Lava Octopus 550 kernel crash

[Seann Clark]

All,

This is my first post to the list, but the short of the story is, I got a
lava octopus 550 (since it does work in linux) and I have been having
problems with it, namely it only shows 4/10 total serial ports (two
onboard Intel, 8 on the PCI based Octopus 550) and even after working
across a few of the sites (Lava's how to, a few different setserial sites,
and so forth) and I don't know who to run this past, since it looks like a
problem, either on my side or not. I am including as much information as I
can think of for this.

O/S Fedora 9 x86_64
dual Intel quad core  E5430

Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel: IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ 16
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel: current handler: uhci_hcd:usb5
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel: Pid: 6583, comm: pwrstatd Not tainted
2.6.25.9-76.fc9.x86_64 #1
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel: Call Trace:
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  [] setup_irq+0x1f0/0x20d
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  [] ?
serial8250_interrupt+0x0/0x120
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  [] request_irq+0xc5/0xee
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  []
serial8250_startup+0x44b/0x5cf
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  [] uart_startup+0x8e/0x15f
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  [] uart_open+0x182/0x409
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  [] ? init_dev+0x472/0x614
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  [] tty_open+0x1bd/0x2df
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  [] chrdev_open+0x134/0x158
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  [] ? open_namei+0x2cc/0x6a1
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  [] ? chrdev_open+0x0/0x158
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  [] __dentry_open+0xf5/0x1c8
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  []
nameidata_to_filp+0x2e/0x3f
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  [] do_filp_open+0x39/0x4b
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  [] ?
__strncpy_from_user+0x2c/0x53
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  [] ?
get_unused_fd_flags+0x8b/0x11f
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  [] do_sys_open+0x51/0xd2
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  []
compat_sys_open+0x15/0x17
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:  []
sysenter_do_call+0x1b/0x66
Jul 14 22:40:34 haruhi kernel:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000P Chipset Memory Controller Hub
(rev b1)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 81db
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
Queue=0/1 Enable-
Capabilities: [6c] Express Root Port (Slot-), MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting 

00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8
Port 2-3 (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=06, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 2000-2fff
Memory behind bridge: c810-c82f
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
Queue=0/1 Enable-
Capabilities: [6c] Express Root Port (Slot-), MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting 
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4
Port 3 (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=07, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
Queue=0/1 Enable-
Capabilities: [6c] Express Root Port (Slot-), MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting 
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8
Port 4-5 (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=08, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
Queue=0/1 Enable-
Capabilities: [6c] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting 
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4
Port 5 (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=09, subordinate=09, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
Queue=0/1 Enable-
Capabilities: [6c] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting 
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8
Port 6-7 (rev b1) (

Re: Lava Octopus 550 kernel crash

[Seann Clark]

Tod Merley wrote:

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Seann Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  

All,

This is my first post to the list, but the short of the story is, I got a
lava octopus 550 (since it does work in linux) and I have been having
problems with it, namely it only shows 4/10 total serial ports (two
onboard Intel, 8 on the PCI based Octopus 550) and even after working
across a few of the sites (Lava's how to, a few different setserial sites,
and so forth) and I don't know who to run this past, since it looks like a
problem, either on my side or not. I am including as much information as I
can think of for this.

O/S Fedora 9 x86_64
dual Intel quad core  E5430



Hi Seann Clark,

Serial ports have an interesting way of taking up a lot of time.  Oh well.

I would need to look into this much further, I hope someone with
current experiance can chime in.

Have you recompiled the kernel to allow it to see your additional
ports (see link)? :

  
This is a vanilla Fedora 9 kernel, I haven't done hacking on that 
portion yet, since it came up perfectly without mod on the 
driver/hardware portion of this.

http://www.support.lavalink.com/index.php?id=471

I am suspicious that you have since I see this from your lspci:

0e:01.0 Serial controller: Lava Computer mfg Inc Lava Octo A (rev 03)
(prog-if 02 [16550])
   Subsystem: Lava Computer mfg Inc Lava Octo A
   Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 16
   I/O ports at 4418 [size=8]
   I/O ports at 4410 [size=8]
   I/O ports at 4408 [size=8]
   I/O ports at 4400 [size=8]
   Kernel driver in use: serial

0e:01.1 Serial controller: Lava Computer mfg Inc Lava Octo B (rev 03)
(prog-if 02 [16550])
   Subsystem: Lava Computer mfg Inc Lava Octo B
   Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 16
   I/O ports at 4438 [size=8]
   I/O ports at 4430 [size=8]
   I/O ports at 4428 [size=8]
   I/O ports at 4420 [size=8]
   Kernel driver in use: serial


And I assume you have placed the small script in your
/etc/rc.d/rc.local as suggested in the above article.
  
I was looking over that and did do the script as it suggested, and I 
didn't see anything but the four original ports listed on first boot. 
The problem is, three of the four are showing the Lava, with the same 
port ID's, and one is my onboard. At the least it should be my onboard 
having two ports, and the Lava having the other 2 (up to 8 when I get 
that working right)

If I were you I would look into how to move the interrupt used and
perhaps spread them out a bit (use differant interrupts for each of
the two ports).

Good Hunting!

Tod
  
I would have to do a bit of hunting on the IRQ side to get that sorted, 
including on my hardware so I will see what I can get. Thanks for the 
suggestions so far~


Seann

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Re: SATA hotswap / hotplug

[Seann Clark]

Christopher Mocock wrote:

Todd Denniston wrote:
lsi does not show up on http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html so 
you have to figure out what driver supports the card and ask about 
that driver.


It's the megaraid_sas driver but it's not shown on the linux-ata.org 
site, so that doesn't bode too well!


3Ware 9550SX, 

http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#tware
apparently you need to ask at the driver maker's site if they support 
it.


Aha, I shall do so.
Just as a quick heads up, with the 3ware cards, you have to have JBOD 
support on, and a hotswap compliant enclosure for this. If you are using 
any type of RAID (I use RAID 5 on the three I have) it shows as one, 
maybe two drives (sda/b) in Linux though I have between 4-12 drives in 
the system. I have hot swapped failed drives before, but if you are 
using a JBOD setup, I am not sure how that works as seen from Linux, 
though the card handles all of that internally. The biggest thing to 
watch for in the logs with 3ware is are kernel logs and 3dm2 logs for 
the card if you have the support software up.



according to the 'Driver / feature matrix'
http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#matrix

driver=sata_mv
feature=Device Hotplug
feature state=no


Well spotted, I saw this bit of the same page...

http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#marvell

... and it says:

Driver name: sata_mv

Summary: Similar to ServerWorks "frodo": per-device queues, full SATA 
control including hotplug.


So I'm a little bit puzzled. Unless it means hotplugging the card 
itself?!?


Anyway, thanks for the pointers.




Regards,
Seann

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F9: Web Based system monitoring

[Seann Clark]

All,

   I know this isn't exactly the place to look for anything like this, 
but I am wondering from the Fedora  users base, if there is any 
good/recommended tools to display real-time or near real time system 
information VIA web (AJAX or JAVA based) for a server? I would like to 
set up something where I can monitor server status at a glance without 
having 400 shell windows open (Like I do now when doing that stuff). I 
know Gnome and KDE have system monitoring applications, but since I 
dont' have X installed on the servers I desire to monitor like this, I 
figure web based would be next best.



Regards,
Seann

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Re: F9: Web Based system monitoring

[Seann Clark]

Anthony Messina wrote:

On Thursday 17 July 2008 04:27:55 pm Seann Clark wrote:
  

All,

I know this isn't exactly the place to look for anything like this,
but I am wondering from the Fedora  users base, if there is any
good/recommended tools to display real-time or near real time system
information VIA web (AJAX or JAVA based) for a server? I would like to
set up something where I can monitor server status at a glance without
having 400 shell windows open (Like I do now when doing that stuff). I
know Gnome and KDE have system monitoring applications, but since I
dont' have X installed on the servers I desire to monitor like this, I
figure web based would be next best.



cacti (cacti.net) is a nice web-based frontend for snmp (and other) 
monitoring, it's not realtime by default, but updates every 5 minutes. that 
can be changed however to better suit your needs.


  
Matter of fact, Cacti was the reason why I moved to a new platform, only 
to find I have build issues with Spine on x86_64, and no RPM's are 
available on this (my build issues are lib related) and Cacti works 
perfectly for my long term graphing. Though upgrading 400 rra's from 
x86_32 to x86_64 was a task.



~Seann

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F9: Network address problems

[Seann Clark]

All,   

   I have had issues with Fedora lately (past 4 version now) that most 
of the time I have gotten past after a while, but don't have anything 
uniform to solve this. Here is the situation:


When installing a new system to replace an old one, I set up the new 
system with it's own unique IP address (say 192.168.1.5) while keeping 
the old server online to serve traffic (say 192.168.10.2). After getting 
the new system up and online, tested Q/C'ed and ready to deploy, I take 
it off the network and re-IP it. No big deal. What I do to do this is:


ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.240

vim /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
and make changes as appropriate. After that I adjust all the programs to 
use the new address and test them with it as well. It works perfectly... 
until a reboot...


Usually what happens is Fedora will boot happily, for the most part, but 
network socket Dependant  items, like ssh, httpd, mysql, radius, ldap, 
etc fail  when coming online since there is no IP address assigned that 
matches what they were configured for (the new/changed IP). When I 
re-run the network script in init.d (or service network restart, same 
thing) everything network wise comes up fine, no problem. It is just on 
boot that it fails.


Does anyone have any ideas on what I could have missed, and/or what I 
could improve with this?



Regards,
Seann

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Re: mount windows share

[Seann Clark]

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Monday 28 July 2008 19:36:33 David Hláčik wrote:
  

Thanks, but this unfortunately did not solved my problem.

Regards,

David

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On Monday 28 July 2008 15:02:37 David Hláčik wrote:
  

Hello, how to mount windows share from Fedora 9 ?

using places ... connect to server ... does not work becouse of :
 - can't display location smb:// ... no application registered to hande
this request.

Thanks for help!

David


I'm not sure, but try installing 'samba' (without quotes).

$ su -c 'yum install samba'

  

Did you, as root, edit /etc/samba/smb.conf?

It's well-commented, and much can be left as defaults - probably best to, 
unless you know what you are doing - but you must rename the workgroup to 
match the windows one.


HTH

Anne

  
I am rather amazed, I am not seeing the new 'documented' way of doing 
this (I learned the hard way to command line it)


For a full mount:
mount -t cifs //yourwindows/share /mnt/windows_share
--or--
mount -t cifs //yourwindows/share /mnt/windows_share -ouser=joeuser


both work on mounting on most systems (I use that command to mount my 
media files for playback on my PS3 so I can watch movies from my network 
on my TV) and it works well...


Not as quick as a GUI option, but it works.

For mounting a linux share in Windows, that is where you would really 
use the Samba Server, and get the joy of configuring shares in smb.conf. 
All depends on what direction you want to go. Looking at the list 
replies it looks like they are talking of mounting a share in Windows...



~Seann



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Re: mount windows share

[Seann Clark]

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Monday 28 July 2008 20:07:50 Seann Clark wrote:
  

Looking at the list
replies it looks like they are talking of mounting a share in Windows...



I've no idea why, but as far as I know you can't use samba client without 
setting up samba server.


Anne
  
That is strange. I don't have the SMB server running on my PS3 and I 
have no problem using the cifs to mount shares. It may be based on the 
version as well, but I don't know. My primary share system is a Samba 
PDC, so mounting from that isn't a problem, so I have a music folder at 
/var/media/music and have it shared in the Windows world as /music and I 
can mount that in both linux and windows using SMB.


On the other side of things, my secondary server that doesn't have Samba 
configured or running can mount both that share, and /windowsbox/c$ 
among other share.



~Seann

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Re: FC9 installation sees SATA drives but not PATA

[Seann Clark]

Stephen Soliday wrote:

I want to install FC9 in place of my old Debian 4

I have one PATA three SATA hard drives and a SATA DVD-RW on a
ASUS N1L64-SLI WS motherboard   with the 0505 bios release

IDE:
/dev/hda1ntfs  Windows vista boot
/dev/hda2linux-swap
/dev/hda3reiserfsdebian /

SATA:
/dev/sda1  &
/dev/sda2   configured with LVM as RAID 1 mounted as /home
/dev/sdc1  ntfs   windows data drive

The problem is that FC9 will not see the ide drive (/dev/hda) it does 
not show up in /proc/partitions
I tried Fedora Live 8 with the same result, the kernel sees the SATA 
drives but not the IDE


I have tried various boot parameters such as libata.dma=0  or 
ide=nodma


I do not think it is a BIOS problem because I am running the older 
Linux just fine. Also, various live CD's such as

Knopix and SLAX see all four drives.

I can always add another SATA drive just for the Linux OS, but I would 
rather see this problem solved first.






Fedora changed how it see's hard drives in Fedora 8, all IDE and SATA 
drives are listed as /dev/sd*



Regards,
Seann

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Re: printer advice

[Seann Clark]

Gene Heskett wrote:

On Thursday 14 August 2008, François Patte wrote:
  

Bonjour,

I need a printer and I found two laser printers available where I am
living now:

Brother HL-2032
Samsung ML-1630/SEE


I cannot testify about the samsung, but Brother has what I would call 
excellent linux support, but you will need to get the correct set of ppd 
files from their web page.  If this printer isn't there, there is an email 
link to their support on the web page, and my query regarding an HL-2140 I 
had just bought was answered quickly, competently and courteously, pointing 
me at the correct file to download.  Self extracting, it installed itself in 
the proper location to be found by a restart of the cupsd daemon.  Then it 
was a simple matter of adding another printer profile at 
http://localhost:631.


HTH.
  
I have just this week set up a Samsung on Fedora 9 with little problem. 
It wasn't the ML-1630 but it was a CLP-610ND, and for CUPS to play with 
it, I just needed to grab the ppd and rastertosamsungsplc to the 
appropriate directories on my system and everything worked wonderfully. 
Now getting it to work right in Samba... well that was a different story 
(I don't know Samba well, so it was interesting to get it  to play well 
with my systems that don't speak CUPS natively.) but support is pretty 
good on that. Using Samsung, the 'install' program they provide can 
really hose a linux system though. (NewEgg review was the source of this 
knowledge, and I didn't even attempt the installer from Samsung)
  

I am not sure if they are working under fedora 8, because I cannot see
these printers in the list of available drivers (using
system-config-printer)

Does anybody have some experiences about these printers?

Thanks a lot.
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Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
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http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte



  

Regards,
Seann

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Fedora and Alpha

[Seann Clark]

All,

   I am wondering, what the last revision of Fedora (if any) supported 
a DEC Alpha based system? I have an old Alpha with NT4 on it (eew) and 
am looking at something to put on this for it to be a good workstation, 
and to have a few fun choices. I am looking at Alphalinux as one but I 
remember quiet a few distro's used to support this platform. I am also 
wondering if anyone out there is doing this and using an alpha still.



Regards,
Seann

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Re: CPU Temperatures

[Seann Clark]

Rich Emberson wrote:

I've got a ASUS P5Q Deluxe running a Intel quad core QX9550.
When I display the current temperature readings I get:

> sensors
coretemp-isa-
Core 0:  +44.0°C  (high = +74.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0001
Core 1:  +32.0°C  (high = +74.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0002
Core 2:  +37.0°C  (high = +74.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0003
Core 3:  +38.0°C  (high = +74.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
(plus other stuff like which fans are running, etc.)

Is this expected behavior, that the four cores have different
temperatures by as much as 10°C?

The above temperatures were measured when I first logged in.
After doing a bunch of stuff, the temperatures become:

coretemp-isa-
Core 0:  +48.0°C  (high = +74.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0001
Core 1:  +32.0°C  (high = +74.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0002
Core 2:  +37.0°C  (high = +74.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0003
Core 3:  +42.0°C  (high = +74.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

Again, different temperatures. Are the temperatures on
the 4 core CPU chip really that different?

Thanks, Richard

This is normal for a multicore system. I have a dual quad core system 
and it shows total and per die temps that are between 2-15 degrees 
difference in temp based on CPU usage. on my system it is usual for 
cores 1, 5 and 7 to get more use than the other 5 cores See below:


CPU1 Temp:   +29.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, hyst = +95.0°C)  sensor = Intel PECI
CPU2 Temp:   +35.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, hyst = +95.0°C)  sensor = Intel PECI
temp5:   +27.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, hyst = +95.0°C)  sensor = thermistor
temp6:   +38.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, hyst = +95.0°C)  sensor = thermistor
coretemp-isa-
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0:  +51.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0001
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 1:  +34.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0002
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 2:  +40.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0003
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 3:  +34.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0004
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 4:  +37.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0005
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 5:  +54.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0006
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 6:  +37.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0007
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 7:  +54.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

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SSL cert expire script

[Seann Clark]

All,

  This is a process that I just discovered. I have a Fedora 9 
system that is telling me that some (not all) of my ssl certs will 
expire soon. That is a feature I like a lot, I just have no clue 
where/how that is configured since until three weeks ago, I didn't 
realize that the system had this set up, otherwise I wouldn't have set 
up certs in a per-sub-system set up (/etc/tls contains all Apache 
related certs, and /etc/raddb/certs contains all my Radius auth certs) 
and of course there are other things that have the certs here and there, 
that I would like to check for expiration etc. Is there anyone on the 
list that knows this setup in detail?


   Also is there something out there that can do this on multiple 
machines? Just curious on that.



Regards,
Seann

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Re: Video Capture

[Seann Clark]

homb...@tips-q.com wrote:

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:52:05 -0500
Bill Davidsen  wrote:

  

homb...@tips-q.com wrote:


Not specific to Fedora (my apologies in advance). Can
someone suggest a method by which I could capture
flash/flv content? In other words, I want to capture a
streaming video to disk. Can this be done?

  

I have never tried actual streaming content, if the
content is in an flv file you can just grab it with any
of several scripts. I have them for old yuoutube, current
youtube, and {something I needed at the time and forget}.
You just give it the URL and optionally the filename
where you want it.



Of course, no method seems to work on this particular site.
Nothing I do is ever THAT easy. It uses the swfobject.js
script rather than embedding the media as an object. There
is no cache so there is nothing in /tmp. Based on
experimenting with wget, the actual media is in a protected
directory. 


White flag!

  
Stab in the dark, have you tried the Firefox plugin "Download them All" 
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201) it is pretty good 
at grabbing .flv files on most sites I have been to.




