Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 2, Issue 37
moey tony
tonymoey at linuxmail.org
Fri Apr 30 06:59:57 UTC 2004
Hmm...wonderful explanation, Rick.
This was what i'd been wondering about for a long time... :-)
My Thanks too.
Rgds,
Tony
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> 1. Re: FC1 x86_64 - UPDATE (Guy Rouillier)
> 2. Re: Login Problem (brad.mugleston at comcast.net)
> 3. Re: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 2, Issue 30 (Rick Stevens)
> 4. Re: Login Problem (Rick Stevens)
> 5. Re: Login Problem (brad.mugleston at comcast.net)
> 6. Re: Login Problem (jludwig)
> 7. Re: Login Problem (brad.mugleston at comcast.net)
> 8. Old Problem (brad.mugleston at comcast.net)
> 9. Re: Fedora Unmount Problem (mylar)
> 10. I deleted root (Huan Deng)
> 11. SMP and network (administrator tootai)
> 12. Re: I deleted root (Lance)
> 13. GLIBC_2.0 not defined libc.so.6 with link time reference on
> redhat 9 (Vincent BIRRE)
> 14. Re: Old Problem (jludwig)
> 15. Re: I deleted root (jludwig)
> 16. Re: installed new hard drive - now can't find it (Dana Holland)
> 17. scripting question (jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com)
> 18. vncserver (Stewart Walker)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:38:22 -0400
> From: Guy Rouillier <guy-rouillier at speakeasy.net>
> Subject: Re: FC1 x86_64 - UPDATE
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
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> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:21:19 -0700
> Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> >
> > UPDATE: There is no way to force XFree 4.3.0's "radeon" driver to
> > handle the card. On my ASUS mobo, the 9600SE shows up as PCI bus IDs
> > 1:0.0 and 1:0.1. No amount of fiddling with the "BusID" options in
> > XF86Config will get the card to work. If you set up "Device" entries
> > for both BusIDs, the result is "No Device section for PCI ID 1:0:1".
> > If you comment out the section for 1:0:0, you get "No Device found".
> > The"ChipID" options result in "Not valid for this driver" errors.
> > Grrrr!
>
> If it helps, you are not alone. I also could not make much progress
> with 4.3. Worked fairly well with the 4.4.0 binary from XFree86.org.
> This is on an eMachines laptop with Athlon 64 3000+ and ATI Mobility
> 9600 with 64MB. I just installed Mandrake 10.0 RC1 last night, and the
> version of X shipped with that supports this card. I guess they've
> backported the radeon driver from 4.4.
>
> --
> Guy Rouillier
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:56:39 -0600 (MDT)
> From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net
> Subject: Re: Login Problem
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID:
> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404281754540.1499-100000 at mugleston.mugs.net>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
> > brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> > > On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Rick and gang,
> > >>>
> > >>>I lost the origional email so I'm going to repeat myself here.
> > >>>
> > >>>I changed the resolution on my screen and now the graphical login
> > >>>screen is all waco -the characters are about 1/4 screen high.
> > >>>
> > >>>Rick suggested I do the following from a standard console
> > >>>
> > >>>"kill `pidof gdm`"
> > >>>
> > >>>"telinit 3" then "telinit 5"
> > >>>
> > >>>reboot
> > >>>
> > >>>I tried that and got an error on the "Kill" I did it with and
> > >>>with out the single quote "`" (the one next to the #1 key). With
> > >>>out the single quote I got gdm not found.
> > >>
> > >>The "`" are called "graves" and yes, they're next to the 1 key. Those
> > >>cause the shell to run the command enclosed in the graves and return the
> > >>data spit to stdout to the rest of the command. So
> > >>
> > >> kill `pidof gdm`
> > >>
> > >>first causes the shell to run "pidof gdm" (which displays the process ID
> > >>of the "gdm" program). The PID is passed to "kill" to shut down gdm.
> > >>Since the /etc/inittab has a "respawn" on gdm, it will restart.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>I did the other commands anyway but it did not fix the
> > >>>login screen. The desktop screen is fine.
> > >>
> > >>Weird. Did you check the logs in /var/log/gdm?
> > >>----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > > OK I re-tried it with the graves and got the following message,
> > > as root,
> > >
> > > kill: usage: kill .......
