FC11 Random lockups with Celeron 1GHz CPU.
Hi I am experiencing random lockups on my system. They started with FC10 and now I've had them about twice with FC11 First I thought the reason was the graphical drivers, but they continued (although less frequently) when I switched down to work at level 3 on this pc. Usually this pc works as a data server (music, photos) for my home but I use it ocasionally to troubleshoot other pc's at home. My PC is a Intel Celeron socket 370 1GHz CPU Biostar M6VLR board --VIA VT8601A(PLE133T) / VT82C686B chipset -- Trident Blade 3D Core integrated video. 2MB RAM(PC 133 MHZ) I think I read among the release notes that the minimum requirement with be a Pentium processor, I am not sure if one of the optimizations for Fedora is adversely affecting my Celeron system. Would it go away I if recompile the Kernel? What logs should I activate to try and catch out what is exactly causing the lockups. I do not remember any particular activity that consistently causes the lock ups. I checked out RAM with Memtest86 and it doesn't show up any trouble. If I change the board with one of those atom 230 mini-itx ones, will I still have the same problem? I was thinking of an [image: newegg] <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121342> BOXD945GCLF Motherboard / CPU / VGA Combo [image: view pic]<http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage.aspx?ISList=13-121-342-S01%2c13-121-342-S02%2c13-121-342-S03%2c13-121-342-S04%2c13-121-342-S05&S7ImageFlag=1&Item=N82E16813121342&Depa=0&WaterMark=1&Description=Intel%20BOXD945GCLF%20Intel%20Atom%20processor%20230%20Intel%20945GC%20Mini%20ITX%20Motherboard%2fCPU%20Combo%20-%20Retail> BOXD945GCLF Motherboard / CPU / VGA Combo<http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16813121342>[ 142N82E16813121342<http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16813121342> ] Intel BOXD945GCLF Intel Atom processor 230 Intel 945GC Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121342> Intel BOXD945GCLF Intel Atom processor 230 Intel 945GC Mini ITX Motherboard -- ---------- /\_/\ |O O| pepeb...@gmail.com Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- 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: FC11 Random lockups with Celeron 1GHz CPU.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Peter Langfelder < peter.langfel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Javier Perez wrote: > > > > Hi > > I am experiencing random lockups on my system. They started with FC10 and > now I've had them about twice with FC11 > > First I thought the reason was the graphical drivers, but they continued > (although less frequently) when I switched down to > > work at level 3 on this pc. > > Usually this pc works as a data server (music, photos) for my home but I > use it ocasionally to troubleshoot other pc's at home. > > > > My PC is a > > Intel Celeron socket 370 1GHz CPU > > Biostar M6VLR board > > --VIA VT8601A(PLE133T) / VT82C686B chipset > > -- Trident Blade 3D Core integrated video. > > 2MB RAM(PC 133 MHZ) > > > > I think I read among the release notes that the minimum requirement with > be a Pentium processor, > > I am not sure if one of the optimizations for Fedora is adversely > affecting my Celeron system. > > Would it go away I if recompile the Kernel? > > What logs should I activate to try and catch out what is exactly causing > the lockups. I do not remember > > any particular activity that consistently causes the lock ups. I checked > out RAM with Memtest86 and it doesn't show up any trouble. > > > > I've had random lockups due to faulty memory chips and due to an > unspecified "motherboard problem" (after that I didn't bother to try > and fix the machine). A graphical driver bug will most likely kill the > X server, but may not affect the kernel (and level 3 operation). You > can run memtest to see whether there's anything wrong with your > memory. If memtest hangs as well, I'd suspect a motherboard or power > supply problem. > > HTH, > > Peter > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > Hi I ran memtest for about 5 repetitions without problem. Maybe if I leave it tonight overnight runnning memtest something will show up. I'll try. Just let me get home first and i'll post the /var/log/message and /var/log/dmesg Is there anyway to filter out all the ansi stuff in order to watch boot.log ? It's quite confusing to watch it with all the ANSI stuff in between. -- -- /\_/\ |O O| pepeb...@gmail.com Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. Sent from La Chorrera, Panama -- 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
Yum download order
I noticed that Yum downloads from smaller to larger files. Is there any way to invert that, to first download the biggies? JP -- -- /\_/\ |O O| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- 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
XFCE depends on GNOME, why?
