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From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Admin)
Subject: Re: Linux Standards Need Improvment
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:29:29 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.103122.24409@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
>jbh@feenix.metronet.com (Justin B Harvey) writes:
>>I think that each software package should have a universal standaard
>>file or directory of the files that are needed to compile or run
>>the program or util.  I find it very confusing to figure out what
>>to ftp.
>	
	What do you mean by a 'universal standard file'?  You just ftp
the .tar.Z file and use that...don't you??

Marc
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dennis Robinson)
Subject: HELP: xinit: interrupted system call (errno 4) client error
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:49:50 GMT


Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: HELP: xinit: interrupted server call (errno 4):client error

Recently have reinstalled X11, for that matter all of linux.  Using
.98 patch level 1 or 2 (don't recall).  However now I am getting the
following error:

xinit: Interrrupted system call (errno 4) : client error

Before the error comes I get the slate grey screen, which then turns blue.
Mouse works fine...  And about 50% of the time the xclock appears.  The 
error occurs before the xterm or the twm window manager come into play.
Ive taken out the xterm & in the .xinitrc and the error still happeds.
A while ago I was getting this error:

waiting for X server to shut down X386 Version 1.2 / X Windows System [linux v1.
										

										1 8514/A alpha]                                                                 

										(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)                          
																				
																														XIO:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"^M                      
																															    The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.^M  



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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: Re: [BUG REPORT]
Keywords: 0.99pl1 kernel keyboard linus
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 13:18:27 GMT

In article <BY0946@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> ckurs-2@wilbur.uni-mainz.de (Teilnehmer am C-Kurs WS 1992_93) writes:
>*** 0.99pl1 has not changed my keyboard lockups for the better, it got WORSE ***
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Bug Description:
>----------------
>As i posted here in this group earlier, my keyboard goes dead everytime i press
>one of the lock keys (CAPS LOCK and SCROLL LOCK led will light up, NUM LOCK led
>will go dark). But i was able to switch the vc's with no problems.
>After applying the patch1 to the kernel, i can not switch vc's any more, kbd will
>lock after the switch.

Are you sure the keyboard is >dead<?  When I press one of the lock
keys, all of my keystrokes are converted into CTRL chars.  So,
pressing `a' gives me ^A, pressing `d' lets me logout (with ^D) etc.
This is useful because, at least, if you have a `sync' in your shell
history, you can use `p' (which gives you ^P) to access it.

I still haven't traces the root of the problem.

-Joel
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hank@informatik.uni-essen.de (Hendrik Seliger (Messtechnik - Tel. 2898))
Subject: Re: Linux and (german) TeX
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 13:22:43 GMT
Organization: Uni-Essen
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

axel@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Axel Kotulla) writes:
: 
: Does anybody  know, what I have to do to use german hyphenation rules in LaTeX?
: 

Happy New Year!

It might be that you are building the hyphenation patterns using the
wrong language ID. Since TeX 3.0 TeX can handle more than one language's
patterns at the same time. To load one in INITeX you have to first switch
to the appropriate language (\setlanguage{0} for US-english, 1 for German...)
and then load the patterns. Then, when using this language (in TeX), you
have to again set the corresponding language so that the right patterns
will be used (I think this is e.g. be done by german.sty). Works fine
for me.

Hank.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Subject: Re: What do you linux dudes use for csh?
Organization: Washington State University!
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 03:26:26 GMT

[...]

>
>By the way, frexp seems to be missing from libc.so.4.1, and I am also

It is in libm.a.

>getting some unexplained 'division by zero' core dumps. Does anyone
>(HLU?) know if this would be fixed if I installed GCC 2.3.3? (I already
>grabbed libc.so.4.2 for doc)
>

Use gdb to track it down.

H.J.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell)
Subject: Looking for xdm/fsck man pages
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 15:53:41 GMT

The subject says it all, trying to load xdm and fsck man pages
on machine. Would someone be kind enough to email them to me or
specify what FTP site they are located under (including file name).

