Subject: Linux-Development Digest #771
From: Digestifier <Linux-Development-Request@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
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Date:     Sat, 28 May 94 15:13:07 EDT

Linux-Development Digest #771, Volume #1         Sat, 28 May 94 15:13:07 EDT

Contents:
  Bug in linux 1.1.16 (Kim Enkovaara)
  Re: net3 tcp window sizes (NOT SEQUENCE NUMBERS!), Please read (Winfried Truemper)
  trying to change Linux to FIFO scheduling (Gautam Thaker)
  Re: How to print faster (Michael K. Johnson)
  v1.1.15 and interaction with procps programs (Denis Solaro)
  Re: nfs trouble (Rene COUGNENC)
  Re: Multiplatform GUI library (dan@oea.hacktic.nl)
  Re: Does Linux support IP Multicast? (Enrico Badella)
  Linux/SCO compatibility? (Kevin Spousta)
  Re: enhanced IDE and SCSI-2 supported? (Delman Lee)
  Re: 32-bit Novell desktop OS combines Unix, DOS 7 (Russell Nelson)
  bug on kernel 1.1.15 (Supat Faarungsang)
  Linux 1.1.13 compiling-->DDIOCSDBG undefined in sbpcd.c (Elaine Walton)
  are sources to lockd available? (Carl G. Riches)
  Re: Linux/SCO compatibility? (Brandon S. Allbery)
  Re: SIGHUP - Deep Kernal Guts question! (Colin Plumb)
  Re: SIGHUP - Where do we go from here? (Alan Cox)
  Re: Linux/SCO compatibility? (Alan Cox)
  Re: CERT Advisory! - Linux & AIX !!! (Juha Laiho)
  Re: enhanced IDE and SCSI-2 supported? (Allen Willson)
  Re: enhanced IDE and SCSI-2 supported? (David C. Niemi)
  HELP!! - bad magic number in super-block. (Edward Vale)
  Kernel change summaries (Whistler)
  Re: Virtual Consoles (Andries Brouwer)
  Re: bug on kernel 1.1.15 (David Barr)

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Subject: Bug in linux 1.1.16
From: kim.enkovaara@compart.fi (Kim Enkovaara)
Date: Sat, 28 May 94 19:58:00 +0200

I got this kind of error message when compiling Linux 1.1.16 version.
This error happens only when i answer to CONFIG_NET 'no' in
configuration script.

ar rcs lib.a ctype.o _exit.o open.o close.o errno.o write.o dup.o
setsid.o execve.o wait.o string.o
sync
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/lib'
ld  -Ttext 100000 boot/head.o init/main.o tools/version.o \
        kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o net/net.o ipc/ipc.o \
        fs/filesystems.a \
        drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.a drivers/net/net.a
ibcs/ibcs.o drivers/scsi/scsi.a \
        lib/lib.a \
        -o tools/zSystem
net/net.o: Undefined symbol _dev_init referenced from text segment
net/net.o: Undefined symbol _net_bh referenced from text segment
make: *** [tools/zSystem] Error 1

-=KIM=-
kim.enkovaara@compart.fi

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From: truemper@Calvados.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Winfried Truemper)
Subject: Re: net3 tcp window sizes (NOT SEQUENCE NUMBERS!), Please read
Date: 26 May 1994 10:15:06 GMT

In article <Cq92wz.Epy@info.swan.ac.uk>, iialan@myhost.subdomain.domain (Alan Cox) writes:
|> Tom Briggs (tbriggs@cutter.ship.edu) wrote:
|> Nothing of the sort - sorry.
|> : Software that I know has big problems with tis:
|> :    NCSA Ftp (telnet works fine)
|> Don't know about why this one should occur.

