Linux-Setup Digest #309, Volume #21 Sat, 26 May 01 18:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: can't compile qt-2.3.0 with -xft. Why? (J�rgen Diez)
Installing RH 7.1 on Compaq Proliant 1500 with disk array (RAID 5) (Niels Kristian
Jensen)
grub versions not right and it doesn't work ("mike")
Dual Boot Help ("Belac")
My own worst enemy and /dev/dsp (Peter Kelly)
Re: FAT32 mounting problem...please help (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: Retrieving PPP IP Address ("Rev. Don Kool")
Re: broken ppp (dekcarc)
Re: broken ppp (dekcarc)
Re: broken ppp (dekcarc)
remote boot (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: How do I make file creation time same as shown by 'date' command (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: HELP formated drive (Nils Holland)
Re: My own worst enemy and /dev/dsp (Dave Uhring)
Re: Using linux as secondary DNS (Dave Uhring)
Re: Installation Error (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: Downgrade the system error message (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: Webserver (Dave Uhring)
kernel 2.4.4 compilation ("chao cheng")
Re: IRQ change (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: My own worst enemy and /dev/dsp (Nils Holland)
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: can't compile qt-2.3.0 with -xft. Why?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J�rgen Diez)
Date: 26 May 2001 19:11:39 GMT
oh, I installed freetype in /usr
and added
#define Freetype2Dir /usr
to my host.def
does it matter if it's not the default directory?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Kristian Jensen)
Subject: Installing RH 7.1 on Compaq Proliant 1500 with disk array (RAID 5)
Date: 26 May 2001 19:23:33 GMT
Hi all,
this is a question about installing RH 7.1 from CD-ROM using a boot floopy
(boot.img)
I'm this far in the process:
1) Disk array configured as one logical disk under RAID 5 (with the Compaq
sw).
2) RH 7.1 boot disk in the A-drive
3) The mem=48M@16M command makes the Anaconda program run in text mode and
not crash due to "insufficient memory" (as is the case Anaconda it does not
get this extra parameter)
4) I'm then selecting language, packages etc. and everything seems to be
running until suddenly:
unmounting filesystems...
/mnt/sysimage/boot
/mnt/sysimage/home failed ()
The screen colors are messed up at this point and the power cycle switch is
the only way to proceed.
I've checked this page:
http://www.geocities.com/rlcomp_1999/
but I've not found the missing piece for the puzzle yet.
Can you provide a hint for me?
Best regards,
Niels Kr. Jensen
Denmark.
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From: "mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: grub versions not right and it doesn't work
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 14:31:58 -0700
i downloaded grub 0.5.96 uncompressed it then typed:
./configure
make
make install
all of the commands appeared to work, but when i type grub it displays
version number 0.5.93.1 and some of the commads that are in the instuctions
do not work ie "setup (fd0)" ... the tar file is in the /root/tmp/
directory... i did think this would matter, but i thought i would include it
in my quary... any help would be great...
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From: "Belac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Dual Boot Help
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 15:53:07 -0400
Help!
I currently have a dual boot W2K/RH7 machine on which I have to use a boot
floppy or change my boot order in my BIOS to boot into Linux . The problem
is I have W2K installed on a Highpoint 370 IDE RAID controller running RAID
0. There are no drivers for the RAID controller for Linux except minimal IDE
controller functionality which doesn't help my situation since I'm running
RAID. RH7 is installed on another HDD, (hda3). I would like to use NT boot
loader to dual boot because I don't think there is anyway to point LILO at
my W2K installation since its essentially an unrecognized device. Here is
what I have tried to get this working:
First I configured LILO to a known working condition and installed to hda.(I
can boot into Linux if hda is before my RAID drive in the BIOS boot order).
While in Linux I ran the following command:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/floppy/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
Then I booted back into W2K saved bootsect.lnx to c:\ and added the
following line to c:\boot.ini :
c:\bootsect.lnx="RedHat 7.0"
Now when I select "RedHat 7.0" the screen is cleared and in the top right
corner "LI" is printed as though cut off from printing "LILO:"
I have also tried this same thing only installing LILO to hda3 and changing
the "dd" command appropriately and updating the file in windows, with the
same results.
If anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong, or another method of
accomplishing my goal I would really appreciate it.
Thank You,
-belac
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From: Peter Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: My own worst enemy and /dev/dsp
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 19:46:08 GMT
Hola.
I've installed RH 7.1, but had problems getting linuxconf to work. It
was telling me that /dev/dsp was busy.
