Linux-Misc Digest #484, Volume #26 Thu, 7 Dec 00 00:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: updating rpm (Jared)
Re: so where do you get the new realplayer? (David)
Re: Monitor specs? (H Dziardziel)
getting back Gnome Panel (webqueen, queen of the web)
Re: Applixware 5 crashes Red Hat 7 (Christopher Wong)
ATI All-In-Wonder + RH7 (webqueen, queen of the web)
Re: Extracting Files from a Linux Tape on a Broken Linux (Wayne Watson)
Re: Is It Possible to Mount a DOS Partition? (Wayne Watson)
Re: Applixware 5 crashes Red Hat 7 (Robert Lynch)
Re: Disaster recovery info ("D. Stimits")
Re: Is It Possible to Mount a DOS Partition? (Wayne Watson)
MIME File Question (Xar)
Re: help w/ setting an environment var ("D. Stimits")
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From: Jared <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: updating rpm
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:12:44 +1000
What you want to do is edit this file (or the same thing, whever your
distro put it)
/usr/lib/rpm/macros
Find a section that looks like this (you'll probably have 1's or maybe
3's)
#==============================================================================
# ---- Database configuration macros.
# Macros used to configure Berkley db parameters.
#
# Choose db interface:
# 0 same as 1
# 1 native db1 interface (e.g. linux glibc libdb1 routines).
# 2 native db2 interface (not currently implemented, may never
be).
# 3 native db3 interface.
# -1 db3 -> db2 -> db1 (as available).
#
# There are two macros so that --rebuilddb can convert db1 -> db3.
#
%_dbapi 3
%_dbapi_rebuild 3
to rebuild you change %dbapi to 1
then run
rpm --rebuilddb...
then change the %_dbapi to a 3, because thats what format your db will be
in now.
I am not sure if you have to run rpm --rebuild... again, although if
things go a bit crazy, give it a try.
J
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I went through this process a while back. It is kind of a catch 22.
> You could spend a lot of time (like I did) trying to make it work. I
> found that I needed to upgrade to RH7.0 which includes rpm v4.0. I
> upgraded the OS and never looked back.
>
> In article <TiwX5.46988$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Y2J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've updated the rpm 3.0 on my pc with redhat 6.2 with the new 4.0 and
> now
> > programs like kpackage or gnorpm don't work any more, when I try to
> install
> > some rpm packages by typing rpm -i .... I receive the following msg
> from the
> > shell:
> >
> > --> An rpm database in db1 format exists in /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm.
> > Please convert to db3 format by running "rpm --rebuilddb" as root.
> >
> > error: cannot open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> >
> > But even after doing rpm --rebuild...., the error msg just continue.
> How can
> > I solve this problem?
> > thank you in advance
> >
> >
>
>
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>
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: so where do you get the new realplayer?
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 03:16:12 GMT
Douglas Nichols wrote:
>
> So whats the deal? I cannot find realplayer anywhere? Are they pulling
> support?
>
> --
> Douglas Nichols
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H Dziardziel)
Subject: Re: Monitor specs?
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 03:25:53 GMT
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 03:30:14 -0000, Steven Atkinson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a Pentium machine with RedHat 6.1 Installed along side Win 98SE.
>Surprisingly, my Linux installation went very smooth, that is until I
>reached the part where I am supposed to specify my monitor. I scrolled up
>and down the list several times but did not find my particular monitor. I
>picked the option that allowed me to specify my monitor, and then I used
>the lowest settings possible, just to be on the safe side. Linux seems to
>be working fine on my machine, but the image displayed on the screen is
>very craptacular. I would like to go back and change the monitor specs (I
>have found the directions for doing so). The trouble is, I don t know what
>is safe for this monitor. I purchased this monitor about 3 years ago, and
>I cannot figure out what the actual manufacture is. Above the picture
>screen on the case is printed the words EmpVision and Low Radiation.
>The literature that came with it does not mention any manufactures, but in
>one of the pictures in the manual the word Vision Lab is found below the
>picture screen next to the digital controls. Also, GM-710" and GM-710A
>are printed on the front cover of the manual, but do not appear anywhere on
>the monitor. My question is, Will any of these other monitors in the drop
>down list work in place of my monitor, or if I do specify my own settings
>what is safe to use for this monitor. Any advice will be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>--
Try working backwards using the resolutions w98 gives under
the display properties and any refresh rate information from
the advanced properties portion and this excellent site's
frequency resolution tables and general information.
http://ms.ha.md.us/%7Ehawks/hardware/
If there is an FCC number on the monitor this may provide a
lead to the manufacturer:
http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/
There is also a monitor database in the w98 tree, maybe
under windows\inf (in w95 several files there) that you
can search through for the numbers/names you have so far.