Thanks,
 Bill             wto@ihlpx.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dmw@teal.csn.org (Dave Warner)
Subject: Xstones - X8514, Gateway DX2-66V (Ultra Pro)
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:29:43 GMT

A few days ago I posted xstones for Xfree1.1 at 1024x768 on a
Gateway DX2-66V local bus with an ATI Ultra Pro with 8MB ram.
Here are the results for X8514:

TOTAL    185822 lineStones
TOTAL     55528 fillStones
TOTAL     36191 blitStones
TOTAL   5236912 arcStones
TOTAL    134406 textStones
TOTAL     92614 complexStones
TOTAL     79209 xStones

Faster on fillStones, blitStones, arcStones, and complexStones; about
the same on lineStones; slower on textStones for a net result of more
than twice the xstones of Xfree1.1.

I didn't try running any applications (due to problem 2) below) so I
can't speak to success or failure there.

A few problems, however, for which I would appreciate some help:
 1) screen is garbled (vertical lines about 1/4" apart, nothing readable)
    upon exiting X
 2) mouse (logitech on /dev/ttys1) is VERY erratic and unusable; I
    fooled with baudrate and samples without much luck.

--dave
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dosburn@cwis.unomaha.edu (Don Osburn)
Subject: bootdisk/rootdisk install won't copy to hda
Summary: install won't copy root files to hard disk
Keywords: install copy root hda 
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:05:32 GMT

After succesfully downloading and rawrite ing the BOOTIMAGE-0.98, and
ROOTIMAGE-0.97 to floppies, I booted the system and went to install
it on my hard drive.  The installation appeared to go as described 
in the FAQ, etc, until it tried to copy the root files from floppy to
/dev/hda1.  Then I got nothing but a string of errors stating that:
No Space Left on Device.  HELP!  What seems to be the problem here?

The steps I followed are below.  Note that the stuff regarding OS/2
and the BootManager are straight out of the FAQ.

1	Created 3 partitions while installing OS/2 and the BootManger.
	Put the BootManager in the first partition, and OS/2 in the 
	second contiguously.  All three partitions are Primary type.

2	Booted Linux, logged in as install. (Yes, I did read all the
	docs in the intro log in first.)

3	Followed install script and changed the type ID of the third
	partition to 81 for Linux/MINIX using fdisk, as per the FAQ.

4	Used mkfs to make a file system using the entire 3rd partition.
	(Max block size as listed by fdisk.  Later tried different
	sizes in attempt to fix. No luck.  Used command:
	mkfs -c /dev/hda1 49878 )  Hardrive light came on, and 
	everything appeared ok.

5	Install informed me that it was going to mount a root fs.  At 
	the prompt, I input /dev/hda1 for the root partition, and none
	for the /usr and the swap.

6	Hit return as prompted, and received the following:

	Installing /bin
	/bin/bash -> /mnt/bin/bash
	cp: /mnt/bin/bash: No Space Left on Device

	....
	.......
	cp:.......        No Space Left on Device.

	....
	.......
	cp:.......        No Space Left on Device.

I have 48MB in that partition for the system.  mkfs reported no bad
sectors, etc.  WHAT HAPPENED?  After this err, the install program would
not run properly anymore.  Upon loggin in as root, I discovered a core
dump in the INSTALL directory and removed it.  After doing this, the 
install program appeared to run as it did the first time, so I tried 
various different things with fdisk and mkfs, and even doing it by hand
from root, all with no success.  I apparently did something though,
because now the install program doesn't appear to work at all.  It
starts in the middle, right before the mkfs step.  Anyway, I am going
to re rawrite the rootimage, but I need to know what is going wrong
here.   Thanks in advance. :-)
From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Admin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Error...NMI received?
Date: 24 Dec 92 19:01:19 GMT
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)

Hello...

	As it says...I get an error, well, I got it twice so far, that
goes to the effect of:

Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

	What does this mean? :)

Marc
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Re: sysvinit...
Organization: York University
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 05:07:35 GMT

probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:

>marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:

>>Hi...

