Re: Broken lilo...?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On 6 Mar 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote:

> I mucked up my system by trying to reinstall XP on one of the
> partitions on my /dev/hda - of course, it hosed up my otherwise
> perfectly good, perfectly working lilo. In trying to get BACK to my
> beloved and stable RH, I made the /boot active via using FDISK (set
> active partition) and on booting to linux, got LIL (and that was it).
> 
> I rebooted with the RH Installation CD 1, ran "linux rescue" then did
> the "chroot /mnt/sysimage" - then ran "lilo" again - in the hopes that
> it would put me back to where I was before I mucked up. No luck. I
> start to get the boot, but end up getting the error about "image="
> after it loads half-way. So it ain't fixed.
> 
> I managed to do a "mkbootdisk" and make some modifications to it, but
> I'm still without lilo.
> 
> I've been through the man pages over and over again, have tried heaps
> of different things to get it back, but am still stuck with the
> "image=" bit. I'm lost. Don't want to reinstall, don't want to
> upgrade, just want to get my lilo back to "normal".
> 
> Any hints, tips, fixes, anything short of sacrificing a goat?
> 
> TIA!
> 
What do you get if you boot to Linux with your boot disk, and run:
lilo -v -v

This may give you more information about what lilo is having a problem 
with.  Did the partition number of your root partition change when 
you installed XP?

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Re: Weird Crash (revisited - again)

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 
> >I am new to this thread - did you try updating to the latest kernel?  
> >Some people had problems with the 2.4.18-17 and others with the 
> >2.4.18-18 kernels.  I am not sure about the 2.4.18-24 kernels...
> >
> No I have not, however the system hasn't been able run for any 
> extended period of time with any kernel so far.  It's been running with 
> 2.4.18-24.7.x since it got released, but even before that it would run 
> for long.
> 
> >In any case, you will not have to rebuild the system because of changes 
> >in the motherboard chipset.  If you change CPUs, you have to make sure 
> >the new CPU will run the installed kernel.  Changing Video means 
> >reconfiguring X, but minor stuff.
> >
> Only motherboard will be changed.  Everything else will stay the 
> same.  And since I don't run X anyway, video shouldn't matter (I believe 
> the new board has video build onboard, versus the PCI-X video I'm using 
> now.)  CPU's will also stay the same.
> 
Just had a strange thought - you said you updated from 6.2.  How much 
swap are you running?  I forgot about the 2.4.x kernels liking more swap 
then the 2.2.x kernels required.  I didn't have any problems, but it is 
something to check.  I couldn't find the docs on it right now.

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Re: Upgrade Linux Kernel on 6.2 machine

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
> 
> > I am not sure about the rtl8139 - the card I have didn't have problems
> > with the origional driver.
> 
> Have you ever tried to install and use the card on 6.2 machine ?
> 
> 
Yes, I did. If I remember correctly, it is still in a 6.2 machine.  But
there are a couple of different revesions of the same card.  What
revesion you have makes a difference on how the driver works.  If I
remember correctly, the driver in the origional 6.2 kernel didn't
reconize the later revesions.  But my memory is a bit hazy on this, as
it was over a year ago that this all took place.  You can probably find
a bit about it in the archives for the 6.2 list, as there was a bit of
information exchanged.

I will have to check to see whare that card is right now.  I use mainly 
"tulip" cards here...

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Broken lilo...?

[Stephen Kuhn]

I mucked up my system by trying to reinstall XP on one of the partitions
on my /dev/hda - of course, it hosed up my otherwise perfectly good,
perfectly working lilo. In trying to get BACK to my beloved and stable
RH, I made the /boot active via using FDISK (set active partition) and
on booting to linux, got LIL (and that was it).

I rebooted with the RH Installation CD 1, ran "linux rescue" then did
the "chroot /mnt/sysimage" - then ran "lilo" again - in the hopes that
it would put me back to where I was before I mucked up. No luck. I start
to get the boot, but end up getting the error about "image=" after it
loads half-way. So it ain't fixed.

I managed to do a "mkbootdisk" and make some modifications to it, but
I'm still without lilo.

I've been through the man pages over and over again, have tried heaps of
different things to get it back, but am still stuck with the "image="
bit. I'm lost. Don't want to reinstall, don't want to upgrade, just want
to get my lilo back to "normal".

Any hints, tips, fixes, anything short of sacrificing a goat?

TIA!
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Re: Boot script should have the route set-up?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, J. M. Brenner wrote:

> 
> So, I've got a routing table that more or less works for
> me.  Now where am I expected to put the "route add" commands 
> so that the routing table will still be there after I 
> reboot? 
> 
> My impression is that I need to create this file, and put
> them in there:
> 
>/etc/sysconfig/static-routes
> 
> But I've seen a cryptic note to the effect that this is no 
> good for the "default route", so maybe that's not the whole 
> story. 
> 
> Either I'm being exceptionally thick, or the various and
> sundry documentation of redhat linux network administration
> is pretty lame.
> 
> I'm pretty close to just shoving it all in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> and forgetting about it. 
> 
Well, I am lazy.  For the default route, I just put a gateway entry in 
/etc/sysconfig/network, and the default route takes care of itself.

NETWORKING=yes
GATEWAY=192.168.22.254
HOSTNAME=slave.Infinity-ltd.com

The route to the gateway is taken care of in my case because it is on
the same subnet as the NIC, and that NIC has a static IP address and
netmask.  This system is also running the DHCP server for the network, 
so most of the rest of the machines get all the routing info from this 
machine.

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RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:

> ah ok so a symlink to the dir in the same dir as the symlink?
> if so, that is what i thought.
> 
Yes, the symlink and the directory it points to are both in /usr/src.

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RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:

> 
> and i only have two versions of the kernal, the one from the cd
> install and the new 24.8.0 one.  i admit i did install the debug and
> smp and umi ones for the new kernal.  but these are not really that
> huge.
> 
> could this have been a prob?
> 
That is probably the cause of the "no appropriate templates" error.  It 
probably didn't know what to do with all the different kernel 
configurations...

I am not sure why you didn't get the symlink when you installed the 
kernel source.

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Re: Python

[Gordon Messmer]

irwin wrote:
I just installed Python2.2.2 which was required by Mailman 2.1.  I now have 
three versions of Python installed.   Can I safely remove the earlier two 
versions or is there some run time module that some other program might 
require the early versions?
Depends on your Red Hat release.  Some of the admin tools require 1.5.2, 
 IIRC.  If you try to remove them, rpm should tell you whether or not 
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Re: Access Denied connecting to samba printer (was: Samba PrinterShare)

[Willem Brown]

Edward Dekkers wrote:
I have a Deskjet 820Cse printer installed on my RedHat Linux 7.3 machine.
It works great. I have the printer set up as a share on my network using
Samba. Windows clients can connect to it and everything seems to print ok.
However, when a user clicks on the printer icon from within windows, it
says ACCESS DENIED. Unable to connect to the printer. However, they can
print to it fine. The problem is, they cant manage their documents at all
while they are printing cause they cant see the job due to the access
problem. Weird hu?


Nope, not weird, been banging my head against a brick wall about that one
for a year now. Occasionally I re-google and see what's what, but no single
working solution has presented itself yet. I'm living with the problem at
the moment, as, like you, we CAN print, just not manage jobs.
Add the following line to the printer's definition in smb.conf. @users
is a local group on the print (Linux) server that contains the users
that will use this printer. You could also just add the list of users
to the smb.conf.
printer admin = @users

I'm using Red Hat 7.2 with all the errata applied. I found a post on
groups.google.com saying that this is a bug in the samba package
distributed by Red Hat.
For me it only happens with Windows XP boxes, and for some reason, some
users with less 'access' to the Linux box don't have the problem. For
example if I log onto the XP box as my wife's user, there is no 'access
denied'. Log on as myself or root of all things, and I get 'access denied'.
They all print OK though. I don't get it. All the things I did find I tried
to no avail. All those solution pretty much had a 'YMMV' clause to them, so
I didn't really expect them to work anyway.
Basically, if you have more time than me and figure it out, please keep me
in mind. It would be appreciated.
Regards,

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I hope this helps.

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Python

[irwin]

I just installed Python2.2.2 which was required by Mailman 2.1.  I now have 
three versions of Python installed.   Can I safely remove the earlier two 
versions or is there some run time module that some other program might 
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cycle of sudden slowdown in performance

[Mifsud Raymond at MITTS]

Have implimented redhat linux advanced server 2.1 on two P3 Xeon servers.
Occassionally the servers goes into a cycle of sudden slowdown in performance.
An indication is that this may be connected to the number of processors on the
machine. This is being said because one of the machines has two processors
whilst the other has four processors. Although both suffer degradation in
performance but in the two processors machine it is less of a problem than the
four processor machine.

It is important to note that swap area usge is constantly low.

Has anyone come across such a problem ?
Any help ?

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Samsung Contact Server 8.0.1 and Red Hat 8

[Michael Mansour]

Hi,

I sent an email on this a few days ago, but looking at
the redhat list archives couldn't find it in there.
Strange.

I'm just wondering if anyone has had any experience
with installing Samsung Contact Server 8.0.1 with Red
Hat 8. Did it all work well, any issues to contend
with? etc.