Hi I tried to install a "pure" XFCE system but I can't It looks like in order to install XFCE, I have to install also GNOME. It is so very counterproductive because my idea was to setup a small,efficient system specifically without GNOME or KDE's overhead. This is an old computer, with a Celeron processor Take a look at this, this is the result of sudo groupinstall XFCE: --- Dependencies Resolved === Package Arch Version Repository Size === Installing: Thunar i386 0.9.0-4.fc9 fedora 5.7 M gdm i386 1:2.24.0-12.fc10 fedora 1.1 M thunar-archive-plugini386 0.2.4-5.fc10 fedora 39 k thunar-volmani386 0.2.0-2.fc9 fedora 84 k xfce-utils i386 4.4.3-1.fc10 fedora 320 k xfce4-mailwatch-plugin i386 1.1.0-1.fc10 fedora 375 k xfce4-mixer i386 4.4.3-2.fc10 updates189 k xfce4-panel i386 4.4.3-1.fc10 fedora 505 k xfdesktopi386 4.4.2-6.fc10 fedora 2.7 M Updating: control-center-filesystemi386 1:2.24.0.1-11.fc10updates 40 k Installing for dependencies: PolicyKit-gnome i386 0.9-3.fc10fedora 123 k Terminal i386 0.2.8.3-1.fc10fedora 1.6 M at-spi i386 1.24.0-5.fc10 fedora 242 k control-center i386 1:2.24.0.1-11.fc10updates2.4 M eel2 i386 2.24.1-4.fc10 updates266 k evolution-data-serveri386 2.24.3-1.fc10 updates4.0 M exo i386 0.3.4-3.fc10 fedora 728 k fedora-gnome-theme noarch 8.0.0-7.fc10 fedora 11 k fedora-icon-themenoarch 1.0.0-4.fc10 fedora 115 k gnome-desktopi386 2.24.3-1.fc10 updates1.0 M gnome-mount i386 0.8-1.fc9 fedora 148 k gnome-panel-libs i386 2.24.3-1.fc10 updates 60 k gnome-python2i386 2.22.3-1.fc10 fedora 36 k gnome-python2-gnome i386 2.22.3-1.fc10 fedora 83 k gnome-python2-gnomevfs i386 2.22.3-1.fc10 fedora 84 k gnome-sessioni386 2.24.3-1.fc10 updates596 k gnome-settings-daemoni386 2.24.1-7.fc10 updates449 k gnome-themes noarch 2.24.3-1.fc10 updates1.6 M gnome-vfs2 i386 2.24.0-3.fc10 fedora 921 k gtk2-engines i386 2.16.1-1.fc10 fedora 313 k libbonoboui i386 2.24.0-1.fc10 fedora 372 k libcanberra-gtk2 i386 0.10-3.fc10 updates 20 k libgail-gnomei386 1.20.1-1.fc10 fedora 26 k libgnome i386 2.24.1-7.fc10 fedora 693 k libgnomeui i386 2.24.0-2.fc10 fedora 1.0 M libnotifyi386 0.4.4-12.fc10 fedora 34 k metacity i386 2.24.0-2.fc10 fedora 1.5 M notification-daemon i386 0.3.7.90-1.svn3009.fc10 fedora 49 k notification-daemon-engine-nodokai386 0.1.0-3.fc10 fedora 27 k plymouth-gdm-hooks i386 0.6.0-0.2008.11.17.3.fc10 fedora 16 k -- -- /\_/\ |O O| pepeb...@pananet.com Javier Perez ~~
Re: XFCE depends on GNOME, why?
How about sprucing up XDM ? After reading all the very instructive comments on the tread, I ended up loading xdm, and yum installing all the different pieces from the groupinstall piecemeal and checking out to make sure no gnome stuff was slipping through. I think I got it all, and currently I am using XDM to log in. JP On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > gdm is a big one. It now basically requires a gnome desktop to work. > > Perhaps we should look at pulling in kdm for Xfce. ;) > > Well, then you'll need at least kdelibs, probably kdebase-runtime and > oxygen-icon-theme too (and all that stuff is pretty large). :-( KDM doesn't > spawn an almost complete KDE desktop like GDM does with GNOME, but it does > need the KDE libraries. We'd also have to split it out of kdebase-workspace > for you - I don't think you want all of kdebase-workspace on the XFCE > spin. ;-) > > I guess porting my KDM ConsoleKit patch (which now got accepted into KDE > upstream, but the patch can be extracted from KDE SVN) to one of the > lightweight display managers and then using that as the default would be > the best approach for you in the long run. > >Kevin Kofler > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- -- /\_/\ |O O| pepeb...@gmail.com Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- 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: WHY I WANT TO STOP USING FEDORA!!!
