda3
If you see something different, then the dd command you typed will
never work - change the boot instruction to write to the partition
where Linux is installed.
Step 3: Run lilo
This should be fairly instantaneous.
Step 4: Re-run the dd command you typed before.
This should get you a valid bootsector
***
Note: If you ever change your boot images (e.g compiling or upgrading
your kernel), then you must re-run lilo and re-copy the boot image to
the NT system.
I have my system set up so that the lilo command is an alias that
calls the original lilo then runs the dd command for me automatically
(yes, I have forgotten to do it too many times, with bad
consequences).
I believe you should also be able to run the dd command with the input
as your floppy drive - I have never done this, so I cannot offer any
suggestions beyond the obvious:
dd if=/dev/fd0H1440 of=/bootsec.lnx bs=512 count=1
Good luck.
Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can't get dot matrix printer to print
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 00:44:33 GMT
I am getting somewhere. I now have sound and a high res screen to
look at. But no printer. I have RH 6.1 and a Star nx1000 printer set
up for Epson 9 pin b&w. From printtool I can print both an ascii & a
postscript test page. From any application or command line I get
'unknown printer'. Below is what /etc/printcap looks like, I had to
write it all down and type it in here so hope I didn't make a mistake.
printtool 3 local Epson 60x60 letter {} Epson 9 default {}
Star:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
I have no idea if this is correct. Any help is appreciated. Thanx.
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From: Chris Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
Subject: What's the best way???--installing 2.0 and IDLE on RH 7
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 00:44:39 GMT
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Well, my first attempt has landed me one buggered up system...
I need to rebuild my linux box anyways so this serves as good reason.
What I want to do is have BeOpen python 2.0 work with IDLE..
My last attempt always had IDLE running with 1.5.2
Before I go installing I need to know...
Should I install the 8.3 versions of tcl and tk that come with RedHat
as well as the 1.5.2 version of TKinter? (The one listed with the Python
2.0 is also newer)
when I did this last time and then installed BeOpen 2.0 the RPM
complained about needing the libraries from 8.0 tcl and tk.....
What is the best way to proceed? RPM's makefiles please help!!!
Many thanks,
Chris
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From: "X.P. Wei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux booting problem
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:54:51 -0800
Reply-To: "X.P. Wei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
I had a linux computer running RedHat 6.2. I tried to install a tape driver
a couple of days ago, but did not succeed.
After that I had problem booting the compuer. It always failed at file
system check and the error message is as follows:
" Checking filesystems
fsck.ext2 could this be a zero-length partition?
:Attempt to read block from file system resulted in short read while
trying to open /dev/st0( might be the tape driver)
/dev//hda1: clean, 24/6024 files,3256/24066 blocks
[FAILED]
*** An error occured during the file system check."
I was then put into a shell mode, but I could not startx X and network
connection was lost. The "/boot"
was empty the first time when the problem occured. I tried to restore the
"/boot" directory by re-compiling and
installing the kernel. However, the same thing happened everytime I boot
the computer.
What's the problem and how would I be able to fix it?
Thanks.
X. Wei
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Reply-To: "Dave Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Dave Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hangs on verifying dmi pool with hard drive
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 01:00:42 GMT
Nope. it's linux all the way. one hard drive, two partitions on it (root
and swap).
Dave
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO, boot problems
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 00:51:51 GMT
I meant to say that the computer won't boot from the hard disk. It
will boot from the floppy and then the boot continues from the hard
disk and everything runs fine after that. The computer has booted from
the hard disk when I first installed linux. LILO came up just fine.
I'm not sure if I changed something in lilo.conf or what.
I tried manually entering the CHS info from dmesg into "user" in the
BIOS setup. When I did that I at least got to "LI" and beeped
continuously.
What can I do to fix this? Also, is there a way to start from a floppy
and have the "ether=5,0x280,eth0 ether=4,0x300,eth1" parameters
entered automatically?
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 22:36:18 GMT, "Peter T. Breuer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I recently recompiled 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
>
>It can find it just fine .. when you choose to compile a driver for the
>controller into it.
>
>Peter
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux booting problem
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 01:45:16 GMT
"X.P. Wei" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I had a linux computer running RedHat 6.2. I tried to install a tape driver
> a couple of days ago, but did not succeed.
> After that I had problem booting the compuer. It always failed at file
> system check and the error message is as follows:
> " Checking filesystems
> fsck.ext2 could this be a zero-length partition?
> :Attempt to read block from file system resulted in short read while
> trying to open /dev/st0( might be the tape driver)
> /dev//hda1: clean, 24/6024 files,3256/24066 blocks
> [FAILED]
> *** An error occured during the file system check."
