Linuxers March 2005

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] kernel panic
by Nadiem 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

--- Hakim <mail2hakim(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I had compiled redhat linux kernel but after > completing all steps when i reboot > > it gives the error written below and stops booting > .. > > " VFS: cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00 > please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on 00:00 " Determine which is your / partition (say /dev/hda3) and then change LABEL=/ to LABEL=/dev/hda3 in grub.conf Might be a problem with your fstab too. Regards, Nadiem. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] GID?UID problem
by Nadiem 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

--- Rohan Poojary <ropo18(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Group, > I am having a trouble with my Group ID/ UID whenever > i am trying to > open a knosole or trying to exe a script it uses > this GID/UID, and > when i am executing this script i am having a > trouble of doing so > > "id: cannot find name for group ID 506" What are the permissions of /etc/passwd and /etc/group? Both need to be readable by world (chmod o+r). Regards, Nadiem. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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kernel panic
by Hakim 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Dear All, Hi, this is Hakim here , new member of linux mumbai group, nice to be a part of this group. I have a problem in Redhat enterprise linux EL Ver 3.0 kernel. plz help me out in this regards....... I had compiled redhat linux kernel but after completing all steps when i reboot it gives the error written below and stops booting .. " VFS: cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00 please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on 00:00 " Looking forward for your reply... -- Thanks N Regards, Hakim H Vishiwala 0-93243 95842

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] MTNL Tri Band ADSL equipment config
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 15:07, Sujeet Bhatt wrote: > Since this is already marked OT, I can't resist the temptation of > adding my two bits. The idea of "filling up a form and submitting > it at the CO" and waiting till "end of March" for the connection is > so hopelessly reminiscent of the licence raj that my head swims in > disbelief and despair. Add to this the clueless linesmen and even > more clueless front office staff, not to mention the globally > discredited revenue model of charging per megabyte, and the picture > of an anachronistic Kafkaesque nightmare is complete. When will > these guys ever grow up? and if u thought that this was only MTNL just try orange or reliance. Current wireless technology is almost ready to replace the "centralised telco" model of communications except for the fact that our sicko politicians want an official slice of every rupee u manage to create and hence create laws to cartelise services. So the guy who routes international calls via broadband onto the local phone line is arrested and charged with criminal laws. But a reliance gets a wrap and scolding for doing precisely the same thing. Wifi phones and open standards permit good communications upto 2.5 km. One link i tested worked from Bandra to dahisar. The cost of one "cell" covering a radius of one km. with 20mbps effective throughput will work out to about Rs.1.5 lac. Each cell can support about a 1000 connections using speex. The effective cost of communications is so low that the service is essentially free. Every cyber cafe can become a telco cell and communications will spread rapidly. But then we are in India (not that other countries are any better but i dont see why we should be setting shitty standards for ourselves) and still trying to hatao garibi full 57 yrs after we replaced the colonial oppressors with an altogether more effective, upgraded purely indegenous version. rgds jtd

