Hi,
I got some problems (disk access denied, bus errors,...) that led me to
go into single user mode and fsck my partitions. I noticed then that
there were some directories created in the tmp directory, called "dev"
and "etc", and one file in the / directory called "success" with 0
length. At reboot, these files disapeared. Does anybody know if this
could be a sign of a hacked computer ? I mean could someone have
installed a rootkit or some such ?
I'm not paranoid but this indeed seems strange.
Cheers
Damir
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Hello everybody.
Did anyone manage to successfully boot Linux on an RS/6000 43p 140 ?
I tried using ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/7.1/unsorted/prep/43p_140/zImage.140.chrp
and followed the instructions in the German SuSE manual (ie copied the image to an MS-DOS
formatted floppy disk, renaming the image to "zimage" there).
At the OpenFirmware prompt I typed
boot floppy:,zimage root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 fake_initrd
I also tried using ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/BETA/deflt/zImage.prep
and followed the instructions on http://sdb.suse.de/de/sdb/html/olh_ppc_43p140.html
(ie copied the image as a raw disk image using dd).
At the OpenFirmware prompt I typed
boot floppy:,\zImage
In BOTH cases, the symptoms are identical:
The floppy is read (takes half a minute or so).
The OpenFirmware cursor moves to the next line or the line after that.
The system freezes (or reboots after a long time).
(None of the IPL or memory messages ever appear.)
So obviously, none of these approaches works for me.
What is the difference between the images copied as raw disk images and those copied
as files on an MS-DOS disk?
Which approach is *supposed* to work? Both are declared as solutions for 140 43p.
BTW: The firmware version of the machine I tried this on is TIG97251.
Thanks in advance for any hints or solutions.
Alexander Achenbach
Announcing: OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 for PPC Linux
What is it?
--------------
OpenOffice.org provides a free (source LGPL and no $) almost drop-in
replacement for Microsoft Office and is available for Solaris (Sparc and
x86), Linux (x86 and PPC), WIN (NT, 200, XP, 98, 95, etc), and coming real
soon now (RSN) for FreeBSD, NetBSD, Irix, and Mac OSX. It provides almost
transparent file access to Microsoft Office files.
Please see http://www.openoffice.org for more info and additional download
sites for major platforms. PPC Linux specific download sites are provided
below.
What's New in This Release?
------------------------------
- built using gcc-3.1.1 pre
- improved font handling
- new shared dictionary support
- user-installed hyphenation dictionaries now possible
- huge number of bug fixes and stability improvments
For a more complete listing of fixed bugs:
http://tools.openoffice.org/releases/changelog.html
This version should work on stock Debian, SuSE 7.3, YDL 2.2 and YDL 2.3,
and almost any other PPC Linux distribution using at least glibc 2.2.1.
Please Note: Debian users may want to use the official Debian builds which
include better desktop integration for Debian users and have been built
and tested on Debian systems (although this version will work too)
DISCLAIMER
--------------
This is the usual disclaimer. OOo 1.0.1 should be a rock steady release
but please don't complain if you loose everything! I use it constantly
and have not experienced any problems but I can make no guarantees.
If interested, you can build your own binary direct from source.
(see below).
Please check out http://www.openoffice.org for more info on the
OpenOffice.org project
What's Available (English Only)?
----------------------------------
- OOo_1.0.1c_LinuxPPC_installer.tar.gz
md5sum: 432cf242c085fb3a3675779b393ed2b4
64939379 bytes
- OpenOffice_README.ppclinux
inside the installer is a complete installation/setup
guide in pdf format.
Where can I download it?
---------------------------
ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/software/openoffice/
ftp://ftp.suse/com/pub/projects/powerpc/openoffice/
ftp://ftp.stardiv.de/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/linuxppc/
And it is available from up-to-date YellowDog Linux Mirrors:
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/resources/ftp_mirrors.shtml
Hopefully it will appear on penguinppc.org sites soon.
Building your own from Source
----------------------------------
Building your own OOo binary is not for the faint hearted and takes at
least 2 gig of free disk space and up to date tools. If you are
interested in building your own version direct from source, please contact
me and I will try to provide you with and recent or nedded patches and
some short build instructions. Right now the build of 1.0.1 requires gcc
3.X.
