Mepis barfed on shutdown
Posts: 45
I got a really cryptic message when I last shutdown my computer and I thought I'd post it and see if anyone knew what it was, just for curiousity's sake.
[21093.656423] ABORTED IN= eth0 OUT= MAC=00:05:1b:00:3a:7c:00:13:46:a3:c8:4e:08:00 SRC=85.13.130.124. DST=192.168.0.102 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=80 ID=63301 PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=5898 SEQ=1273964783 ACK=1273964783 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 RST URGP=0
This message was displayed 5 times in a row, each time some of the numbers changed slightly.
I am running wine, though I
Posts: 45
I am running wine, though I only use it with Internet Exploder from time to time. The error messages do relate alot of network address information but I don't know what it means.
I have seen them too
Posts: 959
They only come up when i have an open VMware terminal running when I shut down the computer, but it doesn't seem to harm anything. By having an open terminal, I mean just the vmware program, the messages appear to be a lot longer if I shut down with an open virtual machine still running, but so far, no damages and I've done it a number of times, never purposely
Mike P
--------------------
Life may not be the party we thought, but while we're here, we may as well dance.
Break M$'s shackles from your feet and free yourself with Mepis
Yes
Posts: 5513
Yes, I did some searching out on the Internet about 6 months ago trying to get a handle on this. I looked at vmware-specific sites, Microsoft Virtual PC sites (I have seen the error generated with that tool too) and tried all sorts of keyword searches. I've not found anything that even helps "define" the situation. But as Mike indicates above, it doesn't appear to be a real problem, more of a logging issue...
So I wouldn't worry about it (yet) 
Jon
vmware
Posts: 45
I checked out vmware last night and went to install but I dont have an iso to use for windows. I have a win98 and winxp setup disc but I am not really wanting to install Microsuck products on my machine if I dont have to. What would be the easiest way to get vmware working with windoze without putting in a new drive.
Maybe a utility that could create a 8-10 gb partition and load windoze on it? A walkthrough or tutorial would be helpful...
Some Questions
Posts: 5513
saintj0n, some basic questions.
Are you wanting some help to configure VMware or Parallels? If VMware, then is it VMware Server (the free thing) or VMware Workstation (the pay thing)? If it's Parallels, then there are others better qualified than I to give those instructions. If VMware *, then a few of us can help
Please give us more information on your "real" computer (cpu speed, RAM amount, total hard drive space). This will be the "host" computer that will run one or more "virtual machines".
VMware Server is pretty good about setting up virtual hardware. In that virtual machine, I would recommend 128 MB RAM minimum. You can bump it up to 256 MB during installation to make things faster, and then bring it back down after installation (the nice thing about virtual machines). Yes, for Windoze machines 8-10 GB virtual hard drives are fine. Another nice thing about virtual machines is that they do not allocate all of this drive space at one time. Rather, they "define" an 8 GB hard drive, for instance, but only take up 1-2 GB for starters. The virtual machine thinks that it has 8 GB to play with. As the internal use of the hard drive grows, the external 1-2 GB disk file grows accordingly.
If you have the installation CDs for Win 98 and/or Win XP, I would recommend copying the image of them to your hard drive, and then using the image of the CD to boot the virtual machine. Why? Because the response you will get from the virtual machine will be faster.
All that you load into the virtual machine (operating system included) will be completely isolated from the host computer, it will even have its own IP address.
Another nice thing about virtual machines is, once you have created one, as a template say, then you can copy it and use it for other means. If it gets messed up, just delete the whole thing and re-copy
All of the above is contingent upon you having a decently nice computer. Namely 256+ MB RAM (512+ preferred), 800+ MHz CPU (1+ GHz preferred), 40+ GB hard drive partition.
So get back to us with more specs, and I'm sure others will be able to give you some ideas to ponder.
Jon
RE: barf on shutdown
Posts: 519
It's not barf, and nothing is wrong.
It's a message from the kernel ring telling you that TCP packet wes aborted. The packet came from eth0 and was sent to the MAC address of 00:05:1b:00:2a:7c. The source of the packet was 85.13.130.124 and it was sent to your internal IP address of 192.168.9.102
You can get a better picture of these messages if you take a look at /var/log/messages using ether
dmesg
or
su -c"tail /var/log/messages"
which converts some of the mystic data into date and time stamps, etc....