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[ILUG-BOM] INDIA: Request to sign a petition favouring Free Software in the campus
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Please sign this petition if you agree with it... it's an attempt to convince a prominent technological university in Bangalore (VTU) to be opened to the use of Free Software too. http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/?VTU-FLOSS_Campaign Krishna Pagadala, San Jose, USA. I have benefitted highly from the Free Software movement and the Freedoms it has provided. Specifically the Freedom to learn from the source code has helped me in getting a high-technology job in the US. I wish that all students enjoy the all the Software Freedoms. Pramode C.E, IC Software: I would like to add that there are efforts under way to develop innovative hardware experimentation platforms using GNU/Linux to improve the quality of Physics (as well as Engineering) education; and the best part is that it's being done in India. Please visit http://www.nsc.res.in/~elab/phoenix/ to know more about the `Phoenix Project' being developed by Ajith Kumar at the Nuclear Science Centre, India. The wealth of high quality tools and the open nature of the platform is of immense value to young engineers and scientists raring to unleash their creativity; the lessons in freedom and sharing that students learn by using GNU/Linux will also go a long way in shaping their character as caring and responsible human beings. ashidhar b desai ,6th sem E&C, B.V.Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering & Technology Hubli,Karnataka,India ,FLOSS is an excellent alternative for the existing commercial softwares..Academics(colleges and univ) is the best way to promote and support "Free Software".It will be a great initiative if the univ adopts it(it will become an example for other univ & institutes). News about open source and gnu/linux stuff---Indian Inside . Lets get Liberated.LONG LIVE OPEN SOURCE. Praveen Arimbrathodiyil (National Instititute of Technology, Calicut) Fri Mar 11 17:34:50 IST 2005 We use GNU/Linux in our main Computer center. It saves a lot of money of the college as there is no licence fee to be paid for each users. Since the source code of the softwares are available many computer science students do projects based on Linux kernel and other such projects. The possibility of use of thin-clients (which our computer center use) reduces the cost of hardware dramatically. It has proved to be beneficial to our college and I urge you to chose Free Software for giving a better alternative for students. Debapriyo Sarkar. Final year student of BCA, Goa. As a student, I plead to every university, to adopt, encourage and spread the use of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). The benefits are clearly far-more significant than cost savings (which of course is a huge motivating factor). The quality of software reviewed and worked on by virtually the entire developer community of the world is definitely at least world-class if nothing else. It is possible to save on costs with $0 priced closed source software often termed as freeware, but the limited resources of the single developer or the couple of developers behind the software makes future of such software bleak. Compared to that, software released under an open source license, helps user as well as developer involvement to happen as deeply and transparent as no other licensing model can support. As the letter includes the following (stripped) statement "...Octave, which is simulation software written by University professors. This usually comes with the GNU/Linux Operating System." which clearly shows that professors of universities elsewhere have contributed to the solution of making quality software available to the students and colleges alike under a license that welcomes further contributions to improve the project virtually endlessly. As a personal experience, I often have used open source alternatives whenever acquiring the proprietary packages meant depending on the lab assistant to provide the CD for illegal copying or genuinely going out and shelling out all those huge wads of cash for functionality that was already at my disposal with added advantage of continuing development and a long-life (of the software). As universities use and recommend use of open source software,rate of development is bound to grow with more and more students using the same version of software both at college and home (no limited cheap "student" edition which are "cheap" imitations with myriad "limitations"). Also professors' contributions in the form of bug reports, bug fixes, new functionality patches and their work in increasing awareness about the benefits of using open source software would help improve quality of free software to an enormous extent. Vijay Kumar, Chennai, India. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html .P.Sujeevan,Project leader, S2S2, Kerala .Here at kerala at school level more than 50 of schools are still using GNU/Linux.Also SSLC IT practical examination has successfully done under the linux operating system.Some schools are still using the Linux terminal server systems.Next year aggressive work is planning to implement complete linux environment in schools.http://s2s2net.netfirms.com _____ _/ ____\____ Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa \ __\/ \ India T +91.832.2409490 M +919822 122436 | | | | \ http://fn.swiki.net http://goabooks.swiki.net |__| |___| / http://www.bytesforall.net http://www.bytesforall.org \/ ----------------------------------------------------- Writing with a difference, on issues that really make the difference.

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GID?UID problem
by Rohan Poojary 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Hi Group, I am having a trouble with my Group ID/ UID whenever i am trying to open a knosole or trying to exe a script it uses this GID/UID, and when i am executing this script i am having a trouble of doing so, I hope i am clear in my problem "id: cannot find name for group ID 506" Rohan