Thanks in advance for your comments, appologies if
this is the second time you'll be replying to this.

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RE: grubby complains

[Mirabella, Mathew J]

i did install a number of kernal packages but i did link one of them into lilo.conf as 
you saw from the output of lilo.conf i sent earlier.
i did this modification to lilo.conf manually after the install of the kernals.
the grubby messages come up on installing the kernal package..

the kernal source you mentioned did install... at least rpm did not report any errors 
at all... it seemed to work fine, but i cannot find the appropriate dir in /usr/src/ 
that should have been created.


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On Wednesday 05 March 2003 11:34 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:
> >  As for the template error, had you already modified your lilo.config
> > file when you (re) installed the most recent kernel?
>
> actually no i modified lilo.conf afterwards

But you had installed a multitude of kernel packages. None of them were 
added to lilo.conf?

> and yes i did try to install that kernel source from i386 you
> mentionedd and no luck,... nothing went into /usr/src i.e. there was no
> dir for linux-2.4.18-24.8.0

Errors, output from the commands? 
We need details before we can help at all.


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Re: [OT] Attention Jonathan M.Slivko

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:03, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote:
> No, I encrypted my *signature*, not the e-mail itself. Apparently, any Outlook 
> mail client is able to read that, but the GNU mail clients cannot for some 
> reason. I have fixed that and all should be working now.
> 

Nice of Microsoft to do things only their own software can read, don't
you think? I know, preaching to the choir and all, but...

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Re: grubby complains

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On Wednesday 05 March 2003 11:34 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:
> >  As for the template error, had you already modified your lilo.config
> > file when you (re) installed the most recent kernel?
>
> actually no i modified lilo.conf afterwards

But you had installed a multitude of kernel packages. None of them were 
added to lilo.conf?

> and yes i did try to install that kernel source from i386 you
> mentionedd and no luck,... nothing went into /usr/src i.e. there was no
> dir for linux-2.4.18-24.8.0

Errors, output from the commands? 
We need details before we can help at all.


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Re: Sendmail cc

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On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 19:00, Nick Ferguson wrote:
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Good Lord, Nick... is SEVENTEEN LINES of legal disclaimer really
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Get a Yahoo! email account, for God's sake, if you're that concerned,
and only use your corporate account for business purposes. That will be
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RE: grubby complains

[Mirabella, Mathew J]

>  As for the template error, had you already modified your lilo.config file 
>  when you (re) installed the most recent kernel?
actually no i modified lilo.conf afterwards

and yes i did try to install that kernel source from i386 you mentionedd and no 
luck,... nothing went into /usr/src
i.e. there was no dir for linux-2.4.18-24.8.0




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On Wednesday 05 March 2003 10:03 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:
> ah ok well i have seem the contents of /boot and yes there are files
> called vmlinux-2.4.18-14
> and
> vmlinux-2.4.18-24.8.0
> things do look ok.
>
> but in another post to this list i mentioned that when visiting
> /lib/modules/
> i saw dirs called
>   linux-2.4.18-14/
>   linux-2.4.18-24.8.0/
> in the 2.4.18-14 one there was a sym link called build, linked to
> /urr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/

>
> but in the/lib/modules/linux-2.4.18-24.8.0 , there was a build sym
> link that was broken. i.e. no target on investigating /usr/src i found
>   linux-2.4.18-14/
>   redhat/
>   linux-2.4 (some kind of symlink)
> but no dir forlinux-2.4.18-24.8.0

You haven't installed the kernel-source package for the 2.4.18-24 kernel.
The broken link points to where the source should be. The broken link 
isn't a problem, it's used when building kernel modules against the 
current kernel source.

> i do not think the source was built, and so the build sym link was
> created broken. some replies to my post suggested installing the i386
> version of the kernel source (rather than the SRPMs version).  on
> trying this, i still get no dir linux-2.4.18-24.8.0/ being created in
> /usr/src

If you install kernel-source-2.4.18-24.8.0.i386.rpm, the files will be 
installed in /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-24.8.0. /usr/src/linux-2.4 will point 
to that directory.
Try 'rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.4.18-24.8.0.i386.rpm'
Then 'rpm -q kernel-source'


> anyway could this grubby error thing when installing the actual kernel
> be a cause of some difficulties in other things not being placed
> properly?  and could this be the cause of the lilo dirty buffer error?

See my other post on the dirty buffer, it appears to be a non issue. 

As for the template error, had you already modified your lilo.config file 
when you (re) installed the most recent kernel?

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RE: kernel install: dirty buffer... templates... error.

[Mirabella, Mathew J]

>  The template error is fatal, as it means grubby was unable to modify the 
>  boot loader configuration.
ok well i did modify the lilo.conf right after installing the new kernal... and on 
reboot it worked fine.  so maybe this is a nonissue for me now.


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> On Monday 03 March 2003 09:34 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:
> > All.
> >
> > I just updated the kernal 2.4.18-14 (which comes on the packaged red
> > hat 8 cds) to the updated 2.4.18-24.8.0 i installed from the i686
> > rpms that are found on the updates site.
> >
> > there were several files...   bigmem, debug, smp and umi etc as well
> > as the normal kernal. I installed them all with
> > rpm -ivh *.rpm
> > Things all seemed to go ok, but i got an error message for each of
> > the kernal rpms just as they installed. dirty buffer ... cannot find
> > appropriate templates.
> > this was quoted as a fatle error...

Taking a guess on the dirty buffer warning, I did a google search. It 
appears that is a warning related to ext3 filesystems, and is non fatal. 
- From the links I saw, it is probably not a problem.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=dirty+buffer+lilo

The template error is fatal, as it means grubby was unable to modify the 
boot loader configuration.

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Re: Sendmail-cf and devel updates

[Joe Polk]

My bad. FOr RH7.3 that is the latest sendmail, not 8.12. Hmmm.

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 23:56, Joe Polk wrote:
> Why is up2date pushing 8.11 sendmail-cf and sendmail-devel rpms onto a
> sendmail-8.12 isntall?
> 
> sendmail-cf-8.11.6-23.73.i3
> sendmail-devel-8.11.6-23.73
> 
> Should I be concerned?
> 
> <>
> 
> 
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Sendmail-cf and devel updates

[Joe Polk]

Why is up2date pushing 8.11 sendmail-cf and sendmail-devel rpms onto a
sendmail-8.12 isntall?

sendmail-cf-8.11.6-23.73.i3
sendmail-devel-8.11.6-23.73

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Re: Upgrade Linux Kernel on 6.2 machine

[edwardspl]

"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:

> I am not sure about the rtl8139 - the card I have didn't have problems
> with the origional driver.

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Re: Encrypting file systems

[Werner Puschitz]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Ed Wilts wrote:

> It's amazing how much Google can helpi yet so few people try this before
> posting.  Try "linux encrypted file system" as a search string.

You even don't have to include "linux" in the search string:
http://www.google.com/linux

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Re: NIC duplex

[Gordon Messmer]

Don Leeper wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to change the duplex on a NIC?
What NIC have you got?  Normally an adapter will auto-detect whether the 
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Re: [OT] What does this script do?

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While you're collecting, a somewhat different version of the same joke,
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chair reading it, so I had to preserve it!

gawk; talk; date; wine; grep; touch; unzip; touch; gasp; finger; gasp;
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Re: geting incorrect password from windows box

[Tom Pollerman]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:33:15 -0500
"Larry Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> OK, before you see the question about using un-encrypted passwords
> in 98 don't go and do so.  You're smb.conf file shows that you are
> enabling encrypted passwords which is sufficient.  When you create a
> user, the user must have a linux account with a password and then an
> smb account with the same username and password.  If you haven't
> done this, the order is...
> 
> useradd tom 
> passwd tom 
> 
> 
> smbpasswd -a tom 
> 
>   (I believe it asks to confirm)
> 
> I'm not sure you have to restart smb, but I would just for the first
> time as a test to make sure the test has the best chance of success.
>  Easiest way to
> restart smb is...
> 
> service smb restart
> 
> 
> Larry S. Brown
> Dimension Networks, Inc.
> (727) 723-8388
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mikkel L.
> Ellertson Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:05 AM
> To: Redhat (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: geting incorrect password from windows box
> 
> On 5 Mar 2003, Muhd Ramley wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm a Linux newbie, running a RH8 box. Trying to configure samba.
> > I can see the shares from the windows machine connecting to samba.
> > But when I click on the shares I keep getting "incorrect password.
> > Try again". I followed every help docs that i could get my hands
> > on, but still same message. Please help
> >
   Also check that the Linux user's UID in /etc/passwd and that same
user's UID in /etc/Samba/smbpasswd are the identical.

   Best,

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RE: Connecting to Xserver running on RH through windows box

[Jerome Dsilva]

Thanks Andrew . I was able to set it up. Can you tell me which file is
updated once this setting is done ? .
BTW, I was under the assumption that cygwin can be used only with the
shell, but not with X .. Through cygwin can we get the X onto the
windows box?.

Thanks
Jerome

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/5/03 3:41:41 PM >>>
Jerome,

we've just achieved this on a RH8 box from Windows. All you need to do
is go
into the Login Screen option in the System Settings menu option (as
root)
and go to the XDMCP tab where you can enable the XDMCP option. After
that,
we didn't change anything in the options below that check box, and it
seems
to work fine.

