Re: unexpected logout

[Dj YB]

On Friday November 13 2009 02:44:54 suvayu ali wrote:
> 2009/11/12 Ed Greshko :
> > Ed Greshko wrote:
> >> Yes, it is due to the extension and the way it is treated by MIMEbut
> >> that's another story.
> >>
> >> What is normally recommended is that you run memtest86+.  First you have
> >> to install it as it isn't installed by default.  Then, AFAIK, the best
> >> way to run it is standalone.  Meaning from boot.  As an example, I have
> >> the following in my /boot/grub.conf file.
> >>
> >> title Memtest86+
> >> root (hd0,0)
> >> kernel /memtest86+-2.11 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_f11-lv_root rhgb
> >> quiet
> >>
> >> Also, I have
> >>
> >> timeout=8
> >> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> >> hiddenmenu
> >>
> >> to ensure I can get to select what I want  :-)
> >>
> >> Since the problem is intermittent, you should leave it running for an
> >> extended period.
> >>
> >> Ed
> >
> > The other option I forgot to mention is to download the bootable CD
> > image from http://www.memtest86.com/ and boot from the CD that you burn.
> 
> ... or just boot with a Fedora CD or DVD and select memtest in in the
> boot options menu. :)
> 
thanks
but how much time should I wait?
could there be another explanation?
I will run this test now and get back to you after it is done
cheers
YB.

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Re: rpm package conflict

[Joachim Backes]

On 11/13/2009 08:42 AM, James Harrison wrote:

  All,
In the latest set of system updates, I saw this package conflict:

[r...@pc32 ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package gstreamer-plugins-base.i586 0:0.10.25-2.fc11 set to be updated
--> Processing Conflict: gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.25-2.fc11.i586
conflicts gstreamer-plugins-good < 0.10.16-3
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.25-2.fc11.i586 from updates has depsolving
problems
--> gstreamer-plugins-base conflicts with gstreamer-plugins-good
Error: gstreamer-plugins-base conflicts with gstreamer-plugins-good


Is there an update to this?

Thanks,
James Harrison



I'm having the same problem!

Regards

Joachim Backes 

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes



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Re: unexpected logout

[suvayu ali]

2009/11/13 Dj YB :
> On Friday November 13 2009 02:44:54 suvayu ali wrote:
>> 2009/11/12 Ed Greshko :
>> > Ed Greshko wrote:
>> >> Yes, it is due to the extension and the way it is treated by MIMEbut
>> >> that's another story.
>> >>
>> >> What is normally recommended is that you run memtest86+.  First you have
>> >> to install it as it isn't installed by default.  Then, AFAIK, the best
>> >> way to run it is standalone.  Meaning from boot.  As an example, I have
>> >> the following in my /boot/grub.conf file.
>> >>
>> >> title Memtest86+
>> >>     root (hd0,0)
>> >>     kernel /memtest86+-2.11 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_f11-lv_root rhgb
>> >> quiet
>> >>
>> >> Also, I have
>> >>
>> >> timeout=8
>> >> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>> >> hiddenmenu
>> >>
>> >> to ensure I can get to select what I want  :-)
>> >>
>> >> Since the problem is intermittent, you should leave it running for an
>> >> extended period.
>> >>
>> >> Ed
>> >
>> > The other option I forgot to mention is to download the bootable CD
>> > image from http://www.memtest86.com/ and boot from the CD that you burn.
>>
>> ... or just boot with a Fedora CD or DVD and select memtest in in the
>> boot options menu. :)
>>
> thanks
> but how much time should I wait?
> could there be another explanation?
> I will run this test now and get back to you after it is done
> cheers
> YB.
>

Usually to confirm that your memory modules are working fine its
advisable to wait for the better half of a day. I had similar problems
a few years back, and I finally Identified the bad module after 2-3
days of testing. But of course in that case I had to test four 1gig
modules. That can be a lot of permutations, 4 modules 4 banks so 4 x 4
= 16 possible combos to test.

You are going to need lots of patience and good luck :)
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Re: Saving Flash

[Ed Greshko]

Fennix wrote:
>
> Why does no-one answer the question?  There must be some better ways
> than just browsing through the /tmp/cache directories to (hopefully)
> find the correct file.  I also would like to know a better way to do
> this.  I have two possible ways...
>
> (Method 1)  If the browser being used is Firefox then adding something
> like FlashGot might work...
> (Method 2)  Right click on the link and copy to the clipboard.  Next
> open a shell and use wget  to retrieve the file.  If the link
> opens another web page I am not sure if this will successfully
> retrieve the actual video file...
>
> I hope this helps or at least jogs someones memory on this list to
> providing a better method for saving flash video files.  The political
> commentary from people has just wasted our bandwidth without providing
> any useful solutions to the technical question presented.
>
The best solution for that type of web page has already been given.  You
need to recall that the authors of Flash have designed it with the media
suppliers in mind.  Those types that don't want you to download and keep
their content.

If you, and others, would simply use google and type "how to save flash
video linux" you'd find the exact same solution as was given.

Flashgot has got nothing to do with Flash.  In this context "flash"
means "quick".  As in, "I'll be there in a flash".




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Re: new install, Firewall, anti-virus?

[Athmane Madjoudj]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:47 AM, James Harrison
 wrote:
> Well done for trashing Windows 7 and replacing it with F11. You are
> moving in the right direction.
>
> Haven't seen a Linux virus yet.
>
> James
>
>
> On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 00:15 +, Jim Douglas wrote:
>> I just trashed Windows 7 and installed FC11 but before I connect to
>> the internet how best could I protect the machine?
>>
>> Is the firewall up and running by default effective? It's a home
>> machine but I plan on adding a web server.
>>
>> What is the best anti-virus?
>>
>> (Bye, bye windows!)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jim
>>
>>
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Well done, you are now free.

Linux kernel already has a firewall (netfilter), and in fedora there
is easy to use GUI called system-config-firewall (System >
Administration > Firewall)

Linux virus are very rare and no efficient until you are *root*, there
is a very powerful Free / Open Source anti-virus called ClamAV used to
scan you PC from Windows virus/trojan/worm and very rare Linux ones...

Personaly, i use ClamAV to scan web servers, mail servers, SMB servers
from windows virus and very rare PHP shells (backdoors)

Best regards.

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Re: How to Backup and Restore MBR within Logical Volumes?

[Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) <
space.time.unive...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) <
> space.time.unive...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Sergey Vlasov  wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:57:22AM +0800, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
>>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> > # VM 11: Rocks 5.1 x86_64 HPC Compute Cluster HVM domU
>>> >
>>> > kpartx -av /dev/virtualmachines/rocks0001
>>> >
>>> > dd if=/dev/virtualmachines/rocks0001 of=$DEST/rocks0001.mbr bs=512
>>> count=1
>>> >
>>> > partimage -d -M -b -z1 save /dev/mapper/virtualmachines-rocks0001p1
>>> > $DEST/virtualmachines-rocks0001p1.img
>>> >
>>> > partimage -d -M -b -z1 save /dev/mapper/virtualmachines-rocks0001p2
>>> > $DEST/virtualmachines-rocks0001p2.img
>>> >
>>> > partimage -d -M -b -z1 save /dev/mapper/virtualmachines-rocks0001p5
>>> > $DEST/virtualmachines-rocks0001p5.img
>>>
>>> Note that this VM (and some other VMs listed in your script) uses
>>> logical partitions.  In this case just saving a copy of MBR will not
>>> be enough to save partition layout - MBR describes only 4 primary
>>> partitions, and restoring just MBR will not restore extended
>>> partitions.
>>>
>>> One way to backup the complete partition layout is by saving also
>>> the output of "sfdisk -d $device"; the resulting file can be used as
>>> input to sfdisk to restore all partitions, including logical ones.
>>> Saving MBR is still needed together with sfdisk, because it saves
>>> the boot code (used for HVM) and CHS geometry information (which can
>>> be used during boot in some cases).
>>>
>>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
>>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)
>>>
>>> iEYEARECAAYFAkr8gM8ACgkQW82GfkQfsqLa+QCaAqpO5NWhYHtKVi3M5ytERw27
>>> eC0AnjsJuG34MAR1jZRejBiJCVybQvc1
>>> =RRGH
>>> -END PGP SIGNATURE-
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you for pointing this out. Otherwise I would made incomplete
>> backups.
>>
>> Would it be best practice to always backup both the MBR and the partition
>> geometry using sfdisk whenever cloning our harddisks on desktops and
>> servers?
>>
>> Besides sfdisk, there are also other partitioning tools like fdisk,
>> cfdisk, and parted.
>>
>> Could these other tools also be used for backing up the partition geometry
>> like sfdisk?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Engineering)
>> Alma Maters:
>> (1) Singapore Polytechnic
>> (2) National University of Singapore
>> My Primary Blog: http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com
>> My Secondary Blog: http://enmingteo.wordpress.com
>> My Youtube videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/enmingteo
>> Email: space.time.unive...@gmail.com
>> Mobile Phone (Starhub Prepaid): +65-8369-2618
>> Street: Bedok Reservoir Road
>> Country: Singapore
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have made some improvements to the backup/cloning script. Please help me
> to vet it through for any mistakes. Thank you very much!
>
>
> 
>
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> 
>
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> Engineering)
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> (1) Singapore Polytechnic
> (2) National University of Singapore
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> Email: space.time.unive...@gmail.com
> Mobile Phone (Starhub Prepaid): +65-8369-2618
> Street: Bedok Reservoir Road
> Country: Singapore
>

Hi All,

This is the final version of my backup script. I have gone through the
script once to make sure there are no mistakes. If I want to capture any
errors during the execution of the backup/cloning script, which of the
following commands do I run?

# ./backup-script.sh > backup.log

OR

# ./backup-script.sh 2> backup.log

After completing the backup script, I will proceed to write the restore
script.

If there are any errors, please let me know because I do not want to make
any mistakes with the cloning process. Thank you.


#!/bin/sh

###
###
# Script to Backup/Clone Xen Host/Dom0 and all DomUs which are using Logical
Volumes as Virtual Hard Disks
###
###

# Written by:

# Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical
Engineering)
# Alma Maters:
# (1) Singapore Polytechnic
# (2) National University of Singapore

Re: new install, Firewall, anti-virus? (BitDefender can help)

[Jatin K]

On 11/13/2009 03:34 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:47 AM, James Harrison
  wrote:
   

Well done for trashing Windows 7 and replacing it with F11. You are
moving in the right direction.

Haven't seen a Linux virus yet.

James


On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 00:15 +, Jim Douglas wrote:
 

I just trashed Windows 7 and installed FC11 but before I connect to
the internet how best could I protect the machine?

Is the firewall up and running by default effective? It's a home
machine but I plan on adding a web server.

What is the best anti-virus?

(Bye, bye windows!)

Thanks,
Jim


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Well done, you are now free.

Linux kernel already has a firewall (netfilter), and in fedora there
is easy to use GUI called system-config-firewall (System>
Administration>  Firewall)

Linux virus are very rare and no efficient until you are *root*, there
is a very powerful Free / Open Source anti-virus called ClamAV used to
scan you PC from Windows virus/trojan/worm and very rare Linux ones...

Personaly, i use ClamAV to scan web servers, mail servers, SMB servers
from windows virus and very rare PHP shells (backdoors)

Best regards.

   
you can go with Bitdefender also (it is free for home users)  get it 
from here[1] they are having GUI version and Non-GUI version too for 
FreeBSD and other distro.(32bit and 64bit ) . it can detect windows 
virus


it is very useful if you are sharing the data/files with M$ user ( off 
course to protect those M$ OS )


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Re: cups-pdf and selinux

[Henrique Koesjan]

yes, I should read it more careful. Your command solve immediately the trouble.


