redhat-talk-slagging_on_7.2

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To: redhat <redhat-list@redhat.com>
From: "John P. Verel" <jverel@home.com>
Subject: Corrupt Grub Splash Graphic in 7.2 :(
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:50:58 -0500

A minor item, annoying none the less.

The Grub splash image is apparently corrupt.  Upon three (yes, three)
installs on my Toshiba Tecra 530, the Grub splash image comes up with
all measure and sort of garbage.  Commenting out the image in grub.conf
gives a text only screen, which works fine.

Even tried up-zipping the image with comes in *.gz format.  Same result.

Is 7.2 feeling like 6.0 to anyone else?

John

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To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
From: Dan Anderson <dan@drydog.com>
Subject: SOLVED: RH7.2 hang after "FAT32 support is still
ALPHA"
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:38:55 -0800 (PST)

I solved the problem with RedHat 7.2 hanging after upgrading and rebooting.

The problem occurs if you have a FAT32 filesystem in /etc/fstab.
This occurs even if it's not mounted at boot time or if the fsck field is "0"!

The symptom is you see this message during the boot up and the system hangs:
Warning: FAT32 support is still ALPHA

This message is from /sbin/fsck.vfat for RedHat 7.2 (dosfstools-2.7-1)
dosfstools-2.2-8 (for RedHat 7.1) doesn't have fsck.vfat.

Workarounds (do one of the following):
1. downgrade to dosfstools-2.2-8 from RH 7.1 (not recommended)
2. mv /sbin/fsck.vfat /sbin/fsck.vfat.broken; cp -p /bin/true /sbin/fsck.vfat
(recommended)
3. remove all DOS (FAT32) filesystems from /etc/fstab (not recommended)

Note to RedHat:
PLEASE FIX--IT CAUSES SYSTEM HANGS AFTER REBOOTING AFTER REDHAT 7.2 UPGRADE!

See also bugzilla bug 55001
http://www.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55001

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To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
From: Dan Anderson <dan@drydog.com>
Subject: SOLVED: dhcp hang with RedHat 7.2
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:46:53 -0800 (PST)

I "solved" the problem of RedHat 7.2 hanging during bootup
after a dhcp query.

Well, I didn't really solve it--I have a poor workaround.
Disable DHCP.

The problem is if you use DHCP, the system hangs during the message:

Bringing up interface eth0:

I tried booting single user mode and did a "init 3".
It still hung.  I broke out of it and reran the "/etc/init.d/network start"
command.  It worked.  Looking further, I see the /etc/init.d/network
startup script hangs at this command:

/sbin/dhcpcd -n eth0


I edited the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 script and disabled
dhcp and enabled static IP addresses.  I can do this as I have a
Linksys DSL router/firewall.  If you can't use static IP addresses
(say because your ISP won't give them one to you), I do NOT recommend
upgrading to RedHat 7.2, at least yet.

Others may not have this problem as I compile a straight kernel.
I currently use 2.4.13 from kernel.org.
It worked with RedHat 7.1, but not RedHat 7.2

# /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:

DEVICE=eth0
#BOOTPROTO=dhcp # DISABLED
BOOTPROTO=none
BROADCAST=10.11.12.255
IPADDR=10.11.12.13
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=10.11.12.0
GATEWAY=10.11.12.1
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=yes
NETWORKING_IPV6=yes

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To: redhat-list@redhat.com
From: Robert Key <robkey@mighty.co.za>
Subject: query on compiling kernel for rh7.2
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:33:02 +0200

Hi,
  I have compiled the kernel 2.4.13 for rehat 7.2 after having patched 
it for the ext3 file system. The compile works fine, all the networking 
stuff is in however when the kernel boots I get the error message

  modprobe : module char-major-10-135 not found

and the networking simply does not work. There is no loop back device 
(from ifconfig) and the routing table is empty. The ethernet device is 
up but with out the loop back device networking does not work.

The char-major-10-135 is obviously and alias for some module. Could 
somebody tell me what option to compile or maybe another level of 
patching has to take place?

