Linux-Misc Digest #458, Volume #19 Sun, 14 Mar 99 19:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Public license question (Ray Auchterlounie)
latex2html problems (Bruno Barberi Gnecco)
Error seeking /dev/kmem, Redhat 5.2 kernel 2.2.3 on Hitachi Visionbook Pro (Tiger)
burning audio cd's (Justin MIller)
Re: pppd as root only ! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Where r u eth0!! (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Bash and setuid (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Help me, Linux is dying on me!! ("Karl Bengtsson")
Re: More bad news for NT (Arthur Corliss)
Re: Help me, Linux is dying on me!! ("Karl Bengtsson")
Where does file mail.local come from ("jack")
Re: The Almost Free Linux Project (Chris Wolfe)
Re: bash and ldd: no such file or directory ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: burning audio cd's ("Jan Johansson")
Re: critical hard disk error!? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: setting linux up to use different IRQ for my modem? (Colin)
8 GB Barrier (Andrew Alsin)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray Auchterlounie)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Public license question
Date: 14 Mar 1999 22:41:28 -0000
David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> A plugin adds functionality to an existing program by
>extending it. The existing program's functionality gets changed.
>This is icing to a cake: it does change the cake, becoming an
>inseparable component of a whole derived work.
[...]
This is partly true, however the cake and the icing are independent
works prior to the user assembling them, and in fact, many people will
separate icing and cake and eat only one or the other.
RMS the baker is selling cakes with a condition of sale which states
that the icing must follow certain rules. He is then claiming that
anyone selling any icing (or even icing sugar with instructions on how
to ice a cake) must follow his rules. He claims that independent
creation and even temporal ordering are irrelevant to the existence of
derived works, so that someone who has never seen an RMS cake, and who
was selling icing before RMS was selling cakes, must nevertheless
follow the RMS cake rules.
Dynamic linking further complicates things - in this case the icing is
never placed on the cake, the consumer simply eats the cake and icing
separately. RMS claims that the rules still apply because a derived
work is still made during the process of digestion.
The counter to this is that the law explicitly excludes modification
etc. during digestion, otherwise you wouldn't be able to eat
anything.
RMS counters that the exclusion in law is out of date, and that the law
simply hasn't caught up with the modern practice of eating icing and
cake separately.
One response (besides the obvious one of pointing out that it seems a
little silly to claim that the law should make eating illegal) is to
point out that the derived work created would also include other
things you've eaten such as meat, veg, cheese etc. - things which RMS
says _do not_ have to follow the cake modification rules.
RMS responds that there is no inconsistency, there is a clear
separation between each dish - the edge of the plate. Mere aggregation
of the plates on the same table does not create derived works, however
splitting the ingredients of a dish accross multiple plates is just an
attempt to get around the license and would be viewed as such in law.
RMS and supporters are almost certainly logical and consistent within
their own experience - unfortunately in the wider world there are
cultures which don't use plates, buffets, sharing of plates between
persons or courses... etc.
To RMS, David Kastrup, etc. it probably appears perfectly logical and
consistent to claim that icing (even when independently created and
distributed) is a derived work of cake, but cheese is not - because
they put icing on cake, not cheese. However, to the natives of the
area where I am now (Yorkshire, England) this would seem totally
illogical and inconsistent, why ? - because here they eat cheese on
cake, not icing. [ no I don't know why - it's just the way it is round
here and has been for a lot of years ].
The problem (as is so often the case in life) is that neither side's
argument is wrong as such - they are just working from different
worldviews. Unfortunately, When concepts don't fit into RMS's
worldview, he appears to just view them as attempts to break his
license, rather than alternative ways of eating / programming.
If you are writing monolithic C programs on Unix, then it makes
perfect sense that it is OK (per the GPL) to, say, run a proprietary
compiler from within Emacs, but not OK to dynamically load a proprietary
file-conversion library.
To someone, say, writing COM objects on Windows, this makes absolutely
no sense - because the two actions are exactly equivalent.
RMS et al are saying that it is ok to press the green button from a
GPL program, but not the red button. Unfortunately some people don't
have green and red buttons, they have one and it's yellow, and they
want to know if they can press it or not (under the GPL).
