Re: Resizing LVM-formatted partitions

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 06/25/2010 08:19 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 06/25/2010 02:04 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

>> That said, I can't help wondering why Fedora's installer doesn't offer a
>> "partitioned disk-layout" (like other distros do) and why Fedora hasn't
>> adopted grub2, yet (like some other distros did).
>
> grub2 is available in the repositories.  Use it at your own discretion
I know, ... but (devil's advocate question) why doesn't the "leading 
edge distro" use it by default?

> And for the partitioning schemes, feel free to change them.  I have.
I did so many times ;)

Ralf
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Re: Wireless problem in Fedora13

[Thomas Taylor]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:24:31 -0700
Thomas Taylor  wrote:

> Hi all;
> 
> Recently installed Fedora13 and am working through problems.  I've managed to
> solve most by lots of reading documentation and googling but am being
> frustated with wireless not working in KDE.  It's working fine in Gnome but I
> prefer KDE.
> 
> I've tried both using NetworkManager and traditional (ifup) methods but can't
> get associated with my wireless router except in Gnome.  The router (Linksys
> WRT54G) is set to not broadcast ESSID.  I can see it with iwlist wlan0 scan
> but only Gnome will associate with it.
> 
> It's my understanding that both Gnome and KDE use NetworkManager but with
> different GUIs.  If that is so, why won't both associate?
> 
> Any comments or suggestions gladly accepted.
> 
> Thanks, Tom
> 

Additional information as appropriate:

lspci:

08:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100
14:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Device 10f7 (rev 01)
14:00.1 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Device 8120 (rev 01)
14:00.2 Mass storage controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Device 8130 (rev 01)
20:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI
Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)


lsmod:

nf_nat 19059  2 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat
stp 1887  1 bridge
llc 4557  2 bridge,stp
ip6t_REJECT 4055  6 
nf_conntrack_ipv6  17513  14 
ip6table_filter 2743  1 
ip6_tables 16558  1 ip6table_filter
ipv6  267065  32 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
iwlcore   220675  1 iwlagn
mii 4142  1 r8169
mac80211  196945  2 iwlagn,iwlcore
cfg80211  117099  3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211

ifup wlan0

Error org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.InternalError: unable to get the
connection D-Bus path Error
org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.InternalError: unable to get the
connection D-Bus path Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET
failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. Determining IP information for
wlan0... failed; no link present.  Check cable?

dmesg | grep iwlagn:

iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux,
2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64-kds iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation
iwlagn :08:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
iwlagn :08:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
iwlagn :08:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100AGN REV=0x54
iwlagn :08:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels
  alloc irq_desc for 33 on node -1
  alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
iwlagn :08:00.0: irq 33 for MSI/MSI-X
iwlagn :08:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
iwlagn :08:00.0: loaded firmware version 8.24.2.12

The error message from ifup leads me to believe the problem is with a missing
D-Bus service.  When I go to System > Admin > Services (in Gnome), D-Bus is not
listed and an rpm -q for it comes up blank.  Is this something KDE should have
installed during the Fedora installation?  If so, how do I get it?

JD, adding the "-dd" didn't help since the network never gets that far in KDE.

Tim, unfortunately I am unable to get to my router which is located in the
basement and I'm handicapped and can't get down the stairs.  It was setup many
years ago with admin access restricted to wired connection which I don't have
up here.  Hmmm, maybe I need a 100ft patch cord!

Tom
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Re: Resizing LVM-formatted partitions

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 06/25/2010 02:04 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 06/24/2010 10:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
>> I can't help wondering, not for the first time, whether LVM is really
>> worth the hassle on a desktop machine.
> 
> Depends, I am inclined to say.
> 
> It's worth the hassle on real desktops, which I may be added further 
> disks over their life-time. It's not worth the hassle on systems which 
> will not be added further disks (such as laptops).
> 
> That said, I can't help wondering why Fedora's installer doesn't offer a 
> "partitioned disk-layout" (like other distros do) and why Fedora hasn't 
> adopted grub2, yet (like some other distros did).

grub2 is available in the repositories.  Use it at your own discretion

And for the partitioning schemes, feel free to change them.  I have.

I've punted LVM, and I've punted /boot on all of my computers (I don't
need/want either of them).  That's 1 desktop, 1 laptop, and 1 server.

> Ralf

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Re: Resizing LVM-formatted partitions

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 06/24/2010 10:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> I can't help wondering, not for the first time, whether LVM is really
> worth the hassle on a desktop machine.

Depends, I am inclined to say.

It's worth the hassle on real desktops, which I may be added further 
disks over their life-time. It's not worth the hassle on systems which 
will not be added further disks (such as laptops).

That said, I can't help wondering why Fedora's installer doesn't offer a 
"partitioned disk-layout" (like other distros do) and why Fedora hasn't 
adopted grub2, yet (like some other distros did).

Ralf


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Re: Top posting

[Marvin Kosmal]

On 6/24/10, JD  wrote:
> I see so many top-posting replies to threads, mixed with correct bottom
> appended replies makes it very difficult to read a thread. Are there any
> watchdogs on this list that tell top posters to stop it?
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I agree..

It makes it hard to read..



There should be

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Top posting

[JD]

I see so many top-posting replies to threads, mixed with correct bottom 
appended replies makes it very difficult to read a thread. Are there any 
watchdogs on this list that tell top posters to stop it?
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Re: Slow CD access while ripping music CD

[JD]

On 06/24/2010 09:58 PM, Paolo Galtieri was caught red-handed while 
writing::
> What's interesting is that at some point it wasn't configured for PIO:
>
> Jun 24 18:26:59 localhost kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
>
> For some reason it was reconfigured to PIO.  Obviously this change is 
> what's causing the slowness, but why did it change and how do I force 
> it back to UDMA?
>
> Paolo
>
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:11 PM, JD  > wrote:
>
>
>
> On 06/24/2010 08:59 PM, Paolo Galtieri was caught red-handed while
> writing::
> >   ata2.00: configured for PIO0
> >
>
> Why is it configured in programmed I/O mode?
> I think this is your problem!
> Here's my dvdrw drive as probed by the kernel:
> /var/log/messages-20100620:Jun 18 23:26:21 localhost kernel: ata2.00:
> ATAPI: SlimtypeDVD A  DS8A1P, CX17, max UDMA/33
>
> Notice it is running in UDMA mode.
>
At power-up,  drop down into bios and change it there.
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Re: FC13 Desktop sharing, shift key

[Anthony Messina]

On Monday, June 21, 2010 03:40:58 pm Gary Baribault wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have upgraded my desktop to FC13 KDE and I use the French
> Canadian keyboard. I have a netbook with the exact same setup. I have
> my firewall set to allow remote control from certain IPs. When I
> remote access, the shift keys don't work. This certainly helps
> security since I have uppder case and shiften numerics in my password,
> but it does tend to defeat the purpose. I also tried Windows XP with
> the VNC Client, same result.
> 
> Suggestions?

While I don't use it very often, I just noticed the same thing?  A bug 
perhaps?  I also noticed that without a clear, wide open network connection, 
typeing is difficult as keys get repeated at irregular intervals.

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Re: Slow CD access while ripping music CD

[Paolo Galtieri]

What's interesting is that at some point it wasn't configured for PIO:

Jun 24 18:26:59 localhost kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33

For some reason it was reconfigured to PIO.  Obviously this change is what's
causing the slowness, but why did it change and how do I force it back to
UDMA?

Paolo

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:11 PM, JD  wrote:

>
>
> On 06/24/2010 08:59 PM, Paolo Galtieri was caught red-handed while
> writing::
> >   ata2.00: configured for PIO0
> >
>
> Why is it configured in programmed I/O mode?
> I think this is your problem!
> Here's my dvdrw drive as probed by the kernel:
> /var/log/messages-20100620:Jun 18 23:26:21 localhost kernel: ata2.00:
> ATAPI: SlimtypeDVD A  DS8A1P, CX17, max UDMA/33
>
> Notice it is running in UDMA mode.
>
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Re: [OT] rather advanced video editing question

[Petrus de Calguarium]

Michael Cronenworth wrote:

> You can use ffmpeg to take the two clips and output one with the
> video/audio tracks you want or use "kdenlive" to do the same thing in a
> graphical interface.
> 
> 
kdenlive always crashes and avidemux never seems to work for me. I guess I am 
unfamiliar with it and I am not sure whether I can save as flv.

I am comfortable with ffmpeg and have used it for simpler tasks a lot.

Would you please be more specific about the actual ffmpeg command so that I can 
concatenate file1 video + file2 video and overlay file3 audio.

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Re: Slow CD access while ripping music CD

[JD]

On 06/24/2010 08:59 PM, Paolo Galtieri was caught red-handed while 
writing::
>   ata2.00: configured for PIO0
>

Why is it configured in programmed I/O mode?
I think this is your problem!
Here's my dvdrw drive as probed by the kernel:
/var/log/messages-20100620:Jun 18 23:26:21 localhost kernel: ata2.00: 
ATAPI: SlimtypeDVD A  DS8A1P, CX17, max UDMA/33

Notice it is running in UDMA mode.

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Slow CD access while ripping music CD

[Paolo Galtieri]

I'm running F12 on 2 systems.  The first is a desktop system the other a 
laptop.  When I try to rip a music CD using grip on the laptop the first 
10 tracks rip very quickly, but when it gets to track 11 the ripping 
process slows down dramatically.  The first 10 tracks ripped and encoded 
wav->mp3 within 15 minutes, but it's been running for over 45 minutes 
ripping track 11 and it's barely half way through.  When I take the same 
CD and rip it on the desktop I don't see the problem.  On the desktop 
the whole disk rips and encodes in about 15 minutes.

Here's the lspci outputs:

lspci of the laptop:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML 
and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML 
and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition 
Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 
1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 
2 (rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 
3 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 
4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI 
Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI 
Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI 
Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI 
Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI 
Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface 
Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA 
IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72GL [Quadro FX 
350M] (rev a1)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. Cardbus bridge (rev 21)
03:01.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) (rev 02)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 
Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG 
[Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)


lspci of the desktop

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82X38/X48 Express DRAM Controller
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82X38/X48 Express Host-Primary PCI 
Express Bridge
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82X38/X48 Express Host-Secondary 
PCI Express Bridge
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DC-2 Gigabit Network 
Connection (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI 
Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI 
Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI 
Controller #6 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI 
Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio 
Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express 
Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI 
Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI 
Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI 
Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI 
Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface 
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 4 
port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller 
(rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) 2 port 
SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT 
(rev a1)
04:04.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Gigabit Network Adapter (rev 10)
04:05.0 Communication controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. HSF 56k 
Data/Fax Modem
04:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A 
IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)


Additional information from /var/log/messages on the laptop:

Jun 24 20:48:29 localhost kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 
SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
Jun 24 20:48:29 localhost kernel: sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Volume set 
(in), Read cd: be 00 00 03 f9 0f 00 00 1b f8 00 00
Jun 24 20:48:29 localhost kernel: ata2.00: cmd 
a0/00:00:00:10:f8/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 pio 63504 in
Jun 24 20:

Re: [OT] rather advanced video editing question

[Suvayu Ali]

On Thursday 24 June 2010 08:50 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 06/24/2010 10:48 PM, JD wrote:
>> If you do figure out how to use kdenlive to splice 2 streams togeter,
>> please let me know.
>> I have some similar things I would like to do using a gui interface.
>>
>
> Track 1 - Video A - Audio A
> Track 2 - Video B - Audio B
>
> -Uncheck the "audio" box for track 1.
> -Render video output.
>
> Output is Video A - Audio B. ;)

Or use avidemux for simple re-encoding and splicing needs. ;)

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Re: [OT] rather advanced video editing question

[Michael Cronenworth]

On 06/24/2010 10:48 PM, JD wrote:
> If you do figure out how to use kdenlive to splice 2 streams togeter,
> please let me know.
> I have some similar things I would like to do using a gui interface.
>

Track 1 - Video A - Audio A
Track 2 - Video B - Audio B

-Uncheck the "audio" box for track 1.
-Render video output.

Output is Video A - Audio B. ;)
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Re: [OT] rather advanced video editing question

[JD]

On 06/24/2010 08:44 PM, Michael Cronenworth was caught red-handed while 
writing::
> On 06/24/2010 10:35 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
>
>> How can I join the 2 files from Version 1, erase the audio and
>> supplement it with the audio from version 2 (using programs available in 
>> fedora
>> &   rpmfusion repos, of course)?
>>
>>  
> You can use ffmpeg to take the two clips and output one with the
> video/audio tracks you want or use "kdenlive" to do the same thing in a
> graphical interface.
>
>
>
If you do figure out how to use kdenlive to splice 2 streams togeter, 
please let me know.
I have some similar things I would like to do using a gui interface.
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Re: [OT] rather advanced video editing question

[Michael Cronenworth]

On 06/24/2010 10:35 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> How can I join the 2 files from Version 1, erase the audio and
> supplement it with the audio from version 2 (using programs available in 
> fedora
> &  rpmfusion repos, of course)?
>

You can use ffmpeg to take the two clips and output one with the 
video/audio tracks you want or use "kdenlive" to do the same thing in a 
graphical interface.


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[OT] rather advanced video editing question

[Petrus de Calguarium]

I have 2 versions of the same video from you tube.