Hope this helps.
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From: webqueen, queen of the web <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: getting back Gnome Panel
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 03:18:36 GMT
I installed enlightenment and lost the Gnome menu at the bottom of the
screen. Its called the panel I think? Can someone advise me how to get
it back?
Also, I used the Gnome Menu editor and added items to the User Menu, yet
they don't show up? Is there a trick?
Cheers,
WQ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Wong)
Subject: Re: Applixware 5 crashes Red Hat 7
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 03:38:46 GMT
On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 00:57:00 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>C.Wong> Christopher Wong wrote:
>>> This is most unnerving. I recently installed Applixware Office
>>> 5.0, upgrading from version 4.4.1. I tried the word processor. When
>>> I selected some text and tried changing the font, Red Hat 7 would
>>> crash. Hard. The screen goes blank and the machine would suddenly
>>> and silently (or with a beep) reboot. The file system was not
>>> cleanly unmounted, so an fsck was forced. This has happened several
>>> times, both with XFree86 4.0.1 and 3.3.6 servers.
>
>>> My machine used to run Mandrake 7 before I installed Red Hat 7 over
>>> it, in case that is relevant. At this point, I don't even know
>>> where to begin diagnosing this problem. The syslog is useless,
>>> since the crash is sudden and silent. The only thing I did was to
>>> select text in the word processor and change the font. I believe I
>>> have installed most of Red Hat's fixes, including the latest glibc
>>> 2.2.
>The symptoms seem a whole lot more consistent with there being a
>problem with the X server.
>
>Theorized scenario:
>- ApplixWare makes some request to the X server that tickles a bug;
>- X server then asks for some memory it ought not to;
>- System tumbles on down.
>
>This is _the_ typical way that apps wind up hanging up the system
>_completely_.
>
>The "font change" sounds consistent with this; if the X server has
>some memory aboard for buffering fonts, it would make sense that the
>point in time at which the system would tumble would be when font data
>is being thrown around in video memory.
>
>What kind of video card have you got? If it's a pretty new one, whose
>support under X has not yet matured, that would be further suggestive
>of the theory representing the cause... As for answers/solutions,
>that's yet another step down the road...
Thanks for offering your theories. What I have here is an ATI XPert 98
video card, which has been around for a while. I am running this on a
motherboard with a KT133 chipset and a Duron 700 processor. The tricky
part about blaming the X server is that I have the same problem with 2
different servers (4.0.1 and 3.3.6). To complicate matters further,
another Red Hat 7 system does not exhibit this problem. While I have had
X-related hangs before, this is the first time I have seen a hard reboot
caused by an application. I am beginning to wonder if this is hardware
related.
Chris
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From: webqueen, queen of the web <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI All-In-Wonder + RH7
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 03:44:53 GMT
Finally an O/S release with drivers for this card! I couldn't even find
it in SuSe.
Now that I selected ATI All-in-Wonder drivers, does this mean I can
watch TV now somehow? Does anyone know how to turn on the TV ap?
Cheers,
WQ
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Before you buy.
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From: Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Extracting Files from a Linux Tape on a Broken Linux
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 20:17:09 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, I finally got to try out the mounts that have been suggested, but could not what
I'm supposing is
the DOS
paritions, hda1. I have DOS, NT and Linux on the system I experimented with. I had no
trouble mounting
the
Linux partition(s) with the RH 6.2 rescue disk. I could not execute a DIR command.
mount showed only
that I have mounted a linux partition, cdrom, etc.
Lee Allen wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Dec 2000 17:45:25 -0800, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >I have two computers. One is a 386 with a tape drive, Win 3.1 and a broken Linux.
>Years ago I
> >created a tar file on tape of some Linux files and directories. the partition with
>those files does
> >exist, but neverheless they are on tape. The files are C, perl and txt. On
>another computer, a
> >Pentium 2 machine, I have NT 4.0 and a tape drive, but no Linux. I'd like to
>extract the files from
> >the tape on the Win NT 4.0 machine and put them on that machine. Does anyone know
>of a program that
> >might do this for me? I actually wrote a C program that would do something like
>this, but I believe
> >it is on the broken Linux partition that won't allow me to boot up Linux on the 386.