The answer is either yes or no (not "green yes red no"). Either way is
potentially bad for the GPL: either it does not "free up" as much code
as RMS thought, or it is difficult (even impossible) to use the GPL
_at all_ for programming in large (and I suspect growing) segments of
the market. To me, the uncertainty is even worse, I believe it may
lead to both of these negative consequences occurring.
ray
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Ray Auchterlounie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: latex2html problems
Date: 14 Mar 1999 11:38:09 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I installed latex2html, but cannot use it. Trying to convert the /examples
returns errors like:
/usr/local/pbm/bin/pnmfile: can't resolve symbol 'jpeg_resync_to_restart'
Image is , x
Running /usr/local/pbm/bin/pnmcrop < image001.ppm | /usr/local/pbm/bin/ppmtogif -trans
'#ffffff' > s2img1.gif
/usr/local/pbm/bin/pnmcrop: can't resolve symbol 'jpeg_resync_to_restart'
ppmtogif: EOF / read error reading magic number
pstoimg: Conversion failed: Illegal seek
Output image is in file: /usr/local/share/latex2html/example/report/l2h3717/s2img1.gif
*** finished child process: #3729
What's the problem? the jpeg library?
Error while converting image: No such file or directory
Did you *REALLY* check that interface between the chair and the keyboard?
Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ #1383173 - PGP 5.0i user
[I'm running Linux] -=-=- Electric Engineering at Politechnic School, USP
http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/1980/ * Check for C, 3D graphics, etc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tiger)
Subject: Error seeking /dev/kmem, Redhat 5.2 kernel 2.2.3 on Hitachi Visionbook Pro
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 22:36:43 GMT
Hello;
Please help me on an boot errors in /var/log/message:
"Error seeking in /dev/kmem"
"Error adding kernel module table entry."
I have Redhat 5.2 on my Hitachi Visionbook Pro (Pentium 233MMz, 80Meg RAM),
with built-in 3COM(USR) modem and LAN card. Problem was that the original
Redhat kernel 2.0.36 could not handle the built-in LAN card properly. I had
to upgraded to newer kernel, now I have kernel version 2.2.3 downloaded,
compiled and seemingly running sucessful, but this "error seeking in
/dev/kmem" puzzles me. Anyone have an idea?
My /dev/kmem looks like follows:
# ls -l /dev/kmem
crw-r----- 1 root kmem 1, 2 Mar 13 18:08 /dev/kmem
And I have tried setting file mode to 660 and 640, that makes no
difference in the boot message log.
===================== attach file /var/log/message =================
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Loaded 7091 symbols from /boot/System.map.
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.2.3.
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Error seeking in /dev/kmem
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Error adding kernel module table entry.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Linux version 2.2.3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc
version 2.7.2.3) #1 Sun Mar 14 00:29:08 PST 1999
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Detected 262398422 Hz processor.
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 522.65 BogoMIPS
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Memory: 79496k/81920k available (944k kernel code, 408k
reserved, 1036k data, 36k init)
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: CPU: Intel Mobile Pentium MMX stepping 01
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16
error reporting.
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdd1f
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:0a
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Starting kswapd v 1.5
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options
enabled
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9)
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: sb: Interrupt test on IRQ7 failed - Probable IRQ
conflict
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: <ESS ES1688 AudioDrive (rev 11) (3.1)> at 0x220 irq 7
dma 1,5
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: <ESS ES1688> at 0x330 irq 7 dma 0
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: PIIX4: not 100ative mode: will probe irqs later
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings:
hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings:
hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: hda: IBM-DADA-24860, ATA DISK drive
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1702B, ATAPI CDROM drive
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: hda: IBM-DADA-24860, 4645MB w/460kB Cache,
CHS=629/240/63, (U)DMA
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.52
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: STRIP: Version 1.3-STUART.CHESHIRE (unlimited channels)
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Partition check:
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 36k freed
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: Adding Swap: 128484k swap-space (priority -1)
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device! Updating
PCI command 0013->0017.
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: eth0: Digital DS21142/3 Tulip at 0xfc00, 00 80 c8 49 48
a1, IRQ 11.
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: eth0: EEPROM default media type Autosense.
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: eth0: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21142
MII PHY (3) block.
Mar 14 08:20:26 mobile kernel: eth0: MII transceiver found at MDIO address 17, config
1100 status 7809.
Mar 14 08:20:28 mobile kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Mar 14 08:20:40 mobile kernel: eth0: 21140 transmit timed out, status f0260000, SIA
000021c6 ffff0001 fffbffff 8ffa0008, resetting...
