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system freeze, log shows eth1 error

loserboy02 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:19:15 GMT

hey guys, I'm in a bit of a bind.. well a big bind.

I installed ubuntu hardy recently and got everything rolling pretty good, but then I noticed some random lockups and slow boot times. I checked my logs and the only thing that seemed out of place was tons of lines:

Code:

Nov 25 12:22:24 mike-work kernel: [ 383.343214] eth1: (82593) System Error occurred (0)

also some lines of this:

Code:

Nov 25 12:18:25 mike-work kernel: [  141.692480] 0000:05:07.0: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed (CSR5 0xfc06c012 CSR6 0xff970111)

So I'm assuming my problems are coming from that. It freezes so often now that I can't even get to a desktop, but when I was still able to the only thing I knew to do was go to the graphical network settings and disable eth1 to no avail. Next I tried going to the interfaces file in /etc and commented out eth1... but that didn't help either.

So I'm stuck, I posted on UF, but no answer.

If it makes a difference eth1 is supposedly referring to my onboard LAN card and I even tried turning it off in bios.

this is what ifconfig says about it

Code:

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:4c:69:6e:75:79  

          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:12320629 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

          Interrupt:19 Base address:0xa400

any tips would be appreciated... and a fix would be awesome :)

Thanks
Mike

LQ Blogs and people's uses

lumak — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:15:23 GMT

I've been clicking the random blog button in hopes that I will find an interesting article or linux related pondering that somebody has posted. However, more often than not, I come across questions that people are asking. Why ask technical linux questions in your blog? Is it a way of storing your question so you can look back on it later and research it? Or are people just testing out the blog system? Either way, I like knowing I have a blog here. It gives me a place to post interesting things that I come across or what I plan on doing.

Anybody using their blog for something interesting?

phpMyAdmin 3.0 help

Freakygeek55 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:13:57 GMT

So this isn't the first time that I have had issues with phpMyAdmin however I fixed our old utilities server and still having issues.

I get the error "#2005 - Unknown MySQL server host 'rjett.vv' (2)" when I try to connect to rjett.vv which is one of our database servers, the user can access his server with mysql but not through phpMyAdmin.

Here is my config file

Code:




/*

* This is needed for cookie based authentication to encrypt password in

* cookie

*/

$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = '82847284n2c423740n234nc24923nc02947n23094cn29';

$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = 'http://intranet.vv/phpMyAdmin';



/*

* Servers configuration

*/

$i = 0;





$i++;

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']          = 'localhost'; // MySQL hostname or IP address

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port']          = '';          // MySQL port - leave blank for default port

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket']        = '';          // Path to the socket - leave blank for default socket

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type']  = 'tcp';       // How to connect to MySQL server ('tcp' or 'socket')

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension']     = 'mysql';     // The php MySQL extension to use ('mysql' or 'mysqli')

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress']      = FALSE;       // Use compressed protocol for the MySQL connection

                                                    // (requires PHP >= 4.3.0)

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser']   = '';          // MySQL control user settings

                                                    // (this user must have read-only

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass']   = '';          // access to the "mysql/user"

                                                    // and "mysql/db" tables).

                                                    // The controluser is also

                                                    // used for all relational

                                                    // features (pmadb)

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']     = 'cookie';    // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user']          = '';    // MySQL user

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password']      = '';    // MySQL password (only needed

                                                    // with 'config' auth_type)

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db']       = '';          // If set to a db-name, only

                                                    // this db is displayed in left frame

                                                    // It may also be an array of db-names, where sorting order is relevant.