> > >
> > > the file /var/log/gdm/:0.log ends with these lines
> > >
> > > GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 94500
> > > GetModeLine - hdsp: 1024 hbeg: 1072 hend: 1168 httl: 1376
> > > vdsp: 768 vbeg: 769 vend: 772 vttl: 808 flags: 5
> > > GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 94500
> > > GetModeLine - hdsp: 1024 hbeg: 1072 hend: 1168 httl: 1376
> > > vdsp: 768 vbeg: 769 vend: 772 vttl: 808 flags: 5
> > > GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 94500
> > > GetModeLine - hdsp: 1024 hbeg: 1072 hend: 1168 httl: 1376
> > > vdsp: 768 vbeg: 769 vend: 772 vttl: 808 flags: 5
> > > GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 94500
> > > GetModeLine - hdsp: 1024 hbeg: 1072 hend: 1168 httl: 1376
> > > vdsp: 768 vbeg: 769 vend: 772 vttl: 808 flags: 5
> > > (END)
> > >
> > > If, as root, I do a "pidof gdm" I get nothing back. If I do it
> > > as a user or su I get command not found.
> >
> > The "pidof" binary is /sbin/pidof. A normal user or root via "su" won't
> > find it as it's not in their path. An "su -" WILL find it.
> >
> > Try "gdm-binary" instead of gdm. I think the name changed.
> >
> > > For once I am able to be at my machine during the day - I'm
> > > building a brick wall in my yard so I'll be in and out.
> >
> > "All in all you're just another brick in the wall" -- Pink Floyd
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Well this brick in still in the wall - the gdm-binary did
> something but after all three steps the login is still giving me
> 1/4 screen characters.
>
> Is there a file I can edit direct that could fix it?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Brad
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:39:36 -0700
> From: Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
> Subject: Re: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 2, Issue 30
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <40904EC8.4010004 at vitalstream.com>
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>
> David Cartwright wrote:
> [MAJOR snippage -- Please only quote RELEVANT bits of previous messages]
>
> >>> I am about to go Fedora. I will be dumping rh9. I have ordered iso
> >>> disks from a vendor and will install on a new hard drive I am
> >>> installing to replace the small one currently running rh9.
> >>> I understand Fedora is standalone but I am not sure how it compares
> >>> to rh9. My request via this missive is for recommendations from you
> >>> out there as to what I should save from the rh9 install that would be
> >>> useful with Fedora, if anything. I could burn all the files to cd but
> >>> don't feel like doing that if not productive...they will set and
> >>> gather dust probably and I have enough of those kind already. I do
> >>> still have the original rh package disks. All suggestions welcome.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> David
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Well you want /home, and you probably want /etc for reference. But I
> >> would copy the small disk to the large disk, make sure it works by
> >> itself (boots, runs), the do an upgrade by booting the CD. Fedora
> >> Core 1 is precious little more than RH 10, so an upgrade is fairly
> >> painless.
> >>
> >> If you choose to install FC1 instead, don't restore /home until after
> >> the install is complete and you have created the users with the same
> >> UIDs as on the old drive.
> >
> > Thanks for the help. I chose to install FC1 and not upgrade rh9 to
> > Fedora...seemed easiest to me. Once I figured out how to restore windows
> > boot from grub dual boot (fdisk /mbr), I removed small hard drive,
> > inserted large drive, booted FC1 iso's and wallah! I did not know how
> > installation would differ when I booted Fedora disk without an active
> > boot drive which would technically be the case if I removed the Rh9
> > drive without first removing dual boot and restoring original windows
> > single drive boot. Probably would not be any different but I preferred
> > to go with what I was familiar with...if something went wrong with the
> > installation I would not be certain the boot issue didn't contribute.
> > The installation was problem free.
>
> The CDs don't care if you have a bootable drive or not. Once the boot
> loader (grub) gets on the disk, the only important thing is if your BIOS
> can find grub on whatever disk it's on. Look at your BIOS boot settings
> to see which order it tries to find boot loaders on. Odds are it will
> try the floppy, then the CD, then the first hard drive it sees. If you
> installed grub on /dev/hdb, then your BIOS won't see it. If you
> installed it to /dev/hda, then it'll work fine.