In a beer inspired act of stupidity, I deleted /dev/dsp.
Since I have no information on what the device should look like, I
need help.
What are the parameters for mknod to re-create the device?
Thanks. In the future, I promise not to su under the influence (SUI,
or in linux, sUI).
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: FAT32 mounting problem...please help
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 20:07:48 GMT
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mark wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to mount a logical FAT32 partition in RedHat 7.1. It gives me
>> a somewhat cryptic error message when I try to do so.
>>
>> mount -t vfat /dev/hda7 /mnt/data
>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda7,
>> or too many mounted file systems
>>
>> Here is my drive setup given by fdisk:
>>
>> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 5005 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>>
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> /dev/hda1 * 1 765 6144831 b Win95 FAT32
>> /dev/hda2 766 770 40162+ 83 Linux
>> /dev/hda3 771 5005 34017637+ 5 Extended
>> /dev/hda5 771 1535 6144831 83 Linux
>> /dev/hda6 1536 1584 393561 82 Linux swap
>> /dev/hda7 1585 5005 27479151 b Win95 FAT32
>>
>> I am able to mount the primary FAT32 partition (hda1) without a problem.
>> Windows sees the logical FAT32 and can write to it just fine. The logical
>> FAT32 was created by the Linux fdisk. I notice that some others are having
>> this problem but can't find a solution. Any help would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>
>
>Please learn to "cross-post" not "multi-post"
I do not have the original post, so here is my answer. Another case
with wrong partition ID. The type of the extended partition should be
0F. The data which should be in hda7, actually is inside one of the
other partitions.
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Svend Olaf
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From: "Rev. Don Kool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: Retrieving PPP IP Address
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 20:20:35 GMT
"Mark D." wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I am trying to automate a packet filtering firewall by providing the IP
> address of the PPP connection upon its connection. I have Linux
> 2.2.5-15 (Redhad 6.0).
Then why are you posting this to "comp.unix.admin"? LINUX
questions should be directed to "comp.os.linux.admin". They are
off-topic on comp.unix.admin.
Hope this helps,
Don
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From: dekcarc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: broken ppp
Date: 26 May 2001 20:49:26 GMT
3FE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: On 26 May 2001 01:52:35 GMT, dekcarc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insisted:
: > Joel Comeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > : dekcarc wrote:
: >
: > : > /usr/lib/passwordfd.so: undefined symbol: chap_passwd_hook
: >
: > : Hi kekcarc,
: > : I took a look at the german discussions on suse's site (had to have them
: > : translated), and they mentioned this problem, with the exact error that you
: > : are getting. They said that the solution was:
: >
: > : Deinstallation of the package ppp_ssl from the series second
: > : New installation of the package ppp from the series n
: >
: > : Yeah, not really that clear, but it's translated. So, basically, I guess
: > : #yast
: > : => find and uninstall package ppp_ssl
: > : => find and install package ppp
: >
: > : The crux of your problem is the ssl entanglement with normal ppp, I assume.
: > : That's the tree I'd bark up if I were you.
: >
: > : Hope that helped? Some?
: >
: > joel: i appreciate the time to look into that for me...but unfortunately
: > when i go looking for the package "ppp_ssl" in yast, it isn't even there.
: > i tried uninstalling pppd and reinstalling it through yast (version 2.3
: > patch level 5 this time), and now i'm seeing the following in my logs:
: >
: > linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-6
: fwiw, I expect this is unrelated. char-major-6 is lp om my Suse 7.1
: box. If you don't have a printer, edit /etc/modules.conf and do:
:
: alias char-major-6 off
:
: If you do have a printer, I doubt it works or is correctly configured.
: :-(
you're most likely right about char-major-6 being printer related. i have
a printer, but it has no power right now, and my system is dumping printer
errors into my email...something about "apsfilter" not being able to print
a job. i'll work on that after/if i get ppp working (i hardly use my
printer).
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From: dekcarc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: broken ppp
Date: 26 May 2001 20:56:11 GMT
Joel Comeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: dekcarc wrote:
: > : > /usr/lib/passwordfd.so: undefined symbol: chap_passwd_hook
: This is the line that concerns me though. The modprobe "can't locate
: module char-major-6, as far as I know, isn't related. I get the same thing
: all the time, and I think it deals with the character device set?
...probably related to my printer. if so, no big deal.
: Okay, so kppp can't find device ppp...
: Hmmm. Have you tried wvdial? If you're not still getting the
: "chap_passwd_hook" message, then I think you're in business.
wvdial is exactly what records the "chap_passwd_hook" error. it's kppp
that "can't find INTERFACE ppp0." not device, but interface, if that
makes a difference.