We are using NSCA ftp/telnet without any problems here. MTU=1000-2000 makes no
difference; throughput to a PC 60-80kB/s (between Linux and a SUN: 890kb/s);
tested with filesizes from 1byte to 4Mbyte. 
Kernel: 1.1.8-1.1.14, CPU 486/66Mhz, 3c509 Ethernetcard

Regards
Winfried

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From: gthaker@polyphony.sw.stratus.com (Gautam Thaker)
Subject: trying to change Linux to FIFO scheduling
Date: 28 May 1994 17:33:11 GMT


I am seeking a FIFO scheduler for Linux. I have tried to hack
schedule() in sched.c so that picking of next task is
based on p->priority rather than p->counter. However this prevents
the kernel from booting all the way.

Is there anyone else interested? Any pointers that would help
in this direction?

Gautam Thaker, Isis Distributed Systems, Inc.
gthaker@isis.stratus.com, 609-767-4854, 609-767-4863 (fax)


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From: johnsonm@merengue.oit.unc.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
Subject: Re: How to print faster
Date: 28 May 1994 03:06:43 GMT


You can dynamically tune the printer driver with the lptune command,
available from tsx-11.mit.edu.

The default settings are designed to give everyone reasonable
settings, and tend towards low cpu usage rather than the fastest
possible output.  I worked with 30 or 40 beta testers with a range of
printers from 12-year-old beasts to HP LJ4's to get the best mix.

There are suggestions in the lptune manual page as to how to tune your
printer for the type of performance you want.

michaelkjohnson

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From: drzob@vectrex.login.qc.ca (Denis Solaro)
Subject: v1.1.15 and interaction with procps programs
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 10:03:19 GMT

Just a short note and a memo in the end...

procps-0.95 on v.1.1.15 (and maybe before, as I jumped from 1.1.0 
directly):

using 'w' will report correct info except for the 'What' field which will 
show '-' whatever a user does.

the procps1.1.11 (if the name is right) wouldn't compile and seems too 
limited to one version of the kernel :<


(further info: Slack 1.2.0, libc.so.4.5.24, GCC 2.5.8 and smoke Craven A's)

Also I understand some changes are required due to the evolution of the 
kernel, but is there a newsletter that points general indications in 
order to pursue development apart from looking at the c.o.l.help titles? 
I mean there must be some pointers given to those who follow the kernel 
very close.  A few indications that would tell that such important prog 
needs to be changed as well, as it's not easy to follow the whole source code
entirely in extra of having to work on your own project.

(no I did not expect to get a 24 hour old kernel for free and to get the 
papers + milk delivered also... )

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From: rene@renux.frmug.fr.net (Rene COUGNENC)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: nfs trouble
Date: 27 May 1994 23:55:40 GMT
Reply-To: cougnenc@blaise.ibp.fr (Rene COUGNENC)

Ce brave Ulf Bartelt ecrit:

> Hi !
> I've got trouble with nfs(d)...
> 1st: Hardware/Software:
> A: a 386dx40 running slackware 1.1.0 with kernel 1.0.9
> B: a 386dx40 running slackware 1.2.0 with kernel 1.0.9 or 1.1.1[345]
> When runnung machine B with kernel 1.0.9, nfs is fine. When using kernel
> 1.1.1[345], I can't mount B's directories on machine A cause nfsd dies...
> I know, I missed lotsa updates from 1.0.9 to 1.1.13 and maybe I just need a
> new nfsd or so for the new kernels...
> ....who knows more ?


(Followup set to c.o.l.d)

I don't know more, except that:

        - Your nfsd receives signal 11, isn't it ?

        - I had the EXACT same problem on my 386. nfsd was killed by sig 11
          as of 1.1.13. The same kernel and nfsd binaries run fine on my
          486.

        - I have recompiled, hacked to see what happens, a lot of times,
          rpc.nfsd from nfs-server 2.0, no luck. Still dying on sig 11 on
          the 386, still working fine on the 486 with any kernel version,
          and I still don't understand.
        
        - I thought it was Xiafs, since the 386 runs xiafs for historical
          reasons, the 486 runs ext2fs.

        - Linus thinks to the possiblity of a missing verify_area() somewhere,
          needed because the i386 is buggy regarding write protect; this
          could explain why there is no problem on my 486.
         (He also thinks that xiafs may be faulty, and Remy Card told me
          with lots of smileys that it is certainly xiafs :-))

Now tonight, deseperately, I untarred a binary version of rpc.nfsd, from
the Slackware distribution. Just to see. And... This one works !!!!!!!!!!

