<DIV>HI! All</DIV> <DIV>I am experiencing problems with my RedHat 9. I have been using Redhat for a long time already and i installed the version 9 some time ago - without problems. last two week some command are not working anymore. "halt" is one of them . I am not able to shutdown RedHat anymore, If i try to reboot the system, i have similiar problems. In this case, however, the system does try to reboot, but at the end i get the message " INIT:no more processes left in this runlevel " i have to turn off the computer. other error messages by rebooting : "/etc/rc6.d /S01reboot: line 204 :/sbin/reboot: succes. "/etc/rc6.d /S01halt: line 204 :/sbin/halt: succees. Thanx Sarat k12osn-request@redhat.com wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Send K12OSN mailing list submissions to k12osn@redhat.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to k12osn-request@redhat.com You can reach the person managing the list at k12osn-owner@redhat.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of K12OSN digest..." Today's Topics: 1. RE: Kernel Panic with SATA RAID (Jim Kronebusch) 2. Re: Too Many Open Files (Shawn Powers) 3. RE: Kernel Panic with SATA RAID (Jim Kronebusch) 4. Samba help (Krsnendu) 5. RE: Kernel Panic with SATA RAID (Les Mikesell) 6. RE: Kernel Panic with SATA RAID (Les Mikesell) 7. koncole '-session' '02394823489jf032948942jk..' This starts on login??? (Brock Noland) 8.! Re: A question about gigabit (Terrell Prud?, Jr.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:39:07 -0500 From: "Jim Kronebusch" <JIM@WINONACOTTER.ORG> Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Kernel Panic with SATA RAID To: "'Support list for opensource software in schools.'" <K12OSN@REDHAT.COM> Message-ID: <003601c48eb8$4003e420$fb99060a@winonacotter.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > You should be able to change this by swapping the alias names > in /etc/modules.conf and rebooting. Cool. Just to be sure I understand this correctly let me verify. I would install K12LTSP with the defaults (which will configure the cards backwards). Then when the machine is completely loaded and finished I would boot up and make the /etc/modules.conf swap, reboot and be running fine. Let me know if this is inaccurate, otherwise I will assume it corr! ect and give it a try. Thanks --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.744 / Virus Database: 496 - Release Date: 8/24/2004 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Cotter Technology Department, and is believed to be clean. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:55:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "Shawn Powers" <SPOWERS@INLANDLAKES.ORG> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Too Many Open Files To: "Support list for opensource software in schools." <K12OSN@REDHAT.COM> Message-ID: <60941.12.32.72.67.1093884924.squirrel@www.inlandlakes.org> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 I'm not worried about the bittorrent client itself -- it was just a tool that SHOWED me there was a problem. When 70 more users come in tomorrow to use use their thin clients, I'm su! re they'll open more files than my azureus client -- even it I *am* download an entire season of MacGyver. ;) -Shawn BTW, so far so good -- no more errors... Huck said: > can you not tweak your bittorrent client to reduce the number of files > it tries to open? > Those two windows bittorrent clients you sent me links for had that as > an option... > > --Huck > > > Shawn Powers wrote: > >>I always hate asking questions of the list when I'm so far behind (395 >>unread messages.. it's been a rough few weeks) -- but school is about to >>start, and I'm getting a very scary message... >> >>When I am running azureus (a java bittorrent client) -- I am getting >>errors that there are too many open files. I remember this being an >> issue >>a while back, so I searched the archives, and came across the >> instructions >! >to edit /etc/sysctrl.conf -- BUT my default (4.0.1) installation already >>has fs.file-max = 65536 at the bottom!!! >> >>Then, I got to thinking... perhaps I should check my NFS /home server, >>which is running WBEL 3.0 -- I checked, and sure enough, there was no >>mention of fs.file-max in the /etc/sysctl.conf file. I added it, ran >>sysctl -p, and I'm waiting to see. >> >>My question, might that have solved the problem? It's a tough thing to >>"test" because it's difficult to open 65,000 files at will... ;) Would >>the file handles on my NFS server cause errors in applications on my LTSP >>server? >> >>Thanks for any input, >>-Shawn >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > K12OSN@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn &g! t; For more info see > > -- Shawn Powers Technology Director Inland Lakes Schools PHN: 231-238-6868 x9174 FAX: 509-356-7024 spowers@inlandlakes.org http://techcorner.inlandlakes.org --<DISCLAIMER, reasons frustrating for required now>-- The views, opinions, visions, thoughts, comments, sarcastic whims, forecasts, poetic outbursts, cynical wit, future plans, implementation ideas, OS preference, curricular insight, ice cream preference, or anything else I might infer are not the views of Inland Lakes Schools. Pretty much everything I say, do, think, or imply with punctuation should be considered my own delusions, and ignored completely. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:45:42 -0500 From: "Jim Kronebusch" <JIM@WINONACOTTER.ORG> Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Kernel Panic with SATA RAID To: "'Support list for opensource software in schools.'" <K12OSN@REDHAT.COM> Message-ID: <003701c48eb9$2b90a450$fb99060a@winonacotter.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > The only thing even close that I've used is a 3ware IDE raid > controller and it appears to the kernel as a SCSI device even > though the drives are IDE. The rest of the box sounds fairly > ordinary so I'd guess the problem is with the raid controller > or driver. Depending on when it crashes, it may not have the > modules needed to access the controller in the initial > ramdisk. You load the kernel with bios calls, but when the > kernel detects devices it has to be able to connect up the > disk driver before it can do much else, so if the driver > isn't built into the kernel the module has to be on the > ramdisk. This sounds like what is happening to me. I assumed that for some reason the kernel saw the SATA as a SCSI controller! and the reason for the crash is the driver or something isn't right and since it can't access the data correctly the kernel panics and I am done. Any ideas on how to fix this or should I look at purchasing a new controller that is known to work? If a new controller is the only way does anyone know of a SATA controller known to work? At this point I would rather eat a few hundred bucks than delay the server too long. Thanks --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.744 / Virus Database: 496 - Release Date: 8/24/2004 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Cotter Technology Department, and is believed to be clean. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 06:22:23 -0700 From: "Krsnendu" <KRSNENDU@ORCON.NET.NZ> Subject: [K12OSN] Samba help To: <K12OSN@REDHAT.COM> Message-ID: <008101c48f5d$8d486940$0200a8c0@harekrishna.school.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I want to set up my K12LTSP server as the file server for our small school. I was planning to link the My documents folders from each desktop computer on the network to the homes partition of the server. This way we can just backup the homes partition and all our data is backed up in one go. So that is my goal; here is where I need help. 1. I can't access SWAT through the network. From the server machine, if I connect using localhost:901 it connects, but if I use the "ipaddress of the server":901 it says the "document contains no data" Using Opera on another machine it asks to download a zero size file called status. I have another samba server running on Vector Linux. I can connect to this remotely without problems it is only the LTSP serv! er that has problems. The firewall is turned off. I can ssh and run remote X sessions on LTSP. It's just SWAT that doesn't connect at present. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /archives/k12osn/attachments/20040831/c1556626/attachment.htm ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:30:52 -0500 From: Les Mikesell <LES@FUTURESOURCE.COM> Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Kernel Panic with SATA RAID To: "Support list for opensource software in schools." <K12OSN@REDHAT.COM> Message-ID: <1093890651.15864.15.camel@les-home.futuresource.com> Content-Type: text/plain On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 12:45, Jim Kronebusch wrote: > > You load the kernel with bios calls, but when the > > kernel detects devices it has to be able to connect up the > > disk driver before it can do much else, so if the driver > > isn't built! into the kernel the module has to be on the > > ramdisk. > > This sounds like what is happening to me. I assumed that for some > reason the kernel saw the SATA as a SCSI controller and the reason for > the crash is the driver or something isn't right and since it can't > access the data correctly the kernel panics and I am done. > > Any ideas on how to fix this or should I look at purchasing a new > controller that is known to work? If you had a working machine to verify the module that needs to be present, you might be able to fix it up by booting the install CD with 'linux rescue', doing a chroot to /mnt/sysinstall where your drives are mounted, fixing up the modules.conf file, then doing a mkinitrd with your kernel version numbers in