RE: Grub Issue
>I just had this happen to me - I installed the 10 beta and grub >doesn't bring up a boot screen, I've also got Vista on this computer. >grub is there, you just need to hit enter for it to show up when the >screen is showing the blinking cursor after the POST finishes. No idea >how to fix it, but at least I can get it up to pick the OS. > >amy Brilliant! Thanks, jlc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
RE: Grub Issue
>It is just a guess but I think your grub boot MBR is at the beginning >of sda2. Regardless you need to know what is in the MBR so I refer >you to: > >http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/GRUB.htm (and do a search >for "dd if". The whole article is rather interesting I think) Funny you mention this? I was in the rescue mode after the second attempt failed so knowing I couldn't read the mbr legibly with the tools on the rescue disc, I did a #dd if=/dev/sda bs=512 count=512 | less and did see the important part: "GRUB Geom Hard Disk Read Error" in the garbled text. This lead me to believe it was there but maybe busted? The next posters solution was the trick! Looks like the beta is broke slightly for this scenario. Thank you for the web link, that was good reading! jlc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Two problems in f9 - pulseaudio and kde4 - need suggestions
On Monday 13 October 2008 00:06, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Marko Vojinovic panet.co.yu> writes: > > But it is being done very fast, and KDE 4.2 (iirc, to come with > > F10) will be much more feature-rich then the present version 4.1. > > F10 will ship with 4.1.2 or 4.1.3, not 4.2. There's simply no way we can > ship 4.2 in F10 when it's not even in alpha yet, its alpha release is > scheduled for the day of the final development freeze and the beta release > for the day of the F10 release. We just cannot ship F10 with an alpha KDE > (even a beta 1 would be bad, and there's no way we can rush that in anyway, > even getting the tarballs early as packagers, because Fedora releases are > cut some time before the official release date). Ok, but I guess that it would eventually become available and get pulled in with the updates? Or will it appear not before F11? > We're testing a backport of panel autohiding though. See the > kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-5.fc10 package for F10 and the > kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-5.fc9 package for F9 (note that you need the 4.1.2 > stuff from updates-testing to test that build). I can't promise yet that > the feature will stay (we're still gathering feedback - if it's too broken, > we'll have to revert it and wait for 4.2), but if it works out fine, it'll > likely end up both released with F10 and pushed to the F9 updates. That's good news! Hope it will work out ok! :-) Best, :-) Marko -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
X display sharing fails (xauth)
I often need to test gui applications under a different login, so I can easily wipe out .dotfiles and run with a known environment. I've had this working since F8 with an xauth entry that allowed the other user access to my display. All I needed was a terminal window logged in as the other user, and I could run apps that needed access to the X display. A couple of days ago, this stopped working. Now, as the test user, I get $ firefox No protocol specified Error: cannot open display: :0.0 and from my normal desktop login, I get $ xauth list xauth: error in locking authority file /var/run/gdm/auth-cookie-XXGB42IU-for-jes I can use "xhost +" but I'd prefer to be a little more specific, even though I'm the only user. Switching users through the panel "User Switcher" is not convenient: I have to enter a password every time I switch users and I can't run things side by side on the same display. I don't really need full console access, just the display. Any ideas what broke, or suggestions for getting my old configuration working again? https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: ps2 mouse pointer wanders away
Tying up some loose threads as I have time -- On Aug 16, 2008, at 8:15 AM, Joel Rees wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Joel Rees wrote: I find that I often lose control of the mouse pointer. It seems to happen more when I'm seeding torrents, or running a diff or a message digest check on the download, or doing other things that load the system. And it just got worse, both in Fedora 7 and Fedora 9. Sempron 2600, single processor, VIA KM400something+8237 chipset, 760M RAM. Generic PS-2 mouse and keyboard. I can plug in a USB mouse and use that, and sometimes plugging the USB mouse in brings the PS2 mouse back, as well. In your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file what is mouse protocol set to? No mouse definition in that file whatsoever. [...] I've seen what I think you are describing when set to infrequently seen/used setting. FWIW, the one I use most often is... Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Thanks for reminding me where that file is. I found an example of the mouse definition section on the web, but the problem now is getting the box back on the web first. Oh, yeah, checking the box and letting the gui network manager or whatever it was manage the network was something I mentioned finding in another thread, and probably my fat fingers while I was dozing at the keyboard were the culprit. The out-of-control mouse was just a bad mouse. A little high-tech wire-wiggling with a multimeter, then 5 cm. clipped off the end of the wire, re-soldered, and it works fine. Flaking out with Fedora 9 appears to have been just a coincidence, or maybe some timing thing in nine made it more sensitive there first. More noise, my apologies. Joel Rees -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
fc9: kernel won't boot
Hello, I just installed FC9 alongside Debian. During the installation I did not update grub and chose not to install grub. I have done this before. I just change Debian's grub to put in the relevant stanzas for my FC kernel (was FC8 till today). Here is my relevant stanza now in my Debian's grub's menu.lst: title Fedora 9, kernel 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 root (hd0,12) kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 ro root=UUID=3cfc63bf-9e84-49a3-90ad-3fa623141200 rhgb quiet vga=792 selinux=0 initrd/boot/initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img savedefault FC9's / partition is /dev/sda13 and its home is /dev/sda14 (swap is /dev/sda12). Its /etc/fstab is: UUID=3cfc63bf-9e84-49a3-90ad-3fa623141200 / ext3defaults 1 1 UUID=4d049c49-6b8a-4cc6-9e42-87c1526094ad /home ext3 defaults1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfsdefaults0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc/proc procdefaults 0 0 UUID=f6df95d2-3f58-41f7-b906-a0f01c61f401 swap swap defaults 0 0 If select FC9's kernel, it reports something about bad file descriptor and doesn't boot. The contents of /dev/sda13/boot are: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86348 2008-05-01 06:34 config-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root4096 2008-10-12 20:01 efi drwxr-xr-x 2 root root4096 2008-04-07 13:32 grub -rw--- 1 root root 2700907 2008-10-12 20:07 initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 892575 2008-05-01 06:34 System.map-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2088288 2008-05-01 06:34 vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 BTW, this is the first time I seeing executable permissions in vmlinux. Any idea what I need to fix? This sytem worked with fc8, don't know what I did wrong today with fc9 installation. Regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Firefox seg fault
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Searle wrote: > firefox > > It doesn't work from the icon either - I only ran it from the cl to > capture the output. ok. from what i find in scripts, you may have a bad update. just what got hosed|trash|whatever, is something that i can not answer. from what i do see, 1st seg fault, you may have a bad or missing lib file. 2nd seg fault is '$prog' not being properly defined. easiest thing to do, uninstall firefox and then reinstall. if still no go, something you can try is 'firefox --debug' to see if you can get more info to help find what is happening. this is about as far as i will be able to follow with you as i am running scientific linux 2.5 with firefox 3.0.2b. other system on this box is fedora 8 with no firefox update. [i am waiting for fedora 10 out of test, and hoping it will be in better shape than f9.] my 'mozilla-plugin-config' line 72 = your line 73 and 'run-mozilla.sh' line 166 = your line 131. much luck to you. - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI8tfE+C4Bj9Rkw/wRAszBAJ0Xy5K4FT5g9Gu7eCCK3j/2eUrEiACfdHTZ sgbCxk1mQncUJx0OJyuKVLM= =kB88 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Grub Issue
> Any ideas why grub doesn't even appear? I recall the /boot needing to be at > the beginning > of the disc an old legacy requirement an no longer an issue (I think this is > how I setup > my systems before anyway?). > > Thanks! > jlc I just had this happen to me - I installed the 10 beta and grub doesn't bring up a boot screen, I've also got Vista on this computer. grub is there, you just need to hit enter for it to show up when the screen is showing the blinking cursor after the POST finishes. No idea how to fix it, but at least I can get it up to pick the OS. amy -- Amy Kelly // [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: ftp problem
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Gerhard Magnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running FC9 on a small LAN that also has some Windows machines. I'd > like to use one of the linux boxes as an FTP server so that the Windows > systems can access a directory on that server. None of this has been > opened to the world outside by opening port 21 on the router -- it's > strictly "in house." Eventually I'll learn Apache, but FTP looks much > simpler for what I'd like to do. (Or so I thought :) Here's what I've > done, following instructions in www.fedoraguide.info: > > (1) installed proftpd on the server > (2) added these lines to the end of the /etc/proftpd.conf file: > > > Userftp > Groupnogroup > UserAlias anonymous ftp > DirFakeUser on ftp > DirFakeGroup on ftp > RequireValidShell off > MaxClients 10 > DisplayLoginwelcome.msg > DisplayFirstChdir .message > > > DenyAll > > > > > (3) on the server, used system-config-services to enable proftpd on run > levels 3 and 5 > (4) /etc/init.d/proftpd restart > (5) on the server, used system-config-firewall to make FTP (with > Port/Protocol = 21/tcp) a trusted service > (6) the permissions for the ftp directory look like this: > > drwxrwxr-x 17 magnusg magnusg 4096 2008-09-14 18:29 music > > But when I try using filezilla from a Windows box, logging in as > anonymous of port 21, I get these messages: > > 220 FTP server ready > 331 anonymous logon OK... > 530 unable to set anonymous privileges > 530 login incorrect > > So I seem to be connecting, but not much else. Googling the error > message leads to others who've had similar problems but (at least so > far) no one with a solution Thanks for any tips on how to proceed. > > Jerry > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > Hi Jerry! Only some guesses here: 1. Try removing: DenyAll >From your /etc/proftpd.conf file. Then it should match what is mentioned here: http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.php?title=Main_Page#How_to_install_FTP_Server_for_File_Transfer_service Under " How to configure FTP Server to allow anonymous FTP user to read/write". If still no joy try turning off SELinux for a session. If still no joy make sure you have a user "anonymous" and that they are part of the "magnusg" privileged group. Good Hunting! Tod -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: ftp problem
Gerhard Magnus wrote: I'm running FC9 on a small LAN that also has some Windows machines. I'd like to use one of the linux boxes as an FTP server so that the Windows systems can access a directory on that server. None of this has been opened to the world outside by opening port 21 on the router -- it's strictly "in house." Eventually I'll learn Apache, but FTP looks much simpler for what I'd like to do. (Or so I thought :) Here's what I've done, following instructions in www.fedoraguide.info: (1) installed proftpd on the server (2) added these lines to the end of the /etc/proftpd.conf file: Userftp Groupnogroup UserAlias anonymous ftp DirFakeUser on ftp DirFakeGroup on ftp RequireValidShell off MaxClients 10 DisplayLoginwelcome.msg DisplayFirstChdir .message DenyAll (3) on the server, used system-config-services to enable proftpd on run levels 3 and 5 (4) /etc/init.d/proftpd restart (5) on the server, used system-config-firewall to make FTP (with Port/Protocol = 21/tcp) a trusted service (6) the permissions for the ftp directory look like this: drwxrwxr-x 17 magnusg magnusg 4096 2008-09-14 18:29 music But when I try using filezilla from a Windows box, logging in as anonymous of port 21, I get these messages: 220 FTP server ready 331 anonymous logon OK... 530 unable to set anonymous privileges 530 login incorrect So I seem to be connecting, but not much else. Googling the error message leads to others who've had similar problems but (at least so far) no one with a solution Thanks for any tips on how to proceed. Jerry Have you tried ftp localhost from the Linux box? -- Article. VI. Clause 3 of the constitution of the United States states: "The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Grub Issue
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying what used to be a typical scenario for me, I need to dual > boot between XP and Fedora and I had XP installed on the first 100gig > partition of my sata drive, then tried to install the F10 Beta with /boot > in sda2 and / inside lvm on sda3. Grub never appears though, so I booted > into the rescue mode and tried the usual, entering grub, specifying root > (hd0,1) > then setup (hd0) which still never worked, so I then tried grub-install > /dev/sda > which still didn't work? > > Any ideas why grub doesn't even appear? I recall the /boot needing to be at > the beginning > of the disc an old legacy requirement an no longer an issue (I think this is > how I setup > my systems before anyway?). > > Thanks! > jlc > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > Hi Joseph L. Casale! It is just a guess but I think your grub boot MBR is at the beginning of sda2. Regardless you need to know what is in the MBR so I refer you to: http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/GRUB.htm (and do a search for "dd if". The whole article is rather interesting I think) Probably the method followed in this thread: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/45911-dual-booting-windows-xp-fedora-solution.html is more in line with what you wanted. Have a lot of fun!! Tod -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: gimp 2.6 for F8?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 François Patte wrote: |>> François Patte |> Try a local Fedora mirror and look in /development/x86_64/os/Packages. |> The packages are for Fedora 10. | Too many "failed dependencies" for me I'll wait! I was able to build gimp-2.6.1 for Fedora8-x86_64 using the Fedora10 src.rpm. The only new/updated packages I really needed were WebKit-gtk, gegl-0.0.18 and glib2-2.16.6; all built fine from the Fedora10 src.rpms. Webkit-gtk you can install via yum. I did tweak the .spec file a little as well. http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/gimp.spec http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/gegl-0.0.18-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/gegl-devel-0.0.18-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/gimp-2.6.1-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/gimp-devel-2.6.1-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/gimp-help-browser-2.6.1-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/gimp-libs-2.6.1-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/glib2-2.16.6-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/glib2-devel-2.16.6-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/glib2-static-2.16.6-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm - -- - -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI8rxcjXa7jixmuZsRAjClAJ9AcXHf7ou6iWBuKOZwQM5V1U/GTACghecQ t8cckIH+dv7iXX9Swuz4QYA= =G9mw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?