Mar 14 08:20:40 mobile kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, switching to 100baseTx media.
Mar 14 08:20:42 mobile PAM_pwdb[409]: (login) session opened for user root by (uid=0)
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From: Justin MIller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: burning audio cd's
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 17:44:27 +0000
I am trying to burn an audio cd that consists of several songs mixed
together. The problem is, I cannot get rid of the 2 second gap between
songs. I've been using cdrecord and have tried setting 'defpregap=0' and
'-pregap=0' like the man page says.
Another option would be to make the entire cd one huge .wav file, rather
than the individual tracks, if I can get that .wav listed as several
tracks as I'd rather not have a disk with 1 70 minute track on it, but
that is appearing to be my only option.
If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: pppd as root only !
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 17:28:19 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Len Cuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have set up pppd and can connect to my ISP fine but only as root ! If
> I try as a 'normal' user then I get a permission denied on pppd.
> Cheers,
> Len
>
What I did was ==>chown root /usr/sbin/pppd ,then==>chmod 4775 /usr/sbin/pppd
, then==> cd /home/<username> , then==>su <username> then as a user I can
startx, open an xterm and start up ppp ( ]$ /etc/ppp/ppp-on ). No doubt
theres a more elegant way to do this , but this is what worked for me. Now my
question is how can I give my user account access to the sound card, cd-rom,
and zip drive?
Jon Lindberg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Where r u eth0!!
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:14:04 GMT
Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Running SuSE 6.0 Kern 2.2.3
>Installed suse 6.0 (beautiful distribution) replacing RH5.2 on thinkpad
>770. Compiled/installed kernel 2.2.3 as bzImage and compiled/installed
>pcmcia 3.0.9 modules.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>When booting, error comes up as eth0 is unknown interface (as it flies
>by).
Correct. The module for your NIC hasn't been loaded yet. All the modules
will be loaded later in the process - at the time the network is tested
there is no driver available .
>AFTER that, it does catch the cardmgr and sets up the nic catching
>the mac address and irq etc.There is still no network connectivity yet.
[...]
Of course not. Compile the PCMCIA stuff into the kernel instead.
Michael
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Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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Subject: Re: Bash and setuid
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 Mar 1999 17:15:36 -0500
Len Cuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know how to get this to work ? Even with the setuid bit on,
> it still won't run as root. I know I had the same problem with
> Solaris2.5.1 but there was a workaround with that, add -p (or -B) after
> the #!/bin/sh and it worked fine but bash won't.
> Cheers,
> Len
you can't setuid root a bash script. if you must, make a setuid C
wrapper program which calls the script.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: "Karl Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help me, Linux is dying on me!!
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 17:57:20 GMT
I'm using Redhat 5.0, don't know the kernel version, but I haven't
recompiled it or anything, so I guess it's the standard RH 5.0 one...
I've tried to mount the partition I want to access (D:) when it was FAT32
and it didn't work. Is it possible to download some kind of filesystem
specification so Linux can read it?
The only boot-disk I have is the one I used to install Redhat (created by
running rawrite and joliet.img). However, I can only get to the boot:
prompt using that, and then I don't know what to do.
I think it may be possible that the locations of the partitions on the disk
changed. The reason is that I also had about 40 megs of unused space on the
disk, so in order to utilize that, I moved my primary windows partition
(C:) and then expanded D: a little (after changing cluster size w/
Partition it).
I'm going to keep trying to fix this but if there is absolutely NO way of
doing it, I might as well reformat the linux drive and install again... the
only thing on it were Netscape and TKDesk so far, I had no important data.
Karl
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Corliss)
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 Mar 1999 12:52:27 -0900
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 10:43:23 -0500, Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Arthur Corliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> The UI interface *is* having an impact on the system,
>> primarily in wasted memory, even more so, since much of
>> *can't* be paged outm
>
>The user interface, be it Explorer or whichever UI you choose,
>isn't loaded when no-on is logged on. Given that just about e
>every NT administrative tool, inlcuding User Manager, Server ,
>Manager, WINS Manager, DNS Manager, DHCP Manager, SQL Server's
>Enterprise Manager, the Registry Editor, and Performance v
>Monitor, all allow remote adminstration, even via a dial-up '
>connection, you can easily log on to a machine that isn't being
>used interactively and check which processes are running. bExplorer w
>Explorer won't be one. That's the UI. So it won't be using its
>4.5 MB of memory.