On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Daniel J Walsh  wrote:
> On 11/12/2009 02:29 PM, Henrique Koesjan wrote:
>> too many thanks Daniel,
>>
>> 3 seconds for solving troubles!. Sincerely this mailing list (the
>> people in it) helps a lot less experienced users and all users I
>> believe.
>>
>> henri, many thanks again.
>>
> Henri,
>
> Can you please go back and read the setroubleshoot, it told you what was 
> wrong...
>
>> Sumário:
>>
>> SELinux is preventing nm-system-setti (NetworkManager_t) "getattr" to 
>> /var/tmp
>> (mount_tmp_t).
>>
>> Descrição detalhada:
>>
>> SELinux denied access requested by nm-system-setti. /var/tmp may be a
>> mislabeled. /var/tmp default SELinux type is tmp_t, but its current type is
>> mount_tmp_t. Changing this file back to the default type, may fix your 
>> problem.
>>
>> File contexts can be assigned to a file in the following ways.
>>
>>   * Files created in a directory receive the file context of the parent
>>     directory by default.
>>   * The SELinux policy might override the default label inherited from the
>>     parent directory by specifying a process running in context A which 
>> creates
>>     a file in a directory labeled B will instead create the file with label 
>> C.
>>     An example of this would be the dhcp client running with the dhclient_t 
>> type
>>     and creates a file in the directory /etc. This file would normally 
>> receive
>>     the etc_t type due to parental inheritance but instead the file is 
>> labeled
>>     with the net_conf_t type because the SELinux policy specifies this.
>>   * Users can change the file context on a file using tools such as chcon, or
>>     restorecon.
>>
>> This file could have been mislabeled either by user error, or if an normally
>> confined application was run under the wrong domain.
>>
>> However, this might also indicate a bug in SELinux because the file should 
>> not
>> have been labeled with this type.
>>
>> If you believe this is a bug, please file a bug report
>> (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi) against this package.
>>
>> Permitindo acesso:
>>
>> You can restore the default system context to this file by executing the
>> restorecon command. restorecon '/var/tmp', if this file is a directory, you 
>> can
>> recursively restore using restorecon -R '/var/tmp'.
>>
>> Reparar comando:
>>
>> restorecon '/var/tmp'
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Re: NFS cache permissions

[Bruno Galindro da Costa]

Rick, thankyou for your anwser.

> Huh?  If you're the NFS server, you don't mount the share.  You export
> a local directory and allow clients to mount that.  This is controlled
> by the options you've specified in the /etc/exports file.

I know this. I gess I didn´t express myself quite well.

Is there any other solution for this problem where it isn´t necessary
to re-export the shares?

2009/11/12 Rick Stevens :
> On 11/12/2009 11:41 AM, Bruno Galindro da Costa wrote:
>>
>> Hi yall,
>>
>> Is it possible to clear the nfs cache permissions? I惴 asking this
>> because I扉e made a NFS share with client access restrictions and the
>> users that have no more permissions, can still access the share.
>>
>> The share has the following permissions (2770):
>>
>>     drwxrws---  5 nobody vmail  1024 Nov 12 09:47 email
>>
>> Only users that are within the vmail group can access the share. The
>> /etc/exports file has the following content (192.168.1.22 is the
>> client愀 IP address):
>>
>>      /mnt/vol0/email
>>
>> 192.168.1.22/255.255.255.255(rw,anonuid=5000,anongid=5000,secure,root_squash,wdelay,sync)
>>
>> On the client, I扉e created a vmail group with the same UID of the
>> server (5000), and mounted the exported filesystem with the following
>> command (192.168.1.1 is the server愀 IP address):
>>
>>      mount -t nfs -o rsize=8192,wsize=8192  192.168.1.1:/mnt/vol0/email/
>> /email/
>>
>> Right after executing the above command, I扉e added a user (abc) in
>> the vmail group and that user can access the share perfectly. So far
>> so god. BUT, when I remove that user from vmail group, logoff and
>> logon again, the user still has access to the share!
>> After unmounting and remounting the NFS filesystem, the user still has
>> the access!
>>
>> Is this because the client computer has a NFS cache permissions? If
>> yes, how can I clear that cache?
>>
>> PS.: After reading this - http://nfs.sourceforge.net/ - I扉e mounted
>> the share with the option "noac" to prevent client's file attribute
>> cache. But, it isn愒 working.
>
> Huh?  If you're the NFS server, you don't mount the share.  You export
> a local directory and allow clients to mount that.  This is controlled
> by the options you've specified in the /etc/exports file.
>
> "noac" is specified at the _client_ during the mount (either the manual
> mount command or one in the client's /etc/fstab), NOT at the server.
> You can't force clients to not cache attributes.  Sorry.  In fact it's
> a big load on both the client and server if they don't.  What you CAN
> do at the server is control user/group IDs and access permissions to
> the various things you export.  "man exports" for details.
>
> If you are the server and you want to force the clients to remount to
> recognize changes, usually you only need to change your options in the
> /etc/exports file, then re-export the shares on the server:
>
>        # exportfs -ra
>
> If you want absolutely pristine stuff, you can execute the following
> steps.
>
> 1. Unexport ALL shares:
>
>        # exportfs -au
>
> 2. Make your changes to /etc/exports
>
> 3. Stop the nfs daemons:
>
>        # service nfslock stop;service nfs stop
>
> 4. Delete state info:
>
>        # rm -f /var/lib/nfs/state
>        # rm -f /var/lib/nfs/etab*
>        # rm -f /var/lib/nfs/rmtab*
>
> 5. Wait a bit to make sure the clients time out
>
> 6. Restart the nfs daemons:
>
>        # service nfs start;service nfslock start
>
> 7. Finally, re-export the shares:
>
>        # exportfs -ar
>
> Hopefully the clients will have timed out and will remount.  They
> should see the new restrictions at that time.
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Re: rpm package conflict

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:42:18 -0500, James wrote:

> All,
> In the latest set of system updates, I saw this package conflict:
> 
> [r...@pc32 ~]# yum update
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Setting up Update Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package gstreamer-plugins-base.i586 0:0.10.25-2.fc11 set to be
> updated
> --> Processing Conflict: gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.25-2.fc11.i586
> conflicts gstreamer-plugins-good < 0.10.16-3

Notice the maximum release it prints out:

  gstreamer-plugins-good  lower than  0.10.16-3

The corresponding update ticket prints a higher version for the package
that would not conflict:

  gstreamer-plugins-good  0.10.16-4.fc11(which is higher than 0.10.16-3)

  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-10937

But that package, which should have appeared in the repo at the same
time as the new gstreamer-plugins-base, is not found on the master
download server yet. As why only gstreamer-plugins-base has been made
available already, only somebody who controls the push-process can tell.

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Re: Saving Flash

[Andrew Hall]

http://tinyurl.com/yaxs4an

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Re: rpm package conflict

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Michael Schwendt wrote, at 11/13/2009 08:23 PM +9:00:

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:42:18 -0500, James wrote:


All,
In the latest set of system updates, I saw this package conflict:

[r...@pc32 ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package gstreamer-plugins-base.i586 0:0.10.25-2.fc11 set to be
updated
--> Processing Conflict: gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.25-2.fc11.i586
conflicts gstreamer-plugins-good < 0.10.16-3


Notice the maximum release it prints out:

  gstreamer-plugins-good  lower than  0.10.16-3

The corresponding update ticket prints a higher version for the package
that would not conflict:

  gstreamer-plugins-good  0.10.16-4.fc11(which is higher than 0.10.16-3)

  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-10937

But that package, which should have appeared in the repo at the same
time as the new gstreamer-plugins-base, is not found on the master
download server yet. As why only gstreamer-plugins-base has been made
available already, only somebody who controls the push-process can tell.



Ah...

[tasa...@localhost ~]$ koji latest-pkg dist-f11-updates gstreamer-plugins-good
Build Tag   Built by
    
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-2.fc11 dist-f11-updates  hadess
[tasa...@localhost ~]$ koji list-tag-history 
--build=gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11
Tue Oct 20 23:54:42 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 with 
dist-f11-updates-candidate
Tue Oct 27 04:38:28 2009: Untagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 from 
dist-f11-updates-candidate
Tue Oct 27 04:38:28 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 with 
dist-f11-updates-testing
Tue Oct 27 19:52:27 2009: Untagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 from 
dist-f11-updates-testing
Tue Oct 27 19:52:27 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 with 
dist-f11-updates-candidate
Thu Oct 29 04:28:19 2009: Untagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 from 
dist-f11-updates-candidate
Thu Oct 29 04:28:19 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 with 
dist-f11-updates-testing
Tue Nov  3 15:59:09 2009: Untagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 from 
dist-f11-updates-testing
Tue Nov  3 15:59:09 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 with 
dist-f11-updates-candidate
Tue Nov  3 21:23:28 2009: Untagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 from 
dist-f11-updates-candidate
Tue Nov  3 21:23:28 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 with 
dist-f11-updates-testing
Thu Nov 12 23:55:06 2009: Untagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 from 
dist-f11-updates-testing
Thu Nov 12 23:55:06 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 with 
dist-f11-updates [still active]
[tasa...@localhost ~]$ koji list-tag-history 
--build=gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-2.fc11
Sat Oct 17 00:00:51 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-2.fc11 with 
dist-f11-updates-candidate
Tue Oct 20 22:48:16 2009: Untagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-2.fc11 from 
dist-f11-updates-candidate
Tue Oct 20 22:48:16 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-2.fc11 with 
dist-f11-updates-testing
Thu Nov 12 23:56:38 2009: Untagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-2.fc11 from 
dist-f11-updates-testing
Thu Nov 12 23:56:38 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-2.fc11 with 
dist-f11-updates [still active]

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-10937
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-10647

So the "latest" F11updates gstreamer-plugins-good is actually 0.10.16-2.fc11, not 
0.10.16-4.fc11. This needs rel-eng commitment.


Regards,
Mamoru

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nuxeo ECM, and where is Context.compressReader() in openJDK?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  let me see how succinct i can make this.  i'm writing a doc on how
to install and build the open source nuxeo ECM software on fedora
using openJDK-1.6.0:

http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Nuxeo_on_Fedora

nothing deep about simply downloading and installing the zip file,
that works fine.

  however, trying to build the mercurial checkout fails, as you can
read further down that page.  as i read it (and i could be wrong), the
failure is the result of trying to call the java method
Context.compressReader(), which i don't see exists anymore -- it's
entirely missing from this page:

http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/apidocs/org/mozilla/javascript/Context.html

and that certainly seems to be the problem based on the build error
message, no?

  someone from nuxeo just pointed out that they don't guarantee a
successful build under openJDK, only under *sun's* java.  so does that
mean sun's java *would* have that class method?  or am i
misinterpreting this?  just for the entertainment value, it would be
nice to finish that build with openJDK.  does anyone here know what
the story is for Context.compressReader()?  am i reading correctly
that it simply doesn't exist in openJDK?

  just for fun, i attached the offending .java file, it's only 69
lines long so java gurus can see clearly what's being imported.

  thoughts?

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/*
 * (C) Copyright 2006-2007 Nuxeo SAS  and others
 *
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 * Jean-Marc Orliaguet, Chalmers
 *
 * $Id$
 */

package org.nuxeo.theme.html;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.mozilla.javascript.Context;
import org.mozilla.javascript.ContextAction;
import org.mozilla.javascript.Script;
import org.mozilla.javascript.tools.ToolErrorReporter;
import org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Global;
import org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main;

public final class JSUtils {

static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(JSUtils.class);

private static final Global global = Main.getGlobal();

static {
ToolErrorReporter errorReporter = new ToolErrorReporter(false,
global.getErr());
Main.shellContextFactory.setErrorReporter(errorReporter);
global.init(Main.shellContextFactory);
}

public static String compressSource(final String source) {
IProxy iproxy = new IProxy(source);
return (String) Main.shellContextFactory.call(iproxy);
}

private static class IProxy implements ContextAction {
private final String source;

IProxy(String source) {
this.source = source;
}

public Object run(final Context cx) {
try {
final Script script = Main.loadScriptFromSource(cx, source,
"compress", 1, null);
return cx.compressReader(global, script, source, "compress", 1,
null);
} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
// Can happen on very large files (> 500K) with JDK 5
log.error("Could not compress javascript source.");
return source;
} catch (NoSuchMethodError e) {
// custom_rhino.jar is not installed.
log.info("Could not compress javascript source. 
custom_rhino.jar is probably not installed.");
return source;
}
}
}

}
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Re: How do I share a wireless network connection with a wired device ?

[Sam Varshavchik]

Linuxguy123 writes:



So, I reverted to using system-config-network and firestarter.  I
disabled NetworkManager controlling the devices.  Firestarter kept
saying that eth0 wasn't ready and crashing.   I know I've run into this
problem before with statically configured ports and firestarter, but I
can't remember what I did to fix it.

This is way harder than it needs to be !

I'm hoping the Network Manager in F12 will be a little more refined.


Sometimes, it's easier to configure things directly by editing the contents 
of /etc/sysconfig, rather than try to figure out how to do it using some 
flashy GUI.