If you need any more help, just let me know. 

There is also Cygwin and xthinpro, that achieve much the same, but one
is
free and the other costs $50. We've used Exceed for years, but I'm just
in
the middle of testing Cygwin and Xthinpro to see what the differences
are.

Andrew

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Hi
I want to connect to the Xserver running on Redhat from my windows box
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Re: Editing My PATH

[Bret Hughes]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 17:57, Tim Willis wrote:
> I've been trying to add /usr/sbin and /sbin to my path by doing export
> PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin.  However, it seems to only work for the
> current terminal session.  When I re-open the terminal and echo $PATH,
> the two directories are gone from my PATH.
> 
> I've looked at the .bashrc in my home directory, and all I see is the
> following:
> 
> if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
>   . /etc/bashrc
> fi
> 
> I've looked at /etc/bashrc, but can't tell where to edit the actual
> path.  What am I doing wrong?
> 

for a single user look in ~/.bash_profile

/etc/profile for all users

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Re: Weird Crash (revisited - again)

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Bret Hughes wrote:

Have you installed the latest kernel?

   Yes, I have been updating the kernel every time there was a new 
one...  Today's being the last one and I haven't test driven that one 
yet.  For now it's running 2.4.18-24.7.x/smp

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Re: Weird Crash (revisited - again)

[Bret Hughes]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 17:32, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> 
> After not receiving any response from my last post, I continued on 
> digging on my problem server and I'm lost...
> 
> The problem:  After upgrading the server from 6.2 to 7.3 (fresh 
> install), it started to freeze up for no apparent reason.  Nothing in 
> the logs, no high load, no specific process causing any kind of error 
> that I can find.  The freezeups have been happening regularly...pretty 
> much every night now.


Have you installed the latest kernel?  I seem to remember 3 or four
errata releases since the release.  There were some virtual memory bugs
that took a long time (several releases) to get right.  Try and run sar
on the machine so at least you will have data every 10 minutes by
default about what was happening leading up to the crash.  I had major
problems with 7.2 that caused the box to apparently hang but kswapd was
actually eating 99% of the cpu and it would take over 20 minutes to get
an ssh prompt.

I seem to remember that there were still s few issues in the early 7.3
kernels as well.

BTW I believe some of this only showed up on specific hardware.

HTH

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Re: grubby complains

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Wednesday 05 March 2003 10:03 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:
> ah ok well i have seem the contents of /boot and yes there are files
> called vmlinux-2.4.18-14
> and
> vmlinux-2.4.18-24.8.0
> things do look ok.
>
> but in another post to this list i mentioned that when visiting
> /lib/modules/
> i saw dirs called
>   linux-2.4.18-14/
>   linux-2.4.18-24.8.0/
> in the 2.4.18-14 one there was a sym link called build, linked to
> /urr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/

>
> but in the/lib/modules/linux-2.4.18-24.8.0 , there was a build sym
> link that was broken. i.e. no target on investigating /usr/src i found
>   linux-2.4.18-14/
>   redhat/
>   linux-2.4 (some kind of symlink)
> but no dir forlinux-2.4.18-24.8.0

You haven't installed the kernel-source package for the 2.4.18-24 kernel.
The broken link points to where the source should be. The broken link 
isn't a problem, it's used when building kernel modules against the 
current kernel source.

> i do not think the source was built, and so the build sym link was
> created broken. some replies to my post suggested installing the i386
> version of the kernel source (rather than the SRPMs version).  on
> trying this, i still get no dir linux-2.4.18-24.8.0/ being created in
> /usr/src

If you install kernel-source-2.4.18-24.8.0.i386.rpm, the files will be 
installed in /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-24.8.0. /usr/src/linux-2.4 will point 
to that directory.
Try 'rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.4.18-24.8.0.i386.rpm'
Then 'rpm -q kernel-source'


> anyway could this grubby error thing when installing the actual kernel
> be a cause of some difficulties in other things not being placed
> properly?  and could this be the cause of the lilo dirty buffer error?

See my other post on the dirty buffer, it appears to be a non issue. 

As for the template error, had you already modified your lilo.config file 
when you (re) installed the most recent kernel?

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Re: Weird Crash (revisited - again)

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

That's what I'm talking about: why try to fix it, when you can buy a brand 
new box from walmart.com or similar for $299-399? Heck, you could get one 
of their Lindows boxes and install Red Hat on it instead for $199 plus 
shipping.
 

   Because it's a dual system with specific tasks.  Replacing it for a 
wimpy, and/or crappy $300 machine from walmart is not an option.  For 
one I won't have the expansion I need for it, it won't have a SCSI 
chain, it won't have dual processors, it won't hold 4 GB of ram, it 
won't have the room needed for the 4 drives, tape disk and cd...the 
laundry list continues.

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RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

[Mirabella, Mathew J]

no kmy partition for / is more than 20Gb and i have /home on another 20gb hd.  i have 
only just installed rh, although i did install everything and all languages.
but still 20gb is enough space really.

and i only have two versions of the kernal, the one from the cd install and the new 
24.8.0 one.  i admit i did install the debug and smp and umi ones for the new kernal.  
but these are not really that huge.

could this have been a prob?




-Original Message-
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Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2003 2:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.


On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:

> hmmm i wonder why there is no such dir created. this may be a problem
> when i actually installed the kernel itself from the i686 rpm.  when i
> did this, i got a number of grubbby errors relating to no appropriate
> templates being found...
> 
> i wonder if this is meant to do something like install the source as
> well... but i imagine it does not.. as you mentioned the
> kernel-source... i386 is needed for that.
> 
This is strange.  What does "df -h" show for free disk space?  Maybe one 
of your partitions is filling up?  (But RPM should yell about that!) 
I install kernels from .athlon.rpm, and the source from 
.i386.rpm, and I never have problems.  But then, I normaly only 
keep 2 stock kernel versions and 2 custom versions of the kernel 
installed.  (I like haveing the old one, just in case!)  In the case of 
the source code, I use rpm -Uvh to install that.  (Not a good thing to 
do with the kernel itself!)

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Re: kernel install: dirty buffer... templates... error.

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Monday 03 March 2003 09:55 pm, Michael Fratoni wrote:
> On Monday 03 March 2003 09:34 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:
> > All.
> >
> > I just updated the kernal 2.4.18-14 (which comes on the packaged red
> > hat 8 cds) to the updated 2.4.18-24.8.0 i installed from the i686
> > rpms that are found on the updates site.
> >
> > there were several files...   bigmem, debug, smp and umi etc as well
> > as the normal kernal. I installed them all with
> > rpm -ivh *.rpm
> > Things all seemed to go ok, but i got an error message for each of
> > the kernal rpms just as they installed. dirty buffer ... cannot find
> > appropriate templates.
> > this was quoted as a fatle error...

Taking a guess on the dirty buffer warning, I did a google search. It 
appears that is a warning related to ext3 filesystems, and is non fatal. 
- From the links I saw, it is probably not a problem.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=dirty+buffer+lilo

The template error is fatal, as it means grubby was unable to modify the 
boot loader configuration.

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RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

[Mirabella, Mathew J]

ah ok so a symlink to the dir in the same dir as the symlink?
if so, that is what i thought.

-Original Message-
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Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2003 2:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.


On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:

> ok well i also did not find a /usr/src/linux-2.4 directory at all.  i
> did see a /usr/src/linux-2.4 symlink to somewhere.  not sure where.  
> where should this point to? anyway thanks for the tips on diskclean.
> 
distclean, not diskclean.  Make is fussy that way.

On my system, /usr/src/linux-2.4 links to linux-2.4.18-24.7.x, because 
that is the latest version of the kernel source I have installed.  I 
guess things could be different for an 8.0 system, but I thought they 
created the same links...

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Re: Weird Crash (revisited - again)

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

> thing is, it's going to cost upwards of $430 for a new board for this 

That's what I'm talking about: why try to fix it, when you can buy a brand 
new box from walmart.com or similar for $299-399? Heck, you could get one 
of their Lindows boxes and install Red Hat on it instead for $199 plus 
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RE: Java SDK v 1.4.1

[truc nguyen]

What version should I get from java.sun.com ?
Do I use Save As to download it ?
They are execute files .bin How do I extract them ?

Thanks,

TC./





I use the one from http://java.sun.com

-Steve

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I need to download Java SDK v 1.4.1 for Linux Red Hat
7.2.

Do anyone know what web site to download this
compressed file ?

Any suggestion is fully appreciated.

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RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:

> ok well i also did not find a /usr/src/linux-2.4 directory at all.  i
> did see a /usr/src/linux-2.4 symlink to somewhere.  not sure where.  
> where should this point to? anyway thanks for the tips on diskclean.
> 
distclean, not diskclean.  Make is fussy that way.

On my system, /usr/src/linux-2.4 links to linux-2.4.18-24.7.x, because 
that is the latest version of the kernel source I have installed.  I 
guess things could be different for an 8.0 system, but I thought they 
created the same links...

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Re: Weird Crash (revisited - again)

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

I am new to this thread - did you try updating to the latest kernel?  
Some people had problems with the 2.4.18-17 and others with the 
2.4.18-18 kernels.  I am not sure about the 2.4.18-24 kernels...