>
>What NT doesn't have is a remote console.i
>
>If you want to criticise NT, first learn about it.b
>
>Harryu
Hell, I have it, and I support it, I think you need to learn more about it
yourself. With no one logged in, Explorer isn't loaded, but the UI, ie., the
logon screen, with all the associated GUI serving, is all ready loaded--only
the user space remains.
Wasted memory, wasted cpu cycles. Now, let's go over the remote thing
again--can you upload new source, compile it, and install it, directly on that
machine? I thought not. How about your bloody service packs? I *know* what
a nuisance that is to apply remotely. It doesn't take much more imagination
to extrapolate from there.
Unix beats NT down for remote administration and control ten times over.
--Arthur Corliss
Bolverk's Lair -- http://www.odinicfoundation.org/arthur/
"Live Free or Die, the Only Way to Live" -- NH State Motto
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From: "Karl Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help me, Linux is dying on me!!
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 18:01:18 GMT
> Press TAB to see what your images are... usually it's 'linux', so...try:
> linux root=/dev/hda3
I've already tried this, and it didn't work. Linux still just keeps trying
to mount hda5 for some reason. But I'll try it again.
> One of them, (probably hda4) is the 'extended partition' in which hda5
and
> higher live in.
OK, thanks for explaining that. I thought that could have something to do
with my problem, but appearently not : (
/Karl
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From: "jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where does file mail.local come from
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 17:34:02 -0500
My sever seems to have stopped accepting mail...I got a bounce message when
I sent a message from another machine and it says that it was unable to exec
/bin/mail.local....I have reinstalled severl of the mail packages hoping
that obne of them would contain the magic file...but have been
unsuccessful...
any help?
Bill
Newsmaster/Postmaster
wickednews.voyeurs.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] < Obviously not working
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From: Chris Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: The Almost Free Linux Project
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 23:16:09 GMT
No way... glue two of them back-to-back, punch a little hole in one
edge, run a sting through, and get nifty Christmas ornaments :)
John Howard wrote:
>
> I write on aol cd's but with big pens to say ' chuck it in the bin '
> No way would I have anything to do with aol Linux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: bash and ldd: no such file or directory
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 22:43:24 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [posted and e-mailed]
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Honnen wrote:
> > I am throughly confused that I am unable to execute a file which is
> > listed with ls, which is found and examined with file but about which
> > both bash and ldd claim that it is not existing while naming it. bash
> > has no problems completing the name/path to the file.
> >
> > bash# /usr/local/src/signtool/signtool
> > bash: /usr/local/src/signtool/signtool: No such file or directory
> > bash# ldd /usr/local/src/signtool/signtool
> > ldd: can't execute /usr/local/src/signtool/signtool (No such file or
> > directory)
> > bash# file /usr/local/src/signtool/signtool
> > /usr/local/src/signtool/signtool: ELF 32-bit LSB executable i386 (386
> > and up) Version 1
> [...]
> > bash# ls -al ./signtool
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 627656 Jun 17 1998 ./signtool
> >
> > Anyone having an idea what could be causing that trouble and how to
> > remedy it. System is slackware with an rather outdated 2.0.something
> > kernel but ELF should be ELF as far as I understand.
>
> [...]
>
> > I am hearing a lot about libc5/glib versions of executables. But should
> > bash/ldd fail with such a no such file/directory message if that
> > signtool is glib linked and my system libc5?
>
> Maybe. glibc (== libc6) is completely separate; it even has its
> own dynamic linker (/lib/ld-linux.so.2).
>
> > Is anyone knowing how I could check the executable for the linked libs
> > besides using ldd?
>
> % strings - /path/to/executable | grep libc
> % strings - /path/to/executable | grep ld-linux
>
> Getting something like "libc.so.6" or "/lib/ld-linux.so.2" is a
> sign of glibc-ness.
I get libc.so.6 and
objdump -x
shows that too. So it looks it's time for me to revamp my os.
> --
> Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
Martin Honnen
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From: "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: burning audio cd's
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 18:54:21 +0100
>I am trying to burn an audio cd that consists of several songs mixed
>together. The problem is, I cannot get rid of the 2 second gap between
>songs. I've been using cdrecord and have tried setting 'defpregap=0' and
>'-pregap=0' like the man page says.
