From j-pinkney at onu.edu Thu Jun 1 00:48:57 2006 From: j-pinkney at onu.edu (Jason Pinkney) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 20:48:57 -0400 Subject: nautilus issues Message-ID: <447E3979.7060508@onu.edu> Dear Linux gurus, I'm having problems with my gnome desktop/nautilus. I'm running Fedora core 2, gnome-desktop-2.0. I had this problems before, but I can't remember the solution. Here are some symptoms: 1. When I reboot, my desktop comes up without my chosen background and without my desktop icons. The panels are ok. 2. Right-clicking on the background does nothing 3. Trying to run nautilus from the command line does nothing. 4. Logging out takes so long that I get impatient and kill X. 5. I've been able to get the desktop back to normal by logging in with a KDE desktop, fiddling with things, and then going back to gnome. Also, by killing X, fiddling around with things (like killing stray nautilus commands) and then typing "startx". However, when I log out again, the dialogue does not include the check box for save the current desktop. (How can that happen??) And completely rebooting makes it messed up again. Any ideas? thanks, Jason From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Thu Jun 1 04:38:50 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 22:38:50 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Xorg Hangs-was Gnome-panel hangs In-Reply-To: <26432.198.60.114.90.1147495014.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> References: <26432.198.60.114.90.1147495014.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <18621.198.60.114.90.1149136730.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> On Fri, May 12, 2006 10:36 pm, karlp at ourldsfamily.com said: > I thought this issue was solved. FC5 updated and the problem seemed to go > away. Yesterday it came back. The panel freezes and gnome apps die if I access > the menu. It happes in KDE and xfce, too. So, I've come to the conclusion that > it's Xorg. As a matter of fact, it may be even deeper than that as it doesn't > solve the problem to do CTRL-ALT-BKSPC. I get a new session, but it goes back > into I-don't-wanna-play-nice mode even quicker on the re-login. I have to > reboot to get a clean session, which hangs after about 5-20 minutes. > > Please, any ideas. I've got FC5 installed on my new workstation at work and > can't put it into service if this isn't solved. My home PC is the test and > play box where I hope to solve this. Okay, I've figured something out, but the solution evades me, other than non-use of the offending application. What is it? mplayer-1.0pre8-0.7.20060418 I typically listen to online radio with mplayer. When I run it, the panel dies in either gnome, KDE or xfce. Strange but true. I've had KDE up for 3 hours and then ran mplayer to show my son some WoW vids he created that were on an older hard disk he was going to format because he couldn't access it in WinXP-Semi-Pro (yum install kmod-ntfs;mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/rmv) So, any thoughts now? Karl From mikerault at yahoo.com Thu Jun 1 11:40:51 2006 From: mikerault at yahoo.com (Michael Ault) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 04:40:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: mdadm usage to restore lost disk Message-ID: <20060601114051.32534.qmail@web30806.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I have configured a RAID 5 array usinf mdadm with 8 disks. After my last reboot it reported it was running in a degraded condition with only 7 disks active. ow do I fix the eighth disk and get it back into the configuration? Thanks. Mike Michael R. Ault Senior Consultant Burleson Oracle Consulting 770-754-9057 www.ault.cc www.remote-dba.com From mikerault at yahoo.com Thu Jun 1 12:51:19 2006 From: mikerault at yahoo.com (Michael Ault) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 05:51:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: mdadm usage to restore lost disk In-Reply-To: <20060601114051.32534.qmail@web30806.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20060601125119.93834.qmail@web30812.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I have fixed it already, basically ran e2fsck on the ejected disk /dev/sdh, it reported bad superblock on both the main and backup superblock, re-partitioned the drive and rewrote the superblocks using fdisk then used the mdadm command with the -a option to add the disk back into the array. --- Michael Ault wrote: > I have configured a RAID 5 array usinf mdadm with 8 > disks. After my last reboot it reported it was > running > in a degraded condition with only 7 disks active. ow > do I fix the eighth disk and get it back into the > configuration? > > Thanks. > > Mike > > Michael R. Ault > Senior Consultant > Burleson Oracle Consulting > 770-754-9057 > www.ault.cc > www.remote-dba.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 > Michael R. Ault Senior Consultant Burleson Oracle Consulting 770-754-9057 www.ault.cc www.remote-dba.com From owenewo58 at hotmail.com Thu Jun 1 16:30:40 2006 From: owenewo58 at hotmail.com (wang) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 09:30:40 -0700 Subject: red hat enterprise linux References: <20060601114051.32534.qmail@web30806.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Hi, This is Owen, Anybody can help? I bought a Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES, I have a question, if I have more than one server boxes, must I buy more packages? or only one I can install to different servers? Thank you in advance. Owen From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 1 16:44:15 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:44:15 -0700 Subject: nautilus issues In-Reply-To: <447E3979.7060508@onu.edu> References: <447E3979.7060508@onu.edu> Message-ID: <1149180255.14819.73.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 20:48 -0400, Jason Pinkney wrote: > Dear Linux gurus, > I'm having problems with my gnome desktop/nautilus. > I'm running Fedora core 2, gnome-desktop-2.0. > > I had this problems before, but I can't remember the > solution. Here are some symptoms: > 1. When I reboot, my desktop comes up without my > chosen background and without my desktop icons. > The panels are ok. > 2. Right-clicking on the background does nothing > 3. Trying to run nautilus from the command line does nothing. > 4. Logging out takes so long that I get impatient and kill X. > 5. I've been able to get the desktop back to normal by logging > in with a KDE desktop, fiddling with things, and then going > back to gnome. Also, by killing X, fiddling around with things > (like killing stray nautilus commands) and then typing "startx". > However, when I log out again, the dialogue does not include > the check box for save the current desktop. (How can that happen??) > And completely rebooting makes it messed up again. > Any ideas? Sounds like your ~/.gtk* files got hosed. Replace them with copies from another user or take note of your home directory, UID and GID, then delete your account by becoming the root user and using the command: # userdel yourloginname Do NOT use the "-r" option! Once that's done, recreate the account using: # useradd -g oldGID -u oldUID -d oldhomedirectory yourloginname That will create the account anew, but use the old UID and GID and home directory. Since you didn't use the "-r" option to userdel, all the files in the directory will still be there. Once that's done, reset the password: # passwd yourloginname and the account should be OK. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 salmansiddiqui1234 at rediffmail.com Thu Jun 1 16:40:57 2006 From: salmansiddiqui1234 at rediffmail.com (Salman Siddiqui) Date: 1 Jun 2006 16:40:57 -0000 Subject: red hat enterprise linux Message-ID: <20060601164057.7337.qmail@webmail49.rediffmail.com> that depends on your license i think??? but if u wanna do piracy of your enterprise edition then you can install on more servers too... i think if the servers are controling the same network then you can install in them too else you break the license terms see it seems simple to me... if u install on different servers,on different networks, then you can do it in your friends network too....hmmm....that means any number of the installations!!! On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 wang wrote : >Hi, >This is Owen, >Anybody can help? > >I bought a Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES, > >I have a question, if I have more than one server boxes, >must I buy more packages? or only one I can install to different >servers? > >Thank you in advance. >Owen destiny drives the world... try driving destiny!!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 1 16:50:08 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:50:08 -0700 Subject: Xorg Hangs-was Gnome-panel hangs In-Reply-To: <18621.198.60.114.90.1149136730.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> References: <26432.198.60.114.90.1147495014.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <18621.198.60.114.90.1149136730.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <1149180608.14819.80.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 22:38 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2006 10:36 pm, karlp at ourldsfamily.com said: > > I thought this issue was solved. FC5 updated and the problem seemed to go > > away. Yesterday it came back. The panel freezes and gnome apps die if I access > > the menu. It happes in KDE and xfce, too. So, I've come to the conclusion that > > it's Xorg. As a matter of fact, it may be even deeper than that as it doesn't > > solve the problem to do CTRL-ALT-BKSPC. I get a new session, but it goes back > > into I-don't-wanna-play-nice mode even quicker on the re-login. I have to > > reboot to get a clean session, which hangs after about 5-20 minutes. > > > > Please, any ideas. I've got FC5 installed on my new workstation at work and > > can't put it into service if this isn't solved. My home PC is the test and > > play box where I hope to solve this. > > Okay, I've figured something out, but the solution evades me, other than > non-use of the offending application. What is it? > > mplayer-1.0pre8-0.7.20060418 > > I typically listen to online radio with mplayer. When I run it, the panel dies > in either gnome, KDE or xfce. Strange but true. I've had KDE up for 3 hours > and then ran mplayer to show my son some WoW vids he created that were on an > older hard disk he was going to format because he couldn't access it in > WinXP-Semi-Pro (yum install kmod-ntfs;mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/rmv) > > So, any thoughts now? Which Linux are you running, Karl, and are you fully updated? I know there were some issues with mplayer on FC5's default gnome. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Tempt not the dragons of fate, since thou art crunchy and taste - - good with ketchup. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 1 16:56:59 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:56:59 -0700 Subject: red hat enterprise linux In-Reply-To: References: <20060601114051.32534.qmail@web30806.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1149181019.14819.88.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 09:30 -0700, wang wrote: > Hi, > This is Owen, > Anybody can help? > > I bought a Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES, > > I have a question, if I have more than one server boxes, > must I buy more packages? or only one I can install to different > servers? You can install to as many boxes as you wish, however only ONE will have an "entitlement" to updates and will have support from Red Hat. When you register the package via up2date, the machine receives an entitlement to updates, but only one entitlement per package is permitted. This also starts the clock for the 30 days of telephone support. If you want to have the other machines use up2date to remain current, you'll need to buy more entitlements and register the other machines. The "basic" support contract gets you 30 days of telephone support, 1 year of updates and 1 year of web-based support. The "standard" support contract is the same, but you get 1 year of telephone support instead of 30 days. Details are on the Red Hat website. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 owenewo58 at hotmail.com Thu Jun 1 17:01:37 2006 From: owenewo58 at hotmail.com (wang) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:01:37 -0700 Subject: red hat enterprise linux References: <20060601164057.7337.qmail@webmail49.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: Thank you very much, I will try. Owen ----- Original Message ----- From: Salman Siddiqui To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 9:40 AM Subject: Re: red hat enterprise linux >that depends on your license i think??? >but if u wanna do piracy of your enterprise edition then you can install on more servers too... >i think if the servers are controling the same network then you can install in them too else you break the license terms >see it seems simple to me... >if u install on different servers,on different networks, then you can do it in your friends network too....hmmm....that means any number of the >installations!!! From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Thu Jun 1 18:13:13 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:13:13 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Xorg Hangs-was Gnome-panel hangs In-Reply-To: <1149180608.14819.80.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <26432.198.60.114.90.1147495014.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <18621.198.60.114.90.1149136730.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <1149180608.14819.80.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <53704.207.173.117.242.1149185593.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> On Thu, June 1, 2006 10:50 am, Rick Stevens said: > On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 22:38 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >> On Fri, May 12, 2006 10:36 pm, karlp at ourldsfamily.com said: >> > I thought this issue was solved. FC5 updated and the problem seemed to go >> > away. Yesterday it came back. The panel freezes and gnome apps die if I >> access >> > the menu. It happes in KDE and xfce, too. So, I've come to the conclusion >> that >> > it's Xorg. As a matter of fact, it may be even deeper than that as it >> doesn't >> > solve the problem to do CTRL-ALT-BKSPC. I get a new session, but it goes >> back >> > into I-don't-wanna-play-nice mode even quicker on the re-login. I have to >> > reboot to get a clean session, which hangs after about 5-20 minutes. >> > >> > Please, any ideas. I've got FC5 installed on my new workstation at work >> and >> > can't put it into service if this isn't solved. My home PC is the test and >> > play box where I hope to solve this. >> >> Okay, I've figured something out, but the solution evades me, other than >> non-use of the offending application. What is it? >> >> mplayer-1.0pre8-0.7.20060418 >> >> I typically listen to online radio with mplayer. When I run it, the panel >> dies >> in either gnome, KDE or xfce. Strange but true. I've had KDE up for 3 hours >> and then ran mplayer to show my son some WoW vids he created that were on an >> older hard disk he was going to format because he couldn't access it in >> WinXP-Semi-Pro (yum install kmod-ntfs;mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/rmv) >> >> So, any thoughts now? > > Which Linux are you running, Karl, and are you fully updated? I know > there were some issues with mplayer on FC5's default gnome. FC5, fully updated. I manually run yum update as well as having it 'cron'ed. I do have a few extra repos setup: [fedora 7 repos] freshrpms greysector livna [3 repos] macromedia I've worried about things a bit, but last night, exactly at the time I clicked 'SEND' on this email, I noticed my sound was also dead and killed the artsd daemon, which restarted, and my panels came back to life in KDE. So, things are much better, but I'm also not running mplayer to radio stations anymore. Karl From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 1 20:42:38 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:42:38 -0700 Subject: Xorg Hangs-was Gnome-panel hangs In-Reply-To: <53704.207.173.117.242.1149185593.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> References: <26432.198.60.114.90.1147495014.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <18621.198.60.114.90.1149136730.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <1149180608.14819.80.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <53704.207.173.117.242.1149185593.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <1149194559.14819.113.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 12:13 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > On Thu, June 1, 2006 10:50 am, Rick Stevens said: > > On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 22:38 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > >> On Fri, May 12, 2006 10:36 pm, karlp at ourldsfamily.com said: > >> > I thought this issue was solved. FC5 updated and the problem seemed to go > >> > away. Yesterday it came back. The panel freezes and gnome apps die if I > >> access > >> > the menu. It happes in KDE and xfce, too. So, I've come to the conclusion > >> that > >> > it's Xorg. As a matter of fact, it may be even deeper than that as it > >> doesn't > >> > solve the problem to do CTRL-ALT-BKSPC. I get a new session, but it goes > >> back > >> > into I-don't-wanna-play-nice mode even quicker on the re-login. I have to > >> > reboot to get a clean session, which hangs after about 5-20 minutes. > >> > > >> > Please, any ideas. I've got FC5 installed on my new workstation at work > >> and > >> > can't put it into service if this isn't solved. My home PC is the test and > >> > play box where I hope to solve this. > >> > >> Okay, I've figured something out, but the solution evades me, other than > >> non-use of the offending application. What is it? > >> > >> mplayer-1.0pre8-0.7.20060418 > >> > >> I typically listen to online radio with mplayer. When I run it, the panel > >> dies > >> in either gnome, KDE or xfce. Strange but true. I've had KDE up for 3 hours > >> and then ran mplayer to show my son some WoW vids he created that were on an > >> older hard disk he was going to format because he couldn't access it in > >> WinXP-Semi-Pro (yum install kmod-ntfs;mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/rmv) > >> > >> So, any thoughts now? > > > > Which Linux are you running, Karl, and are you fully updated? I know > > there were some issues with mplayer on FC5's default gnome. > > FC5, fully updated. I manually run yum update as well as having it 'cron'ed. > > I do have a few extra repos setup: > > [fedora 7 repos] > freshrpms > greysector > livna [3 repos] > macromedia > > I've worried about things a bit, but last night, exactly at the time I clicked > 'SEND' on this email, I noticed my sound was also dead and killed the artsd > daemon, which restarted, and my panels came back to life in KDE. So, things > are much better, but I'm also not running mplayer to radio stations anymore. Hmmm. I don't use mplayer very often. For radio, I typically use xmms. There may be an issue with the handling of one of the codecs under mplayer--particularly if it started life as a Windows codec. It'd be interesting if you could specify different stream formats for the stations and see if one format caused the error. If so, then I'd really suspect the codec. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - All generalizations are false. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Thu Jun 1 21:15:06 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 15:15:06 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Xorg Hangs-was Gnome-panel hangs In-Reply-To: <1149194559.14819.113.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <26432.198.60.114.90.1147495014.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <18621.198.60.114.90.1149136730.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <1149180608.14819.80.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <53704.207.173.117.242.1149185593.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <1149194559.14819.113.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <54367.207.173.117.242.1149196506.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> On Thu, June 1, 2006 2:42 pm, Rick Stevens said: > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 12:13 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >> On Thu, June 1, 2006 10:50 am, Rick Stevens said: >> > On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 22:38 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 12, 2006 10:36 pm, karlp at ourldsfamily.com said: >> >> > I thought this issue was solved. FC5 updated and the problem seemed to >> go >> >> > away. Yesterday it came back. The panel freezes and gnome apps die if I >> >> access >> >> > the menu. It happes in KDE and xfce, too. So, I've come to the >> conclusion >> >> that >> >> > it's Xorg. As a matter of fact, it may be even deeper than that as it >> >> doesn't >> >> > solve the problem to do CTRL-ALT-BKSPC. I get a new session, but it >> goes >> >> back >> >> > into I-don't-wanna-play-nice mode even quicker on the re-login. I have >> to >> >> > reboot to get a clean session, which hangs after about 5-20 minutes. >> >> > >> >> > Please, any ideas. I've got FC5 installed on my new workstation at work >> >> and >> >> > can't put it into service if this isn't solved. My home PC is the test >> and >> >> > play box where I hope to solve this. >> >> >> >> Okay, I've figured something out, but the solution evades me, other than >> >> non-use of the offending application. What is it? >> >> >> >> mplayer-1.0pre8-0.7.20060418 >> >> >> >> I typically listen to online radio with mplayer. When I run it, the panel >> >> dies >> >> in either gnome, KDE or xfce. Strange but true. I've had KDE up for 3 >> hours >> >> and then ran mplayer to show my son some WoW vids he created that were on >> an >> >> older hard disk he was going to format because he couldn't access it in >> >> WinXP-Semi-Pro (yum install kmod-ntfs;mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/rmv) >> >> >> >> So, any thoughts now? >> > >> > Which Linux are you running, Karl, and are you fully updated? I know >> > there were some issues with mplayer on FC5's default gnome. >> >> FC5, fully updated. I manually run yum update as well as having it 'cron'ed. >> >> I do have a few extra repos setup: >> >> [fedora 7 repos] >> freshrpms >> greysector >> livna [3 repos] >> macromedia >> >> I've worried about things a bit, but last night, exactly at the time I >> clicked >> 'SEND' on this email, I noticed my sound was also dead and killed the artsd >> daemon, which restarted, and my panels came back to life in KDE. So, things >> are much better, but I'm also not running mplayer to radio stations anymore. > > Hmmm. I don't use mplayer very often. For radio, I typically use xmms. > There may be an issue with the handling of one of the codecs under > mplayer--particularly if it started life as a Windows codec. It'd be > interesting if you could specify different stream formats for the > stations and see if one format caused the error. If so, then I'd really > suspect the codec. I suspect you are right. One major problem with mplayer in the current situation is that some formats don't come across clearly. They are just static and noise... I'm wondering if I back off the codecs and install different ones... Experimentation coming... Time isn't, drat. I can do xmms. I used to use it a lot until the mp3 stuff came up. But, I rip to ogg now so that's not even an issue too much, other than the 300+ mp3s I like. Karl From Mobolaji.Osinuga at alcatel.fr Fri Jun 2 18:54:57 2006 From: Mobolaji.Osinuga at alcatel.fr (Mobolaji.Osinuga at alcatel.fr) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:54:57 +0100 Subject: GRUB_INSTALL Message-ID: <006201c68676$1382f410$d4bdd99f@expression> Hello, Apart from changing the /etc/grub.conf which is a symbolic link to /boot/grub/grub.conf, what other config is there to be changed when one makes a new partition after installing grub before then. The scenario is this: /boot is /dev/hda5 when Redhat was installed. 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URL: From kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr Fri Jun 2 20:18:10 2006 From: kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr (Kostas Sfakiotakis) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 23:18:10 +0300 Subject: GRUB_INSTALL References: <006201c68676$1382f410$d4bdd99f@expression> Message-ID: <000e01c68681$ab48b590$9ce65cc1@magellan> Greetings Mobolaji , ----- Original Message ----- From: Mobolaji.Osinuga at alcatel.fr To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 9:54 PM Subject: GRUB_INSTALL Hello, Apart from changing the /etc/grub.conf which is a symbolic link to /boot/grub/grub.conf, what other config is there to be changed when one makes a new partition after installing grub before then. The scenario is this: /boot is /dev/hda5 when Redhat was installed. A new windows partition was installed which became /dev/hda5. /boot now became /dev/hda6. Am I to re-install grub after changing the grub.conf file? There is no need to reinstall grub . Changing the coresponding line in /boo/grub/grub.conf is sufficient . Please also check and verify that /etc/fstab has the correct entry for the /boot partition . Other than these there is nothing else that you have to change . Thank you. Bolaji Kind Regards, Kostas From rdawrey at Jeddah.gov.sa Sun Jun 4 07:10:32 2006 From: rdawrey at Jeddah.gov.sa (Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey) Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 10:10:32 +0300 Subject: Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes with repomd.xml error 256 Message-ID: <75F1D53D8E29224883CDF0E3E4B02CC9BBF7@mail.Jeddah.gov.sa> Hello, I am trying to install fedora with alternate install method (hard drive installation) as described in the install guide with the iso images. Am able to boot into a text mode installation and it correctly takes the path of the 5 iso's and all the screens for network and grub etc. are fine until I think when it tries to read package info and it crashes with the follo error - -------------------- Unable to read package metadata Cannot open/read rcpomd.xml file for repository. Failure : repodata/repomd.xml from anaconda: [Errno 256] ------ Your insight is appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards, RMD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cascade_noc at yahoo.com.hk Sun Jun 4 08:02:53 2006 From: cascade_noc at yahoo.com.hk (man tak wong) Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 16:02:53 +0800 (CST) Subject: samba problem Message-ID: <20060604080253.62320.qmail@web37804.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear All, I have two hosts (rhel1.example.com, IP:192.168.0.10, rhel2.example.com, IP:192.168.0.12) I have share the folder /mnt/share in samba service. /etc/samba/smb.conf [newshare] comment=test path=/mnt/share public=yes writable=yes hosts allow = 192.168.0. It was succesful to mount the share folder with smbmount But if i change the hosts allow = .example.com It was failed to mount the share folder. Is it any syntax error in smb.conf P.S I already add the statement 192.168.0.12 rhel2 rhel2.example.com in /etc/hosts of rhel1 Regards Lstar _______________________________________ YM - ???? ??????????????????????????????????????????? http://messenger.yahoo.com.hk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Is it any syntax error in smb.conf P.S I already add the statement 192.168.0.12 rhel2 rhel2.example.com in /etc/hosts of rhel1 Regards Lstar _______________________________________ YM - ???? ??????????????????????????????????????????? http://messenger.yahoo.com.hk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Mon Jun 5 01:23:23 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 19:23:23 -0600 (MDT) Subject: samba problem In-Reply-To: <75F1D53D8E29224883CDF0E3E4B02CC9BBFE@mail.Jeddah.gov.sa> References: <75F1D53D8E29224883CDF0E3E4B02CC9BBFE@mail.Jeddah.gov.sa> Message-ID: <12578.198.60.114.90.1149470603.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> > Dear All, > > > > I have two hosts (rhel1.example.com, IP:192.168.0.10, rhel2.example.com, > IP:192.168.0.12) > > I have share the folder /mnt/share in samba service. > > /etc/samba/smb.conf > > [newshare] > > comment=test > > path=/mnt/share > > public=yes > > writable=yes > > hosts allow = 192.168.0. > > It was succesful to mount the share folder with smbmount > > But if i change the hosts allow = .example.com > > It was failed to mount the share folder. > > Is it any syntax error in smb.conf > > P.S I already add the statement 192.168.0.12 rhel2 rhel2.example.com in > /etc/hosts of rhel1 Having the domain pointed to 192.168.0.12 is invalid as smb/nmb won't look in /etc/hosts. You have to use the IP addresses only in this case. You can use the hosts file if you remove .com and just use a simple host name, Ie: rhel2 without the domain. At least I believe that to be the case. Tomorrow when the majority of the list is back at work, you may get a better answer. Karl From govind at mc-3.org Mon Jun 5 05:18:10 2006 From: govind at mc-3.org (Govind C) Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:18:10 +0800 Subject: Multiowner Filesystem?? Message-ID: <524d956b.956b524d@aspcentre.org> I have a storage connected to two systems over FC.I would like both system to read/write from same partition(but different directories).I don`t want to use nfs.Any suggestions? OS is RedHAt 3.0 cheers From ciril at hcl.in Mon Jun 5 07:51:13 2006 From: ciril at hcl.in (Ciril Ignatious T) Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:21:13 +0530 Subject: Multiowner Filesystem?? In-Reply-To: <524d956b.956b524d@aspcentre.org> References: <524d956b.956b524d@aspcentre.org> Message-ID: <4483E271.1000905@hcl.in> You can use any shared file system like GFS or lustre or ocfs. Govind C wrote: > I have a storage connected to two systems over FC.I would like both > system to read/write from same partition(but different directories).I > don`t want to use nfs.Any suggestions? > > OS is RedHAt 3.0 > > cheers > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- CIRIL IGNATIOUS T R & D ENGINEER HCL INFOSYSTEMS LTD PONDICHERRY PH:09894027005 From j-pinkney at onu.edu Mon Jun 5 16:54:05 2006 From: j-pinkney at onu.edu (Jason Pinkney) Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:54:05 -0400 Subject: nautilus issues In-Reply-To: <20060602160029.3AFDD732BC@hormel.redhat.com> References: <20060602160029.3AFDD732BC@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <448461AD.40907@onu.edu> > On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 20:48 -0400, Jason Pinkney wrote: > >>Dear Linux gurus, >>I'm having problems with my gnome desktop/nautilus. >>I'm running Fedora core 2, gnome-desktop-2.0. >> >>I had this problems before, but I can't remember the >>solution. Here are some symptoms: >>1. When I reboot, my desktop comes up without my >> chosen background and without my desktop icons. >> The panels are ok. >>2. Right-clicking on the background does nothing >>3. Trying to run nautilus from the command line does nothing. >>4. Logging out takes so long that I get impatient and kill X. >>5. I've been able to get the desktop back to normal by logging >> in with a KDE desktop, fiddling with things, and then going >> back to gnome. Also, by killing X, fiddling around with things >> (like killing stray nautilus commands) and then typing "startx". >> However, when I log out again, the dialogue does not include >> the check box for save the current desktop. (How can that happen??) >> And completely rebooting makes it messed up again. >>Any ideas? >> >> > >Sounds like your ~/.gtk* files got hosed. Replace them with copies from >another user or take note of your home directory, UID and GID, then >delete your account by becoming the root user and using the command: > > # userdel yourloginname > >Do NOT use the "-r" option! Once that's done, recreate the account >using: > > # useradd -g oldGID -u oldUID -d oldhomedirectory yourloginname > >That will create the account anew, but use the old UID and GID and home >directory. Since you didn't use the "-r" option to userdel, all the >files in the directory will still be there. Once that's done, reset the >password: > > # passwd yourloginname > > >and the account should be OK. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- 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! - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-install-list mailing list >Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > Thanks Rick, that helped a lot! My only addendum is that I had to recreate the oldGID before I did your command useradd -g oldGID -u oldUID -d oldhomedirectory yourloginname otherwise it gives an error message. thanks, Jason From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 5 17:22:09 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:22:09 -0700 Subject: nautilus issues In-Reply-To: <448461AD.40907@onu.edu> References: <20060602160029.3AFDD732BC@hormel.redhat.com> <448461AD.40907@onu.edu> Message-ID: <1149528129.3300.105.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 12:54 -0400, Jason Pinkney wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 20:48 -0400, Jason Pinkney wrote: > > > >>Dear Linux gurus, > >>I'm having problems with my gnome desktop/nautilus. > >>I'm running Fedora core 2, gnome-desktop-2.0. > >> > >>I had this problems before, but I can't remember the > >>solution. Here are some symptoms: > >>1. When I reboot, my desktop comes up without my > >> chosen background and without my desktop icons. > >> The panels are ok. > >>2. Right-clicking on the background does nothing > >>3. Trying to run nautilus from the command line does nothing. > >>4. Logging out takes so long that I get impatient and kill X. > >>5. I've been able to get the desktop back to normal by logging > >> in with a KDE desktop, fiddling with things, and then going > >> back to gnome. Also, by killing X, fiddling around with things > >> (like killing stray nautilus commands) and then typing "startx". > >> However, when I log out again, the dialogue does not include > >> the check box for save the current desktop. (How can that happen??) > >> And completely rebooting makes it messed up again. > >>Any ideas? > >> > >> > > > >Sounds like your ~/.gtk* files got hosed. Replace them with copies from > >another user or take note of your home directory, UID and GID, then > >delete your account by becoming the root user and using the command: > > > > # userdel yourloginname > > > >Do NOT use the "-r" option! Once that's done, recreate the account > >using: > > > > # useradd -g oldGID -u oldUID -d oldhomedirectory yourloginname > > > >That will create the account anew, but use the old UID and GID and home > >directory. Since you didn't use the "-r" option to userdel, all the > >files in the directory will still be there. Once that's done, reset the > >password: > > > > # passwd yourloginname > > > > > >and the account should be OK. > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >- 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! - > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Redhat-install-list mailing list > >Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > > > Thanks Rick, > that helped a lot! > My only addendum is that I had to recreate the oldGID > before I did your command > > useradd -g oldGID -u oldUID -d oldhomedirectory yourloginname > > otherwise it gives an error message. DOH! Yeah, I forgot that. deluser will delete the GID if only one user is using it. Well, I never said I was perfect (or even reasonably intelligent!) :-) Glad you got it sorted out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd say... oh, somewhere in there. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 5 17:28:39 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:28:39 -0700 Subject: samba problem In-Reply-To: <12578.198.60.114.90.1149470603.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> References: <75F1D53D8E29224883CDF0E3E4B02CC9BBFE@mail.Jeddah.gov.sa> <12578.198.60.114.90.1149470603.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <1149528519.3300.111.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 19:23 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > > > > > I have two hosts (rhel1.example.com, IP:192.168.0.10, rhel2.example.com, > > IP:192.168.0.12) > > > > I have share the folder /mnt/share in samba service. > > > > /etc/samba/smb.conf > > > > [newshare] > > > > comment=test > > > > path=/mnt/share > > > > public=yes > > > > writable=yes > > > > hosts allow = 192.168.0. > > > > It was succesful to mount the share folder with smbmount > > > > But if i change the hosts allow = .example.com > > > > It was failed to mount the share folder. > > > > Is it any syntax error in smb.conf > > > > P.S I already add the statement 192.168.0.12 rhel2 rhel2.example.com in > > /etc/hosts of rhel1 > > Having the domain pointed to 192.168.0.12 is invalid as smb/nmb won't look in > /etc/hosts. You have to use the IP addresses only in this case. You can use > the hosts file if you remove .com and just use a simple host name, Ie: rhel2 > without the domain. > > At least I believe that to be the case. Tomorrow when the majority of the list > is back at work, you may get a better answer. You're partially correct, Karl. Samba supports hosts (hostnames and FQDNs from both /etc/hosts and DNS), IPs and netgroups from NFS. It does NOT support DNS domains. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The light at the end of the tunnel is really an oncoming train. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 5 17:34:44 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:34:44 -0700 Subject: Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes with repomd.xml error 256 In-Reply-To: <75F1D53D8E29224883CDF0E3E4B02CC9BBF7@mail.Jeddah.gov.sa> References: <75F1D53D8E29224883CDF0E3E4B02CC9BBF7@mail.Jeddah.gov.sa> Message-ID: <1149528884.3300.117.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 10:10 +0300, Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install fedora with alternate install > method (hard drive installation) as > > described in the install guide with the iso images. Am able to boot > > into a text mode installation and it correctly takes the path of the 5 > iso?s and > > all the screens for network and grub etc. are fine until I think when > it tries to read > > package info and it crashes with the follo error ? > > > > -------------------- > > Unable to read package metadata > > > > Cannot open/read rcpomd.xml file for repository. > > Failure : repodata/repomd.xml from anaconda: [Errno 256] > > ------ The ISO images must be named EXACTLY as they are on the download site (including capitalization) and you must make certain they are readable by everyone. If you're installing FC5 for a 32-bit Intel machine, the ISOs MUST be named: FC-5-i386-disc1.iso FC-5-i386-disc2.iso FC-5-i386-disc3.iso FC-5-i386-disc4.iso FC-5-i386-disc5.iso Or, using the DVD ISO image: FC-5-i386-DVD.iso ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To err is human, to moo bovine. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From Todd.Carter at noaa.gov Mon Jun 5 17:39:12 2006 From: Todd.Carter at noaa.gov (Todd Carter) Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:39:12 -0700 Subject: aic7xxx probe/driver install hangs installing RH enterprise 4 Message-ID: <44846C40.1030209@noaa.gov> Hello, I've got an Adaptec AIC7899 SCSI interface on an IBM intellistation (MP) that's giving me fits. I've searched for a solution and tried: linux noprobe then selecting the aic7xxx driver during the install phase (still hangs) linux apic (no luck) I've tried Scientific Linux 4.3 (Redhat AS 4 variant), RH Ent 4 WS which don't work. However the venerable Fedora Core 4 works! Are there any parameters I can pass to the driver install that may get me passed this? Thanks, Todd From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 5 21:10:22 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:10:22 -0700 Subject: aic7xxx probe/driver install hangs installing RH enterprise 4 In-Reply-To: <44846C40.1030209@noaa.gov> References: <44846C40.1030209@noaa.gov> Message-ID: <1149541822.3300.151.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 10:39 -0700, Todd Carter wrote: > Hello, > > I've got an Adaptec AIC7899 SCSI interface on an IBM intellistation (MP) > that's giving me fits. > > I've searched for a solution and tried: > linux noprobe then selecting the aic7xxx driver during the install phase > (still hangs) > linux apic (no luck) > > I've tried Scientific Linux 4.3 (Redhat AS 4 variant), RH Ent 4 WS which > don't work. > However the venerable Fedora Core 4 works! > > Are there any parameters I can pass to the driver install that may get > me passed this? You could try "aic7xxx=no_probe". Also check the termination on the bus. Most probe hangs are caused by termination issues. Remember, only the drive at the end of the cable should be terminated--the rest should not be. If you can boot up FC4, have a look at the /boot/grub/grub.conf file and see what parameters are passed to its kernel, then try those on the install command line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - A day for firm decisions!!! Well, then again, maybe not! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From Todd.Carter at noaa.gov Mon Jun 5 21:49:51 2006 From: Todd.Carter at noaa.gov (Todd Carter) Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:49:51 -0700 Subject: aic7xxx probe/driver install hangs installing RH enterprise 4 In-Reply-To: <1149541822.3300.151.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <44846C40.1030209@noaa.gov> <1149541822.3300.151.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <4484A6FF.4080802@noaa.gov> Rick Stevens wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 10:39 -0700, Todd Carter wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I've got an Adaptec AIC7899 SCSI interface on an IBM intellistation (MP) >> that's giving me fits. >> >> I've searched for a solution and tried: >> linux noprobe then selecting the aic7xxx driver during the install phase >> (still hangs) >> linux apic (no luck) >> >> I've tried Scientific Linux 4.3 (Redhat AS 4 variant), RH Ent 4 WS which >> don't work. >> However the venerable Fedora Core 4 works! >> >> Are there any parameters I can pass to the driver install that may get >> me passed this? >> > > You could try "aic7xxx=no_probe". Also check the termination on the > bus. Most probe hangs are caused by termination issues. Remember, only > the drive at the end of the cable should be terminated--the rest should > not be. > > If you can boot up FC4, have a look at the /boot/grub/grub.conf file > and see what parameters are passed to its kernel, then try those on > the install command line. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - A day for firm decisions!!! Well, then again, maybe not! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > 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, aic7xxx=no_probe had no effect. Grub.conf has no special parameters passed to the kernel. The scsi cable has one terminator connection at the end, one drive that is first in the chain and the rest are open connectors. This server has had RH 8,9 and FC4. It's just odd that this scsi driver would 'fail' so far down the line of OS upgrades. Thanks for the suggestions. If there's a rabbit to be pulled out of the hat then I'm all ears. Todd From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Mon Jun 5 23:42:45 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 17:42:45 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Xorg Hangs-was Gnome-panel hangs In-Reply-To: <54367.207.173.117.242.1149196506.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> References: <26432.198.60.114.90.1147495014.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <18621.198.60.114.90.1149136730.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <1149180608.14819.80.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <53704.207.173.117.242.1149185593.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <1149194559.14819.113.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <54367.207.173.117.242.1149196506.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <22195.198.60.114.90.1149550965.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> On Thu, June 1, 2006 3:15 pm, karlp at ourldsfamily.com said: > > On Thu, June 1, 2006 2:42 pm, Rick Stevens said: >> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 12:13 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >>> On Thu, June 1, 2006 10:50 am, Rick Stevens said: >>> > On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 22:38 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >>> >> On Fri, May 12, 2006 10:36 pm, karlp at ourldsfamily.com said: >>> >> > I thought this issue was solved. FC5 updated and the problem seemed to >>> go >>> >> > away. Yesterday it came back. The panel freezes and gnome apps die if >>> I >>> >> access >>> >> > the menu. It happes in KDE and xfce, too. So, I've come to the >>> conclusion >>> >> that >>> >> > it's Xorg. As a matter of fact, it may be even deeper than that as it >>> >> doesn't >>> >> > solve the problem to do CTRL-ALT-BKSPC. I get a new session, but it >>> goes >>> >> back >>> >> > into I-don't-wanna-play-nice mode even quicker on the re-login. I have >>> to >>> >> > reboot to get a clean session, which hangs after about 5-20 minutes. >>> >> > >>> >> > Please, any ideas. I've got FC5 installed on my new workstation at >>> work >>> >> and >>> >> > can't put it into service if this isn't solved. My home PC is the test >>> and >>> >> > play box where I hope to solve this. >>> >> >>> >> Okay, I've figured something out, but the solution evades me, other than >>> >> non-use of the offending application. What is it? >>> >> >>> >> mplayer-1.0pre8-0.7.20060418 >>> >> >>> >> I typically listen to online radio with mplayer. When I run it, the >>> panel >>> >> dies >>> >> in either gnome, KDE or xfce. Strange but true. I've had KDE up for 3 >>> hours >>> >> and then ran mplayer to show my son some WoW vids he created that were >>> on >>> an >>> >> older hard disk he was going to format because he couldn't access it in >>> >> WinXP-Semi-Pro (yum install kmod-ntfs;mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/rmv) >>> >> >>> >> So, any thoughts now? >>> > >>> > Which Linux are you running, Karl, and are you fully updated? I know >>> > there were some issues with mplayer on FC5's default gnome. >>> >>> FC5, fully updated. I manually run yum update as well as having it >>> 'cron'ed. >>> >>> I do have a few extra repos setup: >>> >>> [fedora 7 repos] >>> freshrpms >>> greysector >>> livna [3 repos] >>> macromedia >>> >>> I've worried about things a bit, but last night, exactly at the time I >>> clicked >>> 'SEND' on this email, I noticed my sound was also dead and killed the artsd >>> daemon, which restarted, and my panels came back to life in KDE. So, things >>> are much better, but I'm also not running mplayer to radio stations >>> anymore. >> >> Hmmm. I don't use mplayer very often. For radio, I typically use xmms. >> There may be an issue with the handling of one of the codecs under >> mplayer--particularly if it started life as a Windows codec. It'd be >> interesting if you could specify different stream formats for the >> stations and see if one format caused the error. If so, then I'd really >> suspect the codec. > > I suspect you are right. One major problem with mplayer in the current > situation is that some formats don't come across clearly. They are just static > and noise... I'm wondering if I back off the codecs and install different > ones... Experimentation coming... Time isn't, drat. > > I can do xmms. I used to use it a lot until the mp3 stuff came up. But, I rip > to ogg now so that's not even an issue too much, other than the 300+ mp3s I > like. > Update: I found that I was missing codecs. I installed just mplayer-codecs and things seem to have tamed down a bunch. But, if the codecs were hosed and I removed them sometime back, how did mplayer work at all? Are there 'built-in' codecs mplayer relies on? Now, if only totem came with ANYTHING to make it work, I could try it. Xine works okay, but I installed Ogle, and am happy again with DVD playing. Karl From hemzet at gmx.net Tue Jun 6 08:56:10 2006 From: hemzet at gmx.net (Oliver B.) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:56:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: aic7xxx probe/driver install hangs installing RH enterprise 4 In-Reply-To: <4484A6FF.4080802@noaa.gov> References: <44846C40.1030209@noaa.gov> <1149541822.3300.151.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <4484A6FF.4080802@noaa.gov> Message-ID: <52933.62.245.133.6.1149584170.squirrel@webmail.hemzet.com> Hi Todd, use the kernel option acpi=no at bootup. This will work. The problem is the Red hat patched kernel. You can't use it with ACPI on an IBM IntelliStation. Change to a normal one (kernel.org) and ACPI will work without problems... Regards Oliver >>> Hello, >>> >>> I've got an Adaptec AIC7899 SCSI interface on an IBM intellistation >>> (MP) >>> that's giving me fits. >>> >>> I've searched for a solution and tried: >>> linux noprobe then selecting the aic7xxx driver during the install >>> phase >>> (still hangs) >>> linux apic (no luck) >>> >>> I've tried Scientific Linux 4.3 (Redhat AS 4 variant), RH Ent 4 WS >>> which >>> don't work. >>> However the venerable Fedora Core 4 works! >>> >>> Are there any parameters I can pass to the driver install that may get >>> me passed this? >>> >> >> You could try "aic7xxx=no_probe". Also check the termination on the >> bus. Most probe hangs are caused by termination issues. Remember, only >> the drive at the end of the cable should be terminated--the rest should >> not be. >> >> If you can boot up FC4, have a look at the /boot/grub/grub.conf file >> and see what parameters are passed to its kernel, then try those on >> the install command line. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >> - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >> - - >> - A day for firm decisions!!! Well, then again, maybe not! - >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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, > aic7xxx=no_probe had no effect. Grub.conf has no special parameters > passed to the kernel. The scsi cable has one terminator connection at > the end, one drive that is first in the chain and the rest are open > connectors. > > This server has had RH 8,9 and FC4. It's just odd that this scsi driver > would 'fail' so far down the line of OS upgrades. > > Thanks for the suggestions. If there's a rabbit to be pulled out of the > hat then I'm all ears. > > Todd > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Tue Jun 6 17:10:13 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:10:13 -0700 Subject: Xorg Hangs-was Gnome-panel hangs In-Reply-To: <22195.198.60.114.90.1149550965.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> References: <26432.198.60.114.90.1147495014.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <18621.198.60.114.90.1149136730.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <1149180608.14819.80.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <53704.207.173.117.242.1149185593.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <1149194559.14819.113.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <54367.207.173.117.242.1149196506.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <22195.198.60.114.90.1149550965.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <1149613813.3300.159.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 17:42 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > >> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 12:13 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > >>> On Thu, June 1, 2006 10:50 am, Rick Stevens said: [snip] > >> Hmmm. I don't use mplayer very often. For radio, I typically use xmms. > >> There may be an issue with the handling of one of the codecs under > >> mplayer--particularly if it started life as a Windows codec. It'd be > >> interesting if you could specify different stream formats for the > >> stations and see if one format caused the error. If so, then I'd really > >> suspect the codec. > > > > I suspect you are right. One major problem with mplayer in the current > > situation is that some formats don't come across clearly. They are just static > > and noise... I'm wondering if I back off the codecs and install different > > ones... Experimentation coming... Time isn't, drat. > > > > I can do xmms. I used to use it a lot until the mp3 stuff came up. But, I rip > > to ogg now so that's not even an issue too much, other than the 300+ mp3s I > > like. > > > > Update: > > I found that I was missing codecs. I installed just mplayer-codecs and things > seem to have tamed down a bunch. That's good. > But, if the codecs were hosed and I removed them sometime back, how did > mplayer work at all? Are there 'built-in' codecs mplayer relies on? I'm not sure if it has any built in except the mencoder codec. There are two RPMs worth of codecs, though: mplayer-codecs and mplayer-codecs-extra. > Now, if only totem came with ANYTHING to make it work, I could try it. Xine > works okay, but I installed Ogle, and am happy again with DVD playing. Totem is just a front end for xine. If xine works, totem should. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "The bogosity meter just pegged." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 6 17:11:56 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:11:56 -0700 Subject: aic7xxx probe/driver install hangs installing RH enterprise 4 In-Reply-To: <52933.62.245.133.6.1149584170.squirrel@webmail.hemzet.com> References: <44846C40.1030209@noaa.gov> <1149541822.3300.151.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <4484A6FF.4080802@noaa.gov> <52933.62.245.133.6.1149584170.squirrel@webmail.hemzet.com> Message-ID: <1149613916.3300.162.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 10:56 +0200, Oliver B. wrote: > Hi Todd, > > use the kernel option acpi=no at bootup. This will work. > The problem is the Red hat patched kernel. You can't use it with ACPI on > an IBM IntelliStation. Change to a normal one (kernel.org) and ACPI will > work without problems... Well THERE'S a new one. Let's see, acpi...scsi...AH! Spindown of drives! Yes, I can see a link. Tenuous, but I can see one. > > Regards > Oliver > > > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> I've got an Adaptec AIC7899 SCSI interface on an IBM intellistation > >>> (MP) > >>> that's giving me fits. > >>> > >>> I've searched for a solution and tried: > >>> linux noprobe then selecting the aic7xxx driver during the install > >>> phase > >>> (still hangs) > >>> linux apic (no luck) > >>> > >>> I've tried Scientific Linux 4.3 (Redhat AS 4 variant), RH Ent 4 WS > >>> which > >>> don't work. > >>> However the venerable Fedora Core 4 works! > >>> > >>> Are there any parameters I can pass to the driver install that may get > >>> me passed this? > >>> > >> > >> You could try "aic7xxx=no_probe". Also check the termination on the > >> bus. Most probe hangs are caused by termination issues. Remember, only > >> the drive at the end of the cable should be terminated--the rest should > >> not be. > >> > >> If you can boot up FC4, have a look at the /boot/grub/grub.conf file > >> and see what parameters are passed to its kernel, then try those on > >> the install command line. > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > >> - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > >> - - > >> - A day for firm decisions!!! Well, then again, maybe not! - > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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, > > aic7xxx=no_probe had no effect. Grub.conf has no special parameters > > passed to the kernel. The scsi cable has one terminator connection at > > the end, one drive that is first in the chain and the rest are open > > connectors. > > > > This server has had RH 8,9 and FC4. It's just odd that this scsi driver > > would 'fail' so far down the line of OS upgrades. > > > > Thanks for the suggestions. If there's a rabbit to be pulled out of the > > hat then I'm all ears. > > > > Todd > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 - - - - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - - process. Prepare to vi." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Tue Jun 6 22:24:22 2006 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 16:24:22 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Phone Software Message-ID: I've got a Motorola Razr V3c phone and am looking for some software to use under Linux (RH9 or FC4) to set it up. Anyone know of anything out there? Thanks, 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 Jun 6 23:47:53 2006 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 17:47:53 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Phone Software In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Sorry, I'd aleady asked this question before I got the phone - now I have the phone and cable so I thought to ask it again but I already had a reply - Gee I hate getting old, but I can't remember why. Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > I've got a Motorola Razr V3c phone and am looking for some > software to use under Linux (RH9 or FC4) to set it up. Anyone > know of anything out there? > > Thanks, > > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT > > There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that > understand binary and those that don't. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 rdawrey at Jeddah.gov.sa Wed Jun 7 06:23:29 2006 From: rdawrey at Jeddah.gov.sa (Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:23:29 +0300 Subject: Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes with repomd.xmlerror 256 Message-ID: <75F1D53D8E29224883CDF0E3E4B02CC9BC0B@mail.Jeddah.gov.sa> -----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, June 05, 2006 8:35 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes with repomd.xmlerror 256 On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 10:10 +0300, Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install fedora with alternate install > method (hard drive installation) as > > described in the install guide with the iso images. Am able to boot > > into a text mode installation and it correctly takes the path of the 5 > iso's and > > all the screens for network and grub etc. are fine until I think when > it tries to read > > package info and it crashes with the follo error - > > > > -------------------- > > Unable to read package metadata > > > > Cannot open/read rcpomd.xml file for repository. > > Failure : repodata/repomd.xml from anaconda: [Errno 256] > > ------ >The ISO images must be named EXACTLY as they are on the download site >(including capitalization) and you must make certain they are readable >by everyone. >If you're installing FC5 for a 32-bit Intel machine, the ISOs MUST be >named: > FC-5-i386-disc1.iso > FC-5-i386-disc2.iso > FC-5-i386-disc3.iso > FC-5-i386-disc4.iso > FC-5-i386-disc5.iso >Or, using the DVD ISO image: > FC-5-i386-DVD.iso ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To err is human, to moo bovine. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The iso's are on a fat32 partition. And I am using loadlin to boot into the linux installer. When I get the welcome to fedora screen, I do an alt + f2 to switch to the command shell and when I mount the partition holding the iso images, its exactly the same as you mentioned. I even checked the sha1 signatures to confirm proper downloading. Its still giving the same error. Any more clues.... ? Regards, R.M.D. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 7 18:15:16 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:15:16 -0700 Subject: Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes with repomd.xmlerror 256 In-Reply-To: <75F1D53D8E29224883CDF0E3E4B02CC9BC0B@mail.Jeddah.gov.sa> References: <75F1D53D8E29224883CDF0E3E4B02CC9BC0B@mail.Jeddah.gov.sa> Message-ID: <1149704116.3300.196.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 09:23 +0300, Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey wrote: > > -----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, June 05, 2006 8:35 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes with > repomd.xmlerror 256 > > On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 10:10 +0300, Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to install fedora with alternate install > > method (hard drive installation) as > > > > described in the install guide with the iso images. Am able to boot > > > > into a text mode installation and it correctly takes the path of the 5 > > iso's and > > > > all the screens for network and grub etc. are fine until I think when > > it tries to read > > > > package info and it crashes with the follo error - > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > > > Unable to read package metadata > > > > > > > > Cannot open/read rcpomd.xml file for repository. > > > > Failure : repodata/repomd.xml from anaconda: [Errno 256] > > > > ------ > > >The ISO images must be named EXACTLY as they are on the download site > >(including capitalization) and you must make certain they are readable > >by everyone. > > >If you're installing FC5 for a 32-bit Intel machine, the ISOs MUST be > >named: > > > FC-5-i386-disc1.iso > > FC-5-i386-disc2.iso > > FC-5-i386-disc3.iso > > FC-5-i386-disc4.iso > > FC-5-i386-disc5.iso > > >Or, using the DVD ISO image: > > > FC-5-i386-DVD.iso > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - To err is human, to moo bovine. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > The iso's are on a fat32 partition. And I am using loadlin to boot into > the > linux installer. When I get the welcome to fedora screen, I do an alt + > f2 > to switch to the command shell and when I mount the partition holding > the > iso images, its exactly the same as you mentioned. I even checked the > sha1 signatures to confirm proper downloading. Its still giving the > same error. > > Any more clues.... ? AFAIK, the partition should NOT be mounted. You should simply be telling the installer which partition they're on and which directory they're in. Also note that the installer only groks ext2, ext3 and FAT partitions. I'm not 100% sure that includes FAT32 (one would hope, but I'm not sure). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 navin.soni at st.com Thu Jun 8 06:43:36 2006 From: navin.soni at st.com (Navin SONI) Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:13:36 +0530 Subject: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 28, Issue 7 References: <20060607160037.808737366D@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <4487C718.CDE56E3A@st.com> hello, i want to implement IP load balancing on my redhat box running version 2.4.21-37.ELsmp,AS release 3. what all packages do i need to install and how to configure TCP/UDP load balancing through it. thanks for any suggestions. Regds navin. From rdawrey at Jeddah.gov.sa Thu Jun 8 07:47:49 2006 From: rdawrey at Jeddah.gov.sa (Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 10:47:49 +0300 Subject: Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes withrepomd.xmlerror 256 Message-ID: <75F1D53D8E29224883CDF0E3E4B02CC9BC15@mail.Jeddah.gov.sa> -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 9:15 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: RE: Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes withrepomd.xmlerror 256 On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 09:23 +0300, Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey wrote: > > -----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, June 05, 2006 8:35 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes with > repomd.xmlerror 256 > > On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 10:10 +0300, Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to install fedora with alternate install > > method (hard drive installation) as > > > > described in the install guide with the iso images. Am able to boot > > > > into a text mode installation and it correctly takes the path of the 5 > > iso's and > > > > all the screens for network and grub etc. are fine until I think when > > it tries to read > > > > package info and it crashes with the follo error - > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > > > Unable to read package metadata > > > > > > > > Cannot open/read rcpomd.xml file for repository. > > > > Failure : repodata/repomd.xml from anaconda: [Errno 256] > > > > ------ > > >The ISO images must be named EXACTLY as they are on the download site > >(including capitalization) and you must make certain they are readable > >by everyone. > > >If you're installing FC5 for a 32-bit Intel machine, the ISOs MUST be > >named: > > > FC-5-i386-disc1.iso > > FC-5-i386-disc2.iso > > FC-5-i386-disc3.iso > > FC-5-i386-disc4.iso > > FC-5-i386-disc5.iso > > >Or, using the DVD ISO image: > > > FC-5-i386-DVD.iso > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - To err is human, to moo bovine. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > The iso's are on a fat32 partition. And I am using loadlin to boot into > the > linux installer. When I get the welcome to fedora screen, I do an alt + > f2 > to switch to the command shell and when I mount the partition holding > the > iso images, its exactly the same as you mentioned. I even checked the > sha1 signatures to confirm proper downloading. Its still giving the > same error. > > Any more clues.... ? >AFAIK, the partition should NOT be mounted. You should simply be >telling the installer which partition they're on and which directory >they're in. >Also note that the installer only groks ext2, ext3 and FAT partitions. >I'm not 100% sure that includes FAT32 (one would hope, but I'm not >sure). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- No, it 'groks' fat32 partition as specified in the official install guide. Also when anaconda asks to specify the path to the iso's it takes it correctly when given the correct path, and to verify I had typed an incorrect path to the iso's and it gives an error of not finding the iso's. Actually, I also searched bugzilla.redhat.com and this bug is already reported and since the last 3 months having the status 'ASSI(gned)' ^^^^ Well, I think it needs a hacker instinct to solve it. Thanks for your input anyways. Any more ideas will be appreciated. Regards, RMD From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 8 16:08:41 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:08:41 -0700 Subject: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 28, Issue 7 In-Reply-To: <4487C718.CDE56E3A@st.com> References: <20060607160037.808737366D@hormel.redhat.com> <4487C718.CDE56E3A@st.com> Message-ID: <1149782922.3300.226.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 12:13 +0530, Navin SONI wrote: > hello, > > i want to implement IP load balancing on my redhat box running version > 2.4.21-37.ELsmp,AS release 3. > > what all packages do i need to install and how to configure TCP/UDP load > balancing through it. What kind of load balancing? Load balancing over two or more NICS on a single machine? Load balancing over multiple machines? You need to be more specific. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Batteries not included. Offer not valid in some states. - - Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 8 16:11:21 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:11:21 -0700 Subject: Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes withrepomd.xmlerror 256 In-Reply-To: <75F1D53D8E29224883CDF0E3E4B02CC9BC15@mail.Jeddah.gov.sa> References: <75F1D53D8E29224883CDF0E3E4B02CC9BC15@mail.Jeddah.gov.sa> Message-ID: <1149783081.3300.230.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 10:47 +0300, Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey wrote: > >Also note that the installer only groks ext2, ext3 and FAT partitions. > >I'm not 100% sure that includes FAT32 (one would hope, but I'm not > >sure). > > No, it 'groks' fat32 partition as specified in the official install > guide. The doc I looked at said "FAT", not "FAT-32". > Also when anaconda asks to specify the path to the iso's it > takes it correctly when given the correct path, and to verify I had > typed an incorrect path to the iso's and it gives an error of not > finding the iso's. > Actually, I also searched bugzilla.redhat.com and this bug is already > reported and since the last 3 months having the status 'ASSI(gned)' Ah, so it's a known bug. Well, that's a problem. Time for a $40 USB CD drive, eh? > Well, I think it needs a hacker instinct to solve it. > Thanks for your input anyways. > Any more ideas will be appreciated. Sorry I couldn't help. I wasn't aware it was a known problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 gvsm at nfc.ernet.in Wed Jun 7 03:43:45 2006 From: gvsm at nfc.ernet.in (GVSM Siva Kumar) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:13:45 +0530 (IST) Subject: Clarification required reg., Redhat Cluster Suite Message-ID: Dear Sirs, We have recently purchased Redhat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 and Redhat Cluster Suite version 3 to establish a high availability cluster in Active/Passive configuration with shared storage. As per documents available on Redhat's website, it is possible to establish a heartbeat mechanism over Ethernet. However, our system integrator feels that this is not possible with RHCS 3 and that heartbeat mechanism can only be established using a Quorum partition. The SI also believes that quorum based heartbeat is superior to Ethernet based heartbeat mechanism. In this regard, can someone please clarify the following. 1) Whether Quorum partition is a superior mechanism for establishing heartbeat? If so, then in what aspects? (Somehow, this looks strange, in an ethernet based heartbeat only network latencies are involved, which must be negligible with a ethernet crossover cable. Whereas quorum partition involves two latencies in writing/reading the quorum partition and the disk access time itself. Surely, a crossover ethernet based heartbeat must be superior to quorum partition.) 2) Is it not possible to establish heartbeat using an ethernet/serial crossover cable? sivakumar From DFEARON at llbean.com Fri Jun 9 17:58:56 2006 From: DFEARON at llbean.com (Dick Fearon) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:58:56 -0400 Subject: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 28, Issue 9 Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 12:01 PM To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com Subject: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 28, Issue 9 Send Redhat-install-list mailing list submissions to redhat-install-list at redhat.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com You can reach the person managing the list at redhat-install-list-owner at redhat.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Redhat-install-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 28, Issue 7 (Rick Stevens) 2. RE: Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes withrepomd.xmlerror 256 (Rick Stevens) 3. Clarification required reg., Redhat Cluster Suite (GVSM Siva Kumar) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:08:41 -0700 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 28, Issue 7 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <1149782922.3300.226.camel at prophead.corp.publichost.com> Content-Type: text/plain On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 12:13 +0530, Navin SONI wrote: > hello, > > i want to implement IP load balancing on my redhat box running version > 2.4.21-37.ELsmp,AS release 3. > > what all packages do i need to install and how to configure TCP/UDP > load balancing through it. What kind of load balancing? Load balancing over two or more NICS on a single machine? Load balancing over multiple machines? You need to be more specific. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Batteries not included. Offer not valid in some states. - - Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:11:21 -0700 From: Rick Stevens Subject: RE: Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes withrepomd.xmlerror 256 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <1149783081.3300.230.camel at prophead.corp.publichost.com> Content-Type: text/plain On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 10:47 +0300, Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey wrote: > >Also note that the installer only groks ext2, ext3 and FAT partitions. > >I'm not 100% sure that includes FAT32 (one would hope, but I'm not > >sure). > > No, it 'groks' fat32 partition as specified in the official install > guide. The doc I looked at said "FAT", not "FAT-32". > Also when anaconda asks to specify the path to the iso's it takes it > correctly when given the correct path, and to verify I had typed an > incorrect path to the iso's and it gives an error of not finding the > iso's. > Actually, I also searched bugzilla.redhat.com and this bug is already > reported and since the last 3 months having the status 'ASSI(gned)' Ah, so it's a known bug. Well, that's a problem. Time for a $40 USB CD drive, eh? > Well, I think it needs a hacker instinct to solve it. > Thanks for your input anyways. > Any more ideas will be appreciated. Sorry I couldn't help. I wasn't aware it was a known problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:13:45 +0530 (IST) From: GVSM Siva Kumar Subject: Clarification required reg., Redhat Cluster Suite To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com, Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Sirs, We have recently purchased Redhat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 and Redhat Cluster Suite version 3 to establish a high availability cluster in Active/Passive configuration with shared storage. As per documents available on Redhat's website, it is possible to establish a heartbeat mechanism over Ethernet. However, our system integrator feels that this is not possible with RHCS 3 and that heartbeat mechanism can only be established using a Quorum partition. The SI also believes that quorum based heartbeat is superior to Ethernet based heartbeat mechanism. In this regard, can someone please clarify the following. 1) Whether Quorum partition is a superior mechanism for establishing heartbeat? If so, then in what aspects? (Somehow, this looks strange, in an ethernet based heartbeat only network latencies are involved, which must be negligible with a ethernet crossover cable. Whereas quorum partition involves two latencies in writing/reading the quorum partition and the disk access time itself. Surely, a crossover ethernet based heartbeat must be superior to quorum partition.) 2) Is it not possible to establish heartbeat using an ethernet/serial crossover cable? sivakumar ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list End of Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 28, Issue 9 ************************************************** From celawrence at lbl.gov Fri Jun 9 18:58:48 2006 From: celawrence at lbl.gov (chuck lawrence) Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:58:48 -0700 Subject: memory limits to es3, u4 Message-ID: <4489C4E8.9040209@lbl.gov> greetings, I've just built my third dual-processor dual-core opteron server. for application reasons, I'm using RHES 3.0, U4. RHES only supports 2 processors, and this looks like 4. but that's not my concern, necessarily. I bought the server w/8gb ram, but the os only sees 3gb. the bios sees it all, and it tests ok, but top and /proc/meminfo both say 3gb. kernel is 2.4.21-27.ELsmp is this a known issue, or is it just me? do I need to update something? p.s. I stumbled across a suggestion to add "mem=8000M" to grub.conf, but that hasn't helped. adv(thanks)ance -- * ------------------- * ----------------------------* | charles e. lawrence | lawrence berkeley nat'l lab | | celawrence at lbl.gov | #1 cyclotron rd ms 50a6134 | | (510) 486-4682 | berkeley ca 94720 | * ------------------- * ----------------------------* "If the human body did patch management the way (companies do), we'd all be dead." www-eng.lbl.gov/~lawrence From rmckeever at earthlink.net Fri Jun 9 20:07:18 2006 From: rmckeever at earthlink.net (Ron McKeever) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:07:18 -0700 Subject: memory limits to es3, u4 In-Reply-To: <4489C4E8.9040209@lbl.gov> Message-ID: <003301c68c00$4ff91390$0200a8c0@Hope> This might help: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/c h-kernel.html Ron -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of chuck lawrence Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 10:59 AM To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com Subject: memory limits to es3, u4 greetings, I've just built my third dual-processor dual-core opteron server. for application reasons, I'm using RHES 3.0, U4. RHES only supports 2 processors, and this looks like 4. but that's not my concern, necessarily. I bought the server w/8gb ram, but the os only sees 3gb. the bios sees it all, and it tests ok, but top and /proc/meminfo both say 3gb. kernel is 2.4.21-27.ELsmp is this a known issue, or is it just me? do I need to update something? p.s. I stumbled across a suggestion to add "mem=8000M" to grub.conf, but that hasn't helped. adv(thanks)ance -- * ------------------- * ----------------------------* | charles e. lawrence | lawrence berkeley nat'l lab | | celawrence at lbl.gov | #1 cyclotron rd ms 50a6134 | | (510) 486-4682 | berkeley ca 94720 | * ------------------- * ----------------------------* "If the human body did patch management the way (companies do), we'd all be dead." www-eng.lbl.gov/~lawrence _______________________________________________ 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 bob at bobcatos.com Fri Jun 9 20:26:10 2006 From: bob at bobcatos.com (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:26:10 -0500 Subject: memory limits to es3, u4 In-Reply-To: <003301c68c00$4ff91390$0200a8c0@Hope> References: <4489C4E8.9040209@lbl.gov> <003301c68c00$4ff91390$0200a8c0@Hope> Message-ID: <20060609202610.GC8379@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 01:07:18PM -0700, Ron McKeever wrote: > This might help: Here is the URL pasted back together. (#$%&#$ MS Lookout) > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-kernel.html > > > > Ron Also an upgrade to RHES v4 would be a good idea. You get the 2.6.xx kernel. I'm administering a couple of 2x2 Opteron boxes and it sees all four CPUs. > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of chuck lawrence > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 10:59 AM > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > Subject: memory limits to es3, u4 > > > > greetings, > > > > I've just built my third dual-processor dual-core opteron server. for > > application reasons, I'm using RHES 3.0, U4. RHES only supports 2 > > processors, and this looks like 4. but that's not my concern, necessarily. > > > > I bought the server w/8gb ram, but the os only sees 3gb. the bios sees > > it all, and it tests ok, but top and /proc/meminfo both say 3gb. kernel > > is 2.4.21-27.ELsmp > > > > is this a known issue, or is it just me? do I need to update something? > > > > p.s. I stumbled across a suggestion to add "mem=8000M" to grub.conf, but > > that hasn't helped. > > > > adv(thanks)ance > > > > -- > > > > * ------------------- * ----------------------------* > > | charles e. lawrence | lawrence berkeley nat'l lab | > > | celawrence at lbl.gov | #1 cyclotron rd ms 50a6134 | > > | (510) 486-4682 | berkeley ca 94720 | > > * ------------------- * ----------------------------* > > > > "If the human body did patch management the way > > (companies do), we'd all be dead." > > > > www-eng.lbl.gov/~lawrence Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com Jesus wasn't (and isn't) politically correct. Send complaints to root at universe.gov. From interp01 at sevenbelow.com Mon Jun 12 01:17:13 2006 From: interp01 at sevenbelow.com (interp01) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:17:13 -0700 Subject: Howto setup - OOB FC5 Apache SSL Message-ID: <1150075033.3971.13.camel@thecad1llac.sevenbelow.com> Spent way too much time on this already :) Is it possible to recompile the Out of Box instance of Apache on FC5? For some reason it appears the Apache FC5 OOB version does not have SSL precompiled into it, causing none of the SSL Directives to be working. Can someone confirm this? I like the fact that squirrelmail and PHP already come installed and preconfigured with FC5 on Apache. The only issue I have is that my webmail is passing insecure passwords via http. Mod_ssl is only supported by Apache 1.3.X, how do I get SSL working on apache 2.2.2 with out a recompile? Or do I need to reinstall a new instance of Apache and then recompile PHP and Squirrelmail? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, DK From salmansiddiqui1234 at rediffmail.com Mon Jun 12 03:10:28 2006 From: salmansiddiqui1234 at rediffmail.com (Salman Siddiqui) Date: 12 Jun 2006 03:10:28 -0000 Subject: unusual problem... Message-ID: <20060612031028.8209.qmail@webmail49.rediffmail.com> ? Yesterday I tried to install FC4 on my friends machine but wot it did was this: it started with the CD. Then when I pressed enter for graphical installtion it rebooted the system...What is this???Why does it reboot??? Now see this...when I try & do the same thing from Red Hat 9 CD it boots from cd & on pressing enter for graphical installation it "STARTS THE GRAPHCAL INSTALLATION" without any problems??? what is the problem?? those FC4 cds are working well on my computer! but why not on my friends computer? destiny drives the world... try driving destiny!!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stuart at sjsears.com Mon Jun 12 16:19:47 2006 From: stuart at sjsears.com (Stuart Sears) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:19:47 +0100 Subject: Howto setup - OOB FC5 Apache SSL In-Reply-To: <1150075033.3971.13.camel@thecad1llac.sevenbelow.com> References: <1150075033.3971.13.camel@thecad1llac.sevenbelow.com> Message-ID: <448D9423.2030604@sjsears.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 interp01 wrote: > Spent way too much time on this already :) Is it possible to recompile > the Out of Box instance of Apache on FC5? For some reason it appears > the Apache FC5 OOB version does not have SSL precompiled into it, > causing none of the SSL Directives to be working. Can someone confirm > this? > > I like the fact that squirrelmail and PHP already come installed and > preconfigured with FC5 on Apache. The only issue I have is that my > webmail is passing insecure passwords via http. Mod_ssl is only > supported by Apache 1.3.X, how do I get SSL working on apache 2.2.2 with > out a recompile? Or do I need to reinstall a new instance of Apache and > then recompile PHP and Squirrelmail? Any insight would be greatly > appreciated. install mod_ssl which is a separate package. then restart httpd Regards Stuart - -- Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX "Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away." - - Robert Orben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEjZQjamPtx1brPQ4RArnPAJ9SD+K+b1Q2R92s9rPxmrfdpLsnHwCff1cU PDk2D7+XvRiwK/qxwvT1Hrk= =mv9W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 12 16:42:49 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:42:49 -0700 Subject: memory limits to es3, u4 In-Reply-To: <20060609202610.GC8379@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <4489C4E8.9040209@lbl.gov> <003301c68c00$4ff91390$0200a8c0@Hope> <20060609202610.GC8379@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <1150130569.3300.309.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 15:26 -0500, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 01:07:18PM -0700, Ron McKeever wrote: > > This might help: > > Here is the URL pasted back together. (#$%&#$ MS Lookout) > > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-kernel.html > > > > > > > > Ron > > Also an upgrade to RHES v4 would be a good idea. You get the 2.6.xx > kernel. I'm administering a couple of 2x2 Opteron boxes and it sees > all four CPUs. Remember that RHES, by default, maxes out at 2 CPUs (an apparent 4 if you have hyperthreading) and 4 GB RAM. This is one of the differences between it and RHAS (up to 16 CPUs and 64GB RAM). You can rebuild the kernel and up the limits by tweaking the config files or possibly install the "bigmem" kernel. I'm not sure if that would affect your support (probably would). > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of chuck lawrence > > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 10:59 AM > > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > Subject: memory limits to es3, u4 > > > > > > > > greetings, > > > > > > > > I've just built my third dual-processor dual-core opteron server. for > > > > application reasons, I'm using RHES 3.0, U4. RHES only supports 2 > > > > processors, and this looks like 4. but that's not my concern, necessarily. > > > > > > > > I bought the server w/8gb ram, but the os only sees 3gb. the bios sees > > > > it all, and it tests ok, but top and /proc/meminfo both say 3gb. kernel > > > > is 2.4.21-27.ELsmp > > > > > > > > is this a known issue, or is it just me? do I need to update something? > > > > > > > > p.s. I stumbled across a suggestion to add "mem=8000M" to grub.conf, but > > > > that hasn't helped. > > > > > > > > adv(thanks)ance > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > * ------------------- * ----------------------------* > > > > | charles e. lawrence | lawrence berkeley nat'l lab | > > > > | celawrence at lbl.gov | #1 cyclotron rd ms 50a6134 | > > > > | (510) 486-4682 | berkeley ca 94720 | > > > > * ------------------- * ----------------------------* > > > > > > > > "If the human body did patch management the way > > > > (companies do), we'd all be dead." > > > > > > > > www-eng.lbl.gov/~lawrence > > Cheers, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Jun 12 16:49:48 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:49:48 -0700 Subject: Clarification required reg., Redhat Cluster Suite In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1150130989.3300.317.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 09:13 +0530, GVSM Siva Kumar wrote: > Dear Sirs, > We have recently purchased Redhat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 > and Redhat Cluster Suite version 3 to establish a high availability > cluster in Active/Passive configuration with shared storage. > > As per documents available on Redhat's website, it is possible to > establish a heartbeat mechanism over Ethernet. However, our system > integrator feels that this is not possible with RHCS 3 and that heartbeat > mechanism can only be established using a Quorum partition. The SI also > believes that quorum based heartbeat is superior to Ethernet based > heartbeat mechanism. I have no idea who your SI is, but he certainly has no idea what the hell he's talking about. The NIC-based heartbeat is used EXTENSIVELY on HA clusters...the quorum mechanism is used far, far less often. > > In this regard, can someone please clarify the following. > > 1) Whether Quorum partition is a superior mechanism for establishing > heartbeat? If so, then in what aspects? > (Somehow, this looks strange, in an ethernet based heartbeat only > network latencies are involved, which must be negligible with a ethernet > crossover cable. Whereas quorum partition involves two latencies in > writing/reading the quorum partition and the disk access time itself. > Surely, a crossover ethernet based heartbeat must be superior to quorum > partition.) The quorum partition is NOT the preferred mechanism, and you've hit on the primary reason...latency. > > 2) Is it not possible to establish heartbeat using an ethernet/serial > crossover cable? Yes, you can use a crossover cable or a hub or switch. Your choice. I would use a switch and set things up to use a multicast address (224.0.0.x). This allows you to expand the cluster easily...a crossover cable limits you to a two-node cluster. > sivakumar > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 doubt, therefore I might be. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 12 16:53:02 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:53:02 -0700 Subject: unusual problem... In-Reply-To: <20060612031028.8209.qmail@webmail49.rediffmail.com> References: <20060612031028.8209.qmail@webmail49.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <1150131182.3300.321.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 03:10 +0000, Salman Siddiqui wrote: > > Yesterday I tried to install FC4 on my friends machine but wot it did > was this: > it started with the CD. Then when I pressed enter for graphical > installtion it rebooted the system...What is this???Why does it > reboot??? > > Now see this...when I try & do the same thing from Red Hat 9 CD it > boots from cd & on pressing enter for graphical installation it > "STARTS THE GRAPHCAL INSTALLATION" without any problems??? > > what is the problem?? FC4 is a radical departure from RH9. There are several things that could be going on. First, make sure your friend's machine has enough memory. An FC4 GUI install requires 512MB RAM minimum. There are other potential limitations. Can you describe what your friend's computer is? We need RAM size, motherboard make, CPU type, video card type, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 celawrence at lbl.gov Mon Jun 12 18:48:15 2006 From: celawrence at lbl.gov (chuck lawrence) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:48:15 -0700 Subject: memory limits to es3, u4, redux In-Reply-To: <20060610160027.27D84733F8@hormel.redhat.com> References: <20060610160027.27D84733F8@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <448DB6EF.4030409@lbl.gov> > Subject: Re: memory limits to es3, u4 > From: Bob McClure Jr > Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:26:10 -0500 > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 01:07:18PM -0700, Ron McKeever wrote: > >>This might help: > > > Here is the URL pasted back together. (#$%&#$ MS Lookout) > > >>http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-kernel.html I'll try this, but I've got a couple of questions. I haven't upgraded a kernel manually for awhile. 1. shouldn't the existing kernel see at least 4gb of the 8gb? I'm only getting 3gb. 2. should I try to look for a "bigmem" version that matches the version # of my existing kernel? I'm not finding "bigmem" with the right version, but I do find "hugemem" (which you or someone suggested). will "hugemem" support less than 16gb? > Also an upgrade to RHES v4 would be a good idea. You get the 2.6.xx > kernel. I'm administering a couple of 2x2 Opteron boxes and it sees > all four CPUs. it actually came with es4, but our application vendor doesn't support it yet... pity. adv(thanks)ance -- * ------------------- * ----------------------------* | charles e. lawrence | lawrence berkeley nat'l lab | | celawrence at lbl.gov | #1 cyclotron rd ms 50a6134 | | (510) 486-4682 | berkeley ca 94720 | * ------------------- * ----------------------------* "If the human body did patch management the way (companies do), we'd all be dead." www-eng.lbl.gov/~lawrence From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 12 19:13:41 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:13:41 -0700 Subject: memory limits to es3, u4, redux In-Reply-To: <448DB6EF.4030409@lbl.gov> References: <20060610160027.27D84733F8@hormel.redhat.com> <448DB6EF.4030409@lbl.gov> Message-ID: <1150139621.3300.332.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 11:48 -0700, chuck lawrence wrote: > > Subject: Re: memory limits to es3, u4 > > From: Bob McClure Jr > > Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:26:10 -0500 > > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 01:07:18PM -0700, Ron McKeever wrote: > > > >>This might help: > > > > > > Here is the URL pasted back together. (#$%&#$ MS Lookout) > > > > > >>http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-kernel.html > > I'll try this, but I've got a couple of questions. I haven't upgraded a > kernel manually for awhile. > > 1. shouldn't the existing kernel see at least 4gb of the 8gb? I'm only > getting 3gb. Depends on how you're looking at it. The normal split is 1GB for the kernel and 3GB for userspace. "cat /proc/meminfo" should show all 4GB and "free" may only show userspace. I can't recall if it shows all of it. Unfortunately, my machines with >4GB of RAM use a customized kernel that splits it 50-50 between kernel and userspace. > 2. should I try to look for a "bigmem" version that matches the version > # of my existing kernel? I'm not finding "bigmem" with the right > version, but I do find "hugemem" (which you or someone suggested). will > "hugemem" support less than 16gb? Yes, hugemem is the right beast to use, and it should support 64GB. > > Also an upgrade to RHES v4 would be a good idea. You get the 2.6.xx > > kernel. I'm administering a couple of 2x2 Opteron boxes and it sees > > all four CPUs. > > it actually came with es4, but our application vendor doesn't support it > yet... pity. Ah, ye ol' "2.4 kernel vs. 2.6 kernel" situation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I doubt, therefore I might be. