From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Thu Jul 1 00:18:34 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:18:34 -0600 (MDT) Subject: VPN Message-ID: My son just purchased a new PC - it's running windows XP home (or something like that) he wants to be able to connect to his machine here at home and my machine (running Red Hat 9). At school his apartment has a wireless linksys connection to the internet and here at home we have a wired linksys. I'm thinking he will need VPN and something to let him view the remote screen. I would also like it to go the other way so I can help him with computer problems - I don't know much but do better than he does some times. Suggestions on what software we should get? Thanks, Brad -- Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 1 00:42:00 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:42:00 -0700 Subject: makewhatis / updatedb In-Reply-To: <56533.207.173.117.242.1088635727.squirrel@207.173.117.242> References: <14754.198.60.114.90.1088483232.squirrel@198.60.114.90> <40E19ABC.5030200@vitalstream.com> <20040629182631.GA22843@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <40E1BFAE.1080004@vitalstream.com> <56349.207.173.117.242.1088635402.squirrel@207.173.117.242> <56533.207.173.117.242.1088635727.squirrel@207.173.117.242> Message-ID: <40E35DD8.4020503@vitalstream.com> karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > [repenting for top-posting] > >>Evil Top-poster here: >> >>Solution for updatedb running forever: >> >>updatedb -f "types" was basically ignored, so I added /mnt to my -e >>switch. The whole thing took about 5 minutes after fixing that running >>manually. > > > I found that updatedb -f "nfs,NFS" was ignored, too. So adding "/mnt,..." > to -e was necessary for it to work quickly and correctly. Hmmm. Looking at the man page (note the marked stuff): -f fstypes <<-- Exclude file systems in the comma-separated list dirs (<<--) from the slocate database. So, they talk about "fstypes" in the option description, but "dirs" in the text (and "dirs" in the description of "-e"). So it appears that "-f" is ignored or treated like "-e". In a word, WTF?? >>Thanks Bob, and Rick, even though . . . well, you know. Yeah, I do. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Give me ambiguity or give me something else! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 1 00:54:27 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:54:27 -0700 Subject: VPN In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40E360C3.8050200@vitalstream.com> brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > My son just purchased a new PC - it's running windows XP home (or > something like that) he wants to be able to connect to his > machine here at home and my machine (running Red Hat 9). At > school his apartment has a wireless linksys connection to the > internet and here at home we have a wired linksys. > > I'm thinking he will need VPN and something to let him view the > remote screen. > > I would also like it to go the other way so I can help him with > computer problems - I don't know much but do better than he does > some times. > > Suggestions on what software we should get? Aw, c'mon Brad! Mentioning XP on the RHIL? Shame on you! Oh, well. You say he has XP. What is he trying to connect to at your place? If you're running Windows of some sort, he can use remote desktop (Windows Terminal Services) from his box to yours. You'll need to set up port forwarding on your router to forward incoming TCP port 102 to your machine. Also note that this is not encrypted. Another option is for both of you to install TightVNC on both machines. This can be encrypted via SSH. You run the VNC server and the ssh daemon at your end, he runs the VNC client with the "-via" option specifying your machine: vncviewer -via your-ip your-ip:1 Again, you'll need to set up port forwarding, this time TCP port 22 to your machine. If you're using Linux, you probably already have the VNC server and ssh server on your machine. Start up sshd (service sshd start) and then run "vncserver" on your machine. Your son would run the same thing I mentioned above to access your machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "The bogosity meter just pegged." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gnichols at tpg.com.au Thu Jul 1 05:38:44 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 01 Jul 2004 15:38:44 +1000 Subject: Evolution problem In-Reply-To: <40E2F26D.2070405@vitalstream.com> References: <1088572064.2814.14.camel@barney.localdomain> <40E2F26D.2070405@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1088660326.1493.7.camel@barney.localdomain> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 03:03, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > Hello Folks, > > > > I have a small problem with Evolution 1.0.9-11 on RH8, the version that > > RH supplied as a security update for RH8 not long after RH8 was > > released. The problem has been around for a long time and I couldn't be > > bothered fixing it as updating Evolution is a labourious exercise > > involving gnome. > > > > However, I noticed a curious thing, if I ssh into my desktop machine > > from my laptop to run evolution (so as to keep things in one place on > > one machine) and I do a search on my inbox the resulting matches > > highlight the word searched on in the emails. If I then go to my desktop > > machine and do the same the search word is again highlighted but if I > > exit Evolution and re-start it and do the search again the search word > > is completely missing, no blank space in place of it just a single space > > character. This missing highlight is the problem I've had all along and > > I simply thought it was a bug in the Evolution version I have. > > > > The question is: Why does it work when I ssh in from my laptop and why > > does it still work when I go back to my desktop machine but NOT after > > killing Evolution and re-starting it on the desktop. Anyone have an > > answer? Both machines are running RH8 but the version of Evolution > > installed on the laptop is the original version from the distribution > > CDs, it hasn't had the security fix applied. But that shouldn't make a > > difference as when I ssh into my desktop machine to run Evolution on the > > laptop I am running the Evolution installed on the desktop, Aren't I? > > Yes and no. When you ssh in, you get the UID and GID of the person > you're SSHing as, but you don't get the environment (ssh doesn't do a > "login" unless you set it up do do so in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (the > "UseLogin" option). As a result, there are a number of enviroment > things that don't get set up the same as if you did an actual login. > This may cause Evolution to store it's state info in a totally different > spot than it does when you're on the machine locally. > > So, you ssh in and do your thing and evolution stores its state info > somewhere. You log in locally and evolution looks for its state info, > doesn't find it and works as it did via ssh. You run it a second time, > and _this_ time it DOES find its state info and Poof! Your problem > shows up. I'll bet you find that if you do do: > > su - user-you're-sshing-as > > and run evolution, THEN get on locally and do it, your problem will show > up immediately. Now, just what the problem is, I don't know. I don't > use Evolution much, so I can't speak to that. I'm just trying to > explain why the thing is behaving the way it does between ssh and local > sessions. > > NOTE: Using the "UseLogin yes" option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config will break > X11 forwarding. I recommend using "su - user-you-are-sshing-as" rather > than "UseLogin yes" to get the user's enviroment. Thank you Rick, I follow what you are saying. Karl in another reply thinks it is a font problem which will fit into the explanation you gave regarding user environment. I will check out the fonts used in Evolution on both machines and I bet I will find a difference, probably caused by the fact that the laptop was 'upgraded' from 7.1 to 8 whereas the desktop was a fresh install of 8 to a new HD. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Edwin Meese made me wear CORDOVANS!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - IMPORTANT. - - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - - only. If you receive this email and are not the intended addressee - - please inform the sender and delete this email immediately. 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If I then go to my desktop > > machine and do the same the search word is again highlighted but if I > > exit Evolution and re-start it and do the search again the search word > > is completely missing, no blank space in place of it just a single space > > character. This missing highlight is the problem I've had all along and > > I simply thought it was a bug in the Evolution version I have. > > > > The question is: Why does it work when I ssh in from my laptop and why > > does it still work when I go back to my desktop machine but NOT after > > killing Evolution and re-starting it on the desktop. Anyone have an > > answer? Both machines are running RH8 but the version of Evolution > > installed on the laptop is the original version from the distribution > > CDs, it hasn't had the security fix applied. But that shouldn't make a > > difference as when I ssh into my desktop machine to run Evolution on the > > laptop I am running the Evolution installed on the desktop, Aren't I? > > I would suspect it's a font issue. You may have chosen a font that doesn't > have a valid reverse/bold/whatever attribute. I've had this type of > problem and fixed it by changing the font I use. I apologize for not > knowing the actual font I selected, or even where I changed, it, but I > noticed the problem went away when I used VNC to run Evolution. In order > for VNC not to conflict with my desktop, or mess it up, I run VNC using > KDE and locally run Gnome. Try that to verify which does what, if you feel > up to it. > > Karl Hello Karl, thanks for the information. You could very well be correct. One thing I have noticed is the flaky setting of the character encoding in Evolution 1.0.8-11. No matter what you set it at it will be different when you next check. Will try changing the font. 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Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From sg at pobox.com Thu Jul 1 10:56:17 2004 From: sg at pobox.com (sg at pobox.com) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:26:17 +0530 Subject: Undelete Files In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200407011626.17178.sg@pobox.com> Sir, I am using RedHat Linux 9 and in GNOME-TERMINAL i have delete a file and now i am unable to undelete this file. Any one having idea how to recover a file which is deleted in GNOME-TERMINAL. Rajeev. *========================================== From jonathan.share at syngenta.com Thu Jul 1 12:06:49 2004 From: jonathan.share at syngenta.com (jonathan.share at syngenta.com) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 13:06:49 +0100 Subject: Undelete Files Message-ID: > -----Original Message----- > From: sg at pobox.com [mailto:sg at pobox.com] > > Sir, > > I am using RedHat Linux 9 and in GNOME-TERMINAL i have delete > a file and now i > am unable to undelete this file. > > Any one having idea how to recover a file which is deleted in > GNOME-TERMINAL. Restore it from your backup. You do make backups, don't you?!?! Sorry, not much help but I couldn't resist. I'm new (ish) to Linux myself but I believe your only chance is to use some special data recovery software. Search round the security related websites, they usually have articles on analysis of a compromised system. This usually involves the recovery of files intruders delete to hide their tracks, this is where you may find some useful links. Jon > > > Rajeev. > *========================================== > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > From azyle at integrity-software.com Thu Jul 1 14:33:52 2004 From: azyle at integrity-software.com (Algis Zyle) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:33:52 -0400 Subject: TimeZone Converter Message-ID: <000001c45f78$6fe10a70$1945a8c0@algiszyledell> Any simple Linux Utilities, shareware that will determine timezones if passed information. (i.e., Lat/Long, Zip Code, etc.) TIA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 1 17:18:30 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 10:18:30 -0700 Subject: TimeZone Converter In-Reply-To: <000001c45f78$6fe10a70$1945a8c0@algiszyledell> References: <000001c45f78$6fe10a70$1945a8c0@algiszyledell> Message-ID: <40E44766.30607@vitalstream.com> Algis Zyle wrote: > Any simple Linux Utilities, shareware that will determine timezones if > passed information. (i.e., Lat/Long, Zip Code, etc?) I don't know of one offhand, but a Google search should reveal such a beastie. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Vegetarian: Old Indian word for "lousy hunter" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From azyle at integrity-software.com Thu Jul 1 17:31:46 2004 From: azyle at integrity-software.com (Algis Zyle) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 13:31:46 -0400 Subject: TimeZone Converter In-Reply-To: <40E44766.30607@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <001101c45f91$49f339f0$1945a8c0@algiszyledell> -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 1:19 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: TimeZone Converter Algis Zyle wrote: > Any simple Linux Utilities, shareware that will determine timezones if > passed information. (i.e., Lat/Long, Zip Code, etc.) I don't know of one offhand, but a Google search should reveal such a beastie. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Vegetarian: Old Indian word for "lousy hunter" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- That's what I thought...But nothing for the nix world very strange ?, I figured we'd have such an animal for sure !, thanks anyway _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list 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 From jkinz at kinz.org Thu Jul 1 18:40:52 2004 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:40:52 -0400 Subject: Undelete Files In-Reply-To: <200407011626.17178.sg@pobox.com>; from sg@pobox.com on Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 04:26:17PM +0530 References: <200407011626.17178.sg@pobox.com> Message-ID: <20040701144052.A13389@redline.comcast.net> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 04:26:17PM +0530, sg at pobox.com wrote: > Sir, > > I am using RedHat Linux 9 and in GNOME-TERMINAL i have delete a file and now i > am unable to undelete this file. > > Any one having idea how to recover a file which is deleted in GNOME-TERMINAL. Its pretty unlikely you'll be able to recover your file. But up on http://www.google.com/linux if your search for "undelete file" you will find a number of entries. Some are "pay-for-use" software packages the purport to undelete files on Linux files systems. I have no idea if any of them work or not. If you work in the Gnome file explorer, your deleted files will be available in the "trash can icon" on your desktop, "Just Like windows". Best of luck. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. From jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com Thu Jul 1 22:48:27 2004 From: jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com (jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 18:48:27 -0400 Subject: pop3/imap clients can't read mail, /bin/mail can Message-ID: I've recently set up, or have tried to, mail on my FC1 server. being very green to mail servers, i chose to install qmail, and related packages, with the qmailrocks.org site. When i originally set it up, i had a DNS problem and found some patches that were suppposed to fix it, and after adding the patches and rebuilding qmail, i can no longer read mail through imap or pop3 (inclusive of telnet 110...list - shows no messages) I can, however, read mail using /bin/mail, after i linked the qmail files in /var/spool/mail/user to /home/user/Maildir. I also have no problem sending mail with /bin/mail, squirellmail or outlook(yeachhh!), not only does it send the mail, but i can read sent mail in any client as well As i mentioned i did have to setup links to /home/user/Maildir from /var/spool/mail/ to get /bin/mail to read (it like the others, would always send mail). I originally set them up with ln -s, but thinking some programs would handle direct links better, i lined one with ln, but still no difference. All the packages, independently are working...mostly, but i'm missing a few key things to tie it all together. Thanks for any advice you can thrown my way. Jeff all the packages FC 1 courier-imap-3.0.5 qmail-1.03 ucspi-tcp-0.88 daemontools-0.76 vpopmail php/apache/vpopmailadmin/squirrelmail. From gnichols at tpg.com.au Fri Jul 2 05:33:57 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 02 Jul 2004 15:33:57 +1000 Subject: yum update server + Network question. In-Reply-To: <40E2F519.1020909@vitalstream.com> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstre am.com> <1087019682.1276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CDCB3B.2000401@ vitalstream.com> <1087278862.1375.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CF250D .5060005@vitalstream.com> <1087350875.1159.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> < 40D06F15.9060203@vitalstream.com> <1087539584.1886.5.camel@localhost.localdo main> <40D316E2.1060703@vitalstream.com> <1088573164.2909.33.camel@barney.localdomain> <40E2F519.1020909@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1088746438.1673.19.camel@barney.localdomain> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 03:15, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 02:22, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: > >> > >>>On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 02:02, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Ah. I usually refer to that as "cockpit error" or "a short between > >>>>the keyboard and ground". I believe the scientific term is "Huh?" ;-) > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>Anyway, things are > >>>>>lookin' good now! > >>>> > >>>>Glad to hear it. > >>> > >>> > >>>Hi Rick, just further on the internet access for my laptop, I suppose I > >>>could have stuck with ssh and logged into my desktop machine and run Moz > >>>or Evo from the desktop machine as that works nicely and it has the > >>>benefit of keeping all my emails in the one place on the one machine. > >>>Ahhhh, options... options.... ain't Linux luvly. > >> > >>Take a look at running a VNC server on your desktop and a VNC client on > >>your laptop. Your laptop then gives you full GUI access to your > >>desktop. This can be tunneled via SSH as well for security. Very cool From gnichols at tpg.com.au Fri Jul 2 05:51:37 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 02 Jul 2004 15:51:37 +1000 Subject: yum update server + Network question. In-Reply-To: <40E2F519.1020909@vitalstream.com> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstre am.com> <1087019682.1276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CDCB3B.2000401@ vitalstream.com> <1087278862.1375.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CF250D .5060005@vitalstream.com> <1087350875.1159.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> < 40D06F15.9060203@vitalstream.com> <1087539584.1886.5.camel@localhost.localdo main> <40D316E2.1060703@vitalstream.com> <1088573164.2909.33.camel@barney.localdomain> <40E2F519.1020909@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1088747498.1870.9.camel@barney.localdomain> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 03:15, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 02:22, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: > >> > >>>On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 02:02, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Ah. I usually refer to that as "cockpit error" or "a short between > >>>>the keyboard and ground". I believe the scientific term is "Huh?" ;-) > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>Anyway, things are > >>>>>lookin' good now! > >>>> > >>>>Glad to hear it. > >>> > >>> > >>>Hi Rick, just further on the internet access for my laptop, I suppose I > >>>could have stuck with ssh and logged into my desktop machine and run Moz > >>>or Evo from the desktop machine as that works nicely and it has the > >>>benefit of keeping all my emails in the one place on the one machine. > >>>Ahhhh, options... options.... ain't Linux luvly. > >> > >>Take a look at running a VNC server on your desktop and a VNC client on > >>your laptop. Your laptop then gives you full GUI access to your > >>desktop. This can be tunneled via SSH as well for security. Very cool From gnichols at tpg.com.au Fri Jul 2 06:26:44 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 02 Jul 2004 16:26:44 +1000 Subject: yum update server + Network question. In-Reply-To: <40E2F519.1020909@vitalstream.com> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstre am.com> <1087019682.1276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CDCB3B.2000401@ vitalstream.com> <1087278862.1375.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CF250D .5060005@vitalstream.com> <1087350875.1159.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> < 40D06F15.9060203@vitalstream.com> <1087539584.1886.5.camel@localhost.localdo main> <40D316E2.1060703@vitalstream.com> <1088573164.2909.33.camel@barney.localdomain> <40E2F519.1020909@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1088749605.2446.16.camel@barney.localdomain> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 03:15, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 02:22, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: > >> > >>>On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 02:02, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Ah. I usually refer to that as "cockpit error" or "a short between > >>>>the keyboard and ground". I believe the scientific term is "Huh?" ;-) > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>Anyway, things are > >>>>>lookin' good now! > >>>> > >>>>Glad to hear it. > >>> > >>> > >>>Hi Rick, just further on the internet access for my laptop, I suppose I > >>>could have stuck with ssh and logged into my desktop machine and run Moz > >>>or Evo from the desktop machine as that works nicely and it has the > >>>benefit of keeping all my emails in the one place on the one machine. > >>>Ahhhh, options... options.... ain't Linux luvly. > >> > >>Take a look at running a VNC server on your desktop and a VNC client on > >>your laptop. Your laptop then gives you full GUI access to your > >>desktop. This can be tunneled via SSH as well for security. Very cool From agelders at lightspeed.net Fri Jul 2 13:52:48 2004 From: agelders at lightspeed.net (Al Gelders) Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 06:52:48 -0700 Subject: Network config control by cron Message-ID: <1088776367.2525.4.camel@heart> Where do I look to find out how to activate and deactivate my ppp network interface using cron? These days auto disconnect doesn't work because my system is getting pinged every few seconds by hackers (I presume). -- al gelders agelders at lightspeed.net From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Fri Jul 2 16:18:14 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:18:14 -0500 Subject: Network config control by cron In-Reply-To: <1088776367.2525.4.camel@heart> References: <1088776367.2525.4.camel@heart> Message-ID: <20040702161814.GB25987@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 06:52:48AM -0700, Al Gelders wrote: > Where do I look to find out how to activate and deactivate my ppp > network interface using cron? These days auto disconnect doesn't work > because my system is getting pinged every few seconds by hackers (I > presume). > -- > al gelders > agelders at lightspeed.net How about blocking pings with your firewall? Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com God has a big eraser. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 2 16:35:05 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 09:35:05 -0700 Subject: Network config control by cron In-Reply-To: <20040702161814.GB25987@bobcat.cumbytel.com> References: <1088776367.2525.4.camel@heart> <20040702161814.GB25987@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <40E58EB9.4090000@vitalstream.com> Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 06:52:48AM -0700, Al Gelders wrote: > >>Where do I look to find out how to activate and deactivate my ppp >>network interface using cron? These days auto disconnect doesn't work >>because my system is getting pinged every few seconds by hackers (I >>presume). >>-- >>al gelders >>agelders at lightspeed.net > > > How about blocking pings with your firewall? That's one option. To shut it down via cron, add this to root's crontab: m h * * * /sbin/ifdown ppp0 where "m" = the minute you want it shut down and "h" = the hour you want it down. E.g. to shut it down at 2:30 p.m. 30 14 * * * /sbin/ifdown ppp0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rolandsdad at opengearbox.com Fri Jul 2 17:14:48 2004 From: rolandsdad at opengearbox.com (Steve Larsen) Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 13:14:48 -0400 Subject: Network config control by cron In-Reply-To: <40E58EB9.4090000@vitalstream.com> References: <20040702161814.GB25987@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <1088776367.2525.4.camel@heart> <20040702161814.GB25987@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040702130935.00b7d788@192.168.0.127> At 09:35 AM 7/2/2004 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >Bob McClure Jr wrote: >>On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 06:52:48AM -0700, Al Gelders wrote: >> >>>Where do I look to find out how to activate and deactivate my ppp >>>network interface using cron? These days auto disconnect doesn't work >>>because my system is getting pinged every few seconds by hackers (I >>>presume). >>>-- al gelders >>>agelders at lightspeed.net >> >>How about blocking pings with your firewall? > >That's one option. To shut it down via cron, add this to root's >crontab: > > m h * * * /sbin/ifdown ppp0 > >where "m" = the minute you want it shut down and "h" = the hour you >want it down. E.g. to shut it down at 2:30 p.m. > > 30 14 * * * /sbin/ifdown ppp0 >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >- - >- grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Rick, I have a similar question, couldn't he just disable a portion of icmp? And if so .. how does that work .. disabling say just ping but leaving rlogin or rcp functional? Maybe I'm not asking this correctly, he could just comment out those ports and restart his network services, but is there a way to just chop out ping or rcp .. etc. ? Stephen Larsen rolandsdad at opengearbox.com From stuart at sjsears.com Fri Jul 2 17:43:14 2004 From: stuart at sjsears.com (Stuart Sears) Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 18:43:14 +0100 Subject: Network config control by cron In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20040702130935.00b7d788@192.168.0.127> References: <20040702161814.GB25987@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <1088776367.2525.4.camel@heart> <20040702161814.GB25987@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <5.2.1.1.2.20040702130935.00b7d788@192.168.0.127> Message-ID: <40E59EB2.90701@sjsears.com> Steve Larsen wrote: > At 09:35 AM 7/2/2004 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> Bob McClure Jr wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 06:52:48AM -0700, Al Gelders wrote: >>> >>>> Where do I look to find out how to activate and deactivate my ppp >>>> network interface using cron? These days auto disconnect doesn't work >>>> because my system is getting pinged every few seconds by hackers (I >>>> presume). >>>> -- al gelders >>>> agelders at lightspeed.net >>> >>> >>> How about blocking pings with your firewall? >> >> >> That's one option. To shut it down via cron, add this to root's >> crontab: >> >> m h * * * /sbin/ifdown ppp0 >> >> where "m" = the minute you want it shut down and "h" = the hour you >> want it down. E.g. to shut it down at 2:30 p.m. >> >> 30 14 * * * /sbin/ifdown ppp0 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >> - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >> - - >> - grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines - >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Hi Rick, > > I have a similar question, couldn't he just disable a portion of icmp? > And if so .. how does that work .. disabling say just ping but leaving > rlogin or rcp functional? Maybe I'm not asking this correctly, he could > just comment out those ports and restart his network services, but is > there a way to just chop out ping or rcp .. etc. ? this would probably do that: iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j DROP which will drop incoming icmp-echo-requests (pings) HTH Stuart From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 2 18:58:13 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:58:13 -0700 Subject: Network config control by cron In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20040702130935.00b7d788@192.168.0.127> References: <20040702161814.GB25987@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <1088776367.2525.4.camel@heart> <20040702161814.GB25987@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <5.2.1.1.2.20040702130935.00b7d788@192.168.0.127> Message-ID: <40E5B045.5010203@vitalstream.com> Steve Larsen wrote: > At 09:35 AM 7/2/2004 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> Bob McClure Jr wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 06:52:48AM -0700, Al Gelders wrote: >>> >>>> Where do I look to find out how to activate and deactivate my ppp >>>> network interface using cron? These days auto disconnect doesn't work >>>> because my system is getting pinged every few seconds by hackers (I >>>> presume). >>>> -- al gelders >>>> agelders at lightspeed.net >>> >>> >>> How about blocking pings with your firewall? >> >> >> That's one option. To shut it down via cron, add this to root's >> crontab: >> >> m h * * * /sbin/ifdown ppp0 >> >> where "m" = the minute you want it shut down and "h" = the hour you >> want it down. E.g. to shut it down at 2:30 p.m. >> >> 30 14 * * * /sbin/ifdown ppp0 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >> - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >> - - >> - grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines - >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Hi Rick, > > I have a similar question, couldn't he just disable a portion of icmp? > And if so .. how does that work .. disabling say just ping but leaving > rlogin or rcp functional? Maybe I'm not asking this correctly, he could > just comment out those ports and restart his network services, but is > there a way to just chop out ping or rcp .. etc. ? In iptables, you can block pings by including a rule in the INPUT chain: iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -j DROP meaning "add a rule to the INPUT chain so that if the protocol is ICMP, then drop the packet". You can create additional rules like these to block and/or allow almost any specific type of packet. Note that ping (more properly called "ICMP echo"--"ping" is the name of the program itself) uses the ICMP protocol (separate from TCP or UDP) and ICMP doesn't use ports. rlogin, ftp, rcp, ssh, http and most of the rest of the network-based applications you're familiar with are TCP-based and use ports. TCP is also connection-oriented, meaning that TCP guarantees delivery of packets from one end to the other, in sequence and with error checking (checksums). Some other applications you know (DNS, NFS, NTP) are UDP-based and also use ports. UDP, however, is connectionless (it does not guarantee delivery of any given packet in any specific order and the packets are not error checked). It is up to the application using UDP to provide the error checking, packet sequencing and such. Does that explain it a bit more? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - - process. Prepare to vi." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 2 19:08:51 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 12:08:51 -0700 Subject: Network config control by cron In-Reply-To: <40E5B045.5010203@vitalstream.com> References: <20040702161814.GB25987@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <1088776367.2525.4.camel@heart> <20040702161814.GB25987@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <5.2.1.1.2.20040702130935.00b7d788@192.168.0.127> <40E5B045.5010203@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40E5B2C3.1070609@vitalstream.com> Rick Stevens wrote: [big snip] > Note that ping (more properly called "ICMP echo"--"ping" is the name > of the program itself) uses the ICMP protocol (separate from TCP or UDP) > and ICMP doesn't use ports. I should have said: --"ping" is the name of the _client_ program itself) The server end of "ping" is usually built into the protocol stack itself or in the superserver (xinetd in newer Linux implementations). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If you can't beat your computer at chess...try kickboxing! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gerrynix at yahoo.com Sat Jul 3 01:33:52 2004 From: gerrynix at yahoo.com (gerry nix) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 18:33:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Can't remember lilo.conf Message-ID: <20040703013352.6988.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com> Hello Friends, ? Win 98 dual boot with Red Hat 8. Have to change the conf for Windoze to be the default OS at boot for a friend.. don't want to "blow it" :-) How do I make the change? ? lilo.conf looks like this at present ? prompt timeout=50 boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b message=/boot/message linear image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ?? label=2.4.18.18-14 ?? initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img ?? read-only ?? append="root=LABEL=/" ? other=/dev/hda1 ?? optional ?? label=win98 ? MTIA, Nix From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Sat Jul 3 02:18:53 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 21:18:53 -0500 Subject: Can't remember lilo.conf In-Reply-To: <20040703013352.6988.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040703013352.6988.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040703021853.GA30139@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 06:33:52PM -0700, gerry nix wrote: > Hello Friends, > ? > Win 98 dual boot with Red Hat 8. Have to change the conf for > Windoze to be the default OS at boot for a friend.. don't want to > "blow it" :-) How do I make the change? > ? > lilo.conf looks like this at present > ? > prompt > timeout=50 > boot=/dev/hda > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > message=/boot/message > linear > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 > ?? label=2.4.18.18-14 > ?? initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img > ?? read-only > ?? append="root=LABEL=/" > ? > other=/dev/hda1 > ?? optional > ?? label=win98 > ? > MTIA, > Nix In the top part, before the first "image=" line, there should be a line "default=_____". The "_____" should be one of the "label=xxx" values in the following stanzas. In your case, it should read default=win98 Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com God has a big eraser. From sg at pobox.com Sat Jul 3 04:32:52 2004 From: sg at pobox.com (sg at pobox.com) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 10:02:52 +0530 Subject: Automatic Internet connection. In-Reply-To: <40E5B2C3.1070609@vitalstream.com> References: <20040702161814.GB25987@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <40E5B045.5010203@vitalstream.com> <40E5B2C3.1070609@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <200407031002.52599.sg@pobox.com> Sir, I am using Redhat Linux 9 and qmail and i am having dial-up internet connection and download mail with fetchmail and i want to create a script which will excute with a gap of 30 minutes and it will up ppp connection and download mail and send all queue messages and then automatically discount internet connection. Now a days i am doing this process manually. but i want to make it automatic. Rajeev. *============================================== From stuart at sjsears.com Sat Jul 3 09:59:22 2004 From: stuart at sjsears.com (Stuart Sears) Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 10:59:22 +0100 Subject: Can't remember lilo.conf In-Reply-To: <20040703021853.GA30139@bobcat.cumbytel.com> References: <20040703013352.6988.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com> <20040703021853.GA30139@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <40E6837A.7080708@sjsears.com> Bob McClure Jr wrote: - > In the top part, before the first "image=" line, there should be a > line "default=_____". The "_____" should be one of the "label=xxx" > values in the following stanzas. In your case, it should read > > default=win98 > > Cheers, Oh, and in case you weren't aware of this... if you change lilo.conf do _not_ forget to run /sbin/lilo -v again before your next boot, or your changes will probably be ignored. Stuart From jkinz at kinz.org Sat Jul 3 12:49:18 2004 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 08:49:18 -0400 Subject: Automatic Internet connection. In-Reply-To: <200407031002.52599.sg@pobox.com>; from sg@pobox.com on Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:02:52AM +0530 References: <20040702161814.GB25987@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <40E5B045.5010203@vitalstream.com> <40E5B2C3.1070609@vitalstream.com> <200407031002.52599.sg@pobox.com> Message-ID: <20040703084918.A10148@redline.comcast.net> On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:02:52AM +0530, sg at pobox.com wrote: > Sir, > > I am using Redhat Linux 9 and qmail and i am having dial-up internet > connection and download mail with fetchmail and i want to create a script > which will excute with a gap of 30 minutes and it will up ppp connection and > download mail and send all queue messages and then automatically discount > internet connection. > > Now a days i am doing this process manually. but i want to make it automatic. > fetchmail -d 1800 puts fetchmail in deamon mode, w/30 min interval Place it in your .bash_profile, or better, put a fetchmail comman in cron for each user who needs to poll mail. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Sat Jul 3 14:37:21 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 09:37:21 -0500 Subject: Can't remember lilo.conf In-Reply-To: <40E6837A.7080708@sjsears.com> References: <20040703013352.6988.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com> <20040703021853.GA30139@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <40E6837A.7080708@sjsears.com> Message-ID: <20040703143721.GA1194@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:59:22AM +0100, Stuart Sears wrote: > Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > - > >In the top part, before the first "image=" line, there should be a > >line "default=_____". The "_____" should be one of the "label=xxx" > >values in the following stanzas. In your case, it should read > > > >default=win98 > > > >Cheers, > Oh, and in case you weren't aware of this... > if you change lilo.conf do _not_ forget to run /sbin/lilo -v again > before your next boot, or your changes will probably be ignored. > > Stuart Thanks, Stuart. I forgot to mention that. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com God has a big eraser. From stuart at sjsears.com Sat Jul 3 14:50:50 2004 From: stuart at sjsears.com (Stuart Sears) Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 15:50:50 +0100 Subject: Can't remember lilo.conf In-Reply-To: <20040703143721.GA1194@bobcat.cumbytel.com> References: <20040703013352.6988.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com> <20040703021853.GA30139@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <40E6837A.7080708@sjsears.com> <20040703143721.GA1194@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <40E6C7CA.9050403@sjsears.com> Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:59:22AM +0100, Stuart Sears wrote: > >>Bob McClure Jr wrote: >> >>- >> >>>In the top part, before the first "image=" line, there should be a >>>line "default=_____". The "_____" should be one of the "label=xxx" >>>values in the following stanzas. In your case, it should read >>> >>>default=win98 >>> >>>Cheers, >> >>Oh, and in case you weren't aware of this... >>if you change lilo.conf do _not_ forget to run /sbin/lilo -v again >>before your next boot, or your changes will probably be ignored. >> >>Stuart > > > Thanks, Stuart. I forgot to mention that. > > Cheers, no worries. It's precisely for that reason (among others, so not that precisely then) that I switched over to using grub... Stuart From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Sat Jul 3 15:05:48 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 10:05:48 -0500 Subject: Can't remember lilo.conf In-Reply-To: <40E6C7CA.9050403@sjsears.com> References: <20040703013352.6988.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com> <20040703021853.GA30139@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <40E6837A.7080708@sjsears.com> <20040703143721.GA1194@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <40E6C7CA.9050403@sjsears.com> Message-ID: <20040703150548.GA1907@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 03:50:50PM +0100, Stuart Sears wrote: > Bob McClure Jr wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:59:22AM +0100, Stuart Sears wrote: > > > >>Bob McClure Jr wrote: > >> > >>- > >> > >>>In the top part, before the first "image=" line, there should be a > >>>line "default=_____". The "_____" should be one of the "label=xxx" > >>>values in the following stanzas. In your case, it should read > >>> > >>>default=win98 > >>> > >>>Cheers, > >> > >>Oh, and in case you weren't aware of this... > >>if you change lilo.conf do _not_ forget to run /sbin/lilo -v again > >>before your next boot, or your changes will probably be ignored. > >> > >>Stuart > > > > > >Thanks, Stuart. I forgot to mention that. > > > >Cheers, > no worries. It's precisely for that reason (among others, so not that > precisely then) that I switched over to using grub... > > Stuart Well, I never had a problem remembering to run lilo. I was dragged, kicking and screaming, into using GRUB because LILO was deprecated and fading. I've still not learned GRUB to my satisfaction. My own danged fault, though. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com God has a big eraser. From gerrynix at yahoo.com Sat Jul 3 15:18:37 2004 From: gerrynix at yahoo.com (gerry nix) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 08:18:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Thanx all - Re: Can't remember lilo.conf In-Reply-To: <40E6C7CA.9050403@sjsears.com> Message-ID: <20040703151837.52029.qmail@web51902.mail.yahoo.com> > > Thanks, Stuart. I forgot to mention that. > > > > Cheers, > > no worries. It's precisely for that reason > > among others, so not that precisely then) that > > I switched over to using grub... > > Stuart > > I did remember to run /sbin/lilo -v but was unsure of the entry in lilo.conf. I also prefer grub... but this is not my box... Thanks for the very quick responses. -- Nix > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > From gnichols at tpg.com.au Sun Jul 4 05:24:43 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 04 Jul 2004 15:24:43 +1000 Subject: yum update server + Network question. In-Reply-To: <40E2F519.1020909@vitalstream.com> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstre am.com> <1087019682.1276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CDCB3B.2000401@ vitalstream.com> <1087278862.1375.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CF250D .5060005@vitalstream.com> <1087350875.1159.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> < 40D06F15.9060203@vitalstream.com> <1087539584.1886.5.camel@localhost.localdo main> <40D316E2.1060703@vitalstream.com> <1088573164.2909.33.camel@barney.localdomain> <40E2F519.1020909@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1088918684.1468.17.camel@barney.localdomain> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 03:15, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 02:22, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: > >> > >>>On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 02:02, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Ah. I usually refer to that as "cockpit error" or "a short between > >>>>the keyboard and ground". I believe the scientific term is "Huh?" ;-) > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>Anyway, things are > >>>>>lookin' good now! > >>>> > >>>>Glad to hear it. > >>> > >>> > >>>Hi Rick, just further on the internet access for my laptop, I suppose I > >>>could have stuck with ssh and logged into my desktop machine and run Moz > >>>or Evo from the desktop machine as that works nicely and it has the > >>>benefit of keeping all my emails in the one place on the one machine. > >>>Ahhhh, options... options.... ain't Linux luvly. > >> > >>Take a look at running a VNC server on your desktop and a VNC client on > >>your laptop. Your laptop then gives you full GUI access to your > >>desktop. This can be tunneled via SSH as well for security. Very cool From gnichols at tpg.com.au Sun Jul 4 05:55:57 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 04 Jul 2004 15:55:57 +1000 Subject: VNC Server Message-ID: <1088920558.1615.27.camel@barney.localdomain> Hello Rick, I am having trouble with Evolution at the moment where I am unable to reply to your post containing the instructions to get VNC working. I have tried four times so far and all messages have been empty. Perhaps the time has come to invoke yum and update Evolution :-) Anyway, to continue... The xstartup file created by the first invocation of vncserver did not contain the line 'unset SESSION_MANAGER'. After inserting that line I managed to get the XWindow I was expecting. However, to get the vncviewer to work I had to use the following command:- 'sudo vncviewer -via barney barney:1' Without the 'sudo' it failed with the 'unable to read password' error. Using sudo it asked for root's password on barney, then my user password on barney and it all worked. One thing I would like to change if I can is the size of the TightVNC window that comes up. The argument 'fullscreen' defaults to 'no' but that is almost as big as fullscreen. It is larger than the screen size and results in a scroll bar right and bottom. Is there a way to set the screen size? Thanks for all your help so far. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I stood on the leading edge, The eastern seaboard at my feet. "Jump!" said Yoko Ono I'm too scared and good-looking, I cried. Go on and give it a try, Why prolong the agony, all men must die. -- Roger Waters, "The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - IMPORTANT. - - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - - only. 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I'll let you know Thanks, Brad On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > My son just purchased a new PC - it's running windows XP home (or > > something like that) he wants to be able to connect to his > > machine here at home and my machine (running Red Hat 9). At > > school his apartment has a wireless linksys connection to the > > internet and here at home we have a wired linksys. > > > > I'm thinking he will need VPN and something to let him view the > > remote screen. > > > > I would also like it to go the other way so I can help him with > > computer problems - I don't know much but do better than he does > > some times. > > > > Suggestions on what software we should get? > > Aw, c'mon Brad! Mentioning XP on the RHIL? Shame on you! > > Oh, well. You say he has XP. What is he trying to connect to at your > place? > > If you're running Windows of some sort, he can use remote desktop > (Windows Terminal Services) from his box to yours. You'll need to set > up port forwarding on your router to forward incoming TCP port 102 to > your machine. Also note that this is not encrypted. > > Another option is for both of you to install TightVNC on both machines. > This can be encrypted via SSH. You run the VNC server and the ssh > daemon at your end, he runs the VNC client with the "-via" option > specifying your machine: > > vncviewer -via your-ip your-ip:1 > > Again, you'll need to set up port forwarding, this time TCP port 22 to > your machine. > > If you're using Linux, you probably already have the VNC server and > ssh server on your machine. Start up sshd (service sshd start) and > then run "vncserver" on your machine. Your son would run the same thing > I mentioned above to access your machine. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - "The bogosity meter just pegged." - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > -- Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Tue Jul 6 04:02:44 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 22:02:44 -0600 (MDT) Subject: VNC Server In-Reply-To: <1088920558.1615.27.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: Be very careful upgrading Evolution - I did the upgrade and it took over my computer, upgraded everything to be Evolution and I lost a lot of my basic programs. Upgrade with Evolution at your own risk. Brad On 4 Jul 2004, Graeme Nichols wrote: > Hello Rick, I am having trouble with Evolution at the moment where I am > unable to reply to your post containing the instructions to get VNC > working. I have tried four times so far and all messages have been > empty. Perhaps the time has come to invoke yum and update Evolution :-) > > Anyway, to continue... The xstartup file created by the first invocation > of vncserver did not contain the line 'unset SESSION_MANAGER'. After > inserting that line I managed to get the XWindow I was expecting. > However, to get the vncviewer to work I had to use the following > command:- 'sudo vncviewer -via barney barney:1' Without the 'sudo' it > failed with the 'unable to read password' error. Using sudo it asked for > root's password on barney, then my user password on barney and it all > worked. > > One thing I would like to change if I can is the size of the TightVNC > window that comes up. The argument 'fullscreen' defaults to 'no' but > that is almost as big as fullscreen. It is larger than the screen size > and results in a scroll bar right and bottom. Is there a way to set the > screen size? > > Thanks for all your help so far. > > -- Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From gnichols at tpg.com.au Tue Jul 6 05:51:09 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 06 Jul 2004 15:51:09 +1000 Subject: VNC Server In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1089093070.1350.5.camel@barney.localdomain> On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 14:02, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > Be very careful upgrading Evolution - I did the upgrade and it > took over my computer, upgraded everything to be Evolution and I > lost a lot of my basic programs. > > Upgrade with Evolution at your own risk. > > Brad Hi Brad, yes, you are correct. I have heard about the problems upgrading Evolution before and I have been a bit wary. Thanks for the tip. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes, "The Sign of Four" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - IMPORTANT. - - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - - only. If you receive this email and are not the intended addressee - - please inform the sender and delete this email immediately. 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From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 6 17:30:54 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 10:30:54 -0700 Subject: VNC Server In-Reply-To: <1088920558.1615.27.camel@barney.localdomain> References: <1088920558.1615.27.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: <40EAE1CE.80007@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > Hello Rick, I am having trouble with Evolution at the moment where I am > unable to reply to your post containing the instructions to get VNC > working. I have tried four times so far and all messages have been > empty. Perhaps the time has come to invoke yum and update Evolution :-) > > Anyway, to continue... The xstartup file created by the first invocation > of vncserver did not contain the line 'unset SESSION_MANAGER'. After > inserting that line I managed to get the XWindow I was expecting. > However, to get the vncviewer to work I had to use the following > command:- 'sudo vncviewer -via barney barney:1' Without the 'sudo' it > failed with the 'unable to read password' error. Using sudo it asked for > root's password on barney, then my user password on barney and it all > worked. On the remote end, you have to run "vncserver" or "xvnc" as the user you intend to log in as remotely. You probably ran vncserver on the remote end as root, so you have to be root at the local end, too. The "can't read password" error is caused by the vnc server running as root and you trying to log in as a mortal user. The mortal user you tried to log in as probably doesn't have a ~/.vnc/passwd file. > One thing I would like to change if I can is the size of the TightVNC > window that comes up. The argument 'fullscreen' defaults to 'no' but > that is almost as big as fullscreen. It is larger than the screen size > and results in a scroll bar right and bottom. Is there a way to set the > screen size? You mean the local VNC window is smaller than the screen size of the remote end, hence you have scroll bars. You can either turn on fullscreen (which really only works if your local screen size is the same or larger than the remote end) or you can use the "-geometry" option to specify your local window size. If you use a 1280x1024 display locally, fullscreen mode is essentially: -geometry 1280x1024x0x0 > Thanks for all your help so far. No problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Cuteness can be overcome through sufficient bastardry - - --Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 6 17:38:08 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 10:38:08 -0700 Subject: Fedora upgrade In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40EAE380.5060304@vitalstream.com> jonathan.share at syngenta.com wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have experience upgrading FC1 to FC2 on laptop? The upgrade works, but there are some teething problems with X. The most important thing I can recommend is after you do the upgrade, first boot to text mode and go into /etc/X11 and rename ANY "XF86Config*" file you find to start with "X-", e.g: XF86Config --> becomes --> X-XF86Config The new Xorg X system will read any XF86Config files it finds as well as its own xorg.conf file and sometimes they fight. Once you've done that, either reboot or "telinit 5" to get into X mode. > I'm not really in a position to recover if anything goes wrong but I really > could do with gimp 2 and currently experiencing dependency hell trying to > get it upgraded using RPMs > > Note: The laptop is not connected to any network therefore ruling out apt or > yum solutions... Whatever you do, BACK UP THE SYSTEM! Beg, borrow or steal some sort of backup medium and back it up. I can't stress this enough. > On another related note any idea why the gimp package (from the gimp > website) is complaining of a missing libcms.so.1 even though I have upgraded > using the lcms-1.10-0.9.0.i686.rpm which provides the missing file? Try rerunning "ldconfig -v" and see if it picks up the file. Then try reinstalling and/or rerunning. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - There are only 10 kinds of people in the world -- those who - - understand binary and those who don't - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Tue Jul 6 20:23:40 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:23:40 -0700 Subject: Chown and root Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8D1@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> I am trying to locate the file you modify to all all users to use the chown command. (without using SUDO or similar) Right now you have to be root. Thanks, Travis From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Jul 6 20:43:06 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:43:06 -0500 Subject: Chown and root In-Reply-To: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8D1@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8D1@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Message-ID: <20040706204306.GA3438@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 01:23:40PM -0700, Waldher, Travis R wrote: > I am trying to locate the file you modify to all all users to use the > chown command. (without using SUDO or similar) > > Right now you have to be root. > > Thanks, > Travis I believe that is not possible. Tell us what your situation and bottom line are. Perhaps there is another way to do what you want. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com A church alive is worth the drive. From gerrynix at yahoo.com Tue Jul 6 21:13:35 2004 From: gerrynix at yahoo.com (gerry nix) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:13:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Chown and root In-Reply-To: <20040706204306.GA3438@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <20040706211335.53734.qmail@web51908.mail.yahoo.com> Bob McClure Jr wrote:On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 01:23:40PM -0700, Waldher, Travis R wrote: > I am trying to locate the file you modify to all all users to use the > chown command. (without using SUDO or similar) > > Right now you have to be root. > > Thanks, > Travis I believe that is not possible. Tell us what your situation and bottom line are. Perhaps there is another way to do what you want. -- In SVr4 UNIX (for instance Solaris), this is a "tunable parameter" to return chown and chgrp "to the users". Not sure if the possibility exists in Linux.... Any kernel guys know the answer? -- Nix Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com A church alive is worth the drive. _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list 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 From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Tue Jul 6 21:31:33 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:31:33 -0700 Subject: Chown and root Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8D3@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure at earthlink.net] > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 1:43 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Chown and root > > > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 01:23:40PM -0700, Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > I am trying to locate the file you modify to all all users > to use the > > chown command. (without using SUDO or similar) > > > > Right now you have to be root. > > > > Thanks, > > Travis > > I believe that is not possible. > > Tell us what your situation and bottom line are. Perhaps > there is another way to do what you want. > In a nutshell, our users are used to having chown available to them on our HP/UX systems. The Linux systems (Specifically Yellowdog in this case, which is based off RedHat) don't allow this. Now, we may or may not want to turn this on, a subject of more debate. But, lets say we do, how do we do this? I've found an entry CAP_CHOWN in /usr/include/linux/capability.h that looks like I could use to enable this. I'de still want someone wiser and more knowledgeable than myself to confirm it though. Thanks, Travis From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Jul 6 21:51:45 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:51:45 -0500 Subject: Chown and root In-Reply-To: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8D3@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8D3@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Message-ID: <20040706215145.GA4347@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:31:33PM -0700, Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure at earthlink.net] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 1:43 PM > > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > Subject: Re: Chown and root > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 01:23:40PM -0700, Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > > I am trying to locate the file you modify to all all users > > to use the > > > chown command. (without using SUDO or similar) > > > > > > Right now you have to be root. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Travis > > > > I believe that is not possible. > > > > Tell us what your situation and bottom line are. Perhaps > > there is another way to do what you want. > > > > In a nutshell, our users are used to having chown available to them on > our HP/UX systems. Tell 'em, "Tough!" ;-) > The Linux systems (Specifically Yellowdog in this case, which is based > off RedHat) don't allow this. Yes, I recall, in the not too distant past, being able to chown as a mere mortal, and being dismayed that I couldn't in Linux. However, I have precious little need of it, so it's not bothered me. > Now, we may or may not want to turn this on, a subject of more > debate. I'm sure someone with more experience (Rick Stevens, call your office.) will have good information on why this is A Bad Idea(tm). I think I heard a good story at one time, but I don't recall it just now. Looking at the header file noted in your following para, I'd guess that removing chown from mere mortals was a POSIXification, and someone involved with POSIX had a good reason for it. > But, lets say we do, how do we do this? > > I've found an entry CAP_CHOWN in /usr/include/linux/capability.h that > looks like I could use to enable this. I'de still want someone wiser and > more knowledgeable than myself to confirm it though. Looks workable to me. That means you'd have to build a new kernel, something I've not done since modular kernels came out. Do be sure to keep your old (working) kernel in case something turns sour. > Thanks, > Travis Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com A church alive is worth the drive. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 6 22:25:04 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 15:25:04 -0700 Subject: Chown and root In-Reply-To: <20040706215145.GA4347@bobcat.cumbytel.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8D3@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> <20040706215145.GA4347@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <40EB26C0.3090909@vitalstream.com> Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:31:33PM -0700, Waldher, Travis R wrote: > >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure at earthlink.net] >>>Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 1:43 PM >>>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >>>Subject: Re: Chown and root >>> >>> >>>On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 01:23:40PM -0700, Waldher, Travis R wrote: >>> >>>>I am trying to locate the file you modify to all all users >>> >>>to use the >>> >>>>chown command. (without using SUDO or similar) >>>> >>>>Right now you have to be root. >>>> >>>>Thanks, >>>>Travis >>> >>>I believe that is not possible. >>> >>>Tell us what your situation and bottom line are. Perhaps >>>there is another way to do what you want. >>> >> >>In a nutshell, our users are used to having chown available to them on >>our HP/UX systems. > > > Tell 'em, "Tough!" ;-) > > >>The Linux systems (Specifically Yellowdog in this case, which is based >>off RedHat) don't allow this. > > > Yes, I recall, in the not too distant past, being able to chown as a > mere mortal, and being dismayed that I couldn't in Linux. However, I > have precious little need of it, so it's not bothered me. > > >>Now, we may or may not want to turn this on, a subject of more >>debate. > > > I'm sure someone with more experience (Rick Stevens, call your > office.) (RING! RING!) > will have good information on why this is A Bad Idea(tm). I > think I heard a good story at one time, but I don't recall it just > now. Looking at the header file noted in your following para, I'd > guess that removing chown from mere mortals was a POSIXification, and > someone involved with POSIX had a good reason for it. Mortal ability to change ownership of files was removed in POSIX for security and accounting reasons. For example, one could prevent a user from accessing their own files (initial "chown" implementations didn't check to see if the person "chown"ing the file owned it in the first place). or you could create some huge great file: dd if=/dev/null of=somefile bs=1M bc=4096 then a "chown my-nemesis somefile" would force your nemesis over their quota, thereby blocking their ability to create any files and blocking mail delivery to their account. That's just two examples. There are legions of others...none of them pretty. Users could also accidentally change the ownership of a file and no longer be able to access it. This would, of course, cause an irate phone call to the sysop where the caller would berate the sysop for not keeping them from shooting themselves in the foot. Linux chown does permit mortals to change the group of a file as long as they are also a member of the group (essentially a "chgrp"). >>But, lets say we do, how do we do this? >> >>I've found an entry CAP_CHOWN in /usr/include/linux/capability.h that >>looks like I could use to enable this. I'de still want someone wiser and >>more knowledgeable than myself to confirm it though. > > > Looks workable to me. That means you'd have to build a new kernel, > something I've not done since modular kernels came out. Do be sure to > keep your old (working) kernel in case something turns sour. It really isn't part of the kernel. That's part of the chown program. The only way to do it is to fetch the chown source, tweak it by adding: #ifdef _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED #undef _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED #endif after all the "#include"s and rebuilding it. You could also set up a shell script that does an sudo or is owned by root and has SETUID set. Trust me, users DON'T need a full-up chown and giving them one simply reinforces bad system administration policies and opens the door to a lot of sysop headaches. POSIX was right in restricting it. Don't give it to them. Of course, that's just my opinion...I could be wrong. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a - - rigged demo. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From ksganeshbabu at rediffmail.com Wed Jul 7 05:16:11 2004 From: ksganeshbabu at rediffmail.com (Ganesh Babu) Date: 7 Jul 2004 05:16:11 -0000 Subject: Problem in RH9 Message-ID: <20040707051611.28426.qmail@webmail32.rediffmail.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- ?Hello sir/madam I hav install RH9 in my IBM PC(ThinkCentre CPU & E50 VDU).The problem is that the icons on X-Window is looking large than normal.The modification in resolution makes nothing.plz help me in this situation.... From gnichols at tpg.com.au Thu Jul 8 03:44:58 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 08 Jul 2004 13:44:58 +1000 Subject: VNC Server In-Reply-To: <40EAE1CE.80007@vitalstream.com> References: <1088920558.1615.27.camel@barney.localdomain> <40EAE1CE.80007@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1089258300.1347.31.camel@barney.localdomain> On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 03:30, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > Hello Rick, I am having trouble with Evolution at the moment where I am > > unable to reply to your post containing the instructions to get VNC > > working. I have tried four times so far and all messages have been > > empty. Perhaps the time has come to invoke yum and update Evolution :-) > > > > Anyway, to continue... The xstartup file created by the first invocation > > of vncserver did not contain the line 'unset SESSION_MANAGER'. After > > inserting that line I managed to get the XWindow I was expecting. > > However, to get the vncviewer to work I had to use the following > > command:- 'sudo vncviewer -via barney barney:1' Without the 'sudo' it > > failed with the 'unable to read password' error. Using sudo it asked for > > root's password on barney, then my user password on barney and it all > > worked. > > On the remote end, you have to run "vncserver" or "xvnc" as the user you > intend to log in as remotely. Hello Rick, Yep! I started vncserver as my login name, graeme. > You probably ran vncserver on the remote > end as root, so you have to be root at the local end, too. Nope. Started it as my mortal self. > The "can't > read password" error is caused by the vnc server running as root and you > trying to log in as a mortal user. The mortal user you tried to log in > as probably doesn't have a ~/.vnc/passwd file. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so, because if I start vncviewer on the same machine I started vncserver the password is read no problem. It is only when I start vncviewer on the 'other' machine. > > > One thing I would like to change if I can is the size of the TightVNC > > window that comes up. The argument 'fullscreen' defaults to 'no' but > > that is almost as big as fullscreen. It is larger than the screen size > > and results in a scroll bar right and bottom. Is there a way to set the > > screen size? > > You mean the local VNC window is smaller than the screen size of the > remote end, hence you have scroll bars. You can either turn on > fullscreen (which really only works if your local screen size is the > same or larger than the remote end) or you can use the "-geometry" > option to specify your local window size. If you use a 1280x1024 > display locally, fullscreen mode is essentially: No, both machines have a 1024x768 screen size, the machine running the server and the machine running the viewer. When I log in from the machine running the viewer the window, labeled 'TightVNC: Graeme's X Desktop etc...', has scroll bars which interfere with the application. The 'actual' window size appears to be 1024x768, the same physical size as the screen, but the scroll bars take up display area causing the problem. > -geometry 1280x1024x0x0 If I start vncviewer with the command 'vncviewer -geometry 800x600x0x0 -via barney barney:1' to stick the window in the top right corner, or wherever, it still comes up bigger than the screen's real estate with the scroll bars. If I then click on the full screen icon (trc) the scroll bars disappear but the window is slightly larger than the machine's screen resolution/size (1024x768). The docs for X mention the the -geometry option but I wasn't able to get it to work when I start an Xterm for a particular size, simply puts up the usage screen saying the -geometry option was not valid. Perhaps the problem with vncviewer is linked with the X problem, I don't know. Thanks Rick, sorry to be a nuisance but I would like to sort it if I can. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue, a custom whereof the memory of man runneth not howsomever to the contrary, nohow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - IMPORTANT. - - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - - only. 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Ajai Khattri Sent by: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com 2004-07-08 13:16 Please respond to Getting started with Red Hat Linux To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux cc: Subject: Re: SMP machine On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 rhn.apacse at fedex.com wrote: > the another CPU is used? The system monitor only shows > CPU in total, the top command also shows the total only. If you press 1 in top it should show CPUs. Press ? to get a help screen or "man top" > If the second CPU is not enabled or in use, how would I > do to make it working? Are you running an SMP kernel? -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhn.apacse at fedex.com Thu Jul 8 05:24:03 2004 From: rhn.apacse at fedex.com (rhn.apacse at fedex.com) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:24:03 +0800 Subject: SMP machine In-Reply-To: Message-ID: "1" is not a valid option when I tried. I'm running smp kernel. Looks like the second CPU is not activated yet. Any idea? Thx and Rgds. Ajai Khattri Sent by: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com 2004-07-08 13:16 Please respond to Getting started with Red Hat Linux To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux cc: Subject: Re: SMP machine On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 rhn.apacse at fedex.com wrote: > the another CPU is used? The system monitor only shows > CPU in total, the top command also shows the total only. If you press 1 in top it should show CPUs. Press ? to get a help screen or "man top" > If the second CPU is not enabled or in use, how would I > do to make it working? Are you running an SMP kernel? -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ajai at bway.net Thu Jul 8 14:22:04 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 10:22:04 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SMP machine In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 rhn.apacse at fedex.com wrote: > "1" is not a valid option when I tried. So look at the help screen. -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 8 16:13:28 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 09:13:28 -0700 Subject: SMP machine In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40ED72A8.3070901@vitalstream.com> rhn.apacse at fedex.com wrote: > > Hi there, > > Could anyone advise how we are ensured the multiple CPUs > in the SMP machine are used by the system? I'm running > RHEL 3AS on a Compaq ProLiant ML370 (dual 3.2GHz CPUs > with Hyper-Threading). The dmesg only shows the CPU#0 is > "Intel machine check reporting enabled". How do I know > the another CPU is used? The system monitor only shows > CPU in total, the top command also shows the total only. > > If the second CPU is not enabled or in use, how would I > do to make it working? First, verify you're running an SMP kernel: uname -a If you see "SMP" in the data output, you're running an SMP kernel. To verify if your CPUs are seen: cat /proc/cpuinfo If it shows more than one CPU, then your CPUs are alive. Finally, a simple "top" should show you a CPU line for each CPU the system is using starting at the 3rd or 5th line at the top of the display, depending on the version of top you have. Press "q" to exit top. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - He who laughs last thinks slowest. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 8 16:22:25 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 09:22:25 -0700 Subject: VNC Server In-Reply-To: <1089258300.1347.31.camel@barney.localdomain> References: <1088920558.1615.27.camel@barney.localdomain> <40EAE1CE.80007@vitalstream.com> <1089258300.1347.31.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: <40ED74C1.6020208@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 03:30, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: >> >>>Hello Rick, I am having trouble with Evolution at the moment where I am >>>unable to reply to your post containing the instructions to get VNC >>>working. I have tried four times so far and all messages have been >>>empty. Perhaps the time has come to invoke yum and update Evolution :-) >>> >>>Anyway, to continue... The xstartup file created by the first invocation >>>of vncserver did not contain the line 'unset SESSION_MANAGER'. After >>>inserting that line I managed to get the XWindow I was expecting. >>>However, to get the vncviewer to work I had to use the following >>>command:- 'sudo vncviewer -via barney barney:1' Without the 'sudo' it >>>failed with the 'unable to read password' error. Using sudo it asked for >>>root's password on barney, then my user password on barney and it all >>>worked. >> >>On the remote end, you have to run "vncserver" or "xvnc" as the user you >>intend to log in as remotely. > > > Hello Rick, > > Yep! I started vncserver as my login name, graeme. Ok. >>You probably ran vncserver on the remote >>end as root, so you have to be root at the local end, too. > > > Nope. Started it as my mortal self. > > >>The "can't >>read password" error is caused by the vnc server running as root and you >>trying to log in as a mortal user. The mortal user you tried to log in >>as probably doesn't have a ~/.vnc/passwd file. > > > Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so, because if I start vncviewer on > the same machine I started vncserver the password is read no problem. It > is only when I start vncviewer on the 'other' machine. Uh, you realize that using the "-via" bit requires you to use the ssh password to get into the machine, then you need the vnc password to access the vnc server? Which password is pooping out? >>>One thing I would like to change if I can is the size of the TightVNC >>>window that comes up. The argument 'fullscreen' defaults to 'no' but >>>that is almost as big as fullscreen. It is larger than the screen size >>>and results in a scroll bar right and bottom. Is there a way to set the >>>screen size? >> >>You mean the local VNC window is smaller than the screen size of the >>remote end, hence you have scroll bars. You can either turn on >>fullscreen (which really only works if your local screen size is the >>same or larger than the remote end) or you can use the "-geometry" >>option to specify your local window size. If you use a 1280x1024 >>display locally, fullscreen mode is essentially: > > > No, both machines have a 1024x768 screen size, the machine running the > server and the machine running the viewer. When I log in from the > machine running the viewer the window, labeled 'TightVNC: Graeme's X > Desktop etc...', has scroll bars which interfere with the application. > The 'actual' window size appears to be 1024x768, the same physical size > as the screen, but the scroll bars take up display area causing the > problem. Ah, yes, that would be an issue. The scroll bars do occupy desktop space. You could specify a smaller desktop on the server using the "-geometry" parameter: vncserver -geometry 800x600 The vncviewer should have a bigger desktop than the server to prevent that issue. See next paragraph. > > > >> -geometry 1280x1024x0x0 > > > If I start vncviewer with the command 'vncviewer -geometry 800x600x0x0 > -via barney barney:1' to stick the window in the top right corner, or > wherever, it still comes up bigger than the screen's real estate with > the scroll bars. If I then click on the full screen icon (trc) the > scroll bars disappear but the window is slightly larger than the > machine's screen resolution/size (1024x768). The docs for X mention the > the -geometry option but I wasn't able to get it to work when I start an > Xterm for a particular size, simply puts up the usage screen saying the > -geometry option was not valid. Perhaps the problem with vncviewer is > linked with the X problem, I don't know. That's because the server is using a 1024x768 display (default) but you've specified an 800x600 window to show it in. Of course you'll have scroll bars. If you use: vncserver -geometry 800x600 on the server and vncviewer -via barney barney:1 the viewer shouldn't have scrollbars. Granted the desktop will be smaller, but no scrollbars. > Thanks Rick, sorry to be a nuisance but I would like to sort it if I > can. 'Sok. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If it's stupid and it works...it ain't stupid! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From j-pinkney at onu.edu Thu Jul 8 19:14:01 2004 From: j-pinkney at onu.edu (Jason Pinkney) Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:14:01 -0400 Subject: DAT not working Message-ID: <40ED9CF9.1000404@onu.edu> Dear redhat-install, my DAT tape drive used to work with my RHL system but yesterday, I tried to read a tape and it got messed up. At first, it seemed fine. It started reading the tape in response to my command: % tar tf /dev/st0 > listing but it wouldn't finish and give me a prompt. Inspection of "listing" showed that it only made it a little ways into the tar file (incomplete listing). Since then, it has been impossible to communicate with. Even after rebooting, the basic command % mt -f /dev/st0 status will either give no response and become a sleeping process that can't be killed, or it will say: /dev/st0: No such device or address Can you tell where the problem is? Here is some output from dmesg: % dmesg | grep scsi kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.8 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray (scsi0:A:6): 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 32, 16bit) scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message scsi0: Dumping Card State while idle, at SEQADDR 0x8 (scsi0:A:6:0): Queuing a recovery SCB scsi0:0:6:0: Device is disconnected, re-queuing SCB (scsi0:A:6:0): Abort Message Sent (scsi0:A:6:0): SCB 3 - Abort Completed. scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message scsi0: Dumping Card State while idle, at SEQADDR 0x8 (scsi0:A:6:0): Queuing a recovery SCB scsi0:0:6:0: Device is disconnected, re-queuing SCB (scsi0:A:6:0): Abort Message Sent (scsi0:A:6:0): SCB 3 - Abort Completed. scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue a TARGET RESET message scsi0:0:6:0: Command not found scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message scsi0: Dumping Card State while idle, at SEQADDR 0x9 (scsi0:A:6:0): Queuing a recovery SCB scsi0:0:6:0: Device is disconnected, re-queuing SCB (scsi0:A:6:0): Abort Message Sent (scsi0:A:6:0): SCB 3 - Abort Completed. scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message scsi0: Dumping Card State while idle, at SEQADDR 0x9 (scsi0:A:6:0): Queuing a recovery SCB scsi0:0:6:0: Device is disconnected, re-queuing SCB (scsi0:A:6:0): Abort Message Sent (scsi0:A:6:0): SCB 3 - Abort Completed. scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus reset: host 0 channel 0 id 6 lun 0 scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message scsi0: Dumping Card State while idle, at SEQADDR 0x9 (scsi0:A:6:0): Queuing a recovery SCB scsi0:0:6:0: Device is disconnected, re-queuing SCB (scsi0:A:6:0): Abort Message Sent (scsi0:A:6:0): SCB 2 - Abort Completed. I think most of these errors were generated while I was pushing the eject button and sending "mt -f /dev/st0 status" commands. any help would be appreciated! thanks, Jason -- Dr. Jason Pinkney Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Ohio Northern University 419-772-2740 http://www2.onu.edu/~j-pinkney From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 8 22:07:48 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:07:48 -0700 Subject: DAT not working In-Reply-To: <40ED9CF9.1000404@onu.edu> References: <40ED9CF9.1000404@onu.edu> Message-ID: <40EDC5B4.9060708@vitalstream.com> Jason Pinkney wrote: > > Dear redhat-install, > > my DAT tape drive used to work with my RHL system > but yesterday, I tried to read a tape and it got > messed up. At first, it seemed fine. It started > reading the tape in response to my command: > % tar tf /dev/st0 > listing > but it wouldn't finish and give me a prompt. Inspection > of "listing" showed that it only made it a little ways > into the tar file (incomplete listing). > Since then, it has been impossible to communicate with. > Even after rebooting, the basic command > % mt -f /dev/st0 status > will either give no response and become a sleeping process > that can't be killed, or it will say: > /dev/st0: No such device or address > > Can you tell where the problem is? > > Here is some output from dmesg: > % dmesg | grep scsi > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 > scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.8 > Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 > scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices > Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > (scsi0:A:6): 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 32, 16bit) > scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message > scsi0: Dumping Card State while idle, at SEQADDR 0x8 > (scsi0:A:6:0): Queuing a recovery SCB > scsi0:0:6:0: Device is disconnected, re-queuing SCB > (scsi0:A:6:0): Abort Message Sent > (scsi0:A:6:0): SCB 3 - Abort Completed. > scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message > scsi0: Dumping Card State while idle, at SEQADDR 0x8 > (scsi0:A:6:0): Queuing a recovery SCB > scsi0:0:6:0: Device is disconnected, re-queuing SCB > (scsi0:A:6:0): Abort Message Sent > (scsi0:A:6:0): SCB 3 - Abort Completed. > scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue a TARGET RESET message > scsi0:0:6:0: Command not found > scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message > scsi0: Dumping Card State while idle, at SEQADDR 0x9 > (scsi0:A:6:0): Queuing a recovery SCB > scsi0:0:6:0: Device is disconnected, re-queuing SCB > (scsi0:A:6:0): Abort Message Sent > (scsi0:A:6:0): SCB 3 - Abort Completed. > scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message > scsi0: Dumping Card State while idle, at SEQADDR 0x9 > (scsi0:A:6:0): Queuing a recovery SCB > scsi0:0:6:0: Device is disconnected, re-queuing SCB > (scsi0:A:6:0): Abort Message Sent > (scsi0:A:6:0): SCB 3 - Abort Completed. > scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus > reset: host 0 channel 0 id 6 lun 0 > scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message > scsi0: Dumping Card State while idle, at SEQADDR 0x9 > (scsi0:A:6:0): Queuing a recovery SCB > scsi0:0:6:0: Device is disconnected, re-queuing SCB > (scsi0:A:6:0): Abort Message Sent > (scsi0:A:6:0): SCB 2 - Abort Completed. > > I think most of these errors were generated while I was pushing the > eject button and sending "mt -f /dev/st0 status" commands. Did you change anything? Did you upgrade to FC1 or something along those lines? The errors you show are SCSI errors. The most common causes are bad SCSI bus termination or SCSI controller problem. If the SCSI card is a PCI card, try shutting down, opening the box and reseating the card (unscrew it, unplug it, plug it back in and screw it down again). You'd be amazed at how many problems that solves. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I doubt, therefore I might be. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From sleepless1104 at yahoo.com Thu Jul 8 23:25:12 2004 From: sleepless1104 at yahoo.com (sleepless1104) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 16:25:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Problem starting up Linux9 (multiboot with WinXP using PartitionMagic8) Message-ID: <20040708232512.77986.qmail@web21525.mail.yahoo.com> Hi! I'm trying to multiboot WinXP and Redhat Linux9 into my Toshiba laptop that has 40GB of HDD. I only have a single HDD so I partitioned it using PartitionMagic8 (PM) and using BootMagic (BM) included in PM as my bootloader. My WinXP installion/recovery CDs are a ghost copy and it is NTFS by default. I have WinXP installed first and then PM. To install BM, I created 100MB FAT on my existing C: drive and called this drive E: (D: is my DVD/CD-ROM). I was able to successfully install BM and run it upon starting my machine (makes me select between WinXP and MS-DOS before booting). I further partitioned my C: drive to have a data drive F: which has 32 GB of HD space. The next thing that I did is to create 3 partitions on F: (for "/boot","/", and swap). I had to to this first otherwise Disk Druid will use up all my remaining space. I used PM for this (normal partitioning and not through "install a new OS") and they are all FAT32 (will just format it through Linux installation). When creating "/boot" partition, I receive a message that it will be not bootable by DOS or WinNT but I created it within the 1024 cylinder. My "/" and swap spaces are and the end part of my disk -- F: drive between them and "/boot." My "/boot" partition is about 200MB, root is 8GB, and swap space 1024MB. Upon installation of Linux, I made a mistake of not creating a BootLoader then afterwards not making a boot diskette (the later is quite impossible as I have no disk drive). Also before getting to the Disk Druid Screen I received the message that goes something like "It cannot align the partition because another application make a partitioning not recorded in the Partition Table, etc.." However, it says that it is fixable so I ignored this message continued the installation process. I have selected Manual Partitioning so that I can select the partitions where to install which, formatted them all using ext2. And yes, unfortunately I did not install a boot loader. Afterwards, I just selected to install everything and accepted all the default values (except for security -- selected medium but I allowed all incoming messages -- anyway, I will not be connected to a network YET but will be... I just wanted to try the installing and then customize it later). Installation went successful. It completed and asked me to reboot. I did reboot but using WinXP. I needed to add Linux in BootMagic. I added it and booted my system using Linux. Unfortunately, it just displays "Preparing to Load Linux..." but it does not boot at all. I thought it was because of the bootloader so I placed my Linux CD again and tried to "upgrade". I now selected the "Intall BootLoader" and selected LILO. Afterwards, I chose it to be installed in the Linux Partition (in "\boot") and not in the MBR (according to BM Manual). I did not select any packages to be updated though. It did installed the bootloader (I think... because I saw status messages that it is loading, etc) but I got an error message regarding the kernel (can't remember exactly). I tried to reboot using Linux but it still won't work (not booting). If anyone could help me, please advice on me what to do. I am planning to doing a fresh install of Linux (just override the new one but now with the BootLoader) but using the same procedure: partition my HDD through PM and not add a new OS option, install Linux, add Linux in BM. Thanks! --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 8 23:41:41 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:41:41 -0700 Subject: Problem starting up Linux9 (multiboot with WinXP using PartitionMagic8) In-Reply-To: <20040708232512.77986.qmail@web21525.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040708232512.77986.qmail@web21525.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40EDDBB5.2080204@vitalstream.com> sleepless1104 wrote: > Hi! I'm trying to multiboot WinXP and Redhat Linux9 into my Toshiba > laptop that has 40GB of HDD. I only have a single HDD so I partitioned > it using PartitionMagic8 (PM) and using BootMagic (BM) included in PM as > my bootloader. > > My WinXP installion/recovery CDs are a ghost copy and it is NTFS by > default. I have WinXP installed first and then PM. To install BM, I > created 100MB FAT on my existing C: drive and called this drive E: (D: > is my DVD/CD-ROM). I was able to successfully install BM and run it > upon starting my machine (makes me select between WinXP and MS-DOS > before booting). I further partitioned my C: drive to have a data drive > F: which has 32 GB of HD space. > > The next thing that I did is to create 3 partitions on F: (for > "/boot","/", and swap). I had to to this first otherwise Disk Druid > will use up all my remaining space. I used PM for this (normal > partitioning and not through "install a new OS") and they are all FAT32 > (will just format it through Linux installation). > > When creating "/boot" partition, I receive a message that it will be not > bootable by DOS or > WinNT but I created it within the 1024 cylinder. My "/" and swap spaces > are and the end part of my disk -- F: drive between them and "/boot." > My "/boot" partition is about 200MB, root is 8GB, and swap space 1024MB. > > Upon installation of Linux, I made a mistake of not creating a > BootLoader then afterwards not making a boot diskette (the later is > quite impossible as I have no disk drive). Also before getting to the > Disk Druid Screen I received the message that goes something like "It > cannot align the partition because another application make a > partitioning not recorded in the Partition Table, etc.." However, it > says that it is fixable so I ignored this message continued the > installation process. I have selected Manual Partitioning so that I can > select the partitions where to install which, formatted them all using > ext2. And yes, > unfortunately I did not install a boot loader. Afterwards, I just > selected to install everything and accepted all the default values > (except for security -- selected medium but I allowed all incoming > messages -- anyway, I will not be connected to a network YET but will > be... I just wanted to try the installing and then customize it later). > > Installation went successful. It completed and asked me to reboot. I > did reboot but using WinXP. I needed to add Linux in BootMagic. I > added it and booted my system using Linux. Unfortunately, it just > displays "Preparing to Load Linux..." but it does not boot at all. > > I thought it was because of the bootloader so I placed my Linux CD again > and tried to "upgrade". I now selected the "Intall BootLoader" and > selected LILO. Afterwards, I chose it to be installed in the Linux > Partition (in "\boot") and not in the MBR (according to BM Manual). I > did not select any packages to be updated though. It did installed the > bootloader (I think... because I saw status messages that it is loading, > etc) but I got an error message regarding the kernel (can't remember > exactly). I tried to reboot using Linux but it still won't work (not > booting). > > If anyone could help me, please advice on me what to do. You didn't install a boot loader at all for Linux. You need to use the CD and boot in "rescue" mode. Let the system mount your Linux stuff under "/mnt/sysimage". Determine which boot loader you want to use. I recommend grub, but you can use lilo if you want. You'll need to create the appropriate config file and make sure you specify that the loader is to go into the "/boot" partition--NOT the MBR of the hard disk. > I am planning to doing a fresh install of Linux (just override the new > one but now with the BootLoader) but using the same procedure: > partition my HDD through PM and not add a new OS option, install Linux, > add Linux in BM. That's fine, but you MUST install the boot loader. If you want BM (bloody AWFUL acronym, that) to be the boot loader, you MUST make sure you install either lilo or grub in the /boot partition. Do NOT install it into the MBR of the drive or you'll clobber BM. In your scenario, BM will pass control to lilo or grub, which will then boot Linux. BM can't boot Linux by itself. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If this is the first day of the rest of my life... - - I'm in BIG trouble! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From csu4 at fedex.com Fri Jul 9 02:31:36 2004 From: csu4 at fedex.com (csu4 at fedex.com) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:31:36 +0800 Subject: SMP machine In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Ajar, I managed to solve the problem. I upgraded the kernel to the latest version by up2date. Now the system shows 4-CPUs perfectly (with Hyper-Threading turned on). Thx for your help. Ajai Khattri Sent by: To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux redhat-install-list-bounces@ redhat.com cc: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com Subject: Re: SMP machine 07/08/2004 10:22 PM Please respond to Getting started with Red Hat Linux On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 rhn.apacse at fedex.com wrote: > "1" is not a valid option when I tried. So look at the help screen. -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list 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 From csu4 at fedex.com Fri Jul 9 02:33:21 2004 From: csu4 at fedex.com (csu4 at fedex.com) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:33:21 +0800 Subject: Su Chang Hong is out of office Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 07/09/2004 and will not return until 07/10/2004. I'm on MC, please attend to my backup for any production server issues accordingly. Thx From csu4 at fedex.com Fri Jul 9 02:35:13 2004 From: csu4 at fedex.com (csu4 at fedex.com) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:35:13 +0800 Subject: Su Chang Hong is out of office Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 07/09/2004 and will not return until 07/10/2004. I'm on MC, please attend to my backup for any production server issues accordingly. Thx From vautier at ensg.ign.fr Fri Jul 9 12:14:01 2004 From: vautier at ensg.ign.fr (Marie-Lise VAUTIER) Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 14:14:01 +0200 (CEST) Subject: red hat 9+windows 2000 Message-ID: <1089375241.40ee8c096d2b2@dutilleux.ensg.ign.fr> Hello, I am currently using Windows 2000 Professional, and my computer is about one month old. Its characteristics are: OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name INSARVISIT1 System Manufacturer GBT___ System Model AWRDACPI System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~2813 Mhz Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~2813 Mhz BIOS Version Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG Windows Directory C:\WINNT Locale United States Time Zone AUS Eastern Standard Time Total Physical Memory 1,048,044 KB Available Physical Memory 747,636 KB Total Virtual Memory 3,570,196 KB Available Virtual Memory 3,072,116 KB Page File Space 2,522,152 KB I am on a local network (in a university), and I access the Internet through it. I've tried to install Red Hat Linux9. I've checked everything (as far as I know) before starting the installation. But, when choosing the graphical installation, it bugged, saying that there was an error with my x server (or something like that). The text installation is working, but when I try to configure my network settings, it bugs saying that my Ethernet card can't be recognized. Has anyone experieced the same thing, or know where it comes from? Thank you very much, Marie-Lise. From manuaroste at yahoo.es Fri Jul 9 13:04:40 2004 From: manuaroste at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?Manuel=20Arostegui=20Ramirez?=) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:04:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: red hat 9+windows 2000 In-Reply-To: <1089375241.40ee8c096d2b2@dutilleux.ensg.ign.fr> Message-ID: <20040709130440.89736.qmail@web52407.mail.yahoo.com> --- Marie-Lise VAUTIER escribi?: > Hello, > > I am currently using Windows 2000 Professional, and > my computer is about one > month old. Its characteristics are: > > OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional > Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195 > OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation > System Name INSARVISIT1 > System Manufacturer GBT___ > System Model AWRDACPI > System Type X86-based PC > Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 3 > GenuineIntel ~2813 Mhz > Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 3 > GenuineIntel ~2813 Mhz > BIOS Version Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG > Windows Directory C:\WINNT > Locale United States > Time Zone AUS Eastern Standard Time > Total Physical Memory 1,048,044 KB > Available Physical Memory 747,636 KB > Total Virtual Memory 3,570,196 KB > Available Virtual Memory 3,072,116 KB > Page File Space 2,522,152 KB > > I am on a local network (in a university), and I > access the Internet through it. > I've tried to install Red Hat Linux9. I've checked > everything (as far as I > know) before starting the installation. But, when > choosing the graphical > installation, it bugged, saying that there was an > error with my x server (or > something like that). The text installation is > working, but when I try to > configure my network settings, it bugs saying that > my Ethernet card can't be > recognized. > > Has anyone experieced the same thing, or know where > it comes from? > > Thank you very much, Marie-Lise. What kind of chipset have your network card? Maybe there is not support in your Kernel. Cheers ===== -- Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 http://manuel.todo-linux.com ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ?100 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 9 16:06:32 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:06:32 -0700 Subject: red hat 9+windows 2000 In-Reply-To: <1089375241.40ee8c096d2b2@dutilleux.ensg.ign.fr> References: <1089375241.40ee8c096d2b2@dutilleux.ensg.ign.fr> Message-ID: <40EEC288.5090907@vitalstream.com> Marie-Lise VAUTIER wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently using Windows 2000 Professional, and my computer is about one > month old. Its characteristics are: > > OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional > Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195 > OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation > System Name INSARVISIT1 > System Manufacturer GBT___ > System Model AWRDACPI > System Type X86-based PC > Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~2813 Mhz > Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~2813 Mhz > BIOS Version Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG > Windows Directory C:\WINNT > Locale United States > Time Zone AUS Eastern Standard Time > Total Physical Memory 1,048,044 KB > Available Physical Memory 747,636 KB > Total Virtual Memory 3,570,196 KB > Available Virtual Memory 3,072,116 KB > Page File Space 2,522,152 KB > > I am on a local network (in a university), and I access the Internet through it. > I've tried to install Red Hat Linux9. I've checked everything (as far as I > know) before starting the installation. But, when choosing the graphical > installation, it bugged, saying that there was an error with my x server (or > something like that). The text installation is working, but when I try to > configure my network settings, it bugs saying that my Ethernet card can't be > recognized. > > Has anyone experieced the same thing, or know where it comes from? We need to know the video card/chipset you have and which ethernet chipset you have. It is not uncommon for off-brand (and GBT is an off-brand) to have some teething issues with Linux. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The Theory of Rapitivity: E=MC Hammer - - -- Glenn Marcus (via TopFive.com) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From j-pinkney at onu.edu Fri Jul 9 16:19:28 2004 From: j-pinkney at onu.edu (Jason Pinkney) Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:19:28 -0400 Subject: DAT not working.eml In-Reply-To: <20040709160039.2158B73CE1@hormel.redhat.com> References: <20040709160039.2158B73CE1@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <40EEC590.9040402@onu.edu> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > DAT not working > From: > Jason Pinkney > Date: > Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:14:01 -0400 > To: > redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > > > Dear redhat-install, > > my DAT tape drive used to work with my RHL system > but yesterday, I tried to read a tape and it got > messed up. At first, it seemed fine. It started > reading the tape in response to my command: > % tar tf /dev/st0 > listing > but it wouldn't finish and give me a prompt. Inspection > of "listing" showed that it only made it a little ways > into the tar file (incomplete listing). > Since then, it has been impossible to communicate with. > Even after rebooting, the basic command > % mt -f /dev/st0 status > will either give no response and become a sleeping process > that can't be killed, or it will say: > /dev/st0: No such device or address > > Can you tell where the problem is? > > Here is some output from dmesg: > % dmesg | grep scsi > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 > scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.8 > Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 > scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices > Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > (scsi0:A:6): 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 32, 16bit) > scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message > scsi0: Dumping Card State while idle, at SEQADDR 0x8 > (scsi0:A:6:0): Queuing a recovery SCB > scsi0:0:6:0: Device is disconnected, re-queuing SCB > (scsi0:A:6:0): Abort Message Sent > (scsi0:A:6:0): SCB 3 - Abort Completed. > scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message > scsi0: Dumping Card State while idle, at SEQADDR 0x8 > (scsi0:A:6:0): Queuing a recovery SCB > scsi0:0:6:0: Device is disconnected, re-queuing SCB > (scsi0:A:6:0): Abort Message Sent > (scsi0:A:6:0): SCB 3 - Abort Completed. > scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue a TARGET RESET message > scsi0:0:6:0: Command not found > scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message > scsi0: Dumping Card State while idle, at SEQADDR 0x9 > (scsi0:A:6:0): Queuing a recovery SCB > scsi0:0:6:0: Device is disconnected, re-queuing SCB > (scsi0:A:6:0): Abort Message Sent > (scsi0:A:6:0): SCB 3 - Abort Completed. > scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message > scsi0: Dumping Card State while idle, at SEQADDR 0x9 > (scsi0:A:6:0): Queuing a recovery SCB > scsi0:0:6:0: Device is disconnected, re-queuing SCB > (scsi0:A:6:0): Abort Message Sent > (scsi0:A:6:0): SCB 3 - Abort Completed. > scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus > reset: host 0 channel 0 id 6 lun 0 > scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message > scsi0: Dumping Card State while idle, at SEQADDR 0x9 > (scsi0:A:6:0): Queuing a recovery SCB > scsi0:0:6:0: Device is disconnected, re-queuing SCB > (scsi0:A:6:0): Abort Message Sent > (scsi0:A:6:0): SCB 2 - Abort Completed. > > I think most of these errors were generated while I was pushing the > eject button and sending "mt -f /dev/st0 status" commands. > > any help would be appreciated! > thanks, > Jason > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: DAT not working > From: > Rick Stevens > Date: > Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:07:48 -0700 > To: > Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > > > Did you change anything? Did you upgrade to FC1 or something along > those lines? > > The errors you show are SCSI errors. The most common causes are bad > SCSI bus termination or SCSI controller problem. > > If the SCSI card is a PCI card, try shutting down, opening the box and > reseating the card (unscrew it, unplug it, plug it back in and screw > it down again). You'd be amazed at how many problems that solves. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - I doubt, therefore I might be. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rick, thanks for the suggestions. The DAT drive is working again! (I think it also needed a cleaning.) JP -- Dr. Jason Pinkney Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Ohio Northern University 419-772-2740 http://www2.onu.edu/~j-pinkney From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 9 16:27:59 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:27:59 -0700 Subject: DAT not working.eml In-Reply-To: <40EEC590.9040402@onu.edu> References: <20040709160039.2158B73CE1@hormel.redhat.com> <40EEC590.9040402@onu.edu> Message-ID: <40EEC78F.9070307@vitalstream.com> Jason Pinkney wrote: [snip] >> my DAT tape drive used to work with my RHL system >> but yesterday, I tried to read a tape and it got >> messed up. At first, it seemed fine. It started >> reading the tape in response to my command: >> % tar tf /dev/st0 > listing >> but it wouldn't finish and give me a prompt. Inspection >> of "listing" showed that it only made it a little ways >> into the tar file (incomplete listing). >> Since then, it has been impossible to communicate with. >> Even after rebooting, the basic command >> % mt -f /dev/st0 status >> will either give no response and become a sleeping process >> that can't be killed, or it will say: >> /dev/st0: No such device or address >> >> Can you tell where the problem is? [snip] >> Rick Stevens >> >> Did you change anything? Did you upgrade to FC1 or something along >> those lines? >> >> The errors you show are SCSI errors. The most common causes are bad >> SCSI bus termination or SCSI controller problem. >> >> If the SCSI card is a PCI card, try shutting down, opening the box and >> reseating the card (unscrew it, unplug it, plug it back in and screw >> it down again). You'd be amazed at how many problems that solves. > > Rick, > thanks for the suggestions. The DAT drive is working > again! (I think it also needed a cleaning.) What else did you do to get it to work. I'm needy and need closure! :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Is that a buffer overflow or are you just happy to see me? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From cherukuri_sr at yahoo.com Fri Jul 9 20:17:23 2004 From: cherukuri_sr at yahoo.com (Cherukuri Srinivasa Rao) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Network configuration Message-ID: <20040709201723.46646.qmail@web11409.mail.yahoo.com> Hi all Just begining with Redhat Linux I am required to update the following mentioned information on the two systems which are placed on the network.I have the root password and visiting the data warehouse where these two systems are placed.So no need of commands are required to log on to these systems remotely.The following parameters are to be modified. IP address Default gateway Netmask Information No changes are required to hostname and domain name. We have two Dell machines loaded with Redhat. About version, I am not sure. Likely to be 8. I was told that the file to be edited is /etc/sysconfig/neetwork. Pl make a note that GUI is not available and these changes are to be made using CLI. Pl try to help me by providing step by step instructions. Thanks in advance shra1996 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 9 21:06:59 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 14:06:59 -0700 Subject: Network configuration In-Reply-To: <20040709201723.46646.qmail@web11409.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040709201723.46646.qmail@web11409.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40EF08F3.7050809@vitalstream.com> Cherukuri Srinivasa Rao wrote: > > > Hi all > > Just begining with Redhat Linux > > I am required to update the following mentioned information on the two > systems which are placed on the network.I have the root password and > visiting the data warehouse where these two systems are placed.So no > need of commands are required to log on to these systems remotely.The > following parameters are to be modified. > > IP address > Default gateway > Netmask Information > > No changes are required to hostname and domain name. > > We have two Dell machines loaded with Redhat. About version, I am not > sure. Likely to be 8. > > I was told that the file to be edited is /etc/sysconfig/neetwork. > > > Pl make a note that GUI is not available and these changes are to be > made using CLI. > > Pl try to help me by providing step by step instructions. If you want to change the hostname, edit the "/etc/sysconfig/network" file and change the data in "HOSTNAME=". If you wish to change the gateway, edit the "/etc/sysconfig/network" file and change the data in "GATEWAY=". To change the IP address or netmask, edit the "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0" file and change the data in the "IPADDR=" or "NETMASK=" lines, depending on what you want to do. NOTE: The only lines you must have in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx" files are: DEVICE= This should contain the name of your network interface. For ethernet cards, this should be "eth0" for the first ethernet card, "eth1" for the second, etc. For dial-up, this will most likely be "ppp0". NOTE: This should match the name of the file. If you have multiple ethernet interfaces, you may have files such as "ifcfg-eth0", "ifcfg-eth1" and "ifcfg-eth2" in your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory. The first one should have "DEVICE=eth0" in it, the second should have "DEVICE=eth1" in it and so on. IPADDR= This should contain your desired IP address if you have "BOOTPROTO=static" set. The line is not needed if you have "BOOTPROTO=dhcp" set. NETMASK= This should contain your desired netmask if you have "BOOTPROTO=static" set. It is not needed if you have "BOOTPROTO=dhcp" set. BOOTPROTO= If "BOOTPROTO=static" is set, you're using a fixed IP address and you must fill in the "IPADDR=" and "NETMASK=" lines. If you have "BOOTPROTO=dhcp" set, you're using DHCP and you don't need the "IPADDR=" or "NETMASK=" lines at all. ONBOOT= If "ONBOOT=yes" is set, the network card is brought up at boot time. If "ONBOOT=no" is set, the card is not brought up at boot and you'll need to manually start it with the "ifup eth0" command at some point. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I.R.S.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From vautier at ensg.ign.fr Sat Jul 10 03:15:34 2004 From: vautier at ensg.ign.fr (Marie-Lise VAUTIER) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 05:15:34 +0200 (CEST) Subject: red hat 9+windows 2000 In-Reply-To: <20040709130440.89736.qmail@web52407.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040709130440.89736.qmail@web52407.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1089429334.40ef5f562db11@dutilleux.ensg.ign.fr> Hello, Concerning my problems during the installation of Red Hat 9, here are the features of my Ethernet card: Name: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter, Copper RJ-45 Device ID: PCI\VEN_11AB&DEV_4320&SUBSYS_E0001458&REV_13\4&1F7DBC9F&0&48F0 Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\DRIVERS\yukonw2k.sys, 6.32.0000.0000 (English), 12/23/2003 06:32:00, 174464 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\wbem\mof\gewmi.mof, , 0 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\mrvdlg.dll, 1.00.0000.0001 (English), 12/23/2003 14:00:08, 12288 bytes And those of my video card: Name: RADEON 9200 SERIES - Secondary Device ID: PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5D44&SUBSYS_7C27174B&REV_01\4&299CCBFA&0&0108 Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\DRIVERS\ati2mtag.sys, 6.14.0010.6414 (English), 12/12/2003 14:50:04, 647680 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2dvag.dll, 6.14.0010.6414 (English), 12/12/2003 14:50:24, 384512 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\Ati2mdxx.exe, 4.13.0001.0003 (English), 9/4/2001 18:24:26, 28672 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3d1ag.dll, 6.14.0010.4045 (English), 12/12/2003 14:14:12, 866016 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3d2ag.dll, 6.14.0010.4045 (English), 12/12/2003 14:25:08, 1052608 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3duag.dll, 6.14.0010.0214 (English), 12/12/2003 14:35:10, 845856 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ativvaxx.dll, 6.14.0001.0001 (English), 12/12/2003 14:08:34, 540704 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ATIDDC.DLL, 6.14.0010.0005 (English), 12/12/2003 14:40:26, 81920 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atitvo32.dll, 6.14.0010.4100 (English), 12/12/2003 13:56:24, 17408 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ativcoxx.dll, 6.13.0010.0005 (English), 11/9/2001 13:01:04, 24064 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2evxx.exe, 6.14.0010.4094 (English), 12/12/2003 14:40:50, 397312 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2evxx.dll, 6.14.0010.4094 (English), 12/12/2003 14:42:14, 86016 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atipdlxx.dll, 6.14.0010.2485 (English), 12/12/2003 14:42:48, 110592 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\Oemdspif.dll, 6.14.0001.0010 (English), 12/12/2003 14:42:34, 102400 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2edxx.dll, 6.14.0010.2491 (English), 12/12/2003 14:42:26, 30208 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atioglxx.dll, 6.14.0010.4103 (English), 12/12/2003 15:19:02, 5505024 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atiiiexx.dll, 6.14.0010.4000 (English), 12/12/2003 16:35:18, 290816 bytes Name: RADEON 9200 SERIES Device ID: PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5964&SUBSYS_7C26174B&REV_01\4&299CCBFA&0&0008 Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\DRIVERS\ati2mtag.sys, 6.14.0010.6414 (English), 12/12/2003 14:50:04, 647680 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2dvag.dll, 6.14.0010.6414 (English), 12/12/2003 14:50:24, 384512 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\Ati2mdxx.exe, 4.13.0001.0003 (English), 9/4/2001 18:24:26, 28672 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3d1ag.dll, 6.14.0010.4045 (English), 12/12/2003 14:14:12, 866016 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3d2ag.dll, 6.14.0010.4045 (English), 12/12/2003 14:25:08, 1052608 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3duag.dll, 6.14.0010.0214 (English), 12/12/2003 14:35:10, 845856 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ativvaxx.dll, 6.14.0001.0001 (English), 12/12/2003 14:08:34, 540704 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ATIDDC.DLL, 6.14.0010.0005 (English), 12/12/2003 14:40:26, 81920 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atitvo32.dll, 6.14.0010.4100 (English), 12/12/2003 13:56:24, 17408 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ativcoxx.dll, 6.13.0010.0005 (English), 11/9/2001 13:01:04, 24064 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2evxx.exe, 6.14.0010.4094 (English), 12/12/2003 14:40:50, 397312 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2evxx.dll, 6.14.0010.4094 (English), 12/12/2003 14:42:14, 86016 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atipdlxx.dll, 6.14.0010.2485 (English), 12/12/2003 14:42:48, 110592 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\Oemdspif.dll, 6.14.0001.0010 (English), 12/12/2003 14:42:34, 102400 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2edxx.dll, 6.14.0010.2491 (English), 12/12/2003 14:42:26, 30208 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atioglxx.dll, 6.14.0010.4103 (English), 12/12/2003 15:19:02, 5505024 bytes Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atiiiexx.dll, 6.14.0010.4000 (English), 12/12/2003 16:35:18, 290816 bytes Can they be recognized by red hat 9? Thanks a lot, Marie-Lise. Quoting Manuel Arostegui Ramirez : > --- Marie-Lise VAUTIER escribi?: > > Hello, > > > > I am currently using Windows 2000 Professional, and > > my computer is about one > > month old. Its characteristics are: > > > > OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional > > Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195 > > OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation > > System Name INSARVISIT1 > > System Manufacturer GBT___ > > System Model AWRDACPI > > System Type X86-based PC > > Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 3 > > GenuineIntel ~2813 Mhz > > Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 3 > > GenuineIntel ~2813 Mhz > > BIOS Version Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG > > Windows Directory C:\WINNT > > Locale United States > > Time Zone AUS Eastern Standard Time > > Total Physical Memory 1,048,044 KB > > Available Physical Memory 747,636 KB > > Total Virtual Memory 3,570,196 KB > > Available Virtual Memory 3,072,116 KB > > Page File Space 2,522,152 KB > > > > I am on a local network (in a university), and I > > access the Internet through it. > > I've tried to install Red Hat Linux9. I've checked > > everything (as far as I > > know) before starting the installation. But, when > > choosing the graphical > > installation, it bugged, saying that there was an > > error with my x server (or > > something like that). The text installation is > > working, but when I try to > > configure my network settings, it bugs saying that > > my Ethernet card can't be > > recognized. > > > > Has anyone experieced the same thing, or know where > > it comes from? > > > > Thank you very much, Marie-Lise. > > What kind of chipset have your network card? > Maybe there is not support in your Kernel. > > Cheers > > ===== > -- > > Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 > http://manuel.todo-linux.com > > > > ______________________________________________ > Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ?100 MB GRATIS! > Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad > http://correo.yahoo.es > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > From gnichols at tpg.com.au Sat Jul 10 05:13:32 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 10 Jul 2004 15:13:32 +1000 Subject: VNC Server In-Reply-To: <40ED74C1.6020208@vitalstream.com> References: <1088920558.1615.27.camel@barney.localdomain> <40EAE1CE.80007@vitalstream.com> <1089258300.1347.31.camel@barney.localdomain> <40ED74C1.6020208@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1089436413.1524.15.camel@barney.localdomain> On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 02:22, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 03:30, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: > >> > >>>Hello Rick, I am having trouble with Evolution at the moment where I am > >>>unable to reply to your post containing the instructions to get VNC > >>>working. I have tried four times so far and all messages have been > >>>empty. Perhaps the time has come to invoke yum and update Evolution :-) > >>> > >>>Anyway, to continue... The xstartup file created by the first invocation > >>>of vncserver did not contain the line 'unset SESSION_MANAGER'. After > >>>inserting that line I managed to get the XWindow I was expecting. > >>>However, to get the vncviewer to work I had to use the following > >>>command:- 'sudo vncviewer -via barney barney:1' Without the 'sudo' it > >>>failed with the 'unable to read password' error. Using sudo it asked for > >>>root's password on barney, then my user password on barney and it all > >>>worked. > >> > >>On the remote end, you have to run "vncserver" or "xvnc" as the user you > >>intend to log in as remotely. > > > > > > Hello Rick, > > > > Yep! I started vncserver as my login name, graeme. > > Ok. > > >>You probably ran vncserver on the remote > >>end as root, so you have to be root at the local end, too. > > > > > > Nope. Started it as my mortal self. > > > > > >>The "can't > >>read password" error is caused by the vnc server running as root and you > >>trying to log in as a mortal user. The mortal user you tried to log in > >>as probably doesn't have a ~/.vnc/passwd file. > > > > > > Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so, because if I start vncviewer on > > the same machine I started vncserver the password is read no problem. It > > is only when I start vncviewer on the 'other' machine. > > Uh, you realize that using the "-via" bit requires you to use the ssh > password to get into the machine, then you need the vnc password to > access the vnc server? Which password is pooping out? > > >>>One thing I would like to change if I can is the size of the TightVNC > >>>window that comes up. The argument 'fullscreen' defaults to 'no' but > >>>that is almost as big as fullscreen. It is larger than the screen size > >>>and results in a scroll bar right and bottom. Is there a way to set the > >>>screen size? > >> > >>You mean the local VNC window is smaller than the screen size of the > >>remote end, hence you have scroll bars. You can either turn on > >>fullscreen (which really only works if your local screen size is the > >>same or larger than the remote end) or you can use the "-geometry" > >>option to specify your local window size. If you use a 1280x1024 > >>display locally, fullscreen mode is essentially: > > > > > > No, both machines have a 1024x768 screen size, the machine running the > > server and the machine running the viewer. When I log in from the > > machine running the viewer the window, labeled 'TightVNC: Graeme's X > > Desktop etc...', has scroll bars which interfere with the application. > > The 'actual' window size appears to be 1024x768, the same physical size > > as the screen, but the scroll bars take up display area causing the > > problem. > > Ah, yes, that would be an issue. The scroll bars do occupy desktop > space. You could specify a smaller desktop on the server using the > "-geometry" parameter: > > vncserver -geometry 800x600 > > The vncviewer should have a bigger desktop than the server to prevent > that issue. See next paragraph. > > > > > > > > >> -geometry 1280x1024x0x0 > > > > > > If I start vncviewer with the command 'vncviewer -geometry 800x600x0x0 > > -via barney barney:1' to stick the window in the top right corner, or > > wherever, it still comes up bigger than the screen's real estate with > > the scroll bars. If I then click on the full screen icon (trc) the > > scroll bars disappear but the window is slightly larger than the > > machine's screen resolution/size (1024x768). The docs for X mention the > > the -geometry option but I wasn't able to get it to work when I start an > > Xterm for a particular size, simply puts up the usage screen saying the > > -geometry option was not valid. Perhaps the problem with vncviewer is > > linked with the X problem, I don't know. > > That's because the server is using a 1024x768 display (default) but > you've specified an 800x600 window to show it in. Of course you'll have > scroll bars. If you use: > > vncserver -geometry 800x600 > > on the server and > > vncviewer -via barney barney:1 > > the viewer shouldn't have scrollbars. Granted the desktop will be > smaller, but no scrollbars. > > > Thanks Rick, sorry to be a nuisance but I would like to sort it if I > > can. Rick, thank you very much, you're a wiz. I hadn't picked up on the ability to size the server desktop, I was mistakenly trying to size the viewer, Duh! As for the password problem I guess it must be the ssh password. Prefixing the command to start the viewer with 'sudo' results in being asked for root's password on barney followed later by the prompt 'password'. Entering my own login password at this prompt up comes the viewer screen. It all works like a dream now, thanks in no small measure to your help, and I now know a LOT more about Linux. The 'fun is in the learning'. 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Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From manuaroste at yahoo.es Sat Jul 10 07:19:07 2004 From: manuaroste at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?Manuel=20Arostegui=20Ramirez?=) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:19:07 +0200 (CEST) Subject: red hat 9+windows 2000 In-Reply-To: <1089429334.40ef5f562db11@dutilleux.ensg.ign.fr> Message-ID: <20040710071907.99527.qmail@web52404.mail.yahoo.com> --- Marie-Lise VAUTIER escribi?: > Hello, > > > Concerning my problems during the installation of > Red Hat 9, here are the > features of my Ethernet card: > > Name: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet > 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter, Copper RJ-45 > Device ID: > PCI\VEN_11AB&DEV_4320&SUBSYS_E0001458&REV_13\4&1F7DBC9F&0&48F0 > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\DRIVERS\yukonw2k.sys, > 6.32.0000.0000 (English), > 12/23/2003 06:32:00, 174464 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\wbem\mof\gewmi.mof, , 0 > bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\mrvdlg.dll, > 1.00.0000.0001 (English), 12/23/2003 > 14:00:08, 12288 bytes > There is a driver for Marvell Yukon Ethernet Chipset on kernel 2.6.6, you can compiled it and you will be able to have your ethernet card properly detected. It's on: Networking support->Ethernet (1000Mbit)->Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx Support. Here you will find these drivers: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (32 bit) - Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (64 bit) > > And those of my video card: > > > Name: RADEON 9200 SERIES - Secondary > Device ID: > PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5D44&SUBSYS_7C27174B&REV_01\4&299CCBFA&0&0108 > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\DRIVERS\ati2mtag.sys, > 6.14.0010.6414 (English), > 12/12/2003 14:50:04, 647680 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2dvag.dll, > 6.14.0010.6414 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:50:24, 384512 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\Ati2mdxx.exe, > 4.13.0001.0003 (English), 9/4/2001 > 18:24:26, 28672 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3d1ag.dll, > 6.14.0010.4045 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:14:12, 866016 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3d2ag.dll, > 6.14.0010.4045 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:25:08, 1052608 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3duag.dll, > 6.14.0010.0214 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:35:10, 845856 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ativvaxx.dll, > 6.14.0001.0001 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:08:34, 540704 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ATIDDC.DLL, > 6.14.0010.0005 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:40:26, 81920 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atitvo32.dll, > 6.14.0010.4100 (English), 12/12/2003 > 13:56:24, 17408 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ativcoxx.dll, > 6.13.0010.0005 (English), 11/9/2001 > 13:01:04, 24064 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2evxx.exe, > 6.14.0010.4094 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:40:50, 397312 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2evxx.dll, > 6.14.0010.4094 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:42:14, 86016 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atipdlxx.dll, > 6.14.0010.2485 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:42:48, 110592 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\Oemdspif.dll, > 6.14.0001.0010 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:42:34, 102400 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2edxx.dll, > 6.14.0010.2491 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:42:26, 30208 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atioglxx.dll, > 6.14.0010.4103 (English), 12/12/2003 > 15:19:02, 5505024 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atiiiexx.dll, > 6.14.0010.4000 (English), 12/12/2003 > 16:35:18, 290816 bytes > > Name: RADEON 9200 SERIES > Device ID: > PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5964&SUBSYS_7C26174B&REV_01\4&299CCBFA&0&0008 > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\DRIVERS\ati2mtag.sys, > 6.14.0010.6414 (English), > 12/12/2003 14:50:04, 647680 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2dvag.dll, > 6.14.0010.6414 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:50:24, 384512 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\Ati2mdxx.exe, > 4.13.0001.0003 (English), 9/4/2001 > 18:24:26, 28672 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3d1ag.dll, > 6.14.0010.4045 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:14:12, 866016 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3d2ag.dll, > 6.14.0010.4045 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:25:08, 1052608 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3duag.dll, > 6.14.0010.0214 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:35:10, 845856 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ativvaxx.dll, > 6.14.0001.0001 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:08:34, 540704 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ATIDDC.DLL, > 6.14.0010.0005 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:40:26, 81920 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atitvo32.dll, > 6.14.0010.4100 (English), 12/12/2003 > 13:56:24, 17408 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ativcoxx.dll, > 6.13.0010.0005 (English), 11/9/2001 > 13:01:04, 24064 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2evxx.exe, > 6.14.0010.4094 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:40:50, 397312 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2evxx.dll, > 6.14.0010.4094 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:42:14, 86016 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atipdlxx.dll, > 6.14.0010.2485 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:42:48, 110592 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\Oemdspif.dll, > 6.14.0001.0010 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:42:34, 102400 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2edxx.dll, > 6.14.0010.2491 (English), 12/12/2003 > 14:42:26, 30208 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atioglxx.dll, > 6.14.0010.4103 (English), 12/12/2003 > 15:19:02, 5505024 bytes > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atiiiexx.dll, > 6.14.0010.4000 (English), 12/12/2003 > 16:35:18, 290816 bytes > ATI Radeon 9200 is supported by default on Red Hat Systems. Cheers > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quoting Manuel Arostegui Ramirez > : > > > --- Marie-Lise VAUTIER > escribi?: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am currently using Windows 2000 Professional, > and > > > my computer is about one > > > month old. Its characteristics are: > > > > > > OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional > > > Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195 > > > OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation > > > System Name INSARVISIT1 > > > System Manufacturer GBT___ > > > System Model AWRDACPI > > > System Type X86-based PC > > > Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 3 > > > GenuineIntel ~2813 Mhz > > > Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 3 > > > GenuineIntel ~2813 Mhz > > > BIOS Version Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG > > > Windows Directory C:\WINNT > > > Locale United States > > > Time Zone AUS Eastern Standard Time > > > Total Physical Memory 1,048,044 KB > > > Available Physical Memory 747,636 KB > > > Total Virtual Memory 3,570,196 KB > > > Available Virtual Memory 3,072,116 KB > > > Page File Space 2,522,152 KB > > > > > > I am on a local network (in a university), and I > > > access the Internet through it. > > > I've tried to install Red Hat Linux9. I've > checked > > > everything (as far as I > > > know) before starting the installation. But, > when > > > choosing the graphical > > > installation, it bugged, saying that there was > an > > > error with my x server (or > > > something like that). The text installation is > > > working, but when I try to > > > configure my network settings, it bugs saying > that > > > my Ethernet card can't be > > > recognized. > > > > > > Has anyone experieced the same thing, or know > where > > > it comes from? > > > > > > Thank you very much, Marie-Lise. > > > > What kind of chipset have your network card? > > Maybe there is not support in your Kernel. > > > > Cheers > > > > ===== > > -- > > > > Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 > > http://manuel.todo-linux.com > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ?100 MB GRATIS! > > Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad > > http://correo.yahoo.es > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > ===== -- Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 http://manuel.todo-linux.com ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ?100 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es From redhat-install-list at universalgrid.nl Sat Jul 10 12:35:53 2004 From: redhat-install-list at universalgrid.nl (J.L. Coenders) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:35:53 +0200 Subject: tar Message-ID: <200407101435.53264.redhat-install-list@universalgrid.nl> Probably an easy question for you, but I am fiddling with it for hours and can't seem to find out how to make a multi-volume tar file, which is preferably also zipped. I think I am approaching it in the wrong way. with the command below I can make a multi-volume file, however it overwrites the last volume with the next, and it isn't gzipped: tar -ML 650000 -cvf backup.tar * Any ideas how to solve this? Thanks, - Jeroen From mnomans at khi.comsats.net.pk Sat Jul 10 13:20:28 2004 From: mnomans at khi.comsats.net.pk (M.Nouman Siddiqui) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:20:28 +0500 Subject: Help! Message-ID: <009c01c46680$abdb0080$cc0738d2@expert> Hi, I've configured sendmail 8.12 and qpopper 4.0.5 on redhat 8.0 it's working fine but getting problem incoming mails i mean i can't get mail from outside like @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com it says " I couldn;t find a host name ( # 5.0.1 ) can anyone tell me ? thanks nomy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jyce at free.fr Sat Jul 10 13:35:13 2004 From: jyce at free.fr (Jyce) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:35:13 +0200 Subject: Help! In-Reply-To: <009c01c46680$abdb0080$cc0738d2@expert> References: <009c01c46680$abdb0080$cc0738d2@expert> Message-ID: <20040710153513.6e3be883.jyce@free.fr> Check out your /etc/resolv.conf On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:20:28 +0500 "M.Nouman Siddiqui" wrote: > Hi, > > I've configured sendmail 8.12 and qpopper 4.0.5 on redhat 8.0 it's working fine but getting problem incoming mails i mean i can't get mail from outside like @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com it says " I couldn;t find a host name ( # 5.0.1 ) > > can anyone tell me ? > thanks > > nomy > -- Si la politique pouvait changer notre vie cela ferait longtemps qu'elle serait interdite. -- Federation Anarchiste de France From manuaroste at yahoo.es Sat Jul 10 13:57:23 2004 From: manuaroste at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?Manuel=20Arostegui=20Ramirez?=) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:57:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: tar In-Reply-To: <200407101435.53264.redhat-install-list@universalgrid.nl> Message-ID: <20040710135723.98591.qmail@web52409.mail.yahoo.com> --- "J.L. Coenders" escribi?: > Probably an easy question for you, but I am fiddling > with it for hours and > can't seem to find out how to make a multi-volume > tar file, which is > preferably also zipped. I think I am approaching it > in the wrong way. > > with the command below I can make a multi-volume > file, however it overwrites > the last volume with the next, and it isn't gzipped: > > tar -ML 650000 -cvf backup.tar * > > Any ideas how to solve this? > > Thanks, You can use -z or --gzip to filter the archive through gzip Regards ===== -- Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 http://manuel.todo-linux.com ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ?100 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es From chrisczerwinski at cogeco.ca Sat Jul 10 14:22:04 2004 From: chrisczerwinski at cogeco.ca (Chris A Czerwinski) Date: 10 Jul 2004 10:22:04 -0400 Subject: Red Hat WideOpen Magazine Message-ID: <1089469324.11317.8.camel@redhat90> Does anyone know if Red Hat's WideOpen Magazine will come out with their Second Edition. It's been three-four months since their Premiere Issue. Chris Cz (still a newbie) From j-pinkney at onu.edu Sat Jul 10 20:56:04 2004 From: j-pinkney at onu.edu (Jason Pinkney) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:56:04 -0400 Subject: DAT not working In-Reply-To: <20040710160028.0DF1773467@hormel.redhat.com> References: <20040710160028.0DF1773467@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <40F057E4.7090807@onu.edu> > [snip] > >>> my DAT tape drive used to work with my RHL system >>> but yesterday, I tried to read a tape and it got >>> messed up. At first, it seemed fine. It started >>> reading the tape in response to my command: >>> % tar tf /dev/st0 > listing >>> but it wouldn't finish and give me a prompt. Inspection >>> of "listing" showed that it only made it a little ways >>> into the tar file (incomplete listing). >>> Since then, it has been impossible to communicate with. >>> Even after rebooting, the basic command >>> % mt -f /dev/st0 status >>> will either give no response and become a sleeping process >>> that can't be killed, or it will say: >>> /dev/st0: No such device or address >>> >>> Can you tell where the problem is? > [snip] > >>> Rick Stevens >>> >>> Did you change anything? Did you upgrade to FC1 or something along >>> those lines? >>> >>> The errors you show are SCSI errors. The most common causes are bad >>> SCSI bus termination or SCSI controller problem. >>> >>> If the SCSI card is a PCI card, try shutting down, opening the box and >>> reseating the card (unscrew it, unplug it, plug it back in and screw >>> it down again). You'd be amazed at how many problems that solves. >> >> >> Rick, >> thanks for the suggestions. The DAT drive is working >> again! (I think it also needed a cleaning.) > > > What else did you do to get it to work. I'm needy and need closure! Hi Rick, I don't actually have a PCI card, but I opened up my Dell PC anyways. I took out the internal Archive Python 6408-XXX DAT drive (which I installed 2 years ago), dusted it off a bit, and reconnected it. I also checked the connections to the adapter card (Adaptec SCSI Card19160). On reboot, I gave it "mt -f /dev/st0 status" commands and it gave the expected responses both before and after tape insertion. Then, to make a listing of files on a tarfile on my DDS4 tape, I do: % mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 0 % mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1 % tar tf /dev/nst0 > listing I gave this last command yesterday, and it is still running! So all is not perfect! I'm expecting read rates of ~2 MB/s, and this is just a listing of a 9GB tarfile. This may have to do with the small record size its using "tar: Record size = 1 blocks", or my "setblk" command. The "setblk" command is an obscure fix that I learned from somebody for using DAT tapes on linux. Without it, I cannot run DDS2, or DDS3 tapes. (My tar command probably would have worked better without "setblk 0", but I thought it was needed for DDS4 too at the time.) I know that my tar command is still working because I type "tail listing" and see new filenames. My previous problems began when I became impatient. During this tar command, the tape occasionally makes noises like its done or stopped (the orange light goes off). But, if I leave it alone, it will come back again on its own (at least it does now)! When I looked at the list and saw that only about 20 files had been generated in ~30 minutes, I thought it was in la la land. So I tried to kill it and eject the tape, and it got in an even more hopeless state. The connections may not have had anything to do with it. Also, I still get the ominous error on reboot: "kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2" Any clue what this means? What's most annoying is that a simple ^C would work to stop a SCSI tape command in its tracks (no pun intended) on a SUN, and it would reinitialize itself promptly. But here it doesn't do much at all. When this job finally ends, I'll clean the drive again, and omit the "setblk 0" command when using DDS4. thanks for the interest, Jason -- Dr. Jason Pinkney Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Ohio Northern University 419-772-2740 http://www2.onu.edu/~j-pinkney From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Sat Jul 10 22:57:17 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:57:17 -0500 Subject: tar In-Reply-To: <200407101435.53264.redhat-install-list@universalgrid.nl> References: <200407101435.53264.redhat-install-list@universalgrid.nl> Message-ID: <20040710225717.GA15969@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 02:35:53PM +0200, J.L. Coenders wrote: > Probably an easy question for you, but I am fiddling with it for hours and > can't seem to find out how to make a multi-volume tar file, which is > preferably also zipped. I think I am approaching it in the wrong way. > > with the command below I can make a multi-volume file, however it overwrites > the last volume with the next, and it isn't gzipped: > > tar -ML 650000 -cvf backup.tar * > > Any ideas how to solve this? > > Thanks, > - Jeroen As another noted, use the -z option to get gzipping. "man tar" for more info. As for the "-ML 650000", I think that works only on tapes, where you change the media. So if you told it to write to /dev/sometape (instead of backup.tar), it still expects to write the next volume to /dev/sometape, so, in the same way, it (reasonably) continues writing to backup.tar. I think you need another solution to your multi-volume file approach. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Plenty of people give the Lord credit. Few give Him cash. From David.Mackintosh at xdroop.com Sun Jul 11 00:34:32 2004 From: David.Mackintosh at xdroop.com (David Mackintosh) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 20:34:32 -0400 Subject: tar In-Reply-To: <20040710225717.GA15969@bobcat.cumbytel.com> References: <200407101435.53264.redhat-install-list@universalgrid.nl> <20040710225717.GA15969@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <20040711003431.GB26642@xdroop.com> On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 05:57:17PM -0500, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 02:35:53PM +0200, J.L. Coenders wrote: > > Probably an easy question for you, but I am fiddling with it for hours and > > can't seem to find out how to make a multi-volume tar file, which is > > preferably also zipped. I think I am approaching it in the wrong way. > > > > with the command below I can make a multi-volume file, however it overwrites > > the last volume with the next, and it isn't gzipped: > > > > tar -ML 650000 -cvf backup.tar * > > > > Any ideas how to solve this? > > > As another noted, use the -z option to get gzipping. "man tar" for > more info. > > As for the "-ML 650000", I think that works only on tapes, where you > change the media. So if you told it to write to /dev/sometape > (instead of backup.tar), it still expects to write the next volume to > /dev/sometape, so, in the same way, it (reasonably) continues writing > to backup.tar. > > I think you need another solution to your multi-volume file approach. $ man split -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | Public Key: dave at xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com/dave/gpg.html $ gpg --recv-keys --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net 4C032504 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From vautier at ensg.ign.fr Mon Jul 12 03:44:33 2004 From: vautier at ensg.ign.fr (Marie-Lise VAUTIER) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 05:44:33 +0200 (CEST) Subject: red hat 9+windows 2000 In-Reply-To: <20040710071907.99527.qmail@web52404.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040710071907.99527.qmail@web52404.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1089603873.40f20921c29e1@dutilleux.ensg.ign.fr> To Manuel Arostegui Ramirez, in particular: By "compiling the kernel 2.6.6', do you mean compile it, or install it as RPM, as described in Chapter 30 of the customization guide, on http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/index.html ? Thank you, Marie-Lise. Quoting Manuel Arostegui Ramirez : > --- Marie-Lise VAUTIER escribi?: > > Hello, > > > > > > Concerning my problems during the installation of > > Red Hat 9, here are the > > features of my Ethernet card: > > > > Name: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet > > 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter, Copper RJ-45 > > Device ID: > > > PCI\VEN_11AB&DEV_4320&SUBSYS_E0001458&REV_13\4&1F7DBC9F&0&48F0 > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\DRIVERS\yukonw2k.sys, > > 6.32.0000.0000 (English), > > 12/23/2003 06:32:00, 174464 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\wbem\mof\gewmi.mof, , 0 > > bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\mrvdlg.dll, > > 1.00.0000.0001 (English), 12/23/2003 > > 14:00:08, 12288 bytes > > > > > There is a driver for Marvell Yukon Ethernet Chipset > on kernel 2.6.6, you can compiled it and you will be > able to have your ethernet card properly detected. > It's on: Networking support->Ethernet > (1000Mbit)->Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx > Support. > Here you will find these drivers: > Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T > Adapter (32 bit) > - Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T > Adapter (64 bit) > > > > > > > > > And those of my video card: > > > > > > Name: RADEON 9200 SERIES - Secondary > > Device ID: > > > PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5D44&SUBSYS_7C27174B&REV_01\4&299CCBFA&0&0108 > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\DRIVERS\ati2mtag.sys, > > 6.14.0010.6414 (English), > > 12/12/2003 14:50:04, 647680 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2dvag.dll, > > 6.14.0010.6414 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:50:24, 384512 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\Ati2mdxx.exe, > > 4.13.0001.0003 (English), 9/4/2001 > > 18:24:26, 28672 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3d1ag.dll, > > 6.14.0010.4045 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:14:12, 866016 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3d2ag.dll, > > 6.14.0010.4045 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:25:08, 1052608 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3duag.dll, > > 6.14.0010.0214 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:35:10, 845856 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ativvaxx.dll, > > 6.14.0001.0001 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:08:34, 540704 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ATIDDC.DLL, > > 6.14.0010.0005 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:40:26, 81920 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atitvo32.dll, > > 6.14.0010.4100 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 13:56:24, 17408 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ativcoxx.dll, > > 6.13.0010.0005 (English), 11/9/2001 > > 13:01:04, 24064 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2evxx.exe, > > 6.14.0010.4094 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:40:50, 397312 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2evxx.dll, > > 6.14.0010.4094 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:42:14, 86016 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atipdlxx.dll, > > 6.14.0010.2485 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:42:48, 110592 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\Oemdspif.dll, > > 6.14.0001.0010 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:42:34, 102400 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2edxx.dll, > > 6.14.0010.2491 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:42:26, 30208 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atioglxx.dll, > > 6.14.0010.4103 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 15:19:02, 5505024 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atiiiexx.dll, > > 6.14.0010.4000 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 16:35:18, 290816 bytes > > > > Name: RADEON 9200 SERIES > > Device ID: > > > PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5964&SUBSYS_7C26174B&REV_01\4&299CCBFA&0&0008 > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\DRIVERS\ati2mtag.sys, > > 6.14.0010.6414 (English), > > 12/12/2003 14:50:04, 647680 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2dvag.dll, > > 6.14.0010.6414 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:50:24, 384512 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\Ati2mdxx.exe, > > 4.13.0001.0003 (English), 9/4/2001 > > 18:24:26, 28672 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3d1ag.dll, > > 6.14.0010.4045 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:14:12, 866016 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3d2ag.dll, > > 6.14.0010.4045 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:25:08, 1052608 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3duag.dll, > > 6.14.0010.0214 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:35:10, 845856 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ativvaxx.dll, > > 6.14.0001.0001 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:08:34, 540704 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ATIDDC.DLL, > > 6.14.0010.0005 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:40:26, 81920 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atitvo32.dll, > > 6.14.0010.4100 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 13:56:24, 17408 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ativcoxx.dll, > > 6.13.0010.0005 (English), 11/9/2001 > > 13:01:04, 24064 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2evxx.exe, > > 6.14.0010.4094 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:40:50, 397312 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2evxx.dll, > > 6.14.0010.4094 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:42:14, 86016 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atipdlxx.dll, > > 6.14.0010.2485 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:42:48, 110592 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\Oemdspif.dll, > > 6.14.0001.0010 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:42:34, 102400 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2edxx.dll, > > 6.14.0010.2491 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 14:42:26, 30208 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atioglxx.dll, > > 6.14.0010.4103 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 15:19:02, 5505024 bytes > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atiiiexx.dll, > > 6.14.0010.4000 (English), 12/12/2003 > > 16:35:18, 290816 bytes > > > > ATI Radeon 9200 is supported by default on Red Hat > Systems. > > Cheers > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quoting Manuel Arostegui Ramirez > > : > > > > > --- Marie-Lise VAUTIER > > escribi?: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I am currently using Windows 2000 Professional, > > and > > > > my computer is about one > > > > month old. Its characteristics are: > > > > > > > > OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional > > > > Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195 > > > > OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation > > > > System Name INSARVISIT1 > > > > System Manufacturer GBT___ > > > > System Model AWRDACPI > > > > System Type X86-based PC > > > > Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 3 > > > > GenuineIntel ~2813 Mhz > > > > Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 3 > > > > GenuineIntel ~2813 Mhz > > > > BIOS Version Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG > > > > Windows Directory C:\WINNT > > > > Locale United States > > > > Time Zone AUS Eastern Standard Time > > > > Total Physical Memory 1,048,044 KB > > > > Available Physical Memory 747,636 KB > > > > Total Virtual Memory 3,570,196 KB > > > > Available Virtual Memory 3,072,116 KB > > > > Page File Space 2,522,152 KB > > > > > > > > I am on a local network (in a university), and I > > > > access the Internet through it. > > > > I've tried to install Red Hat Linux9. I've > > checked > > > > everything (as far as I > > > > know) before starting the installation. But, > > when > > > > choosing the graphical > > > > installation, it bugged, saying that there was > > an > > > > error with my x server (or > > > > something like that). The text installation is > > > > working, but when I try to > > > > configure my network settings, it bugs saying > > that > > > > my Ethernet card can't be > > > > recognized. > > > > > > > > Has anyone experieced the same thing, or know > > where > > > > it comes from? > > > > > > > > Thank you very much, Marie-Lise. > > > > > > What kind of chipset have your network card? > > > Maybe there is not support in your Kernel. > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > ===== > > > -- > > > > > > Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 > > > http://manuel.todo-linux.com > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ?100 MB GRATIS! > > > Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad > > > http://correo.yahoo.es > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > 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 > > > > ===== > -- > > Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 > http://manuel.todo-linux.com > > > > ______________________________________________ > Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ?100 MB GRATIS! > Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad > http://correo.yahoo.es > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > From gnichols at tpg.com.au Mon Jul 12 05:11:56 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 12 Jul 2004 15:11:56 +1000 Subject: redhat-config-packages problem + other Message-ID: <1089609117.1836.37.camel@barney.localdomain> Hello Folks, I seem to be having a problem with the rpm database or something because redhat-config-packages no longer runs and I cannot figure out what may be wrong. Running it from the command line results in the following:_ [graeme at barney graeme]$ redhat-config-packages rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unsupported hash version: 8 error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/MainWindow.py", line 159, in ? hdlist.mergeRpmDb() File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/hdrlist.py", line 32, in mergeRpmDb db = rpm.opendb(0, instPath) rpm404.error This output seems to me to indicate a python/gnome problem. My experience with python, gnome, pygtk etc. has taught me that the python, gnome, pygtk etc. is a complete dogs breakfast with every upgrade of the different libraries/packages scattering the components around various different locations to the previous version creating all sorts of problems similar to the error above. The developers don't appear to have heard of backward compatibility or even consistency. I run gramps and tried to upgrade a particular library/package to take advantage of a plug-in. The library/package rpm installed with no warnings or dependency problems but broke python and gramps because the updated library/package installed all it's modules in a different location to where python and gramps were expecting to find them. I had to backtrack to fix it all. No big deal but a RPITB. I also run Gnucash which has a perl plug-in for getting stock quotes. When I upgraded Gnucash a few weeks ago and tried to get stock quotes I had to upgrade a whole smash of stuff related to the Finance::Quote perl module. I don't believe this has caused my problem, but, hey, who knows? But back to the problem... I rebuilt the rpm database twice and both times it went to completion without errors. On RH8 I don't have any '__db.0n' files in /var/lib/rpm, only the following:- [graeme at barney graeme]$ ls -la /var/lib/rpm total 83184 drwxr-xr-x 2 rpm rpm 4096 Jul 12 14:37 . drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 Jul 12 12:11 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 10563584 Jun 12 15:28 Basenames -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Jun 12 15:26 Conflictname -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 1433600 Jun 12 15:28 Dirnames -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 10575872 Jun 12 15:28 Filemd5s -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 28672 Jun 12 15:57 Group -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 20480 Jun 12 15:57 Installtid -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 81920 Jun 12 15:57 Name -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 40337408 Jun 12 15:57 Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 331776 Jun 12 15:57 Providename -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 98304 Jun 12 15:57 Provideversion -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Jul 12 11:55 Pubkeys -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Jun 12 15:57 Pubkeys.old -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 405504 Jun 12 15:28 Requirename -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 204800 Jun 12 15:28 Requireversion -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25080710 Jul 12 11:54 rpm_backup.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 167936 Jun 12 15:28 Sha1header -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 86016 Jun 12 15:28 Sigmd5 -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Jun 12 15:28 Triggername I am no programmer but from the error message I take it the problem occurs in the python module hdrlist.py which calls the function mergeRpmDb which then fails on the first assignment (db = rpm.opendb(0, instPath)) >From now on I am lost. Has anyone any idea what may have become corrupted? Is there a compatibility problem in the various python etc libraries/packages caused by one or more being upgraded independently? (This would have to have happened because of some automated upgrade as I haven't done any upgrades myself) For what its worth the following is the code in hdrlist.py down to line 32 where the error occurs:- # # hdrlist.py - functions for dealing with header lists # # Based on code originally from anaconda's comps.py # # Copyright 2002 Red Hat, Inc. # import os, sys import rpm404 as rpm import method from comps import Package if os.environ.has_key("RCPUPGRADE") and os.environ["RCPUPGRADE"] == "1": ALLOWUPGRADE = 1 else: ALLOWUPGRADE = 0 class HeaderList(dict): def selected(self): l = [] keys = self.keys() keys.sort() for name in keys: if self[name].isSelected(): l.append(self[name]) return l def mergeRpmDb(self, instPath = "/"): installedmethod = method.InstalledPackageMethod() db = rpm.opendb(0, instPath) i = db.firstkey() while i is not None: Hoping someone can help. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A Difficulty for Every Solution. -- Motto of the Federal Civil Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - IMPORTANT. - - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - - only. 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Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From manuaroste at yahoo.es Mon Jul 12 09:59:48 2004 From: manuaroste at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?Manuel=20Arostegui=20Ramirez?=) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:59:48 +0200 (CEST) Subject: red hat 9+windows 2000 In-Reply-To: <1089603873.40f20921c29e1@dutilleux.ensg.ign.fr> Message-ID: <20040712095948.46037.qmail@web52405.mail.yahoo.com> --- Marie-Lise VAUTIER escribi?: > To Manuel Arostegui Ramirez, in particular: > > By "compiling the kernel 2.6.6', do you mean compile > it, or install it as RPM, > as described in Chapter 30 of the customization > guide, on > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/index.html > ? > > Thank you, Marie-Lise. There are two ways to get your new Kernel source, which you need to compile. The first one, you can install your kernel-source on rpm format and then go to /usr/src/linux.XXX and doing the correct steps to compile 2.6.X kernel series: make xconfig (or manuconfig), then make install, if you use modules you should do make modules and make modules_install. The second and last way, is downloading the Kernel source from www.kernel.org, move it to /usr/src and use: tar -zxvf linux-XXX.tar.gz or bzip2 -dc linuxXXX.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - (if it's in .tar.bz2 format). With this commands you will decompress your Kernel source in /usr/src/LinuxXXX and then, make xconfig, make... Best regards. Manuel > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quoting Manuel Arostegui Ramirez > : > > > --- Marie-Lise VAUTIER > escribi?: > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > Concerning my problems during the installation > of > > > Red Hat 9, here are the > > > features of my Ethernet card: > > > > > > Name: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet > > > 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter, Copper RJ-45 > > > Device ID: > > > > > > PCI\VEN_11AB&DEV_4320&SUBSYS_E0001458&REV_13\4&1F7DBC9F&0&48F0 > > > Driver: > C:\WINNT\system32\DRIVERS\yukonw2k.sys, > > > 6.32.0000.0000 (English), > > > 12/23/2003 06:32:00, 174464 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\wbem\mof\gewmi.mof, > , 0 > > > bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\mrvdlg.dll, > > > 1.00.0000.0001 (English), 12/23/2003 > > > 14:00:08, 12288 bytes > > > > > > > > > There is a driver for Marvell Yukon Ethernet > Chipset > > on kernel 2.6.6, you can compiled it and you will > be > > able to have your ethernet card properly detected. > > It's on: Networking support->Ethernet > > (1000Mbit)->Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect > SK-98xx > > Support. > > Here you will find these drivers: > > Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T > > Adapter (32 bit) > > - Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T > > Adapter (64 bit) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > And those of my video card: > > > > > > > > > Name: RADEON 9200 SERIES - Secondary > > > Device ID: > > > > > > PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5D44&SUBSYS_7C27174B&REV_01\4&299CCBFA&0&0108 > > > Driver: > C:\WINNT\system32\DRIVERS\ati2mtag.sys, > > > 6.14.0010.6414 (English), > > > 12/12/2003 14:50:04, 647680 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2dvag.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.6414 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:50:24, 384512 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\Ati2mdxx.exe, > > > 4.13.0001.0003 (English), 9/4/2001 > > > 18:24:26, 28672 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3d1ag.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.4045 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:14:12, 866016 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3d2ag.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.4045 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:25:08, 1052608 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3duag.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.0214 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:35:10, 845856 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ativvaxx.dll, > > > 6.14.0001.0001 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:08:34, 540704 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ATIDDC.DLL, > > > 6.14.0010.0005 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:40:26, 81920 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atitvo32.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.4100 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 13:56:24, 17408 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ativcoxx.dll, > > > 6.13.0010.0005 (English), 11/9/2001 > > > 13:01:04, 24064 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2evxx.exe, > > > 6.14.0010.4094 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:40:50, 397312 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2evxx.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.4094 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:42:14, 86016 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atipdlxx.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.2485 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:42:48, 110592 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\Oemdspif.dll, > > > 6.14.0001.0010 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:42:34, 102400 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2edxx.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.2491 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:42:26, 30208 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atioglxx.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.4103 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 15:19:02, 5505024 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atiiiexx.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.4000 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 16:35:18, 290816 bytes > > > > > > Name: RADEON 9200 SERIES > > > Device ID: > > > > > > PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5964&SUBSYS_7C26174B&REV_01\4&299CCBFA&0&0008 > > > Driver: > C:\WINNT\system32\DRIVERS\ati2mtag.sys, > > > 6.14.0010.6414 (English), > > > 12/12/2003 14:50:04, 647680 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2dvag.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.6414 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:50:24, 384512 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\Ati2mdxx.exe, > > > 4.13.0001.0003 (English), 9/4/2001 > > > 18:24:26, 28672 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3d1ag.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.4045 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:14:12, 866016 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3d2ag.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.4045 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:25:08, 1052608 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati3duag.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.0214 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:35:10, 845856 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ativvaxx.dll, > > > 6.14.0001.0001 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:08:34, 540704 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ATIDDC.DLL, > > > 6.14.0010.0005 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:40:26, 81920 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atitvo32.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.4100 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 13:56:24, 17408 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ativcoxx.dll, > > > 6.13.0010.0005 (English), 11/9/2001 > > > 13:01:04, 24064 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2evxx.exe, > > > 6.14.0010.4094 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:40:50, 397312 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2evxx.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.4094 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:42:14, 86016 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atipdlxx.