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Re: Video Capture

[Seann Clark]

Seann Clark wrote:

homb...@tips-q.com wrote:

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:52:05 -0500
Bill Davidsen  wrote:

 

homb...@tips-q.com wrote:
   

Not specific to Fedora (my apologies in advance). Can
someone suggest a method by which I could capture
flash/flv content? In other words, I want to capture a
streaming video to disk. Can this be done?

  

I have never tried actual streaming content, if the
content is in an flv file you can just grab it with any
of several scripts. I have them for old yuoutube, current
youtube, and {something I needed at the time and forget}.
You just give it the URL and optionally the filename
where you want it.



Of course, no method seems to work on this particular site.
Nothing I do is ever THAT easy. It uses the swfobject.js
script rather than embedding the media as an object. There
is no cache so there is nothing in /tmp. Based on
experimenting with wget, the actual media is in a protected
directory.
White flag!

  
Stab in the dark, have you tried the Firefox plugin "Download them 
All" (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201) it is pretty 
good at grabbing .flv files on most sites I have been to.




~Seann
Correction, the addon I was thinking of is download helper 
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006)



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Re: OT: Comcast permanent block on port 25

[Seann Clark]

Dennis Gilmore wrote:

On Friday 19 December 2008 11:17:10 am Phil Meyer wrote:
  

Comcast, in their infinite wisdom, has begun to block all inbound port
25 connections at my location.

AFAIK at least in the area i'm in they have always blocked port 25. While it 
sucks  its certainly common practice amongst ISP's all over the world.


Dennis

  
Comcast and Cox both do this, it makes sense. Makes it a pain when you 
host a legit server, but there are ways around it. Using the ISP to 
forward through and to, going DynDNS (like I am doing) and going to a 
non-standard port (It actually works VERY well) or going business 
service level (which drops blocks period on the communication line, at 
least for Cox)



Comcast has been doing this off and on since 2000 (Google searches 
result in a lot of complaints about this action over the years)



Just my 2cents and exp on this...


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Re: Catch-22 : NO JOY after all

[Seann Clark]

Antonio Olivares wrote:


--- On Sat, 12/27/08, Beartooth  wrote:

  

From: Beartooth 
Subject: Re: Catch-22 : NO JOY after all
To: fedora-list@redhat.com
Date: Saturday, December 27, 2008, 2:02 PM
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:50:01 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
[]


Welcome to the GRUB_ Club :)
That is when you install a new kernel, machine reboots
  

and you are


greeted with a GRUB__ prompt only that does nothing :(

What you need to do(to make your computer function) is
  

to boot in rescue


mode and reinstall grub.  That way you get rid of your
  

GRUB_ problem.


This GRUB_ problem has bitten many of us that it is
  
not funny anymore. 


But it happens(we can't complain, it happens to
  

anyone of us, no one is


exempt), the good thing is that there's a
  

workaround.  Try that and


report back.
  

Hmmm ... What means "reinstall" here? How do you
do it??

I did "cat grub.conf" on the #2 machine,
switched to #1, booted 
rescue, chrooted /mnt/sysimage, and proceeded to edit
grub.conf to clone 
#2. That failed. 


It may or may not have to do with the fact that one
grub.conf is 
full of LMV stuff and one with UUID stuff.


Is there such a command as "reinstall grub," or
do you do it by 
commanding "grub" from root and doing God knows

what from there, or ...?


It should be something like
# grub-install /dev/sdX where X is a, b, c, ...?
else try with grub? and press TAB to see options.

  

--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.

--



Regards,

Antonio 



  

  
Ok, Grub can be awesome, and it can be the suck. The best way, that 
doesn't take a giant amount of effort, is to read the site first, 
download and burn the iso, and run as you read it.


http://www.supergrubdisk.org/index.php


This has helped me with a lot of Grub related issues, including ones 
that the  IRC room didn't seem to have a handle on (Where the F7 Rescue 
ISO didn't see the LVM and grub set up, F8 saw it, but would toast the 
F7 system) and using that I fixed the Grub issues I got (It wasn't as 
pretty as Grub_ it was no o/s found at all issues, but same ballpark, 
with stage 1 grub loading from what I have read on this).



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Re: Is this problem solvable?

[Seann Clark]

Chris Snook wrote:

Timothy Murphy wrote:

Before leaving home on a visit to Italy (where I am now)
I re-booted my server.
I noticed that shorewall did not print out its usual messages,
but foolishly did not check what caused this.
Now I can ping the machine,
but cannot ssh into it (I chose a strange port)
or access its web-server.

My question is: given that I can ping the machine,
is there any way I can re-boot it remotely,
or even just re-start shorewall?


If there is, it's a very serious bug.

-- Chris

To do it yourself would be a bad bad bug, as Chris mentioned. Now, doing 
it the manual way, if you have a person available that has physical 
access to the server, you can reboot it remotely, and restart shorewall 
rather easily and without a bad security hole.





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Fedora 9 and OpenLDAP replication

[Seann Clark]

All,

   I am a little stumped. I have a few small LDAP's running, or being 
set up, and after a small amount of research into it, I found that 
OpenLDAP 2.4 that ships with Fedora9 and is in the repo's doesn't use 
the old method of replication of databases. I found information on 
setting up the new form of replication (syncprov) but I have run into a 
problem. When I set up the slapd.conf file with


overlay syncprov
syncprov-checkpoint 100 10
syncprov-sessionlog 100

I get this when I go to check the config file for validity before 
starting (or restarting) the ldap servers:


Checking configuration files for slapd:[FAILED]
overlay "syncprov" not found
slaptest: bad configuration file!



What I also looked into with this is where the overlays are defined, and 
from what I have found about this is:


When using /slapd.conf/(5), overlays that are configured before any 
other databases are considered global, as mentioned above. In fact they 
are implicitly stacked on top of the frontend database. They can also be 
explicitly configured as such:


   database frontend
   overlay 


Official overlays are located in

   servers/slapd/overlays/

That directory also contains the file slapover.txt, which describes the 
rationale of the overlay implementation, and may serve as a guideline 
for the development of custom overlays.


Contribware overlays are located in

   contrib/slapd-modules//

along with other types of run-time loadable components; they are 
officially distributed, but not maintained by the project.



I can't find that servers/slapd/overlays, or anything else relating to 
it. Outside of the binary for openldap and the /etc directory for it, I 
can find no trace of the program install itself


If anyone can offer insight I would greatly appreciate it.


~Seann


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Re: DJ Software

[Seann Clark]

Robert Fausey wrote:

I'm looking for a program that will allow me to DJ to a Shoutcast
Server.

  

Try out DarkIce, it is pretty good for the DJ streaming to a shout:
http://darkice.tyrell.hu/


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Re: Any good X-Window client free download?

[Seann Clark]

(David) Ming Xia wrote:

Hi, Markku.
 
  Thank you for your response.  I installed Fedora 10 and used it as a 
server.  I want to remotely control this server with my laptop.   I 
need something like 'Refection X', an X-window client that can  load 
something like 'xclock' onto my laptop.  And especially I am look for 
some open source or free download.   Putty doesn't support graphics.  
 
 
Thank you very much.
 
 
David   
// 
// 
// 
/Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:16:43 +0200

From: Markku Kolkka mailto:mark...@tuubi.net>/>
Subject: Re: Any good X-Window client free download?
To: //fedora-list@redhat.com/ 
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Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="utf-8"/
/(David) Ming Xia kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai,
12. tammikuuta 2009):
> Where can I get a free download of a good X-window client?/
/Every Fedora program with a GUI is a free X client. Perhaps you
are actually looking for a X server? Please explain what you are
actually trying to do./
/--
Markku Kolkka
//markku.kol...@iki.fi/ 

--- On *Sun, 1/11/09, (David) Ming Xia //* wrote:

From: (David) Ming Xia 
Subject: Any good X-Window client free download?
To: fedora-list@redhat.com
Date: Sunday, January 11, 2009, 8:23 PM

Where can I get a free download of a good X-window client?  Your
recommendation will be appreciated.
 
 
David


I use XMING as a quick light windows based Xserver to port X-sessions 
over PUTTY.

http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/



~Seann




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Re: Firewall box stop responding

[Seann Clark]

Les wrote:

If you google RFC 1918, it will show that your system has sent a request
for a private subnet out onto the global internet.  I am no IP guru, but
I suspect that you will find the solution somewhere in the linux
responses related to RFC 1918.

Regards,
Les H
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 14:31 -0200, Leonardo Korndorfer wrote:
  

Hi all!

I'm in a situation that is kinda hard to see what's happening. So I'm
going straight to the scenario:
I have a firewall box that somehow stops responding to all services
such as ssh and squid. It does answer ping.
Early this morning I was looking to the messages log with tail -f when
it just stop and then no responses again.

Does anyone have lived this situation? 


Here goes an example of the normality of logs when it just stops:

/* regular log */
Jan 14 13:35:08 mercfw1 snmpd[2040]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP:
[192.168.0.13]:1660
Jan 14 13:35:08 mercfw1 snmpd[2040]: Connection from UDP:
[192.168.0.13]:1661
Jan 14 13:35:08 mercfw1 snmpd[2040]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP:
[192.168.0.13]:1661
Jan 14 13:35:08 mercfw1 snmpd[2040]: Connection from UDP:
[192.168.0.13]:1662
Jan 14 13:35:08 mercfw1 snmpd[2040]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP:
[192.168.0.13]:1662
Jan 14 13:35:08 mercfw1 snmpd[2040]: Connection from UDP:
[192.168.0.13]:1663
Jan 14 13:35:08 mercfw1 snmpd[2040]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP:
[192.168.0.13]:1663
Jan 14 13:35:08 mercfw1 snmpd[2040]: Connection from UDP:
[192.168.0.13]:1664
Jan 14 13:35:08 mercfw1 snmpd[2040]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP:
[192.168.0.13]:1664
Jan 14 13:35:08 mercfw1 snmpd[2040]: Connection from UDP:
[192.168.0.13]:1665
Jan 14 13:35:08 mercfw1 snmpd[2040]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP:
[192.168.0.13]:1665
Jan 14 13:35:06 mercfw1 named[1731]: client 127.0.0.1#38570: RFC 1918
response from Internet for 11.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa
/* forced shutdown and normal start log */
Jan 14 13:49:03 mercfw1 kernel: imklog 3.14.1, log source = /proc/kmsg
started.
Jan 14 13:49:03 mercfw1 kernel:
Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686
Jan 14 13:49:03 mercfw1 kernel: Loaded 28110 symbols
from /boot/System.map-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.
Jan 14 13:49:03 mercfw1 kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.25.
Jan 14 13:49:03 mercfw1 kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel
modules not enabled.
If
The seconds before (13:35:06) are analogous. Nothing evil has
happened.

Leonardo Richter Korndorfer

personal @ http://leokorndorfer.no-ip.org
http://counter.li.org #384363
ICQ: 102788426

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In regards to the statement Les mentioned, unless your ISP is very 
poorly managed, its routers should drop any and all requests to/from a 
private RFC1918 subnet right into the bit bucket (or /dev/null, if you 
prefer). From the looks of it, if that 192.168 address range isn't the 
one you are using, it looks like something is sending commands via SNMP 
to your host (if you have an ISP like Cox, Comcast, etc, that uses cable 
modems, 90% of the time these are managed using SNMP, and you get fuzz 
that could mess up the system in strange ways if this happens to 
aggravate something in your system.)



If you are using iptables, try plugging in the ULOG log module for 
iptables, and set it up to grab a pcap of the logged traffic, and make 
sure to refresh it every day while you need to research this, and turn 
it off after. This will give you a better gateway into what/how/why you 
are seeing this traffic.  I am on a current version of fedora for my 
firewall, and I do see a lot of this type of traffic (10.x.x.x traffic) 
If this traffic is from your network, I would check to see what is 
firing off SNMP and find out why.



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Tomcat Admin application

[Seann Clark]

All,

   I am looking for a little advice on getting the tomcat5 packages 
working properly on a fedora 9 system. I have about 75% of it set up the 
way I desire, but I am missing one thing, and I am sure it is simple. 
When I go to the admin page for tomcat, instead of getting "Oh, well it 
isn't inlcuded in Tomcat, download it and install it" that I would get 
if it isn't installed.


I get the manger page, but not the admin, and the error the server 
belches out is complaining that it isn't finding, of all things, the 
login page it is looking for. The problem is, I have near everything 
related to tomcat and apache installed (matter of fact my apache is 
doing great, save for no modules able to hook tomcat and apache 
together) As an example:



Jan 14, 2009 4:48:37 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher 
invoke

WARNING: Servlet action is currently unavailable
Jan 14, 2009 4:48:37 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher 
invoke

SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet admin.login_jsp threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at 
org.apache.struts.taglib.TagUtils.retrieveMessageResources(TagUtils.java:1177)

   at org.apache.struts.taglib.TagUtils.message(TagUtils.java:1039)
   at 
org.apache.struts.taglib.bean.MessageTag.doStartTag(MessageTag.java:225)
   at 
admin.login_jsp._jspx_meth_bean_005fmessage_005f0(login_jsp.java:137)

   at admin.login_jsp._jspService(login_jsp.java:81)
   at 
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:98)

   at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:679)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:461)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:399)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator.forwardToLoginPage(FormAuthenticator.java:316)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator.authenticate(FormAuthenticator.java:244)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:491)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174)
   at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:875)
   at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
   at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
   at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
   at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)

   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)
Jan 14, 2009 4:48:37 PM 
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator forwardToLoginPage

WARNING: Unexpected error forwarding to login page
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at 
org.apache.struts.taglib.TagUtils.retrieveMessageResources(TagUtils.java:1177)

   at org.apache.struts.taglib.TagUtils.message(TagUtils.java:1039)
   at 
org.apache.struts.taglib.bean.MessageTag.doStartTag(MessageTag.java:225)
   at 
admin.login_jsp._jspx_meth_bean_005fmessage_005f0(login_jsp.java:137)

   at admin.login_jsp._jspService(login_jsp.java:81)
   at 
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:98)

   at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:679)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:461)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:399)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator.forwardToLoginPage(FormAuthenticator.java:316)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator.authenticate(FormAuthenticator.java:244)
   at 
org.ap

Re: Tomcat Admin application

[Seann Clark]

M A Young wrote:

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Seann Clark wrote:

I don't know where I am missing something, and since this is a rather 
crash course in solving a problem with tomcat itself in my deployment 
(it rather likes to make everything go to http://localhost/ instead 
of http://www.tsukinoakge.net like it should) which I am looking for 
better insight into the server that is a little less cryptic than xml 
files scattered everywhere in the distribution, and me not having a 
clue where to look.


Do you have the tomcat5-admin-webapps package installed? I believe 
that is the one that provides the admin package, so is the first thing 
to check if you haven't already done so.


Michael Young

Yes, I have that installed on the system, along with most of the tomcat5 
related items and documentation.



~Seann


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Re: Tomcat Admin application

[Seann Clark]

M A Young wrote:

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Seann Clark wrote:

I don't know where I am missing something, and since this is a rather 
crash course in solving a problem with tomcat itself in my deployment 
(it rather likes to make everything go to http://localhost/ instead 
of http://www.tsukinoakge.net like it should) which I am looking for 
better insight into the server that is a little less cryptic than xml 
files scattered everywhere in the distribution, and me not having a 
clue where to look.


Do you have the tomcat5-admin-webapps package installed? I believe 
that is the one that provides the admin package, so is the first thing 
to check if you haven't already done so.


Michael Young


found some things that were missing:

in the /usr/share/tomcat5/server/webapps/admin/WEB-INF/lib directory:

symbolic links for these three included files (in the tar for the admin 
utility) weren't there:

commons-beanutils.jar
commons-digester-1.8.jar
commons-collections.jar

After going to the admin app once, I get a white page. After that is 
refreshed, I get this:



 HTTP Status 503 - Servlet admin.login_jsp is currently unavailable



*type* Status report

*message* _Servlet admin.login_jsp is currently unavailable_

*description* _The requested service (Servlet admin.login_jsp is 
currently unavailable) is not currently available._





 Apache Tomcat/5.5.27




in the log files I see this:

Jan 15, 2009 10:15:55 AM org.apache.commons.digester.Digester endElement
SEVERE: End event threw error
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/modeler/Registry
   at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
   at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2444)
   at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Class.java:2687)
   at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:1620)
   at 
org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.getMatchingAccessibleMethod(MethodUtils.java:535)
   at 
org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.invokeMethod(MethodUtils.java:209)
   at 
org.apache.commons.digester.CallMethodRule.end(CallMethodRule.java:626)

   at org.apache.commons.digester.Rule.end(Rule.java:253)
   at 
org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1222)
   at 
org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
   at 
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown 
Source)
   at 
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown 
Source)
   at 
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown 
Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown 
Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown 
Source)

   at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
   at 
org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)

   at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1765)
   at 
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initServlet(ActionServlet.java:1144)
   at 
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:328)
   at 
org.apache.webapp.admin.ApplicationServlet.init(ApplicationServlet.java:101)

   at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:212)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1139)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:791)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:648)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:548)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:497)

   at admin.login_jsp._jspService(login_jsp.java:66)
   at 
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:98)

   at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:679)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:461)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:399)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator.forwardToLoginPage(FormAuthenticator.java

Re: Tomcat Admin application(solved)

[Seann Clark]

Seann Clark wrote:

M A Young wrote:

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Seann Clark wrote:

I don't know where I am missing something, and since this is a 
rather crash course in solving a problem with tomcat itself in my 
deployment (it rather likes to make everything go to 
http://localhost/ instead of http://www.tsukinoakge.net like it 
should) which I am looking for better insight into the server that 
is a little less cryptic than xml files scattered everywhere in the 
distribution, and me not having a clue where to look.


Do you have the tomcat5-admin-webapps package installed? I believe 
that is the one that provides the admin package, so is the first 
thing to check if you haven't already done so.


