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Re: Please help with RH 4.0 silly install problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Sun Oct 20 13:12:14 1996
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:10:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Kyle Ferrio wrote:
> 1 Why is sendmail taking so long to start up during boot?
> About a minute on a P100. I'm used to Slackware starting almost
> instantaneously under 1.2.13 with slackware.
Where is the bootup stopping?
> 2 I compiled a fresh 2.0.18 kernel with support for modules.
> The only things I made modular were NFS_FS and PRINTER.
> Every time I boot, I get a flood (literally!) of warnings and a few
> fatal errors from insmod complaining that symbols are either
> undefined or don't match the kernel. This is a clean-disk install,
> and the errors relate to modules for cdrom, ipv4, misc, block, scsi,
> net, and fs. What gives? I've scanned the kerneld HOWTO without luck.
> Also, I get similar warnings in /var/log/messages when I invoke the
> Network Configurator.
The errors are from depmod actually. Make sure you remove all of the old
modules in /lib/modules/2.0.18.
> 3 Why is there a big ol' coredump in every home directory, including /root,
> that ever gets logged into?
That's a good question. Is anyone else seeing this?
> I ended up doing a fine-grained install for everything. Thank the kind
> people at Redhat for not fine-graining as finely as Slackware.
We're every bit as fine grained, just not as difficult about it. Both the
3.0.3 and 4.0 installs allowed you to select what's installed at the
individual package level.
> 3 The installer -never- asked me for any net info, contrary to the manual.
That's odd. Did you do a local CDROM installeD?
> 4 The PPP options in /etc/ppp/options were not set up properly, even after
> working through the Network Configurator. I had to add "defaultroute"
> (and a couple other things -- ask me) to be able to see past my ISP's
> server. The only thing in /etc/ppp/options as installed was "lock"
Okay, I'm asking.
There is an option in netcfg to turn on default route, and we're going to make
that the defalut in the future.
> 5 Net Configurator encloses expect/send pairs that yo enter (for chat
> scripts) in single quotes. This might seem like a good idea, unless your
> password happens to include a single quote. Tracking down where this
> info is stored (i.e., -not- in /usr/lib/ppp) was fun. locate got a
> workout.
:-) Of course, if your password includes a space we have to do this <sigh>.
Erik
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