RE: best practices for using a small SSD boot drive and a big regular one?

2012-07-13 Thread Alan J. Gagne

  anyway, is there a doc that gives one advice about a sane
partitioning?  it's not really a small SSD -- you can pack a lot
into 128G.  i'm just looking to be as intelligent about this as
possible.


Do not know about sane partitioning but I have the same system that 
I bought

with a 160GB ssd and the 750GB spinning rust. I have been running with this
partitioning for about seven months. The first disk set-up was let 
Fedora pick.


[agagne@dw-agagne ~]$ df -h
Filesystem  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs   50G  7.7G   40G  17% /
devtmpfs7.9G 0  7.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs   7.9G  2.1M  7.9G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs   7.9G  884K  7.9G   1% /run
/dev/mapper/vg_dwagagne01-lv_root50G  7.7G   40G  17% /
tmpfs   7.9G 0  7.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs   7.9G 0  7.9G   0% /media
/dev/sda2   497M  114M  358M  25% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg_dwagagne01-lv_home81G   11G   67G  14% /home
/dev/mapper/vg_dwagagne02-lv_opt 50G  2.0G   46G   5% /opt
/dev/mapper/vg_dwagagne02-lv_vmachines  250G  127G  111G  54% /vmachines
/dev/mapper/vg_dwagagne02-lv_scratch200G   30G  160G  16% /scratch


Alan


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RE: best practices for using a small SSD boot drive and a big regular one?

2012-07-13 Thread Alan J. Gagne

/  [agagne at dw-agagne  
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users  ~]$ df -h
//  Filesystem  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
//  rootfs   50G  7.7G   40G  17% /
//  devtmpfs7.9G 0  7.9G   0% /dev
//  tmpfs   7.9G  2.1M  7.9G   1% /dev/shm
//  tmpfs   7.9G  884K  7.9G   1% /run
//  /dev/mapper/vg_dwagagne01-lv_root50G  7.7G   40G  17% /
//  tmpfs   7.9G 0  7.9G   0% 
/sys/fs/cgroup
//  tmpfs   7.9G 0  7.9G   0% /media
//  /dev/sda2   497M  114M  358M  25% /boot
//  /dev/mapper/vg_dwagagne01-lv_home81G   11G   67G  14% /home
//  /dev/mapper/vg_dwagagne02-lv_opt 50G  2.0G   46G   5% /opt
//  /dev/mapper/vg_dwagagne02-lv_vmachines  250G  127G  111G  54% /vmachines
//  /dev/mapper/vg_dwagagne02-lv_scratch200G   30G  160G  16% /scratch
/
   sorry, i'm not sure what's going on up there.  first, are you saying
that when you installed, you picked both drives as installable devices
and you just went with with what the installer chose for the first
(SSD) drive?

   and i'm assuming that you used your entire 2nd drive for the 02
volume group, is that it?


Sorry for the lack of clarity.

I installed to the first drive only letting Fedora set-up partitioning.
The second drive I set-up manually after the os install.
Currently the second drive is using 550GB of the 750 for VG 02.
200GB on the second drive is currently being left in reserve.

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RE: way to flush /var/log/message

2012-05-21 Thread Alan J. Gagne

When I first looked into the man pages et al for iptables, I found the
LOG but no way to specify a file. The best I could sort out was using a
prefix so I would at least have a token to search for in /var/log/messages.

I just did a quick google to see if I missed something. The only thing I
see is a level and a link to syslog.conf, which I did not get on first
reading (and it didn't feel like where I should be looking to begin with).

Can you point me to a link?


You could look at sending iptables messages to /var/log/iptables using 
rsyslog.


http://blog.shadypixel.com/log-iptables-messages-to-a-separate-file-with-rsyslog/

Alan

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RE: way to flush /var/log/message

2012-05-21 Thread Alan J. Gagne

On 5/21/2012 12:15 PM, Alan J. Gagne wrote:
/
//  You could look at sending iptables messages to /var/log/iptables using
//  rsyslog.
//
//  
http://blog.shadypixel.com/log-iptables-messages-to-a-separate-file-with-rsyslog/
//
//  Alan
//
//
/
Alan:

Thanks for the reply. I did an initial read of the page and it looks
interesting. That being said, I'm going to have to take a few more
passes to make sure I understand it.