: try: ls -l /dev/pp*
: See if you have a device called /dev/ppp, that's how mine was setup. Kppp
: somehow assumed that I too was using a dev called ppp0. So I just,
: ln -s /dev/ppp /dev/ppp0
: And cha-ching, came up like a champ after that.
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 108, 0 May 26 13:04 ppp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 26 02:02 ppp0 -> /dev/ppp
...this is my current setup and it's not working. i've made sure
permissions on ppp are as they should be per the "Changes" file in the new
pppd docs.
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From: dekcarc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: broken ppp
Date: 26 May 2001 20:58:48 GMT
Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: dekcarc wrote:
: > big problems getting ppp to work over here...could use some help at this
: > point (10+ hours put into this so far). i upgraded pppd to 2.4.0 and went
: > to compile kernel 2.4.4 (up from 2.2.16).
: You might need to make some changes in /dev per the info in
: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes. I too had trouble getting
: ppp to work under 2.4-series kernels, turned out I had missed a
: vital step in the process, went back and followed the instructions
: in Changes regarding PPP, it came up like a charm.
i checked the Changes file. it mentions making some changes to this and
that if you've compiled ppp as modules (which i haven't). otherwise, it
just mentions what permissions should be on /dev/ppp, which i've set as
they should be.
: > i went back to my old kernel (2.2.16) and wvdial misbehaves the same as
: > under 2.4.4. kppp, though, reports "this kernel has no ppp support" with
: > 2.2.16.
: This relates to the above, I had a similar error message. I
: double-checked
: the kernel config, I did in fact have PPP support compiled in, so I was
: really at a loss. The changes I mentioned above cleared the problem up.
: Hope this helps.
doesn't seem to be anything in Changes that helps. :(
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: remote boot
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 22:56:48 +0200
Hi
I have a PPro 200 with an Intel Etherexpress 10/100 card. The box does
not have a harddisk right now and the floppy drive is broken.
Until I get it fixed, I would like to fiddle with some remote booting.
The ethercard has a bootprom with Intel PXE Agent 2.1.
So I configured my dhcp-server to give a bootfilename and IP
information. That is fine and the bootprom retrieves the kernel image (a
bzImage) from the tftp-server.
And now my problem arizes: Apparently it cannot boot the kernel. The
floppy drive goes nuts and just keep running and the string "4000" is
just printed endlessly on the screen. I tried disconnecting the floppy
drive (it heads for the trashcan anyway), but that does not help (of
course it does not go nuts anymore :)
I have tried with both 2.4 kernels and 2.2 kernels, but they give the
same result.
What am I doing wrong? Do I have to set up a PXE server? I don't need
fancy PXE boot menus or possibility to boot different kernels - just the
ability to retreive a kernel image and boot it...
TIA
Rasmus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: How do I make file creation time same as shown by 'date' command
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 20:59:30 GMT
In article <VoHP6.10$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Merlin wrote:
[-]
>interesting little gotcha, when trying to deal with file creation times -
>sorting particularly
[-]
Esp. since Unix does not keep a file's creation times at all 8-/
Juergen
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From: Nils Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: HELP formated drive
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 22:54:02 +0200
John Hasler wrote:
> Robert writes:
>> Anyway, someone here will probably know a better way using linux.
>
> If _all_ you did was delete a partition or alter the partition table in
> some way you can recover your data by simply recreating the partition with
> Linux fdisk. Messing with the partition table does not touch the data in
> the partition.
Yes, but if mke2fs already started to mess with the partition in question,
then a good deal of data on there may already have been deleted and
recreating it is probably not so easy. In fact, I don't know if it's at all
possible to recreate the data stored on a partition that you have run
mke2fs on...
Greetings
Nils
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My own worst enemy and /dev/dsp
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 16:45:29 -0500
Peter Kelly wrote:
> Hola.
>
> I've installed RH 7.1, but had problems getting linuxconf to work. It
> was telling me that /dev/dsp was busy.
>
> In a beer inspired act of stupidity, I deleted /dev/dsp.
>
> Since I have no information on what the device should look like, I
> need help.
>
> What are the parameters for mknod to re-create the device?
>
> Thanks. In the future, I promise not to su under the influence (SUI,
> or in linux, sUI).
>
> Peter
>
>
> When responding by email, please change the no-spam to disco.
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
> Spam really sucks.
