Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-22 Thread David Riley
Jeff Epler wrote: > Well, a copy of that document *is* the first hit for a google search on > 'linux signal 11 faq' > http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+signal+11+faq > > In other words, someone who does the slightest bit of research will > find the answer. Perhaps, but if a new user s

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Anthony Liu
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:33:25PM +0100, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > [...] > > [root@merrimac linux-2.2.17]# cd scripts > > [root@merrimac scripts]# gcc -o mkdep.o mkdep.c > > collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault], core dumped > > [root@merrimac scripts]# gcc -c -o mkdep.

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Richard Torkar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Riley wrote: > Richard Torkar wrote: > > > > Well David, there is such a "manual". > > > > http://ftp.sunet.se/LDP/FAQ/faqs/GCC-SIG11-FAQ > > Yes. And if you ask the average new Linux user if they've read it, I > doubt you'll get a "yes". My

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 06:17:48PM -0500, David Riley wrote: > Richard Torkar wrote: > > > > Well David, there is such a "manual". > > > > http://ftp.sunet.se/LDP/FAQ/faqs/GCC-SIG11-FAQ > > Yes. And if you ask the average new Linux user if they've read it, I > doubt you'll get a "yes". My que

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread David Riley
Richard Torkar wrote: > > Well David, there is such a "manual". > > http://ftp.sunet.se/LDP/FAQ/faqs/GCC-SIG11-FAQ Yes. And if you ask the average new Linux user if they've read it, I doubt you'll get a "yes". My question boils down to this, and this I suppose is a personal/informational requ

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread Richard Torkar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Riley wrote: > Jeff Epler wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 04:08:26PM -0500, David Riley wrote: > > > Windoze is not the only OS to handle bad hardware better than Linux. On > > > my Mac, I had a bad DIMM that worked fine on the MacOS si

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread David Riley
Jeff Epler wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 04:08:26PM -0500, David Riley wrote: > > Windoze is not the only OS to handle bad hardware better than Linux. On > > my Mac, I had a bad DIMM that worked fine on the MacOS side, but kept > > causing random bus-type errors in Linux. Same as when I ac

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread Gerd Knorr
> > This is true. What I suppose would be the solution is that if faulty > > hardware is found, a reduction in performance should be made. > > Finding out if you've got bad RAM might take a few hours running mem86. Not > exactly what I have in mind to do each boot... Even if memtest doesn't fin

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Horst von Brand wrote: > David Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > This is true. What I suppose would be the solution is that if faulty > > hardware is found, a reduction in performance should be made. > Finding out if you've got bad RAM might take a few hours running mem86.

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread Horst von Brand
David Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > This is true. What I suppose would be the solution is that if faulty > hardware is found, a reduction in performance should be made. Finding out if you've got bad RAM might take a few hours running mem86. Not exactly what I have in mind to do each

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread Horst von Brand
David Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Horst von Brand wrote: > > So what? My former machine ran fine with Win95/WinNT. Linux wouldn't even > > end booting the kernel. Reason: P/100 was running at 120Mhz. Fixed that, no > > trouble for years. Not the only case of WinXX running (apparently?) fine

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 04:08:26PM -0500, David Riley wrote: > Windoze is not the only OS to handle bad hardware better than Linux. On > my Mac, I had a bad DIMM that worked fine on the MacOS side, but kept > causing random bus-type errors in Linux. Same as when I accidentally > (long story) ove

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread Bob Lorenzini
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, David Riley wrote: > Horst von Brand wrote: > > Windoze is not the only OS to handle bad hardware better than Linux. On > my Mac, I had a bad DIMM that worked fine on the MacOS side, but kept > causing random bus-type errors in Linux. Same as when I accidentally I believe

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, David Riley wrote: > Horst von Brand wrote: > > > > So what? My former machine ran fine with Win95/WinNT. Linux wouldn't even > > end booting the kernel. Reason: P/100 was running at 120Mhz. Fixed that, no > > trouble for years. Not the only case of WinXX running (apparent

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread David Lang
AIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux > > David Lang wrote: > > > > David, usually when it turns out that Linux finds hardware problems the > > underlying cause is that linux makes more effective use

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread David Riley
David Lang wrote: > > David, usually when it turns out that Linux finds hardware problems the > underlying cause is that linux makes more effective use of the component, > and as such something that was marginal under windows fails under linux as > the correct timing is used. This is true. What

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread David Lang
wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:08:26 -0500 > From: David Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: unlisted-recipients: ; > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux > > Horst von Brand wrote: > > > > So what? My f

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread David Riley
Horst von Brand wrote: > > So what? My former machine ran fine with Win95/WinNT. Linux wouldn't even > end booting the kernel. Reason: P/100 was running at 120Mhz. Fixed that, no > trouble for years. Not the only case of WinXX running (apparently?) fine > on broken/misconfigured hardware I've see

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Albert D. Cahalan] > If one disk works and another one not, one might suspect > that the wrong DMA mode is being used in the crashing case. So, what DMA mode do *you* usually set for aic7xxx? (: (: Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
> These are hardware problems, not software. Programs like gcc and ld > segfaulting like this is NOT a software problem. > > Please don't turn up with some 'hey, it worked with my disk', that's no > clue that the distrib is bad. The same arguments as 'it works with > Windows'. This could be a

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Fort David
Ben Ford wrote: > Ya, I also had a system that ran many OS's great, including Linux, Win98, > Win2k, etc. However when I went to install NT on it, the CPU overheated > every time. Ya, I know, doesn't make sense, but that's how it was. > > -b > > It makes sense for me as win2000 is always 5°c h