If I read correctly, it isn't a replacement for logging to
/var/log/messages, just a way to filter those logs into another log that
only gets what I want to see?


You can use it to redirect all iptables messages to a seperate log only.

You may want to look at ulogd in the fedora repo. I have used this in 
the past

for saving data to mysql.

Alan


Name: ulogd
Arch: x86_64
Version : 1.24
Release : 15.fc16
Size: 131 k
Repo: fedora
Summary : The userspace logging daemon for netfilter
URL : http://gnumonks.org/projects
License : GPLv2
Description : Ulogd is an universal logging daemon for the ULOG target 
of netfilter, the
: Linux 2.4+ firewalling subsystem. Ulogd is able to log 
packets in various
: formats to different targets (text files, databases, 
etc..). It has an
: easy-to-use plugin interface to add new protocols and new 
output targets.


Name: ulogd-mysql
Arch: x86_64
Version : 1.24
Release : 15.fc16
Size: 11 k
Repo: fedora
Summary : MySQL output plugin for ulogd
URL : http://gnumonks.org/projects
License : GPLv2
Description : Ulogd-mysql is a MySQL output plugin for ulogd. It enables 
logging of

: firewall information into a MySQL database.

Name: ulogd-pcap
Arch: x86_64
Version : 1.24
Release : 15.fc16
Size: 9.2 k
Repo: fedora
Summary : PCAP output plugin for ulogd
URL : http://gnumonks.org/projects
License : GPLv2
Description : ulogd-pcap is a output plugin for ulogd that saves packet 
logs as PCAP file.
: PCAP is a standard format that can be later analyzed by a 
lot of tools such as

: tcpdump and wireshark.

Name: ulogd-pgsql
Arch: x86_64
Version : 1.24
Release : 15.fc16
Size: 11 k
Repo: fedora
Summary : PostgreSQL output plugin for ulogd
URL : http://gnumonks.org/projects
License : GPLv2
Description : Ulogd-pgsql is a PostgreSQL output plugin for ulogd. It 
enables logging of

: firewall information into a PostgreSQL database.

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RE: Wired vs (bad) Wireless communications speeds

2012-04-06 Thread Alan J. Gagne

Between my laptop and my server there is a WiFi modem and an ADSL
router and I think the comms is too slow.  The device speed for each is:

Server: Intel 82567LF Gigabit: 10/100/1000 Mb/s

Belkin Wireless F5D7230-4v7: 10/100 Mb/s

Belkin ModemRouter F1PI241ENau: 10/100 Mb/s

Asus Zenbook UX31: ath9k: 54 Mb/s
   RJ45 via USB: 10/100 Mb/s

and Cat5 cables.

On an unloaded network I can get about 6.5 Mb/s when I use the cable
connection to the laptop but nothing better than about 1.5 Mb/s for the
wireless connection - and even that is when the laptop and the wireless
router are only about 1.5m apart (the XFCE network icon shows connection
quality is then at about 90%).

Anyone know why the wireless performance is not better than this?   


You could be hitting a a Atheros driver problem.

On my laptop I had to use the workaround below to correct horrible 
wireless performance.

I am not familiar with what can be done your system so YMMV.

03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless 
Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

Subsystem: AzureWave Device 2c37
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Kernel modules: ath9k

WORKAROUND:
rmmod ath9k
modprobe ath9k nohwcrypt=1
echo options ath9k nohwcrypt=1  /etc/modprobe.d/ath9k.conf

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RE: Is it me or is it sudo?

