Re: [Cooker] Moving from 2.2.x to 2.4.x: reiserfs problems?
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Yves Pelletier wrote: Hi, The problem that prompted me to ask for advice about booting 2.4.1 was solved quite simply by running mkinitrd. However... funny you should mention that reiserfs may not be compatible across the 2.2.x - 2.4.x divide, because I have been struggling with undeletable files and other oddities since I moved to 2.4.1-7 (and now 2.4.1-9). The problems are were especially apparent when I tried to build 2.4.1-9 from source. The process created sub-hierarchies of undeletable directories and files, and the rm command would produce kernel oopses (sometimes, sometimes not). Other times, the rm would just freeze, leaving the system partially functional; however I would be unable to shutdown gracefully. All in all, an interesting day. I managed to recover (how entirely, I'm not sure) by booting off the Mandrake rescue CD and doing a reiserfsck (from the reiserfs-utils-3.6.25-2mdk package). I am open to suggestions... I would like to avoid reverting to 2.2.x, unless there is a clear indication that there is no other alternative. Yves Yves- Have you tried downloading the 2.4.1 source and your favorite patch (pre3 or ac9 as of right now), patching, and compiling from there? If you 'make bzImage' you can make a bootdisk and avoid locking yourself out of your system, and see if the problem are in the patches, or Cooker, or are just spontaneous. Compile a straight 2.4.1, and one of each patch (pre3 and ac9) and see if you can pinpoint any problems. Matt
Re: [Cooker] cooking on documentation
She asked if there was programs that presented man in html and I said that I thought so. Then she said why isn't it used automatically, is this some tribal rite you unix fantasist must undergo when you learn new things. Speaking of which... I'm currently starting a project on sourceforge called php-man-gateway (throw that in front of sourceforge.net to get the homepage). There's really nothing there at the moment except a minimal PHP script that pipes the output of 'man [section] command' through 'col -b' to remove nasties and displays it inside of a pre /pre block. I'm hoping to eventually make a functional alternative to 'man2html' in PHP, with automatic linking to other pages, fun colors and font sizes, and all that type of stuff. As it exists currently, check out http://mattman.dhs.org/man.php for the real thing, man.phps for the source. Hopefully I can get the sourceforge site somewhat functional in a few days, and get development going. Any help would be much appreciated, as this is as much an excercise to teach myself PHP than anything else. Matt _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [Cooker] bad language control in cooker
matt wrote: Upgrading all the locale packages should do the trick, if that indeed is what the problem is. --- upgrade locale from where?? Will my cheapbytes set have the corect packages or do i need to install from the cooker tree. Robert L martin pull it from cooker. Unless cheapbytes does cooker CDs (which I don't think they do) it's prob. 7.2, which uses the old version. Check the changelog (rpmfind.net is good for that) and look for the "updated to new locales config" or something along those lines. Matt _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [Cooker] bad language control in cooker
SPEAKING OF WHICH to run the update cd (from retail beta to release) i had to install the hacklibc rpm from the contrib cd. When i do a kernel compile i get a horde of messages about " not being able to set the location using default location" anybody know why? Robert L martin There may be a problem between glibc and locales. If you've installed glibc-2.2, it confilicts with the locales package that ships with 7.2. Locales were reimplemented in glibc 2.2, and weren't backward-compatible with 2.1 (not being a C programmer, this is how I understood it), but there wasn't a requirement in the package to install the updated locale packages. Perl (which is used heavily during compilation) uses locales in glibc and complains if they aren't set up right. Upgrading all the locale packages should do the trick, if that indeed is what the problem is. Matt _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
[Cooker] reiserfs
Hrm I heard somewhere Kernel 2.4 doesn't support ReiserFS. Ravenhall 2.4 supports reiserfs just peachily. For some reason that I don't understand you can't read a 2.4-created reiserfs partition with a 2.2 patched kernel, but 2.4 can read 2.2-created partitions. 2.4.0 doesn't support reiser as downloaded, but can be patched using patches obtained from reiserfs.org. (I'm speaking about kernel sources, not Mandrake packages. I prefer to roll my own kernel). As of 2.4.1-pre4 (ish) reiserfs support is included in the standard kernel, and is in 2.4.1 final which was released yesterday. Matt _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [Cooker] Performance gain by compiling kernel 2.4 for Celeron?
