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[SuSE Linux] Re: Boot failure and YaST
by phil＠stokes.demon.co.uk 01 Mar '99

01 Mar '99

On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Jeffery S. Norman wrote: > > Looks very similar to the error I was getting (spawning too fast ...) > > Let me know if you get it corrected. > > I am very close to wiping my install and starting from scratch. > > So much for upgradeability (which was, after all, the only reason that I > use SuSE!) Well, a quick search of the documentation that comes with SuSE lists these files, amongst several others, that cover "respawning too fast": Text-Terminal-HOWTO: Trouble-Shooting (software) <A HREF="http://localhost/doc/howto/en/html/Text-Terminal-HOWTO-17.html"><A HREF="http://localhost/doc/howto/en/html/Text-Terminal-HOWTO-17.html</A">http://localhost/doc/howto/en/html/Text-Terminal-HOWTO-17.html</A</A>> The Linux Serial HOWTO: Troubleshooting <A HREF="http://localhost/doc/howto/en/html/Serial-HOWTO-14.html"><A HREF="http://localhost/doc/howto/en/html/Serial-HOWTO-14.html</A">http://localhost/doc/howto/en/html/Serial-HOWTO-14.html</A</A>> The Linux Modem HOWTO: Troubleshooting <A HREF="http://localhost/doc/howto/en/html/Modem-HOWTO-12.html"><A HREF="http://localhost/doc/howto/en/html/Modem-HOWTO-12.html</A">http://localhost/doc/howto/en/html/Modem-HOWTO-12.html</A</A>> The Linux Bootdisk HOWTO: Troubleshooting, or The Agony of Defeat. <A HREF="http://localhost/doc/howto/en/html/Bootdisk-HOWTO-7.html"><A HREF="http://localhost/doc/howto/en/html/Bootdisk-HOWTO-7.html</A">http://localhost/doc/howto/en/html/Bootdisk-HOWTO-7.html</A</A>> The Bootdisk HOWTO says: If init starts, but you get a message like: Id xxx respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes it is coming from init, usually indicating that getty or login is dying as soon as it starts up. Check the getty and login executables and the libraries they depend upon. Make sure the invocations in /etc/inittab are correct. If you get strange messages from getty, it may mean the calling form in /etc/inittab is wrong. The options of the getty programs are variable; even different versions of agetty are reported to have different incompatible calling forms. Phil -- Philip Stokes Email: phil(a)stokes.demon.co.uk Fax: +44 (0)870 164 1242 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] [SUSE Linux] Crypt and others
by linux1＠mail.crc.com 01 Mar '99

01 Mar '99

Ok, I admit that I lost the nice email Lenz sent me. I am trying to compile a program and it is complaining about not being able to find crypt. Is that because I have the english version? Where and what package do I need to get the encryption stuff. Thanks - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] Roadrunner.
by fmiller＠lightlink.com 01 Mar '99

01 Mar '99

Is anyone connected to Roadrunner with SuSE 6.0? If so, I'd very much appreciate a detailed "blow by blow" to get connected, and what software I need, where to get it, etc. Thanks! Fred - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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Re: [SuSE Linux] Attempt to Install SuSE 5.3
by jpg＠hpcvsjpg.cv.hp.com 01 Mar '99