Thanks,
Kevin B. Hendricks
kevin.hendricks(a)sympatico.ca
Hello!
I am trying to install FireWire on my PPC Cube. I found on SuSe-Site an
.rpm-Packet to install. There are a view problems with it.
- It should, as far as I understood, upgrade the Kernel.
- This shoud work, according to SuSe, work without problem. But, I have
got problems with package-depencies. So, I installed it with rpm -U
--nodeps...
- now, the system doesn't recognise the datas modules.dep
- I tried to remake it with depmode -a...
Who can help me?
As I know, SuSe 7.3 has got Kernel Version 2.4.12, but when I have a
look with uname -r it shows me 2.2.16 why that?
There is no support from SuSe-Side..., no Kernel with FireWire, no
possibility to make backups from a Cube (But, backups are so important).
And, SuSe sais, Cube is a supported PPC.
Thanks very much for help!
Peter, Berne, Switzerland
Hello,
I have purchased SuSE Linux many times, but today I want to do a fresh
FTP install on my Blue & White G3 Macintosh. It has an Internet
connection via LAN.
I followed exactly the instructions on
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/7.3/readme_ftpinstall.txt
for Newworld Macs, but the downloaded "install-newworld" kernel doesn't
work, it stops immediately with a "standard CATCH" which I assume to be
some kind of exception.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Best wishes,
Tobias Giesen
-----------------------
Tobias Giesen, Composer
Developer of TGTools
www.tobiasgiesen.dewww.tgtools.com
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I have a little problem when using hwclock --systohc:
When i reboot, the clock appear to be "stopped" since
my last date/time update.
For example: if i set time to 28 Aug 2002, 11:37 AM,
and reboot it anytime later (for example, 1 September
2002) the CMOS clock is 28 Aug 2002, 11:37 AM
Weird huh?
Any ideas?
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Hi,
I always get the following error when I start KDE:
"Sound server fatal error: bad md5 cookie"
Sound is working fine under OSX, but total silence under Linux.
Any tips on how to get sound working?
my system:
- SuSE 7.3 PPC Linux
- Quicksilver G4 733MHz Mac
- stock Sony R\RW CD drive
Thanks,
Roger
San Francisco
This is what I have done using a suse 7.3 install (2.4.12 kernel)
got my kernel source is from kernel.org, version no 2.4.19
I sucessfully completed these steps: (ie. no errors)
make distclean
make menuconfig
make dep
make vmlinux
make modules
when I did the make modules-install I encountered Error 1 and 2
it lookied like the following:
cp: cannot stat `ipt_mark.o´: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `ipt_tcpmss.o´: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `ipt_tos.o´: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [_modinst__] Error 1
make[2]: leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19/net/ipv4/netfilter´
make[1]: *** [modinst_ip4v/netfilter] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19/net´
make: *** [_modinst_net] Error 2
Is somthing wrong with the kernel source or the settings in my
menuconfig?
In the ipnetfilter config I have almost all modules activated as
modularized features.
Hope this is sufficient info to help me out ;-)
Stephan
Hello!
I've tried several different setup and version of kernels to be
compiled on my system but all of them gave me an error when I got the
make modules_install.
It just installs a couple of files and then gives error 2 messages
(always when it came to ipfiltering or something similar)
I tried kernel 2.4.19, 2.4.18, 2.4.16 and currently I am compiling the
SuSE 2.4.12 kernel (part of 7.3) to see if this one will work at all.
Is this a typical error newbies make or are my sources bad? I would
really love to compile kernel 2.4.19 since it already includes the
driver for my formac proformance 3
stephan
Hello,
Running 2.4.16-55 kernel with quota-2.00-13 pack.
The /etc/fstab shows:
/dev/ruum1/data /data ext2 defaults,usrquota 1 2
mount gives:
/dev/ruum1/data on /data type ext2 (rw,usrquota)
/data/quota.user is there:
# ls -la /data/quota.user
-rw------- 1 root root 32576 Aug 19 17:12 /data/quota.user
However, all other utilities besides 'quotacheck -a' give me usage information, like 'quotaon -a' and 'edquota ftp' and so on.
What am I doing wrong ?
Aivo Kalu, aivo(a)matti.ee
