June 2002 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Installing Redhat on HP machines

by Gary J. Hanley

Ah, the Aviion, AKA Nova II. I was working at DG as a computer operator when they took the plunge with UNIX. I remember the hype about the power of the Aviion line and I was totally blown away the first time I used X on DG/UX-Aviion (First exposure to UNIX in general, actually). Giant workstation screen. Beautiful graphics. I clicked an icon, and no less than 30 seconds, and xterm appeared! :-) -- Gary On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > I had a problem that sounds similar when installing on a Data General > Aviion (old, slow) machine. I was using one of the standard (server?) > installs. I tried a "custom" install, and everything went smoothly. > Bill

June 26, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Installing Redhat on HP machines

by Nate Godin

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Hemstreet, Jeffrey wrote: > The other is a dual-300 PII HP Kayak with a SCSI Drive. I get a boot error > when trying to boot from the > CDROM or Install Disk. This system is currently running NT 5. Any ideas > why the boot would fail? I've had some serious problems with an dual PII-266 HP Kayak XU that I recently acquired... I'd get read errors on the IDE CDROM while trying to install Mandrake 8.2, after many failed install attempts, I finally got it to the part where it was actually installing RPM's, and it would go very slowly, with frequent read errors that caused about a third of the packages to fail to install. The system would boot, but wasn't much good beyond that. Putting a SCSI CDROM drive in helped some, though the install was still dog slow due to read errors, and bombed twice. Maybe it needs ECC memory or some BIOS tweaking, or maybe it's a SCSI driver issue? I really have no idea, I just know mine has been a pain in the ass too! Nate -- Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley

June 26, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Installing Redhat on HP machines

by Bill Mills-Curran

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Hemstreet, Jeffrey wrote: > Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:25:44 -0400 > From: "Hemstreet, Jeffrey" <jhemstreet(a)avaya.com> > Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > To: "'wlug(a)mail.wlug.org'" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Subject: [Wlug] Installing Redhat on HP machines > > I am having a problem installing Redhat 7.2 on 2 different HP machines. I > thought I might be > able to get some information from the plethera of people who have done > installs. Or any ideas > on what to do next? > > One is an HP Vectra (2Gb IDE, 56MB, P200). I can fdisk and select packages, > but when it goes to > format the disk to install the packages, I get a signal 11 fatal error. I > think there may be something > flaky with this system (HDD or memory problem?) Just wondering if anyone > else has seen this type > of failure and could give me any more insight. I plan on replacing the HDD > to see if that is the problem. > > The other is a dual-300 PII HP Kayak with a SCSI Drive. I get a boot error > when trying to boot from the > CDROM or Install Disk. This system is currently running NT 5. Any ideas > why the boot would fail? > > Thanks, > jeff > Jeff, I had a problem that sounds similar when installing on a Data General Aviion (old, slow) machine. I was using one of the standard (server?) installs. I tried a "custom" install, and everything went smoothly. Bill

June 26, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Installing Redhat on HP machines

by Charles R. Anderson

Have you tried booting the latest errata install disks? You can get them here: ftp://angus.ind.wpi.edu/pub/updates/7.2/en/os/images/i386/boot.img ftp://angus.ind.wpi.edu/pub/updates/7.2/en/os/images/i386/update-disk-20020… Make sure you rawrite/dd them to brand new floppy disks, since if there is even a single byte error on the floppy disk, the install will fail. Boot the first one (boot.img) and see below... On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 06:25:44PM -0400, Hemstreet, Jeffrey wrote: jhemstreet> One is an HP Vectra (2Gb IDE, 56MB, P200). I can fdisk and select jhemstreet> packages, but when it goes to jhemstreet> format the disk to install the packages, I get a signal 11 fatal error. I jhemstreet> think there may be something jhemstreet> flaky with this system (HDD or memory problem?) Just wondering if anyone jhemstreet> else has seen this type jhemstreet> of failure and could give me any more insight. I plan on replacing the HDD jhemstreet> to see if that is the problem. It depends. Does the signal 11 always happen at exactly the same point? If so, that doesn't necessarily point to flakey hardware, but rather a software bug. If it IS random, then it does sound like a memory error. You can test your RAM with memtest86, available here: http://www.memtest86.com/ Another thing you can try is making sure the amount of memory is detected correctly by Linux (check the boot up messages of the Linux kernel). If not, you can force the correct amount by appending the mem option to the linux boot command line: linux updates mem=56M You need the "updates" bit to use the update-disk mentioned earlier. Insert the updates disk when it asks. jhemstreet> The other is a dual-300 PII HP Kayak with a SCSI Drive. I get a boot error jhemstreet> when trying to boot from the jhemstreet> CDROM or Install Disk. This system is currently running NT 5. Any ideas jhemstreet> why the boot would fail? Bad floppy disk and/or CD-ROM? How did you acquire your Red Hat 7.2 CD-ROM? If it isn't an official disk, then it might have been burned incorrectly. Red Hat recommends burning ISO's in Disk-At-Once mode, and checking the images and disks with md5sum to be sure they burned correctly. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