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.2485 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:42:48, 110592 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\Oemdspif.dll, > > > 6.14.0001.0010 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:42:34, 102400 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\ati2edxx.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.2491 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 14:42:26, 30208 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atioglxx.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.4103 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 15:19:02, 5505024 bytes > > > Driver: C:\WINNT\system32\atiiiexx.dll, > > > 6.14.0010.4000 (English), 12/12/2003 > > > 16:35:18, 290816 bytes > > > > > > > ATI Radeon 9200 is supported by default on Red Hat > > Systems. > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quoting Manuel Arostegui Ramirez > > > : > > > > > > > --- Marie-Lise VAUTIER > > > escribi?: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > I am currently using Windows 2000 > Professional, > > > and > > > > > my computer is about one > > > > > month old. Its characteristics are: > > > > > > > > > > OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional > > > > > Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195 > > > > > OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation > > > > > System Name INSARVISIT1 > > > > > System Manufacturer GBT___ > > > > > System Model AWRDACPI > > > > > System Type X86-based PC > > > > > Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 3 > > > > > GenuineIntel ~2813 Mhz > > > > > Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 3 > > > > > GenuineIntel ~2813 Mhz > > > > > BIOS Version Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG > > > > > Windows Directory C:\WINNT > > > > > Locale United States > > > > > Time Zone AUS Eastern Standard Time > > > > > Total Physical Memory 1,048,044 KB > > > > > Available Physical Memory 747,636 KB > > > > > Total Virtual Memory 3,570,196 KB > > > > > Available Virtual Memory 3,072,116 KB > > > > > Page File Space 2,522,152 KB > > > > > > > > > > I am on a local network (in a university), > and I > > > > > access the Internet through it. > > > > > I've tried to install Red Hat Linux9. I've > > > checked > > > > > everything (as far as I > > > > > know) before starting the installation. But, > > > when > > > > > choosing the graphical > > > > > installation, it bugged, saying that there > was > > > an > > > > > error with my x server (or > > > > > something like that). The text installation > is > > > > > working, but when I try to > > > > > configure my network settings, it bugs > saying > > > that > > > > > my Ethernet card can't be > > > > > recognized. > > > > > > > > > > Has anyone experieced the same thing, or > know > > > where > > > > > it comes from? > > > > > > > > > > Thank you very much, Marie-Lise. > > > > > > > > What kind of chipset have your network card? > > > > Maybe there is not support in your Kernel. > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > ===== > > > > -- > > > > > > > > Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 > > > > http://manuel.todo-linux.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > > Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ?100 MB GRATIS! > > > > Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad > > > > http://correo.yahoo.es > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > > 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 > > > > > > > ===== > > -- > > > > Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 > > http://manuel.todo-linux.com > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ?100 MB GRATIS! > > Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad > > http://correo.yahoo.es > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > ===== -- Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 http://manuel.todo-linux.com ______________________________________________ Yahoo! lanza su nueva tecnolog?a de b?squedas ?te atreves a comparar? http://busquedas.yahoo.es From manuaroste at yahoo.es Mon Jul 12 10:05:34 2004 From: manuaroste at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?Manuel=20Arostegui=20Ramirez?=) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:05:34 +0200 (CEST) Subject: RH8 --> FC2 upgrade In-Reply-To: <1089610593.2455.41.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: <20040712100534.24329.qmail@web52401.mail.yahoo.com> --- Graeme Nichols escribi?: > Hello Folks, I have just ordered my FC2 4 CD set > from EverythingLinux > and am hoping that I can do a simple 'upgrade' from > RH8 to FC2. Has > anyone had any experience doing such an upgrade that > they would like to > share? > You will find some errors with XFree from RH8 to FC2, because Fedora not use the same name as RH8 for it's files. ===== -- Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 http://manuel.todo-linux.com ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ?100 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 12 18:09:04 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:09:04 -0700 Subject: VNC Server In-Reply-To: <1089436413.1524.15.camel@barney.localdomain> References: <1088920558.1615.27.camel@barney.localdomain> <40EAE1CE.80007@vitalstream.com> <1089258300.1347.31.camel@barney.localdomain> <40ED74C1.6020208@vitalstream.com> <1089436413.1524.15.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: <40F2D3C0.80908@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 02:22, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: >> >>>On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 03:30, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Graeme Nichols wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Hello Rick, I am having trouble with Evolution at the moment where I am >>>>>unable to reply to your post containing the instructions to get VNC >>>>>working. I have tried four times so far and all messages have been >>>>>empty. Perhaps the time has come to invoke yum and update Evolution :-) >>>>> >>>>>Anyway, to continue... The xstartup file created by the first invocation >>>>>of vncserver did not contain the line 'unset SESSION_MANAGER'. After >>>>>inserting that line I managed to get the XWindow I was expecting. >>>>>However, to get the vncviewer to work I had to use the following >>>>>command:- 'sudo vncviewer -via barney barney:1' Without the 'sudo' it >>>>>failed with the 'unable to read password' error. Using sudo it asked for >>>>>root's password on barney, then my user password on barney and it all >>>>>worked. >>>> >>>>On the remote end, you have to run "vncserver" or "xvnc" as the user you >>>>intend to log in as remotely. >>> >>> >>>Hello Rick, >>> >>>Yep! I started vncserver as my login name, graeme. >> >>Ok. >> >> >>>>You probably ran vncserver on the remote >>>>end as root, so you have to be root at the local end, too. >>> >>> >>>Nope. Started it as my mortal self. >>> >>> >>> >>>>The "can't >>>>read password" error is caused by the vnc server running as root and you >>>>trying to log in as a mortal user. The mortal user you tried to log in >>>>as probably doesn't have a ~/.vnc/passwd file. >>> >>> >>>Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so, because if I start vncviewer on >>>the same machine I started vncserver the password is read no problem. It >>>is only when I start vncviewer on the 'other' machine. >> >>Uh, you realize that using the "-via" bit requires you to use the ssh >>password to get into the machine, then you need the vnc password to >>access the vnc server? Which password is pooping out? >> >> >>>>>One thing I would like to change if I can is the size of the TightVNC >>>>>window that comes up. The argument 'fullscreen' defaults to 'no' but >>>>>that is almost as big as fullscreen. It is larger than the screen size >>>>>and results in a scroll bar right and bottom. Is there a way to set the >>>>>screen size? >>>> >>>>You mean the local VNC window is smaller than the screen size of the >>>>remote end, hence you have scroll bars. You can either turn on >>>>fullscreen (which really only works if your local screen size is the >>>>same or larger than the remote end) or you can use the "-geometry" >>>>option to specify your local window size. If you use a 1280x1024 >>>>display locally, fullscreen mode is essentially: >>> >>> >>>No, both machines have a 1024x768 screen size, the machine running the >>>server and the machine running the viewer. When I log in from the >>>machine running the viewer the window, labeled 'TightVNC: Graeme's X >>>Desktop etc...', has scroll bars which interfere with the application. >>>The 'actual' window size appears to be 1024x768, the same physical size >>>as the screen, but the scroll bars take up display area causing the >>>problem. >> >>Ah, yes, that would be an issue. The scroll bars do occupy desktop >>space. You could specify a smaller desktop on the server using the >>"-geometry" parameter: >> >> vncserver -geometry 800x600 >> >>The vncviewer should have a bigger desktop than the server to prevent >>that issue. See next paragraph. >> >> >>> >>> >>>> -geometry 1280x1024x0x0 >>> >>> >>>If I start vncviewer with the command 'vncviewer -geometry 800x600x0x0 >>>-via barney barney:1' to stick the window in the top right corner, or >>>wherever, it still comes up bigger than the screen's real estate with >>>the scroll bars. If I then click on the full screen icon (trc) the >>>scroll bars disappear but the window is slightly larger than the >>>machine's screen resolution/size (1024x768). The docs for X mention the >>>the -geometry option but I wasn't able to get it to work when I start an >>>Xterm for a particular size, simply puts up the usage screen saying the >>>-geometry option was not valid. Perhaps the problem with vncviewer is >>>linked with the X problem, I don't know. >> >>That's because the server is using a 1024x768 display (default) but >>you've specified an 800x600 window to show it in. Of course you'll have >>scroll bars. If you use: >> >> vncserver -geometry 800x600 >> >>on the server and >> >> vncviewer -via barney barney:1 >> >>the viewer shouldn't have scrollbars. Granted the desktop will be >>smaller, but no scrollbars. >> >> >>>Thanks Rick, sorry to be a nuisance but I would like to sort it if I >>>can. > > > Rick, thank you very much, you're a wiz. I hadn't picked up on the > ability to size the server desktop, I was mistakenly trying to size the > viewer, Duh! As for the password problem I guess it must be the ssh > password. Prefixing the command to start the viewer with 'sudo' results > in being asked for root's password on barney followed later by the > prompt 'password'. Entering my own login password at this prompt up > comes the viewer screen. > > It all works like a dream now, thanks in no small measure to your help, > and I now know a LOT more about Linux. The 'fun is in the learning'. You have a very strange idea of "fun", but I get your drift. ;-) Glad to help. It is kinda nifty, isn't it? By the way, you can speed up the display a bit by using the "-C" option (compress) to ssh. To do this, set up something like: VNC_VIA_CMD="/usr/bin/ssh -f -C -L "$L":"$H":"$R" "$G" sleep 20" export VNC_VIA_CMD then run "vncviewer -via gateway host". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I won't rise to the occasion, but I'll slide over to it. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 12 18:16:13 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:16:13 -0700 Subject: redhat-config-packages problem + other In-Reply-To: <1089609117.1836.37.camel@barney.localdomain> References: <1089609117.1836.37.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: <40F2D56D.9050203@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > Hello Folks, I seem to be having a problem with the rpm database or > something because redhat-config-packages no longer runs and I cannot > figure out what may be wrong. Running it from the command line results > in the following:_ > > [graeme at barney graeme]$ redhat-config-packages > rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unsupported hash version: 8 > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/MainWindow.py", line 159, in ? > hdlist.mergeRpmDb() > File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/hdrlist.py", line 32, in > mergeRpmDb > db = rpm.opendb(0, instPath) > rpm404.error > > This output seems to me to indicate a python/gnome problem. My > experience with python, gnome, pygtk etc. has taught me that the python, > gnome, pygtk etc. is a complete dogs breakfast with every upgrade of the > different libraries/packages scattering the components around various > different locations to the previous version creating all sorts of > problems similar to the error above. The developers don't appear to have > heard of backward compatibility or even consistency. > > I run gramps and tried to upgrade a particular library/package to take > advantage of a plug-in. The library/package rpm installed with no > warnings or dependency problems but broke python and gramps because the > updated library/package installed all it's modules in a different > location to where python and gramps were expecting to find them. I had > to backtrack to fix it all. No big deal but a RPITB. > > I also run Gnucash which has a perl plug-in for getting stock quotes. > When I upgraded Gnucash a few weeks ago and tried to get stock quotes I > had to upgrade a whole smash of stuff related to the Finance::Quote perl > module. I don't believe this has caused my problem, but, hey, who knows? > > But back to the problem... I rebuilt the rpm database twice and both > times it went to completion without errors. On RH8 I don't have any > '__db.0n' files in /var/lib/rpm, only the following:- > > [graeme at barney graeme]$ ls -la /var/lib/rpm > total 83184 > drwxr-xr-x 2 rpm rpm 4096 Jul 12 14:37 . > drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 Jul 12 12:11 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 10563584 Jun 12 15:28 Basenames > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Jun 12 15:26 Conflictname > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 1433600 Jun 12 15:28 Dirnames > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 10575872 Jun 12 15:28 Filemd5s > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 28672 Jun 12 15:57 Group > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 20480 Jun 12 15:57 Installtid > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 81920 Jun 12 15:57 Name > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 40337408 Jun 12 15:57 Packages > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 331776 Jun 12 15:57 Providename > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 98304 Jun 12 15:57 Provideversion > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Jul 12 11:55 Pubkeys > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Jun 12 15:57 Pubkeys.old > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 405504 Jun 12 15:28 Requirename > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 204800 Jun 12 15:28 Requireversion > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25080710 Jul 12 11:54 rpm_backup.zip > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 167936 Jun 12 15:28 Sha1header > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 86016 Jun 12 15:28 Sigmd5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Jun 12 15:28 Triggername > > I am no programmer but from the error message I take it the problem > occurs in the python module hdrlist.py which calls the function > mergeRpmDb which then fails on the first assignment (db = rpm.opendb(0, > instPath)) > >>From now on I am lost. Has anyone any idea what may have become > corrupted? Is there a compatibility problem in the various python etc > libraries/packages caused by one or more being upgraded independently? > (This would have to have happened because of some automated upgrade as I > haven't done any upgrades myself) > > For what its worth the following is the code in hdrlist.py down to line > 32 where the error occurs:- > > # > # hdrlist.py - functions for dealing with header lists > # > # Based on code originally from anaconda's comps.py > # > # Copyright 2002 Red Hat, Inc. > # > > import os, sys > import rpm404 as rpm > import method > from comps import Package > > if os.environ.has_key("RCPUPGRADE") and os.environ["RCPUPGRADE"] == "1": > ALLOWUPGRADE = 1 > else: > ALLOWUPGRADE = 0 > > class HeaderList(dict): > def selected(self): > l = [] > keys = self.keys() > keys.sort() > for name in keys: > if self[name].isSelected(): > l.append(self[name]) > return l > > def mergeRpmDb(self, instPath = "/"): > installedmethod = method.InstalledPackageMethod() > > db = rpm.opendb(0, instPath) > i = db.firstkey() > while i is not None: > > Hoping someone can help. This problem has been documented many times. To fix it, as root: # cd /var/lib/rpm # rm -f __db* (that's two underscores) # rpm --rebuilddb Then RPM should work properly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Microsoft Windows: Proof that P.T. Barnum was right - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 12 18:21:25 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:21:25 -0700 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 upgrade In-Reply-To: <1089610593.2455.41.camel@barney.localdomain> References: <1089610593.2455.41.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: <40F2D6A5.6090104@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > Hello Folks, I have just ordered my FC2 4 CD set from EverythingLinux > and am hoping that I can do a simple 'upgrade' from RH8 to FC2. Has > anyone had any experience doing such an upgrade that they would like to > share? The upgrade should work, although that's a quantum leap (8.0 -> FC2). Be aware of the fact that FC2 uses Xorg's X implementation rather than XFree86's. If you get glitches in the X system, bring the system up in text mode, go to /etc/X11 and rename all of the XFree86 config files. If Xorg sees them, it will try to use some of the settings there and some are not compatible. Also be aware that you're going to a 2.6 kernel. There aren't as many drivers available for 2.6 and the kernel layout and modules are quite a bit different (/etc/modules.conf replaced by /etc/modprobe.conf and the modules themselves now have a ".ko" filetype). I think you'll find it faster but don't be too upset if some of your hardware isn't supported. The kernel also uses a different stack size than the 2.4 kernel, so Nvidia's drivers won't work. You must go to their website and get the "4k" kernel versions of their drivers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - NEWS FLASH! Intelligence of mankind decreasing! Details at... - - uh, when, uh, the little hand is, uh, on the... Aw, NUTS! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 12 19:07:45 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:07:45 -0700 Subject: DAT not working In-Reply-To: <40F057E4.7090807@onu.edu> References: <20040710160028.0DF1773467@hormel.redhat.com> <40F057E4.7090807@onu.edu> Message-ID: <40F2E181.1030509@vitalstream.com> Jason Pinkney wrote: >> [snip] >> >>>> my DAT tape drive used to work with my RHL system >>>> but yesterday, I tried to read a tape and it got >>>> messed up. At first, it seemed fine. It started >>>> reading the tape in response to my command: >>>> % tar tf /dev/st0 > listing >>>> but it wouldn't finish and give me a prompt. Inspection >>>> of "listing" showed that it only made it a little ways >>>> into the tar file (incomplete listing). >>>> Since then, it has been impossible to communicate with. >>>> Even after rebooting, the basic command >>>> % mt -f /dev/st0 status >>>> will either give no response and become a sleeping process >>>> that can't be killed, or it will say: >>>> /dev/st0: No such device or address >>>> >>>> Can you tell where the problem is? > > >> [snip] >> >>>> Rick Stevens >>>> >>>> Did you change anything? Did you upgrade to FC1 or something along >>>> those lines? >>>> >>>> The errors you show are SCSI errors. The most common causes are bad >>>> SCSI bus termination or SCSI controller problem. >>>> >>>> If the SCSI card is a PCI card, try shutting down, opening the box and >>>> reseating the card (unscrew it, unplug it, plug it back in and screw >>>> it down again). You'd be amazed at how many problems that solves. >>> >>> >>> >>> Rick, >>> thanks for the suggestions. The DAT drive is working >>> again! (I think it also needed a cleaning.) >> >> >> >> What else did you do to get it to work. I'm needy and need closure! > > > > Hi Rick, > I don't actually have a PCI card, but I opened up my Dell > PC anyways. I took out the internal Archive Python 6408-XXX > DAT drive (which I installed 2 years ago), dusted it off a bit, and > reconnected it. I also checked the connections to the adapter card > (Adaptec SCSI Card19160). > > On reboot, I gave it "mt -f /dev/st0 status" commands and it > gave the expected responses both before and after tape insertion. > Then, to make a listing of files on a tarfile on my DDS4 tape, I do: > % mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 0 > % mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1 > % tar tf /dev/nst0 > listing > I gave this last command yesterday, and it is still running! > So all is not perfect! I'm expecting read rates of ~2 MB/s, > and this is just a listing of a 9GB tarfile. This may have to > do with the small record size its using "tar: Record size = 1 blocks", > or my "setblk" command. The "setblk" command is an obscure fix > that I learned from somebody for using DAT tapes on linux. Without it, > I cannot run DDS2, or DDS3 tapes. (My tar command probably would > have worked better without "setblk 0", but I thought it was needed > for DDS4 too at the time.) I know that my tar command is > still working because I type "tail listing" and see new filenames. > > My previous problems began when I became impatient. During > this tar command, the tape occasionally makes noises like its > done or stopped (the orange light goes off). But, if I leave > it alone, it will come back again on its own (at least it does > now)! When I looked at the list and saw that only about 20 > files had been generated in ~30 minutes, I thought it was > in la la land. So I tried to kill it and eject the tape, > and it got in an even more hopeless state. The connections > may not have had anything to do with it. > Also, I still get the ominous error on reboot: > "kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2" > Any clue what this means? Well, hmmmm. That indicates that the module called out in your modules.conf file doesn't exist. You should check that file and look for the 'alias scsi_hostadapter" line, see which module it aliased and verify that the module exists. > What's most annoying is that a simple ^C would work to stop > a SCSI tape command in its tracks (no pun intended) on a SUN, > and it would reinitialize itself promptly. > But here it doesn't do much at all. It probably did abort it, but the thing has to rewind the tape. You could find the PID of the command you ran, send it a "kill -9" and then press the eject button on the tape. It should come out fairly soon. A reboot would also do it. > When this job finally ends, I'll clean the drive > again, and omit the "setblk 0" command when using DDS4. > > thanks for the interest, No problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - su -; find / -name someone -exec touch \{\} \; - - - The UNIX way of touching someone - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jordillo2002 at yahoo.es Tue Jul 13 07:47:43 2004 From: jordillo2002 at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?Jordi=20Llorens?=) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:47:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Update Apache Message-ID: <20040713074743.73876.qmail@web12301.mail.yahoo.com> Hello, I'm get a working environment, with RH8 : apache 2.0.40, php, and other related packages. I want to update my apache server, because this version is out of date , and has so many security flavours. My question is, how i update apache without the other packages are affected? I'm tried to run a rpm of the 2.0.47 version, and has failed due to missing dependencies (openssl, for example). Are a rpm package that can i install that resolves the security problems of the 2.0.40? or only can update? thanks, --------------------------------- [input] [input] [input] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bho at gmx.net Tue Jul 13 15:24:31 2004 From: bho at gmx.net (Benjamin Hornberger) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:24:31 -0400 Subject: external firewire hard drive on RHEL AS 3 Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20040713111355.02588f58@pop.gmx.net> Hi all, I am having trouble getting an external firewire hard drive and an external firewire DVD writer to work on RHEL AS 3 (academic license). I installed the kernel-smp-unsupported package (which at the first time messed up my network cards, but at the second time seemed to work). I loaded the ieee1394, ohci1394, raw1394 and sbp2 modules, but the latter seems to make some problems. On boot, I get a message like "insmod: a module named sbp2 already exist", or something like that. I can't recall the exact message because it is not logged in /var/log/boot.log (any hints what is actually logged there, why not all the boot messages?) When I run gscanbus, I see both devices (external hard drive and external DVD writer). When I do cdrecord -scanbus or more /proc/scsi/scsi, they don't show up. It looks like that firewire in principle is working, but they are not recognized as SCSI devices. Any hints? In general, any hints on how device names / numbers (/dev/scd0 etc.) are given when there are removable drives? By the way, both devices worked easily on RH 9. Thanks for your help! From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 13 15:59:24 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:59:24 -0700 Subject: Update Apache In-Reply-To: <20040713074743.73876.qmail@web12301.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040713074743.73876.qmail@web12301.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40F406DC.5040808@vitalstream.com> Jordi Llorens wrote: > Hello, > I'm get a working environment, with RH8 : apache 2.0.40, php, and other > related packages. I want to update my apache server, because this > version is out of date , and has so many security flavours. My question > is, how i update apache without the other packages are affected? I'm > tried to run a rpm of the 2.0.47 version, and has failed due to missing > dependencies (openssl, for example). Are a rpm package that can i > install that resolves the security problems of the 2.0.40? or only can > update? You can force an update by using "rpm -Fvh --force whatever.rpm", but I don't recommend it unless you really, really know what you're doing. The dependencies are there for a reason. If you force the update, there is no guarantee that things will work properly if you don't satisfy the dependencies. So, use the "--force" option, but use it at your own risk. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mikerault at yahoo.com Tue Jul 13 16:00:36 2004 From: mikerault at yahoo.com (Michael Ault) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:00:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: external firewire hard drive on RHEL AS 3 In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040713111355.02588f58@pop.gmx.net> Message-ID: <20040713160036.34812.qmail@web12302.mail.yahoo.com> What does a "dmesg|grep sbp2" show? Also a "demesg|grep scsi"? You may need to do a echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0">/proc/scsi/scsi have you tried reloading the sbps modules? modprobe -r sbp2 modprobe -r sd_mod modprobe -r ohci1394 modprobe ohci1394 modprobe sd_mod modprobe sbp2 Mike --- Benjamin Hornberger wrote: > Hi all, > > I am having trouble getting an external firewire > hard drive and an external > firewire DVD writer to work on RHEL AS 3 (academic > license). I installed > the kernel-smp-unsupported package (which at the > first time messed up my > network cards, but at the second time seemed to > work). I loaded the > ieee1394, ohci1394, raw1394 and sbp2 modules, but > the latter seems to make > some problems. > > On boot, I get a message like "insmod: a module > named sbp2 already exist", > or something like that. I can't recall the exact > message because it is not > logged in /var/log/boot.log (any hints what is > actually logged there, why > not all the boot messages?) > > When I run gscanbus, I see both devices (external > hard drive and external > DVD writer). When I do cdrecord -scanbus or more > /proc/scsi/scsi, they > don't show up. It looks like that firewire in > principle is working, but > they are not recognized as SCSI devices. > > Any hints? In general, any hints on how device names > / numbers (/dev/scd0 > etc.) are given when there are removable drives? > > By the way, both devices worked easily on RH 9. > > Thanks for your help! > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > ===== Michael R. Ault Senior Consultant Burleson Oracle Consulting 770-754-9057 www.ault.cc www.remote-dba.com From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 13 16:11:02 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:11:02 -0700 Subject: external firewire hard drive on RHEL AS 3 In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040713111355.02588f58@pop.gmx.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20040713111355.02588f58@pop.gmx.net> Message-ID: <40F40996.20807@vitalstream.com> Benjamin Hornberger wrote: > Hi all, > > I am having trouble getting an external firewire hard drive and an > external firewire DVD writer to work on RHEL AS 3 (academic license). I > installed the kernel-smp-unsupported package (which at the first time > messed up my network cards, but at the second time seemed to work). I > loaded the ieee1394, ohci1394, raw1394 and sbp2 modules, but the latter > seems to make some problems. > > On boot, I get a message like "insmod: a module named sbp2 already > exist", or something like that. I can't recall the exact message because > it is not logged in /var/log/boot.log (any hints what is actually logged > there, why not all the boot messages?) Just do an "lsmod" to see what's already loaded. Check your /etc/modules.conf file and see if there's an alias for that module that would force it to load. Some modules will also pull in others that it needs (e.g. the sound module will pull in snd-core without being asked to). > When I run gscanbus, I see both devices (external hard drive and > external DVD writer). When I do cdrecord -scanbus or more > /proc/scsi/scsi, they don't show up. It looks like that firewire in > principle is working, but they are not recognized as SCSI devices. Then I'd guess the sg module is not seeing the firewire properly. There is a rescan SCSI bus script available at http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh which may help. May I ask if there was a reason you used the unsupported kernel? > Any hints? In general, any hints on how device names / numbers > (/dev/scd0 etc.) are given when there are removable drives? If everything else you have is IDE-based, the external hard drive should show up as /dev/sda. If you have an IDE CD, the the DVD should show up as /dev/scd0 or /dev/cdrom1. > By the way, both devices worked easily on RH 9. I suspect this is the unsupported kernel's problem. I don't know what the differences are between the normal and unsupported kernels as I don't have any AS/ES/WS/EL licenses. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mgalgoci at redhat.com Tue Jul 13 16:18:38 2004 From: mgalgoci at redhat.com (Matthew Galgoci) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:18:38 -0400 (EDT) Subject: external firewire hard drive on RHEL AS 3 In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040713111355.02588f58@pop.gmx.net> Message-ID: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Benjamin Hornberger wrote: > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:24:31 -0400 > From: Benjamin Hornberger > Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > Subject: external firewire hard drive on RHEL AS 3 > > Hi all, > > I am having trouble getting an external firewire hard drive and an external > firewire DVD writer to work on RHEL AS 3 (academic license). I installed > the kernel-smp-unsupported package (which at the first time messed up my > network cards, but at the second time seemed to work). I loaded the > ieee1394, ohci1394, raw1394 and sbp2 modules, but the latter seems to make > some problems. > > On boot, I get a message like "insmod: a module named sbp2 already exist", > or something like that. I can't recall the exact message because it is not > logged in /var/log/boot.log (any hints what is actually logged there, why > not all the boot messages?) > > When I run gscanbus, I see both devices (external hard drive and external > DVD writer). When I do cdrecord -scanbus or more /proc/scsi/scsi, they > don't show up. It looks like that firewire in principle is working, but > they are not recognized as SCSI devices. > > Any hints? In general, any hints on how device names / numbers (/dev/scd0 > etc.) are given when there are removable drives? The firewire stack has been a bit of a moving target ... iirc, you can get your disks registered as scsi block devices by doing echo "scsi add-single-device n1 n2 n3 n4" > /proc/scsi/scsi where n1 is scsi bus, n2 is scsi channel, n3 is scsi id, and n4 is the device lun. If you have no other devices in /proc/scsi/scsi, it's a fair assumption that n1, n2, n3, and n4 are all zero. Once you have one device registered on a scsi channel, just keep moving up the chain, eg n2++ -- Matthew Galgoci System Administrator and Sr. Manager of Ruminants Red Hat, Inc 919.754.3700 x44155 From bho at gmx.net Tue Jul 13 19:01:14 2004 From: bho at gmx.net (Benjamin Hornberger) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:01:14 -0400 Subject: external firewire hard drive on RHEL AS 3 In-Reply-To: <40F40996.20807@vitalstream.com> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20040713111355.02588f58@pop.gmx.net> <40F40996.20807@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20040713145504.02550cc0@pop.gmx.net> At 09:11 AM 7/13/2004 -0700, you wrote: >Then I'd guess the sg module is not seeing the firewire properly. There >is a rescan SCSI bus script available at > > http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh That helped! It works now. >which may help. May I ask if there was a reason you used the >unsupported kernel? Because Redhat doesn't support firewire in their Enterprise version. The kernel-smp-unsupported is "provided as a courtesy"... From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 13 20:45:41 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:45:41 -0700 Subject: external firewire hard drive on RHEL AS 3 In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040713145504.02550cc0@pop.gmx.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20040713111355.02588f58@pop.gmx.net> <40F40996.20807@vitalstream.com> <6.1.2.0.2.20040713145504.02550cc0@pop.gmx.net> Message-ID: <40F449F5.9070704@vitalstream.com> Benjamin Hornberger wrote: > At 09:11 AM 7/13/2004 -0700, you wrote: > > >> Then I'd guess the sg module is not seeing the firewire properly. There >> is a rescan SCSI bus script available at >> >> http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh > > > That helped! It works now. Good. I dug that out of the comments in the source code for the sbp2 module. Yet another reason to support open source! >> which may help. May I ask if there was a reason you used the >> unsupported kernel? > > > Because Redhat doesn't support firewire in their Enterprise version. The > kernel-smp-unsupported is "provided as a courtesy"... Ah! "Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Dumbed down for stability." I guess that makes some sort of sense. Sheesh! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Brain: The organ with which we think that we think. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From ed at mangual.net Wed Jul 14 04:46:23 2004 From: ed at mangual.net (Ed Mangual) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:46:23 -0400 Subject: Support for Large Disks under RedHat Enterprise 2.1 Message-ID: Does any body know if there is support for Hardrives over 137GB under RedHat Enterprise 2.1? 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This is all explained in the "Special Shell Variables" section of "man tcsh". "man" is your friend. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The Navy's a bunch of wimps! MY job's an adventure! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From goijiud at hotmail.com Wed Jul 14 23:48:28 2004 From: goijiud at hotmail.com (GoijI P) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 19:48:28 -0400 Subject: tcsh question Message-ID: how do i i run the command?.: set prompt = %~ ?? sorry, been away from linux for sometime. >>rH9. tcsh - .tcshrc. >>when in terminal i like my current directory path >>to show as part of terminal title. how?. > >Try using one of these commands to see which one you prefer: > > prompt %/ > prompt %~ > >Then put the one you like in your ~/.tcshrc script. This is all >explained in the "Special Shell Variables" section of "man tcsh". _________________________________________________________________ MSN 9 Dial-up Internet Access helps fight spam and pop-ups ? now 2 months FREE! http://join.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/ From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 15 00:01:57 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:01:57 -0700 Subject: tcsh question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40F5C975.2010401@vitalstream.com> GoijI P wrote: >>> rH9. tcsh - .tcshrc. >>> when in terminal i like my current directory path >>> to show as part of terminal title. how?. >> >> >> Try using one of these commands to see which one you prefer: >> >> prompt %/ >> prompt %~ >> >> Then put the one you like in your ~/.tcshrc script. This is all >> explained in the "Special Shell Variables" section of "man tcsh" > how do i i run the command?.: > set prompt = %~ ?? Yes. You probably want something like one of these: set prompt = "[%/]$ " set prompt = "[%~]$ " > sorry, been away from linux for sometime. That's OK. I should have been clearer. And please bottom-post in the future. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From goijiud at hotmail.com Thu Jul 15 00:33:45 2004 From: goijiud at hotmail.com (GoijI P) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:33:45 -0400 Subject: tcsh question Message-ID: But this only sets the prompt to CWD, how to set terminal title to show CWD in tcshrc?. not sure where in man tcshrc explains it. > set prompt = "[%/]$ " > set prompt = "[%~]$ " > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page ? FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Thu Jul 15 03:33:17 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:33:17 -0600 (MDT) Subject: VPN/PPTP on 8.0/9.0 Message-ID: <12625.198.60.114.90.1089862397.squirrel@198.60.114.90> Since upgrading from 7.0 to 8.0, I can't get VPN to work any more. Do I need to regress to the previous versions of pppd, etc. to get it to work again? Also, I have a 9.0 workstation and wonder if the same advice will count for both. Did I read a subject line about this and blow it off recently? hmmm. TIA, -- Karl Pearson karlp at ourldsfamily.com http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com http://emailgroups.ourldsfamily.com If you don't think the dead come back to life, Be here at quitting time -- My Thoughts on Terrorism In America: http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml -- A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -- Ramsey Clark From gnichols at tpg.com.au Thu Jul 15 05:19:13 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 15 Jul 2004 15:19:13 +1000 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done Message-ID: <1089868754.1090.42.camel@rubble.localdomain> Hello Folks, thanks to those who gave me some pointers on the above upgrade. I have now upgraded to FC2 from RH8 and the results are not all that good. There are some serious problems which I am hoping someone can help me with. Apart from bombing out early because a swap partition for a 7.1 install of RH on hda was found by the installer and deemed to not be initialized (fixed by running mkswap against the offending partition) everything appeared to go OK, although it took several hours, due possibly to my having a 'everything' install of RH8. When booting after installing it booted the old kernel using the old lilo.conf, the upgrade hadn't run either lilo or grub against the new lilo.conf or grub.conf. Easy fixed, now boots fine except it barfs when trying to initialize eth0. The errors from dmesg follow:- 8139too: Unknown parameter 'irq' iptables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter Core Team 8139too: Unknown parameter 'irq' 8139too: Unknown parameter 'irq' NET: Registered protocol family 10 Disabled privacy extensions on device 0220b720 (lo) IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver Divert: Not allocating divert_blk for non ethernet device sit0 Warning: Process 'update' used the obsolete bdflush system call Fix your init scripts? Every time I try and start eth0 the line '8139too: Unknown parameter 'irq' is written to dmesg. Now, the funny thing is if I run the hardware browser my ethernet card is shown as eth1 (A RealTek), changing everything via network config applet to eth1 simply gives the same errors in dmesg. Trying to activate the ethernet card using the network config applet gives some funny errors as well. When I make any changes and try and save them I get the following error:- ERR2 No such file or directory '//etc/sysconfig/network-scripts//ifcfg-lo.rpmsave'. Trying to activate it from the same utility results in 'Interface eth0 not found 8139too device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization' If I change the config to eth1 I get the same error except it is eth1 it is complaining about. If i click on the deactivate button I get the following error:- RPMSAVE: No such file or directory. Dev eth1 has different MAC address than expected. Ignoring. When trying to activate eth0(1) a window sometimes pops up with the following error:- Command failed. /sbin/modprobe 8139too irq 5, OUTPUT: FATAL: Error inserting 8139too (/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.ko). Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) There are no files in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory, a good reason why things are cocked up amongst others. When it comes to the printer, an Epson Stylus Colour 460, using the printer config, all the settings are as they should be but again I get an error saying that it cannot write the config to the file. The printer doesn't work, naturally. Kooka finds the scanner OK. I can mount my usb connected external HD but not my usb Zip drive. Now to my display and mouse, keyboard etc. I cannot find a Xorg.conf file anywhere. And there is no example file where the man pages say it should be. Can someone send me an example file please. Another problem that has arisen is with Pine. It won't start complaining of not being able to load shared files. Any clues on this one? All the above problems are connected to an 'upgrade' I guess, but there seems to me to be some underlying serious problem that I can't put my finger on. Not being able to save any of the config files is a worry I would like to get to the bottom of. I can boot the system OK. I can use an editor, open Evolution etc. but I am not yet sure that FC2 has anything to offer that RH8 hadn't, except that it isn't obsolete. A lot of the productivity short-cuts that were available in RH8 & Gnome appear to have been removed. Still, let's get the above problems fixed and working properly first before passing judgment. If anyone can help I will be very grateful. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols ---------------------------------------------------------------------- But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about. -- Hilaire Belloc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - IMPORTANT. - - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - - only. If you receive this email and are not the intended addressee - - please inform the sender and delete this email immediately. Use, - - copying, disclosure or forwarding of the contents of this email - - and/or any attachment/s is not authorised. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gnichols at tpg.com.au Thu Jul 15 05:37:05 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:37:05 +1000 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 upgrade In-Reply-To: <40F2D6A5.6090104@vitalstream.com> References: <1089610593.2455.41.camel@barney.localdomain> <40F2D6A5.6090104@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1089869825.3446.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 04:21, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > Hello Folks, I have just ordered my FC2 4 CD set from EverythingLinux > > and am hoping that I can do a simple 'upgrade' from RH8 to FC2. Has > > anyone had any experience doing such an upgrade that they would like to > > share? > > The upgrade should work, although that's a quantum leap (8.0 -> FC2). Might as well go to the latest :-) > Be aware of the fact that FC2 uses Xorg's X implementation rather than > XFree86's. If you get glitches in the X system22/06/04, bring the system up > in text mode, go to /etc/X11 and rename all of the XFree86 config files. > If Xorg sees them, it will try to use some of the settings there and > some are not compatible. > > Also be aware that you're going to a 2.6 kernel. There aren't as many > drivers available for 2.6 and the kernel layout and modules are quite > a bit different (/etc/modules.conf replaced by /etc/modprobe.conf and > the modules themselves now have a ".ko" filetype). I think you'll find > it faster but don't be too upset if some of your hardware isn't > supported. The kernel also uses a different stack size than the 2.4 > kernel, so Nvidia's drivers won't work. You must go to their website > and get the "4k" kernel versions of their drivers. Thanks Rick, I am hoping that all will be OK. I don't have much out-of-the-ordinary hardware. A bog-standard video card and monitor, a usb ext. HD, a Zip 100 usb powered drive, Epson Perfection 640U scanner, Epson Stylus Colour 460 Parallel Port printer plus the usual MB stuff. Here's keeping my fingers crossed, 'X', I know of no way to back out if all goes pear-shaped but I have backed up my home directory and the /etc/ directory. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Advice from an old carpenter: measure twice, saw once. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - IMPORTANT. - - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - - only. If you receive this email and are not the intended addressee - - please inform the sender and delete this email immediately. 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You probably want something like one of these: > > set prompt = "[%/]$ " > set prompt = "[%~]$ " > > > sorry, been away from linux for sometime. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page ? FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ From gnichols at tpg.com.au Thu Jul 15 06:12:07 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:12:07 +1000 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 upgrade In-Reply-To: <20040712100534.24329.qmail@web52401.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040712100534.24329.qmail@web52401.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1089871927.3446.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 20:05, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: > --- Graeme Nichols escribi?: > > Hello Folks, I have just ordered my FC2 4 CD set > > from EverythingLinux > > and am hoping that I can do a simple 'upgrade' from > > RH8 to FC2. Has > > anyone had any experience doing such an upgrade that > > they would like to > > share? > > > You will find some errors with XFree from RH8 to FC2, > because Fedora not use the same name as RH8 for it's files. > Hello Manuel, Thanks for the info. Where is the Xorg.conf file supposed to be located? There isn't one after I did the upgrade and there is no sample Xorg.conf file either. Can you send me a copy of yours so I can set mine up? Would appreciate it if you can. Ta. Graeme. > From gnichols at tpg.com.au Thu Jul 15 06:26:55 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:26:55 +1000 Subject: VNC Server In-Reply-To: <40F2D3C0.80908@vitalstream.com> References: <1088920558.1615.27.camel@barney.localdomain> <40EAE1CE.80007@vitalstream.co m> <1089258300.1347.31.camel@barney.localdomain> <40ED74C1.6020208@vitalstream.com> <1089436413.1524.15.camel@barney.localdomain> <40F2D3C0.80908@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1089872815.3446.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 04:09, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 02:22, Rick Stevens wrote:> > > Rick, thank you very much, you're a wiz. I hadn't picked up on the > > ability to size the server desktop, I was mistakenly trying to size the > > viewer, Duh! As for the password problem I guess it must be the ssh > > password. Prefixing the command to start the viewer with 'sudo' results > > in being asked for root's password on barney followed later by the > > prompt 'password'. Entering my own login password at this prompt up > > comes the viewer screen. > > > > It all works like a dream now, thanks in no small measure to your help, > > and I now know a LOT more about Linux. The 'fun is in the learning'. > > You have a very strange idea of "fun", but I get your drift. ;-) > Glad to help. It is kinda nifty, isn't it? > > By the way, you can speed up the display a bit by using the "-C" option > (compress) to ssh. To do this, set up something like: > > VNC_VIA_CMD="/usr/bin/ssh -f -C -L "$L":"$H":"$R" "$G" sleep 20" > export VNC_VIA_CMD > > then run "vncviewer -via gateway host". Thanks Rick, will give that a whirl when I have sorted out FC2 problems. I now have the ethernet card working but I had to set it up as eth1. I have also a sit0 interface before the eth1 in the list. Do you know what that is? Ta. Graeme. From gnichols at tpg.com.au Thu Jul 15 06:35:30 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:35:30 +1000 Subject: redhat-config-packages problem + other In-Reply-To: <40F2D56D.9050203@vitalstream.com> References: <1089609117.1836.37.camel@barney.localdomain> <40F2D56D.9050203@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1089873330.3446.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 04:16, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > Hello Folks, I seem to be having a problem with the rpm database or > > something because redhat-config-packages no longer runs and I cannot > > figure out what may be wrong. Running it from the command line results > > in the following:_ > > > >>From now on I am lost. Has anyone any idea what may have become > > corrupted? Is there a compatibility problem in the various python etc > > libraries/packages caused by one or more being upgraded independently? > > (This would have to have happened because of some automated upgrade as I > > haven't done any upgrades myself) > > > > For what its worth the following is the code in hdrlist.py down to line > > 32 where the error occurs:- > > > > # > > # hdrlist.py - functions for dealing with header lists > > # > > # Based on code originally from anaconda's comps.py > > # > > # Copyright 2002 Red Hat, Inc. > > # > > > > import os, sys > > import rpm404 as rpm > > import method > > from comps import Package > > > > if os.environ.has_key("RCPUPGRADE") and os.environ["RCPUPGRADE"] == "1": > > ALLOWUPGRADE = 1 > > else: > > ALLOWUPGRADE = 0 > > > > class HeaderList(dict): > > def selected(self): > > l = [] > > keys = self.keys() > > keys.sort() > > for name in keys: > > if self[name].isSelected(): > > l.append(self[name]) > > return l > > > > def mergeRpmDb(self, instPath = "/"): > > installedmethod = method.InstalledPackageMethod() > > > > db = rpm.opendb(0, instPath) > > i = db.firstkey() > > while i is not None: > > > > Hoping someone can help. > > This problem has been documented many times. To fix it, as root: > > # cd /var/lib/rpm > # rm -f __db* (that's two underscores) > # rpm --rebuilddb > > Then RPM should work properly. Hi Rick, noooo..., doesn't work. I tried all that before I posted the message. There are/were no __db* files and rpm --rebuilddb without error. Anyway, many thanks for replying. Its academic now, it all works fine in FC2 :-) Now... all I've got to do is sort a few problems as a result of the upgrade and I will be all back to normal. See my other posts today. Ta, Graeme. > From g0pae at manordat.demon.co.uk Thu Jul 15 07:26:37 2004 From: g0pae at manordat.demon.co.uk (Chris Hewitt) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:26:37 +0100 Subject: VNC Server References: <1088920558.1615.27.camel@barney.localdomain> <40EAE1CE.80007@vitalstream.co m> <1089258300.1347.31.camel@barney.localdomain> <40ED74C1.6020208@vitalstream.com> <1089436413.1524.15.camel@barney.localdomain> <40F2D3C0.80908@vitalstream.com> <1089872815.3446.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40F631AD.2060205@manordat.demon.co.uk> Graeme Nichols wrote: > >Thanks Rick, will give that a whirl when I have sorted out FC2 problems. >I now have the ethernet card working but I had to set it up as eth1. I >have also a sit0 interface before the eth1 in the list. Do you know what >that is? > >Ta. > >Graeme. > Its a combination of eth0 and eth1, so that for example you can get ethereal to listen on both interfaces by selecting sit0. I only came across it the other day myself. HTH Chris From yashaswi1980 at yahoo.co.in Thu Jul 15 07:26:01 2004 From: yashaswi1980 at yahoo.co.in (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kommoju=20Yujeeta=20Yasaswi?=) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:26:01 +0100 (BST) Subject: Dual Booting Message-ID: <20040715072601.29768.qmail@web8201.mail.in.yahoo.com> Hi I have Single Harddisk of 40 GB My OS is Windows XP, Now I installed RedHat Linux 9 using Automatically Partition in logical partition of size 6 GB approx., After some days i got some problems in WindowXP and i reinstalled it. After reinstalling it i found that there was no grub boot loader. Windows XP was booting directly. Now I want RHL 9 back that to with out reinstalling it. Please tell me if there is any possibility. My email address are yashaswi1980 at yahoo.co.in yasaswi4u at hotmail.com Thank you, regards yash Yahoo! India Careers: Over 65,000 jobsonline. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Thu Jul 15 10:16:12 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 05:16:12 -0500 Subject: Dual Booting In-Reply-To: <20040715072601.29768.qmail@web8201.mail.in.yahoo.com> References: <20040715072601.29768.qmail@web8201.mail.in.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040715101612.GA1332@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:26:01AM +0100, Kommoju Yujeeta Yasaswi wrote: > Hi > I have Single Harddisk of 40 GB > > My OS is Windows XP, Now I installed RedHat Linux 9 using Automatically Partition in logical partition of size 6 GB approx., > > After some days i got some problems in WindowXP and i reinstalled it. After reinstalling it i found that there was no grub boot loader. Windows XP was booting directly. > Now I want RHL 9 back that to with out reinstalling it. > Please tell me if there is any possibility. > > My email address are > yashaswi1980 at yahoo.co.in > yasaswi4u at hotmail.com > > Thank you, > regards yash Yes, there is. Boot into rescue mode with your RH 9 Disk1 ("linux rescue"). Let it mount the filesystems. Then chroot /mnt/sysimage grub-install /dev/hda exit exit Yes, exit twice - once out of the chroot, once out of rescue. It should reboot. Pop out the CD. You should get a GRUB screen. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Nothing ruins truth like stretching it. From Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com Thu Jul 15 10:45:31 2004 From: Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com (Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:45:31 +0200 Subject: Kickstart and "redhat-switch-mail" change to postfix Message-ID: Hello, Is there a way or Example, howto configure "redhat-switch-mail to postfix" ? There are some links in /etc/alternatives directory. I try to make links in %post section with "--nochroot", becose there are no links after ks installation. thanks for any ideas, Thomas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From campbell at accelinc.com Thu Jul 15 13:34:00 2004 From: campbell at accelinc.com (Chuck Campbell) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:34:00 -0500 Subject: yum can't install mplayer or xine on rh9 Message-ID: <20040715133400.GC25490@helium.inexs.com> I've been trying to install mplayer and the mozilla plug-in on my rh9 box. I've also tried to install xine and its plug-in on the same box. I've gotten stuck with both. Mplayer attempt does this: [root at helium root]# yum install mplayer Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Red Hat Linux 9 base Server: Fedora Legacy Utilities for Red Hat Linux 9 Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing) Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable) Server: macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin Server: Red Hat Linux 9 updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies ......Unable to satisfy dependencies Package mplayer needs libdv.so.2, this is not available. I tried this: [root at helium root]# yum install mplayer libdv Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Red Hat Linux 9 base Server: Fedora Legacy Utilities for Red Hat Linux 9 Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing) Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable) Server: macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin Server: Red Hat Linux 9 updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Cannot find a package matching libdv Resolving dependencies ......Unable to satisfy dependencies Package mplayer needs libdv.so.2, this is not available. I thought I'd try xine instead. Xine does this: [root at helium root]# yum install xine Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Red Hat Linux 9 base Server: Fedora Legacy Utilities for Red Hat Linux 9 Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing) Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable) Server: macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin Server: Red Hat Linux 9 updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies ......Unable to satisfy dependencies Package xine-lib needs libspeex.so.1, this is not available. Then I tried this: [root at helium root]# yum install xine libspeex Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Red Hat Linux 9 base Server: Fedora Legacy Utilities for Red Hat Linux 9 Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing) Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable) Server: macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin Server: Red Hat Linux 9 updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Cannot find a package matching libspeex Resolving dependencies ......Unable to satisfy dependencies Package xine-lib needs libspeex.so.1, this is not available. My yum.conf is here: [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=1 [base] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base baseurl=http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch/ [updates] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever updates baseurl=http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ [legacy-utils] name=Fedora Legacy Utilities for Red Hat Linux $releasever baseurl=http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/$releasever/legacy-utils/$basearch/ [livna-stable] name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) baseurl= http://rpm.livna.org/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable #gpgcheck=1 [livna-unstable] name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable) baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/unstable http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/unstable #gpgcheck=1 [livna-testing] name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing) baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/testing http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/testing #gpgcheck=1 [macromedia.mplug.org] name=macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin baseurl=http://macromedia.mplug.org/apt/redhat/$releasever http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/apt/redhat/$releasever http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/macromedia/apt/redhat/$releasever http://macromedia.rediris.es/apt/redhat/$releasever #gpgcheck=1 Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks, -chuck From sridharnori at hotmail.com Thu Jul 15 14:52:59 2004 From: sridharnori at hotmail.com (Sridhar Nori) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:52:59 +0100 Subject: problem in installing redhat linux 9 on compaq presario 2580us Message-ID: hi all, I atlast had to get here to ask for help. I am trying to make my compaq presario 2580us laptop multibooting. I want to explain my problem with all the background information that might be relevanant to my problem. so please bear with me. I made my compaq laptop 2580us multibooting. i am able to parallelly boot into windows 2003 server, windows xp pro and linux 7.3 i had several problems in installing linux 7.3 with my harddisk as it was not detecting it. i after a llot of effort found out that it was to do something with the dma by reading material on the internet and gave the prior booting commnad ide=nodma and it was booting up with. during installation in the xwindow configuration i have not selected the default monitor and graphics card it gave but instead took the closest one that was to match with my laptop graphics card and the make and model. but the xwindow did never start up and it gave me a fatal error that it was not able to display. so i run Xconfigurator command and try to change the options. but still nothing seem to be working. but anyway i am going fine with the text mode so i started learning slowly the commands and how to communicate with the kernel in the text mode. Now i want the graphics mode to work. as nothing was happenning with the 7.3 i thought linux 9 might have the correct graphics installation. so i up the linux cd in my cd-rom and restart the computer. this time it is not with the DMA it is giving problem with. when i get the graphics mode the installation hangs without any response showing on the screen " loading hci1394 drivers " and the laptop hangs on. before when i was installing linux 7.3 it use to hang giving in the text mode " hard disk partion check: " but at that time ide=nodma command worked and the installation went on after that. but no proior booting command seems to be working!! Please can anyone suggest something. my windows server 2003 and xp pro are workign perfectly fine with every device on my laptop many thanks for any help and suggestion and thought of your's Best Regards S.Nori >From: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >To: sridharnori at hotmail.com >Subject: Welcome to the "Redhat-install-list" mailing list >Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:34:32 -0400 > >Welcome to the Redhat-install-list at redhat.com mailing list! > >To post to this list, send your email to: > > redhat-install-list at redhat.com > >General information about the mailing list is at: > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > >If you ever want to unsubscribe or change your options (eg, switch to >or from digest mode, change your password, etc.), visit your >subscription page at: > > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/options/redhat-install-list/sridharnori%40hotmail.com > > >You can also make such adjustments via email by sending a message to: > > Redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > >with the word `help' in the subject or body (don't include the >quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. > >You must know your password to change your options (including changing >the password, itself) or to unsubscribe. 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Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger From jimhayward at earthlink.net Thu Jul 15 16:27:35 2004 From: jimhayward at earthlink.net (Jim Hayward) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:27:35 -0700 Subject: yum can't install mplayer or xine on rh9 In-Reply-To: <20040715133400.GC25490@helium.inexs.com> References: <20040715133400.GC25490@helium.inexs.com> Message-ID: <1089908855.3240.13.camel@garfield.linux.localdomain> On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 08:34 -0500, Chuck Campbell wrote: > > [base] > name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base > baseurl=http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch/ > > [updates] > name=Red Hat Linux $releasever updates > baseurl=http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ > > [legacy-utils] > name=Fedora Legacy Utilities for Red Hat Linux $releasever > baseurl=http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/$releasever/legacy-utils/$basearch/ > > [livna-stable] > name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) > baseurl= http://rpm.livna.org/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable > http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable > #gpgcheck=1 > > [livna-unstable] > name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable) > baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/unstable > http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/unstable > #gpgcheck=1 > > [livna-testing] > name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing) > baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/testing > http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/testing > #gpgcheck=1 > > [macromedia.mplug.org] > name=macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin > baseurl=http://macromedia.mplug.org/apt/redhat/$releasever > http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/apt/redhat/$releasever > http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/macromedia/apt/redhat/$releasever > http://macromedia.rediris.es/apt/redhat/$releasever > #gpgcheck=1 > I would guess that you need to add an entry for the RH9 repository at http://www.fedora.us/ in order to resolve the missing dependencies. Quoting from http://rpm.livna.org ... "RPM.Livna.org is not a standalone repository. You must use rpm.livna.org with the Fedora.us repository" Do not ask for help about missing libaa/libFLAC/liblzo/libdv/... dependencies. Configure your apt/yum/up2date to use the corresponding stable/testing/unstable repositories from fedora.us which you use from rpm.livna.org and it'll work." Regards, Jim H -- Jim Hayward GPG Key available at: http://keyserver.noreply.org gpg --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.noreply.org 0x85A92DCC GPG Fingerprint: 1AA9 AEC9 BFDF FF7A E4F8 90C7 4947 3A41 85A9 2DCC -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From mnomans at khi.comsats.net.pk Thu Jul 15 15:45:58 2004 From: mnomans at khi.comsats.net.pk (Muhammad Nouman Siddiqui) Date: 15 Jul 2004 21:45:58 +0600 Subject: Help me out? Message-ID: <1089906359.3529.24.camel@expert> Hi, I'm having a problem in squirrelmail 1.2.7 when am going to check my webmail it says: "Unknown user or password incorrect" n am using courier-imap 0.32-1 and Apache 2.0 can anybody guide me ? Thanks bye nomy From stuart at sjsears.com Thu Jul 15 17:20:44 2004 From: stuart at sjsears.com (Stuart Sears) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:20:44 +0100 Subject: Kickstart and "redhat-switch-mail" change to postfix In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200407151820.44088.stuart@sjsears.com> On Thursday 15 July 2004 11:45, Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way or Example, howto configure "redhat-switch-mail to > postfix" ? > There are some links in /etc/alternatives directory. I try to make links > in %post section with "--nochroot", becose there are no links after ks > installation. without the --nochroot bit: have you tried to put /usr/sbin/alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix in your %post script? Stuart > > > thanks for any ideas, > > Thomas From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 15 18:03:05 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:03:05 -0700 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done In-Reply-To: <1089868754.1090.42.camel@rubble.localdomain> References: <1089868754.1090.42.camel@rubble.localdomain> Message-ID: <40F6C6D9.4070307@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > Hello Folks, thanks to those who gave me some pointers on the above > upgrade. I have now upgraded to FC2 from RH8 and the results are not all > that good. There are some serious problems which I am hoping someone can > help me with. > > Apart from bombing out early because a swap partition for a 7.1 install > of RH on hda was found by the installer and deemed to not be initialized > (fixed by running mkswap against the offending partition) everything > appeared to go OK, although it took several hours, due possibly to my > having a 'everything' install of RH8. > > When booting after installing it booted the old kernel using the old > lilo.conf, the upgrade hadn't run either lilo or grub against the new > lilo.conf or grub.conf. Easy fixed, now boots fine except it barfs when > trying to initialize eth0. > > The errors from dmesg follow:- > > 8139too: Unknown parameter 'irq' > iptables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter Core Team > 8139too: Unknown parameter 'irq' > 8139too: Unknown parameter 'irq' > NET: Registered protocol family 10 > Disabled privacy extensions on device 0220b720 (lo) > IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver > Divert: Not allocating divert_blk for non ethernet device sit0 > Warning: Process 'update' used the obsolete bdflush system call > Fix your init scripts? > > Every time I try and start eth0 the line '8139too: Unknown parameter > 'irq' is written to dmesg. > > Now, the funny thing is if I run the hardware browser my ethernet card > is shown as eth1 (A RealTek), changing everything via network config > applet to eth1 simply gives the same errors in dmesg. Edit the /etc/modprobe.conf file and remove the "irq" bit in the alias for the 8139too module. The 8138too module under kernel 2.6 doesn't support the irq parameter. > Trying to activate the ethernet card using the network config applet > gives some funny errors as well. When I make any changes and try and > save them I get the following error:- > ERR2 No such file or directory > '//etc/sysconfig/network-scripts//ifcfg-lo.rpmsave'. Trying to activate > it from the same utility results in 'Interface eth0 not found 8139too > device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization' If I > change the config to eth1 I get the same error except it is eth1 it is > complaining about. If i click on the deactivate button I get the > following error:- RPMSAVE: No such file or directory. Dev eth1 has > different MAC address than expected. Ignoring. > > When trying to activate eth0(1) a window sometimes pops up with the > following error:- Command failed. /sbin/modprobe 8139too irq 5, OUTPUT: > FATAL: Error inserting 8139too > (/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.ko). Unknown symbol > in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) Again, take the irq parameter out of /etc/modprobe.conf. Then try to reconfigure your card. > There are no files in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory, a > good reason why things are cocked up amongst others. > > When it comes to the printer, an Epson Stylus Colour 460, using the > printer config, all the settings are as they should be but again I get > an error saying that it cannot write the config to the file. The printer > doesn't work, naturally. Remember, FC2 doesn't come with LPrng. It comes with CUPS. Make sure you configure it properly with "system-config-printer" or with the GUI equivalent. You must be root to do that. > Kooka finds the scanner OK. I can mount my usb connected external HD but > not my usb Zip drive. Are you certain? Have you done a "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" to see if it was seen? > Now to my display and mouse, keyboard etc. I cannot find a Xorg.conf > file anywhere. And there is no example file where the man pages say it > should be. Can someone send me an example file please. The config file should be in /etc/X11 and is called "xorg.conf" (lower case), NOT "Xorg.conf" (with a capital "X"). "system-config-display" should generate one for you. If you really want one (from a lab rat machine): ------------------------------ CUT HERE ------------------------------- # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally # no need to change the default. # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "dri" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. # Option "XkbDisable" # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use: # Option "XkbModel" "pc102" # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" # # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # or: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" # # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and # control keys, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" # Or if you just want both to be control, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" # Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "KDS Visual Sensations VS-7" HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "trident" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "Trident 3DImage975 (generic)" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection ------------------------------ CUT HERE ------------------------------- > Another problem that has arisen is with Pine. It won't start complaining > of not being able to load shared files. Any clues on this one? Sure. FC2 uses gcc 3.3, not gcc 3.2.2. The library format is a bit different. Upgrade Pine. > All the above problems are connected to an 'upgrade' I guess, but there > seems to me to be some underlying serious problem that I can't put my > finger on. Not being able to save any of the config files is a worry I > would like to get to the bottom of. > > I can boot the system OK. I can use an editor, open Evolution etc. but I > am not yet sure that FC2 has anything to offer that RH8 hadn't, except > that it isn't obsolete. A lot of the productivity short-cuts that were > available in RH8 & Gnome appear to have been removed. Still, let's get > the above problems fixed and working properly first before passing > judgment. > > If anyone can help I will be very grateful. FC2 is a quantum leap beyond RH8.0 (which was buggy as hell and IMHO should NEVER have been released--witness the number of patches for it). You've changed from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel (which is a HUGE jump), a new gcc 3.3 compiler, a switch from XFree86 to Xorg and a raft of other changes. There are going to be both teething problems and learning issues for you. FC2 is really not ready for non-geeks, IMHO. Many 3rd party drivers for various hardware bits aren't available for 2.6 kernels and the change to Xorg's X implementation isn't the smoothest (works well, though). The logical jump for non-geeks was to FC1 (still a 2.4 kernel), to get used to how the FC stuff is different from RHL. Once you're comfortable with that and are willing to make the jump to a 2.6 kernel, THEN you update to FC2 and expect to learn yet more with the major changes internal to it. You don't even want to know about FC3 (coming soon!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 15 18:11:26 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:11:26 -0700 Subject: Help me out? In-Reply-To: <1089906359.3529.24.camel@expert> References: <1089906359.3529.24.camel@expert> Message-ID: <40F6C8CE.90008@vitalstream.com> Muhammad Nouman Siddiqui wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a problem in squirrelmail 1.2.7 when am going to check my > webmail it says: "Unknown user or password incorrect" > n am using courier-imap 0.32-1 and Apache 2.0 > can anybody guide me ? Make sure you use your login name as the user name and your normal login password. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Brain: The organ with which we think that we think. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From goijiud at hotmail.com Thu Jul 15 19:14:44 2004 From: goijiud at hotmail.com (GoijI P) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:14:44 -0400 Subject: NIS tcsh question Message-ID: inlcuded these two lines in NIS server ~/.tcshrc file: echo -n "\033]0;${HOST}:$cwd\007" alias cd 'chdir \!*; echo -n "\033]0;${HOST}:$cwd\007"' when logging in from NIS client, I do not see two lines doing anything. but, within a telnet session they work fine. _________________________________________________________________ Get tips for maintaining your PC, notebook accessories and reviews in Technology 101. http://special.msn.com/tech/technology101.armx From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 15 20:01:35 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:01:35 -0700 Subject: NIS tcsh question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40F6E29F.1040206@vitalstream.com> GoijI P wrote: > inlcuded these two lines in NIS server ~/.tcshrc file: > echo -n "\033]0;${HOST}:$cwd\007" > alias cd 'chdir \!*; echo -n "\033]0;${HOST}:$cwd\007"' > > when logging in from NIS client, I do not see two > lines doing anything. > but, within a telnet session they work fine. The NIS client must mount the NFS server's version of your home directory for that to work. I suspect you're only using the NIS server for authentication and using the NIS client's local filesystem. Since the client's version of your home directory doesn't have those lines, it won't work. Log in under NIS and look at your ~/.tschrc file, then telnet to the server and look at the same file. I'll bet they're different. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Jimmie crack corn and I don't care...what kind of lousy attitude - - is THAT to have, huh? -- Dennis Miller - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From goijiud at hotmail.com Thu Jul 15 20:29:31 2004 From: goijiud at hotmail.com (GoijI P) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:29:31 -0400 Subject: NIS tcsh question Message-ID: >GoijI P wrote: >>inlcuded these two lines in NIS server ~/.tcshrc file: >>echo -n "\033]0;${HOST}:$cwd\007" >>alias cd 'chdir \!*; echo -n "\033]0;${HOST}:$cwd\007"' >> >>when logging in from NIS client, I do not see two >>lines doing anything. >>but, within a telnet session they work fine. > >The NIS client must mount the NFS server's version of your home >directory for that to work. I suspect you're only using the NIS server >for authentication and using the NIS client's local filesystem. well, on client there is no local home. (did on client , mv /home /home.sav). server home is mounted on client /home (/home->/nfs/home) according to /etc/fstab file. ?? _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar ? get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ From bho at gmx.net Thu Jul 15 21:00:12 2004 From: bho at gmx.net (Benjamin Hornberger) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:00:12 -0400 Subject: NIS problems Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20040715165018.0253dc50@pop.gmx.net> Hi all, I am having problems getting a NIS system to work on RHEL AS3 (both client and server). I set up the server and the client, the client finds the server (ypwhich -m gives all the maps, ypcat passwd shows the correct password entries), and on the client I can finger users which exist only on the NIS server. But such a user can't log in. I would guess it has to do with the password shadowing, so that the client would find the user but the user's password on the server is not accepted by the client. Any hints? Thanks for your help! Benjamin From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 15 21:42:57 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:42:57 -0700 Subject: NIS tcsh question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40F6FA61.8010900@vitalstream.com> GoijI P wrote: >> GoijI P wrote: >> >>> inlcuded these two lines in NIS server ~/.tcshrc file: >>> echo -n "\033]0;${HOST}:$cwd\007" >>> alias cd 'chdir \!*; echo -n "\033]0;${HOST}:$cwd\007"' >>> >>> when logging in from NIS client, I do not see two >>> lines doing anything. >>> but, within a telnet session they work fine. >> >> >> The NIS client must mount the NFS server's version of your home >> directory for that to work. I suspect you're only using the NIS server >> for authentication and using the NIS client's local filesystem. > > > > well, on client there is no local home. (did on client , mv /home > /home.sav). > server home is mounted on client /home (/home->/nfs/home) > according to /etc/fstab file. ?? I don't buy that. Did you check the "mount" command itself? Is it really mounted? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Do not taunt the sysadmins, for they are subtle and quick to anger - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 15 21:49:24 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:49:24 -0700 Subject: NIS problems In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040715165018.0253dc50@pop.gmx.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20040715165018.0253dc50@pop.gmx.net> Message-ID: <40F6FBE4.3000108@vitalstream.com> Benjamin Hornberger wrote: > Hi all, > > I am having problems getting a NIS system to work on RHEL AS3 (both > client and server). I set up the server and the client, the client finds > the server (ypwhich -m gives all the maps, ypcat passwd shows the > correct password entries), and on the client I can finger users which > exist only on the NIS server. But such a user can't log in. > > I would guess it has to do with the password shadowing, so that the > client would find the user but the user's password on the server is not > accepted by the client. Any hints? Check the /etc/nsswitch.conf file and make sure you have THESE lines uncommented: passwd: db files nisplus nis shadow: db files nisplus nis group: db files nisplus nis Make sure these lines are commented out: #passwd: files #shadow: files #group: files You want the first set to be active to check against the NIS server. The second group will only check passwords and such against the local files (which is the default if you did NOT specify NIS during the AS3 installation and added NIS later). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Do not taunt the sysadmins, for they are subtle and quick to anger - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From bho at gmx.net Thu Jul 15 22:02:20 2004 From: bho at gmx.net (Benjamin Hornberger) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:02:20 -0400 Subject: NIS problems In-Reply-To: <40F6FBE4.3000108@vitalstream.com> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20040715165018.0253dc50@pop.gmx.net> <40F6FBE4.3000108@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20040715180058.0255faa0@pop.gmx.net> It works now, thanks! However, it worked only after a reboot, restarting ypbind only didn't help. What other services do I have to restart when changing the NIS configuration, if I want to avoid rebooting? Thanks, Benjamin At 02:49 PM 7/15/2004 -0700, you wrote: >Benjamin Hornberger wrote: >>Hi all, >>I am having problems getting a NIS system to work on RHEL AS3 (both >>client and server). I set up the server and the client, the client finds >>the server (ypwhich -m gives all the maps, ypcat passwd shows the correct >>password entries), and on the client I can finger users which exist only >>on the NIS server. But such a user can't log in. >>I would guess it has to do with the password shadowing, so that the >>client would find the user but the user's password on the server is not >>accepted by the client. Any hints? > >Check the /etc/nsswitch.conf file and make sure you have THESE lines >uncommented: > > passwd: db files nisplus nis > shadow: db files nisplus nis > group: db files nisplus nis > >Make sure these lines are commented out: > > #passwd: files > #shadow: files > #group: files > >You want the first set to be active to check against the NIS server. >The second group will only check passwords and such against the local >files (which is the default if you did NOT specify NIS during the AS3 >installation and added NIS later). >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >- - >- Do not taunt the sysadmins, for they are subtle and quick to anger - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-install-list mailing list >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 From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 15 22:43:26 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:43:26 -0700 Subject: NIS problems In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040715180058.0255faa0@pop.gmx.