Linux-Setup Digest #954, Volume #20 Fri, 30 Mar 01 18:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Memory pb : 384M real, 64M effective (root)
suse 7.1 crontab problem ("mxb")
Startx fails (Bob)
Re: Startx fails ("KW")
Re: RH 7.0: kernel upgrade problem !? ("KW")
Re: Adding a Disk to a Striped RAID0 ("KW")
Re: =?iso-8859-1?q?cant=B4t?= switch between kde and gnome ("KW")
Re: Windows games on LINUX? ("KW")
Re: Financial program for Linux ("KW")
Re: System hang on login (Rob Weaver)
2.2.16 => 2.4.2 wrong root filesystem (Andreas Fester)
Re: SCSI emulation on SuSE 7.0 (Donald Stidwell)
Re: Windows games on LINUX? ("KW")
RedHat krb5 update (Tim Watkins)
Re: Adding a Disk to a Striped RAID0 (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Recovering from a boot RAID failure ("Bruce Pennypacker")
Re: jetdirect and linux. (Donald Stidwell)
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Memory pb : 384M real, 64M effective
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:18:51 +0200
I found that if i specify the exact amount of ram in MB my system crashes in an
ugly way. I had
no problems when I used the KB figure the BIOS counted to. "mem=262144k"
worked for my 256mb.
Mack
Pantalacci Christophe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got this kind of problem :
> Linux only sees 64M of RAM. When I modify lilo.conf by adding
> append="mem=384M" and executing lilo, my whole system crashes at reboot with
> segmentation faults everywhere, and i must reinstall.
>
> I've tried several distributions, like RedHat 7.0 and Mandrake 7.2, but
> nothing changes.
> I guess it's a hardware issue, maybe due to the VIA chipset.
> The config is the following :
> PIII 733 Mhz
> 3x128Mo RAM (100Mhz)
> Chipset VIA Apollo Pro
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> Christophe
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From: "mxb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: suse 7.1 crontab problem
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:42:24 -0600
Reply-To: "mxb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
hi, all
after upgrading from suse 6.4 to 7.1 i'm not able
to create/run crontab files as a regular user.
i have /etc/cron.allow, /var/spool/cronallow and
/var/spool/crondeny files, and i put the username
into /etc/cron.allow and /var/spool/cronallow.
still, whenever i run crontab -l i get the
following message:
you (username) are not allowed to use this program
(crontab).
contact your sysadmin to change
/var/spool/cronallow or /var/spool/crondeny.
i also tried using cron.allow and cron.deny under
/etc, /var, /var/spool and /var/spool/cron.
does anyone have any idea of how i can fix it?
tia
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From: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Startx fails
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 20:53:47 GMT
I have just completed installing rh7.0. When I try to "startx" it goes
along loading things and dies with the message:
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
The last message prior to the error is:
(II) TRIDENT: driver for Trident Chipsets: tva8900d,
cyber9320,cyber9388,
(more drivers listed)
cyberbladei7,
cyberbladei7d,cyberbladei1,cyberbladei1d
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
Can anyone explain how I can fix this error?
The monitor is a Tatung CM-14UHE
The video card is a trident VGA9000 w/ 512k memory
I had this same monitor and card working on rh v5.2
An unrelated question. How can I tell what other RPMs are needed, when
I load a particular package. I am trying to do this from a command line?
Please help
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Startx fails
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:17:19 -0600
I'd run Xconfgurator again.. I've had problems with that card on a PC
I've got here... /var/log/X.log will tell you more about what it is
trying to do such as probing the card and looking for acceptable
resolutions...
As far as the RPMS go, when you try rpm -ivh thisfile.i386.rpm
it should say what is needed. Go to RPMfind and look for those files as
part of another package. the developers web site will also have the
package requirements and usually they links to those packages...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bob"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have just completed installing rh7.0. When I try to "startx" it goes
> along loading things and dies with the message:
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11. Server aborting
>
> The last message prior to the error is:
>
> (II) TRIDENT: driver for Trident Chipsets: tva8900d,
> cyber9320,cyber9388,
> (more drivers listed)
> cyberbladei7,
> cyberbladei7d,cyberbladei1,cyberbladei1d
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11. Server aborting
>
> Can anyone explain how I can fix this error?
