Linux-Setup Digest #60, Volume #21 Tue, 17 Apr 01 11:13:09 EDT
Contents:
What's wrong with this box on a beowulf-type cluster ? (Luigi Cavallo)
Re: Kernel Patching Question (Paul Kimoto)
New system: No Sound (Norman Baccari)
pppd connect failure (Antony Chung)
Re: New system: No Sound (Harald Grosskopf)
Re: Cannot mount FAT16 partition (Dino Hsu)
Re: Cannot mount FAT16 partition ("Eric")
Find current kernel config ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Nice tricks with Win-Printers (Nils Holland)
Re: Modem trouble ("LittleFish")
Serial Connection (Bill Little)
Re: BeOS + Linux + Windows 2000 - Triple boot trouble. (Michael Smith)
Re: My linux don't recognized the complete RAM mem ("Peter T. Breuer")
How do I compile using kgcc? (Bill Cyzwenki)
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From: Luigi Cavallo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: What's wrong with this box on a beowulf-type cluster ?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:24:25 +0200
Hi,
I have a small cluster of 6 AMD boxes, and I run PVM programs on top of
them. One of the boxes is giving me problems, and I don't know what is
wrong. The configuration of all the boxes is:
ASUS A7V MB AMD Duron 1000MHz 128 MB RAM
RH 7.0 Kernel 2.4.3
When I run something on the problematic box, the program simply crashes
after 15-20 mins, and this is what I found at the end of dmesg. All the
boxes have been cloned, and I also tested the HD on a different box, I
changed the ethernet card and the RAM on the box with pieces from
another (working) box of the cluster, but the problem remains the same.
So, I think it should be the CPU or the MB. Anyone out there is able to
understand what's wrong from the messages below ?
TIA
gg
kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:191!
invalid operand: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c0127abb>]
EFLAGS: 00010086
eax: 00000020 ebx: c1070730 ecx: 00000007 edx: cedc1540
esi: c0254fa0 edi: 00000000 ebp: c1070730 esp: ce735e2c
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process adf.exe (pid: 742, stackpage=ce735000)
Stack: c0211105 c0211213 000000bf 0000147c 00000282 00000000 c0254f78
c0254f78
c0255150 00000000 c025514c c0127e24 00000005 00000001 ce877380
cedc1540
ce877380 c2a0dbcc c011e3c7 00000286 00000000 c0254f78 c0254f78
ce877380
Call Trace: [<c0127e24>] [<c011e3c7>] [<c011e450>] [<c011e540>]
[<c011d284>] [<c010eef7>] [<c011852e>]
[<c01183f6>] [<c01185f7>] [<c0115a9c>] [<c01159a7>] [<c01158ad>]
[<c010eda0>] [<c0107074>]
Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 8b 53 04 8b 03 8d 4f 01 89 50 04 89 02 89 ea
kernel BUG at inode.c:378!
invalid operand: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c013f475>]
EFLAGS: 00010282
eax: 0000001b ebx: c8aa5d80 ecx: 00000001 edx: c0253c88
esi: 0000000d edi: 00017e8e ebp: cfaa5400 esp: ce735edc
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process rm (pid: 777, stackpage=ce735000)
Stack: c0213f65 c0213fe5 0000017a cff21a00 0000000d 00017e8e cfaa5400
cff21a00
c014aecf c8aa5d80 00000000 00000006 ce68a640 c8aa5e24 c8aa5d80
c8aa5d80
c02578a0 c8a8e3c0 c8aa5d80 c02578a0 c8a8e3c0 bffff580 c013fd55
c8aa5d80
Call Trace: [<c014aecf>] [<c013fd55>] [<c013e81e>] [<c0138413>]
[<c01384d6>] [<c0106f57>]
Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 8b 83 f0 00 00 00 a9 10 00 00 00 75 1f 68 7c
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Kernel Patching Question
Date: 17 Apr 2001 08:33:51 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jason Lott wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 19:23:23 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick) wrote:
> However, I don't know what patch level I should upgrade
>> to. I have looked at kernel.org and Hendrick's patch site, but there
>> doesn't seem to be any info as to what hardware the various patches
>> support, that is, should x be 11, 12, 13? I figure it doesn't make
>> sense to install additional patches for hardware I don't have, but
>> maybe this is common practice. Is there a list somewhere with a
>> description of the the various patches?