   No I have not, however the system hasn't been able run for any 
extended period of time with any kernel so far.  It's been running with 
2.4.18-24.7.x since it got released, but even before that it would run 
for long.

In any case, you will not have to rebuild the system because of changes 
in the motherboard chipset.  If you change CPUs, you have to make sure 
the new CPU will run the installed kernel.  Changing Video means 
reconfiguring X, but minor stuff.

   Only motherboard will be changed.  Everything else will stay the 
same.  And since I don't run X anyway, video shouldn't matter (I believe 
the new board has video build onboard, versus the PCI-X video I'm using 
now.)  CPU's will also stay the same.

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RE: grubby complains

[Mirabella, Mathew J]

ah ok well i have seem the contents of /boot and yes there are files called 
vmlinux-2.4.18-14
and
vmlinux-2.4.18-24.8.0
things do look ok.

but in another post to this list i mentioned that when visiting 
/lib/modules/
i saw dirs called
linux-2.4.18-14/
linux-2.4.18-24.8.0/
in the 2.4.18-14 one there was a sym link called build, linked to 
/urr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/

but in the  /lib/modules/linux-2.4.18-24.8.0 , there was a build sym link that was 
broken. i.e. no target 
on investigating /usr/src i found
linux-2.4.18-14/
redhat/
linux-2.4 (some kind of symlink)
but no dir for  linux-2.4.18-24.8.0

i do not think the source was built, and so the build sym link was created broken.
some replies to my post suggested installing the i386 version of the kernel source 
(rather than the SRPMs version).  on trying this, i still get no dir 
linux-2.4.18-24.8.0/ being created in /usr/src

anyway could this grubby error thing when installing the actual kernel be a cause of 
some difficulties in other things not being placed properly?  and could this be the 
cause of the lilo dirty buffer error?




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Subject: Re: grubby complains


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On Wednesday 05 March 2003 06:24 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:
> ok i use lilo.
> here is the lilo.conf
>
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=linux
> boot=/dev/hda5
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> message=/boot/message
> lba32
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
>   label=linux.old
>   initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
>   read-only
>   append="hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/ speakup_synth=dectlk"
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-24.8.0
>   label=linux
>   initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-24.8.0.img
>   read-only
>   append="hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/ speakup_synth=dectlk"
>
> the second image is the newer updated kernal.

Did you add the stanza for the new kernel manually, or did the kernel rpm 
scripts do it? I haven't used lilo for a while, but the config looks OK 
to me.

> here is the output from lilo
>
> LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
> 'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman
[snip]
> but at the end, a dirty buffer error appeared, but i think this would
> have gone to standard error because it did not come out in the file
> when i redirected lilo to the file with >  maybe i have done the wrong
> thing here...

It was mainly the error message I wanted to see. ;) Try this:
lilo -v > lilo.out 2>&1 

That will direct stdout and stderr to the file lilo.out

> rpm -q kernel gives
> kernal-2.4.18-14
> kernal-2.4.18-24.8.0
>
> and sorry, i forgot to get the output of 'ls /boot/{vmlinuz*,initrd*}'

That's fine, I just wanted to be sure the files listed in the config file 
existed in /boot/

> anyway can you tell me an easy way to dump the contents of a console to
> a file...?

You mean redirect output as the command above? 

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RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:

> hmmm i wonder why there is no such dir created. this may be a problem
> when i actually installed the kernel itself from the i686 rpm.  when i
> did this, i got a number of grubbby errors relating to no appropriate
> templates being found...
> 
> i wonder if this is meant to do something like install the source as
> well... but i imagine it does not.. as you mentioned the
> kernel-source... i386 is needed for that.
> 
This is strange.  What does "df -h" show for free disk space?  Maybe one 
of your partitions is filling up?  (But RPM should yell about that!) 
I install kernels from .athlon.rpm, and the source from 
.i386.rpm, and I never have problems.  But then, I normaly only 
keep 2 stock kernel versions and 2 custom versions of the kernel 
installed.  (I like haveing the old one, just in case!)  In the case of 
the source code, I use rpm -Uvh to install that.  (Not a good thing to 
do with the kernel itself!)

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RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

[Mirabella, Mathew J]

hmmm i wonder why there is no such dir created.
this may be a problem when i actually installed the kernel itself from the i686 rpm.  
when i did this, i got a number of grubbby errors relating to no appropriate templates 
being found... 

i wonder if this is meant to do something like install the source as well... but i 
imagine it does not.. as you mentioned the kernel-source... i386 is needed for that.



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Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2003 1:22 PM
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Subject: RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.


On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:

> well actually i did do that as well. i got the kernel-source... i386
> rpm and installed it too.. no luck really since this still did not
> create anything for the new version of the kernal in /usr/src/ should
> it have?
> 
Yes, after running "rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.4.18-24.8.0.i386.rpm" you 
should have a /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-24.8.0 directory, and a 
/usr/src/linux-2/4 symlink pointing to it.  There should be all kinds of 
directories under /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-24.8.0.

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Re: [OT?] X starts, but desktop never appears

[Bret Hughes]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 16:05, William Warren wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:10:57PM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 17:50, William Warren wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> > > I'm running a Dell Dimension with an S3 Virge card, 128 MB Ram, and 9
> > > GB SCSI HD. The SCSI controller is an Adaptec 2940. 
> > > (Added 3/5) I'm running RH 7.3.
> > > 
> > > The root user lost its X desktop during one of the up2date runs. It
> > > used to be there, but now it's gone. Other users are not affected.
> > > 

snip
> > 
> > When you're at the console as "root", what about trying:
> > 
> > switchdesk windowmaker
> > 
> > ...then trying to run "startx" again? If that works, then you can do:
> > 
> > switchdesk kde
> > 
> > or 
> > 
> > switchdesk gnome
> > 
> > ...and try to get back into X, ay?
> > -- 
> > Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Kuhn Media Australia
> 
> Steve,
> 
> Sorry, no luck: the 'switchdesk' utility completed normally, but 
> when I do 'startx', it's the same gray background and nothing else 
> but the mouse pointer.
> 
> Bill
> 

what about non root user?  also you might try startx > startlog.out 2>&1
and see if you can capture what is happening.

If all else fails, try renaming all the .gnome dirs and see if that
helps.

What was updated?

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RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

[Mirabella, Mathew J]

ok well i also did not find a /usr/src/linux-2.4 directory at all.  i did see a 
/usr/src/linux-2.4  symlink to somewhere.  not sure where.  where should this point to?
anyway thanks for the tips on diskclean.



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Subject: RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.


On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:

> btw.  why is it the case that i need the i386 source rpm.  when in
> fact i have used the i686 rpm for the kernel install itself. maybe i
> am wrong, but i imagine that the SRPMS contain the source for all
> archs including i686 and i386... etc. and the kernel source listed in
> the i386 would be the standard i386 one, with no source for
> optimisation to i686 (which is the basis for the binary that i have as
> the kernal now). ccan you please explain and correct me if i am wrong.
> 
It should realy be a no-arch rpm, but that is what it is called.  You 
actualy pick the cpu as one of the config options of the kernel.  
Including a few options that you will not find rpms for.  If you want a 
copy of the .config file RedHat used to build the kernel, look in the 
configs directory.  The one you will want is probably 
kernel-2.4.18-i686.config,  You will want to copy it to ../.config.

One other point - before you do anything else, run "make distclean" in 
the /usr/src/linux-2.4 directory after you install the new source code.  
For some reasion, the code as packaged by Redhat, at least on every 
version or 2.4 I have installed the source for, will generate errors 
when building modules if you do not run this.

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Re: grubby complains

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Wednesday 05 March 2003 06:24 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:
> ok i use lilo.
> here is the lilo.conf
>
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=linux
> boot=/dev/hda5
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> message=/boot/message
> lba32
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
>   label=linux.old
>   initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
>   read-only
>   append="hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/ speakup_synth=dectlk"
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-24.8.0
>   label=linux
>   initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-24.8.0.img
>   read-only
>   append="hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/ speakup_synth=dectlk"
>
> the second image is the newer updated kernal.

Did you add the stanza for the new kernel manually, or did the kernel rpm 
scripts do it? I haven't used lilo for a while, but the config looks OK 
to me.

> here is the output from lilo
>
> LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
> 'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman
[snip]
> but at the end, a dirty buffer error appeared, but i think this would
> have gone to standard error because it did not come out in the file
> when i redirected lilo to the file with >  maybe i have done the wrong
> thing here...

It was mainly the error message I wanted to see. ;) Try this:
lilo -v > lilo.out 2>&1 

That will direct stdout and stderr to the file lilo.out

> rpm -q kernel gives
> kernal-2.4.18-14
> kernal-2.4.18-24.8.0
>
> and sorry, i forgot to get the output of 'ls /boot/{vmlinuz*,initrd*}'

That's fine, I just wanted to be sure the files listed in the config file 
existed in /boot/

> anyway can you tell me an easy way to dump the contents of a console to
> a file...?

You mean redirect output as the command above? 

