Questions Tagged With slackware

why my LFS system displays the my host system kernel version?

Gautama — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:02:02 -0500

Hello,

i am using Slackware 14.1 64 bit which is my host system.i build LFS/BLFS 7.6 on another partition,when i getting into my LFS/BLFS system i run "uname -r" then i getting my host kernel version "3.10.17" but my LFS/BLFS kernel version is "3.16.2".please help me how to solve this issue.thanks in advance.

no internet while downloading torrents - seems dns related

synthnassizer — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:03:17 -0400

Hello everyone, I have a very peculiar problem regarding the internet connection while downloading torrents. Before you conclude that I should "reduce the # of half-open & user connections", let me say I have done that.(10 half open connections, 20 users, it still doesn't work , and I don't get any downloading going on anymore).

I should also say that QoS shouldn't be necessary. usually in my experience with downloading torrents (in linux/windows nad mac) the internet connection was shared among all processes. Here it seems like torrents are chewing on all the available bandwidth. (Shouldn't the kernel be divide time among processes that request to send/receive packages?)

Finally, I should say that this problem started appearing after I updated to slack 64bit v14 (from v13.37).

So, the actual problem seems to be related with dns server not responding once I start download with ktorrent or rtorrent. And no webpages load anymore. torrent will be downloading at reasonable speed, but no websites will be loading. so "nslookup" and "dig" will tell me that the dns server (which btw is located on the same pc) was not found :

nslookup facebook.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

and

nass@stargaze:~$ dig !$
dig facebook.com
; <<>> DiG 9.9.1-P3 <<>> facebook.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 26154
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;facebook.com.                  IN      A

;; Query time: 1125 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Aug  2 01:14:46 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 41

restarting the dns server (bind) while the torrent is running will generally NOT fix things, even though sometimes I have seen this happening. stopping the dns , deleting any .jnl files that were generated and restarting seems to work, but again it may not be always.( I don't have a repeated pattern for this case). I can't say I have found "a way" to get the internet back. -usually closing ktorrent and waiting for a few secs could even fix the internet on its own. -Other times closing the ktorrent client and restarting dns server would work faster than the previous case. -sometimes repeated restarts would NOT get the dns back working (bu waiting for a few mins would fix the prob) -recently I have started stopping named, deleting .jnl files and restarting it. This has had 100% success in my (only 2) trials.

the firewall log, the /var/log/messages/ and named's logs, doesn't register anything weird.

I am not keen in the use of tcpdump, wireshark, netstat so I don't know if I can use this tools to identify ...something! Could anyone help with this?

Since this problem seems to be related -primarily- to the dns server, I am appending my dns file and explain my pc's configuration abit. so ADSL internet arrive in the modem (provided by ISP, always on, even when I dont have internet) modem is connected to this pc where I am downloading torrents at eth1. this pc is network and file server (and my desktop when I am away). It is running iptables, dns, & squid servers (among others). Then from eth0 of this pc, the wifi and intranet switch is fed. The squid is running on a transparent configuration but it shouldn't both with torrent traffic as this is done on different ports (rather than the port 80)

So initially I am attaching my named.conf, in an attempt to get feedback on it (perhaps some logically erroneous config that is not caught from the webmin named config file checker - with which I have repeatedly verified that the named.conf file is syntactically correct)

named.conf is in here

If this is fine, is there someway I could start using tcpdump (and any other tool) under your guidance to collect info as to what might be causing this?

Thank you extremely much for your help :)

Running games in slackware with wine

Bowlslaw — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:56:46 -0400

I have installed Fallout Tactics, but I can't get it to run. Every time I try, the vaultboy head bounces up and down by my cursor for a few seconds, and then nothing happens. How can I get my game to run?

This is the wine I have: http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/system/wine/

How do I solve segmentation fault on Slackware?

rikizulu — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 03:47:22 -0400

I have installed Asterisk 1.8 on slackware 13.1, php, mysql and apache.

I am later to install freepbx to help with reporting on VOIP activity. However, after installing asterisk, I am getting a segment fault.

My log file shows this:

darkstar kernel: asterisk[2660]: segfault at 800001c4f ip 00007ffff7514810 sp 00007fffffffcd48 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[7ffff7492000+16b000]

I have used gdb so that I can perform a backtrace however the program executes and exits without a stack thus not helpful.

Any help is appreciated!

NX server and Slackware

gmartin — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:47:15 -0400

I'm running Slackware 13.1 (for now, 13.37 is real close!). I recently started using nxserver/freenx for remote access since it is so much faster than VNC. I log into (and stay logged into) the workstation as a single, non-root user and I'd like to be able to attach to that KDE session whenever I need to access the machine remotely.

Right now when I connect, I always get a new KDE session. Is there a trick to making this work?

So I worked through the article jeremy posted.

I verified the RENDER extension is loaded
activated ENABLE_PERSISTENT_SESSION = "all" (although i believe this is the default)
restarted freenx

I see no way to change the color depth for the nx client and the font issue seems to be a none issue. As for pixmaps, depths and visuals, I don't know what those are :-).

Any other thoughts would be appreciated.

\\Greg-

Strange psiho question

Intel_ — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:47:40 -0500

For 1 month i crashed my slackware linux system by kernel panic and upgrades 2 times. Sometimes I think that I am not good for system administrator, although I am 16 years old..When I solve my problems in 90% i consult with other people, which means that I don't solve my problems, but they. Do you ever feel the same thoughts when you think that system administration is not fo you?

Connect to BlackBerry Storm on Slackware 13.1

EricTRA — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:38:27 -0400

Hi,

Has anyone been able to connect to a BlackBerry Storm on Slackware 13.1 to download/upload photos, music and such?

Kind regards,

Eric

volume control on GSB 2.30

martin — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:05:44 -0400

I'm running slackware64 13.1 and GSB 2.30. I'm puzzled as to what to use to control sound volume. When I right click on the panel and open "Add to Panel" utility I can see the volume control applet but it says "deprecated" next to it. What is recommended then?

thx

slackware64 13.1 GSB 2.30 "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet"

martin — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:57:48 -0400

Upon installation of Slackware64 13.1 and GSB everything seemed ok. Then I rebooted the system and I got 2 errors: When doing startx I got an error about /usr/libexec/gconf-sanity-check2 exiting with code 256 (This was resolved by replacing GConf 2.26 from SBo with 2.28 GSB.

The other error is that when it starts Gnome the clock applet doesn't show up and I get the error: The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet".

I tried to manually add it to the panel, it gives the same error.

martin

network connectivity

moses — Tue, 04 May 2010 10:55:05 -0400

i have both public and private cannot connect to public internet whereas intranet is functional i am using slackware

Revive Dead Consoles after Suspend

Slug — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:48:25 -0400

Hello everyone. I'm using Slackware13.0 & I've encountered a rather perplexing situation. I was wondering if there where any fellow slackers or wizened gnu 'rus out there who could lend a hand.

While using the kde4 desktop environment, after using the suspend to ram feature, I cannot revive the other consoles? tty0-7, or the consoles you get when you ctrl+alt+fn". The only one I can revive is the one I last used; xwindows, or tty7.

If anyone could help point me in the right direction towards a resolution, I'd be most grateful!

Hybrid distros?

win32sux — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:12:35 -0400

Are there any hybrid distros? I'd love to try something that combined Debian and Slackware, for example.