2008/10/13, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I recently acquired an Asus EeePC-1000 >> (the Linux version with a 40GB SSD). >> I don't really like the Linux system running on the machine, >> and am thinking about installing Fedora instead or in addition. >> >> What actually are the advantages of Fedora in this case? >> Also, will I have any problems with WiFi, >> which works very well in the current system? >> >> > I have a eeePC 702 and it works perfect on FC10 the kernel-2.6.27, I > don't know what WiFi the 1000 uses but the eeePC 700 series runs the > Atheros AR5007EG wireless, and it won't work in the 2.6.26 kernels FC 8 > - 9 . > The rpm from Livna will also give you problems. > All hardware on my E works perfect on FC10 , most of all the Webcam. Does hibernate (suspend to disk) work with F10? I'm thinking of getting one too (prob. the cheapest 2G model). TIA -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
F10 - X Server GUI Critical Problem!
HI! I have nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7950 GT] and random times i lost X Server GUI, i have no Video and no keyword. All other program running in the machine works great, http server, SSH server, etc. Can i do something to fix it?... 4 or 5 days ago i did not have this problem. Salu2... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 17:32 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- On Sun, 10/12/08, Kevin Kofler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > From: Kevin Kofler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
> > To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> > Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 4:37 PM
> > Antonio Olivares yahoo.com>
> > writes:
> > > CPU level going to high levels, this is due to
> > autohide bug:
> > > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172549
> >
> > No, it's not. The F9 updates-testing packages he had
> > did not even HAVE the
> > offending autohide patches. His problem is completely
> > different.
> >
> > > Kevin has fixed this. Thanks Kevin :)
> > > \begin{QUOTE}
> > >
> > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=65974
> >
> > Wrong answer, you just broke his system!
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-October/msg01235.html
> >
> > > Try kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-5.fc10
> >
> > Very bad suggestion in this thread. NEVER use F10 packages
> > on F9.
> > * I built a kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-5.fc9 which is what he
> > should have used.
> > * Upgrading to that wasn't necessary in the first
> > place, as the
> > kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-3.fc9 build in updates-testing
> > wasn't broken in the
> > first place, only 4.1.2-4 was.
> >
> > I told you to try this package because you're running
> > F10 and had the problem
> > this build fixed. But neither was his case!
> >
> >
> > Please don't answer people's questions if you
> > don't know the right answer, you
> > end up hurting more than helping.
> >
> > Kevin Kofler
> >
> > --
>
> Sorry Patrick for the trouble I have caused :(. I hope that you can recover.
> Sorry Kevin for confusing, I was thinking that since has running
> updates-testing packages, he was running the same packages that are on
> rawhide. My bad.
I managed to recover so no harm done.
Still haven't solved the original problem of Ktorrent hogging the cpu
though.
poc
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Re: Missing KDE panel, kicker and background
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 00:11 +, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan gmail.com> writes: > > I no longer have the panel or kicker, and my desktop background has been > > replaced by a checkerboard pattern. I tried "rm -f > > ~/.kde/share/config/plasma*" as recommended by Rex a while back, but it > > didn't do any good. > > Actually, there's one thing you can try doing. It won't help you out of the > mess of mixed F9 and F10 packages, but it might fix the problem you're > having: > Make sure Plasma is NOT running while you do your rm -f, otherwise it will > write back the old broken files when it quits. Some ways of doing this: > * run "kquitapp plasma" first or > * log in as some other user, e.g. root (that way, Plasma will run, but not as > your user) or > * log into some other type of session, like GNOME or even plain old runlevel > 3. That worked, thanks (modulo losing my panel settings of course, but what the hell). poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Missing KDE panel, kicker and background
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 23:30 +, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan gmail.com> writes: > > While trying to fix a problem with Ktorrent (see separate post) I > > updated kdebase-workspace and friends from > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=65974. > > That's an F10 package, you can't install it on F9. Of course doing it anyway > broke things. You should have used the F9 build. > > I can't help you without knowing how much other Rawhide stuff you installed. > NEVER install Rawhide packages on a stable Fedora release. I have no other F10 packages, so it wasn't too hard to back out. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 00:41 +0100, dexter wrote: > On Sun October 12 2008 23:28:08 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > OK, I tried this. The general sluggishness of KDE has improved greatly, > > but Ktorrent itself is still hogging the cpu. > > When I saw this behaviour I started shutting plugins etc down one by one and > It turned out to be dht (the separate port was not open on the router) but > this is with Ktorrent in 3.5.9 Tried it. Didn't have any effect. Thanks anyway. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 23:37 +, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Antonio Olivares yahoo.com> writes:
> > CPU level going to high levels, this is due to autohide bug:
> > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172549
>
> No, it's not. The F9 updates-testing packages he had did not even HAVE the
> offending autohide patches. His problem is completely different.
>
> > Kevin has fixed this. Thanks Kevin :)
> > \begin{QUOTE}
> > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=65974
>
> Wrong answer, you just broke his system!
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-October/msg01235.html
>
> > Try kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-5.fc10
>
> Very bad suggestion in this thread. NEVER use F10 packages on F9.
You're right of course. It did cross my mind that there was something
fishy about installing an F10 package (I have no other Rawhide stuff on
my system as I'm staying away from F10 at least till the pre-release
version.)
Caveat emptor, mea culpa etc.
poc
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Re: PCI wireless suggestions
Tony Placilla wrote: I'm in the process of getting a Fedora 9 desktop finished for my kid. Due to the construction of our house ethernet is *not* a viable option in her room. I'm looking for any annecdotal information or confirmed evidence of PCI wireless cards that Just Work (tm) Yes, I'm aware of nidswrapper but I'd rather not muck about with it just now. Some Googling seems to indicate that Edimax EW-7128g works. Others? Since a lot of people have assurred you it does, I'll just say that there are a few USB adapters which also work, if you have any strong reason for wanting to go this way (slots?) I'll look and see what I have. When I was looking I found it in three Radio Shack stores and two Office Max locations (at four different prices). That speaks well for availability, but it's not PCI. My kid has one working, I could ask him if you really need an alternate vendor. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
File Manager super User gone???
Hello, Just installed Fedora 9 KDE desktop. Everything was fine untill i updated all the packages. Now there is no access to file manager super user in the menu area. Is it hiding somewhere that i dont know about? How do you become the super user when using dolphin? I googled this and others are having the same problem, but can't seem to find the answer. Not looking for the su in the terminal. Want to be able to create folders in root. The create menu is disabled because i am not SU. Thanx, Rene _ Want to do more with Windows Live? Learn “10 hidden secrets” from Jamie. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008-- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Grub Issue
I am trying what used to be a typical scenario for me, I need to dual boot between XP and Fedora and I had XP installed on the first 100gig partition of my sata drive, then tried to install the F10 Beta with /boot in sda2 and / inside lvm on sda3. Grub never appears though, so I booted into the rescue mode and tried the usual, entering grub, specifying root (hd0,1) then setup (hd0) which still never worked, so I then tried grub-install /dev/sda which still didn't work? Any ideas why grub doesn't even appear? I recall the /boot needing to be at the beginning of the disc an old legacy requirement an no longer an issue (I think this is how I setup my systems before anyway?). Thanks! jlc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: RAID5 + 1 extra disk HOW
roland wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:56:34 +0200, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: roland wrote: Hello, I have a server running on RAID5, on which I would like to add a 4th disk, with a seperated filesystem. I need to have some workspace. The same disk could be used to replace a failing disk. This is a spare disk, and can be used only as such. I'm not sure what you had in mind by "seperated filesystem," but you can't install another drive such that Linux will use the drive in two ways at once. If that was your intent it pretty much isn't going to work, and if the spare was deployed all data on it would be lost. Stuart Sears explaned me howto install this disk as a hot spare, but it looks to me a little bit to dangereous. This server is serving 20 workstations, so I need to do this without taking to many risks. I admit to be a novice on the matter of diskmanagement. I always do standard installation of a filesystem. Assuming you just want to add a spare, something like this works fine: mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdf1 Then a cat of /proc/mdstat should show the device added, running as a spare. I did that, then failed one of the existing drives, and the array rebuilt on the spare just fine, and I got a message from monitor mode saying it happened and was fixed. I have to mention that the raid5 was build with the IBM utilities on this server x3500. So I suppose this mdadm wouldn't work. Or am I wrong? Secondly, I need extra space only as a workarea. That's why I thought, maybe I can: - insert a 4th disk and add a filesystem, that isn't part of the raid5. or - insert a 4th and 5th disk and configure it as a raid1, to be used for non critical applications In case of failure of the raid5, I could could use the 4th disk to replace the failing disk of the raid5 and let the ibm utilities rebuild the raid5 Does this makes sense? Well, I understand it now. ;-) Ask IBM how to do that, you are well out of anything related to the distribution and into the hardware specific area. I'd love to help you, but the only IBM RAID controller I have ever used as anything but a box of drives was the "ServeRAID" unit used in rack mounted LVD SCSI server systems. Love the controller, but it's pretty uncommon. I would say you can easily use other drives outside the RAID array, adding them is a *very* specific issue with not only the controller but the firmware version. Even if I was still running servers for an ISP I would be asking IBM for docs before trying anything fancy. Most IBM stuff will run without the bad drive, send you a message, and either power down the drive or blink the light on the bad one, so you can pull the dead drive, plug in a spare in hot-swap carrier, and it will recover by magic. Ask IBM about this. So if someone could tell me howto do this in a simple way. I searched the internet for a simple howto, but was unsuccessful. I have to do this at a client in France, few hours driving Could someone keep me from having a sleepless night? I would test the existing array before counting on it to be okay, just in case a bad spot developed.See the wiki (http://linux-raid.osdl.org). Oh, and there is a linux-raid mailing list where there are lots of us who have found problems the hard way and want to share. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: playing mpeg has cone screwey.
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 01:57 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Aaron Konstam wrote: OK, installing those extra rpms make totem work. But that leaves us with two questions: 1. Why did the displaying of the videos work until yesterday? I have no idea. I have no idea either. But something is wrong with the uopdates it seems to me. If you figure out specifics, then you can file bug reports. All of that would be fine if you did not tell me to install rpms supplied by Fedora to make totem work. It is not necessary for Totem to "work". Ogg for example works just fine without these additional packages. I understand why you can not supply propriety codecs but why can't the rpms you told me to install be suppled by default. They are not propriety. There are two basic classes of software that Fedora excludes: 1) Non-free software 2) Free but other legal issues such as patents. Playing worked before the upgrade, therefore I assume that the codecs were previously installed (somewhere in his system). Then playing stopped working after the upgrade. So those previously working codecs seem to have been disabled if not actually removed. The additional packages I told you about falls into the second class. Do the policies of the nanny state require upgrades to disable working codecs? Or were they just working in some way the cleanup script couldn't use? In other words, was the reduced functionality deliberate to cover your ass, or was it just collateral damage? -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
--- On Sun, 10/12/08, Kevin Kofler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Kevin Kofler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 4:37 PM
> Antonio Olivares yahoo.com>
> writes:
> > CPU level going to high levels, this is due to
> autohide bug:
> > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172549
>
> No, it's not. The F9 updates-testing packages he had
> did not even HAVE the
> offending autohide patches. His problem is completely
> different.