2012-03-29 Thread Alan J. Gagne

That's true.  However, as I've explained, that line is commented out
while I'm debugging the issue with the username.  I suppose, push comes
to shove that I can use an empty sudoers file except for that one line
in order to make absolutely certain nothing else is interfering, but
since Aaron Konstam verified that is /should/ work as I have it (as well
as others) I don't think I need to go that drastic.

The one thing I haven't done is post my entire sudoers file.  I will if
anyone thinks it'll help.

I'm really not trying to be difficult here, but this is driving me nuts.


You could also just add a file to /etc/sudoers.d. I believe these 
entries get processed last.


I use the wheel group set-up with passwd in sudoers file so I just
added a file using sudoedit /etc/sudoers.d/utest. Then added a line
USERNAME ALL=(ALL)   NOPASSWD: ALL

This overrides my wheel group entry and works fine.

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RE: Unable to upgrade some few softwares

2012-02-25 Thread Alan J. Gagne

Packages skipped because of dependency problems:
 firefox-10.0.1-1.fc16.x86_64 from updates
 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.22-2.fc16.2.x86_64 from updates
 libvpx-1.0.0-1.fc16.i686 from updates
 libvpx-1.0.0-1.fc16.x86_64 from updates
 xulrunner-10.0.1-3.fc16.x86_64 from updates

There was a problem with that last week that was cleared up.
Something with libvpx. Try clearing your metadata.

yum clean metadata

Then try to update again. I have my system fully updated for those 
packages

no problem.

[root@linux0 ~]# rpm -qa | grep gstreamer-plugins-bad
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.22-2.fc16.2.x86_64
[root@linux0 ~]# rpm -qa | grep firefox
firefox-10.0.1-1.fc16.x86_64
[root@linux0 ~]# rpm -qa | grep libvpx
libvpx-1.0.0-1.fc16.x86_64
[root@linux0 ~]# rpm -qa | grep xulrunner
xulrunner-10.0.1-3.fc16.x86_64

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RE: F16-X86_64-Live-KDE won't boot on XPS 17

2012-01-06 Thread Alan J. Gagne

I have a new Dell XPS17 laptop.  (i7, 16 GB RAM, nvidia 555 video
device, Windows 7 installed)

I am trying to run F16-x86_64-Live-KDE on it via a USB flash device.

It find the USB device. grub(2) runs.  I can select the kernel.  It
starts the boot process.

It hangs with the following message:

udevd[166]: /sbin/modprobe -bv pci: snip [168] terminated by signal 9 (Killed)
dracut: starting plymouth daemon

The same OS on the same USB flash device runs fine on my i5 server.


What video card are you using with the i5 server.

Not sure if this is your issue but I just did a lot of research before 
buying a new 17 laptop and avoided systems with Nvidia video that had 
the Optimus technology. Seems there is a lot of grief with running Linux

with those cards.

We have some systems at work with Ubuntu but, they have a mux switch to 
turn off Optimus in the bios. Couldn't find out if the XPS17 had this 
option.


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RE: F16-X86_64-Live-KDE won't boot on XPS 17

2012-01-06 Thread Alan J. Gagne

Thanks for the reply.

The laptop has the 3D screen and does NOT have the optimus card.

As far as I know, its a plain NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 3GB graphics card.

How could I run lspci prior to booting to find out ?

With grub2, is there a way to force a graphical boot that wouldn't
invoke the error I'm seeing ?

I am going to be really peeved if I can't run Linux on the XPS17.  I
ran Windows 7 for an hour and it sucks !  How an OS can run so slow on
an i7 with 16 GB of RAM is beyond me.


Might want to check this out.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-geforce-gt-555m-us.html

GeForce GT 555M
Outstanding DX11 graphics performance and long battery life with NVIDIA® 
Optimus™ technology.


Try booting a rescue disk to check hardware out(lspci).

Again check your bios to see if you can disable Optimus.

There are some efforts out there to make this work with Linux.
I think bumblebee might be getting close to working or is.

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RE: F16-X86_64-Live-KDE won't boot on XPS 17

2012-01-06 Thread Alan J. Gagne

I got it to boot further by selecting start in basic graphics mode
under Troubleshooting options in grub2.

