SOLVED Re: Checking cronjob syntax

[Frank Murphy]

On 27/08/12 07:44, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:


You're using the wrong quotes.  As it stands, your comparing the string
"date +%A" with the string "Sunday".  Presumably what you want is to
compare the output of the command "date +%S" with the string "Sunday".
You need to use "backticks" for that:
test `date +\%A` = Sunday


Thank you my friend,
I just couldn't see it without your aid.

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Re: Checking cronjob syntax

[Sjoerd Mullender]

On 2012-08-27 08:39, Frank Murphy wrote:
> Today being Monday:
> 45 5 22-28 * * test 'date +\%A' = Sunday && yum -v clean plugins
> 
> Nothing appears to have happened. (no email to root, usual cron stuff)
> So taking the bit from "test" eg:
> test 'date +\%A' = Sunday && blkid (all days in turn)
> blkid doesn't run
> 
> Where have I slipped up
> 
> 

You're using the wrong quotes.  As it stands, your comparing the string
"date +%A" with the string "Sunday".  Presumably what you want is to
compare the output of the command "date +%S" with the string "Sunday".
You need to use "backticks" for that:
test `date +\%A` = Sunday
You're not getting output because the test fails and so yum never gets
executed.  All of that happens in silence, hence no mail to root.
You can check you cron log /var/log/cron to see that the command did
execute.

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Checking cronjob syntax

[Frank Murphy]

Today being Monday:
45 5 22-28 * * test 'date +\%A' = Sunday && yum -v clean plugins

Nothing appears to have happened. (no email to root, usual cron stuff)
So taking the bit from "test" eg:
test 'date +\%A' = Sunday && blkid (all days in turn)
blkid doesn't run

Where have I slipped up


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Re: Natural Selection.....

[Phil Dobbin]

Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:

> Ok so after scouring this site called "DistroWatch".which has a
> MILLION different versions of Linux I've decided to go with:
> 
> PeppermintOS  - laptop
> 
> Ubuntu LTS -  desktop
> 
> Fedora   laptop
> 
> Linux Mint desktop
> 
> PC-BSD desktop
> 
> Will have to figure out which one will be a server...a storage
> machineetc.

As as a user of multiple distros (see my sig) I use, CentOS for my
server boxes both physical & virtual, Fedora as my desktop, Ubuntu for
the laptop, Debian for my home web server & OS X, well, because it's OS X.

I'm also shortly to be sitting my RHCSA exam so they're all lab
orientated with the emphasis being on CentOS & Fedora but knowing all
distros (within reason) for me is going to be necessary (I have Arch &
Gentoo in VMs).

Have fun.

Cheers,

  Phil...

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Re: F16>F17: F17 can't find root by uuid - which exists!

[JD]

On 08/26/2012 08:07 PM, sean darcy wrote:

On 08/26/2012 05:55 PM, sean darcy wrote:

On 08/26/2012 04:45 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:

On 26.08.2012, sean darcy wrote:


[liveuser@localhost ~]$ blkid /dev/sda2
/dev/sda2: LABEL="root" UUID="89afb6ff-4fb2-4602-94b5-99dbf022b100"
TYPE="ext4"


I can't find something wrong in your grub.cfg. What do you see when
you try to boot, are there any errors / is there any related output on
the screen when it fails?

Have you looked into device.map, if your devices are listed correct?

If you want to boot from absolute device, write "root=/dev/sda2" into
your grub.cfg.




If this is not working either and nobody has a clue what's going on, I
would try to reinstall grub2 via grub2-install, after booting from an
external media. You can avoid chrooting by using the --root-device
parameter. Mount your root-partition on /mnt:

  grub2-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

I'm not quite shure it is a problem with dracut, but without any
further information it will be impossible to be more precise.



Trying to do grub2-install from the F17 Live CD. I think I need to mount
both / and /boot. Then I'd use --boot-directory to point to /boot. But
I'm puzzled about how to specify /root. --root-directory is now
deprecated in favor of --efi-directory. But that's specific for UEFI,
whatever that is.

sean



Used the net.iso disk to chroot into the install. Then tried 
grub2-install. That completed successfully. Then rebooted. Same problem.


Really odd.

Do I replace the uuid with /dev/sda2 everyplace it appears in grub.cfg?

sean


Can you boot from an older kernel?
If yes, then
yum -y re-install  kernel-... (i.e. the one you are unable to boot up).

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Re: Unable to force wodim to write a CD at 2X speed

[JD]

On 08/26/2012 11:35 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote

DVD burn speed is not the same as CD burn speed. This is why you
have both CD and DVD speed specs on drives. When it comes to CDs,
there are two different blank formats. You have the 1x to 4x and the
4x to ?x. You can not burn the 1-4x at faster then 4x. You can not
burn the 4x-4x+ CDs at slower the 4x. This has NOTHING to do with
DVD burning speeds.

Check your drive CD burning speeds and CD blank speeds. See if they
are rated to burn at slower then 4x. If not, then regardless of the
software, you are NOT doing to be able to burn CDs slower then 4x.
Again, this is different then DVD burn speeds.

You may want to do some research on burning CDs and DVDs so that you
understand the difference. You will probably discover that your
hardware will not burn CDs at slower then 4x.

Mikkel


Thanx for the explanation.
So, I tried
$ wodim -v dev=/dev/sr0 speed=4 image6.iso
. . . .
Speed set to 1764 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed  10.0 in real force TAO mode for 
single session.


I interrupted the burn, as it did not obey 4x speed.

So, I tried 6X.