>
> The monitor is a Tatung CM-14UHE
> The video card is a trident VGA9000 w/ 512k memory
>
> I had this same monitor and card working on rh v5.2
>
> An unrelated question. How can I tell what other RPMs are needed, when
> I load a particular package. I am trying to do this from a command line?
>
> Please help
>
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.0: kernel upgrade problem !?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:19:30 -0600
If you did it by the book you should still have a vmlinuz-2.2.16-22 in
the /boot folder(atleast I have anyway). Make another entry in lilo.conf identicle to
the other
with the thing pointing to the 2.2.16-22 file instead and when you save
be sure to run lilo again...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "C�dric Pillonel"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have installed RedHat 7.0 and then I wanted to upgrade my system with
> the Linux 7.0 Errata.
>
> With 7.0, the kernel 2.2.16-22 is installed. With GnoRPM, I've made an
> upgrade of my kernel with the package "kernel-2.2.17-14.rpm". Then I've
> re-runned lilo and I've rebooted.
>
> When rebooting, the kernel couldn't load the aic7xxx module because of
> unresolved symbols and then couldn't mount the partitions (something
> about VFS ?!) and was hanging at this point.
>
> What did I wrong ? Should I upgrade others packages too ? Or should I
> run a special command after upgrading my kernel ?
>
> Another question: when upgrading my kernel, the old one has been
> deleted. I would like to keep the old one and the new one and then to be
> able to choose which one to boot with lilo. Which files should I backup
> before upgrading the kernel ?
>
> thank you very much!!
> C�dric Pillonel
>
>
>
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adding a Disk to a Striped RAID0
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:48:36 -0600
I highly agree with Joshua about scrapping the raid0 for something better.
Backup and restore is the best way.... Think about this -
Raid0 - Striped array / no fault tolerance, one dies all data is gone...
Raid 1 - Mirrored and Duplexed array (high overhead for ECC, simple to
recover from, doubles the read trans rate but only writes at normal disk
speeds)
Raid 4 - Independent Disks with shared parity Disk. (High read
speeds, Low ECC overhead, Complex design, Worst Write trans rate,
Difficult to rebuild)
Raid 5 - Independant Data Disks with distributed parity blocks (Highest
Read trans rate, Medium Write rate, Low ECC overhead, Difficult to rebuild
)
Source of all that came from
http://www.acnc.com/raid.html
My question for Joshua ;)
I've only used raid 1 and 5 software on my linux stuff and the howto I've
got only goes into recovering the 1 or 5 failure. Is it safe for me to
assume that since the raid0 is dependent on all drives (Striped with no
parity)that using raidhotadd won't work with the raid0 config?
Just curious since at some point I'll probably have to explain that to
someone around here who thinks they know something ;)
In article <9a273c$mka$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Joshua Baker-LePain"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Hi.T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Basically, I have a RAID0 md0 device on my system now with 2 disks. I
>> want to add a 3rd disk to it and probably a 4th, 5th and 6th later on
>> down the road. I can't figure out how to get Linux to add the disk
>> without destroying the data that's currently in the MD0. Also, I'm
>> using reiserfs, not ext2.
>
>> The problem I'm running into now is I've partitioned the new drive and
>> added it to /etc/raidtab. When the system boots, it's telling me that
>> there is an invalid suberblock for the new disk, obviously because I
>> haven't run mkraid on it as I fear the destruction of the current md0.
>
>> Incase anyone asks, no, it's not possible for me to move the data from
>> the md0 elsewhere while I nuke and recreate the md0 :)
>
> What, you didn't like the answers last time, so you're trying again? I'm
> sorry, but this cannot be done. Even if it could, it cannot be done
> safely. Whenever you futz with filesystems, you *must* backup the data
> or you risk losing it. And you can't expand software raid arrays in
> this manner. So, *again*, your options are to 1) Buy some sort of backup
> medium (tape is the standard), backup your data, wipe/recreate your
> array and restore your data, or 2) Just add the disks but make them a
> new partition.