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To: redhat-list@redhat.com
From: "Edward C. Bailey" <ed@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: SOLVED: dhcp hang with RedHat 7.2
Date: 30 Oct 2001 10:02:31 -0500

>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Anderson <dan@drydog.com> writes:

Dan> I "solved" the problem of RedHat 7.2 hanging during bootup after a
Dan> dhcp query.  Well, I didn't really solve it--I have a poor workaround.
Dan> Disable DHCP.

...
Dan> If you can't use static IP addresses (say because your ISP won't give
Dan> them one to you), I do NOT recommend upgrading to RedHat 7.2, at least
Dan> yet.

Dan> Others may not have this problem as I compile a straight kernel.  I
Dan> currently use 2.4.13 from kernel.org.

Just out of curiosity, did it work with the stock (or the errata) 7.2
kernel?

                            Ed
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To: redhat-list@redhat.com
From: "Ezra Nugroho" <ezran@goshen.edu>
Subject: Re: SOLVED: dhcp hang with RedHat 7.2
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:59:16 -0500

At 09:02 AM 10/30/2001 -0800, you wrote:

>Dan Anderson wrote:
>
> >I "solved" the problem of RedHat 7.2 hanging during bootup
> >after a dhcp query.
> >
> >Well, I didn't really solve it--I have a poor workaround.
> >Disable DHCP.
> >
> >The problem is if you use DHCP, the system hangs during the message:
> >
> >Bringing up interface eth0:
>
>I don't see your original post on this (that's been happening a lot
>lately).  Are you filtering ports?

I had the same problem before.
Are you using any 3com cards? That's what I have, and I am guessing it's a 
driver problem.

For me, kernel 2.4.12-ac6 fixed it. I didn't use 2.4.13 because at that 
time there was no ac patch for it.
I tried ac3 patch before but it didn't do the trick.



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To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
From: "Lance Spence" <lspence812@home.com>
Subject: RE: Help with 7.2 Kernel Recompile
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:23:02 -0500

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: 

> On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Lance Spence wrote:
> 
> > I finally received a good ISO of 7.2 and have it up and running, but 
> > am having a problem with getting the recompiled kernel up and running 
> > now. After going through the steps on kernel compilation when I get to
> 
> > mkinitrd /boot/kernel-2.4.7-10a.img 2.4.7-10a. I receive an error 
> > about all of my loopback devices are in use. How can I use my new 
> > kernel?
> >
> What happens if you run "modprobe loop" as root?

It returns:

"modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/modules.dep (No such file or directory)"

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To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
From: "christopher j bottaro" <cjb@cs.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: clean 7.2 install kernel panics (among other
things)
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:39:14 -0800

turning off PnP OS worked for my 1.1ghz athlon abit kt7 system, and now
redhat 7.2 is running great on it.  my other system is still kernel panics
though.  it is a 1.4ghz athlon abit kt7a.  they are both practically the
same system!  here is the most common error message when i boot up (i get
other messages sometimes, but this one is the most common):

Kernel panic:  Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
In interrupt handler - not syncing

to answer someone elses question, yes i have a USB mouse on the offending
system and a regular PS/2 mouse on the working system.  i unplugged the USB
mouse but still get the kernel panics.  i actually got far enough in the
booting process once to remove the USB mouse config in kuduz (or whatever it
is called), but it didn't help anything.

any advice would be greatly appreciated.

i migrated my home partition to ext3, so even if i boot with my old linux
boot disk, i still can't get to my home dirs...which is really gunna be a
problem once i start having assignments due...=(

thank you very much,
christopher

P.S.  both cases are open and have 3 fans in them each.

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To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
From: Gerry Doris <gerry@dorfam.ca>
Subject: Re: SOLVED: dhcp hang with RedHat 7.2
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:57:53 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Dan Anderson wrote:

> I "solved" the problem of RedHat 7.2 hanging during bootup
> after a dhcp query.
> 
> Well, I didn't really solve it--I have a poor workaround.
> Disable DHCP.
> 
> The problem is if you use DHCP, the system hangs during the message:
> 
> Bringing up interface eth0:
> 

I have also experienced the hang when using dhcp and RH 7.2.
It is intermittent on my system with a fresh install.  I
usually wait and let it finish booting and then do a
"service network restart" and it always works.  I also have
to restart samba as that is messed up too.

Hopefully, this and USB printing is fixed soon!


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