Version 1: in 2 separate segments, great video, bad audio with long silences
Version 2: in 1 long file, poor grainy video, great flawless audio

Concatenated, if that is possible, both versions would have the same length.

Question: How can I join the 2 files from Version 1, erase the audio and 
supplement it with the audio from version 2 (using programs available in fedora 
& rpmfusion repos, of course)?


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Mounting .vdi files on the host

[JD]

In case some one might benefit from this write-up I found:
http://www.raiden.net/articles/howto_accessing_virtualbox_vdi_disks_on_the_host_computer/

Apparently it only works for fixed-size vdi disks, and not the dynamic ones.

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Re: Bugzilla 513386 - Removing large file kills JFS

[JD]

On 06/24/2010 06:51 PM, moodyj...@frontiernet.net was caught red-handed 
while writing::
> This problem seems to have been written against FC11.  How can I tell if it 
> exists in FC12?
>
> I've moved to FC12 and all my data filesystems are JFS.  Mount fails with 
> "unknown filesystem type 'jfs'" even if a new filesystem is created with 
> jfs_mkfs on this system and jfs_fsck reports it as clean.  So, I can create 
> the jfs filesystem, and validate it is good, I just can't mount and use it.
>
id you lsmod | grep jfs   does it show
the jfs kernel modules loaded?

On my version of vanilla kernel, the module is
located here:

/lib/modules/2.6.34-git16.fc13.i686/kernel/fs/jfs/jfs.ko

If it does exist in your os directory, then
you might try to modprobe jfs
if not, you need to build the module from source.


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Re: Wireless problem in Fedora13

[JD]

On 06/24/2010 06:24 PM, Thomas Taylor was caught red-handed while writing::
> Hi all;
>
> Recently installed Fedora13 and am working through problems.  I've managed to
> solve most by lots of reading documentation and googling but am being 
> frustated
> with wireless not working in KDE.  It's working fine in Gnome but I prefer 
> KDE.
>
> I've tried both using NetworkManager and traditional (ifup) methods but can't
> get associated with my wireless router except in Gnome.  The router (Linksys
> WRT54G) is set to not broadcast ESSID.  I can see it with iwlist wlan0 scan 
> but
> only Gnome will associate with it.
>
> It's my understanding that both Gnome and KDE use NetworkManager but with
> different GUIs.  If that is so, why won't both associate?
>
> Any comments or suggestions gladly accepted.
>
> Thanks, Tom
>

To debug the problem, you need to add -dd to
/etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant. I myself do not
use the Network Manager.
So in /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant, I added -dd
as you see below.
# Other arguments
#   -u   Enable the D-Bus interface (required for use with NetworkManager)
#   -f   Log to /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log
OTHER_ARGS=" -dd -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log"

Once you add the flag, then
sudo service wpa_supplicant restart

After that, do

tail -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log
to see what messages you get.
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Re: multibooting linux

[Jamie Bohr]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Mats  wrote:

> Hi,
> I want to have (at least) two linux-system (no windows) on the same hd.
> If I make two partitions for the first (/ and swap) and then the same
> with the other one. Is that ok? All detailed explanation I've seen is
> about installing windows and linux and that's not what I want.
>
> /Mats
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Have you thought about virtualization?  Fedora comes with a few options to
choose from.  KVM is good and is what I use.  This may not meet you needs
but it is was I recommend if you have the hardware that can support it.

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Re: Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?

[JD]

On 06/24/2010 05:53 PM, Linuxguy123 was caught red-handed while writing::
> Update
>
> I cloned the original 160 GB hard drive onto a new 160 GB SSD.  The
> booting problem is even worse now.   It used to take 2-6 tries to get my
> laptop to boot.  Now it takes about 10.
>
> The SMART tests from the original 160 GB drive all came back fine.  So
> did all the fscks.
>
> I've run the bios memory check and it comes back fine too.
>
> The boot problem also occurred when I booted the ubuntu 10.4 live CD.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 12:14 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
>
>> If I power down my laptop via the usual KStart->Shutdown means, it can
>> take up to 4 restart attempts before it fully boots.
>>
>> It has no problem launching grub and the kernel selection screen.  That
>> it does reliably every time.   After that, there are issues.
>>
>> Twice I will get a back screen with a flashing cursor.  Then I will get
>> an ehci -19 error.  Then it will boot properly.
>>
>> My fscks are fine.  I had a block error once, about two weeks ago, but
>> that was with an older F12 kernel after completely crashing during a
>> resume from suspend to RAM.
>>
>> Is anyone else experiencing a problem booting ?   Does this sound like a
>> kernel problem or is my hard drive failing ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon Dec 21
>> 06:04:56 UTC 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linu

I think you are having some real HARDWARE problems.
Do you have a standalone CD that does a comprehensive
test of all hardware components present?
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Re: multibooting linux

[g]

Patrick Bartek wrote:


> Wouldn't the sleeping/hibernating system file have a unique designation?

i have never looked into what is actually done, but i would imagine that
within first few bytes of *swap partition* there would be some form of
coding to indicate if partition contained hibernation data. for sure, if
you designate in grub.config menu that there is a swap/hibernation/restore
partition, there is a check made during system boot.

as to bytes being unique to a particular distrib and version, i can not say.

if it does not designate such, there can/may/will be problems when booting
system tries to restore from a hibernation it did not set up.

> During the days of the 1024 cylinder limit a single /boot partition was 
> SOP.  Never had any problems booting multiple Linux installs with different
>  kernels, etc.

'boot' or '/boot'?

how many of those systems had hibernation?

also, remember, 1024 cylinders were both physical and logical.

one cylinder could have been 2 to 256 surfaces, depending on how many
platters and read/write heads where used and how oem configured.

or was 64 or 512? too long to recall. :)

> True.  But, as you said, you'd have to be careful with the bookkeeping to 
> keep everything straight.  K.I.S.S. is my motto.  Also, "You can't fix 
> stupid!" ;-)

well i guess that shows i am not stupid because i do it and have not problems
with 4 different installations.




> There are "other" ways, yes, but whether they're "better" depends on user 
> needs and system requirements.

if one '/home' can be shared among 4 installations, i would say that is a
better way to make use of a '/home' partition and disk space.

> Used to when testing a particular distro for consideration, I would install
> the entire distro on its / partition.  No /home or /boot, etc. partitions.
> Then edit my default system's grub.conf to boot it directly. No 
> chainloading. I might 4 or 5 distro tests done this way.  Not the "best" 
> way, but it kept everything isolated and made it easy to get rid of 
> completely when I wanted to.

this i do also, but after testing, i move user's home directory to '/home'
partition with a new name and then alter 'passwd' and 'fstab' to show
changes. '/boot' i leave alone.

> Today, I use VMs.  Much easier.

if i had fast multi core / cpu and enough memory, i would be running a vm.
at this time it is not possible.

problem is, when i can afford them, by then, with new mainboard, i will not
have to give up keyboard and thumb marble i now use because they are ps2. :(


anyway, as i said, what works for you and you can maintain, that is what
you should use. and 'you' as plural.


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Re: Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?

[Peter Langfelder]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Linuxguy123  wrote:
> Update
>
> I cloned the original 160 GB hard drive onto a new 160 GB SSD.  The
> booting problem is even worse now.   It used to take 2-6 tries to get my
> laptop to boot.  Now it takes about 10.
>
> The SMART tests from the original 160 GB drive all came back fine.  So
> did all the fscks.
>
> I've run the bios memory check and it comes back fine too.
>
> The boot problem also occurred when I booted the ubuntu 10.4 live CD.
>
> Any ideas ?

Unless the BIOS memory test is exhaustive rather than quick, run
memtest. However, it could also be a motherboard problem or problem
with seating of the internal boards in the machine.

Peter
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Bugzilla 513386 - Removing large file kills JFS

[moodyjunk]

This problem seems to have been written against FC11.  How can I tell if it 
exists in FC12?  

I've moved to FC12 and all my data filesystems are JFS.  Mount fails with 
"unknown filesystem type 'jfs'" even if a new filesystem is created with 
jfs_mkfs on this system and jfs_fsck reports it as clean.  So, I can create the 
jfs filesystem, and validate it is good, I just can't mount and use it.
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Re: Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?

[Linuxguy123]

Update

I cloned the original 160 GB hard drive onto a new 160 GB SSD.  The
booting problem is even worse now.   It used to take 2-6 tries to get my
laptop to boot.  Now it takes about 10.

The SMART tests from the original 160 GB drive all came back fine.  So
did all the fscks.

I've run the bios memory check and it comes back fine too.

The boot problem also occurred when I booted the ubuntu 10.4 live CD.

Any ideas ?

Thanks







On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 12:14 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> If I power down my laptop via the usual KStart->Shutdown means, it can
> take up to 4 restart attempts before it fully boots. 
> 
> It has no problem launching grub and the kernel selection screen.  That
> it does reliably every time.   After that, there are issues.  
> 
> Twice I will get a back screen with a flashing cursor.  Then I will get
> an ehci -19 error.  Then it will boot properly. 
> 
> My fscks are fine.  I had a block error once, about two weeks ago, but
> that was with an older F12 kernel after completely crashing during a
> resume from suspend to RAM.  
> 
> Is anyone else experiencing a problem booting ?   Does this sound like a
> kernel problem or is my hard drive failing ? 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon Dec 21
> 06:04:56 UTC 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 


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Re: Wireless problem in Fedora13

[Tim]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 18:24 -0700, Thomas Taylor wrote:
> I've tried both using NetworkManager and traditional (ifup) methods
> but can't get associated with my wireless router except in Gnome.  The
> router (Linksys WRT54G) is set to not broadcast ESSID.  I can see it
> with iwlist wlan0 scan but only Gnome will associate with it.
>  
> .
>
> Any comments or suggestions gladly accepted.

Since you say any suggestions...   start broadcasting the ESSID.  Hiding
it doesn't protect anything, *at* *all*.  It *never* has, and it *never*
well.  But it certainly makes finding and selecting the right access
point to use harder than it needs to be.

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Wireless problem in Fedora13

[Thomas Taylor]

Hi all;

Recently installed Fedora13 and am working through problems.  I've managed to
solve most by lots of reading documentation and googling but am being frustated
with wireless not working in KDE.  It's working fine in Gnome but I prefer KDE.

I've tried both using NetworkManager and traditional (ifup) methods but can't
get associated with my wireless router except in Gnome.  The router (Linksys
WRT54G) is set to not broadcast ESSID.  I can see it with iwlist wlan0 scan but
only Gnome will associate with it.

It's my understanding that both Gnome and KDE use NetworkManager but with
different GUIs.  If that is so, why won't both associate?

Any comments or suggestions gladly accepted.

Thanks, Tom

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Re: multibooting linux

[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:03:28 -0700 (PDT)
Patrick Bartek wrote:

> Doesn't the hibernated system(s) file(s) have a unique name(s) or 
> designation(s) in the swap, so there'll be no conflicts?  Seems the smart 
> thing to do.

It has a unique ID so it can tell if it should resume from hibernate,
but if there is only one sawp, there is only one hibernate image
in that one swap.
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Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

[Linuxguy123]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 17:10 -0700, JD wrote:

> If you dd partition A on drive 1  to partition B from drive 2, and the 
> size of partition B is
> LARGER that partition A, then the size of the FILESYSTEM on partition B 
> will be identical to size of partition A. In other words, the filesystem 
> superblock will retain the info about the size that it occupied on 
> partition A - and thus you will  not be able to take advantage of the 
> full size of partition B.
> If B is bigger than A, then you need to do something different:
> Boot any Linux System Rescue CD, and DO NOT ALLOW IT TO MOUNT ANY LINUX 
> SYSTEM IT FINDS.
> That is important.
> After you have fdisk'ed your partitions on the new drive,
> and mkfs'ed the correct filesystems on those partitions:
> 1. mkdir -p /disk1/part1 /disk1/part2 ...etc
> 2. mount these partitions. i.e.
> mount /dev/sda1 /disk1/part1; mount /dev/sda2 /disk1/part2
> 3. mkdir -p /disk2/part1 /disk2/part2 etc
> 4. mount these partitions. i.e.
> mount /dev/sdb1 /disk2/part1; mount /dev/sdb2 /disk2/part2
> 5. cd /disk1/part1
> 6. tar cf - . | tar -C /disk2/part1 -xpf -
> 
> similarly repeat steps 5 and 6 for part2, part3, ...etc; i.e.
> cd /disk1/part2
> tar cf - . | tar -C /disk2/part2
> 
> As far as swap partitions (I asume you created them on disk 2:
> mkswap /dev/sdbX where X is the number of the swap partition.
> 
> Good luck

Or you could just use gparted !


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Re: multibooting linux

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Tue, 6/22/10, g  wrote:

> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > You don't need multiple swaps: Linux can share one
> without problems.
> 
> and what happens if an active linux is put into
> suspend/sleep and system
> is rebooted?

Wouldn't the sleeping/hibernating system file have a unique designation?

> > A shared /boot partition is possible, too.
> 
> possible, but not practical if grubs are for different
> distribs that are
> using different stages.

During the days of the 1024 cylinder limit a single /boot partition was SOP.  
Never had any problems booting multiple Linux installs with different kernels, 
etc.

> also, when you chain, you have to select what you want from
> each grub prompt.
> 
> > However, I would not share any others, and that
> includes /home.
> 
> /home can be shared, if care is taken for login directory
> names and user id's.

