Re: Xine Build

2001-12-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sunday 09 December 2001 15:24, stayler enunciated: On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 16:16:00 +1000, Keith Antoine wrote: Well mate, start it from a konsole and see why it exits first!! It was some plugins. But still I am trying to build the SRPMs and no joy so far. xine-libs keeps choking on the

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Kurt Wall
Bruce Marshall wrote: [...] % To tape? Question is, what happens when you restore (perhaps from a % backup system) and then boot the ext3 root. I suppose it all works fine. Yes, it does. I've had no trouble booting with / on an ext3 FS. Kurt -- Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we

Re: /etc/whois.conf

2001-12-09 Thread Kurt Wall
Chang wrote: % But how should I enter the whois server list? Try entering just the bare server name (for example, whois.networksolutions.com) and see what happens. [snippage] Kurt -- The default Magic Word, Abracadabra, actually is a corruption of the Hebrew phrase ha-Bracha dab'ra which

Re: TCP protocol 2

2001-12-09 Thread Kurt Wall
Chang wrote: % What is that site trying to do? I have never gone that IP. % WOuld I lose a thing by turning off protocol 2 in /etc/protocols? You might break IP multicasting. Kurt -- Why, every one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow. -- Rabelais

Re: /etc/whois.conf

2001-12-09 Thread Chang
trying... Chang wrote: % But how should I enter the whois server list? Try entering just the bare server name (for example, whois.networksolutions.com) and see what happens. -- The pivotal point is the second chance, judged by another set of criteria. In Linux We Trust -- http://linux.nf

Re: TCP protocol 2

2001-12-09 Thread Chang
I could think of one: web cast. but.. not... multicast is usually used within a subnet only, not crossing the subnet boundaries... I am really no TCP/IP expert. Kurt Wall wrote: Chang wrote: % What is that site trying to do? I have never gone that IP. % WOuld I lose a thing by turning off

Re: TCP protocol 2

2001-12-09 Thread Kurt Wall
Chang wrote: % what services use multicasting? I believe watching realmedia movie or % listenging to midi/mp3 online wouldn't use it, right? ftp, http, ssh, % nntp, ... typical internet services would not use it. I'm no expert, but I'm not aware of any of the standard services that require

Re: bluefish and galeon

2001-12-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 23:32:15 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Odd, when I try this I have to close Galeon to reactivate Bluefish. I'm in Libranet (debian with woody update). You just entered galeon %s as the command? On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 22:33:39 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 07:42:59 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---snip--- Make sure you get 2.4.16+ (at least 2.4.17-pre1. 2.4.16 causes filessystem corruption (all fs types). Collins, is there a specific circumstance that fs corruption occurs? Like only on systems with

Re: bluefish and galeon

2001-12-09 Thread Hermann-Josef Beckers
Am Sonntag 09 Dezember 2001 15:41 schrieben Sie: On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 23:32:15 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Odd, when I try this I have to close Galeon to reactivate Bluefish. I'm in Libranet (debian with woody update). You just entered galeon %s as the command? On Sat,

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:14:39 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 07:42:59 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---snip--- Make sure you get 2.4.16+ (at least 2.4.17-pre1. 2.4.16 causes filessystem corruption (all fs types). Collins, is

Re: bluefish and galeon

2001-12-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 16:17:17 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hermann-Josef Beckers) wrote: Am Sonntag 09 Dezember 2001 15:41 schrieben Sie: On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 23:32:15 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Odd, when I try this I have to close Galeon to reactivate Bluefish. I'm in

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 08:24:32 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---snip--- it's listed as - Alexander Viro: fix unmount inode breakage, show_vfsmnt cleanup. Thanks. -- **

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Sunday 09 December 2001 9:42 am, Collins Richey wrote: Make sure you get 2.4.16+ (at least 2.4.17-pre1.  2.4.16 causes filessystem corruption (all fs types). Interesting.. I've been running ext2 on 2.4.16 for a couple of weeks now. No problems. --

Re: ECS Motherboards (again)

2001-12-09 Thread Declan Moriarty
On Friday 07 December 2001 18:10, you wrote: Thank you all for your replies. But can I ask again, are there any issues using this (and the sis chipset) with Linux? I have a severe and potentially unwarranted distaste for SiS anything. The chipsets they develop are the cheepest and

Re: Xine Build

2001-12-09 Thread stayler
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 21:48:14 +1000, Keith Antoine wrote: Why the hell use srpms and have compile probs, when you can use the generic rpms ?? Well, The rpms are built on a SuSE box and all I get from them is a segmentation fault. But it would seem that this is common as I get the same fault

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Jim Conner
I know that 2.4.15 had this problem. I thought they fixed it with 2.4.16. Jim On Sunday, December 09, 2001 9:42, Collins Richey wrote: snip Make sure you get 2.4.16+ (at least 2.4.17-pre1. 2.4.16 causes filessystem corruption (all fs types). -- 12:42pm up 20 days, 21:46, 2 users,

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 12:45:16 -0500 Jim Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that 2.4.15 had this problem. I thought they fixed it with 2.4.16. Jim On Sunday, December 09, 2001 9:42, Collins Richey wrote: snip Make sure you get 2.4.16+ (at least 2.4.17-pre1. 2.4.16 causes

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:59:20 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 12:45:16 -0500 Jim Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that 2.4.15 had this problem. I thought they fixed it with 2.4.16. Jim On Sunday, December 09, 2001 9:42, Collins Richey

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Jim Conner
On Sunday, December 09, 2001 1:04, Collins Richey wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:59:20 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 12:45:16 -0500 Jim Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that 2.4.15 had this problem. I thought they fixed it with 2.4.16.

