Re: Can't upgrade f10 to f11: X startup failed, detected GPU lockup
On 09/14/2009 01:17 AM, Deron Meranda wrote: I'm trying to install/upgrade a system currently running F10 to F11 (64-bit AMD, 4MB ram). The anaconda graphical install fails, and it always falls back to the text mode install. I have to use the graphical mode, because I need partitioning/LVM/LUKS options that the text mode does not support. snip Does anybody have any idea what may have changed in F11, and how I can get the graphical installer to run like it did in previous releases? You might try nomodeset on the boot command line and see if the X server starts ok. If that fails, and you have another linux box to use, you can add vnc to the command line and do a graphical install remotely. Hope This Helps -- G.Wolfe Woodbury -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
rawhide install: 20090907 rawhide installs, some things broken
Successfully installed rawhide today. Had to radeon.modeset=0 (Radeon QD 7200 r100) and xdriver=vesa for the installer to work. Once installed, can go back to the ati driver only needing the radeon.modeset=0 for operation. gnome-applets(gswitchit) workspace-switcher preferences are broken. Trying to do 9 desktops in 3 rows pulls up a preferences dialog with zero's in the boxes and unable to change them in any way. Yumex hangs with a detected corrupted doubly-linked list from glibc. The message is labeled as coming from Yum, so it may be an error in the repodata for 20090907 rawhide. Smart-gui also hangs for a long time. Unable to install kde after the fact due to a dependency loop of some kind. No bugzilla at this time. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: CUPS: publishing a printer?
On 08/25/2009 11:30 PM, Mark Eackloff wrote: On 08/25/2009 11:05 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: Using System|Administration|Printing i can see my printers, so I select my default printer and look at the Policies section. I shows Shared but with an annotation that it is not published and to see Server Settings for information. Where is this particular Server Settings it refers to? System|Administration|Server Settings has nothing appropriate, and there is no Server Settings in the Printing complex. System|Administration|Printing brings up the Printer Configuration gui app. On the menu bar is Server Printer Group View Help. Click Server and that gives you a drop-down with Settings ... as the second choice. Settings brings up a Basic Server Settings dialog box. The second check box is Publish shared printers . . . I installed samba-swat and browsed through the advanced view on printing and could find nothing appropriate. So, how does one publish a printer under F11? Thank You! I figured it had to be staring me in the face someplace. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
CUPS: publishing a printer?
Using System|Administration|Printing i can see my printers, so I select my default printer and look at the Policies section. I shows Shared but with an annotation that it is not published and to see Server Settings for information. Where is this particular Server Settings it refers to? System|Administration|Server Settings has nothing appropriate, and there is no Server Settings in the Printing complex. I installed samba-swat and browsed through the advanced view on printing and could find nothing appropriate. So, how does one publish a printer under F11? Thanks for your attention. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
rawhide install report: Anaconda fails with an assertion error
I've been attempting rawhide installs all along, and failing due to a python assertion error on my testbed machine. I have to use radeon.modeset=0 (Radeon QD 7200) to gat anywhere. X startup fails so I've been doing VNC installs (why not support text mode better!) Installation goes fine until the actual installation of packages when a python assertion error occurs gc-gc_rc != -3 occurs [from memory, there is no chance to record the error in bugzilla.] preupgrade also fails at this point with the same error. rawhide/f12 is a no go for this machine. It's my standard testbed machine: i686 Celeron D CPU, standard IDE based motherboard, Radeon QD 7200 video, 1.5Go RAM, etc... http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_5b4371f7-d567-4b8a-a2b9-358e41f3f736 F11 installs fine. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: can't boot fresh install
