Re: I killed user's x server

2002-11-22 Thread glenn
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 08:35, Haines Brown wrote: > Also, my problems followed a disastrous attempt to install an nVidia > driver in place of the generic nv driver in RedHat. I completely blew > the X server in the process, and had to recover from the console. OK, > but I'm (ie, user) is not using a /

libc5 problem

2002-11-22 Thread rob
I tryed to run a libc6 program amaya on slack 3.5 a libc5 distro now in X term or rxvt when ever I try to run midnight commander I get "bash:no such file /usr/local/bin/mc" but it runs just fine if I type the path to mc i.e "/usr/bin/mc -x" /usr/local/bin was the path to amaya and mc runs just fin

usr1,home1 after hdd cloning?

2002-11-22 Thread Marco Calistri
Hello listmembers,I cloned a new disk due badblocks on the old root hd (/dev/hda). All seems ok now that new one is on place on first IDE channel but I noticed during boot that message "Checking filesystem..." is reporting: /1clean... /usr1clean... /home1...clean... instead of /;

Re: I killed user's x server

2002-11-22 Thread Haines Brown
The plot thickens. I just discovered the script command that allows me to view the output when I run startx as root (which loads succesfully). The result is instructive. When I inserted a new nVidia graphics card (and even after after replacing it with the old card of the same type), users could n

Re: Changing Hard Drives??

2002-11-22 Thread Hal MacArgle
SORRY!! Please disregard. I found it right in front of my nose. 'rdev'... Duh... On 11-22, Hal MacArgle wrote: > Greetings: Several weeks ago I changed from two drives, /hda and > /hdb, with the hdb drive setup to boot using LILO.. (All part

RH 7.3 and tripwire

2002-11-22 Thread peter schoch
Greetings, I just upgraded from RH6.2 to RH7.3. I've been fighting with it for several days now. My last, big 'fight' is with tripwire. I keep getting cron mail that tripwire had all sorts of troubles. It gives me commands to 'fix' the trouble, and have run them; however the problems apparen

Re: I killed user's x server

2002-11-22 Thread Haines Brown
> Do you mean that you completely removed one hard disk, which > contained _all_ of the partitions on the system, and replaced it > with a completely different disk which had a different system > installed on it? That's correct. Insurmountable problems were mounting up, and so I decided on a fresh

Re: I killed user's x server

2002-11-22 Thread Haines Brown
Richard, > I belive from what i have read that you are using "sawfish", and > that a user cannot start X, i use slackware here and sawfish does > not use pex5.so or xie.so, if one uses 'ldd' one see's which libs > are needed. > if your swafish uses pex5.so and xie.so could it be that a program >

3d modelling

2002-11-22 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
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Audacity compile problems

2002-11-22 Thread Theo. Sean Schulze
Hello, I am having problems compiling Audacity 1.0.0 on both a SuSE 8.0 and a Slackware 8.1 system. I ran configure using `./configure --with-arts-soundserver --with-id3`. If I don't touch the Makefile or any of the source, the compile fails with this error message: snd/audioarts.c:14: kde/a

Re: installation and lilo

2002-11-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
neil -- Your message was pretty hard to read, dut to its lack of paragraphing, so I hope I'm reading it right. Shorn of detail, you need a way to make LILO successfully boot multiple candidate OSs, each with an associated kernel and root partition. You do this by editing (as root) the file /et

Re: installation and lilo

2002-11-22 Thread pa3gcu
On Friday 22 November 2002 11:32, neil t wrote: > (this didn't send the first time, so I am posting it again via a FWD) It does not really make any differance which system installed lilo, the secret is mounting all your disks/partitions where "lilo" can reach them all in one go, you can define a

Changing Hard Drives??

2002-11-22 Thread Hal MacArgle
Greetings: Several weeks ago I changed from two drives, /hda and /hdb, with the hdb drive setup to boot using LILO.. (All partitions on both drives Linux or Swap, no other o/s.) The /hda drive was needed elsewhere so I changed the entry in fstab so that the old hdb was now hda and it's been working

installation and lilo

2002-11-22 Thread neil t
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ignore this test

2002-11-22 Thread neil t
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Re: I killed user's x server

2002-11-22 Thread Paul Furness
Do you mean that you completely removed one hard disk, which contained _all_ of the partitions on the system, and replaced it with a completely different disk which had a different system installed on it? It sounds like you are talking about a laptop. Is that true? How about if you create a new a