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Re: Weird Crash (revisited - again)

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

> Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> 
> >Sometimes hardware is just crappy--even when it's brand new. If you have 
> >lots of unexplainable errors, it's sometimes cheaper just to buy a new 
> >system than to troubleshoot the components.
> >  
> >
> The bad thing is, it's been running fine...till now.  The other
> bad thing is, it's going to cost upwards of $430 for a new board for
> this box.  Blah!  Not counting having to rebuild the system because of
> a different brand board with different chipsets  Or do I?
> 
I am new to this thread - did you try updating to the latest kernel?  
Some people had problems with the 2.4.18-17 and others with the 
2.4.18-18 kernels.  I am not sure about the 2.4.18-24 kernels...

In any case, you will not have to rebuild the system because of changes 
in the motherboard chipset.  If you change CPUs, you have to make sure 
the new CPU will run the installed kernel.  Changing Video means 
reconfiguring X, but minor stuff.

You can do things like pull the hard drive from an installed Pentium 
system, and drop it into an Athlon system, and have it work in text 
mode.  X may even work, depending on the origional and new vedio chip 
sets...

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Re: Upgrade Linux Kernel on 6.2 machine

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> Would you mind to tell me how to upgrade the Linux Kernel on 6.2 machine
> with quick guide ?
> And is there any resolution about the problem of Network card ( rtl8139
> chips set ) ?
> When I add a PCI network card into server machine ( 6.2 ) and restart
> the network ( /etc/rc.d./init.d/network )...
> error message :
> eth1 : Can't allocate a 65536 bytes receive ring ?
> 
> So, can you help me ?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Edward.
> 
http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/kernel-upgrade/kernel-upgrade.html

I am not sure about the rtl8139 - the card I have didn't have problems 
with the origional driver.

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RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:

> btw.  why is it the case that i need the i386 source rpm.  when in
> fact i have used the i686 rpm for the kernel install itself. maybe i
> am wrong, but i imagine that the SRPMS contain the source for all
> archs including i686 and i386... etc. and the kernel source listed in
> the i386 would be the standard i386 one, with no source for
> optimisation to i686 (which is the basis for the binary that i have as
> the kernal now). ccan you please explain and correct me if i am wrong.
> 
It should realy be a no-arch rpm, but that is what it is called.  You 
actualy pick the cpu as one of the config options of the kernel.  
Including a few options that you will not find rpms for.  If you want a 
copy of the .config file RedHat used to build the kernel, look in the 
configs directory.  The one you will want is probably 
kernel-2.4.18-i686.config,  You will want to copy it to ../.config.

One other point - before you do anything else, run "make distclean" in 
the /usr/src/linux-2.4 directory after you install the new source code.  
For some reasion, the code as packaged by Redhat, at least on every 
version or 2.4 I have installed the source for, will generate errors 
when building modules if you do not run this.

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RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:

> well actually i did do that as well. i got the kernel-source... i386
> rpm and installed it too.. no luck really since this still did not
> create anything for the new version of the kernal in /usr/src/ should
> it have?
> 
Yes, after running "rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.4.18-24.8.0.i386.rpm" you 
should have a /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-24.8.0 directory, and a 
/usr/src/linux-2/4 symlink pointing to it.  There should be all kinds of 
directories under /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-24.8.0.

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Re: Weird Crash (revisited - again)

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

Sometimes hardware is just crappy--even when it's brand new. If you have 
lots of unexplainable errors, it's sometimes cheaper just to buy a new 
system than to troubleshoot the components.
 

   The bad thing is, it's been running fine...till now.  The other bad 
thing is, it's going to cost upwards of $430 for a new board for this 
box.  Blah!  Not counting having to rebuild the system because of a 
different brand board with different chipsets  Or do I?

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Re: Should the kernel be re-compiled when a new driver is added?

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Charlie Song wrote:

> When I develop a new driver, should the kernel be re-compiled at all?

I'm almost afraid to ask why you're developing a kernel driver when you
don't know enough about the kernel to answer this question yourself.

That said, probably yes if it's a module. The kernel needs stub code for
almost every loadable module; otherwise, it wouldn't know how to call it.
I don't know of any exceptions, but I think I remember someone telling me
there were a few. 

If it's a userland driver, then probably no as long as it uses standard
APIs to communicate with the kernel.

At any rate, you'd be better off asking this question on a kernel or
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Re: How long does a socket sit in CLOSE_WAIT for?

[Todd A. Jacobs]

Until it receives an ACK to the last FIN sent to the remote, or until
tcp_fin_timeout is exceeded: usually 60 seconds, but it's configurable.

A good state transition diagram can be found at:

http://www.utdallas.edu/~cantrell/ee6345/pocketguide.pdf

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Re: How to make a second harddisk work?

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Charlie Song wrote:

> I'm adding a second harddisk to my computer. Why cann't I find that
> harddisk at Disk Management. Could anyone tell me how to make it work?

Does the disk show up on your BIOS boot screen?

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Re: SENDMAIL Customisation?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On 6 Mar 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote:

> My system is: RH 7.3+, SENDMAIL I have is the default for RH 7.3 - so I
> haven't updated/upgraded it (not that I want to).
> 
> The question is, however, I've been trying to dig through all the
> sendmail configurations - and am trying to find out where I can
> customise the error messages and other inbound/outbound messages - silly
> as it may seem, but I need to figure them out.
> 
> So, if anyone has a magic key to this issue, I'd really appreciate
> hearing about it. Thanks!
> 
> 
If you are after something like specific bounce messages for Spam, you 
can use the /etc/mail/access file for that.  If you realy want to get 
creatice, you can edit sendmail.cf, and change the messages.  Or you can 
go digging into the .m4 files that are used to create the sendmail.cf 
file, and modify the strings there.  (/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/...)

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Re: kernel doesnt seem to take user-specified kernel options

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, lar lar wrote:

> i have a server that's dead, when it boots up it gives the 
> following message, complaining it cant find initrd:
> "Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel"
> booting with linux init=/bin/sh, it still complains about not 
> finding initrd, and gives the same message. booting linux rescue 
> doesn't seem to phase it either, neither does specifying root= and 
> kernel=. gives the same messages upon boot every time. is there 
> some option you can compile with to make the kernel not take user-
> specified options on boot, and if so, is there a way to get around 
> it, or is there something else wrong?
> 
Try booting from one of the rescue floppies or CDs (or even the rescue 
mode on the install CD/disk).  If it isn't finding the initial ramdisk, 
then chances are it isn't able to load modules needed to access the root 
file system, or you have a hard drive problem.  If it is just the 
drivers, you can rebuilt the initial ramdisk, and go from there.  If it 
is the hard drive, it may require hands-on from a "geek"...

If you made an emergency boot floppy during install, now is the time to 
dig it out!  If you can boot the system off the floppy, then see what 
errors you get.  If you get the same error message from the boot floppy, 
then it is a bad hard drive.  (Hardware, or a disk curruption...)

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RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

[Mirabella, Mathew J]

btw.  why is it the case that i need the i386 source rpm.  when in fact i have used 
the i686 rpm for the kernel install itself.
maybe i am wrong, but i imagine that the SRPMS contain the source for all archs 
including i686 and i386... etc. and the kernel source listed in the i386 would be the 
standard i386 one, with no source for optimisation to i686 (which is the basis for the 
binary that i have as the kernal now).
ccan you please explain and correct me if i am wrong.



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On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:

> All.
> 
> I have a problem installing the emu10k1 stuff.  I got it from cvs
> (latest source) and read the instructions in the ./doc/redme file.  
> it says you should be able to do a make and if the right kernel is
> reported, do a make again, and then make install.  change the
> modules-info file.. etc.
> 
> so i did  a make and got an error message.
> 
> /lib/modules/linux-2.4.18-24.8.0/build... no such file or directory...
> or could not be found etc. i expect that to use emu10k1 you have to
> have kernal source at hand.
> 
[BIG SNIP]
> 
> Anyway.  how can i get the 2.4.18-24.8.0 source in the right place?  
> how can i install emu10k1 properly?
> 
Try installing kernel-source-2.4.18-24.8.0.i386.rpm  Do not install the 
kernel-.src.rpm files - they are not what you are after.

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Upgrade Linux Kernel on 6.2 machine

[edwardspl]

Dear all,

Would you mind to tell me how to upgrade the Linux Kernel on 6.2 machine
with quick guide ?
And is there any resolution about the problem of Network card ( rtl8139
chips set ) ?
When I add a PCI network card into server machine ( 6.2 ) and restart
the network ( /etc/rc.d./init.d/network )...
error message :
eth1 : Can't allocate a 65536 bytes receive ring ?

So, can you help me ?

Thanks!

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RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

[Mirabella, Mathew J]

well actually i did do that as well. i got the kernel-source... i386 rpm and installed 
it too.. no luck really since this still did not create anything for the new version 
of the kernal in /usr/src/  should it have?


-Original Message-
From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:43 PM
To: RedHat List
Subject: Re: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.


On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:

> All.
> 
> I have a problem installing the emu10k1 stuff.  I got it from cvs
> (latest source) and read the instructions in the ./doc/redme file.  
> it says you should be able to do a make and if the right kernel is
> reported, do a make again, and then make install.  change the
> modules-info file.. etc.
> 
> so i did  a make and got an error message.
> 
> /lib/modules/linux-2.4.18-24.8.0/build... no such file or directory...
> or could not be found etc. i expect that to use emu10k1 you have to
> have kernal source at hand.
> 
[BIG SNIP]
> 
> Anyway.  how can i get the 2.4.18-24.8.0 source in the right place?  
> how can i install emu10k1 properly?
> 
Try installing kernel-source-2.4.18-24.8.0.i386.rpm  Do not install the 
kernel-.src.rpm files - they are not what you are after.