Michael Young


found some things that were missing:

in the /usr/share/tomcat5/server/webapps/admin/WEB-INF/lib directory:

symbolic links for these three included files (in the tar for the 
admin utility) weren't there:

commons-beanutils.jar
commons-digester-1.8.jar
commons-collections.jar

After going to the admin app once, I get a white page. After that is 
refreshed, I get this:



 HTTP Status 503 - Servlet admin.login_jsp is currently unavailable



*type* Status report

*message* _Servlet admin.login_jsp is currently unavailable_

*description* _The requested service (Servlet admin.login_jsp is 
currently unavailable) is not currently available._





 Apache Tomcat/5.5.27




in the log files I see this:

Jan 15, 2009 10:15:55 AM org.apache.commons.digester.Digester endElement
SEVERE: End event threw error
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/modeler/Registry
   at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
   at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2444)
   at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Class.java:2687)
   at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:1620)
   at 
org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.getMatchingAccessibleMethod(MethodUtils.java:535) 

   at 
org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.invokeMethod(MethodUtils.java:209) 

   at 
org.apache.commons.digester.CallMethodRule.end(CallMethodRule.java:626)

   at org.apache.commons.digester.Rule.end(Rule.java:253)
   at 
org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1222)
   at 
org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
   at 
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown 
Source)
   at 
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown 
Source)
   at 
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown 
Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown 
Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown 
Source)

   at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown 
Source)
   at 
org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)

   at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1765)
   at 
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initServlet(ActionServlet.java:1144) 

   at 
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:328)
   at 
org.apache.webapp.admin.ApplicationServlet.init(ApplicationServlet.java:101) 


   at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:212)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1139) 

   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:791) 

   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:648) 

   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:548) 

   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:497) 


   at admin.login_jsp._jspService(login_jsp.java:66)
   at 
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:98)

   at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269) 

   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188) 

   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:679) 

   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:461) 

   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:399) 

   at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301) 

   at 
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator.for

Re: Total newcomer trrying to set up wireless

[Seann Clark]

David Henig wrote:
Hi all, I recently built my first Linux system, figuring it was time 
to give Linux a try after years and years with Windows (and many more 
besides in years gone by, including Unix).


It's not going well I'm afraid... I connect to the internet using a 
Buffalo Wireless G adaptor, but having plugged this in I have no idea 
whether it's properly recognised (it is listed in the network utility) 
nor how to make it work with the selected network. Is there a step by 
step process to making a wireless device work?


After that I'll need to set up a network attached printer. Should I 
give up now?


David
David, 

   Simple things first, what interface is the Wifi adapter? Second, 
quick way to check out your success with the card, without knowing if it 
is USB, PCI, or other, is to check out either /var/log/dmesg (during a 
boot or reboot it should show here if it is found) or in 
/var/log/messages if you are using a default setup. Outside of that, I 
think NetworkManager would be best to get it set up if it see's the card.



Printers are easy though, so it should take less of a curve than the 
wifi card.



~Seann


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Icecast RPM question

[Seann Clark]

All,

   I do not know who the maintainer of the icecast RPM for Fedora is, 
but I found some things that have been very odd since I installed Fedora 
9. The solution to this is rather simple though, but here is the problem:


I install icecast off of yum:
yum install icecast

Everything installs, and everything looks good... until I load icecast. 
Then the strangest thing happens, it just doesn't bind to the proper ports:


tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:50347 
0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN  14950/icecast
tcp0  0 0.0.0.0:47123   
0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN  14950/icecast
tcp0  0 0.0.0.0:37591   
0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN  14950/icecast
tcp0  0 192.168.10.9:38523  
0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN  14950/icecast



now mind you, the only binding on the system for icecast is:
   
   8000
   192.168.10.9
   
   
   8000
   127.0.0.1
   


on my working system(the xml was copied strait between the 'dead' system 
and the working one, with just an IP address change, from the .2 to the 
.9 address) The .2 is the main server, and as a test example, off the .9 
box, I installed icecast, which is version 2.3.1. I saw the same 
problems when I installed icecast from rpm on the .2 box. this working 
version is 2.3.2 built from source:


tcp0  0 192.168.10.2:8000   
0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN  4609/icecast
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:8000  
0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN  4609/icecast
tcp0  0 0.0.0.0:8015
0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN  4609/icecast
tcp0  0 0.0.0.0:8016
0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN  4609/icecast
tcp0  0 192.168.10.2:8000   
192.168.10.2:46062  ESTABLISHED 4609/icecast
tcp0  0 192.168.10.2:8000   
192.168.10.2:52417  ESTABLISHED 4609/icecast
tcp0  0 192.168.10.2:8000   
192.168.10.2:46060  ESTABLISHED 4609/icecast
tcp0  0 192.168.10.2:8000   
192.168.10.2:38873  ESTABLISHED 4609/icecast
tcp0  0 192.168.10.2:8000   
192.168.10.2:52419  ESTABLISHED 4609/icecast
tcp0  0 192.168.10.2:8000   
192.168.10.2:35130  ESTABLISHED 4609/icecast




I had tagged the problem on the icecast mailing list, and after doing a 
custom compile got this working when I installed Fedora on this new box. 
The thread can be found at: 
http://www.archivum.info/icec...@xiph.org/2008-07/msg8.html



Now, The hardware/Arch info for the two servers

192.168.10.2
86_64
4GB memory

192.168.10.9
i586
2GB memory


From the yum install dialogue:


Package Arch 
Version  Repository  Size


Installing:
icecast i386 
2.3.1-5.fc9  fedora 317 k


Transaction Summary



So it is the right arch as well.


Building this from source for the 2.3.2 build worked fine.


Regards,
Seann



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Re: Question for our users

[Seann Clark]

Alan Cox wrote:
Fedora is a distribution of Linux that is used by Red Hat as a testing 
ground to prove and test software for its flagship Red Hat Enterprise 



Actually Fedora Project is a distribution of Linux by the Fedora Project,
and given its focus on things like NetworkManager and end user desktop
its hardly just a testing ground for enterprise software. In fact much of
Fedora is stuff nobody would ship in an enterprise distribution...

  
Linux. Red Hat was, at one point, a free, open source distribution until 



It still is.

  
the model was changed and now Red Hat is a purchased, enterprise-level 
distribution of Linux



The code is free, and you can get that code from people like Centos all
nicely packaged up and ready to go. RHEL is basically service, support,
certification, compatibility testing and training built around free
software.
  
Only thing is the branding. CentOS, from what I remember, got hammered 
for a little bit because there were RH logos and stuff still in the Cent 
branch a little bit after RH went commercial. It has been a while though 
so I could be in error on that. Just  my random 2cents.



~Seann


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Video Streaming

[Seann Clark]

All,

  I have been playing with software solutions lately, but sadly 
don't have good results with what I want to do, thus far. What I want to 
do is get set up a series of media files (various formats) and put them 
together for a personal media streaming server. Basically a Video on 
Demand VLC server, but with less of a requirement to remain logged in.



   The concept I am after is something like LiquidSoap, MPD, and 
Icecast (or MPD with Icecast) to stream video, since I have an audio 
stream solution.




This being said, is anyone doing this on a Fedora box, and if so, what 
is your poison of choice to do it?




Regards,
Seann


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Re: firewall url filter

[Seann Clark]

roland wrote:

Hallo,

I have a network with a fedora-server and several workstations-Vista 
Microsoft (client doesn't want any linux pc's). The users are 
connected to the internet via a router Lancom.


The client wants to prevent users to connect to sex sites.

Can I use the fedora-box as a firewall, filtering several url's or 
filtering several keywords?


Maybe someone has the same problem.

Thanks for help

I saw someone mention DansGuardian, another solution is set up a 
transparent squid, if you are using the fedora box inline. You would 
need two packages to accomplish this, Squid and SquidGuard. Both are 
simple to set up and are very good in terms of speed and transparency. 
Though if you were not bound to FOSS and had the budget for it, I would 
suggest a quicker and more robust/reliable solution of using a Bluecoat.



~Seann


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Re: firewall url filter

[Seann Clark]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 00:08:28 +1030,
  Tim  wrote:
  

On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 09:38 +0100, roland wrote:


The client wants to prevent users to connect to sex sites.

Can I use the fedora-box as a firewall, filtering several url's or  
filtering several keywords?
  

You can do that sort of thing.  A simplistic overview of how is:

Use the firewall to block direct the browsers directly connecting to any
website (i.e. all outgoing connections to port 80).  That'll stop nearly
all web browsing, other than sites on other unusual ports.  It's not a
100% catchall, but probably 99%.



That doesn't catch https connections. Of course the firewall wouldn't
be able to check URLs in that case anyways.

Depending on the requirements it may be best to block all direct access
to the outside from the clients machines and only allow access through
a proxy.

If there is a know set of web pages they should have access to then they
can use a whitelist to only allow connections to those web sites. If not,
trying to block undesirable sites isn't an easy problem to solve in
general.

  
If said firewall is the mentioned Fedora server, that shouldn't be a 
problem. Squid itself has a lot of tools (redirectors in squidspeak) 
that can handle content filtering, which is what is desired from the 
reading. If the Fedora server isn't the firewall, still squid it, and 
redirect all http/https to the squid, so it is a transparent proxy on 
the network.


Squidguard is what I use, which offers some good blacklists, though 
keeping them updated (it is amazing how big the 'adult' database is) but 
finding scripts to keep these updated is a little hard at times. I have 
a rather poor shell script I hacked from a different site (a how to had 
a decent ancient shell script to update, and I brought it sort of up to 
speed) that I am porting to perl, though I don't know perl well, I am 
sure it could be done even better, besides I am stuck on how I want to 
do the diff's of the textfiles before compiling them into the binary 
files that the content filter uses. These scripts do a good job of 
keeping things updated. I can provide that script if asked.


About https, that can be a little more tricky. The only way I have ever 
seen good HTTPS content filtering done was either to block access to 
https (which is a bad thing) or some commercial proxies can do this 
(free versus 20-35k is hard to justify).


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Re: SataRaid and Installation

[Seann Clark]

Chris Linville wrote:
Not sure if this is the right list, but maybe someone will see this. 

I started out my computer experience as a DOS users a long time ago.  
Then on to windows and about 8 years ago I started using Linux to get 
ahead and to see what it could do.  Over the years it has grown on 
me.  I have used several distributions, but once Fedora came out I 
really stuck with it. 

I got to say that I have been greatly disappointed by Fedora for the 
last 2 releases.  I have a rockin system.  I can play any game out 
there, I love.  I just can't install Fedora with out sacrificing my 
system speed.  For 2 releases dmraid has been broken.  The fix is for 
me to stop using Sata RAID0.  This is not a good fix, my disk IO 
doubles by having this.  I have seen posts all over the boards and 
bugzilla relating to various problems in DMRaid.  Yet for 2 releases, 
it has stayed broken.  To me this is a show stopper when you can't 
even install an OS.


At a time when Linux can break through and get some number away from 
Microsoft you would think that a error free installation would be a 
top priority for the Fedora team.  I am greatly dissapointed that such 
a widely known problem has been ignored by this team.


Dissapointed and Let Down,
Chris
Unfortunately, this is one of the many side affects of relying on 
software to do Raid. In the past I have seen bad SATA RAID setups in 
most systems when done in sofware. I have three systems that run RAID 
(level 5) hardware, so I haven't had the need to use DMRaid, and never 
had a problem between any of the O/s's I have played with (and/or broken 
horribly) so this is all based on the Fedora installment of DMraid. Best 
way to get this fixed is to build it yourself, and see what the solution 
would be, based on errors you have seen. That is one of the biggest 
things with a community O/s. A few places do paid support, and will 
attempted to dedicate resources to your issue, and release a big patch, 
but with this being a bleeding edge distro, it is best to fix it 
yourself, then offer a solution, otherwise it may not be fixed, or take 
forever to get it fixed.




On the other hand, I know the issues with having a good system and being 
stuck with Windows Though it isn't all doom and gloom for me. It is 
hardware for me, since the system just flat refuses to load linux (I get 
it to uncompress the boot loader, and start working on vmlinuz, where it 
eventually stops, and never starts again until reboot, where the same 
thing happens again and again) though I am sure this is purely the brand 
of motherboard I have, I am just too lazy and computers are too cheap 
for me to spend time fighting to have  a dual boot on my gaming system.



~Seann


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Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

[Seann Clark]

arag...@dcsnow.com wrote:

Hello all,

I had a drive failure a few months back so I decided it was time to rework
my home server's storage.

Now I have 5 750GB SATA dives and now I need some advice on how to set
things up.

My original idea was to put them in a RAID 5 configuration.  This sounded
good until I started researching RAID controller cards.  It looks like it
will cost me $520 to get a good PCI-E card (3Ware 8 port).  I don't think
I want to spend that much if I don't have to.

My goals are two fold.

1) I want to get some redundancy in case of a drive failure.

2) I want to increase my performance.  I have benchmarked my read and
write performance to and from this server.  Using Samba, I seem to be able
to get about 50Mb/sec reads and 40Mb/sec writes.  I am on a gig network
and would like to be able to max out the cards (90Mb/sec is what I get at
work).

So, the question is, what should I do?

1)  Bite the bullet and get the hardware RAID controller.  Will this give
me the performance I want?

2)  Go with a software RAID 5.  Will I lose performance with this
configuration?  If I use this but only get modest performance gains, that
would be acceptable.

3)  Go with some other software RAID level.

Any help would be appreciated.

---
Will Y.



  

Will,

   I can't help with the software side, but I have a 3ware 8 port 
myself and here are the stats I am getting from my RAID 5:


(output of tw_cli)
Unit  UnitType  Status %RCmpl  %V/I/M  Stripe  Size(GB)  Cache  
AVrfy

--
u0RAID-5OK -   -   64K 3259.56   OFFON

Port   Status   Unit   SizeBlocksSerial
---
p0 OK   u0 465.76 GB   976773168 WD-WMASYX
p1 OK   u0 465.76 GB   976773168 WD-WMASYX
p2 OK   u0 465.76 GB   976773168 WD-WMASYX
p3 OK   u0 465.76 GB   976773168 WD-WMASYX
p4 OK   u0 465.76 GB   976773168 WD-WCAS8X
p5 OK   u0 465.76 GB   976773168 WD-WCAS8X
p6 OK   u0 465.76 GB   976773168 WD-WCAS8X
p7 OK   u0 465.76 GB   976773168 WD-WCAS8X

Name  OnlineState  BBUReady  StatusVolt Temp Hours  LastCapTest
---
bbu   On   NoTesting   OK   OK   0  24-Nov-2008





Timing Statistics:

/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads:   11640 MB in  2.00 seconds = 5830.68 MB/sec

/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads:  152 MB in  3.00 seconds =  50.64 MB/sec




my biggest bottle neck right now is the write-cache is off due to a 
battery test that is being done. Total cost for the card (and battery 
backup) was about 575.00. The card, from new egg is 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116054



Another note, 3ware has good support in Linux, and is very nice and easy 
to manage if you do go that route. I will leave it to the 
DMraid/software RAID guys to answer for that though



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Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

[Seann Clark]

Robin Laing wrote:

Alan Cox wrote:
So considering that, what do you gain from dedicated hardware for 
RAID?  You get a commercially supported RAID software and hardware 
package, and you get to unload a bit of CPU from the main system.


The big thing it saves you on in RAID 1 & 5 is memory bandwidth, and in
RAID5 doubly so for the XOR costs. The second thing it helps with is bus
bandwidth as each chunk of data crosses the PCI(X) bus once. In the PCI
world that really helped, PCI-X it's less clear.

The last benefit is a battery backed cache.

Considering that the CPU on the card at max performance is probably 
1/3 of a core from a modern CPU, then that is not really much of a 
savings.


The real consideration for RAID 5 is survival.  In either situation 
you have to have a spare drive, and you have to consider 
availability of new drives to match them in the future.


Bigger ones will do

Alan



There is a study that was done on RAID 5 and larger drives and a 
problem has surfaced.


RAID 5 May Be Doomed in 2009
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/RAID-5-Doomed-2009,6525.html

A drive failure could be the end of your data because the array cannot 
be rebuilt due to errors during the rebuild.


Maybe it is a better idea to create a mirror backup procedure.

That was also partially debunked. Besides, most people know RAID is not 
a replacement for proper backups. Your RAID gets toasted because two 
drives died, you should be able to rebuild the array and then restore 
from your last backup and be good. Just like with any fault tolerance 
concept, you are just moving your point of failure one out.

--off of soapbox--

The biggest advantage with hardware RAID is you don't need to boot to be 
able to fix your RAID. Minor difference for some of your more hardcore 
computer guys, and rather trivial, but it is nice to see your RAID is 
shattered prior to the kernel barfing on you. Once again, I am sure one 
of our Software RAID guys will tell me what really happens if the raid 
is dead to the kernel in a software config.  The other thing I have yet 
to see is software raid being hot swappable. This is nice because if you 
are doing more than using the system as a gaming, or personal server, 
you don't have to power down, replace, reboot, rebuild. I don't know, 
maybe I am just lazy.



~Seann





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Re: BIND server not recursing

[Seann Clark]

Mark Haney wrote:

I've got a BIND server (it's a slave, but that shouldn't matter) that
refuses to recurse even though recursion is set to yes.

I am going to ACL recursion if I can get the recursion to actually work,
but so far it's not playing nice.

Any thoughts on what to do next?


  
What is the output to the named.log? Should give you an idea on what the 
server is doing.




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Re: BIND server not recursing

[Seann Clark]

Mark Haney wrote:

Seann Clark wrote:
  

Mark Haney wrote:


I've got a BIND server (it's a slave, but that shouldn't matter) that
refuses to recurse even though recursion is set to yes.

I am going to ACL recursion if I can get the recursion to actually work,
but so far it's not playing nice.

Any thoughts on what to do next?


  
  

What is the output to the named.log? Should give you an idea on what the
server is doing.



~Seann




Well that's part of the problem, I'm not getting any output that tells
me why I'm getting ';; WARNING: recursion requested but not available'
in any query that needs recursion.



  

If you add into your bind /etc/named.conf file:
logging {
   channel "query_log" {
   file "/var/log/dns/named.query"
versions unlimited
size 90m;
severity info;
print-category no;
print-severity yes;
print-time yes;
};
   category "queries" {
 "query_log";
};
   channel "transfer" {
   file "/var/log/dns/named.xfer"
   versions unlimited
   size 90m;
   severity info;
   print-category no;
   print-severity yes;
   print-time yes;
   };
   category "xfer-out" {
   "transfer";
   };
   channel "update" {
   file "/var/log/dns/named.update"
   versions unlimited
   size 90m;
   severity info;
   print-category no;
   print-severity yes;
   print-time yes;
   };
   category "update" {
   "update";
   };

  channel "default" {
file "/var/log/dns/named.log"
 versions unlimited
size 90m;
severity info;
print-category no;
print-severity yes;
print-time yes;
};
   category "default" {
   "default";
 };
channel lame-servers_file {
file "/var/log/dns/lame-servers.log" versions 3 size 30m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
};
category lame-servers {
lame-servers_file;
};
};


That should give you plenty of logging to see what Bind is barfing on. 
Note that if you are running chroot'ed, then this may be in 
/var/named/chroot/var/log/dns/ (as it is configured in the example I 
posted).  The big ones to watch are named.log and query.log in the case 
of the posted config.