True.  But, as you said, you'd have to be careful with the bookkeeping to keep 
everything straight.  K.I.S.S. is my motto.  Also, "You can't fix stupid!" ;-)

> > The best way to boot multiple Linuxes is to have grub
> of your primary
> 
> too long to reply to all. see my post of 01:38 utc.
> 
> > This is the way I have my box set up, which at the
> moment only has Fedora 
> > 12 and 9 installed, but at one time, I had about 6
> Linux distros on it.
> 
> i do not say that there is a lot wrong with what you are
> doing, but there
> are better ways.

There are "other" ways, yes, but whether they're "better" depends on user needs 
and system requirements.

Used to when testing a particular distro for consideration, I would install the 
entire distro on its / partition.  No /home or /boot, etc. partitions.  Then 
edit my default system's grub.conf to boot it directly. No chainloading. I 
might 4 or 5 distro tests done this way.  Not the "best" way, but it kept 
everything isolated and made it easy to get rid of completely when I wanted to. 
 Today, I use VMs.  Much easier.

B
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Re: Firefox identity strings

[Tim]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 15:51 -0700, JD wrote:
> Found a large list of user agents strings.
> wget -c -ndH
> http://qainsight.net/content/binary/AgentStrings20070304.xml
> and import it into the  userAgent

What?!  There's no Commodore 64 in there.  ;-)  I used to see one
occasionally pop up in my web logs.

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Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

[JD]

On 06/24/2010 04:12 PM, Patrick Bartek was caught red-handed while 
writing::
> --- On Thu, 6/24/10, Linuxguy123  wrote:
>
>
>> I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a
>> conventional hard drive to an SSD.
>>
>> Both drives are 160 GB in size.
>>
>> I want to resize the /boot and swap partitions from 200 MB
>> and 2 GB to
>> 500 MB and 8 GB respectively.   The first
>> resize is because preupgrade
>> now fails to run unless /boot is 500 MB or larger and the
>> second because
>> the swap file is supposed to be as big as the RAM in the
>> computer and my
>> laptop currently has 4GB and I want to upgrade to 8 GB in
>> the future.
>>
>> [snip]
>> So how do I move ALL the data from / on the hard drive to /
>> on the sdd ?
>>
>> dd won't work because its for device files, not for
>> partitions.  If I
>> use dd between the devices, it won't resize anything.
>>  
> In Linux, "everything's a file." ;-)
>
> No, dd won't "resize" a partition, but you can use it to copy the filesystem 
> from one partition to another of the same size or larger, then just resize 
> the filesystem using an appropriate tool.  I've done this.  Not that hard at 
> all.
>
>
>> Or should I do an outright dd and then use gparted to
>> resize everything
>> afterward ?
>>  
> I would dd the filesystem on each partition separately for safety.  Not the 
> whole drive.  Although, what you said above will work.
>
>
>> Can one make cp copy EVERYTHING on one drive to another and
>> keep the
>> timestamps, etc, all correct ?
>> [snip]
>>  
> I've used cp with the -a "ARCHIVE" switch set, and it worked quite well. The 
> copied files should be exact duplicates of the old.  However, I copied the 
> contents of one partition at a time.  Never tried to do a whole drive all at 
> once.
>
> B
>
If you dd partition A on drive 1  to partition B from drive 2, and the 
size of partition B is
LARGER that partition A, then the size of the FILESYSTEM on partition B 
will be identical to size of partition A. In other words, the filesystem 
superblock will retain the info about the size that it occupied on 
partition A - and thus you will  not be able to take advantage of the 
full size of partition B.
If B is bigger than A, then you need to do something different:
Boot any Linux System Rescue CD, and DO NOT ALLOW IT TO MOUNT ANY LINUX 
SYSTEM IT FINDS.
That is important.
After you have fdisk'ed your partitions on the new drive,
and mkfs'ed the correct filesystems on those partitions:
1. mkdir -p /disk1/part1 /disk1/part2 ...etc
2. mount these partitions. i.e.
mount /dev/sda1 /disk1/part1; mount /dev/sda2 /disk1/part2
3. mkdir -p /disk2/part1 /disk2/part2 etc
4. mount these partitions. i.e.
mount /dev/sdb1 /disk2/part1; mount /dev/sdb2 /disk2/part2
5. cd /disk1/part1
6. tar cf - . | tar -C /disk2/part1 -xpf -

similarly repeat steps 5 and 6 for part2, part3, ...etc; i.e.
cd /disk1/part2
tar cf - . | tar -C /disk2/part2

As far as swap partitions (I asume you created them on disk 2:
mkswap /dev/sdbX where X is the number of the swap partition.

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Re: multibooting linux

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Tue, 6/22/10, Tom Horsley  wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:45:40 -0700
> (PDT)
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> 
> > You don't need multiple swaps: Linux can share one
> without problems.
> 
> Unless, of course, you want to hibernate one and boot the
> other :-).

Doesn't the hibernated system(s) file(s) have a unique name(s) or 
designation(s) in the swap, so there'll be no conflicts?  Seems the smart thing 
to do.


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Re: uuid -> /dev/sdx partition resize

[Linuxguy123]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 16:19 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> I have 1 drive /dev/sda (which is actually a hardware raid 10 array
> but Fedora doesn't know that)
> 
> I want to resize my partitions bigger.
> Going to use Clonezilla to make an image of each partition and save it
> on another box.
> 
> Then re-partition and format new bigger partitions.
> Then restore images with Clonezilla.
> 
> But I know UUID's will be wrong and I don't feel like creating new
> ones. I just want to use /dev/sdx
> 
> Am I correct in assuming I only need to edit /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf
> or is there anything else I need to edit?

I highly recommend using gparted.  I used it via Ubuntu 10.4 live.   I
am not sure if its on the Fedora live distros or not. 

With gparted you don't need to copy any of the filesystem anywhere.  It
will resize the partition and move the data on the drive without copying
it anywhere.


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Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

[Linuxguy123]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 16:12 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:

> 
> In Linux, "everything's a file." ;-)

Sure.

> No, dd won't "resize" a partition, but you can use it to copy the
> filesystem from one partition to another of the same size or larger,
> then just resize the filesystem using an appropriate tool.  I've done
> this.  Not that hard at all.

Agreed.  That tool would be gparted.  And if you use it to resize the
partition, you might as well use it to copy the data as well.   I too
thought that Clonezilla and/or dd would be the easiest.  In the end it
was gparted.  Prior to this I had never thought of gparted as a cloning
tool. 

For those that aren't aware, gparted is VERY good at moving and resizing
partitions. 

> 
> > Or should I do an outright dd and then use gparted to
> > resize everything
> > afterward ? 
> 
> I would dd the filesystem on each partition separately for safety.  Not the 
> whole drive.  Although, what you said above will work.

Actually, it didn't.  I'm not sure why and I don't have time to figure
out why.  I think you need to do something with the MBR too. 

In short, my advice to anyone who needs to do this is to use gparted.


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Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

[Linuxguy123]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 15:33 -0700, Kam Leo wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Linuxguy123  wrote:

> > I found the easiest way to do this was to download a copy of Ubuntu 10.4
> > and use gparted.   It has a function to copy a partition from the source
> > drive to the destination drive.  Then I resized them.It was a bit
> > slow and tedius, but it also worked flawlessly.  Sometimes no excitement
> > is good.
> 
> The Clonezilla and Parted Magic distros have all the tools that you need.

I didn't try Parted Magic.   

I find Clonezilla to be clumsy.  It throws an error and exits if you try
to downsize the partition as you copy it from the source to the
destination. 

gparted was excellent once I figured out that I had to copy a partition
and paste it into an unallocated space before I resized it.  It would be
nice if you could do that in one step, but it does work doing it in two
steps. 

I am running my cloned SSD drive right now. 

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uuid -> /dev/sdx partition resize

[Robert Arkiletian]

I have 1 drive /dev/sda (which is actually a hardware raid 10 array
but Fedora doesn't know that)

I want to resize my partitions bigger.
Going to use Clonezilla to make an image of each partition and save it
on another box.

Then re-partition and format new bigger partitions.
Then restore images with Clonezilla.

But I know UUID's will be wrong and I don't feel like creating new
ones. I just want to use /dev/sdx

Am I correct in assuming I only need to edit /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf
or is there anything else I need to edit?

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Re: Firefox identity strings

[g]

JD wrote:


> Found a large list of user agents strings.
> wget -c -ndH http://qainsight.net/content/binary/AgentStrings20070304.xml
> and import it into the  userAgent

i thank you for link.

i have not had need for other than ms ie, but they may come in handy.


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Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Thu, 6/24/10, Linuxguy123  wrote:

> I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a
> conventional hard drive to an SSD.
> 
> Both drives are 160 GB in size.
> 
> I want to resize the /boot and swap partitions from 200 MB
> and 2 GB to
> 500 MB and 8 GB respectively.   The first
> resize is because preupgrade
> now fails to run unless /boot is 500 MB or larger and the
> second because
> the swap file is supposed to be as big as the RAM in the
> computer and my
> laptop currently has 4GB and I want to upgrade to 8 GB in
> the future.
> 
> [snip]
> So how do I move ALL the data from / on the hard drive to /
> on the sdd ?
> 
> dd won't work because its for device files, not for
> partitions.  If I
> use dd between the devices, it won't resize anything.

In Linux, "everything's a file." ;-)

No, dd won't "resize" a partition, but you can use it to copy the filesystem 
from one partition to another of the same size or larger, then just resize the 
filesystem using an appropriate tool.  I've done this.  Not that hard at all.

> Or should I do an outright dd and then use gparted to
> resize everything
> afterward ? 

I would dd the filesystem on each partition separately for safety.  Not the 
whole drive.  Although, what you said above will work.

> Can one make cp copy EVERYTHING on one drive to another and
> keep the
> timestamps, etc, all correct ?
> [snip]

I've used cp with the -a "ARCHIVE" switch set, and it worked quite well. The 
copied files should be exact duplicates of the old.  However, I copied the 
contents of one partition at a time.  Never tried to do a whole drive all at 
once.

B
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Re: Firefox identity strings

[JD]

On 06/24/2010 02:43 PM, JD was caught red-handed while writing::
>
>
> On 06/24/2010 02:27 PM, g was caught red-handed while writing::
>> JD wrote:
>> 
>>
>>> Thank you Steven, Michael and G for the clue.
>> most welcome.
>>
>>> It is a good one.
>> only one that i am aware of. it does work well.
>>
>>> re: text vs html: I had not edited the contacts in Thunderbird to set
>>> the preference for this list to be text only. Now it is.
>> thank you. now i can keep up with your post better. :D
>
> I downloaded and installed the extension
> I restarted firefox when I click
> Tools -> Agent -> Edit
> To the bottom of the window is a link
> "Download lists of user agents to import"
> That link takes you to
> http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/
> There, click on Download for Firefox, etc
> After download I restarted FF.
> Again, I clicked Tools -> Agent -> Edit
> and the popped windows shows no list of user agents
> at all. So I created one of my own.
> I tried to contact the developer about it, but
> ther is not "Contacts us" link on the page :)
Found a large list of user agents strings.
wget -c -ndH http://qainsight.net/content/binary/AgentStrings20070304.xml
and import it into the  userAgent

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Re: [389-users] restarting the 389 after a reboot

[Steven Jones]

Steven Jones wrote:
>
8><-
>
>
> see also the configuration directory ldap url - ldapurl in
>
> /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv/adm.conf
>  
8><-  
>
> Ok, I fixed the latter by editing the adm.conf to point at 
> 636however I now have a SSL error... 
>
> 
>
> [r...@vuwunicooimm001 admin-serv]# ldapsearch -x -D "cn=ldapadmin" -w 
> XXX -b o=netscaperoot "(&(nsServerID=slapd-vuwunicooimm001))"
>
> ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (-1)
>
> additional info: error:14090086:SSL 
> routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
>
Why is /usr/bin/ldapsearch attempting to use SSL by default?  What's in 
your /etc/openldap/ldap.conf or ~/.ldaprc?

Ok, fixed

ldaps changed to ldap

>
> 
>
>  
>
> Ive tried using this syntax but with no joy...
>
>  
>
> ldapmodify -x -D "cn=directory manager" -w password
>
> dn: dn of your server instance entry
>
> changetype: modify
>
> replace: nsServerSecurity
>
> nsServerSecurity: on
>
>  
>
> so my command is,
>
>  
>
> ldapmodify -x -D "cn=lpdapadmin" -w password XXX 
> dn:vuwunicooimm001.vuw.ac.nz changetype: modify replace: 
> nsServerSecurity nsServerSecurity on
>
? this is all on one command line? 


Yes...


   I guess it's not clear from the 
example, but ldapmodify by default wants to read the LDIF input from 
stdin - so after you type in

OK...


