Linux-Setup Digest #371, Volume #21 Mon, 4 Jun 01 17:13:13 EDT
Contents:
linux (william)
Strange File Problems (Edwin Johnson)
Re: Art's Linux for Newbies FAQ (Dick Wannamaker)
Geforce2 Go and XFree 4.0.3 ("T. J. Domsalla")
Re: lp: no devices found... (Laurent Bloch)
Re: SCSI problems (John English)
Re: linux ("Bluesky")
NFS corrupts large files ("Mark Gaschermann")
Re: Art's Linux for Newbies FAQ (Jim Agnew)
Test ("Fed Up Customer")
shared library hell ("nemo")
Error when installed rh71. Help please? ("Quantum")
phone support for rh linux. ("Liverpool_fc")
Re: phone support for rh linux. (LinuxBear)
Re: Error when installed rh71. Help please? (Yidao Cai)
Re: lp: no devices found... (Laurent Bloch)
Re: Netscape - How Can I Install/Run? ("Gregory D. Horne")
Ncurses and menuconfig (James Fraser)
Installing LimeWire (Marc Van Schandevijl)
Re: Error when installed rh71. Help please? ("KW")
Re: various RH7.1 setup problems ("KW")
Re: linuxconf command doesn't work! ("KW")
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From: william <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 16:30:06 -0000
After 2 months I'm still trying to install Linux on my spare comp(ibm
thinkpad) I finally went to the library and got Linux for Dummies by Jon
"maddog" Hall. It had a CD with it Redhat 5.2 on It. It was great for
73 pages and then he assumes I know all the commands when a dialogue box
pops up and tells me to enter a "Mount Point" on the mount line...I have
no idea what to enter. He says to enter what I want(/,/usr,home etc) I trie
entering /home, and another box pops up, I have to have a /root (ext2) or
installation cannot proceed.
And that's where I'm stuck. Can anybody out there help me?
"Fustrated" William
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin Johnson)
Subject: Strange File Problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Jun 2001 16:29:30 GMT
I recieved an error that awk could not be accessed because of permissions.
It seems the file to which it was linked, gawk, is no longer correct,
according to my backup. I cannot delete it for it is somehow linked to a
socket or something. Below is what is reported when trying to remove, info
from file command, and ls -l command.
root@sky1:/usr/bin# rm -f gawk
rm: cannot unlink `gawk': Operation not permitted
root@sky1:/usr/bin# file gawk
gawk: setuid setgid sticky socket
root@sky1:/usr/bin# ls -l gawk
s-ws-wS--T 16397 16394 11892 18446744073709551615 Jan 4 2004 gawk=
Any suggestions would be appreciated. I've run e2fsck several times and it
cleaned up several other files, but not this one.
Thanks for any help. ...Edwin
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From: Dick Wannamaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Art's Linux for Newbies FAQ
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 12:35:17 -0400
Arthur Sowers wrote:
> Art's Linux For Newbies FAQ (ver 1.0, May, 2001)
>
> by Arthur E. Sowers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> Written in the public interest
> for those who want to get into Linux.
>
Essential information, no BS; no ego-tripping; fine work Art.
Dick
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From: "T. J. Domsalla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.x,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Geforce2 Go and XFree 4.0.3
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:34:42 +0200
Hi,
I recently installed SuSE Linux 7.2 (XFree 4.03) on a Dell Inspiron 8000
with Nvidia Geforce2 Go. Kernel is 2.4.5, Nvidia GLX and kernel driver
1.0.1251.
When starting X I get "Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module" and
"Screen found, but none have a usable configuration".
Did anyone get it running?
Thorsten J. Domsalla
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From: Laurent Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lp: no devices found...
Date: 4 Jun 2001 16:37:56 GMT
Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Is your parallel port enabled in BIOS?
Yes
>>> And, presuming you are using the
>>> installed kernel, is the parallel port module loaded? Is this line in
>>> /etc/modules.conf
>>
>>> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>>
>> Yes. When trying to load the module :
>>
>> /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/misc/parport.o: invalid parameter parm_io
>> /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/misc/parport.o: insmod
>> /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/misc/parport.o failed
>> /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/misc/parport.o: insmod lp failed
>>
Thank you Dave for your answers, they helped me to see where
the problem is: with the kernel and modules. After compiling
ten or twenty kernels of various flavors, I re-installed the
system from scratch. And the printer worked PERFECTLY. So I
recompiled the kernel (I need that because of my IDE CD-ROM
recorder working with SCSI-emulation), and the printer didn't
work any more. Well, I had a kernel for printing and another
for burning CD... Both of them are from the 2.2.19pre17 stub,
which is the default with Debian v2.2rev3
When inspecting the things, I had a look at the config. file
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig and observed that, even if I
selected parallel port and parallel port printer setting, the
file contained the value :
# CONFIG_PARPORT is not set
I was unable to force "make menuconfig" to change that value.
