iptables / cdrtools problems

o5gmmob8 · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 507

Hi,

I know these two may not be normally related, but in my case, neither of these tools work and I rolled back to a non-buggy version as indicated on the website. I cannot burn cd's as cdrtools does not return any cd burners when doing a scanbus, and when I start iptables, my network connection is cutoff. My rulesets are from a working version of iptables so that is not the problem. Could the versions of iptables and cdrtools still be buggy even though the bug logo is not indicated for the versions I am using? Does anyone else have this problem with these programs or any other?

teknomage1 · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:50 pm Post subject:

do you get error messages? Have you checked your logs? As you indicated it's sort of wierd to have problems in both. Maybe your kernel is missing something important. I'm not sure but you might run ldd iptables and ldd cdrtools and see if they share any libraries.

o5gmmob8 · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 507

Hi,

This is the error message from cdrecord:

Cdrecord 2.01a14 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 J�rg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

When I start iptables as a service, I cannot get through anything, I try pinging the router and I get no replies. I have rebuilt the kernel and modules several times already in order to get some other things working like my tv tuner card, so I don't think I am missing the modules or have bad modules as they have been built several times all with the same result.

Walter

teknomage1 · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject:

Yeah sounds like your kernel's not the problem. Check for any shared libraries and also see if your make.conf settings specifically cflags and use flags have anything unusual. Check your everythign,logs and see if you get any kernel messages when you run either problem

o5gmmob8 · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 507

These are my custom make.conf settings:

USE="X gtk2 gnome kde -alsa"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"

This is my kernel log with only unique entries.

Jan 13 08:43:19 Xuser kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!

Jan 13 12:58:11 Xuser kernel: bttv0: skipped frame. no signal? high irq latency?

Do you think it could be a bad compilation or compiler?

Walter

teknomage1 · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:01 am Post subject:

well i'm not a programmer so i can only repeat the standard line that if your software fails try to recompile with less aggressive complier settings. Also since you're set to ~x86 you'll encounter bugs that may not be listed on bugtracker yet

o5gmmob8 · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 507

I commented out that line and recompiled cdrtools and iptables and encountered the same problem. I thought using the ~x86 would permit building any x86 architecture even though my system is optimized for P4 i686. I put that in because some programs wouldn't compile.

Walter

teknomage1 · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 8:07 pm Post subject:

~x86 just turns on unstable package support

o5gmmob8 · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 507

ok, that make sense, that means I could be running alot of other unstable apps that I don't know about.

Walter

o5gmmob8 · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 507

I am updating the system and hopefully installing stable packages. I will post the results, hopefully successful.

Walter

o5gmmob8 · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 507

Well I recompiled them again, with the new libraries and all, and no go. I think it may be a larger problem.

Walter

teknomage1 · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 1:14 am Post subject:

whoa tough break i don't even know where to go to look for more info on that sort of thing except maybe fill out bug reports at the respective project sites or maybe here and see if the developers can reproduce the problem

o5gmmob8 · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 507

What device drivers are you using for your cdrtools? Mine cannot seem to find /dev/pg* as I don't have those devices. I have hdd=ide-cd (used to be ide-scsi) in grub.conf. I think I have everything built-into the kernel as opposed to loading a module.

Walter

o5gmmob8 · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 507

Well here is what I have todo to see my drives with cdrtools:

cdrtools dev=ATAPI -scanbus
from this thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117445&highlight=cdrtools

But iptables is still whacked, I am not in front of my machine, so I cannot insert a disc and test cdrecord out, but hopefully it works fine.

Walter