These are normal messages about packets which didn't arrive intact or were corrupted and the kernel killed them.
If you think someone was connecting to your box you can check for this using
netstat -l -p
which will list all ports with connections, what they are connected to, and which applications are handling the connection.
--
GreyGeek
specs
Posts: 45
My PC is somewhat modest. Currently it only has Linux and a 60 GB HDD. The RAM is 512 DDR2 and the CPU is 3.1 Ghz. I am using maybe 10 Gbytes of HDD space for linux right now. I have installed VMWARE part way but don't know how to finish the install. I don't even know how to create an image of the install CD. Can I just stick in my win98 and run it in VMWARE somehow. Please inform me on the procedural aspects of this as I have never even looked into doing it before....
Some Things To Check
Posts: 5513
OK saintj0n, there are a couple things for you to check first. Your hardware looks ok for what you want to do, but you WILL need to allocate more drive space (in home?) to store your virtual machines file structures. I'll get to that in a moment though
Exactly which VMware are we talking about: The Server (free) or Workstation (non-free)? You will need to download the Linux kernel headers in order to run the VMware configuration scripts. From a konsole, enter the command "uname -a" to get the name of your current kernel. It will be something like "Linux yourhostname 2.6.15-26-386 more stuff..." The kernel is 2.6.15-26-386 or some such. Next, open synaptic, perform a Reload, and then search for "linux-kernel-headers". If you're running 6.0 it may already be installed since 6.0 is supposed to be "VMware capable". If it is not installed, then choose it in synaptic and install it.
Next, as user root, you will need to run in the konsole "/usr/bin/vmware-config". You will be asked various questions about your system. You will probably be best served by accepting the default values provided.
Have you done all of that? Because I don't understand when you say that you have "installed VMware part way".
The instructions for creating a virtual machine are ever so slightly different between the Server and Workstation version, so please get back to me on that.
Don't worry about creating the CD image; we can play with that later. Just make sure that the Win 98 CD is in your drive bay when you get ready to start the virtual machine. You don't have to have it in place until you are ready to "boot" the virtual computer though. One question though: Is the Win 98 CD "bootable" or is it one of the older ones that also required a floppy disk to boot from? If you don't know, the best way to find out is try it out in the virtual machine
If you want to load Win 98, you can conveniently get by with 128 MB RAM and 2-4 GB of virtual disk.
Also, I know I've posted other info on VMware on this site, and I know other people have too. So please do a quick search of the forum and read up on stuff before you get going. If you have further questions, feel free to ask
Jon
GreyGeek wrote:It's not
Posts: 1634
It's not barf, and nothing is wrong.
I seem to recall hearing one of my kids say that, a long time ago, while sitting on a brand new sofa.
My occupation?
Well, computer geek-stuff, mostly. I could tell you all about it; but, then I would have to delete you.
Yup!
Posts: 5513
EnigmaOne, how come "Uh oh!, NOTHING!, and I-didn't-do-it!" are often in the same sentence when a little kid says something? And of course, it's AFTER something has, in fact, happened.
That, of course, could also be the subject heading of the former thread here:
http://www.mepis.org/node/11728
Jon
I have to grin at that, Jon.
Posts: 1634
I have to grin at that, Jon. It seems to be a common kid-conversational theme, at times, in our house.
We have a running inside-joke going between my wife and myself which relates to our youngest daughter, and we tend to use in a humorous fashion when the effect can't be clearly linked to a specific cause: "It wasn't me! The talking hand did it!"
I can imagine that, in about 12 years time, the kids will think we're totally nuts; given the way we weave these types of things into daily conversation...and laugh at the memories they bring back.
I'll go ahead and retitle the http://www.mepis.org/node/11728 thread withsomething like that, huh? 
My occupation?
Well, computer geek-stuff, mostly. I could tell you all about it; but, then I would have to delete you.
Are You Running An Emulator?
Posts: 5513
saintj0n, are you running any type of emulator on your system such as qemu, wine, parallels, vmware...?
I don't know the significance of the error messages, but can tell you that I get them all the time when I'm running a vmware session. They don't pose a problem (on my system). I think they are error/status messages that are being passed to terminal 1 by network processing within the emulator.
Jon