Linux-Setup Digest #225, Volume #21 Mon, 14 May 01 19:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Keyboard acting up in X (Scott Weber)
Re: Red Hat 7.1 Error (Jim)
Re: can RAID using ReiserFS? ("Michael Faurot")
Re: SQUID and ASP? (Nils Holland)
Re: No DNS with DHCP sometimes (Dean Thompson)
Re: Newb question: which distribution? (Rod Smith)
Re: No DNS with DHCP sometimes (Dean Thompson)
Re: SAMBA (Rod Smith)
install to floppy (root disk from windows) (Greg Dinwoodie)
Re: Moving/Resizing Linux (ext2) partitions with Partition Magic: It works! (Rod
Smith)
Re: Can I spread Linux across 2 hard drives? (Adam)
Re: SUSE (B. L. Jilek)
Re: SQUID and ASP? (Nils Holland)
Re: Lilo problem (Angry Bob)
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Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:32:20 -0500
From: Scott Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Keyboard acting up in X
I'm having a real difficult time believing this is a hardware problem.
I'll be happily working in X (fvwm2) with an editor open, and a couple
of shells open.
Suddenly, one shell only echos what I type in CAPS. No combination
of Capslock, shift, alt, ... will make it stop. Bombing the shell
and re-running XTerm SOMETIMES works.
Meanwhile, the other shell works just fine.
The editor (codeforge) suddenly doesn't accept 9 or 3 on my numeric
keypad. All other numeric keys are fine. Numlock has no effect.
I kill and restart it, but it still doesn't work.
I kill X (Ctl-Alt-BS, or exit fvwm, either one) and use consoles.
They ALL work fine! I restart it (startx) and everything is fine.
Can anyone give any clue where to start looking for this problem?
XFree86 3.3.6
Linux 2.2.16 (although X says it's OS Linux 2.2.13 on startx????)
I do get this message during startup:
System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
-xkm -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp
"> " -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server"
keymap/xfree86 /var/tmp/xfree86.xkm'
:1: invalid preprocessing directive name
(Not my real email...)
-Scott Weber
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From: Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.1 Error
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 23:24:13 +0200
O.Castro wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a system that I'm trying to load RH 7.1 on. I'm using a 15GB
> IDE
> drive and IDE cd-rom. I downloaded the images from RH and when I insert
> CD 1 and boot into the setup program after a few minutes I'll get an error
> while it is running Anaconda. The error that I get is "Install Exited
> Abnormally- Received Signal 11" It will then unmount everything. When I
> use the same system but switch to the on-board SCSI everything loads fine.
> Does anyone know what this error means? Also, if I put the CD-rom on the
> Second IDE ctrl. and the drive on the primary ctrl it seems to work. If I
> put both the CD and hard drive on the secondary ctrl it also seems to
> work. But with both the CD and hard drive on the primary it will give me
> the above
> error. I have tried different drives and have changed various things in
> the
> BIOS with no success. I feel it might be a simple setting but can't seem
> to
> figure it out. Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> regards
>
>
>
>
O. Castro.
I read on the SUSE site a while back that it is always best to physically
locate your CD's as Slave's not masters. Something to do with the fact
that they are almost always shipped as slaves and for some reason many of
them have problems when connected as Masters (Strange but, apparently true).
As for your SCSI problem I'm not sure I completely understand. I have two
SCSI/IDE systems. I have always, in the past, booted from the IDE drives
because it seems to be more stable that way (I disable the boot function on
the SCSI controller BIOS). I have one system that I have always had
Windows and Linux on the IDE drive and remaining linux partitions on the
SCSI drive. However, when I upgraded the system to Win 2000 I was not able
to use lilo or grub to boot into linux. I finally had to move the entire
linux system to the SCSI drive to make it work.
By the way, unless I'm mistaken, a sig 11 is usually a segmentation fault
(i.e. software problem which is usually a compilation error).
Good Luck,
--
Jim
www.GlobalLinux.com
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From: "Michael Faurot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can RAID using ReiserFS?
Date: 14 May 2001 21:42:33 GMT
In comp.os.linux.networking tin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: can RAID using ReiserFS?(software Raid)
http://www.namesys.com/faq.html#raid
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Michael | mfaurot | Ducks? What ducks??
Faurot | atww.org |
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From: Nils Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SQUID and ASP?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 23:59:31 +0200
Rasmus B�g Hansen wrote:
> On 14 May 2001, Juergen Sauer wrote:
>
>> This is defenitly a junk site without any essential knowledge of the
>> basics of HTML and Webservices.
>> Per definitionem HTML is the only counting W3 thing.
>> HTML is browser idependent. If not the Webmaster/Designer are idiots.
>
> Eh, the page is ASP (a microsoft IIS php-like thing - a serverside
> script).
>
> But you are perfectly right - making anything browser dependent is
> absolutely stupid. At least I cannot come to think of anywhere it could
> be a good thing...
