Linux-Setup Digest #803, Volume #20 Sun, 11 Mar 01 09:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: boot's fsck skips / -- severe problems (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: help: - clicks & pauses in sound (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: What is this RPM... in linux?? (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Opera Re: A Better Web Browser...PLEASE! (Steve Withers)
Re: DNS questions... (Steve Martin)
Re: mounting a FreeBSD Partition? (Steve Martin)
Windows 2000 -> Linux shares ("Leejen")
Re: A Better Web Browser...PLEASE! (Rick)
Re: phone rings, linux answers!? ("Ron Nicholls")
Re: phone rings, linux answers!? (Mark Taylor)
Re: Windows 2000 -> Linux shares ("Ron Nicholls")
Re: PDA with Linux?? (Jimbob)
Re: A Better Web Browser...PLEASE! ("Gene Heskett")
Help! lockup under load ("Kurt")
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: boot's fsck skips / -- severe problems
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:12:47 +0100
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma wrote:
> I have a file server that has three partitions.
> For safety's sake, I run a 'shutdown -F' via crontab every month.
For safety's sake??? Ehh, what safety?
> The problem being that the sometimes such monthly-reboots don't
> come up cleanly, and I am forced to hard-reset the machine, and then
> run 'e2fsck' manually on the ROOT partition (which does NOT
> contain any data -- all of which is on another partition, which gets
> checked fine during bootup) -- and as you can guess, e2fsck finds
> problems.
>
> Only '/dev/hda3' is checked (whenever I run shutdown -r -F).
/* SNIP */
> Mar 1 05:43:03 linux1 rc.sysinit: Checking root filesystem succeeded
Eh, what is the problem? It seems to be checked fine...
If you mean, that you want to force a hard fsck (why?)? Then you should
just (at least it works on my RedHat system) do a 'touch /forcefsck'
before reboot.
Rasmus
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help: - clicks & pauses in sound
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:32:44 +0100
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Matthew Ducie wrote:
> I have just installed Mandrake 7.2 and I am having trouble playing back
> MP3 files.. I get clicks and pauses in the sound..
>
> I have oss soundon installed and if you read their documentation they
> actually mention the problem but point the finger back at the mp3
> players as being at fault..
Well, could be. Also your mp3's could be damaged. Can you play normal
wave files without clicking/popping?
> I have seen overrun messages such as - "OSS warning: Application caused
> too much recording overrun errors on audio device "
Sounds to me like a IRQ/DMA conflict or bad setup. Check that irq's and
DMA's are ok.
Rasmus
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is this RPM... in linux??
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:43:52 +0100
On 11 Mar 2001, v.naga srinivas wrote:
> HI,
> I am new to linux and using SuSE linux 6.3.
> I want to know about this RPM( redhat package manager)..
> 1. Is it similar thing like 'ar'?
Well, it goes further - besides ar is usually only used for code object
files.
Rpm is an archive format that holds files - in a way like tar or zip -
but in assition it also has information about what is needed to install
the package. In addition the system contains a database of installed
packages and their requirements, preventing you from uninstalling a
needed package by accident.
> 2. How can get the files containing in a src rpm package( the
> synatax)..??
Normal rpm packages are installed by 'rpm -Uvh <rpm-file>'. For
.src.rpm's the files go to /usr/src/redhat (at least on RedHat systems -
probably somewhere else on suse).
If yu want to rebuild a .src.rpm package, you can do it by 'rpm
--rebuild <rpm-file>'.
Rasmus
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Opera Re: A Better Web Browser...PLEASE!
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:50:27 +1300
OK.....I downloaded Opera 5.0 for Linux. As mentioned by others it lacks
Java, plugin support and other stuff.
It is nice, tidy and fast.
It crashed once during the hour I used it. I bought it via the web site
for US$39. I want to support Linux software development and that takes
money in some cases and this appears to be one of them.
The ads would drive me nuts otherwise.
--
Regards,
Steve Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #24688
http://counter.li.org
"First, they ignore you. Then they
laugh at you. Then they fight you.
Then you win." Mahatma Ghandi
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DNS questions...
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 07:21:36 -0500
David Efflandt wrote:
> >My problem is that I cannot resolve my actualy domain name, here is an example:
> A domain name does not necessarily resolve to an IP, but if you want it to
> you can. For example if you wanted kamb.com to point to your main box,
> you just need an entry in your zone "kamb.com", but instead of a
> hostname use "kamb.com." with a dot at the end like:
This will work, of course, but IMHO it's kind of a bastardization
of DNS. (Of course, there are countless hosts on the Internet doing
just this, so I guess it's accepted practice.)
In DNS, the first element of the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN)
is the host, while the remainder of the FQDN is the domain in which
that host lives. Setting up an IP address for "kamb.com." in effect
implies a machine named "kamb" which resides in the domain "com".
If one were to connect this machine to the outside world, then it
would need a nameserver entry in the nameservers that are serving
the "com" domain for resolution to happen. On the other hand, once
one gets "kamb.com" set up in DNS to point to your authoritative
nameserver, then you can create as many hosts in the "kamb.com"
domain as you like, and your nameserver will resolve them.