Script started on Sun 26 Aug 2012 12:53:20 PM MDT
$ wodim -v dev=/dev/sr0 speed=6 image3.iso
. . . .
Speed set to 1764 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed  10.0 in real TAO mode for single session.

When I add driveropts=forcespeed, it still says:
.
.
.
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed  10.0 in real TAO mode for single session.

I believe that wodim may be the source of the problem.

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Re: F16>F17: F17 can't find root by uuid - which exists!

[sean darcy]

On 08/26/2012 05:55 PM, sean darcy wrote:

On 08/26/2012 04:45 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:

On 26.08.2012, sean darcy wrote:


[liveuser@localhost ~]$ blkid /dev/sda2
/dev/sda2: LABEL="root" UUID="89afb6ff-4fb2-4602-94b5-99dbf022b100"
TYPE="ext4"


I can't find something wrong in your grub.cfg. What do you see when
you try to boot, are there any errors / is there any related output on
the screen when it fails?

Have you looked into device.map, if your devices are listed correct?

If you want to boot from absolute device, write "root=/dev/sda2" into
your grub.cfg.




If this is not working either and nobody has a clue what's going on, I
would try to reinstall grub2 via grub2-install, after booting from an
external media. You can avoid chrooting by using the --root-device
parameter. Mount your root-partition on /mnt:

  grub2-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

I'm not quite shure it is a problem with dracut, but without any
further information it will be impossible to be more precise.



Trying to do grub2-install from the F17 Live CD. I think I need to mount
both / and /boot. Then I'd use --boot-directory to point to /boot. But
I'm puzzled about how to specify /root. --root-directory is now
deprecated in favor of --efi-directory. But that's specific for UEFI,
whatever that is.

sean



Used the net.iso disk to chroot into the install. Then tried 
grub2-install. That completed successfully. Then rebooted. Same problem.


Really odd.

Do I replace the uuid with /dev/sda2 everyplace it appears in grub.cfg?

sean

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Re: Openvpn: how to start at login?

[jdow]

On 2012/08/25 15:07, Reindl Harald wrote:



Am 26.08.2012 00:00, schrieb Timothy Murphy:

Marko Vojinovic wrote:


In what sense openvpn *doesn't* run like every other service?


Before systemd/systemctl came along
I just used to say "chkconfig openvpn on".
I'm just asking why I can't do the equivalent today?

As far as I know, one can "systemctl enable" every other service.


how often do we start this discussion
how did yu enable DIFFERENT openvpn-connections before systemd?
why do you no simply create ION file to do what you like?

/etc/systemd/system/openvpn.service:

[Unit]
Description=OpenVPN
After=syslog.target network.target network-wlan-bridge.service

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/openvpn --daemon --cd /etc/openvpn/ --config openvpn.conf
Restart=always
RestartSec=1

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target


So I suppose that magical incantation is so much more obvious that
chkconfig, which just worked, had to be done away with. Right!
If it's not broke let's fix it anyway.

{+_+}

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Re: F16>F17: F17 can't find root by uuid - which exists!

[sean darcy]

On 08/26/2012 04:45 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:

On 26.08.2012, sean darcy wrote:


[liveuser@localhost ~]$ blkid /dev/sda2
/dev/sda2: LABEL="root" UUID="89afb6ff-4fb2-4602-94b5-99dbf022b100" TYPE="ext4"


I can't find something wrong in your grub.cfg. What do you see when
you try to boot, are there any errors / is there any related output on
the screen when it fails?

Have you looked into device.map, if your devices are listed correct?

If you want to boot from absolute device, write "root=/dev/sda2" into
your grub.cfg.

If this is not working either and nobody has a clue what's going on, I
would try to reinstall grub2 via grub2-install, after booting from an
external media. You can avoid chrooting by using the --root-device
parameter. Mount your root-partition on /mnt:

  grub2-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

I'm not quite shure it is a problem with dracut, but without any
further information it will be impossible to be more precise.



FWIW, On boot here's the final screen.

dracut-018-98.git20120813.fc17 starts
dracut removes cryptluks
dracut removes lvm
udevd starts
dract starts plymouth
dracut removes DM RAID
dracut removes MD RAID
ata_id[273]: unable to open '$devnode'
ata_id[275]: unable to open '$devnode'
dracut unable to process initqueue
dracut warning: /dev/disk/by-uuid/89af does not exist

dropping to debug shell

sean


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Re: F16>F17: F17 can't find root by uuid - which exists!

[sean darcy]

On 08/26/2012 04:45 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:

On 26.08.2012, sean darcy wrote:


[liveuser@localhost ~]$ blkid /dev/sda2
/dev/sda2: LABEL="root" UUID="89afb6ff-4fb2-4602-94b5-99dbf022b100" TYPE="ext4"


I can't find something wrong in your grub.cfg. What do you see when
you try to boot, are there any errors / is there any related output on
the screen when it fails?

Have you looked into device.map, if your devices are listed correct?

If you want to boot from absolute device, write "root=/dev/sda2" into
your grub.cfg.

If this is not working either and nobody has a clue what's going on, I
would try to reinstall grub2 via grub2-install, after booting from an
external media. You can avoid chrooting by using the --root-device
parameter. Mount your root-partition on /mnt:

  grub2-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

I'm not quite shure it is a problem with dracut, but without any
further information it will be impossible to be more precise.



Trying to do grub2-install from the F17 Live CD. I think I need to mount 
both / and /boot. Then I'd use --boot-directory to point to /boot. But 
I'm puzzled about how to specify /root. --root-directory is now 
deprecated in favor of --efi-directory. But that's specific for UEFI, 
whatever that is.


sean

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Re: Spam question

[Heinz Diehl]

On 26.08.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: 

> all other machines before can write what they like in mail headers

You can claim to be who you want to while connecting to a mailserver,
but you can't fake the IP from which you are connecting. It is
logged by the mailserver while connecting between two square brackets.