Did I offense a God of the Parport ? Have you an idea ?
Laurent
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From: John English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI problems
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 16:46:39 +0100
Thanks to those who replied, and to those who helped by private email.
I seem to be suffering from a bad case of versionitis...
Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> There's a known problem with FAT formatted media on MO disks (or
> anything which uses a 2K sector size) when run with a 2.4.x kernel.
Eric DESHAYES wrote:
> for writing cd, i have been told that you need the kernel 2.4.5(maybe
> 2.4.4).
Does anyone know whether these problems exist with earlier kernels?
Is there anything in RH7.1 which *requires* a 2.4 kernel, or could
I get away with a kernel "downgrade" to fix my problems?
I've certainly used the same M-O drive model on another box, many
moons ago (kernel version < 2, but I can't remember exactly) and
am quite happily burning CDs on a RH6.2 setup (but using a SCSI
burner)...
Any thoughts, anyone?
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From: "Bluesky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 02:26:46 +0900
"william" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> After 2 months I'm still trying to install Linux on my spare comp(ibm
> thinkpad) I finally went to the library and got Linux for Dummies by Jon
> "maddog" Hall. It had a CD with it Redhat 5.2 on It. It was great for
> 73 pages and then he assumes I know all the commands when a dialogue box
> pops up and tells me to enter a "Mount Point" on the mount line...I have
> no idea what to enter. He says to enter what I want(/,/usr,home etc) I
trie
> entering /home, and another box pops up, I have to have a /root (ext2) or
> installation cannot proceed.
> And that's where I'm stuck. Can anybody out there help me?
> "Fustrated" William
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
welcome to the Land of Frustration ;-)
I got stuck for many months before I can understand how to install Linux,
partly because of having no time to read or search for good books or info
and mainly because I am a moron.
to install Linux, you need to have at least 3 partitions:
1. /boot , best as the first 16mb-52mb of the hard disk, primary.
2. / (or /root ), primary or logical
3. < /swap >, about 128mb or more; primary or logical.
Each of this is the "mount point".
The size of < /root > partition depends on version.
In redhat 7.1 it needs more than 300 mb. But if you do not allocate
enough space, there is a message later, so just go back and resize
the partition until you can install.
Other mount points, like /home; /usr; /temp
can be optional if you do not have space.
yours Still-Frustrated,
SN
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From: "Mark Gaschermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NFS corrupts large files
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 12:50:17 -0500
When I try to transfer large files (, or many smaller files) I seem to
lose data and the files are corrupted.
My /var/log/messages file shows many entries as follows:
May 31 22:05:54 powerland kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
May 31 22:05:54 powerland kernel: 03:41: rw=0, want=339480524, limit=1661152
I recently upgraded to RedHat 7.1 and I'm wondering if I didn't allocate
enough swap space (swap is 96 megs, RAM is also 96 M)
Any other ideas??
Mark G
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From: Jim Agnew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Art's Linux for Newbies FAQ
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 14:13:53 -0400
GREAT JOB!!!!!!! Thanks...
Arthur Sowers wrote:
> Art's Linux For Newbies FAQ (ver 1.0, May, 2001)
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From: "Fed Up Customer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Test
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 19:49:47 +0100
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From: "nemo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: shared library hell
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 19:00:40 GMT
Greets!
Need some help here.
I'd like to try out some other newsreaders besides Pan but I've succeeded
in mungeing something in my DLL system when I was installing KDE-2.1.1,
with the result that:
(a) I must use --force and --nodeps to install any rpm package, even when
the relevant dlls are installed, their paths show up in ld.so.conf and
I've run ldconf.
(b) Installs of tar.gz stuff fail often because of problems locating
libraries (I think).
I got the suggestion of reinstalling the system. Thanks but I'm thinking
I can repair things w/o such a drastic move. I'm running Mandrake 7.2,
which I don't love, but I simply don't have time right now for the
adventure of reinstalling the system which otherwise functions well.
I look forward to suggestions. Thanks very much!
