Linux-Misc Digest #584, Volume #26 Mon, 18 Dec 00 22:13:01 EST
Contents:
Kernel bug... or Hardware bug ? ... Help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Playing X-Wing Alliance through Linux firewall (Sean Akers)
Re: Find? really? (MH)
Re: Linux and cooling fan (Eric Y. Chang)
Re: bootable raid 1 (Chas2K)
Re: noarch rpm ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Can't build rpm with 4.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Resize NTFS without Administrator Privs to Install RedHat -- Please Help ("John")
Re: How is a GNU/Linux modem user supposed to do his offline www browsing? (John
Hasler)
lilo warning : device 0x3030 cylinder exceeed 1024 ("Anson Ho")
Semi-newbie partition question (Todd Rich)
Re: Dual processor advantage? (Floyd Davidson)
Re: kernel upgrade problem ("Rinaldi J. Montessi")
Re: Need MINIMAL Linux for a laptop dinosaur... (Michael Perry)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Kernel bug... or Hardware bug ? ... Help
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 00:25:54 -0100
Hello there ...
Here is my situation ... i am responsable for a linux file server
running samba and nfs ... the first machine acting as server was
a pentium 200 Mhz 32MB Ram IDE drive with kernel 2.2.14 (rh6.2) and
samba 2.0.7 6.. it run for several months without any trouble ( 45 days
uptime)...
then due to load problems i decided to move the harddrive to
a new box ( Pentim III 500 Mhz 128 Ram and VIA motherboard ) ...
and then started my problems ... with no aperent reason the system
started to crash ( OS hangup ) once in to days or even once a day, and
due
to the so often craches and reboots i started having problems with the
filesystem ... i tried to fix it by upgrading to ( kernel 2.2.18 and
samba 2.07)
but with no luck ... i still got the some problem ....
here is my logs ...
.....
Dec 18 10:41:21 netserver kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request
at virtual address 00200000
Dec 18 10:41:21 netserver kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 02e4d000, %cr3 =
02e4d000
Dec 18 10:41:21 netserver kernel: *pde = 00000000
Dec 18 10:41:21 netserver kernel: Oops: 0000
Dec 18 10:41:21 netserver kernel: CPU: 0
----
Dec 12 09:28:43 netserver kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request
at virtual address 00100008
Dec 12 09:28:43 netserver kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 04caf000, %cr3 =
04caf000
Dec 12 09:28:43 netserver kernel: *pde = 00000000
Dec 12 09:28:43 netserver kernel: Oops: 0000
Dec 12 09:28:43 netserver kernel: CPU: 0
Dec 12 09:28:43 netserver kernel: EIP:
0010:[update_vm_cache_conditional+138/340]
Dec 12 09:28:43 netserver kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
Dec 12 09:28:43 netserver kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00100000 ecx:
c5524cc0 edx: 00100000
Dec 12 09:28:43 netserver kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: c7fc0000 ebp:
00001000 esp: c3689e9c
Dec 12 09:28:43 netserver kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Dec 12 09:28:43 netserver kernel: Process smbd (pid: 2561, process nr:
78, stackpage=c3689000)
Dec 12 09:28:43 netserver kernel: Stack: 00001000 c1189000 00100000
0c5524cc c013db9a c5524cc0 00001000 c1189000
Dec 12 09:28:43 netserver kernel: 00001000 0811b729 c03ba840
ffffffea c5524d0c 0000ffc3 c1425140 c1425140
Dec 12 09:28:43 netserver kernel: c1425140 00000000 00000000
c3689f08 00000000 00000000 c7e6aa00 00001000
Dec 12 09:28:43 netserver kernel: Call Trace:
[ext2_file_write+1066/1588] [free_wait+99/108] [do_select+509/532]
[sys_write+219/256] [ext2_file_write+0/1588] [system_call+52/56]
Dec 12 09:28:43 netserver kernel: Code: 39 4b 08 75 e1 8b 4c 24 20 39 4b
0c 75 d8 ff 43 14 b8 02 00
----