What you want to do is not really that exotic. However it is also rather 
uncommon, so, sometimes, you find that the tools which are designed for 
average users and common situations simply cannot accomodate an unusual 
situation, even though, underneath, it's not really that complicated.





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Re: rpm package conflict

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Mamoru Tasaka wrote, at 11/13/2009 08:50 PM +9:00:

Michael Schwendt wrote, at 11/13/2009 08:23 PM +9:00:

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:42:18 -0500, James wrote:


All,
In the latest set of system updates, I saw this package conflict:

[r...@pc32 ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package gstreamer-plugins-base.i586 0:0.10.25-2.fc11 set to be
updated
--> Processing Conflict: gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.25-2.fc11.i586
conflicts gstreamer-plugins-good < 0.10.16-3


Notice the maximum release it prints out:

  gstreamer-plugins-good  lower than  0.10.16-3

The corresponding update ticket prints a higher version for the package
that would not conflict:

  gstreamer-plugins-good  0.10.16-4.fc11(which is higher than 
0.10.16-3)


  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-10937

But that package, which should have appeared in the repo at the same
time as the new gstreamer-plugins-base, is not found on the master
download server yet. As why only gstreamer-plugins-base has been made
available already, only somebody who controls the push-process can tell.



Ah...

[tasa...@localhost ~]$ koji latest-pkg dist-f11-updates 
gstreamer-plugins-good

Build Tag   Built by
    


gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-2.fc11 dist-f11-updates  hadess
[tasa...@localhost ~]$ koji list-tag-history 
--build=gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11
Tue Oct 20 23:54:42 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 
with dist-f11-updates-candidate
Tue Oct 27 04:38:28 2009: Untagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 
from dist-f11-updates-candidate
Tue Oct 27 04:38:28 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 
with dist-f11-updates-testing
Tue Oct 27 19:52:27 2009: Untagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 
from dist-f11-updates-testing
Tue Oct 27 19:52:27 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 
with dist-f11-updates-candidate
Thu Oct 29 04:28:19 2009: Untagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 
from dist-f11-updates-candidate
Thu Oct 29 04:28:19 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 
with dist-f11-updates-testing
Tue Nov  3 15:59:09 2009: Untagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 
from dist-f11-updates-testing
Tue Nov  3 15:59:09 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 
with dist-f11-updates-candidate
Tue Nov  3 21:23:28 2009: Untagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 
from dist-f11-updates-candidate
Tue Nov  3 21:23:28 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 
with dist-f11-updates-testing
Thu Nov 12 23:55:06 2009: Untagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 
from dist-f11-updates-testing
Thu Nov 12 23:55:06 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 
with dist-f11-updates [still active]
[tasa...@localhost ~]$ koji list-tag-history 
--build=gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-2.fc11
Sat Oct 17 00:00:51 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-2.fc11 
with dist-f11-updates-candidate
Tue Oct 20 22:48:16 2009: Untagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-2.fc11 
from dist-f11-updates-candidate
Tue Oct 20 22:48:16 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-2.fc11 
with dist-f11-updates-testing
Thu Nov 12 23:56:38 2009: Untagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-2.fc11 
from dist-f11-updates-testing
Thu Nov 12 23:56:38 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-2.fc11 
with dist-f11-updates [still active]


https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-10937
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-10647

So the "latest" F11updates gstreamer-plugins-good is actually 
0.10.16-2.fc11, not 0.10.16-4.fc11. This needs rel-eng commitment.


Regards,
Mamoru



Requested:
https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/3154

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Re: rpm package conflict

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:50:23 +0900, Mamoru wrote:

> Thu Nov 12 23:55:06 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 with 
> dist-f11-updates [still active]

> Thu Nov 12 23:56:38 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-2.fc11 with 
> dist-f11-updates [still active]
 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-10937
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-10647
> 
> So the "latest" F11updates gstreamer-plugins-good is actually 0.10.16-2.fc11, 
> not 
> 0.10.16-4.fc11. This needs rel-eng commitment.

*sigh*  Another source of errors. One would assume that highest package
EVR wins. Now it's latest tag in koji? :-(  Bodhi used to obsolete older
update requests when filing new ones, but that feature has been disabled
some time ago.

Can somebody kill  gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-2.fc11  in favour of
the newer/fixed group of updates?

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Re: nuxeo ECM, and where is Context.compressReader() in openJDK?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Andrew Haley wrote:

> I think it was a nonstandard extension to Rhino to read compressed
> javascript.

  so sun's java is using that non-standard extension while openjdk
isn't?  so what's the story in terms of adherence to formal java
standards?  i'm not a java guru, but this tells me that openjdk
adheres to the "standard" (whatever that is) more strictly than sun.
is that the conclusion i should be drawing here?

> >   someone from nuxeo just pointed out that they don't guarantee a
> > successful build under openJDK, only under *sun's* java.  so does
> > that mean sun's java *would* have that class method?  or am i
> > misinterpreting this?  just for the entertainment value, it would
> > be nice to finish that build with openJDK.  does anyone here know
> > what the story is for Context.compressReader()?  am i reading
> > correctly that it simply doesn't exist in openJDK?
>
> Yes.  All you need to do is replace the call to
> Context.compressReader() with a dynamic lookup.  There's an example
> at
>
> http://fisheye5.cenqua.com/browse/dwr/java/org/directwebremoting/impl/ShrinkSafeCompressor.java?r1=1.1&r2=1.2&u=-1&ignore=&k=o
>
> which shows exactly how to use Context.class.getMethod("compressReader",
> and
>
> compressReaderMethod.invoke

  yes, i'd already found that page and realized what was happening
there.  all i really want to confirm is that the code above that's
failing is failing because it's badly-behaved and calling a
non-standard extension that will cause it to break under openjdk.

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Re: cups-pdf and selinux

[Daniel J Walsh]

Don't worry about it, you are not alone...  :^(

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Re: Saving Flash

[Bob McConnell]

Fennix wrote:


Why does no-one answer the question?  There must be some better ways than
just browsing through the /tmp/cache directories to (hopefully) find the
correct file.  I also would like to know a better way to do this.  I have
two possible ways...

(Method 1)  If the browser being used is Firefox then adding something like
FlashGot might work...
(Method 2)  Right click on the link and copy to the clipboard.  Next open a
shell and use wget  to retrieve the file.  If the link opens another
web page I am not sure if this will successfully retrieve the actual video
file...



Method 3 - View page source and extract the URI for the file. Use 
another application or write a Perl script to retrieve that file.


Bob McConnell
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Re: nuxeo ECM, and where is Context.compressReader() in openJDK?

[Andrew Haley]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   let me see how succinct i can make this.  i'm writing a doc on how
> to install and build the open source nuxeo ECM software on fedora
> using openJDK-1.6.0:
> 
> http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Nuxeo_on_Fedora
> 
> nothing deep about simply downloading and installing the zip file,
> that works fine.
> 
>   however, trying to build the mercurial checkout fails, as you can
> read further down that page.  as i read it (and i could be wrong), the
> failure is the result of trying to call the java method
> Context.compressReader(), which i don't see exists anymore -- it's
> entirely missing from this page:
> 
> http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/apidocs/org/mozilla/javascript/Context.html
> 
> and that certainly seems to be the problem based on the build error
> message, no?

I think it was a nonstandard extension to Rhino to read compressed
javascript.

>   someone from nuxeo just pointed out that they don't guarantee a
> successful build under openJDK, only under *sun's* java.  so does that
> mean sun's java *would* have that class method?  or am i
> misinterpreting this?  just for the entertainment value, it would be
> nice to finish that build with openJDK.  does anyone here know what
> the story is for Context.compressReader()?  am i reading correctly
> that it simply doesn't exist in openJDK?

Yes.  All you need to do is replace the call to Context.compressReader()
with a dynamic lookup.  There's an example at

http://fisheye5.cenqua.com/browse/dwr/java/org/directwebremoting/impl/ShrinkSafeCompressor.java?r1=1.1&r2=1.2&u=-1&ignore=&k=o

which shows exactly how to use Context.class.getMethod("compressReader",
and

compressReaderMethod.invoke

Andrew.

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Re: unexpected logout

[Bob McConnell]

Dj YB wrote:

On Friday November 13 2009 02:44:54 suvayu ali wrote:

2009/11/12 Ed Greshko :

Ed Greshko wrote:

Yes, it is due to the extension and the way it is treated by MIMEbut
that's another story.

What is normally recommended is that you run memtest86+.  First you have
to install it as it isn't installed by default.  Then, AFAIK, the best
way to run it is standalone.  Meaning from boot.  As an example, I have
the following in my /boot/grub.conf file.

title Memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /memtest86+-2.11 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_f11-lv_root rhgb
quiet

Also, I have

timeout=8
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu

to ensure I can get to select what I want  :-)

Since the problem is intermittent, you should leave it running for an
extended period.

Ed

The other option I forgot to mention is to download the bootable CD
image from http://www.memtest86.com/ and boot from the CD that you burn.

... or just boot with a Fedora CD or DVD and select memtest in in the
boot options menu. :)


thanks
but how much time should I wait?
could there be another explanation?
I will run this test now and get back to you after it is done
cheers
YB.



How frequently was the error occurring? I would wait at least twice that 
long if memtest doesn't report any errors. The computer will be off line 
for that period. That's why I just replace the memory cards. I can put 
the computer is back in service. If the error returns after that, I am 
no worse off than before, but then I can decide whether to replace the 
box or take the time to do further troubleshooting.


Make sure you run the test under the same conditions as the computer 
normally operates, covers on, in the rack, etc. Memory is very sensitive 
to a number of environmental and functional variations, including 
temperature, write/read sequencing and even address sequences. Testing 
it on the bench with the covers off will change those conditions 
significantly.


Many years ago there were articles published about how to create schmoo 
test patterns to detect errors that only occurred with specific 
densities of '1' bits in sections of the die. Each test was specific to 
one particular memory chip. Now that the manufacturing processes have 
matured, I believe that class of tests is only used in production prior 
to cutting the chips the from the wafer. However, memtest probably 
includes some of those tests.


Bob McConnell
N2SPP

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Re: Re: How to Backup and Restore MBR within Logical Volumes?

[Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) <
space.time.unive...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) <
> space.time.unive...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) <
>> space.time.unive...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Sergey Vlasov  wrote:
>>>
 On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:57:22AM +0800, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
 wrote:
 [...]
 > # VM 11: Rocks 5.1 x86_64 HPC Compute Cluster HVM domU
 >
 > kpartx -av /dev/virtualmachines/rocks0001
 >
 > dd if=/dev/virtualmachines/rocks0001 of=$DEST/rocks0001.mbr bs=512
 count=1
 >
 > partimage -d -M -b -z1 save /dev/mapper/virtualmachines-rocks0001p1
 > $DEST/virtualmachines-rocks0001p1.img
 >
 > partimage -d -M -b -z1 save /dev/mapper/virtualmachines-rocks0001p2
 > $DEST/virtualmachines-rocks0001p2.img
 >
 > partimage -d -M -b -z1 save /dev/mapper/virtualmachines-rocks0001p5
 > $DEST/virtualmachines-rocks0001p5.img

 Note that this VM (and some other VMs listed in your script) uses
 logical partitions.  In this case just saving a copy of MBR will not
 be enough to save partition layout - MBR describes only 4 primary
 partitions, and restoring just MBR will not restore extended
 partitions.

 One way to backup the complete partition layout is by saving also
 the output of "sfdisk -d $device"; the resulting file can be used as
 input to sfdisk to restore all partitions, including logical ones.
 Saving MBR is still needed together with sfdisk, because it saves
 the boot code (used for HVM) and CHS geometry information (which can
 be used during boot in some cases).