For a strictly private IP network, though, it little matters.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mounting a FreeBSD Partition?
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 07:25:09 -0500
Vilmos Soti wrote:
> > FreeBSD uses a primary partition that it then carves into smaller
> > virtual partitions (FreeBSD uses the term "slices"), similar to logical
> > partitions in the standard PC partitioning scheme. As a result, to use
>
> Err, isn't it the opposite? ;-) What in the Linux and Windows world we
> call partition, they call it a slice, and inside a slice, they have
> numerous partitions?
Vilmos is correct. In the FreeBSD world, what Linux (and Microsludge)
refers to as a "partition" is called a "slice". Inside a slice, FreeBSD
creates pieces which they call "partitions". It's an unfortunate
confusion factor.
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From: "Leejen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Windows 2000 -> Linux shares
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:07:27 +1000
Hi,
I am trying to Browse my Linux shares from Windows 2000. When I click on
the Linux computer, I get a dialog box that prompts me for a user name and
password. Type in the correct ones and it just reappears, for ever and a
day.
I have done plenty of reading and am aware that as of NT4 SP3 the default is
encrypted password. I have read ENCRYPTION.txt, WinNT,txt and Win95.NT, to
no avail. I have created a smbpasswd file from my Linux passwd file.
I know this works because before Linux crashed and I started from scratch,
it was operating successfully, i.e. I could browse Linux from Windows 2000
Explorer..
Any other ideas?
Regards
Leigh
CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: A Better Web Browser...PLEASE!
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:10:23 -0500
I wonder how much of this "onderful pag rendering" is because you are
viewing pages written by a Microsoft app for a microsoft app.
"Robert L. Cochran Jr." wrote:
>
> I have to agree, Netscape 4.x (on any platform) is a badly broken
> product. In Linux, you can't really get the beautiful page renderings
> that Internet Explorer does. There is no browser anywhere near as good
> as Internet Explorer. My nonprogrammer wife comments that Netscape just
> doesn't render pages nicely and she prefers Microsoft Windows 9x simply
> because she gets Internet Explorer.
>
> Soon, people will talk about a "Netscape job" to mean "poor quality
> work".
>
> --
>
> Bob Cochran
> I am a student of Linux, Java, database and web development.
>
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Steve Withers wrote:
> >
> > If anything is going to drive me back to Windowss it is *&%^$ Netscape.
> >
> > I have both V6.0 and v4.75 installed on my RH Linux 7.0 system (kernel
> > 2.4.1) and they are both....in a word...SHIT.
> >
> > I have "kill-9" permanently in my command line buffer.....Netscape craps
> > out usually within 10-15 minutes of active use. What happens MOST often
> > with Netscape 6.0 is that links cease to be active. Nothing reacts to a
> > mouse click. It may aswell have crashed....and when I do a PS-A...I see
> > about 20 Java VMs all stacked up. Eh?
> >
> > I need Java support.......so do I have any options? Opera? Konqueror?
> > Haven't tried either recently....tried Opera like 3 years ago.....
> >
> > MS Explorer is starting to look good to me..... :-(
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Steve Withers
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Registered Linux user #24688
> > http://counter.li.org
> >
> > "First, they ignore you. Then they
> > laugh at you. Then they fight you.
> > Then you win." Mahatma Ghandi
--
Rick
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From: "Ron Nicholls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: phone rings, linux answers!?
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:18:13 +1100
It would seem your modem is configured
to answer.
You will have to check the modem manual
to disable to answer mode.
I think it may be one of the "S" register entries-
it has been a long time since I got into modem
config
--
-
-
Regards
RonN
shaughn b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> Newbie and new installation of SuSe 7.0 on Toshiba 500CDT laptop. When
> the phone rings, and the PC is powered, it answers on the first ring and
> WAILS! I assume it's acting like a fax machine --- but I'm not sure. I
> didn't purposely set it up to do this. Any ideas how to stop this,
> where to look?
>
> shaughn B
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Subject: Re: phone rings, linux answers!?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Taylor)
Date: 11 Mar 2001 06:59:03 -0600
shaughn b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Hi,
>
>Newbie and new installation of SuSe 7.0 on Toshiba 500CDT laptop. When
>the phone rings, and the PC is powered, it answers on the first ring and
>WAILS! I assume it's acting like a fax machine --- but I'm not sure. I
>didn't purposely set it up to do this. Any ideas how to stop this,
>where to look?
>
>shaughn B
>
You probably have a getty attached to a serial port. In /etc/inittab there
would be a line like this...
S0:35:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D ttyS0
Or very similar. Just comment out the line. That should do it. Be sure you
get the one with S0 and S1 on the end. Those are the serial ports.
Mark
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From: "Ron Nicholls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 -> Linux shares
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:22:46 +1100
Have you enabled cookies. some sites wont
let you in with cookies disabled- the pricks :-)
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Regards
RonN
Leejen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:3aab7784@grissom...
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to Browse my Linux shares from Windows 2000. When I click on
> the Linux computer, I get a dialog box that prompts me for a user name and
> password. Type in the correct ones and it just reappears, for ever and a
> day.