$ ldapmodify -x -D "cn=lpdapadmin" -w password XXX
it will wait for you to type in the rest on stdin, followed by a blank 
line (i.e. hit Enter twice) followed by Ctrl-C or Ctrl-D to "get out" of 
ldapmodify


===
[r...@vuwunicooimm001 admin-serv]# ldapmodify -x -D "cn=lpdapadmin"
ldap_bind: Server is unwilling to perform (53)
additional info: Unauthenticated binds are not allowed
[r...@vuwunicooimm001 admin-serv]# ldapsearch -x -D "cn=ldapadmin" -w XX
ldap_bind: No such object (32)
[r...@vuwunicooimm001 admin-serv]#
===

um?


you could also dump those commands in a file and run
$ ldapmodify -x -D "cn=lpdapadmin" -w password XXX -f /path/to/file.ldif

===
[r...@vuwunicooimm001 admin-serv]# ldapmodify -x -D "cn=lpdapadmin" -w 
cvbrty542 -f file.ldif
ldap_bind: No such object (32)
[r...@vuwunicooimm001 admin-serv]#
===

8><--
>
Is the directory server listening for TLS/SSL requests on port 636?  
That is, have you configured the directory server for TLS/SSL and have 
you confirmed that it is listening?
>
8><-
>
Before you do anything else, confirm that the directory server is indeed 
listening for TLS/SSL requests on port 636.
>

=
[r...@vuwunicooimm001 admin-serv]# netstat -a -n |grep :636
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:49186 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:49185 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35428 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35429 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35430 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35424 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35425 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35426 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35427 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35412 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35413 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35414 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35415 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35408 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35409 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35410 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35411 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35420 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35421 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35422 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35423 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35416 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35417 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35418 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35419 127.0.0.1:636   
TIME_WAIT   
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:35404 127.0.0.1:636

Re: Firefox identity strings

[g]

JD wrote:


> Again, I clicked Tools -> Agent -> Edit and the popped windows shows no 
> list of user agents at all. So I created one of my own.

right click 'tool bar', click 'customize'. you should see and icon for
'user agent switcher'. drag and drop it on 'tool bar'. close 'customize'.


> I tried to contact the developer about it, but ther is not "Contacts us" 
> link on the page :)

http://chrispederick.com/contact/

hth.

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Waffle was: Re: hi. ^

[Frank Murphy]

On 24/06/10 19:17, jack craig wrote:
>>
> Boo Hiss...
> 

Remember the "Snippidy Snip"
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Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

[Kam Leo]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Linuxguy123  wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 09:35 +0100, John Austin wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 02:06 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
>> > I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a conventional hard drive to an SSD.
>> >
>> > Both drives are 160 GB in size.
>> >
>> >
>> I have tried a couple of methods successfully, here are my "hints" files
>>
>> I liked the fsarchiver method as I could save an "image file" containing a 
>> complete
>> replica of "/", it was only 8.5GB when compressed in my case
>> 35mins to save the file, 20 mins to restore
>> Maybe of some help
>>
>> John
>
> I found the easiest way to do this was to download a copy of Ubuntu 10.4
> and use gparted.   It has a function to copy a partition from the source
> drive to the destination drive.  Then I resized them.    It was a bit
> slow and tedius, but it also worked flawlessly.  Sometimes no excitement
> is good.

The Clonezilla and Parted Magic distros have all the tools that you need.
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Re: [389-users] restarting the 389 after a reboot

[Rich Megginson]

Steven Jones wrote:
>
> 8><-
>
>  
>
> This is the real problem I think - looks like you've told the
>
> console/admin server to use SSL to connect to the directory server, but
>
> you haven't specified to use port 636
>
>  
>
> 8><-
>
> Im not aware I did
>
> 8><-
>
>  
>
> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:SSL#Console_SSL_Information
>
>  
>
> see also the configuration directory ldap url - ldapurl in
>
> /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv/adm.conf
>
>  
>
> 8><-
>
>  
>
> Ok, I fixed the latter by editing the adm.conf to point at 
> 636however I now have a SSL error...
>
>  
>
> 
>
> [r...@vuwunicooimm001 admin-serv]# ldapsearch -x -D "cn=ldapadmin" -w 
> XXX -b o=netscaperoot "(&(nsServerID=slapd-vuwunicooimm001))"
>
> ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (-1)
>
> additional info: error:14090086:SSL 
> routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
>
Why is /usr/bin/ldapsearch attempting to use SSL by default?  What's in 
your /etc/openldap/ldap.conf or ~/.ldaprc?
>
> 
>
>  
>
> Ive tried using this syntax but with no joy...
>
>  
>
> ldapmodify -x -D "cn=directory manager" -w password
>
> dn: dn of your server instance entry
>
> changetype: modify
>
> replace: nsServerSecurity
>
> nsServerSecurity: on
>
>  
>
> so my command is,
>
>  
>
> ldapmodify -x -D "cn=lpdapadmin" -w password XXX 
> dn:vuwunicooimm001.vuw.ac.nz changetype: modify replace: 
> nsServerSecurity nsServerSecurity on
>
? this is all on one command line?I guess it's not clear from the 
example, but ldapmodify by default wants to read the LDIF input from 
stdin - so after you type in
$ ldapmodify -x -D "cn=lpdapadmin" -w password XXX
it will wait for you to type in the rest on stdin, followed by a blank 
line (i.e. hit Enter twice) followed by Ctrl-C or Ctrl-D to "get out" of 
ldapmodify

you could also dump those commands in a file and run
$ ldapmodify -x -D "cn=lpdapadmin" -w password XXX -f /path/to/file.ldif
>
>  
>
> which fails..
>
>  
>
> Doing a,
>
>  
>
> [r...@vuwunicooimm001 admin-serv]# certutil -d . -L
>
>  
>
> ===
>
> Certificate Nickname Trust 
> Attributes
>
>  
> SSL,S/MIME,JAR/XPI
>
>  
>
> VUW CA cert  CT,,
>
> ==
>
>  
>
> So I dont know if cutting and pasting the errors work, anyway, 
> attempting to restart the console I get,
>
>  
>
>  
>
> So I put in the details,
>
>  
>
>  
>
> Which fails,
>
Is the directory server listening for TLS/SSL requests on port 636?  
That is, have you configured the directory server for TLS/SSL and have 
you confirmed that it is listening?
>
>  
>
>  
>
> error log for adminserv
>
>  
>
>  
>
> ==
>
> [Fri Jun 25 09:19:22 2010] [notice] [client 127.0.0.1] 
> admserv_host_ip_check: ap_get_remote_host could not resolve 127.0.0.1
>
> [Fri Jun 25 09:19:22 2010] [notice] [client 127.0.0.1] 
> admserv_host_ip_check: host [localhost.localdomain] did not match 
> pattern [*.vuw.ac.nz] -will scan aliases
>
> [Fri Jun 25 09:19:22 2010] [notice] [client 127.0.0.1] 
> admserv_host_ip_check: host alias [localhost] did not match pattern 
> [*.vuw.ac.nz]
>
> [Fri Jun 25 09:19:22 2010] [debug] mod_admserv/mod_admserv.c(2762): 
> admserv_check_user_id
>
> [Fri Jun 25 09:19:22 2010] [debug] mod_admserv/mod_admserv.c(1910): 
> [25584] cache entry not found for user [ldapadmin]
>
> [Fri Jun 25 09:19:22 2010] [debug] mod_admserv/mod_admserv.c(1918): 
> [25584] user [ldapadmin] not cached - reason user not in cache
>
> [Fri Jun 25 09:19:22 2010] [crit] buildUGInfo(): unable to initialize 
> TLS connection to LDAP host vuwunicooimm001.vuw.ac.nz port 636: 4
>
> [Fri Jun 25 09:19:22 2010] [notice] [client 127.0.0.1] 
> admserv_check_authz(): passing [/admin-serv/authenticate] to the 
> userauth handler
>
> [Fri Jun 25 09:19:22 2010] [crit] buildUGInfo(): unable to initialize 
> TLS connection to LDAP host vuwunicooimm001.vuw.ac.nz port 636: 4
>
> [Fri Jun 25 09:19:22 2010] [debug] mod_admserv/mod_admserv.c(2609): 
> userauth, bind (null)
>
> =
>
>  
>
>  
>
> regards
>
Before you do anything else, confirm that the directory server is indeed 
listening for TLS/SSL requests on port 636.
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
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Re: Firefox identity strings

[JD]

On 06/24/2010 02:27 PM, g was caught red-handed while writing::
> JD wrote:
> 
>
>
>> Thank you Steven, Michael and G for the clue.
>>  
> most welcome.
>
>
>> It is a good one.
>>  
> only one that i am aware of. it does work well.
>
>
>> re: text vs html: I had not edited the contacts in Thunderbird to set
>> the preference for this list to be text only. Now it is.
>>  
> thank you. now i can keep up with your post better. :D
>

I downloaded and installed the extension
I restarted firefox when I click
Tools -> Agent -> Edit
To the bottom of the window is a link
"Download lists of user agents to import"
That link takes you to
http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/
There, click on Download for Firefox, etc
After download I restarted FF.
Again, I clicked Tools -> Agent -> Edit
and the popped windows shows no list of user agents
at all. So I created one of my own.
I tried to contact the developer about it, but
ther is not "Contacts us" link on the page :)
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Re: Firefox identity strings

[g]

JD wrote:


> Thank you Steven, Michael and G for the clue.

most welcome.

> It is a good one.

only one that i am aware of. it does work well.

> re: text vs html: I had not edited the contacts in Thunderbird to set 
> the preference for this list to be text only. Now it is.

thank you. now i can keep up with your post better. :D


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Re: Unexplained temporary freezes in Thunderbird Fedora 13

[g]

Jerry Feldman wrote:


> My plan over the next few days is to run 64-bit 3.1 from Rawhide with no 
> extensions with ntpd and possibly some other daemons disabled.

this will help. there are several daemons that can hog system for brief
periods and as long as you make note of what you disable, you can restore
them one by one to see if that is a part of problem. especially if any
wait for a response before freeing cpu's.

> Another possible cause is that it may be trying an IMAP sync to GMAIL.  The
> two tests here is to (1) change the timing, and (2) do offline and only 
> manually get mail.

instead of changing timing, just disable auto checking. then you know for
sure. offline will definitely be a way to narrow down problem.

> After reading some of the posts on the T-Bird list, I'm leaning in this
> direction.

for sure. and note which are ms and which are linux.

> If things go well, then we'll re-enable some of these. I will install the
> 32-bit 3.1 with no extensions and see if that is clean, then install 
> enigmail and a few other extensions after testing for a while.

for now, 32 bit is only way to get enigmail.

> The one common factor is that top shows Thunderbird using 100% CPU.

a problem with top is it does not show which cpu is being used by what,
and this can be a problem in troubleshooting.


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Re: SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

[Rich Mahn]

On 6/24/2010 9:33 AM, Mikkel wrote:
> On 06/24/2010 08:11 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>> Also found in dmesg: (full file available at 
>> http://www.stainburn.com/dmesg.txt )
>>
>> scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-AccessPQ: 0 ANSI: 2 
>> CCS
>> sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
>> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
>> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0x as device size
>> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 4294967296 512-byte logical blocks: (2.19 TB/2.00 TiB)
>> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
>> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
>> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
>> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
>> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0x as device size
>> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
>>  sdb: unknown partition table
>> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
>> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0x as device size
>> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
>> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
>>
> Dumb question - is your external case rated for a drive that large?
> From the messages, it sounds like the drive is too big. Depending on
> the electronics, there is a drive size limit to external cases.
> 
> Mikkel
I've just seen this exact problem with the exact same numbers.  The
drive is dead or dying.  I'm hoping mine comes back enough to grab the
data still on it.  When it works it works without error and passes short
smartctl tests.  I think the disk surfaces are probably okay and it's
the electronics that are almost gone.  If I find any sequence that seems
to get it initialized and working, albeit for a short time, I'll post.
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Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

[Linuxguy123]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 09:35 +0100, John Austin wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 02:06 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a conventional hard drive to an SSD.
> > 
> > Both drives are 160 GB in size.
> > 
> > 
> I have tried a couple of methods successfully, here are my "hints" files
> 
> I liked the fsarchiver method as I could save an "image file" containing a 
> complete
> replica of "/", it was only 8.5GB when compressed in my case
> 35mins to save the file, 20 mins to restore
> Maybe of some help
> 
> John

I found the easiest way to do this was to download a copy of Ubuntu 10.4
and use gparted.   It has a function to copy a partition from the source
drive to the destination drive.  Then I resized them.It was a bit
slow and tedius, but it also worked flawlessly.  Sometimes no excitement
is good.  

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Re: Resizing LVM-formatted partitions

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan  said:
> So how can I be sure of the effect of lopping a bit
> off the end of the VG and moving the whole thing up a bit?

With LVM, a physical volume (PV) belongs to a volume group (VG) and is
divided up into physical extents (PEs).  PEs are then allocated to
logical volumes (LVs).  When you take space from one LV and add it to
another, the PEs are just reassigned, not physically moved.

You can run "lvdisplay --map" and/or "pvdisplay --map" to see which PEs
belong to which LV, so you can know which LV is at the end of the VG.

You can use pvmove to move PEs from one PV to another (in the same VG);
this is useful for replacing a drive with minimal downtime.  I don't
know of a tool to move PEs around on the same PV though.
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Re: Possible NetworkManager problem, but where to look?