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20040715165018.0253dc50@pop.gmx.net> <40F6FBE4.3000108@vitalstream.com> <6.1.2.0.2.20040715180058.0255faa0@pop.gmx.net> Message-ID: <40F7088E.2070305@vitalstream.com> Benjamin Hornberger wrote: > It works now, thanks! However, it worked only after a reboot, restarting > ypbind only didn't help. What other services do I have to restart when > changing the NIS configuration, if I want to avoid rebooting? The best is service ypbind restart or /etc/rc.d/init.d/ypbind restart The problem is that if you kill the ypbind process and restart it, you leave the old maps in /var/yp/binding. ypbind won't overwrite them, so you still have the old mappings. The above commands stop ypbind, delete the offending maps, then restarts ypbind. ypbind then rebuilds the maps with the correct data based on your new config. > At 02:49 PM 7/15/2004 -0700, you wrote: > >> Benjamin Hornberger wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I am having problems getting a NIS system to work on RHEL AS3 (both >>> client and server). I set up the server and the client, the client >>> finds the server (ypwhich -m gives all the maps, ypcat passwd shows >>> the correct password entries), and on the client I can finger users >>> which exist only on the NIS server. But such a user can't log in. >>> I would guess it has to do with the password shadowing, so that the >>> client would find the user but the user's password on the server is >>> not accepted by the client. Any hints? >> >> >> Check the /etc/nsswitch.conf file and make sure you have THESE lines >> uncommented: >> >> passwd: db files nisplus nis >> shadow: db files nisplus nis >> group: db files nisplus nis >> >> Make sure these lines are commented out: >> >> #passwd: files >> #shadow: files >> #group: files >> >> You want the first set to be active to check against the NIS server. >> The second group will only check passwords and such against the local >> files (which is the default if you did NOT specify NIS during the AS3 >> installation and added NIS later). >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >> - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >> - - >> - Do not taunt the sysadmins, for they are subtle and quick to anger - >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Redhat-install-list mailing list >> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Linux is like a wigwam...no windows, no gates...and apache inside! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gnichols at tpg.com.au Fri Jul 16 02:07:59 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:07:59 +1000 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done In-Reply-To: <40F6C6D9.4070307@vitalstream.com> References: <1089868754.1090.42.camel@rubble.localdomain> <40F6C6D9.4070307@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1089943678.3268.17.camel@barney.localdomain> On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 04:03, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > Hello Folks, thanks to those who gave me some pointers on the above > > upgrade. I have now upgraded to FC2 from RH8 and the results are not all > > that good. There are some serious problems which I am hoping someone can > > help me with. > > > > Apart from bombing out early because a swap partition for a 7.1 install > > of RH on hda was found by the installer and deemed to not be initialized > > (fixed by running mkswap against the offending partition) everything > > appeared to go OK, although it took several hours, due possibly to my > > having a 'everything' install of RH8. > > > > When booting after installing it booted the old kernel using the old > > lilo.conf, the upgrade hadn't run either lilo or grub against the new > > lilo.conf or grub.conf. Easy fixed, now boots fine except it barfs when > > trying to initialize eth0. > > > > The errors from dmesg follow:- > > > > 8139too: Unknown parameter 'irq' > > iptables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter Core Team > > 8139too: Unknown parameter 'irq' > > 8139too: Unknown parameter 'irq' > > NET: Registered protocol family 10 > > Disabled privacy extensions on device 0220b720 (lo) > > IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver > > Divert: Not allocating divert_blk for non ethernet device sit0 > > Warning: Process 'update' used the obsolete bdflush system call > > Fix your init scripts? > > > > Every time I try and start eth0 the line '8139too: Unknown parameter > > 'irq' is written to dmesg. > > > > Now, the funny thing is if I run the hardware browser my ethernet card > > is shown as eth1 (A RealTek), changing everything via network config > > applet to eth1 simply gives the same errors in dmesg. > > Edit the /etc/modprobe.conf file and remove the "irq" bit in the alias > for the 8139too module. The 8138too module under kernel 2.6 doesn't > support the irq parameter. > > > Trying to activate the ethernet card using the network config applet > > gives some funny errors as well. When I make any changes and try and > > save them I get the following error:- > > ERR2 No such file or directory > > '//etc/sysconfig/network-scripts//ifcfg-lo.rpmsave'. Trying to activate > > it from the same utility results in 'Interface eth0 not found 8139too > > device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization' If I > > change the config to eth1 I get the same error except it is eth1 it is > > complaining about. If i click on the deactivate button I get the > > following error:- RPMSAVE: No such file or directory. Dev eth1 has > > different MAC address than expected. Ignoring. > > > > When trying to activate eth0(1) a window sometimes pops up with the > > following error:- Command failed. /sbin/modprobe 8139too irq 5, OUTPUT: > > FATAL: Error inserting 8139too > > (/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.ko). Unknown symbol > > in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) > > Again, take the irq parameter out of /etc/modprobe.conf. Then try to > reconfigure your card. > > > There are no files in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory, a > > good reason why things are cocked up amongst others. > > > > When it comes to the printer, an Epson Stylus Colour 460, using the > > printer config, all the settings are as they should be but again I get > > an error saying that it cannot write the config to the file. The printer > > doesn't work, naturally. > > Remember, FC2 doesn't come with LPrng. It comes with CUPS. Make sure > you configure it properly with "system-config-printer" or with the GUI > equivalent. You must be root to do that. > > > Kooka finds the scanner OK. I can mount my usb connected external HD but > > not my usb Zip drive. > > Are you certain? Have you done a "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" to see if it was > seen? > > > Now to my display and mouse, keyboard etc. I cannot find a Xorg.conf > > file anywhere. And there is no example file where the man pages say it > > should be. Can someone send me an example file please. > > The config file should be in /etc/X11 and is called "xorg.conf" (lower > case), NOT "Xorg.conf" (with a capital "X"). "system-config-display" > should generate one for you. If you really want one (from a lab rat > machine): > ------------------------------ CUT HERE ------------------------------- > # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "single head configuration" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > EndSection > > Section "Files" > > # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name > of the > # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally > # no need to change the default. > # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) > # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of > # the X server to render fonts. > RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" > FontPath "unix/:7100" > EndSection > > Section "Module" > Load "dbe" > Load "extmod" > Load "fbdevhw" > Load "glx" > Load "record" > Load "freetype" > Load "type1" > Load "dri" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > > # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) > # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" > # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. > # Option "XkbDisable" > # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the > # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. > # keyboard, you will probably want to use: > # Option "XkbModel" "pc102" > # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: > # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" > # > # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. > # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: > # Option "XkbLayout" "de" > # or: > # Option "XkbLayout" "de" > # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" > # > # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and > # control keys, use: > # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" > # Or if you just want both to be control, use: > # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" > # > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "keyboard" > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "Monitor Vendor" > ModelName "KDS Visual Sensations VS-7" > HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0 > VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0 > Option "dpms" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "trident" > VendorName "Videocard vendor" > BoardName "Trident 3DImage975 (generic)" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 24 > Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Section "DRI" > Group 0 > Mode 0666 > EndSection > ------------------------------ CUT HERE ------------------------------- > > > Another problem that has arisen is with Pine. It won't start complaining > > of not being able to load shared files. Any clues on this one? > > Sure. FC2 uses gcc 3.3, not gcc 3.2.2. The library format is a bit > different. Upgrade Pine. > > > All the above problems are connected to an 'upgrade' I guess, but there > > seems to me to be some underlying serious problem that I can't put my > > finger on. Not being able to save any of the config files is a worry I > > would like to get to the bottom of. > > > > I can boot the system OK. I can use an editor, open Evolution etc. but I > > am not yet sure that FC2 has anything to offer that RH8 hadn't, except > > that it isn't obsolete. A lot of the productivity short-cuts that were > > available in RH8 & Gnome appear to have been removed. Still, let's get > > the above problems fixed and working properly first before passing > > judgment. > > > > If anyone can help I will be very grateful. > > FC2 is a quantum leap beyond RH8.0 (which was buggy as hell and IMHO > should NEVER have been released--witness the number of patches for it). > There were an enormous number of patches for it I agree, but it was a very 'comfortable' release to use and it had some nice touches that made it easy to get things done. Its a bit like my old HiLux ute., It'll probably rust away from around me before I get a new one its so good. > You've changed from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel (which is a HUGE jump), > a new gcc 3.3 compiler, a switch from XFree86 to Xorg and a raft of > other changes. There are going to be both teething problems and > learning issues for you. > > FC2 is really not ready for non-geeks, IMHO. Many 3rd party drivers > for various hardware bits aren't available for 2.6 kernels and the > change to Xorg's X implementation isn't the smoothest (works well, > though). The logical jump for non-geeks was to FC1 (still a 2.4 > kernel), to get used to how the FC stuff is different from RHL. Once > you're comfortable with that and are willing to make the jump to a 2.6 > kernel, THEN you update to FC2 and expect to learn yet more with the > major changes internal to it. > > You don't even want to know about FC3 (coming soon!) Hello Rick, I don't know what I would do without your expertise when I take the leap into the unknown. Its people like yourself and the others on this list that make the Linux community what it is. I hope that I can start to make a contribution myself. I understand what you are saying about the learning curve, though since yesterday I have managed to get things up and running OK. Your advice on removing the irq and CUPS was important to me and thanks for the xorg.conf file. The 4 CD set I purchased didn't have any documentation with it. With my RH8 CDs I was able to install all the docs which was a real help. I will have to see if I can download some documentation rpms. Will let you know how it all goes over the next couple of weeks. Again, thanks very much. Graeme. From Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com Fri Jul 16 04:55:57 2004 From: Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com (Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 06:55:57 +0200 Subject: Kickstart and "redhat-switch-mail" change to postfix --> /usr/sbin/alternatives Message-ID: Hi Stuart, That's the key. Yes it works with "/usr/sbin/alternatives...". Interesting comand "alternatives"... many thanks, Thomas -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Sears Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 7:21 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Kickstart and "redhat-switch-mail" change to postfix On Thursday 15 July 2004 11:45, Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way or Example, howto configure "redhat-switch-mail to > postfix" ? > There are some links in /etc/alternatives directory. I try to make links > in %post section with "--nochroot", becose there are no links after ks > installation. without the --nochroot bit: have you tried to put /usr/sbin/alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix in your %post script? Stuart > > > thanks for any ideas, > > Thomas _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list 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 From goijiud at hotmail.com Fri Jul 16 05:13:32 2004 From: goijiud at hotmail.com (GoijI P) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:13:32 -0400 Subject: NIS tcsh question Message-ID: >>>>inlcuded these two lines in NIS server ~/.tcshrc file: >>>>echo -n "\033]0;${HOST}:$cwd\007" >>>>alias cd 'chdir \!*; echo -n "\033]0;${HOST}:$cwd\007"' >>>> >>>>when logging in from NIS client, I do not see two >>>>lines doing anything. >>>>but, within a telnet session they work fine. >>> >>> >>>The NIS client must mount the NFS server's version of your home >>>directory for that to work. I suspect you're only using the NIS server >>>for authentication and using the NIS client's local filesystem. >> >> >> >>well, on client there is no local home. (did on client , mv /home >>/home.sav). >>server home is mounted on client /home (/home->/nfs/home) >>according to /etc/fstab file. ?? > >I don't buy that. Did you check the "mount" command itself? Is it >really mounted? yes, indeed. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/home /home nfs etc... i made /nfs/home and did the mv /home /home.sav ls -n /home /nfs/home added the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/home /home nfs etc... to /etc/fstab file. everything in the remote ./tchsrc works except the lines: echo -n "\033]0;${HOST}:$cwd\007" alias cd 'chdir \!*; echo -n "\033]0;${HOST}:$cwd\007"'. these lines modify the terminal title. like i said, when within a telnet login session it works but within nis login it won't. both logins show same remote .tcshrc file ("cat .tcshrc"). maybe, i am wrong but this is what i see. my local passwd file has no such userid. maybe nsswitch.conf related.......??? gj _________________________________________________________________ MSN 9 Dial-up Internet Access helps fight spam and pop-ups ? now 2 months FREE! http://join.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/ From mnomans at khi.comsats.net.pk Fri Jul 16 13:44:46 2004 From: mnomans at khi.comsats.net.pk (Muhammad Nouman Siddiqui) Date: 16 Jul 2004 19:44:46 +0600 Subject: Help me out? In-Reply-To: <40F6C8CE.90008@vitalstream.com> References: <1089906359.3529.24.camel@expert> <40F6C8CE.90008@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1089985492.18547.1.camel@expert> Hi, yes am login n password r correct.how could i check my imap server ? is this authenticating or not? nomy On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 00:11, Rick Stevens wrote: > Muhammad Nouman Siddiqui wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having a problem in squirrelmail 1.2.7 when am going to check my > > webmail it says: "Unknown user or password incorrect" > > n am using courier-imap 0.32-1 and Apache 2.0 > > can anybody guide me ? > > Make sure you use your login name as the user name and your normal > login password. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Brain: The organ with which we think that we think. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > From vaibhav_d at yahoo.com Fri Jul 16 14:56:38 2004 From: vaibhav_d at yahoo.com (Vaibhav Deshpande) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 07:56:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Need to upgrade dual boot WIN2K Message-ID: <20040716145638.2358.qmail@web51003.mail.yahoo.com> Hi, I've a dual boot system (Win 2K and RH 9). I need to upgrade to WIN XP but DON'T want to loose RH9. Basically, XP is for my office work and RH9 is for my personal interest. Is there any safe way of doing this? How much is the risk involved (of loosing RH 9)? Thanks -Vaibhav __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From bho at gmx.net Fri Jul 16 15:58:19 2004 From: bho at gmx.net (Benjamin Hornberger) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:58:19 -0400 Subject: SMP boot problems with RHEL AS3 Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20040716103911.02577190@pop.gmx.net> Hi all, I am having strange problem with RHEL AS3 on a dual-processor machine. When I boot the SMP kernel, the machine hangs during boot, but, if I am patient, after ca. 30 minutes finally comes up. When I boot the non-SMP kernel, it comes up ok (also waiting ca. 15 sec at the same point in the boot sequence). Below is a cutout of the boot messages for the SMP kernel before it hangs, and the corresponding part of the non-SMP boot (don't laugh -- I took snapshots with a Digicam and typed it down. There might be some typos. It's just too fast to catch everything. ). It's a Monarch ULB 2000 workstation with two AMD Athlon MP 2000+ processors, 3 GB RAM, two Seagate SCSI hard drives on an on-board controller (we boot from sda), a CD-RW and a DVD-ROM as primary and secondary master, and two Maxtor IDE drives as primary and secondary slaves (to be RAIDed) on the IDE bus. The machine ran fine under Redhat 7.2 and Redhat 9 before. It has been up2dated and runs now kernel 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL(smp). The problem has been there already right after the installation with kernel 2.4.21-4.EL(smp). Thanks for your help, Benjamin -------------------------------- Boot messages: SMP kernel: ... Initializing Cryptograhic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP: routing cache hash table of 32768 buckets, 256Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 524288 bind 65536) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM Initializing IPsec netlink socket NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 311k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Red Hat nash version 3.5.13 starting Loading scsi_mod.o module SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Loading sd_mod.o module Loading aic7xxx.0 module scsi0 : Adapted AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs scsi1 : Adapted AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev. 6.2.36 aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs blk: queue f7fd6414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) (scsi0:A:0): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) (scsi0:A:1): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336752LW Rev: 0004 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 blk: queue f7fd7214, I/0 limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336752LW Rev: 0004 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 blk: queue f7fd7414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 scsi0:A:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 **** hangs ca. 30 minutes here, but then comes up ***** non-SMP kernel: ... NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 304k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Red Hat nash version 3.5.13 starting Loading scsi_mod.o module SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Loading sd_mod.o module Loading aic7xxx.0 module AMD756: dev 9005:00cf, router pirq : 1 get irq : 10 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:04.0 AMD756: dev 9005:00cf, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.1 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 WITH 01:05.0 scsi0 : Adapted AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs scsi1 : Adapted AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev. 6.2.36 aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs blk: queue f7fd6414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) ***** waits ca. 15 sec here ***** (scsi0:A:0): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) (scsi0:A:1): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336752LW Rev: 0004 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 blk: queue f7fd7214, I/0 limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336752LW Rev: 0004 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 blk: queue f7fd7414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 scsi0:A:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 ... ***** comes up fine ***** From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 16 17:19:22 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:19:22 -0700 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done In-Reply-To: <1089943678.3268.17.camel@barney.localdomain> References: <1089868754.1090.42.camel@rubble.localdomain> <40F6C6D9.4070307@vitalstream.com> <1089943678.3268.17.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: <40F80E1A.3030408@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 04:03, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: >> >>>Hello Folks, thanks to those who gave me some pointers on the above >>>upgrade. I have now upgraded to FC2 from RH8 and the results are not all >>>that good. There are some serious problems which I am hoping someone can >>>help me with. >>> >>>Apart from bombing out early because a swap partition for a 7.1 install >>>of RH on hda was found by the installer and deemed to not be initialized >>>(fixed by running mkswap against the offending partition) everything >>>appeared to go OK, although it took several hours, due possibly to my >>>having a 'everything' install of RH8. >>> >>>When booting after installing it booted the old kernel using the old >>>lilo.conf, the upgrade hadn't run either lilo or grub against the new >>>lilo.conf or grub.conf. Easy fixed, now boots fine except it barfs when >>>trying to initialize eth0. >>> >>>The errors from dmesg follow:- >>> >>>8139too: Unknown parameter 'irq' >>>iptables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter Core Team >>>8139too: Unknown parameter 'irq' >>>8139too: Unknown parameter 'irq' >>>NET: Registered protocol family 10 >>>Disabled privacy extensions on device 0220b720 (lo) >>>IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver >>>Divert: Not allocating divert_blk for non ethernet device sit0 >>>Warning: Process 'update' used the obsolete bdflush system call >>>Fix your init scripts? >>> >>>Every time I try and start eth0 the line '8139too: Unknown parameter >>>'irq' is written to dmesg. >>> >>>Now, the funny thing is if I run the hardware browser my ethernet card >>>is shown as eth1 (A RealTek), changing everything via network config >>>applet to eth1 simply gives the same errors in dmesg. >> >>Edit the /etc/modprobe.conf file and remove the "irq" bit in the alias >>for the 8139too module. The 8138too module under kernel 2.6 doesn't >>support the irq parameter. >> >> >>>Trying to activate the ethernet card using the network config applet >>>gives some funny errors as well. When I make any changes and try and >>>save them I get the following error:- >>>ERR2 No such file or directory >>>'//etc/sysconfig/network-scripts//ifcfg-lo.rpmsave'. Trying to activate >>>it from the same utility results in 'Interface eth0 not found 8139too >>>device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization' If I >>>change the config to eth1 I get the same error except it is eth1 it is >>>complaining about. If i click on the deactivate button I get the >>>following error:- RPMSAVE: No such file or directory. Dev eth1 has >>>different MAC address than expected. Ignoring. >>> >>>When trying to activate eth0(1) a window sometimes pops up with the >>>following error:- Command failed. /sbin/modprobe 8139too irq 5, OUTPUT: >>>FATAL: Error inserting 8139too >>>(/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.ko). Unknown symbol >>>in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) >> >>Again, take the irq parameter out of /etc/modprobe.conf. Then try to >>reconfigure your card. >> >> >>>There are no files in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory, a >>>good reason why things are cocked up amongst others. >>> >>>When it comes to the printer, an Epson Stylus Colour 460, using the >>>printer config, all the settings are as they should be but again I get >>>an error saying that it cannot write the config to the file. The printer >>>doesn't work, naturally. >> >>Remember, FC2 doesn't come with LPrng. It comes with CUPS. Make sure >>you configure it properly with "system-config-printer" or with the GUI >>equivalent. You must be root to do that. >> >> >>>Kooka finds the scanner OK. I can mount my usb connected external HD but >>>not my usb Zip drive. >> >>Are you certain? Have you done a "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" to see if it was >>seen? >> >> >>>Now to my display and mouse, keyboard etc. I cannot find a Xorg.conf >>>file anywhere. And there is no example file where the man pages say it >>>should be. Can someone send me an example file please. >> >>The config file should be in /etc/X11 and is called "xorg.conf" (lower >>case), NOT "Xorg.conf" (with a capital "X"). "system-config-display" >>should generate one for you. If you really want one (from a lab rat >>machine): >>------------------------------ CUT HERE ------------------------------- >># Xorg configuration created by system-config-display >> >>Section "ServerLayout" >> Identifier "single head configuration" >> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 >> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" >> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" >>EndSection >> >>Section "Files" >> >># RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name >>of the >># file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally >># no need to change the default. >># Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) >># By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of >># the X server to render fonts. >> RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" >> FontPath "unix/:7100" >>EndSection >> >>Section "Module" >> Load "dbe" >> Load "extmod" >> Load "fbdevhw" >> Load "glx" >> Load "record" >> Load "freetype" >> Load "type1" >> Load "dri" >>EndSection >> >>Section "InputDevice" >> >># Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) >># Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" >># To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. >># Option "XkbDisable" >># To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the >># lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. >># keyboard, you will probably want to use: >># Option "XkbModel" "pc102" >># If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: >># Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" >># >># Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. >># For example, a german layout can be obtained with: >># Option "XkbLayout" "de" >># or: >># Option "XkbLayout" "de" >># Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" >># >># If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and >># control keys, use: >># Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" >># Or if you just want both to be control, use: >># Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" >># >> Identifier "Keyboard0" >> Driver "keyboard" >> Option "XkbModel" "pc105" >> Option "XkbLayout" "us" >>EndSection >> >>Section "InputDevice" >> Identifier "Mouse0" >> Driver "mouse" >> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" >> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" >> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" >> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" >>EndSection >> >>Section "Monitor" >> Identifier "Monitor0" >> VendorName "Monitor Vendor" >> ModelName "KDS Visual Sensations VS-7" >> HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0 >> VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0 >> Option "dpms" >>EndSection >> >>Section "Device" >> Identifier "Videocard0" >> Driver "trident" >> VendorName "Videocard vendor" >> BoardName "Trident 3DImage975 (generic)" >>EndSection >> >>Section "Screen" >> Identifier "Screen0" >> Device "Videocard0" >> Monitor "Monitor0" >> DefaultDepth 24 >> SubSection "Display" >> Viewport 0 0 >> Depth 24 >> Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" >> EndSubSection >>EndSection >> >>Section "DRI" >> Group 0 >> Mode 0666 >>EndSection >>------------------------------ CUT HERE ------------------------------- >> >> >>>Another problem that has arisen is with Pine. It won't start complaining >>>of not being able to load shared files. Any clues on this one? >> >>Sure. FC2 uses gcc 3.3, not gcc 3.2.2. The library format is a bit >>different. Upgrade Pine. >> >> >>>All the above problems are connected to an 'upgrade' I guess, but there >>>seems to me to be some underlying serious problem that I can't put my >>>finger on. Not being able to save any of the config files is a worry I >>>would like to get to the bottom of. >>> >>>I can boot the system OK. I can use an editor, open Evolution etc. but I >>>am not yet sure that FC2 has anything to offer that RH8 hadn't, except >>>that it isn't obsolete. A lot of the productivity short-cuts that were >>>available in RH8 & Gnome appear to have been removed. Still, let's get >>>the above problems fixed and working properly first before passing >>>judgment. >>> >>>If anyone can help I will be very grateful. >> >>FC2 is a quantum leap beyond RH8.0 (which was buggy as hell and IMHO >>should NEVER have been released--witness the number of patches for it). >> > > There were an enormous number of patches for it I agree, but it was a > very 'comfortable' release to use and it had some nice touches that made > it easy to get things done. Its a bit like my old HiLux ute., It'll > probably rust away from around me before I get a new one its so good. > > >>You've changed from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel (which is a HUGE jump), >>a new gcc 3.3 compiler, a switch from XFree86 to Xorg and a raft of >>other changes. There are going to be both teething problems and >>learning issues for you. >> >>FC2 is really not ready for non-geeks, IMHO. Many 3rd party drivers >>for various hardware bits aren't available for 2.6 kernels and the >>change to Xorg's X implementation isn't the smoothest (works well, >>though). The logical jump for non-geeks was to FC1 (still a 2.4 >>kernel), to get used to how the FC stuff is different from RHL. Once >>you're comfortable with that and are willing to make the jump to a 2.6 >>kernel, THEN you update to FC2 and expect to learn yet more with the >>major changes internal to it. >> >>You don't even want to know about FC3 (coming soon!) > > > Hello Rick, > > I don't know what I would do without your expertise when I take the leap > into the unknown. Its people like yourself and the others on this list > that make the Linux community what it is. {blush!} Aw, shucks! ;-) > I hope that I can start to > make a contribution myself. You will, you will. Just the simple fact you use Linux helps. More users = more solutions. > I understand what you are saying about the > learning curve, though since yesterday I have managed to get things up > and running OK. Your advice on removing the irq and CUPS was important > to me and thanks for the xorg.conf file. The 4 CD set I purchased didn't > have any documentation with it. With my RH8 CDs I was able to install > all the docs which was a real help. I will have to see if I can download > some documentation rpms. Will let you know how it all goes over the next > couple of weeks. Glad to help, Graeme. Most of the should have been installed with the RPMs (well, the man pages at least). "Special" docs usually get shoved into /usr/share/doc. If you're up on FC2 now, remember to use "yum" to update your system (yum is the FC replacement for up2date). The /etc/yum.conf file that comes with FC only mentions the Red Hat update repository. It's often VERY busy, so you may wish to utilize this version of the file to get at a couple of mirrors: ----------------------------- CUT HERE -------------------------------- [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=fedora-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 gpgcheck=1 [base] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-$releasever # The first line is the primary server, the remainder are mirrors... baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/os [updates-released] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates # The first line is the primary server, the remainder are mirrors... baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch #[updates-testing] #name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates #baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-$releasever ----------------------------- CUT HERE -------------------------------- You can add more mirrors as you wish. To do a full update: # yum -y update It'll take a bit of time, but it'll update your system fully. yum is a "good thing". The URHILW (http://www.rhil.net) has NTFS modules for FC1 and FC2, too. > Again, thanks very much. No problem, Graeme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 16 17:33:17 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:33:17 -0700 Subject: Help me out? In-Reply-To: <1089985492.18547.1.camel@expert> References: <1089906359.3529.24.camel@expert> <40F6C8CE.90008@vitalstream.com> <1089985492.18547.1.camel@expert> Message-ID: <40F8115D.6020004@vitalstream.com> Muhammad Nouman Siddiqui wrote: > Hi, > > yes am login n password r correct.how could i check my imap server ? is > this authenticating or not? You can try a telnet-style IMAP login to see what's going on. In the example below: "imap-server-name" = the name of your IMAP server "username" = your user name on the system "password" = your password Note that the username and password are the ones you'd use to log into the system normally and the system may respond with text that is slightly different from what I show here. You type in: telnet imap-server-name 143 The system should respond with: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=LOGIN] imap-server-name IMAP4 2003.339 at Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:18:45 -0700 (PDT) You type in: 1 login username password (the first character is the digit "one") The system should respond with: 1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 IDLE NAMESPACE MAILBOX-REFERRALS BINARY UNSELECT SCAN SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND] User username authenticated You type in: 2 logout The system should respond with: * BYE imap-server-name IMAP4rev1 server terminating connection 2 OK LOGOUT completed And you've logged out. That's essentially what an IMAP login and logout do. And please bottom post in the future (enter your comments AFTER what you're commenting on, as I have done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When all else fails, try reading the instructions. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 16 17:38:52 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:38:52 -0700 Subject: Need to upgrade dual boot WIN2K In-Reply-To: <20040716145638.2358.qmail@web51003.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040716145638.2358.qmail@web51003.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40F812AC.70601@vitalstream.com> Vaibhav Deshpande wrote: > Hi, > > I've a dual boot system (Win 2K and RH 9). I need to upgrade to WIN XP > but DON'T want to loose RH9. Basically, XP is for my office work and > RH9 is for my personal interest. > > Is there any safe way of doing this? How much is the risk involved (of > loosing RH 9)? Unless you tell XP to reformat the disk, you won't lose it. If you use grub or lilo to do the dual boot for you, you may not be able to boot RH9 because XP overwrote the boot loader. If that's the case, simply boot off your first RH9 CD and enter linux rescue at the boot prompt. Let the system find your RH9 installation and mount it. Then: # chroot /mnt/sysimage If you use grub, type this command: # grub-install /dev/hda If you use lilo: # /sbin/lilo Then, enter "exit" twice (the first gets you out of the chrooted environment, the second reboots the system). Remove the CD and you should get back to your multiboot screen and all should be well. Of course, you DO have a current RH9 backup, don't you? Hmmmm? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every minute of it! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From ottohaliburton at comcast.net Fri Jul 16 17:52:27 2004 From: ottohaliburton at comcast.net (Otto Haliburton) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:52:27 -0500 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done In-Reply-To: <40F80E1A.3030408@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <008e01c46b5d$ac2d3170$4601a8c0@C515816A> > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list- > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 12:19 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done > > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 04:03, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: > >> > >>>Hello Folks, thanks to those who gave me some pointers on the above > >>>upgrade. I have now upgraded to FC2 from RH8 and the results are not > all > >>>that good. There are some serious problems which I am hoping someone > can > >>>help me with. > >>> > >>>Apart from bombing out early because a swap partition for a 7.1 install > >>>of RH on hda was found by the installer and deemed to not be > initialized > >>>(fixed by running mkswap against the offending partition) everything > >>>appeared to go OK, although it took several hours, due possibly to my > >>>having a 'everything' install of RH8. > >>> > >>>When booting after installing it booted the old kernel using the old > >>>lilo.conf, the upgrade hadn't run either lilo or grub against the new > >>>lilo.conf or grub.conf. Easy fixed, now boots fine except it barfs when > >>>trying to initialize eth0. > >>> > >>>The errors from dmesg follow:- > >>> > >>>8139too: Unknown parameter 'irq' > >>>iptables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter Core Team > >>>8139too: Unknown parameter 'irq' > >>>8139too: Unknown parameter 'irq' > >>>NET: Registered protocol family 10 > >>>Disabled privacy extensions on device 0220b720 (lo) > >>>IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver > >>>Divert: Not allocating divert_blk for non ethernet device sit0 > >>>Warning: Process 'update' used the obsolete bdflush system call > >>>Fix your init scripts? > >>> > >>>Every time I try and start eth0 the line '8139too: Unknown parameter > >>>'irq' is written to dmesg. > >>> > >>>Now, the funny thing is if I run the hardware browser my ethernet card > >>>is shown as eth1 (A RealTek), changing everything via network config > >>>applet to eth1 simply gives the same errors in dmesg. > >> > >>Edit the /etc/modprobe.conf file and remove the "irq" bit in the alias > >>for the 8139too module. The 8138too module under kernel 2.6 doesn't > >>support the irq parameter. > >> > >> > >>>Trying to activate the ethernet card using the network config applet > >>>gives some funny errors as well. When I make any changes and try and > >>>save them I get the following error:- > >>>ERR2 No such file or directory > >>>'//etc/sysconfig/network-scripts//ifcfg-lo.rpmsave'. Trying to activate > >>>it from the same utility results in 'Interface eth0 not found 8139too > >>>device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization' If I > >>>change the config to eth1 I get the same error except it is eth1 it is > >>>complaining about. If i click on the deactivate button I get the > >>>following error:- RPMSAVE: No such file or directory. Dev eth1 has > >>>different MAC address than expected. Ignoring. > >>> > >>>When trying to activate eth0(1) a window sometimes pops up with the > >>>following error:- Command failed. /sbin/modprobe 8139too irq 5, OUTPUT: > >>>FATAL: Error inserting 8139too > >>>(/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.ko). Unknown > symbol > >>>in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) > >> > >>Again, take the irq parameter out of /etc/modprobe.conf. Then try to > >>reconfigure your card. > >> > >> > >>>There are no files in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory, a > >>>good reason why things are cocked up amongst others. > >>> > >>>When it comes to the printer, an Epson Stylus Colour 460, using the > >>>printer config, all the settings are as they should be but again I get > >>>an error saying that it cannot write the config to the file. The > printer > >>>doesn't work, naturally. > >> > >>Remember, FC2 doesn't come with LPrng. It comes with CUPS. Make sure > >>you configure it properly with "system-config-printer" or with the GUI > >>equivalent. You must be root to do that. > >> > >> > >>>Kooka finds the scanner OK. I can mount my usb connected external HD > but > >>>not my usb Zip drive. > >> > >>Are you certain? Have you done a "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" to see if it was > >>seen? > >> > >> > >>>Now to my display and mouse, keyboard etc. I cannot find a Xorg.conf > >>>file anywhere. And there is no example file where the man pages say it > >>>should be. Can someone send me an example file please. > >> > >>The config file should be in /etc/X11 and is called "xorg.conf" (lower > >>case), NOT "Xorg.conf" (with a capital "X"). "system-config-display" > >>should generate one for you. If you really want one (from a lab rat > >>machine): > >>------------------------------ CUT HERE ------------------------------- > >># Xorg configuration created by system-config-display > >> > >>Section "ServerLayout" > >> Identifier "single head configuration" > >> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > >> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > >> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > >>EndSection > >> > >>Section "Files" > >> > >># RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name > >>of the > >># file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally > >># no need to change the default. > >># Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) > >># By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of > >># the X server to render fonts. > >> RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" > >> FontPath "unix/:7100" > >>EndSection > >> > >>Section "Module" > >> Load "dbe" > >> Load "extmod" > >> Load "fbdevhw" > >> Load "glx" > >> Load "record" > >> Load "freetype" > >> Load "type1" > >> Load "dri" > >>EndSection > >> > >>Section "InputDevice" > >> > >># Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) > >># Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" > >># To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. > >># Option "XkbDisable" > >># To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the > >># lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. > >># keyboard, you will probably want to use: > >># Option "XkbModel" "pc102" > >># If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: > >># Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" > >># > >># Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. > >># For example, a german layout can be obtained with: > >># Option "XkbLayout" "de" > >># or: > >># Option "XkbLayout" "de" > >># Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" > >># > >># If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and > >># control keys, use: > >># Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" > >># Or if you just want both to be control, use: > >># Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" > >># > >> Identifier "Keyboard0" > >> Driver "keyboard" > >> Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > >> Option "XkbLayout" "us" > >>EndSection > >> > >>Section "InputDevice" > >> Identifier "Mouse0" > >> Driver "mouse" > >> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > >> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > >> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > >> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" > >>EndSection > >> > >>Section "Monitor" > >> Identifier "Monitor0" > >> VendorName "Monitor Vendor" > >> ModelName "KDS Visual Sensations VS-7" > >> HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0 > >> VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0 > >> Option "dpms" > >>EndSection > >> > >>Section "Device" > >> Identifier "Videocard0" > >> Driver "trident" > >> VendorName "Videocard vendor" > >> BoardName "Trident 3DImage975 (generic)" > >>EndSection > >> > >>Section "Screen" > >> Identifier "Screen0" > >> Device "Videocard0" > >> Monitor "Monitor0" > >> DefaultDepth 24 > >> SubSection "Display" > >> Viewport 0 0 > >> Depth 24 > >> Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > >> EndSubSection > >>EndSection > >> > >>Section "DRI" > >> Group 0 > >> Mode 0666 > >>EndSection > >>------------------------------ CUT HERE ------------------------------- > >> > >> > >>>Another problem that has arisen is with Pine. It won't start > complaining > >>>of not being able to load shared files. Any clues on this one? > >> > >>Sure. FC2 uses gcc 3.3, not gcc 3.2.2. The library format is a bit > >>different. Upgrade Pine. > >> > >> > >>>All the above problems are connected to an 'upgrade' I guess, but there > >>>seems to me to be some underlying serious problem that I can't put my > >>>finger on. Not being able to save any of the config files is a worry I > >>>would like to get to the bottom of. > >>> > >>>I can boot the system OK. I can use an editor, open Evolution etc. but > I > >>>am not yet sure that FC2 has anything to offer that RH8 hadn't, except > >>>that it isn't obsolete. A lot of the productivity short-cuts that were > >>>available in RH8 & Gnome appear to have been removed. Still, let's get > >>>the above problems fixed and working properly first before passing > >>>judgment. > >>> > >>>If anyone can help I will be very grateful. > >> > >>FC2 is a quantum leap beyond RH8.0 (which was buggy as hell and IMHO > >>should NEVER have been released--witness the number of patches for it). > >> > > > > There were an enormous number of patches for it I agree, but it was a > > very 'comfortable' release to use and it had some nice touches that made > > it easy to get things done. Its a bit like my old HiLux ute., It'll > > probably rust away from around me before I get a new one its so good. > > > > > >>You've changed from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel (which is a HUGE jump), > >>a new gcc 3.3 compiler, a switch from XFree86 to Xorg and a raft of > >>other changes. There are going to be both teething problems and > >>learning issues for you. > >> > >>FC2 is really not ready for non-geeks, IMHO. Many 3rd party drivers > >>for various hardware bits aren't available for 2.6 kernels and the > >>change to Xorg's X implementation isn't the smoothest (works well, > >>though). The logical jump for non-geeks was to FC1 (still a 2.4 > >>kernel), to get used to how the FC stuff is different from RHL. Once > >>you're comfortable with that and are willing to make the jump to a 2.6 > >>kernel, THEN you update to FC2 and expect to learn yet more with the > >>major changes internal to it. > >> > >>You don't even want to know about FC3 (coming soon!) > > > > > > Hello Rick, > > > > I don't know what I would do without your expertise when I take the leap > > into the unknown. Its people like yourself and the others on this list > > that make the Linux community what it is. > > {blush!} Aw, shucks! ;-) > > > I hope that I can start to > > make a contribution myself. > > You will, you will. Just the simple fact you use Linux helps. More > users = more solutions. > > > I understand what you are saying about the > > learning curve, though since yesterday I have managed to get things up > > and running OK. Your advice on removing the irq and CUPS was important > > to me and thanks for the xorg.conf file. The 4 CD set I purchased didn't > > have any documentation with it. With my RH8 CDs I was able to install > > all the docs which was a real help. I will have to see if I can download > > some documentation rpms. Will let you know how it all goes over the next > > couple of weeks. > > Glad to help, Graeme. Most of the should have been installed with the > RPMs (well, the man pages at least). "Special" docs usually get shoved > into /usr/share/doc. > > If you're up on FC2 now, remember to use "yum" to update your system > (yum is the FC replacement for up2date). The /etc/yum.conf file that > comes with FC only mentions the Red Hat update repository. It's often > VERY busy, so you may wish to utilize this version of the file to get at > a couple of mirrors: > > ----------------------------- CUT HERE -------------------------------- > [main] > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > debuglevel=2 > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > pkgpolicy=newest > distroverpkg=fedora-release > tolerant=1 > exactarch=1 > gpgcheck=1 > > > [base] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base > http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-$releasever > # The first line is the primary server, the remainder are mirrors... > baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releaseve > r/$basearch/os > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os > http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/os > > > [updates-released] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates > # The first line is the primary server, the remainder are mirrors... > baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$r > eleasever/$basearch > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch > http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch > > > #[updates-testing] > #name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates > #baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-$releasever > ----------------------------- CUT HERE -------------------------------- > > You can add more mirrors as you wish. To do a full update: > > # yum -y update > > It'll take a bit of time, but it'll update your system fully. yum is a > "good thing". > > The URHILW (http://www.rhil.net) has NTFS modules for FC1 and FC2, too. > > > Again, thanks very much. > > No problem, Graeme. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- up2date is still the update procedure for fc1 & 2. It has be modified to automatically use yum. You probably will need to add some repositories to yum.conf, but up2date works the same as in redhat. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 16 17:56:13 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:56:13 -0700 Subject: SMP boot problems with RHEL AS3 In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040716103911.02577190@pop.gmx.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20040716103911.02577190@pop.gmx.net> Message-ID: <40F816BD.7050707@vitalstream.com> Benjamin Hornberger wrote: > Hi all, > > I am having strange problem with RHEL AS3 on a dual-processor machine. > When I boot the SMP kernel, the machine hangs during boot, but, if I am > patient, after ca. 30 minutes finally comes up. When I boot the non-SMP > kernel, it comes up ok (also waiting ca. 15 sec at the same point in the > boot sequence). > > Below is a cutout of the boot messages for the SMP kernel before it > hangs, and the corresponding part of the non-SMP boot (don't laugh -- I > took snapshots with a Digicam and typed it down. There might be some > typos. It's just too fast to catch everything. ). > > It's a Monarch ULB 2000 workstation with two AMD Athlon MP 2000+ > processors, 3 GB RAM, two Seagate SCSI hard drives on an on-board > controller (we boot from sda), a CD-RW and a DVD-ROM as primary and > secondary master, and two Maxtor IDE drives as primary and secondary > slaves (to be RAIDed) on the IDE bus. The machine ran fine under Redhat > 7.2 and Redhat 9 before. It has been up2dated and runs now kernel > 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL(smp). The problem has been there already right after > the installation with kernel 2.4.21-4.EL(smp). There is a common problem with the way some SMP Athlon motherboards set up the APIC and the SMP kernels. Uniprocessor kernels don't enable the APIC so they won't hit the problem. The fix is to disable the APICs at boot time on the SMP kernels by adding the "noapic" boot option. If you use lilo to boot, hit "CTRL-X" and type in "linux noapic" at the "boot:" command line. If you use grub, hit "e", scroll down to the "kernel" line, add " noapic" (don't forget the leading space) to the end of the line, hit "ENTER" and press "b" to boot. If the "noapic" option works for you, update your boot loader config file to use that option. If you use lilo, don't forget to run lilo after tweaking the file. NOTE: "noapic" will slow the average system down a very tiny amount. I doubt that you'll even be able to notice it without benchmarking. It will have a greater effect if the machine gets hammered with interrupts, but that's pretty rare except with a real-time kernel. > -------------------------------- > Boot messages: > > SMP kernel: > > ... > Initializing Cryptograhic API > NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 > IP: routing cache hash table of 32768 buckets, 256Kbytes > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 524288 bind 65536) > Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM > Initializing IPsec netlink socket > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0 > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > Freeing initrd memory: 311k freed > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > Red Hat nash version 3.5.13 starting > Loading scsi_mod.o module > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > Loading sd_mod.o module > Loading aic7xxx.0 module > scsi0 : Adapted AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 > > aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs > > scsi1 : Adapted AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev. 6.2.36 > > aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs > > blk: queue f7fd6414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > (scsi0:A:0): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) > (scsi0:A:1): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336752LW Rev: 0004 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 > blk: queue f7fd7214, I/0 limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336752LW Rev: 0004 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 > blk: queue f7fd7414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 > scsi0:A:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 > > **** hangs ca. 30 minutes here, but then comes up ***** Classic APIC hang there. "noapic" should solve this issue. > non-SMP kernel: > > ... > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0 > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > Freeing initrd memory: 304k freed > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > Red Hat nash version 3.5.13 starting > Loading scsi_mod.o module > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > Loading sd_mod.o module > Loading aic7xxx.0 module > AMD756: dev 9005:00cf, router pirq : 1 get irq : 10 > PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.0 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:04.0 > AMD756: dev 9005:00cf, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.1 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 WITH 01:05.0 > scsi0 : Adapted AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 > > aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs > > scsi1 : Adapted AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev. 6.2.36 > > aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs > > blk: queue f7fd6414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > > ***** waits ca. 15 sec here ***** That's the firmware download and/or SCSI controller chip self checks. It's normal and there's no way to disable it. If it waits more than 30 seconds, you may have other issues. > (scsi0:A:0): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) > (scsi0:A:1): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336752LW Rev: 0004 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 > blk: queue f7fd7214, I/0 limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336752LW Rev: 0004 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 > blk: queue f7fd7414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 > scsi0:A:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 > ... > ***** comes up fine ***** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Doctor! My brain hurts!" "It will have to come out!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From bho at gmx.net Fri Jul 16 18:00:05 2004 From: bho at gmx.net (Benjamin Hornberger) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:00:05 -0400 Subject: SMP boot problems with RHEL AS3 In-Reply-To: <40F816BD.7050707@vitalstream.com> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20040716103911.02577190@pop.gmx.net> <40F816BD.7050707@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20040716135901.0258aa28@pop.gmx.net> Thanks a lot for your help! But what is apic?? Sorry for my lack of knowledge... Thanks, Benjamin At 10:56 AM 7/16/2004 -0700, you wrote: >Benjamin Hornberger wrote: >>Hi all, >>I am having strange problem with RHEL AS3 on a dual-processor machine. >>When I boot the SMP kernel, the machine hangs during boot, but, if I am >>patient, after ca. 30 minutes finally comes up. When I boot the non-SMP >>kernel, it comes up ok (also waiting ca. 15 sec at the same point in the >>boot sequence). >>Below is a cutout of the boot messages for the SMP kernel before it >>hangs, and the corresponding part of the non-SMP boot (don't laugh -- I >>took snapshots with a Digicam and typed it down. There might be some >>typos. It's just too fast to catch everything. ). >>It's a Monarch ULB 2000 workstation with two AMD Athlon MP 2000+ >>processors, 3 GB RAM, two Seagate SCSI hard drives on an on-board >>controller (we boot from sda), a CD-RW and a DVD-ROM as primary and >>secondary master, and two Maxtor IDE drives as primary and secondary >>slaves (to be RAIDed) on the IDE bus. The machine ran fine under Redhat >>7.2 and Redhat 9 before. It has been up2dated and runs now kernel >>2.4.21-15.0.3.EL(smp). The problem has been there already right after the >>installation with kernel 2.4.21-4.EL(smp). > >There is a common problem with the way some SMP Athlon motherboards set >up the APIC and the SMP kernels. Uniprocessor kernels don't enable the >APIC so they won't hit the problem. The fix is to disable the APICs >at boot time on the SMP kernels by adding the "noapic" boot option. > >If you use lilo to boot, hit "CTRL-X" and type in "linux noapic" at the >"boot:" command line. > >If you use grub, hit "e", scroll down to the "kernel" line, add >" noapic" (don't forget the leading space) to the end of the line, hit >"ENTER" and press "b" to boot. > >If the "noapic" option works for you, update your boot loader config >file to use that option. If you use lilo, don't forget to run lilo >after tweaking the file. > >NOTE: "noapic" will slow the average system down a very tiny amount. I >doubt that you'll even be able to notice it without benchmarking. It >will have a greater effect if the machine gets hammered with interrupts, >but that's pretty rare except with a real-time kernel. > >>-------------------------------- >>Boot messages: >>SMP kernel: >>... >>Initializing Cryptograhic API >>NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 >>IP: routing cache hash table of 32768 buckets, 256Kbytes >>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 524288 bind 65536) >>Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM >>Initializing IPsec netlink socket >>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0 >>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 >>Freeing initrd memory: 311k freed >>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). >>Red Hat nash version 3.5.13 starting >>Loading scsi_mod.o module >>SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 >>Loading sd_mod.o module >>Loading aic7xxx.0 module >>scsi0 : Adapted AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 >> >> aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs >>scsi1 : Adapted AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev. 6.2.36 >> >> aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs >>blk: queue f7fd6414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) >>(scsi0:A:0): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) >>(scsi0:A:1): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) >> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336752LW Rev: 0004 >> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 >>blk: queue f7fd7214, I/0 limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) >> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336752LW Rev: 0004 >> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 >>blk: queue f7fd7414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) >>scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 >>scsi0:A:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 >>**** hangs ca. 30 minutes here, but then comes up ***** > >Classic APIC hang there. "noapic" should solve this issue. > >>non-SMP kernel: >>... >>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0 >>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 >>Freeing initrd memory: 304k freed >>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). >>Red Hat nash version 3.5.13 starting >>Loading scsi_mod.o module >>SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 >>Loading sd_mod.o module >>Loading aic7xxx.0 module >>AMD756: dev 9005:00cf, router pirq : 1 get irq : 10 >>PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.0 >>PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:04.0 >>AMD756: dev 9005:00cf, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 >>PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.1 >>PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 WITH 01:05.0 >>scsi0 : Adapted AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 >> >> aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs >>scsi1 : Adapted AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev. 6.2.36 >> >> aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs >>blk: queue f7fd6414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) >>***** waits ca. 15 sec here ***** > >That's the firmware download and/or SCSI controller chip self checks. >It's normal and there's no way to disable it. If it waits more than >30 seconds, you may have other issues. > >>(scsi0:A:0): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) >>(scsi0:A:1): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) >> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336752LW Rev: 0004 >> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 >>blk: queue f7fd7214, I/0 limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) >> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336752LW Rev: 0004 >> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 >>blk: queue f7fd7414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) >>scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 >>scsi0:A:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 >>... >>***** comes up fine ***** >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >- - >- "Doctor! My brain hurts!" "It will have to come out!" - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-install-list mailing list >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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Benjamin Hornberger mailto:bho at gmx.net http://www.hornberger.info/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 16 18:08:28 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:08:28 -0700 Subject: NIS tcsh question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40F8199C.8050101@vitalstream.com> GoijI P wrote: >>>>> inlcuded these two lines in NIS server ~/.tcshrc file: >>>>> echo -n "\033]0;${HOST}:$cwd\007" >>>>> alias cd 'chdir \!*; echo -n "\033]0;${HOST}:$cwd\007"' >>>>> >>>>> when logging in from NIS client, I do not see two >>>>> lines doing anything. >>>>> but, within a telnet session they work fine. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The NIS client must mount the NFS server's version of your home >>>> directory for that to work. I suspect you're only using the NIS server >>>> for authentication and using the NIS client's local filesystem. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> well, on client there is no local home. (did on client , mv /home >>> /home.sav). >>> server home is mounted on client /home (/home->/nfs/home) >>> according to /etc/fstab file. ?? >> >> >> I don't buy that. Did you check the "mount" command itself? Is it >> really mounted? > > > yes, indeed. > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/home /home nfs etc... > > i made /nfs/home and did the > mv /home /home.sav > ls -n /home /nfs/home > added the > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/home /home nfs etc... > to /etc/fstab file. > everything in the remote ./tchsrc works except the lines: > echo -n "\033]0;${HOST}:$cwd\007" > alias cd 'chdir \!*; echo -n "\033]0;${HOST}:$cwd\007"'. > > these lines modify the terminal title. like i said, when within > a telnet login session it works but within nis login it won't. both logins > show same remote .tcshrc file ("cat .tcshrc"). maybe, i am wrong but > this is what i see. > my local passwd file has no such userid. maybe nsswitch.conf > related.......??? I don't think so. If both the telnet and the NIS login have the same .tcshrc file, then it should work. If you run the commands at the command line in NIS mode, does it work? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Treat each day as if it's your last...a lot of crying and whining - - usually gets you what you want! -- Sam Sledge - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 16 18:20:35 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:20:35 -0700 Subject: SMP boot problems with RHEL AS3 In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040716135901.0258aa28@pop.gmx.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20040716103911.02577190@pop.gmx.net> <40F816BD.7050707@vitalstream.com> <6.1.2.0.2.20040716135901.0258aa28@pop.gmx.net> Message-ID: <40F81C73.30705@vitalstream.com> Benjamin Hornberger wrote: > Thanks a lot for your help! But what is apic?? Sorry for my lack of > knowledge... That's OK. It's geek stuff, and I certainly don't expect you to know what it is. Allow me to slightly nerdify you... (tapping Benjamin gently on the head with the Nerd Wand) APIC = Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller. It's hardware that routes interrupts to the least-loaded CPU and changes the interrupt environment to point at it for faster interrupt response. If it's disabled, the CPUs have to do the work programmatically. There's a SLIGHT performance penalty with APICs disabled for 99% of the systems I've seen. We have about 20 Athlon SMP webservers that are doing about 90Mbps each with "noapic" set (yes, the net cables glow cherry red). Not too shabby. BTW, Benjamin, we prefer bottom posting here (post your replies AFTER what you're replying to). It keeps the flow of the message clearer and allows you to comment in multiple places as I did in the first message. > At 10:56 AM 7/16/2004 -0700, you wrote: > >> Benjamin Hornberger wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I am having strange problem with RHEL AS3 on a dual-processor >>> machine. When I boot the SMP kernel, the machine hangs during boot, >>> but, if I am patient, after ca. 30 minutes finally comes up. When I >>> boot the non-SMP kernel, it comes up ok (also waiting ca. 15 sec at >>> the same point in the boot sequence). >>> Below is a cutout of the boot messages for the SMP kernel before it >>> hangs, and the corresponding part of the non-SMP boot (don't laugh -- >>> I took snapshots with a Digicam and typed it down. There might be >>> some typos. It's just too fast to catch everything. ). >>> It's a Monarch ULB 2000 workstation with two AMD Athlon MP 2000+ >>> processors, 3 GB RAM, two Seagate SCSI hard drives on an on-board >>> controller (we boot from sda), a CD-RW and a DVD-ROM as primary and >>> secondary master, and two Maxtor IDE drives as primary and secondary >>> slaves (to be RAIDed) on the IDE bus. The machine ran fine under >>> Redhat 7.2 and Redhat 9 before. It has been up2dated and runs now >>> kernel 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL(smp). The problem has been there already >>> right after the installation with kernel 2.4.21-4.EL(smp). >> >> >> There is a common problem with the way some SMP Athlon motherboards set >> up the APIC and the SMP kernels. Uniprocessor kernels don't enable the >> APIC so they won't hit the problem. The fix is to disable the APICs >> at boot time on the SMP kernels by adding the "noapic" boot option. >> >> If you use lilo to boot, hit "CTRL-X" and type in "linux noapic" at the >> "boot:" command line. >> >> If you use grub, hit "e", scroll down to the "kernel" line, add >> " noapic" (don't forget the leading space) to the end of the line, hit >> "ENTER" and press "b" to boot. >> >> If the "noapic" option works for you, update your boot loader config >> file to use that option. If you use lilo, don't forget to run lilo >> after tweaking the file. >> >> NOTE: "noapic" will slow the average system down a very tiny amount. I >> doubt that you'll even be able to notice it without benchmarking. It >> will have a greater effect if the machine gets hammered with interrupts, >> but that's pretty rare except with a real-time kernel. >> >>> -------------------------------- >>> Boot messages: >>> SMP kernel: >>> ... >>> Initializing Cryptograhic API >>> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 >>> IP: routing cache hash table of 32768 buckets, 256Kbytes >>> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 524288 bind 65536) >>> Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM >>> Initializing IPsec netlink socket >>> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0 >>> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 >>> Freeing initrd memory: 311k freed >>> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). >>> Red Hat nash version 3.5.13 starting >>> Loading scsi_mod.o module >>> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 >>> Loading sd_mod.o module >>> Loading aic7xxx.0 module >>> scsi0 : Adapted AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 >>> >>> aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs >>> scsi1 : Adapted AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev. 6.2.36 >>> >>> aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs >>> blk: queue f7fd6414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) >>> (scsi0:A:0): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) >>> (scsi0:A:1): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) >>> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336752LW Rev: 0004 >>> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 >>> blk: queue f7fd7214, I/0 limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) >>> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336752LW Rev: 0004 >>> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 >>> blk: queue f7fd7414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) >>> scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 >>> scsi0:A:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 >>> **** hangs ca. 30 minutes here, but then comes up ***** >> >> >> Classic APIC hang there. "noapic" should solve this issue. >> >>> non-SMP kernel: >>> ... >>> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0 >>> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 >>> Freeing initrd memory: 304k freed >>> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). >>> Red Hat nash version 3.5.13 starting >>> Loading scsi_mod.o module >>> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 >>> Loading sd_mod.o module >>> Loading aic7xxx.0 module >>> AMD756: dev 9005:00cf, router pirq : 1 get irq : 10 >>> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.0 >>> PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:04.0 >>> AMD756: dev 9005:00cf, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 >>> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.1 >>> PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 WITH 01:05.0 >>> scsi0 : Adapted AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 >>> >>> aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs >>> scsi1 : Adapted AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev. 6.2.36 >>> >>> aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs >>> blk: queue f7fd6414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) >>> ***** waits ca. 15 sec here ***** >> >> >> That's the firmware download and/or SCSI controller chip self checks. >> It's normal and there's no way to disable it. If it waits more than >> 30 seconds, you may have other issues. >> >>> (scsi0:A:0): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) >>> (scsi0:A:1): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) >>> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336752LW Rev: 0004 >>> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 >>> blk: queue f7fd7214, I/0 limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) >>> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336752LW Rev: 0004 >>> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 >>> blk: queue f7fd7414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) >>> scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 >>> scsi0:A:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 >>> ... >>> ***** comes up fine ***** > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Benjamin Hornberger > mailto:bho at gmx.net > http://www.hornberger.info/ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Treat each day as if it's your last...a lot of crying and whining - - usually gets you what you want! -- Sam Sledge - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From goijiud at hotmail.com Fri Jul 16 19:02:30 2004 From: goijiud at hotmail.com (GoijI P) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:02:30 -0400 Subject: NIS tcsh question Message-ID: >I don't think so. If both the telnet and the NIS login have the same >.tcshrc file, then it should work. If you run the commands at the >command line in NIS mode, does it work? yes, it does. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page ? FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ From dsandif at email.unc.edu Fri Jul 16 19:21:45 2004 From: dsandif at email.unc.edu (dsandif) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:21:45 -0400 Subject: Support for Large Disks under RedHat Enterprise 2.1 References: Message-ID: <40F82AC9.66F37414@email.unc.edu> Hi Ed, I was wondering if you ever got a response to your query. I too am setting up a machine (File server to be exact) and I will have three 300 gig hard drives in it that I am hoping RedHat Advance Server (AS) will support them and see all three completely. Please let me know what you find out. Thxs, D- Ed Mangual wrote: > Does any body know if there is support for Hardrives over 137GB under > RedHat Enterprise 2.1? I have a 200GB drive and when trying to install > this version of redhat it only sees 131GB. Under RedHat Enterprise > Linux 3.0 it found the drive no problem.I would appreciate the > help.Thanks,Ed > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Fri Jul 16 20:05:53 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:05:53 -0700 Subject: Umask and redhat Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8F6@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Where do I go to change the default system umask? From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 16 21:01:47 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:01:47 -0700 Subject: Support for Large Disks under RedHat Enterprise 2.1 In-Reply-To: <40F82AC9.66F37414@email.unc.edu> References: <40F82AC9.66F37414@email.unc.edu> Message-ID: <40F8423B.4080200@vitalstream.com> dsandif wrote: > Hi Ed, > > I was wondering if you ever got a response to your query. I too am > setting up a machine (File server to be exact) and I will have three > 300 gig hard drives in it that I am hoping RedHat Advance Server (AS) > will support them and see all three completely. Please let me know what > you find out. Thxs, > > D- > > Ed Mangual wrote: > >> Does any body know if there is support for Hardrives over 137GB under >> RedHat Enterprise 2.1? I have a 200GB drive and when trying to install >> this version of redhat it only sees 131GB. Under RedHat Enterprise >> Linux 3.0 it found the drive no problem.I would appreciate the >> help.Thanks,Ed I don't believe there is support for drives over 128GB (in powers of 2 format, 131GB decimal) in AS 2.1 due to kernel limitations. ES3/AS3 should handle them, as RH tweaked the kernel. The difference between ES and AS is that AS is limited to 2 processors in SMP configuration (I think it's 2), while ES is limited to 8. BTW, I think you can rebuild the AS kernel to give you the 8 processors if you want to, but that might violate your support agreement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 16 21:06:28 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:06:28 -0700 Subject: Umask and redhat In-Reply-To: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8F6@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8F6@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Message-ID: <40F84354.7060508@vitalstream.com> Waldher, Travis R wrote: > Where do I go to change the default system umask? It's in /etc/bashrc: if [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" -a `id -u` -gt 99 ]; then umask 002 else umask 022 fi Meaning that users that are in their own group and have IDs over 99 (which is all the mortal users) get a umask of 002, system users get 022. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Admitting you have a problem is the first step toward getting - - medicated for it. -- Jim Evarts (http://www.TopFive.com) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 16 21:08:40 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:08:40 -0700 Subject: NIS tcsh question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40F843D8.4050103@vitalstream.com> GoijI P wrote: >> I don't think so. If both the telnet and the NIS login have the same >> .tcshrc file, then it should work. If you run the commands at the >> command line in NIS mode, does it work? > > > yes, it does. Uh, check the permissions on ~.tcshrc and verify that you have user and group execute permissions on it. If not, "chmod ug+x ~/.tcshrc". Sorry about putting you through this, but I don't use NIS often myself. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "The bogosity meter just pegged." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Fri Jul 16 21:38:24 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:38:24 -0700 Subject: Umask and redhat Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FA@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 2:06 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Umask and redhat > > Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > Where do I go to change the default system umask? > > It's in /etc/bashrc: > > if [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" -a `id -u` -gt 99 ]; then > umask 002 > else > umask 022 > fi > > Meaning that users that are in their own group and have IDs > over 99 (which is all the mortal users) get a umask of 002, > system users get 022. When you say users that are in their own group. You mean I have an account of travis, my group is also travis? We don't use that here. Would something like this work in it's place? ------------------------------------------------ if [ `id -u` -gt 99 ]; then umask 022 else umask 002 Fi ------------------------------------------------ So if my uid is not greater than 99 I get 022, otherwise I get 002? Thanks, Travis From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Fri Jul 16 21:44:31 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:44:31 -0700 Subject: Umask and redhat (updated) Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FB@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Waldher, Travis R > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 2:38 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: RE: Umask and redhat > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 2:06 PM > > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > Subject: Re: Umask and redhat > > > > Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > > Where do I go to change the default system umask? > > > > It's in /etc/bashrc: > > > > if [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" -a `id -u` -gt 99 ]; then > > umask 002 > > else > > umask 022 > > fi > > > > Meaning that users that are in their own group and have IDs over 99 > > (which is all the mortal users) get a umask of 002, system > users get > > 022. > > When you say users that are in their own group. You mean I > have an account of travis, my group is also travis? > > We don't use that here. Would something like this work in it's place? > > ------------------------------------------------ > if [ `id -u` -gt 99 ]; then > umask 022 > else > umask 002 > Fi > ------------------------------------------------ > > So if my uid is not greater than 99 I get 022, otherwise I get 002? > > Thanks, > Travis What if your shell is chsrc, or something other than bash. Will this be set for them as well? From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 16 21:53:35 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:53:35 -0700 Subject: Umask and redhat (updated) In-Reply-To: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FB@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FB@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Message-ID: <40F84E5F.1000700@vitalstream.com> Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Waldher, Travis R >>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 2:38 PM >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >>Subject: RE: Umask and redhat >> >> >> >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] >>>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 2:06 PM >>>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >>>Subject: Re: Umask and redhat >>> >>>Waldher, Travis R wrote: >>> >>>>Where do I go to change the default system umask? >>> >>>It's in /etc/bashrc: >>> >>> if [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" -a `id -u` -gt 99 ]; then >>> umask 002 >>> else >>> umask 022 >>> fi >>> >>>Meaning that users that are in their own group and have IDs over 99 >>>(which is all the mortal users) get a umask of 002, system >> >>users get >> >>>022. >> >>When you say users that are in their own group. You mean I >>have an account of travis, my group is also travis? Yes, that's what it means. >>We don't use that here. Would something like this work in it's place? >> >>------------------------------------------------ >>if [ `id -u` -gt 99 ]; then >> umask 022 >>else >> umask 002 >>Fi >>------------------------------------------------ >> >>So if my uid is not greater than 99 I get 022, otherwise I get 002? Yes, that'll work fine. > What if your shell is chsrc, or something other than bash. Will this be > set for them as well? For csh users, the lines are virtually identical in /etc/csh.cshrc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Animal testing is futile. They always get nervous and give the - - wrong answers - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Fri Jul 16 21:57:13 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:57:13 -0700 Subject: Umask and redhat (updated) Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FC@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 2:54 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Umask and redhat (updated) > > > What if your shell is chsrc, or something other than bash. > Will this > > be set for them as well? > > For csh users, the lines are virtually identical in /etc/csh.cshrc. Ok, so basically there is no true global setting, I need to set it for each type of shell? From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 16 22:42:33 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:42:33 -0700 Subject: Umask and redhat (updated) In-Reply-To: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FC@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FC@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Message-ID: <40F859D9.6030608@vitalstream.com> Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] >>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 2:54 PM >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >>Subject: Re: Umask and redhat (updated) >> >> >>>What if your shell is chsrc, or something other than bash. >> >>Will this >> >>>be set for them as well? >> >>For csh users, the lines are virtually identical in /etc/csh.cshrc. > > > Ok, so basically there is no true global setting, I need to set it for > each type of shell? Yes, unfortunately. This is due to the way the shells start up. bash starts up by reading, in order, /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc, and ~/.bashrc among others. csh starts by reading /etc/csh.cshrc, /etc/csh.login, and ~/.