The usual format used in Received: headers is

 name (dns-name [ip-address])

"Name" is easy to forge. "Dns-name" is what a reverse lookup on
ip-adress delivers. "Ip-adress" reflects the IP of the machine which
connected to the mailserver which generated this Received: header.

> no, this is not theory, this is how email works and things are

Ok, so please show me the evidence of your statement.






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Re: Natural Selection.....

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 08/25/2012 03:29 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:

You intend to use them all at once? Why?

For a server box, you might want to consider CentOS.

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. 
mailto:eoconno...@gmail.com>> wrote:


Ok so after scouring this site called "DistroWatch".which has
a MILLION different versions of Linux I've decided to go with:

PeppermintOS  - laptop

Ubuntu LTS -  desktop

Fedora   laptop

Linux Mint desktop

PC-BSD desktop

Will have to figure out which one will be a server...a storage
machineetc.


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Christopher Svanefalk



I do intend to use them all.but at different times. I'm going to be 
setting up a server that I will need to be able to access from outside 
my home (Ubuntu Server maybe?) but now you've mentioned CentOS...I might 
go that route instead, I'll also want something that can act as a file 
serverholding all videos...LibreOffice Writer / Calc / Impress 
documents along with various media (music.pdfsetc) And finally 
I'll be testing things out with the laptops that I haveand finaly 
I'm going to have the "GrandMaster" machine which will be an my own 
personal machine that will do everything I need it to (edit - create 
music software filescreate/edit graphic files etc...) BTW I play 
guitar and am looking to have a little "studio-in-a-box" for my personal 
machine.thanks for the info...!!



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Re: Spam question

[Heinz Diehl]

On 26.08.2012, Aaron Konstam wrote: 

> Is there someway from the mail header to deduce the origin of the
> messages?

Yes, the "Received:" headers. Please post the _full_ header of one of
these mails.

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Re: F16>F17: F17 can't find root by uuid - which exists!

[Heinz Diehl]

On 26.08.2012, sean darcy wrote: 

> >[liveuser@localhost ~]$ blkid /dev/sda2
> >/dev/sda2: LABEL="root" UUID="89afb6ff-4fb2-4602-94b5-99dbf022b100" 
> >TYPE="ext4"

I can't find something wrong in your grub.cfg. What do you see when
you try to boot, are there any errors / is there any related output on
the screen when it fails?

Have you looked into device.map, if your devices are listed correct?

If you want to boot from absolute device, write "root=/dev/sda2" into
your grub.cfg.

If this is not working either and nobody has a clue what's going on, I
would try to reinstall grub2 via grub2-install, after booting from an
external media. You can avoid chrooting by using the --root-device
parameter. Mount your root-partition on /mnt:

 grub2-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

I'm not quite shure it is a problem with dracut, but without any
further information it will be impossible to be more precise.

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qemu-kvm / libvirt using swap

[Tommy Pham]

Hi,

Is there anyway for me to prevent the qemu-kvm or libvirt from using
swap?  The system monitor's resources indicate it's using 13.5GiB
(43.2%) of 31.3GiB RAM and 2.5GiB(7.0%) of 31.2GiB swap.

TIA,
Tommy
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Re: ttyUSB

[Patrick Dupre]

On 2012-08-26 22:19, Joe Zeff wrote:

On 08/26/2012 12:56 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:

Hello,

I am back on my previous email.
When I disconnect the network (ppp0 through ttyUSB) I would like to
collect some information. Unfortunately if I can detect the 
disconnection

through a /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/file
the ifconfig cannot collect the information about ppp0 because
the interface is already down.
I also tried by using:
/etc/ppp/ip-down.local
but I face the same issue.

Any idea?



Write a little shell script that runs ifconfig, then disconnects.


Of course, but I not control the disconnect. it is usually automatic,
either because the machine shutdown (of course I could then run
the script at shutdown) or it is not under my control (connection
fails).

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Re: ttyUSB

[Patrick Dupre]

On 2012-08-26 22:19, Joe Zeff wrote:

On 08/26/2012 12:56 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:

Hello,

I am back on my previous email.
When I disconnect the network (ppp0 through ttyUSB) I would like to
collect some information. Unfortunately if I can detect the 
disconnection

through a /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/file
the ifconfig cannot collect the information about ppp0 because
the interface is already down.
I also tried by using:
/etc/ppp/ip-down.local
but I face the same issue.

Any idea?



Write a little shell script that runs ifconfig, then disconnects.


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Spam question

[Aaron Konstam]

Suddenly last week I downloaded from a POP server 255 messages of which
over 200 were spam.

After a little study of the evolution setup it became clear that someone
had captured my e-mail address and was filling my mail queue with spam.
They advertised different services but the form of the messages made it
clear they had only one source. However identical spam message had
different Mail Ids and seemed to come from a different address.

Using spamassassin I got thsio spam under control, However
Is there someway from the mail header to deduce the origin of the
messages?
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Re: ttyUSB

[Joe Zeff]

On 08/26/2012 12:56 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:

Hello,

I am back on my previous email.
When I disconnect the network (ppp0 through ttyUSB) I would like to
collect some information. Unfortunately if I can detect the disconnection
through a /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/file
the ifconfig cannot collect the information about ppp0 because
the interface is already down.
I also tried by using:
/etc/ppp/ip-down.local
but I face the same issue.

Any idea?