This thread is still going on strong? On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Robin Laing wrote: > Mike Chalmers wrote: > >> I do not understand how Fedora expects you to upgrade or reinstall >> every 6 months or so. >> >> This is just not right. >> >> Should a distro keep continuing to make you install every six months, >> if so, I would rather use Microsoft. Why not provide updates, major >> ones, to the already installed OS instead of having to reinstall a new >> OS!!! I imagine that this, if done in an organized way, could be >> easier on the developers of Fedora. >> >> INSTEAD OF MAKING CONSUMERS INSTALL EVERY SIX MONTHS OR UNTIL THE >> UPDATES STOP, JUST PROVIDE LARGE UPDATES THAT UPGRADE A SYSTEM WITHOUT >> HAVING TO DO A COMPLETELY NEW INSTALL??? >> >> THEN YOU WILL HAVE A LARGER FAN BASE AND A MORE STABLE OS!!! >> >> > I have not read the whole thread yet but I don't update every six months. > My home systems were running Fedora 7 until I moved to 10. That is over a > year. > > I know people that are still running FC4. > > There are other versions of Linux out there that offer long life just as > Centos does. > > -- > Robin Laing > > > -- > 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 > -- -- /\_/\ |O O| pepeb...@gmail.com Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. Sent from: Panamá City Panamá Panama. -- 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
Getting Rid of NepoMuk
Hi How do I kill this? Where is it coming from? I do not see with service --status-all Neither do I see it with KDE services How do I kill this beast? -- -- /\_/\ |O O| pepeb...@gmail.com Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- 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: Getting Rid of NepoMuk
Well, I had to nuke my KDE environment and switch to XFCE. damn! It seemed like the 7-head hydra.No matter how many times I killed it would just restart. It killed my MythTV box in the middle of movies. Now with XFCE I could finally watch them. WAF went way down after this JP On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 20:10 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > New features that no one knows about coming to your KDE desktop one > update at a time :) > > you mean like akonodai? > > ;-) > > Craig > > -- > 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 > -- ---------- /\_/\ |O O| pepeb...@gmail.com Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- 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: Ayuda con GRUB
Yo si he usado supergrubdisk y creeme, de mi biblioteca no se mueve. Hace lo que promete y lo hace bien! Fue una experiencia excelente! Totalmente recomendado. Translation: I have indeed used Supergrubdisk and believeme, it won't move from my library It works as promised and it works quite well. I had a very good experience using it. I totally recommend it JP 2009/3/24 Dennis Kaptain > > Hola Andres, > Yo he encontrado un sito que habla de su problema. > http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-503125.html > Aunque está de ubuntu no importa. GRUB está lo mismo en Fedora. > > Como lo que dijo usuario lkraemer, obtener supergrub de > http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ > > http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/ contiene información de «dual > boot» que debe que saber. > > Supergrub va a remover grub y se puede boot de su XP disco. > > ¡Nunca he tratado esto a mi mismo! Así que no sé por cierto si lo funciona > o no. > > En el futuro, si se puede, escribir a este lista en ingles por favor. No > importa si su ingles no está muy bien. No creo que hay muchas personas aquí > que hablan español y pueden ayudarle. > > Saludos, > Dennis K > > > > > De: Andres Guzman > Para: fedora-list@redhat.com > Enviado: martes, 24 de marzo, 2009 23:03:35 > Asunto: Ayuda con GRUB > > Camaradas buenas noches, quisiera pedire su ayuda en un tema que ya no le > encuentro solucion, el problema es que en mi laptop tengo instalado Win XP > (hd0,0) y Fedora 9 (hd0,5). El problema es que necesito reinstalar windows, > ahora el problema esta es que no puedo botear con el cd de XP (despues de > presionar el boton de comenzar con CD) la pantalla se va a negro y nop hace > nada, esto con cualquier cd para botear. > > Eh tratado de todo, creo que la manera mas facil es desinstalar el GRUB > (cosa que no se como hacer), para luego poder instalar WinXP y despues > reinstalar el grub. > > O existira alguna otra forma de poder hacer que corra el cd de XP. > > Les agradecería mucho su ayuda, desde ya muchas gracias. > > > __ > Correo Yahoo! > Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! > Regístrate ya - http://correo.yahoo.com.mx/ > > -- > 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 > -- -- /\_/\ |O O| pepeb...@gmail.com Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. Sent from: La Chorrera Panama. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: F9: Telinit 5 and make it stick