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Re: compiling Apache 2 for WebDAV

[Seann Clark]

Agile Aspect wrote:

Hi - I'm trying build WebDAV into version 2.2.9 of
Apache's HTTP server (the version shipped with Fedora 9)
on a CentOS server.

When I turn on all of the features we need, everything
works except for WebDAV.

If I move the HTTPD configuration file to Fedora 9 WebDAV
works!

If I then try to build version 2.2.9 from Apache source the
same way I built it on the CentOS server on Fedora 9, I have
the exact same problem.

So it appears to be a problem with the manner in which
I'm configuring the server - despite the fact in configures
and builds without error.

My question is how can I find all the 'configure' options used
for building the Fedora 9 HTTPD server?

Also, is anyone using Tomcat as a WebDAV server?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You can do the lazy method and just VIM the configure file and search 
for all the switches (in my VIM they are all red, when I use syntax 
highlighting and most start with --) but that may not be the best. I am 
sure others on the list have better ways, I am just lazy and do what 
works for me.



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Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home)

[Seann Clark]

gms...@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi,
Typing this "rpm -q bind" got this:
bind-9.5.1-0.8.b2.fc10.i386

In "named.conf file" I got this:

//
// named.conf
//
// Provided by Red Hat bind package to configure the ISC BIND named(8) DNS
// server as a caching only nameserver (as a localhost DNS resolver only).
//
// See /usr/share/doc/bind*/sample/ for example named configuration files.
//

options {
listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; };
listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; };
directory "/var/named";
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";
allow-query { localhost; };
recursion yes;
};

logging {
channel default_debug {
file "data/named.run";
severity dynamic;
};
};

zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};

include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones";

And in "named.rfc1912.zones"

// named.rfc1912.zones:
//
// Provided by Red Hat caching-nameserver package
//
// ISC BIND named zone configuration for zones recommended by
// RFC 1912 section 4.1 : localhost TLDs and address zones
// and 
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-02.txt

// (c)2007 R W Franks
//
// See /usr/share/doc/bind*/sample/ for example named configuration files.
//

zone "localhost.localdomain" IN {
type master;
file "named.localhost";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "localhost" IN {
type master;
file "named.localhost";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone 
"1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa" 
IN {

type master;
file "named.loopback";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.loopback";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.empty";
allow-update { none; };
};

Can anyone explain the file contents in detail and about named.ca?
And what I have to do in step by step to set up a dns server ?

PC configuration(Home):
Processor:Intel Pentium D 2.66GHz
Ram:1GB
Hard Disk:80GB



I hate to plug books, but this may be the easiest way to get an good 
explanation to a home user of the components on a DNS server. Check out 
http://my.safaribooksonline.com/0596100574 Which is the DNS BIND book, 
which is a very valuable asset when learning DNS.



In a quick nutshell, the named.ca file contains the IP addresses and 
names of the 'root' DNS servers in the world. These are the 'dot' in 
your .com/.net etc (actually it is the dot AFTER the .com but that is a 
little complex to get into) That file helps you find the DNS server of 
the domain you are after, starting at the root, or . and working down 
to, say if you are looking for www.google.com, going from the . DNS to 
the .com DNS to the google.com DNS.


Simplest way to set up a home DNS, copy the 'localhost.localdomain' 
file, keep everything down past to the NS listings (I believe it should 
be NS  localhost in that line) and then add in your hostnames and IP's 
in a format like



host1IN A   10.1.1.1
host2IN A   10.1.1.2
host3IN A   10.1.1.3


Where IN is the most common use that you will find and works well in 
this situation (Stands for Internet Name, I believe) and A stands for 
the type of record. You can, after you have a few A entires, add in a 
CNAME like this



alias  IN CNAME   host1.domain.net



After you are done with this, you need to copy named.loopback and remove 
the same portion in that file as you did with the first file we edited. 
The format in this is a little different. If your network IP range is as 
describe above you would have to add in the following entires:


1 IN PTR  host1.domain.net.
2 IN PTR  host2.domain.net.
3 IN PTR  host3.domain.net.


Where PTR stands for pointer, and this provides IP to name resolution.


your completed new domain file should be set up like this:

$ORIGIN .
$TTL 86400  ; 1 day
domain.net IN SOA  dns.domain.net. root.domain.net. (
   2009012801 ; serial - When updating the 
file, use current date and revision number as follows : mmddrr

   10800  ; refresh (3 hours)
   900; retry (15 minutes)
   604800 ; expire (1 week)
   86400  ; minimum (1 day)
   )
   NS  dns.domain.net
  
host1IN A   10.1.1.1

host2IN A   10.1.1.2
host3IN A   10.1.1.3



And your pointer record should look similar to that (1.1.10.in-addr.arpa 
instead of domain.net in the IN SOA line.)


After that, in your named.conf file you need to add in those two new 
files into the configurations:



zone "domain.net" IN {
   type master;
   file "dom

Re: Radio suddenly appears.

[Seann Clark]

Aaron Konstam wrote:

I sat down to read my mail. Suddenly when I open firefox I get a radio
broadcast in Spanish.  It lasted for 10 minutes no matter what web
location I was at, then suddenly it stopped.

Any explanations out there.
--
===
I might have gone to West Point, but I was too proud to speak to a
congressman. -- Will Rogers
===
Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akons...@sbcglobal.net

  

Pop unders, banners and so forth does that at times, depending.



On the other hand, maybe your computer was trying to tell you to get 
Spanish food for dinner that night..




A problem that I HAVE seen before (Puerto Rican version but about the 
same) was the guy down the street from me had a 60 foot HAM radio tower 
and used to have a blast with his friends on it. At power levels that I 
could pick it up on my Stereo while it was in standby mode. Could have 
been some EM bleed that your speakers managed to pick up, and the 
power/amp section just boosted it.



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Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home)

[Seann Clark]

Ok, with setting up the domain server, the key thing to consider, is 
this going be able to be queried from the internet? If so, then yes you 
need to register a domain, to avoid confusion and issues. If this is 
just going to be isolated to your local network, and not accessible 
outside of your network, you won't have to register a domain.



I hope that clarifies it a little bit for you



GMS S wrote:

Is it necessary to register a domain name for setting up a dns server?
Though reading ,it is not clear to me.

Thanks.

--- On *Wed, 1/28/09, Seann Clark //* wrote:


From: Seann Clark 
Subject: Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home)
To: gms...@yahoo.com, "Community assistance, encouragement, and
advice for using Fedora." 
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 10:35 PM

gms...@yahoo.com  wrote:
> Hi,
> Typing this "rpm -q bind" got this:
> bind-9.5.1-0.8.b2.fc10.i386
>
> In "named.conf file" I got this:
>
> //
> // named.conf
> //
> // Provided by Red Hat bind package to configure the ISC BIND
named(8) DNS
> // server as a caching only nameserver (as a localhost DNS
resolver only).
> //
> // See /usr/share/doc/bind*/sample/ for example named
configuration files.
> //
>
> options {
> listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; };
> listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; };
> directory "/var/named";
> dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
> statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
> memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";
> allow-query { localhost; };
> recursion yes;
> };
>
> logging {
> channel default_debug {
> file "data/named.run";
> severity dynamic;
> };
> };
>
> zone "." IN {
> type hint;
> file "named.ca";
> };
>
> include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones";
>
> And in "named.rfc1912.zones"
>
> // named.rfc1912.zones:
> //
> // Provided by Red Hat caching-nameserver package
> //
> // ISC BIND named zone configuration for zones recommended by
> // RFC 1912 section 4.1 : localhost TLDs and address zones
> // and

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-02.txt
> // (c)2007 R W Franks
> //
> // See /usr/share/doc/bind*/sample/ for example named
configuration files.
> //
>
> zone "localhost.localdomain" IN {
> type master;
> file "named.localhost";
> allow-update { none; };
> };
>
> zone "localhost" IN {
> type master;
> file "named.localhost";
> allow-update { none; };
> };
>
> zone
"1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa"
IN {
> type master;
> file "named.loopback";
> allow-update { none; };
> };
>
> zone "1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
> type master;
> file "named.loopback";
> allow-update { none; };
> };
>
> zone "0.in-addr.arpa" IN {
> type master;
> file "named.empty";
> allow-update { none; };
> };
>
> Can anyone explain the file contents in detail and about named.ca?
> And what I have to do in step by step to set up a dns server ?
>
> PC configuration(Home):
> Processor:Intel Pentium D 2.66GHz
> Ram:1GB
> Hard Disk:80GB
>
>
>
I hate to plug books, but this may be the easiest way to get an
good explanation to a home user of the components on a DNS server.
Check out http://my.safaribooksonline.com/0596100574 Which is the
DNS BIND book, which is a very valuable asset when learning DNS.


In a quick nutshell, the named.ca file contains the IP addresses
and names of the 'root' DNS servers in the world. These are the
'dot' in your .com/.net etc (actually it is the dot AFTER the .com
but that is a little complex to get into) That file helps you find
the DNS server of the domain you are after, starting at the root,
or . and working down to, say if you are looking for
www.google.com, going from the . DNS to the .com DNS to the
google.com DNS.

Simplest way to set up a home DNS, copy the
'localhost.localdomain' file, keep everything down past to the NS
listings (I beli

Re: WHY I WANT TO STOP USING FEDORA!!!

[Seann Clark]

Bill Davidsen wrote:

Alan Cox wrote:

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 21:13:21 -0500
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.


Feel free. I believe Microsoft solved the problem by labelling the
equivalent degree of updating as "service pack" instead of release.

However if you want to run the latest stuff it tends to require other
latest stuff which in turn ends up updating everything a step.

If you want an utterly boring older technology long life setup then you
want something like Centos, which backports key fixes over the years
rather than adding the latest and greatest.

Given you only need to update every year (two releases) and its a 
case of

shoving a CD in or running the live updater/rebooting it's not a big
deal. I've got boxes I managed that started as Red Hat 6 or 7 that are
now Fedora 9 or 10 entirely by upgrading. Thats a bit like going Windows
98 to Windows Vista without a reinstall and it works just fine...

The average user would have no more ability to address the 
administration issues than to breathe water. You are an uber-admin, 
and I admit that just a good experienced admin can make upgrades work, 
but you wind up with suboptimal file layout, in some cases 
inappropriate file system types, etc.


I think with a lot of people who are not die-hard linux users or people 
who like to fix what they (or someone else depending) has broken don't 
have a good time with Fedora. I admit, with me a love hate relationship 
exists between me and Fedora, and a lot of what has been expressed in 
this thread matches both sides of this. I have found over the years that 
Fedora doesn't always play well with certain things, like certain 
flavors of hardware. I spent a year and some months troubleshooting 
problems with a CCTV capture card that I was having using ZoneMinder on 
Fedora 7/8/9.  I upgraded a few times to see if it was fixed in each 
revision, and I didn't want to have to re-build the bttv code from 
source and spin a new kernel, since after all my reviewing it wasn't 
per-say the driver, but a combination of the driver and other portions 
of Fedora. When I moved the card out to a new CentOS5 box, everything 
worked like a dream, without anything more than building ZM from 
scratch. I am rather dissapointed that I couldn't figure out what was 
wrong, but glad to have it working.


   Outside of that the distro's still run most of my home servers, and 
I haven't had an issue with them at all, save for old school playing 
using YUM to upgrade from fedora core 4 to fedora core 5 (wasn't 
recommended, but I wanted to see the results of the upgrade, and I don't 
think I have had a broken install at all while playing with that). A 
feature release update is nice for the most part, save for when 
something like the Radius package updates, and there are changes you 
didn't see originally that drop, and bust the program (that was fun 
though, two bad lines that weren't supported and after they were fixed 
it worked like a charm).



   I think my final note is, if you aren't needing a bleeding edge 
distro, use what the list has suggested already. I know it can be 
confusing for some, since Fedora has a lot of, and used to carry more of 
the RedHat branding, and when RedHat went commercial, I remember finding 
fedora after searching for RHL that was a greater version than 9.0.



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Fedora based Backup system

[Seann Clark]

All,

   I have played with various backup programs and tools over the years 
that are free with Linux (namely Amanda)  and I am wondering if there is 
a good, multi O/s tool that is out there, that would support various 
Unix's (I know Amanda does that) and windows systems. My other question 
is what would be the best backup plan to use? Hard drives? Tapes? DVD's? 
(Bluray are great @25GB, but suck at US$259 for a 20 pack of them.)


   Right now I am using G4L on all my Windows systems, and Amanda on my 
*nix platforms, and have had mixed results. When my windows systems are 
running it can be hit or miss that it gets anywhere with the 
creation/moving of the image over to the storage system (Which is RAID5, 
and needs a better backup plan for its 2.8TB+ of total storage) and I am 
polling the list to get ideas on a better solution that is 
free/inexpensive for a SOHO setup. I know hard drives in external 
enclosures is a good bet for some applications (I think of 
laptop/desktop backups with that solution) but any better/different 
suggestion would be appreciated


Thanks in advance,
Seann

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Watchdog, and supporting programs

[Seann Clark]

All,

   I have been playing with watchdog on my systems in the past few 
months. One Fedora 8 older Tyan board with hardware watchdog, and one 
new Fedora 9 Asus server board with hard ware watchdog. While using this 
in its normal configuration everything works fine, and stable. I have 
run into one problem with it. While over using my new server for I/O 
intensive activities, I launched the load to 27 (one minute load 
average) which triggered the default software watchdogs limit of 24 max 
1 minute load average. It did what it was supposed to, and rebooted the 
system. Tweaking problems remain on this box and I need to set it up to 
live through a full reboot (it fails a check during boot and reboots the 
box half way through a box, which is a glaring personal error in 
configuration).


   The other system I have is rather stable and has no problems with 
the watchdog and it runs as I require it. What I am after from the group 
with this is what repair style programs are being used, and examples of 
such, if anyone is using this. I am working on writing my own, but I am 
not sure where I want to go, and am looking for good idea's and gotcha's 
on this as well.



Thanks in advance,
Seann

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Hardware Raid Expansion and LVM

[Seann Clark]

All,

   I am looking for a little help on finding out the best way to do 
this. I had a 4 disk 1.4TB RAID 5 array, and extended that to an 8 disk 
3.18TB array, on a 64 bit system.The Raid card handled the migration of 
the disks well, and everything on that side is up and running as it 
should. Problem is I don't know how to extend LVM to a larger size, 
without doing the whole adding of physical drives, and so forth, and the 
pv display doesn't show more than the 1.4TB that I started with. Most 
documentation details software RAID procedures that don't really work 
with this. I figure I am doing something(lots of things) wrong.


Commands I have used:

Thu Oct 09-13:10:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> pvs -o +dev_size
 PV VG Fmt  Attr PSize PFree   DevSize
 /dev/sda2  VolGroup00 lvm2 a-   9.78G  64.00M   9.81G
 /dev/sdb1  VolGroup00 lvm2 a-   1.35T 576.00M   1.35T

This error is after I resized the pv back to its original size:
Thu Oct 09-13:11:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> lvresize -d -L 3.18T 
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

 Rounding up size to full physical extent 3.18 TB
 Extending logical volume LogVol00 to 3.18 TB
 Insufficient free space: 59572 extents needed, but only 20 available

Before that I was seeing:
device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
Failed to suspend lv1


Kernel output


Oct  9 12:43:02 haruhi kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target 
to table
Oct  9 12:43:08 haruhi kernel: device-mapper: table: device 8:17 too 
small for target
Oct  9 12:43:08 haruhi kernel: device-mapper: table: 253:0: linear: 
dm-linear: Device lookup failed
Oct  9 12:43:08 haruhi kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target 
to table





Hardware:
0d:01.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 9550SX SATA-RAID
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 20971519 512-byte 
hardware sectors (10737 MB)

Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, 
read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 20971519 512-byte 
hardware sectors (10737 MB)

Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, 
read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sda: sda1 sda2
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Very big device. Trying 
to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] 6814820353 512-byte 
hardware sectors (3489188 MB)

Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, 
read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Very big device. Trying 
to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] 6814820353 512-byte 
hardware sectors (3489188 MB)

Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, 
read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA


processor   : 7
vendor_id   : GenuineIntel
cpu family  : 6
model   : 23
model name  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU   E5430  @ 2.66GHz


Memory installed 4GB



O/S Fedora 9 x86_64




Thanks in advance,
Seann

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Re: Hardware Raid Expansion and LVM

[Seann Clark]

Roberto Ragusa wrote:

Seann Clark wrote:
  

   I am looking for a little help on finding out the best way to do
this. I had a 4 disk 1.4TB RAID 5 array, and extended that to an 8 disk
3.18TB array, on a 64 bit system.The Raid card handled the migration of
the disks well, and everything on that side is up and running as it
should. Problem is I don't know how to extend LVM to a larger size,
without doing the whole adding of physical drives, and so forth, and the
pv display doesn't show more than the 1.4TB that I started with. Most
documentation details software RAID procedures that don't really work
with this. I figure I am doing something(lots of things) wrong.



Have a look at the thread called "lvm resizing and shifting" (23/8/2008).
The issue is similar and my proposal worked in that case.
Your problem is that you have a 3TB disk (sdb) containing just
a 1.4TB partition (sdb1, which is your pv).
  
I will check out that thread, that should be pretty interesting of a 
read, I had to have missed it when I was reviewing the list email.

I obviously have to recommend to be very careful when doing these
operations. You have a backup of your data, right?
  
I don't have a backup for this server right now, so I will be getting 
that ready to start working (I hope) on this system. My problem is that 
I have 1.2TB of this filled.

I'm also a bit concerned about the fact that you will break the 2TB
per partition barrier; I don't know if that limit has been totally
removed nowadays.

  
Is the 2TB issue still in place for ext3 filesystems in 64bit? I am not 
sure, I don't really see mention of this so I might have missed it. If 
that is the case, I will just set my controller to autocarve and set up 
two partitions for this.It shouldn't be a problem with the hardware RAID

Alternatively, you can add a sdb2 and then pvcreate, vgextend, lvextend.