The various 2.2.* patches are not just for new hardware. Consult the
2.2.1* release notes at http://www.linux.org.uk/. You should probably try
2.2.19 (or whatever is most recent) first.
> You may want to consider installing a new kernel... When it comes to patches,
> you can't simply apply one patch to go from 2.0.36 to 2.2.12 ( unless it's
> specialized by a contributor )... You'll have to include all of the patches in
> between, otherwise you'll break the source code, by trying adding new code that
> may reference new variables/symbols that should have been added from a previous
> patch ( or vice-versa, old code that should have been removed by a previous
> patch references variables/symbols that were removed by a later patch ).
>
> For that reason, I'd recommend upgrading to at least 2.2.16... Keep in mind that
> you may also have to upgrade some other core libraries that linux uses ( libc,
> glibc, initscripts, etc. ).
See Documentation/Changes in the kernel source code.
--
Paul Kimoto
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From: Norman Baccari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New system: No Sound
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:18:24 GMT
Howdee!
Im hoping someone can shed some light on
my situation as Im getting very frustrated.
When my old Pentium166's hard drive crashed
I decided it was time to by a new system. I
had been running linux on this old system
for about 4 years going through various
vers. of redhat releases with no problems. I
had an ISA soundblaster card and no sound problems.
Now the new system comes in and I have yet to get
sound working. The new system is as follows,
Processor: PIII 733MHz
Memory: 256M
HDrive: 20G
Motherboard: MS6309 VIA694x VT82C694
OS : Windoze98 and Redhat7.0 via LILO boot
Kernel: 2.2.16-22 Aug 22,2000
Desktop: KDE 2.1.0-70x
SoundCard: Creative Soundblaster PCI128
On the initial install of RH7, sound did not
work right from the beginning. At first I tried
to get the onboard VIA sound to work before installing
the SB card. Using sndconfig, I got a message that
said the via chip set was not supported. Other people
had success using ALSA so I tried using ALSA but
during the install I got an error message saying ALSA
did not support my kernel version. I abandoned the
VIA sound and disabled it in the BIOS, and bought a
SBpci128 card. I went back to sndconfig and it recognized
the card as "Ensoniq 5880 pci128", not a sbpci128 as I
might have expected. Sndconfig also said the card was
unsupported. I should note that both the VIA sound chips
and the SB128 performed perfectly under windoze98.
I started looking into compiling a new kernel but when I
tried to run either "make xconfig" or "make menuconfig"
I got an error saying "no rules for make"
Where do I go from here???????
Very frustated! Cant hear my trains crash in RT2 :)
Thanks !!!!
Norman Baccari
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From: Antony Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pppd connect failure
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:00:23 +0100
Hi,
I have RH6.2 and I am trying to connect to my ISP using the pppd
program. Everything is going OK until LCP starts up (whatever that is),
I then get the following errors:
Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
It is more likely to be a problem with my serial port, chip or the modem
(which is external) - but it has all worked perfectly before I re-
installed the system.
Can somebody please either help here, or point me in the direction where
I can get help.
I would appreciate also being contacted by email, as well as on group.
Thanks,
ANTONY CHUNG
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From: Harald Grosskopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New system: No Sound
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:18:02 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Norman,
Norman Baccari wrote:
> Kernel: 2.2.16-22 Aug 22,2000
> Desktop: KDE 2.1.0-70x
> SoundCard: Creative Soundblaster PCI128
>
> On the initial install of RH7, sound did not
> work right from the beginning. At first I tried
> to get the onboard VIA sound to work before installing
> the SB card.