Unless your CD-R unit handles "Disc at once" (few does) this can not be
avoided.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: critical hard disk error!?
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 17:54:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <7cgqkb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Craig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Ok, I've really gotten myself into a mess this time... (And sorry for the
>long post, but I have to go back to work tomorrow with my laptop)
>
> I dual boot my laptop with Win98/RH Linux. Over the weekend I decided I
>would reformat and repartition my hard disk. During my initial installation
>of Linux I used Disk Druid (RH partition utility) and just created a /
>(800MB Linux Native) and Linux swap partition (50MB) which I quickly figured
>out was not enough after adding KDE and some other software.
>
>At this point I used PartitionMagic 3.0 to delete my Linux partitions within
>the extended partition they were in. That left me with a FAT32 partition
>(win98), and extended and another FAT32.
>
>I booted to DOS and did a "format c:" and then installed Win98 thinking that
>I should now have one big 4GB FAT32 partition. Wrong... After installing
>Win98 I installed PartitionMagic again and was going to use it to create my
>Linux partitions. When I opened it, it said "partition table error #113
>found". The detailed explaination says "the hard disk contains erroneous
>values". It doesn't allow me to do ANYTHING to the disk.
>
>In the 'resolving partition table errors' section of PM3.0 manual it says I
>need to delete the partitions using FDISK. When I boot to DOS and run fdisk
>however, it just seems to hang forever. It's like it's working, but never
>comes up (and I've waited for at least an hour).
>
>What can I do now? How do I delete my partition table and start fresh??
Can I ask why you use Partition Magic?
DOS format/fdisk and Linux fdisk/disk druid are
more then enough to set up a dual-boot config.
I would eliminate PM3.0 and stick with
what you need, fewer things to complicate the
issue.
Just wipe your drive clean again. Boot
to DOS and set up your partition for Win95 and
install. Then install Red Hat and use Disk Druid
to create the appropriate partitions for Linux.
This should all work just fine and with
out the aid of Partition Magic... which just
seems to be complicating the issue.
j.
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From: Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: setting linux up to use different IRQ for my modem?
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 13:03:57 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi, i have a old comptuer that i just set up X on and it works great but i
> have run into a bit of a problem. Before i never used a mouse on this
> computer but now that i do it locks up when i use the mouse and modem at the
> same time, simple diagnoses -- irq conflict. That is right i have my mouse
> set for com1 and my modem for com3 (or cua whatever) but the reason being is
> that i appear to have a "dead irq" (this is according to two of my hardware
> guru friends, coms and irqs confuse me to no end) but when i have say my
> mouse on com1 and modem on com2 (or modem on com4) it refuses to work. The
> previously mentioned "hardware friends" suggested that i change the irq
> setting on my modem so i have but now (they are not 'linux friends' ;>) i
> need to set linux up to use com 2 (or whatever) and another irq (whatever
> config so long as they don't conflict). Any help here would be *greatly*
> appricated! (detailed "dummy instructionals" are appricated too since my
> understanding of hardware is somewhat foggy).
Is irq 5 being used? You could probably use that by using the setserial
command.
> PS is there some util that can allow me to see which irqs are being used?
cat /proc/interrupts
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Alsin)
Subject: 8 GB Barrier
Date: 14 Mar 1999 17:54:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a PII/233, w/ a 10 GB IBM Deskstar GP UDMA harddrive. I have
been attempting to install linux on it for quite some time. Everything else
worked perfectly (of course) but LILO kept throwing out errors, because my
hd was not registered on ide0(or the primary controller). Sadly, we bought it
when the PII just came out, so it has the FX chipset and an 8GB barrier(so it
won't detect the deskstar.) To fix this I have tried the following:
1) BIOS update (Gateway has none :( )
2) IBM's proprietary Ontrack Partition Manager, 5 times
3) Checking connections, etc.
It has an "AMIBIOS 1.00.01.DT0T". It worked in W98, but it was recognized
as a 8GB box. I am considering purchasing Ontrack Partition/Disk Manager :( or
even purchasing a new motherboard. When I boot it up into setup I get this:
Primary IDE Master: Not Installed
Secondary IDE Master: Not Installed
And when I go into Primary, auto-configure, etc, still won't recognize it. What
I am looking for is some software that would (enhance?) the bios somehow (IBM's
failed at this task) so that it could recognize (at least 8 GB) the 10 GB.
================================================================
Andrew Alsin
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