>
> > Kevin has fixed this. Thanks Kevin :)
> > \begin{QUOTE}
> >
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=65974
>
> Wrong answer, you just broke his system!
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-October/msg01235.html
>
> > Try kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-5.fc10
>
> Very bad suggestion in this thread. NEVER use F10 packages
> on F9.
> * I built a kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-5.fc9 which is what he
> should have used.
> * Upgrading to that wasn't necessary in the first
> place, as the
> kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-3.fc9 build in updates-testing
> wasn't broken in the
> first place, only 4.1.2-4 was.
>
> I told you to try this package because you're running
> F10 and had the problem
> this build fixed. But neither was his case!
>
>
> Please don't answer people's questions if you
> don't know the right answer, you
> end up hurting more than helping.
>
> Kevin Kofler
>
> --
Sorry Patrick for the trouble I have caused :(. I hope that you can recover.
Sorry Kevin for confusing, I was thinking that since has running
updates-testing packages, he was running the same packages that are on rawhide.
My bad.
Regards,
Antonio
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Re: Two problems in f9 - pulseaudio and kde4 - need suggestions
William W. Austin wrote: I have been running linux since at least before rh5.0, and have built and maintained many machines (both personal and professional - including some fairly sophisticated networked machines) for a long time. But now I have hit two problems which have me stumped. The first is a set of problems with pulseaudio. On my favorite workstation, a 64-bit machine with a dual-core cpu, I have both a SB Audigy 2 (350) and sound on the mb 8-channel real-tek. Prior to f9, I have been running both for years without any problems. The Audigy has been driving a 5+1 speaker system while the other was used to pipe output from a speech synthesizer to a different set of speakers. Until f9 and pulseaudio this worked without a whimper. I have now spent about 2 weeks reading everything I could find about pulseaudio and am beginning to be convinced that either (a) the system is inherently not usable for my setup, or (b) someone hosed up the implementation used in f9. From reading the problems in bugzilla - especially the ones close as 'not a bug,' I have become convinced that my only alternatives are to go back down to f8 OR to remove all pulseaudio components from my system and figure out how to wing it from there. Your (a) and (b) are not mutually exclusive. On older releases you could choose the mode of your audio system, and use 5+1 or just front, or whatever. PA not only doesn't seem to have that capability, it blocks doing it at the ALSA or lower level (AFAIK). In FC10 beta PA refused to use my old SB16 card, even though there's a driver for it. Wasn't detected at install, wasn't used with the driver manually loaded, no more odd problems with PA. Hey, it's beta, the card is old, I'm waiting until later to complain. But emulating the card in KVM, it works with FC9, not with FC10, so something has changed. I only have one real card, I was just playing. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: DHCP will not grab ip.
Tim wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 13:55 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Wasn't used before, but the setup greyed out the channel setting in "Managed" mode. That's to be expected, in managed mode you're connecting to an access point, and *it* manages that. It picks the channel (or is preset to use a particular one), and all the clients scan the channels to find the local access point, and use that one. I do go to one site which has two AP with the same name, different channels, and different keys. I didn't design their network, and while I can see the need for two AP and keys, I see no benefit from using the same name. That's probably poor configuration - many access points come with a predefined name (e.g. calling themselves "linksys") and their owners never bother to change them. To be honest it's probably a really bad configuration, but the essid is not the preset. The idea is that regular staff have one channel and one key, and executive staff have the other channel and key, but both APs share a name. At least with Windows that hasn't been an issue, although I see no reason why they didn't use two names. There is a use for having access points with the same ID, so that users roaming through a large complex could just connect to "college" with the nearest access point answering to that name. Though you'd also have the same key on all the access points. That leaves users with just one thing to configure (what key goes with what name), the client will scan the channels to find an access point, you wouldn't try hard setting one. The nearby college has a load of same, just as you describe. I have no idea if the APs hand off like cell towers, I suspect not, but if the reconnect logic is robust and includes a search (and maybe use strongest match) I guess it might work as students wander the campus. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: LVM script at bootup ??
Thanks Mikkel; On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 18:36 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > William Case wrote: > > > > It's OK Mikkel, I gotcha anyways. I have checked rc.sysinit and it does > > a > > 'if [ -x /sbin/lvm ]; then > > action $"Setting up Logical Volume Management:" /sbin/lvm vgchange -a y > > --ignorelockingfailure > > fi > > > > I have no use for lvm. I have thought of either commenting out the > > above statement, or, 'yum remove lvm2' which has a mkinitrd dependency. > > > > Which or whatelse would be the least dangerous? Where did the /sbin/lvm > > come from? I have been careful to NOT install LVM with each new fedora > > installation. If it is being added by the latest kernel upgrade, would > > not this addition of LVM to the rc.sysinit script be a bug? > > Take a look at the timestamps on rc.sysinit - I think it has always > been in there. Considering how seldom the initscripts are updated, > you are probably safe with either option. In your case, I would > probably remove the lvm2 package. (rpm -e --nodeps lvm2) The only > problem would be if you get a drive that has LVM that you need to > read... I have gotten so used to using yum, I had forgotten the rpm ins-and-outs. -- Regards Bill Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3 Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Missing KDE panel, kicker and background
Patrick O'Callaghan gmail.com> writes: > I no longer have the panel or kicker, and my desktop background has been > replaced by a checkerboard pattern. I tried "rm -f > ~/.kde/share/config/plasma*" as recommended by Rex a while back, but it > didn't do any good. Actually, there's one thing you can try doing. It won't help you out of the mess of mixed F9 and F10 packages, but it might fix the problem you're having: Make sure Plasma is NOT running while you do your rm -f, otherwise it will write back the old broken files when it quits. Some ways of doing this: * run "kquitapp plasma" first or * log in as some other user, e.g. root (that way, Plasma will run, but not as your user) or * log into some other type of session, like GNOME or even plain old runlevel 3. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Two problems in f9 - pulseaudio and kde4 - need suggestions
Marko Vojinovic panet.co.yu> writes: > But it is being done very fast, and KDE 4.2 (iirc, to come with > F10) will be much more feature-rich then the present version 4.1. F10 will ship with 4.1.2 or 4.1.3, not 4.2. There's simply no way we can ship 4.2 in F10 when it's not even in alpha yet, its alpha release is scheduled for the day of the final development freeze and the beta release for the day of the F10 release. We just cannot ship F10 with an alpha KDE (even a beta 1 would be bad, and there's no way we can rush that in anyway, even getting the tarballs early as packagers, because Fedora releases are cut some time before the official release date). > The latter. Not all configurability is ready yet. One thing I miss a lot is > panel hiding. I hear it is to be implemented in version 4.2, so I just have > to wait for it. We're testing a backport of panel autohiding though. See the kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-5.fc10 package for F10 and the kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-5.fc9 package for F9 (note that you need the 4.1.2 stuff from updates-testing to test that build). I can't promise yet that the feature will stay (we're still gathering feedback - if it's too broken, we'll have to revert it and wait for 4.2), but if it works out fine, it'll likely end up both released with F10 and pushed to the F9 updates. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
Antonio Olivares yahoo.com> writes:
> CPU level going to high levels, this is due to autohide bug:
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172549
No, it's not. The F9 updates-testing packages he had did not even HAVE the
offending autohide patches. His problem is completely different.
> Kevin has fixed this. Thanks Kevin :)
> \begin{QUOTE}
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=65974
Wrong answer, you just broke his system!
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-October/msg01235.html
> Try kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-5.fc10
Very bad suggestion in this thread. NEVER use F10 packages on F9.
* I built a kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-5.fc9 which is what he should have used.
* Upgrading to that wasn't necessary in the first place, as the
kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-3.fc9 build in updates-testing wasn't broken in the
first place, only 4.1.2-4 was.
I told you to try this package because you're running F10 and had the problem
this build fixed. But neither was his case!
Please don't answer people's questions if you don't know the right answer, you
end up hurting more than helping.
Kevin Kofler
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Re: kernel development approach for fedora
Bill Davidsen tmr.com> writes: > I seldom upgrade anything unless it's broken, or has a new feature I *really* > want. Bad idea. We do not and cannot test selective upgrades, there are just too many combinations. In the old RHL days, all update advisories contained the following warning: > Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata > relevant to your system have been applied. This is still sound advice. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
On Sun October 12 2008 23:28:08 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > OK, I tried this. The general sluggishness of KDE has improved greatly, > but Ktorrent itself is still hogging the cpu. When I saw this behaviour I started shutting plugins etc down one by one and It turned out to be dht (the separate port was not open on the router) but this is with Ktorrent in 3.5.9 ...dex -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: LVM script at bootup ??
William Case wrote: > > It's OK Mikkel, I gotcha anyways. I have checked rc.sysinit and it does > a > 'if [ -x /sbin/lvm ]; then > action $"Setting up Logical Volume Management:" /sbin/lvm vgchange -a y > --ignorelockingfailure > fi > > I have no use for lvm. I have thought of either commenting out the > above statement, or, 'yum remove lvm2' which has a mkinitrd dependency. > > Which or whatelse would be the least dangerous? Where did the /sbin/lvm > come from? I have been careful to NOT install LVM with each new fedora > installation. If it is being added by the latest kernel upgrade, would > not this addition of LVM to the rc.sysinit script be a bug? Take a look at the timestamps on rc.sysinit - I think it has always been in there. Considering how seldom the initscripts are updated, you are probably safe with either option. In your case, I would probably remove the lvm2 package. (rpm -e --nodeps lvm2) The only problem would be if you get a drive that has LVM that you need to read... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: fedora 9 and swapping motherboards
Greetings. Something that might be of interest to you. NOT a problem for me, just in case you might think I'm complaining :-) My ISP (Hughes.net) consistently dumps your postings to the fedora list into the spam folder. Presumably they are using some third-party filtering service, although I have no idea which. SpamAssassin thinks the emails are just fine, needless to say. I'm attaching the as-received copy of this for the headers. Regards. On 10/12/2008 02:33:59 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > I have a head scratcher here. I was trying to swap motherboards on a > clean F9 x86_64 install. The system was updated to the current yum > levels before the mobo swap. Attempting to boot got me through grub, > but when it came time to mount the root FS for the first time it told > me that the Volume Group couldn't be found. This is a disk that > boots > f9 without any problems on the old motherboard. Booting with a > rescue > disk on the new motherboard I can see and mount the Volume Group just > fine. I'm at a loss why the rescue disk can see the volume group, > but > the normal boot sequence can't. > > This is on the x86_64 mobo that runs F9 just fine if I temporarily > install a scratch disk and install F9 on that. It is just the f9 > disk > that was installed by the old mobo that gives problems. Weird. Can > anyone shed some light on this puzzler? > > -wolfgang > -- > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.full-steam.org/ > (ipv6-only) > You may need to config 6to4 to see the above pages. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/ > MailingListGuidelines > --- Begin Message --- I have a head scratcher here. I was trying to swap motherboards on a clean F9 x86_64 install. The system was updated to the current yum levels before the mobo swap. Attempting to boot got me through grub, but when it came time to mount the root FS for the first time it told me that the Volume Group couldn't be found. This is a disk that boots f9 without any problems on the old motherboard. Booting with a rescue disk on the new motherboard I can see and mount the Volume Group just fine. I'm at a loss why the rescue disk can see the volume group, but the normal boot sequence can't. This is on the x86_64 mobo that runs F9 just fine if I temporarily install a scratch disk and install F9 on that. It is just the f9 disk that was installed by the old mobo that gives problems. Weird. Can anyone shed some light on this puzzler? -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.full-steam.org/ (ipv6-only) You may need to config 6to4 to see the above pages. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines --- End Message --- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Missing KDE panel, kicker and background
Patrick O'Callaghan gmail.com> writes: > While trying to fix a problem with Ktorrent (see separate post) I > updated kdebase-workspace and friends from > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=65974. That's an F10 package, you can't install it on F9. Of course doing it anyway broke things. You should have used the F9 build. I can't help you without knowing how much other Rawhide stuff you installed. NEVER install Rawhide packages on a stable Fedora release. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: LVM script at bootup ??