the right places on the command line. You might be wasting your time if the driver isn't actually working, though. > If a new controller is the only way > does anyone know of a SATA controller known to work? The 3ware IDE version works great and I'd expect the driver side of the SATA version to be the same but haven't used it myself. > At this point I > would rather eat a few hundred bucks than delay the server too long. An intermediate fix might be to install the base system on a different controller (single drives or mirrored IDE or SCSI would work), then mount /var and /home partitions from your raid controller if the only problem is booting from it. --- Les Mikesell les@futuresource.com ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:36:28 -0500 From: Les Mikesell <LES@FUTURESOURCE.COM> Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Kernel Panic with SATA RAID To: "Support list for opensource software in schools." <K12OSN@REDHAT.COM> Message-ID: <1093890988.15864.21.camel@les-home.futuresource.com> Content-Type: text/plain On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 12:39, Jim Kronebusch wrote: > > You should be able to change this by swapping the alias names > > in /etc/modules.conf and rebooting. > > Cool. Just to be sure I understand this correctly let me verify. I > would install K12LTSP with the defaults (which will configure the cards > backwards). Then when the machine is completely loaded and finished I > would boot up and make the /etc/modules.conf swap, reboot and be running > fine. Let me know if this is inaccurate, otherwise I will assume it > correct and give it a try. That should be right for a 2.4 kernel. Kernel 2.6 now has an /etc/modprobe.conf file but it should work the same way. --- Les Mikesell les@futuresource.com ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:! 49:38 -0500 From: Brock Noland <BROCKN@GMAIL.COM> Subject: [K12OSN] koncole '-session' '02394823489jf032948942jk..' This starts on login??? To: "Support list for opensource software in schools." <K12OSN@REDHAT.COM> Message-ID: <741dcbb804083011495098ecf8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I have an account that has the follwoing execute on login? koncole '-session' '02394823489jf032948942jk..' Where is this coming from and how do I remove it? Brock ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:59:19 -0400 From: "Terrell Prud?, Jr." <MICROMAN@CMOSNETWORKS.COM> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] A question about gigabit To: "Support list for opensource software in schools." <K12OSN@REDHAT.COM> Message-ID: <41337907.7060609@cmosnetworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Mark Cockrell wrote: > Hel! lo all, > I've seen the recommendation for gigabit NICs in the K12LTSP server > a number of times on this list and I have a question regarding that. > Currently I have 10/100Mb switches in place, and when I set up my > shiny new terminal server, I used only one NIC and just tied it into > my existing network so that it can be accessed from anywhere on the > LAN. So, here's my question: With everything else on my LAN being > 10/100 would gigabit help me at all. I could buy a new gigabit switch > and connect the server to it and it to the rest of my network, but it > seems to me that I would just be moving the bottleneck up the stream a > few inches. Is my thinking correct, or would a gigabit switch, even > if it's the only one on the network, be advantageous? I welcome any > thoughts on the subject. > You betcha it'll help, and the boxes on the same switch as the gigabit-enabled ! K12LTSP server will notice the benefit the most. I also use a single-NIC install, but my NIC is Gig-E, so my thin clients don't really have any network bandwidth issues. See, X11 can suck up a lot of traffic. If you are connecting this new gigabit switch to the rest of the LAN via a 10/100 connection (say, a crossover cable), then the folks "downstream" won't see as much benefit. They will probably see a little bit because there's just more server bandwidth to share. The way to do it, so that the entire school benefits, is to put Gig-E links between all of your switches. This is what we do in my district, and so it doesn't matter if you're physically next to the server or way across the school in a distant wiring closet. The response time is the same. --TP _____________________ Do you GNU!? Win freedom from all but 1 of 4000 spams with Mozilla Thunderbird. Download it now. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn End of K12OSN Digest, Vol 6, Issue 134 ************************************** </BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1> <a href="http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=21626/*http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com">ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger</a> - all new features - even more fun!