I had the same problem with my VIA Soundchip on RH7 with Kernel
2.2.17-7.
The Soundcard worked after updating to Kernel 2.4.1, but I think you
should wait until official RedHat rpm Packages come out.
> Using sndconfig, I got a message that
> said the via chip set was not supported. Other people
> had success using ALSA so I tried using ALSA but
> during the install I got an error message saying ALSA
> did not support my kernel version. I abandoned the
> VIA sound and disabled it in the BIOS, and bought a
> SBpci128 card. I went back to sndconfig and it recognized
> the card as "Ensoniq 5880 pci128", not a sbpci128 as I
> might have expected. Sndconfig also said the card was
> unsupported. I should note that both the VIA sound chips
> and the SB128 performed perfectly under windoze98.
> I started looking into compiling a new kernel but when I
> tried to run either "make xconfig" or "make menuconfig"
Are you in directory /usr/src/linux? Are the Kernel sources installed?
If yes, change to the above directory, make menuconfig, or xconfig
(under X), set your kernel configuration and save it,
make dep, clean, bzlilo, modules, modules_install.
bye, Harald.
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From: Dino Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannot mount FAT16 partition
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:26:26 +0800
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:27:55 +0200, "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have a FAT16 partition to be mounted as /shared but failed.
>
>> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>Not an error, but annoying
>
>> If I mount it by this command:
>> mount -t vfat /dev/hda4 /shared,
>> it comes out with:
>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda4,
>> or too many mounted file systems
>>
>
>Try mounting it as msdos
>
>Eric
>
>
I tried msdos now, the same here.
This is my partition information, note that hda4 is a secondary
partition (not primary), this partition can be recognized by Windows
ME/NT/2K with no problem, I don't know why not by Linux.
<fdisk begin>
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3720 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 11 15 40162+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 2382 2773 3148740 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 2774 2806 265072+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 34 295 2104515 6 FAT16
Partition table entries are not in disk order
<fdisk end>
Dino
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannot mount FAT16 partition
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:41:22 +0200
> >> I have a FAT16 partition to be mounted as /shared but failed.
> I tried msdos now, the same here.
>
> This is my partition information, note that hda4 is a secondary
> partition (not primary),
What do you mean by this?
It's about as primary as it gets!
> this partition can be recognized by Windows
> ME/NT/2K with no problem, I don't know why not by Linux.
Are you sure you're looking at the same partition?
Does hda4 show up in /proc/partitions?
If so it is recognised by linux.
It may be formatted incorrectly/different, eg. with NTFS, in which case
it will fail to mount if you use a FAT fs. I can't tell if that's the case,
but I wouldn't be surprised. If you have ntfs support, try to mount it as
ntfs
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3720 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 11 15 40162+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 2382 2773 3148740 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 2774 2806 265072+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda4 34 295 2104515 6 FAT16
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
Like I said, linux will have no problem with this table.
It will read all partitions correctly. The fact that the partitions aren't
in disc order may be confusing for you though.
PS. You are aware that a *large* part of this disc is unused,
and is inaccesible with the current partition table?
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Find current kernel config ?
Date: 17 Apr 2001 13:55:57 GMT
Hi all,
I've tried to rebuild my kernel (2.2.10, on RedHat 6), and have many
doubts abouts the proper answers to all the question I'm asked by
"Configuration". In the end the machine did reboot, but lots of stuff
was missing (like PCMCIA support, it's a laptop).
So the question is : knowing that I have a properly working system,
how can I find out what the current configuration is ? ideally, I'd like
to start by re-building a kernel that's identical to the one I have.
Did "Configuration" store somewhere the previous answers to its
questions, so I could use that again as a starting point ?
Thanks,
Joao
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From: Nils Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Nice tricks with Win-Printers
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:44:32 +0200
Hi all!
My brother contacted me because of a problem. I'm not quite able to help
him, since I don't have the same system set-up as he has, so I thought I'd
post his question here and see if anyone has any suggestions.