>
> > One quick question. Your note above suggests (my limited understanding)
> > that I need simply copy one linux hard drive to a second hard drive to
> > make the second usable and bootable on the same machine. Seems too simple.
>
> That sorta was. If they're identical drives, you _could_ do a "dd" to
> copy everything, but that is a bit simplistic. The best thing to do is
> to create partitions on the new drive, mount them one at a time, at,
> for example, /mnt/cdrom, then copy the corresponding original partition
> contents to the new drive's partition by doing:
>
> cp -ax /orig/mount/point/* /mnt/cdrom
>
> For example, if your original hard drive has partitions 1, 2, and 3
> mounted as /, /usr, and /var respectively, create similar partitions on
> your new drive by using "fdisk /dev/hdb". Then make the appropriate
> filesystems on the new drive:
>
> mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1
> mke2fs -j /dev/hdb2
> mke2fs -j /dev/hdb3
>
> You can then:
>
> mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/cdrom
> cp -ax /* /mnt/cdrom
> umount /mnt/cdrom
> mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/cdrom
> cp -ax /usr/* /mnt/cdrom
> umount /mnt/cdrom
> mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/cdrom
> cp -ax /var/* /mnt/cdrom
> umount /mnt/cdrom
>
> Once that's all done, you can make the drive bootable by:
>
> mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/cdrom
> chroot /mnt/cdrom
> grub-install hdb
> exit
>
> Your second drive should boot if you a) remove your first drive and b)
> jumper your new drive as "primary".
>
> Yes, it's involved. I've never actually done it in that exact way, but
> I have done it in chunks that amount to that.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com -
> - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com -
> - -
> - Veni, Vidi, VISA: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping. -
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:42:46 -0700
> From: Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
> Subject: Re: Login Problem
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <40904F86.5000200 at vitalstream.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>
> brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >
> >
> >>brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Rick and gang,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I lost the origional email so I'm going to repeat myself here.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I changed the resolution on my screen and now the graphical login
> >>>>>screen is all waco -the characters are about 1/4 screen high.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Rick suggested I do the following from a standard console
> >>>>>
> >>>>>"kill `pidof gdm`"
> >>>>>
> >>>>>"telinit 3" then "telinit 5"
> >>>>>
> >>>>>reboot
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I tried that and got an error on the "Kill" I did it with and
> >>>>>with out the single quote "`" (the one next to the #1 key). With
> >>>>>out the single quote I got gdm not found.
> >>>>
> >>>>The "`" are called "graves" and yes, they're next to the 1 key. Those
> >>>>cause the shell to run the command enclosed in the graves and return the
> >>>>data spit to stdout to the rest of the command. So
> >>>>
> >>>> kill `pidof gdm`
> >>>>
> >>>>first causes the shell to run "pidof gdm" (which displays the process ID
> >>>>of the "gdm" program). The PID is passed to "kill" to shut down gdm.
> >>>>Since the /etc/inittab has a "respawn" on gdm, it will restart.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>I did the other commands anyway but it did not fix the
> >>>>>login screen. The desktop screen is fine.
> >>>>
> >>>>Weird. Did you check the logs in /var/log/gdm?
> >>>>----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>OK I re-tried it with the graves and got the following message,
> >>>as root,
> >>>
> >>>kill: usage: kill .......
> >>>
> >>>the file /var/log/gdm/:0.log ends with these lines
> >>>
> >>>GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 94500
> >>>GetModeLine - hdsp: 1024 hbeg: 1072 hend: 1168 httl: 1376
> >>> vdsp: 768 vbeg: 769 vend: 772 vttl: 808 flags: 5
> >>>GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 94500
> >>>GetModeLine - hdsp: 1024 hbeg: 1072 hend: 1168 httl: 1376
> >>> vdsp: 768 vbeg: 769 vend: 772 vttl: 808 flags: 5
> >>>GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 94500
> >>>GetModeLine - hdsp: 1024 hbeg: 1072 hend: 1168 httl: 1376
> >>> vdsp: 768 vbeg: 769 vend: 772 vttl: 808 flags: 5
> >>>GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 94500
> >>>GetModeLine - hdsp: 1024 hbeg: 1072 hend: 1168 httl: 1376
> >>> vdsp: 768 vbeg: 769 vend: 772 vttl: 808 flags: 5
> >>>(END)
>
> I didn't comment before, but those appear OK.