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 Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)

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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for pointing this out. Otherwise I would made incomplete
>>> backups.
>>>
>>> Would it be best practice to always backup both the MBR and the partition
>>> geometry using sfdisk whenever cloning our harddisks on desktops and
>>> servers?
>>>
>>> Besides sfdisk, there are also other partitioning tools like fdisk,
>>> cfdisk, and parted.
>>>
>>> Could these other tools also be used for backing up the partition
>>> geometry like sfdisk?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>>
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>>> (1) Singapore Polytechnic
>>> (2) National University of Singapore
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>>> Mobile Phone (Starhub Prepaid): +65-8369-2618
>>> Street: Bedok Reservoir Road
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>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have made some improvements to the backup/cloning script. Please help me
>> to vet it through for any mistakes. Thank you very much!
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>***SNIPPED***

> 
>>
>> --
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>> Engineering)
>> Alma Maters:
>> (1) Singapore Polytechnic
>> (2) National University of Singapore
>> My Primary Blog: http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com
>> My Secondary Blog: http://enmingteo.wordpress.com
>> My Youtube videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/enmingteo
>> Email: space.time.unive...@gmail.com
>> Mobile Phone (Starhub Prepaid): +65-8369-2618
>> Street: Bedok Reservoir Road
>> Country: Singapore
>>
>
> Hi All,
>
> This is the final version of my backup script. I have gone through the
> script once to make sure there are no mistakes. If I want to capture any
> errors during the execution of the backup/cloning script, which of the
> following commands do I run?
>
> # ./backup-script.sh > backup.log
>
> OR
>
> # ./backup-script.sh 2> backup.log
>
> After completing the backup script, I will proceed to write the restore
> script.
>
> If there are any errors, please let me know because I do not want to make
> any mistakes with the cloning process. Thank you.
>
> 
> ***SNIPPED***
> 
>
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Re: Saving Flash

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Fennix  wrote:
> Why does no-one answer the question?

I can give two reasons:

1) The video in the link provided by OP is broken, and apparently
cannot be played outside Canada. So the majority of people on this
list cannot reproduce the problem the OP is having. And the generic
answer has already been posted, for google-impaired people, a
millionth time now.
2) The OP could simply ask "please help me download the video from
this link", without the political bloat in the message subject and
body. The fact that he insisted on it even after being warned that
people on this list are not interested in discussing politics marks
him as a troll in people's eyes, so nobody wishes to engage in the
discussion.

> There must be some better ways than
> just browsing through the /tmp/cache directories to (hopefully) find the
> correct file.  I also would like to know a better way to do this.

Oh, please, it's just copying one file from the /tmp directory! If you
want a GUI for this, create a button in your favourite launcher and
have it execute

  cp /tmp/Flash* ~

Then, when you want to save some flash video you are watching in the
browser, wait until it is buffered completely, and then click the damn
button. It really cannot get any simpler than that.

Of course, you can always make it more complicated, by having a GUI
that will ask you to name the file, wait until it is completely
buffered, handle multiple simultaneous flash videos from several
browsers, have a trillion of useless clickable configuration options,
cook a coffee for you while you wait, watch over your kid while you
are watching videos, etc, but I think it is just not worth the effort.
Those who think it is worth the effort should create a bash script
that does all that and have that script invoked with the button.

HTH, :-)
Marko

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Re: new install, Firewall, anti-virus? (BitDefender can help)

[James Harrison]

Its not free. You have a 30 day trial. I hate this marketing scheme.

Linux is free. Keep it free.

James


On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 15:58 +0530, Jatin K wrote:
> On 11/13/2009 03:34 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:47 AM, James Harrison
> >   wrote:
> >
> >> Well done for trashing Windows 7 and replacing it with F11. You are
> >> moving in the right direction.
> >>
> >> Haven't seen a Linux virus yet.
> >>
> >> James
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 00:15 +, Jim Douglas wrote:
> >>  
> >>> I just trashed Windows 7 and installed FC11 but before I connect to
> >>> the internet how best could I protect the machine?
> >>>
> >>> Is the firewall up and running by default effective? It's a home
> >>> machine but I plan on adding a web server.
> >>>
> >>> What is the best anti-virus?
> >>>
> >>> (Bye, bye windows!)
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Jim
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> __
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> > Well done, you are now free.
> >
> > Linux kernel already has a firewall (netfilter), and in fedora there
> > is easy to use GUI called system-config-firewall (System>
> > Administration>  Firewall)
> >
> > Linux virus are very rare and no efficient until you are *root*, there
> > is a very powerful Free / Open Source anti-virus called ClamAV used to
> > scan you PC from Windows virus/trojan/worm and very rare Linux ones...
> >
> > Personaly, i use ClamAV to scan web servers, mail servers, SMB servers
> > from windows virus and very rare PHP shells (backdoors)
> >
> > Best regards.
> >
> >
> you can go with Bitdefender also (it is free for home users)  get it 
> from here[1] they are having GUI version and Non-GUI version too for 
> FreeBSD and other distro.(32bit and 64bit ) . it can detect windows 
> virus
> 
> it is very useful if you are sharing the data/files with M$ user ( off 
> course to protect those M$ OS )
> 
> [1]
> --
> http://download.bitdefender.com/SMB/Workstation_Security_and_Management/BitDefender_Antivirus_Scanner_for_Unices/Unix/Current/EN_FR_BR_RO/Linux/
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Re: nuxeo ECM, and where is Context.compressReader() in openJDK?

[Andrew Haley]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Andrew Haley wrote:
> 
>> I think it was a nonstandard extension to Rhino to read compressed
>> javascript.
> 
>   so sun's java is using that non-standard extension while openjdk
> isn't?  so what's the story in terms of adherence to formal java
> standards?

Rhino is javascript, not java.  It's not part of the Java API.

> i'm not a java guru, but this tells me that openjdk
> adheres to the "standard" (whatever that is) more strictly than sun.
> is that the conclusion i should be drawing here?

No.  Rhino is not part of Java: it is present in openjdk, but it
isn't strictly part of Java.  We need it for LiveConnect.

>>>   someone from nuxeo just pointed out that they don't guarantee a
>>> successful build under openJDK, only under *sun's* java.  so does
>>> that mean sun's java *would* have that class method?  or am i
>>> misinterpreting this?  just for the entertainment value, it would
>>> be nice to finish that build with openJDK.  does anyone here know
>>> what the story is for Context.compressReader()?  am i reading
>>> correctly that it simply doesn't exist in openJDK?
>> Yes.  All you need to do is replace the call to
>> Context.compressReader() with a dynamic lookup.  There's an example
>> at
>>
>> http://fisheye5.cenqua.com/browse/dwr/java/org/directwebremoting/impl/ShrinkSafeCompressor.java?r1=1.1&r2=1.2&u=-1&ignore=&k=o
>>
>> which shows exactly how to use Context.class.getMethod("compressReader",
>> and
>>
>> compressReaderMethod.invoke
> 
>   yes, i'd already found that page and realized what was happening
> there.  all i really want to confirm is that the code above that's
> failing is failing because it's badly-behaved and calling a
> non-standard extension that will cause it to break under openjdk.

That's right.  I wouldn't call it badly behaved, but it is depending on
a nonstandard extension to Rhino.

Andrew.

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screensaver

[Patrick Dupre]

Hello,

On Fedora11 (64 bits), working in graphics mode, the sceeensaver
runs ! Example:

top - 13:04:54 up 6 days, 13:00,  7 users,  load average: 1.53, 1.26, 0.94
Tasks: 214 total,   2 running, 212 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  6.8%us,  3.4%sy, 13.5%ni, 76.2%id,  0.1%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si, 
0.0%st

Mem:   3036432k total,  2124356k used,   912076k free,   301124k buffers
Swap:  8120772k total,0k used,  8120772k free,  1028012k cached

  PID USER  PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+  COMMAND
23518 pdupre30  10 78100  11m 2732 S 41.1  0.4   1:48.22 gears
23481 pdupre20   0  458m  24m 9.8m R 27.4  0.8   1:36.46 npviewer.bin
 2287 pdupre20   0  116m  42m 9356 S  9.8  1.4 961:23.08 Xvnc


gears is one of the screesavers. Why is it activated when I am working.
There is not other Xsession opened, no other user, and nothing on the 
screen (ie. gears) !

It looks like that it is only runnning in background and consumming PCU.
I can easy kill the process, but after 5 minutes again another one is
going to run (in background like hypertorus) even if I am working !

Is the screensaver inapropriatedly configurated ?

Thank for your ideas.

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Re: new install, Firewall, anti-virus? (BitDefender can help)

[Jatin K]

On 11/13/2009 06:33 PM, James Harrison wrote:

Its not free. You have a 30 day trial. I hate this marketing scheme.
   


First of all this is not marketing .. I never do marketing on the list


have you installed it   how did you come to know that it is not FREE

I've installed it and it is running very well


just install it and see  after install it will ask you for free 
registration  and you will get a key to register you copy


don't blame on others  without knowing the things ( of course you 
must know this if you are posting to the list )




Linux is free. Keep it free.

James


On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 15:58 +0530, Jatin K wrote:
   




   

you can go with Bitdefender also (it is free for home users)  get it
from here[1] they are having GUI version and Non-GUI version too for
FreeBSD and other distro.(32bit and 64bit ) . it can detect windows
virus

it is very useful if you are sharing the data/files with M$ user ( off
course to protect those M$ OS )

[1]
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Re: new install, Firewall, anti-virus? (BitDefender can help)

[Jatin K]

On 11/13/2009 06:33 PM, James Harrison wrote:

Its not free. You have a 30 day trial. I hate this marketing scheme.

Linux is free. Keep it free.

James

   


   

you can go with Bitdefender also (it is free for home users)  get it
from here[1] they are having GUI version and Non-GUI version too for
FreeBSD and other distro.(32bit and 64bit ) . it can detect windows
virus

it is very useful if you are sharing the data/files with M$ user ( off
course to protect those M$ OS )

[1]
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Regards

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You can get Free license key form here[1]

[1]
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Webstart

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

 Hello,

  This one opens fine under any Windows or Mac computer I can get hold
of, but not on my F11:

$javaws http://vcell.org/webstart/Rel/vcell.jnlp
netx: Unexpected net.sourceforge.jnlp.ParseException: Invalid XML
document syntax. at
net.sourceforge.jnlp.Parser.getRootNode(Parser.java:1200)

  I'm not sure when was the last time this worked under F11. Any hope
this will work in the near future?

 Take care
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Combining CD ISO images into DVD ISO image

[Manuel Castro]

Hi,

I have five Red Hat 8.0 CD ISO images and I want to combine them into a DVD
ISO image using the following command in the kernel version 2.6 of fedora
11:

mkisofs -o Psyche-i386-dvd.iso
-b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat
-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table
-R -m TRANS.TBL
-x Psyche-i386-disc1/.discinfo -x Psyche-i386-disc1/isolinux
-graft-points Psyche-i386-disc1 .discinfo=.discinfo isolinux/=isolinux
RedHat/=Psyche-i386-disc2/RedHat RedHat/=Psyche-i386-disc3/RedHat
SRPMS/=Psyche-i386-disc3/SRPMS SRPMS/=Psyche-i386-disc4/SRPMS
SRPMS/=Psyche-i386-disc5/SRPMS docs/=Psyche-docs

and is appearing an error:

genisoimage: Error: '(null)' and 'isolinux/boot.cat' have the same Rock
Ridge name 'boot.cat'.
Unable to sort directory isolinux
NOTE: multiple source directories have been specified and merged into the
root
of the filesystem. Check your program arguments. genisoimage is not tar.

The command was originally make for a kernel version 2.4, but I don't know
what change for the command to run on a kernel version 2.6.
I would  like your help

Thanks,

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Re: nuxeo ECM, and where is Context.compressReader() in openJDK?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  regarding rhino and Context.compressReader():

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Andrew Haley wrote:

> I wouldn't call it badly behaved, but it is depending on
> a nonstandard extension to Rhino.

  ok, i think i've finally clued in here.  i do, in fact, have the
rhino package installed here on f12 beta:

$ rpm -qa "*rhino*"
rhino-1.7-0.7.r2.fc12.noarch
$

but if i unload the jar file for it and take a look at the Context
class, well ...

$ javap Context | grep compress
$

so i see what you mean now.  ergo, if i want that aforementioned code
to work, i'll need to grab a 3rd-party package that provides that
functionality.  thanks.

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Re: Re: How to Backup and Restore MBR within Logical Volumes?

[Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Dustin Henning
wrote:

>As you are running Windows, I will assume that you are using HVM,
> and therefore that /dev/virtualmachines/windows7-x64 is a hard disk image.
> As such, the command you listed will back up the MBR, including the
> partition table.  That isn't to say that Windows 7 doesn't have additional
> boot information outside of the MBR, but that information would be included
> in a file system backup.  Wikipedia has the structure of the MBR in a table
> at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record.  On that note, I often
> use bs=446 when I want the MBR without the partition table, but if you are
> backing up the partition as opposed to the file structure, then you might
> as
> well keep the partition table (or even just back up the image).
>Dustin
>
> From: fedora-xen-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-xen-boun...@redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 04:45
> To: Geert Janssens
> Cc: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.;
> xen-us...@lists.xensource.com; Fedora Xen
> Subject: [Fedora-xen] Re: [Xen-users] How to Backup and Restore MBR within
> Logical Volumes?
>
> > dd if=/dev/virtualmachines/windows7-x64 of=mbr.w7-x64 bs=512 count=1
>
> I think if you do this, you are only backing up the first 512 bytes of the
> logical volume, not the MBR.
>
> Someone correct me if I am wrong.
>
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> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Geert Janssens  wrote:
> On Thursday 12 November 2009, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have several Xen virtual machines within logical volumes using LVM2. I
> > did not use disk images for performance reasons.
> >
> > Conventionally, if I want to clone my virtual machines, I have to dd the
> LV
> > to an image file. But this consumes a lot of time and harddisk space.
> >
> > So, instead of doing that, I want to use losetup and kpartx with my
> logical
> > volumes, which contain operating systems of virtual machines.
> >
> > I can backup the filesystems of a virtual machine in this way:
> >
> > # losetup /dev/loop1 /dev/virtualmachines/windows7-x64
> >
> Are you sure you need to call losetup first ?
>
> I remember I used kpartx directly on the lvm containing my vbd.
>
> Also, I think you can treat the lvm based vbd as a real disk.
>
> So
> dd if=/dev/virtualmachines/windows7-x64 of=mbr.w7-x64 bs=512 count=1
>
> should backup your mbr.
>
> Anyone correct me if I'm wrong please.
>
> Geert
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Hi Dustin,

The MBR backup guide that I was following is this one:

Article: MBR tricks with LinuxLink:
http://www.tuxation.com/mbr-tricks-with-linux.htmlHere is the final version
of my data restore script. Could you check if there are mistakes in it?


#!/bin/sh

###
###
# Script to Restore Xen Host/Dom0 and all DomUs which are using Logical
Volumes as Virtual Hard Disks
###
###

# Written by:

# Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical
Engineering)
# Alma Maters:
# (1) Singapore Polytechnic
# (2) National University of Singapore
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# Secondary Blog: http://enmingteo.wordpress.com
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Re: Saving Flash

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 13:01 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>   cp /tmp/Flash* ~
> 
> Then, when you want to save some flash video you are watching in the
> browser, wait until it is buffered completely, and then click the damn
> button. It really cannot get any simpler than that.

Yes it can :-) :

$ ln /tmp/Flash-stuff.flv /tmp/Flash-stuff.flv.save

Note that this is a hard link. Use a "for" loop in your script if you
want to save /tmp/Flash*. Doing it this way means a) you don't
physically copy the file and b) you don't have to wait for it to finish
downloading before deciding to grab it.

However these methods don't always work. I seem to remember seeing sites
that unlink the /tmp file immediately after creating it. If that happens
you'd need to poke around in /proc//fd.

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Re: new install, Firewall, anti-virus? (BitDefender can help)

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 18:44 +0530, Jatin K wrote:
> just install it and see  after install it will ask you for free 
> registration  and you will get a key to register you copy

In the context of this list it's important to distinguish free as in
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gratis, not libre.

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Re: Creating a local RPM repository

[Bill Davidsen]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

Bill Davidsen wrote:


But it's really simple, just create a directory on a server,
mount it rw on /var/cache/yum, and run update on one machine at a time.
Any prm used on one machine is there for the others, and you never
download a byte of data you don't need on *some* machine, so bandwidth
is minimized.

Thanks for the response.
I'm away from home at the moment, so can't try what you suggest.
But I don't understand one point:
Isn't /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/ normally cleared after "yum
update"?


See the original post, which noted that /etc/yum.conf needs keepcache set
to 1.


Ok, thanks, I missed that.
Must have fallen into the sea somewhere between Ireland and Italy.

I suppose you just have to clear the cache every now and then?
How do you do that, as a matter of interest? 

You want to use the repomanage package, it can list or remove old packages, just 
keeping the most recent version (or several). No man page, but the --help option 
gives all you need.


Avoid the "clean" stuff in yum, it doesn't do what you need, and may delete all 
the stuff you want to keep, rather than just the old stuff. If you want to be 
able to roll back you can get a list of just the old stuff and archive it.


Works really well for me. Good luck!

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Re: Simple Harddisk Backup/Cloning and Data Restore Scripts for your Fedora Desktops

[Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)]

*Restore script:*


#!/bin/sh

###
###
# Script to Restore Xen Host/Dom0 and all DomUs which are using Logical
Volumes as Virtual Hard Disks
###
###

# Written by:

# Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical
Engineering)
# Alma Maters:
# (1) Singapore Polytechnic
# (2) National University of Singapore
# Primary Blog: http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com
# Secondary Blog: http://enmingteo.wordpress.com
# Youtube Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/enmingteo
# Xen Tutorials and Video Demos: http://www.xen.org/support/tutorial.html
# Email: space.time.unive...@gmail.com
# MSN: teoenm...@hotmail.com
# Mobile Phone (Starhub Prepaid): +65-8369-2618
# Street: Bedok Reservoir Road
# Country: Singapore

# First written: 13 November 2009 Friday 6:49 P.M. Singapore time
# Last updated: 13 November 2009 Friday 8:25 P.M. Singapore time
# Last updated: 13 November 2009 Friday 8:59 P.M. Singapore time
# Last updated: 13 November 2009 Friday 9:40 P.M. Singapore time

# REFERNCE: "Geek Sheet: Bare-metal backup and recovery", May 7th, 2008,
Jason Perlow
# URL: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8759

# Usage Instructions:

# Boot up your desktop/server with System Rescue CD version 1.3.2 for
i386/amd64.
# Then execute this restore script. You need to adapt this script to work
for your environment.
# Download System Rescue CD from http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

# No. of QC Checks Performed on this restore script: 1

###
# Declare Variables
###

HARDDISK=/dev/sda
SOURCE=/media/hitachi/test

###
###
# Restoring Xen Host/Dom0
###
###

# Restore the Master Boot Record
dd if=$SOURCE/f11-xen-dom0-sda.mbr of=$HARDDISK bs=512 count=1

# Restore the Partition Geometry
sfdisk $HARDDISK < $SOURCE/f11-xen-dom0-partition-geometry-sda.sfdisk

# Re-create the LVM2 PV containing the host operating system/dom0
pvcreate --uuid ??? /dev/sda2

# Re-create the LVM2 PV containing all the virtual machines
pvcreate --uuid ??? /dev/sda3

# Restore the LVM2 metadata for the volume group containing the host
operating system/dom0
vgcfgrestore --file $SOURCE/vg_fedora11_host-vgcfg.lvm2.metadata
vg_fedora11_host

# Restore the LVM2 metadata for the volume group containing all the virtual
machines
vgcfgrestore --file $SOURCE/virtualmachines-vgcfg.lvm2.metadata
virtualmachines

# Activate all the volume groups
vgchange -ay

# Restore all filesystems for the host operating system/dom0
fsarchiver restfs -v $SOURCE/f11-xen-dom0-filesystems.fsa
id=0,dest=/dev/sda1 \
id=1,dest=/dev/vg_fedora11_host/lv_home \
id=2,dest=/dev/vg_fedora11_host/lv_root \
id=3,dest=/dev/vg_fedora11_host/lv_var

# Re-create the swap partition
mkswap /dev/vg_fedora11_host/lv_swap

###
###
# Restoring Xen-based Virtual Machines/DomUs/Guest Operating Systems/VMs
###
###

### NOTE: Check for swap partitions in each virtual machine and do a mkswap.

# VM 1: Fedora 11 x86_64 PV domU (MPICH2 Virtual Supercomputer Center)
###

zcat $SOURCE/virtualmachines-f11-pv-hpc-node0001.img.gz | dd
of=/dev/virtualmachines/f11-pv-hpc-node0001

# VM 2: Fedora 11 x86_64 PV domU (MPICH2 Virtual Supercomputer Center)
###

zcat $SOURCE/virtualmachines-f11-pv-hpc-node0002.img.gz | dd
of=/dev/virtualmachines/f11-pv-hpc-node0002

# VM 3: Fedora 11 x86_64 PV domU (MPICH2 Virtual

How to prevent horizontal scrolling from switching apps and desktops

[Wendell Nichols]

I use fedora on a thinkpad with a synaptics touch pad mouse.  I find it 
to be very good except for one thing; an accidental gesture across the 
mousepad will cause the desktop so switch between applicaitons on the 
current desktop, or, depending where the mouse is, to scroll across 
desktops.  This results in a flurry of motion on the screen and then 
leaves me to find which of the 8 desktops I was on, an then which of the 
8 or 10 apps per desktop I was using.  ya I have a busy system which is 
why I use linux!
Is there any way to disable this behavior?  I've installed the touchpad 
tool and it did not help do disable horizontal scrolling.

your ideas will be welcome :)
wendell nichols

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Re: Saving Flash

[Bill Davidsen]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:


However these methods don't always work. I seem to remember seeing sites
that unlink the /tmp file immediately after creating it. If that happens
you'd need to poke around in /proc//fd.

Now that's a clever trick. The unlinked file is still open, and you can pause 
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Re: How do I share a wireless network connection with a wired device ?

[Linuxguy123]

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 06:59 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Linuxguy123 writes:
> 
> > 
> > So, I reverted to using system-config-network and firestarter.  I
> > disabled NetworkManager controlling the devices.  Firestarter kept
> > saying that eth0 wasn't ready and crashing.   I know I've run into this
> > problem before with statically configured ports and firestarter, but I
> > can't remember what I did to fix it.
> > 
> > This is way harder than it needs to be !
> > 
> > I'm hoping the Network Manager in F12 will be a little more refined.
> 
> Sometimes, it's easier to configure things directly by editing the contents 
> of /etc/sysconfig, rather than try to figure out how to do it using some 
> flashy GUI.
> 
> What you want to do is not really that exotic. However it is also rather 
> uncommon, so, sometimes, you find that the tools which are designed for 
> average users and common situations simply cannot accomodate an unusual 
> situation, even though, underneath, it's not really that complicated.

I agree.  I was disappointed that I couldn't get it set up with
system-config-network and firestarter.  I'll look back in my Linux notes
and see if I can figure out why firestarter is crashing with eth0
enabled statically.  Any ideas ?

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Simple Harddisk Backup/Cloning and Data Restore Scripts for your Fedora Desktops

[Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)]

*Backup script:*


#!/bin/sh

###
###
# Script to Backup/Clone Xen Host/Dom0 and all DomUs which are using Logical
Volumes as Virtual Hard Disks
###
###

# Written by:

# Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical
Engineering)
# Alma Maters:
# (1) Singapore Polytechnic
# (2) National University of Singapore
# Primary Blog: http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com
# Secondary Blog: http://enmingteo.wordpress.com
# Youtube Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/enmingteo
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# Email: space.time.unive...@gmail.com
# MSN: teoenm...@hotmail.com
# Mobile Phone (Starhub Prepaid): +65-8369-2618
# Street: Bedok Reservoir Road
# Country: Singapore

# First written: 13 November 2009 Friday 12:38 A.M. Singapore time
# Last updated: 13 November 2009 Friday 12:38 A.M. Singapore time
# Last updated: 13 November 2009 Friday 1:20 P.M. Singapore time
# Last updated: 13 November 2009 Friday 5:23 P.M. Singapore time

# REFERNCE: "Geek Sheet: Bare-metal backup and recovery", May 7th, 2008,
Jason Perlow
# URL: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8759

# Usage Instructions:

# Boot up your desktop/server with System Rescue CD version 1.3.2 for
i386/amd64.
# Then execute this backup script. You need to adapt this script to work for
your environment.
# Download System Rescue CD from http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

# FAQ
# Q: Why do I want to write this cloning script when there are many open
source cloning software available?
# A: I am previously using Clonezilla. It is a very good cloning software.
However, it could not detect all the
#virtual machines in my LVM2 logical volumes and had to fall back on
using dd to image all my domUs,
#which resulted in an enormous 300 GB (!) backup image set and an
extremely lengthy cloning process of
#7 hours. Clonezilla is very good for LVs which only contain
filesystems, but not for LVs which contain
#virtual machines with MBR, partition geometries and full fledged
operating systems. It is very diffcult
#to image nested logical volumes, i.e. logical volumes within logical
volumes. And the PV within a LV is
#the barrier. So it is not Clonezilla's fault. Anybody who knows how to
activate all the logical volumes
#of all the volume groups within LVM2 physical volumes inside a logical
volume hosting a virtual machine,
#please share your knowledge with me. Thank you very much.