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The March Meet was really GOOD
by SHAILESH MAHADIK 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Dear All, It was a good meet and to see GNU/HURD working in front of U ( though "DELICATE as anurag calls it and it is ) it was good and is worth giving a try.. What we were looking at is a baby, which will become the defacto standard few years down the line.... Thanks to Anurag specially for his part on Hurd R&D.. and to Erle's Laptop ( I mean Erle himself ) ... Also to Arun who distributed a few sets of Ubuntu Cd's ( both Live and Install for X86 arch) Hey ,( I got the Cd's too ) I will burn the Cd's if anybody needs the Ubuntu CD's Mail me and we can plan how to exchange cd's... The meet was really GOOD... Those who missed it , really missed good things.... Regards, Shailesh =================================================================== They say LOVE is BLIND ................. But MARRIAGE is definitely an EYE OPENER ??? =================================================================== ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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[ILUG-BOM] Erle, I got the way for reaching the grub console of the Laptop.....
by SHAILESH MAHADIK 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Hey Erle, At the meet we had a short talk about the grub bootloader of ur laptop.... and ways to get to the grub console ... I found one ( I hope ..) just press ESC key , when the grub screen appears IT would hopefully ask whether to exit the graphics mode and move to text mode.. Say yes and Their U arrive at a familiar much home like GRub Black and white screen with all keys like 'p', 'c' etc working as expected... Try it out and let me know... Bye Regards, Shailesh =================================================================== They say LOVE is BLIND ................. But MARRIAGE is definitely an EYE OPENER ??? =================================================================== ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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[ILUG-BOM] HOWTO-Setup Hathway Cable-internet on Debian Linux using USB interface
by Nilesh Raykar 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Hi all, I am a newbie to Linux. I am writing this mail hoping that it will save few hours work for someone somewhere. In this mail I am describing method used by me for setting up Hathway cable-internet on my home PC using usb-interface & Debian Linux. My Linux box- AMD Athlon XP1800+ 128 MB / 80 GB Multiboot - Debian Sarge (from PCQ Dec2004) / XP / 98SE Kernel - 2.6.8 Desktop - KDE 3.2 Hathway cable internet using Motorola Surfboard 5100 & USB cable interface Location - Mumbai, India 1. Information required before you start- (a) IP address assigned by Hathway (like 203.212.xxx.xx) (b) Subnet mask (255.255.255.0) (c) Gateway address (like 203.212.xxx.xx) (d) DNS addresses (like 203.212.xxx.xx) All of the above should be available in the subscription letter issued by Hathway. 2. Your kernel should be compiled with support for USBNET & CDCEther drivers. (Debian distribution by PCQ-Dec2004 have these precompiled). 3. Connect the cable modem to USB port of your machine & boot the machine. 4. The OS will detect the modem as ethernet device as "eth0".(I do not have any ethernet card, else this may change) You can check the same by "dmesg" command. Excerpt from dmesg on my machine is as follows- <quote> eth0: register usbnet at usb-0000:00:07.3-1, CDC Ethernet Device usbcore: registered new driver usbnet <unquote> 5. From start menu > system > networking (or from command line "network-admin") get network setup window. You need superuser password. - Click Add - connection type = ethernet - Configuration = manual - Feed IP, Subnet & Gateway - Finish with creating new connection - Enter DNS addresses in corresponding tab window. 6. You have finished the job ! 7. Check with "ifconfig eth0" & "netstat -r" if network interface has correct values & routing table is showing gateway correctly. Output from my machine are as follows- <quote from "ifconfig eth0"> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:9F:C6:AC:83 inet addr:203.212.???.? Bcast:203.212.214.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20f:9fff:fec6:ac83/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:44336 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1808 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2845162 (2.7 MiB) TX bytes:187541 (183.1 KiB) <unquote> note - I have masked my IP address above. <quote from "netstat -r"> Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 203.212.214.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default 203.212.214.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 <unquote> Happy sufing from your Linux box ! With warm regards, Nilesh Raykar Borivali(E), Mumbai, INDIA email: raykar(a)hathway.com Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestsellers.indiatimes.com Bid for for Air Tickets @ Re.1 on Air Sahara Flights. Just log on to http://airsahara.indiatimes.com and Bid Now!

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Novell to ship Xen, OpenOffice 2.0, Photo Management, Enhanced laptop support, VoIP, Home Networking.
by lists＠munshi.biz 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Source : http://www.novell.com/products/linuxprofessional/preview/index.html Novell to ship Xen in SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 Due in mid-April, new SuSE Linux will let programmers test software on virtual machines. Latest Linux Kernel?Get in touch with the latest performance enhancements of Linux kernel 2.6.11 and check XEN the first open source virtualization solution. Firefox 1.0 Web Browser?The latest open source Web browser provides power and performance and just might be the best browser available anywhere. OpenOffice.org 2.0 Pre-release Edition?Familiar word-processing and spreadsheet functionality makes your work easier. Email, Calendar and Contact Management?Novell Evolution 2.0 and Kontact 3.4 offer you a complete and easy-to-use e-mail client and calendar with improved connectivity to the most popular e-mail servers. iPod Compatibility?Manage your iPod files easily with both KDE 3.4 and GNOME 2.10. Photo Management?Simplify photo management with cool tools like fspot, gwenview, digikam and gthumb. Newest Desktop Environments?It's your choice: use the outstanding KDE or GNOME graphical desktop environments for Linux. Both deliver ease of use, contemporary functionality and the best graphical design. Enhanced Laptop Support?Special laptop features for users on the go include support for Intel Centrino, Bluetooth functionality, improved WLAN support and power management. GIMP 2.2?Complete graphics creation and edition supports dozens of graphic formats: .tif, .jpg, .png, .eps, .svg, .psd, .gif and more. VoIP Solution Linphone?Save money by making and receiving phone calls from the Web. Built-in Security?SUSE LINUX Firewall ensures that your system is secure and safe when it is connected to the Internet. Powerful Features for Home Networks?SUSE LINUX Professional includes leading open source tools for home networking, including SAMBA, CUPS and much more. Amish.

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Linuxers March 2005