>
> I have done plenty of reading and am aware that as of NT4 SP3 the default
is
> encrypted password. I have read ENCRYPTION.txt, WinNT,txt and Win95.NT,
to
> no avail. I have created a smbpasswd file from my Linux passwd file.
>
> I know this works because before Linux crashed and I started from scratch,
> it was operating successfully, i.e. I could browse Linux from Windows 2000
> Explorer..
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Regards
> Leigh
>
> CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: Jimbob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PDA with Linux??
Date: 12 Mar 2001 00:15:51 +1100
Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8 Mar 2001 10:03:15 +1100, Jimbob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I have a Casio EM-500 PDA that is installed with WinCE. I was wondering if its at
>all possible to be able to talk with it under linux as it is possible with palm
>pilots.
>>
>>Brett
>>
>>--
>>****************************************************
>>* *
>>* "Sudden success in golf is like the sudden *
>>* acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle *
>>* and deteriorate the character" *
>>* *
>>****************************************************
> I can hook up my compaq ipaq (still running wince; but soon to have linux on
> it), to my home network using a CF ethernet card and cruise the web, get
> newsgroups via a tool like inkspot, or telnet to other systems on my home
> network. If you mean synchronizing to a linux box, you could do that if you
> are running something like VMware. YOu can sync pocketpcs using ethernet if
> you have setup the partnership with the pocketpc using usb/serial first. I
> also can plug in my orinoco wireless card and be on my dsl line quite
> easily.
> I don't think that there is a way to sync the contents of your calendar
> since the outlook component on the pocketpc wants to sync with outlook.
> There are lots of other things possible though that can heighten the use of
> pocketpcs without a windows system to sync to.
> I like my ipaq very much. The screen is quite beautiful and its very fast.
> I also have a TRGpro (palm OS) which I can sync to my linux box quite
> easily.
> --
> Michael Perry
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ------------------
I am not that informed regarding ethernet cards and networks with linux. Is
it possible that some light could be shed on connecting the PDA? I dont really
understand why an ethernet card is necessary when windows doesnt require it. I
simply want to be able to transfer files to and from the device and my PC.
I really dont want anything to do with windows so the less i use it the better.
BTW. How is it that linux can be put onto the PDA? Is it a matter or rewriting the
ROM? Or can you simply run it off a memory stick?
Brett
--
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* *
* "Sudden success in golf is like the sudden *
* acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle *
* and deteriorate the character" *
* *
****************************************************
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Date: 11 Mar 2001 7:36:37 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A Better Web Browser...PLEASE!
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Steve Withers;
SW> Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Withers wrote:
>>
>> >If anything is going to drive me back to Windowss it is *&%^$ Netscape.
>> [...]
>>
>> I gave up on Netscape and tried Opera 5 a couple months ago. I liked it so
>> much I bought two copies (though the free versions with the ads was
>> perfectly usable).
SW> I didn't think Opera 5 for Linux was out yet....I'll have a look.
Oh it's out, Steve, but although its the fastest browser by a wide
margin, it also has rendering problems at times, plus I have not yet
figured out how to hold my mouth right to get the downloading to work
*everytime*.
Other operations it does quite well, like I can browse for half an hour,
decide to go back to someplace I was before, and it goes back to the
beginning just as fast as you can click the mouse and still see where it
backed up to.
What it does do, it does very quickly, reasonably well, but its other
wibblies put it in the not quite ready for prime time column IMO. Java
doesn't work, nor https yet.
Its been out about 3 weeks that I know of, and I keep looking for
another upgrade, but it appears the revenue from the add-supported
version doesn't allow a fulltime effort. Registration is 40 bucks to
get rid of the adds, but until it works more consistently at downloads,
I think I'll pass thank you, and I suspect the actual registration count
might be pretty low.
My $0.02
Cheers, Gene
--
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email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
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This messages reply content, but not any previously quoted material,
is � 2001 by Gene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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From: "Kurt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! lockup under load
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:08:22 GMT
Installation of RH6.2 &7.0 went OK. No problems except when the system is
using large amounts of memory and swapping. Then I get a panic, and it's not
always the same application, and sometimes it's not even my application
(cron, swapper) that panics. Error messages, if any, refer to swapper,
"can't sync", null pointers and the like; varies from time to time.
Requires reboot/fsck if it was my app, but when system apps crash I can
usually still ping the machine but that's about it. Don't think it's video,
see below.
I understand that nobody can tell me specifically what is going on without
more information. The reason I'm asking is that I've seen similar problems
reported with this same mobo, and yet the leading linux hardware vendors are
selling systems with it. So not everyone is having troubles. I don't know
whether to suspect the hardware or the setup? Or how to narrow it down?
The funny thing is that only 3 of four of these things have this problem,
the other is fine... therefore it's hardware? Any advice would be
appreciated.
Information --
Intel CA810E, P3/866, one 256MB nonparity PC100 from Crucial (several tested
with same result), IBM IDE drive, IDE CD, no cards no floppy. Did not
install the i810 video patch but not running X, and video seems fine in text
mode.
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