  

Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 20971519 512-byte
hardware sectors (10737 MB)
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled,
read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 20971519 512-byte
hardware sectors (10737 MB)
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled,
read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sda: sda1 sda2
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Very big device. Trying
to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] 6814820353 512-byte
hardware sectors (3489188 MB)
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Write cache: enabled,
read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Very big device. Trying
to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] 6814820353 512-byte
hardware sectors (3489188 MB)
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Write cache: enabled,
read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA



The important information is just the line you have not included
(sdb: sdb1, sdb2?).
What about /proc/partitions?

The drive in question is sdb(1)
What is in /proc/partitions:

major minor  #blocks  name

  8 0   10485759 sda
  8 1 200781 sda1
  8 2   10281600 sda2
  816 3407410176 sdb
  817 1454324256 sdb1
253 0 1462468608 dm-0
253 12031616 dm-1

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Re: Beeping while running

[Seann Clark]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
Recently, one of my machines (running F8) has started beeping and I 
can't figure out the reason why.  After watching it this morning, I've 
noticed that every 30 minutes it seems to beep 20 times.  It almost 
sounds like a BIOS beep, but the machine has 177 days of uptime (and 
counting).  So, I'm wondering, what will cause 20 short beeps?  My 
wife describes it as almost sounding like a flute.  I figure its got 
to be a warning of some kind.  The motherboard is an ABit NF7-S2 with 
an AMD XP 2600+ CPU and 1.5GB of RAM (3 512MB sticks).


Silly question, but did you check Hardware temps, and states? Some of 
the ABIT/AMD's support overburn, and that sounds a lot like what my old 
AMD 3k+ would do if it was getting too warm (or staying just too warm 
enough,  but not enough to force a shutdown).


~Seann

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Re: Beeping while running

[Seann Clark]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:

Peter Larsen wrote:

On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 11:37 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:

Konstantin Svist wrote:

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:

Recently, one of my machines (running F8) has started beeping and I
can't figure out the reason why.  After watching it this morning, 
I've

noticed that every 30 minutes it seems to beep 20 times.  It almost
sounds like a BIOS beep, but the machine has 177 days of uptime (and
counting).  So, I'm wondering, what will cause 20 short beeps?  My
wife describes it as almost sounding like a flute.  I figure its got
to be a warning of some kind.  The motherboard is an ABit NF7-S2 with
an AMD XP 2600+ CPU and 1.5GB of RAM (3 512MB sticks).



apcupsd says that my battery is still good (100% charged, 32 minutes 
est runtime) and the last "event" was on 10/13 (Low Line Voltage).


I just checked, and the sound is being output through my computer's 
sound card's speakers, though that motherboard has integrated audio 
and I think it is set up to do "pc speaker" through the computer's 
external speakers.


If you run acpi, you can check temperature and fan speeds etc. It sounds
like your Bios may be warning you of over heating or something.


I checked my temps, CPU=37c case=30c.  Case is in the blue, CPU is 
only half red.  My disk drives are at 42c (1/2 red as well) and they 
have a fan blowing over them.



If you're running software or hardware raid it may also be a symptom of
a bad/degraded RAID system.


Nope, no RAID.


Basically, do a full system check.


I blew all of the dust out of the cabinet, out of the fans, out of the 
power supply (and there was quite a bit of dust!).  Also, the cabinet 
side is open so its not baking in there.  Temps look OK to me, airflow 
should be free.  Room temp is about 20c.


I'm not sure where else to look.

I would check out google on the issue as suggested, also look through 
CRON for all users to verify that nothing strange is in there, or 
something isn't tripping it off. At the very least it may be something 
different than core temps, since some systems have memory temp ability, 
as well as on-die versus on chip temp monitoring. From all you have 
said, I would focus more on CRON and validate that what you have 
installed on the system isn't doing something silly.


On the other hand, it could just be missing its dust blanket ;)

~Seann

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Re: Beeping while running

[Seann Clark]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:

Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
I don't know if this is a silly suggestion, because I don't know your 
physical setup.


Any chance that the beeping is actually from an adjacent UPS instead?  


No, I've identified that the beeping is coming from my computer 
speakers plugged into the back of my computer and not from the 
motherboard/case speaker and not from the UPS.


Some provide similar indications when tested and there is an issue 
such as weak batteries, and your software for the UPS could be 
initiating hourly tests.


"service apcupsd status" indicates:  "Selftest: NO"

What runlevel are you on with that box? 3 or 5? I don't remember if you 
mentioned it in a prior post or not. If it is coming from the soundcard, 
I would more suspect a program wanting attention more than an actual 
problem. If it is running a GUI (runlevel 5 on Fedora) then I would more 
suspect an application running, and wanting some sort of attention.


~Seann

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Re: Newbie issues installing switchdesk.

[Seann Clark]

parchdtear wrote:
Hey! I'm a bit new to Linux - run Ubuntu at home and at school FC8. In class trying to get fedora core to switch from GNOME to KDE using switch desk 

I receive this: 
switchdesk KDE

bash: switchdesk: command not found

So I attempted an install. 


yum install switchdesk
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package switchdesk available.
Nothing to do

Again - I'm very new so I saw this suggestion and decided to try it - not sure of the difference. 


yum -y install switchdesk
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package switchdesk available.
Nothing to do

Really, I'm not sure what groupinstall does but that gives me:
Warning: Group switchdesk does not exist.
No packages in any requested group available to install or update

((I had used it on a classmates computer and he was able to get to KDE - I 
guess I'm not so lucky))

Really, I'm not sure where to go from here, every attempt of installation or moving on results in a missing dependency or  something just not existing. 


Any ideas?


  
From a standpoint on never hearing of that package, first thing to do 
is yum search switchdesk, if it returns nothing, then download the 
source and compile, or search for the RPM VIA rpmfind.net or 
rpm.pbone.bnet. The problem is the difference between the distro's and 
the difference between the software being built into or for the RPM. 
Sometimes it just isn't in the repo's for whatever reason.



It may be in a repo, so if you let us know what repo's you are using, it 
would help out a lot. The repo that most of the time has the off distro 
stuff is linva, which has a wiki on how to set that up 
(http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/).


Regards,
Seann



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Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

[Seann Clark]

g wrote:

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OK - understand, motherboard with fake raid connectors for fake raid.



not fake. see;
  http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/abit/kt7-raid.htm
for view of board.
[no longer shown on abit site]
[note: do not get sidetracked and lost checking top and side links.]

from all that i can find, and reading wiki link, highpoint technologies hpt370
chip is a *true* raid chip. see;
 http://www1.epinions.com/review/S0616096-Socket_A_KT7-RAID/content_24339910276

so, i maintain, abit kt7-raid is *true raid*, and where i stand. unless you can
find something to show otherwise.
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I have to define, kt7-RAID, which I own a board with that on it, is 
software assisted RAID. It does handle RAID in hardware, yes, but the 
RAID itself does not boot off BIOS, allowing hardware control that isn't 
dependant on the system board BIOS. "Real" RAID, and "Fake" RAID, are 
just easy ways to differentiate in Linux hardware that relies on 
underlying software to help it work.


"Real" RAID will offer you a different boot proccess: POST --> RAID BIOS 
--> PXE --> O/s, which isn't in place for the Highpoint on board items.


Matter of fact I have the same exact board as you are mentioning, and 
while there is the ability to set up a raid type on the BIOS, it doesn't 
allow you to RAID before an O/S is installed. a 'REAL' RAID card is like 
3ware's 9500LP series, or other add on Multi-RAID option boards.



If you need drivers to create your array it is software assisted. It is 
that simple. The HighPoint chipsets have always been like that. It is 
rather like arguing that a winmodem is a real hardware modem. You can 
get this sucker to boot on Linux in RAID 1/0/which ever one you use, it 
just has to work with the help of mdadmin as well.



Sorry about the sort of Rant but the board is designed for Windows with 
linux as an afterthought.


Other than that it is a great board.


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Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

[Seann Clark]

g wrote:

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Seann Clark wrote:
  
I have to define, kt7-RAID, which I own a board with that on it, is 



i bow to your knowledge as an owner.

raid was not a feature that caused me to buy board, but did help. i need a
faster board and wanted amd. cpu and board were a 'put together' deal and
price was very good at time.

  
software assisted RAID. It does handle RAID in hardware, yes, but the 
RAID itself does not boot off BIOS, allowing hardware control that isn't 



if ide1,2 are non raid, can ide3,4 be used as true raid under linux after
linux install?
  
under linux, with the HP370 driver loaded into the kernel, it will work 
as a RAID that isn't managed or taxing the CPU. The HP controller will 
take care of all mirroring and striping aspects leaving the CPU free to 
do whatever else. So in a nutshell, yes it will look, for the most part 
like a real RAID. The differences are that you actually boot off one of 
the two-four disks off the HP370 controller and then loads linux and the 
driver then loads the RAID then boots normally. It is a lot like Linux's 
RAID, in that respects, save for the CPU saving ability.
  
Sorry about the sort of Rant but the board is designed for Windows with 
linux as an afterthought.



no problem. some rants, as your, are beneficial to knowledge. for this
i thank you.

  

Other than that it is a great board.



i was enjoying mine before it went down. when i have time, i will runs
some checks thru power reg section to see it that is where it died. if
other than that, maybe a new mainboard for chip.
It is a good board, but rather on the cheap side (I got mine for 50 
bucks from what I remember in 2001) and I haven't seen any problems with it.


~Seann


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RE: Wanted: eSTATA testers.

[Seann Clark]

Given a week, I can play with this, I don't have anything esata yet, but I
am expecting something this week should allow me to test this with Fedora. 


Regards, 
Seann

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Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 8:15 PM
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Subject: Re: Wanted: eSTATA testers.

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:40 -0400, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> I've opened a bug here for the eSATA port on my HP hdx9494 laptop.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466010
> 
> The person in charge of the bug wants more data before he attempts to
> fix it. Has anyone else had a problem with their eSATA port ?  If so,
> could you add your experience to my bug report ?

Is anyone here successfully using their eSATA port under Fedora ?  If
so, could you share your setup ?

Thanks



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Apache issues on Fedora 9

[Seann Clark]

All,

   I have two issues, one is with the build itself, and the other is 
one of those "I can't figure it out myself" issues. Lets start with the 
one that is less user error based. I have a server that is running 
fedora 9 x64 that runs decently, but the parent process SegFaults  when 
issued a reload command (service httpd reload) but is fine, no problem 
when I restart it, instead of reload it. I don't have any trace 
information, and don't know if it is dumping a core. I have had this 
problem for a while (since going with F9, up from F7 on a 32bit box) and 
I am wondering if anyone else has seen this problem, and if so, what 
they did to fix it, if they did. My restart work around works for me 
right now, I am just wondering if this has been seen elsewhere. 
Package/Install information appended to the end of the message for the 
sake of clarity.


   My second issue, which I know is something I am doing wrong, but I 
can't figure out what is that I have one server, servicing my .net site, 
which has been up with the same config for about two years. I have 
expanded out domains to include a .org and a .com, which I would like to 
virtualhost. Problem is, with the virtual host configurations I have had 
set up, I get one of two results, either it only hits the first virtual, 
or it hits the default all the time (.net) even though it is getting the 
.com or .org header as the requested site (which should trigger the 
server name aspect and serve the correct content.l


   The configuration has been tried two ways, both as adding on to the 
.net configuration: adding in .conf files in /etc/httpd/conf.d as well 
as adding in the Virtual server statements in httpd.conf (not both at 
the same time, ever since it is conflicting information) I also have it 
set to listen for named virtual servers on the servers IP address. A 
snippet from the httpd.conf file is:


NameVirtualHost *:80

#VirtualHost example:
#Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
#The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known
#server name.

   ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   DocumentRoot /var/www/commercial/
   ServerName www.tsukinokage.com
   ServerAlias www.tsukinokage.com *.tsukinokage.com
   ServerPath /commercial/
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteRule ^(/commercial/.*) /www/commercial$1
   ErrorLog logs/commercial_error_log
   CustomLog logs/commercial_access_log common


   ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   DocumentRoot /var/www/org/
   ServerName www.tsukinokage.org
   ServerAlias www.tsukinokage.org *.tsukinokage.org
   ServerPath /org/
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteRule ^(/org/.*) /www/tsukinokage$1
   ErrorLog logs/org_error_log
   CustomLog logs/org_access_log common


This information is added onto the end of the working config for the 
.net site. I have even tried changing listening ports and still I get 
only the content from the net site, even though it is in a different 
directory that isn't listed for the other configs. I am rather stumped, 
and nothing I have tried off examples and the apache site have worked for me


Any help would be appreciated. .

Regards,
Seann


Wed Oct 29-08:53:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:PXEDev> uname -a
Linux haruhi 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.x86_64 1 SMP Sat Sep 20 03:23:12 EDT 2008 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

*
*Packages installed for this
httpunit-1.6.2-1jpp.1.fc7.noarch
httpd-manual-2.2.9-1.fc9.x86_64
jakarta-commons-httpclient-javadoc-3.1-0jpp.1.fc9.x86_64
nagios-plugins-http-1.4.13-9.fc9.x86_64
system-config-httpd-1.4.4-1.fc8.noarch
jakarta-commons-httpclient-demo-3.1-0jpp.1.fc9.x86_64
httpd-tools-2.2.9-1.fc9.x86_64
python-httplib2-0.4.0-1.fc9.noarch
jakarta-commons-httpclient-manual-3.1-0jpp.1.fc9.x86_64
jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-0jpp.1.fc9.x86_64
httpd-2.2.9-1.fc9.x86_64
mod_geoip-1.2.5-2.fc9.x86_64
mod_auth_pgsql-2.0.3-7.x86_64
mod_fcgid-2.2-4.fc9.x86_64
mod_security-2.1.6-1.fc9.x86_64
mod_extract_forwarded-2.0.2-3.fc9.x86_64
mod_auth_mysql-3.0.0-6.x86_64
mod_auth_pam-1.1.1-5.fc9.x86_64
mod_cband-0.9.7.5-2.fc9.x86_64
mod_auth_ntlm_winbind-0.0.0-0.8.20070129svn713.fc9.x86_64
mod_authz_ldap-0.26-10.x86_64
mod_nss-1.0.7-9.fc9.x86_64
mod_perl-2.0.4-1.fc9.x86_64
mod_python-3.3.1-7.x86_64
mod_auth_shadow-2.2-4.fc9.x86_64
mod_geoip-1.2.0-2.fc9.x86_64
mod_security-2.5.6-1.fc9.x86_64
mod_ssl-2.2.9-1.fc9.x86_64
mod_auth_kerb-5.3-7.x86_64
mod_suphp-0.6.3-1.fc9.x86_64





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Re: kernel: martian messages

[Seann Clark]

Frank Cox wrote:

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:23:34 -0700
Aldo Foot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  

Oct 28 08:53:28 myhost kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from



  

what do they mean?



A "martian source" is an invalid IP address.  In your case, 255.255.255.255 is
the IP address.  It's impossible for that to be a valid address, not least
because *.*.*.255 is a broadcast address.

  
A little clarification, a "martian source" isn't strictly an invalid IP. 
It is usually triggered when the kernel routing table doesn't match 
where it expects the IP address. I see this a lot on my firewall, but 
that is because both my ISP and myself use a 10.x.x.x private IP range 
that overlaps. They use it for the management of the cable modems, and I 
use it for more traditional uses. This results in my firewalls Kernel 
expecting 10.x to come in on eth3, not eth1 so the kernel fires off a 
martian source message with the details of the problem.


In terms of a broadcast range, since most proper broadcasts on more up 
to date TCP stacks use x.x.x.255 as the broadcast, not a full 'every 
network possible' broadcast (255.255.255.255) it will fire off an alert 
that something it trying a mass broadcast that it doesn't expect (since 
that broadcast range will not match its known route table). This 
broadcast IP can be seen a lot on DHCP type setups, or other discovery 
items on a computer. You can also see occasional 224-236.x.x.x ranges 
fire off the same messages on the box, for multicast messages.



A good example of a non-invalid IP address message is off my 
firewall(Sanitized a bit, of course):


Oct 29 01:39:08 fw kernel: martian source 192.168.1.1 from 68.10.11.12, 
on dev eth1
Oct 29 01:39:08 fw kernel: ll header: 
00:e0:81:2a:1f:b8:00:30:b8:c6:c3:90:08:00
Oct 29 01:39:11 fw kernel: martian source 192.168.1.1 from 68.10.11.12, 
on dev eth1
Oct 29 01:39:11 fw kernel: ll header: 
00:e0:81:2a:1f:b8:00:30:b8:c6:c3:90:08:00
Oct 29 01:39:11 fw kernel: martian source 192.168.1.1 from 68.10.11.12, 
on dev eth1
Oct 29 01:39:11 fw kernel: ll header: 
00:e0:81:2a:1f:b8:00:30:b8:c6:c3:90:08:00


To break it down simply, there is a problem with how the routes are 
seeing the end results of my firewall as the wrong source (The internal 
gateway versus the public IP) with eth1 being the interface with the 68 
address assigned.



Not to completely shoot down the last response, but it is an invalid 
address, that is true, same as any of the private IP ranges are seen on 
the Internet.



Sorry for the long winded reply, but this was something I know pretty 
well since I see it a lot.



Regards,
Seann



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Yum Woes with Python

[Seann Clark]

All,


  This is a pretty simple problem that I can't quiet get resolved. 
I spent two hours on google searching and found nothing that really 
helped. My problem is this:



Wed Nov 05-12:02:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:distro> yum update
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

  No module named config

Please install a package which provides this module, or
verify that the module is installed correctly.

