kernel 2.4 questions

[tkoster]

I just loaded the Mandrake 8.0 beta and all in all it looks pretty good. However, there are a few glitches in it that I could use some help on.

1) The modules.conf file is missing some stuff because of a faulty installation program. They are working on fixing the install program, but if you are running the 2.4 kernel, I would appreciate you posting the contents of your modules.conf file here so I can see what I am missing. Right now none of the drives except the hard drive are mounting and the ppp and sound elements are missing, so anything relating to them would especially be helpful.
2) About once an hour I get an email from the system saying that "localhost: problem connecting to localhost, port 23: connection refused." I have no idea what that means.
3) When I shutdown the computer the system hangs when the term signal is sent to kill all processes, which means all of the file systems need to be force checked on the next boot. Any ideas what would cause this?

Tim

[Lorithar]

*hmms*

Port 23 -- telnet. -- You have a firewall up and something is trying to get through it?

modules.conf -- I don't use mandrake, but I rather suspect that you could catalog what you need added, and dummy one together from the following hints...

alias net-pf-4 off # we won't use PF IPX
alias net-pf-5 off # we won't use PF AppleTalk
alias char-maj-108 ppp.o # point at the ppp.o module...
alias char-major-10-179 xsvc

NOTE .. I use a pppoe internet connection so that the major node for ppp had to be aliased ...

As for the hang at shutdown, when you built the system, did you happen to notice if *magicsysreqkey* worked? ... try this alt-cntl-(printscreen/sysreq)-s
This is an emergency sync of the drives, and is harmless in normal operations.....
done as alt-cntl-sysreq-U it will unmount the drives before you powercycle the box.

As a test, you could go through your /etc/rc.d/rc.6 (shutdown scripts) and try manually shutting things down until you find the one that hangs the box.. and perhaps we could diagnose why from the logs later...

[tkoster]

It does talk about telnet, but I have no firewall, at least not intentionally. I did give Mandrake install permission to load some web server software because I wanted to make sure that would have what I need to produce web pages, but firewalls on my list of yet to be learned.

According to their bug chaser all I should have to add to modules.conf file to get my ppp working is alias ppp ppp_async

Except it hasn't worked although doing a modprobe ppp_async in a term window does work.

I'll have to try your idea on the term problem later on tonight.

Thanks

Tim