Hi; On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 17:39 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > William Case wrote: > >> Hi; > >> > >> At boot up, the first thing that init.d seems to look for after udev is > >> an LVM fs set up. Finding none, because I am not using LVM, it > >> continues to boot echoing every service. What is the name of this LVM > >> checking service and how do I turn it off? Service xxx stop?? > > > > There is really a service you can shut down. Both udev and LVM are > > launch by /etc/rd.d/rc.sysinit, so your would probably have to edit > > that file. > > > Oops - this is NOT really a service you can shut down - brain > working faster then my fingers... :( It's OK Mikkel, I gotcha anyways. I have checked rc.sysinit and it does a 'if [ -x /sbin/lvm ]; then action $"Setting up Logical Volume Management:" /sbin/lvm vgchange -a y --ignorelockingfailure fi I have no use for lvm. I have thought of either commenting out the above statement, or, 'yum remove lvm2' which has a mkinitrd dependency. Which or whatelse would be the least dangerous? Where did the /sbin/lvm come from? I have been careful to NOT install LVM with each new fedora installation. If it is being added by the latest kernel upgrade, would not this addition of LVM to the rc.sysinit script be a bug? > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- Regards Bill Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3 Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Firefox seg fault
Around 12:03am on Monday, October 13, 2008 (UK time), g scrawled: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Steve Searle wrote: > > I can't run firefox on a nfreshly installed, fully yum updated fedora 9 > > what are you entering on command line? > - -- firefox It doesn't work from the icon either - I only ran it from the cl to capture the output. Steve -- (o< www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_No MS products were used in the creation of this message 00:15:04 up 14 days, 6:44, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 pgp7gK1hwOJRK.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roopnarine, Peter wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Timothy Murphy > Sent: Sun 10/12/2008 6:24 AM > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Subject: EeePC - to Fedora or not? please add or subtract a 'dash', *-* to your replies. using 2 dashes causes your reply to 'gray out', which makes it a little difficult to read. thank you. - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI8oUx+C4Bj9Rkw/wRArVrAKDUdJb/quckKb9thFlb18ahTfVnBwCcDQ5t 6HiMgYxcbuBQD8pmJcNsn0c= =pSfo -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
ftp problem
I'm running FC9 on a small LAN that also has some Windows machines. I'd like to use one of the linux boxes as an FTP server so that the Windows systems can access a directory on that server. None of this has been opened to the world outside by opening port 21 on the router -- it's strictly "in house." Eventually I'll learn Apache, but FTP looks much simpler for what I'd like to do. (Or so I thought :) Here's what I've done, following instructions in www.fedoraguide.info: (1) installed proftpd on the server (2) added these lines to the end of the /etc/proftpd.conf file: Userftp Groupnogroup UserAlias anonymous ftp DirFakeUser on ftp DirFakeGroup on ftp RequireValidShell off MaxClients 10 DisplayLoginwelcome.msg DisplayFirstChdir .message DenyAll (3) on the server, used system-config-services to enable proftpd on run levels 3 and 5 (4) /etc/init.d/proftpd restart (5) on the server, used system-config-firewall to make FTP (with Port/Protocol = 21/tcp) a trusted service (6) the permissions for the ftp directory look like this: drwxrwxr-x 17 magnusg magnusg 4096 2008-09-14 18:29 music But when I try using filezilla from a Windows box, logging in as anonymous of port 21, I get these messages: 220 FTP server ready 331 anonymous logon OK... 530 unable to set anonymous privileges 530 login incorrect So I seem to be connecting, but not much else. Googling the error message leads to others who've had similar problems but (at least so far) no one with a solution Thanks for any tips on how to proceed. Jerry -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Firefox seg fault
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Searle wrote: > I can't run firefox on a nfreshly installed, fully yum updated fedora 9 what are you entering on command line? - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI8oIz+C4Bj9Rkw/wRAgOkAJ9DaTr7i7eKDe4SemgeLZ/hRPdJ1wCfT+iN hkK58rXuzWv5JKhthlIafYY= =iIe1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Work Offline Flag in Liferea and Firefox
Dave Feustel wrote: On 64-bit F9: Liferea and Firefox now have a work offline flag switch is set at startup and which must be cleared before either program can access the internet. Where can these flags be set to off when the programs start up? Hmm, this is news to me. In any case, look under File -> Work Offline If this doesn't help, you may either have a network issue - maybe DNS if you network connection appears to be working. -- Article. VI. Clause 3 of the constitution of the United States states: "The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: F9: System hangs after long inactivity.
On 2008/10/13, Dan Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just gotten ahold of my daughter's system and now > and looking at why is it, that her system hangs after a long > period of inactive use (ie when she goes to bed, goes to work, > then comes home to find a hung system). I tried this myself > now and find it to be 100% consistent. > > This problem never occurred before, with the oldest kernel > (kernel-2.6.25.14-108.f9.i686) and before the massive updates > that included new kernels+xorg/ltsp and it only happens > with the Intel DQ35J0 but not with the ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 > which is my own system? Sorry, not an answer. But I'm just curious. Does the problem still occur when you boot using the old kernel? Or does it happen only with the new kernel? In my case I have trouble booting with kernel 2.6.26, but I boot successfully into an otherwise stable Gnome environment with kernel 2.6.25 (the default installed by the Fedora 9 DVD). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Work Offline Flag in Liferea and Firefox
On 64-bit F9: Liferea and Firefox now have a work offline flag switch is set at startup and which must be cleared before either program can access the internet. Where can these flags be set to off when the programs start up? Thanks. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: LVM script at bootup ??
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > William Case wrote: >> Hi; >> >> At boot up, the first thing that init.d seems to look for after udev is >> an LVM fs set up. Finding none, because I am not using LVM, it >> continues to boot echoing every service. What is the name of this LVM >> checking service and how do I turn it off? Service xxx stop?? > > There is really a service you can shut down. Both udev and LVM are > launch by /etc/rd.d/rc.sysinit, so your would probably have to edit > that file. > Oops - this is NOT really a service you can shut down - brain working faster then my fingers... :( Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: F9: System hangs after long inactivity.
Dan Thurman wrote: > > I have just gotten ahold of my daughter's system and now > and looking at why is it, that her system hangs after a long > period of inactive use (ie when she goes to bed, goes to work, > then comes home to find a hung system). I tried this myself > now and find it to be 100% consistent. > > This problem never occurred before, with the oldest kernel > (kernel-2.6.25.14-108.f9.i686) and before the massive updates > that included new kernels+xorg/ltsp and it only happens > with the Intel DQ35J0 but not with the ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 > which is my own system? > > When it hangs, there is no possible way to enter into the system > so a forced reset was required. In doing this, it also "corrupts" > the fs, and I am forced to issue a fsck -y to recover the fs which > would restore the fs and I would then be able to boot and log > into the F9 system, only to find that after a long inactivity, > the system would hang again. > Do you run into the same problem if you suspend to RAM rather then hibernate? > > So, I booted wih F9-Live, and checked out the sda6 filesystem > and noted that I was able to review the contents of this filesystem > and it appears that the filesystem is all there but there are files > saved in the lost+found directory and it was confirmed that the > fs is of ext2. > > Is it possible to use QParted to reconvert the ext2 filesystem back > into ext3 without losing the data? If not, then my plan is to use > CloneZilla to save the data to an image stored elsewhere and to > restore this image into a new ext3 filesystem partition, and hope > to recover the data this way or am I wasting my time in doing so? > No need - an ext3 file system is an ext2 file system with journaling added. You may be able to use the -j option of tune2fs to add it back in. > I also checked the BIOs, and noted that 'Wake up on Lan' is enabled > and as far as I can tell, there is no possible way for me to disable it. > > I noticed that someone had reported this same problem, and disabling > WOL, would prevent the system from shutting down and hang with > the PS still running - so perhaps I am experiencing this same/similar > problem previously reported here in this forum. > > So, why is it, so it seems, that this WOL is now a problem with the > newer kernel/updates when it wasn't before - is there something new > in the kernel that now recognizes the WOL and does things with it > when it wasn't a problem before - or is it something else? > Just a WAG, but it sounds like WOL is not being enabled for the NIC on shutdown, and is hanging the system. But I have not looked into the settings that control this, so I leave this to someone that has played with it... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Missing KDE panel, kicker and background
While trying to fix a problem with Ktorrent (see separate post) I updated kdebase-workspace and friends from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=65974. I no longer have the panel or kicker, and my desktop background has been replaced by a checkerboard pattern. I tried "rm -f ~/.kde/share/config/plasma*" as recommended by Rex a while back, but it didn't do any good. I can back these updates out I suppose, but other suggestions would be welcome. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 07:58 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>
>
> --- On Sun, 10/12/08, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > From: Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
> > To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> > Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 7:29 AM
> > Well, not quite, but I was alerted to this when my fan
> > started whining
> > and the cpu temperature rose about 5 degrees above normal.
> > A look at
> > 'top' confirmed that Ktorrent (downloading a single
> > torrent) was using
> > about 80% of my cpu. The X server was using most of the
> > rest.
> >
> > This is F9 with KDE 4.1.1.
> >
> > I updated to KDE 4.1.2 (using "yum groupupdate
> > KDE" from
> > updates-testing) but it made no difference (actually, the
> > whole machine
> > started crawling until I disabled Desktop Effects, which
> > hadn't seemed
> > to matter before, but even after doing that Ktorrent was
> > just as bad).
> CPU level going to high levels, this is due to autohide bug:
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172549
>
> Kevin has fixed this. Thanks Kevin :)
> \begin{QUOTE}
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=65974
>
> Try kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-5.fc10: I found the culprit, it's a patch which
> fixes flickering during the autohide animations which has this unfortunate
> side
> effect. I disabled that patch for now until it can get fixed properly. (I
> didn't disable autohide entirely, it's still there, it just looks ugly. ;-)
> Still disabled by default though, and as long as I have any influence on it,
> it'll stay that way (even if upstream decides to enable it at some point), I
> really hate autohide. ;-) )
>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172549
>
> Kevin Kofler
> \end{QUOTE}
OK, I tried this. The general sluggishness of KDE has improved greatly,
but Ktorrent itself is still hogging the cpu.
I've also tried running Ktorrent under Gnome, with exactly the same
results.
I now also have a less functional desktop, but I'd better post
separately about that as it has nothing to do with Ktorrent.
poc
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Re: LVM script at bootup ??