On 08/09/2009 04:17 AM, Alan Evans wrote: On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Howard Wilkinson wrote: Alan Evans wrote: Just did a fresh install of F11 on a P4. The SATA hard disk was repatriated from a broken iMac. snip I'm still confused about how anaconda can possibly mount a partition (two, including the boot partition) when fdisk thinks the partition table is invalid. The kernel is capable of dealing with HFS (Apple) partitions! I suspect that you failed to zero the MBR before moving the drive from the Mac to the Linux box. If you use the hfsutils or hfsplus-tools package you'll get a set of tools that can see the partitions for that drive. Thes tools are not installed by default. (yum info *hfs*) Good luck. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: can't boot fresh install
On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:02:42 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: On 08/09/2009 04:17 AM, Alan Evans wrote: On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Howard Wilkinson wrote: Alan Evans wrote: Just did a fresh install of F11 on a P4. The SATA hard disk was repatriated from a broken iMac. snip I'm still confused about how anaconda can possibly mount a partition (two, including the boot partition) when fdisk thinks the partition table is invalid. The kernel is capable of dealing with HFS (Apple) partitions! I suspect that you failed to zero the MBR before moving the drive from the Mac to the Linux box. If you use the hfsutils or hfsplus-tools package you'll get a set of tools that can see the partitions for that drive. Thes tools are not installed by default. (yum info *hfs*) Good luck. Following myself up... GRUB doesn't understand HFS partitions so you get the failure to boot. Once you get a look at the HFS or HFS+ partitions, note the sizes and locations of the partitions and *perhaps* you can recreate a matching msdos partition table with fdisk. Too tired... need more than 4 hours of sleep. -- G. Wolfe Woodbury -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Rant: Clamav is not well-integrated
I've just spent a frustrating two hours trying to get clamav installed and running. Ultimately I turned if off again to get mail flowing. First, there are too many different packages required to get the system working: clamav-milter, clamav-scanner, freshclam, etc There should be an easy to install package that gets everything. Second: The integration into the user system is messy, two usernames and multiple groups and conflicting permissions are in use. Third: It takes manual intervention to get sendmail.mc correctly formed and clamav integrated. I understand that this is necessarily a manual process, but there is essentially no documentation of what should be done in a recipe. Fourth: Clamav-milter is different from clamd and there is no initscript support for clamd (the scanner daemon) which should be controlled by the clamav-milter initscript. Fifth: Freshclam (the updater) should be better integrated. It takes a separate install and configuration (manual) step, and then it complains that the version is already out-of-date! Sixth: I really appreciate the work that the package maintainer has done, but the integration and logic are much less than clear and clean. Thanks for listening. G.Wolfe Woodbury -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Rant: Clamav is not well-integrated
On 07/13/2009 10:32 AM, Dunc wrote: G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: Thanks for listening. G.Wolfe Woodbury I sure pretty much anyone who uses clamav uses the one from RPMforge. Its a lot tidier and actually works out the box, and has a service set up for clamd The fedora one is well known for its awfulness Dunc Thank You for the hint! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: OT?: Thunderbird/Firefox - http links changed to file: links??
G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: The problem persists! Not just one or two messages, now it affects all message links from Thunderbird to Firefox. snip I'm beginnig to wonder if there is something amiss with some global configuration or if I have somehow been compromised. This last is fairly unlikely since I practice safe hex and have a firewall in place. I guess I'll have to dig into the global configurations for TB and FF but don't expect to find anything as they were both erased and re-installed just now. Just to be on the safe side I'll reboot to make sure there isn't any memory-resident interceptor at work. An examination of ps shows nothing unusual but I'll check for rootkits and such as well. After re-booting and applying all the Gnome updates, the problem has disappeared. All the links behave just fine. BTW: The chkrootkit scan found nothing. Thanks You for the suggestions. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
OT?: Thunderbird/Firefox - http links changed to file: links??
