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Bad superblock
I'm working on virtualizing an old Red Hat 7.3 box. I replicated the contents of the physical machine to the virtual disk, built a kernel with the right drivers, and can boot the virtual machine. But I get: (Repair filesystem) 1 # fsck /dev/sda1 fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) fsck.ext3: No su... 21 Sep 2007 17:00

Which process is writing to disk?
(and getting on my nerves with it.. ;) When my system is idle, my SATA hard disk makes a little noise quite exactly every 1st and 3rd second of every 5 seconds. "dstat" reveals that there is indeed a disk write every 5 seconds. Maybe the other noise at the 3rd second is from the moving back of the disk head af... 15 Mar 2007 20:48

sshd failure
I'm using SuSE 8.1 as server. All was working properly this noon. Sometime this afternoon attempted logins from remote or loop back from console cause hang. I found nothing helpful in the logs but I did run sshd with -d -d -d startup. I got the following log 1752: debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_3.4p1 1752... 24 Feb 2007 18:48

disagrees about version os symbol struct_module
Hi. I built a R61 kernel module and I am trying to load it. I get an error regarding versions of the symbol struct module. The kernel I am running must be slightly different from what I compiled the module against, but I do not want to stick with my existing running kernel. Is there any way I can force the loa... 19 Feb 2007 01:26

Ubuntu 6.10 installation on secondary IDE freeze
Hi all, I'm trying to install Ubuntu 6.10 on my PC where I have: - boot CD is slave on primary IDE - HDD (where I like to have Ubuntu) is master on secondary IDE Installation or Live Boot CD freezes at the beginning of the start (I see the progress bar blocked). I tried to have HDD as master on primary IDE ... 12 Jan 2007 21:26

Controlling getty
Since Ubuntu Edgy came out /etc/inittab has been done away with. I only need, at most, 2 getty but now there are 6 available - all using processes. So, I edited /etc/default/console-setup" and changed the line ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" to read ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-2]" Next, I moved /etc/... 6 Jan 2007 23:15

"disagrees about version of symbol struct_module" after addingSMP support
freightcar wrote: I got this solved already but still wonder why... I compiled kernel 2.6.19 with SMP support. after reboot i got many "disagrees about version of symbol struct_module" messages. So I updated initramfs and then modules but still no luck. I recompiled and installled the kernel again, rec... 6 Dec 2006 12:11

Cannot mount old drive with LVM partition - help!
Ohmster wrote: noi <noi(a)siam.com> wrote in news:dLLTg.10191$6S3.7321 @newssvr25.news.prodigy.net: Hard time following what you've done. All I see is one 200GB HD /dev/hdb1 as a FC5 LVM Are you mount /dev/hda as you old drive are you adding /dev/hdb to the LVM volume group? Have you revi... 8 Oct 2006 23:52

Fatal server error: no screens found
hi i tried to get my Logitech MX1000 mouse working in Kanotix, from what i can gather from the log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) is thst i failed somewhere this is log file X Window System Version 6.9.0 (Debian 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 20060114230205 David Nusinow <dnusinow(a)debian.org>) Release Date: 21 December 2005 X Pr... 29 Apr 2006 09:14

why I can't start xinetd service bootp?
Hello everyone My system is SUSE 8.1 and I want to use xinetd to start the service "bootp". I have install the "xinetd-2.3.6-23" and "bootp-2.4.3-7",but after I start the xinetd under /etc/init.d I find xinetd is always checking for service. follow is my operations: ........... fanxin:/etc/init.d # rpm -q... 28 Feb 2006 21:47