January 2004 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Sound card troubleshooting

by Michael Long

Hi, I have been running Suse 8.2 and Sound Blaster sblive! EMU10k1 with no trouble until the last online update from suse. Now I get the message "Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it." And yet when using suse's configuration tool, YAST, the card appears to be configured correctly. The only weird thing I can find is that when I go to the hardware info page I see the following 2 entries: Unique key:_+Pw.mTanvDDnb_0 old_unique_key: airf.mTanvDDnb_0 Where should I start looking to figure out what got broken. Thanks, Mike

Jan. 18, 2004

Reminder: WLUG meeting TONIGHT 7:00 PM

by Andy Stewart

(This space intentionally left blank) -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

Jan. 15, 2004

Re: [Wlug] FreeBSD - cvsup access down?

by John Stoffel

Sigh... it turned out that my co-lo site was blocking port 5999 (cvsup) on me, due to their ISP complaing about problems earlier. They forgot, and since I hadn't done an update in a while, I didn't notice either. All it well now, and I've changed to useing the MIT mirror, it's pretty darn fast. John

Jan. 14, 2004

Re: [Wlug] FreeBSD - cvsup access down?

by Brian J. Conway

It times out when I try cvsup14.freebsd.org. Perhaps leave it at cvsup.freebsd.org and be patient? I just tried that one (cvsup.freebsd.org) now and it connected up and starting syncing without issue. I haven't checked any of the mailing list archives recently, perhaps there's a known issue with cvsup mirrors being busy or a lack of available mirrors. -b > Brian> I cvsup ports at 3 in the morning and had no issues today. I > Brian> can connect now to cvsup.freebsd.org fine, although the limit > Brian> on connections for that particular server has been reached, but > Brian> the system is running. Try a few hosts? > > I've tried all of the main mirrors (1-18) including some of the remote > ones as well. I'm starting to think that there's some major routing > or network issues hiding around my server. Sigh... > > Well well... I can browse the web site on cvsup3.freebsd.org > (xyz.lcs.mit.edu) without a problem using Lynx from my problematic > machine. But cvsup doesn't work. Strange strange strange... > > Can you try doing a pull from that site and telling me what you get? > > John

Jan. 14, 2004

Re: [Wlug] FreeBSD - cvsup access down?

by John Stoffel

Brian> I cvsup ports at 3 in the morning and had no issues today. I Brian> can connect now to cvsup.freebsd.org fine, although the limit Brian> on connections for that particular server has been reached, but Brian> the system is running. Try a few hosts? I've tried all of the main mirrors (1-18) including some of the remote ones as well. I'm starting to think that there's some major routing or network issues hiding around my server. Sigh... Well well... I can browse the web site on cvsup3.freebsd.org (xyz.lcs.mit.edu) without a problem using Lynx from my problematic machine. But cvsup doesn't work. Strange strange strange... Can you try doing a pull from that site and telling me what you get? John

Jan. 14, 2004

Re: [Wlug] FreeBSD - cvsup access down?

by Brian J. Conway

I cvsup ports at 3 in the morning and had no issues today. I can connect now to cvsup.freebsd.org fine, although the limit on connections for that particular server has been reached, but the system is running. Try a few hosts? -b On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, John Stoffel wrote: > > Hi All, > > Is anyone else running FreeBSD and having problems talking to any/all > of the various CVSup servers around the world? I can't decide if the > ISP which hosts the site where I have a co-lo is causing the problem, > or if I've just done something stupid with my system setup. > > Basically, any connections for port 5999 on most of the CVSup servers > I've tried talking to just times out. > > For example: > > # cvsup ports-supfile > Cannot connect to cvsup14.FreeBSD.org: Connection refused > Will retry at 14:29:15 > Retrying > Cannot connect to cvsup14.FreeBSD.org: Connection refused > Will retry at 14:40:01 > > Thanks, > John > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Jan. 14, 2004

FreeBSD - cvsup access down?

by John Stoffel

Hi All, Is anyone else running FreeBSD and having problems talking to any/all of the various CVSup servers around the world? I can't decide if the ISP which hosts the site where I have a co-lo is causing the problem, or if I've just done something stupid with my system setup. Basically, any connections for port 5999 on most of the CVSup servers I've tried talking to just times out. For example: # cvsup ports-supfile Cannot connect to cvsup14.FreeBSD.org: Connection refused Will retry at 14:29:15 Retrying Cannot connect to cvsup14.FreeBSD.org: Connection refused Will retry at 14:40:01 Thanks, John

Jan. 14, 2004

coda & InterMezzo filesystems

by Karl Hiramoto

Anyone have experience with them? Good? Bad? Using them in produciton environments? -- ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 http://karl.hiramoto.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø I hate babies. They're so human. -- H.H. Munro

Jan. 13, 2004

Re: [Wlug] mkinitrd

by Charles R. Anderson

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:08:46AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > Question: Do I need to boot to the single-processor kernel in order > to make a valid initrd image for a single-processor boot? I would > hope that I can, but the man page is not specific about it. (I want > to avoid the extra boot cycles.) Mo, you can make an initrd for any installed kernel without booting to it. mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-28.9.img 2.4.20-28.9 mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-28.9smp.img 2.4.20-28.9smp Additionally, installing a Red Hat kernel package automatically does the mkinitrd and grub.conf steps for you, so you only need to manually run the commands above if you want a special kernel module loaded before / is mounted, or if you have a custom compiled kernel. See also /sbin/installkernel.

Jan. 13, 2004

mkinitrd

by Bill Mills-Curran

I'm using mkinitrd on a multi-processor system. I have both the single and multi-processor kernels loaded, but I rarely run the single-processor kernel. It's there mostly as a safety net. Question: Do I need to boot to the single-processor kernel in order to make a valid initrd image for a single-processor boot? I would hope that I can, but the man page is not specific about it. (I want to avoid the extra boot cycles.) TIA, Bill

Jan. 13, 2004