Dec 12 14:55:06 netserver kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request
at virtual address 00100008
Dec 12 14:55:06 netserver kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 01518000, %cr3 =
01518000
Dec 12 14:55:06 netserver kernel: *pde = 00000000
Dec 12 14:55:06 netserver kernel: Oops: 0000
Dec 12 14:55:06 netserver kernel: CPU: 0
Dec 12 14:55:06 netserver kernel: EIP:
0010:[update_vm_cache_conditional+138/340]
Dec 12 14:55:06 netserver kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
Dec 12 14:55:06 netserver kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00100000 ecx:
c798a880 edx: 00100000
Dec 12 14:55:06 netserver kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: c7fc0000 ebp:
00001000 esp: c2a37e9c
Dec 12 14:55:06 netserver kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Dec 12 14:55:06 netserver kernel: Process smbd (pid: 5384, process nr:
79, stackpage=c2a37000)
Dec 12 14:55:06 netserver kernel: Stack: 01a45000 c5fcb000 00100000
0c798a88 c013db9a c798a880 01a45000 c5fcb000
Dec 12 14:55:08 netserver kernel: 00001000 0811f729 c6518a40
ffffffea c798a8cc 0000ffc3 c54a1d20 c54a1d20
Dec 12 14:55:08 netserver kernel: c54a1d20 01a40000 00000000
c2a37f08 00000000 00000000 c7e6aa00 00005000
Dec 12 14:55:08 netserver kernel: Call Trace:
[ext2_file_write+1066/1588] [write_intr+259/292] [write_intr+0/292]
[ide_intr+227/304] [write_intr+0/292] [handle_IRQ_event+54/108]
[sys_write+219/256]
Dec 12 14:55:08 netserver kernel: [ext2_file_write+0/1588]
[system_call+52/56]
Dec 12 14:55:08 netserver kernel: Code: 39 4b 08 75 e1 8b 4c 24 20 39 4b
0c 75 d8 ff 43 14 b8 02 00
Dec 12 14:56:05 netserver kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request
at virtual address 00100008
Dec 12 14:56:05 netserver kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 01518000, %cr3 =
01518000
Dec 12 14:56:05 netserver kernel: *pde = 00000000
Dec 12 14:56:05 netserver kernel: Oops: 0000
Dec 12 14:56:05 netserver kernel: CPU: 0
Dec 12 14:56:05 netserver kernel: EIP:
0010:[update_vm_cache_conditional+138/340]
Dec 12 14:56:05 netserver kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
Dec 12 14:56:05 netserver kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00100000 ecx:
c798a220 edx: 00100000
Dec 12 14:56:05 netserver kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: c7fc0000 ebp:
00001000 esp: c2a37e9c
Dec 12 14:56:05 netserver kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Dec 12 14:56:05 netserver kernel: Process smbd (pid: 5395, process nr:
79, stackpage=c2a37000)
Dec 12 14:56:05 netserver kernel: Stack: 01aab000 c1051000 00100000
0c798a22 c013db9a c798a220 01aab000 c1051000
Dec 12 14:56:05 netserver kernel: 00001000 08125729 c393f780
ffffffea c798a26c 0000ffc3 c1052060 c1052060
Dec 12 14:56:05 netserver kernel: c1052060 01aa0000 00000000
c2a37f08 00000000 00000000 c7e6aa00 0000b000
Dec 12 14:56:05 netserver kernel: Call Trace:
[ext2_file_write+1066/1588] [free_wait+99/108] [do_select+509/532]
[sys_recv+30/36] [sys_write+219/256] [ext2_file_write+0/1588]
[system_call+52/56]
Dec 12 14:56:05 netserver kernel: Code: 39 4b 08 75 e1 8b 4c 24 20 39 4b
0c 75 d8 ff 43 14 b8 02 00
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From: Sean Akers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Playing X-Wing Alliance through Linux firewall
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 01:29:02 +0000
I'm trying to play X-Wing Alliance through my SuSE Linux based firewall. I
have no problems with Halflife/TFC or Star Trek Armada. I have downloaded the
Zone client software and it works. In fact it all works up until I actually
connect to someone hosting a game at which point the connection fails. I am
using an NTL cable modem for my Internet connection and my firewall is
configured using pmfirewall.