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['hide_db']       = '';          // Database name to be hidden from listings

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose']       = '';          // Verbose name for this host - leave blank to show the hostname



$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb']         = '';          // Database used for Relation, Bookmark and PDF Features

                                                    // (see scripts/create_tables.sql)

                                                    //   - leave blank for no support

                                                    //     DEFAULT: 'phpmyadmin'

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = '';          // Bookmark table

                                                    //   - leave blank for no bookmark support

                                                    //     DEFAULT: 'pma_bookmark'

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation']      = '';          // table to describe the relation between links (see doc)

                                                    //   - leave blank for no relation-links support

                                                    //     DEFAULT: 'pma_relation'

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info']    = '';          // table to describe the display fields

                                                    //   - leave blank for no display fields support

                                                    //     DEFAULT: 'pma_table_info'

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords']  = '';          // table to describe the tables position for the PDF schema

                                                    //   - leave blank for no PDF schema support

                                                    //     DEFAULT: 'pma_table_coords'

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages']     = '';          // table to describe pages of relationpdf

                                                    //   - leave blank if you don't want to use this

                                                    //     DEFAULT: 'pma_pdf_pages'

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info']   = '';          // table to store column information

                                                    //   - leave blank for no column comments/mime types

                                                    //     DEFAULT: 'pma_column_info'

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history']       = '';          // table to store SQL history

                                                    //   - leave blank for no SQL query history

                                                    //     DEFAULT: 'pma_history'

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose_check'] = TRUE;        // set to FALSE if you know that your pma_* tables

                                                    // are up to date. This prevents compatibility

                                                    // checks and thereby increases performance.

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowRoot']     = TRUE;        // whether to allow root login

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order']           // Host authentication order, leave blank to not use

                                     = '';

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules']           // Host authentication rules, leave blank for defaults

                                     = array();





$i++;

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']          = '10.10.2.162'; // MySQL hostname or IP address

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port']          = '';          // MySQL port - leave blank for default port

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket']        = '';          // Path to the socket - leave blank for default socket

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type']  = 'tcp';       // How to connect to MySQL server ('tcp' or 'socket')

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension']     = 'mysql';     // The php MySQL extension to use ('mysql' or 'mysqli')

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress']      = FALSE;       // Use compressed protocol for the MySQL connection

                                                    // (requires PHP >= 4.3.0)

 

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']     = 'cookie';    // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?



$i++;

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']          = '10.10.2.161'; // MySQL hostname or IP address

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port']          = '';          // MySQL port - leave blank for default port

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket']        = '';          // Path to the socket - leave blank for default socket

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type']  = 'tcp';       // How to connect to MySQL server ('tcp' or 'socket')

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension']     = 'mysql';     // The php MySQL extension to use ('mysql' or 'mysqli')

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress']      = FALSE;       // Use compressed protocol for the MySQL connection

                                                    // (requires PHP >= 4.3.0)

 

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']     = 'cookie';    // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?



// If you have more than one server configured, you can set $cfg['ServerDefault']

$i++;

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']          = '10.10.2.163'; // MySQL hostname or IP address

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port']          = '';          // MySQL port - leave blank for default port

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket']        = '';          // Path to the socket - leave blank for default socket

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type']  = 'tcp';       // How to connect to MySQL server ('tcp' or 'socket')

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension']     = 'mysql';     // The php MySQL extension to use ('mysql' or 'mysqli')

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress']      = FALSE;       // Use compressed protocol for the MySQL connection

                                                    // (requires PHP >= 4.3.0)

 

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']     = 'cookie';    // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?



$i++;

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']          = 'zmikeska.vv'; // MySQL hostname or IP address

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port']          = '';          // MySQL port - leave blank for default port

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket']        = '';          // Path to the socket - leave blank for default socket

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type']  = 'tcp';       // How to connect to MySQL server ('tcp' or 'socket')

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension']     = 'mysql';     // The php MySQL extension to use ('mysql' or 'mysqli')

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress']      = FALSE;       // Use compressed protocol for the MySQL connection

                                                    // (requires PHP >= 4.3.0)

 

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']     = 'cookie';    // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?



$i++;

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']          = 'dfstest.vv'; // MySQL hostname or IP address

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port']          = '';          // MySQL port - leave blank for default port

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket']        = '';          // Path to the socket - leave blank for default socket

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type']  = 'tcp';       // How to connect to MySQL server ('tcp' or 'socket')

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension']     = 'mysql';     // The php MySQL extension to use ('mysql' or 'mysqli')

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress']      = FALSE;       // Use compressed protocol for the MySQL connection

                                                    // (requires PHP >= 4.3.0)

 

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']     = 'cookie';    // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?