However, it hangs when starting KDE.

However, I am able to command line session going.  I am able to log in
as liveuser.  I am able to su to root.

Now what should I do ?

How do I do the install from the command line ?


Not sure if you can do a text mode install from the live cd.
You may need to download one of the other media options.

This is from the test mode document.
If your system has a graphical display, but graphical installation 
fails, try booting with the xdriver=vesa option – refer to Chapter 11, 
Boot Options


http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/ch-Installation_Phase_2-x86.html#s1-guimode-textinterface-x86

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RE: Buy an SSD now, or wait?

2011-12-22 Thread Alan J. Gagne

I just wondered if anyone here has had any experience in using SSDs in
general, and with Fedora in particular? I am thinking about an upgrade, but
I am uncertain whether it is worth it to invest in an SSD now, or let the
technology ripen for a few more years. I believe the SSD market will expand
massively in the coming years, and with that, innovation and development in
the field as well, so waiting seems more reasonable at this stage. Any
thoughts?



	I would definitely go for it. I have been using ssd's in a couple of 
systems for about a year and half. So far I am quite happy

with the performance gain they provide.

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RE:/var/log/messages

2011-12-21 Thread Alan J. Gagne

Try here !

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd
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RE: Stopping VirtualBox sessions

2011-12-20 Thread Alan J. Gagne

The trouble is, if i login to my remote user desktop, cjremote, here at
work and open VirtualBox, I can see the running virtual machine in the
VirtualBox management interface but I can't show it or connect to it,
and, if I try to pause it, I get an access denied message
Is there some way to do this?


Check into the command line tools available for VirtualBox.
I use these exclusively to start/stop virtualBox remotely.


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question re: multi-head gnome3

2011-12-12 Thread Alan J. Gagne
 Just a warning: that mode is very buggy. I tried it for a while and when
 I reported various issues to the GNOME developers (directly, not in BZ),
 I was told that they have no plans to support anything other than the
 default Only one monitor gets workspaces approach.

 The more I hear about things like this from the Gnome devs the more it
 sounds like they're only interested in having Gnome 3 able to do things
 the devs need and don't care about anybody else.  I hope I'm wrong,
 because if I'm right, it won't be long before Gnome has marginalized
 itself as the vast majority of users abandon it because they can't get
 it to do what they need anymore.


No Worries. Tablets only have one head currently.

:-)
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re: vi ? howto show cursor position

2011-10-07 Thread Alan J. Gagne
 Is this something lost from the compiled distribution or is there some
 *:set* method that will turn it back on and, if so, would somebody share
 the magic formula?

It does work for me in F14 gnome terminals without doing anything.

set ruler should work.

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RE: Routing not working

2011-06-01 Thread Alan J. Gagne
 My next step is finding the digital thermometer we have around
 here somewhere and measuring the temp on f14 compared to f15 :-).

Would that be oral or otherwise?
Seems otherwise might be appropriate given the level of fun
this release has provided the users.

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Ethereal Replacement?

2011-05-12 Thread Alan J. Gagne
 Is there some replacement for the old ethereal program?

Wireshark.
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RE: pings with noise

2011-05-10 Thread Alan J. Gagne
 According to the man page whenever you use the -a option on the ping
 command as in:
 ping -a ip-address
 each ping return should cause a noise to be generated.

 I can't seem to get that too happen. What could be wrong?

I just tried this on Fedora14 and it works.
You may want check your sound preferences to make sure the alert volume 
is up and not muted.

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RE: UPnP vs. Fedora 14 firewall

2011-05-02 Thread Alan J. Gagne
 I have several different services on my network that use UPnP, and none
 of them seem to work unless I disable the Firewall on my Fedora 14
 desktops/laptops.  Everything I've read says that I should be able to
 allow UDP on port 1900, but that doesn't seem to help.  Can anyone tell
 me or point me to documentation about what I need to enable to let my
 Fedora 14 machines to see the services via UPnP?