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 18:17 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: > > 2008/5/20 Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Again: not. All that line does is to set the default runlevel to 5, > > > which is what he wants, so changing that isn't going to solve his > > > problem. The issue is what's actually happening at level 5, and that's > > > no longer specified in the /etc/inittab file but in the scripts > > > in /etc/event.d. > > > > If he has that line in /etc/inittab and it's not working then he may > > have a runlevel set on the kernel command line (but I asssumed he'd > > know about that already). Otherwise, the issue he described (the > > runlevel not "sticking") should be solved by putting it in > > /etc/inittab (since upstart was made to read that again shortly prior > > to the release by Bill Nottingham, IIRC). > > The only place /etc/inittab is read (as far as I can see) is > in /etc/event.d/rcS, and that is only to set the runlevel to what > initdefault says. In other words, you can't use it directly to start > arbitrary processes like you could before. > > In fact it even says so at the top of the file: > ># inittab is only used by upstart for the default runlevel. ># ># ADDING OTHER CONFIGURATION HERE WILL HAVE NO EFFECT ON YOUR > SYSTEM. > > In any case, I think we're both now in the realm of speculation as to > what the OP is actually seeing. > > poc > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > I solved it. The problem was a missing /etc/X11/prefdm I had deleted it thinking that it was part of "X Windows System" group, but it is not, it is provided on "initscripts" (go figure) I wanted to do a clean X reinstallation and I had erased the whole /etc/X11 subdirectory. It's working fine now, Thanks all JP -- -- /\_/\ |O O| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot
Hi I hae a Kingston Data Traveller USB flash drive (8GB) which for some reason I cannot make a bootable USB drive. Googling around I came up with this information: -Some USB flash drives are notorious for having problems with corrupted master boot records. Credit goes to BHSPitMonkey for pointing out this fix. The troubled drive encountered was a Kingston Data Traveler 2GB unit- I think this makes my unit highly suspect. The solution in Ubuntu was we will install the mbr package and use it to create the new mbr on the USB flash drive 1. Type *sudo apt-get install mbr* 2. Type *fdisk -l* to find out which device is your flash drive 3. Type *install-mbr /dev/sdx* (replacing x with your flash device) My question is how do we do this with Fedora? I already tried out the install-live-to-usb thingy and it did not work. In fact the section in installing the mbr is blank at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo Thanks -- /\_/\ |O O| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:58 PM, das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2008 14:13:25 -0500 > "Javier Perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I cannot make a bootable USB drive. > > Did you try fdisk to make the partition bootable before using > livecd-iso-to-disk? > > -- > das > ddts.randomink.org > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > no In theory the livecd_to_usb program was supposed to make it bootable as part of the process. At least that is my understanding. JP -- -- /\_/\ |O O| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Javier Perez wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:58 PM, das <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >>On Thu, 29 May 2008 14:13:25 -0500 >>"Javier Perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> > I cannot make a bootable USB drive. >> >>Did you try fdisk to make the partition bootable before using >>livecd-iso-to-disk? >> > > no >> In theory the livecd_to_usb program was supposed to make it bootable as >> part of the process. At least that is my >> understanding. >> >> > In theory you used "fdisk -l" to see if the partition was bootable or not, > how about the practice? > > > -- > Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from > the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Ok I just arrived back home. In practice it was marked as bootable. I downloaded the testdisk program and noticed a couple of interesting things. As I said, my flash drive is a Kingston Data Traveler 8GB Look at this extract of the created log TestDisk 6.9, Data Recovery Utility, February 2008 Christophe GRENIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cgsecurity.org Linux version (ext2fs lib: 1.40.8, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: none, ewf lib: 2) Hard disk list Disk /dev/sda - 163 GB / 152 GiB - CHS 19929 255 63, sector size=512 - ATA Maxtor 6L160P0 Disk /dev/sdb - 250 GB / 232 GiB - CHS 30401 255 63, sector size=512 - ATA WDC WD2500BB-55R Disk /dev/sdc - 8011 MB / 7640 MiB - CHS 1021 247 62, sector size=512 - Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 Disk /dev/sdc - 8011 MB / 7640 MiB - Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 Partition table type: Intel Analyse Disk /dev/sdc - 8011 MB / 7640 MiB - CHS 1021 247 62 Geometry from i386 MBR: head=16 sector=32 BAD_RS LBA=32 62 FAT32 at 0/0/33 Info: size