William Case wrote: > Hi; > > At boot up, the first thing that init.d seems to look for after udev is > an LVM fs set up. Finding none, because I am not using LVM, it > continues to boot echoing every service. What is the name of this LVM > checking service and how do I turn it off? Service xxx stop?? There is really a service you can shut down. Both udev and LVM are launch by /etc/rd.d/rc.sysinit, so your would probably have to edit that file. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: fedora 9 and swapping motherboards
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > I have a head scratcher here. I was trying to swap motherboards on a > clean F9 x86_64 install. The system was updated to the current yum > levels before the mobo swap. Attempting to boot got me through grub, > but when it came time to mount the root FS for the first time it told > me that the Volume Group couldn't be found. This is a disk that boots > f9 without any problems on the old motherboard. Booting with a rescue > disk on the new motherboard I can see and mount the Volume Group just > fine. I'm at a loss why the rescue disk can see the volume group, but > the normal boot sequence can't. > > This is on the x86_64 mobo that runs F9 just fine if I temporarily > install a scratch disk and install F9 on that. It is just the f9 disk > that was installed by the old mobo that gives problems. Weird. Can > anyone shed some light on this puzzler? > Chances are, you have a different hard drive controller on the new mother board, so the wrong module is in the initrd. (The kernel and initrd are loaded using the BIOS, so they are not affected.) All you need to do is boot with the rescue disk, chroot to your file system, mount /boot if it is a separate partition, and run mkinitrd for your kernel. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
RE: EeePC - to Fedora or not?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Timothy Murphy Sent: Sun 10/12/2008 6:24 AM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: EeePC - to Fedora or not? I recently acquired an Asus EeePC-1000 (the Linux version with a 40GB SSD). I don't really like the Linux system running on the machine, and am thinking about installing Fedora instead or in addition. What actually are the advantages of Fedora in this case? Also, will I have any problems with WiFi, which works very well in the current system? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland Not too long ago I installed F9 on an eee PC 9. This was an attempted fix after a friend's son botched an attempted "upgrade" horribly. (I think that I have since then figured out that he accepted a BIOS upgrade from ASUS' Xandros repository while trying to update Open Office). Anyway, wifi works fine on the machine, but there are little KDE 4 oddities. I think that I'll try F10 for him and see if I can get everything to work. My procedure for installation can be found in the following thread http://www.linux.com/forums/topic/2462 Peter D. Roopnarine, Assoc. Curator Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology California Academy of Sciences 55 Music Concourse Drive San Francisco CA 94118 USA http://zeus.calacademy.org/roopnarine/peter.html http://www.calacademy.org/blogs Tel. (415)379-5271 "There's a thing about Americans. We're not very good occupiers." Judgement at Nuremberg -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines <>-- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Spamassassin Headers in Evolution
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 21:08 +0530, Manish Kathuria wrote: > I am using Evolution on Fedora 9 (x86_64) and use Spamassassin as the > plugin for filtering messages for junk mail. The plugin is quite > effective and identifies a lot of spam successfully. However, when I > view the message source for mails diverted to the junk folder I cannot > see any Spamassassin headers. Is there any way to add various > Spamassassin headers (such as Spam Status, Scores, Tests Conducted, > etc.) for the messages being passed through the spamassassin plugin > by Evolution ? I have already made appropriate changes in > /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf as well as the user-specific > user_prefs files but those settings are probably being ignored by > Evolution and no headers are being added. Not really an answer to your question, but I find the Bogofilter plugin better for Evolution. Spamassassin always used to leave orphan processes around and seemed rather heavyweight. IMHO it's more suitable for server MTAs. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: fedora 9 and swapping motherboards
Itamar - IspBrasil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > boot with recue disk and re-create the initrd Thanks! -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.full-steam.org/ (ipv6-only) You may need to config 6to4 to see the above pages. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Wireless Issues on Dell XPS 1330m (intel 4965)
On 10/12/2008 04:42 PM, Dave Cross wrote: > > Is there a report in Bugzilla where I can track the progress of this issue? > > Cheers, > > Dave... > yah ... here's a couple to follow ... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458972 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462167 http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1700 gene I amended the subject as this issue is not specific to your dell laptop. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: fedora 9 and swapping motherboards
boot with recue disk and re-create the initrd On 10/12/2008 6:33 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: I have a head scratcher here. I was trying to swap motherboards on a clean F9 x86_64 install. The system was updated to the current yum levels before the mobo swap. Attempting to boot got me through grub, but when it came time to mount the root FS for the first time it told me that the Volume Group couldn't be found. This is a disk that boots f9 without any problems on the old motherboard. Booting with a rescue disk on the new motherboard I can see and mount the Volume Group just fine. I'm at a loss why the rescue disk can see the volume group, but the normal boot sequence can't. This is on the x86_64 mobo that runs F9 just fine if I temporarily install a scratch disk and install F9 on that. It is just the f9 disk that was installed by the old mobo that gives problems. Weird. Can anyone shed some light on this puzzler? -wolfgang -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
fedora 9 and swapping motherboards
I have a head scratcher here. I was trying to swap motherboards on a clean F9 x86_64 install. The system was updated to the current yum levels before the mobo swap. Attempting to boot got me through grub, but when it came time to mount the root FS for the first time it told me that the Volume Group couldn't be found. This is a disk that boots f9 without any problems on the old motherboard. Booting with a rescue disk on the new motherboard I can see and mount the Volume Group just fine. I'm at a loss why the rescue disk can see the volume group, but the normal boot sequence can't. This is on the x86_64 mobo that runs F9 just fine if I temporarily install a scratch disk and install F9 on that. It is just the f9 disk that was installed by the old mobo that gives problems. Weird. Can anyone shed some light on this puzzler? -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.full-steam.org/ (ipv6-only) You may need to config 6to4 to see the above pages. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?
Timothy Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, will I have any problems with WiFi, > which works very well in the current system? The horrid WIFI on the stock eepc is the reason I'd consider installing Fedora-9 here. As far as I can tell, Asus doesn't take bug reports and doesn't seem to have the manpower to fix brokeness in any reasonable time frame. It has been over 6 months since I reported to support there that the eepc WIFI GUI doesn't accept 64-char hex WIFI passwords. This is sad because the underlying wpa_supplicant certainly does. They just made a silly and easy to correct mistake in their gui. The fear I have in switching to Fedora-9 on the eepc is that I don't want to wear out my flash by needless writes. Stock OS's tend to write to disk with wild abandon for all sorts of things that I'd rather they not if they are writing to flash. I'd hope that the stock OS on the eepc is tuned to at least cut out some of these needless writes. It might be interesting to instrument Fedora to log a histogram of which programs write to disk and how often. Has anyone tried to get Fedora to run from a read-only root file system? -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.full-steam.org/ (ipv6-only) You may need to config 6to4 to see the above pages. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
LVM script at bootup ??
Hi; At boot up, the first thing that init.d seems to look for after udev is an LVM fs set up. Finding none, because I am not using LVM, it continues to boot echoing every service. What is the name of this LVM checking service and how do I turn it off? Service xxx stop?? -- Regards Bill Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3 Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: KSynaptics anyone?
Timothy Murphy wrote: > I have an icon in the panel on my Thinkpad T43 running Fedora-9 (KDE) > entitled "KSynaptics: Enable and disable your touch pad temporarily", > which is exactly what I want to do. > [I know I can do this with the command > sudo synclient TouchpadOff=1 > but if it can be done by clicking on an icon that would be nice.] > > However, if I left-click on the icon nothing happens; > while if I right-click and go to Configure KSynaptics Touchpad > I am told, "No usable driver has been found. > You need at least driver version 0.14.4!" > But I'm also told I am using version 0.14.6c. > > Has anyone overcome this hurdle? > > Works fine for me in F8 I have the following packages installed: gsynaptics.i386 0.9.14-2.fc8 installed ksynaptics.i386 0.3.3-5.fc8installed libsynaptics.i3860.14.6c-2.fc8 installed libsynaptics-devel.i386 0.14.6c-2.fc8 installed synaptics.i386 0.14.6-3.fc8 installed -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Wireless Issues on Dell XPS 1330m
2008/10/12 Mail Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/12/2008 02:17 PM, Dave Cross wrote: > >> So under 2.6.25 things work, just sub-optimally. Under more recent >> kernels, the situation is worse. I've updated the system a couple of >> times and I now also have kernel-PAE-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 and >> kernel-PAE-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686. Under either of these kernels, my >> network is still not detected and even when I try to force a >> connection, it still doesn't work. > >> Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can help to get this fixed? > > Seems that all 2.6.x kernels dont work with WPA/2 - and may even crash > on occasion. > > My advice - make sure you keep 2.6.25 and wait till it eventually gets > fixed. YOu may find it helpful to turn on SSID broadcast if its off - > there is zero loss of security and things will work better. Thanks for the advice. I already have SSID broadcast turned on - that's why I'm puzzled that it doesn't appear on Network Manager's list. Is there a report in Bugzilla where I can track the progress of this issue? Cheers, Dave... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
F9: System hangs after long inactivity.
I have just gotten ahold of my daughter's system and now and looking at why is it, that her system hangs after a long period of inactive use (ie when she goes to bed, goes to work, then comes home to find a hung system). I tried this myself now and find it to be 100% consistent. This problem never occurred before, with the oldest kernel (kernel-2.6.25.14-108.f9.i686) and before the massive updates that included new kernels+xorg/ltsp and it only happens with the Intel DQ35J0 but not with the ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 which is my own system? When it hangs, there is no possible way to enter into the system so a forced reset was required. In doing this, it also "corrupts" the fs, and I am forced to issue a fsck -y to recover the fs which would restore the fs and I would then be able to boot and log into the F9 system, only to find that after a long inactivity, the system would hang again. The last time that I had to repeat this cycle again, I found that the fs reverted to ext2 (previously was ext3), I could no longer boot the fs and got the following boot information: [...] ext3: No Journal on filesystem on sda6 mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3 setuproot: moving /dev/failed: No such file or directory : error mounting /proc: No such file or directory : error mounting /sys: No such file or directory Mount failed for selinuxfs on /selinux: No such file or directory switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory. So, I booted wih F9-Live, and checked out the sda6 filesystem and noted that I was able to review the contents of this filesystem and it appears that the filesystem is all there but there are files saved in the lost+found directory and it was confirmed that the fs is of ext2. Is it possible to use QParted to reconvert the ext2 filesystem back into ext3 without losing the data? If not, then my plan is to use CloneZilla to save the data to an image stored elsewhere and to restore this image into a new ext3 filesystem partition, and hope to recover the data this way or am I wasting my time in doing so? I also checked the BIOs, and noted that 'Wake up on Lan' is enabled and as far as I can tell, there is no possible way for me to disable it. I noticed that someone had reported this same problem, and disabling WOL, would prevent the system from shutting down and hang with the PS still running - so perhaps I am experiencing this same/similar problem previously reported here in this forum. So, why is it, so it seems, that this WOL is now a problem with the newer kernel/updates when it wasn't before - is there something new in the kernel that now recognizes the WOL and does things with it when it wasn't a problem before - or is it something else? Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Spamassassin Headers in Evolution
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 21:08 +0530, Manish Kathuria wrote: > I am using Evolution on Fedora 9 (x86_64) and use Spamassassin as the > plugin for filtering messages for junk mail. The plugin is quite > effective and identifies a lot of spam successfully. However, when I > view the message source for mails diverted to the junk folder I cannot > see any Spamassassin headers. Is there any way to add various > Spamassassin headers (such as Spam Status, Scores, Tests Conducted, > etc.) for the messages being passed through the spamassassin plugin > by Evolution ? I have already made appropriate changes in > /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf as well as the user-specific > user_prefs files but those settings are probably being ignored by > Evolution and no headers are being added. > > TIA, > > Manish > As far as I can figure out Evolution does not use the Spamassassin options normally in u.spamassassin/user_def. Read about spamassassin in the Evolution help menu. -- === The streets were dark with something more than night. -- Raymond Chandler === Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: evolution fails to send mail
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Andrew Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:18 PM, charles zeitler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > i recently changed my gmail password, and evolution has stopped sending > mail via smtp.gmail.com. > > i tried making a new profile w/ 'remember password' unchecked, it failed > to ask for it. tried the > > 'forget passwords' function w/ same results. i even disabled my wallet. > no luck. > > I don't know if this will help you, but I get a lot of problems with > the exchange plugin when my password changes on that. Here's what I > do then: > > evolution --force-shutdown > evolution --offline > > Once everything has started up, I put it back online with File -> Work > Online. At this point it detects the password is wrong and asks me > for another. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- thanks for the reply. i tried your suggestion, evolution came up online, & same problem. took it offline & back online via 'file' menu. still the same. i then disabled the exchange plugin & ran the commands again. still no password prompt.sheesh. charles zeitler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Nidia Drivers for PAE Kernel
2008/10/12 Mail Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/12/2008 02:23 PM, Dave Cross wrote: >> My new XPS 1330m laptop has an nVidia GeForce 8400M GS video card. I'd > > > the PAE drivers are on livna .. the latest F8 is > > kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.5-28.fc8PAE-173.14.12-4.lvn8.i686.rpm > > They add the PAE (or xen etc) on the end. If you have the PAE kernel > installed and livna repo in yum - it may work just to do yum install > kmod-nvidia/ It was trying "yum install kmod-nvidia" and it was trying to pull down the standard kernel. That's what convinced me that it wasn't there. But it seems the "yum install kmod-nvidia-PAE" does the trick. Thanks for your help. Dave... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Firefox seg fault
I can't run firefox on a nfreshly installed, fully yum updated fedora 9
installation. Running from the command line produces:
/usr/bin/mozilla-plugin-config: line 73: 4625 Segmentation fault
$WRAPPER_LIB_DIR/nspluginwrapper/plugin-config -f > /dev/null 2>&1
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.2/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 4640 Segmentation fault
"$prog" ${1+"$@"}
Can anyone sugest how I can fix this.
Thanks
Steve
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Re: KSynaptics anyone?