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Stephen Gallagher  wrote:
> On 06/24/2010 02:41 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Tom Horsley  wrote:
>>> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:11:12 -0500
>>> Richard Shaw wrote:
>>>
 All networking communications work fine right after boot, but at some
 point all connection attempts TO her computer fail, while all
 networking communications coming FROM her laptop continue to work
 fine.
>>>
>>> That sounds a bit like a DHCP lease being dropped, but I'm not
>>> sure how to check. I know I've seen behavior like this on virtual
>>> machines with totally rotten clocks which keep time so badly they
>>> don't think they have to renew their lease yet even though the
>>> server has already dropped them :-).
>>
>> I'll take a look when I get home, but it seems unlikely. I use the
>> DHCP built into my Netgear FVS318G router and none of the other
>> computers seem to have this problem.
>>
>> Richard
>
> Check the date and time on the machine. It's possible that you have a
> bad CMOS battery and it's losing/resetting time at random.

Hmm.. just checked it remotely:

# date
Thu Jun 24 15:50:52 CDT 2010

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Re: Firefox identity strings

[JD]

On 06/24/2010 01:18 PM, g was caught red-handed while writing::
> JD wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to dynamically alter the identity strings that firefox
>> sends when it connects to a web site?
>>  
>
> yes, it is called 'user agent switcher';
>
>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59/
>
>
> not in answer to your question, but a question to your posting.
>
> why do you post original questions in 'text/html', then follow up
> with 'text/plain'?
>
>
> btw, please reply with 'text/plain', so i do not have to change
> folders to see your answer. :)
>
> thank you.
>
Thank you Steven, Michael and G for the clue.
It is a good one.
re: text vs html: I had not edited the contacts in Thunderbird to set 
the preference for this list to be text only. Now it is.
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Re: Resizing LVM-formatted partitions

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 14:44 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan  said:
> > My main disk has two partitions:
> > 
> >Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sda1   *   1  25  200781   83  Linux
> > /dev/sda2  26   20023   160633935   8e  Linux LVM
> > 
> > /dev/sda1 is /boot. /dev/sda2 contains an LVM Volume Group with 3
> > logical volumes (/, /home and swap).
> > 
> > I want to increase the size of /boot from 190MB to 500MB. If I use
> > gparted, I'm afraid of screwing up the LVM partition since gparted
> > doesn't understand LVM.
> > 
> > Do I need to mess with Physical Volumes to achieve this? I find the LVM
> > documentation unclear, and Palimpsest doesn't seem to address this sort
> > of thing.
> 
> You have to do several things (and I don't know if any of the above
> tools can handle these things):
> 
> - if all space in the volume group is allocated, you have to:
>   - resize one or more filesystems or swap to free up space
>   - shrink the appropriate logical volume to the new size of the FS/swap
>   - rearrange the physical extents so the now-unused PEs are at the end
> of the VG (easiest thing to do is shrink whichever LV is last)
>   - shrink the VG
> 
> - shrink the VG partition (sda2) to the same size as the VG
> 
> - use some type of "smart" partition tool to move the sda2 partition
>   further out on the disk (I know the old Partition Magic could do this,
>   but I don't know if any free tools can)
> 
> - increase the size of sda1 (repartition and then resize the FS)

Yes, I pretty much feared that would be it. My caution is due to the
fact that the LVM docs don't seem to state explicitly that reducing the
size of an lv is equivalent to cutting space from the end. Lv's are
allocated in units of some-number-of-mbs and the fact that you can
reassign space between them (with appropriate resizing of filesystems)
makes me wonder about this. I recently changed the split between /
and /home and it happened instantly (not counting the resizing), i.e.
nothing in the spec leads me to believe that any physical sector copying
went on. That being the case, it's very likely that / is in fact
physically split between two different areas of the disk even though it
looks contiguous. So how can I be sure of the effect of lopping a bit
off the end of the VG and moving the whole thing up a bit?

> The reason you have to do all of this is that /boot is not under LVM (it
> can't be today because the boot loader can't load from LVM), so you have
> to make space in the partition table.
> 
> Hmm, there may be one alternative; if you can free up 500M at the end of
> the volume group (going through the steps above except changing sda1),
> you could create an sda3 at the end of your disk.  You'd have to make
> the filesystem, copy your existing /boot, change /etc/fstab, and then
> re-install GRUB so it looks at sda3.

Yes, I suppose that could work.

I can't help wondering, not for the first time, whether LVM is really
worth the hassle on a desktop machine. I could have solved all this with
gparted in no time because it's very clear what is going on. These extra
levels of abstraction don't represent a win in my case.

poc

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Re: inkscape fedora 10 not working

[Roberto Ragusa]

François Patte wrote:
> Le 19/06/2010 12:25, Frank Murphy a écrit :
>> On 19/06/10 11:22, François Patte wrote:
> 
>>> Of course! It was my starting point and, as it did not work, I compiled
>>> the latest version
>>>
>> Start it from cli and see what errors may come.
> 
> No errors, nothing happens: fan speed increases a lot, cpu climbs to
> 100% but whatever is the time I wait for something nothing happens
> and I have to kill the process...

Start it with "strace inkscape".

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Re: Firefox identity strings

[g]

JD wrote:
> Is there a way to dynamically alter the identity strings that firefox 
> sends when it connects to a web site?


yes, it is called 'user agent switcher';

  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59/


not in answer to your question, but a question to your posting.

why do you post original questions in 'text/html', then follow up
with 'text/plain'?


btw, please reply with 'text/plain', so i do not have to change
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Re: Firefox identity strings

[Michael Cronenworth]

JD wrote:
> Is there a way to dynamically alter the identity strings that firefox
> sends when it connects to a web site?
>

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59/
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Re: Firefox identity strings

[Steven Stern]

On 06/24/2010 02:59 PM, JD wrote:
> Is there a way to dynamically alter the identity strings that firefox
> sends when it connects to a web site?
>

User Agent Switcher

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59/

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Re: Resizing LVM-formatted partitions

[g]

Chris Adams wrote:


> The reason you have to do all of this is that /boot is not under LVM (it
> can't be today because the boot loader can't load from LVM), so you have
> to make space in the partition table.

had not thought about that, and friend dave was not working with boot.

so like you say, poc will have to use 'lvreduce' to get an upper 500m0
free for his /boot.

that or copy lvm to another drive, resize and restore lvm. :(


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Firefox identity strings

[JD]

Is there a way to dynamically alter the identity strings that firefox 
sends when it connects to a web site?


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Re: Resizing LVM-formatted partitions

[g]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:


> I want to increase the size of /boot from 190MB to 500MB. If I use
> gparted, I'm afraid of screwing up the LVM partition since gparted
> doesn't understand LVM.

one of reasons i disliked and stopped using lvm in early days. no way to
simply change a physical to logical. may be now, do not know.

what a friend told me he had to do one time when needed to convert was
build a system with lvm, place drive with physical and logical in it.

next copied files in physical off drive to new system. reformatted physical
to a logical and copied files back.

when he replaced drive back into original box, all went well.

i do believe he had to make changes to fstab, and something else, but i
do not recall.

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Re: Resizing LVM-formatted partitions

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan  said:
> My main disk has two partitions:
> 
>Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *   1  25  200781   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2  26   20023   160633935   8e  Linux LVM
> 
> /dev/sda1 is /boot. /dev/sda2 contains an LVM Volume Group with 3
> logical volumes (/, /home and swap).
> 
> I want to increase the size of /boot from 190MB to 500MB. If I use
> gparted, I'm afraid of screwing up the LVM partition since gparted
> doesn't understand LVM.
> 
> Do I need to mess with Physical Volumes to achieve this? I find the LVM
> documentation unclear, and Palimpsest doesn't seem to address this sort
> of thing.

You have to do several things (and I don't know if any of the above
tools can handle these things):

- if all space in the volume group is allocated, you have to:
  - resize one or more filesystems or swap to free up space
  - shrink the appropriate logical volume to the new size of the FS/swap
  - rearrange the physical extents so the now-unused PEs are at the end
of the VG (easiest thing to do is shrink whichever LV is last)
  - shrink the VG

- shrink the VG partition (sda2) to the same size as the VG

- use some type of "smart" partition tool to move the sda2 partition
  further out on the disk (I know the old Partition Magic could do this,
  but I don't know if any free tools can)

- increase the size of sda1 (repartition and then resize the FS)

The reason you have to do all of this is that /boot is not under LVM (it
can't be today because the boot loader can't load from LVM), so you have
to make space in the partition table.

Hmm, there may be one alternative; if you can free up 500M at the end of
the volume group (going through the steps above except changing sda1),
you could create an sda3 at the end of your disk.  You'd have to make
the filesystem, copy your existing /boot, change /etc/fstab, and then
re-install GRUB so it looks at sda3.

GRUB2 supports (or at least is supposed to support; I haven't used it)
booting directly from LVM, so hopefully the need for a separate /boot
will eventually go away.  There is a Fedora feature page for GRUB2 at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Grub2, but it doesn't appear to
have been updated in almost a year.
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Re: multibooting linux

[g]

Jerry Feldman wrote:


> One possible solution is to set up your real home directory with 
> symlinks to different desktop configurations, such as:

it is easier to have differently named home directories for each distrib
and symlink to a common directory for programs.

ie, symlink to mozilla thunderbird and firefox, gnucash, etc, etc. if
programs are different versions, you may have to symlink to data files
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Re: Possible NetworkManager problem, but where to look?

[Stephen Gallagher]

On 06/24/2010 02:41 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Tom Horsley  wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:11:12 -0500
>> Richard Shaw wrote:
>>
>>> All networking communications work fine right after boot, but at some
>>> point all connection attempts TO her computer fail, while all
>>> networking communications coming FROM her laptop continue to work
>>> fine.
>>
>> That sounds a bit like a DHCP lease being dropped, but I'm not
>> sure how to check. I know I've seen behavior like this on virtual
>> machines with totally rotten clocks which keep time so badly they
>> don't think they have to renew their lease yet even though the
>> server has already dropped them :-).
>
> I'll take a look when I get home, but it seems unlikely. I use the
> DHCP built into my Netgear FVS318G router and none of the other
> computers seem to have this problem.
>
> Richard

Check the date and time on the machine. It's possible that you have a 
bad CMOS battery and it's losing/resetting time at random.

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Resizing LVM-formatted partitions

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

My main disk has two partitions:

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *   1  25  200781   83  Linux
/dev/sda2  26   20023   160633935   8e  Linux LVM

/dev/sda1 is /boot. /dev/sda2 contains an LVM Volume Group with 3
logical volumes (/, /home and swap).

I want to increase the size of /boot from 190MB to 500MB. If I use
gparted, I'm afraid of screwing up the LVM partition since gparted
doesn't understand LVM.

Do I need to mess with Physical Volumes to achieve this? I find the LVM
documentation unclear, and Palimpsest doesn't seem to address this sort
of thing.

poc

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Re: Possible NetworkManager problem, but where to look?

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Tom Horsley  wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:11:12 -0500
> Richard Shaw wrote:
>
>> All networking communications work fine right after boot, but at some
>> point all connection attempts TO her computer fail, while all
>> networking communications coming FROM her laptop continue to work
>> fine.
>
> That sounds a bit like a DHCP lease being dropped, but I'm not
> sure how to check. I know I've seen behavior like this on virtual
> machines with totally rotten clocks which keep time so badly they
> don't think they have to renew their lease yet even though the
> server has already dropped them :-).

I'll take a look when I get home, but it seems unlikely. I use the
DHCP built into my Netgear FVS318G router and none of the other
computers seem to have this problem.

Richard
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Re: hi. ^

[jack craig]

On 06/24/2010 10:43 AM, Tom Weston wrote:
> Hello,One of my friends bought an iphone from a
> website:  href="http://www.myfure.com";>www.myfure.comHe has got the
> phone, its quality is very good. And the website is promoting their
> products these days, so they have very good price and big discount
> now. This website also sells tv,motor,laptop and so on. The promotion
> will keep 30 days . if you need, please have a look at the website. I
> am sure you will get much surprise.Never forget to share good
> things with us!Greetings!  f
>
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hi. ^

[Tom Weston]

Hello,One of my friends bought an iphone from a
website:  http://www.myfure.com";>www.myfure.comHe has got the
phone, its quality is very good. And the website is promoting their
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Re: Possible NetworkManager problem, but where to look?

[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:11:12 -0500
Richard Shaw wrote:

> All networking communications work fine right after boot, but at some
> point all connection attempts TO her computer fail, while all
> networking communications coming FROM her laptop continue to work
> fine.

That sounds a bit like a DHCP lease being dropped, but I'm not
sure how to check. I know I've seen behavior like this on virtual
machines with totally rotten clocks which keep time so badly they
don't think they have to renew their lease yet even though the
server has already dropped them :-).
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Possible NetworkManager problem, but where to look?

[Richard Shaw]

My wife's laptop has started having interesting networking issues.
She's connecting to a WPA2 secured wireless AP.

All networking communications work fine right after boot, but at some
point all connection attempts TO her computer fail, while all
networking communications coming FROM her laptop continue to work
fine. I have tried disabling the firewall but it has no affect.

Failure Observations:
- Auto-discovered printer queues drop off
- Can no longer ssh to her machine
- nmap -sS hostname can't find that she even exists. This would be
GREAT if I wanted to be stealth on a network.

Currently the workaround is to restart NetworkManager which
temporarily fixes the problem. I'm not ready to say that NM IS the
problem as it could be something else, such as a buggy driver, that's
the root cause.