Any suggestions as to what I need to add to my firewall to play this game from
my Windows machine ?
Sean.
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Find? really?
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:49:28 -0800
MH wrote:
> Can someone please explain why the following command does NOT locate the
> files specified on the local filesystem?
>
> find / -xdev -name *.txt
>
> When I run the same command WITHOUT the -xdev option, ALL *.txt files on
> REMOTE filesystems ARE located, but NONE on the LOCAL filesystem are
> located, even though ls /directory/*.txt DOES list *.txt files that DO
> exist IN that directory ON THE LOCAL FILESYSTEM.
>
Following the suggestions in this thread I tried all of the following
without success:
find / -name \*.txt
find / -name "*".txt
find / -name "*.txt"
find / -name '*.txt'
find / -name '*'.txt
find / -name `*.txt` (note the special single quote character)
find / -name `*`.txt (note the special single quote character)
ls *.txt produces the following:
port-numbers.txt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Y. Chang)
Subject: Re: Linux and cooling fan
Date: 19 Dec 2000 01:51:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yes.
I had a similar problem with a TI Travelmate. The funny thing was that it
would cook expensive Li Ion batteries under Linux. The charge control was
in Windows. I tried installing Windows 95 and it also cooked batteries.
The only solution was to keep asking for new batteries until the warranty
ran out. Now the computer only works when plugged in. No big deal, most
laptops are plugged in most of the time anyhow. Li Ion batteries absolutely
do not tolerate overcharge, and they cost about $200 each.
This is abuse of software. Charging of Li Ion batteries should be done
in hardware, for example with a Linear Technologies chip. Software
engineers with this kind of arrogance should get caned.
ljb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: >I have a new Compaq Presario 1700T laptop which I installed RH 6.2 on
: >(ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not
: >put).
: >
: >Soon after, the hard drive crashed (it rattled when it got quite hot, and
: >then would not boot until after cool down). I sent it to Compaq for repair,
: >and they replaced the hard drive. They also replaced the mother board,
: >which made me wonder if something was wrong with the fan controller. The
: >computer would get really hot, whether in Windows or Linux.
: >
: >Is there any chance the Linux is screwing up the fan control, or bypassing
: >the fan altogether? Seems like a very low level mother board/BIOS thing,
: >but that is way beyond my area of expertise.
: Sorry I can't help, but I was just thinking that if this were true -
: that Compaq created a laptop which required a Windows driver or HAL
: component to prevent it from overheating and burning up, then this would
: be an evil thing surpassing even the invention of the Winmodem.
: A lot of new laptops run very hot. I had a fan fail on a desktop PII-300
: and it took out the processor module and motherboard, so it certainly can
: happen. I doubt Linux has anything to do with it, but did you check the
: BIOS settings under energy management or similar to see if there are
: settings for the fan operation, just in case?
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From: Chas2K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.dev.kernel
Subject: Re: bootable raid 1
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 20:55:19 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am currently doing bootable raid 1 with all of the latest patches
> for
> 2.2.18 and then some.
> When I try to boot the system with either drive removed, I get a bunch
> of
> 010101010's in an endless loop.
> Yet, when both drives are in, the system comes up fine. What am I
> doing
> wrong?