Recently Ive had a problem with thunderbird and firefox wherein an http::// link gets changed to a file:/// link somewhere between clicking the link in thunderbird and the link opening in Firefox. I've prowled through the advanced config controls of both apps and see no obvious transformations. I've disabled all extensions in Firefox (especially NoScript) but the problem persists. I've even uninstalled and re-installed Firefox to see if that helps. The next step would be to remove my personal .mozilla tree, but this would mean loosing all my settings and I've worked a lot customizing my preferences that I'd rather not lose. I've done some superficial google searches for the problem, as well as the Mozilla bugzilla with no relevant returns, bu I admit my google-fu may be inadequate. So, has anyone seen anything like this? Were you able to cure it? Thanks for any help offered. Fedora relevance: it happens on my F10 installation, not F9 nor the EvilEmpire installations. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: OT?: Thunderbird/Firefox - http links changed to file: links??
steve wrote: G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: Recently Ive had a problem with thunderbird and firefox wherein an http::// link gets changed to a file:/// link somewhere between clicking the link in thunderbird and the link opening in Firefox. I'll assume you meant http:// ... I've prowled through the advanced config controls of both apps and see no obvious transformations. I've disabled all extensions in Firefox (especially NoScript) but the problem persists. I've even uninstalled and re-installed Firefox to see if that helps. I'd suspect a thunderbird extension rather than a firefox one. I've also tried disabling and re-enabling those extensions too. About to try re-installing thunderbird. - What does the URL show in the bottom status bar when you hover your mouse over the link ? an http://... link as expected - What shows up if you right click on the link, copy the link location and paste it into firefox ? that also works as expected, so it's somewhere in the automagic processing stuff. I just took a quick peek at thunderbird's advanced config (Edit-Preferences-Advanced-General-config editor) and found the parameter network.protocol-handler.app.http very interesting. On my system the value is: /usr/lib64/thunderbird-2.0.0.19/open-browser.sh It's probably a good idea to debug what that script does to your URL. Easy enough to read the script and see that it calls the gnome-open applet. An examination of the strings(1) content of gnome-open doesn't reveal anything that could be doing it. Also, checking the Preferred Applications settings in Gnome don't show anything unexpected. (Examined both via the gui and gconf-editor.) -- G. Wolfe Woodbury -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: OT?: Thunderbird/Firefox - http links changed to file: links??
RDB wrote: On Monday 02 February 2009 00:23:27 G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: steve wrote: G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: Recently Ive had a problem with thunderbird and firefox wherein an http::// link gets changed to a file:/// link somewhere between clicking the link in thunderbird and the link opening in Firefox. I'll assume you meant http:// ... How about trying to create a new profile for both Firefox and Thunderbird, one at a time ? Start Firefox or Thunderbird with -ProfileManager flag. This should clears out any preference installed in your profile by starting with a fresh profile (and you don't have to delete your profile in .mozilla directory). Re- installing Firefox / Thunderbird may not help if the problem is in your profile or an extension stored in your profile. Actually, I bit the bullet and moved my profiles aside and re-created the new user state. The problem persists! Not just one or two messages, now it affects all message links from Thunderbird to Firefox. All that is installed in firefox and thunderbird as far as extensions are the defaults. Re-examination of the configurations again reveals nothing unexpected. I'm beginnig to wonder if there is something amiss with some global configuration or if I have somehow been compromised. This last is fairly unlikely since I practice safe hex and have a firewall in place. I guess I'll have to dig into the global configurations for TB and FF but don't expect to find anything as they were both erased and re-installed just now. Just to be on the safe side I'll reboot to make sure there isn't any memory-resident interceptor at work. An examination of ps shows nothing unusual but I'll check for rootkits and such as well. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Boinc
John Aldrich wrote: Anyone here running Boinc on Fedora 10 x86_64? I followed the instructions on their (Boinc/s...@home) website and ran yum install boinc... and it installed two packages. Now when I try to run boincmgr, I get the following error in the console: connect: Connection refused execvp(/oldhome/john/boinc, --redirectio, --launched_by_manager) failed with error 13! connect: Operation now in progress Any ideas? What the heck is error 13 that is EACCES (Access Denied) caused by either failing to start the boinc-client daemon [service boinc-client start] or by Selinux doing something. THiings like this are why I run in permissive mode. -- Wolfe -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Slow Grub on new mobo Q
Gene Heskett wrote: Thanks. But this still does not explain why grub itself is so slow. After the bios is done, then the next thing one normally sees is the Grub stage 2 loading, but I'm watching a monitor telling me there is no input drive for about 12 seconds between the bios clearing the screen, and that printout. And normally that just sort of flickers for a few milliseconds, but that now stays on screen for 2 or 3 seconds, then the screen is cleared again, and about 10 seconds later the boot choice menu finally pops up. This only took maybe 2 seconds total on the old motherboard, now it's a good 20-25 seconds from the bios clearing the screen to the boot selection menu. Its that time that I'm fussing about. Are you running on an x86_64 platform? On my 64-bit machine, grub is running in 32-bit mode and it takes a fair bit of time for the POST to GRUB transition, just like you describe. My theory is that it is taking time to mode-switch from 64-bit to 32-bit mode and then back. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: 3 separate f9 installations in 3 partitions?