>
> >>>If, as root, I do a "pidof gdm" I get nothing back. If I do it
> >>>as a user or su I get command not found.
> >>
> >>The "pidof" binary is /sbin/pidof. A normal user or root via "su" won't
> >>find it as it's not in their path. An "su -" WILL find it.
> >>
> >>Try "gdm-binary" instead of gdm. I think the name changed.
> >>
> >>
> >>>For once I am able to be at my machine during the day - I'm
> >>>building a brick wall in my yard so I'll be in and out.
> >>
> >>"All in all you're just another brick in the wall" -- Pink Floyd
> >>----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> > Well this brick in still in the wall - the gdm-binary did
> > something but after all three steps the login is still giving me
> > 1/4 screen characters.
>
> Did it blank out and restart X? It should have.
>
> > Is there a file I can edit direct that could fix it?
>
> Man, there are so many files involved in getting X to start it's a toss
> up as to which one it is. You can traipse through /etc/X11/gdm and
> see if there's something odd in that directory. It could also be
> something in xinitrc or the bluecurve configuration. I'd really need
> to see the actual screwup to even make an intelligent guess.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com -
> - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com -
> - -
> - To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. -
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:48:24 -0600 (MDT)
> From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net
> Subject: Re: Login Problem
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID:
> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404281847030.1499-100000 at mugleston.mugs.net>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
> > > Is there a file I can edit direct that could fix it?
> >
> > Man, there are so many files involved in getting X to start it's a toss
> > up as to which one it is. You can traipse through /etc/X11/gdm and
> > see if there's something odd in that directory. It could also be
> > something in xinitrc or the bluecurve configuration. I'd really need
> > to see the actual screwup to even make an intelligent guess.
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Well I'm the actual screwup - if I send you a picture of me will
> that help?
>
> Until then I'll have a look at the files - maybe even play with
> the resolution again - it can't get much worse.
>
> THanks,
> Brad
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:08:52 -0400
> From: jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: Login Problem
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1083200931.4094.43.camel at jMOD.home>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 19:56, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
>
> >
> > Well this brick in still in the wall - the gdm-binary did
> > something but after all three steps the login is still giving me
> > 1/4 screen characters.
> >
> > Is there a file I can edit direct that could fix it?
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Brad
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> You didn't inadvertently start a H.I.D program for the hard of seeing?
> --
> jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:12:23 -0600 (MDT)
> From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net
> Subject: Re: Login Problem
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID:
> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404282010240.1499-100000 at mugleston.mugs.net>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, jludwig wrote:
>
> > > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com
> > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list
> > > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to:
> > > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com
> > > Subject: unsubscribe
> > You didn't inadvertently start a H.I.D program for the hard of seeing?
> >
>
> Not that I know about - the characters are so large LOGIN just
> fits on the screen and PASSWORD doesn't. I would think a H.I.D.
> program would try to fit things on the screen.
>
> Do you know of any that come with Red Hat 9 that I may have
> started?
>
> Thanks
>
> Brad
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:25:12 -0600 (MDT)
> From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net
> Subject: Old Problem
> To: Red Hat Install <Redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID:
> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404282021220.1499-100000 at mugleston.mugs.net>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
> I've had this problem for a while and was wondering if someone
> else had seen it and found a fix for it.
>
> For some reason I only get partial copies of attached pictures.
> I'm begining to think I've set up a size limit as sometimes I get
> 3/4 of the picture sometimes I get nearly nothing of the picture.
> I'm thinking it's due to the resolution of the picture and maybe
> I'm getting X number of bites of info downloaded.
>
> I use Fetchmail to get my email. Does it have a size limit?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
>
> --
> Brad Mugleston, KI0OT
>
> There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that
> understand binary and those that don't.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:29:36 -0400
> From: mylar <micros50 at computer.net>
> Subject: Re: Fedora Unmount Problem
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1083209375.6171.58.camel at manhattan.ruffe.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 12:54, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > mylar wrote:
> > > I recently installed Fedora Core 1 on a Dell 4600 machine. Thus far the
> > > install went fine and everthing is working great.