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RE: geting incorrect password from windows box

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Larry Brown wrote:

> OK, before you see the question about using un-encrypted passwords in 98
> don't go and do so.  You're smb.conf file shows that you are enabling
> encrypted passwords which is sufficient.  When you create a user, the user
> must have a linux account with a password and then an smb account with the
> same username and password.  If you haven't done this, the order is...
>
You do not have to have the same Unix and Samba passwords.  Also, if 
needed, you can map Window usernames to Unix user names. (smbusers 
file.)
> 
> useradd tom 
> passwd tom 
> 
> 
> smbpasswd -a tom 
> 
>   (I believe it asks to confirm)
> 
> I'm not sure you have to restart smb, but I would just for the first
> time as a test to make sure the test has the best chance of success.  
> Easiest way to restart smb is...
> 
Nope, you don't have to restart the smb service.
>
> service smb restart
> 
> 
> Larry S. Brown
> 
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Re: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:

> All.
> 
> I have a problem installing the emu10k1 stuff.  I got it from cvs
> (latest source) and read the instructions in the ./doc/redme file.  
> it says you should be able to do a make and if the right kernel is
> reported, do a make again, and then make install.  change the
> modules-info file.. etc.
> 
> so i did  a make and got an error message.
> 
> /lib/modules/linux-2.4.18-24.8.0/build... no such file or directory...
> or could not be found etc. i expect that to use emu10k1 you have to
> have kernal source at hand.
> 
[BIG SNIP]
> 
> Anyway.  how can i get the 2.4.18-24.8.0 source in the right place?  
> how can i install emu10k1 properly?
> 
Try installing kernel-source-2.4.18-24.8.0.i386.rpm  Do not install the 
kernel-.src.rpm files - they are not what you are after.

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Re: [OT] Attention Jonathan M.Slivko

[Bret Hughes]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 21:15, Edward Dekkers wrote:
> Sorry to do it this way, list, but I can't even get Jonathan's private
> e-mail address.
> 
> Jonathan, just to let you know here at work (where we use Outlook Express
> popping off a RedHat 7.3 server), I cannot open ANY of your e-mails. There's
> more people in the list using Digitally Signed mails, and after a
> authorization delay, I can open them fine. In fact, yours are the only ones
> I can't open.
> 
> I know OE is a crap mail client, but in that I don't have a lot of choice
> I'm afraid.
> 
> Could you check your settings? Or, if someone on this list has the same
> predicament as me (using crap e-mail clients), let me know if and how they
> got around it?
> 

Evolution does not open them either.  I just blow past these messages.

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Re: CAUTION: Compiling new SENDMAIL

[clemens]

> 
> Are you refering to compiling the SRPM, or from Sendmail.org's source tarball?
> 
The Source from www.sendmail.org

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RE: FreeSWAN walkthrough?

[Cameron . Davidson]

Stephen Corey  wrote on Thursday, 6 March 2003
07:29:

> Has anyone gotten FreeSWAN working on RH 7.3? I'm
> trying it now, and getting an error recompiling the
> kernel with the AES patch. I was wondering if anyone
> had a step-by-step on it that applied to 7.3..
> 

I got it to work (7.3), with a bit of tinkering with the configuration
in freeswan.
Differences in my case were:
1. I build the kernel without module support.
2. The kernel is for a different machine than where it is being compiled
and I don't use the standard RH source directory naming convention.
3. I was building Super-freeswan (www.freeswan.ca) with
 some preapplied patches.


1. make sure you have first configured and built your kernel, before
adding freeswan. You might need a "make mrproper", depending on your
setup.
2. edit the freeswan config info -  in Makefile.inc.
I had to set some items such
as "KERNCLEAN" and KERNDEP to null string. I'm working from memory,
so it's a bit hazy. One of these was necessary, the other does not
seem to have been a problem.
3. I also edited KERNSRC to point specifically to my source.

It then seemed to work smoothly (until I had to learn about certificates)

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Re: Weird Crash (revisited - again)

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

> be causing this.  The system is two years old (give or take 6 months,
> and was running for months at a time under 6.2...now I can't even get
> one week uptime.

Can't really offer much help, except that you might want to order a board 
diagnostics kit from somewhere to test the board itself. 

Just some anecdotal (and completely unhelpful) info about weird things
that can go wrong: I have a system here that dies horribly if the load
goes over 50% for any length of time. I finally pinned it down to a heat
problem; without enough HLT cycles, the CPU fan can't keep up and the
system crashes. I can't replace the fan/heatsink without replacing the
CPU, so I just keep the load low and don't use it for anything important.

Sometimes hardware is just crappy--even when it's brand new. If you have 
lots of unexplainable errors, it's sometimes cheaper just to buy a new 
system than to troubleshoot the components.

Wish I had a better answer for you.

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Re: SENDMAIL Customisation?

[Gerry Doris]

On 6 Mar 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 08:57, Gerry Doris wrote:
> > On 6 Mar 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> > 
> > > My system is: RH 7.3+, SENDMAIL I have is the default for RH 7.3 - so I
> > > haven't updated/upgraded it (not that I want to).
> > > 
> > > The question is, however, I've been trying to dig through all the
> > > sendmail configurations - and am trying to find out where I can
> > > customise the error messages and other inbound/outbound messages - silly
> > > as it may seem, but I need to figure them out.
> > > 
> > > So, if anyone has a magic key to this issue, I'd really appreciate
> > > hearing about it. Thanks!
> > 
> > If you really want to dig into the guts of sendmail then get O'Reilly's 
> > Bat book.  It's got more than anyone should ever know about sendmail.  
> > They released a new version a couple of months ago
> > 
> > -- 
> > Gerry
> 
> Is there anything other than something that has to be purchased? Times
> are tough and money's hard (g) (Married w/ Children)

The internet is full of stuff on sendmail.  Just do a google for the 
specifics. 

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Re: GnuCash QIF Import ???

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Dante Bell wrote:

> Anyone using QIF import for GnuCash?  I'm getting a failure and don't
> know why.  Any doc on what the expected file format is??  Did a search,
> but didn't find anything usefull.

Did you check the archives over at the gnucash site? Did you report the 
bug to them? Asking for help without providing version numbers and error 
messages is just begging to be ignored.

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Re: NIC duplex

[Jeff Kinz]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:22:20PM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:10:07PM -0900, Don Leeper wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me how to change the duplex on a NIC?
> 
> The mii-tool command can set some params on a NIC but the docs don't
> indicate the ability to set the duplex. just the speed and whether it
> auto negotiates.  

And (following up to my own post ;-) after poking around for a minute 
via google I found that even Donald Becker is stymied by this particular
issue.  Each NIC is so different that each vendor must provide their own
support for doing this to each different NIX.  For example 3com requires you
to set option on the "insmod" command line when the kernel is coming up
(i.e - boot time) to set the card in full duplex mode.  And to do this you
firts have to build the driver as a loadable module.


from: http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linux/990fxreadme.txt:



Configuration options for the Driver Module
===
The 3C990 driver supports the following options, which can be 
supplied as command line arguments to the insmod command or in the 
configuration file. Configuration file on RedHat 6.x is
/etc/conf.modules file. Configuration file on RedHat 7.x is
/etc/modules.conf

Unless otherwise stated, all settings take the form of:

force=value [,value ]

value can be 
1) 0[10 Megabit Half Duplex]
2) 1[10 Megabit Full Duplex]
3) 2[100 Megabit Half Duplex]
4) 3[100 Megabit Full Duplex]
5) 4[Default option: Auto]

NOTE:  If you use the conf.modules file to load the driver at
boot time, include the word "options" when configuring the driver.
For example:  options 3c990 force=0

If you use command line insmod, do not include the word "option"
when configuring the driver. For example:  #insmod ./3c990.o force=0
will force the 10 Megabit half duplex settings.
 
If you have multiple adapters, settings can be done by specifying the 
value of force for each adapter. For example:

a) #insmod ./3c990.o force=0,2
 
   This will force the settings for first NIC to 10 Megabit Half Duplex 
   and the second NIC to 100 Megabit Full duplex.

#


This looks like a tough one Don.  I hope somebody on-list knows something
more useful about this.



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Re: How to access Windows 2000 from linux?

[Anthony E. Greene]

On 05-Mar-2003/16:06 -0500, Charlie Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How can my linux computer access a windows 2000 computer?

In Nautilus or Konqueror, you should be able to use an address like 

  smb://

to browse the network.

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nic duplex

[Don Leeper]

Can anyone tell me how to change the duplex on a NIC?

 

Don 




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Re: NIC duplex

[Jeff Kinz]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:10:07PM -0900, Don Leeper wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to change the duplex on a NIC?

The mii-tool command can set some params on a NIC but the docs don't
indicate the ability to set the duplex. just the speed and whether it
auto negotiates.  

(psst. - no mimes or html on this list pls

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How long does a socket sit in CLOSE_WAIT for?

[David Busby]

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Re: Error when extracting tar-ed rhn_packages

[Edward Dekkers]

> hmm... not quite sure I understand... I downloaded by clicking the
"Download"
> button, and Mozilla (v 1.2.1) open a save dialog box. The same way I
download
> all other (tar.gz) stuffs of the web...