[t]cshrc and a host of others. This is all due to the various permutations of Unix out there (Linux being just one more), and not all of which behave the same. HISTORY LESSON: The first Unix shell was called, aptly enough, "sh" and was written by a chap named Bourne. It's more correctly called the "Bourne Shell". "bash" is an enhanced version of the Bourne shell, named the "Bourne Again Shell" (cute, eh?). If you've ever wondered why all the system admin scripts are written for the Bourne or bash shells, the Unix standards state that the only shell you're guaranteed to have on a system is some variation of Bourne. You are also guaranteed to have some other programs such as sed, ls, awk, grep, ls, rm, mv, mount and cp. If you've ever wondered why those are in /bin (on the root filesystem), now you know--you can be sure that the root filesystem is mounted by the boot loader when your admin script is run. You aren't guaranteed of anything else at this early stage of your boot process. csh, ksh, tsh and the rest may or may not be installed or on filesystems that aren't mounted yet. If your script absolutely MUST work (e.g. to boot the system up), you must write it for Bourne/bash. Ok, RECESS TIME! Who's up for a game of softball? :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Cuteness can be overcome through sufficient bastardry - - --Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Fri Jul 16 22:57:15 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:57:15 -0700 Subject: Umask and redhat (updated) Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FE@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 3:43 PM > > Ok, RECESS TIME! Who's up for a game of softball? :-) Not me... I'm 20 or so minute from getting out of here. Hopefully it won't take me 5 HOURS to commute home like it did last night. *sigh* From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 16 23:12:56 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:12:56 -0700 Subject: Umask and redhat (updated) In-Reply-To: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FE@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FE@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Message-ID: <40F860F8.6050606@vitalstream.com> Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] >>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 3:43 PM > > > >>Ok, RECESS TIME! Who's up for a game of softball? :-) > > > Not me... I'm 20 or so minute from getting out of here. > > Hopefully it won't take me 5 HOURS to commute home like it did last > night. *sigh* Lordy! How far is it and have you thought of getting an ultralight? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Is that a buffer overflow or are you just happy to see me? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Fri Jul 16 23:23:51 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:23:51 -0700 Subject: Umask and redhat (updated) Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FF@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 4:13 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Umask and redhat (updated) > > Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > >>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 3:43 PM > > > > > > > >>Ok, RECESS TIME! Who's up for a game of softball? :-) > > > > > > Not me... I'm 20 or so minute from getting out of here. > > > > Hopefully it won't take me 5 HOURS to commute home like it did last > > night. *sigh* > > Lordy! How far is it and have you thought of getting an ultralight? Normally when I drive, it's a 60 mile trip. Took me 35 minutes to go the first 30 miles, then I hit the Tacoma Narrows bridge backup, which was one of those 10 bad nights out of the year because someone decided to get in to a wreck on it. I spend 1 hour going 2-3 blocks, with no relief in sight since a game would be letting loose soon at Cheney stadium. So I gave up and drove to Olympia and back up to bremerton. About 90 miles. Left work at 4:30, had a 20 minute chiropractor appt, and got home at about 9:40pm. Today, it's the normal ferry route, only takes 2 hours total each way. (I'de buy a speed boat, but the fuel costs would probably be brutal) From rstevens at vitalstream.com Sat Jul 17 00:06:19 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:06:19 -0700 Subject: Umask and redhat (updated) In-Reply-To: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FF@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FF@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Message-ID: <40F86D7B.6010902@vitalstream.com> Waldher, Travis R wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] >>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 4:13 PM >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >>Subject: Re: Umask and redhat (updated) >> >>Waldher, Travis R wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] >>>>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 3:43 PM >>> >>> >>> >>>>Ok, RECESS TIME! Who's up for a game of softball? :-) >>> >>> >>>Not me... I'm 20 or so minute from getting out of here. >>> >>>Hopefully it won't take me 5 HOURS to commute home like it did last >>>night. *sigh* >> >>Lordy! How far is it and have you thought of getting an ultralight? > > > Normally when I drive, it's a 60 mile trip. Took me 35 minutes to go > the first 30 miles, then I hit the Tacoma Narrows bridge backup, which > was one of those 10 bad nights out of the year because someone decided > to get in to a wreck on it. Isn't that the bridge that went daft back in the 50's...started dancing then fell into the river? > I spend 1 hour going 2-3 blocks, with no > relief in sight since a game would be letting loose soon at Cheney > stadium. So I gave up and drove to Olympia and back up to bremerton. > About 90 miles. Been there and done that. It truly sucks when there's only one route to go. > Left work at 4:30, had a 20 minute chiropractor appt, and got home at > about 9:40pm. > > Today, it's the normal ferry route, only takes 2 hours total each way. > (I'de buy a speed boat, but the fuel costs would probably be brutal) Hmmmm. Well, a diesel boat probably wouldn't cost that much, but then you'd need two slips (one at each end) and such. It depends on how much you value your time. Or, get a sea plane (Cessna 172s with floats don't cost that much and flying is fun). I have a friend that has to commute about 30 miles each way, but it's on the infamous 405 freeway here in SoCal and through one of the worst stretches (several interchanges and the traffic for LAX). She lives in Corona del Mar and works at TRW in Hawthorne. She (with my goading) got her pilot's license and bought a Cessna 150 for about $12,000. She drives her Porsche 10 minutes to John Wayne airport in the morning, gets in the plane, flies to Hawthorne airport, gets on her motorcycle and rides 10 minutes to work. In the afternoon, she reverses the trip. She claims it shaves 30 minutes off the trip each way and she doesn't get frustrated with traffic. The plane burns about $12.00 in fuel each round trip. Her tiedown at John Wayne costs $100/month and it's free at Hawthorne since she buys her fuel there. She's now got about 3,000 hours in the 150. The last guy I saw with that kind of seat time in a 150 was a flight instructor. Heck, I've only got 2,200 hours in my Comanche and I've owned it six years longer than she's had her plane. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "How does that damned three seashell thing work?" - - - Sylvester Stallone, "Demolition Man" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From beeboo at yahoo.com Sat Jul 17 01:05:12 2004 From: beeboo at yahoo.com (Willie Chan) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:05:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: SSL Message-ID: <20040717010517.84960.qmail@web41105.mail.yahoo.com> hi, I'm trying to set up SSL. I able to use https//localhost/ and reach my documentRoot page. However, I have set up a web site and trying to use the https connection, and it didn't work. I always get timeout error when trying to connect. Anyone know a good web page for setting SSL? Do I need Versign Cert.? I'm using the OpenSSL generate cert. I also try the cert that comes with the system. There are some makefile in the certification directory. What is the purpose that? Thank You! ===== Willie Chan :) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/ From vaibhav_d at yahoo.com Sat Jul 17 01:52:16 2004 From: vaibhav_d at yahoo.com (Vaibhav Deshpande) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:52:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Need to upgrade dual boot WIN2K In-Reply-To: <40F812AC.70601@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040717015216.37996.qmail@web51006.mail.yahoo.com> Rick, Thanks. I do have backup of RH9. I'll be upgrading WIN2K this weekend. Thanks for your help. -Vaibhav --- Rick Stevens wrote: > Vaibhav Deshpande wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've a dual boot system (Win 2K and RH 9). I need to upgrade to WIN > XP > > but DON'T want to loose RH9. Basically, XP is for my office work > and > > RH9 is for my personal interest. > > > > Is there any safe way of doing this? How much is the risk involved > (of > > loosing RH 9)? > > Unless you tell XP to reformat the disk, you won't lose it. If you > use > grub or lilo to do the dual boot for you, you may not be able to boot > RH9 because XP overwrote the boot loader. > > If that's the case, simply boot off your first RH9 CD and enter > > linux rescue > > at the boot prompt. Let the system find your RH9 installation and > mount > it. Then: > > # chroot /mnt/sysimage > > If you use grub, type this command: > > # grub-install /dev/hda > > If you use lilo: > > # /sbin/lilo > > Then, enter "exit" twice (the first gets you out of the chrooted > environment, the second reboots the system). Remove the CD and you > should get back to your multiboot screen and all should be well. > > Of course, you DO have a current RH9 backup, don't you? 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Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/ From gnichols at tpg.com.au Sat Jul 17 05:20:40 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:20:40 +1000 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done In-Reply-To: <008e01c46b5d$ac2d3170$4601a8c0@C515816A> References: <008e01c46b5d$ac2d3170$4601a8c0@C515816A> Message-ID: <1090041640.3804.30.camel@barney.localdomain> On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 03:52, Otto Haliburton wrote: > > > I understand what you are saying about the > > > learning curve, though since yesterday I have managed to get things up > > > and running OK. Your advice on removing the irq and CUPS was important > > > to me and thanks for the xorg.conf file. The 4 CD set I purchased didn't > > > have any documentation with it. With my RH8 CDs I was able to install > > > all the docs which was a real help. I will have to see if I can download > > > some documentation rpms. Will let you know how it all goes over the next > > > couple of weeks. > > > > Glad to help, Graeme. Most of the should have been installed with the > > RPMs (well, the man pages at least). "Special" docs usually get shoved > > into /usr/share/doc. > > > > If you're up on FC2 now, remember to use "yum" to update your system > > (yum is the FC replacement for up2date). The /etc/yum.conf file that > > comes with FC only mentions the Red Hat update repository. It's often > > VERY busy, so you may wish to utilize this version of the file to get at > > a couple of mirrors: > > > > ----------------------------- CUT HERE -------------------------------- > > [main] > > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > > debuglevel=2 > > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > > pkgpolicy=newest > > distroverpkg=fedora-release > > tolerant=1 > > exactarch=1 > > gpgcheck=1 > > > > > > [base] > > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base > > http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-$releasever > > # The first line is the primary server, the remainder are mirrors... > > baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releaseve > > r/$basearch/os > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os > > http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/os > > > > > > [updates-released] > > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates > > # The first line is the primary server, the remainder are mirrors... > > baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$r > > eleasever/$basearch > > > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch > > http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch > > > > > > #[updates-testing] > > #name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates > > #baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-$releasever > > ----------------------------- CUT HERE -------------------------------- > > > > You can add more mirrors as you wish. To do a full update: > > > > # yum -y update > > > > It'll take a bit of time, but it'll update your system fully. yum is a > > "good thing". > > > > The URHILW (http://www.rhil.net) has NTFS modules for FC1 and FC2, too. > > > > > Again, thanks very much. > > > > No problem, Graeme. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > > - - > > - Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. - > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > up2date is still the update procedure for fc1 & 2. It has be modified to > automatically use yum. You probably will need to add some repositories to > yum.conf, but up2date works the same as in redhat. OK Thanks Otto. Graeme. From gnichols at tpg.com.au Sat Jul 17 05:52:21 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:52:21 +1000 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done In-Reply-To: <40F80E1A.3030408@vitalstream.com> References: <1089868754.1090.42.camel@rubble.localdomain> <40F6C6D9.4070307@vitalstream.com> <1089943678.3268.17.camel@barney.localdomain> <40F80E1A.3030408@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1090043538.3804.51.camel@barney.localdomain> On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 03:19, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > > Hello Rick, > > > > I don't know what I would do without your expertise when I take the leap > > into the unknown. Its people like yourself and the others on this list > > that make the Linux community what it is. > > {blush!} Aw, shucks! ;-) > > > I hope that I can start to > > make a contribution myself. > > You will, you will. Just the simple fact you use Linux helps. More > users = more solutions. > > > I understand what you are saying about the > > learning curve, though since yesterday I have managed to get things up > > and running OK. Your advice on removing the irq and CUPS was important > > to me and thanks for the xorg.conf file. The 4 CD set I purchased didn't > > have any documentation with it. With my RH8 CDs I was able to install > > all the docs which was a real help. I will have to see if I can download > > some documentation rpms. Will let you know how it all goes over the next > > couple of weeks. > > Glad to help, Graeme. Most of the should have been installed with the > RPMs (well, the man pages at least). "Special" docs usually get shoved > into /usr/share/doc. > > If you're up on FC2 now, remember to use "yum" to update your system > (yum is the FC replacement for up2date). The /etc/yum.conf file that > comes with FC only mentions the Red Hat update repository. It's often > VERY busy, so you may wish to utilize this version of the file to get at > a couple of mirrors: > > ----------------------------- CUT HERE -------------------------------- > [main] > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > debuglevel=2 > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > pkgpolicy=newest > distroverpkg=fedora-release > tolerant=1 > exactarch=1 > gpgcheck=1 > > > [base] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base > http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-$releasever > # The first line is the primary server, the remainder are mirrors... > baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os > http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/os > > > [updates-released] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates > # The first line is the primary server, the remainder are mirrors... > baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch > http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch > > > #[updates-testing] > #name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates > #baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-$releasever > ----------------------------- CUT HERE -------------------------------- > > You can add more mirrors as you wish. To do a full update: > > # yum -y update > > It'll take a bit of time, but it'll update your system fully. yum is a > "good thing". > > The URHILW (http://www.rhil.net) has NTFS modules for FC1 and FC2, too. > > > Again, thanks very much. > > No problem, Graeme. Hi again Rick, I have been running FC2 all day today and it is all pretty stable. I used your xorg.conf file as a template and set up my screen. 1024x768 is much better than 640x480. I changed to CUPS, no problem there, the printer is now running fine. The eth0/1 problem I fixed early as I said in a previous post. Everything is working just fine at the moment. The usb is still a bit flakey, sometimes it fails to recognise the Zip drive and other times it fails to recognise my 60G usb Ext. HD (my main Backup medium). Not too sure why yet. The two CDROMS are now hdc and hdd instead of scsi? Not too sure why that is but they appear to work fine after changes to fstab to reflect their new /dev/(name). This info was obtained from the hardware browser btw. I downloaded the latest pine tarball but decided not to install it as I only used it to read system generated mail. I have changed to mutt. The only package that wont run is gnucash, bombs out not being able to load libraries etc. I will have to re-compile it sometime soon. All in all, I'm very happy with FC2 and glad I took the leap. Thank you, Graeme. p.s. I haven't got my sig working in Evolution 1.4 yet, But will do. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I > >have also a sit0 interface before the eth1 in the list. Do you know what > >that is? > > > >Ta. > > > >Graeme. > > > Its a combination of eth0 and eth1, so that for example you can get > ethereal to listen on both interfaces by selecting sit0. > > I only came across it the other day myself. > > HTH > Chris Hi Chris, thanks. That's pretty neat. Regards, Graeme. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Graeme Nichols wrote: >On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 17:26, Chris Hewitt wrote: > > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: >> >> >> >>>Thanks Rick, will give that a whirl when I have sorted out FC2 problems. >>>I now have the ethernet card working but I had to set it up as eth1. I >>>have also a sit0 interface before the eth1 in the list. Do you know what >>>that is? >>> >>>Ta. >>> >>>Graeme. >>> >>> >>> >>Its a combination of eth0 and eth1, so that for example you can get >>ethereal to listen on both interfaces by selecting sit0. >> >>I only came across it the other day myself. >> >>HTH >>Chris >> >> > >Hi Chris, thanks. That's pretty neat. > >Regards, > >Graeme. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-install-list mailing list >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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gnichols at tpg.com.au Mon Jul 19 04:33:01 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:33:01 +1000 Subject: VNC Server In-Reply-To: <40F631AD.2060205@manordat.demon.co.uk> References: <1088920558.1615.27.camel@barney.localdomain> <40EAE1CE.80007@vitalstream.co m> <1089258300.1347.31.camel@barney.localdomain> <40ED74C1.6020208@vitalstream.com> <1089436413.1524.15.camel@barney.localdomain> <40F2D3C0.80908@vitalstream.com> <1089872815.3446.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40F631AD.2060205@manordat.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: <1090211581.3873.16.camel@barney.localdomain> On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 17:26, Chris Hewitt wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > > > >Thanks Rick, will give that a whirl when I have sorted out FC2 problems. > >I now have the ethernet card working but I had to set it up as eth1. I > >have also a sit0 interface before the eth1 in the list. Do you know what > >that is? > > > >Ta. > > > >Graeme. > > > Its a combination of eth0 and eth1, so that for example you can get > ethereal to listen on both interfaces by selecting sit0. > > I only came across it the other day myself. > > HTH > Chris Thanks Chris, that's pretty neat. Regards, Graeme. From gnichols at tpg.com.au Mon Jul 19 04:56:21 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:56:21 +1000 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done In-Reply-To: <40F80E1A.3030408@vitalstream.com> References: <1089868754.1090.42.camel@rubble.localdomain> <40F6C6D9.4070307@vitalstream.com> <1089943678.3268.17.camel@barney.localdomain> <40F80E1A.3030408@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1090212980.7792.8.camel@barney.localdomain> On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 03:19, Rick Stevens wrote: > > You can add more mirrors as you wish. To do a full update: > > # yum -y update > > It'll take a bit of time, but it'll update your system fully. yum is a > "good thing". > > The URHILW (http://www.rhil.net) has NTFS modules for FC1 and FC2, too. > > > Again, thanks very much. > > No problem, Graeme. Hi Rick, I had to re-install yum because the special version of yum for updating RH8 on Fedora Legacy wouldn't run on FC2. The version I installed was yum-2.0.7-1.noarch.rpm for FC1. It installed and ran OK. When I ran yum to install gnucash 'yum install gnucash' it downloaded a heap of headers then eventually it popped up the message 'Running test transaction:" Then up came the message '/etc/security/selinux/file_contents: No such File or Directory'. following that message it popped up 'Test Transaction complete: Success' then followed '/etc/security/selinux/file_contents: No such File or Directory' again. The install of gnucash completed OK and gnucash works fine. My trivia question for the day is: "What is /etc/security/selinux/file_contents"? Regards, Graeme. From ottohaliburton at comcast.net Mon Jul 19 04:56:35 2004 From: ottohaliburton at comcast.net (Otto Haliburton) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 23:56:35 -0500 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done In-Reply-To: <1090212980.7792.8.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: <000d01c46d4c$c7bfe2c0$4601a8c0@C515816A> > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list- > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Graeme Nichols > Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 11:56 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done > > On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 03:19, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > You can add more mirrors as you wish. To do a full update: > > > > # yum -y update > > > > It'll take a bit of time, but it'll update your system fully. yum is a > > "good thing". > > > > The URHILW (http://www.rhil.net) has NTFS modules for FC1 and FC2, too. > > > > > Again, thanks very much. > > > > No problem, Graeme. > > Hi Rick, I had to re-install yum because the special version of yum for > updating RH8 on Fedora Legacy wouldn't run on FC2. The version I > installed was yum-2.0.7-1.noarch.rpm for FC1. > > It installed and ran OK. > > When I ran yum to install gnucash 'yum install gnucash' it downloaded a > heap of headers then eventually it popped up the message 'Running test > transaction:" Then up came the message > '/etc/security/selinux/file_contents: No such File or Directory'. > following that message it popped up 'Test Transaction complete: Success' > then followed '/etc/security/selinux/file_contents: No such File or > Directory' again. > > The install of gnucash completed OK and gnucash works fine. My trivia > question for the day is: "What is /etc/security/selinux/file_contents"? > > Regards, > > Graeme. > > I'm not sure what you did. I upgraded from RH9-->fc2 and up2date worked just fine. Same same as RH9 with the notification and all I added the extra repositories and it even did the update of yum. So I don't know what you did. There were instructions at the fedora website on what to do. From akelly at transparency.org Mon Jul 19 08:20:03 2004 From: akelly at transparency.org (Andrew Kelly) Date: 19 Jul 2004 10:20:03 +0200 Subject: Umask and redhat (updated) In-Reply-To: <40F86D7B.6010902@vitalstream.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FF@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> <40F86D7B.6010902@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1090225203.4129.5.camel@hermes.at.home> On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 02:06, Rick Stevens wrote: > Waldher, Travis R wrote: > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > >>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 4:13 PM > >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > >>Subject: Re: Umask and redhat (updated) > >> > >>Waldher, Travis R wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>-----Original Message----- > >>>>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > >>>>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 3:43 PM > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Ok, RECESS TIME! Who's up for a game of softball? :-) > >>> > >>> > >>>Not me... I'm 20 or so minute from getting out of here. > >>> > >>>Hopefully it won't take me 5 HOURS to commute home like it did last > >>>night. *sigh* > >> > >>Lordy! How far is it and have you thought of getting an ultralight? > > > > > > Normally when I drive, it's a 60 mile trip. Took me 35 minutes to go > > the first 30 miles, then I hit the Tacoma Narrows bridge backup, which > > was one of those 10 bad nights out of the year because someone decided > > to get in to a wreck on it. > > Isn't that the bridge that went daft back in the 50's...started dancing > then fell into the river? > > > I spend 1 hour going 2-3 blocks, with no > > relief in sight since a game would be letting loose soon at Cheney > > stadium. So I gave up and drove to Olympia and back up to bremerton. > > About 90 miles. > > Been there and done that. It truly sucks when there's only one route > to go. > > > Left work at 4:30, had a 20 minute chiropractor appt, and got home at > > about 9:40pm. > > > > Today, it's the normal ferry route, only takes 2 hours total each way. > > (I'de buy a speed boat, but the fuel costs would probably be brutal) > > Hmmmm. Well, a diesel boat probably wouldn't cost that much, but then > you'd need two slips (one at each end) and such. It depends on how much > you value your time. Or, get a sea plane (Cessna 172s with floats > don't cost that much and flying is fun). > > I have a friend that has to commute about 30 miles each way, but it's > on the infamous 405 freeway here in SoCal and through one of the worst > stretches (several interchanges and the traffic for LAX). She lives > in Corona del Mar and works at TRW in Hawthorne. > > She (with my goading) got her pilot's license and bought a Cessna 150 > for about $12,000. She drives her Porsche 10 minutes to John Wayne > airport in the morning, gets in the plane, flies to Hawthorne airport, > gets on her motorcycle and rides 10 minutes to work. In the afternoon, > she reverses the trip. She claims it shaves 30 minutes off the trip > each way and she doesn't get frustrated with traffic. The plane burns > about $12.00 in fuel each round trip. Her tiedown at John Wayne costs > $100/month and it's free at Hawthorne since she buys her fuel there. > > She's now got about 3,000 hours in the 150. The last guy I saw with > that kind of seat time in a 150 was a flight instructor. Heck, I've > only got 2,200 hours in my Comanche and I've owned it six years longer > than she's had her plane. Oh would you two please stop! First Travis gets me all blubbery with a painful bout of homesickness, and now Rick has me picking my "haven't flown in years" scab. You guys make for a tough Monday re-entry, that's for certain. Sheesh. Andy (poor meeeeee) From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 19 17:17:47 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:17:47 -0700 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done In-Reply-To: <1090043538.3804.51.camel@barney.localdomain> References: <1089868754.1090.42.camel@rubble.localdomain> <40F6C6D9.4070307@vitalstream.com> <1089943678.3268.17.camel@barney.localdomain> <40F80E1A.3030408@vitalstream.com> <1090043538.3804.51.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: <40FC023B.7040403@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 03:19, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>> >>>Hello Rick, >>> >>>I don't know what I would do without your expertise when I take the leap >>>into the unknown. Its people like yourself and the others on this list >>>that make the Linux community what it is. >> >>{blush!} Aw, shucks! ;-) >> >> >>> I hope that I can start to >>>make a contribution myself. >> >>You will, you will. Just the simple fact you use Linux helps. More >>users = more solutions. >> >> >>> I understand what you are saying about the >>>learning curve, though since yesterday I have managed to get things up >>>and running OK. Your advice on removing the irq and CUPS was important >>>to me and thanks for the xorg.conf file. The 4 CD set I purchased didn't >>>have any documentation with it. With my RH8 CDs I was able to install >>>all the docs which was a real help. I will have to see if I can download >>>some documentation rpms. Will let you know how it all goes over the next >>>couple of weeks. >> >>Glad to help, Graeme. Most of the should have been installed with the >>RPMs (well, the man pages at least). "Special" docs usually get shoved >>into /usr/share/doc. >> >>If you're up on FC2 now, remember to use "yum" to update your system >>(yum is the FC replacement for up2date). The /etc/yum.conf file that >>comes with FC only mentions the Red Hat update repository. It's often >>VERY busy, so you may wish to utilize this version of the file to get at >>a couple of mirrors: >> >>----------------------------- CUT HERE -------------------------------- >>[main] >>cachedir=/var/cache/yum >>debuglevel=2 >>logfile=/var/log/yum.log >>pkgpolicy=newest >>distroverpkg=fedora-release >>tolerant=1 >>exactarch=1 >>gpgcheck=1 >> >> >>[base] >>name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base >>http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-$releasever >># The first line is the primary server, the remainder are mirrors... >>baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os >> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os >> http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/os >> >> >>[updates-released] >>name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates >># The first line is the primary server, the remainder are mirrors... >>baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch >> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch >> http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch >> >> >>#[updates-testing] >>#name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates >>#baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-$releasever >>----------------------------- CUT HERE -------------------------------- >> >>You can add more mirrors as you wish. To do a full update: >> >> # yum -y update >> >>It'll take a bit of time, but it'll update your system fully. yum is a >>"good thing". >> >>The URHILW (http://www.rhil.net) has NTFS modules for FC1 and FC2, too. >> >> >>>Again, thanks very much. >> >>No problem, Graeme. > > > Hi again Rick, I have been running FC2 all day today and it is all > pretty stable. I used your xorg.conf file as a template and set up my > screen. 1024x768 is much better than 640x480. Yes, it is. I run 1280x1024 on my 19" screens. My laptop is 1400x1050. > I changed to CUPS, no > problem there, the printer is now running fine. The eth0/1 problem I > fixed early as I said in a previous post. Everything is working just > fine at the moment. The usb is still a bit flakey, sometimes it fails to > recognise the Zip drive and other times it fails to recognise my 60G usb > Ext. HD (my main Backup medium). Not too sure why yet. Have you looked at dmesg to see what it's detecting? > The two CDROMS > are now hdc and hdd instead of scsi? Not too sure why that is but they > appear to work fine after changes to fstab to reflect their new > /dev/(name). Kernel 2.6.x doesn't need ide-scsi anymore to force ATAPI devices to emulate SCSI, so the "hdc=ide-scsi" in your boot commands is not needed and the devices are handled as IDE now. The IDE middle layer is smart enough to do what ide-scsi used to. > This info was obtained from the hardware browser btw. I > downloaded the latest pine tarball but decided not to install it as I > only used it to read system generated mail. I have changed to mutt. The > only package that wont run is gnucash, bombs out not being able to load > libraries etc. I will have to re-compile it sometime soon. > > All in all, I'm very happy with FC2 and glad I took the leap. Hmmmm. Gnucash works OK for me, but that's via the RPM--not a source tarball install. > p.s. I haven't got my sig working in Evolution 1.4 yet, But will do. Heheheheh! If you want to use my program, Download http://www.rhil.net/tools/genmailsig.tar.gz As for a client, I use Mozilla or Firefox/Thunderbird. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I sure wish I had a clever .signature here! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 19 17:30:10 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:30:10 -0700 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done In-Reply-To: <1090212980.7792.8.camel@barney.localdomain> References: <1089868754.1090.42.camel@rubble.localdomain> <40F6C6D9.4070307@vitalstream.com> <1089943678.3268.17.camel@barney.localdomain> <40F80E1A.3030408@vitalstream.com> <1090212980.7792.8.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: <40FC0522.4020802@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 03:19, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>You can add more mirrors as you wish. To do a full update: >> >> # yum -y update >> >>It'll take a bit of time, but it'll update your system fully. yum is a >>"good thing". >> >>The URHILW (http://www.rhil.net) has NTFS modules for FC1 and FC2, too. >> >> >>>Again, thanks very much. >> >>No problem, Graeme. > > > Hi Rick, I had to re-install yum because the special version of yum for > updating RH8 on Fedora Legacy wouldn't run on FC2. The version I > installed was yum-2.0.7-1.noarch.rpm for FC1. What didn't work with the FC2 version? > It installed and ran OK. > > When I ran yum to install gnucash 'yum install gnucash' it downloaded a > heap of headers then eventually it popped up the message 'Running test > transaction:" Then up came the message > '/etc/security/selinux/file_contents: No such File or Directory'. > following that message it popped up 'Test Transaction complete: Success' > then followed '/etc/security/selinux/file_contents: No such File or > Directory' again. > > The install of gnucash completed OK and gnucash works fine. My trivia > question for the day is: "What is /etc/security/selinux/file_contents"? FC1 and FC2 have SELinux capabilities (Securty Enhanced Linux). It's disabled by default on both FC1 and FC2, although you can enable it if you wish. The file mentioned is part of that and the lack of it isn't fatal. If you're familiar with tripwire, you can think of that file as sort of like the tripwire database of file content signatures. For a good background on SELinux on FC2, see http://people.redhat.com/kwade/fedora-docs/selinux-faq-en/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every minute of it! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 19 17:49:18 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:49:18 -0700 Subject: Umask and redhat (updated) In-Reply-To: <1090225203.4129.5.camel@hermes.at.home> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FF@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> <40F86D7B.6010902@vitalstream.com> <1090225203.4129.5.camel@hermes.at.home> Message-ID: <40FC099E.1050702@vitalstream.com> Andrew Kelly wrote: > On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 02:06, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Waldher, Travis R wrote: >> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] >>>>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 4:13 PM >>>>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >>>>Subject: Re: Umask and redhat (updated) >>>> >>>>Waldher, Travis R wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>>>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] >>>>>>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 3:43 PM >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>Ok, RECESS TIME! Who's up for a game of softball? :-) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Not me... I'm 20 or so minute from getting out of here. >>>>> >>>>>Hopefully it won't take me 5 HOURS to commute home like it did last >>>>>night. *sigh* >>>> >>>>Lordy! How far is it and have you thought of getting an ultralight? >>> >>> >>>Normally when I drive, it's a 60 mile trip. Took me 35 minutes to go >>>the first 30 miles, then I hit the Tacoma Narrows bridge backup, which >>>was one of those 10 bad nights out of the year because someone decided >>>to get in to a wreck on it. >> >>Isn't that the bridge that went daft back in the 50's...started dancing >>then fell into the river? >> >> >>> I spend 1 hour going 2-3 blocks, with no >>>relief in sight since a game would be letting loose soon at Cheney >>>stadium. So I gave up and drove to Olympia and back up to bremerton. >>>About 90 miles. >> >>Been there and done that. It truly sucks when there's only one route >>to go. >> >> >>>Left work at 4:30, had a 20 minute chiropractor appt, and got home at >>>about 9:40pm. >>> >>>Today, it's the normal ferry route, only takes 2 hours total each way. >>>(I'de buy a speed boat, but the fuel costs would probably be brutal) >> >>Hmmmm. Well, a diesel boat probably wouldn't cost that much, but then >>you'd need two slips (one at each end) and such. It depends on how much >>you value your time. Or, get a sea plane (Cessna 172s with floats >>don't cost that much and flying is fun). >> >>I have a friend that has to commute about 30 miles each way, but it's >>on the infamous 405 freeway here in SoCal and through one of the worst >>stretches (several interchanges and the traffic for LAX). She lives >>in Corona del Mar and works at TRW in Hawthorne. >> >>She (with my goading) got her pilot's license and bought a Cessna 150 >>for about $12,000. She drives her Porsche 10 minutes to John Wayne >>airport in the morning, gets in the plane, flies to Hawthorne airport, >>gets on her motorcycle and rides 10 minutes to work. In the afternoon, >>she reverses the trip. She claims it shaves 30 minutes off the trip >>each way and she doesn't get frustrated with traffic. The plane burns >>about $12.00 in fuel each round trip. Her tiedown at John Wayne costs >>$100/month and it's free at Hawthorne since she buys her fuel there. >> >>She's now got about 3,000 hours in the 150. The last guy I saw with >>that kind of seat time in a 150 was a flight instructor. Heck, I've >>only got 2,200 hours in my Comanche and I've owned it six years longer >>than she's had her plane. > > > Oh would you two please stop! [evil snicker!] > First Travis gets me all blubbery with a painful bout of homesickness, > and now Rick has me picking my "haven't flown in years" scab. (twirling moustache) Muahahahaha! "You keep picking at that and it'll never get better!" The only cure for that is to get off the chair and go fly. Pony up the $40 and go take one of those AOPA "Be-A-Pilot" intro flights or haul your sorry butt down here to my place and I'll take you up in the '64 Piper Comanche 180. See: http://www.rhil.net/docs/N8365P.jpeg for a jpeg of me in my plane over Lake Havasu (that's London Bridge below me). The camera plane was a Cessna 206. > You guys make for a tough Monday re-entry, that's for certain. We try, we try! ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't remember the first! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Mon Jul 19 18:41:57 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:41:57 -0600 (MDT) Subject: RH9.0: mppe and the kernel Message-ID: <34908.207.173.117.242.1090262517.squirrel@207.173.117.242> I attach to client systems and my work system using PPTP (VPN) and one client requires mppe-40, mppe-128 and mppe-stateless, none of which seem to be available to the kernel. I've had to comment those out to connect to my work system. Do I need to rebuild the kernel, something I'd like to avoid so VMWare won't scream and die as it has before, or can I just load the .o files required for the modules? They currently don't even exist. Are they on the install media or somewhere else (rpmfind.net?)? Thanks, Karl From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 19 19:12:00 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:12:00 -0700 Subject: RH9.0: mppe and the kernel In-Reply-To: <34908.207.173.117.242.1090262517.squirrel@207.173.117.242> References: <34908.207.173.117.242.1090262517.squirrel@207.173.117.242> Message-ID: <40FC1D00.9090003@vitalstream.com> karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > I attach to client systems and my work system using PPTP (VPN) and one > client requires mppe-40, mppe-128 and mppe-stateless, none of which seem > to be available to the kernel. I've had to comment those out to connect to > my work system. > > Do I need to rebuild the kernel, something I'd like to avoid so VMWare > won't scream and die as it has before, or can I just load the .o files > required for the modules? They currently don't even exist. Are they on the > install media or somewhere else (rpmfind.net?)? Try this link: http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-redhat-90.phtml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Yeah, but you're taking the universe out of context." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 19 19:13:18 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:13:18 -0700 Subject: RH9.0: mppe and the kernel In-Reply-To: <34908.207.173.117.242.1090262517.squirrel@207.173.117.242> References: <34908.207.173.117.242.1090262517.squirrel@207.173.117.242> Message-ID: <40FC1D4E.1010604@vitalstream.com> karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > I attach to client systems and my work system using PPTP (VPN) and one > client requires mppe-40, mppe-128 and mppe-stateless, none of which seem > to be available to the kernel. I've had to comment those out to connect to > my work system. > > Do I need to rebuild the kernel, something I'd like to avoid so VMWare > won't scream and die as it has before, or can I just load the .o files > required for the modules? They currently don't even exist. Are they on the > install media or somewhere else (rpmfind.net?)? Try this link: http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-redhat-90.phtml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Yeah, but you're taking the universe out of context." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rgrau33 at hotmail.com Mon Jul 19 19:58:00 2004 From: rgrau33 at hotmail.com (Rolf Grau) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:58:00 +0200 Subject: Active Directory access from Linux without Samba and Kerberos? Message-ID: Hi I have got a very simple question to which I just could not find any answer: Is there a way to configure my Redhat 9, so user login gets checked against our Microsoft Active Directory? WITHOUT having to setup Samba and Kerberos, OpenLDAP, etc.? I first thought that it would be possible to do so by just configuring /etc/ldap.conf, and nsswitch.conf, and then activate it through authconfig, but it just will not work :( Any clue? or any web page you could recommend? I've followed basically the following guidelines on the files configuration: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check if your /etc/nsswitch.conf looks something like this: #ident $Id: nsswitch.ldap,v 2.3 1999/04/13 22:56:43 lukeh Exp $ # # An example file that could be copied over to /etc/nsswitch.conf; it # uses LDAP conjunction with files. # # "hosts:" and "services:" in this file are used only if the # /etc/netconfig file has a "-" for nametoaddr_libs of "inet" transports. # the following two lines obviate the "+" entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. passwd: files ldap group: files ldap # consult DNS first, we will need it to resolve the LDAP host. (If we # can't resolve it, we're in infinite recursion, because libldap calls # gethostbyname(). Careful!) hosts: files dns In the /etc/ldap.conf file you should basically change the following lines: host base dc=ad,dc=server,dc=org ldap_version 3 binddn cn=Administrator,cn=Users, bindpw scope sub nss_base_passwd cn=Users,?sub nss_base_shadow cn=Users,?sub # Maybe comment out. nss_base_group cn=Users,?sub nss_map_objectclass posixAccount User nss_map_objectclass shadowAccount User # Maybe comment out. nss_map_attribute uid sAMAccountName nss_map_attribute userPassword msSFUPassword # Maybe comment out. nss_map_attribute homeDirectory msSFUHomeDirectory nss_map_objectclass posixGroup Group nss_map_attribute uniqueMember Member nss_map_attribute cn sAMAccountName pam_login_attribute sAMAccountName pam_filter objectclass=user pam_password ad ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any hint? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Rolf _________________________________________________________________ Hotmails und Messenger-Kommunikation am Handy? F?r MSN Mobile kein Problem! http://www.msn.ch/mobile/ From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Mon Jul 19 20:23:59 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:23:59 -0600 (MDT) Subject: RH9.0: mppe and the kernel In-Reply-To: <40FC1D00.9090003@vitalstream.com> References: <34908.207.173.117.242.1090262517.squirrel@207.173.117.242> <40FC1D00.9090003@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <37461.207.173.117.242.1090268639.squirrel@207.173.117.242> > karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > > Try this link: > > http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-redhat-90.phtml Bingo! Thanks Rick. I installed kernel-mppe. I already had the other. I do get a corrupted module warning when I do insmod. But, I connected first try. That is a good thing. Karl Pearson karlp at ourldsfamily.com http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com http://emailgroups.ourldsfamily.com If you don't think the dead come back to life, Be here at quitting time -- My Thoughts on Terrorism In America: http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml -- A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -- Ramsey Clark From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 19 20:33:58 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:33:58 -0700 Subject: RH9.0: mppe and the kernel In-Reply-To: <37461.207.173.117.242.1090268639.squirrel@207.173.117.242> References: <34908.207.173.117.242.1090262517.squirrel@207.173.117.242> <40FC1D00.9090003@vitalstream.com> <37461.207.173.117.242.1090268639.squirrel@207.173.117.242> Message-ID: <40FC3036.1050606@vitalstream.com> karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >>karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >> >>Try this link: >> >> http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-redhat-90.phtml > > > Bingo! Thanks Rick. I installed kernel-mppe. I already had the other. I do > get a corrupted module warning when I do insmod. But, I connected first > try. That is a good thing. Corrupted module, version warning or tainted kernel? Version or taint I could live with with ye ol' "insmod kernel-mppe >/dev/null 2>&1", but a corrupted module would make me nervous. However, if it works, it works. Glad to help, Karl. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Microsoft Windows: Proof that P.T. Barnum was right - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rdebay at rxstrategies.net Mon Jul 19 21:30:46 2004 From: rdebay at rxstrategies.net (Rick DeBay) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:30:46 -0400 Subject: User manager crashes Message-ID: I was installing an rpm for Firebird 1.5.1 and have ended up in install hell. Since the first install of Firebird 1.5.0 ended up leaving a lock file so that new users couldn't be created, I looked for one but couldn't find any. What I have noticed is that when I try to open the user manager, it immediately closes. What should I do at this point to debug this? I figure if I can get the user manager to work again, Firebird installation will probably work again. Rick DeBay Senior Software Developer RxStrategies.net 561-650-8195 x-215 From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 19 22:01:01 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:01:01 -0700 Subject: User manager crashes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40FC449D.2040203@vitalstream.com> Rick DeBay wrote: > I was installing an rpm for Firebird 1.5.1 and have ended up in install > hell. > Since the first install of Firebird 1.5.0 ended up leaving a lock file > so that new users couldn't be created, I looked for one but couldn't > find any. Firebird was renamed long ago to Firefox. The latest Firefox version is Firefox V0.9.2. The companion mail client is Thunderbird (currently V0.7.2) The lock file will probably be in the user's home directory's .firebird or .mozilla directory: ~(user)/.firebird/(profile name)/xxxxxxxx.slt/lock ~(user)/.mozilla/(profile name)/xxxxxxxx.slt/lock I can't recall if Firebird/Firefox shares Mozilla's settings or not, so check both directories (if they exist). Remember that you must include the "-a" option to "ls" to see files that begin with ".". > What I have noticed is that when I try to open the user manager, it > immediately closes. I assume you actually mean the "profile manager", not the "user manager". > What should I do at this point to debug this? I figure if I can get the > user manager to work again, Firebird installation will probably work > again. Stray lock files will do that as will stalled Mozilla/Firebird/Firefox sessions. Don't forget to "ps ax" to see if you have any old processes laying about after you delete the lock files. If so, kill them before trying to bring up the profile manager. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "You think that's tough? Try herding cats!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gnichols at tpg.com.au Tue Jul 20 04:39:48 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:39:48 +1000 Subject: FC2 and USB disk problems Message-ID: <1090298387.5887.12.camel@barney.localdomain> Hello Folks, my upgrade from RH8 to FC2 has gone quite well. I have only one problem to sort out and all will be well. As I said on an earlier post, I have a ZIP drive and an external 60G HD and an Epson Perfection 640U scanner. There was, and still is, a problem with FC2 recognising the ZIP drive and the external HD. Initially FC2 recognised the HD every time and the ZIP drive occasionally. Now FC2 is recognising the ZIP drive consistently but rarely the external HD. I have included the relevant lines from dmesg if someone can tell me what is going on. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64 AMD756: dev 1022:740c, router pirq : 4 get irq : 10 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:07.4 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:08.0 ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: OHCI Host Controller ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: irq 10, pci mem 0a836000 ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: AMD756 erratum 4 workaround hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 4 get irq : 10 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:08.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:07.4 uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: irq 10, io base 0000d400 uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 1 get irq : 9 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:08.1 uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: irq 9, io base 0000d800 uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected AMD756: dev 1106:3104, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:08.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0a.0 ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: irq 11, pci mem 0a83af00 ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2003-Dec-29 hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 4 ports detected hub 3-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm at uk.sistina.com ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) hub 4-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 4. Maybe the USB cable is bad? usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) SCSI subsystem initialized Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 90.J Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 USB Mass Storage device found at 2 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) sda: Spinning up disk...<3>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) hub 4-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 4. Maybe the USB cable is bad? .<6>cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. .<5>Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. inserting floppy driver for 2.6.5-1.358 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Adding 522104k swap on /dev/hdb3. Priority:-1 extents:1 Adding 128480k swap on /dev/hda8. Priority:-2 extents:1 kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] parport0: irq 7 detected Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 AMD756: dev 10ec:8139, router pirq : 3 get irq : 5 PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0b.0 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcc00, 00:05:1c:1d:b7:3b, IRQ 5 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0 ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1023 buckets, 8184 max) - 296 bytes per conntrack 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 AMD756: dev 10ec:8139, router pirq : 3 get irq : 5 PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0b.0 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcc00, 00:05:1c:1d:b7:3b, IRQ 5 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] parport0: irq 7 detected lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready NET: Registered protocol family 10 Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 022db720(lo) IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0 eth0: no IPv6 routers present warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call Fix your initscripts? warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call Fix your initscripts? AMD756: dev 1274:1371, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0a.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:08.2 SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda4 ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 Hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Kind regards, Graeme. From gnichols at tpg.com.au Tue Jul 20 04:44:02 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:44:02 +1000 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done In-Reply-To: <40FC0522.4020802@vitalstream.com> References: <1089868754.1090.42.camel@rubble.localdomain> <40F6C6D9.4070307@vitalstream.com> <1089943678.3268.17.camel@barney.localdomain> <40F80E1A.3030408@vitalstream.com> <1090212980.7792.8.camel@barney.localdomain> <40FC0522.4020802@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1090298641.5887.16.camel@barney.localdomain> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 03:30, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 03:19, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > >>You can add more mirrors as you wish. To do a full update: > >> > >> # yum -y update > >> > >>It'll take a bit of time, but it'll update your system fully. yum is a > >>"good thing". > >> > >>The URHILW (http://www.rhil.net) has NTFS modules for FC1 and FC2, too. > >> > >> > >>>Again, thanks very much. > >> > >>No problem, Graeme. > > > > > > Hi Rick, I had to re-install yum because the special version of yum for > > updating RH8 on Fedora Legacy wouldn't run on FC2. The version I > > installed was yum-2.0.7-1.noarch.rpm for FC1. > > What didn't work with the FC2 version? The modified version of yum provided for the RH8 legacy updates. I installed the latest version of yum I could find, an FC1 version, which works just fine on FC2. > > > It installed and ran OK. > > > > When I ran yum to install gnucash 'yum install gnucash' it downloaded a > > heap of headers then eventually it popped up the message 'Running test > > transaction:" Then up came the message > > '/etc/security/selinux/file_contents: No such File or Directory'. > > following that message it popped up 'Test Transaction complete: Success' > > then followed '/etc/security/selinux/file_contents: No such File or > > Directory' again. > > > > The install of gnucash completed OK and gnucash works fine. My trivia > > question for the day is: "What is /etc/security/selinux/file_contents"? > > FC1 and FC2 have SELinux capabilities (Securty Enhanced Linux). It's > disabled by default on both FC1 and FC2, although you can enable it if > you wish. > > The file mentioned is part of that and the lack of it isn't fatal. If > you're familiar with tripwire, you can think of that file as sort of > like the tripwire database of file content signatures. > > For a good background on SELinux on FC2, see > > http://people.redhat.com/kwade/fedora-docs/selinux-faq-en/ Thanks Rick. Makes interesting reading. I think I will enable it and see how it goes. Regards, Graeme. From gnichols at tpg.com.au Tue Jul 20 04:52:36 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:52:36 +1000 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done In-Reply-To: <40FC023B.7040403@vitalstream.com> References: <1089868754.1090.42.camel@rubble.localdomain> <40F6C6D9.4070307@vitalstream.com> <1089943678.3268.17.camel@barney.localdomain> <40F80E1A.3030408@vitalstream.com> <1090043538.3804.51.camel@barney.localdomain> <40FC023B.7040403@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1090299155.5887.25.camel@barney.localdomain> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 03:17, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > > > Hi again Rick, I have been running FC2 all day today and it is all > > pretty stable. I used your xorg.conf file as a template and set up my > > screen. 1024x768 is much better than 640x480. > > Yes, it is. I run 1280x1024 on my 19" screens. My laptop is 1400x1050. > I wouldn't mind those resolutions but I will have to make do with my existing screen which has 1024x768 max resolution. > > I changed to CUPS, no > > problem there, the printer is now running fine. The eth0/1 problem I > > fixed early as I said in a previous post. Everything is working just > > fine at the moment. The usb is still a bit flakey, sometimes it fails to > > recognise the Zip drive and other times it fails to recognise my 60G usb > > Ext. HD (my main Backup medium). Not too sure why yet. > > Have you looked at dmesg to see what it's detecting? Yep! but I don't have enough experience to fully understand what I am looking at. I sent a copy of the last bit of dmesg to the list today hoping someone can point me in the right direction. > > > The two CDROMS > > are now hdc and hdd instead of scsi? Not too sure why that is but they > > appear to work fine after changes to fstab to reflect their new > > /dev/(name). > > Kernel 2.6.x doesn't need ide-scsi anymore to force ATAPI devices to > emulate SCSI, so the "hdc=ide-scsi" in your boot commands is not needed > and the devices are handled as IDE now. The IDE middle layer is smart > enough to do what ide-scsi used to. Do I need to change any boot scripts? > > > This info was obtained from the hardware browser btw. I > > downloaded the latest pine tarball but decided not to install it as I > > only used it to read system generated mail. I have changed to mutt. The > > only package that wont run is gnucash, bombs out not being able to load > > libraries etc. I will have to re-compile it sometime soon. > > > > All in all, I'm very happy with FC2 and glad I took the leap. > > Hmmmm. Gnucash works OK for me, but that's via the RPM--not a source > tarball install. Works for me now too. I used yum to install it. All went OK. > > > p.s. I haven't got my sig working in Evolution 1.4 yet, But will do. > > Heheheheh! If you want to use my program, Download > > http://www.rhil.net/tools/genmailsig.tar.gz > > As for a client, I use Mozilla or Firefox/Thunderbird. Thanks for the offer. Will do. But I think there is a bit more to sigs in Evo 1.4. There is no facility to point to a file anymore. Its not very high on my priority list at the moment. Maybe in the next couple of days when work allows. Thanks Rick, regards, Graeme. From gnichols at tpg.com.au Tue Jul 20 04:57:33 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:57:33 +1000 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done In-Reply-To: <000d01c46d4c$c7bfe2c0$4601a8c0@C515816A> References: <000d01c46d4c$c7bfe2c0$4601a8c0@C515816A> Message-ID: <1090299452.5887.31.camel@barney.localdomain> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 14:56, Otto Haliburton wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list- > > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Graeme Nichols > > Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 11:56 PM > > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > Subject: Re: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done > > > > On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 03:19, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > > > > You can add more mirrors as you wish. To do a full update: > > > > > > # yum -y update > > > > > > It'll take a bit of time, but it'll update your system fully. yum is a > > > "good thing". > > > > > > The URHILW (http://www.rhil.net) has NTFS modules for FC1 and FC2, too. > > > > > > > Again, thanks very much. > > > > > > No problem, Graeme. > > > > Hi Rick, I had to re-install yum because the special version of yum for > > updating RH8 on Fedora Legacy wouldn't run on FC2. The version I > > installed was yum-2.0.7-1.noarch.rpm for FC1. > > > > It installed and ran OK. > > > > When I ran yum to install gnucash 'yum install gnucash' it downloaded a > > heap of headers then eventually it popped up the message 'Running test > > transaction:" Then up came the message > > '/etc/security/selinux/file_contents: No such File or Directory'. > > following that message it popped up 'Test Transaction complete: Success' > > then followed '/etc/security/selinux/file_contents: No such File or > > Directory' again. > > > > The install of gnucash completed OK and gnucash works fine. My trivia > > question for the day is: "What is /etc/security/selinux/file_contents"? > > > > Regards, > > > > Graeme. > > > > > I'm not sure what you did. I upgraded from RH9-->fc2 and up2date worked > just fine. Same same as RH9 with the notification and all I added the extra > repositories and it even did the update of yum. So I don't know what you > did. There were instructions at the fedora website on what to do. > Hello Otto, nothing failed. I was just saying that the modified version of yum that I had to use to use the RH8 legacy update system wouldn't run on FC2. It was specially modified to run on RH8. I installed the latest yum rpm I could find, which just happened to be for FC1, and everything ran fine. I got the '/etc/security/selinux/file_contents: No such File or Directory'. warning but it didn't stop it all working. I was curious to know what the file was. I am very happy with FC2, it could be as good as my RH8 :-) Maybe even better. Thanks for your help, much appreciated. regards, Graeme. From akelly at transparency.org Tue Jul 20 07:42:15 2004 From: akelly at transparency.org (Andrew Kelly) Date: 20 Jul 2004 09:42:15 +0200 Subject: DNS slave servers [WAS Re: Umask and redhat (updated)] In-Reply-To: <40FC099E.1050702@vitalstream.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FF@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> <40F86D7B.6010902@vitalstream.com> <1090225203.4129.5.camel@hermes.at.home> <40FC099E.1050702@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1090309335.4128.57.camel@hermes.at.home> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 19:49, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Oh would you two please stop! > > [evil snicker!] > > > First Travis gets me all blubbery with a painful bout of homesickness, > > and now Rick has me picking my "haven't flown in years" scab. > > (twirling moustache) Muahahahaha! "You keep picking at that and it'll > never get better!" The only cure for that is to get off the chair and > go fly. Pony up the $40 and go take one of those AOPA "Be-A-Pilot" > intro flights or haul your sorry butt down here to my place and I'll Sadly, I live in Germany, the Land of Rules and Restrictions and Hugely Inflated Perceived Worth. A balloon ride for 2 approaches 4 figures in this berg. For $40 all you can manage is a poor quality recording of some unisex person pronouncing the word Flugzeug. It's just not something you can put in your flight book. > take you up in the '64 Piper Comanche 180. See: If I were withing 5 hours of you, I'd already be on the way. > http://www.rhil.net/docs/N8365P.jpeg Sexy ride. But what's that funny spinny thing on the nose? :-) I only have 39 starts and 7 hours of stick time, but I don't recall any moving parts up front. > for a jpeg of me in my plane over Lake Havasu (that's London Bridge > below me). The camera plane was a Cessna 206. > > > You guys make for a tough Monday re-entry, that's for certain. > > We try, we try! ;-) Perhaps you can atone for your cruelty (and we can stop risking being so OT). We've recently completed some projects and ended some business relationships, and as a consequence I suddenly find myself without any remote secondary DNS servers. If the farm where ours servers live were to take a hit, all our domains would fall off the screen. I'd very much like secondaries in 2 addition remote locations, and would be happy to provide a reciprocal service. Can you he'p me out? Andy From rdebay at rxstrategies.net Tue Jul 20 13:26:05 2004 From: rdebay at rxstrategies.net (Rick DeBay) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:26:05 -0400 Subject: RedHat User manager GUI crashes Message-ID: > Firebird was renamed long ago to Firefox I'm talking about the Firebird database; http://www.firebirdsql.org/ . > I assume you actually mean the "profile manager", not the "user manager". No, I mean the RedHat User Manager GUI. When I installed Firebird for the first time using the rpm, I ended up with a lock on the groups and had to get rid of that and start over. Now I can't find any lock files, but the RedHat User Manager GUI won't open, and I think the rpm is stalled on trying to do something with groups or users. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 6:01 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: User manager crashes Rick DeBay wrote: > I was installing an rpm for Firebird 1.5.1 and have ended up in install > hell. > Since the first install of Firebird 1.5.0 ended up leaving a lock file > so that new users couldn't be created, I looked for one but couldn't > find any. Firebird was renamed long ago to Firefox. The latest Firefox version is Firefox V0.9.2. The companion mail client is Thunderbird (currently V0.7.2) The lock file will probably be in the user's home directory's .firebird or .mozilla directory: ~(user)/.firebird/(profile name)/xxxxxxxx.slt/lock ~(user)/.mozilla/(profile name)/xxxxxxxx.slt/lock I can't recall if Firebird/Firefox shares Mozilla's settings or not, so check both directories (if they exist). Remember that you must include the "-a" option to "ls" to see files that begin with ".". > What I have noticed is that when I try to open the user manager, it > immediately closes. I assume you actually mean the "profile manager", not the "user manager". > What should I do at this point to debug this? I figure if I can get the > user manager to work again, Firebird installation will probably work > again. Stray lock files will do that as will stalled Mozilla/Firebird/Firefox sessions. Don't forget to "ps ax" to see if you have any old processes laying about after you delete the lock files. If so, kill them before trying to bring up the profile manager. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "You think that's tough? Try herding cats!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list 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 From rdebay at rxstrategies.net Tue Jul 20 14:23:05 2004 From: rdebay at rxstrategies.net (Rick DeBay) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:23:05 -0400 Subject: RedHat User manager GUI crashes Message-ID: I ran grpck and deleted an entry for ':!::' which isn't anything that I entered. Strange. Where do I suggest changes for system utilities? The manager GUI shouldn't have crashed, if it couldn't parse it should have at least shelled out to grpck, or given a message that the user should do so. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick DeBay Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:26 AM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: RE: RedHat User manager GUI crashes > Firebird was renamed long ago to Firefox I'm talking about the Firebird database; http://www.firebirdsql.org/ . > I assume you actually mean the "profile manager", not the "user manager". No, I mean the RedHat User Manager GUI. When I installed Firebird for the first time using the rpm, I ended up with a lock on the groups and had to get rid of that and start over. Now I can't find any lock files, but the RedHat User Manager GUI won't open, and I think the rpm is stalled on trying to do something with groups or users. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 6:01 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: User manager crashes Rick DeBay wrote: > I was installing an rpm for Firebird 1.5.1 and have ended up in install > hell. > Since the first install of Firebird 1.5.0 ended up leaving a lock file > so that new users couldn't be created, I looked for one but couldn't > find any. Firebird was renamed long ago to Firefox. The latest Firefox version is Firefox V0.9.2. The companion mail client is Thunderbird (currently V0.7.2) The lock file will probably be in the user's home directory's .firebird or .mozilla directory: ~(user)/.firebird/(profile name)/xxxxxxxx.slt/lock ~(user)/.mozilla/(profile name)/xxxxxxxx.slt/lock I can't recall if Firebird/Firefox shares Mozilla's settings or not, so check both directories (if they exist). Remember that you must include the "-a" option to "ls" to see files that begin with ".". > What I have noticed is that when I try to open the user manager, it > immediately closes. I assume you actually mean the "profile manager", not the "user manager". > What should I do at this point to debug this? I figure if I can get the > user manager to work again, Firebird installation will probably work > again. Stray lock files will do that as will stalled Mozilla/Firebird/Firefox sessions. Don't forget to "ps ax" to see if you have any old processes laying about after you delete the lock files. If so, kill them before trying to bring up the profile manager. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "You think that's tough? Try herding cats!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list 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 _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list 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 From javasamurai5 at yahoo.com Tue Jul 20 14:53:24 2004 From: javasamurai5 at yahoo.com (Java Samurai) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 07:53:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Can't format /boot Message-ID: <20040720145324.55588.qmail@web20601.mail.yahoo.com> Hi, I am trying to install RH9. I get all the way to the final steps. It says 'formating /' which works. But when it gets to 'formating /boot' it fails and tells me the 'hardware doesn't support this version of Linux'. But it doesn't tell me why. The hard drive is a Western Digital 10Gb. It used to have Windows, but I wiped it clean. The motherboard is Soyo SY-5EHM1.1 with the latest bios. I let Disk Druid partition the drive automatically. I tried formating each partition individually with Disk Druid, but still no luck. Maybe there is a bios setting I need to use? Please help Thanks. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/ From kens at geodax.com Tue Jul 20 16:12:26 2004 From: kens at geodax.com (Ken Scott) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:12:26 -0400 Subject: Can't format /boot In-Reply-To: <20040720145324.55588.qmail@web20601.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040720145324.55588.qmail@web20601.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1090339946.21693.68.camel@KENS02L> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 10:53, Java Samurai wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to install RH9. I get all the way to the > final steps. It says > 'formating /' which works. But when it gets to > 'formating /boot' it fails and tells me the 'hardware > doesn't support this version of Linux'. But it doesn't > tell me why. > > The hard drive is a Western Digital 10Gb. It used to > have Windows, but I wiped it clean. > The motherboard is Soyo SY-5EHM1.1 with the latest > bios. I let Disk Druid partition the drive > automatically. > > I tried formating each partition individually with > Disk Druid, but still no luck. > > Maybe there is a bios setting I need to use? > > Please help > > Thanks. > > Since you have wiped the harddisk (and no further damage can be done), why not try to download and install another single CD distro just to see if you get similar problems (I have had good success with installs of both both Morphix-Gnome and Knoppix [I know, they are not RH so they are blasphemy :) ]. One last comment, I had RH 9 for over a year on 2 machines, both of which exhibited occasional lockups and other reliability quirks which I couldn't figure out. I have recently loaded Fedora Core 2 and it seems to be quite stable. I'd jump past RH9 to that, at least. One guys opinion, Ken From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 20 16:51:24 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:51:24 -0700 Subject: FC2 and USB disk problems In-Reply-To: <1090298387.5887.12.camel@barney.localdomain> References: <1090298387.5887.12.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: <40FD4D8C.7010003@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > Hello Folks, my upgrade from RH8 to FC2 has gone quite well. I have only > one problem to sort out and all will be well. > > As I said on an earlier post, I have a ZIP drive and an external 60G HD > and an Epson Perfection 640U scanner. > > There was, and still is, a problem with FC2 recognising the ZIP drive > and the external HD. Initially FC2 recognised the HD every time and the > ZIP drive occasionally. Now FC2 is recognising the ZIP drive > consistently but rarely the external HD. > > I have included the relevant lines from dmesg if someone can tell me > what is going on. Let's have a looksee. > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed > ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) > ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64 > AMD756: dev 1022:740c, router pirq : 4 get irq : 10 > PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:07.4 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:08.0 > ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: OHCI Host Controller > ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: irq 10, pci mem 0a836000 > ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 > ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: AMD756 erratum 4 workaround > hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found > hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected There's one USB bus and it's USB 1.1. > USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 > AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 4 get irq : 10 > PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:08.0 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:07.4 > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: UHCI Host Controller > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: irq 10, io base 0000d400 > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 > hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found > hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected There's a second bus and it's USB 1.1. > AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 1 get irq : 9 > PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:08.1 > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: UHCI Host Controller > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: irq 9, io base 0000d800 > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 > hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found > hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected There's a third bus, USB 1.1. > AMD756: dev 1106:3104, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:08.2 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0a.0 > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: EHCI Host Controller > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: irq 11, pci mem 0a83af00 > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2003-Dec-29 > hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found > hub 4-0:1.0: 4 ports detected And there's a fourth bus, USB 2.0. > hub 3-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled The system is having trouble with the third USB bus. You should check the cables there. > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm at uk.sistina.com > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > hub 4-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 4. Maybe the USB cable is bad? > usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > SCSI subsystem initialized > Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... > scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices > Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 90.J > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > USB Mass Storage device found at 2 > usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage > USB Mass Storage support registered. > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > sda: Spinning up disk...<3>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error > -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > hub 4-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 4. Maybe the USB cable is bad? There's a potential issue there on port 4 of the USB 2.0 bus. > .<6>cdrom: open failed. > cdrom: open failed. > .<5>Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. > Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. > inserting floppy driver for 2.6.5-1.358 > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 > Adding 522104k swap on /dev/hdb3. Priority:-1 extents:1 > Adding 128480k swap on /dev/hda8. Priority:-2 extents:1 > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] > parport0: irq 7 detected > Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. > 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 > AMD756: dev 10ec:8139, router pirq : 3 get irq : 5 > PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0b.0 > divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcc00, 00:05:1c:1d:b7:3b, IRQ 5 > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' > divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0 > ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team > ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1023 buckets, 8184 max) - 296 bytes per > conntrack > 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 > AMD756: dev 10ec:8139, router pirq : 3 get irq : 5 > PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0b.0 > divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcc00, 00:05:1c:1d:b7:3b, IRQ 5 > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' > eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] > parport0: irq 7 detected > lp0: using parport0 (polling). > lp0: console ready > NET: Registered protocol family 10 > Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 022db720(lo) > IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver > divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0 > eth0: no IPv6 routers present > warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call > Fix your initscripts? > warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call > Fix your initscripts? > AMD756: dev 1274:1371, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0a.0 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:08.2 > SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) > sda: assuming Write Enabled > sda: assuming drive cache: write through > SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) > sda: assuming Write Enabled > sda: assuming drive cache: write through > sda: sda4 > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 > > Hoping someone can point me in the right direction. It appears that you have a whole bunch of USB ports. I counted three buses there, two with 2 ports and two with 4 ports. It looks like your ZIP is in bus 2 (one of the two-port buses that's USB 1.1). The system is having an issue with bus 3 (the other two-port USB 1.1 bus) and it can't reliably debounce one of the ports. Check the cable there. Bus 4 (one of the 4-port buses and the only USB 2.0 I see) reports a bad port, and I suspect that's where the external HD is plugged into. There are several possibilities: The bus is USB 2.0. If your drive is also USB 2.0 compliant and you use a USB 1.1 cable, you'll have issues. I'd recommend first checking your cables. Try to always use USB 2.0 cables--even if it's a 1.1 bus. You may have a bad port on that bus. You might try a different port on that bus. Try the other 4-port bus (USB 1.1, so it'll be slower). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy disk?" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 20 16:57:08 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:57:08 -0700 Subject: RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done In-Reply-To: <1090299155.5887.25.camel@barney.localdomain> References: <1089868754.1090.42.camel@rubble.localdomain> <40F6C6D9.4070307@vitalstream.com> <1089943678.3268.17.camel@barney.localdomain> <40F80E1A.3030408@vitalstream.com> <1090043538.3804.51.camel@barney.localdomain> <40FC023B.7040403@vitalstream.com> <1090299155.5887.25.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: <40FD4EE4.10704@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 03:17, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: > > > >>>Hi again Rick, I have been running FC2 all day today and it is all >>>pretty stable. I used your xorg.conf file as a template and set up my >>>screen. 