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jnemecek at sandisk.com Tue Jun 13 01:33:31 2006 From: jnemecek at sandisk.com (Jason Nemecek) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:33:31 -0700 Subject: Kickstart NFS installations Message-ID: <41BF6ECD039DFC4FA65165386272285B1BEFB1@MILEXMIPV2.sdcorp.global.sandisk.com> Hi List, I looked through the last 2 years of archives and didn't find anything covering this. My question(s): Short version: Are kickstart installations allowed under RHEL4 WS? NFS installations under RHEL4 WS? Long version: I'm trying to install RHEL4 on several new Dell Precision 470 workstations via NFS. I set up one of the servers with an NFS globally exported directory /home/RHEL4/ which contains: RedHat/ Base/ (hdlists, comps, hdstg2, img files...) RPMS/ (all RPMS from all of the RedHat directories on the RHEL4 CDs) TRANS.TBL Ks.cfg I try to install from this host via NFS after booting off of a boot CD that I created exactly as described in the RHEL4 manual from redhat.com. I hit when it boots off of the CD to specify installer boot options and as the RHEL4 sysadmin-guide states, I try to install with the following command: linux ks=nfs:cad:/home/RHEL4/ks.cfg I want it to look for the kickstart file on the NFS server "cad" under /home/RHEL4/ks.cfg The installer finds the kickstart file and uses it. I initially had a full ks.cfg file, but have been scaling it back step by step to try and get it to work. Currently it looks like this: #Generated by Kickstart Configurator #platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T #System language lang en_US #Language modules to install langsupport en_US #System keyboard keyboard us #System mouse mouse #Sytem timezone timezone America/Los_Angeles #Root password rootpw --iscrypted blahblahblahpasswordgoeshereblahblah #Reboot after installation reboot #Install OS instead of upgrade install #Use NFS installation Media nfs --server=cad.foo.bar.com --dir=/home/RHEL4/ #System bootloader configuration bootloader --location=mbr #Clear the Master Boot Record zerombr yes I used the Kickstart Configurator tool to generate a Kickstart file. When I boot with this ks.cfg it takes me up to the Disk Druid configuration. I set up the drives (2x300GB) with 2 RAID1 partitions, 1 ext2 partition (/boot) and swap on each drive. When I finish making the md0 and md1 devices and click "next" to continue out of Disk Druid I get the following error message dialog window: "You are trying to install on a machine which isn't supported by this release of RedHat Linux WS" There is a button marked "Exit" which exits the install and reboots if clicked. It's odd to me that if I install off of CDs I can do the same thing (RAID volumes and all) but if I try to install over NFS, then my machine isn't supported. I just tried it with automatic partitioning and it did the same thing. Ditto w/o any RAID or LVM partitions. Is this a restriction of the WS version of RedHat? Are network installs only available with the ES and AS versions? Are Kickstart installs only available with ES and AS? Is there any method that one could automate 50 workstation installs using RHEL4 WS ? Thanks for your time spent reading this far. :-) *Jason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 13 17:04:26 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:04:26 -0700 Subject: Kickstart NFS installations In-Reply-To: <41BF6ECD039DFC4FA65165386272285B1BEFB1@MILEXMIPV2.sdcorp.global.sandisk.com> References: <41BF6ECD039DFC4FA65165386272285B1BEFB1@MILEXMIPV2.sdcorp.global.sandisk.com> Message-ID: <1150218266.26666.22.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 18:33 -0700, Jason Nemecek wrote: > Hi List, > > > > I looked through the last 2 years of archives and didn?t find anything > covering this. > > > > My question(s): > > > > Short version: Are kickstart installations allowed under RHEL4 WS? > NFS installations under RHEL4 WS? > > > > > > > > > > Long version: > > > > I?m trying to install RHEL4 on several new Dell Precision 470 > workstations via NFS. > > > > I set up one of the servers with an NFS globally exported > directory /home/RHEL4/ which contains: > > > > RedHat/ > > Base/ (hdlists, comps, hdstg2, img files?) > > RPMS/ (all RPMS from all of the RedHat directories on the RHEL4 > CDs) > > TRANS.TBL > > Ks.cfg > > > > > > I try to install from this host via NFS after booting off of a boot CD > that I created exactly as described in the RHEL4 manual from > redhat.com. > > > > I hit when it boots off of the CD to specify installer boot > options and as the RHEL4 sysadmin-guide states, I try to install with > the following command: > > > > linux ks=nfs:cad:/home/RHEL4/ks.cfg > > > > I want it to look for the kickstart file on the NFS server ?cad? > under /home/RHEL4/ks.cfg > > > > The installer finds the kickstart file and uses it. Hmmm, I dunno about that. Have you tried using the IP address of "cad" rather than a host name? DNS isn't up at this point and I don't think the system can actually find the host. That's silently ignored (but is probably in the ALT-F2 console). > I initially had a full ks.cfg file, but have been scaling it back > step by step to try and get it to work. Currently it looks like this: > > > > #Generated by Kickstart Configurator > > #platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T > > > > #System language > > lang en_US > > #Language modules to install > > langsupport en_US > > #System keyboard > > keyboard us > > #System mouse > > mouse > > #Sytem timezone > > timezone America/Los_Angeles > > #Root password > > rootpw --iscrypted blahblahblahpasswordgoeshereblahblah > > #Reboot after installation > > reboot > > #Install OS instead of upgrade > > install > > #Use NFS installation Media > > nfs --server=cad.foo.bar.com --dir=/home/RHEL4/ Again, use the IP address, Luke! :-) > > #System bootloader configuration > > bootloader --location=mbr > > #Clear the Master Boot Record > > zerombr yes > > > > I used the Kickstart Configurator tool to generate a Kickstart file. > When I boot with this ks.cfg it takes me up to the Disk Druid > configuration. I set up the drives (2x300GB) with 2 RAID1 partitions, > 1 ext2 partition (/boot) and swap on each drive. When I finish making > the md0 and md1 devices and click ?next? to continue out of Disk Druid > I get the following error message dialog window: > > > > ?You are trying to install on a machine which isn?t supported by this > release of RedHat Linux WS? That smels like it's not seeing the RPMs. I strongly suspect that using the IP address instead of the host name will solve this. > There is a button marked ?Exit? which exits the install and reboots if > clicked. > It?s odd to me that if I install off of CDs I can do the same thing > (RAID volumes and all) but if I try to install over NFS, then my > machine isn?t supported. I just tried it with automatic partitioning > and it did the same thing. Ditto w/o any RAID or LVM partitions. > > > > Is this a restriction of the WS version of RedHat? No. > Are network installs only available with the ES and AS versions? Shouldn't be. > Are Kickstart installs only available with ES and AS? Absolutely not. > Is there any method that one could automate 50 workstation installs > using RHEL4 WS ? Cloning the disk using Ghost or something like it would be far faster than a kickstart/NFS install. Install one machine. At the end, DON'T let it restart. Just shut down. Pop in a drive from one of the other machines (re-address it first), then use Ghost to clone the disk. Address the drive back to its original setting and put it back in the new machine. When it boots, you'll go through the initial set-up ("firstboot") stuff. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - LOOK OUT!!! BEHIND YOU!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jnemecek at sandisk.com Tue Jun 13 18:39:54 2006 From: jnemecek at sandisk.com (Jason Nemecek) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:39:54 -0700 Subject: Kickstart NFS installations Message-ID: <41BF6ECD039DFC4FA65165386272285B23C643@MILEXMIPV2.sdcorp.global.sandisk.com> On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 10:04 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > > "You are trying to install on a machine which isn't supported by this > > release of RedHat Linux WS" > That smels like it's not seeing the RPMs. I strongly suspect that using > the IP address instead of the host name will solve this. Nope. No difference when I use the IP address. It sees the ks.cfg file on the server and uses it for answers to lang, langsupport, keyboard, mouse, timezone, root PW, etc... so in theory it *should* still be able to find the same server for RPMs. In any case, I tried it with IP only to take DNS out of the equation and got the same "isn't supported" message. > > Is there any method that one could automate 50 workstation installs > > using RHEL4 WS ? > Cloning the disk using Ghost or something like it would be far faster > than a kickstart/NFS install. Install one machine. At the end, > DON'T let it restart. Just shut down. Pop in a drive from one of the > other machines (re-address it first), then use Ghost to clone the disk. > Address the drive back to its original setting and put it back in the > new machine. When it boots, you'll go through the initial set-up > ("firstboot") stuff. Do you know of any non-windows solutions? It's funny that Redhat provides this great network install tool but it doesn't work, or even give a sane error message. Since I bought the machines preloaded from Dell, Redhat won't provide any support at all. Nice. Thanks for your answers. *Jason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lonnie.baldwin at gmail.com Tue Jun 13 20:24:19 2006 From: lonnie.baldwin at gmail.com (Lonnie Baldwin) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:24:19 -0400 Subject: Kickstart NFS installations In-Reply-To: <41BF6ECD039DFC4FA65165386272285B23C643@MILEXMIPV2.sdcorp.global.sandisk.com> References: <41BF6ECD039DFC4FA65165386272285B23C643@MILEXMIPV2.sdcorp.global.sandisk.com> Message-ID: <61e980e70606131324x6182d6fdg5508e570e43e28f7@mail.gmail.com> The problem might be the result of you copying all 5 cd's to your network share. The RedHat CD1 and CD5 contain a folder called redhat/base which do not contain the same files, specifically base\Comps.xml. I noticed that even after doing an http install that the process would still fail. looking at http logs and comparing the last file accessed (comps.xml) to the file on cd1 showed that they were different. After copying the files from cd1 to the base directory i was successful in installing RedHat. I asked support to update their knowledge base but obviously that hasn't done. thanks On 6/13/06, Jason Nemecek wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 10:04 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > > "You are trying to install on a machine which isn't supported by this > > > > release of RedHat Linux WS" > > > > > That smels like it's not seeing the RPMs. I strongly suspect that using > > > the IP address instead of the host name will solve this. > > > > Nope. No difference when I use the IP address. It sees the ks.cfg file on the server and uses it for answers to lang, langsupport, keyboard, mouse, timezone, root PW, etc? so in theory it **should** still be able to find the same server for RPMs. In any case, I tried it with IP only to take DNS out of the equation and got the same "isn't supported" message. > > > > > > Is there any method that one could automate 50 workstation installs > > > > using RHEL4 WS ? > > > > > Cloning the disk using Ghost or something like it would be far faster > > > than a kickstart/NFS install. Install one machine. At the end, > > > DON'T let it restart. Just shut down. Pop in a drive from one of the > > > other machines (re-address it first), then use Ghost to clone the disk. > > > Address the drive back to its original setting and put it back in the > > > new machine. When it boots, you'll go through the initial set-up > > > ("firstboot") stuff. > > > > Do you know of any non-windows solutions? It's funny that Redhat provides this great network install tool but it doesn't work, or even give a sane error message. Since I bought the machines preloaded from Dell, Redhat won't provide any support at all. Nice. > > > > Thanks for your answers. > > > > *Jason > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 jnemecek at sandisk.com Tue Jun 13 21:18:13 2006 From: jnemecek at sandisk.com (Jason Nemecek) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:18:13 -0700 Subject: Kickstart NFS installations Message-ID: <41BF6ECD039DFC4FA65165386272285B23C714@MILEXMIPV2.sdcorp.global.sandisk.com> On 6/13/06, Lonnie Baldwin wrote: > The problem might be the result of you copying all 5 cd's to your network > share. The RedHat CD1 and CD5 contain a folder called redhat/base which > do not contain the same files, specifically base\Comps.xml. > > I noticed that even after doing an http install that the process would > still fail. looking at http logs and comparing the last file accessed > (comps.xml) to the file on cd1 showed that they were different. After > copying the files from cd1 to the base directory i was successful in > installing RedHat. > > I asked support to update their knowledge base but obviously that hasn't > done. thanks I just checked and the comps.xml file was different than the one from CD1 So I copied the CD1/comps.xml file into the base directory, but I still get the same message. That got me thinking, and I saw that the hdlist, hdlist2, and TRANS.TBL files were also different than the copies on CD1, so I copied them over to my install directory as well. It seemed to do the trick as it's now installing over the network. Now to Throw together a better ks.cfg file. I guess the thing to do is copy CD1/RedHat over last when you're setting Up the server. Thanks for your help! *Jason From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 13 22:33:33 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:33:33 -0700 Subject: Kickstart NFS installations In-Reply-To: <41BF6ECD039DFC4FA65165386272285B23C714@MILEXMIPV2.sdcorp.global.sandisk.com> References: <41BF6ECD039DFC4FA65165386272285B23C714@MILEXMIPV2.sdcorp.global.sandisk.com> Message-ID: <1150238013.26666.29.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 14:18 -0700, Jason Nemecek wrote: > On 6/13/06, Lonnie Baldwin wrote: > > > The problem might be the result of you copying all 5 cd's to your > network > > share. The RedHat CD1 and CD5 contain a folder called redhat/base > which > > do not contain the same files, specifically base\Comps.xml. > > > > I noticed that even after doing an http install that the process would > > still fail. looking at http logs and comparing the last file accessed > > (comps.xml) to the file on cd1 showed that they were different. After > > copying the files from cd1 to the base directory i was successful in > > installing RedHat. > > > > I asked support to update their knowledge base but obviously that > hasn't > > done. thanks > > I just checked and the comps.xml file was different than the one from > CD1 > So I copied the CD1/comps.xml file into the base directory, but I still > get the same message. > > That got me thinking, and I saw that the hdlist, hdlist2, and TRANS.TBL > files were also different than the copies on CD1, so I copied them over > to my install directory as well. > > It seemed to do the trick as it's now installing over the network. Now > to > Throw together a better ks.cfg file. > > I guess the thing to do is copy CD1/RedHat over last when you're setting > Up the server. I never thought of that--the differences between the CDs. Makes sense. Last time I did a network install, I used the ISO images (it supports that, too, BTW). As far as a clone tool other than Ghost, sure, there's a couple of free ones. Try "ghost4linux" (http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I haven't lost my mind. It's backed up on tape somewhere, but - - probably not recoverable. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mmatte at distributel.net Wed Jun 14 00:20:56 2006 From: mmatte at distributel.net (Michel Matte) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:20:56 -0400 Subject: Burning ISO File to DVD Message-ID: <448F5668.70900@distributel.net> I am trying to burn the ISO image Fedora to DVD with the folllowing command: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=FC-5-x86_64-DVD.iso and I get the message :-(dev/dvd:media is not recognized as recordableDVD: 0 I have a an Acer computer with 64-bit Xeon running Fedora Core 5 but I wish to do a clean install from DVD. The DVD burner according do `cdrecord -inq` is a LITE-ON DVD SOHD-16P9S rev FRS3 which seems to be Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM . The DVD records are DVD-RW 4.7GB. How do I fix this problem? From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 14 01:22:35 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:22:35 -0700 Subject: Burning ISO File to DVD In-Reply-To: <448F5668.70900@distributel.net> References: <448F5668.70900@distributel.net> Message-ID: <1150248155.26666.39.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 20:20 -0400, Michel Matte wrote: > I am trying to burn the ISO image Fedora to DVD with the folllowing command: > > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=FC-5-x86_64-DVD.iso > > and I get the message :-(dev/dvd:media is not recognized as > recordableDVD: 0 > > I have a an Acer computer with 64-bit Xeon running Fedora Core 5 but I > wish to do a clean install from DVD. The DVD burner according do > `cdrecord -inq` is a LITE-ON DVD SOHD-16P9S rev FRS3 which seems to > be Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM . The DVD records are DVD-RW 4.7GB. That's rather easy to see. It's a DVD-ROM, not a DVD-RW. It's not a DVD burner. > How do I fix this problem? Get a DVD-RW drive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 jnemecek at sandisk.com Wed Jun 14 22:40:47 2006 From: jnemecek at sandisk.com (Jason Nemecek) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:40:47 -0700 Subject: kickstart config file syntax for RAID Message-ID: <41BF6ECD039DFC4FA65165386272285B23CA69@MILEXMIPV2.sdcorp.global.sandisk.com> Hi list, I'm trying to install via Kickstart over NFS. I have the basic install working somewhat, but I want to set up a few RAID1 partitions on my system during the install. I created a ks.cfg file with the Kickstart Configurator. The Kickstart install starts fine but when I get to the disk partitioning phase of the install I get a dialog box that says: **************************************************** Error Partitioning Could not allocate requested partitions: Partitioning failed: Could not allocate partitions. Press 'OK' to reboot your system **************************************************** Bravo again to RHEL4 with their brilliant descriptive error messages. My first question is on the syntax of the Kickstart RAID partitioning. Can anyone see any syntax errors with the following section of my ks.cfg: part /boot --fstype ext2 --size=128 --ondisk=sda part /dead --fstype ext2 --size=128 --ondisk=sdb part swap --size=2048 --ondisk=sda part swap --size=2048 --ondisk=sdb part raid.01 --size=10240 --ondisk=sda part raid.02 --size=10240 --ondisk=sdb part raid.03 --size=275000 --ondisk=sda part raid.04 --size=275000 --ondisk=sdb raid / --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 --device=md0 raid.01 raid.02 raid /home --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 --device=md1 raid.03 raid.04 I'm mainly wondering about the "--" options and the placement of the "=" signs between the options and values. Ie: should it be --ondisk=sda or --ondisk sda ?? Same question with --size and --level. I've been trying to find other ks.cfg files via Google for examples, but there's not much out there, especially anything recent. I've seen examples with and without the "=" sign. Before rebooting the last time this happened, I killed the X server and Looked at the console to see the following message repeated about 15 times: <4>program anaconda is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO Does anyone know if this is a serious error, or if it's just a warning For the future? I'm using RHEL4 WS on Dell Precision 470s I see that there are updated RPMs for anaconda, anaconda-runtime, and system-config-kickstart. Can these RPMs be installed in a way that will make a difference during the install? Ideas? Obvious errors? Thanks, *Jason From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 15 00:31:00 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:31:00 -0700 Subject: kickstart config file syntax for RAID In-Reply-To: <41BF6ECD039DFC4FA65165386272285B23CA69@MILEXMIPV2.sdcorp.global.sandisk.com> References: <41BF6ECD039DFC4FA65165386272285B23CA69@MILEXMIPV2.sdcorp.global.sandisk.com> Message-ID: <1150331460.14787.16.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 15:40 -0700, Jason Nemecek wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm trying to install via Kickstart over NFS. I have the basic install > working somewhat, but I want to set up a few RAID1 partitions on my > system > during the install. I created a ks.cfg file with the Kickstart > Configurator. > > The Kickstart install starts fine but when I get to the disk > partitioning > phase of the install I get a dialog box that says: > > **************************************************** > Error Partitioning > > Could not allocate requested partitions: > > Partitioning failed: Could not allocate partitions. > > Press 'OK' to reboot your system > **************************************************** > > Bravo again to RHEL4 with their brilliant descriptive error messages. > > My first question is on the syntax of the Kickstart RAID partitioning. > > Can anyone see any syntax errors with the following section of my > ks.cfg: > > part /boot --fstype ext2 --size=128 --ondisk=sda > part /dead --fstype ext2 --size=128 --ondisk=sdb > part swap --size=2048 --ondisk=sda > part swap --size=2048 --ondisk=sdb > part raid.01 --size=10240 --ondisk=sda > part raid.02 --size=10240 --ondisk=sdb > part raid.03 --size=275000 --ondisk=sda > part raid.04 --size=275000 --ondisk=sdb > raid / --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 --device=md0 raid.01 raid.02 > raid /home --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 --device=md1 raid.03 raid.04 > > I'm mainly wondering about the "--" options and the placement of the "=" > signs between the options and values. Ie: should it be --ondisk=sda or > --ondisk sda ?? Same question with --size and --level. I've been trying > to find other ks.cfg files via Google for examples, but there's not much > out there, especially anything recent. I've seen examples with and > without > the "=" sign. > > Before rebooting the last time this happened, I killed the X server and > Looked at the console to see the following message repeated about 15 > times: > > <4>program anaconda is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it > to SG_IO > > Does anyone know if this is a serious error, or if it's just a warning > For the future? It's a warning. > > I'm using RHEL4 WS on Dell Precision 470s > > I see that there are updated RPMs for anaconda, anaconda-runtime, and > system-config-kickstart. > > Can these RPMs be installed in a way that will make a difference during > the install? Not really. system-config-kickstart is really what you know as the "kickstart configurator" (what a bloody awful name). > Ideas? Obvious errors? Well, you really should delete partitions before creating new ones. If the drive has partitions on it, it's entirely possible that you are out of space and the message is fairly obvious then, isn't it? Try adding clearpart --drives=sda,sdb or clearpart --all to your script. Also, the "--fstype" stuff should be "--fstype=ext3". In general, any "--" flag that accepts options wants an "=" between the flag and its options, e.g.: --fstype=ext3 It _may_ work without the "=", but better to be safe than sorry. I believe in belts and suspenders. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From bret_stern at machinemanagement.com Thu Jun 15 00:56:37 2006 From: bret_stern at machinemanagement.com (Bret Stern) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:56:37 -0700 Subject: Date time stamp Message-ID: <001e01c69016$8ebd2ac0$0f01010a@mmbret> I have a cron which zips some data then sends it to an offsite ftp site. The date time stamp when issuing a ls command shows a date one day ahead of the date the file was created. Both servers have the correct day. Impossible you say!! Any thoughts on how the date time stamp is issued to a file arriving via ftp to fedora 5? regards all bret From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 15 01:26:49 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:26:49 -0700 Subject: Date time stamp In-Reply-To: <001e01c69016$8ebd2ac0$0f01010a@mmbret> References: <001e01c69016$8ebd2ac0$0f01010a@mmbret> Message-ID: <1150334809.14787.22.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 17:56 -0700, Bret Stern wrote: > I have a cron which zips some data then > sends it to an offsite ftp site. > > The date time stamp when issuing a ls command > shows a date one day ahead of the date the file > was created. > > Both servers have the correct day. > > Impossible you say!! > > Any thoughts on how the date time stamp is > issued to a file arriving via ftp to fedora 5? Assuming you're complaining about the file's date on the FTP server, it depends on when the cron runs. Remember the date in "ls -l" is the "last modified" date, NOT the "creation date". If the day rolls over (e.g. the FTP send occurs at midnight), the last modified date will be a day later. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From Todd.Harrington at suntroncorp.com Thu Jun 15 20:08:45 2006 From: Todd.Harrington at suntroncorp.com (Harrington, Todd) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:08:45 -0500 Subject: Default Kernel .config file Message-ID: <5D0CF4EFE471FF468E4B1370293E2AAD0437462C@it-sl00-exch2k3.mylogin.biz> Hello, I am installing RHEL4 ES on a "client" computer. I do a fresh load to a local hard drive on the "client" with the goal of eventually making this node a "diskless client" that will boot via PXE.. I use the Netboot GUI on my Linux "server" (another machine) that comes with RedHat and it pulls the image and kernel from my hard drive on my "client" and I can now PXE boot my client from the server. I am actually now booting the default kernel that was installed on the hard drive of my "client". Life is good. My problem is that I want to reconfigure the kernel on my client and when I do, the default .config files (in the "configs" directory or the Config-xxx file in the /boot directory) do not contain the same settings as are in my original kernel and my new kernel does not boot across the network. I have been pulling my hair out trying to get my new kernel to boot. How can I get the default .config settings for the kernel that was initially installed to my local hard drive? I read about "extract_ikconfig" and /proc/config that allow you to pull the .config info from a kernel but you have to have that support in the kernel in the first place. It does not appear the initial RedHat install included this in the kernel. Please help. Regards, Todd From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 15 20:50:54 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:50:54 -0700 Subject: Default Kernel .config file In-Reply-To: <5D0CF4EFE471FF468E4B1370293E2AAD0437462C@it-sl00-exch2k3.mylogin.biz> References: <5D0CF4EFE471FF468E4B1370293E2AAD0437462C@it-sl00-exch2k3.mylogin.biz> Message-ID: <1150404654.14787.51.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 15:08 -0500, Harrington, Todd wrote: > Hello, > > I am installing RHEL4 ES on a "client" computer. I do a fresh load to a local hard drive on the "client" with the goal of eventually making this node a "diskless client" that will boot via PXE.. > I use the Netboot GUI on my Linux "server" (another machine) that comes with RedHat and it pulls the image and kernel from my hard drive on my "client" and I can now PXE boot my client from the server. I am actually now booting the default kernel that was installed on the hard drive of my "client". Life is good. > > My problem is that I want to reconfigure the kernel on my client and when I do, the default .config files (in the "configs" directory or the Config-xxx file in the /boot directory) do not contain the same settings as are in my original kernel and my new kernel does not boot across the network. I have been pulling my hair out trying to get my new kernel to boot. How can I get the default .config settings for the kernel that was initially installed to my local hard drive? I read about "extract_ikconfig" and /proc/config that allow you to pull the .config info from a kernel but you have to have that support in the kernel in the first place. It does not appear the initial RedHat install included this in the kernel. In the future, please format your messages as plain text, 72 characters per line. Not all mail readers deal with long lines well. Now, to your problem... When RHEL installs, the config file that matches the kernel that was installed is the "/boot/config-`uname -r`" file. The only difference between that config file and the actual kernel is that the kernel was built with the "CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO" option (in the "Kernel->Hacking" section) turned off, which creates modules that don't have full debug info in them and are therefore smaller in size. Also note that the default kernels put all of the network, SCSI and non-ext2 filesystem drivers in the initrd image file. If you reconfigure the kernel, you have to rebuild the initrd image. That's done by: # cd /boot # mkinitrd -f -v initrd-whatever.img whatever replacing "whatever" with the kernel version number you're working with. Note that both the kernel AND the initrd image must be on your boot server or the kernel won't be able to find the drivers it needs. Now, you CAN reconfigure the kernel and build the necessary network and filesystem drivers into the kernel and remove the need for an initrd image completely, but if you change the hardware (say, swap out an Intel e1000 card for an Intel e100 card), you won't be able to boot from the network again since the driver for the card won't be present. My quicky document on building kernels and such can be found here: http://www.rhil.net/docs/kernelbuild-26.