>
> Using lilo 21.5
>
> lilo.conf.hda
>
> disk=/dev/md0
> bios=0x80
> sectors=63
> heads=15
> cylinders=13328
> partition=/dev/md1
> start=63
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> vga=normal
> default=vmlinux
> keytable=/boot/us.klt
> prompt
> timeout=50
> message=/boot/message
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=vmlinuz
> root=/dev/md0
> append=" ide3=autotune ide1=autotune ide2=autotune hdh=ide-scsi"
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinux
> label=vmlinux
> root=/dev/md0
> append=" ide3=autotune ide1=autotune ide2=autotune hdh=ide-scsi"
> read-only
>
> lilo.conf.hdc
>
> disk=/dev/md0
> bios=0x81
> sectors=63
> heads=16
> cylinders=16278
> partition=/dev/md1
> start=63
> boot=/dev/hdc
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> vga=normal
> default=vmlinux
> keytable=/boot/us.klt
> prompt
> timeout=50
> message=/boot/message
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=vmlinuz
> root=/dev/md0
> append=" ide3=autotune ide1=autotune ide2=autotune hdh=ide-scsi"
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinux
> label=vmlinux
> root=/dev/md0
> append=" ide3=autotune ide1=autotune ide2=autotune hdh=ide-scsi"
> read-only
Looks like you're pulling out the drive with the boot sector on it. Is
your configuration mirroring all of the drives together, or just the
partitions with data?
Chas2K
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: noarch rpm
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 01:51:58 GMT
In article <fIUW5.309$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I built a noarch RPM on my Linux system. The noarch.rpm contains
> a Bourne shell script and some doc's. I tried to install this
> RPM on my Solaris system and got this error message:
>
> package package-1.4-1 is for a different operating system
>
> What more do I need to do in building the package to let my
> Solaris system use it?
noarch is not the same thing as noos (no operating system).
Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a --noos option, so you'll need
to build the rpm's for each os (I think). Hopefully a more seasoned
veteran can answer this however...
Paul
>
> Thanks....
>
> --
> Unless otherwise noted, the statements herein reflect my personal
> opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be
affiliated.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can't build rpm with 4.0
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 01:59:51 GMT
I upgraded my RH6.2 box to rpm4.0. I'm trying to learn how to build
rpm's for my software. However, rpm4.0 does not seem to be able to
build packages. If I type:
$ cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
$ rpm -ba myfile.spec
then rpm responds with a usage() call as though I had typed in bad
options. Am I using the tool incorrectly? Have others had problems
with building packages with 4.0? Specifically, have others had problems
building packages with 4.0 on systems which upgraded 3.x to 4.0?
Exasperated,
Paul
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From: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Resize NTFS without Administrator Privs to Install RedHat -- Please Help
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 02:11:56 GMT
Hi,
I have a laptop with NT installed on an 18 gig disk. I want to resize the NT
partition so I can install RedHat. I do not have Administrator privs so I
can't install Parition Magic and resize that way.
How do I do this? What software do I need?
I think I need some software that can boot from a floppy and then resize the
NTFS partition.
Thanks,
John
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux.isp,alt.netscape,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: How is a GNU/Linux modem user supposed to do his offline www browsing?
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 00:41:57 GMT
Dan Jacobson writes:
> How is a GNU/Linux modem user supposed to do his offline www browsing?
By installing a proxy such as wwwoffle, perhaps?
> Apparently, I never expected not to find an equivalent feature in
> Netscape.
> ...
> One should get one's browser up to par before hawking one's operating
> system eh?
This is the first I've heard that Netscape is hawking an operating system.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: "Anson Ho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lilo warning : device 0x3030 cylinder exceeed 1024
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:24:49 +0800
Hi ,
I just install a new IBM 307040 harddisk and I install REDHAT 6.2 on
hda3. When I install LILO, warning message displayed warning as captioned,
and when I boot linux. only 'LI' display. What can I do to overcome this?
Thanks,
Anson
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From: Todd Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Semi-newbie partition question
Date: 19 Dec 2000 03:30:04 GMT
Ok, I am starting to make the jump over to Linux. I got SuSE 7.0
Professional, and a new hard drive to install it on. I'll be manualy
switching to it to work on it and leaving my current hd unplugged until
I'm sure I've got things right. I've got System Commander 2000 and
Win95OSR2 installed on it, then moved the fat32 partition to the 7gb mark
on my hd. The hd is 30 gigs, so the first 7 gigs are unpartitioned, the
next 13 gigs are fat32, and the rest is unpartitioned. Now, on to the
questions.