It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
current version of Python, which is:
2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jun 15 2008, 18:24:56)
[GCC 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8)]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
 http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq

Now, this is after I did an upgrade to python to add in a little extra 
functionality I needed for a lot of various things (my fault, totally, 
for being lazy and using yum install python-*)
Seems just the config package isn't there, since the errors I see are 
from that package:


Wed Nov 05-12:02:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:distro> cobbler

'module' object has no attribute 'getLogger'
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 77, 
in main

   rc = BootCLI().run(sys.argv)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 45, 
in __init__

   self.api = api.BootAPI()

 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 79, in 
__init__

   self.logger = self.__setup_logger("api")

 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 108, in 
__setup_logger

   return utils.setup_logger(name)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 85, in 
setup_logger

   logger = logging.getLogger(name)




So, yeah, I am stuck trying to find out what matches with my version(s) 
of python:


python-2.5.1-26.fc9.x86_64
python-configobj-4.5.2-1.fc9.noarch


-
List of python packages installed, in full:
python-2.5.1-26.fc9.x86_64
python-4Suite-XML-1.0.2-3.x86_64
python-adns-1.2.1-2.fc9.x86_64
python-alsa-1.0.17-1.fc9.x86_64
python-alsaaudio-0.3-1.fc9.x86_64
python-amara-1.2.0.2-2.fc8.noarch
python-aqbanking-2.3.3-3.fc9.x86_64
python-augeas-0.2.1-1.fc9.noarch
python-babel-0.9.2-1.fc9.noarch
python-basemap-0.9.5-5.fc9.x86_64
python-basemap-data-0.9.5-3.fc8.noarch
python-basemap-data-hires-0.9.5-3.fc8.noarch
python-basemap-examples-0.9.5-3.fc8.noarch
python-beaker-0.9.5-1.fc9.noarch
python-BeautifulSoup-3.0.7-2.fc9.noarch
python-bibtex-1.2.4-4.fc9.x86_64
python-biopython-1.48-1.fc9.x86_64
python-boto-1.0a-1.fc9.noarch
python-brlapi-0.5.1-2.2.fc9.x86_64
python-bugzilla-0.3-1.fc9.noarch
python-CDDB-1.4-3.fc9.x86_64
python-cerealizer-0.6-3.fc9.noarch
python-cheetah-2.0.1-2.fc9.x86_64
python-cherrypy2-2.3.0-3.fc9.noarch
python-cherrypy-3.0.3-2.fc9.noarch
python-cherrytemplate-1.0.0-7.fc9.noarch
python-chm-0.8.4-4.fc9.x86_64
python-cjson-1.0.5-1.fc9.x86_64
python-clearsilver-0.10.5-4.fc9.x86_64
python-clientform-0.2.7-2.fc9.noarch
python-configobj-4.5.2-1.fc9.noarch
python-cpio-0.1-5.fc9.noarch
python-crypto-2.0.1-12.1.x86_64
python-cssutils-0.9.5.1-3.fc9.noarch
python-cssutils-doc-0.9.5.1-3.fc9.noarch
python-daap-0.7.1-1.fc9.x86_64
python-daap-0.7-6.fc9.x86_64
python-dateutil-1.2-2.fc9.noarch
python-decorator-2.2.0-1.fc9.noarch
python-decoratortools-1.7-1.fc9.noarch
python-demjson-1.3-2.fc9.noarch
python-devel-2.5.1-26.fc9.x86_64
python-dialog-2.7-7.fc8.noarch
python-dictclient-1.0.1-1.fc9.noarch
python-dns-1.6.0-1.fc9.noarch
python-docs-2.5.1-2.fc9.noarch
python-docutils-0.4-8.fc9.noarch
python-dotconf-0.2.1-7.fc9.noarch
python-dtopt-0.1-2.fc9.noarch
python-durus-3.5-3.fc7.x86_64
python-elixir-0.5.2-1.fc9.noarch
python-enchant-1.3.1-2.fc9.x86_64
python-enum-0.4.3-3.fc9.noarch
python-exif-1.0.7-4.fc9.noarch
python-exif-1.0.8-1.fc9.noarch
python-exo-0.3.4-2.fc9.x86_64
python-eyed3-0.6.16-1.fc9.noarch
python-fedora-0.3.6-2.fc9.noarch
python-feedparser-4.1-3.fc8.noarch
python-flup-1.0-2.fc9.noarch
python-formencode-1.0.1-1.fc9.noarch
python-formencode-1.0.1-2.fc9.noarch
python-fpconst-0.7.3-3.fc9.noarch
python-gammu-0.24-3.fc9.x86_64
python-gasp-0.1.1-0.fc9.noarch
python-gdata-1.0.9-1.fc9.noarch
python-genshi-0.5-1.fc9.x86_64
python-GeoIP-1.2.1-12.fc9.x86_64
python-GnuPGInterface-0.3.2-3.fc9.noarch
python-goopy-0.1-4.fc7.noarch
python-gpod-0.6.0-4.fc9.x86_64
python-gtkextra-1.1.0-3.fc9.x86_64
python-html2text-2.29-1.1.noarch
python-HTMLgen-2.2.2-10.fc8.noarch
python-httplib2-0.4.0-1.fc9.noarch
python-id3-1.2-12.fc9.noarch
python-igraph-0.5-5.fc9.x86_64
python-imaging-1.1.6-9.fc9.x86_64
python-imaging-devel-1.1.6-9.fc9.x86_64
python-imaging-sane-1.1.6-9.fc9.x86_64
python-imaging-tk-1.1.6-9.fc9.x86_64
python-iniparse-0.2.3-3.fc9.noarch
python-inotify-0.8.0-3.r.fc9.noarch
python-inotify-examples-0.8.0-3.r.fc9.noarch
python-IPy-0.60-1.fc9.noarch
python-irclib-0.4.6-5.fc9.noarch
python-isprelink-0.1.2-4.fc9.x86_64
python-jinja-1.2-1.fc9.x86_64
python-jinja2-2.0-2.fc9.x86_64
python-json-3.4-3.fc9.noarch

Re: Yum Woes with Python

[Seann Clark]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Seann Clark
  

Wed Nov 05-12:02:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:distro> cobbler




Uhm you just pasted in the traceback from cobbler... but most of
the english-ese that you wrote was about yum.  So I am a bit confused.

I'd need to see the traceback from yum to start making any sort of guesses.

This is a 64bit system?

-jef

  
The yum traceback is higher up in the email, but here it is again. This 
is a 64 bit system running Fedora 9.


There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

  No module named config

Please install a package which provides this module, or
verify that the module is installed correctly.

It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
current version of Python, which is:
2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jun 15 2008, 18:24:56)
[GCC 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8)]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
 http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq



I apologize for not being fully clear. After a little bit of review 
before that last email was sent, I also found that cobbler is affected 
by the same thing with YUM, pointing back to config.py, I believe. But I 
can't figure out what is supposed to match with what.



Regards
Seann


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Re: Yum Woes with Python

[Seann Clark]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Seann Clark
  

The yum traceback is higher up in the email, but here it is again. This is a
64 bit system running Fedora 9.

There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

 No module named config



Sorry I didn't recognize that as a python traceback...
its fancy error message that yum is producing

It looks to me like the config.py   file which comes as part of the
yum package is "missing" on your system.

report back the output of:
rpm -q yum
and
rpm -V yum
and
rpm -ql yum |grep config

verify that the config.py files that comes with the yum package that
you have installed is where it should be in your system.

-jef

  

Wed Nov 05-15:08:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:snmp> rpm -q yum
yum-3.2.19-3.fc9.noarch
Wed Nov 05-15:16:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:snmp> rpm -V yum
Wed Nov 05-15:16:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:snmp> rpm -ql yum |grep config
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.pyo

Wed Nov 05-15:17:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:yum> ls  |grep config
config.py
config.pyc
config.pyo
Wed Nov 05-15:18:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:yum> pwd
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum

And an Ftrace, that I don't see as providing much( The fancy error, as 
it was called, is really worthless):

Wed Nov 05-15:20:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:yum> ftrace /usr/bin/yum
11917.11917 attached /usr/bin/python
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

  No module named config

Please install a package which provides this module, or
verify that the module is installed correctly.

It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
current version of Python, which is:
2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jun 15 2008, 18:24:56)
[GCC 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8)]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
 http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq


11917.11917 exited with status 1



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Re: Yum Woes with Python

[Seann Clark]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Seann Clark
  

Wed Nov 05-15:08:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:snmp> rpm -q yum
yum-3.2.19-3.fc9.noarch
Wed Nov 05-15:16:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:snmp> rpm -V yum
Wed Nov 05-15:16:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:snmp> rpm -ql yum |grep config
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.pyo




Okay lets check your python module path

start python
  

import sys
print sys.path



  

Wed Nov 05-16:06:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:minazuki> python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jun 15 2008, 18:24:56)
[GCC 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> print sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/TracWebAdmin-0.1.2dev-py2.5.egg', 
'/usr/lib64/python25.zip', '/usr/lib64/python2.5', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.5/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib64/python2.5/lib-tk', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.5/lib-dynload', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/FontTools', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/PIL', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/HippoDraw', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/Ice', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/gst-0.10', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode', 
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages', 
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/HippoDraw']

>>>


Crtrl-D to leave the python environment

The filesystem location /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/
should be in the output of print sys,path.

If it isn't that's the underlying problem.

If it is in the path start python and try to import yum

That should produce a useful python traceback, since the ImportError
exception producing the fancy error is at the beginning of the
/usr/bin/yum executable script
  

>>> import yum
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "", line 1, in 
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 31, in 


   import logging.config
ImportError: No module named config
>>>


I bare  import yum command will throw an exception and python will
produce a full traceback for us to look at.

-jef

  


Regards,
Seann


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RE: Yum Woes with Python

[Seann Clark]

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Jeff Spaleta
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 5:50 PM
To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora.
Subject: Re: Yum Woes with Python

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Seann Clark
> 
>   import logging.config
> ImportError: No module named config

fascinating

the python logging module should be part of the python package
check that with this:
rpm -ql python |grep logging

verify that the logging related files are "okay" with:
rpm -V python |grep logging



-jef

Here is the output:

Wed Nov 05-18:08:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:nombrandue> rpm -ql python |grep logging
/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging
/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/__init__.py
/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/config.py
/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/config.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/config.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/handlers.py
/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/handlers.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/handlers.pyo
Wed Nov 05-18:08:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:nombrandue> rpm -V python |grep logging
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RE: Yum Woes with Python

[Seann Clark]

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Jeff Spaleta
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 7:23 PM
To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora.
Subject: Re: Yum Woes with Python

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Seann Clark
> Wed Nov 05-18:08:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:nombrandue> rpm -V python |grep logging


Now I'm really confused.

the logging module that comes with python is there.

In python do:
import logging.config

get a backtrace?

-jef

=

Wed Nov 05-18:09:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:nombrandue> python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jun 15 2008, 18:24:56)
[GCC 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import logging.config
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
ImportError: No module named config
>>>

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Re: Yum Woes with Python

[Seann Clark]

Michael Schwendt wrote:

On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:22:48 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

  

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Seann Clark


Wed Nov 05-18:08:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:nombrandue> rpm -V python |grep logging
  

Now I'm really confused.

the logging module that comes with python is there.

In python do:
import logging.config

get a backtrace?



Also interesting because of more details:

  python -v -c 'import logging.config' &> output.txt

  

Here is the output of the command :
# installing zipimport hook
import zipimport # builtin
# installed zipimport hook
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/site.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/site.py
import site # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/site.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/os.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/os.py
import os # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/os.pyc
import posix # builtin
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/posixpath.pyc matches 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/posixpath.py

import posixpath # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/posixpath.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/stat.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/stat.py
import stat # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/stat.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/UserDict.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/UserDict.py
import UserDict # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/UserDict.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/copy_reg.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/copy_reg.py
import copy_reg # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/copy_reg.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/types.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/types.py
import types # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/types.pyc
import _types # builtin
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/new.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/new.py
import new # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/new.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/warnings.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/warnings.py
import warnings # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/warnings.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/linecache.pyc matches 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/linecache.py

import linecache # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/linecache.pyc
import encodings # directory /usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/__init__.pyc matches 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/__init__.py
import encodings # precompiled from 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/__init__.pyc

# /usr/lib64/python2.5/codecs.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/codecs.py
import codecs # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/codecs.pyc
import _codecs # builtin
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/aliases.pyc matches 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/aliases.py
import encodings.aliases # precompiled from 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/aliases.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/utf_8.pyc matches 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/utf_8.py
import encodings.utf_8 # precompiled from 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/utf_8.pyc

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jun 15 2008, 18:24:56)
[GCC 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
# 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/TracWebAdmin-0.1.2dev-py2.5.egg/logging.pyc 
matches 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/TracWebAdmin-0.1.2dev-py2.5.egg/logging.py
import logging # precompiled from 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/TracWebAdmin-0.1.2dev-py2.5.egg/logging.pyc

import trac # directory /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac
# /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/__init__.pyc matches 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/__init__.py
import trac # precompiled from 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/__init__.pyc
# /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/core.pyc matches 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/core.py
import trac.core # precompiled from 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/core.pyc

import webadmin # directory /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/webadmin
# /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/webadmin/__init__.pyc matches 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/webadmin/__init__.py
import webadmin # precompiled from 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/webadmin/__init__.pyc
# /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/webadmin/web_ui.pyc matches 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/webadmin/web_ui.py
import webadmin.web_ui # precompiled from 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/webadmin/web_ui.pyc

# /usr/lib64/python2.5/re.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/re.py
import re # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/re.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/sre_compile.pyc matches 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/sre_compile.py

import sre_compile # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/sre_compile.pyc
import _sre # builtin
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/sre_constants.pyc matches 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/sre_constants.py
import sre_constants # precompiled from 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/sre_constants.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/sre_parse.pyc matches 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/sre_parse.py

import sre_parse # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/sre_parse.pyc
# /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/perm.pyc matches 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/perm.py
import trac.perm # precompiled from 
/usr/li

Re: ASUS M3A78-EM -

[Seann Clark]

Bob Goodwin wrote:


I see that Newegg has a sale on ASUS M3A78-EM AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI 
Micro ATX AMD Motherboard.


I had a failure in a back-up computer last month and have been looking 
for a cheap replacement board.  This board has on-board video which I 
would like to use.  I have not been able to determine if it has 
dedicated video memory or if it shares the main memory somehow and if 
that will cause problems?


I guess what I want to know is does anyone have experience with this 
board?  I would not install Windows, only Fedora Linux, probably F-9.


Thanks.

Bob




Just a quick thought, this board supports Crossfire, which shares memory 
and GPU between ATI cards, so it most likely has dedicated memory. 
(http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=149&l3=639&l4=0&model=2252&modelmenu=1) 



Since it is onboard, and ATI, ATI usually has good support in Linux (I 
have a DFBS-D board with ATI onboard with 8 meg memory and it runs great 
on F9) and doesn't show much of a driver problem. I use my linux boxes 
as servers more than desktop/gaming because I have some rather stupid 
stuff I run on the Windows systems that I have a hard time migrating off of.



~Seann


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Re: Yum Woes with Python (Michael Schwendt)

[Seann Clark]

Nelson Chan wrote:
um.. i don't know what you are doing actually but i just make a guess. 

Should the python code be   "from logging import config" instead of 
 "import logging.config" ??


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This problem is the after effect of a package add that nicely toasted 
YUM (And cobbler, and any other Python programs using config or logging) 
and they break on the logging.config. I don't have very much of a clue 
on Python (haven't gotten around to learning it yet) so I am rather 
stumped on the problem. any time a program calls either 'import config' 
or 'import logging' the program dies saying module config not found.  
Most of the replies I have been making are results of 'try this for more 
output' requests.


Seems a wrong update has stumped a few people on the list. When I get 
the solution to this, I am adding it into my tech wiki, so I remember 
how to fix it afterwards. Sadly, though it is due to that Wiki(Trac) 
that all this started.




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Re: Yum Woes with Python(Solved)

[Seann Clark]

Michael Schwendt wrote:

On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:30:26 -0600, Seann Clark wrote:

  

  python -v -c 'import logging.config' &> output.txt

  
  

Here is the output of the command :
# installing zipimport hook
import zipimport # builtin
# installed zipimport hook
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/site.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/site.py
import site # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/site.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/os.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/os.py
import os # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/os.pyc
import posix # builtin
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/posixpath.pyc matches 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/posixpath.py

import posixpath # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/posixpath.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/stat.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/stat.py
import stat # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/stat.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/UserDict.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/UserDict.py
import UserDict # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/UserDict.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/copy_reg.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/copy_reg.py
import copy_reg # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/copy_reg.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/types.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/types.py
import types # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/types.pyc
import _types # builtin
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/new.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/new.py
import new # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/new.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/warnings.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/warnings.py
import warnings # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/warnings.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/linecache.pyc matches 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/linecache.py

import linecache # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/linecache.pyc
import encodings # directory /usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/__init__.pyc matches 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/__init__.py
import encodings # precompiled from 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/__init__.pyc

# /usr/lib64/python2.5/codecs.pyc matches /usr/lib64/python2.5/codecs.py
import codecs # precompiled from /usr/lib64/python2.5/codecs.pyc
import _codecs # builtin
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/aliases.pyc matches 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/aliases.py
import encodings.aliases # precompiled from 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/aliases.pyc
# /usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/utf_8.pyc matches 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/utf_8.py
import encodings.utf_8 # precompiled from 
/usr/lib64/python2.5/encodings/utf_8.pyc

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jun 15 2008, 18:24:56)
[GCC 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
# 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/TracWebAdmin-0.1.2dev-py2.5.egg/logging.pyc 
matches 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/TracWebAdmin-0.1.2dev-py2.5.egg/logging.py
import logging # precompiled from 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/TracWebAdmin-0.1.2dev-py2.5.egg/logging.pyc



B!

With the sys.path details you've given earlier in reply to Jeff,
the reason for your problem now is obvious, isn't it?

  
Oy, I just noticed that as well. Seems to be simple to take care of. I 
just backed up the 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/TracWebAdmin-0.1.2dev-py2.5.egg 
directory, and then removed it. Low, and behold, Yum works and so does 
everything else. This has been a good learning step for me in what 
prolly is basic python paths.



Thanks for your help everyone!

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Re: sendmail

[Seann Clark]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 03:42 +, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
  
I want to be able to send email from my home computer to the outside 
world. I want to do that from a script, when certain events happen, so I 
can't use graphical clients like evolution. I have to use mail with 
sendmail or a replacement as postfix or qmail. Since sendmail comes by 
default with fedora, I thought I'd start with that. 



Unless you really want to learn about sendmail or postfix, there's no
need to install a full-blown MTA just to send messages upstream. I've
found the foll wing useful in these circumstances:

http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/

It's a neat little Perl script that does exactly what you want.

poc

  
If you want to avoid installing more stuff, just shut off sendmail, and 
any other MTA stuff you have running, and edit the submit.mc or 
submit.cf file to add in your smart host. Looking at the SMART_HOST line 
you provided, just dump that in the submit file.



SMTP auth is rather straightforward, but since I haven't done it in a 
while, here is a link for it: http://www.sendmail.org/m4/smtp_auth.html


As a side note, when sending through an ISP mail relay, you need to get 
the Auth Details from the ISP, usually this is a webmail/account access 
username/password.