Write a little shell script that runs ifconfig, then disconnects.
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ttyUSB

[Patrick Dupre]

Hello,

I am back on my previous email.
When I disconnect the network (ppp0 through ttyUSB) I would like to
collect some information. Unfortunately if I can detect the 
disconnection

through a /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/file
the ifconfig cannot collect the information about ppp0 because
the interface is already down.
I also tried by using:
/etc/ppp/ip-down.local
but I face the same issue.

Any idea?

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Re: No irq handler for vector -> dead keyboard

[DJ Delorie]

Heinz Diehl  writes:
> What happens when you boot with "pci=nomsi,noaer"?

I thought I tried that before, but I'll try it again... grub2 seems to
have started ignoring my preferences :-(
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Re: F16>F17: F17 can't find root by uuid - which exists!

[sean darcy]

On 08/26/2012 02:10 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:

On 26.08.2012, sean darcy wrote:


Not sure how to do this, since it won't boot. I'll try to email out of a
Live boot.


You can e.g. use sysresccd. Download an image here:

  http://www.sysresccd.org

You could e.g. run isohybrid on the image and copy it to an USB memory
stick and boot from it afterwards:

  isohybrid image.iso
  cat image.iso > /dev/sdX

And you are ready to go.



Did it slightly differently. Booted up the F17 Live cd. Then ran blkid 
and cat'd grub.cfg. But will download sysresccd. Looks like a better way.



[liveuser@localhost ~]$ blkid /dev/sda2
/dev/sda2: LABEL="root" UUID="89afb6ff-4fb2-4602-94b5-99dbf022b100" TYPE="ext4"

cat /run/media/liveuser/boot/grub2/grub.cfg

#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub2-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
  load_env
fi
set default="${saved_entry}"

if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
  menuentry_id_option="--id"
else
  menuentry_id_option=""
fi

export menuentry_id_option

if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
  set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
  save_env saved_entry
  set prev_saved_entry=
  save_env prev_saved_entry
  set boot_once=true
fi

function savedefault {
  if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
  fi
}

function load_video {
  if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
insmod all_video
  else
insmod efi_gop
insmod efi_uga
insmod ieee1275_fb
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
  fi
}

if [ x$feature_default_font_path = xy ] ; then
   font=unicode
else
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos2 
--hint-efi=hd0,msdos2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2 --hint='hd0,msdos2'  
89afb6ff-4fb2-4602-94b5-99dbf022b100
else
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 89afb6ff-4fb2-4602-94b5-99dbf022b100
fi
font="/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2"
fi

if loadfont $font ; then
  set gfxmode=auto
  load_video
  insmod gfxterm
  set locale_dir=$prefix/locale
  set lang=en_US
  insmod gettext
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Fedora' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os 
$menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-89afb6ff-4fb2-4602-94b5-99dbf022b100' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 
--hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 --hint='hd0,msdos1'  
8a6ce784-d86f-4450-89f1-1aaea04e6bc9
else
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 
8a6ce784-d86f-4450-89f1-1aaea04e6bc9
fi
echo'Loading Linux 3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64 ...'
linux   /vmlinuz-3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64 
root=UUID=89afb6ff-4fb2-4602-94b5-99dbf022b100 ro rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16  KEYTABLE=us rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
echo'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd  /initramfs-3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64.img
}
submenu 'Advanced options for Fedora' $menuentry_id_option 
'gnulinux-advanced-89afb6ff-4fb2-4602-94b5-99dbf022b100' {
menuentry 'Fedora, with Linux 3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64' --class fedora 
--class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 
'gnulinux-3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64-advanced-89afb6ff-4fb2-4602-94b5-99dbf022b100' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 
--hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 
--hint='hd0,msdos1'  8a6ce784-d86f-4450-89f1-1aaea04e6bc9
else
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 
8a6ce784-d86f-4450-89f1-1aaea04e6bc9
fi
echo'Loading Linux 3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64 ...'
linux   /vmlinuz-3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64 
root=UUID=89afb6ff-4fb2-4602-94b5-99dbf022b100 ro rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16  KEYTABLE=us rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
echo'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd  /initramfs-3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64.img
}
menuentry 'Fedora, with Linux 3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64 (recovery mode)' 
--class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 
'gnulinux-3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64-recovery-89afb6ff-4fb2-4602-94b5-99dbf022b100' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=k

Re: No irq handler for vector -> dead keyboard

[Joe Zeff]

On 08/26/2012 10:51 AM, DJ Delorie wrote:

I've been getting a ton of these.  They seem to persist across kernel
updates ever since I first put F17 on.  Once they start happening,
usually within a few hours of a reboot, they PS2 keyboard stops
working right (first keypress is lost, autorepeat keypresses come
through) although restarting X seems to fix them.



At first I was thinking that it was a hardware issue, but if so, 
restarting X wouldn't help.



Unplugging the keyboard and plugging it back in does not fix anything.


Well, no, of course not.  Unless my memory's worse than usual, the only 
way to get your computer to recognize a PS2 keyboard's been plugged in 
is to reboot.

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Re: No irq handler for vector -> dead keyboard

[Heinz Diehl]

On 26.08.2012, DJ Delorie wrote: 

> Message from syslogd@envy at Aug 26 05:20:39 ...
>  kernel:[647218.583886] do_IRQ: 3.191 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

What happens when you boot with "pci=nomsi,noaer"?

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Re: F16>F17: F17 can't find root by uuid - which exists!

[Heinz Diehl]

On 26.08.2012, sean darcy wrote: 

> Not sure how to do this, since it won't boot. I'll try to email out of a
> Live boot.

