>Subject: Re: lost in the pines >From: Philippe <phd@fcomfrench.com> >To: psyche-list <psyche-list@redhat.com> >Organization: >Date: 12 Jan 2003 10:44:56 +0700 >Reply-To: psyche-list@redhat.com > >Hi, > >Yep, this looks bad to me, hardware problem ... > >Try to run dmesg, and looks what it says. > >Philippe > >On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 10:20, Justin F. Kuo wrote: >> I'm new to Red Hat 8.0. I had the email reader, PINE, working two days >> ago. Now, it's as though it no longer exists on my PC. >> >> [jkuo@mango jkuo]$ pine >> -bash: pine: command not found >> >> Several other applications, including PICO, and PILOT are also missing. >> >> I attempted to look for it in the /usr/bin directory, but the ls command >> generated a bunch of errors. >> >> [jkuo@mango jkuo]$ ls /usr/bin/ -al > spool.txt >> ls: /usr/bin/gpg-sign+encrypt: Input/output error [snip] I ran the dmesg command and include the lengthy output below. What does all of it mean? Thanks -- Justin (There are two harddrives in this box. The 60GB drive (hda) is for the linux system, while the 30GB drive (hdc) contains Windows ME that was orginally run on that box.) [jkuo@mango jkuo]$ dmesg Linux version 2.4.18-19.8.0 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) #1 Thu Dec 12 05:39:29 EST 2002 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e7800 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ef0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000007ef0000 - 0000000007effc00 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000007effc00 - 0000000007f00000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 0000000007f00000 - 0000000008000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 126MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 32496 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 28400 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi Initializing CPU#0 Detected 701.580 MHz processor. Speakup v-1.00 CVS: Tue Jun 11 14:22:53 EDT 2002 : initialized Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1393.96 BogoMIPS Memory: 123816k/129984k available (1314k kernel code, 4768k reserved, 989k data, 172k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) ramfs: mounted with options: <defaults> ramfs: max_pages=15603 max_file_pages=0 max_inodes=0 max_dentries=15603 Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 128K CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Celeron (Coppermine) stepping 03 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd99e, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/2410] at 00:1f.0 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:1f.5 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.3 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 01:09.0 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:08.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:01.0 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found speakup: initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25) Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) Starting kswapd VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SER IAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e block: 240 slots per queue, batch=60 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9 PIIX4: chipset revision 2 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x10a0-0x10a7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x10a8-0x10af, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: WDC WD600BB-75CAA0, ATA DISK drive hdc: WDC WD307AA-00BAA0, ATA DISK drive hdd: CR-4804TE, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 blk: queue c03afd84, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) blk: queue c03afd84, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hda: setmax LBA 117231408, native 117187500 hda: 117187500 sectors (60000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=7750/240/63, UDMA(66) blk: queue c03b00c8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) blk: queue c03b00c8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: 60074784 sectors (30758 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=59598/16/63, UDMA(66) ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > hdc: [PTBL] [3739/255/63] hdc1 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 127k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Journalled Block Device driver loaded kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 05:47:42 Dec 12 2002 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.2 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1080, IRQ 11 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver usb.c: registered new driver hiddev usb.c: registered new driver hid hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,5), internal journal Adding Swap: 257000k swap-space (priority -1) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,6), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: MITSUMI Model: CR-4804TE Rev: 2.6C Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.11 <tigran@veritas.com> microcode: CPU0 updated from revision 16 to 20, date=02062001 microcode: freed 2048 bytes parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] ohci1394: pci_module_init failed ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team PCI: Enabling device 01:09.0 (0100 -> 0101) PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:09.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.3 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.5 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html 01:09.0: 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x2440. Vers LK1.1.18-ac divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 NET4: AppleTalk 0.18a for Linux NET4.0 [jkuo@mango jkuo]$ -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list