>>	Just installed sysvinit...upon reboot, I get an error to the 
>>effect of:

>>	INIT: Warning: Invalid action field in line 4 of /etc/inittab

>>	which reads:

>>	id:4:initdefault

>>	Why?

>>Thanks...

>>Marc

>Looking at the example included with the sysvinit package, and at an actual
>SYSV inittab shows you need one more colon. It should look as follows.

>id:4:initdefault:

	Thanks...fixed it sortly after posting...figured I would take
a change :)

	part 2: 'rc::bootwait:/etc/rc' gives an error 'cannot execute 
/etc/rc'..../etc/rc is 755

Thanks again...

Marc
From: opium@hardy.u.washington.edu (Just dance and move your body)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: xmkmf/imake-Imakefile CHALLENGE, somebody please!!!!
Date: 24 Dec 92 03:22:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec24.032233.4534
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Here is the Imakefile distributed with xboard-2.0, an X11R5 front end for
Gnuchess(x)-4.0, I haven't had any luck generating a Makefile using xmkmf
or imake under Linux-0.98 - 0.99/Xfree86v1.1.  Maybe if somebody else could
do it, they would e-mail me the Makefile generated.  8-)
#
# Imakefile -- to generate a Makefile for xboard, use:
#   /usr/local/X11/mit/config/imake \
#       -I/usr/local/X11/mit/config \
#       -DTOPDIR=/usr/local/X11/mit
#
   SYS_LIBRARIES = -lm
 LOCAL_LIBRARIES = XawClientLibs
         DEPLIBS = XawClientDepLibs
         DEFINES = -DHAS_GETTIMEOFDAY
     CDEBUGFLAGS = -g
              CC = gcc -Wall
# For HP-UX, per R. K. Lloyd:
#    CDEBUGFLAGS = +O3 +Obb1000
SRCS = parser.c xboard.c
OBJS = parser.o xboard.o
AllTarget(xboard)
depend:: parser.c
clean::
	$(RM) parser.c chess.lst
ComplexProgramTarget(xboard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ellis@convex.com (Robert Ellis)
Subject: [Q] Comm package like UW?
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 05:36:21 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.


I'm looking for a communications package like UW/PC, which is

    "a multiple-window interface to UNIX for
     IBM-PC's and compatible computers.  This program is based on a program
     written for the Macintosh by John Bruner.  It provides up to seven
     separate login sessions on the remote UNIX machine, and requires the
     UW server to be running on the UNIX host." (from the UW documentation)

Has anyone ported this beast to linux (i've looked in the faq and on the
mit and unc machines and didn't see it)?

Is there some other comm package that would fill this need i have for more
than one login session?

thanks,
 robert ellis
ellis@convex.com

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: joergp@gmd.de (Joerg Prust)
Subject: Re: BUG in 0.99[p1] kernel config script and Re: Serial driver issues
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 13:39:33 GMT

In <1heirvINN3gr@gap.caltech.edu> nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu) writes:

>I pulled off the parallel 1 jumper in a weak attempt to disable the address
>decoding, but linux still thinks its there.

>However, the setup did seem to work, but the lpt thing bothers me.

>So the question here is how to disable the lpt port so com3 and 4 can use
>irq 5 or 7.

>Ideas?

I tried to reproduce that behavior with a couple of cards, but Linux always
correctly disregarded the printer port (0.99p1 + CONFIG_AUTO_IRQ).
Did your card manual sheet state explicitely that no jumper means disabling
the port?

Meanwhile, further postings concerning the multiple port issue appeared:

YOU DON'T NEED THOSE 4-PORT-CARDS, PLEASE CHECK FIRST WETHER YOU
CAN USE TWO STANDARD CARDS (with configurable IRQ's 5, 7 or 9).

Even if the low IRQ's are already in use (i.e. Seagate SCSI ST02 needs IRQ 5)
its relatively simple to use IRQ's 10 to 12 with those cards and a few wires.
(Works fine for me, for details see my previous posting.)