It is exactly the same version I used, coming from nfs-server 2.0.
The difference is obviously the tools used to compile it, his binary was
built by the libs 4.5.19 time, and is  QMAGIC.

Mines are built with 4.5.26 with gcc 4.5.8 and are ZMAGIC.
(But my previous daemon, was much older than that anyway... and ran fine
 until 1.1.13).

So, you can try this archive if you can find it; I extracted this rpc.nfsd
binary from the  slackware/n1/tcpip.tgz dated on my system:

-rw-r--r--   1 mirror   copains    694405 Apr 24 12:47 tcpip.tgz

And, like me, open a new bottle of whisky. Programming AND drinking is 
not good. I stop programming :-)

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From: dan@oea.hacktic.nl (dan@oea.hacktic.nl)
Date: 25 May 94 12:25:14 +0000
Subject: Re: Multiplatform GUI library

From: dan@oea.hacktic.nl
Organization: The Humble Abode
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 12:25:14 GMT

Rob Janssen (rob@pe1chl.ampr.org) wrote:
: In <1994May23.212916.1@cc.uab.es> icid2@cc.uab.es writes:

: >I'm searching in a multiplatform GUI library like Zapp or XVT; it must
: >run under DOS, MS-Windows and Linux (under X, interested under Motif), and
: >must be easy to use. Anyone has work with this kind of tool?

Use archie to locate SUIT. It is free for non-commercial use. I never
used it myself but I saw it referenced in the Multi-platform GUI FAQ.

: As you already mention, you can use XVT

Since he already mentions it, it is safe to assume that it doesn't meet
his needs. Probably for financial reasons.

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From: Enrico.Badella@f0.n100.z61.fidonet.org (Enrico Badella)
Date: 25 May 94 17:56:48 +0000
Subject: Re: Does Linux support IP Multicast?

From: eb@iunet.it (Enrico Badella)
Date: 25 May 1994 17:56:48 GMT

Alan Cox (iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr) wrote:
: In article <GTHAKER.94May20225319@polyphony.sw.stratus.com>
gthaker@polyphony.sw.stratus.com (Gautam Thaker) writes:
: >How close are we to having IP multicast support in Linux?
: >
: Linux has multicast filters in the device drivers. If anyone wants IP 
: multicast please port it and mail me the diffs (and I'll be glad to assist

I'm just starting to look at multicasting since I need to port the Mbone
stuff to Linux. Before reinventing the wheel, has anybody tried porting the
sun Mbone stuff to Linux. Is it tightly coupled with sunOS (/dev/nit)

THank in advance
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From: Kevin.Spousta@f0.n100.z61.fidonet.org (Kevin Spousta)
Date: 25 May 94 16:44:48 +0000
Subject: Linux/SCO compatibility?

From: d00n@crash.cts.com (Kevin Spousta)
Organization: CTS Network Services (CTSNET/crash), San Diego, CA
Date: 25 May 94 16:44:48 GMT

A couple more questions:

Does Linux support the SCO filesystem?  I am able to do a TAR -xvf on an SCO
created floppy disk..

Also, will binaries from other Unix systems run under Linux?  i.e SCO?  BSD? 
SunOS?


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From: Delman.Lee@f0.n100.z61.fidonet.org (Delman Lee)
Date: 25 May 94 21:49:48 +0000
Subject: Re: enhanced IDE and SCSI-2 supported?

From: delman@mipg.upenn.edu (Delman Lee)
Date: 25 May 1994 21:49:48 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, USA.

In article <2s0bp6$pek@europa.eng.gtefsd.com> niemidc@pep.production (David C.
Niemi) writes:

   4 drives (an EISA DTC 2290).  But the new stuff probably means that there
   will someday be BIOS info on the 3rd and 4th drives, rather than having
   to manually enter the geometry and recompile itas it is today.