June 25, 2002

Installing Redhat on HP machines

by Hemstreet, Jeffrey

I am having a problem installing Redhat 7.2 on 2 different HP machines. I thought I might be able to get some information from the plethera of people who have done installs. Or any ideas on what to do next? One is an HP Vectra (2Gb IDE, 56MB, P200). I can fdisk and select packages, but when it goes to format the disk to install the packages, I get a signal 11 fatal error. I think there may be something flaky with this system (HDD or memory problem?) Just wondering if anyone else has seen this type of failure and could give me any more insight. I plan on replacing the HDD to see if that is the problem. The other is a dual-300 PII HP Kayak with a SCSI Drive. I get a boot error when trying to boot from the CDROM or Install Disk. This system is currently running NT 5. Any ideas why the boot would fail? Thanks, jeff

June 25, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Who is port scanning me?

by Josh Huber

Joe Riopel <joe(a)crankhouse.com> writes: > You could download and use a program called Sam Spade. It will tell > you alot about an IP/Hostname. Who registered it, and their contact > information. I dont have a link but I bet a quick search on google > should work. This won't be too useful, since the original request/comment was about an IP address on an _internal_ company network. It won't be registered by anyone! Heh, I like the NS entries listed for reserved IP blocks: BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG 192.0.32.18 BLACKHOLE-2.IANA.ORG 192.0.32.19 ttyl, -- Josh Huber

June 25, 2002

RE: [Wlug] Who is port scanning me?

by Joe Riopel

You could download and use a program called Sam Spade. It will tell you alot about an IP/Hostname. Who registered it, and their contact information. I dont have a link but I bet a quick search on google should work. -Joe

June 25, 2002

Re: [Wlug] fsck, segmantation fault, etc.

by Baris Hasdemir

On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 11:37, Charles R. Anderson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:26:38AM -0400, Baris Hasdemir wrote: > penguen> I bought a new hard drive, Maxtor 7200 RPM, ATA133, 40GB, and began > penguen> using it at ATA100. > > Did you upgrade your IDE cable to an ATA100-capable one at the same > time? > yes, otherwise it was seeing the ATA1333 drive as ATA33 or ATA66, I don't remember exactly.

June 24, 2002

Re: [Wlug] fsck, segmantation fault, etc.

by Charles R. Anderson

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:26:38AM -0400, Baris Hasdemir wrote: penguen> I bought a new hard drive, Maxtor 7200 RPM, ATA133, 40GB, and began penguen> using it at ATA100. Did you upgrade your IDE cable to an ATA100-capable one at the same time? -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

June 24, 2002

fsck, segmantation fault, etc.

by Baris Hasdemir

Hi, I bought a new hard drive, Maxtor 7200 RPM, ATA133, 40GB, and began using it at ATA100. I formatted my /dev/hda5 with mkfs.ext2 and mounted it under /home. I have been using this mount with the Slackware 8.0 at /dev/hda6 for several days without any problems. Two days ago I installed Slackware8.1 on /dev/hda8 and used the same device mounted to /home. (/dev/hda5) Yesterday under root privileges I attempted to delete a user's two big files, and got the following error (or warning, I don't know): root@penguen:/home/avci# rm more_than_700MB_files* EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,5)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 1083636778, count = 1 EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,5)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 1083606420, count = 1 EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,5)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 1083602068, count = 1 EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,5)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 1083602292, count = 1 root@penguen:/home/avci# ls -al total 24 drwx--x--x 2 avci misafir 4096 Jun 23 12:47 ./ drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Feb 25 2001 ../ -rw------- 1 avci misafir 36 Jun 17 17:26 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 avci misafir 34 Jun 17 16:44 .less -rw-r--r-- 1 avci misafir 114 Jun 17 16:44 .lessrc -rw-r--r-- 1 avci misafir 3394 Jun 17 16:44 .screenrc However, rm deleted the files. But I couldn't understand the warning. And then, just because of curiosity I tried to copy one of the same big files from another partition to the same location, and cp gave out those: root@penguen:/home/avci# time cp /mnt/hda10/one_of_the_big_files . Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c0128240>] Tainted: P EFLAGS: 00010046 eax: cbf58000 ebx: 00000003 ecx: ca000000 edx: 00000000 esi: c1405e50 edi: 00000202 ebp: c12f1f80 esp: c14e7efc ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process kswapd (pid: 4, stackpage=c14e7000) Stack: ca000240 cbe9b8c0 cbe9bb40 c12f1f80 c0130f12 c1405e50 ca000240 c0132a9c ca000240 ca000240 c12f1f80 000001d0 00000009 00000200 c013118c c12f1f80 000001d0 cbe9bb40 c12f1f80 c0128f62 c12f1f80 000001d0 00000020 000001d0 Call Trace: [<c0130f12>] [<c0132a9c>] [<c013118c>] [<c0128f62>] [<c01291a6>] [<c012921c>] [<c01292b3>] [<c0129316>] [<c012942d>] [<c0105708>] Code: 89 42 04 89 10 8b 46 08 89 48 04 89 01 8d 56 08 89 51 04 89 real 0m54.986s user 0m0.060s sys 0m7.330s And then of course I did a couple of fsck on this partition after unmounting. first one quitted after several error correcting, second fsck did segmentation fault but the last one did finish fsck. and lots of error were corrected. It might give an idea if I mount it like this #mount /dev/hda5 /home file names appear as $@#$#%#$ etc. but if I mount it like that #mount /dev/hda5 /home -t ext2 no problem seem to occur. I am thinking about whether I did something missing at the fdisk stage or formatting stage. Or is my new hard disk a dead-born? Or any other things you may notice? thank you, baris

June 24, 2002