So where do I start? OS is Fedora 13 x86_64 fully updated. (lspci
posted to bottom of message)

Thanks,
Richard

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00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
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00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion
X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40)
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Re: automatic video processing

[Adel ESSAFI]

2010/6/24 Antonio M 

> 2010/6/24 Adel ESSAFI :
> > Hi list
> > I have no experience with video processing on linux. I have tried
> kdenlive
> > but the experience is not concluent.
> >
> > I want to ask if it is possible to make simple video editing
> automatically
> > with line command. More precisely, I want to add a test or an image
> (logo)
> > to a video.
> >
> > Could you help please.
> >
> > Any input will help
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Adel
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> >
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> Openshot?? It should be on the way in Rpmfusion, anyway 12 Release is
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>
I tried it. it works fine.

But, now I am looking for making simple things automatically.

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Re: Fedora 13 - single pixel for GUI login screen so unable to login to Gnome/Xfce

[Roger K. Wells]

On 06/24/2010 11:39 AM, Andrew Gray wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 11:21 -0400, Roger K. Wells wrote:
>
>> On 06/24/2010 09:25 AM, Edmon Begoli wrote:
>>  
>>> I upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 and now, when my computer boots,
>>> I get a login screen but the actual login box with user accounts is a
>>> one pixel wide.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> This happened to me after installing the "AccountsDialog" user
>> management facility that was described as wonderful in a recent
>> e-week article.  To do anything I logged in via ssh.  Once back
>> in I uninstalled AcountsDialog (I think there was one dependency
>> that I uninstalled as well) and installed the KDE login manager.
>> Even after uninstalling "AccoountsDialog" the problem remained.
>> KDE log in works and I now log in from there selecting the GNOME session
>> option as default.  At least I am back in business.
>>
>>  
>>> I tried to log in from the other machine, and I found my user accounts
>>> intact but the
>>> graphical login is squeezed-unusable.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions for this problem?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> EB
>>>
>>>
>>
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>>
>>  
> I had this problem upgrading from F12 to F13 using Gnome
>
> I found it was due to me hiding logon names, I was using:-
>
>
I did the same thing at the time I installed "AccountsDialog".
I'll bet that's the problem not "AccountsDialog" itself.
(Although we should be able to not show login names)
thanks for the observation.
> Don't show login names assuming your using GDM:-
>
> gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
> xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type bool
> --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true
>
> re running the above setting it to "false" solved the logon
> albeit showing the users names.
>
> --Andrew Gray
>
>


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Re: F13 - installation problem (Anaconda + Display)

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Federico Marziali
 wrote:
> 2. More serious: the screen resolution used is wrong and as a result I
> can see only a portion of the screen content, which creates
> difficulties both at installation time, when one wants to click on the
> "forward" button :), and during "normal" usafe.
> After installation I tried to install the nvidia drivers from RPM
> fusion, resulting in a not anymore functioning system (the boot
> process gets till when the fedora logo gets "filled up" and than hangs
> there forever)
> The graphic card is a Nvidia geforce 330M.
> Specifying the parameter "resolution=1920x1080" at boot time didn't help.
> Any ideas how to proceed?
 Try adding "rdblacklist=nouveau" to your grub kernel parameters in
"/boot/grub/menu.lst". This usually happens after a fresh install
because the initial ram disk still has the nouveau driver in it and
once it's loaded the nvidia driver can't load. If the proper module
blacklist was added by the package, which it should have been, this
will be taken care of for you at the next kernel update but it doesn't
hurt to leave the kernel parameter there.
>>
>> If you saw the graphical bootup (called Plymouth) and did not add a
>> vga= then the rdblacklist= parameter did not take. If it does and you
>> don't specify vga= then you should see the text mode bootup version of
>> Plymouth, so I would assume the nouveau driver is still loading. You
>> definitely need to fix this problem first.
>>
>> Perhaps you can post your /boot/grub/grub.conf to the list? (this is
>> the same as menu.lst, in fact, menu.lst is a symbolic link to
>> grub.conf)
>
> Of couse, here it goes:
>
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora (2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64)
>        root (hd0,4)
>        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64 ro
> root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_root
> rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=de rhgb quiet
>        initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64.img
> title Fedora (2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64)
>        root (hd0,4)
>        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 ro
> root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_root
> rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=de rhgb quiet
>        initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64.img
> title Windows 7 DE
>        rootnoverify (hd0,1)
>        chainloader +1

Let's concentrate here first. I know the email is wrapping the lines,
but where did you add the 'rdblacklist=' parameter? It should be added
to the 'kernel' line, doesn't really matter where, so after 'quiet'
you would want

rdblacklist=nouveau

> I wonder if I can just remove the nouveau drivers now that the nvidia
> ones are  "somehow" working.

Are you sure it's the nvidia drivers? Do you see the nvidia logo on
graphical start? You shouldn't need to remove the nouveau drivers,
just stop them from loading. Like I said, the first time you get a
kernel update it should be removed from the initial ram disk.

You should have the file "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf"

If you look at it, it will give you directions on how to rebuild your
initial ramdisk using dracut if you want to get rid of nouveau, and
the need for the rdblacklist kernel parameter.

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Re: Fedora 13 - single pixel for GUI login screen so unable to login to Gnome/Xfce

[Andrew Gray]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 11:21 -0400, Roger K. Wells wrote:
> On 06/24/2010 09:25 AM, Edmon Begoli wrote:
> > I upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 and now, when my computer boots,
> > I get a login screen but the actual login box with user accounts is a
> > one pixel wide.
> >
> >
> This happened to me after installing the "AccountsDialog" user
> management facility that was described as wonderful in a recent
> e-week article.  To do anything I logged in via ssh.  Once back
> in I uninstalled AcountsDialog (I think there was one dependency
> that I uninstalled as well) and installed the KDE login manager.
> Even after uninstalling "AccoountsDialog" the problem remained.
> KDE log in works and I now log in from there selecting the GNOME session
> option as default.  At least I am back in business.
> 
> > I tried to log in from the other machine, and I found my user accounts
> > intact but the
> > graphical login is squeezed-unusable.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions for this problem?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > EB
> >
> 
> 
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> SAIC
> 221 Third St
> Newport, RI 02840
> 401-847-4210 (voice)
> 401-849-1585 (fax)
> roger.k.we...@saic.com
> 
I had this problem upgrading from F12 to F13 using Gnome 

I found it was due to me hiding logon names, I was using:-

Don't show login names assuming your using GDM:-

gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type bool
--set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true 

re running the above setting it to "false" solved the logon
albeit showing the users names. 

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RE: USB Printer Install help needed

[Tim Waugh]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 09:01 -0500, Smith, Herb wrote:
> strace /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb 2>&1 | tail -n +200 
> open("/dev/usblp1", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
> directory) 
> open("/dev/usb/lp1", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
> directory) 

Oops, looks like we just missed out a few lines that were important.
Could you please try again with this?:

strace /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb 2>&1 | tail -n +150 | head -n 50

Thanks,
Tim.
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Re: Fedora 13 - single pixel for GUI login screen so unable to login to Gnome/Xfce

[Edmon Begoli]

I see that this has been reported as a bug.

How do I enable user login list?

I get following error when I try to execute:

Failed to access configuration source(s): Failed to contact
configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable
TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a
system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information.
(Details -  1: Not running within active session)


when I try to execute:

sudo /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --set --type bool --config-source
xml:merged:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list false

Is there an easy way to change this "disable_user_list" setting from
the command line?


On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Edmon Begoli  wrote:
> I upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 and now, when my computer boots,
> I get a login screen but the actual login box with user accounts is a
> one pixel wide.
>
> I tried to log in from the other machine, and I found my user accounts
> intact but the
> graphical login is squeezed-unusable.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for this problem?
>
> Thank you,
> EB
>
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Re: Fedora 13 - single pixel for GUI login screen so unable to login to Gnome/Xfce

[Roger K. Wells]

On 06/24/2010 09:25 AM, Edmon Begoli wrote:
> I upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 and now, when my computer boots,
> I get a login screen but the actual login box with user accounts is a
> one pixel wide.
>
>
This happened to me after installing the "AccountsDialog" user
management facility that was described as wonderful in a recent
e-week article.  To do anything I logged in via ssh.  Once back
in I uninstalled AcountsDialog (I think there was one dependency
that I uninstalled as well) and installed the KDE login manager.
Even after uninstalling "AccoountsDialog" the problem remained.
KDE log in works and I now log in from there selecting the GNOME session
option as default.  At least I am back in business.

> I tried to log in from the other machine, and I found my user accounts
> intact but the
> graphical login is squeezed-unusable.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for this problem?
>
> Thank you,
> EB
>


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Re: strange behaviour of sssd

[Rick Stevens]

On 06/24/2010 07:05 AM, Eric Doutreleau wrote:
> well
>
> sorry to have disturb the list
> i found the problem
> the /etc/nsswitch.conf was not readable by regular users.

You weren't "disturbing the list".  This could be a real issue for
others.  The big question is...why wasn't it readable for normal
users?  It should have mode 644.  Did you change it or did the nssd
install bugger it?  If it's the latter, then a bug report should be
filed against nssd I would imagine.

> Le 24/06/2010 14:18, Stephen Gallagher a écrit :
>> On 06/24/2010 07:48 AM, Eric Doutreleau wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 24/06/2010 12:58, Stephen Gallagher a écrit :
 If this works with root but not with a regular user, I'd bet you that
 you're actually experiencing an SELinux denial here. Check your
 /var/log/audit.log


>>>
>>> hi
>>> i have selinux disabled on that machine
>>> in my audit.log file i can read
>> 
>>
>>
>> Can you examine /var/log/sssd/sssd_default.log for any obvious errors?
>>


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Re: F13 - installation problem (Anaconda + Display)

[Federico Marziali]

[CUT: bugzilla account request]

 2. More serious: the screen resolution used is wrong and as a result I
 can see only a portion of the screen content, which creates
 difficulties both at installation time, when one wants to click on the
 "forward" button :), and during "normal" usafe.
 After installation I tried to install the nvidia drivers from RPM
 fusion, resulting in a not anymore functioning system (the boot
 process gets till when the fedora logo gets "filled up" and than hangs
 there forever)
 The graphic card is a Nvidia geforce 330M.
 Specifying the parameter "resolution=1920x1080" at boot time didn't help.
 Any ideas how to proceed?
>>> Try adding "rdblacklist=nouveau" to your grub kernel parameters in
>>>"/boot/grub/menu.lst". This usually happens after a fresh install
>>>because the initial ram disk still has the nouveau driver in it and
>>>once it's loaded the nvidia driver can't load. If the proper module
>>>blacklist was added by the package, which it should have been, this
>>>will be taken care of for you at the next kernel update but it doesn't
>>>hurt to leave the kernel parameter there.
>
> If you saw the graphical bootup (called Plymouth) and did not add a
> vga= then the rdblacklist= parameter did not take. If it does and you
> don't specify vga= then you should see the text mode bootup version of
> Plymouth, so I would assume the nouveau driver is still loading. You
> definitely need to fix this problem first.
>
> Perhaps you can post your /boot/grub/grub.conf to the list? (this is
> the same as menu.lst, in fact, menu.lst is a symbolic link to
> grub.conf)

Of couse, here it goes:

default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64 ro
root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_root
rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=de rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 ro
root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_root
rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=de rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64.img
title Windows 7 DE
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

I wonder if I can just remove the nouveau drivers now that the nvidia
ones are  "somehow" working.

[CUT]
> I think you're confusing IA 64 with x86_64. Your system is x86 based.
> I use the rpmfusion packaged driver on 3 x86_64 installs of Fedora 12
> & 13.
You are absolutely right... in the desperation of finding a solution I
overlooked the architecture information... :)

>>> Also, once you do that it will revert to a text mode boot up, if you
>>> want the graphical bootup add a "vga=..." kernel parameter as well.
>>> The best way to figure out what resolution is to manually add
>>> "vga=ask" the first time and pick one of the available resolutions,
>>> such as 317 or whatever it is. Once you find one you like (this will
>>> also affect virtual terminals), add it to your grub kernel options but
>>> put "0x" in front of your choice, i.e.: "vga=0x317"
>> Actually this didn't fix the problem when X gets started... it still
>> leaves a portion of the screen chopped out...
>
> I would leave the vga parameter out until you get the nouveau driver
> to stop loading.
>
>> I'm starting to wonder if these problems coudl have an easy happy
>> ending by just installing the 32-bit version of fedora. :)
>
> It may be worth a try, but I don't think your problems are 32 vs. 64
> bit problems. I did a quick search online and found some bug reports
> for your specific model on Ubuntu for graphical issues[1].
>
> [1] 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/565382

Thanks for your very informative response. Actually by manually
editing the xorg.conf file as I'm now again able to boot and I can
even see the whole screen! :)
I still have to specify at boot time

But, even more funnily, I have the following error at boot time:
Enabling the nvidia driver: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 526: 
Segmentation fault  "$@"
where  is a 4 digit random number...