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread spam
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Paul Fulghum wrote: > When in fact according to this linux-kernel post: > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9912.1/0653.html > they are goats that eat fermented potatoes. Hahaha, gotta love flame wars =) pavel -- Bask in the glow of the digital silence http://w

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Ben Ford
Ya, I also had a system that ran many OS's great, including Linux, Win98, Win2k, etc. However when I went to install NT on it, the CPU overheated every time. Ya, I know, doesn't make sense, but that's how it was. -b John Jasen wrote: > On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: > > >

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Ben Ford
Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > 3) edit /etc/ftpusers to allow root ftp > > 4) edit /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/rlogin to comment out securetty > PAM module (so we can telnet as root on _any_ tty) Not into security are you? -b - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Horst von Brand
John Jasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > On this note, I recall a time that I 'appropriated' a workstation for > linux. > > It was pulled out of the student labs, where it had worked for 3 months > running NT 4.0, but the RH install kept on crashing out. So what? My former machine ran fine

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Frank van Maarseveen
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:53:19AM -0500, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: > [root@merrimac linux-2.2.17]# make dep > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/mkdep >scripts/mkdep.c > collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault], core dumped > make: *** [script

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Paul Fulghum
> it's heck of alot better if we don't have a user that later > thinks 'Damn, linux developers are meanies'... > > Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net/ When in fact according to this linux-kernel post: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9912.1/0653.html

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
Can everyone lay off this guy, he made a mistake and the heat is not cool. This is no way for the general masses to get a taste of Linux, cool? Please jsut let it die or offline the chap. Regards, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
To Charles: I see your intentions but you really want to take this up with Redhat and some linux advocacy groups. linux-kernel really doesnt need to deal with things like gcc being broken and such (which I don't think is your case; check your hardware -- my reason? I've deployed RH 6.2 on 20 or so

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: These are hardware problems, not software. Programs like gcc and ld segfaulting like this is NOT a software problem. Please don't turn up with some 'hey, it worked with my disk', that's no clue that the distrib is bad. The same arguments as 'i

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Same experince here Boxes ran perfectly fine with Windows (95/98/NT) but barfed with linux. RAM replacement fixed it. Now whenever I see a signal 11 with gcc memory is the first thing I go after. On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, John Jasen wrote: > On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: > On

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread John Jasen
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: > (4) For those who think the hardware is broken; The hardware worked > for six months using Windows/2000. It has a NT core. On this note, I recall a time that I 'appropriated' a workstation for linux. It was pulled out of the student la

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
At the risk of being flamed for a distribution type discussion... Security nuts are probably rolling on the floor laughing at you for these two. I can think of some situations where these would be usefull though. On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > 3) edit /etc/ftpusers to allow root

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Charles Turner, Ph.D.
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: > > I certainly don't know what to purchase for my > > next attempt at a "shrink-wrap" installation. > > Try Red Hat 7.0 -- it is certainly better. True, no distribution is [SNIPPED...] I jus

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > > Try Red Hat 7.0 -- it is certainly better. True, no distribution is > > perfect but over the years I've developed my own CD image upgrade.iso > > which goes directly after installing latest Red

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Werner Almesberger
Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: > I can even see obvious bugs in the trace, i.e., : > stat("/usrusr/lib/ldscripts", 0xba7c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) Probably only a cosmetic problem. A regular run (RedHat binutils-2.9.5.0.22-6) yields: stat("/usrusr/lib/ldscripts", 0xb5c4) =

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:53:19AM -0500, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: Charles, 6.2 is one of te better distributions. You should also go talk to RedHat directly. Jeff > > I tried to help a friend this weekend convert to Linux. > He lives in Upstate New York, so it was a long trip from >

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Try Red Hat 7.0 -- it is certainly better. True, no distribution is > perfect but over the years I've developed my own CD image upgrade.iso > which goes directly after installing latest Red Hat distribution. It is > full of things like BRS, dict(1), '

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
Wrong list, but this needs to be set straight. Please send any further problem reports about Red Hat Linux to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla > I was terribly wrong. This Red Hat version is irrevocably defective. With the exception that it works for everyone else. > (1) It will not create

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2000-11-20 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Charles" == Charles Turner, Ph D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> It had been running Windows 2000 "Professional". Several Charles> months ago, he purchased Red Hat "DELUXE" version 6.2. He was Charles> unable to install it. I convinced him that installation was Charles> easy. Charles

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:53:19AM -0500, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: [snip] > I was terribly wrong. This Red Hat version is irrevocably defective. [snip] > (3) It "sort of" worked. However, network daemons kept > dropping core. X would eventually crash, leaving the > terminal in an

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: > I certainly don't know what to purchase for my > next attempt at a "shrink-wrap" installation. Try Red Hat 7.0 -- it is certainly better. True, no distribution is perfect but over the years I've developed my own CD image upgrade.iso

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Andreas Jaeger
> Charles Turner, Ph D writes: > I tried to help a friend this weekend convert to Linux. > He lives in Upstate New York, so it was a long trip from > Cambridge, Massachusetts. > I was terribly wrong. This Red Hat version is irrevocably defective. This list is about problems with the Lin

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
You're complaining on the wrong list. On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: > > I tried to help a friend this weekend convert to Linux. > He lives in Upstate New York, so it was a long trip from > Cambridge, Massachusetts. > > He has a Dual Pentium III, 600 MHz TYAN "Thunderbolt". >

Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Charles Turner, Ph.D.
I tried to help a friend this weekend convert to Linux. He lives in Upstate New York, so it was a long trip from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has a Dual Pentium III, 600 MHz TYAN "Thunderbolt". It has a built-in Adaptec SCSI controller and Intel 100-base-T Ethernet controller. It also has 1/2 Gb