>
> And I ask, again, what is your thinking in wanting to do this? Is this
> a big data storage array? That you're not backing up? That will die
> completely if any 1 disk in your array goes bad? That's a Bad Idea.
>
> Or is it your whole system? That, again, will die if even one disk in
> the array goes bad? RIAD0 b/c you don't want to deal with multiple
> partitions? Again -- Bad Idea.
>
> I'd really be interested to hear what kind of setup this is...
>
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-1?q?cant=B4t?= switch between kde and gnome
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:50:27 -0600
Harald,
Back up you .Xclients-default file then edit the current file...
replace gnome-session with
startkde
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Harald grosskopf"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i have a redhad 7.0 linux system installed with kde and gnome. When i
> start X, gnome starts as default desktop-system. I tried to load kde
> with "switchdesk", it tells me that it can�t find kde on my system.
> What can i do?
>
> bye, Harald.
>
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows games on LINUX?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:08:46 -0600
Lance,
I feel your pain... I am currently experimenting with getting my
Geforece2 to run my games under WINE. The card runs great despite the
development drivers. Although WINE usually crashes with griping about my
OPENGL drivers not existing... I haven't looked into it yet but I used
the codeweavers RPMS to install it and I bet if I compiled it myself I'd
probably be in business :)
Moral of the story.. If openGL isn't compiled in it won't work... make
sure your card supports opengl and the WINE you get has that option...
The other options is to wait for the game to be ported...
www.lokigames.com has been good about this... If you already have the
game you can get the Linux Point release and it should work with your CD.
If you get the Linux CD from Loki, you can use it with the Windows point
realease and run it under windows. However, as loki says, if you buy the
windows versions and get the linux point releases, then linux porting of
these games will die. SO, if we want this to continue, and loki keeps up
the work, it might be worth it to buy the loki version and if you think
windows might work better get the windows point release..
If you're really dedicated to Linux you might give that a try.. I
imagine when nothing runs on 98SE I'll be going that route, I've had it
with M$ :)
*off to try the linux Point release I got :) *
--
KW
VIVA LA RESISTANCE ! VIVA LINUX!
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Financial program for Linux
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:09:40 -0600
I've been using gnucash and it will accept quicken qif files ;)
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Paul Folbrecht"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My switch from Windoze to Linux is virtually complete (except for
> games). The only thing I need know is a decent financial management
> app, similar to Quicken. Although, I really don't need anything that
> sophisticated- just a simple check register would do.
>
> Would like to hear input from others here. Thanks.
>
>
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From: Rob Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.linux
Subject: Re: System hang on login
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:21:30 -0500
Carlton, which version of Open Linux is it? I've installed Open Linux
eDesktop 2.4 with no trouble at work (though I'm still waiting to
replicate the experience here at home).
I don't know the answer to your question directly, but that additional
information may help someone that does.
All the best,
Rob Weaver
linux newbie nad wannabe
"Daeton.com" wrote:
>
> I have Caldera Open Linux from the "Linux for Dummies" release set.
>
> When logging in as my user kde begins to load but after about an hour I
> finally get a message and it says....
>
> nfs: RPC call returned error 111
> RPC: task of released request still queued!
> RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what I could do?
>
> Carlton
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andreas Fester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2.2.16 => 2.4.2 wrong root filesystem
Date: 30 Mar 2001 22:17:36 GMT
Hi,
I currently have a strange problem while trying to upgrade from
Kernel 2.2.16 to Kernel 2.4.2 (I already found several postings
reporting similar problems, but I found nothing that helped...)
I use the Windows NT boot loader to select various systems,
i.e. I have a boot sector for every system which is then
loaded and executed by the Windows NT boot loader.
Kernel 2.2.16 boots with no problems. Kernel 2.4.2 also
boots, but the root filesystem it mounts is not valid;
I get the root password prompt for maintenance mode, so I
log in and do an ls and ... see the contents of a file
system which contains files and directories from the
file system which was there before I re-installed the system
some days ago.
I dont think that the layout of the ext2 fs has changed from
2.2 to 2.4, has it? That would be the only explanation I have
for this effect, e.g. reading superblocks on different blocks
or something similar...