>
> I was then put into a shell mode, but I could not startx X and network
> connection was lost. The "/boot"
> was empty the first time when the problem occured. I tried to restore the
> "/boot" directory by re-compiling and
> installing the kernel. However, the same thing happened everytime I boot
> the computer.
>
> What's the problem and how would I be able to fix it?
:Attempt to read block from file system resulted in short read while
trying to open /dev/st0( might be the tape driver)
It is trying to read the tape drive at boot time. You don't mount a tape
drive. If you added any lines to /etc/fstab for the tape drive you need
to remove them.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 99.078% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: Gregory Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mount can't find hda1
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:48:46 -0500
Marc Ulrich wrote:
> Well I can't find the answer. Perhaps someone will know. I have linux on
> hda3 and win2000 on hda1. Lilo can boot the win2000, but I cannot mount
> the win2000 partition. The mount command gives the following error:
>
> mount: /dev/hda1 has wrong major or minor number.
>
> The source of this error will probably tell an experienced user what to
> do. I think I'm looking in the right direction but I am not sure what to
> do. The source: This computer uses a Promise PCI IDE controller. To get
> linux on the system and using the controller, I put the harddrive on the
> motherboard IDE, installed linux 2.2.16. Then I compiled the 2.4.1
> kernel with the Promise PCI IDE support and told it to look for the PCI
> IDE before the motherboard. (That should result in the harddrive being
> hda when on the PCI IDE instead of hde.) After compiling the kernel and
> editing lilo, I shut down, switch the harddrive to the PCI IDE and
> reboot. It works -- except for that mounting problem and the following:
>
> NFS lockd: lockdsvc: Invalid Argument [FAILED].
>
> I think there's something like fstab that I must edit to fix these
> things, but I am not sure.
>
> Does someone know?
> Oh -- cat /proc/pci gives me the following information:
> I/O at 0x1188 [0x118f]
> 0x1194 [0x1197]
> 0x1180 [0x1187]
> 0x1190 [0x1193]
> 0x1100 [0x113f]
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Marc
aside from posting a copy of fstab, how about /proc/filsystems ?
Greg
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From: Gregory Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with SOffice please
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:53:56 -0500
Brian wrote:
> Hi: downloaded so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin from www.sun.com and set to
> installing.
> chmod 777 so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin
> Became root, went to Desktop, typed so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin: bad command.
> Three or four times, still 'bad command'. Went back into KDE (I have
> Mandrake 7.2) opened Konqeror clicked on the file, nothing happens. So just
> as I was giving up sudden frantic hard disk activity starts. Lasts for TWO
> hours with everything else frozen, no mouse, no console, no screen refresh,
> just mad hard disk working away. Two hours later hd stops, screen never
> recovers, go into console mode, reboot and now it won't start KDE. Gets to
> the prompt, I enter and if I say 'startx' (which I didn't used to have to
> do, straight to KDE) I get this error:
> XKEYBOARD reports - error: bad length in Symbols
> Output file /var/tmp/server-0.xkm removed.
> Couldn't load XKE keymap
> FontFrameSocked UNIX connect
> Can't connect errno: 111
> Failed to set default font path 'unix /i -1'
> Couldn't open default font "fixed"
> I'm too new to have a clue. It seems to have put lots of new directories
> called Office here and there in the file system, but I can't figure out
> what's wrong and how to fix it. Help please.
> Brian
Maybe you corrupted the binary during the download, rename the file to *.old or
*.bak and redownload the binary. Then, simply in Konqueror, or kfm, or
whatever, right click the binary to open its properties. You can click-change
the permissions there for one file easier than using chmod at the prompt. Set
execute for user, group, and others just for now. After you changed the
permission click on the file, and wait a couple minutes for it to load; it does
take a while for the install program to load.
Greg
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From: Gregory Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: mounting udf cds as nonroot
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:05:03 -0500
I made a post a few weeks ago (maybe) about not being able to mount a
udf disk as a user. I thought the solution lay in upgrading my version
of utils-linux to the version required by kernel 2.4.1, i upgraded that
and still no dice. This is the output directly from console (no kde gui
or anything):
greg@linux:~ > mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom -t udf
mount: only root can do that
greg@linux:~ >
If it helps, I will tack on my fstab and filesystems files, but I have
pored over them, and I am almost positive that they are correct. I can
mount the a udf cd as root successfully. What's up???
Greg
fstab:
/dev/hda1 /windows vfat noauto,users 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext2
defaults 1 1
/dev/hda4 /boot ext2 defaults
1 2
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0
2
/dev/hda5 /home ext2 defaults 1
2
proc /proc proc
defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom auto ro,users,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /burner auto ro,users,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,users 0
0
filesystems:
nodev sockfs
nodev shm
nodev pipefs
nodev proc
ext2
minix
vfat
iso9660
udf
nodev autofs
nodev devpts
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