01 Mar '99

So I got another floppy drive connected via the parallel port, this one can't be marked as bootable by the bios, however I can run loadlin from it and this way the CDROM is plugged in at the kernel boot time. However I can't seem to get the correct file/options set to boot the linux kernel on the SuSE floppy using loadlin from a DOS prompt. Here is what I tried: loadlin e:\linux root=/dev/hdc ro It loads the kernel with the following standard messages:: LOADLIN v1.6a (C) 1994..1996 Hans Lermen <lermen(a)elserv.ffm.fgan.de> 'Loading..........................(etc - 1 1/2 lines worth)' Then it starts the boot of the kernel. This time is does recognize the CDROM since it is installed at boot time with: hda: TOSHIBA MK3003MAN, 2937 MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=746/128/63 hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-2402B, ATAPI CDROM drive But right after: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 > hdc: media changed Then it errors out with: [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap] [me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=4294967295] Transaction block size = 512 UMSDOS Beta 0.6 (compatibility level 0.4, fast msdos) [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap] [me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=4294967295] Transaction block size = 512 [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap] [me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=4294967295] Transaction block size = 512 VFS: Mounted root (iso9660 filesystem) readonly. Unable to open an initial console. So this time it booted and mounted the CDROM read-only, however now it is complaining about a console path. Any clues??? John Griffin > >If your CDROM is on an IDE controller and is ATPAPI then you can >probably change your BIOS setting to make it bootable. It could be the >setting that allows you to determine the boot order. > >> >> Nope, I went into the CMOS configuration and the only bootable devices >> are the floppy or the hard drive. >> >> Thanks anyway. >> >> jpg >> >>> Is your CD-ROM a bootable CD-ROM? The SuSE CD set is bootable... that's >>> how I installed SuSE on my Toshiba Satellite. >>> >>> Mark >>> >>>> >>>> I seem to have run into a small problem in attempting to install SuSe 5.3 >>>>on a Hewlett Packard OmniBook 5700CTX. I have a Xircom PCMCIA 10/100-Ready >>>>network card, and the standard HP CD-ROM and 3.5 floppy drive modules. >>>> >>>> When I boot using the SuSE boot floppy in the 3.5 drive, the kernel >>>>doesn't >>>>recognize the CD-ROM because it was not installed since I was using the 3.5 >>>>floppy drive. Secondly the Xircom PCMCIA card is not in the list of >>>>supported >>>>network cards. There is a '-- More modules --' option but that just pulls >>>>in >>>>the same list of kernel modules. There is nothing in the SuSE manual about >>>>what this '-- More modules --' option is, or how to utilize it. >>>> >>>> So I am stuck, I cannot install from CD-ROM because the kernel doesn't >>>>see >>>>it at boot time (since it is not plugged in), and I cannot install over the >>>>network since there is no Xircom module. >>>> >>>> Any suggestions? >>>> >>>>John Griffin >>>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] Boot failure and YaST
by jmcdonne＠apollotrust.com 01 Mar '99

01 Mar '99

Hello, I hope someone will be able to help me with a system that will not boot. I've searched the SuSE Knowledge Base but haven't found any pointers. I have LiLO installed on the MBR of hda. My SuSE 5.1, kernel 2.0.36 system is installed on hda6. After uncompressing the kernel, identifying the hardware, and reading /etc/fstab the boot process starts passing multiple error messages. Most scroll by too quickly to read but they begin with: "starting sbin/init.d/boot:starting /sbin/swapon: no such file or directory" After mounting hda6 read-only the boot hangs permanently at: "INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for five minutes" : : "INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for five minutes" Powering down is the only way out of the situation. Fortunately, I didn't wipe my installation (now on hdb) when I upgraded my main hard drive some months ago so after booting from a rescue disk I was able to edit /etc/conf.lilo and I'm now booting to my 2.0.33 system on hdb3. My setup: SuSE 5.1 kernel 2.0.36 on hda6(W95 on hda1) SuSE 5.1 kernel 2.0.33 on hdb3(W95 on hdb1) YaST .97.1 gcc 2.7.2.1 Everything was working fine until... In preparation for upgrading to kernel 2.2.1,I decided to install the required versions of the various utilities/programs needed by 2.2.1. Not finding the most recent versions in the various SuSE 5.3 directories, (that should have caused me to stop right there!), I downloaded and installed rpms for kernmod, ppp, binutils,libc5.4.46-2.i386, net-tools, sh-utils, sh-libs from the 6.0 and 6.0 evaluation directories. YaST issued warnings about conflicts for the binutils and the sh-utils package but I continued to install. (I know, I know .... I've been kicking myself since then.) The warnings were: "/usr/include/ansidecl.h conflicts with file from libc-5.4.33-6" and a few other warnings related to man pages and etc/ppp/options and etc/ppp/pap-secrets. I'm assuming these latter warnings aren't directly related to my booting problem. In some (but not all) cases YaST prompted me to save backups to /var/adm/backup/installation-990217.0 I've attached this file in the hope that someone can point me to the steps to take to rescue my system. Initially I thought that the problem was directly caused by using SuSE 6.0 rpms in a SuSE 5.1 system - the utilities/libaries might be installed in different directories in 6.0.