Any more hints? :)
Thanks for your help so far!
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RE: OpenOffice Crash - bad Java JRE

[Smith, Herb]

> -Original Message-
> From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-
> boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Frank Murphy
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 9:35 AM
> To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: OpenOffice Crash - bad Java JRE
> 
> On 24/06/10 15:30, Smith, Herb wrote:
> 
> > Java-1.6.0-openjdk is already installed.  The yum command indicated that 
> > there
> was nothing to do.
> >
> 
> Did you install OpenOffice from fedora repo, or OpenOffice.org ?
> 
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It was installed from Fedora during my F13 install.
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Re: SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

[JD]

On 06/24/2010 05:51 AM, Tim was caught red-handed while writing::
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 13:11 +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>
>> [r...@dcomp5 ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb
>>
>> Unable to read /dev/sdb
>>  
> Should it be sdb?  Try "fdisk -l" to list all the drives it finds.
>
>
Are you sure /dev/sdb exists?
Could it be /dev/sdc or sdd?
Do ls -l /dev/sdb
Also, sudo grep 'sd\.' /var/log/messages
to see how many drives were "probed" and attached.
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Re: multibooting linux

[Jerry Feldman]

  On 06/23/2010 09:21 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
> On Jun 23, 2010, at 8:31 PM, Steven I Usdansky wrote:
>
>> My vote is for one grub to rule them all,
>
Just want to chime in a bit. I used to multi-boot Linux years ago when I 
was running SuSE. When a new release came out I would multi-boot the old 
and new versions. I knew about the grub issues and handled them 
satisfactorily, but the issue of sharing one's home directory bit be in 
the posterior. At that time I was running KDE. At this point, the 
interaction between the old release and new release that contained an 
updated KDE essentially made my desktop unusable to where I essentially 
had to switch to GNOME (or another window manager but retaining the same 
display manager) at the time. Because I run many Linux installfests, I 
had always advocated allocating a separate /home partition.

One possible solution is to set up your real home directory with 
symlinks to different desktop configurations, such as:
/home/mydir
/home/fakeFedora12
/home/fakeFedora13
Then set up a login script to symlink the relevant configuration files 
and directories. While this is a real PIA, it allows you to have a 
single home directory, but when initially configuring your new release, 
create the fake directories, and copy your relevant configs, such as 
~/.gnome2 in these fake directories. As I said it is a real PIA, but it 
is workable, and allows you to boot into whatever system you want.

Personally, today I prefer to use VMs.

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Re: Fedora 13 - single pixel for GUI login screen so unable to login to Gnome/Xfce

[Edmon Begoli]

I found a "bandaid" fix for my problem, so I want to share.

sudo vi /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml

Find line:



and change "true" value to "false" like in the example below:



Edmon

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Edmon Begoli  wrote:
> I see that this has been reported as a bug.
>
> How do I enable user login list?
>
> I get following error when I try to execute:
>
> Failed to access configuration source(s): Failed to contact
> configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable
> TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a
> system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information.
> (Details -  1: Not running within active session)
>
>
> when I try to execute:
>
> sudo /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --set --type bool --config-source
> xml:merged:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
> /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list false
>
> Is there an easy way to change this "disable_user_list" setting from
> the command line?
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Edmon Begoli  wrote:
>> I upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 and now, when my computer boots,
>> I get a login screen but the actual login box with user accounts is a
>> one pixel wide.
>>
>> I tried to log in from the other machine, and I found my user accounts
>> intact but the
>> graphical login is squeezed-unusable.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions for this problem?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> EB
>>
>
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Re: [389-users] restarting the 389 after a reboot

[Rich Megginson]

Steven Jones wrote:
> 8><
>  
>   
>> start the admin server like this:
>> /usr/sbin/start-ds-admin -e debug
>> 
>
> 8><
>
> Great thanks...nice output.
>
> 
> [r...@vuwunicooimm001 admin-serv]# /usr/sbin/start-ds-admin -e debug
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> authz_host_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> auth_basic_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> authn_file_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> log_config_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module env_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> mime_magic_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module expires_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module deflate_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module headers_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> unique_id_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> setenvif_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module mime_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> vhost_alias_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> negotiation_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module dir_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module actions_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module alias_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module rewrite_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module cache_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> disk_cache_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module cgi_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> restartd_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module nss_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module admserv_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_admserv/mod_admserv.c(2506): [18043] 
> create_server_config [0xbogus %p for (null)
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_admserv/mod_admserv.c(2494): [18043] 
> create_config [0xbogus %p for (null)
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_admserv/mod_admserv.c(2567): [18043] 
> Set [0xbogus %p [ADMCacheLifeTime] to 600
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_admserv/mod_admserv.c(2585): [18043] 
> Set [0xbogus %p [ADMServerVersionString] to 389-Administrator/1.1.10
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_admserv/mod_admserv.c(2494): [18043] 
> create_config [0xbogus %p for /*/[tT]asks/[Oo]peration/*
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_admserv/mod_admserv.c(2519): [18043] 
> adminsdk [0xbogus %p flag 1
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_admserv/mod_admserv.c(2494): [18043] 
> create_config [0xbogus %p for /*/[tT]asks/[Cc]onfiguration/*
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_admserv/mod_admserv.c(2519): [18043] 
> adminsdk [0xbogus %p flag 1
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_admserv/mod_admserv.c(2494): [18043] 
> create_config [0xbogus %p for 
> /*/[tT]asks/[Oo]peration/(?i:stop|start|restart|startconfigds|create|remove)$
> [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debug] mod_admserv/mod_admserv.c(2519): [18043] 
> adminsdk [0xbogus %p flag 0
> httpd (pid 11347) already running
> [r...@vuwunicooimm001 admin-serv]# pwd
> /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv
> =
>
> So I stopped it with,
>
> "stop-ds-admin"
>
> and restarted it,
>
> =
> [r...@vuwunicooimm001 sbin]# /usr/sbin/start-ds-admin -e debug
> [Thu Jun 24 13:56:59 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> authz_host_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:56:59 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> auth_basic_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:56:59 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> authn_file_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:56:59 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> log_config_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:56:59 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module env_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:56:59 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> mime_magic_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:56:59 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module expires_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:56:59 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module deflate_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:56:59 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module headers_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:56:59 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> unique_id_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:56:59 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> setenvif_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:56:59 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module mime_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:56:59 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 
> vhost_alias_module
> [Thu Jun 24 13:56:59 2010] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module 

Re: f13-don't boot after monitor k/b and mouse change (solved)

[Joe Feely]

Rule No 1 ish.
Do the updates, and it'll probably solve itself!

Sorry for the noise.
Joe
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Re: differrence between 'yum remove' and 'yum erase'

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 21:14 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Aaron Konstam
>  wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 16:50 +0530, Krishna Chandra Prajapati
> wrote:
> > remove or erase
> >   Are  used  to remove the specified packages
> from the system as well as removing any
> >   packages which depend on the package being
> removed.
> >
> 
> But this relation is not reflexive.Just because program A is
>  dependent
> on program B being present, it does not mean that there are
> not uses for
> B other than program A. meld is a good example that is very
> useful on
> its own. Why should yum remove it when A is removed. 
> 
> Either you misunderstood what Krishna said or I'm misunderstanding
> what you're saying.  Krishna is saying that if A depends on B being
> present, and you remove B, then A will also be removed (since B is no
> longer present).  If you remove A, B will remain since nothing it
> depends on is being removed.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 

I think we are all saying the same thing.
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Re: OpenOffice Crash - bad Java JRE

[Frank Murphy]

On 24/06/10 15:30, Smith, Herb wrote:

> Java-1.6.0-openjdk is already installed.  The yum command indicated that 
> there was nothing to do.
> 

Did you install OpenOffice from fedora repo,
or OpenOffice.org ?

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RE: OpenOffice Crash - bad Java JRE

[Smith, Herb]

> -Original Message-
> From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-
> boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Haley
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 10:33 AM
> To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: OpenOffice Crash - bad Java JRE
> 
> On 06/18/2010 04:14 PM, Smith, Herb wrote:
> > I have a new F13 install, fully updated.
> >
> > OpenOffice crashes saying that the Java JRE is bad and that I should 
> > install a new
> one and point OpenOffice to it.
> >
> > The only JRE that I have on the machine is what came with the F13 install.  
> > Is this
> a known bug?
> > Any suggestions other than installing the JRE from Sun, which I can do, no
> problem, but I didn't want to if this was going to be fixed or there was some 
> other
> obvious thing I'm missing.
> 
> Please make sure that java-1.6.0-openjdk is installed with "yum install 
> java-1.6.0-
> openjdk"
> 
> If that doesn't work, please open a new bug, make sure that the exact 
> information to
> reproduce the bug is in there, and send it to me.
> 
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Java-1.6.0-openjdk is already installed.  The yum command indicated that there 
was nothing to do.

I'll attempt the Bugzilla report as soon as I can.

Thanks
Herb

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Re: Unexplained temporary freezes in Thunderbird Fedora 13

[Jerry Feldman]

  On 06/23/2010 05:43 PM, g wrote:
> 
> if Konstantin Svist is running 3.1 without problems, i see no reason that
> you should not be able to.
>
> if you reinstall, install 32 bit so you can get enigmail back.
>
> as you are aware of, if you start in safe-mode, extensions are disabled.
>
> you did say that you tried watching what else was running, but nothing
> seemed to be occurring when you had freezes.
>
> if you have 'ntp' enabled, try turning it off to see if it's causing any
> problems.
>
> also, anything else that maybe hitting internet.
>
>
I'm currently running without any extensions on 64-bit 3.1-0.2.rc2.fc14. 
Yesterday the bandwidth from work to home was constrained, but it is 
back to normal today.  My CPU is a quad-core Opteron and should not be a 
problem in that at the time of the freezes, I was running Firefox and 1 
or 2 Gnome-terminals. I'm going to use this today to see if I have any 
freezes. Running X over IP through an ssh tunnel has its own issues, so 
it really is not a valid test. I did experience a freeze while typing 
the word, 'test' in the last sentence, but as I stated, it is not a 
valid test.

My plan over the next few days is to run 64-bit 3.1 from Rawhide with no 
extensions with ntpd and possibly some other daemons disabled. Another 
possible cause is that it may be trying an IMAP sync to GMAIL.  The two 
tests here is to (1) change the timing, and (2) do offline and only 
manually get mail. After reading some of the posts on the T-Bird list, 
I'm leaning in this direction.
If things go well, then we'll re-enable some of these. I will install 
the 32-bit 3.1 with no extensions and see if that is clean, then install 
enigmail and a few other extensions after testing for a while.

The one common factor is that top shows Thunderbird using 100% CPU.

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Re: Mounting LVM partition - was Re: SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

[Michael Cronenworth]

Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Can anyone please tell me how to mount the LVM so I can copy the contents
> across.

If you're using F13, you can run palimpset (a.k.a. "Disk Utility" from 
your Applications>System Tools menu) to perform any disk maintenance. I 
could tell you how to activate the LVM via command line but palimpset is 
so pretty. ;)
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Mounting LVM partition - was Re: SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

[Gary Stainburn]

On Thursday 24 June 2010 14:33:04 Mikkel wrote:
>
> Dumb question - is your external case rated for a drive that large?
> From the messages, it sounds like the drive is too big. Depending on
> the electronics, there is a drive size limit to external cases.
>
> Mikkel

By a process of elimination, unplugging, removing and reseating the HDD, 
rebooting etc., I have got the HDD working and am currently copying across 
the contents of the NTFS partition (/dev/sdb1).
Also auto-mounted was the boot partition (/dev/sdb2)
However, I can't get the main root partition to mount. As the fdisk shows, 
this was a LVM.

Can anyone please tell me how to mount the LVM so I can copy the contents 
across.

Gary

[r...@dcomp5 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa42d04a3

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   1  13  104391   de  Dell Utility
/dev/sdb2  14   15481   1242467107  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb3   *   15482   15507  204800   83  Linux
/dev/sdb4   15508   38913   1880086955  Extended
/dev/sdb5   15508   38913   188008448   8e  Linux LVM
[r...@dcomp5 ~]#
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Re: F13 - installation problem (Anaconda + Display)

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Federico Marziali
 wrote:
>>> I'm trying to install Fedora 13 on a Sony Vaio VPCF11C5E (F-series)
>>> and I'm incurring in the following 2 problems
>>>
>>> 1. If I try to customize the partitioning layout, I get a python error
>>> and the suggestion to file a bug. I just applied for an account to
>>> bugzilla.redhat.com and I might try to reproduce the bug once I have
>>> access to bugzilla. In the meanwhile, since I'm installing on a SSD,
>>> I'm curious to know if somebody else had the same problem with this
>>> type of hard drives.
>> Not sure what's going on here, but then again I wanted a striped LVM
>> partition (4GB SSD, 4GB SD) so I used System Rescue CD booted on a USB
>> flash drive to setup my partitions. I only let Anaconda format them.
>
> Oh well, I still haven't got access to bugzilla, so I'll worry to file
> a bug when I eventually get the username and password (BTW, is that
> normal that it takes "so long" - i.e. more than 24 hours - for an
> account?)

No, that's not normal, you might need to try again.

>>> 2. More serious: the screen resolution used is wrong and as a result I
>>> can see only a portion of the screen content, which creates
>>> difficulties both at installation time, when one wants to click on the
>>> "forward" button :), and during "normal" usafe.
>>> After installation I tried to install the nvidia drivers from RPM
>>> fusion, resulting in a not anymore functioning system (the boot
>>> process gets till when the fedora logo gets "filled up" and than hangs
>>> there forever)
>>> The graphic card is a Nvidia geforce 330M.
>>> Specifying the parameter "resolution=1920x1080" at boot time didn't help.
>>> Any ideas how to proceed?
>> Try adding "rdblacklist=nouveau" to your grub kernel parameters in
>>"/boot/grub/menu.lst". This usually happens after a fresh install
>>because the initial ram disk still has the nouveau driver in it and
>>once it's loaded the nvidia driver can't load. If the proper module
>>blacklist was added by the package, which it should have been, this
>>will be taken care of for you at the next kernel update but it doesn't
>>hurt to leave the kernel parameter there.

