December 2006 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Problem w/gcc

by Mike Frysinger

On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:08, Eric Martin wrote: > Is there anything I can do aside from piping the output to a file to > capture what the problem might be (tried it, not much help)? it depends on the error if gcc is randomly ICEing, then it can commonly be caused by: - not enough physical ram - flaky hardware - flaky ram - cpu overheating the exact error message would point in the direction -mike

Dec. 24, 2006

Problem w/gcc

by Eric Martin

My laptop has been doing weird stuff lately. I built it a while ago from Gentoo 2006.0 Stage 3, and every now and again it would turn off while compiling something (usually if I had to upgrade glibc). I was just trying to update mythtv and it crashed so I decided to level it and start from scratch. I installed Gentoo 2006.1 Stage 3 and it's doing the same thing. I went down to Stage 2 and I'm still having a problem. I've done memtest in the past with clean results, but I'm stuck because I don't know what the error is. While building a few minutes ago I forgot to turn on swap space and it ran out of memory before crashing (turning off). Is there anything I can do aside from piping the output to a file to capture what the problem might be (tried it, not much help)? Has anybody had similar problems with gcc / glibc? Thanks in advance Eric

Dec. 24, 2006

Re: [Wlug] looking for a PCI graphics card

by Mike Frysinger

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 14:48, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 14:26, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > > I'm looking for a cheap PCI graphics card to see if that fixes the > > problem. Even a loaner would help. > > i probably have one i can part with ... some S3 virge or something yeah, i def have an extra one you can have -mike

Dec. 20, 2006

Re: [Wlug] looking for a PCI graphics card

by Bill Mills-Curran

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:05:08PM -0500, Gary Hanley wrote: > Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:05:08 -0500 (EST) > From: Gary Hanley <gary(a)hanley.net> > To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Subject: Re: [Wlug] looking for a PCI graphics card > Precedence: list > Reply-To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > > On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > > The graphics (motherboard) on my linux box have stoped... I still > > have an ascii screen, but no graphics. (No errors in any logs, so I > > suspect a hardware failure.) > > I'm looking for a cheap PCI graphics card to see if that fixes the > > problem. Even a loaner would help. > > If you can't find a card, how about booting from a Gentoo or > Fedora CD with a GUI install interface to see what that returns? > > -- Gary Gary, Great idea. BTW, I don't get the graphics screen during the boot, either. I _did_ get it once or twice, then intermittently, then not at all, so I really suspect the video driver hardware. Bill

Dec. 20, 2006

Re: [Wlug] looking for a PCI graphics card

by Gary Hanley

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > The graphics (motherboard) on my linux box have stoped... I still > have an ascii screen, but no graphics. (No errors in any logs, so I > suspect a hardware failure.) > I'm looking for a cheap PCI graphics card to see if that fixes the > problem. Even a loaner would help. If you can't find a card, how about booting from a Gentoo or Fedora CD with a GUI install interface to see what that returns? -- Gary

Dec. 20, 2006

Re: [Wlug] looking for a PCI graphics card

by Mike Frysinger

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 14:26, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > I'm looking for a cheap PCI graphics card to see if that fixes the > problem. Even a loaner would help. i probably have one i can part with ... some S3 virge or something -mike

Dec. 20, 2006

looking for a PCI graphics card

by Bill Mills-Curran

The graphics (motherboard) on my linux box have stoped... I still have an ascii screen, but no graphics. (No errors in any logs, so I suspect a hardware failure.) I'm looking for a cheap PCI graphics card to see if that fixes the problem. Even a loaner would help. Thanks, Bill

Dec. 20, 2006

Senior System Administrator position available

by Dwight A. Ernest

Since this list has been a source of some good contract work for me in the past, I thought I'd return the favor. In my capacity as IP Ops director at RNK Communications (http://www.rnkcomm.com/) I'm looking for a Senior Systems Administrator. Knowledge of FreeBSD, Linux, and Cisco networking, in that order, is required/desired. The full job posting may be viewed at http://www.rnkcomm.com/career.htm#srnetwork. Thanks!

Dec. 19, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Linksys Router

by John Stoffel

Gary> I recently upgraded my router to a WRT45GS and have been having Gary> a bear of a time trying to figure out why, when I boot Linux, I Gary> can't get an IP address from the router but with Windows I can. I've always thought it was a good ideal to seperate the Wireless Access Point (AP) hardware from that of the Router which gives me my firewall and other services. I can place both where they do the most good, and keep the complexity level down, since I just have two devices which each do a well defined job. Gary> It worked with the old router. It works with Windows. There are Gary> no DHCP tweaks in the router. What the hell is wrong? Linksys sucks? Gary> Turns out that there a bug in the router. It doesn't like Gary> Linux-based DHCP requests. This is a known issue and apparently Gary> Linksys has no intention of fixing it. But they did release a Gary> Linux-compatible version of the router instead. Gary> So my options are to either by the Linux-compatible version or Gary> find another brand that supports Linux (or better, doesn't Gary> exclude Linux) and is as good wireless performance-wise as the Gary> Linksys routers. Gary> Any recommendations? Gary> I know there is an open source firmware product that can be Gary> applied, but I'm not ready to try that yet as I work from home a Gary> lot and I'm in the middle of an important project so I need a Gary> stable VPN connection right now. Is your VPN endpoint on the home computer, or is it on the Linksys box? That would be the deciding factor. If it's on the computer, then I'd doubt that going to the Linux compatible router hardware (or just updating the firmware) would have any impact at all on the VPN. Good luck! John

Dec. 18, 2006

x.mount

by Jamie Guinan

Hi all, I meant to post the little script I use to manage FUSE mounts. Here it is, http://www.bluebutton.com/wlug/x.mount I put some dummy entries in the fstab, including one with "foo" to exercise the not-handled case. -Jamie

Dec. 18, 2006