im not sure (using a P75 myself) but depending one the definition of ... Robert L martin who wishes he had alexanders problem (three freaking hours to comp a kernel!) dual Celeron 533: 'make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install' under 10 minutes, 15 if I don't use 'make -j3' for SMP :-P As far as the recompiling for celeron question, prob. the only change you'll see is in MMX-type applications, as the Celeron/PII instruction set isn't that much different than the 586's, AFAIK Matt Morrison _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
[Cooker] AdvancedExtranet.com and apache server
For quite a while now I've been attempting to find out more about the enhancements AdvancedExtranet has put in the apache packages. However, [www.]advancedextranet.com doesn't respond on ports 80 or 8080. A portscan doesn't reveal any possible httpd ports open. Does anyone know any more about this? Is there some other place to find information about this company, or get in contact with them? Matt Morrison _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [Cooker] kernel 2.4.0 and XFree86 4.0.1-28mdk
Matt Morrison wrote: I have discovered an interesting problem with 2.4.0 and X, and I'm not sure what's going on. I've been running XFree86-4.0.1-28mdk and related packages for a while, with no major problems (aside from random segfaults from time to time, but that's another story entirely). I've also had kernel 2.2.18 (my own build, not a package) running since it was released in December. I finally managed to build kernel 2.4.0 (with and without reiserfs patch, and without any -ac patches). I can boot and work from the command line just find, SVGATextMode works fine, ncurses apps work fine, and everything seems to be normal. However, when I attempt to run X, the screen blanks out, and nothing more can be done. Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to kill the X server doesn't work, Ctrl-Alt-F[1-12] doesn't work for switching virtual desktops, nothing. I can ssh from another box and manually kill all the offending processes, but the screen doesn't return, and I have to run the shutdown command remotely to get control of the console once more. When I run 'ps ax' it shows 'X :0' as running (R) for an extended period, but nothing happens. Has anybody had problems similar to this? I'm downloading the precompiled binaries for glibc-22 from xfree86.org right now, to see if that fixes the problem. Matt Morrison _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com I bet your problems are with the Frame Buffer. I have had problems running a FB console and starting X. Don't use a FB dev if you need to use X, unless know it will work. Some cards work others will not. check you boot manager and make sure that you are not using a FB. YMMV. Richard I removed the FB module from the kernel, and played around so the config was as much like 2.2.18 as possible. I also got the linux-glibc-2.2 XFree86-4.0.2 packages directly from xfree86.org and installed them, and it seems to be working now. X is running slightly slower than usual, and I'm still trying to pin it down, but upgrading seems to work. I'll try installing the 4.0.2 RPMs at some point, but for the moment it's hanging together. Matt _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
[Cooker] kernel 2.4.0 and XFree86 4.0.1-28mdk
I have discovered an interesting problem with 2.4.0 and X, and I'm not sure what's going on. I've been running XFree86-4.0.1-28mdk and related packages for a while, with no major problems (aside from random segfaults from time to time, but that's another story entirely). I've also had kernel 2.2.18 (my own build, not a package) running since it was released in December. I finally managed to build kernel 2.4.0 (with and without reiserfs patch, and without any -ac patches). I can boot and work from the command line just find, SVGATextMode works fine, ncurses apps work fine, and everything seems to be normal. However, when I attempt to run X, the screen blanks out, and nothing more can be done. Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to kill the X server doesn't work, Ctrl-Alt-F[1-12] doesn't work for switching virtual desktops, nothing. I can ssh from another box and manually kill all the offending processes, but the screen doesn't return, and I have to run the shutdown command remotely to get control of the console once more. When I run 'ps ax' it shows 'X :0' as running (R) for an extended period, but nothing happens. Has anybody had problems similar to this? I'm downloading the precompiled binaries for glibc-22 from xfree86.org right now, to see if that fixes the problem. Matt Morrison _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