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Timothy Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an icon in the panel on my Thinkpad T43 running Fedora-9 (KDE) > entitled "KSynaptics: Enable and disable your touch pad temporarily", > which is exactly what I want to do. > [I know I can do this with the command >sudo synclient TouchpadOff=1 > but if it can be done by clicking on an icon that would be nice.] > > However, if I left-click on the icon nothing happens; > while if I right-click and go to Configure KSynaptics Touchpad > I am told, "No usable driver has been found. > You need at least driver version 0.14.4!" > But I'm also told I am using version 0.14.6c. > > Has anyone overcome this hurdle? Try http://qsynaptics.sourceforge.net/ or http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html Gustav > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?
Beartooth wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:24:03 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: I recently acquired an Asus EeePC-1000 (the Linux version with a 40GB SSD). I don't really like the Linux system running on the machine, and am thinking about installing Fedora instead or in addition. I nearly lost my breakfast looking at Xandros; Windows in drag -- and, of course, in cahoots with MegaSleazo. *Lots* of alternatives are better, especially on one with that much space. What actually are the advantages of Fedora in this case? Also, will I have any problems with WiFi, which works very well in the current system? Wifi troubles vary, in all sorts of ways. But for the most overview, go to http://forum.eeeuser.com/ and look around. (There is even (or was) something called EeeDora -- F8 specifically adapted to the early small EeePCs; F9 may have made it obsolete already.) The forums there are often somewhat disorganized, and hard to find things in; but they're *very* prolific. Suggestion : put Fedora, Puppy, and two or three others on bootable USB sticks, and try them without having to go through a whole install between each. I carry two or three such with mine; I think lots of people do. If the 1000 uses the Atheros AR5007EG wifi wireless , FC10 is the only way you want to go, it has drivers that work perfect. The kernel-2.6.26 does not have drivers for the Atheros wireless. The kernel-2.6.27-fc10 has the correct drivers, and also has drivers for the Webcam. The madwifi drivers at Livna does not work as they should for the 2.6.26 kernels. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 18:02 +, g wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > Frankly, that's not a convincing explanation. Torrents are almost > > entirely I/O bound, and this is a DSL connection rated at 2Mbps which in > > fact is less than that in practice. No way could a torrent client be > > eating 80% of a 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM. It's just not > > reasonable. > > i have dsl lite i=765kbps / o=133kbps. in having used both ktorrent in f8 and > ctorrent in sl5.2, both used up to 85% cpu. Looks like you have the same problem as me. Once again: these numbers make no sense. > after watching graph in ktorrent, i disabled several sites that where being > checked but showed little to no action and disabled file access in, which > increased thru put from active sites. do not recall exact cpu change, but it > was worth it. > > with ctorrent, i again disabled file access which dropped cpu usage to below > 70%. 70% is still way too high. > have you tried setting nice? What for? Agreed it could lower priority for Ktorrent, but it doesn't solve the underlying problem. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Nidia Drivers for PAE Kernel
On 10/12/2008 02:23 PM, Dave Cross wrote: > My new XPS 1330m laptop has an nVidia GeForce 8400M GS video card. I'd the PAE drivers are on livna .. the latest F8 is kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.5-28.fc8PAE-173.14.12-4.lvn8.i686.rpm They add the PAE (or xen etc) on the end. If you have the PAE kernel installed and livna repo in yum - it may work just to do yum install kmod-nvidia/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Wireless Issues on Dell XPS 1330m
On 10/12/2008 02:17 PM, Dave Cross wrote: > > So under 2.6.25 things work, just sub-optimally. Under more recent > kernels, the situation is worse. I've updated the system a couple of > times and I now also have kernel-PAE-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 and > kernel-PAE-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686. Under either of these kernels, my > network is still not detected and even when I try to force a > connection, it still doesn't work. > Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can help to get this fixed? Seems that all 2.6.x kernels dont work with WPA/2 - and may even crash on occasion. My advice - make sure you keep 2.6.25 and wait till it eventually gets fixed. YOu may find it helpful to turn on SSID broadcast if its off - there is zero loss of security and things will work better. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 56, Issue 87
On Sunday 12 October 2008 17:33, Steve Friis wrote: In older versions of Fedora, there is a GDM tool that lets you set up so that when the computer starts and gets to the log on screen it automatically chooses the user, puts in the password and then runs. The problem is, GDM-setup no longer is there. Was this replaced with something else? Was this left off of Fedora 9 for a reason? I need this function as our AC power here isn't always the best. Sometimes we loose power and this always happens at the most inopportune moments. It happens typically once per month. I have the PC set up so it restarts when power is restored. But, now the PC isn't able to log in automatically. I need this function because I run a program (xastir) that connects via a radio and TNC (terminal node controller) for amateur radio operators so that they can be tracked using APRS on the internet. My station is one of several thousand others throughout the world that ports the licensed user to the internet. The program requires that I be logged on and it be running to function. If there is no workaround for version 9, what are the chances this will be restored in version 10? To see what I am talking about, you can go to www.findu.com and enter my call WM5Z-1 or to see the weather use WM5Z-15. -- Steve Friis Amateur Call WM5Z APRS WM5Z-1 Las Cruces Igate | APRS WM5Z-2 Home | APRS WM5Z-3 RV | APRS WM5Z-15 Weather Hi Steve. Perhaps this will resolve your problem, and have just tried it on F9, and it autologs me in to KDE (I didn't think it would work by the way) Su to root, and open a text editor (gedit, kwrite, whatever), and navigate to /etc/gdm/custom.conf, and add the following lines to the file. [daemon] # Automatic login, if true the first local screen will automatically logged # in as user as set with AutomaticLogin key AutomaticLoginEnable=true AutomaticLogin=djmons Obviously change my username (djmons) to yours. I surprise myself sometimes, when trying something that I don't expect to work, and it does. Nigel. OK, It worked on my laptop. Now to go try it on my server. Thanks. This was a great help. Steve -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:24:03 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I recently acquired an Asus EeePC-1000 (the Linux version with a 40GB > SSD). > I don't really like the Linux system running on the machine, and am > thinking about installing Fedora instead or in addition. I nearly lost my breakfast looking at Xandros; Windows in drag -- and, of course, in cahoots with MegaSleazo. *Lots* of alternatives are better, especially on one with that much space. > What actually are the advantages of Fedora in this case? Also, will I > have any problems with WiFi, which works very well in the current > system? Wifi troubles vary, in all sorts of ways. But for the most overview, go to http://forum.eeeuser.com/ and look around. (There is even (or was) something called EeeDora -- F8 specifically adapted to the early small EeePCs; F9 may have made it obsolete already.) The forums there are often somewhat disorganized, and hard to find things in; but they're *very* prolific. Suggestion : put Fedora, Puppy, and two or three others on bootable USB sticks, and try them without having to go through a whole install between each. I carry two or three such with mine; I think lots of people do. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 2.00, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: mtrr funnies
| From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | I've got a motherboard with a fairly new chipset (Asus M3A78T | w. AMD/ATI 790GX) and I'm seeing a funny MTRR setting. I have 8GB | memory and am running a 64-bit kernel, but I'm only seeing ~4GB | mentioned in the MTRR's. Is this a bug? Do I need to add the upper | 4+GB by hand? | | $ cat /proc/mtrr | reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1 | reg01: base=0x8000 (2048MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 | reg02: base=0xc000 (3072MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1 | reg03: base=0xd000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: write-combining, count=1 | | It does seem like the kernel sees the whole memory, at least at times, | but it isn't clear if that high memory is being cached the right way. | | Oct 7 10:54:30 poblano kernel: Memory: 7678940k/8650752k available (2699k kernel code, 184672k reserved, 1485k data, 980k init) I agree with your concern. These days, many BIOSes set up overlapping MTRRs on systems with 4GiB or more of RAM. Until the mtrr-cleanup code is in the kernel, this causes problems. In your case, you don't seem to have an MTRR covering the top half of memory. (In a later post you say that 7.6G of memory is made available.) Normally the BIOS would map all of memory linearly EXCEPT to leave a hole in the top of the 4G range for things on the PCI bus. The hole is 1GiB or less, I think. In your case, it appears that the hole is 3/4 of 1GiB. The RAM that would otherwise have addresses in the hole is usually remapped to be above all the other memory. In your case, you would have 256M * 3 bytes at and above 8GiB. Many BIOSes apparently have an option to not remap -- then that RAM gets thrown away (i.e. it cannot be addressed so it cannot be use). One reason to turn off remapping might be that there are not enough MTRR registers to describe all the regions. For example, in your case, you need one more MTRR to cover 4GiB-8GiB and two more to cover the remapped 256M * 3. That uses up 7 MTRRs altogether. Luckilly, there are 8 in the hardware. Anyway, none of this is the problem you are presenting. The MTRRs you listed don't cover anything above 4GiB. The default memory type (when not covered by an MTRR) is uncachable. So if Linux is using your high memory, it must be VERY slow. Your log message suggests that high memory is being used. So your system ought to be extremely slow. If it isn't, something else must be going on, and I don't know what that might be. Perhaps PAT is saving you. Are you running in x86_64 mode? Or with a PAE kernel? If neither, I guess that high memory might not be being used. That would be a waste of memory. But I don't think that a non-PAE i386 kernel would report more than 4GiB of memory on your machine, and you show 7.7 being reported. This is surely a BIOS bug. Or it is a BIOS option that is set in a way that you don't want. If you do a dmesg command, you will see kernel messages that report what the kernel is being told about memory. I don't understand them all, but the most obvious are lines that begin with " BIOS-e820: ". Is PAT mentioned? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
g wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> Frankly, that's not a convincing explanation. Torrents are almost >> entirely I/O bound, and this is a DSL connection rated at 2Mbps which in >> fact is less than that in practice. No way could a torrent client be >> eating 80% of a 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM. It's just not >> reasonable. > > i have dsl lite i=765kbps / o=133kbps. in having used both ktorrent in f8 and > ctorrent in sl5.2, both used up to 85% cpu. > > after watching graph in ktorrent, i disabled several sites that where being > checked but showed little to no action and disabled file access in, which > increased thru put from active sites. do not recall exact cpu change, but it > was worth it. > > with ctorrent, i again disabled file access which dropped cpu usage to below > 70%. > > have you tried setting nice? You have a problem with your ktorrent/ctorrent installations. I've run ktorrent on my Slackware box with several active torrents, and at most it took 6% of one CPU. See my other post about rtorrent, which takes 1% or less with many more torrents active. rtorrent is the client to use, but being CLI, you'll have to memorize some of the keyboard commands to utilize it fully. -- Jason Turning -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Well, not quite, but I was alerted to this when my fan started whining > and the cpu temperature rose about 5 degrees above normal. A look at > 'top' confirmed that Ktorrent (downloading a single torrent) was using > about 80% of my cpu. The X server was using most of the rest. > > This is F9 with KDE 4.1.1. > > I updated to KDE 4.1.2 (using "yum groupupdate KDE" from > updates-testing) but it made no difference (actually, the whole machine > started crawling until I disabled Desktop Effects, which hadn't seemed > to matter before, but even after doing that Ktorrent was just as bad). > > Is this a known bug with Ktorrent? I've been using it happily for a > couple of years and haven't had this happen before, but now it means I > can't use it without risking damage to my motherboard, which makes me > uneasy ... > > poc > Try rtorrent. It's CLI, but easy to learn and use. Far more efficient, takes a sixth or less of the CPU resources even with a bunch of torrents active as well as less memory than ktorrent. rtorrent uses libtorrent, both written in C++ with an emphasis on speed and efficiency, while delivering equivalent features to GUI based clients in a ncurses based client. Benefits are you can run it in a screen session and it persists even if you log out of your PC, or possibly have to reset your X session as well as accessing remotely via SSH. http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ -- Jason Turning -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Nidia Drivers for PAE Kernel
My new XPS 1330m laptop has an nVidia GeForce 8400M GS video card. I'd therefore like to use the kmod-nvidia drivers from Livna. However, this system uses a PAE kernel and it doesn't look like kmod-nvidia is built for this architecture. Has anyone else done this? Is my best approach to grab the kmod-nvidia SRPMS and rebuild them? Or can I get the RPMs from somewhere else? Any advice appreciated. Cheers, Dave... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Linux Fedora Error Number 15 : File Not Found
I have tried booting from all the kernel as shown in the menu, but it odes not boot. Please write in step-wise the things as you had suggested,as I am a new bie. Thanks, Jyotishmaan Ray Moderator Of Paradise Groups http://yahoogroups.com/group/Spirituality-Paradise Are You Spiritually Aware !!! Are You Enjoying Yourself !!! See What All You Had Been Missing Please Join Immediately By Sending A Blank Mail @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- On Sun, 10/12/08, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Linux Fedora Error Number 15 : File Not Found To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 11:35 PM On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:01:57 -0700 (PDT) Jyotishmaan Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All Fedora Linux Experts, > > Sinc yesterday one of my proxy servers is not booting up after a system retsart, and it throws an error message "Error 15: File Not Found Press any key to continue" > > I had tried with rescue CD, still it could not be resolved though the system could be mounted but nothing proceeded beyond this. > > Give some pointers to solve this problem. Try booting the previous kernel from the menu. If that works then re-install the kernel package but it would be good to find out why the boot loader couldn't find the kernel. Power loss while updating it ? If not boot off the CD, mount the root file system off the rescue cd, chroot into that, mount /boot and re-install the current kernel package -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Wireless Issues on Dell XPS 1330m