It isn't a good thing! I bet the webmasters sisn't do this by design - most
likely they only used MSIE for testing, and since it works with that
browser, they thought everything is fine. However, I think that either
during programming they should have noticed that they will have problems
with some browsers, or, if they didn't notice it, then they should at least
have done some testing using various browsers before putting their site
online. Although my original message only named one page from that site
that can't be accessed with konqueror and Netscape 6, I have seen at least
three more pages when I browsed the site a little further.
I have contacted the webmaster and I hope that he'll fix it. Right now,
some users of the network I manage keep shouting at me how *bad* the
software I'm providing them with (which is basically konqueror and Netscape
6 as a webbrowser) is. I've had a hard time telling them that it's not my
fault that they cannot see the page they want to see. Of course, I could
install Netscape 4.x and the users would be able to see the page but
somehow I don't feel like I should fix problems that others (=the webmaster
of that site) have created. After all, the software I'm using is performing
according to standards and according to what people would expect. It's the
website that is not compatible. My only solution so far is to tell
konqueror to pretened to be Nesctape 4.x when visiting that specific site,
but that's actually not the way it is intended to work...
Greetings
Nils
--
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Nils Holland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NightCastle Productions - Linux in Tiddische, Germany
http://www.nightcastleproductions.org
"They asked me where this earthquake would begin,
I offered to let them feel my pulse."
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: No DNS with DHCP sometimes
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 08:17:41 +1000
Hi!,
> I'll wait till it happens again. Is there a log for the cleint that shows
> the info returned? I know the bootup log will show the request and ACK.
There is a good chance that when the DHCP server starts it might actually
write some of its debugging of version information into the
/var/log/messages. If you want to see all the data that is passed around you
will have to provide the "-d" flag to put the server into debug mode.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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| Dean Thompson | E-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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| PhD Student | Office - <Off-Campus> |
| School Comp.Sci & Soft.Eng | Phone - +61 3 9903 2787 (Gen. Office) |
| MONASH (Caulfield Campus) | Fax - +61 3 9903 1077 |
| Melbourne, Australia | |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Newb question: which distribution?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:20:55 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <9dm7ka$osn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Barend Aersmade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have an win98 system serving a small LAN.
> I would like to setup Linux on my second HD and boot into it with a floppy
> drive, so when others (my kids) turn on the computer, no bootmanager will
> appear but it would boot straight into windows. Is this possible?
Yes.
> Which distribution should I choose then?
Any x86 distribution can be configured in this way, although I don't
know offhand which ones include this sort of thing as an install-time
option. Basically, you want to put LILO on a floppy disk rather than on
the hard disk's MBR. (Alternatively, you could put the whole kernel on a
floppy, but that'll result in longer boot times.)
For more information on distributions, you can check my page on the
subject (http://www.rodsbooks.com/distribs/), but I haven't had a chance
to upgrade it yet with information on any of the new ones based on the
2.4.x kernels.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: No DNS with DHCP sometimes
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 08:23:02 +1000
Hi!,
> I only start in run level 2 (no GUI). Haven't started in the others. I only
> type startx afterward.
Is this run level 2 or run level 3?, I suppose it all depends on whether you
want to enable NFS support for the session.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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| Dean Thompson | E-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Bach. Computing (Hons) | ICQ - 45191180 |
| PhD Student | Office - <Off-Campus> |
| School Comp.Sci & Soft.Eng | Phone - +61 3 9903 2787 (Gen. Office) |
| MONASH (Caulfield Campus) | Fax - +61 3 9903 1077 |
| Melbourne, Australia | |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: SAMBA
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:25:51 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <9dn8g9$64i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"sang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> HI,
>
> I am new to LINUX.
>
> Now i want to install Samba to share file&printer with WINDOWS NT.
>
> After i install&setup, i can see LINUX Server in NT Workstation, but
> i cannot access LINUX Server.
Chances are you need to either disable encrypted passwords in Windows
or enable encrypted passwords in Samba. The latter's the better
approach in the long run in most cases. To do it, add the following
line to the [global] section of your smb.conf file (or change the
existing line to conform to this):
encrypt passwords = Yes
You'll then need to add encrypted passwords by using the smbpasswd
command, thus:
smbpasswd -a username
(Replace "username" with whatever username you use. Repeat for all
users, as required.)
If you need more help, consult the Samba documentation on
http://www.samba.org, consult a Samba book (I've got several
suggestions, including one by me, at
http://www.rodsbooks.com/books/books-samba.html), or post your smb.conf
file and more information on the symptoms of the problem to
comp.protocols.smb or linux.samba.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Greg Dinwoodie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: install to floppy (root disk from windows)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 16:31:11 -0600
Hello,
I would like to install linux (distro doesn't really matter) to a
floppy. I cannot seem to find instructions on howto install to a floppy,
with out installing linux first. From windows I need to make a linux
root disk.
Any help is much appreciated. Thx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Moving/Resizing Linux (ext2) partitions with Partition Magic: It works!