If you saw the graphical bootup (called Plymouth) and did not add a
vga= then the rdblacklist= parameter did not take. If it does and you
don't specify vga= then you should see the text mode bootup version of
Plymouth, so I would assume the nouveau driver is still loading. You
definitely need to fix this problem first.

Perhaps you can post your /boot/grub/grub.conf to the list? (this is
the same as menu.lst, in fact, menu.lst is a symbolic link to
grub.conf)

> Richard, thanks for your hint, but unfortunately this didn't fix the problem.
> I now have a black screen after the "filled-up logo".
> Is there a way to boot  and loading a "compatibility" display driver?
> So that I can remove the nvidia packages...
>
> I just came across a IA 64 specific readme on the nvidia website:
> ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-ia64/1.0-5336/README.IA64
> I assume that the RPMFusion package redistributes this proprietary
> driver butIs that a typo or does the above readme really state
> that the 64 bit drivers do not work with kernel 2.6???!!

I think you're confusing IA 64 with x86_64. Your system is x86 based.
I use the rpmfusion packaged driver on 3 x86_64 installs of Fedora 12
& 13.

>> Also, once you do that it will revert to a text mode boot up, if you
>> want the graphical bootup add a "vga=..." kernel parameter as well.
>> The best way to figure out what resolution is to manually add
>> "vga=ask" the first time and pick one of the available resolutions,
>> such as 317 or whatever it is. Once you find one you like (this will
>> also affect virtual terminals), add it to your grub kernel options but
>> put "0x" in front of your choice, i.e.: "vga=0x317"
> Actually this didn't fix the problem when X gets started... it still
> leaves a portion of the screen chopped out...

I would leave the vga parameter out until you get the nouveau driver
to stop loading.

> I'm starting to wonder if these problems coudl have an easy happy
> ending by just installing the 32-bit version of fedora. :)

It may be worth a try, but I don't think your problems are 32 vs. 64
bit problems. I did a quick search online and found some bug reports
for your specific model on Ubuntu for graphical issues[1].

Richard

[1] 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/565382
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Re: strange behaviour of sssd

[Eric Doutreleau]

well

sorry to have disturb the list
i found the problem
the /etc/nsswitch.conf was not readable by regular users.



Le 24/06/2010 14:18, Stephen Gallagher a écrit :
> On 06/24/2010 07:48 AM, Eric Doutreleau wrote:
>>
>>
>> Le 24/06/2010 12:58, Stephen Gallagher a écrit :
>>> If this works with root but not with a regular user, I'd bet you that
>>> you're actually experiencing an SELinux denial here. Check your
>>> /var/log/audit.log
>>>
>>>
>>
>> hi
>> i have selinux disabled on that machine
>> in my audit.log file i can read
> 
>
>
> Can you examine /var/log/sssd/sssd_default.log for any obvious errors?
>
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RE: USB Printer Install help needed

[Smith, Herb]

> -Original Message-
> From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-
> boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Tim Waugh
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 6:21 AM
> To: Community support for Fedora users
> Subject: RE: USB Printer Install help needed
> 
> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 13:51 -0500, Smith, Herb wrote:
> > That command (executed as root) produced absolutely no response.
> 
> Let's try to find out what the usb backend is actually up to.
> 
> Could you please run this command as root and attach the output?:
> 
> strace /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb 2>&1 | tail -n +200
> 
> It might be that you have something (perhaps the 'hp' backend?) using libusb 
> with
> the printer, preventing the usblp kernel module from getting access.
> 
> Tim.
> */

I'm not sure how helpful this is, but I'm not sure what you're looking for:

strace /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb 2>&1 | tail -n +200 
open("/dev/usblp1", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/lp1", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/usblp1", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usblp2", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/lp2", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/usblp2", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usblp3", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/lp3", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/usblp3", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usblp4", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/lp4", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/usblp4", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usblp5", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/lp5", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/usblp5", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usblp6", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/lp6", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/usblp6", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usblp7", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/lp7", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/usblp7", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usblp8", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/lp8", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/usblp8", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usblp9", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/lp9", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/usblp9", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usblp10", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/lp10", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/usblp10", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
or directory) 
open("/dev/usblp11", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/lp11", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/usblp11", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
or directory) 
open("/dev/usblp12", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/lp12", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/usblp12", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
or directory) 
open("/dev/usblp13", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/lp13", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/usblp13", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
or directory) 
open("/dev/usblp14", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/lp14", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/usblp14", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
or directory) 
open("/dev/usblp15", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/lp15", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory) 
open("/dev/usb/usblp15", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
or di

Re: [389-users] how to quickly recover from a corrupt database in multiple master configuration

[mark benschop]

Just in case anybody is interested in the reason the corruption occurred.
Apparently a rotten browsing index caused it.
An error message pointed me in this direction :
 errors:[17/Jun/2010:12:51:18 +0200] - vlv_build_idl: can't follow db cursor
(err -30989)
I deleted the browsing index from the particular ou and the problem was
gone.

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Rich Megginson  wrote:

> mark benschop wrote:
> > Hi Rich,
> > Thanks for your reply.
> > Please find the logging from the problems below.
> > The serverb55 is one of 2 servers in a multiple masters configuration
> > that consists of serverb55 and serverb05.
> >
> > The problem I inititially had was that I had 2 entries that could not
> > be deleted serverb55.
> >
> > Here's logging from the access file.
> > ===
> > access.20100614-092820:[15/Jun/2010:09:20:49 +0200] conn=342177 op=7
> > SRCH base="uid=dbeijk, ou=people, dc=directory,dc=intern" scope=0
> > filter="(objectClass=*)" attrs=ALL
> > access.20100614-092820:[15/Jun/2010:09:20:49 +0200] conn=342177 op=7
> > RESULT err=0 tag=101 nentries=1 etime=0
> > access.20100614-092820:[15/Jun/2010:09:22:08 +0200] conn=342177 op=8
> > SRCH base="uid=dbeijk, ou=people, dc=directory,dc=intern" scope=1
> > filter="(objectClass=*)" attrs="objectClass"
> > access.20100614-092820:[15/Jun/2010:09:22:08 +0200] conn=342177 op=8
> > RESULT err=0 tag=101 nentries=0 etime=0 notes=U
> > access.20100614-092820:[15/Jun/2010:09:22:08 +0200] conn=342177 op=9
> > DEL dn="uid=dbeijk, ou=people, dc=directory,dc=intern"
> > access.20100614-092820:[15/Jun/2010:09:22:08 +0200] conn=342177 op=9
> > RESULT err=1 tag=107 nentries=0 etime=0 csn=4c172a210037
> > access.20100614-092820:[15/Jun/2010:09:22:08 +0200] conn=342177 op=10
> > SRCH base="uid=dbeijk, ou=people, dc=directory,dc=intern" scope=1
> > filter="(objectClass=*)" attrs="objectClass"
> > access.20100614-092820:[15/Jun/2010:09:22:08 +0200] conn=342177 op=10
> > RESULT err=0 tag=101 nentries=0 etime=0 notes=U
> > ===
> >
> > LDAP error 1 i found means 'unwiling to perform'. First I thought
> > something might be wrong with the entry itself.
> > The error log found in the error log from the serverb55 I've added
> > below seemed to point in that direction.
> >
> >
> > When I logged on the the other ldapserver, serverb05, I tried to
> > delete the same entry to see if this slapd had the same issue but here
> > it worked.
> > Replicating the delete didn't. The following error was logged to the
> > errorlog of this :
> >
> > 
> > [15/Jun/2010:09:35:17 +0200] NSMMReplicationPlugin -
> > agmt="cn=serverb55" (serverb55:636): Consumer failed to replay change
> > (uniqueid a276337c-5dc511df-852cfef8-667fa4d4, CSN
> > 4c172d360005): Operations error. Will retry later.
> > ===
> >
> > So there seemed to be a problem with the serverb55 only.
> > Since I assumed the database got somehow corrupt or inconsistent I've
> > tried the following steps to try and recreate the database or had it
> > checked in order to get it right again.
> > First there's the errors from the account that could not be deleted.
> > I 'reinitialised the consumer' from the working serverb05 to the
> > problematic serverb55.
> > Then I restarted the slapd.
> > Made an export of the database and imported that.
> > Slapd stopped the database.
> >
> > Please find the logging from /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-serverb55/errors
> > from the actions leading to the problem of the fatal server stop.
> > ==
> > CentOS-Directory/8.1.0
> > B2009.134.1334
> >
> > serverb55:636
> > (/etc/dirsrv/slapd-serverb55)
> >
> >
> >
> > [15/Jun/2010:09:22:58 +0200] - Entry "uid=dbeijk, ou=People,
> > dc=directory,dc=intern" missing attribute "uidNumber" required by
> > object class "posixAccount"
> > [15/Jun/2010:09:22:58 +0200] - Entry "uid=dbeijk, ou=People,
> > dc=directory,dc=intern" missing attribute "gidNumber" required by
> > object class "posixAccount"
> > [15/Jun/2010:09:22:58 +0200] - Entry "uid=dbeijk, ou=People,
> > dc=directory,dc=intern" -- attribute "uidNumber" not allowed
> > [15/Jun/2010:09:22:58 +0200] - Entry "uid=dbeijk, ou=People,
> > dc=directory,dc=intern" missing attribute "uid" required by object
> > class "posixAccount"
> > [15/Jun/2010:09:22:58 +0200] - Entry "uid=dbeijk, ou=People,
> > dc=directory,dc=intern" missing attribute "cn" required by object
> > class "posixAccount"
> > [15/Jun/2010:09:22:58 +0200] - Entry "uid=dbeijk, ou=People,
> > dc=directory,dc=intern" missing attribute "homeDirectory" required by
> > object class "posixAccount"
> > [15/Jun/2010:09:23:04 +0200] - Entry "uid=dbeijk, ou=People,
> > dc=directory,dc=intern" missi

Re: SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

[Mikkel]

On 06/24/2010 08:11 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Also found in dmesg: (full file available at 
> http://www.stainburn.com/dmesg.txt )
> 
> scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-AccessPQ: 0 ANSI: 2 
> CCS
> sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0x as device size
> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 4294967296 512-byte logical blocks: (2.19 TB/2.00 TiB)
> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0x as device size
> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
>  sdb: unknown partition table
> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0x as device size
> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
> 
Dumb question - is your external case rated for a drive that large?
From the messages, it sounds like the drive is too big. Depending on
the electronics, there is a drive size limit to external cases.

Mikkel
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Fedora 13 - single pixel for GUI login screen so unable to login to Gnome/Xfce

[Edmon Begoli]

I upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 and now, when my computer boots,
I get a login screen but the actual login box with user accounts is a
one pixel wide.

I tried to log in from the other machine, and I found my user accounts
intact but the
graphical login is squeezed-unusable.

Does anyone have any suggestions for this problem?

Thank you,
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Re: SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

[Gary Stainburn]

On Thursday 24 June 2010 13:51:29 Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 13:11 +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > [r...@dcomp5 ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb
> >
> > Unable to read /dev/sdb
>
> Should it be sdb?  Try "fdisk -l" to list all the drives it finds.
>
> --
> [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r
> 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
>
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.  I
> read messages from the public lists.

[r...@dcomp5 ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x926c926c

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *   1   14023   1126397167  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2   14024   14087  512000   83  Linux
/dev/sda3   14087   14215 1024000   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4   14215   30402   1300224005  Extended
/dev/sda5   14215   30402   130021376   83  Linux
[r...@dcomp5 ~]# uname -a
Linux dcomp5.ringways.co.uk 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP Fri Jun 11 
09:42:24 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[r...@dcomp5 ~]# 

Also found in dmesg: (full file available at 
http://www.stainburn.com/dmesg.txt )

scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-AccessPQ: 0 ANSI: 2 
CCS
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0x as device size
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 4294967296 512-byte logical blocks: (2.19 TB/2.00 TiB)
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0x as device size
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb: unknown partition table
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0x as device size
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk



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Re: Fedora 13, Spamassassin, and SELinux

[B Wooster]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Daniel J Walsh  wrote:
> On 06/22/2010 06:58 PM, B Wooster wrote:
>> But I'm all set now, for other reasons, am running with selinux=0
> Well ask questions about what caused you to disable SELInux.  Remember
> you can always put the machine into permissive mode or individual
> domains permissive.

Well, I turned it for all these reasons:
1) This is a server system, and I'll be running many services. Did not
want to deal with SELinux right now, given the stumbles I had - don't
yet know SELinux well enough.
2) When I installed Fedora 13 (previously had Ubuntu 9, and Fedora 7),
I preserved /home and formatted the separate / partition for F13.
Well, then KDM could not login any user.But I could ssh in. Turned out
this is explained in the SELinux FAQ - had to relabel /home.
3) My rc.local has a "su -c username fetchmail ...". This would not
start. No messages in audit.log. A web search shows other people
having the same problem, same symptoms.

So for now, while I could turned on enforcing=0, did not want to deal
with it since I would not understand the log messages anyway, primary
goal is to get everything on this server running first.
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