You can now pass the drive's geometry to the at2disk driver when Linux
boots up via e.g. LILO. No need to recompile the kernel.

Delman.



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From: Russell.Nelson@f0.n100.z61.fidonet.org (Russell Nelson)
Date: 25 May 94 18:19:28 +0000
Subject: Re: 32-bit Novell desktop OS combines Unix, DOS 7

From: nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Date: 25 May 1994 18:19:28 GMT
Organization: Crynwr Software

In article <2rv67o$2hi@galaxy.ucr.edu> insom@galaxy.ucr.edu (chris ulrich)
writes:

   Except they would have to include IPX/SPX to sell it in an existing
   novell network, and the only way they could do that is if they put
   it in the kernel.  Bugger the rest, just give me netware interoperability
   and I can burn novell and toss netware.

You don't understand -- Corsair is a desktop system, not a server
system.  It's IPX support is going to be as a client, not a server.
You'll still need your netware server.

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From: Supat.Faarungsang@f0.n100.z61.fidonet.org (Supat Faarungsang)
Date: 25 May 94 22:01:24 +0000
Subject: bug on kernel 1.1.15

From: supat@nuntana.animal.uiuc.edu (Supat Faarungsang)
Date: 25 May 1994 22:01:24 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

I got this bug in 1.1.12 1.1.13 1.1.14 and 1.1.15
it work fine up to 1.1.11

here the bug

stty: TCGETS: Operation not supported on socket

could anyone fix this bug. Thanks,
supat
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From: Elaine.Walton@f0.n100.z61.fidonet.org (Elaine Walton)
Date: 25 May 94 22:16:02 +0000
Subject: Linux 1.1.13 compiling-->DDIOCSDBG undefined in sbpcd.c

From: ewalton@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Elaine Walton)
Date: 25 May 1994 22:16:02 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University


I downloaded the Linux 1.1.13 kernel from tsx-11 last night and tried to 
compile it just now.  I get an error DDIOCSDBG not defined.  I searched all 
over the place and could not find it in my new or old code.  Can someone please
tell me what its value should be?  Also what else might I be missing?

THX!
-Sean
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From: Carl.G..Riches@f0.n100.z61.fidonet.org (Carl G. Riches)
Date: 25 May 94 19:25:17 +0000
Subject: are sources to lockd available?

From: cgr@poplar1.cfr.washington.edu (Carl G. Riches)
Date: 25 May 1994 19:25:17 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

i have been planning to set up a pc network using nfs.  having a limited
budget, i had hoped to use linux as the nfs server.  i've just learned that
linux does not have lockd.  is this true?  and if so, are sources for lockd
available.

please e-mail your replies.  i will summarize and repost them.

thanks!

carl

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From: Brandon.S..Allbery@f0.n100.z61.fidonet.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Date: 25 May 94 21:52:09 +0000
Subject: Re: Linux/SCO compatibility?

From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 21:52:09 GMT

In article <d00n.769884288@crash.cts.com>, d00n@crash.cts.com (Kevin Spousta)
says:
+---------------
| Does Linux support the SCO filesystem?  I am able to do a TAR -xvf on an SCO
| created floppy disk..
+------------->8

AFS and EAFS are not supported due to insufficient information about the
format.  If you make an S51k filesystem under SCO current kernels can mount
it.

| Also, will binaries from other Unix systems run under Linux?  i.e SCO?  BSD? 
| SunOS?
+------------->8

SunOS???  What makes you think a Sparc binary would work?

Many SCO and SVR4 binaries work using the ALPHA iBCS-2 emulator available on
tsx-11.mit.edu.  But Solaris 2/x86 binaries have not, to my knowledge, been
tested with it yet (for that matter, nobody seems to know if Solaris/x86
binaries work under UnixWare... see thread in comp.unix.solaris).  I don't
think anyone's written an x86 BSD emulator yet, but there's no reason in
principle why it can't be done the same way iBCS-2 support is.

++Brandon
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From: Colin.Plumb@f0.n100.z61.fidonet.org (Colin Plumb)
Date: 25 May 94 16:39:09 +0000
Subject: Re: SIGHUP - Deep Kernal Guts question!