# No. of QC Checks Performed on this backup script: 1

###
# Declare Variables
###

HARDDISK=/dev/sda
DEST=/media/hitachi/test
FSA_COMPLEVEL=9
PROCESSOR_CORES=2
GZIP_COMPLEVEL=fast
PARTIMAGE_COMPLEVEL=1

###
# Create Storage Directory for Backup Images
###

if [ ! -d $DEST ]
then
mkdir -p $DEST
fi

###
###
# Cloning Xen Host/Dom0
###
###

# Backup MBR

dd if=$HARDDISK of=$DEST/f11-xen-dom0-sda.mbr bs=512 count=1

# Backup Partition Geometry
sfdisk -d $HARDDISK > $DEST/f11-xen-dom0-partition-geometry-sda.sfdisk

# Activate all logical volumes in all volume groups

vgchange -ay

# Backup UUIDs of PVs

pvdisplay > $DEST/f11-xen-dom0-pvdisplay.txt

# Backup LVM2 Metadata for All Volume Groups

# Backup the configuration of dedicated volume group for dom0

vgcfgbackup -d -v vg_fedora11_host -f
$DEST/vg_fedora11_host-vgcfg.lvm2.metadata

# Backup the configuration of dedicated volume group for domUs

vgcfgbackup -d -v virtualmachines -f
$DEST/virtualmachines-vgcfg.lvm2.metadata

# Backup /boot partition and all logical volumes of dedicated volume group
for host/dom0

fsarchiver savefs -v -z $FSA_COMPLEVEL -j $PROCESSOR_CORES
$DEST/f11-xen-dom0-filesystems.fsa /dev/sda1 \
/dev/vg_fedora11_host/lv_home /dev/vg_fedora11_host/lv_r

Re: disaster recovery Q's

[Bill Davidsen]

jackson byers wrote:

Tom Horsley responded

Everyone seems to think UUID= is infinitely better to use than LABEL=,
but specifically because I can control the LABEL but have no control
over the UUID, I always change the fstab and wot-not to use LABEL=
after giving my partitions meaningful labels with e2label.


I have been converted to using UUIDs also,
but I have often wondered if it would be
easy/worthwhile to convert back to using labels.
In my experience, the UUID for the rootfs
is also hidden away in the init file in the initrd.img.
If one tries to convert from UUID to labels, doesn't
the init file have to be changed also?
(That requires unpacking, editing the init, repacking.)
Or is it OK to leave UUID in that init file, but labels elsewhere?

I am convinced that UUID makes things less convenient but more reliable. One 
experience with labels and a USB disk was enough for me, if I hadn't noticed 
that the f/s was mounted in the wrong disk data would have been lost.


There are tools to change UUID if you must, but I would rather not in virtually 
all cases.


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Re: disaster recovery Q's

[Bill Davidsen]

Gene Heskett wrote:

On Thursday 12 November 2009, Tim wrote:

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 00:56 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

Are there any hard links in the system anyplace besides the /etc tree?

The resume partition (if you use one) is set in the initrd, I don't know
what method it uses to define the partition (device name, UUID, label).


I don't use one, Tim.  This machine never sleeps

Next question that I don't recall seeing an answer go by in this madhouse, 
(the machine is currently busier than a one legged man in an ass-kicking 
contest, kmail even went away by itself a few minutes ago) when the copying 
is all done using rsync -avcAX, ( I didn't have enough space free to use dd) 
I presume that I'll need to do a "grub-install /dev/sde", at least that is 
the plan.  Then fix the /etc/fstab file on the new drive, powerdown, pull the 
sata0 cable and move the sata5 cable to sata0, and it should then boot from 
this new drive.


Have I missed anything?


Don't do stuff like this on Friday the 13th.

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malingering printers

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

I have some HP inkjets. Sometimes they'll run low on ink, and cups will 
disable the printer. After replacing the cartridges, you need root 
access to re-enable the printers in system-config-printers.


How can I avoid the need for root access? Is there a "printer enable 
thyself" option?


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Re: Saving Flash

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 09:42 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > However these methods don't always work. I seem to remember seeing sites
> > that unlink the /tmp file immediately after creating it. If that happens
> > you'd need to poke around in /proc//fd.
> > 
> Now that's a clever trick. The unlinked file is still open, and you can pause 
> the player after the whole file has been loaded, and then copy it. Hard 
> linking 
> inside /proc is not going to be permanent, so I think a copy will be required.

Yes, that's probably correct in the case of /proc.

poc

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Re: malingering printers

[Tim Waugh]

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 10:17 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> I have some HP inkjets. Sometimes they'll run low on ink, and cups will 
> disable the printer. After replacing the cartridges, you need root 
> access to re-enable the printers in system-config-printers.

What version of Fedora is that on?  That sounds like it might be an
HPLIP problem.

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Plugging into Projectors

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

 Hello,

  I am running F11 on a Dell Latitude D820. I am unable to connect to
projectors except at ridiculously small screen resolutions. Running
Windows on the same machine plugs into projectors easily. What can I
do?

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Wifi Problems

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

 Hello,

  Running F11 on my Dell Latitude D820 laptop, I noticed that often I
can not connect to open Wifi networks, even though my colleagues
running Windows on Dell Latitudes can. Any idea why this is?

 Take care
 Oliver

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Re: new install, Firewall, anti-virus? (BitDefender can help)

[Jatin K]

On 11/13/2009 07:41 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 18:44 +0530, Jatin K wrote:
   

just install it and see  after install it will ask you for free
registration  and you will get a key to register you copy
 

In the context of this list it's important to distinguish free as in
speech ("libre") from free as in beer ("gratis"). Here I assume you mean
gratis, not libre.

poc

   

Yes ...gratis (Freeware) not libre as in speech (OpenSource)

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Re: unexpected logout

[Mikkel]

Dj YB wrote:
> thanks
> but how much time should I wait?
> could there be another explanation?
> I will run this test now and get back to you after it is done
> cheers
> YB.
> 
It is more a matter of how many passes, rather then how long. For a
quick test, one or two passes will do. But for a good test, I like
to see at least 50 passes. This will normally find obscure problems.
It also subjects the memory to temperature changes.

Once you are satisfied with the test, hit the Esc key, and the
system will do a graceful reboot.

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Re: malingering printers

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

On 11/13/2009 10:26 AM, Tim Waugh wrote:

What version of Fedora is that on?  That sounds like it might be an
HPLIP problem.


It's an up-to-date F11.

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Re: malingering printers

[Mikkel]

Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> I have some HP inkjets. Sometimes they'll run low on ink, and cups will
> disable the printer. After replacing the cartridges, you need root
> access to re-enable the printers in system-config-printers.
> 
> How can I avoid the need for root access? Is there a "printer enable
> thyself" option?
> 
> - Mike
> 
I am not sure about system-config-printers, but for the CUPS web
interface, you can set up other user name/group/password
combinations that have administrator access. You can also limit the
type of access specific groups have.

Take a look at the /etc/cups/cups.conf file. You may also want to
read the cups.conf man page...

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Re: Wifi Problems

[Mikkel]

Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>  Hello,
> 
>   Running F11 on my Dell Latitude D820 laptop, I noticed that often I
> can not connect to open Wifi networks, even though my colleagues
> running Windows on Dell Latitudes can. Any idea why this is?
> 
>  Take care
>  Oliver
> 
How are you trying to connect? (What program, steps used...)

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Re: Wifi Problems

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

 Hello,

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Mikkel  wrote:
> Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>>      Hello,
>>
>>   Running F11 on my Dell Latitude D820 laptop, I noticed that often I
>> can not connect to open Wifi networks, even though my colleagues
>> running Windows on Dell Latitudes can. Any idea why this is?
>>
>>      Take care
>>      Oliver
>>
> How are you trying to connect? (What program, steps used...)

  I click on the network manager icon in the upper right corner, which
opens a list of wifi networks. I select one. After it has been busy
for a while, a balloon opens saying "network has been disconnected" or
something like that.

 Take care
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Re: malingering printers

[Tim Waugh]

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 10:45 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> On 11/13/2009 10:26 AM, Tim Waugh wrote:
> > What version of Fedora is that on?  That sounds like it might be an
> > HPLIP problem.
> 
> It's an up-to-date F11.

Perhaps you could file a bug report and include
the /var/log/cups/error_log* files you have?  That would help me track
down why the printer became disabled.

Thanks,
Tim.
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Re: malingering printers

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

On 11/13/2009 11:05 AM, Tim Waugh wrote:

Perhaps you could file a bug report and include
the /var/log/cups/error_log* files you have?  That would help me track
down why the printer became disabled.


OK:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537443

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Re: disaster recovery Q's

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 13 November 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>jackson byers wrote:
>> Tom Horsley responded
>>
>>> Everyone seems to think UUID= is infinitely better to use than LABEL=,
>>> but specifically because I can control the LABEL but have no control
>>> over the UUID, I always change the fstab and wot-not to use LABEL=
>>> after giving my partitions meaningful labels with e2label.
>>
>> I have been converted to using UUIDs also,
>> but I have often wondered if it would be
>> easy/worthwhile to convert back to using labels.
>> In my experience, the UUID for the rootfs
>> is also hidden away in the init file in the initrd.img.
>> If one tries to convert from UUID to labels, doesn't
>> the init file have to be changed also?
>> (That requires unpacking, editing the init, repacking.)
>> Or is it OK to leave UUID in that init file, but labels elsewhere?
>
>I am convinced that UUID makes things less convenient but more reliable.
> One experience with labels and a USB disk was enough for me, if I hadn't
> noticed that the f/s was mounted in the wrong disk data would have been
> lost.

Can you describe how that scenario was done?  I have a 40GB One touch, and a 
64 meg and an 8GB key, and would rather avoid the potential if I could see it 
coming.

For my main drive failure 2 days ago, I got another drive, gparted it the way 
I wanted it, wrote a script to drive rsync -abcAX (with an added H for the 
/etc tree since I knew there are hard links there) and
I did the labels, fixed grub.conf and fstab on the new drive, had to do a 
couple of grub-install ops, all this after rsync'ing a failing drive to a 
fresh one I setup with gparted, partitioned the way I like it.  It works, and 
at the instant, my major problem is amanda, it thinks everything is new so 
its trying to do a level 0 backup on a 35GB tape, of a 115GB system.  I will 
give it more vtapes for tonight's run so it can play catchup.

>There are tools to change UUID if you must, but I would rather not in
> virtually all cases.



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Re: Extra mouse buttons

[John Horne]

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 14:46 -0800, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there a "good" way to make the extra mouse buttons work in F11/F12?
> In F8 I used something called btnx to map buttons to actions, is that 
> still the way to go?
> BTW, I use a Logitech VX Revolution.
> 
As others mentioned I think these originally went into xorg.conf.
However, with F11 as far as I remember all I did was put an xmodmap
command into my .bash_profile file:

   if [ -n "`echo $DISPLAY | egrep '^(localhost)?:0'`" ]; then
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 17 3 4 5 8 9 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 2
18 19 20"  
   fi

This was for (I think) a Logitech MX performance at work, and something
like an M500 at home. The tilting wheel works, but you may want to remap
the button numbers to suit your own needs.




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Recurrent error on yum update

[Les]

Hi everyone,
I am getting the following recurrent error on yum update:
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.i686 is needed by
kmod-em8300-2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.i686-0.17.3-1.fc10.2.i686
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.29-170.2.79.fc10.i686 is needed by
kmod-em8300-2.6.27.29-170.2.79.fc10.i686-0.17.3-1.fc10.3.i686
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686 is needed by
kmod-em8300-2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686-0.17.3-1.fc10.4.i686
Please report this error at http://yum.baseurl.org/report

And here is what I have from yum:
yum info kernel
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
Name   : kernel
Arch   : i586
Version: 2.6.30.5
Release: 43.fc11
Size   : 50 M
Repo   : installed
Summary: The Linux kernel
URL: http://www.kernel.org/
License: GPLv2
Description: The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the
core of
   : any Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic
functions
   : of the operating system: memory allocation, process
allocation,
   : device input and output, etc.

Name   : kernel
Arch   : i586
Version: 2.6.30.8
Release: 64.fc11
Size   : 50 M
Repo   : installed
>From repo  : updates
Summary: The Linux kernel
URL: http://www.kernel.org/
License: GPLv2
Description: The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the
core of
   : any Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic
functions
   : of the operating system: memory allocation, process
allocation,
   : device input and output, etc.

