Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Problems with version 1.2b2

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Stjepan Gros wrote:

>Hi again!
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>>>I'm having some trouble with devil linux. First is related to binary
>>>version. Zebra daemon (part of quagga package) at startup tries to connect
>>>to SMUX which is part of net-snmp package. But it seams net-snmp package
>>>is not compiled with adequate support (configure option
>>>--with-mib-modules="smux"). Also, i searched groups and web and it seems
>>>there is no way to disable smux in zebra at run-time. What I'm missing
>>>here?
>>> 
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>>You're the first one to report this....
>>We can add the smux stuff to the net-snmp package if we need to.
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>It seems that this warning for SMUX doesn't prevent zebra/quagga from
>running so it's only minor inconvinience. Anyway, i think it should be
>fixed if nothing else, because of confusion (it confused me :)).
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I added it to the CVS version.

>>>The other poblem is that i can not recompile the whole distribution. I'm
>>>using Fedora Core 2. It stops at compiling gcc with message in log that ar
>>>(or some other program) got out of memory. I have 1G RAM, and also I added
>>>10G of swap so it should have plenty of RAM. Then I tried few more
>>>combinations. First, while compiling on fresh system with no changes in
>>>menuconfig there seems to be no errors (i didn't finish compiling so i can
>>>not be 100% certain). If, in menu config i change few options, then
>>>imediately the mentioned problem arises, and also, making mrproper with
>>>default config yields the error again. Finally, the error seems generic in
>>>that if i enable binutils - which compiles before gcc - the error occurs
>>>there.
>>>
>>>The log from compiling gcc is attached. Default config was used. Also i
>>>attached config i was trying to get, i.e. necessary programs removed.
>>>
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>>There are major problems with FC2, so far nobody was able to 
>>successfully compile DL on it.
>>Take a look at this thread: 
>>https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=5447785&forum_id=432
>>You can try the change I propose at the end of the page, but please give 
>>us feedback if it works or not.
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>I managed to compile a custom version of devil-linux on FC2 using your
>proposed change. Config file I used is attached for reference. Default
>value on FC2 for exec-shield is 1. After changing to 0 it compiled. I
>tried it in VMWare and it seems OK. Also, Zebra doesn't complain anymore
>(i removed net-snmp because i don't need it). Thanks for your help.
>(I have to note that after doing mrproper and setting exec-shield back
>to 1 compilation was also successful.)
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>I have one remark on documentation. Namely, for a build it states that
>it is necessary to enter unpacked lfssystem and then issue cvs commands
>- at least i understand it that way (1.3.2 Initial check out). But it is
>necessary to first enter data subdirectory and there issue cvs.
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Yeah the documentation...

>Finally, I also have one note related to vmware, it's off-topic but it
>may help someone. It took me some tome - mostly searching different news
>groups without result - to realize that new version of vmware has
>possibility of emulating two different network cards. Default type of
>network card (vmxnet) has no support in kernel without vmware tools. One
>has to select lance in order to be able to use pcnet32 module.
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I always used the pcnet32....

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org