Greetings
        J"org

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: gcc 2.3.3 is on tsx-11.
Keywords: gcc
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 23:50:41 GMT

I don't know how to post in c.o.l.a. Please bear with me. Thanks.

-----------

This is the release of gcc 2.3.3. You have to use 0.97 pl4 or above
to run it. You have to have the Linux C library 4.2 installed
to use it.

You can get them from tsx-11 under pub/linux/GCC.

File list

1. gcc233.TZ (cpp, cc1, cc1plus and version dependent header files.)

To run it, please do

gcc 

To use the old one, please do

gcc -V 2.2.2d

For i486 binaries, please check pub/linux/GCC/486.

H.J.
hlu@eecs.wsu.edu
12/31/92
From: Pauli.Ramo@hut.fi (no, I don't repeat it!)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: "the `gets' function is unreliable and should not be used"??!!!
Date: 1 Jan 93 00:37:25 GMT
Reply-To: Pauli.Ramo@hut.fi
Organization: /u/opi/s/ramo/.organization

In article <C058sJ.Fuu@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dld54032@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dave Dribin) writes:

[about the reliability of gets()]

>I am using SLS Linux v99.0.  Did I install anything wrong, or is the function
>really unreliable.  I would think that all the standard ASNI functions would
>be reliable!  Thanx in andvance, and happy new year...

The problem with gets() is that you can't pass the length of your string
buffer to it. If, for example, you reserved 1000 bytes and the program
got an input line of 2000 bytes, gets() could write the rest of the data
(after the first 1000 bytes) to whatever area of memory there is after
your buffer. If you are lucky, you just get SIGSEGV, if not, you can
screw up much other variables.

This problem does not exist with fgets(), because one of it's parameters
is the maximum amount of data read (=buffer length in most cases). So, you
could replace the gets(str) with fgets(str,256,stdin), if your buffer is
256 bytes long.

Happy new year!

	Pauli
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: qualtrak@netcom.com (Qual Trak)
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT [BUG in 0.99] Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99
Organization: QualTrak Corporation
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 05:06:10 GMT

In article <mcampbel.725666039@eola.cs.ucf.edu> mcampbel@cs.ucf.edu (Mike Campbell ) writes:
>zdenek@ksr.com (Zdenek Radouch) writes:
>
>>Stephen Williams writes:
>
>>>Statics are either explicitly initialized or they are not.
>>>If they are not, their contents are UNDEFINED until set.
>>>This is per ANSI C.
>>>There is NO requirement of the compiler or system to zero
>>>un-initialized statics (or auto's).
>
>
>>I'll quote for you:
>
>>"A static object not explicitly initialized is initialized as if it 
>>(or its members) were assigned the constant 0. The initial value of
>>an automatic object not explicitly initialized is undefined."
>
>
>You are correct - what would be the advantage of a static in a function?
>
>If you NEEDED to initialize it, you would lose the value of the variable
>every time the function was called, nullifying the advantage statics have
>in functions, (namely holding a value out of visibility).

You're correct up until the last two paragraphs - Although I can't
quote chapter and verse, maybe someone else will - a static variable
with an initializer is initialized exactly one time, which can be
considered to happen the first time the variable comes into scope.

I looked in k&r 2d ed and couldn't find reference to the above, but I've
seen it somewhere.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ruhtra@turing.toronto.edu (Arthur Tateishi)
Subject: Re: A discipline for packages
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 1 Jan 93 00:07:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.022954.5807@sol.UVic.CA> pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
>In article <T8BmwB1w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org> kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>>marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
>>> nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
>>> >You know something I've always hated about Unix (and people are
>...
>>If, in my copious spare time [ ;-) ] I can manage to put together an
>>install/uninstall/update package that works that way, I'll be glad to donate
>>it to Peter so SLS will have a better install/uninstall package than the
>
>Actually I responded via email to Neslon's initial suggestion.  The 
>gist of it is there is no benefit to the symbolic links idea.
>SLS already allows easy uninstall (not that anyone uses it)
>via "sysinstall -remove pkg".
 I DID! I DID! (I nuked emacs before even continuing with the x? disks :-)
	     <Remember, this isn't comp.editors. I just didn't want it
	     taking up space on my disk.> )