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[SuSE Linux] Linux up close: Time to switch
by fmiller＠lightlink.com 01 Mar '99

01 Mar '99

<A HREF="http://www.msnbc.com/news/244979.asp"><A HREF="http://www.msnbc.com/news/244979.asp</A">http://www.msnbc.com/news/244979.asp</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] pppd fails SYNDROME Solution
by hsundt＠uswest.net 01 Mar '99

01 Mar '99

Always in S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3 I used "script" option in kppp on my 2500 Laptop. This is what I always did with xisp ( kppp before they added the "k") in both Linux for the Power PC and MK Linux on my Apple 7600. Now I switched setting to PAP, and vunderbar, I am Netting again. Before I was told to avoid PAP and CHAP and stuff by the phone support at !nteract Services, (uswest ISP). Apparantly scripts don'y trigger pppd or diald or whatever. Anyway. Now ppp works. I have WordPerfect downloaded and going. Now if I can only find a girl friend... - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] Why is Yast's package search so slow?
by abrahams＠valinet.com 01 Mar '99

01 Mar '99

I've noticed that when I use Yast to search for installed packages on my system (using F5 under Package Information), the search takes several minutes - far longer than it takes to search the CDROM. Since the search appears to be almost entirely a CPU computation, I'm puzzled as to why it should take so long. Have other people had the same experience? Paul Abrahams - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] What Yast really should do!
by abrahams＠valinet.com 01 Mar '99

01 Mar '99

The intent of Yast, it seems, is to provide coordinated control over the software that's installed on one's system. It certainly works well for the software provided by SuSE, and from what I've read it also works tolerably well for some (but not all) packages in RPM format. The hangup there seems to be packages that were specifically configured for RedHat systems. But what's missing is a facility for keeping track of packages that aren't provided by SuSE and are in .tgz form. It was suggested to me that the instmon tool would help with those - but that still leaves me with two different, uncoordinated package managers. I'd very much like to see Yast enhanced to become a really effective general package manager. There are several cases to consider: 1. Packages not provided by SuSE at all. 2. SuSE updates to previously installed .tgz packages. 3. .tgz updates or extensions to SuSE packages. Installing a .tgz package has two basic steps: unpacking the package and installing its contents. The installation typically involves three substeps (for Gnuish software, anyway): ./configure make all (which does the compilation) make install However, there are lots of variations, so I see little hope of automating the installation phase. What Yast *could* do would be to do the unpack to a standard location, take a snapshot of the system, and then instruct the user to do the installation. After the installation is complete, Yast would then take a second snapsnot. (That's more or less what instmon does.) Those snapshots could then be used for automated uninstallation. Optionally, the unpacked files could then be discarded. The package would be included in Yast's list of what's in the system. Yast does in fact process .tgz files - but all it does is to unpack them to the root directory--which is worse than useless. A couple of examples of things I've done or plan to do: - Installing KDE 1.1 on a SuSE 5.3 system (works fine, but I dread the next update) - Installing the TeXLive distribution Thoughts, anyone? Paul Abrahams - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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No Subject
by sbourdon＠acnet.net 01 Mar '99

01 Mar '99

unsuscribe - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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