PH mooraa wrote: Hi All, I want to have 3 separate installations of fedora 9 running in 3 partitions of single hard drive. The first one is stable f9 image which is fail safe. While other twos are going to be experimental (modified f9) and in case they fail, machine should boot to 1st image. My hard drive is 30 GB and again I want three clean separate f9 installations. While installing the 1st image, I created three partitions 1) /dev/sda1 - /boot (200 MB) 2) /dev/sda2 - swp (2 GB) 3) /dev/sda3 - / (8 GB) 4) Free unused (20 GB) once this installation booted properly, I try to create 2 new partitions in unused space using fdisk. Here is where the issues get in - 1) while creating /sda4 and /sda5 10 GB each, if I choose /sda4 to be primary, it creates /sda4 fine but does not let me create /sda5 saying 'there can be only 4 primary partitions' 2) if I choose /sda4 to be extended, it is created fine but /sda5 now uses the same start and end cylinder (I don't know why) The extended partion 4 should be made the remaining size of the disk It is a container for extended partitions 5-15. /dev/sda1 primary 200MB [/boot] /dev/sda2 primary 2GB [swap] /dev/sda3 primary 8GB [1st system root] /dev/sda4 extended 20GB /dev/sda5 logical 10GB [2nd system root] /dev/sda6 logical 10GB [3rd system root] If I use LVM for /sda2 (which has swp and /) then I have two primary partitions left and can create other 2 partitions properly. I mount them to /disk2 and /disk3. except the above partitioning problem, I don't know how to install f9 in other two partitions. How do I create separate /root for each of the other two installations? Do I have to create another /boot? How can make swap to be shared? Use a shared boot, and write stanzas in /boot/grub/grub.conf for the three systems. title Fedora9-main root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinux-main ro root=/dev/sda3 . . . initrd /initrd-main title Fedora9-2nd system root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinux-2nd ro root=/dev/sda5 . . . initrd /initrd-2nd title Fedora9-3rd root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinux-3rd ro root=/dev/sda6 . . . initrd /initrd-3rd This is one way to do it, put the kernels from the 2nd and 3rd systems in the common boot area. Another way to do it is to use the chainloader functions or something like: title Fedora9-main root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-main ro root=/dev/sda3 . . . initrd /initrd-main title Fedora9-2nd root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2nd ro root=/dev/sda5 . . . initrd /boot/initrd-2nd title Fedora-3rd root (hd0,6) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3rd ro root=/dev/sda6 initrd /boot/initrd-3rd [I hope this is workable, I think grub will be able to work with the extended partitions. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.] Use just the one swap for all three systems. You'll need to edit the /etc/fstab file in each system to use the one shared swap partition. At install time, for the 2md and 3rd system, select to NOT install a boot loader on the system, and customize /boot/grub/grub.conf to select the correct root partition. Also during partitioning, select the proper /boot swap and root partitions. Any help would be really appreciated. I am not able to find a straight fwd howto for such installations. IT isn't totally obvious :-) One has to understand the features/limits of the M$-DOG partitioning schema, and understand that the extended partion 4 is a container for the 5th through 15th partions that are allowed under that schema. Thanks in advance, phm [This is pretty sketchy, but should point you in the right direction.] -- G.Wolfe Woodbury [RHCT expired] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