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks in advance,
Andreas
--
Andreas Fester ___-___ o==o=======
=========== ||// ... to boldly go
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ \_|//__ where no man has
#_______/ gone before.
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From: Donald Stidwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: SCSI emulation on SuSE 7.0
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:47:12 -0500
Pascal MiQUET wrote:
>
> Books from 7.1 Pro told us to add into /etc/init.d/boot.local the following
> command :
>
> /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi
>
> and to make links ln -sf /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom
>
> HTH
> PMiquet
>
And that's exactly what works. The instructions for several things in
the Personal edition of 7.0 are incomplete or misleading. (Try following
the instructions for setting up a TV card if you don't have WinTV card.
You'll never get it working).
I bought the Pro version of 7.1 and it's interesting to see how much
more accurate the information is in the manuals for Pro.
Don
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows games on LINUX?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:44:16 -0600
Lance,
Addition to my post to newsgroup..
I just followed loki's instructions on quake3 Arena... IT ROCKS!!!!!
My Setup
Nvidia Getforce2 GTS 32 MB
1 GHZ athlon
2.4.2 Kernel...
SBLive..
USB optical trackball
Consistent 70-90FPS @ 1024X768X32bit color
And I thought I was going to have to suffer losing my games in Linux!
Now if I can get the rest of my games to work I can format my HDD and
do away with m$ FOREVER! HAHAHA.....
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Lance"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking at installing Linux, but I want to know if there is a
> program that will allow Linux to run all the games designed for Wondows
> 9X/ME. Is there something that can do this?
>
> Lance
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: Tim Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat krb5 update
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:46:55 GMT
Hey all,
Did anyone else running RedHat 7 have a problem after upgrading their krb5 libs
package?
After I upgraded the package, my LPD/LPR stopped working. I had to uninstall
the new package and reinstall the old package to get everything working again.
Just wanted to know if anyone else is having the same problem....
Thanks,
Tim
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Adding a Disk to a Striped RAID0
Date: 30 Mar 2001 22:48:04 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc KW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've only used raid 1 and 5 software on my linux stuff and the howto I've
> got only goes into recovering the 1 or 5 failure. Is it safe for me to
> assume that since the raid0 is dependent on all drives (Striped with no
> parity)that using raidhotadd won't work with the raid0 config?
AFAIK, if *any* of the disks in a raid0 dies, the entire array (as an
entity) is gone. It *may* be possible, via some low-level tools, to
get data off of the surviving drives. But there'll be no recovery
of the array itself.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: "Bruce Pennypacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Recovering from a boot RAID failure
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:48:57 GMT
Hi all,
I have a system running RedHat 7.0. It's set up with boot RAID (RAID 1 for
/boot and /). My disk 0 just died and I'm trying to figure out how to
recover from it. I've installed a new disk and booted with the RedHat CD
and entered rescue mode, however I'm unable to locate any hard drives. /dev
doesn't show any drives whatsoever. The system has an Adaptec controller
and it looked like the AICxxx driver loaded when linux was booting up.
Unfortunately I never created my own rescue disk either.... What do I need
to do to recover from this mini disaster? Any help would be greatly
appreciated!
-Bruce
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From: Donald Stidwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: jetdirect and linux.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 18:13:26 -0500
Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> In article <mq1x6.4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kenny@BUI wrote:
>
> >have any of you worked with hp jetdirect printers being shared
> >through linux or samba?
>
> Maybe -- I'm not sure what that last phrase means. I've
> printed to HP jetdirect printers from Linux, if that's what
> you're asking.
>
Printing to a jetdirect connected printer is a peice of cake as long as
you are using TCP/IP. In my experience I've found that it doesn't seem
to matter what you call the queue on the Jetdirect box, although raw and
text are the "official" ones.
However, there _are_ times when printing via a _Windows_ share can be
useful. For example, on my Win2K box, I share out my Brother HL-1040
attached to a Jetdirect 300EX because I've run Linux distros that don't
allow you to use print filters with remote printers but do allow you to
use them with Windows shared printers via Samba. So I just printed to
the share off my Win2K box that pointed to the Brother on the Jetdirect
box.
I don't understand why some distros let you use filters with remote
printers and others don't.
Don
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