Name   : kernel
Arch   : i586
Version: 2.6.30.9
Release: 90.fc11
Size   : 50 M
Repo   : installed
>From repo  : updates
Summary: The Linux kernel
URL: http://www.kernel.org/
License: GPLv2
Description: The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the
core of
   : any Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic
functions
   : of the operating system: memory allocation, process
allocation,
   : device input and output, etc.

Available Packages
Name   : kernel
Arch   : i586
Version: 2.6.30.9
Release: 96.fc11
Size   : 21 M
Repo   : updates
Summary: The Linux kernel
URL: http://www.kernel.org/
License: GPLv2
Description: The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the
core of
   : any Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic
functions
   : of the operating system: memory allocation, process
allocation,
   : device input and output, etc.

And here is the processor information from dmesg:
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: Core revision 20090320
ftrace: converting mcount calls to 0f 1f 44 00 00
ftrace: allocating 18705 entries in 37 pages
Failed to register trace ftrace module notifier
..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 09
Booting processor 1 APIC 0x1 ip 0x6000
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5983.76 BogoMIPS
(lpj=2991880)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled
x86 PAT enabled: cpu 1, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 09
checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]: passed.
Brought up 2 CPUs
Total of 2 processors activated (11968.03 BogoMIPS).


My question:
Do I need to go to the i686 Kernel? and if so, how do I get yum to do
that, and once it does will my system require a complete rebuild. If so
will yum manage that or will I need to re-install from scratch?



 This system was upgraded via the 10-11 upgrade by yum.

Regards,
Les H

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Re: Recurrent error on yum update

[Kam Leo]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Les  wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>        I am getting the following recurrent error on yum update:
> ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
> kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.i686 is needed by
> kmod-em8300-2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.i686-0.17.3-1.fc10.2.i686
> kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.29-170.2.79.fc10.i686 is needed by
> kmod-em8300-2.6.27.29-170.2.79.fc10.i686-0.17.3-1.fc10.3.i686
> kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686 is needed by
> kmod-em8300-2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686-0.17.3-1.fc10.4.i686
> Please report this error at http://yum.baseurl.org/report
>
> And here is what I have from yum:
> yum info kernel
> Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit
> Installed Packages
> Name       : kernel
> Arch       : i586
> Version    : 2.6.30.5
> Release    : 43.fc11
> Size       : 50 M
> Repo       : installed
> Summary    : The Linux kernel
> URL        : http://www.kernel.org/
> License    : GPLv2
> Description: The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the
> core of
>           : any Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic
> functions
>           : of the operating system: memory allocation, process
> allocation,
>           : device input and output, etc.
>
> Name       : kernel
> Arch       : i586
> Version    : 2.6.30.8
> Release    : 64.fc11
> Size       : 50 M
> Repo       : installed
> >From repo  : updates
> Summary    : The Linux kernel
> URL        : http://www.kernel.org/
> License    : GPLv2
> Description: The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the
> core of
>           : any Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic
> functions
>           : of the operating system: memory allocation, process
> allocation,
>           : device input and output, etc.
>
> Name       : kernel
> Arch       : i586
> Version    : 2.6.30.9
> Release    : 90.fc11
> Size       : 50 M
> Repo       : installed
> >From repo  : updates
> Summary    : The Linux kernel
> URL        : http://www.kernel.org/
> License    : GPLv2
> Description: The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the
> core of
>           : any Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic
> functions
>           : of the operating system: memory allocation, process
> allocation,
>           : device input and output, etc.
>
> Available Packages
> Name       : kernel
> Arch       : i586
> Version    : 2.6.30.9
> Release    : 96.fc11
> Size       : 21 M
> Repo       : updates
> Summary    : The Linux kernel
> URL        : http://www.kernel.org/
> License    : GPLv2
> Description: The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the
> core of
>           : any Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic
> functions
>           : of the operating system: memory allocation, process
> allocation,
>           : device input and output, etc.
>
> And here is the processor information from dmesg:
> CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
> CPU: L2 cache: 512K
> CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
> CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
> Intel machine check architecture supported.
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
> CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
> CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> ACPI: Core revision 20090320
> ftrace: converting mcount calls to 0f 1f 44 00 00
> ftrace: allocating 18705 entries in 37 pages
> Failed to register trace ftrace module notifier
> ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
> CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 09
> Booting processor 1 APIC 0x1 ip 0x6000
> Initializing CPU#1
> Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5983.76 BogoMIPS
> (lpj=2991880)
> CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
> CPU: L2 cache: 512K
> CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
> CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
> Intel machine check architecture supported.
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
> CPU1: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
> CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled
> x86 PAT enabled: cpu 1, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
> CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 09
> checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]: passed.
> Brought up 2 CPUs
> Total of 2 processors activated (11968.03 BogoMIPS).
>
>
> My question:
> Do I need to go to the i686 Kernel? and if so, how do I get yum to do
> that, and once it does will my system require a complete rebuild. If so
> will yum manage that or will I need to re-install from scratch?
>
>  This system was upgraded via the 10-11 upgrade by yum.

If you successfully upgraded to F11 you no longer need the F10 kernel
or the kmod-em8300 packages.  You can safely remove them from your
system.

> Regards,
> Les H

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RE: Fedora 11 newbie question

[Shadow]

Hi all - I need someone to answer a question and maybe give some advice.
I downloaded Fedora 11 to install on an older piece of hardware.  My
thoughts were to create a test server to test PHP site that I plan to
do.  It could also act as a web server for my internal network, but that
isn't a priority.  I have a little experience with Fedora (Fedora 2) but
nothing more recent.

I got Fedora 11 installed, and started to add packages.   During a
reboot, I lost the ability to log in through the GUI.  I could not
figure out what happened so I temporarily dropped the project for a
week.  Now I am back on it...I found a posting in the forum that
mentioned logging in to the virtual interface by using ALT-CNTL-F2 and I
was successful in logging in as root.   The same posting mentioned that
this problem happen due to some problem with X11 server and that
downgrading it using YUM would solve the problem - didn't help me.  So
digging in the boot log, I noticed that the only error was httpd - I got
a MAKE_SOCK error due to the fact that the httpd address was in use.
That was the only error shown.  So I am thinking that is causing my log
in problem.

My qustion(s) - How do I find out what is bound to httpd?  How do I
disable iteither httpd or whatever is bound to it using the command
line interface?  Am I on the right track to solve the log in using the
GUI?

Thanks for any help

Shadow

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Re: Webstart

[Frank Cox]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:22:13 -0500
Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:

> netx: Unexpected net.sourceforge.jnlp.ParseException: Invalid XML
> document syntax. at
> net.sourceforge.jnlp.Parser.getRootNode(Parser.java:1200)
> 
>   I'm not sure when was the last time this worked under F11. Any hope
> this will work in the near future?

The error message you posted says that the document contains an error.  Perhaps
you're in the same situation that sometime occurs where a document with an
error will display under IE but not under Firefox.  The solution is to fix the
document.

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Re: disaster recovery Q's

[Tom H]

> In my experience,
> the UUID is also embedded internal to the initrd.img
> and this also should be consistent with the UUID in grub.conf

> [r...@localhost clean]# less init

> near the end look for "mkrootdev" line:
> echo Creating root device.
> mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro UUID=54c84c0a-040b-43bd-8887-202519baaae2

> So my question remains:
> If i try to use labels instead of UUID, do i have to modify this mkrootdev
> line in init (initrd.img) ?

As long as the UUID in init (in initrd) and the root entry in
grub.conf (whether UUID, LABEL, or /dev/) point to the same
partition, you are OK.

That it why you can switch the grub.conf entries without having to
change the UUID (or whatever other way that you are pointing to the
root partition).

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one or more disks failling

[L]

Hi,

I got a disk health warning from palimpsest disk utility "one or more
disks failling". It showed this disk has a bad sector. How can I check
what partion is the sector located?
or any fix?

best
Y

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Re: screensaver

[Beartooth]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:11:46 +, Patrick Dupre wrote:
[]
> gears is one of the screesavers. Why is it activated when I am working.
[]
> Is the screensaver inapropriatedly configurated ?

"one of" is ambiguous here. IF you mean you have both gnome-
screensaver and x-screensaver installed, you have to set both of them not 
to lock the screen, if you want that. It can be very irritating ...

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Re: one or more disks failling

[Tait Clarridge]

On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 06:33 +1100, L wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got a disk health warning from palimpsest disk utility "one or more
> disks failling". It showed this disk has a bad sector. How can I check
> what partion is the sector located?
> or any fix?
> 
> best
> Y
> 

Backup all data you can and get a new hard drive. That's probably the
best solution at this point.


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Re: one or more disks failling

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 15:04:52 -0500,
  Tait Clarridge  wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 06:33 +1100, L wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I got a disk health warning from palimpsest disk utility "one or more
> > disks failling". It showed this disk has a bad sector. How can I check
> > what partion is the sector located?
> > or any fix?
> > 
> > best
> > Y
> > 
> 
> Backup all data you can and get a new hard drive. That's probably the
> best solution at this point.

If you have lots of money that's the recommended solution.
However if it's just one bad sector you may not even be able to RMA the drive
under warranty.

You can use the smartctl  (from smartmontools) to see how many bad sectors
you had had so far and how many of those are pending for remapping.

Depending on the file system on the device the following may help you find
out if any of your bad sectors are in files:
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html

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Re: disaster recovery Q's

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 13 November 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 12 November 2009, Tim wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 00:56 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
 Are there any hard links in the system anyplace besides the /etc tree?
>>>
>>> The resume partition (if you use one) is set in the initrd, I don't know
>>> what method it uses to define the partition (device name, UUID, label).
>>
>> I don't use one, Tim.  This machine never sleeps
>>
>> Next question that I don't recall seeing an answer go by in this
>> madhouse, (the machine is currently busier than a one legged man in an
>> ass-kicking contest, kmail even went away by itself a few minutes ago)
>> when the copying is all done using rsync -avcAX, ( I didn't have enough
>> space free to use dd) I presume that I'll need to do a "grub-install
>> /dev/sde", at least that is the plan.  Then fix the /etc/fstab file on
>> the new drive, power down, pull the sata0 cable and move the sata5 cable
>> to sata0, and it should then boot from this new drive.
>>
>> Have I missed anything?
>
>Don't do stuff like this on Friday the 13th.
>
That's mild, Bill, I have to spend the rest of the day staring at an urn with 
a long time employee's ashes in it.  Not my fav thing to do.

But, as you all know, I run the latest bleeding edge kernels here, so as soon 
as I got it running on the new drive last night, I built and installed 
2.6.32-rc7.

Now, I have no idea if it is the radeon/drm changes in the new kernel, or if 
its because the drive was well organized after copying everything over with 
rsync, but while glxgears is still its leisurely 270 fps, this machine feels 
about 10x snappier than it did, I mean the diff is extremely obvious.

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Re: screensaver

[Patrick Dupre]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Beartooth wrote:


On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:11:46 +, Patrick Dupre wrote:
[]

gears is one of the screesavers. Why is it activated when I am working.

[]

Is the screensaver inapropriatedly configurated ?


"one of" is ambiguous here. IF you mean you have both gnome-
screensaver and x-screensaver installed, you have to set both of them not
to lock the screen, if you want that. It can be very irritating ...


This what I have:
xscreensaver-gl-extras-gss-5.10-1.fc11.x86_64
xscreensaver-base-5.10-1.fc11.x86_64
xscreensaver-gl-extras-5.10-1.fc11.x86_64
xscreensaver-5.10-1.fc11.x86_64
f-spot-screensaver-0.6.1.2-3.fc11.x86_64
gnome-screensaver-2.26.1-3.fc11.x86_64
xscreensaver-extras-5.10-1.fc11.x86_64
xscreensaver-extras-gss-5.10-1.fc11.x86_64
fedora-screensaver-theme-1.0.0-4.fc11.noarch
fedorainfinity-screensaver-theme-1.0.0-2.fc11.noarch
xscreensaver-gl-base-5.10-1.fc11.x86_64
kdeartwork-screensavers-4.3.2-1.fc11.x86_64


So, what should I remove ?
I just want to to have gnome shift to lock-screen saver after a while
or be able to active the mode screensaver manually.

Thank for your help.