I've got a new Dell XPS 1330m laptop and I've installed Fedora 9 on it. I have a couple of problems with the wireless connectivity. Any advice would be appreciated. According to hwbrowser, the card is "Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection". This is detected and configured correctly by NetworkManager. It's probably worth pointing out that my machine uses the PAE version of the kernel. When I first installed Fedora, it installed kernel-PAE-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686. When this kernel first boots, NetworkManager sees many wireless networks around me, but not mine. However if I select Connect to Other Wireless Network and type in my network name it connects successfully and I have no problems. Under previous versions of Fedora (on my old laptop) NetworkManager would find and connect to my network automatically. It would be nice to get this behaviour back. So under 2.6.25 things work, just sub-optimally. Under more recent kernels, the situation is worse. I've updated the system a couple of times and I now also have kernel-PAE-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 and kernel-PAE-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686. Under either of these kernels, my network is still not detected and even when I try to force a connection, it still doesn't work. Here's a dump of /var/log/messages for a failed connection attempt. Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) starting connection 'Auto MAGNUM' Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: (wlan0): device state change: 3 -> 4 Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled... Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started... Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled... Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete. Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting... Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: (wlan0): device state change: 4 -> 5 Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0/wireless): connection 'Auto MAGNUM' requires no security. No secrets needed. Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: Config: added 'ssid' value 'MAGNUM' Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: Config: added 'scan_ssid' value '1' Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'NONE' Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete. Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: Config: set interface ap_scan to 1 Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 1 -> 2 Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 2 -> 3 Oct 12 18:45:26 angel kernel: wlan0 (WE) : Wireless Event too big (344) Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 3 -> 4 Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 4 -> 7 Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0/wireless) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) successful. Connected to wireless network 'MAGNUM'. Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) scheduled. Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) started... Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: (wlan0): device state change: 5 -> 7 Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) Beginning DHCP transaction. Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: dhclient started with pid 2992 Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete. Oct 12 18:45:26 angel dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.0.0 Oct 12 18:45:26 angel dhclient: Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium. Oct 12 18:45:26 angel dhclient: All rights reserved. Oct 12 18:45:26 angel dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ Oct 12 18:45:26 angel dhclient: Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: DHCP: device wlan0 state changed (null) -> preinit Oct 12 18:45:26 angel dhclient: Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:21:5c:64:ab:e5 Oct 12 18:45:26 angel dhclient: Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:21:5c:64:ab:e5 Oct 12 18:45:26 angel dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback Oct 12 18:45:29 angel dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 Oct 12 18:45:35 angel dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 Oct 12 18:45:43 angel dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 Oct 12 18:45:54 angel dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16 Oct 12 18:46:10 angel dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14 Oct 12 18:46:11 angel NetworkManager: Device 'wlan0' DHCP transaction took too long (>45s), stopping it. Oct 12 18:46:12 angel NetworkManager: wlan0: can
Re: TVtime and KWORLD PlusTV Analog lite PCI
On Sunday 12 October 2008 19:42, yordy wrote: > I would see now. But, searching more over Internet I found this page for > Ububu: > http://equiman.blogspot.com/2008/09/configurar-tarjeta-de-tv-kworld-olus-tv >.html, everything work for me (Fedora 8) but, I can't get any sound with > sox. When I run tvtime.sh > > ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1240:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card > sox stio: Failed reading `hw:1,0': cannot open audio device > > Sound work when I run modprobe saa7134-alsa manually, how can I set > saa7134-alsa to be loaded at boot time? After run modprobe saa7134-alsa > manually I run dmesg | grep alsa and: > > saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded > saa7134[0]/alsa: saa7134[0] at 0xa3004800 irq 22 registered as card -1 > > > If I set -t alsa hw:-1,0 -t alsa hw:0,0 & in sox -r 32000 -w -t alsa hw:1,0 > -t alsa hw:0,0 &, then -1 isn't a correct card value. > > Resuming > > I set /etc/modprobe.d/saa7134 with options saa7134 card=59 tuner=56 and > running /usr/bin/tvtime work fine, I can watch the TV. And running manually > modprobe saa7134-alsa from console I get the sound to work. > > Anyway, with saa7134-alsa I get sound, how I can get saa7134-alsa loaded at > boot time? Su to root and open a text editor (gedit, kwrite, whatever), and navigate to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and add the following line to the file. modprobe saa7134-alsa It should now be loaded when you boot. There should be some easier way to do this. Can you post the contents of /etc/modprobe.conf. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Linux Fedora Error Number 15 : File Not Found
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:01:57 -0700 (PDT) Jyotishmaan Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All Fedora Linux Experts, > > Sinc yesterday one of my proxy servers is not booting up after a system > retsart, and it throws an error message "Error 15: File Not Found Press any > key to continue" > > I had tried with rescue CD, still it could not be resolved though the system > could be mounted but nothing proceeded beyond this. > > Give some pointers to solve this problem. Try booting the previous kernel from the menu. If that works then re-install the kernel package but it would be good to find out why the boot loader couldn't find the kernel. Power loss while updating it ? If not boot off the CD, mount the root file system off the rescue cd, chroot into that, mount /boot and re-install the current kernel package -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Frankly, that's not a convincing explanation. Torrents are almost > entirely I/O bound, and this is a DSL connection rated at 2Mbps which in > fact is less than that in practice. No way could a torrent client be > eating 80% of a 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM. It's just not > reasonable. i have dsl lite i=765kbps / o=133kbps. in having used both ktorrent in f8 and ctorrent in sl5.2, both used up to 85% cpu. after watching graph in ktorrent, i disabled several sites that where being checked but showed little to no action and disabled file access in, which increased thru put from active sites. do not recall exact cpu change, but it was worth it. with ctorrent, i again disabled file access which dropped cpu usage to below 70%. have you tried setting nice? - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI8jur+C4Bj9Rkw/wRAmeKAKDW+Zdpbe+Ar3l9NoVz4/xj3P8z2QCgyoUf ZmDRHL7Nqsa7h4+m6EvS57g= =eiuC -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Error Number 15: Fie Not found
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:04:07 -0700 (PDT) Jyotishmaan Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Give some pointers to solve this problem. Give the messages (log files, whatever) that precede the error message. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com DRY CLEANER BUSINESS FOR SALE ~ http://www.canadadrycleanerforsale.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: TVtime and KWORLD PlusTV Analog lite PCI
I would see now. But, searching more over Internet I found this page for Ububu: http://equiman.blogspot.com/2008/09/configurar-tarjeta-de-tv-kworld-olus-tv.html, everything work for me (Fedora 8) but, I can't get any sound with sox. When I run tvtime.sh ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1240:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card sox stio: Failed reading `hw:1,0': cannot open audio device Sound work when I run modprobe saa7134-alsa manually, how can I set saa7134-alsa to be loaded at boot time? After run modprobe saa7134-alsa manually I run dmesg | grep alsa and: saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded saa7134[0]/alsa: saa7134[0] at 0xa3004800 irq 22 registered as card -1 If I set -t alsa hw:-1,0 -t alsa hw:0,0 & in sox -r 32000 -w -t alsa hw:1,0 -t alsa hw:0,0 &, then -1 isn't a correct card value. Resuming I set /etc/modprobe.d/saa7134 with options saa7134 card=59 tuner=56 and running /usr/bin/tvtime work fine, I can watch the TV. And running manually modprobe saa7134-alsa from console I get the sound to work. Anyway, with saa7134-alsa I get sound, how I can get saa7134-alsa loaded at boot time? Greetings - Mensaje original De: dexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: yordy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." Enviado: domingo, 12 de octubre, 2008 4:02:21 Asunto: Re: TVtime and KWORLD PlusTV Analog lite PCI On Sun October 12 2008 04:18:19 yordy wrote: > see that board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected], my card is not > recognize by mi kernel? > > Any idea to get working my tv card. Did you try the extra modprobe.conf options laid out in this section:? http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Generic_SAA7134_Card_Installation#Drivers_probing ...dex -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Motion-eye built-in webcam - Sony VGN-FJ270 laptop
My Motion-eye webcam on a Sony VGN-FJ270 laptop doesn't work. The F9 system doesn't recognize it and I wasn't able to find a linux driver for it. Can someone point me to the right direction on how can I get this working? appreciated, :) -- Armin "Dare to Dream?" -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Auto Log in screen
On Sunday 12 October 2008 17:33, Steve Friis wrote: > In older versions of Fedora, there is a GDM tool that lets you set up so > that when the computer starts and gets to the log on screen it > automatically chooses the user, puts in the password and then runs. > > The problem is, GDM-setup no longer is there. Was this replaced with > something else? Was this left off of Fedora 9 for a reason? > > I need this function as our AC power here isn't always the best. > Sometimes we loose power and this always happens at the most inopportune > moments. It happens typically once per month. I have the PC set up so it > restarts when power is restored. But, now the PC isn't able to log in > automatically. I need this function because I run a program (xastir) > that connects via a radio and TNC (terminal node controller) for amateur > radio operators so that they can be tracked using APRS on the internet. > My station is one of several thousand others throughout the world that > ports the licensed user to the internet. The program requires that I be > logged on and it be running to function. > > If there is no workaround for version 9, what are the chances this will > be restored in version 10? > > To see what I am talking about, you can go to www.findu.com and enter my > call WM5Z-1 or to see the weather use WM5Z-15. > > -- > Steve Friis > Amateur Call WM5Z > APRS WM5Z-1 Las Cruces Igate | APRS WM5Z-2 Home | APRS WM5Z-3 RV | APRS > WM5Z-15 Weather Hi Steve. Perhaps this will resolve your problem, and have just tried it on F9, and it autologs me in to KDE (I didn't think it would work by the way) Su to root, and open a text editor (gedit, kwrite, whatever), and navigate to /etc/gdm/custom.conf, and add the following lines to the file. [daemon] # Automatic login, if true the first local screen will automatically logged # in as user as set with AutomaticLogin key AutomaticLoginEnable=true AutomaticLogin=djmons Obviously change my username (djmons) to yours. I surprise myself sometimes, when trying something that I don't expect to work, and it does. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
RE: F9, computer won't boot after updates & hibernation
>Now it won't boot at all. I've shut it down, unplugged it, etc. and although >the power light comes on and the fan starts up, no activity really takes >place. It doesn't even beep to indicate power-on. No post? Something is blowken. >I've tried booting off a CD, but it doesn't get to that point. I can't get >into the BIOS, even. >Any ideas? Could this even be anything to do with Fedora, or so I just have >some hardware issue all of a sudden? Reset your bios, unplug the PC, pull out the battery and wait a few seconds then try to boot. In my experience, the most common failure point is a powersupply. Maybe you lost a leg on it (as it partially loads)? If you verify the powersupply is ok, remove all the peripherals and try seeing if you reach the post. I have seen a dead HD and NIC keep a pc from even getting to the post. Once they were removed (different occasions) it would boot. jlc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
F9, computer won't boot after updates & hibernation
I have an MSI Hetis 915 with an Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz running F9. I don't reboot it very often; mostly I hibernate. Probably it's been a month or more since my last full reboot. Last night I shut it down, for no reason except it felt like it had been while. This morning it installed a lot of updates--a lot of KDE stuff, etc.; I wasn't really watching. I locked the screen and left it alone for a while to complete the updates, and it hibernated after 30 minutes like it's supposed to do (that's how I have it configured). Now it won't boot at all. I've shut it down, unplugged it, etc. and although the power light comes on and the fan starts up, no activity really takes place. It doesn't even beep to indicate power-on. I've tried booting off a CD, but it doesn't get to that point. I can't get into the BIOS, even. Any ideas? Could this even be anything to do with Fedora, or so I just have some hardware issue all of a sudden? Thanks, Matt -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 07:58 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>
>
> --- On Sun, 10/12/08, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > From: Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
> > To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> > Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 7:29 AM
> > Well, not quite, but I was alerted to this when my fan
> > started whining
> > and the cpu temperature rose about 5 degrees above normal.