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Mobolaji.Osinuga at alcatel.fr Fri Jun 16 06:50:57 2006 From: Mobolaji.Osinuga at alcatel.fr (Mobolaji.Osinuga at alcatel.fr) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:50:57 +0100 Subject: Windows and Linux Formatted FAT32 Message-ID: <02e001c69111$3fa53120$d4bdd99f@expression> Hello, Because of the problem I had when my /boot partition changes from /dev/hda5 to /dev/hda6 when a new windows fat32 partition is created, I then created a new partition using Redhat. This partition became /dev/hda13 and my /boot remained on /dev/hda5. I formatted this partition in fat32 and Redhat sees it. However, my windows doesn't see it. From Disk Management, it sees the file-type as FAT32 but it sees it as healthy and unknown instead of healthy and system. Does anyone has a clue on how to go about this? Or is there a way to format a drive that my computer doesn't display in windows? Thank you. ==================== Mobolaji OMC-CS/GPRS Engineer Alcatel Nigeria Limited 23, Idejo Street Victoria, Island, Lagos Tel: 234 (01) 461 11 50 -4 ext 3153 Fax: 234 (1) 461 11 74, 261 02 96 -7 Mobile: 234 (0) 805 501 0644 234 (0) 803 810 5687 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From Disk Management, it sees the file-type as FAT32 but it > sees it as healthy and unknown instead of healthy and system. what is the partition's system id? fdisk -l /dev/hda it will need to be of a type recognised properly by windows. you may need to change this in fdisk Regards Stuart - -- Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX "Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away." - - Robert Orben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEkpAeamPtx1brPQ4RAl0UAJ0eNxR6fw8Ytbr/g0fqH6ewkRAkfQCfZ94+ OY/8C771Sjzspca6wJKo90U= =StX+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From Todd.Harrington at suntroncorp.com Fri Jun 16 13:10:19 2006 From: Todd.Harrington at suntroncorp.com (Harrington, Todd) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:10:19 -0500 Subject: Default Kernel .config file Message-ID: <5D0CF4EFE471FF468E4B1370293E2AAD0377746F@it-sl00-exch2k3.mylogin.biz> Hi Rick, Thanks for your answer. It was very helpful and answered several smaller questions I had. I have built my new kernel, modules, modules_install, install. I then copied the /boot and the /lib directory back over to my boot server. I did not re-run mkinitrd because when I run the RHEL4 Network Booting Service (system-config-netboot) it asks me to point to a kernel and I point to /diskless/i386/RHEL4-ES/root/ (where it finds the new kernel that I just installed) and it then builds an initrd.img for me and sticks the initrd.img and new kernel into /tftpboot/linux-install/IMAGENAME There sizes look very good. So my problem NOW is that when my diskless client boots the kernel loads and then I get this from initrd: RAMDISK: Compress image found at block 0 - - Running /disklessrc Mounting /proc disklessrc: Line 71: /sbin/uniq: Permission denied disklessrc: Line 66: /sbin/sed: Permission denied disklessrc: Line 68: /sbin/uname: Permission denied disklessrc: Line 68: /sbin/grep: Permission denied (several more lines of this) Loaded nfs OK Mounting / disklessrc: line 163: /bin/cat: Permission denied Running dhclient bash-3.00# At this shell all commands are permission denied. This is so important that I get by this today. Do you know what my problem is? Thanks, Todd -----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, June 15, 2006 4:51 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Default Kernel .config file On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 15:08 -0500, Harrington, Todd wrote: > Hello, > > I am installing RHEL4 ES on a "client" computer. I do a fresh load to a local hard drive on the "client" with the goal of eventually making this node a "diskless client" that will boot via PXE.. > I use the Netboot GUI on my Linux "server" (another machine) that comes with RedHat and it pulls the image and kernel from my hard drive on my "client" and I can now PXE boot my client from the server. I am actually now booting the default kernel that was installed on the hard drive of my "client". Life is good. > > My problem is that I want to reconfigure the kernel on my client and when I do, the default .config files (in the "configs" directory or the Config-xxx file in the /boot directory) do not contain the same settings as are in my original kernel and my new kernel does not boot across the network. I have been pulling my hair out trying to get my new kernel to boot. How can I get the default .config settings for the kernel that was initially installed to my local hard drive? I read about "extract_ikconfig" and /proc/config that allow you to pull the .config info from a kernel but you have to have that support in the kernel in the first place. It does not appear the initial RedHat install included this in the kernel. In the future, please format your messages as plain text, 72 characters per line. Not all mail readers deal with long lines well. Now, to your problem... When RHEL installs, the config file that matches the kernel that was installed is the "/boot/config-`uname -r`" file. The only difference between that config file and the actual kernel is that the kernel was built with the "CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO" option (in the "Kernel->Hacking" section) turned off, which creates modules that don't have full debug info in them and are therefore smaller in size. Also note that the default kernels put all of the network, SCSI and non-ext2 filesystem drivers in the initrd image file. If you reconfigure the kernel, you have to rebuild the initrd image. That's done by: # cd /boot # mkinitrd -f -v initrd-whatever.img whatever replacing "whatever" with the kernel version number you're working with. Note that both the kernel AND the initrd image must be on your boot server or the kernel won't be able to find the drivers it needs. Now, you CAN reconfigure the kernel and build the necessary network and filesystem drivers into the kernel and remove the need for an initrd image completely, but if you change the hardware (say, swap out an Intel e1000 card for an Intel e100 card), you won't be able to boot from the network again since the driver for the card won't be present. My quicky document on building kernels and such can be found here: http://www.rhil.net/docs/kernelbuild-26.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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 Todd.Harrington at suntroncorp.com Fri Jun 16 13:31:03 2006 From: Todd.Harrington at suntroncorp.com (Harrington, Todd) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:31:03 -0500 Subject: Default Kernel .config file Message-ID: <5D0CF4EFE471FF468E4B1370293E2AAD04374630@it-sl00-exch2k3.mylogin.biz> -----Original Message----- From: Harrington, Todd Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 9:10 AM To: 'Getting started with Red Hat Linux' Subject: RE: Default Kernel .config file Hi Rick, Thanks for your answer. It was very helpful and answered several smaller questions I had. I have built my new kernel, modules, modules_install, install. I then copied the /boot and the /lib directory back over to my boot server. I did not re-run mkinitrd because when I run the RHEL4 Network Booting Service (system-config-netboot) it asks me to point to a kernel and I point to /diskless/i386/RHEL4-ES/root/ (where it finds the new kernel that I just installed) and it then builds an initrd.img for me and sticks the initrd.img and new kernel into /tftpboot/linux-install/IMAGENAME There sizes look very good. So my problem NOW is that when my diskless client boots the kernel loads and then I get this from initrd: RAMDISK: Compress image found at block 0 - - Running /disklessrc Mounting /proc disklessrc: Line 71: /sbin/uniq: Permission denied disklessrc: Line 66: /sbin/sed: Permission denied disklessrc: Line 68: /sbin/uname: Permission denied disklessrc: Line 68: /sbin/grep: Permission denied (several more lines of this) Loaded nfs OK Mounting / disklessrc: line 163: /bin/cat: Permission denied Running dhclient bash-3.00# At this shell all commands are permission denied. This is so important that I get by this today. Do you know what my problem is? Thanks, Todd -----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, June 15, 2006 4:51 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Default Kernel .config file On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 15:08 -0500, Harrington, Todd wrote: > Hello, > > I am installing RHEL4 ES on a "client" computer. I do a fresh load to a local hard drive on the "client" with the goal of eventually making this node a "diskless client" that will boot via PXE.. > I use the Netboot GUI on my Linux "server" (another machine) that comes with RedHat and it pulls the image and kernel from my hard drive on my "client" and I can now PXE boot my client from the server. I am actually now booting the default kernel that was installed on the hard drive of my "client". Life is good. > > My problem is that I want to reconfigure the kernel on my client and when I do, the default .config files (in the "configs" directory or the Config-xxx file in the /boot directory) do not contain the same settings as are in my original kernel and my new kernel does not boot across the network. I have been pulling my hair out trying to get my new kernel to boot. How can I get the default .config settings for the kernel that was initially installed to my local hard drive? I read about "extract_ikconfig" and /proc/config that allow you to pull the .config info from a kernel but you have to have that support in the kernel in the first place. It does not appear the initial RedHat install included this in the kernel. In the future, please format your messages as plain text, 72 characters per line. Not all mail readers deal with long lines well. Now, to your problem... When RHEL installs, the config file that matches the kernel that was installed is the "/boot/config-`uname -r`" file. The only difference between that config file and the actual kernel is that the kernel was built with the "CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO" option (in the "Kernel->Hacking" section) turned off, which creates modules that don't have full debug info in them and are therefore smaller in size. Also note that the default kernels put all of the network, SCSI and non-ext2 filesystem drivers in the initrd image file. If you reconfigure the kernel, you have to rebuild the initrd image. That's done by: # cd /boot # mkinitrd -f -v initrd-whatever.img whatever replacing "whatever" with the kernel version number you're working with. Note that both the kernel AND the initrd image must be on your boot server or the kernel won't be able to find the drivers it needs. Now, you CAN reconfigure the kernel and build the necessary network and filesystem drivers into the kernel and remove the need for an initrd image completely, but if you change the hardware (say, swap out an Intel e1000 card for an Intel e100 card), you won't be able to boot from the network again since the driver for the card won't be present. My quicky document on building kernels and such can be found here: http://www.rhil.net/docs/kernelbuild-26.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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 Hi, I am all set now. I was required to copy the file busybox.anaconda to my client's /sbin directory and when I did the permissions did not have execute permissions on it. I did a chmod to busybox.anaconda and now I can boot! Thank you to this mailing list. - Todd From carleto27 at yahoo.ca Fri Jun 16 13:42:40 2006 From: carleto27 at yahoo.ca (carlos Perez) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:42:40 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Red Hat Installation In-Reply-To: <5D0CF4EFE471FF468E4B1370293E2AAD04374630@it-sl00-exch2k3.mylogin.biz> Message-ID: <20060616134240.87249.qmail@web32504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Does anybody know? I just installed RH server and after the installation is done got the following error PCI_IDE UNKNOWN CONTROLLER PCI .... yadah yadah.... I have a DELL DIMENSION 4550 with 2 NICs cars.. 1 onbord, 1 extra one If I disabled the NIC onboard in BIOS will this fix my issue? or do I have to reinstall RED HAT? thanks C --------------------------------- The best gets better. See why everyone is raving about the All-new Yahoo! Mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Does the machine boot at all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Fri Jun 16 23:00:45 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:00:45 -0700 Subject: Default Kernel .config file In-Reply-To: <5D0CF4EFE471FF468E4B1370293E2AAD04374630@it-sl00-exch2k3.mylogin.biz> References: <5D0CF4EFE471FF468E4B1370293E2AAD04374630@it-sl00-exch2k3.mylogin.biz> Message-ID: <1150498845.14787.94.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 08:31 -0500, Harrington, Todd wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Harrington, Todd > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 9:10 AM > To: 'Getting started with Red Hat Linux' > Subject: RE: Default Kernel .config file > > > > Hi Rick, > > Thanks for your answer. It was very helpful and answered > several smaller questions I had. I have built my new kernel, > modules, modules_install, install. I then copied the /boot > and the /lib directory back over to my boot server. > I did not re-run mkinitrd because when I run the RHEL4 > Network Booting Service (system-config-netboot) it asks me to > point to a kernel and I point to > /diskless/i386/RHEL4-ES/root/ (where it finds the new kernel > that I just installed) and it then builds an > initrd.img for me and sticks the initrd.img and new kernel > into /tftpboot/linux-install/IMAGENAME > There sizes look very good. > > So my problem NOW is that when my diskless client boots the > kernel loads and then I get this from initrd: > > RAMDISK: Compress image found at block 0 > - > - > Running /disklessrc > Mounting /proc > disklessrc: Line 71: /sbin/uniq: Permission denied > disklessrc: Line 66: /sbin/sed: Permission denied > disklessrc: Line 68: /sbin/uname: Permission denied > disklessrc: Line 68: /sbin/grep: Permission denied > (several more lines of this) > Loaded nfs OK > Mounting / > disklessrc: line 163: /bin/cat: Permission denied > Running dhclient > bash-3.00# > > At this shell all commands are permission denied. > > This is so important that I get by this today. > Do you know what my problem is? > > Thanks, > Todd > > -----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, June 15, 2006 4:51 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Default Kernel .config file > > > On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 15:08 -0500, Harrington, Todd wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am installing RHEL4 ES on a "client" computer. I do a fresh load to a local hard drive on the "client" with the goal of eventually making this node a "diskless client" that will boot via PXE.. > > I use the Netboot GUI on my Linux "server" (another machine) that comes with RedHat and it pulls the image and kernel from my hard drive on my "client" and I can now PXE boot my client from the server. I am actually now booting the default kernel that was installed on the hard drive of my "client". Life is good. > > > > My problem is that I want to reconfigure the kernel on my client and when I do, the default .config files (in the "configs" directory or the Config-xxx file in the /boot directory) do not contain the same settings as are in my original kernel and my new kernel does not boot across the network. I have been pulling my hair out trying to get my new kernel to boot. How can I get the default .config settings for the kernel that was initially installed to my local hard drive? I read about "extract_ikconfig" and /proc/config that allow you to pull the .config info from a kernel but you have to have that support in the kernel in the first place. It does not appear the initial RedHat install included this in the kernel. > > In the future, please format your messages as plain text, 72 characters > per line. Not all mail readers deal with long lines well. > > Now, to your problem... > > When RHEL installs, the config file that matches the kernel that was > installed is the "/boot/config-`uname -r`" file. The only difference > between that config file and the actual kernel is that the kernel was > built with the "CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO" option (in the "Kernel->Hacking" > section) turned off, which creates modules that don't have full debug > info in them and are therefore smaller in size. > > Also note that the default kernels put all of the network, SCSI and > non-ext2 filesystem drivers in the initrd image file. If you > reconfigure the kernel, you have to rebuild the initrd image. That's > done by: > > # cd /boot > # mkinitrd -f -v initrd-whatever.img whatever > > replacing "whatever" with the kernel version number you're working with. > Note that both the kernel AND the initrd image must be on your boot > server or the kernel won't be able to find the drivers it needs. > > Now, you CAN reconfigure the kernel and build the necessary network > and filesystem drivers into the kernel and remove the need for an initrd > image completely, but if you change the hardware (say, swap out an > Intel e1000 card for an Intel e100 card), you won't be able to boot from > the network again since the driver for the card won't be present. > > My quicky document on building kernels and such can be found here: > > http://www.rhil.net/docs/kernelbuild-26.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - 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) - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > Hi, I am all set now. I was required to copy the file busybox.anaconda > to my client's /sbin directory and when I did the permissions did not > have execute permissions on it. I did a chmod to busybox.anaconda and now > I can boot! Thank you to this mailing list. Glad you got it sorted out, Todd. And that's why the list exists! :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I haven't lost my mind. It's backed up on tape somewhere, but - - probably not recoverable. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From sadashiv.linux at gmail.com Sat Jun 17 07:55:10 2006 From: sadashiv.linux at gmail.com (Sadashiv Kulthe) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:55:10 -0700 Subject: Installation problem on notebook Dell Inspiron E1505/6400, Can not create partition and not able to boor through bootable DVD Message-ID: Hello, I want to install Linux on my laptop and I am facing following problem while installing. Aftet refering to other side and by experince of others experince I have downloaded Linux to install. I have Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 laptop. Problems are - 1. How can I new partition / Resize partition/ or create free spance. It have single C: Partition by Dell. 70 GB HD space is available to use. It uses one hidden partition so I can create new partition using Partition magic. I downloaded Evaluation verstion of Partition magic which allow me to create partition but not resize parition. 2. I downloaded linux on HDD from net and trying to Create bootable DVD from that. I create it using Nero and CD burnerXP Pro 3. When I try to boot using that It goes to some weired prompt. It boot with some software called caldera 7.03 which is command prompt only. It has few command but too diff to understand. I donno what is this? It goes to command prompt [DR-DOS] A:\> I will apprecite if anyone can help me with above problems. Thanks and Regards Sadashiv Kulthe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carleto27 at yahoo.ca Sat Jun 17 15:25:01 2006 From: carleto27 at yahoo.ca (carlos Perez) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:25:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Red Hat Installation In-Reply-To: <1150498806.14787.92.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <20060617152501.84747.qmail@web32509.mail.mud.yahoo.com> R, thank 4 your reply. yeas it boots Rick Stevens wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 09:42 -0400, carlos Perez wrote: > Does anybody know? > > I just installed RH server and after the installation is done got the > following error > > PCI_IDE UNKNOWN CONTROLLER PCI .... yadah yadah.... > > I have a DELL DIMENSION 4550 with 2 NICs cars.. 1 onbord, 1 extra one > > If I disabled the NIC onboard in BIOS will this fix my issue? or do I > have to reinstall RED HAT? It's complaining about an unknown IDE controller, not a NIC. 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URL: From smartjoe at gmail.com Sat Jun 17 19:45:17 2006 From: smartjoe at gmail.com (jOe) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 03:45:17 +0800 Subject: kickstart installation still has problem even in RHELv4U3(i386) Message-ID: Hello all, Does anyone here install the RHELv4U3(i386) via kickstart+NFS without problem? I've tried dozens of times and i'm sure there still exists problem in RHELv4U3's kickstart installation. After searched the redhat's knowledge base, i found the Exactly problem information. But things strange that according that knowledge base brief, the problem should be fixed in RHELv4U1 and later !! But the issue still appear in v4U3 !! Did the Redhat team really fixed it or not? I've double checked my nfs server configuration, my network setting and connection status and parameters that passed to the installation routine to ensure there are no problem exists. The RedHat's Knowledge Base brief can be found at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_42_5549.shtm.and I also paste it here. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Issue: Why does a kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 work when using a DHCP IP address, but not when providing a static IP address for the network adapter? Resolution: *Release Found:* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 *Problem:* Anaconda fails to properly set up networking in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 during a kickstart installation if a static IP address is supplied for the network adapter on the system to be installed. One or all of the following symptoms may be observed: - Boot using anaconda with the kickstart file located on either an HTTP server, NFS server, or FTP server ("ks=http://....") in text mode.The - installer will probe for a DHCP address and fail (if you do not have a DHCP server on your network, this is expected). - Enter the proper static IP information for your network adapter, select OK and continue.The - installer will fail determining the local hostname via a reverse DNS lookup. The report from virtual terminal 4 (which can be reached by pressing the alt+F4 keys) says that the installer cannot set the default route and that the network is unreachable.The - network adapter is properly recognized by the installer and the proper modules for the adapter have been loaded. This can be observed by pressing alt+F3 during the installation.If - you select to obtain the IP address via DHCP, the installation proceeds without issue. *Solution:* This is a known issue with anaconda in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The fix for this problem will be included in Update 1 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Currently, the only workaround available is to use a DHCP server to obtain IP address settings for your network adapter. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Regards, Jun -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From micros50 at computer.net Sat Jun 17 22:56:49 2006 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:56:49 -0400 Subject: Installation problem on notebook Dell Inspiron E1505/6400, Can not create partition and not able to boor through bootable DVD In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1150585006.7689.62.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 03:55, Sadashiv Kulthe wrote: > Hello, > > I want to install Linux on my laptop and I am facing following problem > while installing. > > Aftet refering to other side and by experince of others experince I > have downloaded Linux to install. > > I have Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 laptop. > > Problems are - > 1. How can I new partition / Resize partition/ or create free spance. > It have single C: Partition by Dell. 70 GB HD space is available to > use. It uses one hidden partition so I can create new partition using > Partition magic. I downloaded Evaluation verstion of Partition magic > which allow me to create partition but not resize parition. > I am about to fact this same situation. I am going to be installing Fedora on a Dell Inspiron notebook as well and I want to repartition the drive and make it a dual boot. Anyone know if there are any free open source alternatives to "partition magic" ? mylar From mrkingdaddysir at yahoo.com Sun Jun 18 03:04:18 2006 From: mrkingdaddysir at yahoo.com (Mick Mearns) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Installation problem on notebook Dell Inspiron E1505/6400, Can not create partition and not able to boor through bootable DVD In-Reply-To: <1150585006.7689.62.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Message-ID: <20060618030418.59776.qmail@web60520.mail.yahoo.com> --- mylar wrote: > I am about to fact this same situation. I am going to be installing > Fedora on a Dell Inspiron notebook as well and I want to repartition the > drive and make it a dual boot. Anyone know if there are any free open > source alternatives to "partition magic" ? > > mylar > Hi, go here: http://freshmeat.net/ search for 'partition' There are 68 entries. Mick M. "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 tpotter at techmarin.com Sun Jun 18 08:37:18 2006 From: tpotter at techmarin.com (Ted Potter) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 01:37:18 -0700 Subject: Installation problem on notebook Dell Inspiron E1505/6400, Can not create partition and not able to boor through bootable DVD In-Reply-To: <1150585006.7689.62.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> References: <1150585006.7689.62.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Message-ID: <5ce05200606180137u23df846k9fd01c318ba1cd2b@mail.gmail.com> On 6/17/06, mylar wrote: > On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 03:55, Sadashiv Kulthe wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I want to install Linux on my laptop and I am facing following problem > > while installing. > > > > Aftet refering to other side and by experince of others experince I > > have downloaded Linux to install. > > > > I have Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 laptop. > > > > Problems are - > > 1. How can I new partition / Resize partition/ or create free spance. > > It have single C: Partition by Dell. 70 GB HD space is available to > > use. It uses one hidden partition so I can create new partition using > > Partition magic. I downloaded Evaluation verstion of Partition magic > > which allow me to create partition but not resize parition. > > > > I am about to fact this same situation. I am going to be installing > Fedora on a Dell Inspiron notebook as well and I want to repartition the > drive and make it a dual boot. Anyone know if there are any free open > source alternatives to "partition magic" ? > > mylar > I used the knoppix cd which includes the program qtparted. I booted off the knoppix cd ran the qtparted program, resized the windows partition. qtparted is a nice front end program. -- Ted Potter tpotter at techmarin.com From tyche at ica.net Mon Jun 19 01:03:13 2006 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:03:13 -0400 Subject: rpm acting odd on fresh install Message-ID: <4495F7D1.3010604@ica.net> this morning i installed fc2 on a comp. went to add some other programs to it via rpm -i rpm returns: error: rpmsdb NextIterator: skipping h# 246 header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2 those programs that rpm doesnt error out with it gives a depends on error. even if the dependacy is there. when you try to reinstall the dependancy, you get the same error message with a different header # any idea how to fix? tia tyche ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email is powered by ICA Canada OnLine http://www.icacanadaonline.com From micros50 at computer.net Mon Jun 19 13:40:58 2006 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:40:58 -0400 Subject: Installation problem on notebook Dell Inspiron E1505/6400, Can not create partition and not able to boor through bootable DVD In-Reply-To: <20060618030418.59776.qmail@web60520.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060618030418.59776.qmail@web60520.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1150724458.8110.1.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 23:04, Mick Mearns wrote: > --- mylar wrote: > > I am about to fact this same situation. I am going to be installing > > Fedora on a Dell Inspiron notebook as well and I want to repartition the > > drive and make it a dual boot. Anyone know if there are any free open > > source alternatives to "partition magic" ? > > > > mylar > > > > Hi, > go here: http://freshmeat.net/ > search for 'partition' > There are 68 entries. > > Mick M. > Thanks,I'll check it out. From micros50 at computer.net Mon Jun 19 13:41:57 2006 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:41:57 -0400 Subject: Installation problem on notebook Dell Inspiron E1505/6400, Can not create partition and not able to boor through bootable DVD In-Reply-To: <5ce05200606180137u23df846k9fd01c318ba1cd2b@mail.gmail.com> References: <1150585006.7689.62.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <5ce05200606180137u23df846k9fd01c318ba1cd2b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1150724517.8110.3.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 04:37, Ted Potter wrote: > On 6/17/06, mylar wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 03:55, Sadashiv Kulthe wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I want to install Linux on my laptop and I am facing following problem > > > while installing. > > > > > > Aftet refering to other side and by experince of others experince I > > > have downloaded Linux to install. > > > > > > I have Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 laptop. > > > > > > Problems are - > > > 1. How can I new partition / Resize partition/ or create free spance. > > > It have single C: Partition by Dell. 70 GB HD space is available to > > > use. It uses one hidden partition so I can create new partition using > > > Partition magic. I downloaded Evaluation verstion of Partition magic > > > which allow me to create partition but not resize parition. > > > > > > > I am about to fact this same situation. I am going to be installing > > Fedora on a Dell Inspiron notebook as well and I want to repartition the > > drive and make it a dual boot. Anyone know if there are any free open > > source alternatives to "partition magic" ? > > > > mylar > > > > I used the knoppix cd which includes the program qtparted. I booted > off the knoppix cd ran the qtparted program, resized the windows > partition. qtparted is a nice front end program. > Thanks. I have a Knoppix CD. I'll give "qtparted" a try. mylar From aubreys_key at yahoo.com Mon Jun 19 14:05:56 2006 From: aubreys_key at yahoo.com (Aubrey Barnard) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 07:05:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Installation problem on notebook Dell Inspiron E1505/6400, Can not create partition and not able to boor through bootable DVD In-Reply-To: <20060618160019.B8DB4735A9@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <20060619140556.80020.qmail@web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > On 6/17/06, mylar wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 03:55, Sadashiv Kulthe wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I want to install Linux on my laptop and I am facing following > problem > > > while installing. > > > > > > Aftet refering to other side and by experince of others experince I > > > have downloaded Linux to install. > > > > > > I have Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 laptop. > > > > > > Problems are - > > > 1. How can I new partition / Resize partition/ or create free > spance. > > > It have single C: Partition by Dell. 70 GB HD space is available to > > > use. It uses one hidden partition so I can create new partition > using > > > Partition magic. I downloaded Evaluation verstion of Partition magic > > > which allow me to create partition but not resize parition. > > > > > > > I am about to fact this same situation. I am going to be installing > > Fedora on a Dell Inspiron notebook as well and I want to repartition > the > > drive and make it a dual boot. Anyone know if there are any free open > > source alternatives to "partition magic" ? > > > > mylar > > > > I used the knoppix cd which includes the program qtparted. I booted > off the knoppix cd ran the qtparted program, resized the windows > partition. qtparted is a nice front end program. > > -- > Ted Potter > tpotter at techmarin.com You could try something like a Linux live CD with GParted. AFAIK, it is a bootable CD with a Linux distro on it geared towards editing partitions. Go here for more information: http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=03517#0 Cheers, Aubrey __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 19 17:34:58 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:34:58 -0700 Subject: rpm acting odd on fresh install In-Reply-To: <4495F7D1.3010604@ica.net> References: <4495F7D1.3010604@ica.net> Message-ID: <1150738498.14787.130.