Re: Modem trouble, Please help!!
BOHICA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The final resolution was to install the 2.1 base disks with the 2.0 rescue and driver floppies, download the latest kernel and use a linux/bash emulator on my NT desktop to build a custom compilation of the kernel that included the needed Xircom support. Is this mentioned anywhere in the documentation? It seems that it's possible to compile vmlinuz under WinNT or Win9x using CygWin, although 2.0.x won't work properly because of the version of egcs they use. This could help people with strange combinations of hardware that can't get any of the supplied kernel images to work. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.
RE: Modem trouble, Please help!!
Thank you to all that helped. I never did find any script that appeared to be responsible for the miraculous healing of the inittab file. The final resolution was to install the 2.1 base disks with the 2.0 rescue and driver floppies, download the latest kernel and use a linux/bash emulator on my NT desktop to build a custom compilation of the kernel that included the needed Xircom support. I tried emailing the disk maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) about the problems I experienced with the latest disks, but got a bounce saying that no such user existed. If anyone knows an alternate means of reaching him, please let me know. - BOHICA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 25, 1998 19:46 To: BOHICA Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Modem trouble, Please help!! BOHICA writes: btw: I have noticed that I no longer need any passwords to login, not even as root! Worser and worser. Could this be related to the self-healing? Could be. If so, I'm wrong about pcmcia. This begins to sound like a bug in boot-floppies, but I would have though someone else would have seen it by now. I believe that there are some self-removing install scripts. Perhaps one of them was not removed. Could you hunt around for odd-looking scripts? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: Modem trouble, Please help!!
BOHICA writes: The final resolution was to install the 2.1 base disks with the 2.0 rescue and driver floppies,... Ok, that tells us that the problem originates in the floppies. I tried emailing the disk maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) about the problems I experienced with the latest disks, but got a bounce saying that no such user existed. Try Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Mention the bad address. It should work. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
RE: Modem trouble, Please help!!
Indeed yes, PCMCIA is running, the modem card is one of the Xircom duals. The system recognizes it correctly, and I had even begun to download the Package files when the timeout sprung and knocked me offline. I installed from the most recent floppy build, everything seemed to go alright. I have no idea what is causing this self-healing feature, I was hoping that someone with more experience than me would have some ideas as to where to look. - BOHICA btw: I have noticed that I no longer need any passwords to login, not even as root! Could this be related to the self-healing? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 25, 1998 15:22 To: BOHICA Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Modem trouble, Please help!! BOHICA writes: Where/How do I change this and make it stay changed? Get rid of whatever is changing it back. Something that is running at boot is changing it back. This is a serious bug. I recall that you said that this is a laptop. Are you using any pcmcia stuff? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Modem trouble, Please help!!
BOHICA writes: btw: I have noticed that I no longer need any passwords to login, not even as root! Worser and worser. Could this be related to the self-healing? Could be. If so, I'm wrong about pcmcia. This begins to sound like a bug in boot-floppies, but I would have though someone else would have seen it by now. I believe that there are some self-removing install scripts. Perhaps one of them was not removed. Could you hunt around for odd-looking scripts? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Modem trouble, Please help!!
Semi-successful slink install to a laptop. On setup reboot, pppconfig ran and I setup my ISP, dialed in and was trying to get the dselect access configured when I suddenly got the following error: Usage: /sbin/getty [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] line baud_rate,... line [termtype] or [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] line baud_rate,... [termtype] This repeats about five or six times (scrolls too fast to read the first few), then I see: INIT: Id S respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Then every 5 minutes, I see the same thing again. I looked at /sbin/getty and didn't see anything that would indicate where to set this, can't get the manpages until I get online, the FAQ-O-MATIC didn't say anything about this and the list archives came up dry. Where do I set the spawn time for Id S? What are the standard settings for spawn time? Does someone have a web page or HOWTO that I might have overlooked that addresses this? - BOHICA
Re: Modem trouble, Please help!!