Ok, my brother has Linux and Windows on his system. Due to some strange
reasons (probably because he likes to spend as little money as possible on
things), he has a Lexmark 3200 ink-jet printer that only works under
Windows.
Now, my brother's looking for a way to print documents originating from
Linux applications. I have never tried that, but I think it should work
like this:
1) Get the Linux application to print to a file. The file should be in
PCL-format.
2) Boot Windows, and from a DOS-prompt copy that file to the printer.
This should work, because the Lexmark printer emulates PCL for DOS print
jobs (the PCL-emulation is of course software-based and not built into the
printer, otherwise he could print uner Linux directly).
And now comes the problem: How do I set his system up that the above works?
I think I will install apsfilter along with ghostscript, but instead of
sending the print job that has been converted to PCL directly to a printer,
it should be saved to a file that can be copied to the Windows partition
and then be sent to the LPT port, so that the Windows-printer driver takes
over the work and actually prints out what should be printed.
So the question is: Has anyone ever tried this before and/or does anyone
have suggestions on how I might set up a system so that the procedure
explained above will work?
Any help would be appreciated!
P.S.: If there is some HOWTO available that deals with this issue, then I
didn't find it. Of course, if you know where I can find it, you can simply
point me to it instead of answering my question.
Greetings,
Nils
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From: "LittleFish" <littlefish_au[SPAM ME AT YOUR OWN RISK]@yahoo.com>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Modem trouble
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 00:19:31 +1000
use modemtool just go to run in GNOME and type modemtool
it will help you setup your modem.
littlefish
"Krstanovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9beqeg$8er$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have Rockvell 56k ISA modem.It works on IRQ#3 and COM2 port under Win Me
> and DOS,but will not work under Red Hat 7
> Help me to configure it.Without the modem Linux is not so useful,in my
> opinion :)
> Thanx!
>
>
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From: Bill Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Serial Connection
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:02:31 -0500
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Windows it was a COM1 connection via Hyperterminal, but I don't know
what the command is in Linux. Thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Smith)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.beos,alt.os.linux,comp.sys.be.help
Subject: Re: BeOS + Linux + Windows 2000 - Triple boot trouble.
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:27:33 GMT
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:35:31 +0200, "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
<snip>
>> Thanks to some great help from this NG (yea Alan N.!) I
>> got my Win98, BeOS & a superset of DeadRat 7.0 booting ...
>> but it required editing of lilo.conf to see the correct Linux
>> partition.
>
>Duh.
>If you have a wrong config file sure it will not boot.
Thanks SO much for that info, O Guru. I'm sure I will find
that VERY helpful next time I'm poring over a .conf file.
>> Unfortunately that won't work for you, because Windoze NT/2000
>> REALLY wants to control the boot process. So I think your main
>
>No it REALLY doesn't.
>You've been misinformed. I have no clue on BeOS, but for linux/NT
>systems you can just as well choose LILO to be your main bootloader
I defer to your professed greater experience in this matter. Care
to inform us? Perhaps a sample lilo.conf and hardware
configuration?
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My linux don't recognized the complete RAM mem
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:49:33 GMT
Carlos Izcoa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I already check the BIOS but i don't know what is the memory hole!
Then I think you'd better find out!
Peter
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From: Bill Cyzwenki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I compile using kgcc?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:58:21 GMT
I am running rh7.0
kernel version 2.4.2
make is version 3.79.1
gcc is version 2.96
I have read that I should use kgcc to compile the kernel, instead of
gcc. To set-up and compile a kernel I take the normal steps using
"make". How do I tell "make" to compile using kgcc instead of gcc?
I see two places (in my /usr/src/linux-2.4.2/Makefile) where it seems to
set variables to gcc.
HOSTCC = gcc
CC = $(CROSS_COMPILE) gcc
Are these the two places I would change gcc to kgcc? If so, are they
the only two places
Thanks for you help
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