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Re: disaster recovery Q's

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 13 November 2009, Tom H wrote:
>> In my experience,
>> the UUID is also embedded internal to the initrd.img
>> and this also should be consistent with the UUID in grub.conf
>>
>> [r...@localhost clean]# less init
>>
>> near the end look for "mkrootdev" line:
>> echo Creating root device.
>> mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro
>> UUID=54c84c0a-040b-43bd-8887-202519baaae2
>>
>> So my question remains:
>> If i try to use labels instead of UUID, do i have to modify this
>> mkrootdev line in init (initrd.img) ?

I believe this was Tom H's question, not mine although I am the threads OP.

>As long as the UUID in init (in initrd) and the root entry in
>grub.conf (whether UUID, LABEL, or /dev/) point to the same
>partition, you are OK.
>
You may want to check your facts on that actually being in the initrd file.  
My 2.6.32-rc6 initrd, copied from the failing drive with 'rsync -avcAX src 
target' syntax, which I booted with after swapping a new drive onto the sata1 
connector, did not require a rebuild, I simply changed grub.conf to use a 
'root=LABEL=sea-slash' while in rescue mode and chroot'ed, fixed a couple of 
other typu's, did a 'grub-install /dev/sda" and rebooted.  If its in there, 
then it is apparently being over-ridden by the data in the new /etc/fstab.

I have since installed 2.6.32-rc7, and as noted in a previous msg a few 
minutes ago, the machine is obviously much snappier now.

Logically, the root (hd0,0) must over-ride any UUID's that may be in the 
initrd.img, otherwise it could not possibly have found even the grub.conf to 
show me at boot time.

Some _real_ docs on grub would be VERY nice.

>That it why you can switch the grub.conf entries without having to
>change the UUID (or whatever other way that you are pointing to the
>root partition).

In my case, /boot is a separate partition, so in base 0 notation, its all 
'root (hd0,0)' on a line by itself. And it Just Works(TM)  I can, in a 
different grub.conf stanza on (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf, specify root (hd3,0), 
then the UUID of the / partition that contains another distributions / 
directory and boot to it just fine.



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Re: disaster recovery Q's

[Tom Horsley]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:30:53 -0500
Gene Heskett wrote:

> Some _real_ docs on grub would be VERY nice.

No point in that, they'll be switching to grub2 soon
(as ubuntu just did) and everything will be completely
different :-).

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Re: Wifi Problems

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 10:59 -0500, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: 
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Mikkel  wrote:
> > Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
> >>  Hello,
> >>
> >>   Running F11 on my Dell Latitude D820 laptop, I noticed that often I
> >> can not connect to open Wifi networks, even though my colleagues
> >> running Windows on Dell Latitudes can. Any idea why this is?
> >>
> >>  Take care
> >>  Oliver
> >>
> > How are you trying to connect? (What program, steps used...)
> 
>   I click on the network manager icon in the upper right corner, which
> opens a list of wifi networks. I select one. After it has been busy
> for a while, a balloon opens saying "network has been disconnected" or
> something like that.
> 
>  Take care
>  Oliver
You haved been left clicking on the icon. Hav you right clicked on the
tcon and enabled the network and wireless? 
> 
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smtp+pop3+imap+tls+webmail+anti spam+anti virus

[Eugeneapolinary Ju]

hi!

does anyone has a good howto, docs how to set up an smtp, pop3, imap server, 
with webmail, and has anti virus solution, and even spam filtering? :D [plus 
secure connection for the clients :D ]

wich softwares are the best for this? [e.g.: "vsftpd is the most secure ftp 
server"..]

users would be from /etc/passwd [so not virtual users]

thank you!

p.s.: I've already googled :( :\


  

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Re: smtp+pop3+imap+tls+webmail+anti spam+anti virus

[Frank Cox]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:55:28 -0800 (PST)
Eugeneapolinary Ju wrote:

> does anyone has a good howto, docs how to set up an smtp, pop3, imap server, 
> with webmail, and has anti virus solution, and even spam filtering? :D [plus 
> secure connection for the clients :D ]

It's all right here:

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/

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question about fedora version of packages

[François Patte]

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Bonsoir,

I run fedora 10: fedora texlive* packages are installed.

In texmf.cnf we can read:

% original texmf.cnf -- runtime path configuration file for kpathsea.
% (If you change or delete `original' on the previous line, the
% distribution won't install its version over yours.)

OK. So I wanted to make changes to this file to fit my config and I
deleted "original" from the first line.

At the first update my texmf.cnf with the deleted "original" and with
the changes I have made has been crushed... and I had to make my
personal config again...

Where is the mistake?

Thanks.


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Re: one or more disks failling

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Bruno Wolff III  writes:
> Depending on the file system on the device the following may help you find
> out if any of your bad sectors are in files:
> http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html

I don't trust myself to get all that math right (and guessing about the
underlying remapping).  

What I do is just copy the data to a good disk and then write zeros over
the bad disk.  This will clean up all Current_Pending_Sectors (bad
sectors that haven't been reallocated yet) and turn them into
Reallocated_Sector_Ct sectors.

I'm getting a lot of experience doing this.  For some reason my current
crop of Seagate 7200.11 and 7200.12 are all developing unreadable
sectors.  I guess the Seagate perpendicular recording disks weren't
quite ready for prime time.  Almost -- but not quite.

The fastest way I found to zero the disk is to use the security erase
feature.  A disk that takes 4 hours to be zeroed with dd can be zeroed
in 2 hours with the built-in security erase.  It took me a while to
figure out how to get the security erase hooks to do anything but give
me the "IO ERROR" errno.  This seems to be the simplest way to get an
erase to take place.  (Suggestions and simplifications welcome!)

disk=/dev/sdb
pass=funkystuff

hdparm --user-master u --security-set-pass $pass $disk
hdparm --user-master u --security-erase$pass $disk
hdparm --user-master u --security-disable  $pass $disk

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Recent kernels don't play well with suspend-to-disk

[Geoffrey Leach]

Kernels since kernel-PAE-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686 up to and incuding 
kernel-PAE-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686 seem to have a problem with suspend-
to-disk.

Why do I say this? Two behaviors. First, up until the most recent 
kernel, I get non-fatal kernel errors that resulted in a spew of error 
messages to each active terminal window, sometimes accompanied by a 
notice that kerneloops has sent off a report. This, of course, after 
one or more resume-from-disk. Reboot cures the problem temporarliy. The 
most recent kernel failed toresume-from-disk in the boot process, 
freezing up with a bunch of page fault errors. (Yes, I know I shoud 
have copied/saved all of this). The only variable here appears to be 
the kernel rebooting with 2.6.30.5-43 makes the problem vanish.

Obviosuly there's not enough here to debug the problem. The fact that 
its not going away suggests that the kerneloops reports are 
insufficient.

So, (a) anyone else having the problem? (b) suggestions for gathering 
enough data to make a Bugzilla report worthwhile?

ASUS Z84F w/ Intel Core 2 Duo T5500, 1666 MHz, INTEL 945GM chipset, 
AET760SD00-30DA98Z 2x1 GB DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM, Seagate Momentus 7200.1 
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Re: Recent kernels don't play well with suspend-to-disk

[Linuxguy123]

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 16:48 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> Kernels since kernel-PAE-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686 up to and incuding 
> kernel-PAE-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686 seem to have a problem with suspend-
> to-disk.
> 
> Why do I say this? Two behaviors. First, up until the most recent 
> kernel, I get non-fatal kernel errors that resulted in a spew of error 
> messages to each active terminal window, sometimes accompanied by a 
> notice that kerneloops has sent off a report. This, of course, after 
> one or more resume-from-disk. Reboot cures the problem temporarliy. The 
> most recent kernel failed toresume-from-disk in the boot process, 
> freezing up with a bunch of page fault errors. (Yes, I know I shoud 
> have copied/saved all of this). The only variable here appears to be 
> the kernel rebooting with 2.6.30.5-43 makes the problem vanish.
> 
> Obviosuly there's not enough here to debug the problem. The fact that 
> its not going away suggests that the kerneloops reports are 
> insufficient.
> 
> So, (a) anyone else having the problem? (b) suggestions for gathering 
> enough data to make a Bugzilla report worthwhile?
> 
> ASUS Z84F w/ Intel Core 2 Duo T5500, 1666 MHz, INTEL 945GM chipset, 
> AET760SD00-30DA98Z 2x1 GB DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM, Seagate Momentus 7200.1 
> series ST910021A

I have the same problem with suspend to RAM.  I am running a PAE kernel
too.  I never use suspend to disk. 

LG


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Re: Recent kernels don't play well with suspend-to-disk

[Paul]

Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 16:48 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>   
>> Kernels since kernel-PAE-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686 up to and incuding 
>> kernel-PAE-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686 seem to have a problem with suspend-
>> to-disk.
>>
>> Why do I say this? Two behaviors. First, up until the most recent 
>> kernel, I get non-fatal kernel errors that resulted in a spew of error 
>> messages to each active terminal window, sometimes accompanied by a 
>> notice that kerneloops has sent off a report. This, of course, after 
>> one or more resume-from-disk. Reboot cures the problem temporarliy. The 
>> most recent kernel failed toresume-from-disk in the boot process, 
>> freezing up with a bunch of page fault errors. (Yes, I know I shoud 
>> have copied/saved all of this). The only variable here appears to be 
>> the kernel rebooting with 2.6.30.5-43 makes the problem vanish.
>>
>> Obviosuly there's not enough here to debug the problem. The fact that 
>> its not going away suggests that the kerneloops reports are 
>> insufficient.
>>
>> So, (a) anyone else having the problem? (b) suggestions for gathering 
>> enough data to make a Bugzilla report worthwhile?
>>
>> ASUS Z84F w/ Intel Core 2 Duo T5500, 1666 MHz, INTEL 945GM chipset, 
>> AET760SD00-30DA98Z 2x1 GB DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM, Seagate Momentus 7200.1 
>> series ST910021A
>> 
>
> I have the same problem with suspend to RAM.  I am running a PAE kernel
> too.  I never use suspend to disk. 
>
> LG
>
>
>   
Is this only with PAE kernels? I have not noticed this with 64-bit
kernels on a Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop, Core 2 Duo, ATI Mobility X1400,
WD 250 GB SATA, 4GB Kingston DDR2-667.


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Re: one or more disks failling

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-11-13 15:12:18, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 15:04:52 -0500,
>   Tait Clarridge  wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 06:33 +1100, L wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I got a disk health warning from palimpsest disk utility "one or
> > > more disks failling". It showed this disk has a bad sector. How 
> > > can I check what partion is the sector located?
> > > or any fix?
> > > 
> > > best
> > > Y
> > > 
> > 
> > Backup all data you can and get a new hard drive. That's probably
> > thebest solution at this point.
> 
> If you have lots of money that's the recommended solution.
> However if it's just one bad sector you may not even be able to RMA
> the drive under warranty.
> 
> You can use the smartctl  (from smartmontools) to see how many bad
> sectors you had had so far and how many of those are pending for 
> remapping.
> 
> Depending on the file system on the device the following may help you
> find out if any of your bad sectors are in files:
> http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html

Also, it can help to enable Automatic Offline Testing (with `smartctl
-o on /dev/sdx`), which will scan the disk frequently and will often
be able to remap a sector before it becomes unreadable.

Removing Palimpsest (gnome-disk-utility) is the most practical way to 
make it not complain foolishly.  Instead, use smartd, from the same 
package as smartctl (smartmontools); it can be set up to only complain 
about real problems.

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Re: one or more disks failling

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-11-13 18:57:24, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> 
> Bruno Wolff III  writes:
> > Depending on the file system on the device the following may help
> > you find out if any of your bad sectors are in files:
> > http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html
> 
> I don't trust myself to get all that math right (and guessing about
> the underlying remapping).
 ...

If you have it correct, an attempt to dd /from/ it will fail.  If dd 
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Re: disaster recovery Q's

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 13 November 2009, Tom Horsley wrote:
>On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:30:53 -0500
>
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Some _real_ docs on grub would be VERY nice.
>
>No point in that, they'll be switching to grub2 soon
>(as ubuntu just did) and everything will be completely
>different :-).
>
And quite likely even poorer docs.  If we are to use this stuff to its 
capabilities, we have to have docs.  Waiting till the crapper floods the 
whole house is not the time to call the plumbers.

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man 3 switch

[Frank Cox]

I just discovered that "man 3 switch" is missing.

Is it supposed to be there or is there some reason for it to not be?

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