You can e.g. use sysresccd. Download an image here:

 http://www.sysresccd.org

You could e.g. run isohybrid on the image and copy it to an USB memory
stick and boot from it afterwards:

 isohybrid image.iso
 cat image.iso > /dev/sdX

And you are ready to go.

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No irq handler for vector -> dead keyboard

[DJ Delorie]

I've been getting a ton of these.  They seem to persist across kernel
updates ever since I first put F17 on.  Once they start happening,
usually within a few hours of a reboot, they PS2 keyboard stops
working right (first keypress is lost, autorepeat keypresses come
through) although restarting X seems to fix them.

Unplugging the keyboard and plugging it back in does not fix anything.

The errors keep happening even though the keyboard is not plugged in
at all at the moment (USB keyboards work fine)

Motherboard is a GA-X58A-UD3R with an I7 X980, 24 GB of RAM, an SSD
for boot and two 3TB drives for data.  ATI Radeon HD graphics.  A
couple of other pci/pcie cards if it matters.

Any ideas?

Message from syslogd@envy at Aug 26 05:20:39 ...
 kernel:[647218.583886] do_IRQ: 3.191 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

Message from syslogd@envy at Aug 26 05:23:39 ...
 kernel:[647398.851327] do_IRQ: 3.73 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

Message from syslogd@envy at Aug 26 06:48:59 ...
 kernel:[652511.853351] do_IRQ: 3.112 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

Message from syslogd@envy at Aug 26 07:51:49 ...
 kernel:[656276.261452] do_IRQ: 2.133 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

Message from syslogd@envy at Aug 26 08:58:59 ...
 kernel:[660300.924911] do_IRQ: 2.189 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

Message from syslogd@envy at Aug 26 09:01:29 ...
 kernel:[660450.583000] do_IRQ: 4.39 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

Message from syslogd@envy at Aug 26 09:27:29 ...
 kernel:[662008.464041] do_IRQ: 3.176 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

Message from syslogd@envy at Aug 26 09:53:09 ...
 kernel:[663546.372662] do_IRQ: 5.153 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

Message from syslogd@envy at Aug 26 10:16:19 ...
 kernel:[664934.485086] do_IRQ: 3.160 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

Message from syslogd@envy at Aug 26 11:20:19 ...
 kernel:[668769.269528] do_IRQ: 4.127 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

Linux envy.delorie.com 3.4.4-3.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 26 20:54:56 UTC 2012 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.4.4-3.fc17.x86_64 
root=UUID=933fd9d9-a7dc-48bc-abae-fe79985817ce ro rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 
SYSFONT=True KEYTABLE=us rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 quiet


   CPU0   CPU1   CPU2   CPU3   CPU4   CPU5   
CPU6   CPU7   CPU8   CPU9   CPU10  CPU11  
  0:132  0  0  0  0  0  
0  0  0  0  0  0   IO-APIC-edge  
timer
  1:  78727  0  0  0  0  0  
0  0  0  0  0  0   IO-APIC-edge  
i8042
  8:  1  0  0  0  0  0  
0  0  0  0  0  0   IO-APIC-edge  
rtc0
  9:  0  0  0  0  0  0  
0  0  0  0  0  0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   
acpi
 16:  3 83  0 996020  0  0  
0  0  0  0  0  0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   
uhci_hcd:usb3, pata_jmicron, bttv0
 17:  0  0  0  0  0  0  
0  0  0  0  0  0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   
ahci
 18:   6770239487981954852454393 2699494402069  
0  0  0  0  0  0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   
ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb5, uhci_hcd:usb8, pata_jmicron, firewire_ohci
 19:  0  0  0  0  0  0  
0  0  0  0  0  0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   
ahci, uhci_hcd:usb7
 21:  1  0  0  0309  0  
0  0  0  0  0  0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   
uhci_hcd:usb4
 23:  33011115441923378211591991 3006472306632  
0  0  0  0  0  0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   
ehci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb6
 43:  366108598132   37612986   49599749   39789306   54499151  
0  0  0  0  0  0   PCI-MSI-edge  
ahci
 44:   9091  94873 169008 118253  64004 183937  
0  0  0  0  0  0   PCI-MSI-edge  
ahci
 45:  1  0  0  0  0  0  
0  0  0  0  0  0   PCI-MSI-edge  
xhci_hcd
 46:  0  0  0  0  0  0  
0  0  0  0  0  0   PCI-MSI-edge  
xhci_hcd
 47:  0  0  0  0  0  0  
0  0  0  0  0  0   PCI-MSI-edge  
xhci_hcd
 48:  0 

Re: Unable to force wodim to write a CD at 2X speed

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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On 08/26/2012 12:05 PM, JD wrote:
> On 08/26/2012 10:35 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> On 08/25/2012 09:49 PM, JD wrote:
> >>> using driveropts=forcespeed speed=2 .etc does not work
> >>> using ... speed=2 . does not work
> >>>
> >>> wodim always writes at the medium's encoded speed, which
> >>> ranges from 10X to 24x.
> >>>
> >>> However, using speed=2 on DVD media DOES work.
> >>>
> >>> Here is the content of /etc/wodim.conf which I gleaned from
the web.
> >>>
> >>> CDR_DEVICE=/dev/sr0
> >>> CDR_SPEED=2
> >>> CDR_FIFOSIZE=128m
> >>> DVDR_DEVICE=/dev/sr0
> >>> DVDR_SPEED=2
> >>> DVDR_FIFOSIZE=128m
> >>> TS=128
> >>> GRACETIME=10
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> Do you have blank CDs that will burn at 2x? The blank CD media that
> will burn at 2x is different then the media that will burn at +4X.
> Also, a lot of newer drives will not burn CDs at slower the 4x. DVD
> burning is different - a 2x DVD speed is not the same as a 2x CD
speed.
>
> Mikkel
> -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and
> taste good with Ketchup!
>>
> I have tried it on many different blank cd media, old ones and new
ones.
>
> But how is it that I can burn at 2x on any blank DVD media?
> I have used many different brands of DVD media over the years
> and I have always been able to burn them at 2x.
> So, I don't believe it is the cd media.
> It could very well be wodim itself.
>
DVD burn speed is not the same as CD burn speed. This is why you
have both CD and DVD speed specs on drives. When it comes to CDs,
there are two different blank formats. You have the 1x to 4x and the
4x to ?x. You can not burn the 1-4x at faster then 4x. You can not
burn the 4x-4x+ CDs at slower the 4x. This has NOTHING to do with
DVD burning speeds.