F.
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Felmon John Davis
Union College / Schenectady, NY
os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
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From: "Quantum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Error when installed rh71. Help please?
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 19:55:37 +0100
Guys..
I get the following install error when tryin to create a /boot partition in
druid.
boot partition > 1024 cylinders
and it fails to create the boot partition???
As a side note a had 2 partitions created a 20gb partition on c: with win2k
on and a 6gb partition on d: with just data.. Both of these partitions are
fat32..
I then have 4 gb left for the install of rh7.1 but I cant seem to get this
onto the system...
PS I'm a linux newbie...
Thanks in advance...
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From: "Liverpool_fc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: phone support for rh linux.
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 15:46:31 -0400
hello,
phone support by rh is $325 per incident. does anyone know of any company
offering phone support for linux at a much lower cost?
thank you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LinuxBear)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: phone support for rh linux.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 19:59:25 GMT
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001 15:46:31 -0400, Liverpool_fc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello,
>
> phone support by rh is $325 per incident. does anyone know of any company
> offering phone support for linux at a much lower cost?
>
> thank you.
>
>
>
Who does Red Hat think they are, Microsoft?
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From: Yidao Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error when installed rh71. Help please?
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 15:02:30 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quantum wrote:
> I get the following install error when tryin to create
> a /boot partition in druid.
>
> boot partition > 1024 cylinders
You can use fdisk instead. RH will not complain. However,
1024 cylinder may be a problem with LILO (or maybe not),
and if yes, you need to find ways to get around it or
boot use a floppy.
cai
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From: Laurent Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lp: no devices found...
Date: 4 Jun 2001 20:03:38 GMT
Laurent Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When inspecting the things, I had a look at the config. file
> /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig and observed that, even if I
> selected parallel port and parallel port printer setting, the
> file contained the value :
> # CONFIG_PARPORT is not set
Sorry, the .config file wax correct, the fault is elsewhere...
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From: "Gregory D. Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Netscape - How Can I Install/Run?
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 20:08:49 GMT
First, you should probably install Netscape v4.77 in /usr/local/netscape, the
you can just remove the previous installation of Netscape v4.72.
Second, run ./ns-install under the root account and then check that the
permissions are such that regular users can also run Netscape. Netscape v4.77
uses an older version of libstdc++-libc6, so you might need to create a symbolic
link from libstdc++-libc6.1.1.so.2 to libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 (or whatever
newer version you may have installed).
Felix Miata wrote:
> hihihi wrote:
>
> > Alexvali wrote:
>
> > > I tried to install Netscape from a CD and it doesn't work. Could somebody
> > > please explain me how should I do it?
>
> > Was it a .rpm file ?
> > What was the command line that you tried ?
> > What where the error messages that you got from it ?
> > Where you ROOT when you did this ?
> > More details please :-))
>
> Using RHL 5.1 as root, with 4.72 installed:
>
> With wget I downloaded the gz file of Netscape 4.77 because I couldn't
> find an RPM of that version. After unzipping I ran ./ns-install from the
> temp dir unzipped to. It wanted to know where to install. There was no
> MOZILLA_HOME environment variable. The only choices that appeared to be
> where it was previously installed were /usr/bin/netscape and
> /usr/lib/netscape. I told it to install in /usr/lib/netscape. It claimed
> to successfully install, but when I went to Gnome and clicked the
> existing icon, I got 4.72 again.
>
> I found the Gnome rpm applet and told it to uninstall Netscape. It
> seemed that's what it was doing. Afterward, the startup icon remained. I
> clicked it and nothing happened. Then I ran the same ./ns-install as
> before. Again it claimed a successful install. This time clicking the
> Gnome Netscape icon continues to do nothing. The command line in the app
> starter is /usr/bin/netscape, which is a shell script. If I try to
> execute that script from a prompt, the message "it does not appear
> netscape is installed" displays.
>
> Where should I have told it to install?
>
> What should the MOZILLA_HOME be set to, and from which config file?
>
> What do I have to do to run 4.77?
> --
> A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under
> control. Proverbs 29:11 NKJV
>
> Team OS/2
>
> Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Fraser)
Subject: Ncurses and menuconfig
Date: 4 Jun 2001 13:43:20 -0700
It seems this question gets posted alot, but I've read through
backdated Ncurses posts and can't find anything that helps me out. I
appreciate any help that you can provide. Now, on to the problem...