boot_sector 15646688, partition 15646688 FAT1 : 2256-17511 FAT2 : 17512-32767 start_rootdir : 32768 root cluster : 2 Data : 32768-15646687 sectors : 15646688 cluster_size : 8 no_of_cluster : 1951740 (2 - 1951741) fat_length 15256 calculated 15248 heads/cylinder 16 (FAT) != 247 (HD) sect/track 32 (FAT) != 62 (HD) *Current partition structure: Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 16 (FAT) != 247 (HD) Warning: Incorrect number of sectors per track 32 (FAT) != 62 (HD) 1 * FAT32 LBA0 0 33 1021 179 28 15646688 [LITTLE OWL] * I wonder if that might have something to do with it? maybe if I reformat and repartition the drive This inconsistency might be what makes the drive non bootable, because maybe the BIOS is expecting something (cylinders, heads) and the drive is givng it something that it cannot make sense of. JP -- -- /\_/\ |O O| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Bill Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/30 Javier Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > heads/cylinder 16 (FAT) != 247 (HD) > > sect/track 32 (FAT) != 62 (HD) > > Current partition structure: > > Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 16 (FAT) != 247 (HD) > > Warning: Incorrect number of sectors per track 32 (FAT) != 62 (HD) > > 1 * FAT32 LBA0 0 33 1021 179 28 15646688 [LITTLE > OWL] > > I see similar mismatches with a 'phone memory card. Could you try > opening in fdisk and toggling the "dos compatability" flag? > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > I don't think I can do that anymore. I "fixed" the heads/cylinder and the sectors per track and reformated the drive. At home it did boot, but at my computer at work it does not want to do boot. Anyway, as soon as i get home I will try to assert the dos compatibility flag, just in case. but it is no longer the same system. JP -- -- /\_/\ |O O| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Bill Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/30 Javier Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > heads/cylinder 16 (FAT) != 247 (HD) > > sect/track 32 (FAT) != 62 (HD) > > Current partition structure: > > Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 16 (FAT) != 247 (HD) > > Warning: Incorrect number of sectors per track 32 (FAT) != 62 (HD) > > 1 * FAT32 LBA0 0 33 1021 179 28 15646688 [LITTLE > OWL] > > Hi, now I can confirm Changing the partition structure allows my Data Traveller to boot from home, a MSI K8MM-V motherboard. At work, it does not boot, it is an HP Compaq d220 MT with unknown motherboard. The bios has the USB boot option but it does not want to boot from my flash drive for some reason that I still have to find out. -- ---------- /\_/\ |O O| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:13 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > > > My question is how do we do this with Fedora? > > I already tried out the install-live-to-usb thingy and it did not > > work. > > > > In fact the section in installing the mbr is blank at > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo > > I did this just a couple of days ago with a 1 GB Data Traveller stick. > I'll make this quick: > > 1. With fdisk >1. delete any existing partitions on the stick. >2. create a new partition. >3. mark the new partition bootable. >4. write your changes. > 2. create a ext3 file system on the stick's new partition. > 3. run the live to usb tool. > > I know I missed all the details, but the steps above should be enough to > get your stick running with Fedora 9. > > HTH, > > Ranbir > > -- > Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu > Linux 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux > 23:06:54 up 36 days, 17:01, 3 users, load average: 0.21, 0.30, 0.27 > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Thanks Ranbir. I ended up doing something similar, I had to change the geometry of the flash drive, remake the partition, and reformat it. I use it with both windows and linux, therefore I formated it on FAT32 instead of ext3. I have been told that it is better to use vfat, I am not sure. I''ll do that test some other day. It is half working for me right now :) JP -- -- /\_/\ |O O| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Problems with flash (swf) player and uTube
> Also, make sure you have libflashsupport. If your system is 64-bit > you'll need *both* libflashsupport.i386 and libflashsupport.x86_64. > > You may want to install the Adobe repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d. That > way the Flash plugin will stay up to date. > > poc > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Why do we need both 386 and x86_64 versions of libflashsupport? I want to keep my system as clean as possible, not doubling up libraries. It makes more difficult to find out bugs -- ------ /\_/\ |O O| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Fedora 9 & runlevel 3