>Symbolic links turn out to be a system admins nightmare, and I am thinking
>seriously about clensing SLS of all such, except for directories.
>While hardware is cheap, slowing it down makes no sense.
 I Agree

At first glance, I thought SLS _WAS_ just untarring a bunch of files,
etc.  But on closer inspection, each package has mechanisms for
installation, removal, AND EXTRACTION, not to mention things like
having scripts be able to compress/uncompress man pages and fonts
after/before installation/extraction.  If you simply keep a list of
personally installed packages and use sysinstall -extract <package> and
stash these away before upgrading all would be fine.

The other thing I really like about the sysinstall way of doing things
is being able to go into a directory, see what packages I've got, and
be able to quickly see where things got installed.

The original poster wanted something to manage wholesale upgrades of
SLS.  Simply having a simple way to install and remove packages doesn't
cut it.  If you follow the SLS package paradigm when installing local
things, you can easily extract them to a separate fs before upgrading
and re-install afterwards. If they install by typing "make install" you
should either setup your own directories and symlinks or make a quick
SLS package install/remove/extract script.

Peter, keep up the good work. As the fellow who dealt with 386BSD before
SLS Linux said, "386BSD could really use this technology."

arthur
-- 
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reliable sense, in mind; this fact alone guarantees a vast number of holes."
    -- "On the Security of UNIX", Dennis M. Ritchie
Arthur Tateishi                 ruhtra@turing.utoronto.ca
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Error...NMI received?
Date: 25 Dec 92 14:37:30 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In article <BzsCpn.4v1@citrus.SAC.CA.US> ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman ) writes:
>marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Admin) writes:
>: Hello...
>: 
>: 	As it says...I get an error, well, I got it twice so far, that
>: goes to the effect of:
>: 
>: Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
>: 
>: 	What does this mean? :)
>
>I wouldn't mind knowing, too.  With my full setup, I _ALWAYS_ get it,
>but otherwise, everything seems to be in order.

It simply means what it says: the processor got a NMI (nonmaskable
interrupt), but as there is nothing you can really do about it, linux
essentially ignores it apart from telling the user about it with a
printk(). 

NMI's generally get generated by either memory parity errors or by
special hardware (power-saving features etc).  Linux tries to disable
NMI completely because it can't handle it anyway, but it seems some
motherboards let it through anyway (or then I do the disabling
incorrectly: I have never seen a NMI anyway). 

		Linus
From: bribbeck@exucom.com (Bob Ribbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Kermit lock files wrong for uugetty
Date: 23 Dec 92 09:09:39 GMT
Organization: ExuCom Multimedia Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]


  Kermit puts its lockfile in the tmp directory. uugetty puts it's
lock in usr/spoll/uucp where it belongs.  Can anyone fix this??
From: jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Stupid mistake, advice wanted. (i.e. HELP!)
Date: 22 Dec 92 01:55:59 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <1h4l5mINNu3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> turnbull@ces.cwru.edu (John Turnbull) writes:
>Thanks to everyone who sent me some advice. I've solved the problem with
>the bootable rootdisk, which I think was a bad floppy. Redownloading and
>re-rawriting worked.
>
>John [Turnbull]

I had to use H. Lu's bootable rootdisk, using same disk --- only boots
some of the time.  Always readable is if mount -o ro /dev/fd0 /mnt.
Note that I use bootlin so no other experience with Lilo.

I had been using diskette only as rootdisk, not as bootable until trashed
system by install of poeigl-1.7 with inittab with non-existent serial tty.

I refuse to alter boot segment of HD so haven't looked at why Lilo does NOT
reliably boot --- bootlin is fine.

John