1024x768 is much better than 640x480. >> >>Yes, it is. I run 1280x1024 on my 19" screens. My laptop is 1400x1050. >> > > > I wouldn't mind those resolutions but I will have to make do with my > existing screen which has 1024x768 max resolution. 1280x1024 on 19" monitors is fine. It's a bit small on 17" monitors. >>> I changed to CUPS, no >>>problem there, the printer is now running fine. The eth0/1 problem I >>>fixed early as I said in a previous post. Everything is working just >>>fine at the moment. The usb is still a bit flakey, sometimes it fails to >>>recognise the Zip drive and other times it fails to recognise my 60G usb >>>Ext. HD (my main Backup medium). Not too sure why yet. >> >>Have you looked at dmesg to see what it's detecting? > > > Yep! but I don't have enough experience to fully understand what I am > looking at. I sent a copy of the last bit of dmesg to the list today > hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I saw your posting of the dmesg output and commented on it. Check that posting. >>> The two CDROMS >>>are now hdc and hdd instead of scsi? Not too sure why that is but they >>>appear to work fine after changes to fstab to reflect their new >>>/dev/(name). >> >>Kernel 2.6.x doesn't need ide-scsi anymore to force ATAPI devices to >>emulate SCSI, so the "hdc=ide-scsi" in your boot commands is not needed >>and the devices are handled as IDE now. The IDE middle layer is smart >>enough to do what ide-scsi used to. > > > Do I need to change any boot scripts? Well, you can dig into your grub config and remove the "hdx=ide-scsi" stuff. You don't need it under 2.6 kernels. >>> The >>>only package that wont run is gnucash, bombs out not being able to load >>>libraries etc. I will have to re-compile it sometime soon. >>> >>>All in all, I'm very happy with FC2 and glad I took the leap. >> >>Hmmmm. Gnucash works OK for me, but that's via the RPM--not a source >>tarball install. > > > Works for me now too. I used yum to install it. All went OK. Okey doke. > > >>>p.s. I haven't got my sig working in Evolution 1.4 yet, But will do. >> >>Heheheheh! If you want to use my program, Download >> >> http://www.rhil.net/tools/genmailsig.tar.gz >> >>As for a client, I use Mozilla or Firefox/Thunderbird. > > > Thanks for the offer. Will do. But I think there is a bit more to sigs > in Evo 1.4. There is no facility to point to a file anymore. Its not > very high on my priority list at the moment. Maybe in the next couple of > days when work allows. I don't use Evo myself (I'm a Mozilla fan), so I can't speak to that. I suspect there's a file that it wonks somewhere that you can overwrite. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Dyslexics of the world: UNTIE! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mknecht at controlnet.com Tue Jul 20 17:01:17 2004 From: mknecht at controlnet.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:01:17 -0700 Subject: OT - modeline question Message-ID: <40FD4FDD.2050904@controlnet.com> Hi, A very strange corner case here, and not specifically Redhat oriented so forgive my OT nature, so I won't try to explain it in any detail. Does anyone know how to find out exactly what modeline settings X has used in the case where it found no valid modelines in the XF86config file and then created it's own settings? A specific machine seems to default to good settings on its own, but we are unable to put a modeline statement in that makes X do the same thing. Is there a command to extract from a running machine what it is using for it's current modeline? Any pointers are welcomed. Thanks, Mark From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 20 17:12:17 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:12:17 -0700 Subject: DNS slave servers [WAS Re: Umask and redhat (updated)] In-Reply-To: <1090309335.4128.57.camel@hermes.at.home> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FF@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> <40F86D7B.6010902@vitalstream.com> <1090225203.4129.5.camel@hermes.at.home> <40FC099E.1050702@vitalstream.com> <1090309335.4128.57.camel@hermes.at.home> Message-ID: <40FD5271.9030003@vitalstream.com> Andrew Kelly wrote: > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 19:49, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>>Oh would you two please stop! >> >>[evil snicker!] >> >> >>>First Travis gets me all blubbery with a painful bout of homesickness, >>>and now Rick has me picking my "haven't flown in years" scab. >> >>(twirling moustache) Muahahahaha! "You keep picking at that and it'll >>never get better!" The only cure for that is to get off the chair and >>go fly. Pony up the $40 and go take one of those AOPA "Be-A-Pilot" >>intro flights or haul your sorry butt down here to my place and I'll > > > Sadly, I live in Germany, the Land of Rules and Restrictions and Hugely > Inflated Perceived Worth. A balloon ride for 2 approaches 4 figures in > this berg. For $40 all you can manage is a poor quality recording of > some unisex person pronouncing the word Flugzeug. > It's just not something you can put in your flight book. Ah, but it'll win you bets in the local bar! >>take you up in the '64 Piper Comanche 180. See: > > > If I were withing 5 hours of you, I'd already be on the way. > > >> http://www.rhil.net/docs/N8365P.jpeg > > > Sexy ride. But what's that funny spinny thing on the nose? > :-) Well, since you're in Germany, I figured you should see what the BMW logo is based on and how it works. Thhhhpt! > I only have 39 starts and 7 hours of stick time, but I don't recall any > moving parts up front. Oh, so you're a kerosene pusher. One power control. Wimp! I've got THREE! Add in manual flaps and retractable gear and landings are busy times. >>for a jpeg of me in my plane over Lake Havasu (that's London Bridge >>below me). The camera plane was a Cessna 206. >> >> >>>You guys make for a tough Monday re-entry, that's for certain. >> >>We try, we try! ;-) > > > Perhaps you can atone for your cruelty (and we can stop risking being so > OT). > > We've recently completed some projects and ended some business > relationships, and as a consequence I suddenly find myself without any > remote secondary DNS servers. If the farm where ours servers live were > to take a hit, all our domains would fall off the screen. I'd very much > like secondaries in 2 addition remote locations, and would be happy to > provide a reciprocal service. > > Can you he'p me out? We can do that. We have something called "VitalDNS", which is a widely deployed, heavily redundant DNS with servers in Los Angeles, CA, Irvine, CA and Ashburn, VA (outside of Washington D.C.). I'm not 100% certain we offer this as a stand-alone service, but you can email our sales gang at sales at vitalstream.com and they'll see what they can do. I've already alerted them to expect your message. No obligation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If it's stupid and it works...it ain't stupid! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 20 17:15:04 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:15:04 -0700 Subject: RedHat User manager GUI crashes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40FD5318.50709@vitalstream.com> Rick DeBay wrote: > I ran grpck and deleted an entry for ':!::' which isn't anything that I > entered. Strange. Yeah, that is weird. > Where do I suggest changes for system utilities? The manager GUI > shouldn't have crashed, if it couldn't parse it should have at least > shelled out to grpck, or given a message that the user should do so. I'd suggest you report it to http://bugzilla.redhat.com > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick DeBay > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:26 AM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: RE: RedHat User manager GUI crashes > > >>Firebird was renamed long ago to Firefox > > I'm talking about the Firebird database; http://www.firebirdsql.org/ . > > >>I assume you actually mean the "profile manager", not the "user > > manager". > No, I mean the RedHat User Manager GUI. Sorry, I misunderstood. > > When I installed Firebird for the first time using the rpm, I ended up > with a lock on the groups and had to get rid of that and start over. > Now I can't find any lock files, but the RedHat User Manager GUI won't > open, and I think the rpm is stalled on trying to do something with > groups or users. > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick > Stevens > Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 6:01 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: User manager crashes > > Rick DeBay wrote: > >>I was installing an rpm for Firebird 1.5.1 and have ended up in > > install > >>hell. >>Since the first install of Firebird 1.5.0 ended up leaving a lock file >>so that new users couldn't be created, I looked for one but couldn't >>find any. > > > Firebird was renamed long ago to Firefox. The latest Firefox version > is Firefox V0.9.2. The companion mail client is Thunderbird (currently > V0.7.2) > > The lock file will probably be in the user's home directory's .firebird > or .mozilla directory: > > ~(user)/.firebird/(profile name)/xxxxxxxx.slt/lock > ~(user)/.mozilla/(profile name)/xxxxxxxx.slt/lock > > I can't recall if Firebird/Firefox shares Mozilla's settings or not, so > check both directories (if they exist). Remember that you must include > the "-a" option to "ls" to see files that begin with ".". > > >>What I have noticed is that when I try to open the user manager, it >>immediately closes. > > > I assume you actually mean the "profile manager", not the "user > manager". > > >>What should I do at this point to debug this? I figure if I can get > > the > >>user manager to work again, Firebird installation will probably work >>again. > > > Stray lock files will do that as will stalled Mozilla/Firebird/Firefox > sessions. Don't forget to "ps ax" to see if you have any old processes > laying about after you delete the lock files. If so, kill them before > trying to bring up the profile manager. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - "You think that's tough? Try herding cats!" - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - All generalizations are false. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 20 17:25:46 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:25:46 -0700 Subject: OT - modeline question In-Reply-To: <40FD4FDD.2050904@controlnet.com> References: <40FD4FDD.2050904@controlnet.com> Message-ID: <40FD559A.5080902@vitalstream.com> Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > A very strange corner case here, and not specifically Redhat oriented > so forgive my OT nature, so I won't try to explain it in any detail. > > Does anyone know how to find out exactly what modeline settings X has > used in the case where it found no valid modelines in the XF86config > file and then created it's own settings? > > A specific machine seems to default to good settings on its own, but > we are unable to put a modeline statement in that makes X do the same > thing. > > Is there a command to extract from a running machine what it is using > for it's current modeline? > > Any pointers are welcomed. Have you looked at /var/log/XFree86.log.0? The active mode line should be in there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The Theory of Rapitivity: E=MC Hammer - - -- Glenn Marcus (via TopFive.com) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mgalgoci at redhat.com Tue Jul 20 17:27:18 2004 From: mgalgoci at redhat.com (Matthew Galgoci) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:27:18 -0400 (EDT) Subject: OT - modeline question In-Reply-To: <40FD559A.5080902@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > > A very strange corner case here, and not specifically Redhat oriented > > so forgive my OT nature, so I won't try to explain it in any detail. > > > > Does anyone know how to find out exactly what modeline settings X has > > used in the case where it found no valid modelines in the XF86config > > file and then created it's own settings? > > > > A specific machine seems to default to good settings on its own, but > > we are unable to put a modeline statement in that makes X do the same > > thing. > > > > Is there a command to extract from a running machine what it is using > > for it's current modeline? > > > > Any pointers are welcomed. > > Have you looked at /var/log/XFree86.log.0? The active mode line should > be in there. Additionally, xdpyinfo will give you information about your current X display (while it is running!). -- Matthew Galgoci System Administrator and Sr. Manager of Ruminants Red Hat, Inc 919.754.3700 x44155 From mknecht at controlnet.com Tue Jul 20 17:30:49 2004 From: mknecht at controlnet.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:30:49 -0700 Subject: OT - modeline question In-Reply-To: <40FD559A.5080902@vitalstream.com> References: <40FD4FDD.2050904@controlnet.com> <40FD559A.5080902@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40FD56C9.5000104@controlnet.com> Rick Stevens wrote: > > Have you looked at /var/log/XFree86.log.0? The active mode line should > be in there. Cetainly. The machine goes to 1680x1050 as desired, and this shows up in the log file. However, when we attempt to create a modeline for 1680x1050 the machine will not go to that mode. Possibly it's a sync issue, or a refresh frequency issue, or something else. We haven't figured it out. thanks! - Mark From mknecht at controlnet.com Tue Jul 20 17:32:37 2004 From: mknecht at controlnet.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:32:37 -0700 Subject: OT - modeline question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40FD5735.9010000@controlnet.com> Matthew Galgoci wrote: > > Additionally, xdpyinfo will give you information about your current X display (while it is > running!). > Yep, looked at this too. However it doesn't give a modeline and so far we haven't discovered how to turn all the info back into a modeline, or at least one that works! ;-) Thanks again! - Mark From rdebay at rxstrategies.net Tue Jul 20 17:37:29 2004 From: rdebay at rxstrategies.net (Rick DeBay) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:37:29 -0400 Subject: RedHat User manager GUI crashes Message-ID: Reported. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 1:15 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: RedHat User manager GUI crashes Rick DeBay wrote: > I ran grpck and deleted an entry for ':!::' which isn't anything that I > entered. Strange. Yeah, that is weird. > Where do I suggest changes for system utilities? The manager GUI > shouldn't have crashed, if it couldn't parse it should have at least > shelled out to grpck, or given a message that the user should do so. I'd suggest you report it to http://bugzilla.redhat.com > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick DeBay > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:26 AM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: RE: RedHat User manager GUI crashes > > >>Firebird was renamed long ago to Firefox > > I'm talking about the Firebird database; http://www.firebirdsql.org/ . > > >>I assume you actually mean the "profile manager", not the "user > > manager". > No, I mean the RedHat User Manager GUI. Sorry, I misunderstood. > > When I installed Firebird for the first time using the rpm, I ended up > with a lock on the groups and had to get rid of that and start over. > Now I can't find any lock files, but the RedHat User Manager GUI won't > open, and I think the rpm is stalled on trying to do something with > groups or users. > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick > Stevens > Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 6:01 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: User manager crashes > > Rick DeBay wrote: > >>I was installing an rpm for Firebird 1.5.1 and have ended up in > > install > >>hell. >>Since the first install of Firebird 1.5.0 ended up leaving a lock file >>so that new users couldn't be created, I looked for one but couldn't >>find any. > > > Firebird was renamed long ago to Firefox. The latest Firefox version > is Firefox V0.9.2. The companion mail client is Thunderbird (currently > V0.7.2) > > The lock file will probably be in the user's home directory's .firebird > or .mozilla directory: > > ~(user)/.firebird/(profile name)/xxxxxxxx.slt/lock > ~(user)/.mozilla/(profile name)/xxxxxxxx.slt/lock > > I can't recall if Firebird/Firefox shares Mozilla's settings or not, so > check both directories (if they exist). Remember that you must include > the "-a" option to "ls" to see files that begin with ".". > > >>What I have noticed is that when I try to open the user manager, it >>immediately closes. > > > I assume you actually mean the "profile manager", not the "user > manager". > > >>What should I do at this point to debug this? I figure if I can get > > the > >>user manager to work again, Firebird installation will probably work >>again. > > > Stray lock files will do that as will stalled Mozilla/Firebird/Firefox > sessions. Don't forget to "ps ax" to see if you have any old processes > laying about after you delete the lock files. If so, kill them before > trying to bring up the profile manager. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - "You think that's tough? Try herding cats!" - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - All generalizations are false. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list 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 From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Tue Jul 20 19:05:04 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:05:04 -0700 Subject: Umask and redhat (updated) Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B905@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 3:43 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Umask and redhat (updated) > > Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > >>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 2:54 PM > >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > >>Subject: Re: Umask and redhat (updated) > >> > >> > >>>What if your shell is chsrc, or something other than bash. > >> > >>Will this > >> > >>>be set for them as well? > >> > >>For csh users, the lines are virtually identical in /etc/csh.cshrc. > > > > > > Ok, so basically there is no true global setting, I need to > set it for > > each type of shell? > > Yes, unfortunately. This is due to the way the shells start > up. bash starts up by reading, in order, /etc/profile, > /etc/bashrc, and ~/.bashrc among others. csh starts by > reading /etc/csh.cshrc, /etc/csh.login, and ~/.[t]cshrc and a > host of others. > > This is all due to the various permutations of Unix out there > (Linux being just one more), and not all of which behave the same. > > HISTORY LESSON: The first Unix shell was called, aptly > enough, "sh" and was written by a chap named Bourne. It's > more correctly called the "Bourne Shell". "bash" is an > enhanced version of the Bourne shell, named the "Bourne Again > Shell" (cute, eh?). > > If you've ever wondered why all the system admin scripts are > written for the Bourne or bash shells, the Unix standards > state that the only shell you're guaranteed to have on a > system is some variation of Bourne. You are also guaranteed > to have some other programs such as sed, ls, awk, grep, ls, > rm, mv, mount and cp. If you've ever wondered why those are > in /bin (on the root filesystem), now you know--you can be > sure that the root filesystem is mounted by the boot loader > when your admin script is run. > > You aren't guaranteed of anything else at this early stage of > your boot process. csh, ksh, tsh and the rest may or may not > be installed or on filesystems that aren't mounted yet. If > your script absolutely MUST work (e.g. to boot the system > up), you must write it for Bourne/bash. > > Ok, RECESS TIME! Who's up for a game of softball? :-) Ok.. So I tried making the changes, and nothing took effect, until I added some files to my home directory. Which tells me that at least ES 3.0 is reading files in the following order: /etc/profile /home/travis/.bash_profile /home/travis/.bashrc /etc/bashrc If .bash_profile doesn't exist under my home account, the .bashrc script won't run, the .bashrc script calls /etc/bashrc. The question becomes, short putting this entry in the /etc/profile file, how can I ensure umask is always run, even if there isn't any startup scripts in the users home directory? Thanks, Travis From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 20 20:46:31 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:46:31 -0700 Subject: Umask and redhat (updated) In-Reply-To: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B905@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B905@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Message-ID: <40FD84A7.2000806@vitalstream.com> Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] >>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 3:43 PM >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >>Subject: Re: Umask and redhat (updated) >> >>Waldher, Travis R wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] >>>>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 2:54 PM >>>>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >>>>Subject: Re: Umask and redhat (updated) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>What if your shell is chsrc, or something other than bash. >>>> >>>>Will this >>>> >>>> >>>>>be set for them as well? >>>> >>>>For csh users, the lines are virtually identical in /etc/csh.cshrc. >>> >>> >>>Ok, so basically there is no true global setting, I need to >> >>set it for >> >>>each type of shell? >> >>Yes, unfortunately. This is due to the way the shells start >>up. bash starts up by reading, in order, /etc/profile, >>/etc/bashrc, and ~/.bashrc among others. csh starts by >>reading /etc/csh.cshrc, /etc/csh.login, and ~/.[t]cshrc and a >>host of others. >> >>This is all due to the various permutations of Unix out there >>(Linux being just one more), and not all of which behave the same. >> >>HISTORY LESSON: The first Unix shell was called, aptly >>enough, "sh" and was written by a chap named Bourne. It's >>more correctly called the "Bourne Shell". "bash" is an >>enhanced version of the Bourne shell, named the "Bourne Again >>Shell" (cute, eh?). >> >>If you've ever wondered why all the system admin scripts are >>written for the Bourne or bash shells, the Unix standards >>state that the only shell you're guaranteed to have on a >>system is some variation of Bourne. You are also guaranteed >>to have some other programs such as sed, ls, awk, grep, ls, >>rm, mv, mount and cp. If you've ever wondered why those are >>in /bin (on the root filesystem), now you know--you can be >>sure that the root filesystem is mounted by the boot loader >>when your admin script is run. >> >>You aren't guaranteed of anything else at this early stage of >>your boot process. csh, ksh, tsh and the rest may or may not >>be installed or on filesystems that aren't mounted yet. If >>your script absolutely MUST work (e.g. to boot the system >>up), you must write it for Bourne/bash. >> >>Ok, RECESS TIME! Who's up for a game of softball? :-) > > > Ok.. So I tried making the changes, and nothing took effect, until I > added some files to my home directory. Which tells me that at least ES > 3.0 is reading files in the following order: > > /etc/profile > /home/travis/.bash_profile > /home/travis/.bashrc > /etc/bashrc > > If .bash_profile doesn't exist under my home account, the .bashrc script > won't run, the .bashrc script calls /etc/bashrc. The man page states: When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter- active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com- mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior. > The question becomes, short putting this entry in the /etc/profile file, > how can I ensure umask is always run, even if there isn't any startup > scripts in the users home directory? The only thing guaranteed to be read at login is /etc/profile--and that isn't read if it isn't an interactive shell. The last thing /etc/profile does is run all "/etc/profile.d/*.sh" scripts, so you could bury the umask stuff in there, but it still won't do anything if /etc/profile isn't read. With non-interactive shells (e.g. crontab entries), the value of "$BASH_ENV" is executed instead of /etc/profile. By default, that's set to "~username/.bashrc". > > Thanks, > Travis > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gnichols at tpg.com.au Wed Jul 21 02:51:58 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:51:58 +1000 Subject: FC2 and USB disk problems In-Reply-To: <40FD4D8C.7010003@vitalstream.com> References: <1090298387.5887.12.camel@barney.localdomain> <40FD4D8C.7010003@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1090378317.3693.48.camel@barney.localdomain> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 02:51, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Let's have a looksee. > > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed > > ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) > > ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64 > > AMD756: dev 1022:740c, router pirq : 4 get irq : 10 > > PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:07.4 > > PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:08.0 > > ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: OHCI Host Controller > > ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: irq 10, pci mem 0a836000 > > ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 > > ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: AMD756 erratum 4 workaround > > hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found > > hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected > > There's one USB bus and it's USB 1.1. > > > USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 > > AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 4 get irq : 10 > > PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:08.0 > > PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:07.4 > > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: UHCI Host Controller > > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: irq 10, io base 0000d400 > > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 > > hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found > > hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected > > There's a second bus and it's USB 1.1. > > > AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 1 get irq : 9 > > PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:08.1 > > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: UHCI Host Controller > > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: irq 9, io base 0000d800 > > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 > > hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found > > hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected > > There's a third bus, USB 1.1. > > > AMD756: dev 1106:3104, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 > > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:08.2 > > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0a.0 > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: EHCI Host Controller > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: irq 11, pci mem 0a83af00 > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2003-Dec-29 > > hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found > > hub 4-0:1.0: 4 ports detected > > And there's a fourth bus, USB 2.0. > > > hub 3-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled > > The system is having trouble with the third USB bus. You should check > the cables there. > > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > > EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > > device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm at uk.sistina.com > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > > hub 4-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 4. Maybe the USB cable is bad? > > usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > > SCSI subsystem initialized > > Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... > > scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices > > Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 90.J > > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > USB Mass Storage device found at 2 > > usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage > > USB Mass Storage support registered. > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > > sda: Spinning up disk...<3>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error > > -110 > > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > > hub 4-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 4. Maybe the USB cable is bad? > > There's a potential issue there on port 4 of the USB 2.0 bus. > > > .<6>cdrom: open failed. > > cdrom: open failed. > > .<5>Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > > Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. > > Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. > > inserting floppy driver for 2.6.5-1.358 > > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 > > Adding 522104k swap on /dev/hdb3. Priority:-1 extents:1 > > Adding 128480k swap on /dev/hda8. Priority:-2 extents:1 > > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > > EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal > > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] > > parport0: irq 7 detected > > Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. > > 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 > > AMD756: dev 10ec:8139, router pirq : 3 get irq : 5 > > PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0b.0 > > divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 > > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcc00, 00:05:1c:1d:b7:3b, IRQ 5 > > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' > > divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0 > > ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team > > ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1023 buckets, 8184 max) - 296 bytes per > > conntrack > > 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 > > AMD756: dev 10ec:8139, router pirq : 3 get irq : 5 > > PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0b.0 > > divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 > > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcc00, 00:05:1c:1d:b7:3b, IRQ 5 > > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' > > eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 > > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] > > parport0: irq 7 detected > > lp0: using parport0 (polling). > > lp0: console ready > > NET: Registered protocol family 10 > > Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 022db720(lo) > > IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver > > divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0 > > eth0: no IPv6 routers present > > warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call > > Fix your initscripts? > > warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call > > Fix your initscripts? > > AMD756: dev 1274:1371, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 > > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0a.0 > > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:08.2 > > SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) > > sda: assuming Write Enabled > > sda: assuming drive cache: write through > > SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) > > sda: assuming Write Enabled > > sda: assuming drive cache: write through > > sda: sda4 > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > > usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 > > > > Hoping someone can point me in the right direction. > > It appears that you have a whole bunch of USB ports. I counted three > buses there, two with 2 ports and two with 4 ports. > > It looks like your ZIP is in bus 2 (one of the two-port buses that's > USB 1.1). The system is having an issue with bus 3 (the other two-port > USB 1.1 bus) and it can't reliably debounce one of the ports. Check the > cable there. > > Bus 4 (one of the 4-port buses and the only USB 2.0 I see) reports a bad > port, and I suspect that's where the external HD is plugged into. > > There are several possibilities: The bus is USB 2.0. If your drive > is also USB 2.0 compliant and you use a USB 1.1 cable, you'll have > issues. I'd recommend first checking your cables. Try to always use > USB 2.0 cables--even if it's a 1.1 bus. > > You may have a bad port on that bus. You might try a different port on > that bus. > > Try the other 4-port bus (USB 1.1, so it'll be slower). Hello Rick, What you have just outlined above is sort of what I gathered but there are only two usb busses on the system, a two port 1.1 bus on the MB, with nothing in it, and a four port 2.0 bus on a pci card with 3 cables plugged in at the moment. The fourth port had a cable in it when I connected the usb ADSL modem that was supplied by my ISP when I went to ADSL. I removed the usb ADSL modem when I got the ADSL modem/router but left the cable plugged into the usb card. Removing it from the card made no difference. The three devices all work OK on Win 98, I checked, and the Ext. HD has a 2.0 bus and came with its own cable, which I have assumed is a 2.0 cable (although I have no idea what the differences are). This problem arose as part of the upgrade to FC2 and was apparent immediately which is what makes me think the problem lies with something in FC2. Whatever the problem is it has not affected the scanner at all, only the HD and Zip drives. At the moment it is picking up the Zip drive reliably. Could it be an irq clash? The Ext. HD mounted OK at boot time today. The output for dmesg follows: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64 AMD756: dev 1022:740c, router pirq : 4 get irq : 10 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:07.4 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:08.0 ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: OHCI Host Controller ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: irq 10, pci mem 0a836000 ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: AMD756 erratum 4 workaround hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 4 get irq : 10 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:08.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:07.4 uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: irq 10, io base 0000d400 uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 1 get irq : 9 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:08.1 uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: irq 9, io base 0000d800 uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected AMD756: dev 1106:3104, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:08.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0a.0 ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: irq 11, pci mem 0a83af00 ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2003-Dec-29 hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 4 ports detected hub 3-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 3 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm at uk.sistina.com ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) hub 4-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 4. Maybe the USB cable is bad? usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) SCSI subsystem initialized Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 90.J Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using address 2 USB Mass Storage device found at 2 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following section is for the Ext 60G HD ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ sda: Spinning up disk...<6>scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: IC35L060 Model: AVVA07-0 Rev: VA3O Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 .<5>Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sdb: 120103200 512-byte hdwr sectors (61493 MB) sdb: assuming drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 USB Mass Storage device found at 2 Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. inserting floppy driver for 2.6.5-1.358 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. Adding 522104k swap on /dev/hdb3. Priority:-1 extents:1 Adding 128480k swap on /dev/hda8. Priority:-2 extents:1 kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] parport0: irq 7 detected Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 AMD756: dev 10ec:8139, router pirq : 3 get irq : 5 PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0b.0 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcc00, 00:05:1c:1d:b7:3b, IRQ 5 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0 ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1023 buckets, 8184 max) - 296 bytes per conntrack 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 AMD756: dev 10ec:8139, router pirq : 3 get irq : 5 PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0b.0 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcc00, 00:05:1c:1d:b7:3b, IRQ 5 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] parport0: irq 7 detected lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready NET: Registered protocol family 10 Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 022db720(lo) IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0 eth0: no IPv6 routers present warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call Fix your initscripts? warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call Fix your initscripts? AMD756: dev 1274:1371, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0a.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:08.2 Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The road to hell is paved with NAND gates. -- J. Gooding ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From javasamurai5 at yahoo.com Wed Jul 21 13:34:57 2004 From: javasamurai5 at yahoo.com (Java Samurai) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 06:34:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Can't format /boot In-Reply-To: <20040720145324.55588.qmail@web20601.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040721133457.53558.qmail@web20606.mail.yahoo.com> In Anaconda th last thing that happens is * moving (1) to step preinstallconfig Does anyone know how I can further debug this? How do I look at what is happening step by step? Thanks --- Java Samurai wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to install RH9. I get all the way to the > final steps. It says > 'formating /' which works. But when it gets to > 'formating /boot' it fails and tells me the > 'hardware > doesn't support this version of Linux'. But it > doesn't > tell me why. > > The hard drive is a Western Digital 10Gb. It used to > have Windows, but I wiped it clean. > The motherboard is Soyo SY-5EHM1.1 with the latest > bios. I let Disk Druid partition the drive > automatically. > > I tried formating each partition individually with > Disk Druid, but still no luck. > > Maybe there is a bios setting I need to use? > > Please help > > Thanks. > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! > http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail From tpotter at techmarin.com Wed Jul 21 15:03:34 2004 From: tpotter at techmarin.com (Ted Potter) Date: 21 Jul 2004 08:03:34 -0700 Subject: Can't format /boot In-Reply-To: <20040721133457.53558.qmail@web20606.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040721133457.53558.qmail@web20606.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1090422214.4083.96.camel@interjet.techmarin.com> Well this is a shot in the dark but: I was running RH 7x and decided to try out 9. I had been running 7 just fine on my workstation (a complete clone with parts from all over) and figured, hey 7 went on just fine so 9 should be breeze. Ha - I got everything from freezing during the initial loading to "can't find media" 1/3 in to the install. So someone said hey, try a different cdrom device, maybe an older one. so I did. I replaced my 56x with an old 16x cdrom and guess what ? RH9 installed like a champ. So, for whatever reason when I start getting strange errors during an RH install I drop back to more basic hardware. Sorry I can't provide more technical details, but this "trick" did work for me. PS - after the install I replaced the cdrom and RH9 has never had a problem with it. hth Ted On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 06:34, Java Samurai wrote: > In Anaconda th last thing that happens is > * moving (1) to step preinstallconfig > > Does anyone know how I can further debug this? > How do I look at what is happening step by step? > > Thanks > > --- Java Samurai wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to install RH9. I get all the way to the > > final steps. It says > > 'formating /' which works. But when it gets to > > 'formating /boot' it fails and tells me the > > 'hardware > > doesn't support this version of Linux'. But it > > doesn't > > tell me why. > > > > The hard drive is a Western Digital 10Gb. It used to > > have Windows, but I wiped it clean. > > The motherboard is Soyo SY-5EHM1.1 with the latest > > bios. I let Disk Druid partition the drive > > automatically. > > > > I tried formating each partition individually with > > Disk Druid, but still no luck. > > > > Maybe there is a bios setting I need to use? > > > > Please help > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! > > > http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > 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 > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 -- Ted Potter tpotter at techmarin.com www.techmarin.com yahoo: potterbigdog From Elton.Jones at thales-esecurity.com Wed Jul 21 15:56:56 2004 From: Elton.Jones at thales-esecurity.com (Jones, Elton) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:56:56 +0100 Subject: an error occurred when finding the packages to upgrade Message-ID: <89A3DC1D1CAA8B4C81479E14C972F223025EF108@UKCRN08.crn.thales-esecurity.com> When upgrading from 7.2 to 8.0 I receive the following error message in Graphical and text based install: an error occurred when finding the packages to upgrade Then the system reeboots. Although the message come after Boot Loader Configuration I feel this message is directly related to the section for "Selecting packages to upgrade". As the error appears just before I get to this page http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/s1-upg rade-pkgsel.html Thanks in advance Elton This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. You must not disclose, copy or rely on any part of this correspondence if you are not the intended recipient. If you have received this email in error, please delete it from your system and notify the System Administrator at Thales e-Security +44 (0)1844 201800 or mail postmaster at thales-esecurity.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 21 17:14:31 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:14:31 -0700 Subject: Can't format /boot In-Reply-To: <20040721133457.53558.qmail@web20606.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040721133457.53558.qmail@web20606.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40FEA477.1070200@vitalstream.com> Java Samurai wrote: > In Anaconda th last thing that happens is > * moving (1) to step preinstallconfig > > Does anyone know how I can further debug this? > How do I look at what is happening step by step? Try adding the "ide=nodma" option to the boot loader: boot: linux ide=nodma and see if that helps. > > Thanks > > --- Java Samurai wrote: > >>Hi, >>I am trying to install RH9. I get all the way to the >>final steps. It says >>'formating /' which works. But when it gets to >>'formating /boot' it fails and tells me the >>'hardware >>doesn't support this version of Linux'. But it >>doesn't >>tell me why. >> >>The hard drive is a Western Digital 10Gb. It used to >>have Windows, but I wiped it clean. >>The motherboard is Soyo SY-5EHM1.1 with the latest >>bios. I let Disk Druid partition the drive >>automatically. >> >>I tried formating each partition individually with >>Disk Druid, but still no luck. >> >>Maybe there is a bios setting I need to use? >> >>Please help >> >>Thanks. >> >> >> >> >>__________________________________ >>Do you Yahoo!? >>Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! >> > > http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/ > >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Redhat-install-list mailing list >>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 >> > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! 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GOOD! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 21 17:21:49 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:21:49 -0700 Subject: an error occurred when finding the packages to upgrade In-Reply-To: <89A3DC1D1CAA8B4C81479E14C972F223025EF108@UKCRN08.crn.thales-esecurity.com> References: <89A3DC1D1CAA8B4C81479E14C972F223025EF108@UKCRN08.crn.thales-esecurity.com> Message-ID: <40FEA62D.906@vitalstream.com> Jones, Elton wrote: > When upgrading from 7.2 to 8.0 I receive the following error message in > Graphical and text based install: > > > > an error occurred when finding the packages to upgrade > > > > Then the system reeboots. > > > > Although the message come after Boot Loader Configuration > > > > I feel this message is directly related to the section for "Selecting > packages to upgrade". > > > > As the error appears just before I get to this page > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/s1-upgrade-pkgsel.html This smells of a CDROM DMA issue. Assuming a standard config with your CD as the master drive on the secondary controller, you might try the upgrade again, but make the boot command off the CD: linux hdc=nodma and see if that helps. [idiotic email disclaimer removed] (diatribe about the absolute stupidity of email disclaimers kept to myself at great cost to my ulcers) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Yeah, but you're taking the universe out of context." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jlopes151 at comcast.net Wed Jul 21 17:33:41 2004 From: jlopes151 at comcast.net (jlopes151 at comcast.net) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:33:41 +0000 Subject: Can't format /boot Message-ID: <072120041733.14653.40FEA8F30000A1C00000393D2200758942CECACE9C0A9F010406@comcast.net> It all comes down to this. If your having trouble with install you machine is too old and any switches you try wont work. You need a new machine. I spent three weekends, whole weekends doing nothing but trying all variations of the install. Bottom line I bought a new P4 3.0ghz the whole install took 4 minutes to install, Wiped the w XP that was on the new machine, formated the 160gig drive, installed all four cds, dowm load etc etc. Have fun -------------- Original message -------------- > Java Samurai wrote: > > In Anaconda th last thing that happens is > > * moving (1) to step preinstallconfig > > > > Does anyone know how I can further debug this? > > How do I look at what is happening step by step? > > Try adding the "ide=nodma" option to the boot loader: > > boot: linux ide=nodma > > and see if that helps. > > > > > Thanks > > > > --- Java Samurai wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >>I am trying to install RH9. I get all the way to the > >>final steps. It says > >>'formating /' which works. But when it gets to > >>'formating /boot' it fails and tells me the > >>'hardware > >>doesn't support this version of Linux'. But it > >>doesn't > >>tell me why. > >> > >>The hard drive is a Western Digital 10Gb. It used to > >>have Windows, but I wiped it clean. > >>The motherboard is Soyo SY-5EHM1.1 with the latest > >>bios. I let Disk Druid partition the drive > >>automatically. > >> > >>I tried formating each partition individually with > >>Disk Druid, but still no luck. > >> > >>Maybe there is a bios setting I need to use? > >> > >>Please help > >> > >>Thanks. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>__________________________________ > >>Do you Yahoo!? > >>Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! > >> > > > > http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/ > > > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Redhat-install-list mailing list > >>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 > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! 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Cindy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 21 17:48:29 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:48:29 -0700 Subject: FC2 and USB disk problems In-Reply-To: <1090378317.3693.48.camel@barney.localdomain> References: <1090298387.5887.12.camel@barney.localdomain> <40FD4D8C.7010003@vitalstream.com> <1090378317.3693.48.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: <40FEAC6D.1090203@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 02:51, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>Let's have a looksee. >> >> >>>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 >>>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). >>>kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds >>>EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. >>>Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed >>>ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) >>>ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64 >>>AMD756: dev 1022:740c, router pirq : 4 get irq : 10 >>>PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:07.4 >>>PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:08.0 >>>ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: OHCI Host Controller >>>ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: irq 10, pci mem 0a836000 >>>ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 >>>ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: AMD756 erratum 4 workaround >>>hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found >>>hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected >> >>There's one USB bus and it's USB 1.1. >> >> >>>USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 >>>AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 4 get irq : 10 >>>PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:08.0 >>>PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:07.4 >>>uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: UHCI Host Controller >>>uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: irq 10, io base 0000d400 >>>uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 >>>hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found >>>hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected >> >>There's a second bus and it's USB 1.1. >> >> >>>AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 1 get irq : 9 >>>PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:08.1 >>>uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: UHCI Host Controller >>>uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: irq 9, io base 0000d800 >>>uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 >>>hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found >>>hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected >> >>There's a third bus, USB 1.1. >> >> >>>AMD756: dev 1106:3104, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 >>>PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:08.2 >>>PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0a.0 >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: EHCI Host Controller >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: irq 11, pci mem 0a83af00 >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2003-Dec-29 >>>hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found >>>hub 4-0:1.0: 4 ports detected >> >>And there's a fourth bus, USB 2.0. >> >> >>>hub 3-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled >> >>The system is having trouble with the third USB bus. You should check >>the cables there. >> >> >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 >>>hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) >>>EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 >>>hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) >>>device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm at uk.sistina.com >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 >>>hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 >>>hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 >>>hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) >>>hub 4-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 4. Maybe the USB cable is bad? >>>usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 >>>hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 >>>hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) >>>SCSI subsystem initialized >>>Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... >>>scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices >>> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 90.J >>> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 >>>USB Mass Storage device found at 2 >>>usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage >>>USB Mass Storage support registered. >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 >>>hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) >>>sda: Spinning up disk...<3>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error >>>-110 >>>hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 >>>hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) >>>hub 4-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 4. Maybe the USB cable is bad? >> >>There's a potential issue there on port 4 of the USB 2.0 bus. >> >> >>>.<6>cdrom: open failed. >>>cdrom: open failed. >>>.<5>Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 >>>Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. >>>Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. >>>inserting floppy driver for 2.6.5-1.358 >>>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M >>>FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 >>>Adding 522104k swap on /dev/hdb3. Priority:-1 extents:1 >>>Adding 128480k swap on /dev/hda8. Priority:-2 extents:1 >>>kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds >>>EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal >>>EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. >>>parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] >>>parport0: irq 7 detected >>>Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. >>>8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 >>>AMD756: dev 10ec:8139, router pirq : 3 get irq : 5 >>>PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0b.0 >>>divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 >>>eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcc00, 00:05:1c:1d:b7:3b, IRQ 5 >>>eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' >>>divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0 >>>ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team >>>ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1023 buckets, 8184 max) - 296 bytes per >>>conntrack >>>8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 >>>AMD756: dev 10ec:8139, router pirq : 3 get irq : 5 >>>PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0b.0 >>>divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 >>>eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcc00, 00:05:1c:1d:b7:3b, IRQ 5 >>>eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' >>>eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 >>>parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] >>>parport0: irq 7 detected >>>lp0: using parport0 (polling). >>>lp0: console ready >>>NET: Registered protocol family 10 >>>Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 022db720(lo) >>>IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver >>>divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0 >>>eth0: no IPv6 routers present >>>warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call >>>Fix your initscripts? >>>warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call >>>Fix your initscripts? >>>AMD756: dev 1274:1371, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 >>>PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0a.0 >>>PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:08.2 >>>SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) >>>sda: assuming Write Enabled >>>sda: assuming drive cache: write through >>>SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) >>>sda: assuming Write Enabled >>>sda: assuming drive cache: write through >>> sda: sda4 >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 >>>hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) >>>usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 >>> >>>Hoping someone can point me in the right direction. >> >>It appears that you have a whole bunch of USB ports. I counted three >>buses there, two with 2 ports and two with 4 ports. >> >>It looks like your ZIP is in bus 2 (one of the two-port buses that's >>USB 1.1). The system is having an issue with bus 3 (the other two-port >>USB 1.1 bus) and it can't reliably debounce one of the ports. Check the >>cable there. >> >>Bus 4 (one of the 4-port buses and the only USB 2.0 I see) reports a bad >>port, and I suspect that's where the external HD is plugged into. >> >>There are several possibilities: The bus is USB 2.0. If your drive >>is also USB 2.0 compliant and you use a USB 1.1 cable, you'll have >>issues. I'd recommend first checking your cables. Try to always use >>USB 2.0 cables--even if it's a 1.1 bus. >> >>You may have a bad port on that bus. You might try a different port on >>that bus. >> >>Try the other 4-port bus (USB 1.1, so it'll be slower). > > > Hello Rick, What you have just outlined above is sort of what I gathered > but there are only two usb busses on the system, a two port 1.1 bus on > the MB, with nothing in it, I'll bet you find a second and third set of headers on the mobo. You seem to have one USB controller that uses the OHCI driver, two that use the UHCI driver and one (the 2.0 one) that uses the EHCI driver. > and a four port 2.0 bus on a pci card with 3 > cables plugged in at the moment. The fourth port had a cable in it when > I connected the usb ADSL modem that was supplied by my ISP when I went > to ADSL. I removed the usb ADSL modem when I got the ADSL modem/router > but left the cable plugged into the usb card. Removing it from the card > made no difference. The three devices all work OK on Win 98, I checked, > and the Ext. HD has a 2.0 bus and came with its own cable, which I have > assumed is a 2.0 cable (although I have no idea what the differences > are). 2.0 cables use different wire with lower capacitance between the conductors and better shielding. The speeds of 2.0 can cause severe crosstalk on 1.1 cables and make the bus very flakey. > This problem arose as part of the upgrade to FC2 and was apparent > immediately which is what makes me think the problem lies with something > in FC2. Whatever the problem is it has not affected the scanner at all, > only the HD and Zip drives. At the moment it is picking up the Zip drive > reliably. Could it be an irq clash? I doubt it's an IRQ issue, although the below stuff shows two 1.1 controllers on IRQ 10, one 1.1 on IRQ 9 and the 2.0 USB on IRQ 11. > The Ext. HD mounted OK at boot time today. The output for dmesg follows: > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed > ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) > ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64 > AMD756: dev 1022:740c, router pirq : 4 get irq : 10 > PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:07.4 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:08.0 > ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: OHCI Host Controller > ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: irq 10, pci mem 0a836000 > ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 > ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: AMD756 erratum 4 workaround > hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found > hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected > USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 > AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 4 get irq : 10 > PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:08.0 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:07.4 > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: UHCI Host Controller > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: irq 10, io base 0000d400 > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 > hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found > hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected > AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 1 get irq : 9 > PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:08.1 > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: UHCI Host Controller > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: irq 9, io base 0000d800 > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 > hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found > hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected > AMD756: dev 1106:3104, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:08.2 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0a.0 > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: EHCI Host Controller > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: irq 11, pci mem 0a83af00 > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2003-Dec-29 > hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found > hub 4-0:1.0: 4 ports detected > hub 3-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled That still really bothers me. Its on the uhci 1.1 bus at IRQ 9. > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 3 reset error -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm at uk.sistina.com > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > hub 4-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 4. Maybe the USB cable is bad? That is also disturbing. That's a port on the 2.0 bus. > usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 4-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > SCSI subsystem initialized > Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... > scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices > Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 90.J > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using address 2 > USB Mass Storage device found at 2 > usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage > USB Mass Storage support registered. > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > The following section is for the Ext 60G HD > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > sda: Spinning up disk...<6>scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage > devices > Vendor: IC35L060 Model: AVVA07-0 Rev: VA3O > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > .<5>Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > SCSI device sdb: 120103200 512-byte hdwr sectors (61493 MB) Seeing the above makes me suspect that we have a timing issue. Today the drive spun up in time. Last time it didn't. Hmmmmm. > sdb: assuming drive cache: write through > sdb: sdb1 > Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > USB Mass Storage device found at 2 > Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. > Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. > Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Don't worry about those. The system is complaining that you don't have a ZIP disk in its drive. > inserting floppy driver for 2.6.5-1.358 > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 > cdrom: open failed. > cdrom: open failed. > Adding 522104k swap on /dev/hdb3. Priority:-1 extents:1 > Adding 128480k swap on /dev/hda8. Priority:-2 extents:1 Swaps started up OK. > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. And /dev/hdb1 mounted OK. [rest deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "You think that's tough? Try herding cats!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 21 17:58:52 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:58:52 -0700 Subject: Upgrade from AS 2.1 to AS 3.0 In-Reply-To: <20040721174547.40715.qmail@web80005.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040721174547.40715.qmail@web80005.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40FEAEDC.4020408@vitalstream.com> Cindy H. Wang wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a system that I want to upgrade to AS 3.0. Is it possible to do > an upgrade from AS 2.1 to AS 3.0? Or do I need to do a brand new > install on the system? If upgrade is possible, what will be the > safest/best way? Upgrading OS versions is always risky. They're usually successful, but there are times when bad things happen. The most important thing is to have a backup of your data BEFORE you try the upgrade. The most important things to back up are the users' home directories and any additional software you may have installed (e.g. Oracle and that sort of thing). It doesn't matter what the backup media is, as long as it's reliable. I use both tape and a second hard drive. The hard drive makes it easier to get at the backup data directly rather than having to restore from the sequential-access tape. I often do both (back up to tape, then back up to hard drive), then archive the tape. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Fear is finding a ".vbs" script in your Inbox - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From cutewang520 at yahoo.com Wed Jul 21 19:49:51 2004 From: cutewang520 at yahoo.com (Cindy H. Wang) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:49:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Upgrade from AS 2.1 to AS 3.0 In-Reply-To: <40FEAEDC.4020408@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040721194951.44382.qmail@web80008.mail.yahoo.com> Rick Stevens wrote: Cindy H. Wang wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a system that I want to upgrade to AS 3.0. Is it possible to do > an upgrade from AS 2.1 to AS 3.0? Or do I need to do a brand new > install on the system? If upgrade is possible, what will be the > safest/best way? Upgrading OS versions is always risky. They're usually successful, but there are times when bad things happen. The most important thing is to have a backup of your data BEFORE you try the upgrade. The most important things to back up are the users' home directories and any additional software you may have installed (e.g. Oracle and that sort of thing). It doesn't matter what the backup media is, as long as it's reliable. I use both tape and a second hard drive. The hard drive makes it easier to get at the backup data directly rather than having to restore from the sequential-access tape. I often do both (back up to tape, then back up to hard drive), then archive the tape. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Fear is finding a ".vbs" script in your Inbox - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list 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 Rick, Thanks for the quick reply. For some reasons, I have the assumptions that the packages for AS 2.1 is different from packages in AS 3.0. I have once tried to use rpm -Fvh from AS 2.1 packages with AS 3.0 packages and got errors while doing so. That's when I have the assumption that some packages use for AS 3.0 are different from packages for AS 2.1 and they are not compatible. Is that assumption incorrect? Thanks, cindyw -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 21 20:19:35 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:19:35 -0700 Subject: Upgrade from AS 2.1 to AS 3.0 In-Reply-To: <20040721194951.44382.qmail@web80008.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040721194951.44382.qmail@web80008.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40FECFD7.1080402@vitalstream.com> Cindy H. Wang wrote: > */Rick Stevens /* wrote: > > Cindy H. Wang wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a system that I want to upgrade to AS 3.0. Is it possible > to do > > an upgrade from AS 2.1 to AS 3.0? Or do I need to do a brand new > > install on the system? If upgrade is possible, what will be the > > safest/best way? > > Upgrading OS versions is always risky. They're usually successful, but > there are times when bad things happen. > > The most important thing is to have a backup of your data BEFORE you try > the upgrade. The most important things to back up are the users' home > directories and any additional software you may have installed (e.g. > Oracle and that sort of thing). > > It doesn't matter what the backup media is, as long as it's reliable. > I use both tape and a second hard drive. The hard drive makes it easier > to get at the backup data directly rather than having to restore from > the sequential-access tape. I often do both (back up to tape, then > back up t! o hard drive), then archive the tape. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Fear is finding a ".vbs" script in your Inbox - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > > Rick, > > Thanks for the quick reply. > > For some reasons, I have the assumptions that the packages for AS > 2.1 is different from packages in AS 3.0. I have once tried to use > rpm -Fvh from AS 2.1 packages with AS 3.0 packages and got errors > while doing so. That's when I have the assumption that some > packages use for AS 3.0 are different from packages for AS 2.1 and > they are not compatible. Is that assumption incorrect? Oh, you want to upgrade specific packages from those in 2.1 to those used in 3.0? Yes, you'll have some major problems--mostly having to do with needed prerequisites. If you are going to update 2.1, you need to get an update entitlement from Red Hat (they're not free), then you can use up2date to keep the machine current with the latest 2.1 stuff. If you want to upgrade from 2.1 to 3.0, do what I said above. Remember, NONE of Red Hat's "Enterprise" Linux releases (ES, AS, EL, WS) are free. You get 1 year of free updates when you buy, but after that, you must renew the update entitlement. If you want free Linux, you have a number of choices. The closest to Red Hat Linux are Fedora Core 1 (FC1) and Fedora Core 2 (FC2). FC1 was _going_ to be Red Hat Linux 10 before they decided to go the "pay to play" route. FC2 is the latest release (using the 2.6 kernel and X-Org's X Windows implementation rather than XFree86). I use it a lot. Due to the 2.6 kernel, there are fewer drivers available for oddball hardware but this should improve over time. It doesn't bother me as I'm considered to be something of a geek. There are other free ones such as Mandrake (more geek-oriented), Debian, GenToo and a whole bunch of others. There is a free version of AS3 out there called "WhiteBox" which is built from Red Hat's AS/ES3 source RPMs. I've never used it and don't know how easy it is to install or upgrade from AS2.1 to it, but once it's up, it's essentially ES/AS 3.0. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I won't rise to the occasion, but I'll slide over to it. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From cutewang520 at yahoo.com Wed Jul 21 21:09:21 2004 From: cutewang520 at yahoo.com (Cindy H. Wang) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:09:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Upgrade from AS 2.1 to AS 3.0 In-Reply-To: <40FECFD7.1080402@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040721210921.32006.qmail@web80009.mail.yahoo.com> Rick Stevens wrote: Cindy H. Wang wrote: > */Rick Stevens /* wrote: > > Cindy H. Wang wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a system that I want to upgrade to AS 3.0. Is it possible > to do > > an upgrade from AS 2.1 to AS 3.0? Or do I need to do a brand new > > install on the system? If upgrade is possible, what will be the > > safest/best way? > > Upgrading OS versions is always risky. They're usually successful, but > there are times when bad things happen. > > The most important thing is to have a backup of your data BEFORE you try > the upgrade. The most important things to back up are the users' home > directories and any additional software you may have installed (e.g. > Oracle and that sort of thing). > > It doesn't matter what the backup media is, as long as it's reliable. > I use both tape and a second hard drive. The hard drive makes it easier > to get at the backup data directly rather than having to restore from > the sequential-access tape. I often do both (back up to tape, then > back up t! o hard drive), then archive the tape. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Fear is finding a ".vbs" script in your Inbox - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > > Rick, > > Thanks for the quick reply. > > For some reasons, I have the assumptions that the packages for AS > 2.1 is different from packages in AS 3.0. I have once tried to use > rpm -Fvh from AS 2.1 packages with AS 3.0 packages and got errors > while doing so. That's when I have the assumption that some > packages use for AS 3.0 are different from packages for AS 2.1 and > they are not compatible. Is that assumption incorrect? Oh, you want to upgrade specific packages from those in 2.1 to those used in 3.0? Yes, you'll have some major problems--mostly having to do with needed prerequisites. If you are going to update 2.1, you need to get an update entitlement from Red Hat (they're not free), then you can use up2date to keep the machine current with the latest 2.1 stuff. >> I do want to upgrade the whole OS from AS 2.1 to AS 3.0. I was just trying to see if I can "upgrade" to AS 3.0 by updating all the RPM's. Apparently, that did not work too well. With this saying, does it mean that installing a AS 3.0 package (or any packages) to AS 2.1 can be done if I can resolve the dependencies? If you want to upgrade from 2.1 to 3.0, do what I said above. Remember, NONE of Red Hat's "Enterprise" Linux releases (ES, AS, EL, WS) are free. You get 1 year of free updates when you buy, but after that, you must renew the update entitlement. If you want free Linux, you have a number of choices. The closest to Red Hat Linux are Fedora Core 1 (FC1) and Fedora Core 2 (FC2). FC1 was _going_ to be Red Hat Linux 10 before they decided to go the "pay to play" route. FC2 is the latest release (using the 2.6 kernel and X-Org's X Windows implementation rather than XFree86). I use it a lot. Due to the 2.6 kernel, there are fewer drivers available for oddball hardware but this should improve over time. It doesn't bother me as I'm considered to be something of a geek. >> Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering what FC1/FC2 are? (heard it a lot, thought this verison is more of a "developer" verison of Redhat). If being a "geek" can be as knowledge as you are, I sure hope I can be a "geek" one day.... :) There are other free ones such as Mandrake (more geek-oriented), Debian, GenToo and a whole bunch of others. There is a free version of AS3 out there called "WhiteBox" which is built from Red Hat's AS/ES3 source RPMs. I've never used it and don't know how easy it is to install or upgrade from AS2.1 to it, but once it's up, it's essentially ES/AS 3.0. >> Thanks, Rick. You have always been a great help in answering all the quesitons I have. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I won't rise to the occasion, but I'll slide over to it. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 21 21:49:10 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:49:10 -0700 Subject: Upgrade from AS 2.1 to AS 3.0 In-Reply-To: <20040721210921.32006.qmail@web80009.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040721210921.32006.qmail@web80009.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40FEE4D6.60904@vitalstream.com> Cindy H. Wang wrote: > */Rick Stevens /* wrote: > > Cindy H. Wang wrote: > > */Rick Stevens /* wrote: > > > > Cindy H. Wang wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have a system that I want to upgrade to AS 3.0. Is it possible > > to do > > > an upgrade from AS 2.1 to AS 3.0? Or do I need to do a brand new > > > install on the system? If upgrade is possible, what will be the > > > safest/best way? > > > > Upgrading OS versions is always risky. They're usually > successful, but > > there are times when bad things happen. > > > > The most important thing is to have a backup of your data BEFORE > you try > > the upgrade. The most important things to back up are the users' home > > directories and any additional software you may have installed (e.g. > > Oracle and that sort of thing). > > > > It doesn't matter what the backup media is, as long as it's reliable. > > I use both tape and a second hard drive. ! The hard drive makes > it easier > > to get at the backup data directly rather than having to restore from > > the sequential-access tape. I often do both (back up to tape, then > > back up t! o hard drive), then archive the tape. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > > - - > > - Fear is finding a ".vbs" script in your Inbox - > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > 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 > > > > Rick, > > > &g! t; Thanks for the quick reply. > > > > For some reasons, I have the assumptions that the packages for AS > > 2.1 is different from packages in AS 3.0. I have once tried to use > > rpm -Fvh from AS 2.1 packages with AS 3.0 packages and got errors > > while doing so. That's when I have the assumption that some > > packages use for AS 3.0 are different from packages for AS 2.1 and > > they are not compatible. Is that assumption incorrect? > > Oh, you want to upgrade specific packages from those in 2.1 to those > used in 3.0? Yes, you'll have some major problems--mostly having to do > with needed prerequisites. If you are going to update 2.1, you need to > get an update entitlement from Red Hat (they're not free), then you can > use up2date to keep the machine current with the latest 2.1 stuff. > > >> I do want to upgrade the whole OS from AS 2.1 to AS 3.0. I was > just trying to see if I can "upgrade" to AS 3.0 by updating all the > RPM's. Apparently, that did not work too well. With this saying, > does it mean that installing a AS 3.0 package (or any packages) to > AS 2.1 can be done if I can resolve the dependencies? Well, yes, for the most part. There are some incompatibilities you may run into. For example, I think the DHCP servers provided with 2.1 and 3.0 are different (I know the DHCP clients are). There are probably others. > If you want to upgrade from 2.1 to 3.0, do what I said above. Remember, > NONE of Red Hat's "Enterprise" Linux releases (ES, AS, EL, WS) are free. > You get 1 year of free updates when you buy, but after that, you must > renew the update entitlement. > > If you want free Linux, you have a number of choices. The closest to > Red Hat Linux are Fedora Core 1 (FC1) and Fedora Core 2 (FC2). FC1 was > _going_ to be Red Hat Linux 10 before they decided to go the "pay to > play" route. FC2 is the latest release (using the 2.6 kernel and > X-Org's X Windows implementation rather than XFree86). I use it a lot. > Due to the 2.6 kernel, there are fewer drivers available for oddball > hardware but this should improve over time. It doesn't bother me as > I'm considered to be something of a geek. > > >> Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering what FC1/FC2 are? > (heard it a lot, thought this verison is more of a "developer" > verison of Redhat). If being a "geek" can be as knowledge as you > are, I sure hope I can be a "geek" one day.... :) Heheheh! Geekism is as much a state of mind as it is knowledge. You really don't want to be a geek. A nerd is OK. Nerds are essentially geeks in training, but with some social skills remaining. "Once you start down the dark path (of geekism), forever will it shape your destiny." (with appologies to George Lucas). FC1 and FC2 replace the old Red Hat Linux releases. They are more bleeding edge than the old Red Hat releases, and CERTAINLY more so than Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but I have a bunch of clients up on FC1 with good results. I've been a bit reticent to put them up on FC2, but it seems pretty stable now as well so I wouldn't worry about using it for them at this point. As I said, there may be some drivers missing for weirdo hardware under FC2 and the 2.6 kernel, but I've had very few problems with it. Whether third party vendors like Oracle will support Fedora Core remains to be seen. > There are other free ones such as Mandrake (more geek-oriented), Debian, > GenToo and a whole bunch of others. There is a free version of AS3 out > there called "WhiteBox" which is built from Red Hat's AS/ES3 source > RPMs. I've never used it and don't know how easy it is to install or > upgrade from AS2.1 to it, but once it's up, it's essentially ES/AS 3.0. > > >> Thanks, Rick. You have always been a great help in answering > all the quesitons I have. Glad to help, Cindy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gnichols at tpg.com.au Thu Jul 22 03:06:20 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:06:20 +1000 Subject: FC2 and USB disk problems In-Reply-To: <40FEAC6D.1090203@vitalstream.com> References: <1090298387.5887.12.camel@barney.localdomain> <40FD4D8C.7010003@vitalstream.com> <1090378317.3693.48.camel@barney.localdomain> <40FEAC6D.1090203@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1090465575.3694.70.camel@barney.localdomain> On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 03:48, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 02:51, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > >>Let's have a looksee. > >> > >> > > > > > > Hello Rick, What you have just outlined above is sort of what I gathered > > but there are only two usb busses on the system, a two port 1.1 bus on > > the MB, with nothing in it, > > I'll bet you find a second and third set of headers on the mobo. You > seem to have one USB controller that uses the OHCI driver, two that use > the UHCI driver and one (the 2.0 one) that uses the EHCI driver. Hello Rick, you are absolutely 110% correct. Since 'talking' to you last I have been poking around in the h'ware and guess what I found? Another 2 port usb header (minus the pins) on the MB. So that makes 2 usb 1.1 two port usb busses. The 4 port usb 2.0 pci card makes up the others FC2 detected. I had the on-board usb disabled in the bios but when I checked late yesterday I found that it was now enabled (should have checked that earlier ;-)). I have again disabled them because I don't need them. This probably occurred a couple of weeks ago when I booted the machine and it went straight to the bios setup screen. I simply did a HD detect and saved and exited. I should have gone right through the bios settings for other changes. > > > and a four port 2.0 bus on a pci card with 3 > > cables plugged in at the moment. The fourth port had a cable in it when > > I connected the usb ADSL modem that was supplied by my ISP when I went > > to ADSL. I removed the usb ADSL modem when I got the ADSL modem/router > > but left the cable plugged into the usb card. Removing it from the card > > made no difference. The three devices all work OK on Win 98, I checked, > > and the Ext. HD has a 2.0 bus and came with its own cable, which I have > > assumed is a 2.0 cable (although I have no idea what the differences > > are). > > 2.0 cables use different wire with lower capacitance between the > conductors and better shielding. The speeds of 2.0 can cause severe > crosstalk on 1.1 cables and make the bus very flakey. OK, that means that I am using usb 2 cables as they have a clear plastic coating through which I can see braided shielding. > > > This problem arose as part of the upgrade to FC2 and was apparent > > immediately which is what makes me think the problem lies with something > > in FC2. Whatever the problem is it has not affected the scanner at all, > > only the HD and Zip drives. At the moment it is picking up the Zip drive > > reliably. Could it be an irq clash? > > I doubt it's an IRQ issue, although the below stuff shows two 1.1 > controllers on IRQ 10, one 1.1 on IRQ 9 and the 2.0 USB on IRQ 11. > > > The Ext. HD mounted OK at boot time today. The output for dmesg follows: > > > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed > > ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) > > ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64 > > AMD756: dev 1022:740c, router pirq : 4 get irq : 10 > > PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:07.4 > > PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:08.0 > > ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: OHCI Host Controller > > ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: irq 10, pci mem 0a836000 > > ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 > > ohci_hcd 0000:00:07.4: AMD756 erratum 4 workaround > > hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found > > hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected > > USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 > > AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 4 get irq : 10 > > PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:08.0 > > PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:07.4 > > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: UHCI Host Controller > > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: irq 10, io base 0000d400 > > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 > > hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found > > hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected > > AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 1 get irq : 9 > > PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:08.1 > > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: UHCI Host Controller > > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: irq 9, io base 0000d800 > > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 > > hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found > > hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected > > AMD756: dev 1106:3104, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 > > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:08.2 > > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0a.0 > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: EHCI Host Controller > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: irq 11, pci mem 0a83af00 > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2003-Dec-29 > > hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found > > hub 4-0:1.0: 4 ports detected > > hub 3-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled > > That still really bothers me. Its on the uhci 1.1 bus at IRQ 9. I have come to the conclusion, rightly or wrongly, after disabling the on-board usb, that there is something about the usb on this machine that is unable to obtain port status or something. The first re-boot after disabling the on-board usb resulted in me being asked to save or discard the settings for the on-board usb. I answered to remove the config. Below is the latest output from dmesg. FC2 still found the on-board usb but doesn't appear to have tried to configure them whereas it did try to setup the 4 port pci card. There are only three devices plugged into the 4 ports, a scanner, a Zip drive and the external HD. Maybe the message about the possible faulty cable has something to do with there being nothing on that port. Also I never turn on the scanner at boot time. I turn it on whenever I need to scan something. The pci usb card is sharing irq 11 with the dev 1274:1371, not sure what this is, maybe the on-board IrDA, which has no header pins btw. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64 USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 4 get irq : 9 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:08.0 uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: irq 9, io base 0000d400 uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 1 get irq : 10 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:08.1 uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: irq 10, io base 0000d800 uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected AMD756: dev 1106:3104, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:08.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0a.0 ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: irq 11, pci mem 0a838f00 ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2003-Dec-29 hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 4 ports detected hub 2-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 3-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 3-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm at uk.sistina.com ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 3-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 3-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 3-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) hub 3-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 4. Maybe the USB cable is bad? usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 3-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) SCSI subsystem initialized Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 90.J Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 hub 3-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) USB Mass Storage device found at 2 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. sda: Spinning up disk...<6>usb 3-4: new high speed USB device using address 2 .<6>scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices .<5>Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. inserting floppy driver for 2.6.5-1.358 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Vendor: IC35L060 Model: AVVA07-0 Rev: VA3O Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sdb: 120103200 512-byte hdwr sectors (61493 MB) sdb: assuming drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 USB Mass Storage device found at 2 cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. Adding 522104k swap on /dev/hdb3. Priority:-1 extents:1 Adding 128480k swap on /dev/hda8. Priority:-2 extents:1 kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] parport0: irq 7 detected Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 AMD756: dev 10ec:8139, router pirq : 3 get irq : 5 PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0b.0 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcc00, 00:05:1c:1d:b7:3b, IRQ 5 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0 ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1023 buckets, 8184 max) - 296 bytes per conntrack 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 AMD756: dev 10ec:8139, router pirq : 3 get irq : 5 PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0b.0 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcc00, 00:05:1c:1d:b7:3b, IRQ 5 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] parport0: irq 7 detected lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready NET: Registered protocol family 10 Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 022db720(lo) IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0 eth0: no IPv6 routers present warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call Fix your initscripts? warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call Fix your initscripts? AMD756: dev 1274:1371, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0a.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:08.2 Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Is there anywhere that I can find out just what the messages mean that are thrown up about the usb buss and drivers as some messages one comes across can be very cryptic? Knowing that would mean its more likely that I could understand what is going on. Thanks very much for your help and your patience. Will let you know what happens over the next few days. That was a nice shot of your plane. Like someone else from Germany said, somewhat more that $40 to go flying here in Australia as well. I'd love to go up but my wallet isn't quite that large. Still, when I wind up my old HiLux diesel ute on the open road it 'feels' like one is about to take off. I'll have to settle for that. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The road to hell is paved with NAND gates. -- J. Gooding ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From Elton.Jones at thales-esecurity.com Thu Jul 22 10:00:21 2004 From: Elton.Jones at thales-esecurity.com (Jones, Elton) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:00:21 +0100 Subject: an error occurred when finding the packages to upgrade Message-ID: <89A3DC1D1CAA8B4C81479E14C972F223025EF10B@UKCRN08.crn.thales-esecurity.com> Thanks Rick but none of these things work I tried them both. I think it's a problem with the RPM package manager issue. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] Sent: 21 July 2004 18:22 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: an error occurred when finding the packages to upgrade Jones, Elton wrote: > When upgrading from 7.2 to 8.0 I receive the following error message > in > Graphical and text based install: > > > > an error occurred when finding the packages to upgrade > > > > Then the system reeboots. > > > > Although the message come after Boot Loader Configuration > > > > I feel this message is directly related to the section for "Selecting > packages to upgrade". > > > > As the error appears just before I get to this page > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/ > s1-upgrade-pkgsel.html This smells of a CDROM DMA issue. Assuming a standard config with your CD as the master drive on the secondary controller, you might try the upgrade again, but make the boot command off the CD: linux hdc=nodma and see if that helps. [idiotic email disclaimer removed] (diatribe about the absolute stupidity of email disclaimers kept to myself at great cost to my ulcers) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Yeah, but you're taking the universe out of context." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list 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 This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. You must not disclose, copy or rely on any part of this correspondence if you are not the intended recipient. If you have received this email in error, please delete it from your system and notify the System Administrator at Thales e-Security +44 (0)1844 201800 or mail postmaster at thales-esecurity.com From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 22 16:27:36 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:27:36 -0700 Subject: an error occurred when finding the packages to upgrade In-Reply-To: <89A3DC1D1CAA8B4C81479E14C972F223025EF10B@UKCRN08.crn.thales-esecurity.com> References: <89A3DC1D1CAA8B4C81479E14C972F223025EF10B@UKCRN08.crn.thales-esecurity.com> Message-ID: <40FFEAF8.9000202@vitalstream.com> Jones, Elton wrote: > Thanks Rick but none of these things work I tried them both. > > I think it's a problem with the > RPM package manager issue. Under the old OS, have you rebuilt the RPM database? That may fix it. Go to /var/lib/rpm and delete the "__db*" files (two underscores). Then, as root, run "rpm --rebuild-db". That rebuilds your RPM database. BTW, why are you upgrading to a defunct version of Linux? RH8.0 and RH9 are past end of life. Red Hat doesn't really offer a "free" linux anymore. They do support the Fedora project, so if you don't want to pay for Linux, upgrade to Fedora Core 1 or Fedora Core 2. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > Sent: 21 July 2004 18:22 > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: an error occurred when finding the packages to upgrade > > > Jones, Elton wrote: > >>When upgrading from 7.2 to 8.0 I receive the following error message >>in >>Graphical and text based install: >> >> >> >>an error occurred when finding the packages to upgrade >> >> >> >>Then the system reeboots. >> >> >> >>Although the message come after Boot Loader Configuration >> >> >> >>I feel this message is directly related to the section for "Selecting >>packages to upgrade". >> >> >> >>As the error appears just before I get to this page >> >>http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/ >>s1-upgrade-pkgsel.html > > > This smells of a CDROM DMA issue. Assuming a standard config with your CD > as the master drive on the secondary controller, you might try the upgrade > again, but make the boot command off the CD: > > linux hdc=nodma > > and see if that helps. > > [idiotic email disclaimer removed] > > (diatribe about the absolute stupidity of email disclaimers kept to myself > at great cost to my ulcers) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - "Yeah, but you're taking the universe out of context." - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended > solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. > You must not disclose, copy or rely on any part of this correspondence if > you are not the intended recipient. > If you have received this email in error, please delete it from your system > and notify the System Administrator at Thales e-Security +44 (0)1844 201800 > or mail postmaster at thales-esecurity.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - UNIX is actually quite user friendly. The problem is that it's - - just very picky of who its friends are! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 22 20:58:17 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:58:17 -0700 Subject: FC2 and USB disk problems In-Reply-To: <1090465575.3694.70.camel@barney.localdomain> References: <1090298387.5887.12.camel@barney.localdomain> <40FD4D8C.7010003@vitalstream.com> <1090378317.3693.48.camel@barney.localdomain> <40FEAC6D.1090203@vitalstream.com> <1090465575.3694.70.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: <41002A69.7030108@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 03:48, Rick Stevens wrote: >>I'll bet you find a second and third set of headers on the mobo. You >>seem to have one USB controller that uses the OHCI driver, two that use >>the UHCI driver and one (the 2.0 one) that uses the EHCI driver. > > > Hello Rick, you are absolutely 110% correct. Since 'talking' to you last > I have been poking around in the h'ware and guess what I found? Another > 2 port usb header (minus the pins) on the MB. So that makes 2 usb 1.1 > two port usb busses. The 4 port usb 2.0 pci card makes up the others FC2 > detected. I had the on-board usb disabled in the bios but when I checked > late yesterday I found that it was now enabled (should have checked that > earlier ;-)). I have again disabled them because I don't need them. This > probably occurred a couple of weeks ago when I booted the machine and it > went straight to the bios setup screen. I simply did a HD detect and > saved and exited. I should have gone right through the bios settings for > other changes. Hey, defecation occurs. :-) >>2.0 cables use different wire with lower capacitance between the >>conductors and better shielding. The speeds of 2.0 can cause severe >>crosstalk on 1.1 cables and make the bus very flakey. > > > OK, that means that I am using usb 2 cables as they have a clear plastic > coating through which I can see braided shielding. The best indicator is the logo on the cable. It should say "USB 2.0" or "Hi-Speed" or have the newer USB logo on it. Just looking at the shielding isn't a guarantee. >>>PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:08.2 >>>PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0a.0 >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: EHCI Host Controller >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: irq 11, pci mem 0a83af00 >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 >>>ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2003-Dec-29 >>>hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found >>>hub 4-0:1.0: 4 ports detected >>>hub 3-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled >> >>That still really bothers me. Its on the uhci 1.1 bus at IRQ 9. > > > I have come to the conclusion, rightly or wrongly, after disabling the > on-board usb, that there is something about the usb on this machine that > is unable to obtain port status or something. The first re-boot after > disabling the on-board usb resulted in me being asked to save or discard > the settings for the on-board usb. I answered to remove the config. > Below is the latest output from dmesg. FC2 still found the on-board usb > but doesn't appear to have tried to configure them whereas it did try to > setup the 4 port pci card. There are only three devices plugged into the > 4 ports, a scanner, a Zip drive and the external HD. Maybe the message > about the possible faulty cable has something to do with there being > nothing on that port. Also I never turn on the scanner at boot time. I > turn it on whenever I need to scan something. The pci usb card is > sharing irq 11 with the dev 1274:1371, not sure what this is, maybe the > on-board IrDA, which has no header pins btw. "lspci -vn" will show you what's on the PCI bus. Make note of the bus ID associated with that device, then run "lspci -v". Match up the bus IDs and you'll see what's what. Example: [root at prophead root]# lspci -vn (snip) 00:07.3 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 16) Subsystem: 0925:1234 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5 I/O ports at c800 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 (snip) [root at prophead root]# lspci -v (snip) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5 I/O ports at c800 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 (snip) Kernel 2.6 will give you similar stuff. You can find what's what on each bus by using "lsusb". > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed > ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) > ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64 > USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 > AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 4 get irq : 9 > PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:08.0 > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: UHCI Host Controller > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: irq 9, io base 0000d400 > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 > hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found > hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected > AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 1 get irq : 10 > PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:08.1 > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: UHCI Host Controller > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: irq 10, io base 0000d800 > uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 > hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found > hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected > AMD756: dev 1106:3104, router pirq : 2 get irq : 11 > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:08.2 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0a.0 > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: EHCI Host Controller > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: irq 11, pci mem 0a838f00 > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2003-Dec-29 > hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found > hub 3-0:1.0: 4 ports detected > hub 2-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 3-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 3-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm at uk.sistina.com > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 3-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 3-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 3-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > hub 3-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 4. Maybe the USB cable is bad? > usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 3-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > SCSI subsystem initialized > Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... > scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices > Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 90.J > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: port 4 reset error -110 > hub 3-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) > USB Mass Storage device found at 2 > usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage > USB Mass Storage support registered. > sda: Spinning up disk...<6>usb 3-4: new high speed USB device using > address 2 > .<6>scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices > .<5>Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. > Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. > Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. > inserting floppy driver for 2.6.5-1.358 > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 > Vendor: IC35L060 Model: AVVA07-0 Rev: VA3O > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > SCSI device sdb: 120103200 512-byte hdwr sectors (61493 MB) > sdb: assuming drive cache: write through > sdb: sdb1 > Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > USB Mass Storage device found at 2 Well, it found and spun up both this time. Congrats! > Is there anywhere that I can find out just what the messages mean that > are thrown up about the usb buss and drivers as some messages one comes > across can be very cryptic? Knowing that would mean its more likely that > I could understand what is going on. The commands I gave you above will help you identify the buses themselves and which devices are plugged into each. > Thanks very much for your help and your patience. Will let you know what > happens over the next few days. No problem. > That was a nice shot of your plane. Like someone else from Germany said, > somewhat more that $40 to go flying here in Australia as well. I'd love > to go up but my wallet isn't quite that large. Still, when I wind up my > old HiLux diesel ute on the open road it 'feels' like one is about to > take off. I'll have to settle for that. Egads! Well, that's not bad. I have a buddy with an Audi RS6 (450HP). Yes, it flies, but he's a maniac behind the wheel. I won't ride with him anymore. Plane stats: 1964 Piper Comanche 180 (PA-24/180), I'm the fourth owner 180HP, 4 cylinder Lycoming O-360-A1A engine Hartzell constant speed prop Retractable landing gear Manual flaps (8, 16, 24 degrees) IFR certified (avionics in the process of being updated) Cruise: 120 knots (140 MPH, 225 Km/H) @ 8000 feet on about 9 GPH She flies very nicely. I'm upgrading the avionics and the interior (red vinyl and cloth--looks like a 1950s diner...yuck!) To sum her up in terminology you'd recognize, mechanically she's "stout as a truck- drivin' Sheila" and her exterior "is a right beaut!" ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Duct Tape + Magic Marker = Label Maker! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Thu Jul 22 22:19:04 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:19:04 -0600 (MDT) Subject: ftp/sftp Message-ID: <37303.207.173.117.242.1090534744.squirrel@207.173.117.242> I have a client who needs to be able to use ftp (wu-ftpd is running). They use ftp from inside the network and sftp from outside. Earlier today I setup the server (RH kernel 2.4.18-14) so their reports could be written from an AS400 to /var/www/html. Previously it was setup to go to /var/www/html/cmc. Since the change, sftp works but ftp doesn't. Oh, major part. I changed the owner and group for their login from nnn to 48, the same as apache. Then I tested it and it worked fine. or so I thought. Any ideas? Karl From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 22 22:45:53 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:45:53 -0700 Subject: ftp/sftp In-Reply-To: <37303.207.173.117.242.1090534744.squirrel@207.173.117.242> References: <37303.207.173.117.242.1090534744.squirrel@207.173.117.242> Message-ID: <410043A1.7050407@vitalstream.com> karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > I have a client who needs to be able to use ftp (wu-ftpd is running). They > use ftp from inside the network and sftp from outside. Earlier today I > setup the server (RH kernel 2.4.18-14) so their reports could be written > from an AS400 to /var/www/html. Previously it was setup to go to > /var/www/html/cmc. Since the change, sftp works but ftp doesn't. > > Oh, major part. I changed the owner and group for their login from nnn to > 48, the same as apache. Then I tested it and it worked fine. or so I > thought. The /var/www/html directory must be writable by user ID 48 or by their group. I'll bet the /var/www/html/cmc directory was owned by their old UID. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - 500: Internal Fortune Cookie Error - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Fri Jul 23 00:18:12 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 18:18:12 -0600 (MDT) Subject: ftp/sftp In-Reply-To: <410043A1.7050407@vitalstream.com> References: <37303.207.173.117.242.1090534744.squirrel@207.173.117.242> <410043A1.7050407@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <16620.198.60.114.90.1090541892.squirrel@198.60.114.90> > > The /var/www/html directory must be writable by user ID 48 or by their > group. I'll bet the /var/www/html/cmc directory was owned by their old > UID. Nope, I checked all that before even changing the home directory for their login. Everything all the way down the filesystem is chmod apache.apache. I checked ftpusers, ftpaccess and nothing there is limiting apache/client user from accessing anything in /var/www/html. Karl From Elton.Jones at thales-esecurity.com Fri Jul 23 07:39:25 2004 From: Elton.Jones at thales-esecurity.com (Jones, Elton) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:39:25 +0100 Subject: an error occurred when finding the packages to upgrade Message-ID: <89A3DC1D1CAA8B4C81479E14C972F223025EF124@UKCRN08.crn.thales-esecurity.com> Thanks that did fix the problem. Im using it to test some software and it support a minimum of 8.0. I need to test the lowest version available. Thanks again Elton -----Original Message----- From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] Sent: 22 July 2004 17:28 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: an error occurred when finding the packages to upgrade Jones, Elton wrote: > Thanks Rick but none of these things work I tried them both. > > I think it's a problem with the > RPM package manager issue. Under the old OS, have you rebuilt the RPM database? That may fix it. Go to /var/lib/rpm and delete the "__db*" files (two underscores). Then, as root, run "rpm --rebuild-db". That rebuilds your RPM database. BTW, why are you upgrading to a defunct version of Linux? RH8.0 and RH9 are past end of life. Red Hat doesn't really offer a "free" linux anymore. They do support the Fedora project, so if you don't want to pay for Linux, upgrade to Fedora Core 1 or Fedora Core 2. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > Sent: 21 July 2004 18:22 > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: an error occurred when finding the packages to upgrade > > > Jones, Elton wrote: > >>When upgrading from 7.2 to 8.0 I receive the following error message >>in >>Graphical and text based install: >> >> >> >>an error occurred when finding the packages to upgrade >> >> >> >>Then the system reeboots. >> >> >> >>Although the message come after Boot Loader Configuration >> >> >> >>I feel this message is directly related to the section for "Selecting >>packages to upgrade". >> >> >> >>As the error appears just before I get to this page >> >>http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/ >>s1-upgrade-pkgsel.html > > > This smells of a CDROM DMA issue. Assuming a standard config with > your CD as the master drive on the secondary controller, you might try > the upgrade again, but make the boot command off the CD: > > linux hdc=nodma > > and see if that helps. > > [idiotic email disclaimer removed] > > (diatribe about the absolute stupidity of email disclaimers kept to > myself at great cost to my ulcers) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - "Yeah, but you're taking the universe out of context." - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list 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 > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. 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If you have received this email in error, please delete it from your system and notify the System Administrator at Thales e-Security +44 (0)1844 201800 or mail postmaster at thales-esecurity.com From stevekasian at yahoo.com Fri Jul 23 08:57:33 2004 From: stevekasian at yahoo.com (Steve Kasian) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 01:57:33 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" Message-ID: <20040723085733.93952.qmail@web52509.mail.yahoo.com> Hi. I am writing about a problem that seems to be fairly common, yet nobody has ever offered up a solution or any useful advice for getting past it in the last 2 years anywhere I've found on the net. Upon attempting to install RedHat Linux (in my case v9), I am greeted with the exact same stack dump everyone else has reported with this problem, followed by: "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" followed by an immediate system hang. The only keys that work beyond this point are some combinations of Ctrl/Alt PrintScrn-SysRq/Pause-Break, but they just spit out useless information. I have tried every single variation of commands available from the Boot : prompt, and to no avail. I have tried everything everyone on the net has offered up as a solution to others with this problem, and to no avail. I am attempting to install RedHat Linux 9 using the following: Motherboard: Soyo KT-400 Dragon Ultra Platinum Edition(No onboard video) Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Memory: 512MB Samsung DDR333 RAM HDD: 40GB Maxtor UATA/133 The motherboard has various onboard components which have all been switched off in the bios, just to be on the safe side. 'Didn't help at all. Just like everyone else, I have used multiple media types/installation methods to the exact same end. I downloaded and burned the very latest version of ISO CD1 tonight, as I thought there might be an update included in it which would address this issue. Still didn't work. I am lost. I would very much appreciate it if someone could send some --useful-- advice my way!! If I could afford it, I'd offer a reward!! Please, no complaints about my text not being exactly how you like to read it, etc... this is childish and pointless. I am only looking for responses from those of you whom actually KNOW EXACTLY what the deal is with this error, and can give me an educated response as to how I can correct it. No "iffy" suggestions please. I have spent literally weeks going through hundreds of suggestions and had absolutely no luck with any of them getting me anywhere other than frustrated as all heck. Thanks... -Steve __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From akelly at transparency.org Fri Jul 23 09:52:06 2004 From: akelly at transparency.org (Andrew Kelly) Date: 23 Jul 2004 11:52:06 +0200 Subject: DNS slave servers [WAS Re: Umask and redhat (updated)] In-Reply-To: <40FD5271.9030003@vitalstream.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FF@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> <40F86D7B.6010902@vitalstream.com> <1090225203.4129.5.camel@hermes.at.home> <40FC099E.1050702@vitalstream.com> <1090309335.4128.57.camel@hermes.at.home> <40FD5271.9030003@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1090576325.4130.101.camel@hermes.at.home> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 19:12, Rick Stevens wrote: > Ah, but it'll win you bets in the local bar! I gave up bars years ago, but I'm always good for a bet. > >>take you up in the '64 Piper Comanche 180. See: > > > > > > If I were withing 5 hours of you, I'd already be on the way. > > > > > >> http://www.rhil.net/docs/N8365P.jpeg > > > > > > Sexy ride. But what's that funny spinny thing on the nose? > > :-) > > Well, since you're in Germany, I figured you should see what the BMW > logo is based on and how it works. Thhhhpt! OK, I get the bowel movement part, but what's the W for? > > I only have 39 starts and 7 hours of stick time, but I don't recall any > > moving parts up front. > > Oh, so you're a kerosene pusher. One power control. Wimp! I've got > THREE! Add in manual flaps and retractable gear and landings are busy > times. Wrong direction, you noisy fossile fuel burning person. Gravity is my throttle. I ride the wind! I am king of the [whack!].. sorry. > We can do that. We have something called "VitalDNS", which is a widely > deployed, heavily redundant DNS with servers in Los Angeles, CA, Irvine, > CA and Ashburn, VA (outside of Washington D.C.). I'm not 100% certain > we offer this as a stand-alone service, but you can email our sales gang > at sales at vitalstream.com and they'll see what they can do. I've already > alerted them to expect your message. No obligation. Et tu, Brute? Thanks, but for commercial solutions I already have enough sources. I'm only talking about 5 zone files, which contain less than 10 hosts total. I was thinking about a one-hand-washes-the-other kind of thing. Thanks for the effort, though. Andy From kens at geodax.com Fri Jul 23 14:16:33 2004 From: kens at geodax.com (Ken Scott) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:16:33 -0400 Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" In-Reply-To: <20040723085733.93952.qmail@web52509.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040723085733.93952.qmail@web52509.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1090592192.21693.139.camel@KENS02L> On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 04:57, Steve Kasian wrote: > Please, no complaints about my text not being exactly how you like to > read it, etc... this is childish and pointless. I am only looking for > responses from those of you whom actually KNOW EXACTLY what the deal is > with this error, and can give me an educated response as to how I can > correct it. No "iffy" suggestions please. I have spent literally weeks > going through hundreds of suggestions and had absolutely no luck with > any of them getting me anywhere other than frustrated as all heck. > > Thanks... > > -Steve Respectfully, if only those that have a large enough crystal ball to recognize the EXACT solution to your apparently complex problem given the various combinations of system configurations, BIOS settings, and hardware versions that exist then probably no one will answer at all. Instead the contributors to this list and others (as far as I can see) try to add value to the community by giving the results of their experiences and suggestions to possible directions to take were they addressing your problem. This process means that not all comments will apply. If this is not acceptable, you have alternatives (M$ tech Support is oh so helpful). And besides, a drowning man should not reject a "too-small" life preserver now should he? Good luck with your issue. From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Fri Jul 23 15:41:21 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:41:21 -0700 Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B912@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Kasian [mailto:stevekasian at yahoo.com] > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 1:58 AM > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" > > Please, no complaints about my text not being exactly how you > like to read it, etc... this is childish and pointless. I > am only looking for responses from those of you whom actually > KNOW EXACTLY what the deal is with this error, and can give > me an educated response as to how I can correct it. No > "iffy" suggestions please. I have spent literally weeks > going through hundreds of suggestions and had absolutely no > luck with any of them getting me anywhere other than > frustrated as all heck. > > Thanks... > > -Steve Well dude, I was going to reply and ask if you started the install with the nousb switch or any others. But seeing as how my response is iffy... Maybe I won't. I understand your upset and frustrated, but taking it out on people HERE isn't the answer. From stevekasian at yahoo.com Fri Jul 23 16:20:55 2004 From: stevekasian at yahoo.com (Steve Kasian) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:20:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" In-Reply-To: <1090592192.21693.139.camel@KENS02L> Message-ID: <20040723162055.76197.qmail@web52503.mail.yahoo.com> --- Ken Scott wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 04:57, Steve Kasian wrote: > > > Please, no complaints about my text not being exactly how you like > to > > read it, etc... this is childish and pointless. I am only looking > for > > responses from those of you whom actually KNOW EXACTLY what the deal > is > > with this error, and can give me an educated response as to how I > can > > correct it. No "iffy" suggestions please. I have spent literally > weeks > > going through hundreds of suggestions and had absolutely no luck > with > > any of them getting me anywhere other than frustrated as all heck. > > > > Thanks... > > > > -Steve > Respectfully, if only those that have a large enough crystal ball to > recognize the EXACT solution to your apparently complex problem given > the various combinations of system configurations, BIOS settings, and > hardware versions that exist then probably no one will answer at all. > Instead the contributors to this list and others (as far as I can see) > try to add value to the community by giving the results of their > experiences and suggestions to possible directions to take were they > addressing your problem. This process means that not all comments > will > apply. If this is not acceptable, you have alternatives (M$ tech > Support is oh so helpful). And besides, a drowning man should not > reject a "too-small" life preserver now should he? > > Good luck with your issue. As I said, Scott, I am not interested in responses from idiots like yourself whom obviously have nothing better to do than raise hate and discontent (veiled by sarcastic "Respectfully," pretexts) in mailing lists and forums. Time wasters like you are the reason searching forums, newsgroups and mailing lists is such a pain in the ass. We don't want to read your empty-headed contributions. If I wanted a foolish response and had your email address, I would have sent an email directly to you personally. Now that I have your email address, I'll remember to put you first in the address field of any future announcement I might find myself sending out asking for idiotic responses. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail From stevekasian at yahoo.com Fri Jul 23 16:31:14 2004 From: stevekasian at yahoo.com (Steve Kasian) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" In-Reply-To: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B912@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Message-ID: <20040723163114.28246.qmail@web52507.mail.yahoo.com> --- "Waldher, Travis R" wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Steve Kasian [mailto:stevekasian at yahoo.com] > > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 1:58 AM > > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" > > > > Please, no complaints about my text not being exactly how you > > like to read it, etc... this is childish and pointless. I > > am only looking for responses from those of you whom actually > > KNOW EXACTLY what the deal is with this error, and can give > > me an educated response as to how I can correct it. No > > "iffy" suggestions please. I have spent literally weeks > > going through hundreds of suggestions and had absolutely no > > luck with any of them getting me anywhere other than > > frustrated as all heck. > > > > Thanks... > > > > -Steve > > Well dude, I was going to reply and ask if you started the install > with > the nousb switch or any others. > > But seeing as how my response is iffy... Maybe I won't. > > I understand your upset and frustrated, but taking it out on people > HERE > isn't the answer. Travis... once again, another empty-headed response from someone who has no business replying in the first place. The only people taking anything out on anyone here are people like yourself, who respond with stupid, pointless emails. I tell you I'm not interested in hearing from people like yourself, so you respond anyway... just out of spite? Grow up and get a life out from behind your monitor. This is the exact reason why I have sat on this issue and never posted anything about it anywhere on the net for the last YEAR... because I just KNEW there would be nothing but a bunch of losers out there like the last two idiots filling up the thread with a bunch of worthless B.S. I thought maybe I'd finally found a forum where there might be some level of intelligence. Apparently I was wrong. Good luck, everyone. I'm out. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/ From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 23 16:38:08 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:38:08 -0700 Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" In-Reply-To: <20040723085733.93952.qmail@web52509.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040723085733.93952.qmail@web52509.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <41013EF0.8020909@vitalstream.com> Steve Kasian wrote: > Hi. I am writing about a problem that seems to be fairly common, yet > nobody has ever offered up a solution or any useful advice for getting > past it in the last 2 years anywhere I've found on the net. > > Upon attempting to install RedHat Linux (in my case v9), I am greeted > with the exact same stack dump everyone else has reported with this > problem, followed by: > > "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" > > followed by an immediate system hang. The only keys that work beyond > this point are some combinations of Ctrl/Alt > PrintScrn-SysRq/Pause-Break, but they just spit out useless information. > > I have tried every single variation of commands available from the Boot > : prompt, and to no avail. I have tried everything everyone on the net > has offered up as a solution to others with this problem, and to no > avail. > > I am attempting to install RedHat Linux 9 using the following: > > Motherboard: Soyo KT-400 Dragon Ultra Platinum Edition(No onboard video) > Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ > Memory: 512MB Samsung DDR333 RAM > HDD: 40GB Maxtor UATA/133 > > The motherboard has various onboard components which have all been > switched off in the bios, just to be on the safe side. 'Didn't help at > all. > > Just like everyone else, I have used multiple media types/installation > methods to the exact same end. > > I downloaded and burned the very latest version of ISO CD1 tonight, as I > thought there might be an update included in it which would address this > issue. Still didn't work. > > I am lost. I would very much appreciate it if someone could send some > --useful-- advice my way!! If I could afford it, I'd offer a reward!! > > Please, no complaints about my text not being exactly how you like to > read it, etc... this is childish and pointless. I am only looking for > responses from those of you whom actually KNOW EXACTLY what the deal is > with this error, and can give me an educated response as to how I can > correct it. No "iffy" suggestions please. I have spent literally weeks > going through hundreds of suggestions and had absolutely no luck with > any of them getting me anywhere other than frustrated as all heck. As far as iffy answers go, that is a very, VERY generic message that can be caused by a whole bunch of different things. Telling us that you only want definitive answers is absolutely guaranteed to not elicit any responses here. You've already made up your mind that _you_ are the best judge of this. You aren't. Now, I used a similar board many moons ago and had few issues. First off, test the memory. Download memtest86 from http://www.memtest86.com and test the hell out of it. Open the box and remove and reseat ALL of your PCI cards, memory sticks and the CPU. It's amazing how many machines that fixes. A little dirt or card misalignment can really hose the machine. Next, do NOT install using the default ext3 filesystems. If you get to the disk partitioning screen (disk druid), manually partition your drive and make sure the partitions are set up with ext2 filesystems. You can convert to ext3 after the system is installed. I doubt seriously that you've used every option at the boot prompt. It would help if you can give us a list of the ones you have used. For example, did you use "noapic"? Finally, drop the vitriol. The people who contribute to this list are all volunteers--not one of us is a Red Hat employee nor do we receive ANY form of recompense for our efforts beyond the gratitude of people we help. An attitude such as yours is guaranteed to elicit either no response at all, or worse, a cascade of hate messages casting aspersions about your ancestry and what your siblings do to each other. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - BASIC is the Computer Science version of `Scientific Creationism' - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 23 16:39:22 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:39:22 -0700 Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" In-Reply-To: <20040723163114.28246.qmail@web52507.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040723163114.28246.qmail@web52507.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <41013F3A.7020702@vitalstream.com> Steve Kasian wrote: > --- "Waldher, Travis R" wrote: > >> >> >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Steve Kasian [mailto:stevekasian at yahoo.com] >>>Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 1:58 AM >>>To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com >>>Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" >>> >>>Please, no complaints about my text not being exactly how you >>>like to read it, etc... this is childish and pointless. I >>>am only looking for responses from those of you whom actually >>>KNOW EXACTLY what the deal is with this error, and can give >>>me an educated response as to how I can correct it. No >>>"iffy" suggestions please. I have spent literally weeks >>>going through hundreds of suggestions and had absolutely no >>>luck with any of them getting me anywhere other than >>>frustrated as all heck. >>> >>>Thanks... >>> >>>-Steve >> >>Well dude, I was going to reply and ask if you started the install >>with >>the nousb switch or any others. >> >>But seeing as how my response is iffy... Maybe I won't. >> >>I understand your upset and frustrated, but taking it out on people >>HERE >>isn't the answer. > > > > Travis... once again, another empty-headed response from someone who has > no business replying in the first place. The only people taking > anything out on anyone here are people like yourself, who respond with > stupid, pointless emails. I tell you I'm not interested in hearing from > people like yourself, so you respond anyway... just out of spite? Grow > up and get a life out from behind your monitor. > > This is the exact reason why I have sat on this issue and never posted > anything about it anywhere on the net for the last YEAR... because I > just KNEW there would be nothing but a bunch of losers out there like > the last two idiots filling up the thread with a bunch of worthless B.S. > I thought maybe I'd finally found a forum where there might be some > level of intelligence. Apparently I was wrong. > > Good luck, everyone. I'm out. Fine. Good riddance. Jesus! He comes here asking for help, then calls us names, gets pissed off and leaves. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 23 16:42:56 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:42:56 -0700 Subject: DNS slave servers [WAS Re: Umask and redhat (updated)] In-Reply-To: <1090576325.4130.101.camel@hermes.at.home> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FF@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> <40F86D7B.6010902@vitalstream.com> <1090225203.4129.5.camel@hermes.at.home> <40FC099E.1050702@vitalstream.com> <1090309335.4128.57.camel@hermes.at.home> <40FD5271.9030003@vitalstream.com> <1090576325.4130.101.camel@hermes.at.home> Message-ID: <41014010.7000303@vitalstream.com> Andrew Kelly wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 19:12, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>Ah, but it'll win you bets in the local bar! > > > I gave up bars years ago, but I'm always good for a bet. > > >>>>take you up in the '64 Piper Comanche 180. See: >>> >>> >>>If I were withing 5 hours of you, I'd already be on the way. >>> >>> >>>> http://www.rhil.net/docs/N8365P.jpeg >>> >>> >>>Sexy ride. But what's that funny spinny thing on the nose? >>>:-) >> >>Well, since you're in Germany, I figured you should see what the BMW >>logo is based on and how it works. Thhhhpt! > > > OK, I get the bowel movement part, but what's the W for? > Heheheh! I meant the prop analogy. > >>>I only have 39 starts and 7 hours of stick time, but I don't recall any >>>moving parts up front. >> >>Oh, so you're a kerosene pusher. One power control. Wimp! I've got >>THREE! Add in manual flaps and retractable gear and landings are busy >>times. > > > Wrong direction, you noisy fossile fuel burning person. Gravity is my > throttle. I ride the wind! I am king of the [whack!].. > sorry. Ah, a sailplane guy. You've obviously not been in a Grob. >>We can do that. We have something called "VitalDNS", which is a widely >>deployed, heavily redundant DNS with servers in Los Angeles, CA, Irvine, >>CA and Ashburn, VA (outside of Washington D.C.). I'm not 100% certain >>we offer this as a stand-alone service, but you can email our sales gang >>at sales at vitalstream.com and they'll see what they can do. I've already >>alerted them to expect your message. No obligation. > > > > > Et tu, Brute? > > Thanks, but for commercial solutions I already have enough sources. > I'm only talking about 5 zone files, which contain less than 10 hosts > total. I was thinking about a one-hand-washes-the-other kind of thing. > > Thanks for the effort, though. I'd comp you if I could, but can't sneak that one in. We use a system we wrote that uses a database instead of zone files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Fri Jul 23 16:43:47 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:43:47 -0700 Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B913@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Kasian [mailto:stevekasian at yahoo.com] > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 9:31 AM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: RE: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" > > --- "Waldher, Travis R" wrote: > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Steve Kasian [mailto:stevekasian at yahoo.com] > > > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 1:58 AM > > > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > > Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" > > > > > > Please, no complaints about my text not being exactly how > you like > > > to read it, etc... this is childish and pointless. I am only > > > looking for responses from those of you whom actually > KNOW EXACTLY > > > what the deal is with this error, and can give me an educated > > > response as to how I can correct it. No "iffy" > suggestions please. > > > I have spent literally weeks going through hundreds of > suggestions > > > and had absolutely no luck with any of them getting me anywhere > > > other than frustrated as all heck. > > > > > > Thanks... > > > > > > -Steve > > > > Well dude, I was going to reply and ask if you started the install > > with the nousb switch or any others. > > > > But seeing as how my response is iffy... Maybe I won't. > > > > I understand your upset and frustrated, but taking it out on people > > HERE isn't the answer. > > > Travis... once again, another empty-headed response from > someone who has > no business replying in the first place. The only people taking > anything out on anyone here are people like yourself, who respond with > stupid, pointless emails. I tell you I'm not interested in > hearing from > people like yourself, so you respond anyway... just out of > spite? Grow > up and get a life out from behind your monitor. > > This is the exact reason why I have sat on this issue and never posted > anything about it anywhere on the net for the last YEAR... because I > just KNEW there would be nothing but a bunch of losers out there like > the last two idiots filling up the thread with a bunch of > worthless B.S. > I thought maybe I'd finally found a forum where there might be some > level of intelligence. Apparently I was wrong. > > Good luck, everyone. I'm out. > Pot - kettle - black. My reply was laced with sarcasm due to your disrespect for those on this list. If you want help, I would suggest posting up here with an appropriately polite email. Not an email implying that everyone that is going to respond will be a "empty-headed" type person that will ask "stupid" questions or offer up "iffy" answers. All those answers you consider "Iffy" may actually lead you to the solution. I did offer something up, you chose to ignore it. **** WHAT switches did you use during setup? Any? **** Your post never stated that you did. From stevekasian at yahoo.com Fri Jul 23 18:52:41 2004 From: stevekasian at yahoo.com (Steve Kasian) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:52:41 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" In-Reply-To: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B913@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Message-ID: <20040723185241.37031.qmail@web52509.mail.yahoo.com> --- "Waldher, Travis R" wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Steve Kasian [mailto:stevekasian at yahoo.com] > > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 9:31 AM > > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > Subject: RE: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill > init!" > > > > --- "Waldher, Travis R" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Steve Kasian [mailto:stevekasian at yahoo.com] > > > > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 1:58 AM > > > > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > > > Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill > init!" > > > > > > > > Please, no complaints about my text not being exactly how > > you like > > > > to read it, etc... this is childish and pointless. I am only > > > > looking for responses from those of you whom actually > > KNOW EXACTLY > > > > what the deal is with this error, and can give me an educated > > > > response as to how I can correct it. No "iffy" > > suggestions please. > > > > I have spent literally weeks going through hundreds of > > suggestions > > > > and had absolutely no luck with any of them getting me anywhere > > > > other than frustrated as all heck. > > > > > > > > Thanks... > > > > > > > > -Steve > > > > > > Well dude, I was going to reply and ask if you started the install > > > > with the nousb switch or any others. > > > > > > But seeing as how my response is iffy... Maybe I won't. > > > > > > I understand your upset and frustrated, but taking it out on > people > > > HERE isn't the answer. > > > > > > Travis... once again, another empty-headed response from > > someone who has > > no business replying in the first place. The only people taking > > anything out on anyone here are people like yourself, who respond > with > > stupid, pointless emails. I tell you I'm not interested in > > hearing from > > people like yourself, so you respond anyway... just out of > > spite? Grow > > up and get a life out from behind your monitor. > > > > This is the exact reason why I have sat on this issue and never > posted > > anything about it anywhere on the net for the last YEAR... because I > > just KNEW there would be nothing but a bunch of losers out there > like > > the last two idiots filling up the thread with a bunch of > > worthless B.S. > > I thought maybe I'd finally found a forum where there might be some > > level of intelligence. Apparently I was wrong. > > > > Good luck, everyone. I'm out. > > > > Pot - kettle - black. > > My reply was laced with sarcasm due to your disrespect for those on > this > list. If you want help, I would suggest posting up here with an > appropriately polite email. Not an email implying that everyone that > is > going to respond will be a "empty-headed" type person that will ask > "stupid" questions or offer up "iffy" answers. All those answers you > consider "Iffy" may actually lead you to the solution. > > I did offer something up, you chose to ignore it. > > **** WHAT switches did you use during setup? Any? **** > > Your post never stated that you did. Travis- Your response was laced with sarcasm due to the fact that you just couldn't leave well enough alone when you didn't have anything worth posting that would fit the criteria I laid out for responses I was interested in receiving. Your interpretation of my "implication" is simply a product of your own guilty concience. At least you're self aware, I'll give you that much. Rick, Thanks for your more mature and enlightening approach. It's much appreciated. I'll heed your advice on the political end of things. I was just hoping someone out there might read this post and have a light bulb go off in their head, suddenly remembering having encountered this specific problem in the past, either themselves or through someone else, and might remember a fix for it. That's the only reason I said I wasn't interested in iffy ideas. I've read countless slews of suggestions thrown back to people who have posted with this exact problem and nothing ever resolved the issue for them. Heck, even on RedHat's own Bug forum, the techs who replied ended up CLOSING out the issues without a resolution. Sounds like it was something to be swept under the rug as far as they were concerned, eh? As for the issue at hand, I can't seem to get past the Boot: prompt... ever. It just won't go. I have tried noapic, noathlon, i386, text, etc... I've run the whole gamut, but nothing works. (I've actually forgotten how many of the parameters I've tried, as there were so many.) It tells me it's loading 3 things at the bottom of the screen, then the screen clears and a whole bunch of information gets dumped to the screen at lightning speed, as is normal, but then it suddenly crashes with the error. As far as the components are concerned, everything is working properly. I run Win98SE and WinXP on the same machine (multiple HDDs) and it's the smoothest running and most flawless box I've ever used. That's one reason why I'm so blown away by this. I'm almost convinced it's a hardware compatibility related issue - such as the processor, motherboard chipset, etc. I don't find any Soyo products listed on the RedHat site under certified compatible hardware, but Soyo swears up and down that there's no problem with the compatibility of their board with RedHat Linux. It's quite possible they're full of crap in claiming that, however. I can say that everyone else who's posted about this issue has had an AMD motherboard. It could be the AMD processor, the motherboard and chipset, or both. I just don't know. Yes, I manually partitioned the Linux partition (using Partition Magic), formatting it with an Ext2 filesystem. But unfortunately, I'm not even getting close to the point where the HDD becomes an issue. How is Fedora Core 2 as an OS? Maybe I should try installing that instead. Thanks again, Rick. -Steve __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Fri Jul 23 19:21:36 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:21:36 -0700 Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB017EAFAA@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Kasian [mailto:stevekasian at yahoo.com] > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 11:53 AM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: RE: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" > > > > Travis- > > Your response was laced with sarcasm due to the fact that you > just couldn't leave well enough alone when you didn't have > anything worth posting that would fit the criteria I laid out > for responses I was interested in receiving. Your > interpretation of my "implication" is simply a product of > your own guilty concience. At least you're self aware, I'll > give you that much. > > > Rick, > > > As for the issue at hand, I can't seem to get past the Boot: > prompt... > ever. It just won't go. I have tried noapic, noathlon, > i386, text, etc... I've run the whole gamut, but nothing > works. (I've actually forgotten how many of the parameters > I've tried, as there were so many.) It tells me it's loading > 3 things at the bottom of the screen, then the screen clears > and a whole bunch of information gets dumped to the screen at > lightning speed, as is normal, but then it suddenly crashes > with the error. Odd... Didn't I ask you to supply that info, TWICE no less? Why did I ask? I've seen Redhat fail to install more than a few times unless the nousb or noapic switch was used. Next thing up is, is your system REALLY ok. As rick said, memory test. Just because Windows 9x runs on it, doesn't mean that linux will even boot on it, it also doesn't mean the computer's hardware is ok, which also means there may be NOTHING wrong with linux itself. Ever consider those you just slammed (in your initial post), may just be the ones that have indirect info to help you solve your problems? K.. Nuff of this, I have better things to do From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 23 20:27:46 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:27:46 -0700 Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" In-Reply-To: <20040723185241.37031.qmail@web52509.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040723185241.37031.qmail@web52509.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <410174C2.1030100@vitalstream.com> Steve Kasian wrote: > --- "Waldher, Travis R" wrote: > >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Steve Kasian [mailto:stevekasian at yahoo.com] >>>Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 9:31 AM >>>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >>>Subject: RE: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill >> >>init!" >> >>>--- "Waldher, Travis R" wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>>From: Steve Kasian [mailto:stevekasian at yahoo.com] >>>>>Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 1:58 AM >>>>>To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com >>>>>Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill >> >>init!" >> >>>>>Please, no complaints about my text not being exactly how >>> >>>you like >>> >>>>>to read it, etc... this is childish and pointless. I am only >>>>>looking for responses from those of you whom actually >>> >>>KNOW EXACTLY >>> >>>>>what the deal is with this error, and can give me an educated >>>>>response as to how I can correct it. No "iffy" >>> >>>suggestions please. >>> >>>>>I have spent literally weeks going through hundreds of >>> >>>suggestions >>> >>>>>and had absolutely no luck with any of them getting me anywhere >>>>>other than frustrated as all heck. >>>>> >>>>>Thanks... >>>>> >>>>>-Steve >>>> >>>>Well dude, I was going to reply and ask if you started the install >> >>>>with the nousb switch or any others. >>>> >>>>But seeing as how my response is iffy... Maybe I won't. >>>> >>>>I understand your upset and frustrated, but taking it out on >> >>people >> >>>>HERE isn't the answer. >>> >>> >>>Travis... once again, another empty-headed response from >>>someone who has >>>no business replying in the first place. The only people taking >>>anything out on anyone here are people like yourself, who respond >> >>with >> >>>stupid, pointless emails. I tell you I'm not interested in >>>hearing from >>>people like yourself, so you respond anyway... just out of >>>spite? Grow >>>up and get a life out from behind your monitor. >>> >>>This is the exact reason why I have sat on this issue and never >> >>posted >> >>>anything about it anywhere on the net for the last YEAR... because I >>>just KNEW there would be nothing but a bunch of losers out there >> >>like >> >>>the last two idiots filling up the thread with a bunch of >>>worthless B.S. >>> I thought maybe I'd finally found a forum where there might be some >>>level of intelligence. Apparently I was wrong. >>> >>>Good luck, everyone. I'm out. >>> >> >>Pot - kettle - black. >> >>My reply was laced with sarcasm due to your disrespect for those on >>this >>list. If you want help, I would suggest posting up here with an >>appropriately polite email. Not an email implying that everyone that >>is >>going to respond will be a "empty-headed" type person that will ask >>"stupid" questions or offer up "iffy" answers. All those answers you >>consider "Iffy" may actually lead you to the solution. >> >>I did offer something up, you chose to ignore it. >> >>**** WHAT switches did you use during setup? Any? **** >> >>Your post never stated that you did. > > > > Travis- > > Your response was laced with sarcasm due to the fact that you just > couldn't leave well enough alone when you didn't have anything worth > posting that would fit the criteria I laid out for responses I was > interested in receiving. Your interpretation of my "implication" is > simply a product of your own guilty concience. At least you're self > aware, I'll give you that much. > > > Rick, > > Thanks for your more mature and enlightening approach. It's much > appreciated. I'll heed your advice on the political end of things. > I was just hoping someone out there might read this post and have a > light bulb go off in their head, suddenly remembering having encountered > this specific problem in the past, either themselves or through someone > else, and might remember a fix for it. That's the only reason I said I > wasn't interested in iffy ideas. I've read countless slews of > suggestions thrown back to people who have posted with this exact > problem and nothing ever resolved the issue for them. Heck, even on > RedHat's own Bug forum, the techs who replied ended up CLOSING out the > issues without a resolution. Sounds like it was something to be swept > under the rug as far as they were concerned, eh? > > As for the issue at hand, I can't seem to get past the Boot: prompt... > ever. It just won't go. I have tried noapic, noathlon, i386, text, > etc... I've run the whole gamut, but nothing works. (I've actually > forgotten how many of the parameters I've tried, as there were so many.) > It tells me it's loading 3 things at the bottom of the screen, then the > screen clears and a whole bunch of information gets dumped to the screen > at lightning speed, as is normal, but then it suddenly crashes with the > error. > > As far as the components are concerned, everything is working properly. > I run Win98SE and WinXP on the same machine (multiple HDDs) and it's the > smoothest running and most flawless box I've ever used. That's one > reason why I'm so blown away by this. Still test the memory. I've seen bad RAM run on Windows a lot, but flat won't work with Linux. Weird, but true. Kernel panics at install boots are almost always caused by bad RAM or some issue with CPU overclocking or memory sharing. If you could try the install using a serial console and posting the results of the "info at lightning speed", I may be able to decipher what's happening a bit more. > I'm almost convinced it's a hardware compatibility related issue - such > as the processor, motherboard chipset, etc. I don't find any Soyo > products listed on the RedHat site under certified compatible hardware, > but Soyo swears up and down that there's no problem with the > compatibility of their board with RedHat Linux. It's quite possible > they're full of crap in claiming that, however. We run a number of Soyo Athlon mobos here...sorry, can't recall the model numbers offhand. The only things I can recall with them is that one beastie did require "ide=nodma noapic" to do the install. Once the production kernel was up, it could be removed and a subsequent BIOS upgrade allowed a reinstall without the "ide=nodma". The "noapic" was still needed resulting in a very tiny performance reduction. > I can say that everyone else who's posted about this issue has had an > AMD motherboard. It could be the AMD processor, the motherboard and > chipset, or both. I just don't know. I run AMDs almost exclusively myself (three of the four machines at home are AMDs...one Opteron, a 2000 XP and a 2400XP) and my last laptop was AMD (new one is a P4). I prefer AMD over Intel...even the 686 kernels run faster on Athlon than on Intel--the Athlon-optimized kernels are mondo quick! > Yes, I manually partitioned the Linux partition (using Partition Magic), > formatting it with an Ext2 filesystem. But unfortunately, I'm not even > getting close to the point where the HDD becomes an issue. > > How is Fedora Core 2 as an OS? Maybe I should try installing that > instead. I use both FC1 and FC2. We have a number of customers on FC1 and my 18-box mail system (3 outgoing SMTP, 2 incoming SMTP, 8 POP, 2 IMAP, 2 Webmail, 2 LDAP and 2 PostgreSQL) doing a total of about 20M messages/day) are all FC1. I also have no hesitation in recommending FC1 for clients with fairly pedestrian hardware. FC2 works well, but due to the "newness" of the 2.6 kernel you may have issues finding drivers for weird hardware. Some applications are also not available as binary RPMs for it. If you're willing to go the extra bit by rebuilding the apps from tarballs and such, FC2 is a good bet. Be aware that there are lots of differences between the 2.4 kernels that you're familiar with and the 2.6 kernel. Modules are different, /etc/modules.conf becomes /etc/modprobe.conf, the kernel build procedure is different (easier, but different), other things. Also FC2 doesn't replaces the old XFree86 X-Window system with the XOrg implementation. There are other things, but you'll get the hang of them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 23 21:26:16 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:26:16 -0700 Subject: ftp/sftp In-Reply-To: <16620.198.60.114.90.1090541892.squirrel@198.60.114.90> References: <37303.207.173.117.242.1090534744.squirrel@207.173.117.242> <410043A1.7050407@vitalstream.com> <16620.198.60.114.90.1090541892.squirrel@198.60.114.90> Message-ID: <41018278.6070306@vitalstream.com> karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >>The /var/www/html directory must be writable by user ID 48 or by their >>group. I'll bet the /var/www/html/cmc directory was owned by their old >>UID. > > > Nope, I checked all that before even changing the home directory for their > login. Everything all the way down the filesystem is chmod apache.apache. > > I checked ftpusers, ftpaccess and nothing there is limiting apache/client > user from accessing anything in /var/www/html. Did you also check the group permissions? That may be blocking it. You may also want to watch the logs (/var/log/xferlog and /var/log/messages) to see if there's a clue there. 90% of these problems are user or group privileges on either the directories in question or their parents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Vegetarian: Old Indian word for "lousy hunter" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gnichols at tpg.com.au Sat Jul 24 03:05:34 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:05:34 +1000 Subject: FC2 and USB disk problems In-Reply-To: <41002A69.7030108@vitalstream.com> References: <1090298387.5887.12.camel@barney.localdomain> <40FD4D8C.7010003@vitalstream.com> <1090378317.3693.48.camel@barney.localdomain> <40FEAC6D.1090203@vitalstream.com> <1090465575.3694.70.camel@barney.localdomain> <41002A69.7030108@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1090638334.5655.34.camel@barney.localdomain> On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 06:58, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > That was a nice shot of your plane. Like someone else from Germany said, > > somewhat more that $40 to go flying here in Australia as well. I'd love > > to go up but my wallet isn't quite that large. Still, when I wind up my > > old HiLux diesel ute on the open road it 'feels' like one is about to > > take off. I'll have to settle for that. > > Egads! Well, that's not bad. I have a buddy with an Audi RS6 (450HP). > Yes, it flies, but he's a maniac behind the wheel. I won't ride with > him anymore. Hi Rick, nope, didn't mean it quite like that. My Hilux is two beam axles and a box with a big chunk of iron over the front wheels to keep them on the ground, and being 4WD, fairly high off the ground. Problem is, when there is no load in the back to keep the back wheels on the ground, the old girl gets very twitchy at speed on the bullock tracks we call highways here. The message that comes loud and clear through the seat of your pants is "If I make a mistake now, or I hit another of those depressions in this road I will become airborne. Better back off now before I get to see the logo on the tail gate from the driver's seat!" And I do. I'm old enough now to realise I'm mortal. :-) > > Plane stats: > > 1964 Piper Comanche 180 (PA-24/180), I'm the fourth owner > 180HP, 4 cylinder Lycoming O-360-A1A engine > Hartzell constant speed prop > Retractable landing gear > Manual flaps (8, 16, 24 degrees) > IFR certified (avionics in the process of being updated) > Cruise: 120 knots (140 MPH, 225 Km/H) @ 8000 feet on about 9 GPH > > She flies very nicely. I'm upgrading the avionics and the interior > (red vinyl and cloth--looks like a 1950s diner...yuck!) To sum her up > in terminology you'd recognize, mechanically she's "stout as a truck- > drivin' Sheila" and her exterior "is a right beaut!" ;-) Yeah, I can understand that description, and your feelings for her. Close to what I think of my old Hilux. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols. Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You have mail. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From wralphie at comcast.net Sun Jul 25 01:22:10 2004 From: wralphie at comcast.net (jludwig) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:22:10 -0400 Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" In-Reply-To: <41013EF0.8020909@vitalstream.com> References: <20040723085733.93952.qmail@web52509.mail.yahoo.com> <41013EF0.8020909@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1090718530.3273.2.camel@jMOD.home> On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 12:38, Rick Stevens wrote: > Open the box and remove and reseat ALL of your PCI cards, memory sticks > and the CPU. It's amazing how many machines that fixes. A little dirt > or card misalignment can really hose the machine. > > Next, do NOT install using the default ext3 filesystems. If you get > to the disk partitioning screen (disk druid), manually partition your > drive and make sure the partitions are set up with ext2 filesystems. > You can convert to ext3 after the system is installed. > > I doubt seriously that you've used every option at the boot prompt. > It would help if you can give us a list of the ones you have used. > For example, did you use "noapic"? > > Finally, drop the vitriol. The people who contribute to this list are > all volunteers--not one of us is a Red Hat employee nor do we receive > ANY form of recompense for our efforts beyond the gratitude of people > we help. An attitude such as yours is guaranteed to elicit either > no response at all, or worse, a cascade of hate messages casting > aspersions about your ancestry and what your siblings do to each other. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - BASIC is the Computer Science version of `Scientific Creationism' - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 I might add reset the BIOS. I have fixed many a system by this setp alone. -- jludwig From rwright at msiinet.com Sun Jul 25 03:32:28 2004 From: rwright at msiinet.com (rwright at msiinet.com) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 22:32:28 -0500 Subject: Randy Wright/msi is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 07/24/2004 and will not return until 08/02/2004. I will reply to you when I return on Monday, August 2nd. From hussein4 at link.net Sun Jul 25 06:05:02 2004 From: hussein4 at link.net (hussein4 at link.net) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 02:05:02 -0400 Subject: booting problems Message-ID: <119920-220047025652452@M2W044.mail2web.com> Dear all , i have installed redhat with windows xp from a while on my laptop i was dual booting using grub yesterday i have deleted a partion using winxp and since then i can't boot any o/s how can i fix this boot issue do i need to reinstall again redhat ? also i redhat can't prob my monitor in new install what command should i pass b4 installing Regards -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Sun Jul 25 14:00:36 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 09:00:36 -0500 Subject: booting problems In-Reply-To: <119920-220047025652452@M2W044.mail2web.com> References: <119920-220047025652452@M2W044.mail2web.com> Message-ID: <20040725140036.GA31871@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 02:05:02AM -0400, hussein4 at link.net wrote: > Dear all , > > i have installed redhat with windows xp from a while on my laptop > i was dual booting using grub > yesterday i have deleted a partion using winxp > and since then i can't boot any o/s > how can i fix this boot issue > do i need to reinstall again redhat ? No. Boot from Disk 1 of your RH distribution into rescue mode. At the boot prompt, put linux rescue That will mount your linux installation on /mnt/sysimage. Then chroot /mnt/sysimage grub-install /dev/hda exit exit Then eject your CD and you should get a GRUB boot screen. > also i redhat can't prob my monitor in new install what command should i > pass b4 installing During the installation, you will be asked for the monitor make and model. Choose the closest one that fits. > Regards Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com God promised a safe landing, not smooth sailing. From g0pae at manordat.demon.co.uk Sat Jul 24 12:25:07 2004 From: g0pae at manordat.demon.co.uk (Chris Hewitt) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:25:07 +0100 Subject: Please Help!! - "Kernel Panic - Attempted to kill init!" References: <20040723185241.37031.qmail@web52509.mail.yahoo.com> <410174C2.1030100@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <41025523.8070600@manordat.demon.co.uk> Rick Stevens wrote: > Steve Kasian wrote: > >> >> As far as the components are concerned, everything is working >> properly. I run Win98SE and WinXP on the same machine (multiple HDDs) >> and it's the >> smoothest running and most flawless box I've ever used. That's one >> reason why I'm so blown away by this. > > > Still test the memory. I've seen bad RAM run on Windows a lot, but > flat won't work with Linux. Weird, but true. Kernel panics at install Steve, I had a Athlon computer I used heavily for a year with Win NT where linux simply would not load. I did not believe the RAM theory either. Finally (in desperation) I ran memtest86, removed the bad RAM and linux has run flawlessly since. That was a year wasted. It may not be your problem, but I agree it is certainly worth trying given the symptoms you have told us. HTH Chris From goijiud at hotmail.com Mon Jul 26 00:18:57 2004 From: goijiud at hotmail.com (GoijI P) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:18:57 -0400 Subject: question : slow response Message-ID: my NIS client runs a NIS server installed app really slow sometimes and even freezes. got lots of memory and swapon -s shows a swap size of 1xxxxxx. Does not seem to be worms related.RH9. _________________________________________________________________ Don?t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Mon Jul 26 01:35:11 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:35:11 -0500 Subject: question : slow response In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20040726013511.GB4086@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 08:18:57PM -0400, GoijI P wrote: > my NIS client runs a NIS server installed app really > slow sometimes and even freezes. got lots of memory and > swapon -s shows a swap size of 1xxxxxx. That is not a useful indicator. Mine says Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/hda5 partition 1028120 87336 -1 Size is just the created size of the swap partition and is not related to how heavily it is being used. For that information, look at the value under "Used". Sometimes a more useful command is "free" which reports amount of real and vitual memory being used. And you don't have to be root to run it. When your system starts running slowly, run the "top" command to see which process(es) is consuming the most resources. "man top" for more information. That, too, can be run by mere mortals. > Does not seem to be worms related.RH9. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com God promised a safe landing, not smooth sailing. From ajay197947 at rediffmail.com Mon Jul 26 06:41:52 2004 From: ajay197947 at rediffmail.com (ajay chaudhary) Date: 26 Jul 2004 06:41:52 -0000 Subject: downloader for linux ? Message-ID: <20040726064152.28655.qmail@webmail28.rediffmail.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- hello can anyone tell me about link where i can download a mass downloader or downloader for linux so as i may download large iso's of linux os and big applications. even if conection breaks but the downloading starts from where it leaves not from starting or 0% tell me link ? thanks and regards ajay From rhil at manordata.uklinux.net Mon Jul 26 08:29:17 2004 From: rhil at manordata.uklinux.net (Chris Hewitt) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:29:17 +0100 Subject: downloader for linux ? In-Reply-To: <20040726064152.28655.qmail@webmail28.rediffmail.com> References: <20040726064152.28655.qmail@webmail28.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <1090830556.2854.1.camel@amdk63.homemanordata.nodom> On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 07:41, ajay chaudhary wrote: > hello > > can anyone tell me about link where i can download a mass downloader or downloader for linux so as i may download large iso's of linux os and big applications. even if conection breaks but the downloading starts from where it leaves not from starting or 0% > > tell me link ? > > thanks and regards > > ajay If you are already using linux then wget should fit your needs. If the server supports regetting then wget will be happy to continue on a re-established link from where it got to when the link went down. "man wget" for details. HTH Chris From mrkingdaddysir at yahoo.com Mon Jul 26 08:54:42 2004 From: mrkingdaddysir at yahoo.com (Mick Mearns) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 01:54:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: downloader for linux ? In-Reply-To: <1090830556.2854.1.camel@amdk63.homemanordata.nodom> Message-ID: <20040726085442.47220.qmail@web60510.mail.yahoo.com> --- Chris Hewitt wrote: > On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 07:41, ajay chaudhary wrote: > > hello > > > > can anyone tell me about link where i can download a mass downloader or > downloader for linux so as i may download large iso's of linux os and big > applications. even if conection breaks but the downloading starts from where > it leaves not from starting or 0% > > > > tell me link ? > > > > thanks and regards > > > > ajay Hello; I use "d4x" http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ Its a gui that I run under KDE. It works fine for CD size iso's but dies on a DVD iso. Mick ===== "Dogs have Masters - Siamese Cats have Staff!" Reg Linux User #105295 - http://counter.li.org/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From akelly at transparency.org Mon Jul 26 11:28:49 2004 From: akelly at transparency.org (Andrew Kelly) Date: 26 Jul 2004 13:28:49 +0200 Subject: DNS slave servers [WAS Re: Umask and redhat (updated)] In-Reply-To: <41014010.7000303@vitalstream.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FF@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> <40F86D7B.6010902@vitalstream.com> <1090225203.4129.5.camel@hermes.at.home> <40FC099E.1050702@vitalstream.com> <1090309335.4128.57.camel@hermes.at.home> <40FD5271.9030003@vitalstream.com> <1090576325.4130.101.camel@hermes.at.home> <41014010.7000303@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1090841329.4129.146.camel@hermes.at.home> On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 18:42, Rick Stevens wrote: > Heheheh! I meant the prop analogy. How long do you need to repeat "prop analogy" to yourself until it becomes unrecognizable nonsense? I had it in 18 seconds. Hmmmm, I wonder if there's a government funded think tank anywhere in the midwest that studies things like that and collates the data. [Voice of Dr Benson Honeydew of Muppet Labs] ...whereas multisyllabic phrase bites of factor 4 or greater, generally degrade into meaninglessness within 12 cycles, bla bla bla... [sound of breaking glass and a flustered Beaker queeking inanely] Hey, guess how fierce my cold is getting. > Ah, a sailplane guy. You've obviously not been in a Grob. No, but I've coveted a Ventus 2B, so I know where you're going. I was just about to lose my back seat when I hung it all up. I sure miss it, but right now keeping the lights on is more important. > > > > Thanks, but for commercial solutions I already have enough sources. > > I'm only talking about 5 zone files, which contain less than 10 hosts > > total. I was thinking about a one-hand-washes-the-other kind of thing. > > > > Thanks for the effort, though. > > I'd comp you if I could, but can't sneak that one in. We use a system > we wrote that uses a database instead of zone files. No harm done, Rick. I can appreciate your situation. Hey, if I ever get back to the States, I'm gonna come put a butt print in your bird. I've printed that mail and I'm going to guild the edges and everything. :-) Andy From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 26 16:09:47 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:09:47 -0700 Subject: downloader for linux ? In-Reply-To: <20040726064152.28655.qmail@webmail28.rediffmail.com> References: <20040726064152.28655.qmail@webmail28.