>
> As for a direct answer to your question: I don't know whether there
> exists a Windows or DOS tool to read Unix tar tapes.
>
> But here's another approach.
>
> Boot from a Linux Rescue diskette.
> Mount a hard disk partition.
> Restore your tar archive to that partition.
> Reboot to NT and access the restored files.
>
> In order for this to work, the hard disk partition must be a type
> supported by NT *and* the rescue kernel. My rescue kernel (RedHat
> 6.2) supports VFAT, among others. If your NT filesystem is VFAT/FAT32
> (not HPFS/NTFS) you're all set. Otherwise, create and format a
> VFAT/FAT32 partition under NT, before doing the above steps.
>
> This also assumes the rescue kernel contains the drivers for your hard
> disk controller and tape drive.
>
> -Lee Allen
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From: Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is It Possible to Mount a DOS Partition?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 20:24:02 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, I finally got to try out the mounts mentioned somewhere in responses, but could
not mount
what I'm supposing is the DOS parition, hda1. In particular I tried, mount -t msdos
/dev/hda1
/mtn/dos, but could not detect the mount with the mount command or DIR (which does not
seem to exist
on my RH 6.2 rescue disk).
I have DOS, NT and Linux on the system I experimented with. I had no trouble mounting
the Linux
partition(s) with the RH 6.2 rescue disk. mount showed only that I have mounted a
linus partition,
cdrom, etc. Perhaps I need to use mount -t vfat. I'll try it. My NT 4.0 partitions are
FAT 16.
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From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Applixware 5 crashes Red Hat 7
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 20:36:53 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Christopher Wong wrote:
>
> On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 00:57:00 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >C.Wong> Christopher Wong wrote:
> >>> This is most unnerving. I recently installed Applixware Office
> >>> 5.0, upgrading from version 4.4.1. I tried the word processor. When
> >>> I selected some text and tried changing the font, Red Hat 7 would
> >>> crash. Hard. The screen goes blank and the machine would suddenly
> >>> and silently (or with a beep) reboot. The file system was not
> >>> cleanly unmounted, so an fsck was forced. This has happened several
> >>> times, both with XFree86 4.0.1 and 3.3.6 servers.
> >
> >>> My machine used to run Mandrake 7 before I installed Red Hat 7 over
> >>> it, in case that is relevant. At this point, I don't even know
> >>> where to begin diagnosing this problem. The syslog is useless,
> >>> since the crash is sudden and silent. The only thing I did was to
> >>> select text in the word processor and change the font. I believe I
> >>> have installed most of Red Hat's fixes, including the latest glibc
> >>> 2.2.
> >The symptoms seem a whole lot more consistent with there being a
> >problem with the X server.
> >
> >Theorized scenario:
> >- ApplixWare makes some request to the X server that tickles a bug;
> >- X server then asks for some memory it ought not to;
> >- System tumbles on down.
> >
> >This is _the_ typical way that apps wind up hanging up the system
> >_completely_.
> >
> >The "font change" sounds consistent with this; if the X server has
> >some memory aboard for buffering fonts, it would make sense that the
> >point in time at which the system would tumble would be when font data
> >is being thrown around in video memory.
> >
> >What kind of video card have you got? If it's a pretty new one, whose
> >support under X has not yet matured, that would be further suggestive
> >of the theory representing the cause... As for answers/solutions,
> >that's yet another step down the road...
>
> Thanks for offering your theories. What I have here is an ATI XPert 98
> video card, which has been around for a while. I am running this on a
> motherboard with a KT133 chipset and a Duron 700 processor. The tricky
> part about blaming the X server is that I have the same problem with 2
> different servers (4.0.1 and 3.3.6). To complicate matters further,
> another Red Hat 7 system does not exhibit this problem. While I have had
> X-related hangs before, this is the first time I have seen a hard reboot
> caused by an application. I am beginning to wonder if this is hardware
> related.
>
> Chris
Hiya-
I bought Applix Office 5 from Linux Central, then next day or so
saw your posting and went "oh-oh".