> > >
> > > However I have one small problem. Every once in a while when I shut the
> > > machine down the system will hang indefinately when unmounting the file
> > > systems. This doesn't happen all the time, every so often it will just
> > > hit the step where it says "Unmounting file systems" and it will just
> > > stop dead.
> > >
> > > Any ideas as to why this happens ? I am using ext3 file systems.
> >
> > I've seen this myself on occasion, but mostly on SMP platforms. It's
> > a weird kernel race condition and is usually fixed by updating the
> > kernel (the current kernel is 2.4.22--1.2188nptl).
>
> Which would make sense since the machine is running kernel
> 2.4.22-1-2115.nptlsmp which was installed since the processor employs
> hyperthreading (1 processor appears as dual processor).
>
> Thanks for the help Rick.
>
> mylar
>
>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com -
> > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com -
> > - -
> > - Reality: A crutch for those who can't handle science fiction -
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
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> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:26:37 +0800
> From: Huan Deng <hdeng at microscience.com.cn>
> Subject: I deleted root
> To: "redhat-install-list at redhat.com" <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <MAILGzTG5Uilm47Frm200000786 at mail.microscience.com.cn>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312"
>
> hi :
>
> just now i have deleted user root by mistake,now i can't add user and do mang other things.What should i do to recover root?
> thak u
>
> ¡¡¡¡
>
> ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
>
>
> Huan Deng
> hdeng at microscience.com.cn
> 2004-04-29
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> Message: 11
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:23:49 +0200
> From: administrator tootai <admin at tootai.net>
> Subject: SMP and network
> To: Red Hat Install <Redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <4090BB95.5000301 at tootai.net>
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>
> Hi list,
>
> I have an P166MMX router under RH73 kernel 2.4.24. I want to switch to a
> bi processor Celeron PII on ASUS motherboard. I update my .config file like:
>
> - change processor from MMX to Celeron
> - activate SMP with 2 processors defined
> - remove APM
> - activate ACPI
>
> When I boot, everything is fine except that I can't have network
> working. I have 2 network cards and one ADSL PCI card. I get message
> "check if cards are plugged and working" when trying to modprobe modules.
>
> Have someone idea where to look? Could it be an APIC problem?
>
> Thanks for any hint
>
> --
> daniel
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 02:46:39 -0500
> From: Lance <wglide at ualr.edu>
> Subject: Re: I deleted root
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <4090B2DE.E44B4447 at ualr.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> You should be able to boot into single-user mode...
>
> If it boots up with LILO, when it says "boot:", type in "linux single".
>
> If it boots up with GRUB, select the linux entry, and type "e" to edit. Select the
> line that starts with "kernel", and type "e", again. At the end of the line, add a
> space and "single". Hit [enter] to get back to the main GRUB menu, and type "b"
> to boot.
>
> Once you're in single-mode, you can reset the root password with...
>
> passwd
>
> Huan Deng wrote:
>
> > hi :
> >
> > just now i have deleted user root by mistake,now i can't add user and do mang other things.What should i do to recover root?
> > thak u
> >
> > ¡¡¡¡
> >
> > ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
> >
> > Huan Deng
> > hdeng at microscience.com.cn
> > 2004-04-29
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > FACE-3.GIF Type: GIF Image (image/gif)
> > Encoding: base64
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 13
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:34:39 +0200
> From: Vincent BIRRE <vbirre at lelievre.tm.fr>
> Subject: GLIBC_2.0 not defined libc.so.6 with link time reference on
> redhat 9
> To: Red Hat Install <Redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID:
> <OF890A7259.5A484411-ONC1256E85.0039DA9A-C1256E85.003A1D75 at lelievre.tm.fr>
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
>
>
>
>
> hi list,
>
> I have an Redhat 9 and i want to install a Domino server on it .
>
> But when i want to install it i have this message.
>
> Have someone idea where to look?
> thancks for your help.
>
>
> /opt/lotus/notes/latest/linux/http: relocation error:
> /opt/lotus/notes/latest/linux/libnotes.so: symbole _res, version GLIBC_2.0
> not defined libc.so.6 with link time reference
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Vincent BIRRE
> vbirre at lelievre.tm.fr
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 14
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:37:59 -0400
> From: jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: Old Problem
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1083242278.3217.8.camel at jMOD.home>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 22:25, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> > I've had this problem for a while and was wondering if someone
> > else had seen it and found a fix for it.