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <41052CCB.6070307@vitalstream.com> ajay chaudhary wrote: > > hello > > can anyone tell me about link where i can download a mass downloader or downloader for linux so as i may download large iso's of linux os and big applications. even if conection breaks but the downloading starts from where it leaves not from starting or 0% > > tell me link ? Do a google search on "bittorrent". It's the recommended flood downloader for Fedora. As far as a resumable FTP, almost all of the newer FTP clients support resuming downloads. Fire up your favorite client and see if it supports the "restart" command. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Consciousness: that annoying time between naps. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 26 16:13:40 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:13:40 -0700 Subject: DNS slave servers [WAS Re: Umask and redhat (updated)] In-Reply-To: <1090841329.4129.146.camel@hermes.at.home> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B8FF@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> <40F86D7B.6010902@vitalstream.com> <1090225203.4129.5.camel@hermes.at.home> <40FC099E.1050702@vitalstream.com> <1090309335.4128.57.camel@hermes.at.home> <40FD5271.9030003@vitalstream.com> <1090576325.4130.101.camel@hermes.at.home> <41014010.7000303@vitalstream.com> <1090841329.4129.146.camel@hermes.at.home> Message-ID: <41052DB4.20602@vitalstream.com> Andrew Kelly wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 18:42, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>Heheheh! I meant the prop analogy. > > > How long do you need to repeat "prop analogy" to yourself until it > becomes unrecognizable nonsense? > I had it in 18 seconds. > Hmmmm, I wonder if there's a government funded think tank anywhere in > the midwest that studies things like that and collates the data. > > [Voice of Dr Benson Honeydew of Muppet Labs] > ...whereas multisyllabic phrase bites of factor 4 or greater, generally > degrade into meaninglessness within 12 cycles, bla bla bla... > [sound of breaking glass and a flustered Beaker queeking inanely] > > Hey, guess how fierce my cold is getting. I'm working on a nasty sore throat myself right now. >>Ah, a sailplane guy. You've obviously not been in a Grob. > > > No, but I've coveted a Ventus 2B, so I know where you're going. > I was just about to lose my back seat when I hung it all up. I sure miss > it, but right now keeping the lights on is more important. I can understand that. I was going to suggest reading by candlelight, but you need power for email, so that's "right out!" >>>Thanks, but for commercial solutions I already have enough sources. >>>I'm only talking about 5 zone files, which contain less than 10 hosts >>>total. I was thinking about a one-hand-washes-the-other kind of thing. >>> >>>Thanks for the effort, though. >> >>I'd comp you if I could, but can't sneak that one in. We use a system >>we wrote that uses a database instead of zone files. > > > No harm done, Rick. I can appreciate your situation. > Hey, if I ever get back to the States, I'm gonna come put a butt print > in your bird. > I've printed that mail and I'm going to guild the edges and everything. > :-) I'll be waiting, but I think I can do without the gluteus maximus impression! :-p No Xeroxes, either, please! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From goijiud at hotmail.com Mon Jul 26 16:46:26 2004 From: goijiud at hotmail.com (GoijI P) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:46:26 -0400 Subject: question : slow response Message-ID: >That is not a useful indicator. Mine says > >Filename Type Size Used Priority >/dev/hda5 partition 1028120 87336 -1 > >Size is just the created size of the swap partition and is not related >to how heavily it is being used. For that information, look at the >value under "Used". Sometimes a more useful command is "free" which >reports amount of real and vitual memory being used. And you don't >have to be root to run it. > >When your system starts running slowly, run the "top" command to see >which process(es) is consuming the most resources. "man top" for more >information. That, too, can be run by mere mortals. > > > Does not seem to be worms related.RH9. > ran free: out of 1GB RAM on server only 23MB was free. after reboot almost all became free. memory leak?. i never reboot my server. top does not show any abnormality. _________________________________________________________________ Overwhelmed by debt? Find out how to ?Dig Yourself Out of Debt? from MSN Money. http://special.msn.com/money/0407debt.armx From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Mon Jul 26 16:59:39 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:59:39 -0500 Subject: question : slow response In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20040726165939.GA11975@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:46:26PM -0400, GoijI P wrote: > >That is not a useful indicator. Mine says > > > >Filename Type Size Used Priority > >/dev/hda5 partition 1028120 87336 -1 > > > >Size is just the created size of the swap partition and is not related > >to how heavily it is being used. For that information, look at the > >value under "Used". Sometimes a more useful command is "free" which > >reports amount of real and vitual memory being used. And you don't > >have to be root to run it. > > > >When your system starts running slowly, run the "top" command to see > >which process(es) is consuming the most resources. "man top" for more > >information. That, too, can be run by mere mortals. > > > >> Does not seem to be worms related.RH9. > > > > ran free: > out of 1GB RAM on server only 23MB was free. > after reboot almost all became free. > memory leak?. i never reboot my server. > top does not show any abnormality. That's normal. Most of RAM gets allocated, but that won't slow you down. Check the usage of swap reported in the "free" command. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 26 18:07:41 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:07:41 -0700 Subject: question : slow response In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4105486D.2090900@vitalstream.com> GoijI P wrote: >> That is not a useful indicator. Mine says >> >> Filename Type Size Used Priority >> /dev/hda5 partition 1028120 87336 -1 >> >> Size is just the created size of the swap partition and is not related >> to how heavily it is being used. For that information, look at the >> value under "Used". Sometimes a more useful command is "free" which >> reports amount of real and vitual memory being used. And you don't >> have to be root to run it. >> >> When your system starts running slowly, run the "top" command to see >> which process(es) is consuming the most resources. "man top" for more >> information. That, too, can be run by mere mortals. >> >> > Does not seem to be worms related.RH9. >> > > ran free: > out of 1GB RAM on server only 23MB was free. > after reboot almost all became free. > memory leak?. i never reboot my server. > top does not show any abnormality. Memory is often allocated at the beginning. Memory won't be "free" unless memory which was committed to a program is actually needed (this prevents the machine from swapping too often). If you think you're swapping, look a the "used" and "free" bits for the "swap" (fourth line) of the "free" output. You can also "vmstat 5" to watch the system activity. Look at the "si" (swap in) and "so" (swap out) columns to see if the system is really swapping. If you see that those numbers are greater than zero more often than not, then the system is swapping and you have a bit more investigation to do. Hit CTRL-C to terminate the vmstat program. Make sure you look at the "top" report WHEN YOUR SYSTEM IS SLOW to see what's going on. Don't just look at the "% CPU" column, also look at the "SIZE" and "RSS" columns. The biggest "SIZE" is the process that's using the most memory, the biggest "RSS" is the process that has the largest program code size. If you see a process where the "SIZE" is growing but the "RSS" is more or less the same, that's a potential memory leak. Unless you've written your own code and haven't taken care to free allocated memory or haven't kept your machine current, the odds of a memory leak are pretty small. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - First Law of Work: - - If you can't get it done in the first 24 hours, work nights. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From goijiud at hotmail.com Tue Jul 27 02:52:44 2004 From: goijiud at hotmail.com (GoijI P) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:52:44 -0400 Subject: question : slow response Message-ID: >>ran free: >>out of 1GB RAM on server only 23MB was free. >>after reboot almost all became free. >>memory leak?. i never reboot my server. >>top does not show any abnormality. > >Memory is often allocated at the beginning. Memory won't be "free" >unless memory which was committed to a program is actually needed >(this prevents the machine from swapping too often). > >If you think you're swapping, look a the "used" and "free" bits for >the "swap" (fourth line) of the "free" output. You can also "vmstat 5" >to watch the system activity. Look at the "si" (swap in) and "so" (swap >out) columns to see if the system is really swapping. If you see that >those numbers are greater than zero more often than not, then the system >is swapping and you have a bit more investigation to do. Hit CTRL-C to >terminate the vmstat program. > >Make sure you look at the "top" report WHEN YOUR SYSTEM IS SLOW to see >what's going on. Don't just look at the "% CPU" column, also look at >the "SIZE" and "RSS" columns. > >The biggest "SIZE" is the process that's using the most memory, the >biggest "RSS" is the process that has the largest program code size. If >you see a process where the "SIZE" is growing but the "RSS" is more or >less the same, that's a potential memory leak. Unless you've written >your own code and haven't taken care to free allocated memory or haven't >kept your machine current, the odds of a memory leak are pretty small. right now 0 swap space is used (things are quiet). i have to look at it when more clients run server based apps remotely. But, one thing i have noiced is that server RAM MB size is 4 times higher than swap partition size, 1GB<->256MB. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ From lbrasseur at yahoo.com Tue Jul 27 13:01:55 2004 From: lbrasseur at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?Lautaro=20Brasseur?=) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 08:01:55 -0500 (CDT) Subject: CMS Message-ID: <20040727130155.70466.qmail@web40402.mail.yahoo.com> I'm trying to install RedHat CMS on a Windows machine. Is there a mailing list or forum for RedHat CMS? Thanks Lautaro _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Informaci?n de Estados Unidos y Am?rica Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Vis?tanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com From ajay197947 at rediffmail.com Tue Jul 27 13:47:03 2004 From: ajay197947 at rediffmail.com (ajay chaudhary) Date: 27 Jul 2004 13:47:03 -0000 Subject: can i install linux on RS/6000 ? Message-ID: <20040727134703.2916.qmail@webmail29.rediffmail.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- i have an IBM RS/6000 COMPUTER having AIX 4.3 installed , can i install linux on it ? i want to switch this machine in linux thanks and regards ajay From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Jul 27 14:40:43 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:40:43 -0500 Subject: can i install linux on RS/6000 ? In-Reply-To: <20040727134703.2916.qmail@webmail29.rediffmail.com> References: <20040727134703.2916.qmail@webmail29.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <20040727144043.GB32578@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:47:03PM -0000, ajay chaudhary wrote: > > > > i have an IBM RS/6000 COMPUTER having AIX 4.3 installed , can i > install linux on it ? i want to switch this machine in linux > > thanks and regards > > ajay I didn't think so, but I Googled for "rs/6000 linux" and saw what looked like some useful articles. Give it a shot. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 27 16:35:05 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:35:05 -0700 Subject: question : slow response In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41068439.9020206@vitalstream.com> GoijI P wrote: >>> ran free: >>> out of 1GB RAM on server only 23MB was free. >>> after reboot almost all became free. >>> memory leak?. i never reboot my server. >>> top does not show any abnormality. >> >> >> Memory is often allocated at the beginning. Memory won't be "free" >> unless memory which was committed to a program is actually needed >> (this prevents the machine from swapping too often). >> >> If you think you're swapping, look a the "used" and "free" bits for >> the "swap" (fourth line) of the "free" output. You can also "vmstat 5" >> to watch the system activity. Look at the "si" (swap in) and "so" (swap >> out) columns to see if the system is really swapping. If you see that >> those numbers are greater than zero more often than not, then the system >> is swapping and you have a bit more investigation to do. Hit CTRL-C to >> terminate the vmstat program. >> >> Make sure you look at the "top" report WHEN YOUR SYSTEM IS SLOW to see >> what's going on. Don't just look at the "% CPU" column, also look at >> the "SIZE" and "RSS" columns. >> >> The biggest "SIZE" is the process that's using the most memory, the >> biggest "RSS" is the process that has the largest program code size. If >> you see a process where the "SIZE" is growing but the "RSS" is more or >> less the same, that's a potential memory leak. Unless you've written >> your own code and haven't taken care to free allocated memory or haven't >> kept your machine current, the odds of a memory leak are pretty small. > > > > right now 0 swap space is used (things are quiet). i have to look at it > when more clients run server > based apps remotely. But, one thing i have noiced is that server RAM MB > size is 4 times higher than swap partition size, 1GB<->256MB. Well that's upside down. The rule of thumb is to have swap 2x RAM size. In your case, 2GB. Be aware that if the system runs out of memory and swap, the system will start killing random processes to free up memory. Try adding more swap. Find a filesystem with enough free space (let's say it's /usr), create a contiguous 2GB file on that filesystem filled with zeroes and turn it into a second swap area: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swapfile bs=1M count=2048 # mkswap /usr/swapfile To start using it: # swapon /usr/swapfile and you suddenly will have an additional 2GB of swap. Note that swap files are not quite as fast as swap partitions, but the difference in speed is pretty small. Edit your /etc/fstab file and add a line like: /usr/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 and it'll get used on the next reboot, too. OS NOTE: No single swap partition or file may be larger than 2GB, but you can have up to 8 swap files or partitions (maximum of 16GB total). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Grabel's Law: 2 is not equal to 3--not even for large values of 2. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 27 16:37:49 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:37:49 -0700 Subject: can i install linux on RS/6000 ? In-Reply-To: <20040727134703.2916.qmail@webmail29.rediffmail.com> References: <20040727134703.2916.qmail@webmail29.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <410684DD.3010302@vitalstream.com> ajay chaudhary wrote: > > > > i have an IBM RS/6000 COMPUTER having AIX 4.3 installed , can i install linux on it ? i want to switch this machine in linux There is a linux version somewhere for the RS/6000, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. I'm sure a Google search for "linux +rs/6000" will find it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If Windows isn't a virus, then it sure as hell is a carrier! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 27 16:45:45 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:45:45 -0700 Subject: CMS In-Reply-To: <20040727130155.70466.qmail@web40402.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040727130155.70466.qmail@web40402.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <410686B9.9080305@vitalstream.com> Lautaro Brasseur wrote: > I'm trying to install RedHat CMS on a Windows machine. CMS on Windows? I think the answer is "you might get it to work, but it'll be a struggle." CMS is primarily a Java application and uses open source tools. I don't think it runs in a Windows environment well. You will probably have quite a battle on your hands...sort of like trying to get Pavarotti into a wetsuit--it'll be difficult and why would you want to in the first place? Read the white paper: http://www.redhat.com/pdf/rhea/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Content_Management_System_Overview.pdf > Is there a mailing list or forum for RedHat CMS? I don't think so. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If Windows isn't a virus, then it sure as hell is a carrier! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mnomans at khi.comsats.net.pk Tue Jul 27 17:02:44 2004 From: mnomans at khi.comsats.net.pk (M Nouman Siddiqui) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:02:44 +0500 Subject: Help me ! Message-ID: <1090947764.41068ab46693c@www.khi.comsats.net.pk> HI, I have machine like - Genuine Intel P4 Serv System 800 - One Genuine Intel P 4 Processor 2.0 GHZ 800 Bus with Hyder Threading Technology and 1MB L2 Advanced transfer cache - 1 GB (512MBx2) DDRAM PC 200 ECC Kingston - Two HardDisk Seagate 80 GB Serial ATA ( 7200 RPM ) having a problem when i'm going to install redhat 8.0 and 9.0 both are giving me error "not detecting harddisk driver" wht should i do ? can anyone tell me please I'll b very thankful thanks nomy ------------------------------------------------- This mail is sent through Comsats Webmail: http://khi.comsats.net.pk/webmail/ From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 27 17:21:55 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:21:55 -0700 Subject: Help me ! In-Reply-To: <1090947764.41068ab46693c@www.khi.comsats.net.pk> References: <1090947764.41068ab46693c@www.khi.comsats.net.pk> Message-ID: <41068F33.9050109@vitalstream.com> M Nouman Siddiqui wrote: > > HI, > > I have machine like > - Genuine Intel P4 Serv System 800 > - One Genuine Intel P 4 Processor 2.0 GHZ 800 Bus with Hyder Threading > Technology and 1MB L2 Advanced transfer cache > - 1 GB (512MBx2) DDRAM PC 200 ECC Kingston > - Two HardDisk Seagate 80 GB Serial ATA ( 7200 RPM ) > > having a problem when i'm going to install redhat 8.0 and 9.0 both are giving > me error "not detecting harddisk driver" > wht should i do ? can anyone tell me please I'll b very thankful You'll have trouble installing Red Hat Linux because, out of the box, they don't have ATA controller drivers. You should visit the website of whoever makes your ATA controller and see if they have a driver disk for Red Hat Linux. Also be aware that both 8.0 and 9 are dead (as in "end of life"). Red Hat doesn't support them any longer. You may have better luck with Fedora Core 1 (FC1) or Fedora Core 2 (FC2). They both have support for several ATA controllers without the need for an additional driver disk. FC2 has more support than FC1, but they're both free AND actively supported. http://fedora.redhat.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I'm afraid my karma just ran over your dogma - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From akader at akitconsulting.co.za Wed Jul 28 14:46:39 2004 From: akader at akitconsulting.co.za (Adiel Kader) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:46:39 +0200 Subject: Configuring Multiple LUN Support Message-ID: <000101c474b1$c034b690$0200a8c0@akithome> Hi, I am heaving problems with the following: We have installed AS 3 on a 4 Way IBM x445 server. The server attach to a FAStT600 disk array vi 2 qla2300 HBA's. The problem that we are experiencing is that we cannot see any disk beyond LUN 0 even though we have enabled multiple LUN support. I would greatly appreciate it if you guys can help me out. Thanks Adiel Kader -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 28 17:13:40 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:13:40 -0700 Subject: Configuring Multiple LUN Support In-Reply-To: <000101c474b1$c034b690$0200a8c0@akithome> References: <000101c474b1$c034b690$0200a8c0@akithome> Message-ID: <4107DEC4.80402@vitalstream.com> Adiel Kader wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am heaving problems with the following: > > > > We have installed AS 3 on a 4 Way IBM x445 server. The server attach to > a FAStT600 disk array vi 2 qla2300 HBA's. The problem that we are > experiencing is that we cannot see any disk beyond LUN 0 even though we > have enabled multiple LUN support. > > > > I would greatly appreciate it if you guys can help me out. I'll try. I'm not familiar with the FASt600 arrays, but generally you must split up the drives in your array as different RAID clusters and the SAN unit assigns each RAID with a LUN. Those LUNs should appear as separate SCSI devices (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc.) under the kernel, which then must be partitioned (and formatted if they're to be used as filesystems) just like any other block-addressable storage device (disk, FLASH, etc.). We are doing something similar using qla2300 HBAs connected to an EMC FC4700 SAN and that's the way we see them. Try "dmesg" to see if you see anything like this: scsi2 : QLogic QLA2300 PCI to Fibre Channel Host Adapter: bus 19 device 1 irq 29 Firmware version: 3.01.18, Driver version 6.05.00 scsi3 : QLogic QLA2300 PCI to Fibre Channel Host Adapter: bus 24 device 1 irq 27 Firmware version: 3.01.18, Driver version 6.05.00 blk: queue efa85e18, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff) Vendor: DGC Model: RAID 5 Rev: 0849 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 blk: queue efa85c18, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff) Vendor: DGC Model: RAID 1 Rev: 0849 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 blk: queue efa85a18, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff) Vendor: DGC Model: RAID 1 Rev: 0849 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 blk: queue efa85818, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff) Vendor: DGC Model: RAID 5 Rev: 0849 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 blk: queue efa85618, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff) scsi(2:0:0:0): Enabled tagged queuing, queue depth 32. scsi(2:0:0:1): Enabled tagged queuing, queue depth 32. scsi(2:0:0:2): Enabled tagged queuing, queue depth 32. scsi(2:0:0:3): Enabled tagged queuing, queue depth 32. Vendor: DGC Model: RAID 5 Rev: 0849 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 blk: queue efa85018, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff) Vendor: DGC Model: RAID 1 Rev: 0849 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 blk: queue ef9b6818, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff) Vendor: DGC Model: RAID 1 Rev: 0849 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 blk: queue ef9b6618, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff) scsi(3:0:0:0): Enabled tagged queuing, queue depth 32. scsi(3:0:0:4): Enabled tagged queuing, queue depth 32. scsi(3:0:0:5): Enabled tagged queuing, queue depth 32. Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 1 Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 2 Attached scsi disk sde at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 3 Attached scsi disk sdf at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdg at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 4 Attached scsi disk sdh at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 5 If you notice at the top of the above listing, we have a total of seven RAID arrays on the EMC (four on one shelf, three on another), and each of these appear as a LUN. Also note that one shelf is "owned" by one HBA, while the second shelf is "owned" by the other HBA. This is the way EMC does things (there's two redundant processors in the FC4700 and you must assign the LUNs to a "primary" processor while the other is used as a failover, and each processor is connected to the host via a separate HBA). In the last seven lines you'll see how the LUNs been set up by the kernel. In particular, note the "lun n" bit at the end of each line. If we look at how they're mounted: [root at db1 root]# mount (irrelevant data removed) /dev/sdf1 on /vol1 type ext3 (rw) /dev/sdc1 on /vol2 type ext3 (rw) /dev/sdd1 on /vol3 type ext3 (rw) you can see that each LUN has been set up with a single partition and we've mounted them as /vol1, /vol2 and /vol3, with /vol1 on the second shelf and /vol2 and /vol3 on the first shelf. The other LUNs aren't mounted per se as they are used for an Oracle database and Oracle uses the raw partitions (Oracle prefers doing its own "filesystem" stuff). Does that help at all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Admitting you have a problem is the first step toward getting - - medicated for it. -- Jim Evarts (http://www.TopFive.com) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From lbrasseur at yahoo.com Wed Jul 28 19:21:36 2004 From: lbrasseur at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?Lautaro=20Brasseur?=) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:21:36 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 5, Issue 28 In-Reply-To: <20040728160050.69FCD74300@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <20040728192136.24118.qmail@web40406.mail.yahoo.com> Rick: I also tried to install it on Red Hat Linux and I had some problems with package dependencies (Ant, JUnit, not specified in the download page). I subscribed the mailing list after trying a lot of things and searching across many documents. Please, send me a URL where I could find a Quick Installation Guide, including all required third party tools. BTW, I have not had struggles with open source tools on Windows (especially J2EE based software, which is generally portable). In fact, we are OpenCMS specialists, which runs on Windows, Solaris and Linux (without modifications). If Red Hat CMS doesn't works on Windows, let me know. It should work, because the WAF documentation tells that Windows is supported. Thanks Lautaro --- Rick Stevens wrote Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:45:45 -0700 > From: Rick Stevens > Subject: Re: CMS > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > Message-ID: <410686B9.9080305 at vitalstream.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; > format=flowed > > Lautaro Brasseur wrote: > > I'm trying to install RedHat CMS on a Windows machine. > CMS on Windows? I think the answer is "you might get it to work, but > it'll be a struggle." CMS is primarily a Java application and uses > open > source tools. I don't think it runs in a Windows environment well. > You > will probably have quite a battle on your hands...sort of like trying > to get Pavarotti into a wetsuit--it'll be difficult > and why would you > want to in the first place? > Read the white paper: > http://www.redhat.com/pdf/rhea/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Content_Management_System_Overview.pdf > > Is there a mailing list or forum for RedHat CMS? > I don't think so. > -----------------------------------------------------> ----------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - > - > - If Windows isn't a virus, then it sure as hell > is a carrier! - > -----------------------------------------------------> ----------------- _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Informaci?n de Estados Unidos y Am?rica Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Vis?tanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com From lotsofunthatsme at yahoo.com Wed Jul 28 20:08:30 2004 From: lotsofunthatsme at yahoo.com (Phil O) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:08:30 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Can't install RH Enterprise 3 desktop; white screen lockup Message-ID: <20040728200830.19373.qmail@web60805.mail.yahoo.com> Well, this is about the fifth different time I've tried to install Linux, and none ever went worth a damn, including this one. Here's the story; I'm trying to evaluate the Red Hat Enterprise 3 desktop for home evaluation. I downloaded all 4 CD ISOs from www.redhat.com, burnt them successfully, and checked them with the data-checking CD program at the beginning of my Red Hat install, and all checked out OK. So, as I perform the install (by simply hitting "Enter" at the beginning of said install), I get the following on my desktop: Running Anaconda...please wait It finds the Video Card Radeon 9600 the Monitor Syncmaster & Mouse Generic Mouse ---then the screen eventually changes to white in color with a mouse arrow in the center, but after awhile, the CD attempts access of the floppy drive, which obviously has no disc, but the floppy drive light stays on, which locks up the install. My rig is as follows: ECS K7S5A mobo 512 MB ram AMD 1800+ processor For you Linux folks, I must say that until a Linux install gets to be as "painless" as a Micro$oft OS install, converts will be few and far between. I've yet to have a successful install. _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 28 20:41:46 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:41:46 -0700 Subject: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 5, Issue 28 In-Reply-To: <20040728192136.24118.qmail@web40406.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040728192136.24118.qmail@web40406.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <41080F8A.50506@vitalstream.com> Lautaro Brasseur wrote: > Rick: > > I also tried to install it on Red Hat Linux and I had > some problems with package dependencies (Ant, JUnit, > not specified in the download page). I subscribed the > mailing list after trying a lot of things and > searching across many documents. Please, send me a URL > where I could find a Quick Installation Guide, > including all required third party tools. Hooo, boy! I've never used the product before, so I can't really tell you what's involved. I just went to the website and relayed what I saw. Remember, I don't work for Red Hat...I'm just someone who tries to help out here on the list. I'm not familiar with the dependencies you mention. The only "ant" that I can recall was a macro package for Word that added HTML features to the document (you could highlight some text, then click on the "HREF" button it added, for example). Junit I've never heard of. Did you have a look at the white paper for it? > BTW, I have not had struggles with open source tools > on Windows (especially J2EE based software, which is > generally portable). In fact, we are OpenCMS > specialists, which runs on Windows, Solaris and Linux > (without modifications). > > If Red Hat CMS doesn't works on Windows, let me know. > It should work, because the WAF documentation tells > that Windows is supported. Here's a link to the installation guide: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/waf/pdf/rhea-ig-waf-en-6.1-1.pdf You need Red Hat's Application Frameworks bit first, then you can install CMS. Note that both are commercial products--they're not free. > --- Rick Stevens wrote > Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:45:45 -0700 > >>From: Rick Stevens >>Subject: Re: CMS >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >> >>Message-ID: <410686B9.9080305 at vitalstream.com> >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; > > > format=flowed > >>Lautaro Brasseur wrote: >> >>>I'm trying to install RedHat CMS on a Windows > > machine. > > >>CMS on Windows? I think the answer is "you might > > get it to work, but > >>it'll be a struggle." CMS is primarily a Java > > application and uses > >>open >>source tools. I don't think it runs in a Windows > > environment well. > >>You >>will probably have quite a battle on your > > hands...sort of like trying > >>to get Pavarotti into a wetsuit--it'll be difficult >>and why would you >>want to in the first place? > > >>Read the white paper: > > > http://www.redhat.com/pdf/rhea/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Content_Management_System_Overview.pdf > > >>>Is there a mailing list or forum for RedHat CMS? > > >>I don't think so. >> > > -----------------------------------------------------> > ----------------- > >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer > > rstevens at vitalstream.com - > >>- VitalStream, Inc. > > http://www.vitalstream.com - > >>- > > > - > >>- If Windows isn't a virus, then it sure as hell >>is a carrier! - >> > > -----------------------------------------------------> > ----------------- > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Informaci?n de Estados Unidos y Am?rica Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. > Vis?tanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Jimmie crack corn and I don't care...what kind of lousy attitude - - is THAT to have, huh? -- Dennis Miller - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 28 21:00:24 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:00:24 -0700 Subject: Can't install RH Enterprise 3 desktop; white screen lockup In-Reply-To: <20040728200830.19373.qmail@web60805.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040728200830.19373.qmail@web60805.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <410813E8.3080701@vitalstream.com> Phil O wrote: > Well, this is about the fifth different time I've > tried to install Linux, and none ever went worth a > damn, including this one. Here's the story; I'm > trying to evaluate the Red Hat Enterprise 3 desktop > for home evaluation. I downloaded all 4 CD ISOs from > www.redhat.com, burnt them successfully, and checked > them with the data-checking CD program at the > beginning of my Red Hat install, and all checked out > OK. So, as I perform the install (by simply hitting > "Enter" at the beginning of said install), I get the > following on my desktop: > > Running Anaconda...please wait > > It finds the Video Card Radeon 9600 > the Monitor Syncmaster > & Mouse Generic Mouse > > ---then the screen eventually changes to white in > color with a mouse arrow in the center, but after > awhile, the CD attempts access of the floppy drive, > which obviously has no disc, but the floppy drive > light stays on, which locks up the install. My rig is > as follows: > > ECS K7S5A mobo > 512 MB ram > AMD 1800+ processor > > For you Linux folks, I must say that until a Linux > install gets to be as "painless" as a Micro$oft OS > install, converts will be few and far between. I've > yet to have a successful install. 90% of all Linux installations go pretty smoothly. There are some problematic hardware platforms that do have issues and you just happen to have one. Windows installations used have similar problems and still do--and that's with a HUGE friggin' company with billions of dollars to buy test hardware and literally thousands of PAID programmers working on compatibility issues. Conversely, there are merely hundreds of UNPAID programmers working on Linux and very few of them can afford to put up the dollars needed to buy a wide range of hardware to test it on. There are bound to be some teething problems. Hang in there...we'll get it sorted out. Anyway, back to your problem. First, are you absolutely certain your RAM is healthy? Don't say "Windows runs fine," because that's not an adequate test. I've seen many, many crappy RAM cards run Windows and yet fail the simplest "walking ones" memory test. I can't recall if the desktop product has a memory test in the installer. To see, try booting the first CD, and at the "boot:" prompt, enter "memtest86". If there is a memory test there, it'll start up. If not, go to http://www.memtest86.com download their memory tester and run it. Only proceed if your RAM passes the test. If it fails, something as simple as reseating the SIMMs may fix it. Dirty contacts or misalignment of the pins causes lots of problems. You might also think about unplugging all of your PCI cards and reseating them, too. Make sure the pins line up properly. A tweaked chassis often causes slight misalignments. If the RAM is OK, then try a text-based install. Sometimes the graphic installer has issues. Again, booting from the first CD, at the "boot:" prompt, enter "linux text". You should be able to install at that point. When you reboot the machine for the first time, the system should allow you to configure your graphic environment and it should work fine. If it doesn't set up your GUI stuff, as the root user enter redhat-config-xfree86 and that should start the GUI setup program. Good luck. I'll be watching the list for further postings from you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I'm afraid my karma just ran over your dogma - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Wed Jul 28 21:05:30 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:05:30 -0600 (MDT) Subject: ftp/sftp In-Reply-To: <41018278.6070306@vitalstream.com> References: <37303.207.173.117.242.1090534744.squirrel@207.173.117.242> <410043A1.7050407@vitalstream.com> <16620.198.60.114.90.1090541892.squirrel@198.60.114.90> <41018278.6070306@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <30406.198.60.114.90.1091048730.squirrel@198.60.114.90> > > Did you also check the group permissions? That may be blocking it. > You may also want to watch the logs (/var/log/xferlog and > /var/log/messages) to see if there's a clue there. > > 90% of these problems are user or group privileges on either the > directories in question or their parents. I got this solved. /etc/ftphosts was bungled up. I removed all the entries, then added a couple in the correct format and things started to work right fine. Karl > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Vegetarian: Old Indian word for "lousy hunter" - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > From lotsofunthatsme at yahoo.com Wed Jul 28 21:26:40 2004 From: lotsofunthatsme at yahoo.com (Phil O) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:26:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Can't install RH Enterprise 3 desktop; white screen lockup In-Reply-To: <410813E8.3080701@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040728212640.8944.qmail@web60803.mail.yahoo.com> Looks as though the "linux text" install will work, but I 'm stopping the current install before I partition my drive. Where do I need to read up on how I can partition the drive leaving the current Windows install? It is XP Home/FAT32, taking up the entire 30GB drive. Will I need Partition Magic, or are there free alternatives? I'd rather not "kill" Windows on this machine if I don't have to (even though I have a Ghost of it). Thanks for the advice. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail From jlopes151 at comcast.net Wed Jul 28 22:08:42 2004 From: jlopes151 at comcast.net (jlopes151 at comcast.net) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:08:42 +0000 Subject: Can't install RH Enterprise 3 desktop; white screen lockup Message-ID: <072820042208.12300.410823EA000445F00000300C2200758942CECACE9C0A9F010406@comcast.net> I spent three weeks several days of those three weeks were spent overnight (24 hr) attempting to install RH and another Linux brand. I found the requirements defined on the RH package to be bogus. I was told by RH support that RH has an agressive install and that my PC may not be good enough. It was a PIII, 500mhx with 700+k of ram and 80gig drive. What happend with me the install would fail on random packages. I tried every thing and could not get a clean install. I finally bought a new P4 3.0ghz with 1meg ram and 80gig drive the install took less than 10min to do a full install. Its running no problems with the new machine. james -------------- Original message -------------- > Well, this is about the fifth different time I've > tried to install Linux, and none ever went worth a > damn, including this one. Here's the story; I'm > trying to evaluate the Red Hat Enterprise 3 desktop > for home evaluation. I downloaded all 4 CD ISOs from > www.redhat.com, burnt them successfully, and checked > them with the data-checking CD program at the > beginning of my Red Hat install, and all checked out > OK. So, as I perform the install (by simply hitting > "Enter" at the beginning of said install), I get the > following on my desktop: > > Running Anaconda...please wait > > It finds the Video Card Radeon 9600 > the Monitor Syncmaster > & Mouse Generic Mouse > > ---then the screen eventually changes to white in > color with a mouse arrow in the center, but after > awhile, the CD attempts access of the floppy drive, > which obviously has no disc, but the floppy drive > light stays on, which locks up the install. My rig is > as follows: > > ECS K7S5A mobo > 512 MB ram > AMD 1800+ processor > > For you Linux folks, I must say that until a Linux > install gets to be as "painless" as a Micro$oft OS > install, converts will be few and far between. I've > yet to have a successful install. > > > > > _______________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. > http://messenger.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stuart at sjsears.com Wed Jul 28 22:26:53 2004 From: stuart at sjsears.com (Stuart Sears) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:26:53 +0100 Subject: Can't install RH Enterprise 3 desktop; white screen lockup In-Reply-To: <20040728212640.8944.qmail@web60803.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040728212640.8944.qmail@web60803.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <200407282326.53476.stuart@sjsears.com> On Wednesday 28 July 2004 22:26, Phil O wrote: > Looks as though the "linux text" install will work, > but I 'm stopping the current install before I > partition my drive. Where do I need to read up on how > I can partition the drive leaving the current Windows > install? It is XP Home/FAT32, taking up the entire > 30GB drive. Will I need Partition Magic, or are there > free alternatives? I'd rather not "kill" Windows on > this machine if I don't have to (even though I have a > Ghost of it). Thanks for the advice. You will need to shrink your windows partition before installing, as there are no facilities for doing so in the RHEL installer. Partition magic is one way to do this. If you have an install set and don't mind the risk, you can also shrink FAT32 partitions/filesystems using parted in rescue mode. ( I've never had problems with this, but, as they say, YMMV) other partition editing tools include... ranish partition manager - very bios-like interface but otherwise supposed to be very good ( nb, I haven't used it!!) http://www.ranish.com/part/ alternatively, you cna look at http://www.tucows.com/search searching for 'partition' brought up 28 different tools, some of which are Free ( at least in terms of financial cost). I repeat, in the interests of self-protection, that I have tried _none_ of these tools, with the exception of parted, and cannot vouch for their effectiveness or safety. If you'd like advice on how to use parted before you install, let me know... Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 28 22:28:07 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:28:07 -0700 Subject: ftp/sftp In-Reply-To: <30406.198.60.114.90.1091048730.squirrel@198.60.114.90> References: <37303.207.173.117.242.1090534744.squirrel@207.173.117.242> <410043A1.7050407@vitalstream.com> <16620.198.60.114.90.1090541892.squirrel@198.60.114.90> <41018278.6070306@vitalstream.com> <30406.198.60.114.90.1091048730.squirrel@198.60.114.90> Message-ID: <41082877.6030604@vitalstream.com> karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >>Did you also check the group permissions? That may be blocking it. >>You may also want to watch the logs (/var/log/xferlog and >>/var/log/messages) to see if there's a clue there. >> >>90% of these problems are user or group privileges on either the >>directories in question or their parents. > > > I got this solved. /etc/ftphosts was bungled up. I removed all the > entries, then added a couple in the correct format and things started to > work right fine. That was going to be my next search. My initial guess was since you played with UIDs was that they got munched somehow. Glad you sorted it out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Do you know how to save five drowning lawyers? No? GOOD! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 28 22:32:21 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:32:21 -0700 Subject: Can't install RH Enterprise 3 desktop; white screen lockup In-Reply-To: <20040728212640.8944.qmail@web60803.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040728212640.8944.qmail@web60803.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <41082975.7040906@vitalstream.com> Phil O wrote: > Looks as though the "linux text" install will work, > but I 'm stopping the current install before I > partition my drive. Where do I need to read up on how > I can partition the drive leaving the current Windows > install? It is XP Home/FAT32, taking up the entire > 30GB drive. Will I need Partition Magic, or are there > free alternatives? I'd rather not "kill" Windows on > this machine if I don't have to (even though I have a > Ghost of it). Thanks for the advice. You'll need free space on the hard drive for Linux to install in. How you get it is up to you. Partition Magic is one commercial package. So is Partition Commander. There are free packages also, such as parted or gparted that can do it. I might recommend you download and burn the "Ultimate Boot CD" at http://www.ultimatebootcd.org. It has lots of good tools for doing such work and a raft of diagnostics, too. And it's free. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Do you know how to save five drowning lawyers? No? GOOD! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 28 22:36:38 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:36:38 -0700 Subject: Can't install RH Enterprise 3 desktop; white screen lockup In-Reply-To: <072820042208.12300.410823EA000445F00000300C2200758942CECACE9C0A9F010406@comcast.net> References: <072820042208.12300.410823EA000445F00000300C2200758942CECACE9C0A9F010406@comcast.net> Message-ID: <41082A76.1040409@vitalstream.com> jlopes151 at comcast.net wrote: > I spent three weeks several days of those three weeks were spent > overnight (24 hr) attempting to install RH and another Linux brand. I > found the requirements defined on the RH package to be bogus. I was told > by RH support that RH has an agressive install and that my PC may not be > good enough. It was a PIII, 500mhx with 700+k of ram and 80gig drive. > What happend with me the install would fail on random packages. That's a classic example of the ext3 filesystem bug with some hardware platforms. I'll bet that if you had started the installation over again and used ext2 filesystems when you partitioned the hard drive, it would've worked. After the system had installed and was running, you could convert the ext2 filesystems to ext3. See: http://www.rhil.net/docs/ext2-to-ext3.html for details. > I tried > every thing and could not get a clean install. I finally bought a new P4 > 3.0ghz with 1meg ram and 80gig drive the install took less than 10min to > do a full install. > > Its running no problems with the new machine. You didn't ask me! ;-) I would've told you. > -------------- Original message -------------- > > > Well, this is about the fifth different time I've > > tried to install Linux, and none ever went worth a > > damn, including this one. Here's the story; I'm > > trying to evaluate the Red Hat Enterprise 3 desktop > > for home evaluation. I downloaded all 4 CD ISOs from > > www.redhat.com, burnt them successfully, and checked > > them with the data-checking CD program at the > > beginning of my Red Hat install, and all checked out > > OK. So, as I perform the install (by simply hitting > > "Enter" at the beginning of said install), I get the > > following on my desktop: > > > > Running Anaconda...please wait > > > > It finds the Video Card Radeon 9600 > > the Monitor Syncmaster > > & Mouse Generic Mouse > > > > ---then the screen eventual! ly changes to white in > > color with a mouse arrow in the center, but after > > awhile, the CD attempts access of the floppy drive, > > which obviously has no disc, but the floppy drive > > light stays on, which locks up the install. My rig is > > as follows: > > > > ECS K7S5A mobo > > 512 MB ram > > AMD 1800+ processor > > > > For you Linux folks, I must say that until a Linux > > install gets to be as "painless" as a Micro$oft OS > > install, converts will be few and far between. I've > > yet to have a successful install. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. > > http://messenger.yahoo.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.c! om/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > To Unsubscri! be Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > > Subject: unsubscribe > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Swap memory error: You lose your mind" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jlopes151 at comcast.net Wed Jul 28 22:45:08 2004 From: jlopes151 at comcast.net (jlopes151 at comcast.net) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:45:08 +0000 Subject: Can't install RH Enterprise 3 desktop; white screen lockup Message-ID: <072820042245.29953.41082C73000CDD0A000075012200734748CECACE9C0A9F010406@comcast.net> Well too late now, wish RH support had suggested this as a solution could have saved some cash. On the other hand I do have this cool P4 3.0. james -------------- Original message -------------- > jlopes151 at comcast.net wrote: > > I spent three weeks several days of those three weeks were spent > > overnight (24 hr) attempting to install RH and another Linux brand. I > > found the requirements defined on the RH package to be bogus. I was told > > by RH support that RH has an agressive install and that my PC may not be > > good enough. It was a PIII, 500mhx with 700+k of ram and 80gig drive. > > What happend with me the install would fail on random packages. > > That's a classic example of the ext3 filesystem bug with some hardware > platforms. I'll bet that if you had started the installation over again > and used ext2 filesystems when you partitioned the hard drive, it > would've worked. After the system had installed and was running, you > could convert the ext2 filesystems to ext3. See: > > http://www.rhil.net/docs/ext2-to-ext3.html > > for details. > > > I tried > > every thing and could not get a clean install. I finally bought a new P4 > > 3.0ghz with 1meg ram and 80gig drive the install took less than 10min to > > do a full install. > > > > Its running no problems with the new machine. > > You didn't ask me! ;-) I would've told you. > > > -------------- Original message -------------- > > > > > Well, this is about the fifth different time I've > > > tried to install Linux, and none ever went worth a > > > damn, including this one. Here's the story; I'm > > > trying to evaluate the Red Hat Enterprise 3 desktop > > > for home evaluation. I downloaded all 4 CD ISOs from > > > www.redhat.com, burnt them successfully, and checked > > > them with the data-checking CD program at the > > > beginning of my Red Hat install, and all checked out > > > OK. So, as I perform the install (by simply hitting > > > "Enter" at the beginning of said install), I get the > > > following on my desktop: > > > > > > Running Anaconda...please wait > > > > > > It finds the Video Card Radeon 9600 > > > the Monitor Syncmaster > > > & Mouse Generic Mouse > > > > > > ---then the screen eventual! ly changes to white in > > > color with a mouse arrow in the center, but after > > > awhile, the CD attempts access of the floppy drive, > > > which obviously has no disc, but the floppy drive > > > light stays on, which locks up the install. My rig is > > > as follows: > > > > > > ECS K7S5A mobo > > > 512 MB ram > > > AMD 1800+ processor > > > > > > For you Linux folks, I must say that until a Linux > > > install gets to be as "painless" as a Micro$oft OS > > > install, converts will be few and far between. I've > > > yet to have a successful install. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Express yourself with Y! 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I even did a chown apache.apache access.sh and that returned the same error. As a reminder, this did work before upgrading from 7.0 to 8.0. So, I'm still trying to solve this thing. Karl From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 28 23:47:58 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:47:58 -0700 Subject: Can't install RH Enterprise 3 desktop; white screen lockup In-Reply-To: <072820042245.29953.41082C73000CDD0A000075012200734748CECACE9C0A9F010406@comcast.net> References: <072820042245.29953.41082C73000CDD0A000075012200734748CECACE9C0A9F010406@comcast.net> Message-ID: <41083B2E.6020308@vitalstream.com> jlopes151 at comcast.net wrote: > Well too late now, wish RH support had suggested this as a solution > could have saved some cash. On the other hand I do have this cool P4 3.0. I don't think they know, even though I've told them about a dozen times. However, yes, the new machine is much cooler! It's just a shame you _had_ to get it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From lotsofunthatsme at yahoo.com Thu Jul 29 02:03:03 2004 From: lotsofunthatsme at yahoo.com (Phil O) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:03:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Can't install RH Enterprise 3 desktop; white screen lockup In-Reply-To: <20040728212640.8944.qmail@web60803.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040729020303.21190.qmail@web60804.mail.yahoo.com> ARRRGGGHHH!!! This is driving me nuts!!! Ok, here's what has happened. What I decided to do was to restore my Acronis True Image backup of my drive to only 20GB of the (actual) 27.5GB drive, and leave the rest for Red Hat. I performed the "linux text" install, to get ALMOST finished, and I still have this *#&$@)#$@ lockup issue at startup. Here's what happens: 1. From Grub, I pick the Red Hat selection. 2. Program appeared to go into graphical mode, but locked up as I moved the mouse. 3. Subsequent attempts at startup give me this "Your system appears to shut down uncleanly", then goes through what appears to be its boot process, and the screen does nothing after the following appears: Enabling Swap Space (OK) All items at bootup show up as OK. The memory has been tested, and shows no errors. I'm at my wits' end here; this close, and so far... This IS an ATI Radeon 9600 AIW; I'm wondering if it's having problems talking to the vid card. What next, folks? I'm so POd at this point that I'm about to wipe her and go back to XP by itself again. This work today has given me a pounding headache... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail From esdee303 at hotmail.com Thu Jul 29 07:16:56 2004 From: esdee303 at hotmail.com (steven deferme) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:16:56 +0200 Subject: The RedHat Linux CD was not found on any of the CDROM drives References: <072820042245.29953.41082C73000CDD0A000075012200734748CECACE9C0A9F010406@comcast.net> Message-ID: Hi I'm trying to install Redhat Linux 9.0 on a HP Proliant DL360 server. I get the server to boot from CD-ROM, I choose Linux textbased mode, Linux installation program asks me for language, keyboard. But when I then try to install from CD-ROM, the message: "The RedHat Linux CD was not found on any of the CDROM drives" appears. I've tried two different copies of Redhat Linux 9.0, they both give the same error message. Please please help Steven -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Try to boot with a rescue CD. do /dev/hda1 /mnt > -----Original Message----- > From: M Nouman Siddiqui [SMTP:mnomans at khi.comsats.net.pk] > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 1:03 PM > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > Subject: Help me ! > > > > HI, > > I have machine like > - Genuine Intel P4 Serv System 800 > - One Genuine Intel P 4 Processor 2.0 GHZ 800 Bus with Hyder Threading > Technology and 1MB L2 Advanced transfer cache > - 1 GB (512MBx2) DDRAM PC 200 ECC Kingston > - Two HardDisk Seagate 80 GB Serial ATA ( 7200 RPM ) > > having a problem when i'm going to install redhat 8.0 and 9.0 both are > giving > me error "not detecting harddisk driver" > wht should i do ? can anyone tell me please I'll b very thankful > > thanks > > nomy > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail is sent through Comsats Webmail: > http://khi.comsats.net.pk/webmail/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 From kens at geodax.com Thu Jul 29 14:09:32 2004 From: kens at geodax.com (Ken Scott) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:09:32 -0400 Subject: Can't install RH Enterprise 3 desktop; white screen lockup In-Reply-To: <20040728212640.8944.qmail@web60803.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040728212640.8944.qmail@web60803.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1091110172.3869.182.camel@KENS02L> On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 17:26, Phil O wrote: > Looks as though the "linux text" install will work, > but I 'm stopping the current install before I > partition my drive. Where do I need to read up on how > I can partition the drive leaving the current Windows > install? It is XP Home/FAT32, taking up the entire > 30GB drive. Will I need Partition Magic, or are there > free alternatives? I'd rather not "kill" Windows on > this machine if I don't have to (even though I have a > Ghost of it). Thanks for the advice. > I have used Morphix and Knoppix Live-CD HD tools (I think it is CFdisk) to repartition NTFS XP partitions prior to installing linux behind XP. Important safety tip - First boot into XP and do a full blown disk scandisk then defrag. Otherwise the repartition effort sometimes fails. Also, repartitioning failed on me once due to I think Norton anti-virus putting some stuff at the end of the NTFS partition that the repartitioner wouldn't move. That time I had to simply blow away XP then partition an NTFS partition to the desired size and reinstall using the XP CD. Then I went on to install Fedora Core2. Supposing a 30 GB drive, I'd set basic partitions as follows: device function type size /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 100MB /hda2 /XP NTFS 10GB /hda3 /swap swap 2*ram (ie if 512 mbram set swap to 1GB /hda4 extended /hda5 / (root) ext3 15GB /hda6 /xfer fat32 4GB (or whatever is left) Notes : 1) Could use ext2 and then install RH then convert to ext3 (I have never had to do this but others have recommended this strategy). 2) The xfer partition allows data to be transferred between XP and Linux easily and safely without forcing linux to write to the NTFS partition (I think that is more reliable now but it used to not be). 3) Install XP first and then have linux put the boot loader in the MBR. That causes LILO or GRUB to start either RH or XP as needed. 4) More partitions can be used to separate /home, /usr , etc. if desired. I have used the above procedure 3-4 times with good success. It may not be the best way or the only way but my experience has been favorable. Others are encouraged and welcome to comment and identify improvements. Oops, I just noticed that your setup is already FAT32 so you would not need the /xfer partition. Just increase the size of which ever other partition you wish (either the XP partition or the / root). Good luck. Ken S. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 29 16:40:24 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:40:24 -0700 Subject: The RedHat Linux CD was not found on any of the CDROM drives In-Reply-To: References: <072820042245.29953.41082C73000CDD0A000075012200734748CECACE9C0A9F010406@comcast.net> Message-ID: <41092878.20409@vitalstream.com> steven deferme wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to install Redhat Linux 9.0 on a HP Proliant DL360 server. I > get the server to boot from CD-ROM, I choose Linux textbased mode, Linux > installation program asks me for language, keyboard. But when I then > try to install from CD-ROM, the message: > *"The RedHat Linux CD was not found on any of the CDROM drives"* > appears. > I've tried two different copies of Redhat Linux 9.0, they both give the > same error message. > > Please please help I've run into this before on Proliants, and it's usually traceable to a DMA issue with the CD drive and the installer's kernel. Try the install again, but at the "boot:" prompt, use: linux ide=nodma which disables DMA for any IDE device. That can slow down the hard drive quite a bit, so it's better to use: linux hdx=nodma In this case, replace "hdx" with one of the following: If your CD drive is Use ------------------------------------- ---- Master on primary IDE controller hda Slave on primary IDE controller hdb Master on secondary IDE controller hdc Slave on secondary IDE controller hdd So, using a normal system where the CD is the master on the secondary IDE, "linux hdc=nodma". This would disable DMA on the CD drive only, rather than the whole bus. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 29 16:42:14 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:42:14 -0700 Subject: Help me ! In-Reply-To: <076E02306E643D44B349985C46E78040057F09@mrdex00.na.tiauto.com> References: <076E02306E643D44B349985C46E78040057F09@mrdex00.na.tiauto.com> Message-ID: <410928E6.10604@vitalstream.com> Rokicki, Andrew wrote: > I am not sure what could be the problem. > But try changing settings in you BIOS. > Try to boot with a rescue CD. > do > /dev/hda1 /mnt Red Hat Linux 8.0 and 9 do NOT have native serial ATA driver support. You must get drivers from the mobo or controller maker, put them on a floppy and use "linux dd" from the "boot:" prompt off the CD. >>-----Original Message----- >>From: M Nouman Siddiqui [SMTP:mnomans at khi.comsats.net.pk] >>Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 1:03 PM >>To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com >>Subject: Help me ! >> >> >> >>HI, >> >>I have machine like >>- Genuine Intel P4 Serv System 800 >>- One Genuine Intel P 4 Processor 2.0 GHZ 800 Bus with Hyder Threading >>Technology and 1MB L2 Advanced transfer cache >>- 1 GB (512MBx2) DDRAM PC 200 ECC Kingston >>- Two HardDisk Seagate 80 GB Serial ATA ( 7200 RPM ) >> >>having a problem when i'm going to install redhat 8.0 and 9.0 both are >>giving >>me error "not detecting harddisk driver" >>wht should i do ? can anyone tell me please I'll b very thankful >> >>thanks >> >>nomy >> >> >>------------------------------------------------- >>This mail is sent through Comsats Webmail: >>http://khi.comsats.net.pk/webmail/ >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Redhat-install-list mailing list >>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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > 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 > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every minute of it! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 29 16:54:30 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:54:30 -0700 Subject: Can't install RH Enterprise 3 desktop; white screen lockup In-Reply-To: <20040729020303.21190.qmail@web60804.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040729020303.21190.qmail@web60804.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <41092BC6.1040901@vitalstream.com> Phil O wrote: > ARRRGGGHHH!!! This is driving me nuts!!! Ok, here's > what has happened. What I decided to do was to > restore my Acronis True Image backup of my drive to > only 20GB of the (actual) 27.5GB drive, and leave the > rest for Red Hat. I performed the "linux text" > install, to get ALMOST finished, and I still have > this *#&$@)#$@ lockup issue at startup. Here's what > happens: > > 1. From Grub, I pick the Red Hat selection. > 2. Program appeared to go into graphical mode, but > locked up as I moved the mouse. > 3. Subsequent attempts at startup give me this "Your > system appears to shut down uncleanly", then goes > through what appears to be its boot process, and the > screen does nothing after the following appears: > > Enabling Swap Space (OK) > > All items at bootup show up as OK. The memory has > been tested, and shows no errors. I'm at my wits' end > here; this close, and so far... > > This IS an ATI Radeon 9600 AIW; I'm wondering if it's > having problems talking to the vid card. What next, > folks? I'm so POd at this point that I'm about to > wipe her and go back to XP by itself again. This work > today has given me a pounding headache... This is very, very strange, Phil. Try booting in single user mode on Linux to see what's going on. At the grub screen, use the arrow keys to highlight your selection, then hit "C" and you'll be taken to an editor screen. Again, use the arrow keys to highlight the "kernel" line, then use the right arrow key to get to the end of the line. Add " single" (a space and the word "single") to the end of the line and hit ENTER. Finally, hit "B" to boot this modified line. The system should boot up into single user mode and you should be presented with a "#" prompt. At that point, you can edit the /etc/inittab file and change the line that reads id:5:initdefault: to read id:3:initdefault: Save the file and enter "exit" to reboot the system. When it reboots, it will come up in text mode. You should log in as root, then type in "startx" to start the GUI. If the GUI still hangs up, then we have some other stuff to check. If it works OK, then change the /etc/inittab line back to its original form and reboot again. See if it behaves itself then. Red Hat Tech should be able to help if you bought the software. Remember, I'm not a Red Hat employee. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every minute of it! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From klighdar at yahoo.com Fri Jul 30 09:14:12 2004 From: klighdar at yahoo.com (Kligh Darsono) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:14:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: NAT on RH9 In-Reply-To: <410928E6.10604@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040730091412.20868.qmail@web60701.mail.yahoo.com> Hi all, currently my pc router running on win9x with winroute to do as gateway to internet and leased line connections, and trying to change with RH9.0 illustrated as follow : /-----\ 1.2.3.4(public| GW | 192.168.2.254/24 Internet<------| PC |------------>Leased line | | \-----/ | to switch hub local | 192.168.1.254/24 is there anybody out there do this connection or any comment how to do with RH9 with iptables tools ?? TIA. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail From goijiud at hotmail.com Fri Jul 30 15:18:06 2004 From: goijiud at hotmail.com (GoijI P) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:18:06 -0400 Subject: question : slow response Message-ID: >>>>out of 1GB RAM on server only 23MB was free. >>>>after reboot almost all became free. >>>>memory leak?. i never reboot my server. >>>>top does not show any abnormality. >>> >>> >>>Memory is often allocated at the beginning. Memory won't be "free" >>>unless memory which was committed to a program is actually needed >>>(this prevents the machine from swapping too often). >>> >>>If you think you're swapping, look a the "used" and "free" bits for >>>the "swap" (fourth line) of the "free" output. You can also "vmstat 5" >>>to watch the system activity. Look at the "si" (swap in) and "so" (swap >>>out) columns to see if the system is really swapping. If you see that >>>those numbers are greater than zero more often than not, then the system >>>is swapping and you have a bit more investigation to do. Hit CTRL-C to >>>terminate the vmstat program. >>> >>>Make sure you look at the "top" report WHEN YOUR SYSTEM IS SLOW to see >>>what's going on. Don't just look at the "% CPU" column, also look at >>>the "SIZE" and "RSS" columns. >>> >>>The biggest "SIZE" is the process that's using the most memory, the >>>biggest "RSS" is the process that has the largest program code size. If >>>you see a process where the "SIZE" is growing but the "RSS" is more or >>>less the same, that's a potential memory leak. Unless you've written >>>your own code and haven't taken care to free allocated memory or haven't >>>kept your machine current, the odds of a memory leak are pretty small. >> >> >> >>right now 0 swap space is used (things are quiet). i have to look at it >>when more clients run server >>based apps remotely. But, one thing i have noiced is that server RAM MB >>size is 4 times higher than swap partition size, 1GB<->256MB. > >Well that's upside down. The rule of thumb is to have swap 2x RAM size. >In your case, 2GB. Be aware that if the system runs out of memory and >swap, the system will start killing random processes to free up memory. > >Try adding more swap. Find a filesystem with enough free space (let's >say it's /usr), create a contiguous 2GB file on that filesystem filled >with zeroes and turn it into a second swap area: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swapfile bs=1M count=2048 > # mkswap /usr/swapfile > >To start using it: > > # swapon /usr/swapfile > >and you suddenly will have an additional 2GB of swap. Note that swap >files are not quite as fast as swap partitions, but the difference in >speed is pretty small. Edit your /etc/fstab file and add a line like: > > /usr/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 > >and it'll get used on the next reboot, too. > >OS NOTE: No single swap partition or file may be larger than 2GB, but >you can have up to 8 swap files or partitions (maximum of 16GB total). created swap file. ran "vmstat 5". si so were 0 at all times like before. top did not reveal any peculiar errors but probbaly need to spend more time there. meanwhile. probably as my last question on this topic, any other clues anyone can guess of?. my NIS server is relatively an old PC. That is one possibility. But, top did not show much there. thank you a. gj _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee? Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 From brad.mugleston at retirementpartner.com Fri Jul 30 18:25:38 2004 From: brad.mugleston at retirementpartner.com (Mugleston, Brad) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:25:38 -0600 Subject: Question Message-ID: I've got a related question - I've been using fetchmail since RH 5.2 and it works great. With my upgrade to RH9 the display of fetchmailconf is so large it doesn't fit on the screen and there is no way to size it (that I know about). I've checked the fetchmail site and found no help there. Is there a way to change the display size of a program? I've tried pulling the sides/bottom/corner in but it doesn't work. I can move the display from side to side but when the display goes off the bottom it's lost. I'm running fairly high resolution on a 19" monitor and the display is huge. Thanks, Brad From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Fri Jul 30 20:57:55 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:57:55 -0500 Subject: NAT on RH9 In-Reply-To: <20040730091412.20868.qmail@web60701.mail.yahoo.com> References: <410928E6.10604@vitalstream.com> <20040730091412.20868.qmail@web60701.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040730205755.GA22107@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 02:14:12AM -0700, Kligh Darsono wrote: > Hi all, > > currently my pc router running on win9x with winroute > to do as gateway to internet and leased line > connections, and trying to change with RH9.0 > > illustrated as follow : > > > > /-----\ > 1.2.3.4(public| GW | 192.168.2.254/24 > Internet<------| PC |------------>Leased line > | | > \-----/ > | to switch hub local > | 192.168.1.254/24 > > is there anybody out there do this connection or any > comment how to do with RH9 with iptables tools ?? > > TIA. This is a setup similar to a firewall for an internal network and a DMZ. There are several scripts and other resources here: http://www.linuxguruz.com/iptables/ I chose and adapted this one for my local network and DMZ. It has worked well. http://www.linuxguruz.com/iptables/scripts/rc.firewall_005.txt There are other firewall toolkits that may do something like that. Look for SmoothWall, Shorewall, Mason, among others. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 30 21:27:22 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:27:22 -0700 Subject: question : slow response In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <410ABD3A.6030601@vitalstream.com> GoijI P wrote: >>>>> out of 1GB RAM on server only 23MB was free. >>>>> after reboot almost all became free. >>>>> memory leak?. i never reboot my server. >>>>> top does not show any abnormality. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Memory is often allocated at the beginning. Memory won't be "free" >>>> unless memory which was committed to a program is actually needed >>>> (this prevents the machine from swapping too often). >>>> >>>> If you think you're swapping, look a the "used" and "free" bits for >>>> the "swap" (fourth line) of the "free" output. You can also "vmstat 5" >>>> to watch the system activity. Look at the "si" (swap in) and "so" >>>> (swap >>>> out) columns to see if the system is really swapping. If you see that >>>> those numbers are greater than zero more often than not, then the >>>> system >>>> is swapping and you have a bit more investigation to do. Hit CTRL-C to >>>> terminate the vmstat program. >>>> >>>> Make sure you look at the "top" report WHEN YOUR SYSTEM IS SLOW to see >>>> what's going on. Don't just look at the "% CPU" column, also look at >>>> the "SIZE" and "RSS" columns. >>>> >>>> The biggest "SIZE" is the process that's using the most memory, the >>>> biggest "RSS" is the process that has the largest program code >>>> size. If >>>> you see a process where the "SIZE" is growing but the "RSS" is more or >>>> less the same, that's a potential memory leak. Unless you've written >>>> your own code and haven't taken care to free allocated memory or >>>> haven't >>>> kept your machine current, the odds of a memory leak are pretty small. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> right now 0 swap space is used (things are quiet). i have to look at >>> it when more clients run server >>> based apps remotely. But, one thing i have noiced is that server RAM >>> MB size is 4 times higher than swap partition size, 1GB<->256MB. >> >> >> Well that's upside down. The rule of thumb is to have swap 2x RAM size. >> In your case, 2GB. Be aware that if the system runs out of memory and >> swap, the system will start killing random processes to free up memory. >> >> Try adding more swap. Find a filesystem with enough free space (let's >> say it's /usr), create a contiguous 2GB file on that filesystem filled >> with zeroes and turn it into a second swap area: >> >> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swapfile bs=1M count=2048 >> # mkswap /usr/swapfile >> >> To start using it: >> >> # swapon /usr/swapfile >> >> and you suddenly will have an additional 2GB of swap. Note that swap >> files are not quite as fast as swap partitions, but the difference in >> speed is pretty small. Edit your /etc/fstab file and add a line like: >> >> /usr/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 >> >> and it'll get used on the next reboot, too. >> >> OS NOTE: No single swap partition or file may be larger than 2GB, but >> you can have up to 8 swap files or partitions (maximum of 16GB total). > > > > created swap file. ran "vmstat 5". si so were 0 at all times like > before. top did not reveal any > peculiar errors but probbaly need to spend more time there. > meanwhile. probably as my last question on this topic, any other clues > anyone can guess of?. > my NIS server is relatively an old PC. That is one possibility. But, top > did not show much there. It really depends on what's being slow. You need to wait until the system starts exhibiting the slowdown, then the following tools can help: "top" will show the processess sucking up the most resources. "vmstat" will show the status of the virtual memory system (including swaps). "iostat" will show the I/O status (whether something is I/O bound, e.g. slow disks). "nfsstat -s" will show what kind of NFS server operations are going on, if any ("nfsstat" alone shows client statistics). If you're using a hub rather than a switch you may be having a whole bunch of network collisions that are slowing you down. Look at the output of "ifconfig" and look at the error counts on each network interface--specifically the "collisions" counter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 30 21:32:01 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:32:01 -0700 Subject: Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <410ABE51.1050709@vitalstream.com> Mugleston, Brad wrote: > I've got a related question - I've been using fetchmail since RH 5.2 and it works great. With my upgrade to RH9 the display of fetchmailconf is so large it doesn't fit on the screen and there is no way to size it (that I know about). I've checked the fetchmail site and found no help there. > > Is there a way to change the display size of a program? I've tried pulling the sides/bottom/corner in but it doesn't work. I can move the display from side to side but when the display goes off the bottom it's lost. I'm running fairly high resolution on a 19" monitor and the display is huge. Huh? fetchmail's display size is big? fetchmail doesn't spit anything out except errors normally. It goes and gets mail from multiple external accounts and puts it in your local mailbox. I'm not sure what you're talking about, Brad. Are you sure you're not talking about your mail client (mutt, elm, pine, Evolution, Mozilla, Thunderbird)? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Treat each day as if it's your last...a lot of crying and whining - - usually gets you what you want! -- Sam Sledge - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Fri Jul 30 21:46:37 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:46:37 -0500 Subject: Question In-Reply-To: <410ABE51.1050709@vitalstream.com> References: <410ABE51.1050709@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040730214637.GA23242@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 02:32:01PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Mugleston, Brad wrote: > >I've got a related question - I've been using fetchmail since RH 5.2 and > >it works great. With my upgrade to RH9 the display of fetchmailconf is so > >large it doesn't fit on the screen and there is no way to size it (that I > >know about). I've checked the fetchmail site and found no help there. > > > >Is there a way to change the display size of a program? I've tried pulling > >the sides/bottom/corner in but it doesn't work. I can move the display > >from side to side but when the display goes off the bottom it's lost. > >I'm running fairly high resolution on a 19" monitor and the display is > >huge. > > Huh? fetchmail's display size is big? fetchmail doesn't spit anything > out except errors normally. It goes and gets mail from multiple > external accounts and puts it in your local mailbox. I'm not sure what > you're talking about, Brad. Are you sure you're not talking about your > mail client (mutt, elm, pine, Evolution, Mozilla, Thunderbird)? He's talking about fetchmailconf. FWIW, it looks fine on FC1. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 30 22:20:06 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:20:06 -0700 Subject: Question In-Reply-To: <20040730214637.GA23242@bobcat.cumbytel.com> References: <410ABE51.1050709@vitalstream.com> <20040730214637.GA23242@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <410AC996.2000307@vitalstream.com> Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 02:32:01PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Mugleston, Brad wrote: >> >>>I've got a related question - I've been using fetchmail since RH 5.2 and >>>it works great. With my upgrade to RH9 the display of fetchmailconf is so >>>large it doesn't fit on the screen and there is no way to size it (that I >>>know about). I've checked the fetchmail site and found no help there. >>> >>>Is there a way to change the display size of a program? I've tried pulling >>>the sides/bottom/corner in but it doesn't work. I can move the display >> >>>from side to side but when the display goes off the bottom it's lost. >> >>>I'm running fairly high resolution on a 19" monitor and the display is >>>huge. >> >>Huh? fetchmail's display size is big? fetchmail doesn't spit anything >>out except errors normally. It goes and gets mail from multiple >>external accounts and puts it in your local mailbox. I'm not sure what >>you're talking about, Brad. Are you sure you're not talking about your >>mail client (mutt, elm, pine, Evolution, Mozilla, Thunderbird)? > > > He's talking about fetchmailconf. FWIW, it looks fine on FC1. I've never used that. However, since it's python and Tk based, any of the standard geometry specs should work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Admitting you have a problem is the first step toward getting - - medicated for it. -- Jim Evarts (http://www.TopFive.com) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From wendel_oropesa at yahoo.com Sat Jul 31 11:10:29 2004 From: wendel_oropesa at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?wendel=20oropesa?=) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:10:29 +0100 (BST) Subject: Need Help.... Message-ID: <20040731111029.12567.qmail@web51809.mail.yahoo.com> Good Day! I am a windows user and i try Linux. I did download the the 3 ISO files from this site: http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/ And i also burned in cd using nero cd burner. 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Check the menu for this option > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of wendel > oropesa > Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 6:14 AM > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > Subject: Need Help... > > > > Good Day! > > > I am a windows user and i try Linux. > > > I did download the the 3 ISO files from this site: > > > http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/ > > > And i also burned in cd using nero cd burner. > > > The big problem is the disc 1 won't boot what would i do? Your problem probably is as Otto has suggested. The unofficial faq has information on this at http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#making_cds Also, RedHat 9 has been out of support since the end of April, so you might consider trying Fedora Core 2 (effectively RedHat 11) instead. This is at: http://fedora.redhat.com/download/ Note that you would need the 4 CDs FC2-i386-disc1.iso to FC2-i386-disc4.iso. Good luck and let us know if you have any problems and cannot find the answers. HTH Chris From kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr Sat Jul 31 21:51:54 2004 From: kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr (Kostas Sfakiotakis) Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:51:54 +0300 Subject: Question In-Reply-To: <410ABE51.1050709@vitalstream.com> References: <410ABE51.1050709@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <410C147A.8060502@cha.forthnet.gr> Rick Stevens wrote: > Mugleston, Brad wrote: > >> I've got a related question - I've been using fetchmail since RH 5.2 >> and it works great. With my upgrade to RH9 the display of >> fetchmailconf is so large it doesn't fit on the screen and there is no >> way to size it (that I know about). I've checked the fetchmail site >> and found no help there. >> >> Is there a way to change the display size of a program? I've tried >> pulling the sides/bottom/corner in but it doesn't work. I can move >> the display from side to side but when the display goes off the bottom >> it's lost. I'm running fairly high resolution on a 19" monitor and >> the display is huge. > > > Huh? fetchmail's display size is big? fetchmail doesn't spit anything > out except errors normally. Rick , you are forgetting something here . For as far as i recall , from fetchmail 5.9 it can be intstructed to print hashes or asterisks i don't recall which as a progress indicator besides error messages . It goes and gets mail from multiple > external accounts and puts it in your local mailbox. I'm not sure what > you're talking about, Brad. Are you sure you're not talking about your > mail client (mutt, elm, pine, Evolution, Mozilla, Thunderbird)? Now if Bob is correct and Brad is talking about fetchmailconf and not fetchmail itself then on Magellan the OK / Save options appear on top of screen and not on bottom so it's not a problem . Well i am using fetchmail 6.2.5 and fetchmailconf 1.43 . Another thing that might be usefull to Brad is From Norton Control Center --> Desktop ---> Panels --> Hiding he can hide the panel temporarily and therefore enlarge the viewable area . One last thing might be this On the Panel besides the numbers that represent the virtual desktops ( the 1 2 3 4 numbers ) there are a couple of small arrows . If someone pressses then he is presented with a Panel Menu which has a Configure Panel option and a Size option which might be helpfull To the original Poster Brad Mugleston : You said that you are using a 19" monitor . In which case am forced to assume that you are using a screen resolution which is no case is less than 1024*768 . Any resolution smaller than that would appear enormous in your monitor .