However I got the CD Tuesday, installed it, whence Applix works
perfectly as far as I can see. I don't run it all that much, but
it looks very nice and I've had no problems at all.
I'm running RH 7.0, with the latest 2.4.0 test12 kernels. My
system is a VA Linux box with a ~ 500MHz Celeron processor. Just
thought you would like another data point.
Cheers, Bob L.
--
Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:39:26 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Disaster recovery info
Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Neil Montgomery wrote:
>
> >What I did not do is record the details of the partition table, which
> >is unfortunate, since the Windows95 reinstallation helpfully removed
> >it for me.
>
> I've never hand Win9x actually remove any non-DOS partitions
> when I did installs. If it really did, then you've run across
> a particularly virulent strain of the Win9x desease.
>
I've seen various windows installs suggest that an unknown partition be
"fixed". Yeah, right.
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From: Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is It Possible to Mount a DOS Partition?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 20:40:42 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mount -t vfat ... did the trick. I was able to cp a file from a Linux partition to the
DOS (FAT 16)
partition.
Wayne Watson wrote:
> Well, I finally got to try out the mounts mentioned somewhere in responses, but
>could not mount
> what I'm supposing is the DOS parition, hda1. In particular I tried, mount -t msdos
>/dev/hda1
> /mtn/dos, but could not detect the mount with the mount command or DIR (which does
>not seem to exist
> on my RH 6.2 rescue disk).
> I have DOS, NT and Linux on the system I experimented with. I had no trouble
>mounting the Linux
> partition(s) with the RH 6.2 rescue disk. mount showed only that I have mounted a
>linus partition,
> cdrom, etc. Perhaps I need to use mount -t vfat. I'll try it. My NT 4.0 partitions
>are FAT 16.
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From: Xar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MIME File Question
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 22:03:59 -0600
Does anyone know where I might find documentation on MIME file specs?
Reason: I am looking for some specs... so I can write some apps... that
can take incoming mail traffic. Once taken apart it would scan the file
attachments for binaries or other specified file types. It's basically
going to filter out mail so SUEs don't keep opening up virus files.
FPROT just isn't doing a good enough job.
Any help would be much appreciated. If there is already some linux
packages that do this I would be happy for their names and where I can
find the RPMs and some info on them or just the names and I'll dig
around.
Xar the Patryn
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:54:43 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: help w/ setting an environment var
John Hunter wrote:
>
> I have a system wide environment var set and exported in
> /etc/profile. I want to take the value of that var and prepend my own
> values to it in my .tcshrc file.
>
> setenv PERL5LIB $PERLHOME/lib:$PERL5LIB
>
> The problem is, during my first logon, apparently the .tcshrc file is
> loaded before the exports from /etc/profile are available to me. So
> the tcshrc load crashes with an unknown variable on the PERL5LIB
> part (the problem is not with $PERLHOME).
>
> If I comment out the line above, the /etc/profile vars are available
> to me by the time my shell is loaded. How and where should I define
> my PERL5LIB var so that the /etc/profile definition is available to me
> when I try to define it.
>
> Incidentally, other environment vars such as $HOME *are* available to
> me in the .tcshrc at first load.
>
> Thanks,
> John Hunter
The /etc/profile is not part of the tcsh or csh shells; .tcshrc does not
overwrite profile, profile is summarily ignored. Different files are
used for tcsh shell config. If you do "man tcsh", approximately 2800
lines down, you will see the "FILES" section. There it lists (for
system-wide) /etc/csh.cshrc, /etc/csh.login, and /etc/csh.logout. There
is actually a lot of flexibility in init files, and the complication is
that you have several choices.
If all users needed the PERL5LIB path, including system daemons, you
might want to put it in /etc/csh.cshrc (though I don't know of any
daemons which run tcsh, a process might fork off and use tcsh if the
parent did).
If all users that were actually logging in (excluding scripts being run
that are not actual users logged in), probably /etc/csh.login. For
example, colorizing ls listings is only useful for someone that has
logged in. Probably this is where you would want to edit the lines with
setenv PATH ".....".
If it is just for you, or some users and others don't need it, try
~/.tcshrc. E.G.,
setenv PATH ${PATH}:/my/personal/path
setenv PERLHOME /some/path/to/perl # give PERLHOME a base path.
setenv PERL5LIB ${PERLHOME}/lib:$PERL5LIB # append to the path.
Rearrange to your favorite file, as required.
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