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Tom Horsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:44:19 -0400 > Bob Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd sure like to > > know what other process is running while /bin/login is waiting for me to > > login. > > Maybe you could replace telinit with a script that does a ps to a log > file, then execs the original telinit? > > I certainly don't have the problem on my fedora 9 virtual machine which > I switched to runlevel 3 after installing it. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Bob. I suggest you use the Bootchart utility. http://www.bootchart.org It shows the whole boot process after execution of "init" phase collecting all sort of statistics. The important issue here is that it shows which programs run when during the whole start up. Maybe it can help you find up who is starting up GDM My 2 cents -- -- /\_/\ |O O| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Upgrade fc7 to fc8 not possible with yum
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 23:29 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Upgrade from fc7 to fc8 is not possible by yum because 2 packages are > > not available to update.How to overcome this problem? > > Simple answer: Uninstall those packages before doing the upgrade, then > manually re-install them afterwards. > > > > NB: Don't post HTML mail to the list. Find the options to turn it off > in your mail client. > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.25.4-30.fc9.i686 > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I > read messages from the public lists. > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Use package-cleanup --problems to uncover orphans like that and remove them before upgrading. -- -- /\_/\ |O O| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Arranging data on the HDD
Hi I am changing FC11 from a two-HDD setup to a larger one-HDD setup. The first setup is using LVM spanning both disks. What is the best way to move everything to one HDD? Also, I want to have two partitions, one for the data and one for the programs. I know it is easy to put /home on its own partition, but what about MySQL? I am using MythTV and both MySQL and MythTV use /var/lib to store their data. I'd rather not use hard links "ln- s bla bla bla". I am doing that with another pc and sometimes when I had trouble with LVM the data would be written on the wrong places. Another option would be to move the data directories for MythtV and/or MySQL, but I'd hate to break something that other programs are depending on. I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on this, I bet I'm not the only one doing something similar, but I guess this is kind of difficult to phrase for google. Thanks -- -- /\_/\ |O O| pepeb...@gmail.com Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- 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: Arranging data on the HDD
Thanks! I haven't thought of mount bind. I just rechecked man mount and I think it will work just fine! Thanks! JP On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Javier Perez wrote: > > Hi > > I am changing FC11 from a two-HDD setup to a larger one-HDD setup. The > > first setup is using LVM spanning both disks. > > What is the best way to move everything to one HDD? > > If you want to move the logical volumes from the disk couple > to the large disk, you could add the large disk to your > current LVM and then use pvmove to force the relocation of all > your stuff to the large disk. After that, you can use vgreduce > to remove the two disks from the volume group (from three disks > to one). > > > Also, I want to have two partitions, one for the data and one for the > > programs. I know it is easy to put /home on its own partition, > > but what about MySQL? I am using MythTV and both MySQL and MythTV use > > /var/lib to store their data. > > I'd rather not use hard links "ln- s bla bla bla". I am doing that with > > another pc and sometimes when I had trouble with LVM the > > data would be written on the wrong places. > > Another option would be to move the data directories for MythtV and/or > > MySQL, but I'd hate to break something that other programs > > are depending on. > > One thing you can do is to use the bind option when mounting. > You can have something in a place you like and then have it appear > somewhere else too (in a place that the rpms like). > For example, my system has this in /etc/fstab: > /dev/sda9 /mnt/data reiserfs defaults1 > 3 > /mnt/data/wwwoffle /var/cache/wwwoffle autobind 0 > 0 > > > > > > I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on this, I bet I'm not the only one > > doing something similar, but I guess this is kind of difficult > > to phrase for google. > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > -- > > -- > > /\_/\ > > |O O| pepeb...@gmail.com <mailto:pepeb...@gmail.com> > > Javier Perez > > While the night runs > > toward the day... > > m m Pepebuho watches > >from his high perch. > > > > > -- > Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it > > -- > 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 > -- -- /\_/\ |O O| pepeb...@gmail.com Javier Perez While the night runs toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- 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