Check your drive CD burning speeds and CD blank speeds. See if they
are rated to burn at slower then 4x. If not, then regardless of the
software, you are NOT doing to be able to burn CDs slower then 4x.
Again, this is different then DVD burn speeds.

You may want to do some research on burning CDs and DVDs so that you
understand the difference. You will probably discover that your
hardware will not burn CDs at slower then 4x.

Mikkel
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Re: Unable to force wodim to write a CD at 2X speed

[JD]

On 08/26/2012 10:35 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

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On 08/25/2012 09:49 PM, JD wrote:

using driveropts=forcespeed speed=2 .etc does not work
using ... speed=2 . does not work

wodim always writes at the medium's encoded speed, which
ranges from 10X to 24x.

However, using speed=2 on DVD media DOES work.

Here is the content of /etc/wodim.conf which I gleaned from the web.

CDR_DEVICE=/dev/sr0
CDR_SPEED=2
CDR_FIFOSIZE=128m
DVDR_DEVICE=/dev/sr0
DVDR_SPEED=2
DVDR_FIFOSIZE=128m
TS=128
GRACETIME=10




Do you have blank CDs that will burn at 2x? The blank CD media that
will burn at 2x is different then the media that will burn at +4X.
Also, a lot of newer drives will not burn CDs at slower the 4x. DVD
burning is different - a 2x DVD speed is not the same as a 2x CD speed.

Mikkel
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I have tried it on many different blank cd media, old ones and new ones.

But how is it that I can burn at 2x on any blank DVD media?
I have used many different brands of DVD media over the years
and I have always been able to burn them at 2x.
So, I don't believe it is the cd media.
It could very well be wodim itself.

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Re: No suspend on lid close

[fred smith]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 05:57:49PM +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Lailah  wrote:
> >
> > What desktop are you using?  I use Fedora 17 with Gnome 3 and I don't have
> > problems.  Closing lid is working as I need.
> 
> Gnome 3.
> 
> Bye,
> a

As was mentioned in another branch of the original posting, you may need
to install Gnome Tweak Tool which will then appear in the Gnome menus
under (I'm typing this from memory, so this may not be fully accurate)
advanced settings. it will let you make the necessary settings. Turns out
it was NOT installed during the original Fedora installation, but installing
it allowed me to solve the problem when logging into the Gnome 3 UI (but
not MATE, that took some other doings which I won't relate here.)

Fred
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Re: Openvpn: how to start at login?

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Sunday, 26. August 2012. 17.44.25 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > 4. cd /lib/systemd/system
> > 5. ln openvpn@.service openvpn@MyClient.service
> 
> And I do think that this link should probably be made by default,
> since the instructions for setting up an openvpn client
> assume throughout that the config file is called client.conf .
> 
> Perhaps with a note in the documentation about what to do
> if one is running more than one openvpn service.

Well, I could imagine that probably most of the people would call their config 
file "client.conf",but if some user chooses to give it another name, he is back 
to square one and has to do steps 4. and 5. anyway.

But feel free to file a RFE in the bugzilla for openvpn, maybe the devs will be 
forthcoming.

By the way, I was actually nicely surprised by the fact that since F16 I can 
run two independent openvpn clients. Before that I had one client, and a whole 
bunch of permissions-tweaks, to separate the "work" from "home" stuff on the 
same vpn. Now I just have two independent networks on two different interfaces 
(tap0 and tap1), two openvpn config files (home.conf and work.conf), and I can 
happily start/stop either of them (or both) on the same laptop, simply by 
saying

  systemctl stop openvpn@work.service
  systemctl start openvpn@home.service

etc., regardless where on the planet I may be physically. Extremely neat, 
comparing to what I had to do before.

So this feature can be actually quite useful, and the only drawback is that 
setting up openvpn requires two extra steps 4. and 5. above (done only once, 
of course). I understand that most people probably don't have a need for two 
or more vpn's, but overall there is really some nonzero benefit from the "new 
way" of setting up openvpn. Besides, people who are able to configure and run 
an openvpn client (let alone server) are typically not noobs, and having to 
create one link to a file as an extra configuration step will not kill them. ;-)

But I do understand your side of the story as well, I had to go through it 
myself... :-)

HTH, :-)
Marko


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Re: Unable to force wodim to write a CD at 2X speed

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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On 08/25/2012 09:49 PM, JD wrote:
> using driveropts=forcespeed speed=2 .etc does not work
> using ... speed=2 . does not work
>
> wodim always writes at the medium's encoded speed, which
> ranges from 10X to 24x.
>
> However, using speed=2 on DVD media DOES work.
>
> Here is the content of /etc/wodim.conf which I gleaned from the web.
>
> CDR_DEVICE=/dev/sr0
> CDR_SPEED=2
> CDR_FIFOSIZE=128m
> DVDR_DEVICE=/dev/sr0
> DVDR_SPEED=2
> DVDR_FIFOSIZE=128m
> TS=128
> GRACETIME=10
>
>
>
Do you have blank CDs that will burn at 2x? The blank CD media that
will burn at 2x is different then the media that will burn at +4X.
Also, a lot of newer drives will not burn CDs at slower the 4x. DVD
burning is different - a 2x DVD speed is not the same as a 2x CD speed.