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Re: Question about smartd temp. readings.

[Seann Clark]

Aaron Konstam wrote:

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 10:15 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
  

I've noticed in logwatch the following smartd readings of hard disk temperature:

 /dev/sda :
Usage: Temperature_Celsius (194) changed to
  171, 161, 157, 161, 157, 161, 157, 152, 157, 152, 157, 161,
  157, 152, 157, 152, 157, 152, 157,

 /dev/sdb :
Usage: Temperature_Celsius (194) changed to
  157, 148, 144, 141, 144, 141, 144, 141,

Is this really Celcius degrees? To me it looks more like Fahrenheit. If it
indeed is Celecius it won't take long before the disks melt down :-(



Those look too high for F degrees also.
  


This is something I see as well. What it actually is if you look over 
your smart status, you will see the 'real' temp you should see the 
attribute (using smartctrl --all --device=3ware,2 /dev/twa0)
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022   113   105   000Old_age   
Always   -   34


as opposed to what the reports on my system kick back to me. It seems 
some calculation is off a bit.


/dev/twa0 [3ware_disk_02] :
   Usage: Seek_Error_Rate (7) changed to 
 200, 100, 
   Usage: Temperature_Celsius (194) changed to 
 111, 110, 112, 111, 112, 113, 112, 113, 112, 113, 112, 113, 
 112, 111, 112, 111, 



It doesn't reflect the real temp of the hard drive, so it isn't as much of a panic as it would appear. Just erroneous data from the reports. 


regards,
Seann



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Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

[Seann Clark]

Manuel Gomez wrote:

Hi, i would like to know a tool or software to erase the cache, clean
the registry...

Somebody could help me?

Thank you very much, I appreciate your help.



  
AFAIK, Fedora doesn't have a registry. Closest thing is the filesystem 
journal, and Inodes.



I could be wrong though, but registry cleaning is limited to Windows.



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Re: FC11: Two Suggestions

[Seann Clark]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:21:07 -0600
"Arthur Pemberton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  

At the risk of being a complete apostate, I have ALWAYS


disabled SELinux. Please, no gratuitous lectures. I also
absolutely loathe the rhgb. IMHO, these should all be
install options, enabled by default with an "expert
only" or similar warning.
  

Re: SELInux? Why do you do so?



Because it serves no purpose - for me. 
  
That is understandable. But it seems enough people have a purpose for 
it, and that is why it is set up the way it is currently. Additional 
tuning options would be nice for install, but since I know how to do it 
myself after it is installed, I am fine with it. And I am not installing 
enough systems to merit a change, otherwise I would use something like 
Puppet Master and Cobbler to manage those setting in bulk.


Though, rhgb is.. well nice, makes it feel less complex to the new user, 
I like the old style boot better myself. That is an easy thing to 
change, and takes 30 seconds to remove and it tends to stay removed even 
after updates, so 30 seconds right off the bat after one 'pretty' boot 
isn't that bad. That and I also use runlevel 3 on all my linux systems 
because I don't have a real need for a GUI, and if I do need one, it is 
easier to be web based than console based for me.

This is possibly a business decision because of the
amount of time devoted to Bugzilla by Redhat employees.
  

How is bugzilla related to this?



Because Bugzilla causes a considerable consumption of time
by people on RH's payroll. Some of these issues reduce user
errors that get reported as bugs incorrectly.
  
Unless you paid for the access to Bugzilla (I never have, it is free as 
far as I can see) then payroll has no roll in this. Redhat has a 
slightly different way of support that is paid for, not a free any one 
can access this type of system. Bugzilla has no relation to this, in the 
manner that the thread is stating.



That is like saying because I help out with MySQL, or help out with 
Fedora, I am on Redhats, or the MySQL payroll for the help. It seems 
just to be confused on what the support pay is going to.


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Re: Default BIND setup question

[Seann Clark]

Mark Haney wrote:
I just installed F10 on what will be my new slave DNS server for our 
office and I'm a little peeved at the default setup.  The base install 
sets BIND up as a local caching-nameserver.  Which I suppose is fine, 
except there's no base named.conf provided for setting up BIND as a 
real DNS server, not a local caching only one.  That's slightly 
irritating. I've had trouble getting borrowed named.conf files working 
because the setups are all different (even between F6 and F10 there's 
a difference in file locations).


So, what should take no time, is taking forever.  Is there some base 
config file handy for setting up a real DNS server on an F10 system?  
Or am I just having to hack the crap out of it? I suppose I can do 
system-config-bind, but that seems silly when a simple text file 
should be added to make life easier for those who need real DNS servers.


I have been running BIND as both a master and slave on my network since 
Fedora core 1, I haven't had a problem migrating and moving 
configurations for the most part. The 'best' way that I have found 
personally, is have a base named.conf file for your desired set up, and 
use that, then port it based on the changes required. You can see what 
needs changed based on the errors in the log file (either syslog or 
specifically pointed to log files). Also mind that BIND is run in a 
CHROOT jail, so you have both an /etc/named.conf and a 
/var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf to look over.



There isn't a base file for a 'real' DNS server that I have found on any 
of the fedora flavors, so 'hacking the crap out of it' would be the 
easiest way to get it running, and you can get it standardized after it 
is running. Then best bet is to save the file off the server as a hot 
spare, or example of the full working config.


Changing the base config on Fedora isn't that bad though, unless you are 
very tired and miss a ';' in a strange location.




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Re: Current state of multi-core awareness

[Seann Clark]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:41 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  

Of the thousands of 64-bit F10 applications/tools/utilities, I wonder how
many are aware of and can scale across multiple cores. Has anyone done a
recent survey to see which packages are [not] multi-core aware?



I may be way off-base here, but I would expect very few if any apps
are "multi-core aware". Multiple cores get you better performance when
more than one process needs the cpu, but a single I/O-limited process
isn't going to go any faster. Likewise, single-threaded apps can't do
anything with multiple cores even if they aren't I/O limited.
Specialized parallel-programming apps are a different matter, but how
many of those do we typically see on a desktop?

poc

  
As stated very well above, it depends on the people who developed the 
package as to how it uses a CPU, if it is single threaded (and there are 
a lot of those type out there) then yes, it will plug one core. If it is 
multithreaded, like say Apache, then, under load you will see it peg all 
your CPU's/Cores instead of just one. I see this type of behavior on my 
home server, which has quad core dual Xeon's, and when I stress test 
HTTP all eight cores start to peak as the load gets higher. As for 
anything disk I/o intensive, it can be purposeful to have it hog just 
one core (IE not to build in multi-CPU support) since it improves 
overall system performance on non I/o intensive programs. Anything 
package based will be higher on the I/o, and it would be a bad thing to 
have it hog the entire system processing stuff that has to wait to be 
written to disk. After all, how many irate users do you see, that are 
angry because updates are running and taking forever, and they can't use 
anything else because that package manager is taking forever?



If you want to view what is, and isn't multi-core aware, look at what 
does, and doesn't use SMP, since that has been around since more than 
one 'virtual' CPU has been in use (Hyperthreading) and used with 
multicores.



And on an honest note, I don't really see how package management would 
require more CPU power, when as a database type program, it would 
require faster disks to perform better, not more power from the CPU. 



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Re: Current state of multi-core awareness

[Seann Clark]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Seann Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  

And on an honest note, I don't really see how package management would
require more CPU power, when as a database type program, it would require
faster disks to perform better, not more power from the CPU.



Couldn't  dependency resolution for multiple packages be done
psuedo-parallel when doing updates or installs?

-jef

  
I am sure it could be done that way, but you still would come across the 
bottleneck of the drive, in this case, so a lot of that performance 
would be idle waiting on the disks, unless you had your disks laid out 
by partition, something like / on sda1 /boot on sda2 /usr/local on sdb1 
/usr/share on sdc1, /var on sdd1, etc. then you would have slightly less 
I/o wait unless your controller didn't like writing to multiple buses at 
once (some crappy SATA hardware has this problem, like the Lanparty 3200 
board from DFI) or old IDE.



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Re: Laser Printers

[Seann Clark]

Nick Price wrote:

Hi
 
Look at HP they aren't that expensive are quality an I have a Laserjet 
2100 working well with Linux
 
Just look at the specs  they can come with USB parallel or ehternet.
If you need USb and the printer is parallel there are parallel to USB 
converters 


> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 06:02:22 -0500
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Laser Printers
>
> Mike Chambers wrote:
> > Anyone know of any good ones that aren't that expensive and print 
pretty

> > fast? Do they connect via USB and/or parallel cable and how supported
> > are they for linux?
> >
>
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> I use a Brother HL-5070DN. Very happy with it!
>
> Phil
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I am using a Samsung CLP-610D and it works great. Connects VIA network 
and USB, and has a good paper output. It was one of the cheapest 
duplexer equiped network printers I could find at about 330$USD and the 
speed of printing is pretty good. This printer is also a color laser 
printer.


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Re: Streaming media server

[Seann Clark]

Wendell Nichols wrote:
I currently play my music (which is stored in a file system on a 
server on my home network) by mounting the filesystem via nfs and 
playing the files in amarok.  However if any disruption to the 
wireless network occurs, I lose the mount and, as you know, its hell 
to recover an nfs mount if the network has failed.   What I'd like to 
have is something like a shoutcast server that would serve up my 
collection over a network connection or somesuch.  I installed icecast 
but it doesn't seem appropriate for playing disk based music 
collections.. meybe I'm wrong about that.

Any suggestions?
wcn

Use MPD as the player backend plugged into icecast. It works wonderfully 
(I am listening to it right now actually) and it also have a few good 
web based front ends for it, plus tons of linux based GUI's if that is 
your thing, and some good CLI Clients as well. MPD, I believe is in the 
Fedora repository (I haven't had to look for it in some time) but I do 
know that icecast has (or had) an oddity in it for Fedora 9 (I haven't 
tested 10 or 11, but it also only happened on a 64 bit platform) so if 
you have strangeness of the port for icecast not binding properly, 
remove the RPM and compile icecast from source.



~Seann


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Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

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linux guy wrote:

No joy.  All I got was the same blinking cursor.  I'm running from the
F9 Live CD.

BTW: chroot above was actually /usr/sbin/chroot.   And the yum problem
with the repos wasn't the repos at all.  The chroot session doesn't
have access to the network.  ping www.google.com returns "unknown
host" in the chroot session, whereas its found from a non chroot
session.

yum -C list kernel shows only the two F11 kernels.  The F12 kernel is gone.

However, if I look at grub. conf in /media/-/boot, the entry for the
F12 kernel is still there !  Furthermore so are the F12 kernel files.
 So I am guessing that rpm didn't remove any of the actual files, even
though it seems to have removed all of the database entries.  GREAT !
I've got a mess on my hands.

This makes sense, because if I do a cd /boot from the chroot session,
it shows a blank directory.   However, if I cd to /media/-/boot, its
definitely not empty.

I think I need to link the /boot directory to /media/-/boot and then
to an rpm -i against the F12 kernel rpm to reinstall the entries into
the database and then do a rpm -e to actually remove the files.

Does that make sense ?  Is there an easier way ?

Thanks


HOWEVER

On 7/16/09, linux guy  wrote:
  

I think I got it fixed.  Here is what I did in case someone needs it someday
:)

- booted F9 Live.  Just because I had it around.
- opened Dolphin, because it displays the hard drives for the machine
- opened a terminal in Dolphin
- browse to the root directory of the hard drive
- did a pwd in the terminal and found the root of my hard drive was
/media/-/
- su
- chroot /media/-/
- yum -C list kernel  <- did -C because the Fedora repos seem to be
messed up again, thus I only used the local cache data
- yum -C remove kernel-2.6.31-0.69.rc3.fc12
- this resulted in an error due to some unrelated pooched dependencies.
- rpm -e kernel-2.6.31-0.69.rc3.fc12
- this resulted in an error due to some unrelated pooched dependencies
- rpm --nodeps -e kernel-2.6.31-0.69.rc3.fc12
- rpm -e kernel-firmware-2.6.31-0.69.rc3.fc12

I will now reboot and see if my system runs.  I'll report back in a
bit if it does.

On 7/16/09, linux guy  wrote:


Will chroot work when the target system has a broken kernel ?   It
keeps running the old kernel ?

I tried using rpm with --dbpath so that it used the F11 rpm data.  It
wouldn't run because of incompatible rpm versions.

On 7/16/09, davide  wrote:
  

linux guy  gmail.com> writes:




 I am now running from a Fedora 9 live CD I had laying around.  I can
 see the hard drive and its partitions from the live session.  How
 would I fix the F11 installation so it runs again ?  Is it possible to
 do an rpm -e on the non running F11 partition from the F9 live session
 ?
  

You can take control of the installed linux from a live cd with the
chroot
command using the command line.
But you should know what you are doing.
Basically it is very simple and powerful, but for this reason you can
also
break
your system.

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To fix Grub fast and easy, after editing the kernel grouping, or 
anything else out of  /boot/grub/grub.conf, you can grab a livecd that 
works good on fixing a broken grub boot, called super grub disk (I have 
used it plenty of times when a borked boot of a fedora box happened to 
me) and it works great.  Biggest thing I can think of is edit grub.conf, 
and change the default to a known good kernel and remove the bad kernel 
out. That is to say you have a good one you can boot off of still on the 
system


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Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

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linux guy wrote:

To fix Grub fast and easy, after editing the kernel grouping, or
anything else out of  /boot/grub/grub.conf, you can grab a livecd that
works good on fixing a broken grub boot, called super grub disk (I have
used it plenty of times when a borked boot of a fedora box happened to
me) and it works great.  Biggest thing I can think of is edit grub.conf,
and change the default to a known good kernel and remove the bad kernel
out. That is to say you have a good one you can boot off of still on the
system



I did that, twice, first off, before I ever posted to the group.   The
f12 kernel installed to default 0 and then I had 2 f11 2.6.29 kernels
in positions 1 and 2.  I changed the default to both of them and
neither would boot.

I think this is somehow an mbr problem.

  
Well for my other suggestion, instead of pure Fedora, at the very least 
just to see if it does fix this check out http://www.supergrubdisk.org/


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Re: [fedora-list] How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

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linux guy wrote:

I downloaded the supergrub iso and installed it onto my usb drive.
When I boot from it, it gives me the grub> command line.  Is that a
sign I don't have the USB installation right or is that the tool that
I am supposed to use to fix my non booting drive ?

Thanks

On 7/16/09, linux guy  wrote:
  

Here is my grub file.  The boot partition is /dev/sda1.  That should
be hd0,0, right ?The root partition is sda2.  That should be
hd0,1, right ?

Does anyone see anything wrong with my grub setup ?

I don't understand how installing an f12 kernel and then uninstalling
it could still result in a machine that won't boot.   Does f12 assume
an ext4 filesystem or something ?  df thinks my file systems are all
ext3.

Thanks

default=0
timeout=15
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586 ro
root=UUID=f543d554-9344-4cad-a7da-47de47cd2665 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img
title Fedora (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 ro
root=UUID=f543d554-9344-4cad-a7da-47de47cd2665 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586.img

On 7/16/09, Rich Mahn  wrote:


I did that, twice, first off, before I ever posted to the group.   The
f12 kernel installed to default 0 and then I had 2 f11 2.6.29 kernels
in positions 1 and 2.  I changed the default to both of them and
neither would boot.


I have had this problem often when I've been moving disks around or
when I am testing out new operating systems.  It has always been
one of two things:

  1. the BIOS has reordered disks and you aren't booting from the
 disk you want, or
  2. (similar to above), the disk identified in grub is the wrong one
 and needs to be dhanged.  Where you see something like
 root (hd0,0), you may need to change it to root(hd1,0).

This can sometimes be caused by a USB device being present (or not).
If you loaded your OS with a USB drive, it may have shifted all the
hd's when creating the grub.conf file.


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I can't say for certain about the USB method, I just burn it to a CD, 
and after I am done with the CD I put it into a tool kit/cd wallet I use 
so I haven't tried that option. It should boot to a menu system with the 
fix action options there, since you are getting just the grub prompt I 
would venture a guess the USB key is wrong


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Fedora 10 on PS3

[Seann Clark]

Has anyone done this yet, and how does it play on the platform? I am 
looking at upgrading an old YDL install that has chunks of F5 in it, to 
a newer PPC O/s for this. I use it mainly for watching movies and TV 
shows that I have downloaded, so I am interested in how it plays and 
performs.




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Re: Fedora 10 on PS3

[Seann Clark]

JD wrote:

I know of someone who installed yellow dog linux on a PS3.
Works OK. Rather slow when I tested it.



Seann Clark wrote:
Has anyone done this yet, and how does it play on the platform? I am 
looking at upgrading an old YDL install that has chunks of F5 in it, 
to a newer PPC O/s for this. I use it mainly for watching movies and 
TV shows that I have downloaded, so I am interested in how it plays 
and performs.




~Seann


When I compare the speed of the PS3 to one of my servers, it is rather 
slow, yes, but it works well for what I want it to, though TV resolution 
that isn't on an HDTV is kind of lame. I have heard rumors of Fedora 8 
and above on them, but I want to see if anyone has done so with 10.



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Re: collective nouns (was: WHY I WANT TO STOP USING FEDORA!!!)

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Tim wrote:

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 12:57 +, Ian Malone wrote:
  

I'd like it a little shorter and go for 'Fedoran'.



Mad hatters?  ;-)

  

That makes me wonder, what group would be the March Hare?


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Re: Something Broke My Grub

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Michael Schwendt wrote:

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:20:50 +, Dave wrote:

  

An hour ago I had a fully functioning machine. Now I just get the word
"GRUB" in the top left of the screen. Something has gone wrong in the
last hour or so.



Has happened to many people before:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/450143
 
  

Here's what I did.



You installed a "kernel" update, which runs /sbin/new-kernel-pkg
which in turn reinstalls GRUB via grubby. The kernel package is
not the culprit, however. Something at run-time has changed your
system environment in a way that confused the GRUB installation.
How exactly remains to be found out.

  

Has anyone else seen anything like this? And, more importantly, does
anyone have any suggestions of ways to fix it?



You need to reinstall GRUB just once more. Use rescue mode,
for example. I think above bz ticket gives hints.