I personally try to use a browser to download as least as possible. I've had
instances where the download says it's done, but bytes are missing off the
end, or the browser somehow seems to mangle the download.

This may not be your case, admittedly. The file on the server could be
corrupt as well (this has happened to me as well in the past).

My main suggestion was basically to say 'try downloading the file again
using somehing else if possible'.

Sorry, should've been clearer.

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NIC duplex

[Don Leeper]

Can anyone tell me how to change the duplex on a NIC?

 

Don 

 

Re: Editing My PATH

[Ed . Greshko]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2003, Tim Willis wrote:

> I've been trying to add /usr/sbin and /sbin to my path by doing export
> PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin.  However, it seems to only work for the
> current terminal session.  When I re-open the terminal and echo $PATH,
> the two directories are gone from my PATH.

You can add...

PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin

to your .bashrc file.

>
> I've looked at the .bashrc in my home directory, and all I see is the
> following:
>
> if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
>   . /etc/bashrc
> fi
>
> I've looked at /etc/bashrc, but can't tell where to edit the actual
> path.  What am I doing wrong?
>
> I want to add these so I can run ifconfig and traceroute without having
> to cd to their relative directories.
>
> Thanks!
>
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Re: Bind vulnerability: BIND: Remote Execution of Code" (doesredhat has a patch)

[Jose Vicente Nunez Z]

Greetings,

Nevermind, Bind on RH72 (and up) is 9.1.3-4, which is not vulnerable
(check
http://www.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp?oid=21469).

JV. 

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 18:43, Jose Vicente Nunez Z wrote:
> Hi to all,
> 
> Does anyone know if Redhat has a patch for the following vulnerability:
> 
> 
> http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html
> 
> I checked the errata, but only found the following fix (not related):
> 
> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-133.html
> 
> The say that disabling recursion should allow to avoid the bug, but what
> if recursion is enabled for Intra-net clients but not for external
> clients?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> JV.
> 
> 
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Editing My PATH

[Tim Willis]

I've been trying to add /usr/sbin and /sbin to my path by doing export
PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin.  However, it seems to only work for the
current terminal session.  When I re-open the terminal and echo $PATH,
the two directories are gone from my PATH.

I've looked at the .bashrc in my home directory, and all I see is the
following:

if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi

I've looked at /etc/bashrc, but can't tell where to edit the actual
path.  What am I doing wrong?

I want to add these so I can run ifconfig and traceroute without having
to cd to their relative directories.

Thanks!
 
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Bind vulnerability: BIND: Remote Execution of Code" (does redhathas a patch)

[Jose Vicente Nunez Z]

Hi to all,

Does anyone know if Redhat has a patch for the following vulnerability:


http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html

I checked the errata, but only found the following fix (not related):

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-133.html

The say that disabling recursion should allow to avoid the bug, but what
if recursion is enabled for Intra-net clients but not for external
clients?

Thanks in advance.

JV.


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Weird Crash (revisited - again)

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

   After not receiving any response from my last post, I continued on 
digging on my problem server and I'm lost...

   The problem:  After upgrading the server from 6.2 to 7.3 (fresh 
install), it started to freeze up for no apparent reason.  Nothing in 
the logs, no high load, no specific process causing any kind of error 
that I can find.  The freezeups have been happening regularly...pretty 
much every night now.

   What I've done so far:
   - Ran memtest86 for hours on end - no errors  (with only one
   specific configuration option causing the system to
   freeze again - whenever I told it to do a BIOS All test,
   as opposed to a BIOS Standard.  As soon as I picked 'All',
   it would rescan the system cache and memory and freeze.
   I'm not sure what that means.)
   - Removed ram sticks, even replaced them - no difference
   - Removed attached SCSI chain, even pulled out the Adaptec
   controller card - no difference
   - Removed one of the CPUs and let it run with only 1 (and
   booting the correct kernel) - no difference
   - Swapped CPUs - no difference
   - Removed hard drives that aren't needed - no difference
   So I'm faced with two things now that I can think of:  a) the power 
supply, or b) the motherboard.  One thing I've noticed is that out of 
the 10 servers I have running, this is the only one that every few hours 
has to re-adjust its clock.  All the other machines can run for days 
without needing an adjustment.  This one seems to do it a few times a 
day.  So maybe that's something to look at.

   Tonight will be another test - I've dropped a different 128 Mb stick 
in yet again (the other 4 GB is sitting on the table).  If by morning 
it's dead again, I honestly don't know what else to look for.  I'll 
probably swap the board.  Someone please give me some idea of what may 
be causing this.  The system is two years old (give or take 6 months, 
and was running for months at a time under 6.2...now I can't even get 
one week uptime.

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RE: grubby complains

[Mirabella, Mathew J]

ok i use lilo.
here is the lilo.conf

prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/hda5
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
lba32

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
label=linux.old
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
read-only
append="hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/ speakup_synth=dectlk"

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-24.8.0
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-24.8.0.img
read-only
append="hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/ speakup_synth=dectlk"

the second image is the newer updated kernal.

here is the output from lilo

LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman

Reading boot sector from /dev/hda5
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Secondary loader: 11 sectors.
Mapping message file /boot/message
Message: 230 sectors.
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
Setup length is 10 sectors.
Mapped 11000 sectors.
Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
RAM disk: 1275 sectors.
Added linux.old
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-24.8.0
Setup length is 10 sectors.
Mapped 10875 sectors.
Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd-2.4.18-24.8.0.img
RAM disk: 1270 sectors.
Added linux *
/boot/boot.0305 exists - no backup copy made.
Map file size: 30720 bytes.
Writing boot sector.

but at the end, a dirty buffer error appeared, but i think this would have gone to 
standard error because it did not come out in the file when i redirected lilo to the 
file with >  maybe i have done the wrong thing here... 

rpm -q kernel gives
kernal-2.4.18-14
kernal-2.4.18-24.8.0

and sorry, i forgot to get the output of 'ls /boot/{vmlinuz*,initrd*}'

anyway can you tell me an easy way to dump the contents of a console to a file...?



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On Tuesday 04 March 2003 11:53 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:
> ok i will do so asap.
> i would mention that lilo reports a dirty buffer error whenever i run
> it.

Then let's see the output of 'lilo -vv' (that's 2 v's, not a w) as well.

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Re: [RH List] Re: High ports seen

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Jonathan Bartlett wrote:

That's because you've gone over the maximum port number - 65536.

65557 - 65535 = 21 - standard FTP
 

   66346 -> unknown
   

Port 810 - I have no idea what this is.
 

   Okay, this puts me at ease then.  Port 810 is related to nfs...when 
it starts its daemons, they start listening on various ports which 
happen to change every time you restart the service.

   Thanks.

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Which command can be used to fix memory size in GRUB.conf

[Charlie Song]

Hi All,
 
Does anyone know which command can be used to fix 
memory size in boot loader file GRUB.conf ? I know a "append" command can be 
used at lilo.conf.
 
 
thanks,
 
Charlie

Re: How to make a second harddisk work?

[gabriel]

On March 5, 2003 04:05 pm, Charlie Song wrote:
> I'm adding a second harddisk to my computer. Why cann't I find that
> harddisk at Disk Management. Could anyone tell me how to make it work?

my advice would be to ignore the redhat tools alltogether.  on your command 
line do the following:

fdisk /dev/hdX (where "X" is the letter for that drive.  normally "a/b/c/d")



mke2fs -j /dev/hdX# (where "#" is the partition number you made up in fdisk)

  edit fstab to mount your new drive wherever you'd like:

/dev/hdX#   ext3  noatime 0 0


an example of the above:

fdisk /dev/hdb
 
n
p
1


w

mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1

mkdir /mnt/bigdrive

vi fstab
  
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/bigdrive ext3 noatime 0 0


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Gnome Desktop right-click menu

[Brent S Clark]

Hello,

I'm running Red Hat 8.0

Does anyone know how to modify the entries on the right-click menu in
Gnome? This is the menu that pops up when you right-click on the desktop. I
want to change it so that the terminal that opens from the desktop
right-click menu opens @ 100x30 instead of the default 80x24.

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Re: please help-unsuscribe

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Welcome to the Hotel California

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Re: constant reboots

[sco]

hmmm... this box is a prime candidate for a bad fan, it's been sitting in 
the corner chugging along for a long time.

i'll open it up and check when i get home.

-scott


On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Jeff Lane wrote:

> Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Or a bad fan... I used to have a PIII that would constantly reboot 
> itself...  what happened was that hte fan was near death, and was not 
> adequately cooling the proc off, so it would heat up, reboot.  heat up, 
> reboot... and on and on, till I finally popped the case, and realize 
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RE: Internet browser closes by itself

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 02:58, Rodrigo Pasamba wrote:
> The browser I'm using is mozilla.
> 

What about blowing out the .mozilla directory from your home directory
and trying it again?

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Re: SENDMAIL Customisation?