Mikkel
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Re: No suspend on lid close

[Artifex Maximus]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 6:38 AM,   wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 09:03:24PM +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:38 PM, fred smith
>>  wrote:
>> > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:00:30PM +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote:
>> >> Hello!
>> >>
>> >> I have Fedora 17 x86_64 installed on my Samsung N145Plus netbook.
>> >> Sometimes when I close the lid the machine keep on running instead of
>> >> suspend. I need to open and close the lid again to suspend. Any idea
>> >> why? Any solution?
>> >
>> > I've noticed the same problem on my eeepc (32-bit). I can't even find
>> > an option in screensaver or power settings screens to enable standby
>> > on lid close, like there was on previous versions. is there some
>> > application that needs to be installed for that, or has it just
>> > gone AWOL??
>>
>> It is not settings problem I think as sometimes suspend happens on
>> first lid closing and sometimes happens on second or more. I did not
>> found any link between number of closing of lid and running programs.
>> So the settings are right as suspend happens on closing lid but looks
>> like OS does not detect the lid closing event sometimes.
>>
>
> Hi, could be a faulty latch. These tend to wear over time. Sound almost like
> a faulty intermittent contact spring. YMMV.

My Windows 7 installation has no such problem so I think this is not
contact fault. Is there any file where I can check that system get the
closing event or not? As low level as possible.

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Re: F16>F17: F17 can't find root by uuid - which exists!

[sean darcy]

Not sure how to do this, since it won't boot. I'll try to email out of a 
Live boot.


sean

On 08/26/2012 05:00 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote:

On 26.08.2012, sean darcy wrote:


And anyone know why dracut is having such a problem with uuid?


I've never encountered a single problem with dracut and uuids.
Can you please post your /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and the output of "blkid
/dev/your/root/partition"?



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Re: No suspend on lid close

[Artifex Maximus]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Lailah  wrote:
>
> What desktop are you using?  I use Fedora 17 with Gnome 3 and I don't have
> problems.  Closing lid is working as I need.

Gnome 3.

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Re: Openvpn: how to start at login?

[Timothy Murphy]

Reindl Harald wrote:

>> Before systemd/systemctl came along
>> I just used to say "chkconfig openvpn on".
>> I'm just asking why I can't do the equivalent today?
>> 
>> As far as I know, one can "systemctl enable" every other service.
> 
> how often do we start this discussion
> how did yu enable DIFFERENT openvpn-connections before systemd?

I only had (and have) one openvpn service, so the issue didn't arise.

I assume anyone running more than one openvpn service
(a tiny minority, I imagine)
would realise they had to take steps to deal with this.

> why do you no simply create ION file to do what you like?

Because I didn't know what an ION file was until you gave an example.)

Basically, I don't like to change the default system
more than is absolutely necessary,
as I have little confidence in my ability to understand the implications.
 
> /etc/systemd/system/openvpn.service:
> 
> [Unit]
> Description=OpenVPN
> After=syslog.target network.target network-wlan-bridge.service
> 
> [Service]
> Type=forking
> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/openvpn --daemon --cd /etc/openvpn/ --config
> openvpn.conf Restart=always
> RestartSec=1
> 
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
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Re: Openvpn: how to start at login?

[Timothy Murphy]

Marko Vojinovic wrote:

> On Sunday, 26. August 2012. 0.00.16 Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>> > In what sense openvpn *doesn't* run like every other service?
>> 
>> Before systemd/systemctl came along
>> I just used to say "chkconfig openvpn on".
>> I'm just asking why I can't do the equivalent today?
>> 
>> As far as I know, one can "systemctl enable" every other service.
> 
> Well, if you take another look at the link I gave you,
> 
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Openvpn#Working_with_systemd
> 
> you will see that after the server setup instructions, there are also the
> client setup instructions.

You are right, of course,
(I assumed, since the document gave instructions for starting a client,
and then went over to instructions for a server
that this was all there was.
I should have been more thorough.)

> Assuming that you have already configured keys
> and the openvpn configuration file /etc/openvpn/MyClient.conf, you might
> be interested in these particular steps:
> 
> 4. cd /lib/systemd/system
> 5. ln openvpn@.service openvpn@MyClient.service
> 6. systemctl enable openvpn@MyClient.service
> 7. systemctl start openvpn@MyClient.service
> 
> This worked for me, openvpn client service starts automatically at boot,
> and never shuts down. If it doesn't work for you, look at
> /var/log/messages and tell us what went wrong.

Yes, thank you very much.
This seems to answer my question comprehensively.

The only excuse I have is that other people must have missed this,
since various complicated suggestions have been put forward.

And I do think that this link should probably be made by default,
since the instructions for setting up an openvpn client
assume throughout that the config file is called client.conf .

Perhaps with a note in the documentation about what to do
if one is running more than one openvpn service.


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ifconfig

[Patrick Dupre]

Hello,



I am using a 3G connection, ie ppp0
I wish to have information about this interface (by using ifconfig)
when I connect and disconnect to the network. However, when it
disconnect the network, the interface is already gone when
I make the ifconfig.
I use "/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d" and $2.


How can I make an ifconfig ppp0 just before the disconnection?