> >
> > For some reason I only get partial copies of attached pictures.
> > I'm begining to think I've set up a size limit as sometimes I get
> > 3/4 of the picture sometimes I get nearly nothing of the picture.
> > I'm thinking it's due to the resolution of the picture and maybe
> > I'm getting X number of bites of info downloaded.
> >
> > I use Fetchmail to get my email. Does it have a size limit?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Brad
> I have had this issue also -- with Comcast and the sizes of email they
> allow. If I remember 10 Mbytes per box. Check this also.
> --
> jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 15
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:12:47 -0400
> From: jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: I deleted root
> To: wglide at ualr.edu, Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1083244367.3217.14.camel at jMOD.home>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 03:46, Lance wrote:
> > You should be able to boot into single-user mode...
> >
> > If it boots up with LILO, when it says "boot:", type in "linux single".
> >
> > If it boots up with GRUB, select the linux entry, and type "e" to edit. Select the
> > line that starts with "kernel", and type "e", again. At the end of the line, add a
> > space and "single". Hit [enter] to get back to the main GRUB menu, and type "b"
> > to boot.
> >
> > Once you're in single-mode, you can reset the root password with...
> >
> > passwd
> >
> > Huan Deng wrote:
> >
> > > hi :
> > >
> > > just now i have deleted user root by mistake,now i can't add user and do mang other things.What should i do to recover root?
> > > thak u
> > >
> > > ¡¡¡¡
> > >
> > > ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
> > >
> > > Huan Deng
> > > hdeng at microscience.com.cn
> > > 2004-04-29
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Name: FACE-3.GIF
> > > FACE-3.GIF Type: GIF Image (image/gif)
> > > Encoding: base64
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> >
> >
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> You can manually add root by;
> 1) mkdir /root
> 2) edit /etc/passwd and add the line
> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
> at the top of the file.
> 3) execute < passwd root >
> 4) reboot
>
>
> --
> jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 16
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:48:45 -0500
> From: Dana Holland <dana.work at navarrocollege.edu>
> Subject: Re: installed new hard drive - now can't find it
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <409123DD.1090602 at navarrocollege.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>
> > As others have suggested by now we didn't know this was hardware RAID.
>
> Yes, as I told Rick privately, we didn't know either. We have
> experience with any of this.
>
> Dell did walk us through various steps and the afacli utility *does* see
> the new drive. However, we still haven't figured out how to start
> using the space that's supposedly there. We know about fdisk, but we
> don't really know how to use it.
>
> I know this sounds very strange to most of you, but just think "grossly
> understaffed and underpaid education institution." It just takes us a
> while longer...
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 17
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:51:50 -0400
> From: jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com
> Subject: scripting question
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <OF3555B101.0804CE7B-ON85256E85.004EAAA3 at keane.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> Hello.
> I'm doing some scripting on linux and have a couple questions about
> how to get around a few builtin features. I'm on RH9 using Bash as a shell.
>
> 1. is there a way to run a command in a loop with graves, and keep the
> newline characters?
> or
> 2. is there a way to run exec without it exiting the current shell after
> the command ends?
>
> The task at hand is to compare volume groups with lsvg on a source and
> backup host, to check if something changed and they forgot to tell me....I
> know of other ways to do this, but i'm looking to expand shell scripting
> knowledge.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 18
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:01:18 -0600
> From: "Stewart Walker" <swalker at caspercollege.edu>
> Subject: vncserver
> To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <4090D26E.12864.2BA084 at localhost>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
> Hi,
>
> I've had vncserver running on a non production machine for 2 or 3
> weeks now and am really surprised at the number of logged attempts
> by un-authorized people trying to make a connection.
>
> As far as I can tell all un-authorized attempts have resulted in failures
> but it makes me wonder if they are trying to exploit a flaw in VNC I am
> unware of..
>
> Thanks
> \\|//
> -(@ @)-
> ===oOO==(_)==OOo======================
>
> Stewart Walker
> swalker at caspercollege.edu
>
>
>
>
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