  
Just to chime in, That advice is great 99% of the time, if that doesn't 
work, try SuberGrubDisk to rescue grub. A similar thing happened to me a 
while ago and I tried that a few times, but still had issues. I don't 
think you will need to do this, since my problem was impacted more by 
the change to the pata driver setup (my pata drives went from hd* to sd* 
and borked my systems a little) but it is a good tool to have for that 
rare just in case that the rescue mode doesn't work.



~Seann



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What is -lgthread-2.0

[Seann Clark]

What is -lgthread-2.0 used for in compliation and what does it belong 
to? I have multiple items failing on this, one being mythTV from source 
(because mythtv doesn't exist in ppc64 bit RPM form from what I have 
found so far) If anyone out there knows, it would help me a lot. I find 
no real information on google that matches what the heck this belongs to.


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Re: Classified Updates2

[Seann Clark]

Levesque, Michael wrote:


I just put a fresh install of Fedora 10 on a classified machine on a 
closed network. Is there a way that I can bring updates into the area 
since I can’t use yum?


Best way to do it is get a list of packages to be updated (run yum on an 
unclassified machine and get the package list) and download the RPM's 
for those, either manually or using YUM. Then burn them to CD or DVD



Next time you should do a fresh install on an Unclass system, get it 
updated, get it moved into your Secure location, and maintain it from 
there. I recommend using a more stable life cycle distro than Fedora so 
you don't have to use as many discs to keep it up to date. This way it 
is complaint with your IA group and easier to maintain.



Military jargon is no different than financial jargon or computer 
jargon. If you don't understand it, there shouldn't be a need to 
persecute those who do. It isn't a conducive way to facilitate a 
community, and I take it that is what this list is supposed to be, since 
the list is labeled as: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice 
for using Fedora".




Regards,
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Re: Classified Updates2

[Seann Clark]

Levesque, Michael wrote:

Thanks for the advice Sean

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To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.
Subject: Re: Classified Updates2

Levesque, Michael wrote:
  
I just put a fresh install of Fedora 10 on a classified machine on a 
closed network. Is there a way that I can bring updates into the area 
since I can't use yum?




Best way to do it is get a list of packages to be updated (run yum on an 
unclassified machine and get the package list) and download the RPM's for 
those, either manually or using YUM. Then burn them to CD or DVD


Next time you should do a fresh install on an Unclass system, get it updated, 
get it moved into your Secure location, and maintain it from there. I recommend 
using a more stable life cycle distro than Fedora so you don't have to use as 
many discs to keep it up to date. This way it is complaint with your IA group 
and easier to maintain.


Military jargon is no different than financial jargon or computer jargon. If you don't 
understand it, there shouldn't be a need to persecute those who do. It isn't a conducive 
way to facilitate a community, and I take it that is what this list is supposed to be, 
since the list is labeled as: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for 
using Fedora".



Regards,
Seann





  
If you need anything regarding this, I still have some knowledge on 
military networks, six and a half years working in a Network Operations 
Center helped a lot, esp. with the secured networks side, and can offer 
some of the solutions I have used.



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Re: Install F10 on a machine that has no CD/DVD drive, i.e. VPS

[Seann Clark]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 13:29 +0100, Gabriel - IP Guys wrote:
  

I'm sorry for the title. It is a challenge that I have at the moment.
We
have some VPS(s) 6 in total, and I wish to upgrade the distro that
comes
with them. They are currently running FC3 - which is umm... a little
older than I'm comfortable with. I do recall a few years back that I
managed to do something similar with debian, where I was able to
upgrade
the distro running, to run  a debian distro of my choice following a
guide online, and I recall I had to turn off swap, and use chroot in
the
swap partition, something like that.



I've no idea what a VPS is, but if it can boot from a USB pendrive
(thumbdrive, memory stick, whatever) then the procedure is fairly
simple. Basically you install a copy of the Fedora Live CD on your
pendrive, boot from it, check that your hardware works and when
satisfied click the icon that says "Install".

See
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/sn-making-media.html#id3163538

poc

  
If you can't get it to boot VIA USB, two ways that I can think of that I 
have done before that could work, create an NFS mount, or drop it into 
an http server directory, and PXE boot, or use a floppy disk to 
generically boot it (I haven't done the floppy way in years, as I have a 
PXE server).


If you are doing a lot of them you could look into Cobbler, with is a 
distro system (yum repo has it) and allows you to do the same thing and 
is easier across a number of systems as you can do a mass build without 
much admin overhead after the server is running initially.



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Wireless Woes

[Seann Clark]

All,

   I am very new to wireless in linux ( I can so so new it almost hurts 
actually) I understand about 70% of what I need to do, but there is 
information that I need that is long since forgotten by me (It has been 
years since I have had to fight with an OS to find an interface) so I am 
looking for help.


I bought a Lynksys USB 801.11G NIC, and have been playing with that 
(rt2870sta is the driver it uses, and/or is supposed to use, based on 
what I extracted from both ndiswrapper and the Windows stuff for it) and 
I have the module loaded properly. After I get this set up I get to move 
along into seeing if I can get the WPA2-Enterprise setup working (yeah, 
that should be amusing, if I can get it working on Linux, I will have 
another bargaining chip to get the Sig/Other off Doze as a main system, 
as XP home doesn't seem to play well with that level of wireless)


Thanks in advance, and my details for output are below the sig,
~Seann

From my syslog:
Apr 20 09:24:29 laptop yum: Installed: 
kmod-rt2870-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64-1.4.0.0-1.fc10.9.x86_64

Apr 20 09:25:14 laptop kernel: rtusb init --->
Apr 20 09:25:14 laptop kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver 
rt2870



Detailed from my lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1737:0077 Linksys
Device Descriptor:
 bLength18
 bDescriptorType 1
 bcdUSB   2.00
 bDeviceClass0 (Defined at Interface level)
 bDeviceSubClass 0
 bDeviceProtocol 0
 bMaxPacketSize064
 idVendor   0x1737 Linksys
 idProduct  0x0077
 bcdDevice1.01
 iManufacturer   1 Ralink
 iProduct2 802.11 g WLAN
 iSerial 3 1.0
 bNumConfigurations  1
 Configuration Descriptor:
   bLength 9
   bDescriptorType 2
   wTotalLength   67
   bNumInterfaces  1
   bConfigurationValue 1
   iConfiguration  0
   bmAttributes 0x80
 (Bus Powered)
   MaxPower  450mA
   Interface Descriptor:
 bLength 9
 bDescriptorType 4
 bInterfaceNumber0
 bAlternateSetting   0
 bNumEndpoints   7
 bInterfaceClass   255 Vendor Specific Class
 bInterfaceSubClass255 Vendor Specific Subclass
 bInterfaceProtocol255 Vendor Specific Protocol
 iInterface  5 1.0
 Endpoint Descriptor:
   bLength 7
   bDescriptorType 5
   bEndpointAddress 0x81  EP 1 IN
   bmAttributes2
 Transfer TypeBulk
 Synch Type   None
 Usage Type   Data
   wMaxPacketSize 0x0200  1x 512 bytes
   bInterval   0
 Endpoint Descriptor:
   bLength 7
   bDescriptorType 5
   bEndpointAddress 0x01  EP 1 OUT
   bmAttributes2
 Transfer TypeBulk
 Synch Type   None
 Usage Type   Data
   wMaxPacketSize 0x0200  1x 512 bytes
   bInterval   0
 Endpoint Descriptor:
   bLength 7
   bDescriptorType 5
   bEndpointAddress 0x02  EP 2 OUT
   bmAttributes2
 Transfer TypeBulk
 Synch Type   None
 Usage Type   Data
   wMaxPacketSize 0x0200  1x 512 bytes
   bInterval   0
 Endpoint Descriptor:
   bLength 7
   bDescriptorType 5
   bEndpointAddress 0x03  EP 3 OUT
   bmAttributes2
 Transfer TypeBulk
 Synch Type   None
 Usage Type   Data
   wMaxPacketSize 0x0200  1x 512 bytes
   bInterval   0
 Endpoint Descriptor:
   bLength 7
   bDescriptorType 5
   bEndpointAddress 0x04  EP 4 OUT
   bmAttributes2
 Transfer TypeBulk
 Synch Type   None
 Usage Type   Data
   wMaxPacketSize 0x0200  1x 512 bytes
   bInterval   0
 Endpoint Descriptor:
   bLength 7
   bDescriptorType 5
   bEndpointAddress 0x05  EP 5 OUT
   bmAttributes2
 Transfer TypeBulk
 Synch Type   None
 Usage Type   Data
   wMaxPacketSize 0x0200  1x 512 bytes
   bInterval   0
 Endpoint Descriptor:
   bLength 7
   bDescriptorType 5
   bEndpointAddress 0x06  EP 6 OUT
   bmAttributes2
 Transfer TypeBulk
 Synch Type   None
 Usage Type   Data
   wMaxPacketSize 0x0200  1x 512 bytes
   bInterval   0
Device Qualifier (for other device speed):
 bLength

Re: Wireless Woes

[Seann Clark]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 09:48 -0500, Seann Clark wrote:
  

All,

I am very new to wireless in linux ( I can so so new it almost hurts 
actually) I understand about 70% of what I need to do, but there is 
information that I need that is long since forgotten by me (It has been 
years since I have had to fight with an OS to find an interface) so I am 
looking for help.



You don't actually say what help you need. What is the question? What
works? What doesn't work?

poc

  
I apologize, I left that out by accident. How do you pull up the actual 
wireless network device? The last time I had to do anything like this 
was on Solaris 8 (ifconfig plumb I believe) but seeing as Linux has 
always been good and shown the network cards by default, I am having a 
hard time remembering how to pull up the new device. The module and 
driver are loaded, the USB output lists the right driver, but I only 
have eth0, lo, and virbr0. I don't remember what /dev item a new network 
interface would be and I have no clue how the newer kernels list these 
devices (last time I was working on stuff like this was 2.4 kernels)


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Re: Wireless Woes

[Seann Clark]

Kevin Kofler wrote:

Seann Clark wrote:
  

I apologize, I left that out by accident. How do you pull up the actual
wireless network device?



Try using NetworkManager. You'll want NetworkManager-gnome for the GUI part
too (even if you aren't using GNOME - a KDE 4 Plasma applet is under
development, but at this point I can't really recommend it and we aren't
installing it by default); in its default configuration, NetworkManager
doesn't do all that much for wireless devices without a GUI.

Kevin Kofler

  
I tried NM, and it configured everything else, I just can't get/find the 
wireless card driver in the list, and it doesn't see the wireless card 
even when the module is loaded.



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Re: Wireless Woes

[Seann Clark]

psmith wrote:

Seann Clark wrote:

Kevin Kofler wrote:

Seann Clark wrote:
 
I apologize, I left that out by accident. How do you pull up the 
actual

wireless network device?



Try using NetworkManager. You'll want NetworkManager-gnome for the 
GUI part

too (even if you aren't using GNOME - a KDE 4 Plasma applet is under
development, but at this point I can't really recommend it and we 
aren't

installing it by default); in its default configuration, NetworkManager
doesn't do all that much for wireless devices without a GUI.

Kevin Kofler

  
I tried NM, and it configured everything else, I just can't get/find 
the wireless card driver in the list, and it doesn't see the wireless 
card even when the module is loaded.



~Seann
on what type of machine is this happening? and what type of wireless 
card?


phil


*O/s: Fedora 10
Kernel:  2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 18 11:58:53 EST 2008 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Wireless NIC: Linksys* USB Wireless Adapter - WUSB54GC
Memory: 2GB DDR2 667
MotherBoard:  Intel D945GCLF2 Mini-ITX Motherboard
CPU: Intel Atom 330 2x 1.6Ghz (Silverthorne 45nm)
Chipset: Intel 82945G (ICH7)
Graphics: Intel GMA 950
Sound: Realtek High Definition Audio
Ethernet(copper) NIC driver:  r8169 Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet

USB Major information dealing with the WUSB54GC:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1737:0077 Linksys
Device Descriptor:
 bLength18
 bDescriptorType 1
 bcdUSB   2.00
 bDeviceClass0 (Defined at Interface level)
 bDeviceSubClass 0
 bDeviceProtocol 0
 bMaxPacketSize064
 idVendor   0x1737 Linksys
 idProduct  0x0077
 bcdDevice1.01
 iManufacturer   1 Ralink
 iProduct2 802.11 g WLAN
 iSerial 3 1.0




I hope this is enough information, and will help me with this, as such I 
have seen other distributions like Ubuntu working with this particular 
USB stick(Google turns up a large resource, and it was using ndiswrapper 
on the windows drivers where I found the chipset for the NIC).


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Re: "Blinking lights of death" ? Netgear Switch GS108

[Seann Clark]

Aldo Foot wrote:

I have this Netgear Switch GS108 that has apparently failed. Before I
buy a new one I'd
like to know whether this is known issue with this type of unit or
Netgear hardware in
general.  This unit I have is an 8-port switch.
I perused some reading here and there and they point out to faulty
capacitors in the
unit. The fault causes what they call "Blinking lights of death", that
is, all lights blink on
and off repeatedly. Unplugging the unit and plugging it back in unit
does nothing.

Any network hardware experts know about this?

TIA,
~af

  
The only way to be sure it is capacitor plague is to gut the unit and 
look at the PC board. If you look at the capacitors in it, and one or 
two are slightly bulged, or have black stuff that looks to be leaking 
from the bottoms, the device is dead, and should be replaced, unless you 
are the hacky type and change out the cap's or harvest the good parts 
off the corpse of the old switch.



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Re: "Blinking lights of death" ? Netgear Switch GS108

[Seann Clark]

g wrote:

Robert L Cochran wrote:
  

On 04/30/2009 02:47 PM, Aldo Foot wrote:



  

The unit has a blown capacitor, bulged and brown matter around it. Also there is
  


  
You probably have Chinese- or Taiwanese-manufactured capacitors in that 
unit, which are not as reliable as Japanese-manufactured capacitors. If 
you search the net you will find lists of known-unreliable capacitor 
manufacturers.



robert, aldo,

if you run a google search for 'bad caps' or 'bad capacitors', you will find
a large hit score.

most of hits will relate to a stolen recipe for capacitors that was missing
all ingredients.

it is primarily in asian countries and mainly lower level companies.

this hit mainly with mainboards and power supplies, along with other hardware
that use low cost capacitors.

this problems has pretty well ended, but when you make repair, do use a high
quality brand. radio shack does not fall with in high quality definition.

order from a local supplier, or a well know catalog supplier. small adds in
back of electronic magazines do not qualify.

also, be sure you check diodes as caps are known to take them out also.

when you clean board, be sure you get all of crud off board and hope that
no hidden corrosion has started.

yes. i am a 'hardware head' and i have seen this problem, even with an abit
mainboard of my own.

much luck.


  
Digikey (http://www.digikey.com/) has good capacitors and a good 
selection at decent prices, and a little research on the bad brands will 
help you find more on that. For electronics, on the chip side, octapart 
is a good resource as well (http://octopart.com/)



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Re: Security Certificates

[Seann Clark]

SCOTT WALSH wrote:

Hi All,

Is there a good location to read up on Security Certificates? Any help 
would be appreciated.


Thanks,
Scott
Google is the best place to read up on them, for both practical reading, 
and for the purpose of trying something specific with them.



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KVM reboot fails

[Seann Clark]

All,

   I have been searching google for about two weeks, and looking over 
everything else and I just can't figure this out, so I am polling on the 
greater combined experience of the list to help me out with this.


   I have recently set up a virtual machine under KVM, which runs fine 
on my system. The problem is, I can't reboot the system, nor can it 
reboot itself. The Guest is running Windows 2008 Standard, and instead 
of shutting down, or rebooting, after it is all done, it goes to a 
BSOD,  which only happens when it is trying to reboot. If I try to do 
this from virsh I get the error:


libvir: error : this function is not supported by the hypervisor: 
virDomainReboot



The host running the VM's is fedora 9 64 bit edition, that I haven't 
gotten around to upgrading yet (patch management is EOL, or very close 
to EOL, so upgrading is something I have been working on getting done) 
virsh is version 0.5.1 and qemu-kvm is version 0.9.1 (kvm-65).


Outside of sucking it up and upgrading, which is what I figure would 
need to be done, I would like to try to understand why this is having a 
problem. If I can fix this, I can take my time and fix other issues that 
are preventing me from upgrading properly instead of being rushed.



Thanks in advance,
Seann


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Re: KVM reboot fails

[Seann Clark]

Bill Davidsen wrote:

Seann Clark wrote:

All,

   I have been searching google for about two weeks, and looking over 
everything else and I just can't figure this out, so I am polling on 
the greater combined experience of the list to help me out with this.


   I have recently set up a virtual machine under KVM, which runs 
fine on my system. The problem is, I can't reboot the system, nor can 
it reboot itself. The Guest is running Windows 2008 Standard, and 
instead of shutting down, or rebooting, after it is all done, it goes 
to a BSOD,  which only happens when it is trying to reboot. If I try 
to do this from virsh I get the error:


libvir: error : this function is not supported by the hypervisor: 
virDomainReboot



The host running the VM's is fedora 9 64 bit edition, that I haven't 
gotten around to upgrading yet (patch management is EOL, or very 
close to EOL, so upgrading is something I have been working on 
getting done) virsh is version 0.5.1 and qemu-kvm is version 0.9.1 
(kvm-65).


Outside of sucking it up and upgrading, which is what I figure would 
need to be done, I would like to try to understand why this is having 
a problem. If I can fix this, I can take my time and fix other issues 
that are preventing me from upgrading properly instead of being rushed.


You call this a KVM issue, but you mention libvir, indicating that you 
have the libvirt stuff in play. If you can try running the image from 
the cli qemu-kvm, you might find that it works. That's not a solution, 
but a data point for another post.


It is possible to download newer KVM code and upgrade only that, I 
have an FC6 machine running a slightly more recent kernel I built from 
kernel.org code, with the kvm in use at fc10 time. That's not 
necessarily easier than "sucking it up and upgrading" particularly if 
you don't regularly build kernels. I have a device needing a closed 
source driver not available for recent kernels.


I have done a little more research, and did finally find something by 
drastically changing how I was searching. The guest is having problems 
with the VM systems 'bios' and how it handles the W2k8 power off 
requests. It looks like it was fixed with KVM-72 or newer, and a newer 
kernel. Based on that information, gleaned off of a CentOs forum, I 
would venture a guess that getting off Fedora 9, and to 11 or 12 would 
be the best bet. I will keep digging and test the VM after a host upgrade



~Seann


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