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 21:03 -0400, tyche wrote: > this morning i installed fc2 on a comp. went to add some > other programs to it via rpm -i rpm returns: > > error: rpmsdb NextIterator: skipping h# 246 header > V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2 > > those programs that rpm doesnt error out with it gives a > depends on error. even if the dependacy is there. when you > try to reinstall the dependancy, you get the same error > message with a different header # > > any idea how to fix? Become the root user and perform the following steps: 1. # cd /var/lib/rpm 2. # rm -f __db.* 3. # rpm --rebuilddb This rebuilds the database files for RPM. Once that's all done, you can try to do your "rpm -i" commands to install the packages you want. Give it a try and let us know how you get along. Also note that FC2 is quite old and I'm not even sure Fedora Legacy is still supporting it. The current release of Fedora Core is FC5. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 tyche at ica.net Mon Jun 19 20:48:56 2006 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:48:56 -0400 Subject: rpm acting odd on fresh install In-Reply-To: <1150738498.14787.130.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <4495F7D1.3010604@ica.net> <1150738498.14787.130.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <44970DB8.20301@ica.net> Rick Stevens wrote: > On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 21:03 -0400, tyche wrote: > >>this morning i installed fc2 on a comp. went to add some >>other programs to it via rpm -i rpm returns: >> >>error: rpmsdb NextIterator: skipping h# 246 header >>V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2 >> >>those programs that rpm doesnt error out with it gives a >>depends on error. even if the dependacy is there. when you >>try to reinstall the dependancy, you get the same error >>message with a different header # >> >>any idea how to fix? > > > Become the root user and perform the following steps: > > 1. # cd /var/lib/rpm > 2. # rm -f __db.* > 3. # rpm --rebuilddb > > This rebuilds the database files for RPM. Once that's all done, you can > try to do your "rpm -i" commands to install the packages you want. > > Give it a try and let us know how you get along. Also note that FC2 is > quite old and I'm not even sure Fedora Legacy is still supporting it. > The current release of Fedora Core is FC5. > dont have the resources to upgrade beyond that right now. could always go back to rh8 will let you know about that database tyche ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email is powered by ICA Canada OnLine http://www.icacanadaonline.com From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 19 21:00:23 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:00:23 -0700 Subject: rpm acting odd on fresh install In-Reply-To: <44970DB8.20301@ica.net> References: <4495F7D1.3010604@ica.net> <1150738498.14787.130.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <44970DB8.20301@ica.net> Message-ID: <1150750823.14787.145.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 16:48 -0400, tyche wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 21:03 -0400, tyche wrote: > > > >>this morning i installed fc2 on a comp. went to add some > >>other programs to it via rpm -i rpm returns: > >> > >>error: rpmsdb NextIterator: skipping h# 246 header > >>V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2 > >> > >>those programs that rpm doesnt error out with it gives a > >>depends on error. even if the dependacy is there. when you > >>try to reinstall the dependancy, you get the same error > >>message with a different header # > >> > >>any idea how to fix? > > > > > > Become the root user and perform the following steps: > > > > 1. # cd /var/lib/rpm > > 2. # rm -f __db.* > > 3. # rpm --rebuilddb > > > > This rebuilds the database files for RPM. Once that's all done, you can > > try to do your "rpm -i" commands to install the packages you want. > > > > Give it a try and let us know how you get along. Also note that FC2 is > > quite old and I'm not even sure Fedora Legacy is still supporting it. > > The current release of Fedora Core is FC5. > > > dont have the resources to upgrade beyond that right now. > could always go back to rh8 RH8 is even older! FC5 is free. > will let you know about that database Ok. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - All generalizations are false. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From celawrence at lbl.gov Tue Jun 20 17:44:47 2006 From: celawrence at lbl.gov (chuck lawrence) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:44:47 -0700 Subject: logon limits? Message-ID: <4498340F.60800@lbl.gov> hi, thanks to all for the bigmem/hugemem advice. my dual opteron now sees 8gb. on to a different question... my windows AD domain allows me to set domain users "logon hours", which supposedly can limit specific users to specific hours. is there a linux equivalent? I'm planning to convert my whole family to linux, with codeweavers to deal with the handful of windows-only stuff. it'd be cool to be draconian and kick my kids off automatically. adv(thanks)ance -- * ------------------- * ----------------------------* | charles e. lawrence | lawrence berkeley nat'l lab | | celawrence at lbl.gov | #1 cyclotron rd ms 50a6134 | | (510) 486-4682 | berkeley ca 94720 | * ------------------- * ----------------------------* "If the human body did patch management the way (companies do), we'd all be dead." www-eng.lbl.gov/~lawrence From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 20 18:04:10 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:04:10 -0700 Subject: logon limits? In-Reply-To: <4498340F.60800@lbl.gov> References: <4498340F.60800@lbl.gov> Message-ID: <1150826650.14787.171.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 10:44 -0700, chuck lawrence wrote: > hi, > > thanks to all for the bigmem/hugemem advice. my dual opteron now sees > 8gb. on to a different question... > > my windows AD domain allows me to set domain users "logon hours", which > supposedly can limit specific users to specific hours. is there a linux > equivalent? Yes. It's a bit long to go into in an email posting, but if you do "man login" and look at the "SPECIAL ACCESS RESTRICTIONS" section dealing with /etc/usertty, you'll see how to do it. > I'm planning to convert my whole family to linux, with codeweavers to > deal with the handful of windows-only stuff. it'd be cool to be > draconian and kick my kids off automatically. Oh, well, kicking your kids off automatically is a totally different thing. What I describe above sets login restrictions...it does nothing for kicking them off once they're logged in. If you do want to kick them off, that's fairly easily done by having root's crontab launch a shell script that parses the output of "who", "lastlog" or "ps -U kid-user-name" and issues kill commands to the kids' shells. For example, assuming the kid's username is "fred", you could: ps -U fred | awk '{system("kill -9 "$1)}' Note that it's pretty drastic...it will pull the rug out from them completely leaving open files, etc. You have been warned! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Consciousness: that annoying time between naps. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From tyche at ica.net Tue Jun 20 23:07:41 2006 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:07:41 -0400 Subject: rpm acting odd on fresh install In-Reply-To: <1150750823.14787.145.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <4495F7D1.3010604@ica.net> <1150738498.14787.130.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <44970DB8.20301@ica.net> <1150750823.14787.145.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <44987FBD.1040406@ica.net> Rick Stevens wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 16:48 -0400, tyche wrote: > >>Rick Stevens wrote: >> >>>On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 21:03 -0400, tyche wrote: >>> >>> >>>>this morning i installed fc2 on a comp. went to add some >>>>other programs to it via rpm -i rpm returns: >>>> >>>>error: rpmsdb NextIterator: skipping h# 246 header >>>>V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2 >>>> >>>>those programs that rpm doesnt error out with it gives a >>>>depends on error. even if the dependacy is there. when you >>>>try to reinstall the dependancy, you get the same error >>>>message with a different header # >>>> >>>>any idea how to fix? >>> >>> >>>Become the root user and perform the following steps: >>> >>> 1. # cd /var/lib/rpm >>> 2. # rm -f __db.* >>> 3. # rpm --rebuilddb >>> >>>This rebuilds the database files for RPM. Once that's all done, you can >>>try to do your "rpm -i" commands to install the packages you want. >>> >>>Give it a try and let us know how you get along. Also note that FC2 is >>>quite old and I'm not even sure Fedora Legacy is still supporting it. >>>The current release of Fedora Core is FC5. >>> >> >>dont have the resources to upgrade beyond that right now. >>could always go back to rh8 > > > RH8 is even older! FC5 is free. i know. its not the price of the cdrom that is the bother, its upgrading the system. > > >>will let you know about that database > > > Ok. deleted the db files, had a screen full of key errors go whipping by. rebuild, same problem, tho i can use -i --force -- nodeps. but most of the packages installed are there (gawk for instance, isnt recognized as being installed by rpm tho it does run) as for the no support, can always download the source and recompile. its just getting the source codes that is a pain. tia, will keep trying the rpm files in /var see what is what in there. will keep ya updated on progress. thanks for the help tyche ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email is powered by ICA Canada OnLine http://www.icacanadaonline.com From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 21 18:25:54 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:25:54 -0700 Subject: rpm acting odd on fresh install In-Reply-To: <44987FBD.1040406@ica.net> References: <4495F7D1.3010604@ica.net> <1150738498.14787.130.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <44970DB8.20301@ica.net> <1150750823.14787.145.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <44987FBD.1040406@ica.net> Message-ID: <1150914354.12183.9.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 19:07 -0400, tyche wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 16:48 -0400, tyche wrote: > > > >>Rick Stevens wrote: > >> > >>>On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 21:03 -0400, tyche wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>this morning i installed fc2 on a comp. went to add some > >>>>other programs to it via rpm -i rpm returns: > >>>> > >>>>error: rpmsdb NextIterator: skipping h# 246 header > >>>>V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2 > >>>> > >>>>those programs that rpm doesnt error out with it gives a > >>>>depends on error. even if the dependacy is there. when you > >>>>try to reinstall the dependancy, you get the same error > >>>>message with a different header # > >>>> > >>>>any idea how to fix? > >>> > >>> > >>>Become the root user and perform the following steps: > >>> > >>> 1. # cd /var/lib/rpm > >>> 2. # rm -f __db.* > >>> 3. # rpm --rebuilddb > >>> > >>>This rebuilds the database files for RPM. Once that's all done, you can > >>>try to do your "rpm -i" commands to install the packages you want. > >>> > >>>Give it a try and let us know how you get along. Also note that FC2 is > >>>quite old and I'm not even sure Fedora Legacy is still supporting it. > >>>The current release of Fedora Core is FC5. > >>> > >> > >>dont have the resources to upgrade beyond that right now. > >>could always go back to rh8 > > > > > > RH8 is even older! FC5 is free. > > i know. its not the price of the cdrom that is the bother, > its upgrading the system. > > > > > > >>will let you know about that database > > > > > > Ok. > deleted the db files, had a screen full of key errors go > whipping by. What? By doing "rm -f __db.*"? If that's the case, then the filesystem is suspect, kemosabe, and you'd better fix that BEFORE you do anything else. > rebuild, same problem, tho i can use -i --force > -- nodeps. but most of the packages installed are there > (gawk for instance, isnt recognized as being installed by > rpm tho it does run) Again, if the "rm -f" stuff spewed errors, you have far, FAR more serious problems. > > as for the no support, can always download the source and > recompile. its just getting the source codes that is a pain. > > tia, will keep trying the rpm files in /var see what is what > in there. will keep ya updated on progress. Please do. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Try to look unimportant. The bad guys may be low on ammo. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From tyche at ica.net Wed Jun 21 20:25:37 2006 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:25:37 -0400 Subject: rpm acting odd on fresh install In-Reply-To: <1150914354.12183.9.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <4495F7D1.3010604@ica.net> <44987FBD.1040406@ica.net> <1150914354.12183.9.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <200606211625.39417.tyche@ica.net> On Wednesday 21 June 2006 14:25, Rick Stevens wrote: > > deleted the db files, had a screen full of key errors go > > whipping by. > > What? By doing "rm -f __db.*"? If that's the case, then > the filesystem is suspect, kemosabe, and you'd better fix > that BEFORE you do anything else. sorry, wasnt the rm -f that caused the errors. was the rpm --rebuilddb that caused it. looked like the same key on a few different packages. > > > rebuild, same problem, tho i can use -i --force > > -- nodeps. but most of the packages installed are there > > (gawk for instance, isnt recognized as being installed by > > rpm tho it does run) > > Again, if the "rm -f" stuff spewed errors, you have far, > FAR more serious problems. > > > as for the no support, can always download the source and > > recompile. its just getting the source codes that is a > > pain. > > > > tia, will keep trying the rpm files in /var see what is > > what in there. will keep ya updated on progress. > > Please do. tyche -- Win9x A 32 bit extention to a 16 bit patch for a 8 bit operating system on a 4 bit machine by a 2 bit company that cant stand 1 bit of competition ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email is powered by ICA Canada OnLine http://www.icacanadaonline.com From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 21 22:56:10 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:56:10 -0700 Subject: rpm acting odd on fresh install In-Reply-To: <200606211625.39417.tyche@ica.net> References: <4495F7D1.3010604@ica.net> <44987FBD.1040406@ica.net> <1150914354.12183.9.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <200606211625.39417.tyche@ica.net> Message-ID: <1150930570.3904.7.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 16:25 -0400, tyche wrote: > On Wednesday 21 June 2006 14:25, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > deleted the db files, had a screen full of key errors go > > > whipping by. > > > > What? By doing "rm -f __db.*"? If that's the case, then > > the filesystem is suspect, kemosabe, and you'd better fix > > that BEFORE you do anything else. > > sorry, wasnt the rm -f that caused the errors. was the rpm > --rebuilddb that caused it. looked like the same key on a few > different packages. Oh? That's weird. IIRC, rpm on FC3 did have some issues with big databases. > > > > > > rebuild, same problem, tho i can use -i --force > > > -- nodeps. but most of the packages installed are there > > > (gawk for instance, isnt recognized as being installed by > > > rpm tho it does run) > > > > Again, if the "rm -f" stuff spewed errors, you have far, > > FAR more serious problems. > > > > > as for the no support, can always download the source and > > > recompile. its just getting the source codes that is a > > > pain. > > > > > > tia, will keep trying the rpm files in /var see what is > > > what in there. will keep ya updated on progress. > > > > Please do. > > tyche > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Denial. It ain't just a river in Egypt anymore! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From stuart at sjsears.com Fri Jun 23 13:31:17 2006 From: stuart at sjsears.com (Stuart Sears) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:31:17 +0100 Subject: logon limits? In-Reply-To: <1150826650.14787.171.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <4498340F.60800@lbl.gov> <1150826650.14787.171.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <449BED25.6000303@sjsears.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rick Stevens wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 10:44 -0700, chuck lawrence wrote: ... >> my windows AD domain allows me to set domain users "logon hours", which >> supposedly can limit specific users to specific hours. is there a linux >> equivalent? > > Yes. It's a bit long to go into in an email posting, but if you do > "man login" and look at the "SPECIAL ACCESS RESTRICTIONS" section > dealing with /etc/usertty, you'll see how to do it. Rick, Are you certain about that? The docs seem to suggest the following "On systems that do not use PAM, the file /etc/usertty specifies additional access restrictions for specific users." indeed, trying this in /etc/usertty USERS bob [mon:tue:wed:thu:fri:8-14]tty3 has absolutely no effect at all outside of the specified hours. on a PAM-aware system [any modern version of RH or Fedora Core] the correct solution to this is probably the pam_time library this means editing 2 files: /etc/pam.d/system-auth: add the line account required pam_time.so to the other account lines. Make sure it is above any lines that contain the word 'sufficient', or it will *not* work This tells the PAM system to apply time restrictions when users are authenticating. now we need to add restrictions. The config for pam_time is /etc/security/time.conf very helpfully the authors have printed out the manpage in the top of this file, but in summary, a line in here looks a bit like service; consoles; users; times e.g. login;tty*;bob;!Al0000-1500 Will prevent the user bob from logging in (well, running the login service, which amounts to much the same thing) on any virtual terminal between midnight and 3pm. to prevent graphical logins, the service name you may want to use is gdm. to *allow* bob to do this (but not outside those times) the line is a bit like this: login;tty*;bob;Al0000-1500 i.e. the ! is removed. RTFM for more info on this: /usr/share/doc/pam-0*/html/index.html (there are text versions too) a word of warning: PAM is *very* powerful and can thouroughly break your system. Be very careful which users you put in that file. A typo in a PAM config file can lock even root out of the system - at which point your only recourse is to boot into single-user mode. Leave a root session open while you test this for other users. kind regards Stuart - -- Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEm+0lamPtx1brPQ4RAu0GAJ0eHRRSlDqZvgeoYE/sJLXHnttaMwCfcac0 KO4F4gItI/8cII6dkUBwCX4= =eXjK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 23 17:22:18 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:22:18 -0700 Subject: logon limits? In-Reply-To: <449BED25.6000303@sjsears.com> References: <4498340F.60800@lbl.gov> <1150826650.14787.171.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <449BED25.6000303@sjsears.com> Message-ID: <1151083338.3904.51.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 14:31 +0100, Stuart Sears wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 10:44 -0700, chuck lawrence wrote: > ... > >> my windows AD domain allows me to set domain users "logon hours", which > >> supposedly can limit specific users to specific hours. is there a linux > >> equivalent? > > > > Yes. It's a bit long to go into in an email posting, but if you do > > "man login" and look at the "SPECIAL ACCESS RESTRICTIONS" section > > dealing with /etc/usertty, you'll see how to do it. > Rick, > Are you certain about that? > The docs seem to suggest the following > "On systems that do not use PAM, the file /etc/usertty specifies > additional access restrictions for specific users." > > indeed, trying this in /etc/usertty > > USERS > bob [mon:tue:wed:thu:fri:8-14]tty3 > > has absolutely no effect at all outside of the specified hours. > > on a PAM-aware system [any modern version of RH or Fedora Core] the > correct solution to this is probably the pam_time library > > this means editing 2 files: > /etc/pam.d/system-auth: > add the line > > account required pam_time.so > > to the other account lines. Make sure it is above any lines that contain > the word 'sufficient', or it will *not* work > > This tells the PAM system to apply time restrictions when users are > authenticating. > > now we need to add restrictions. The config for pam_time is > /etc/security/time.conf > very helpfully the authors have printed out the manpage in the top of > this file, but in summary, a line in here looks a bit like > > service; consoles; users; times > e.g. > > login;tty*;bob;!Al0000-1500 > > Will prevent the user bob from logging in (well, running the login > service, which amounts to much the same thing) on any virtual terminal > between midnight and 3pm. to prevent graphical logins, the service name > you may want to use is gdm. I believe you're correct, but I'm not certain about pseudo-TTYs used for network connections ("pts/0" and the like). I've never done this sort of thing...my users are restricted significantly and access to my machines over the network is generally highly restricted also. > to *allow* bob to do this (but not outside those times) the line is a > bit like this: > > login;tty*;bob;Al0000-1500 > > i.e. the ! is removed. > > RTFM for more info on this: > /usr/share/doc/pam-0*/html/index.html (there are text versions too) > > a word of warning: > PAM is *very* powerful and can thouroughly break your system. Be very > careful which users you put in that file. A typo in a PAM config file > can lock even root out of the system - at which point your only recourse > is to boot into single-user mode. Leave a root session open while you > test this for other users. Amen! Playing with PAM without really knowing what you're doing is like futzing with the fuse on a nuclear device. > > > > > > kind regards > > > Stuart > - -- > Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX > To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFEm+0lamPtx1brPQ4RAu0GAJ0eHRRSlDqZvgeoYE/sJLXHnttaMwCfcac0 > KO4F4gItI/8cII6dkUBwCX4= > =eXjK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 harold at hallikainen.com Sat Jun 24 02:54:37 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:54:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Linux equivalent of Norton Ghost? Message-ID: <44303.192.168.1.1.1151117677.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> I'd like to create a drive image so when I totally mess things up (or the hard drive crashes), I can quickly get a working system again (without doing a reinstall and modifying a hundred config files). I THOUGHT NG worked with Linux file systems, but it can't seem to find the drive on my AMD64 laptop running FC4. What I'd like to do is have something on a bootable CD that can create an image of the hard drive(s) on a USB drive and restore that image to the hard drive(s). Does such a utility exist? THANKS! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com - Advertising opportunities available! From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Sat Jun 24 04:02:09 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:02:09 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Linux equivalent of Norton Ghost? In-Reply-To: <44303.192.168.1.1.1151117677.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <44303.192.168.1.1.1151117677.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <20365.198.60.114.90.1151121729.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> On Fri, June 23, 2006 8:54 pm, Harold Hallikainen said: > I'd like to create a drive image so when I totally mess things up (or the > hard drive crashes), I can quickly get a working system again (without > doing a reinstall and modifying a hundred config files). I THOUGHT NG > worked with Linux file systems, but it can't seem to find the drive on my > AMD64 laptop running FC4. What I'd like to do is have something on a > bootable CD that can create an image of the hard drive(s) on a USB drive > and restore that image to the hard drive(s). Does such a utility exist? Wouldn't dd do it? or some use of appropriate switches for dd? Just a thought Karl > > THANKS! > > Harold > > > -- > FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com - Advertising > opportunities available! > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson KarlP at ourldsfamily.com --- Senior Consulting Sys/DB Analyst http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com --- My Thoughts on Terrorism In America right after 9/11/2001: 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 brad.mugleston at comcast.net Sat Jun 24 04:29:29 2006 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:29:29 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Email Help Message-ID: I though I'd sent this message out about a week ago but haven't seen it show up or any replies so maybe I forgot (been doing a lot of OT at work lately). Anyway, awhile ago this list helped me get my son's XP machine to pick his email up from my FC2 box that uses fetchmail to go out and download the families email and hold it for later reading. Well that machine finally died and we had to purchase a new XP machine for school programs. The instructions were: Make sure dovecot was installed on the FC2 box using "service dovecot status" seems to be working OK. Then using telnet 192.168.1.55 143 from the XP box and I get dovecot answering back. Setting up Outlook to go to 192.168.1.44 using IMAP (port 143). On the old machine the email came right over. ON the new machine I get a TCP/IP error. Anyone have any ideas? About the only thing I can think that may be different would be the Nortons virus program that came with the computer. Problem is I don't know how to shut it down to test it and if that is it how can telnet work? Thanks, Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From markknecht at gmail.com Sat Jun 24 04:55:22 2006 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:55:22 -0700 Subject: Email Help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0606232155r4971d141i44632dbf423f5d3b@mail.gmail.com> On 6/23/06, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > I though I'd sent this message out about a week ago but haven't > seen it show up or any replies so maybe I forgot (been doing a > lot of OT at work lately). > > Anyway, awhile ago this list helped me get my son's XP machine to > pick his email up from my FC2 box that uses fetchmail to go out > and download the families email and hold it for later reading. > > Well that machine finally died and we had to purchase a new XP > machine for school programs. > > The instructions were: > > Make sure dovecot was installed on the FC2 box using "service > dovecot status" seems to be working OK. > > Then using telnet 192.168.1.55 143 from the XP box and I get > dovecot answering back. > > Setting up Outlook to go to 192.168.1.44 using IMAP (port 143). > On the old machine the email came right over. ON the new machine > I get a TCP/IP error. Does the new machine have the Windows Firewall enabled by default? If so try turning it off to see if that's the issue and, if it was, change the port permissions to get around it. Look in the Windows Control Panel, Security section I believe, to find the firewall. Hope this helps, Mark From stuart at sjsears.com Sat Jun 24 09:48:18 2006 From: stuart at sjsears.com (Stuart Sears) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:48:18 +0100 Subject: Linux equivalent of Norton Ghost? In-Reply-To: <44303.192.168.1.1.1151117677.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <44303.192.168.1.1.1151117677.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <449D0A62.7020606@sjsears.