> > A look at
> > 'top' confirmed that Ktorrent (downloading a single
> > torrent) was using
> > about 80% of my cpu. The X server was using most of the
> > rest.
> >
> > This is F9 with KDE 4.1.1.
> >
> > I updated to KDE 4.1.2 (using "yum groupupdate
> > KDE" from
> > updates-testing) but it made no difference (actually, the
> > whole machine
> > started crawling until I disabled Desktop Effects, which
> > hadn't seemed
> > to matter before, but even after doing that Ktorrent was
> > just as bad).
> CPU level going to high levels, this is due to autohide bug:
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172549
>
> Kevin has fixed this. Thanks Kevin :)
> \begin{QUOTE}
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=65974
>
> Try kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-5.fc10: I found the culprit, it's a patch which
> fixes flickering during the autohide animations which has this unfortunate
> side
> effect. I disabled that patch for now until it can get fixed properly. (I
> didn't disable autohide entirely, it's still there, it just looks ugly. ;-)
> Still disabled by default though, and as long as I have any influence on it,
> it'll stay that way (even if upstream decides to enable it at some point), I
> really hate autohide. ;-) )
I don't have autohide enabled, but I'll take a look anyway, thanks.
poc
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Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 12:48 -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > I do not know why Fedora has not updated bittorrent to 5.2.0 yet. AFAIK Ktorrent doesn't use the BitTorrent reference client. It's a separate implementation. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 15:07 +, g wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > A look at > > 'top' confirmed that Ktorrent (downloading a single torrent) was using > > about 80% of my cpu. The X server was using most of the rest. > > poc, > > if you define word 'torrent', you may have a better understanding to fact > that ktorrent is doing what it should. > > i have found that in using ktorrent and ctorrent, both are cpu intensive. > > if you want to cut it back, remove some of torrent's dl sites and disable > your 'supplying'. Frankly, that's not a convincing explanation. Torrents are almost entirely I/O bound, and this is a DSL connection rated at 2Mbps which in fact is less than that in practice. No way could a torrent client be eating 80% of a 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM. It's just not reasonable. Thanks all the same. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Auto Log in screen
--- On Sun, 10/12/08, Steve Friis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Steve Friis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Auto Log in screen > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 8:33 AM > In older versions of Fedora, there is a GDM tool that lets > you set up so > that when the computer starts and gets to the log on screen > it > automatically chooses the user, puts in the password and > then runs. > > The problem is, GDM-setup no longer is there. Was this > replaced with > something else? Was this left off of Fedora 9 for a reason? > > I need this function as our AC power here isn't always > the best. > Sometimes we loose power and this always happens at the > most inopportune > moments. It happens typically once per month. I have the PC > set up so it > restarts when power is restored. But, now the PC isn't > able to log in > automatically. I need this function because I run a program > (xastir) > that connects via a radio and TNC (terminal node > controller) for amateur > radio operators so that they can be tracked using APRS on > the internet. > My station is one of several thousand others throughout the > world that > ports the licensed user to the internet. The program > requires that I be > logged on and it be running to function. > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/auto-login-fedora-9-673442/ > > If there is no workaround for version 9, what are the > chances this will > be restored in version 10? > Don't actually know the chances but it has to between 0 and 1 inclusively :) with 0 not being restored and 1 being restored. > > To see what I am talking about, you can go to www.findu.com > and enter my > call WM5Z-1 or to see the weather use WM5Z-15. > > -- > Steve Friis > Amateur Call WM5Z > APRS WM5Z-1 Las Cruces Igate | APRS WM5Z-2 Home | APRS > WM5Z-3 RV | APRS WM5Z-15 Weather > > > > -- Regards, Antonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27 #1 SMP Fri Oct 10 21:49:51 CDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Spamassassin Headers in Evolution
I am using Evolution on Fedora 9 (x86_64) and use Spamassassin as the plugin for filtering messages for junk mail. The plugin is quite effective and identifies a lot of spam successfully. However, when I view the message source for mails diverted to the junk folder I cannot see any Spamassassin headers. Is there any way to add various Spamassassin headers (such as Spam Status, Scores, Tests Conducted, etc.) for the messages being passed through the spamassassin plugin by Evolution ? I have already made appropriate changes in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf as well as the user-specific user_prefs files but those settings are probably being ignored by Evolution and no headers are being added. TIA, Manish -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Auto Log in screen
In older versions of Fedora, there is a GDM tool that lets you set up so that when the computer starts and gets to the log on screen it automatically chooses the user, puts in the password and then runs. The problem is, GDM-setup no longer is there. Was this replaced with something else? Was this left off of Fedora 9 for a reason? I need this function as our AC power here isn't always the best. Sometimes we loose power and this always happens at the most inopportune moments. It happens typically once per month. I have the PC set up so it restarts when power is restored. But, now the PC isn't able to log in automatically. I need this function because I run a program (xastir) that connects via a radio and TNC (terminal node controller) for amateur radio operators so that they can be tracked using APRS on the internet. My station is one of several thousand others throughout the world that ports the licensed user to the internet. The program requires that I be logged on and it be running to function. If there is no workaround for version 9, what are the chances this will be restored in version 10? To see what I am talking about, you can go to www.findu.com and enter my call WM5Z-1 or to see the weather use WM5Z-15. -- Steve Friis Amateur Call WM5Z APRS WM5Z-1 Las Cruces Igate | APRS WM5Z-2 Home | APRS WM5Z-3 RV | APRS WM5Z-15 Weather -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?
Timothy Murphy wrote: I recently acquired an Asus EeePC-1000 (the Linux version with a 40GB SSD). I don't really like the Linux system running on the machine, and am thinking about installing Fedora instead or in addition. What actually are the advantages of Fedora in this case? Also, will I have any problems with WiFi, which works very well in the current system? I have a eeePC 702 and it works perfect on FC10 the kernel-2.6.27, I don't know what WiFi the 1000 uses but the eeePC 700 series runs the Atheros AR5007EG wireless, and it won't work in the 2.6.26 kernels FC 8 - 9 . The rpm from Livna will also give you problems. All hardware on my E works perfect on FC10 , most of all the Webcam. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: TVtime and KWORLD PlusTV Analog lite PCI
--- On Sun, 10/12/08, dexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: dexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: TVtime and KWORLD PlusTV Analog lite PCI > To: "yordy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Community assistance, encouragement, and > advice for using Fedora." > Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 1:02 AM > On Sun October 12 2008 04:18:19 yordy wrote: > > see that board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected], > my card is not > > recognize by mi kernel? > > > > Any idea to get working my tv card. > > Did you try the extra modprobe.conf options laid out in > this section:? > http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Generic_SAA7134_Card_Installation#Drivers_probing > > ...dex > > -- Great advice Dexter. I have a similar card and I don't mess with the modprobe.conf file. I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rmmod saa7134 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modprobe saa7134 card=42 tuner=17 Then I have to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rmmod saa7134 again so I can get rid of Tv sound/hissing in the background :( to get my tv card going. It is working great on a dual boot Fedora 10 Beta and Fedora 9 box :) He has to use dmesg and then find the correct parameters and get it working [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modprobe saa7134 card=X tuner=Y Regards, Antonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27 #1 SMP Fri Oct 10 21:49:51 CDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > A look at > 'top' confirmed that Ktorrent (downloading a single torrent) was using > about 80% of my cpu. The X server was using most of the rest. poc, if you define word 'torrent', you may have a better understanding to fact that ktorrent is doing what it should. i have found that in using ktorrent and ctorrent, both are cpu intensive. if you want to cut it back, remove some of torrent's dl sites and disable your 'supplying'. - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI8hKf+C4Bj9Rkw/wRAgy9AJ9bbopNmII6dtYyV2jhkMifcFs9xQCfYm6c Fbx1x+em3jOIoPW0tJZ58nk= =xQ/p -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
On Sun October 12 2008 15:48:02 Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > I do not know why Fedora has not updated bittorrent to 5.2.0 yet. > Maybe this is the solution ... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=223623 it aint happenin ...dex -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
--- On Sun, 10/12/08, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 7:29 AM
> Well, not quite, but I was alerted to this when my fan
> started whining
> and the cpu temperature rose about 5 degrees above normal.
> A look at
> 'top' confirmed that Ktorrent (downloading a single
> torrent) was using
> about 80% of my cpu. The X server was using most of the
> rest.
>
> This is F9 with KDE 4.1.1.
>
> I updated to KDE 4.1.2 (using "yum groupupdate
> KDE" from
> updates-testing) but it made no difference (actually, the
> whole machine
> started crawling until I disabled Desktop Effects, which
> hadn't seemed
> to matter before, but even after doing that Ktorrent was
> just as bad).
CPU level going to high levels, this is due to autohide bug:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172549
Kevin has fixed this. Thanks Kevin :)
\begin{QUOTE}
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=65974
Try kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-5.fc10: I found the culprit, it's a patch which
fixes flickering during the autohide animations which has this unfortunate side
effect. I disabled that patch for now until it can get fixed properly. (I
didn't disable autohide entirely, it's still there, it just looks ugly. ;-)
Still disabled by default though, and as long as I have any influence on it,
it'll stay that way (even if upstream decides to enable it at some point), I
really hate autohide. ;-) )
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172549
Kevin Kofler
\end{QUOTE}
>
> Is this a known bug with Ktorrent? I've been using it
> happily for a
> couple of years and haven't had this happen before, but
> now it means I
> can't use it without risking damage to my motherboard,
> which makes me
> uneasy ...
I guess it is not ktorrent's fault :)
>
> poc
>
> --
Regards,
Antonio
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Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Well, not quite, but I was alerted to this when my fan started whining > and the cpu temperature rose about 5 degrees above normal. A look at > 'top' confirmed that Ktorrent (downloading a single torrent) was using > about 80% of my cpu. The X server was using most of the rest. > > This is F9 with KDE 4.1.1. > > I updated to KDE 4.1.2 (using "yum groupupdate KDE" from > updates-testing) but it made no difference (actually, the whole machine > started crawling until I disabled Desktop Effects, which hadn't seemed > to matter before, but even after doing that Ktorrent was just as bad). > > Is this a known bug with Ktorrent? I've been using it happily for a > couple of years and haven't had this happen before, but now it means I > can't use it without risking damage to my motherboard, which makes me > uneasy ... > > I do not think it is a problem specific to ktorrent. I have observed this behavior with bittorrent 4.4.0, on F8, also. It seems that when the connection is down for any reason, bittorrent keeps trying and the CPU usage goes to 100%. Sometimes, the download just stops without any apparent reason, and the same thing happens. In any case, just stopping and then restarting the download fixes the issue. I do not know why Fedora has not updated bittorrent to 5.2.0 yet. Maybe this is the solution ... -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Two problems in f9 - pulseaudio and kde4 - need suggestions
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 02:01 -0400, William W. Austin wrote: > And then there is the inability > to add apps to panel itself - a serious lack for my purposes. [...] > On this issue, it's possible that I have missed something, and if so > someone please clue me in (I have RTFM'ed AND RTFsourceCode + web > searched so much that my eyes are beginning to rebel). You need to check the archives of this list. This question has been answered at least half a dozen times before (I won't bother repeating it as other people have already done so). It's one of those "easy when you know how" things, like a lot of other KDE4 stuff. To repeat: KDE4 is not an upgrade of KDE3, it's a completely new desktop. I've been using it for several months now and once you get used to the idea it's actually perfectly serviceable. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