>
>
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using linux as secondary DNS
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 16:49:31 -0500
Mark Johnson wrote:
> I'm not sure if what I do is the right way to do it. So i'll tell you want
> I think I want to do and you tell me what I really want to do.
>
> I would like to setup my Linux box as a secondary DNS in addition to the
> primary corporate DNS at our office. What I would like to do is set it up
> so that I can type http://voodoo or telnet foobar from my windows machine
> and it will resolve to the linux box. I know that I could easily do this
> by editing my local etc/hosts file on my windows machine but i don't want
> to do it this way becuase there are about 10 of us in our little cube pod
> at work that need this type of resovling. I don't want to bother out IT
> group about updating the DNS everytime we are screwing around with this
> type of thing.
>
> What I would like to do is add names willy-nilly to the linux dns server
> and not have to edit our hosts files on each of our machine...
>
> any suggestions?
>
Adding another DNS server is very likely to upset your network
administrator. Create a /etc/hosts file on 1 machine and ftp it to the
rest.
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installation Error
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 23:49:30 +0200
On Sat, 26 May 2001, KL wrote:
> I have actually placed it in the /tmp directory.
> I wonder the problem whether is due to the "unzip" options that I used.
> I used "unzip <filename>.zip -d /tmp/squid.
Is this the squid proxy? It comes in .tar.gz - perhaps you have a binary
distribution?
> > > I wanted to install a software "Squid" with the instructions given:-
> > > % ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/squid
> > > % make all
> > > % make install
Make sure ./configure is executable.
Rasmus
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Downgrade the system error message
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 23:53:19 +0200
On 25 May 2001, chris wrote:
> When i downgrade the Redhat system. when the system reboot, the
Why downgrade?
> system show this message:
>
> fail to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, error = 2
> VFS:cannot open root device
> Kernel panic : VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 8:00
Either it tries to mount the wrong partition or you do not have support
for the root media (scsi disk + scsi card) in the kernel.
If you know your root partition, try to boot with
'linux root=/dev/yourdevice' at the lilo pronpt. Else you will have to
compile / install a kernel with support for scsi disks and your scsi
adapter.
Rasmus
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Webserver
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 16:59:37 -0500
Danny wrote:
> Is there an on-line manual that gives you a step by step on how to set
> up a webserver on based on the "Apache Web Server"?
>
Start httpd. In RedHat-7.1, /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
Bring up a browser and point it to http://localhost, click on
"documentation"
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From: "chao cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,alt.os.linux
Subject: kernel 2.4.4 compilation
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 22:01:01 GMT
Hello,
After I compiled kernel 2.4.4 on my dual pentium pro.200 with SuSE 7.1, my
computer just freezes after the following lines:
SCSi subsystem driver revision 1.00
i9lu: PCI base = 0xfc00, irq=17, bios=oxc8000,scsi id = 7
i9lu: reset scsi bus
scsi0: initio INI-9x00 u.uw scsi device driver; revision1.03g
vendor: seagate model st15230w sun4.3g rev:0738
type:direct access ansi:scs revision:02
ini9100u: 13 0
scsi channel0: resetting for second half of retries.
scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
scsi host0 channel 0 reset (pid0) timeout -tryharder
scsi is being reset for host 0 channel 0
I did select the initio 9100 scsi driver during the compilation process.
Does anyone know hwo to get it to work? thanks!
Btw, it works fine with kernel 2.2.18!!! thanks!!
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IRQ change
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 00:02:58 +0200
On Sat, 26 May 2001, alik blochin wrote:
> hi folks
> my ethernet and sound card (on board VIA AC'97)
> are sharing one irq 11
> how do i change it?
> do i have to mess with bios setup
> or do it manually in linux ?
Is it giving problems? Most PCI devices share IRQ's without problems.
But you will probably have to mess with your BIOS if you want to change
the IRQ's.
Rasmus
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From: Nils Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My own worst enemy and /dev/dsp
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 23:18:44 +0200
Peter Kelly wrote:
> Hola.
>
> I've installed RH 7.1, but had problems getting linuxconf to work. It
> was telling me that /dev/dsp was busy.
>
> In a beer inspired act of stupidity, I deleted /dev/dsp.
>
> Since I have no information on what the device should look like, I
> need help.
>
> What are the parameters for mknod to re-create the device?
>
> Thanks. In the future, I promise not to su under the influence (SUI,
> or in linux, sUI).
Well, the file devices.txt in your <linux-source>/Documentation directory
should tell you about the current officially assigned device numbers.
Taking the information in there, you should be able to re-create your
/dev/dsp
Greetings
Nils
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