$i++;

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']          = 'rjett.vv'; // MySQL hostname or IP address

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port']          = '';          // MySQL port - leave blank for default port

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket']        = '';          // Path to the socket - leave blank for default socket

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type']  = 'tcp';       // How to connect to MySQL server ('tcp' or 'socket')

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension']     = 'mysql';     // The php MySQL extension to use ('mysql' or 'mysqli')

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress']      = FALSE;       // Use compressed protocol for the MySQL connection

                                                    // (requires PHP >= 4.3.0)

 

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']     = 'cookie';    // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?



$i++;

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']          = 'mmiller.vv'; // MySQL hostname or IP address

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port']          = '';          // MySQL port - leave blank for default port

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket']        = '';          // Path to the socket - leave blank for default socket

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type']  = 'tcp';       // How to connect to MySQL server ('tcp' or 'socket')

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension']     = 'mysql';     // The php MySQL extension to use ('mysql' or 'mysqli')

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress']      = FALSE;       // Use compressed protocol for the MySQL connection

                                                    // (requires PHP >= 4.3.0)

 

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']     = 'cookie';    // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?



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LXer: 40 Open Source Tools for Protecting Your Privacy

LXer — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:10:30 GMT

Published at LXer:

You don't need to fork over big bucks � or even any bucks � to keep your online activities and identity secret. The open source community has dozens of privacy-related projects in development, and some of them have already proven themselves to be among the best privacy protection tools available. These tools are targeted at three broad groups of people. First are products aimed at the general public. Everyone with a computer needs applications like firewalls, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, and password management. But there are also email encryption, anonymous file sharing, anonymous surfing, and other apps for those with more pressing privacy needs.

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alternative way to get USB file handle: hotplug? sys/bus/usb/devices/ ?

knockout_artist — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:08:34 GMT

Good day,

Is that make sense?
Once system recognize device. Doesn't load any driver.
But make all entries in "sys" tree.

Can that be used as file handle?
Can that be used for ioctl?

Thanks.

Keyboard Shortcuts from the Desktop

SoutheastSam — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:08:23 GMT

Are there any keyboard shortcuts or combinations I can press to open things I use a lot like the terminal, etc.?

Thanks in advance,
-Sam

clone identical HDD and leave both bootable

owenm — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:44:09 GMT

Hi,
Just looking for some info on the steps to copy exactly the contents of a disk to another for use in the same system. I want to use this as a backup disk if the first one goes.

Both drives are identical 36.4gb scsi, I havent physically plugged the second one into the server yet (Compaq DL350 G2). There is only 1 drive in their at present so no raid to be considered.

The OS is SCO Open server 5.

I not new to Linux but I have only ever learned to do certain things like FTP at command line and I can ls and move around the filesystem fairly well

So my questions are:

1. When I plug in the new drive and boot will I see it in the OS or will I have to mount it?

2. Can I copy the first drive to the second using DD? (While booted into the OS?) and will both disks be bootable afterwards, i.e. can I remove my old drive and put my newly DD'd disk into the first slot in the cage and away I go?

Or should I go with a live CD and use something like Ghost?

Many thanks for any pointers.

Rds,
Owen.

LXer: Keeping an eye on your network with PasTmon

LXer — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:30:37 GMT

Published at LXer:

The PasTmon passive traffic monitor keeps an eye on your network, recording which clients are interacting with which services, when and how long things took. You can then use the application's PHP Web interface to investigate these figures to see if any host is connecting to Web services that it shouldn't, or is contacting services suspiciously more frequently than you would expect for normal operation, or when response times become excessively long. The Ubuntu, openSUSE, and Fedora repositories do not include packages for PasTmon. Although the version number is still low, the project has had releases available for three years.

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Audio and Video groups missing on installation.

Hern_28 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:28:33 GMT

Thought I would try debain amd64. After installing i have noticed that there are no audio or video groups. What do i need to do or re-install to create them?