1, Will YaST partition all the unpartitioned areas correctly, or will I
need to use SC 2K to do it first? I plan on having a 128meg swap
partition.
2, I plan on using SC 2K as the boot manager, any tips I should pay
attention to here?
3, I left the start of the fat32 partition under the 8gig limit so it
would be bootable and it is. Is this really necessary if I use SC 2K?
I'll be eventually moving this hard drive into a new system I'm building,
and adding a second hd that will be mostly for Linux. Any precautions on
switching it over?
Thanks.
--
Due to spamage I have been getting my e-mail address is now anti-spam
encoded. Remove the unknown letter to e-mail.
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual processor advantage?
Date: 18 Dec 2000 16:58:21 -0900
John-Paul Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>mmnnoo wrote:
>>
>> do you not need a 'matched' (same lot) pair of cpus to do that?
>>
>> "John Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > I have a relatively old ibm box with a Pentium Pro 180mhz processor.
>> > The motherboard has provision for a second processor, and I see that the
>> > Linux kernel can be configured for SMP. Would I see any improvement in
>> > performance if I installed a second processor? I am using Mandrake 7.2
>> > with the 2.2.17 kernel.
>
>Actually, IIRC, the 'stepping' number can differ by one (or
>maybe two). I think they just need to be "close enough"
>rather than an exact match.
The are supposed to be an exact match.
However, in one thread a couple years ago one fellow claimed to
have tried a _number_ of odd combinations, not only running
cpu's that were not matched in stepping, but also doing things
like different clock speeds. It appeared, from his experience,
that the requirement for the same stepping might very well be
overstated.
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: kernel upgrade problem
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:57:57 -0500
Londonboy wrote:
>
> I am running RedHat 6.1 with Kernel 2.2.12-20 and I recently upgraded to
> Kernel 2.2.16-3 (with mkinitrd, sysvinit, initscripts upgraded too).
>
> After I rebooted the machine, my external NIC does not work anymore (I am on
> Cable modem, so the ext. Nic is configured to use DHCP to get the IP
> address), while the internal NIC works fine coz it is static, 192.168.0.1
>
> I don't know how to solve this problem because my old Kernel worked fine.
>
> Please help. it would be appreicate.
>
> L.B.
I never do that stuff. I just compile a new kernel, copy the bzImage
and System map to /boot, add a few lines to lilo.conf, and go for it.
Hopefully you left your old kernel alone and just modified your
lilo.conf, right? Just boot back to your old kernel. In
/usr/src/linux-whatever check the .config file for your old kernel
against your new one and see if you left something out.
When I'm compiling a newer kernel I usually copy the old .config into
the new directroy and do a make oldconfig first, then a make xconfig
where I can leisurely verify what I've done.
Real pros start them all from scratch.
--
Rinaldi]$
No wonder everyone's confused. You know the world is upside down when
Bob Dole is demonstrating in the streets while Bill Clinton goes to
Vietnam.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need MINIMAL Linux for a laptop dinosaur...
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 18:27:37 -0800
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:18:32 GMT, D'Arque Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hey there,
>
>I've got a bit of a problem here, and I was hoping someone out there might
>be able to help me. I've got an NEC Versa V/50 laptop w/ a 486/SX CPU, 4
>MB of RAM, a 500 MB hard drive, and a 14.4k PCMCIA modem. What I'm wanting
>to do is put a very minimal Linux on this laptop. Basically, ALL it would
>be required to do is dial up a remote PC using minicom. In fact, if it
>wasn't for the fact that the boot/root disks for Slackware require a minimum
>of 8 MB of RAM, I'd just use the a1 disk series of Slack. Unfortunately,
>the earliest distro available on their website is 3.3. :( Does anyone have
>any recommendations for a distro and config of Linux that could be used to
>make this laptop into a simple dial-up terminal?
>
>Thanks in advance...
>
What about the boot and root disks of debian potato? You can download the
two along with a minimal set of driver disks and get a working and
networkable system. You could then apt-get minicom if you desired to go
that route.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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