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Re: error banner popped up: Oh oh ... Something went wrong ...

[Reindl Harald]

Am 26.08.2012 02:41, schrieb Joe Zeff:
> On 08/25/2012 04:28 PM, JD wrote:
>> The way the apps are stacked so deeply upon lib after lib, by the time
>> the failure
>> is returned to the calling app, the app has no ide what happened. The
>> high library
>> stack is very likely to blame.
> 
> So?  Each lib that detects an error should log it instead of just returning 
> with an error status-code.  Yes, I know
> that this sometimes means eight or ten lines in the log for one issue, but 
> something like that makes it easy to
> spot.  As is, there doesn't seem to be any reliable way to track things back 
> to the root cause.

which would mean on a public sevrer with high traffic and a error
in any possibly not important library a SELF-DOS by filling
up your filesystem and kill your SAN with IO



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Re: Openvpn: how to start at login?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 26.08.2012 00:00, schrieb Timothy Murphy:
> Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> 
>> In what sense openvpn *doesn't* run like every other service?
> 
> Before systemd/systemctl came along
> I just used to say "chkconfig openvpn on".
> I'm just asking why I can't do the equivalent today?
> 
> As far as I know, one can "systemctl enable" every other service.

how often do we start this discussion
how did yu enable DIFFERENT openvpn-connections before systemd?
why do you no simply create ION file to do what you like?

/etc/systemd/system/openvpn.service:

[Unit]
Description=OpenVPN
After=syslog.target network.target network-wlan-bridge.service

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/openvpn --daemon --cd /etc/openvpn/ --config openvpn.conf
Restart=always
RestartSec=1

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target



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Re: F17: what replaces xorg.conf??

[Reindl Harald]

Am 25.08.2012 18:59, schrieb Beartooth:
> 
>   One of my F17 machines hardly ever manages to boot. It's an old 
> Dell PowerEdge SC1420, and it did fine with all the previous Fedora 
> releases, and fine until recently with F17. Now it hits the monitor's 
> error message "input signal out of range." 
> 
>   But sometimes, if I leave it long enough, it does get to the login 
> screen, and after that works normally.
> 
>   Time was when I'd've tried editing some configuration file in /
> boot/grub or /etc/X11; but the only such I can find now start with "Do 
> NOT EDIT" -- so I'm out of my depth

grub2 is configured with /etc/default/grub and files in /etc/grub.d/

to generate the ACTIVE config you need to tpye
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

dunno what developers thinking implement a make-config
command which spits only to screen as default.


these days there is no xorg.conf needed on 999 out of 1000 amchines
however, you do not need a whole one

see below, what is not defined will be configured automatically

[root@srv-rhsoft:/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d]$ cat 01-nocaps.conf
Section "InputClass"
 Identifier  "Keyboard"
 Option  "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
EndSection
[root@srv-rhsoft:/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d]$ cat 02-vnc.conf
Section "Module"
 Load"vnc"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier  "Screen0"
 Option  "passwordFile" "/root/.vnc/passwd"
EndSection
[root@srv-rhsoft:/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d]$ cat 03-intel.conf
Section "Device"
 Identifier  "Videocard0"
 Option  "AccelMethod"   "sna"
EndSection



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Re: f16 -> F17 : jboss-as kills upgrade

[Reindl Harald]

Am 25.08.2012 15:43, schrieb sean darcy:
> On 08/22/2012 07:13 PM, sean darcy wrote:
>> I'm trying to upgrade from F16 to F17. First tried preupgrade. That gave
>> an error that anaconda couldn't install jboss-as, probably a corrupted file. 
>> Then tried the
>> net.iso. Same problem. Then tried the F17 dvd. Ditto.
>>
>> I don't even use jboss.
>>
>> Is there a --skip-broken someplace?
>>
>> I've now got an unusable half baked F16/F17 box.
>>
>> Any suggestions appreciated.
>>
>> sean
>>
> 
> Ping. I've now got a broken box. Anyway to make the install skip jboss-as?

you say you do not use jboss
so what says "yum remove jboss-as"
are the deps REALLY needed?

typically a server-installation can be stripped down to 1.3-1.7 GB rootfs



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Re: Weird freeze

[Reindl Harald]

Am 24.08.2012 17:23, schrieb Heinz Diehl:
> On 24.08.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: 
> 
>> and for that is STRG+ALT+Print+K which kills X really
>> and bring you back to the login-screen which is way
>> more helpful than a complete reboot or reset
> 
> You can have that cheaper, without using m-sysrq, just press
> CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE

YOU CAN NOT IF X IS FREEZED

additionally "killing" CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE was a feature
some releases ago in default settings




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Re: F16>F17: F17 can't find root by uuid - which exists!

[Heinz Diehl]

On 26.08.2012, sean darcy wrote: 

> And anyone know why dracut is having such a problem with uuid?

I've never encountered a single problem with dracut and uuids.
Can you please post your /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and the output of "blkid
/dev/your/root/partition"?

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Re: Unable to force wodim to write a CD at 2X speed

[Tim]

On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 20:49 -0600, JD wrote:
> using driveropts=forcespeed speed=2 .etc  does not work
> using  ... speed=2 . does  not work
>  
> wodim always writes at the medium's encoded speed, which
> ranges from 10X to 24x.
>  
> However, using speed=2 on DVD media DOES work.

It could actually be the media.  They have a set list of speeds that the
media is good for, and shouldn't be burnt at other speeds.  It's quite
likely that some media doesn't support 2x speeds.  It could also be the
drive.

Changing burning speeds requires changing the power of the laser.  The
drive may not be able to change powers for the speed that you want, or
the media mightn't be suitable.

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