BOHICA writes: On setup reboot, pppconfig ran and I setup my ISP, dialed in and was trying to get the dselect access configured when I suddenly got the following error: Usage: /sbin/getty [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] line baud_rate,... line [termtype] or [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] line baud_rate,... [termtype] Looks like there is a misconfigured getty running on your modem port (there should be none at all). Run ps ax | grep getty and post the result. If there is a getty process running on your modem port kill it and try again. *Don't* kill any gettys that are not on ports with numbers like ttyS2, ttyS3, etc. Where do I set the spawn time for Id S? What are the standard settings for spawn time? This begins to look like an intallation bug. Please post your /etc/inittab. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
RE: Modem trouble, Please help!!
ps ax | grep getty 158 2 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 159 3 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 160 4 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 161 5 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 162 6 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 inittab # /etc/inittab: init(8) configuration. # $Id: inittab,v 1.8 1998/05/10 10:37:50 miquels Exp $ # The default runlevel. id:2:initdefault: # Boot-time system configuration/initialization script. # This is run first except when booting in emergency (-b) mode. si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS # What to do in single-user mode. ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin # /etc/init.d executes the S and K scripts upon change # of runlevel. # # Runlevel 0 is halt. # Runlevel 1 is single-user. # Runlevels 2-5 are multi-user. # Runlevel 6 is reboot. l0:0:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 0 l1:1:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 1 l2:2:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 2 l3:3:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 3 l4:4:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 4 l5:5:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 5 l6:6:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 6 # Normally not reached, but fallthrough in case of emergency. z6:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now # Action on special keypress (ALT-UpArrow). kb::kbrequest:/bin/echo Keyboard Request--edit /etc/inittab to let this work. # What to do when the power fails/returns. pf::powerwait:/etc/init.d/powerfail start pn::powerfailnow:/etc/init.d/powerfail now po::powerokwait:/etc/init.d/powerfail stop # /sbin/getty invocations for the runlevels. # # The id field MUST be the same as the last # characters of the device (after tty). # # Format: # id:runlevels:action:process 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6 # Example how to put a getty on a serial line (for a terminal) # #T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 # Example how to put a getty on a modem line. # #T3:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x0 -s 57600 ttyS3 S:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1 Thank You!! - BOHICA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 25, 1998 10:08 To: BOHICA Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Modem trouble, Please help!! BOHICA writes: On setup reboot, pppconfig ran and I setup my ISP, dialed in and was trying to get the dselect access configured when I suddenly got the following error: Usage: /sbin/getty [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] line baud_rate,... line [termtype] or [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] line baud_rate,... [termtype] Looks like there is a misconfigured getty running on your modem port (there should be none at all). Run ps ax | grep getty and post the result. If there is a getty process running on your modem port kill it and try again. *Don't* kill any gettys that are not on ports with numbers like ttyS2, ttyS3, etc. Where do I set the spawn time for Id S? What are the standard settings for spawn time? This begins to look like an intallation bug. Please post your /etc/inittab. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
RE: Modem trouble, Please help!!
Thanks to all who have helped thus far... OK, so how do I get the change to stick? I logged in as root, made the change in vi, saved it, exited and printed it to the screen to check... everything looked good. On reboot though, the same error popped up again so I re-displayed the file, the file had healed itself and removed the comment mark! I tried it again, this time invoking the su privilege from root, verified the change, rebooted, and doggone if it didn't heal my change again! Where/How do I change this and make it stay changed? - BOHICA -Original Message- From: Pete Harlan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 25, 1998 12:54 To: BOHICA Subject: Re: Modem trouble, Please help!! S:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1 That's it; comment that line out. --Pete
Re: Modem trouble, Please help!!
BOHICA writes: Where/How do I change this and make it stay changed? Get rid of whatever is changing it back. Something that is running at boot is changing it back. This is a serious bug. I recall that you said that this is a laptop. Are you using any pcmcia stuff? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