Running Debian Etch

OpenSUSE 11.1 upgrade

mlambrechts — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:28:00 GMT

I started this thread to get information about the new upcoming 11.1 version of OpenSUSE. I am using 11.0 and I made a mistake by upgrading because 10.3 was faster and better. Maybe 11.0 was okay, but it is possible that my mistake was to choose KDE 4.0 instead of 3.5.
Anyway, there must be plenty of people now using the 11.1 who could share the experience.
So, should I stick with 11.0 or upgrade, and what version (of KDE/Gnome).
Thanks,
Marc

Xinetd and tftp error

adwomack — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:21:24 GMT

I'm getting the below error in my message log when trying to use the tftp server.

Dec 2 18:51:01 durnfx01 xinetd[2778]: START: tftp pid=2797 from=::ffff:136.141.140.25
Dec 2 18:51:01 durnfx01 in.tftpd[2797]: received address was not AF_INET, please check your inetd config
Dec 2 18:51:01 durnfx01 xinetd[2778]: EXIT: tftp status=76 pid=2797 duration=0(sec)

I've done several google searches and it apprears the problem is IPv6 related, but I can't find a fix anywhere.

Below is my tftp config file

service tftp
{
disable = no
socket_type = dgram
protocol = udp
wait = yes
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args = -s /tftpdir/pub
per_source = 11
cps = 100 2
}

And my xinetd.conf file is

defaults
{

log_type = SYSLOG daemon info
log_on_failure = HOST
log_on_success = PID HOST DURATION EXIT

cps = 50 10
instances = 50
per_source = 10

v6only = no

groups = yes
umask = 002

}

includedir /etc/xinetd.d

Any help would be appreciated.

creating an algorithm

chefalbie06 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:20:48 GMT

Create an algorithm and a script to notify you when the IP address of your machine changes. It should email root of your local machine. You may have to use grep and cut. Can anyone help explain this to me.

Updated Account Features

jeremy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:19:50 GMT

I'm happy to announce that we've recently enabled some additional account features for all members with over 150 posts. Some additional features include:

* Enabled private messaging. This allows you to send and receive PM's. Please note that technical questions should not be sent via PM. If you do receive a technical question, please do refer the member back to the forum, so all members can benefit from the answer.
* Added the ability to upload a profile picture.
* Added the ability to further customize both your profile and blog pages.

We decided to enable these upgrades as a thank you for your continued dedication to helping others at LQ. Your account will automatically be upgraded once you reach 150 posts (this number is subject to change, but all upgraded accounts will always be grandfathered in).

In addition, based on feedback we have slightly changed permissions for members with 0 posts. Before you have a post, both your blog and ability to start social groups will be disabled. This was done to make it clear where the appropriate place to first post content is (the forum). As soon as you have a single post, your account will gain full access to all site functionality.

As always, if you have any questions, comments or suggestions please let us know. Your feedback is important to us and we really do listen.

--jeremy

conexant softmodem and slackware 12.1

moob8 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:14:44 GMT

Hello:

This is a problem involving slackware 12.1 (not 12.0). If you do not have 12.1, there is no need for you to waste any of your time reading this post. :)

OK, still reading? Then you have slackware 12.1. Cool.

Are you using a Conexant HCF/HSF "softmodem" (dialup modem, a card inside the machine, essentially a winmodem)?

If you are not, well, you're a lucky person. Life is good for you. You can skip to the next thread: no further need to read this one.

--
--
--

Still reading? Ok, then you have the modem and you are running slackware 12.1. Have you got it working? Can you go online?

If the answer is yes, then EXCELLENT!

so ... to the meat of this post ....

How did you do it? Can you let me know? Thanks in advance.

p.s. - I found several answers on google. Alas, they were the wrong answers: they didn't fix the problem for me.

p.p.s. - the driver worked for me with slackware 12.0.

129 processes, 2 running

phantom_cyph — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:12:03 GMT

Conky says I have 129 processes, only 2 of which are running. I don't know why it is so high. The only programs I have open right now are:
Firefox, irssi, pidgin, 2xssh, 2xroxterm. Obviously this doesn't account for the usual processes that run in the background, but 129? Does this seem a little wrong to anyone else? I had this many when I used Ubuntu, I didn't think Slackware would have this many at the same time.

Thoughts?