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Harold Hallikainen wrote: > I'd like to create a drive image so when I totally mess things up (or the > hard drive crashes), I can quickly get a working system again (without > doing a reinstall and modifying a hundred config files). I THOUGHT NG > worked with Linux file systems, but it can't seem to find the drive on my > AMD64 laptop running FC4. What I'd like to do is have something on a > bootable CD that can create an image of the hard drive(s) on a USB drive > and restore that image to the hard drive(s). Does such a utility exist? absolutely. partimage (probably my tool of choice) www.partimage.org ghost4linux (never used it) http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l mondorescue (full-on backup and recovery for whole systems) http://www.modorescue.org g4u (never used that either) http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ I am also a huge fan of this: systemrescuecd http://www.sysresccd.org which provides a lot of recovery tools (including partimage) on a simple bootable CD I don't mean to be rude (I must be in a bad mood), but how much searching did you do? Most of the above can be found with a couple of simple google searches., Google is your friend. linux partition imaging linux ghost linux partition backup bring up several of these. Regards /me goes off to get more coffee Stuart - -- Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. -- Robert Orben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEnQpiamPtx1brPQ4RAnF/AJ0aZL1wvjaLkhzckLGgHdmUqyhP7QCdG9TS wSAVlczetO1G0Yk25J9QaNs= =NQUM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Sat Jun 24 19:27:56 2006 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 13:27:56 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Email Help In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0606232155r4971d141i44632dbf423f5d3b@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b0606232155r4971d141i44632dbf423f5d3b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 6/23/06, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > I though I'd sent this message out about a week ago but haven't > > seen it show up or any replies so maybe I forgot (been doing a > > lot of OT at work lately). > > > > Anyway, awhile ago this list helped me get my son's XP machine to > > pick his email up from my FC2 box that uses fetchmail to go out > > and download the families email and hold it for later reading. > > > > Well that machine finally died and we had to purchase a new XP > > machine for school programs. > > > > The instructions were: > > > > Make sure dovecot was installed on the FC2 box using "service > > dovecot status" seems to be working OK. > > > > Then using telnet 192.168.1.55 143 from the XP box and I get > > dovecot answering back. > > > > Setting up Outlook to go to 192.168.1.44 using IMAP (port 143). > > On the old machine the email came right over. ON the new machine > > I get a TCP/IP error. > > Does the new machine have the Windows Firewall enabled by default? If > so try turning it off to see if that's the issue and, if it was, > change the port permissions to get around it. > > Look in the Windows Control Panel, Security section I believe, to find > the firewall. > > Hope this helps, > Mark > Thanks Mark, I checked the Windows Firewall and it was off. I dug through it and found where it would be setup to block IMAP and port 143 turned it on and turned on the firewall. No change. Same error - file not found TCP/IP error. Brad From markknecht at gmail.com Sat Jun 24 20:07:58 2006 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 13:07:58 -0700 Subject: Email Help In-Reply-To: References: <5bdc1c8b0606232155r4971d141i44632dbf423f5d3b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0606241307l639925a2x2cc4b2f288d6a4c3@mail.gmail.com> On 6/24/06, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > > > > > The instructions were: > > > > > > Make sure dovecot was installed on the FC2 box using "service > > > dovecot status" seems to be working OK. > > > > > > Then using telnet 192.168.1.55 143 from the XP box and I get > > > dovecot answering back. > > > > > > Setting up Outlook to go to 192.168.1.44 using IMAP (port 143). > > > On the old machine the email came right over. ON the new machine > > > I get a TCP/IP error. > > > > Does the new machine have the Windows Firewall enabled by default? If > > so try turning it off to see if that's the issue and, if it was, > > change the port permissions to get around it. > > > > Look in the Windows Control Panel, Security section I believe, to find > > the firewall. > > > > Hope this helps, > > Mark > > > Thanks Mark, I checked the Windows Firewall and it was off. I > dug through it and found where it would be setup to block IMAP > and port 143 turned it on and turned on the firewall. No change. > Same error - file not found TCP/IP error. > > Brad Brad, Sorry it wasn't that easy. I guess I'm a little confused by the instructions above. I presume that the first command telnet 192.168.1.55 143 Is telnetting from XP to the Linux machine at 192.168.1.55 on port 143. If so, then why is the second command using 192.168.1.44? Isn't the machine at 55, not 44? What are the addresses of the two (or three) machines involved? Anyway, I'm of little or no help here. Just thought I'd pick off an easy one. Guess not. Cheers, Mark From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Sat Jun 24 21:20:16 2006 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:20:16 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Email Help In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0606241307l639925a2x2cc4b2f288d6a4c3@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b0606232155r4971d141i44632dbf423f5d3b@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0606241307l639925a2x2cc4b2f288d6a4c3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 6/24/06, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > > > > > > > > The instructions were: > > > > > > > > Make sure dovecot was installed on the FC2 box using "service > > > > dovecot status" seems to be working OK. > > > > > > > > Then using telnet 192.168.1.55 143 from the XP box and I get > > > > dovecot answering back. > > > > > > > > Setting up Outlook to go to 192.168.1.44 using IMAP (port 143). > > > > On the old machine the email came right over. ON the new machine > > > > I get a TCP/IP error. > > > > > > Does the new machine have the Windows Firewall enabled by default? If > > > so try turning it off to see if that's the issue and, if it was, > > > change the port permissions to get around it. > > > > > > Look in the Windows Control Panel, Security section I believe, to find > > > the firewall. > > > > > > Hope this helps, > > > Mark > > > > > Thanks Mark, I checked the Windows Firewall and it was off. I > > dug through it and found where it would be setup to block IMAP > > and port 143 turned it on and turned on the firewall. No change. > > Same error - file not found TCP/IP error. > > > > Brad > > Brad, > Sorry it wasn't that easy. > > I guess I'm a little confused by the instructions above. I presume > that the first command > > telnet 192.168.1.55 143 > > Is telnetting from XP to the Linux machine at 192.168.1.55 on port > 143. If so, then why is the second command using 192.168.1.44? Isn't > the machine at 55, not 44? > > What are the addresses of the two (or three) machines involved? > > Anyway, I'm of little or no help here. Just thought I'd pick off an > easy one. Guess not. > > Cheers, > Mark > > _______________________________________________ Mark, I think it's mostly because I'm a poor typest. It should be 192.168.1.55 for both. Brad From markknecht at gmail.com Sat Jun 24 23:42:11 2006 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:42:11 -0700 Subject: Email Help In-Reply-To: References: <5bdc1c8b0606232155r4971d141i44632dbf423f5d3b@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0606241307l639925a2x2cc4b2f288d6a4c3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0606241642w759c7cc8la517b838b8c641a9@mail.gmail.com> On 6/24/06, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > Is telnetting from XP to the Linux machine at 192.168.1.55 on port > > 143. If so, then why is the second command using 192.168.1.44? Isn't > > the machine at 55, not 44? > > > > What are the addresses of the two (or three) machines involved? > > > > Anyway, I'm of little or no help here. Just thought I'd pick off an > > easy one. Guess not. > > > > Cheers, > > Mark > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mark, > > I think it's mostly because I'm a poor typest. It should be > 192.168.1.55 for both. > > Brad > OK, that helps clarify then. 1) Are you sure you didn't mistype either the IP address inside of Outlook then? 2) Normally the network daemons can be configured for verbose logging to look at people trying to hack in. What is it on your RH machine? xinetd or something like that? If so can you configure that option, restart the daemon, and then try logging in using Outlook and seeing what the logs say? (Sorry - I don't personally run any flavor of RH anymore except my son's one machine and even it is becoming something else this summer.) 3) You could try putting something like ethereal on the RH machine and see if it will tell you what's going on. It should be very good at describing what the WinXP box is doing, assuming the connection is being made at all. Unfortunately it seems to me that we don't know which side the problem lies on - Linux not allowing the connection or XP/Outlook not making it. - Mark From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Sun Jun 25 06:09:25 2006 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:09:25 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Email Help In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0606241307l639925a2x2cc4b2f288d6a4c3@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b0606232155r4971d141i44632dbf423f5d3b@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0606241307l639925a2x2cc4b2f288d6a4c3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 6/24/06, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > > > > > > > > The instructions were: > > > > > > > > Make sure dovecot was installed on the FC2 box using "service > > > > dovecot status" seems to be working OK. > > > > > > > > Then using telnet 192.168.1.55 143 from the XP box and I get > > > > dovecot answering back. > > > > > > > > Setting up Outlook to go to 192.168.1.44 using IMAP (port 143). > > > > On the old machine the email came right over. ON the new machine > > > > I get a TCP/IP error. > > > > > > Does the new machine have the Windows Firewall enabled by default? If > > > so try turning it off to see if that's the issue and, if it was, > > > change the port permissions to get around it. > > > > > > Look in the Windows Control Panel, Security section I believe, to find > > > the firewall. > > > > > > Hope this helps, > > > Mark > > > > > Thanks Mark, I checked the Windows Firewall and it was off. I > > dug through it and found where it would be setup to block IMAP > > and port 143 turned it on and turned on the firewall. No change. > > Same error - file not found TCP/IP error. > > > > Brad > > Brad, > Sorry it wasn't that easy. > > I guess I'm a little confused by the instructions above. I presume > that the first command > > telnet 192.168.1.55 143 > > Is telnetting from XP to the Linux machine at 192.168.1.55 on port > 143. If so, then why is the second command using 192.168.1.44? Isn't > the machine at 55, not 44? > > What are the addresses of the two (or three) machines involved? > > Anyway, I'm of little or no help here. Just thought I'd pick off an > easy one. Guess not. > > Cheers, > Mark > > _______________________________________________ One thing I just thought of - are there any NEW settings on the server to allow Outlook connect to dovecot - do I have to share a drive or something? Thanks, Brad From markknecht at gmail.com Sun Jun 25 14:54:24 2006 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:54:24 -0700 Subject: Email Help In-Reply-To: References: <5bdc1c8b0606232155r4971d141i44632dbf423f5d3b@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0606241307l639925a2x2cc4b2f288d6a4c3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0606250754s3947aa86xce8444db8800abd4@mail.gmail.com> On 6/24/06, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > One thing I just thought of - are there any NEW settings on the > server to allow Outlook connect to dovecot - do I have to share a > drive or something? > > Thanks, > > Brad Sorry Brad - I've never even heard of dovecot. It is a Linux program, correct? Since this is a new XP machine and an existing Linux box it would seem that mostly the config issues should be on the XP side, I would have guessed. The only thing that springs to mind would be: 1) If the new XP machine is at a different IP address than the old one then maybe dovecot of Linux needs to be informed of that. 2) If, for security reasons, dovecot or Linux was using the MAC address of the NIC in your old XP machine then the new machine's MAC address might be throwing dovecot/Linux off. Beyond that I suppose (AS ALWAYS!) ;-) that we'll need to wait for Rick, Karl or one of the other gurus to show up. This is way above my pay grade already. Sorry I couldn't be of more help! Cheers, Mark From tpotter at techmarin.com Sun Jun 25 18:00:33 2006 From: tpotter at techmarin.com (Ted Potter) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:00:33 -0700 Subject: Email Help In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0606250754s3947aa86xce8444db8800abd4@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b0606232155r4971d141i44632dbf423f5d3b@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0606241307l639925a2x2cc4b2f288d6a4c3@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0606250754s3947aa86xce8444db8800abd4@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5ce05200606251100i419a73ffp5ab478cb523cef17@mail.gmail.com> On 6/25/06, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 6/24/06, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > > > > One thing I just thought of - are there any NEW settings on the > > server to allow Outlook connect to dovecot - do I have to share a > > drive or something? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brad > > Sorry Brad - I've never even heard of dovecot. It is a Linux program, correct? > > Since this is a new XP machine and an existing Linux box it would seem > that mostly the config issues should be on the XP side, I would have > guessed. The only thing that springs to mind would be: > > 1) If the new XP machine is at a different IP address than the old one > then maybe dovecot of Linux needs to be informed of that. > > 2) If, for security reasons, dovecot or Linux was using the MAC > address of the NIC in your old XP machine then the new machine's MAC > address might be throwing dovecot/Linux off. > > Beyond that I suppose (AS ALWAYS!) ;-) that we'll need to wait for > Rick, Karl or one of the other gurus to show up. This is way above my > pay grade already. > > Sorry I couldn't be of more help! > > Cheers, > Mark > > Since the windows machine is providing very little information about the error I would suggest trying a different mail client and see what happens. I think thunderbird supports imap. You might also review the dovecot mail list for others who have had the same problem. >From the linux box run nmap against the windows machine just to be sure the firewall is turned off completely. Buy a MAC and get on with your life - JUST KIDDING ! -- Ted Potter tpotter at techmarin.com From rstevens at vitalstream.com Sun Jun 25 19:18:36 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:18:36 -0700 Subject: Email Help In-Reply-To: References: <5bdc1c8b0606232155r4971d141i44632dbf423f5d3b@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0606241307l639925a2x2cc4b2f288d6a4c3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1151263116.3904.94.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 15:20 -0600, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On 6/24/06, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > The instructions were: > > > > > > > > > > Make sure dovecot was installed on the FC2 box using "service > > > > > dovecot status" seems to be working OK. > > > > > > > > > > Then using telnet 192.168.1.55 143 from the XP box and I get > > > > > dovecot answering back. > > > > > > > > > > Setting up Outlook to go to 192.168.1.44 using IMAP (port 143). > > > > > On the old machine the email came right over. ON the new machine > > > > > I get a TCP/IP error. > > > > > > > > Does the new machine have the Windows Firewall enabled by default? If > > > > so try turning it off to see if that's the issue and, if it was, > > > > change the port permissions to get around it. > > > > > > > > Look in the Windows Control Panel, Security section I believe, to find > > > > the firewall. > > > > > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > Mark > > > > > > > Thanks Mark, I checked the Windows Firewall and it was off. I > > > dug through it and found where it would be setup to block IMAP > > > and port 143 turned it on and turned on the firewall. No change. > > > Same error - file not found TCP/IP error. > > > > > > Brad > > > > Brad, > > Sorry it wasn't that easy. > > > > I guess I'm a little confused by the instructions above. I presume > > that the first command > > > > telnet 192.168.1.55 143 > > > > Is telnetting from XP to the Linux machine at 192.168.1.55 on port > > 143. If so, then why is the second command using 192.168.1.44? Isn't > > the machine at 55, not 44? > > > > What are the addresses of the two (or three) machines involved? > > > > Anyway, I'm of little or no help here. Just thought I'd pick off an > > easy one. Guess not. > > > > Cheers, > > Mark > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mark, > > I think it's mostly because I'm a poor typest. It should be > 192.168.1.55 for both. First off, I'm going to assume that 192.168.1.55 is the Linux box, right? I say that because you said that "telnetting to 192.168.1.55 143" showed you that dovecot was answering the bell. So, regardless of which machine you entered that command on, obviously 192.168.1.55 is the machine with dovecot on it, and is therefore your IMAP server. Now, I really don't care what IP the XP box has, but you SHOULD set up the XP box to pick up mail using IMAP from the server at 192.168.1.55. You must also make sure that ALL the machines that are going to be participating in the IMAP stuff have port 143 open on their firewalls. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Warning: You are logged into reality as the root user... - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Sun Jun 25 19:20:46 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:20:46 -0700 Subject: Email Help In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0606250754s3947aa86xce8444db8800abd4@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b0606232155r4971d141i44632dbf423f5d3b@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0606241307l639925a2x2cc4b2f288d6a4c3@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0606250754s3947aa86xce8444db8800abd4@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1151263247.3904.97.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 07:54 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 6/24/06, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > > > > One thing I just thought of - are there any NEW settings on the > > server to allow Outlook connect to dovecot - do I have to share a > > drive or something? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brad > > Sorry Brad - I've never even heard of dovecot. It is a Linux program, correct? Dovecot is the FC(345) IMAP and POP3 mail server daemon. It replaces the older c-client (ipop3d, imapd) and UofW (uw-imapd) mail servers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 rstevens at vitalstream.com Sun Jun 25 19:23:41 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:23:41 -0700 Subject: Linux equivalent of Norton Ghost? In-Reply-To: <449D0A62.7020606@sjsears.com> References: <44303.192.168.1.1.1151117677.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <449D0A62.7020606@sjsears.com> Message-ID: <1151263421.3904.101.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 10:48 +0100, Stuart Sears wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > I'd like to create a drive image so when I totally mess things up (or the > > hard drive crashes), I can quickly get a working system again (without > > doing a reinstall and modifying a hundred config files). I THOUGHT NG > > worked with Linux file systems, but it can't seem to find the drive on my > > AMD64 laptop running FC4. What I'd like to do is have something on a > > bootable CD that can create an image of the hard drive(s) on a USB drive > > and restore that image to the hard drive(s). Does such a utility exist? > > absolutely. > > partimage (probably my tool of choice) > www.partimage.org Works well. > > ghost4linux (never used it) > http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l Very good program. > mondorescue (full-on backup and recovery for whole systems) > http://www.modorescue.org Also works. > > g4u (never used that either) > http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ I've not used it, either. > > I am also a huge fan of this: > > systemrescuecd > http://www.sysresccd.org > > which provides a lot of recovery tools (including partimage) on a simple > bootable CD Another one of those is "Recovery Is Possible" (RIP) http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The gene pool could use a little chlorine. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Mon Jun 26 04:40:50 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:40:50 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Fedora Core Five Borked! In-Reply-To: <1151263421.3904.101.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <44303.192.168.1.1.1151117677.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <449D0A62.7020606@sjsears.com> <1151263421.3904.101.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <17134.198.60.114.90.1151296850.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> My FC5 system died. It won't boot. It gets to a line that says: device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com and just hangs. The system has mirrored sata_sil disks, with a couple IDE disks and a DVD/RW drive. Apparently, from my testing and messing around, it's after a nightly yum update that the system quit booting. I reinstalled twice now. The sytem rebooted and worked fine, then I did yum update which updated over 600 packages and the system wouldn't boot the next time I tried to reboot. So, this time I haven't updated it and it's booted several times just fine. I think I'll go ahead and let it update, then not shut it down until a few more updates of things... I did find a google (one hit) that stated something about using devel repos. There's one for fedora, which I've renamed and I suspect that might be my problem, so may do an update without those enabled. So, what's the general concensus, if any, on this issue? TIA, Karl From hq4ever at gmail.com Mon Jun 26 09:07:09 2006 From: hq4ever at gmail.com (Maxim Vexler) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:07:09 +0300 Subject: Linux equivalent of Norton Ghost? In-Reply-To: <1151263421.3904.101.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <44303.192.168.1.1.1151117677.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <449D0A62.7020606@sjsears.com> <1151263421.3904.101.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: On 6/25/06, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 10:48 +0100, Stuart Sears wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > > I'd like to create a drive image so when I totally mess things up (or the > > > hard drive crashes), I can quickly get a working system again (without > > > doing a reinstall and modifying a hundred config files). I THOUGHT NG > > > worked with Linux file systems, but it can't seem to find the drive on my > > > AMD64 laptop running FC4. What I'd like to do is have something on a > > > bootable CD that can create an image of the hard drive(s) on a USB drive > > > and restore that image to the hard drive(s). Does such a utility exist? > > > > absolutely. > > > > partimage (probably my tool of choice) > > www.partimage.org > > Works well. Won't copy boot sector. > > > > > ghost4linux (never used it) > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l > > Very good program. Basically partimage on a bootcd. > > > mondorescue (full-on backup and recovery for whole systems) > > http://www.modorescue.org > > Also works. Never tried it, looks very good. > > > > > g4u (never used that either) > > http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ > > I've not used it, either. > BSD based, simplistic and works great. Uses ftp to store the image file of the hd. > > > > I am also a huge fan of this: > > > > systemrescuecd > > http://www.sysresccd.org > > > > which provides a lot of recovery tools (including partimage) on a simple > > bootable CD > > Another one of those is "Recovery Is Possible" (RIP) > http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ Interesting, thank you for the tip. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - The gene pool could use a little chlorine. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Cheers, Maxim Vexler "Free as in Freedom" - Do u GNU ? From harold at hallikainen.com Mon Jun 26 12:37:04 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 05:37:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Fedora Core Five Borked! In-Reply-To: <17134.198.60.114.90.1151296850.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> References: <44303.192.168.1.1.1151117677.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <449D0A62.7020606@sjsears.com> <1151263421.3904.101.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <17134.198.60.114.90.1151296850.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <1106.192.168.1.1.1151325424.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> > My FC5 system died. It won't boot. It gets to a line that says: > > device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com > > and just hangs. The system has mirrored sata_sil disks, with a couple IDE > disks and a DVD/RW drive. > > Apparently, from my testing and messing around, it's after a nightly yum > update that the system quit booting. I reinstalled twice now. The sytem > rebooted and worked fine, then I did > > yum update > > which updated over 600 packages and the system wouldn't boot the next time > I > tried to reboot. So, this time I haven't updated it and it's booted > several > times just fine. I think I'll go ahead and let it update, then not shut it > down until a few more updates of things... I did find a google (one hit) > that > stated something about using devel repos. There's one for fedora, which > I've > renamed and I suspect that might be my problem, so may do an update > without > those enabled. > > So, what's the general concensus, if any, on this issue? > > TIA, > > Karl I earlier posted a question asking about a Linux equivalent of Norton Ghost (thanks for the responses!). Instead of patiently waiting for responses and saving an image of the hard drive in my laptop, I went ahead and tried an FC5 update. After the install, it complained about some PCI problem (I had problems like this previously with kernel updates) and it would not run the X server. I could not "update" back to FC4, so I'm now doing a fresh install. So... guess it doesn't work with everything! This is an HP Athalon laptop. Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com - Advertising opportunities available! From micros50 at computer.net Mon Jun 26 15:48:07 2006 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:48:07 -0400 Subject: Installation problem on notebook Dell Inspiron E1505/6400, Can not create partition and not able to boor through bootable DVD In-Reply-To: <20060619140556.80020.qmail@web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060619140556.80020.qmail@web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1151336886.5116.5.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 10:05, Aubrey Barnard wrote: > > On 6/17/06, mylar wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 03:55, Sadashiv Kulthe wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I want to install Linux on my laptop and I am facing following > > problem > > > > while installing. > > > > > > > > Aftet refering to other side and by experince of others experince I > > > > have downloaded Linux to install. > > > > > > > > I have Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 laptop. > > > > > > > > Problems are - > > > > 1. How can I new partition / Resize partition/ or create free > > spance. > > > > It have single C: Partition by Dell. 70 GB HD space is available to > > > > use. It uses one hidden partition so I can create new partition > > using > > > > Partition magic. I downloaded Evaluation verstion of Partition magic > > > > which allow me to create partition but not resize parition. > > > > > > > > > > I am about to fact this same situation. I am going to be installing > > > Fedora on a Dell Inspiron notebook as well and I want to repartition > > the > > > drive and make it a dual boot. Anyone know if there are any free open > > > source alternatives to "partition magic" ? > > > > > > mylar > > > > > > > I used the knoppix cd which includes the program qtparted. I booted > > off the knoppix cd ran the qtparted program, resized the windows > > partition. qtparted is a nice front end program. > > > > -- > > Ted Potter > > tpotter at techmarin.com > > You could try something like a Linux live CD with GParted. AFAIK, it is a > bootable CD with a Linux distro on it geared towards editing partitions. > Go here for more information: http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=03517#0 > > Cheers, > Aubrey > Okay, I wound up using the "qparted" program from the Knoppix distro. I just started the system up on Knoppix, run qparted, created and adjusted/resized the partitions, installed Fedora Core 5 and it was done. No damage to the Windows XP installation. Now the laptop runs both Win XP and Fedora 5. mylar From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 26 16:50:35 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:50:35 -0700 Subject: Fedora Core Five Borked! In-Reply-To: <17134.198.60.114.90.1151296850.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> References: <44303.192.168.1.1.1151117677.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <449D0A62.7020606@sjsears.com> <1151263421.3904.101.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <17134.198.60.114.90.1151296850.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <1151340635.3904.112.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 22:40 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > My FC5 system died. It won't boot. It gets to a line that says: > > device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com > > and just hangs. The system has mirrored sata_sil disks, with a couple IDE > disks and a DVD/RW drive. > > Apparently, from my testing and messing around, it's after a nightly yum > update that the system quit booting. I reinstalled twice now. The sytem > rebooted and worked fine, then I did > > yum update > > which updated over 600 packages and the system wouldn't boot the next time I > tried to reboot. So, this time I haven't updated it and it's booted several > times just fine. I think I'll go ahead and let it update, then not shut it > down until a few more updates of things... I did find a google (one hit) that > stated something about using devel repos. There's one for fedora, which I've > renamed and I suspect that might be my problem, so may do an update without > those enabled. > > So, what's the general concensus, if any, on this issue? Did you try reverting the kernel back to something earlier? There have been some issues with udev and later 2.6.16 kernels on some hardware. Check the archives on the fedora-list. I can do some research if you can give me the hardware info. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - It is better to have loved and lost. Cheaper, too! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 26 16:54:39 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:54:39 -0700 Subject: Fedora Core Five Borked! In-Reply-To: <1106.192.168.1.1.1151325424.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <44303.192.168.1.1.1151117677.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <449D0A62.7020606@sjsears.com> <1151263421.3904.101.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <17134.198.60.114.90.1151296850.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <1106.192.168.1.1.1151325424.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <1151340879.3904.117.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 05:37 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > My FC5 system died. It won't boot. It gets to a line that says: > > > > device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com > > > > and just hangs. The system has mirrored sata_sil disks, with a couple IDE > > disks and a DVD/RW drive. > > > > Apparently, from my testing and messing around, it's after a nightly yum > > update that the system quit booting. I reinstalled twice now. The sytem > > rebooted and worked fine, then I did > > > > yum update > > > > which updated over 600 packages and the system wouldn't boot the next time > > I > > tried to reboot. So, this time I haven't updated it and it's booted > > several > > times just fine. I think I'll go ahead and let it update, then not shut it > > down until a few more updates of things... I did find a google (one hit) > > that > > stated something about using devel repos. There's one for fedora, which > > I've > > renamed and I suspect that might be my problem, so may do an update > > without > > those enabled. > > > > So, what's the general concensus, if any, on this issue? > > > > TIA, > > > > Karl > > > I earlier posted a question asking about a Linux equivalent of Norton > Ghost (thanks for the responses!). Instead of patiently waiting for > responses and saving an image of the hard drive in my laptop, I went ahead > and tried an FC5 update. After the install, it complained about some PCI > problem (I had problems like this previously with kernel updates) and it > would not run the X server. I could not "update" back to FC4, so I'm now > doing a fresh install. So... guess it doesn't work with everything! This > is an HP Athalon laptop. I might be able to help here. I have an HP ZV6116US Athlon-64 laptop. The "can't reserve PCI blah" stuff is innocuous...don't worry about it. As to your X problem, it's most likely the nVidia driver. Make sure you install the livna nVidia driver. If you use the livna fglrx driver for x86_64, note that it is borked, but X will run without GL acceleration despite the message that's generated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - LOOK OUT!!! BEHIND YOU!