From: colin@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Colin Plumb)
Date: 25 May 1994 16:39:09 -0600
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation

In article <2rj9pu$ec6@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> wrote:
> As for programs going beserk and eating up lots of CPU --- they're
> broken.  And, I suspect, there are relatively few of them.  Perhaps your
> favorite version of "less" is broken that way, so you see a skewed
> version of the world.  But Unix programs all over the world have to work
> under the same rules, and so they tend to get fixed over time.

You could stick in a kludge so that the thousandth time a process tries
to read from a nonexistent /dev/tty, it gets something more to the
point than EIO, like SIGHUP or SIGPIPE.

Most emphatically a kludge, of course.
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From: Alan.Cox@f0.n100.z61.fidonet.org (Alan Cox)
Date: 25 May 94 19:06:51 +0000
Subject: Re: SIGHUP - Where do we go from here?

From: iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Organization: Swansea University College
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 19:06:51 GMT

In article <1994May25.135713.31927@loreli.ftl.fl.us> nate@loreli.ftl.fl.us
(Sean Puckett) writes:
>Because of these facts:
>
>  1.  The kernel baseline will not change.  (The people who believe in
>      100% Posix compliance are the people who control the baseline).
>  2.  People will continue to have problems with non-compliant
>      applications.

All that is needed is to fix the shell programs that are managing the
process groups and the SIGHUP - no other program is affected.

Alan

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From: Alan.Cox@f0.n100.z61.fidonet.org (Alan Cox)
Date: 25 May 94 19:27:35 +0000
Subject: Re: Linux/SCO compatibility?

From: iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Organization: Swansea University College
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 19:27:35 GMT

In article <d00n.769884288@crash.cts.com> d00n@crash.cts.com (Kevin Spousta)
writes:
>Does Linux support the SCO filesystem?  I am able to do a TAR -xvf on an SCO
>created floppy disk..
Yep.
>Also, will binaries from other Unix systems run under Linux?  i.e SCO?  BSD? 
>SunOS?
With the iBCS module loaded yes to SCO (on the whole) yes to most Solaris
but not SunOS or BSD.

Alan

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From: Juha.Laiho@f0.n100.z61.fidonet.org (Juha Laiho)
Date: 25 May 94 06:00:33 +0000
Subject: Re: CERT Advisory! - Linux & AIX !!!

From: jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho)
Organization: NullNet ry 
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 06:00:33 GMT

jasonh@chineham.euro.csg.mot.com (Jason Haar) said:
>** NOTE!! **
>The security.tgz file will only fix telnetd/rlogin (as well as lp*).
>THERE IS NO PATCH THERE FOR THE REAL PROBLEM - NAMELY /bin/login.

As far as I can understand, the 'login' in util-linux-1.6 -package has
this problem corrected.
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From: Allen.Willson@f0.n100.z61.fidonet.org (Allen Willson)
Date: 25 May 94 14:52:42 +0000
Subject: Re: enhanced IDE and SCSI-2 supported?

From: allenw@bnr.ca (Allen Willson)
Date: 25 May 1994 14:52:42 -0500
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, TX

In article <1994May25.110550.3486@tudedv.et.tudelft.nl>,
 <lcvanveen@et.tudelft.nl> wrote:
>In article <CqCFpC.CC7@mercury.wright.edu>, eatkins@alpha.wright.edu
(Elizabeth Atkins) writes:
>> 
>>      Just out of curiosity.....are the "enhanced IDE" and SCSI-2 
>> supported already, or are there going to have to be new drivers for 
>> them.  I'm going to be purchasing a couple systems in the near future
>> for Linux specific work.  Also, I needed to know if these DX4/100 will
>> work OK with Linux.  I have heard that Linux does fine with minor
>> modifications on the Pentium and was wondering what the minor mods are 
>> and where I can get them.
>> 
>If you mean burst-mode IDE support then the answer is a solid YES.
>There is a IDE-patch that has been posted in the news-groups.
>
>Martijn.