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 15:55:31 -0500 Jim Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, December 09, 2001 1:04, Collins Richey wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:59:20 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 12:45:16 -0500 Jim Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Monday 10 December 2001 00:42, Collins Richey enunciated: Make sure you get 2.4.16+ (at least 2.4.17-pre1. 2.4.16 causes filessystem corruption (all fs types). NOT as afar as I know 16 dosen't but 15 did. I an running 16 without problems as are others here. -- Keith Antoine aka

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Monday 10 December 2001 02:57, Bruce Marshall enunciated: On Sunday 09 December 2001 9:42 am, Collins Richey wrote: Make sure you get 2.4.16+ (at least 2.4.17-pre1.  2.4.16 causes filessystem corruption (all fs types). Interesting.. I've been running ext2 on 2.4.16 for a couple of

Re: Xine Build

2001-12-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Monday 10 December 2001 03:32, stayler enunciated: On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 21:48:14 +1000, Keith Antoine wrote: Why the hell use srpms and have compile probs, when you can use the generic rpms ?? Well, The rpms are built on a SuSE box and all I get from them is a segmentation fault. But

Re: Xine Build

2001-12-09 Thread stayler
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:21:43 +1000, Keith Antoine wrote: Shawn, me lad, mate!! First up what version are you trying to compile as the very latest is a mess 0.9.6. They alterred the metronom. O.9.4 plays just fine but get the rpms all of em, from skyblade as per previous posts.I have

Ping has a strange message on it...

2001-12-09 Thread James McDonald
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has come accross the message; "Warning time of day goes back" inside a ping request and what it means? Cheers James McDonald

Re: Ping has a strange message on it...

2001-12-09 Thread Ian
James McDonald wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has come accross the message; Warning time of day goes back inside a ping request and what it means? IIRC, that means your machine or the responding one have their clocks sent incorrectly and when your ping returns to you it has a

Hard disk errors....

2001-12-09 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm getting these errors: Dec 10 00:06:21 drakis kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Dec 10 00:06:21 drakis kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=786516, sector=786452 Dec 10 00:06:21

Re: Hard disk errors....

2001-12-09 Thread Kurt Wall
Federico Voges wrote: % -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- % Hash: SHA1 % % Hi, % % I'm getting these errors: % % Dec 10 00:06:21 drakis kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady % SeekComplete Error } % Dec 10 00:06:21 drakis kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { % UncorrectableError },

Re: Hard disk errors....

2001-12-09 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, That was my guess. I'll buy a new drive and use this on a test machine, not the main server :) On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 22:34:59 -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: Federico Voges wrote: % -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- % Hash: SHA1 % % Hi, % % I'm

Re: Hard disk errors....

2001-12-09 Thread Net Llama
--- Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Federico Voges wrote: % -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- % Hash: SHA1 % % Hi, % % I'm getting these errors: % % Dec 10 00:06:21 drakis kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady % SeekComplete Error } % Dec 10 00:06:21 drakis kernel:

Re: Hard disk errors....

2001-12-09 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Yes, I'll do that as soon as I can. I prefer that it fails/dies in a test PC than on my server. BTW, is there any way I can check if it has bad sectors?? I know that fsck can check for and mark the bad sectors. But how can I see the bad sector

Re: Hard disk errors....

2001-12-09 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yup, you were right. No more DMA errors, now I get I/O errors :) Before hdparm -d 0 /dev/hda: Dec 10 00:06:21 drakis kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Dec 10 00:06:21 drakis kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Chris Kassopulo
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 23:25:24 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While watching S. King's IT on tv. tonight... with the wifey ofcourse... I upgraded my laptop to use ext3. Once installed, I did a couple of tests... namely... I removed the battery and then unplugged the wall adpater

RE: ECS Motherboards (again)

2001-12-09 Thread Ray Russell
The Sis 735 used on the ECS K7S5a motherboard works great with Linux. I have built ten machines with this board and all are running fine. The one I built for myself run Mandrake 8.1 with no problems. There is no Sis video on these boards so you should be safe. I also built one machine using a

Re: Ping has a strange message on it...

2001-12-09 Thread James McDonald
ahh thanks Ian it has been driving me crazy I will do a hwclock on it and tell it to go away Thanks greatly James - Original Message - From: Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 12:43 PM Subject: Re: Ping has a strange message on it...