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:49 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <9dnn8t$n68$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny McCormack) writes:
> This is a success story - I didn't think it would work, but it did. I did a
> fairly complex set of operations (shrinking the FAT partition, moving the
> extended partition, deleting one swap partition - resizing another one, and
> moving/resizing the ext2 [Linux boot] partition), all in one Pmagic session,
> and it worked just fine.
>
> And here's the thing that's amazing: I did not have to re-run LILO - the
> thing just booted up fine. This totally amazed me, except for the fact that
> this was a "LILO in the partition - booted by some other boot manager in the
> MBR", rather than a "LILO in the MBR" setup. So, it appears, Pmagic is
> actually smart enough to fix the LILO setup if it is in the partition that
> is being resized/moved.
Unless you're using PM 6.0 and they've changed something about it, this
isn't what happened; you just got lucky. As I understand it, LILO will
continue to work after moving or resizing the partition on which the
kernel resides if and only if the kernel hasn't moved. By "the kernel
hasn't moved," I mean that the hard disk sectors that previously held
the kernel continue to hold it. (Actually, I believe a secondary boot
loader file in /boot also must not have moved, by the same definition of
"moved.") Now, it's conceivable that PM did move one or both of those
files, but the sectors that previously held the files haven't been
overwritten by something else. If so, LILO could stop working at any
time. Therefore, you'd do well to type "lilo" as root to re-install it,
just to be sure it works correctly in the future.
Now, that said, if PM 6.0 has added code to analyze an installed LILO
and change it as required if PM moves the kernel, I'd be interested in
hearing about it. Please post if you've heard this is definitely the
case.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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Subject: Re: Can I spread Linux across 2 hard drives?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:33:20 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>Yes, definitely. The file system is very flexible. I would probably
>divide the 164MB drive into a small (~16MB) partition for /boot, use the
>rest for /, and put swap and /usr on the other drive. I'm not 100% sure
>you can fit / less /usr into 150MB, but I think you should have no
>problem. No idea how big X is though. (It goes under /usr.)
>
Ok. So, how in the world do I do that at the time of install?
Adam.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B. L. Jilek)
Subject: Re: SUSE
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:23:33 GMT
On Mon, 14 May 2001 16:41:44 -0400, Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I am trying to update the Kernel on SuSe 7.1 and found out
>that SuSe
>doesn't provide makefiles or a .config file. I have done RH,
>and Mandrake
>patches, and not had the "No rule to make target" error
>which is the
>error I'm getting.
>
>SuSe advised me to install their RPM of the Kernel (Via
>Yast), but their
>answer was not very enlightening on what the outcome of the
>process should
>be.
>
>Does the Yast process create a new tree (I can't find it)
>with the Kernel
>patch and proper config files? If so WHERE is it? Or should
>the RPM actually
>upgrade my Kernel? In either event I need to enable a new
>Kernel feature
>that is now defaulted to disabled and need to recompile to
>enable it.
>
>I have the replacement Kernel and or a patch, that I want to
>upgrade to, is
>there any way to get this distro to use my kernel?
>
>If anyone out there has successfully done Kernel compiling
>on SuSe
>(and remembers how to do it) I would appreciate any info.
If you install one of their kernel images then the config file
will be in /boot. I forgot what it was called.
--
B. L. Jilek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Linux user: 163800
GPG key: DSS 420837E6 | ICQ: 83785391
PGP key: DSS 0x59D04FF1 RSA 0x83C89D21 |
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From: Nils Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SQUID and ASP?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 00:03:20 +0200
Actually, I have just noticed that the page does now work with konqueror
and Netscape 6. Seems that the webmaster has really fixed the problem.
Greetings
Nils
--
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Nils Holland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NightCastle Productions - Linux in Tiddische, Germany
http://www.nightcastleproductions.org
"They asked me where this earthquake would begin,
I offered to let them feel my pulse."
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo problem
Date: 14 May 2001 23:03:26 GMT
What would you like to read? [[EMAIL PROTECTED] or ?*]
this is a T.VANI PRASANNA KUMAR scroll! it says:
> would like to know more about the linux partitioning towards 1024 cylinders
> limit.
your kernel image wants to be in the first chunk of hard drive space
(somewhere in cylynders 0-1024). When a computer boots up this is the
only place that it can see before it loads the software necessary to
look past that limit. I think that they may have gotten around this
problem, but I've never changed my install procedure enoyugh to find
out.... <smile>
> 2.While installing the linux My HDD was secondary master and it is working
> fine. But the moment I had changed it to Primary Master ( No additional
> devices added ) The system was unable to boot saying kernel critical error
> . But working as usual when reverted back to secondary master.
> Please help what shold be done if I want to change the hdd ( primary to
> secondary vice versa) after the linux was installed.
I usually don't shift around my drives after I've installed them (too
slack to crack open a box that works), however, if I did, I would
probably make some sort of boot disk to get me into the linux install,
and then re-run lilo after adjusting /etc/lilo.conf to meet my new
setup.
--
AngryBob Systems Consultant - http://www.trellisinc.com
I often imagine, with full visuals, what playing nethack
sober would be like.
--sdpcat (from rec.games.roguelike.nethack)
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