Burst mode for IDE is supported, but. . .

I think Ms Atkins was referring to the new IDE standard - called
enhanced IDE.  It is supposed to be very competitive with SCSI-2
for throughput, up to 12 Mbytes/s is the highest rating I've seen.
I do not believe there is kernel support for it yet, as it is 
relatively new.  Vendors such as Maxtor, Conner, Western Digital,
and Seagate were supposed to be shipping late Spring, 1994.
See the following publications for details:
        BYTE Magazine, March 94
        Windows Sources, Jan 94, May 94
        PC Magazine, Nov 93
        Computer Shopper, May 94
        PC Week, Apr 94

'Sponsor' me with one of these disks and I'd be happy to write
the driver for you !! 8^)

Allen
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From: David.C..Niemi@f0.n100.z61.fidonet.org (David C. Niemi)
Date: 25 May 94 20:17:42 +0000
Subject: Re: enhanced IDE and SCSI-2 supported?

From: niemidc@pep.production (David C. Niemi)
Date: 25 May 1994 20:17:42 GMT
Organization: GTE Federal Systems

In article 2rvml5INNjed@CS.UTK.EDU, peek@duncan.cs.utk.edu (Michael Peek)
writes:
...
>How about the new IDE's that support 4 drives?  Does anyone know if/when
>they will be supported?

Dunno about the *new* IDE controllers that support 4 drives.  I can vouch
for the at2 patches working fine on a an *old* IDE controller that supports
4 drives (an EISA DTC 2290).  But the new stuff probably means that there
will someday be BIOS info on the 3rd and 4th drives, rather than having
to manually enter the geometry and recompile itas it is today.
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GTE Federal Systems Division
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From: Edward.Vale@f0.n100.z61.fidonet.org (Edward Vale)
Date: 25 May 94 13:20:04 +0000
Subject: HELP!! - bad magic number in super-block.

From: t46012@isdserv.dehavilland.ca (Edward Vale)
Organization: deHavilland Inc. (Bombardier)
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 13:20:04 GMT

Got the following error message today:

   e2fsck 0.4a, 93/11/29 for EXT2 FS 0.4a 93/11/19
   /dev/hda1 is clean, no check
   e2fsck 0.4a, 93/11/29 for EXT2 FS 0.4a 93/11/19
   fsck.ext2: bad magic number in super-block
   Fsck failed. Please reboot

There are two partitions on the IDE drive:
  
   /dev/hda1    linux native 83
   /dev/hda2    linux swap 82 

I've tried reconstructing the filesystem from backups but I still get this
error.  Switching to a new hard disk didn't help.
I'd really appreciate ANY help.

ADVthanksANCE,
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From: slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu (Whistler)
Subject: Kernel change summaries
Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 18:26:26 GMT


        Thanks! :)

-Sam


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From: Andries.Brouwer@f0.n100.z61.fidonet.org (Andries Brouwer)
Date: 25 May 94 22:54:27 +0000
Subject: Re: Virtual Consoles

From: aeb@cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 22:54:27 GMT

ac3slh@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk (Stuart Herbert) writes:

: Ideally, I'd like to have up to 24 :) (ALT F1-F12, and SHIFT-ALT F1-F12 if
: possible).  I've located the #define for setting the number of consoles,
: but I don't know what else I need to do to make it recognise the keypresses.

Nothing.
(That is, except for changing the #define, recompiling and installing.)
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From: David.Barr@f0.n100.z61.fidonet.org (David Barr)
Date: 25 May 94 19:10:26 +0000
Subject: Re: bug on kernel 1.1.15

From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
Date: 25 May 1994 19:10:26 -0400
Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute

In article <2s0hrk$68r@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
Supat Faarungsang <supat@nuntana.animal.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>here the bug
>
>stty: TCGETS: Operation not supported on socket

Well gee, that's nice.  You've given us an error message.

Could you at least tell us what command _generated_ this error
message?  (obviously an stty command, but _what_ stty function?
when?  where?)

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