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 08:57, Gerry Doris wrote:
> On 6 Mar 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> 
> > My system is: RH 7.3+, SENDMAIL I have is the default for RH 7.3 - so I
> > haven't updated/upgraded it (not that I want to).
> > 
> > The question is, however, I've been trying to dig through all the
> > sendmail configurations - and am trying to find out where I can
> > customise the error messages and other inbound/outbound messages - silly
> > as it may seem, but I need to figure them out.
> > 
> > So, if anyone has a magic key to this issue, I'd really appreciate
> > hearing about it. Thanks!
> 
> If you really want to dig into the guts of sendmail then get O'Reilly's 
> Bat book.  It's got more than anyone should ever know about sendmail.  
> They released a new version a couple of months ago
> 
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RE: FreeSWAN walkthrough?

[Larry Brown]

I've installed it about 4 times on RH7 and 7.2.  Unfortunately I don't have
any magic bullets for you though.  I know you have to untar the source in
/usr/src and then add a symbolic link to the kernel source naming it linux,
but I seem to remember that the steps for compiling on the web documentation
at freeswan.org worked well.

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Subject: FreeSWAN walkthrough?

Has anyone gotten FreeSWAN working on RH 7.3? I'm
trying it now, and getting an error recompiling the
kernel with the AES patch. I was wondering if anyone
had a step-by-step on it that applied to 7.3..

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Re: SENDMAIL Customisation?

[Gerry Doris]

On 6 Mar 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote:

> My system is: RH 7.3+, SENDMAIL I have is the default for RH 7.3 - so I
> haven't updated/upgraded it (not that I want to).
> 
> The question is, however, I've been trying to dig through all the
> sendmail configurations - and am trying to find out where I can
> customise the error messages and other inbound/outbound messages - silly
> as it may seem, but I need to figure them out.
> 
> So, if anyone has a magic key to this issue, I'd really appreciate
> hearing about it. Thanks!

If you really want to dig into the guts of sendmail then get O'Reilly's 
Bat book.  It's got more than anyone should ever know about sendmail.  
They released a new version a couple of months ago

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Re: High ports seen

[Jonathan Bartlett]

That's because you've gone over the maximum port number - 65536.

65557 - 65535 = 21 - standard FTP

> 65557 -> FTP response
ftp

> 65558 -> SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.1p1 response
ssh

> 65589 -> unknown
dns

> 65616 -> HTTPd response
http

> 65647 -> unknown
portmapper

> 66346 -> unknown
Port 810 - I have no idea what this is.

Jon

>
>
> nmap reports the following ports open:
>
> Port   State   Service
> 21/tcp openftp
> 22/tcp openssh
> 53/tcp opendomain
> 80/tcp openhttp
> 111/tcpopensunrpc
> 810/tcpopenunknown   (nfs related port)
> 953/tcpopenrndc
> 2401/tcp   opencvspserver
> 3306/tcp   openmysql
>
>
> So what are those 6 high ports?  And why are they listening?
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Re: [OT?] X starts, but desktop never appears

[William Warren]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:10:57PM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 17:50, William Warren wrote:
[snip]

> > I'm running a Dell Dimension with an S3 Virge card, 128 MB Ram, and 9
> > GB SCSI HD. The SCSI controller is an Adaptec 2940. 
> > (Added 3/5) I'm running RH 7.3.
> > 
> > The root user lost its X desktop during one of the up2date runs. It
> > used to be there, but now it's gone. Other users are not affected.
> > 
> > When I enter "startx" at the command prompt, I see the gray
> > crosshatch background that usually preceeds my desktop, but then
> > everything stalls with the mouse pointer showing as an "X" in the
> > screen. I can move the mouse or change screen resolutions, but the
> > desktop never appears.
> > 
> > I have to explicitly kill the server (Cntl-Alt-Backspace) to get back to 
> > the command prompt. There are no error messages shown.
> > 
> > Google hasn't been my friend on this. All suggestions welcome.
> > 
> > Bill
> 
> When you're at the console as "root", what about trying:
> 
> switchdesk windowmaker
> 
> ...then trying to run "startx" again? If that works, then you can do:
> 
> switchdesk kde
> 
> or 
> 
> switchdesk gnome
> 
> ...and try to get back into X, ay?
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Steve,

Sorry, no luck: the 'switchdesk' utility completed normally, but 
when I do 'startx', it's the same gray background and nothing else 
but the mouse pointer.

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SENDMAIL Customisation?

[Stephen Kuhn]

My system is: RH 7.3+, SENDMAIL I have is the default for RH 7.3 - so I
haven't updated/upgraded it (not that I want to).

The question is, however, I've been trying to dig through all the
sendmail configurations - and am trying to find out where I can
customise the error messages and other inbound/outbound messages - silly
as it may seem, but I need to figure them out.

So, if anyone has a magic key to this issue, I'd really appreciate
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High ports seen

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

   I'm seeing the following ports on my system and am uncertain as to 
why they're there:

   ./strobe -b 65557 -e 66488 localhost
   strobe (c) 1994 *Proff* All Rights Reserved.
   localhost  unknown  65557/tcp unassigned
   localhost  unknown  65558/tcp unassigned
   localhost  unknown  65589/tcp unassigned
   localhost  unknown  65616/tcp unassigned
   localhost  unknown  65647/tcp unassigned
   localhost  unknown  66346/tcp unassigned
   When I try to telnet to those ports, I get:

   65557 -> FTP response
   65558 -> SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.1p1 response
   65589 -> unknown
   65616 -> HTTPd response
   65647 -> unknown
   66346 -> unknown
   nmap reports the following ports open:

   Port   State   Service
   21/tcp openftp
   22/tcp openssh
   53/tcp opendomain
   80/tcp openhttp
   111/tcpopensunrpc
   810/tcpopenunknown   (nfs related port)
   953/tcpopenrndc
   2401/tcp   opencvspserver
   3306/tcp   openmysql
   So what are those 6 high ports?  And why are they listening?

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Re: FreeSWAN walkthrough?

[Ivan Roseland]

Stephen Corey wrote:

Has anyone gotten FreeSWAN working on RH 7.3? I'm
trying it now, and getting an error recompiling the
kernel with the AES patch. I was wondering if anyone
had a step-by-step on it that applied to 7.3..
 



not sure depending on how you do things its plain old not going to work.
Freeswan expects to patch to a particular directory, usually /usr/src/linux
also.
When building a kernel with freeswan, first confgure the kernel as you 
normally would
then from inside the freeswan dir, usually /usr/src/freeswan do a

make menugo

this will do the patching and adding the freeswan stuff to the kernel, 
save and exit.
The kernel will now build.

Then do a make kinstall..

I cannot remember if you need to go back and make modules and make 
modules_install or not.

Also, I never use the rpm or srpm kernels for freeswan, get the latest 
and greatest of everything.

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Re: FreeSWAN walkthrough?

[Dave Vehrs]

Google it.  Its out there.


On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 14:29, Stephen Corey wrote:
> Has anyone gotten FreeSWAN working on RH 7.3? I'm
> trying it now, and getting an error recompiling the
> kernel with the AES patch. I was wondering if anyone
> had a step-by-step on it that applied to 7.3..
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Re: How to access Windows 2000 from linux?

[Jonathan Bartlett]

What way would you like to access it?

ftp? http? SMB (Aka Windows Network)?

Jon

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Charlie Song wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> How can my linux computer access a windows 2000 computer?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
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Re: How to access Windows 2000 from linux?

[Joe Polk]

You need to use smbclient and mount. This way you can mount smb shares
on your Win2K box.

<>

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 16:06, Charlie Song wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> How can my linux computer access a windows 2000 computer?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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Re: [OT?] X starts, but desktop never appears

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 17:50, William Warren wrote:
> Sorry if this is OT in redhat-list. Pointer appreciated if so.
> 
> I'm running a Dell Dimension with an S3 Virge card, 128 MB Ram, and 9
> GB SCSI HD. The SCSI controller is an Adaptec 2940.
> 
> The root user lost its X desktop during one of the up2date runs. It
> used to be there, but now it's gone. Other users are not affected.
> 
> When I enter "startx" at the command prompt, I see the gray crosshatch 
> background that usually preceeds my desktop, but then everything stalls with 
> the mouse pointer showing as an "X" in the screen. I can move the mouse or 
> change screen resolutions, but the desktop never appears. 
> 
> I have to explicitly kill the server (Cntl-Alt-Backspace) to get back to 
> the command prompt. There are no error messages shown.
> 
> Google hasn't been my friend on this. All suggestions welcome.
> 
> Bill

When you're at the console as "root", what about trying:

switchdesk windowmaker

...then trying to run "startx" again? If that works, then you can do:

switchdesk kde

or 

switchdesk gnome

...and try to get back into X, ay?
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Re: constant reboots

[Jeff Lane]

Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

it's not a power problem, another computer on the same circuit never 
has this problem.
 

   Not necessarily true.  The power supply itself may be causing problems.

Or a bad fan... I used to have a PIII that would constantly reboot 
itself...  what happened was that hte fan was near death, and was not 
adequately cooling the proc off, so it would heat up, reboot.  heat up, 
reboot... and on and on, till I finally popped the case, and realize 
that at that point the fan was no longer among the living...

cheers
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FreeSWAN walkthrough?

[Stephen Corey]

Has anyone gotten FreeSWAN working on RH 7.3? I'm
trying it now, and getting an error recompiling the
kernel with the AES patch. I was wondering if anyone
had a step-by-step on it that applied to 7.3..

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