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From harold at hallikainen.com Mon Jun 26 17:21:04 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:21:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Fedora Core Five Borked! In-Reply-To: <1151340879.3904.117.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <44303.192.168.1.1.1151117677.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <449D0A62.7020606@sjsears.com> <1151263421.3904.101.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <17134.198.60.114.90.1151296850.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <1106.192.168.1.1.1151325424.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1151340879.3904.117.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <32112.207.177.227.29.1151342464.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 05:37 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> > My FC5 system died. It won't boot. It gets to a line that says: >> > >> > device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: >> dm-devel at redhat.com >> > >> > and just hangs. The system has mirrored sata_sil disks, with a couple >> IDE >> > disks and a DVD/RW drive. >> > >> > Apparently, from my testing and messing around, it's after a nightly >> yum >> > update that the system quit booting. I reinstalled twice now. The >> sytem >> > rebooted and worked fine, then I did >> > >> > yum update >> > >> > which updated over 600 packages and the system wouldn't boot the next >> time >> > I >> > tried to reboot. So, this time I haven't updated it and it's booted >> > several >> > times just fine. I think I'll go ahead and let it update, then not >> shut it >> > down until a few more updates of things... I did find a google (one >> hit) >> > that >> > stated something about using devel repos. There's one for fedora, >> which >> > I've >> > renamed and I suspect that might be my problem, so may do an update >> > without >> > those enabled. >> > >> > So, what's the general concensus, if any, on this issue? >> > >> > TIA, >> > >> > Karl >> >> >> I earlier posted a question asking about a Linux equivalent of Norton >> Ghost (thanks for the responses!). Instead of patiently waiting for >> responses and saving an image of the hard drive in my laptop, I went >> ahead >> and tried an FC5 update. After the install, it complained about some PCI >> problem (I had problems like this previously with kernel updates) and it >> would not run the X server. I could not "update" back to FC4, so I'm now >> doing a fresh install. So... guess it doesn't work with everything! This >> is an HP Athalon laptop. > > I might be able to help here. I have an HP ZV6116US Athlon-64 laptop. > The "can't reserve PCI blah" stuff is innocuous...don't worry about it. > As to your X problem, it's most likely the nVidia driver. Make sure you > install the livna nVidia driver. If you use the livna fglrx driver for > x86_64, note that it is borked, but X will run without GL acceleration > despite the message that's generated. > Thanks Rick! When the "can't reserve PCI" stuff first started showing up (after an FC4 kernel update), my wireless ndiswrapper stuff stopped working. I went back to a previous version of the kernel and the errors went away and the wireless started working. On video, I've been able to use the ATI driver. The machine is something in the ZV6000 series (they don't put the full model number on the case), but I'll have to look at the exact model when I get home. Do you have FC5 working on your machine (including wireless)? THANKS! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com - Advertising opportunities available! From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 26 17:36:56 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:36:56 -0700 Subject: Fedora Core Five Borked! In-Reply-To: <32112.207.177.227.29.1151342464.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <44303.192.168.1.1.1151117677.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <449D0A62.7020606@sjsears.com> <1151263421.3904.101.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <17134.198.60.114.90.1151296850.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <1106.192.168.1.1.1151325424.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1151340879.3904.117.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <32112.207.177.227.29.1151342464.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <1151343416.3904.135.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 10:21 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 05:37 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > >> > My FC5 system died. It won't boot. It gets to a line that says: > >> > > >> > device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: > >> dm-devel at redhat.com > >> > > >> > and just hangs. The system has mirrored sata_sil disks, with a couple > >> IDE > >> > disks and a DVD/RW drive. > >> > > >> > Apparently, from my testing and messing around, it's after a nightly > >> yum > >> > update that the system quit booting. I reinstalled twice now. The > >> sytem > >> > rebooted and worked fine, then I did > >> > > >> > yum update > >> > > >> > which updated over 600 packages and the system wouldn't boot the next > >> time > >> > I > >> > tried to reboot. So, this time I haven't updated it and it's booted > >> > several > >> > times just fine. I think I'll go ahead and let it update, then not > >> shut it > >> > down until a few more updates of things... I did find a google (one > >> hit) > >> > that > >> > stated something about using devel repos. There's one for fedora, > >> which > >> > I've > >> > renamed and I suspect that might be my problem, so may do an update > >> > without > >> > those enabled. > >> > > >> > So, what's the general concensus, if any, on this issue? > >> > > >> > TIA, > >> > > >> > Karl > >> > >> > >> I earlier posted a question asking about a Linux equivalent of Norton > >> Ghost (thanks for the responses!). Instead of patiently waiting for > >> responses and saving an image of the hard drive in my laptop, I went > >> ahead > >> and tried an FC5 update. After the install, it complained about some PCI > >> problem (I had problems like this previously with kernel updates) and it > >> would not run the X server. I could not "update" back to FC4, so I'm now > >> doing a fresh install. So... guess it doesn't work with everything! This > >> is an HP Athalon laptop. > > > > I might be able to help here. I have an HP ZV6116US Athlon-64 laptop. > > The "can't reserve PCI blah" stuff is innocuous...don't worry about it. > > As to your X problem, it's most likely the nVidia driver. Make sure you > > install the livna nVidia driver. If you use the livna fglrx driver for > > x86_64, note that it is borked, but X will run without GL acceleration > > despite the message that's generated. > > > > Thanks Rick! When the "can't reserve PCI" stuff first started showing up > (after an FC4 kernel update), my wireless ndiswrapper stuff stopped > working. I went back to a previous version of the kernel and the errors > went away and the wireless started working. On video, I've been able to > use the ATI driver. The machine is something in the ZV6000 series (they > don't put the full model number on the case), but I'll have to look at the > exact model when I get home. Do you have FC5 working on your machine > (including wireless)? Oh, gawd, right, it's the ATI chipset...NOT the nVidia. My mistake. I also have a normal Athlon machine with nVidia and I got confused. The fglrx stuff still holds true on X86_64. As far as the wifi is concerned, I use ndiswrapper--not the bc43xx driver. In my experience, the bc43xx driver has major issues with WEP/WPL and managed networks. I don't think it's quite "ready for prime time". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "I'd explain it to you, but your brain might explode." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jvierine at gmail.com Mon Jun 26 22:50:50 2006 From: jvierine at gmail.com (Juha Vierinen) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:50:50 +0300 Subject: RHEL 4 PPC install problem Message-ID: I am hoping to install Red Hat Application Server v. 2 (AS v. 4 for ppc) on a apple powermac dual ppc970 2.0GHz. The checksum for the DVD is valid, but I cannot get it to boot. The iso doesn't even seem to be valid, atleast I cannot mount it. Here is the link: https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/channels/downloads.pxt?cid=4042 I have been able to install Fedora Code 5 on the machine. Even after having to manually reconfigure the bootloader, I was pleasently surprised of how well it seemed to work, after fighting with some other PPC distros. But this isn't enough yet. I would like to get RHEL4 working, because it is required by XL Fortran 10.1. (I have also been able to install XL Fortran on fedora, but it is not fully functional.) Can anybody tell me if there even exists a PPC RHEL4, and what are the chances of getting it running on a powermac. On the other hand, if somebody knows how to get XL Fortran 10.1 running smoothly on eg. Fedora, I will just consider the price I paid for RHEL as a contribution to Linux devolopment... juha From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 26 23:05:52 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:05:52 -0700 Subject: RHEL 4 PPC install problem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1151363152.3904.162.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 01:50 +0300, Juha Vierinen wrote: > I am hoping to install Red Hat Application Server v. 2 (AS v. 4 for > ppc) on a apple powermac dual ppc970 2.0GHz. The checksum for the DVD > is valid, but I cannot get it to boot. The iso doesn't even seem to be > valid, atleast I cannot mount it. Here is the link: > > https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/channels/downloads.pxt?cid=4042 > > I have been able to install Fedora Code 5 on the machine. Even after > having to manually reconfigure the bootloader, I was pleasently > surprised of how well it seemed to work, after fighting with some > other PPC distros. But this isn't enough yet. I would like to get > RHEL4 working, because it is required by XL Fortran 10.1. (I have also > been able to install XL Fortran on fedora, but it is not fully > functional.) > > Can anybody tell me if there even exists a PPC RHEL4, and what are the > chances of getting it running on a powermac. On the other hand, if > somebody knows how to get XL Fortran 10.1 running smoothly on eg. > Fedora, I will just consider the price I paid for RHEL as a > contribution to Linux devolopment... When you say the "checksum for the DVD is valid", do you really mean the MD5SUM for the DVD .iso image is valid? Assuming that's correct, did you burn the AS4 DVD in the same manner as you burned the FC5 DVD? If you're unsure, try mounting the AS4 DVD in a Linux machine and see if you see a bunch of files on it or just one. If you see just one, you didn't burn the DVD correctly. On a Linux box, the best way to burn the DVD is: # growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=/path/to/dvd-image.iso as the root user, of course. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 jvierine at gmail.com Mon Jun 26 23:38:24 2006 From: jvierine at gmail.com (Juha Vierinen) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:38:24 +0300 Subject: RHEL 4 PPC install problem In-Reply-To: <1151363152.3904.162.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <1151363152.3904.162.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: The md5sum was correct. Now that I tried mounting the image with linux, it seems ok. It was just OS X that complained about it. mount -o loop -t iso9660 RHEL4-RHAPS2-ppc.iso redhell Now I am a bit stumped. Why would the free Fedora 4 and 5 boot on powermac, but the commercial version not? Is support for powermac somehow intentionally dropped from RHEL4 PPC? juha On 6/27/06, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 01:50 +0300, Juha Vierinen wrote: > > I am hoping to install Red Hat Application Server v. 2 (AS v. 4 for > > ppc) on a apple powermac dual ppc970 2.0GHz. The checksum for the DVD > > is valid, but I cannot get it to boot. The iso doesn't even seem to be > > valid, atleast I cannot mount it. Here is the link: > > > > https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/channels/downloads.pxt?cid=4042 > > > > I have been able to install Fedora Code 5 on the machine. Even after > > having to manually reconfigure the bootloader, I was pleasently > > surprised of how well it seemed to work, after fighting with some > > other PPC distros. But this isn't enough yet. I would like to get > > RHEL4 working, because it is required by XL Fortran 10.1. (I have also > > been able to install XL Fortran on fedora, but it is not fully > > functional.) > > > > Can anybody tell me if there even exists a PPC RHEL4, and what are the > > chances of getting it running on a powermac. On the other hand, if > > somebody knows how to get XL Fortran 10.1 running smoothly on eg. > > Fedora, I will just consider the price I paid for RHEL as a > > contribution to Linux devolopment... > > When you say the "checksum for the DVD is valid", do you really mean the > MD5SUM for the DVD .iso image is valid? Assuming that's correct, did > you burn the AS4 DVD in the same manner as you burned the FC5 DVD? If > you're unsure, try mounting the AS4 DVD in a Linux machine and see if > you see a bunch of files on it or just one. If you see just one, you > didn't burn the DVD correctly. On a Linux box, the best way to burn > the DVD is: > > # growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=/path/to/dvd-image.iso > > as the root user, of course. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - 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. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Tue Jun 27 00:08:18 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:08:18 -0700 Subject: RHEL 4 PPC install problem In-Reply-To: References: <1151363152.3904.162.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <1151366898.3904.170.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 02:38 +0300, Juha Vierinen wrote: > The md5sum was correct. Again, on the ISO image or the DVD itself? > Now that I tried mounting the image with > linux, it seems ok. It was just OS X that complained about it. > > mount -o loop -t iso9660 RHEL4-RHAPS2-ppc.iso redhell > > Now I am a bit stumped. Why would the free Fedora 4 and 5 boot on > powermac, but the commercial version not? Is support for powermac > somehow intentionally dropped from RHEL4 PPC? Just where did you get this image? As near as I can see, Red Hat doesn't mention Apple or PowerPC anywhere in their docs for either RHEL3 or 4. I don't have any PPC-based machines so I don't have access to their download site for PPC (if any). I also don't see any PPC-based ISOs from CentOS, either. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 jvierine at gmail.com Tue Jun 27 00:53:14 2006 From: jvierine at gmail.com (Juha Vierinen) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:53:14 +0300 Subject: RHEL 4 PPC install problem In-Reply-To: <1151366898.3904.170.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <1151363152.3904.162.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1151366898.3904.170.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: > Again, on the ISO image or the DVD itself? On the ISO image. I just burned a new DVD and the md5sum is using md5sum /dev/dvd is not correct, but I'm not sure if that is how you do a checksum for a DVD. Oh well. I'll try it anyway tomorrow. Why is it always that the software that you pay for never works :) > Just where did you get this image? As near as I can see, Red Hat > doesn't mention Apple or PowerPC anywhere in their docs for either RHEL3 > or 4. I don't have any PPC-based machines so I don't have access to > their download site for PPC (if any). I also don't see any PPC-based > ISOs from CentOS, either. I found it at the link I had in my previous e-mail. I also assumed, possibly falsely, that fedora ~ rhel. Because fedora worked, then there would be a working rhel. https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/channels/downloads.pxt?cid=4042 juha From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Tue Jun 27 04:30:57 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:30:57 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Fedora Core Five Borked! In-Reply-To: <1151340635.3904.112.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <44303.192.168.1.1.1151117677.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <449D0A62.7020606@sjsears.com> <1151263421.3904.101.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <17134.198.60.114.90.1151296850.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <1151340635.3904.112.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <24041.198.60.114.90.1151382657.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> On Mon, June 26, 2006 10:50 am, Rick Stevens said: > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 22:40 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >> My FC5 system died. It won't boot. It gets to a line that says: >> >> device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com >> >> and just hangs. The system has mirrored sata_sil disks, with a couple IDE >> disks and a DVD/RW drive. >> >> Apparently, from my testing and messing around, it's after a nightly yum >> update that the system quit booting. I reinstalled twice now. The sytem >> rebooted and worked fine, then I did >> >> yum update >> >> which updated over 600 packages and the system wouldn't boot the next time I >> tried to reboot. So, this time I haven't updated it and it's booted several >> times just fine. I think I'll go ahead and let it update, then not shut it >> down until a few more updates of things... I did find a google (one hit) >> that >> stated something about using devel repos. There's one for fedora, which I've >> renamed and I suspect that might be my problem, so may do an update without >> those enabled. >> >> So, what's the general concensus, if any, on this issue? > > Did you try reverting the kernel back to something earlier? There have > been some issues with udev and later 2.6.16 kernels on some hardware. > Check the archives on the fedora-list. I can do some research if you > can give me the hardware info. I've reverted and can get in. I made the original kernel the default so I don't have to pay so close attention when it boots. I am on an A7N8X-E Asus _Deluxe_ Motherboard. I wish it came with Adaptec SATA Mirroring rather than sata_sil (3112A, IIRC). Adaptec comes with a nice Java HTTP manager, but it messes system performance if you leave it running. I guess I ought to go take a look at the fedora lists... Hmmm. Karl From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 27 16:41:54 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:41:54 -0700 Subject: RHEL 4 PPC install problem In-Reply-To: References: <1151363152.3904.162.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1151366898.3904.170.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <1151426514.3904.175.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 03:53 +0300, Juha Vierinen wrote: > > Again, on the ISO image or the DVD itself? > > On the ISO image. I just burned a new DVD and the md5sum is using > md5sum /dev/dvd is not correct, but I'm not sure if that is how you do > a checksum for a DVD. Oh well. I'll try it anyway tomorrow. Why is it > always that the software that you pay for never works :) > > > Just where did you get this image? As near as I can see, Red Hat > > doesn't mention Apple or PowerPC anywhere in their docs for either RHEL3 > > or 4. I don't have any PPC-based machines so I don't have access to > > their download site for PPC (if any). I also don't see any PPC-based > > ISOs from CentOS, either. > > I found it at the link I had in my previous e-mail. I also assumed, > possibly falsely, that fedora ~ rhel. Because fedora worked, then > there would be a working rhel. Ah, well, Fedora is the "bleeding edge" of RHEL. It's the "farm team". Fedoraites are essentially guinea pigs. If it gets stable for a period of time, it becomes RHEL. For example, RHEL4 is based on Fedora Core 3. > https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/channels/downloads.pxt?cid=4042 Ok, I'll try that link and see if I end up with the same situation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 27 17:27:20 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:27:20 -0700 Subject: Fedora Core Five Borked! In-Reply-To: <24041.198.60.114.90.1151382657.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> References: <44303.192.168.1.1.1151117677.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <449D0A62.7020606@sjsears.com> <1151263421.3904.101.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <17134.198.60.114.90.1151296850.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <1151340635.3904.112.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <24041.198.60.114.90.1151382657.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <1151429240.3904.190.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 22:30 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > On Mon, June 26, 2006 10:50 am, Rick Stevens said: > > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 22:40 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > >> My FC5 system died. It won't boot. It gets to a line that says: > >> > >> device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com > >> > >> and just hangs. The system has mirrored sata_sil disks, with a couple IDE > >> disks and a DVD/RW drive. > >> > >> Apparently, from my testing and messing around, it's after a nightly yum > >> update that the system quit booting. I reinstalled twice now. The sytem > >> rebooted and worked fine, then I did > >> > >> yum update > >> > >> which updated over 600 packages and the system wouldn't boot the next time I > >> tried to reboot. So, this time I haven't updated it and it's booted several > >> times just fine. I think I'll go ahead and let it update, then not shut it > >> down until a few more updates of things... I did find a google (one hit) > >> that > >> stated something about using devel repos. There's one for fedora, which I've > >> renamed and I suspect that might be my problem, so may do an update without > >> those enabled. > >> > >> So, what's the general concensus, if any, on this issue? > > > > Did you try reverting the kernel back to something earlier? There have > > been some issues with udev and later 2.6.16 kernels on some hardware. > > Check the archives on the fedora-list. I can do some research if you > > can give me the hardware info. > > I've reverted and can get in. I made the original kernel the default so I > don't have to pay so close attention when it boots. > > I am on an A7N8X-E Asus _Deluxe_ Motherboard. I wish it came with Adaptec SATA > Mirroring rather than sata_sil (3112A, IIRC). Adaptec comes with a nice Java > HTTP manager, but it messes system performance if you leave it running. Hmmm. Well, since the older kernel came up, it's either a udev issue or something specific to that driver, and my vote goes with udev. > I guess I ought to go take a look at the fedora lists... Hmmm. Yeah. I can't recall the specifics (a LOT of messages go sailing by in that list) but there were several threads in there about udev on some of the newer kernels. You might also have a wander through bugzilla about it. There may be an entry for it in there as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Tue Jun 27 17:56:36 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:56:36 -0700 Subject: RHEL 4 PPC install problem In-Reply-To: <1151426514.3904.175.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <1151363152.3904.162.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1151366898.3904.170.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1151426514.3904.175.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <1151430996.3904.206.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 09:41 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 03:53 +0300, Juha Vierinen wrote: > > > Again, on the ISO image or the DVD itself? > > > > On the ISO image. I just burned a new DVD and the md5sum is using > > md5sum /dev/dvd is not correct, but I'm not sure if that is how you do > > a checksum for a DVD. Oh well. I'll try it anyway tomorrow. Why is it > > always that the software that you pay for never works :) > > > > > Just where did you get this image? As near as I can see, Red Hat > > > doesn't mention Apple or PowerPC anywhere in their docs for either RHEL3 > > > or 4. I don't have any PPC-based machines so I don't have access to > > > their download site for PPC (if any). I also don't see any PPC-based > > > ISOs from CentOS, either. > > > > I found it at the link I had in my previous e-mail. I also assumed, > > possibly falsely, that fedora ~ rhel. Because fedora worked, then > > there would be a working rhel. > > Ah, well, Fedora is the "bleeding edge" of RHEL. It's the "farm team". > Fedoraites are essentially guinea pigs. If it gets stable for a period > of time, it becomes RHEL. For example, RHEL4 is based on Fedora Core 3. > > > https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/channels/downloads.pxt?cid=4042 > > Ok, I'll try that link and see if I end up with the same situation. I've downloaded it and burned a DVD. I'll try it when I get home tonight as my only available PPC is a Mac Mini at home. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Life: That which happens while you search for the remote control. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jason388600 at yahoo.ca Tue Jun 27 18:10:53 2006 From: jason388600 at yahoo.ca (jason zeng) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:10:53 -0400 (EDT) Subject: install Fedora Core 3 --- sata problem Message-ID: <20060627181053.9683.qmail@web50212.mail.yahoo.com> Hello, I install FC3 and encounted problem. the system prompt that: No hard drives have been found. You probably need to manually choose device drivers for the installation to succeed. I click "Yes" and try many SATA drivers on FC3 CD disc 1 but failed.when I make partition, automatically or manually , prompt:An error has occured -- No valid devices were found on which to create new file systems. please chech your hardwere for the cause of this problem. Then reboot. The mainboard is Asus P5LD2-VM, Cpu: Intel Pentium D, Memory : DDR2 1Gbytes, Netcard:Intel Gigabit LAN controller, VGA:Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, Storage:Intel ICH7 southBridge support: 1 Ultra DMA 100/66/33,4 Serial ATA 3Gb/s ports, ITE IDE controller support: 1 Ultra DMA 133/100 The Bios configuration: Third IDE Master:[WD1600JS-08MHB] Device: Hard Disk Vendor:WDC WD1600JS-08MHB0 Size:160.0Gbytes LBA Mode:Supported Block Mode: 16 sectors PIO Mode:4 Asu\ync DMA:Multiword DMA-2 Ultra DMA: Ultra DMA-6 SMART Monitoring: Supported Type:[Auto] LBA/Large Mode [Auto] Block (Multi-sector Tanster) M [Auto] 32 Bit Data Transfer [Enable] IDE Configuration: Configure SATA as [Standard IDE] Onboard IDE Operator Mode: [Enhanced Mode] Enhanced M From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 27 18:18:05 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:18:05 -0700 Subject: install Fedora Core 3 --- sata problem In-Reply-To: <20060627181053.9683.qmail@web50212.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060627181053.9683.qmail@web50212.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1151432285.3904.218.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 14:10 -0400, jason zeng wrote: > Hello, > I install FC3 and encounted problem. the system prompt that: No hard > drives have been found. You probably need to manually choose device > drivers for the installation to succeed. > > I click "Yes" and try many SATA drivers on FC3 CD disc 1 but > failed.when I make partition, automatically or manually , prompt:An > error has occured -- No valid devices were found on which to create > new file systems. please chech your hardwere for the cause of this > problem. Then reboot. FC3 has VERY limited SATA support. I'd suggest you try FC4 or FC5. The SATA is much more robust in those. > The mainboard is Asus P5LD2-VM, > Cpu: Intel Pentium D, > Memory : DDR2 1Gbytes, > Netcard:Intel Gigabit LAN controller, > VGA:Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, > Storage:Intel ICH7 southBridge support: 1 Ultra DMA 100/66/33,4 Serial > ATA 3Gb/s ports, ITE IDE controller support: 1 Ultra DMA 133/100 Yeah, I suspect that's where the problem lies. FC3 really only handles the Promise SATA controller. I'm pretty sure Intel Southbridge didn't arrive until FC4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From steven.troxel at gmail.com Wed Jun 28 17:02:09 2006 From: steven.troxel at gmail.com (Steven Troxel) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:02:09 -0700 Subject: RHEL 4 Apache Error "undefined symbol apr_table_compress" Message-ID: On a fresh install of RHEL 4 Apache was working fine. All conf files were untouched. After running up2date, Apache stopped working. For each attempted access from a browser there is an entry in the error_log file: /usr/sbin/httpd: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/httpd: undefined symbol: apr_table_compress Interestingly I can access the httpd server using telnet such as telnet $ip_number 80 GET / and this works and returns the index.html page. All configuration files are default. Any ideas? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aubreys_key at yahoo.com Wed Jun 28 17:46:39 2006 From: aubreys_key at yahoo.com (Aubrey Barnard) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:46:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: RHEL 4 PPC install problem In-Reply-To: <20060627160026.6FF1F736EE@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <20060628174639.78635.qmail@web36501.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > > From: "Juha Vierinen" > To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" > > Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:53:14 +0300 > Subject: Re: RHEL 4 PPC install problem > > > Again, on the ISO image or the DVD itself? > > On the ISO image. I just burned a new DVD and the md5sum is using > md5sum /dev/dvd is not correct, but I'm not sure if that is how you do > a checksum for a DVD. Oh well. I'll try it anyway tomorrow. Why is it > always that the software that you pay for never works :) > > > Just where did you get this image? As near as I can see, Red Hat > > doesn't mention Apple or PowerPC anywhere in their docs for either > RHEL3 > > or 4. I don't have any PPC-based machines so I don't have access to > > their download site for PPC (if any). I also don't see any PPC-based > > ISOs from CentOS, either. > > I found it at the link I had in my previous e-mail. I also assumed, > possibly falsely, that fedora ~ rhel. Because fedora worked, then > there would be a working rhel. > > https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/channels/downloads.pxt?cid=4042 > > juha Keep in mind that Fedora is a test bed for what is eventually incorporated into RedHat. That is, what is available from Fedora is a superset (in some sense) of what is available from RedHat. Therefore, if Fedora supports PPC nicely, it is probable that RedHat will eventually support it, but you'd have to ask them about when it would be available. IIRC, PPC support is relatively new to Fedora, and so I wouldn't be surprised if RedHat doesn't support PPC yet. As for your Fortran, perhaps you can tweak it to run on Fedora with full functionality? Aubrey __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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