I am getting an Ncurses error when running 'make menuconfig' on my
Slackware 7.1 box when trying to configure my new 2.4.5 kernel.
>snip<
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.5/scripts/lxdialog'
/usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or
directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries.
>>
>> You must have Ncurses installed in order
>> to use 'make menuconfig'
make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.5/scripts/lxdialog'
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
>snip<
I can, however, run 'make menuconfig' in my old kernel directory
(2.2.16). The only thing I can think of is that I have recently
upgraded to glibc 2.2, but I followed David Cantrell's intructions and
upgraded glibcso.tgz, zoneinfo.tgz, glibc.tgz and installed
glocale.tgz, gcc.tgz, gcc_g77.tgz, gcc_objc.tgz and upgraded
binutils.tgz. I also downloaded and installed ncurses.tgz from
slackware-current when I discovered that it wasn't working with
menuconfig. I've checked to make sure that ld is where it is supposed
to be, and it is, but what is that crt1.o that it refers to? Is there
a lib that I've missed?
I'm just starting to get 'adventerous' with my linux box and am afraid
I may have bitten off more than I can chew. help.
Jamie
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From: Marc Van Schandevijl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Installing LimeWire
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 22:45:30 +0200
I've already tried a couple of times to install LimeWire, but I always get
the same errormessage:
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root@vlinux:/home/marc > sh LimeWireLinux.bin
Preparing to install...
SIGSEGV received at bfffdf0c in
/tmp/install.dir.2007/Linux/resource/jre/lib/linux/native_threads/libjava.so.
Processing terminated
Writing stack trace to javacore3151.txt ... OK
LimeWireLinux.bin: line 1: 3151 Segmentation error
/tmp/install.dir.2007/Linux/resource/jre/bin/jre -Djava.compiler= -noverify
-cp
"::/tmp/install.dir.2007/InstallerData:/tmp/install.dir.2007/InstallerData/installer.zip"
com.zerog.lax.LAX "/tmp/install.dir.2007/temp.lax" /tmp/env.properties.2007
*************************************************************
Any idea what the problem could be?
--
Marc
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error when installed rh71. Help please?
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 15:53:08 -0500
Latest redhat is supposed to get around the 1024 limit but you will have to
use FDISK instead, read the release notes....
Best thing to do in that case is create a boot disk during install and boot to it the
first
time, then add LBA support to lilo, run lilo to add the changes and reboot to
see if it worked. If not, grab a version of lilo that has lba support, or try
something like grub as an alternate boot loader...
--
KW
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Yidao Cai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Quantum wrote:
>
>> I get the following install error when tryin to create a /boot partition in
>> druid.
>>
>> boot partition > 1024 cylinders
>
> You can use fdisk instead. RH will not complain. However, 1024 cylinder may
> be a problem with LILO (or maybe not), and if yes, you need to find ways to
> get around it or boot use a floppy.
>
> cai
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: various RH7.1 setup problems
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 15:56:18 -0500
Your security setting probably turned the daemons off by default. run
linuxconf or one of the other daemon managers and set them up to load in the
appropriate run-levels.
If your connected to the net, please use SSH instead of telnet ;)
--
KW
In article <N%GS6.6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tony Tay"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I just installed (my first go at installing) RH7.1 (intel) and hit the
> following problems:
>
> 1. What do i do to get HTTP to run ? I was able to use it as it is in RH7.0.
> When I typed http://192.50.50.20 (the IP address of RH7.1 machine) on
> the internet browser (Windows machine on LAN), it did not show the test page.
> I used to show it on RH7.0.
> Some kind soul please enligten me.
>
> 2. How to switch on Telnet sessions ? (I used medium security during install
> and it switched off Telnet)
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> regards,
> tony
>
>
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linuxconf command doesn't work!
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 15:57:56 -0500
RH7.1 doesn't install linuxconf by default. the two RPMS you'll want are
linuxconf (console) and gnome-linuxconf (GUI), or you might try the setup
command...
--
KW
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Unknown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello. I typed linuxconf, but nothing happens. Is there any reason for
> that?
>
> I am using:
>
> RedHat 7.1 (on hdc2)
> Gnome and KDE instolled (Using Gnome)
>
> I also have Win2K on hda1, having Lilo on the first sector of
> hdc2.
> Does this dual boot have anything to do with failing to do linuxconf
> command?
> I also tried as root, but was the same result.
>
> Any help will be appreciated , thanks.
>
>
> tsug
>
>
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