My memory is a bit sketchy but along with IGD I had to add a few 
firewall rules and a route to allow multicast upnp. This was
for a fedora box that I was using as a firewall/gateway system.

Some igd docs.
http://linux-igd.sourceforge.net/documentation.php

Below is a script I used for the firewall rules.

[agagne@linux0 tmp]$ cat bin/add-upnpd.sh
#iptables -N UPNP
#iptables -I FORWARD 2 -j UPNP
#iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 2869 -j ACCEPT
#iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp --dport 1900 -j ACCEPT

# Good firewalls drop everything that has not been explicitly allowed,
# so first create rules to allow other computers to connect to the upnp 
daemon.
iptables -t filter -A INPUT -i eth1 -d 239.0.0.0/8 -j ACCEPT
iptables -t filter -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 49152 -j ACCEPT
iptables -t filter -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp --dport 1900 -j ACCEPT

# Create chains for the rules to be created by the upnp daemon.
iptables -t filter -N UPNP_FORWARD
iptables -t filter -I FORWARD 2 -j UPNP_FORWARD
iptables -t nat -N UPNP_PREROUTING
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -j UPNP_PREROUTING

Use at your on risk as I am not a firewall expert.
I got this working after much googleing on how to set-up igd so
my son could play games from another system runnning win7.

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RE: anyone running android sdk to talk to a real phone on fedora 14

2011-04-29 Thread Alan J. Gagne

 I'm pretty sure it really is drawing too much power. I had 3 different
 systems that all showed the same symptoms, and lots of other Samsung
 Intercept users have complained of similar problems. If there was
 some way to just make it talk USB without also insisting on trying to
 charge the battery when plugged in, it might be OK :-).


Sounds like it is similar to a Blackberry. You need a driver that
will increase voltage to the usb port you are plugged into.

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OT: bash question

2011-01-31 Thread Alan J. Gagne
You could try echo $0 from inside you script.
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OT: bash question

2011-01-31 Thread Alan J. Gagne
 My mistake.  I forgot to say that the file was invoked from a link.
 Your proposed solution shows the link's location.  I have to discover
 the target of the link.

echo `ls -la $0`
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RE; Pcscd

2010-12-09 Thread Alan J. Gagne
 What could cause this?

 Dec  9 03:24:02 oh1mrr pcscd: winscard.c:285:SCardConnect()
 Reader E-Gate 0 0 Not Found
 Dec  9 03:24:02 oh1mrr pcscd: winscard_svc.c:447:ContextThread()
 CONNECT rv=0x8019 for client 2

 I don't have service pcscd running. Mystery...

While I do not know what is causing this message. I can tell
you it is triggered by something cron.daily runs.

Dec  8 03:48:01 linux2 anacron[5804]: Job `cron.daily' started

Dec  8 03:48:18 linux2 pcscd: winscard.c:285:SCardConnect() Reader 
E-Gate 0 0 Not Found
Dec  8 03:48:18 linux2 pcscd: winscard_svc.c:447:ContextThread() CONNECT 
rv=0x8019 for client 2

I don't have any smart card readers on this system  so I just removed 
pcsc-lite to stop these messages.

 Name: pcsc-lite
 Arch: i686
 Version : 1.6.4
 Release : 1.fc14
 Size: 151 k
 Repo: fedora
 Summary : PC/SC Lite smart card framework and applications
 URL : http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/
 License : BSD
 Description : The purpose of PC/SC Lite is to provide a Windows(R) SCard 
 interface
 : in a very small form factor for communicating to smartcards and
 : readers.  PC/SC Lite uses the same winscard API as used under
 : Windows(R).  This package includes the PC/SC Lite daemon, a 
 resource
 : manager that coordinates communications with smart card readers 
 and
 : smart cards that are connected to the system, as well as other 
 command
 : line tools.


Alan



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RE: iso dvd

2010-12-01 Thread Alan J. Gagne
 On 12/01/2010 09:49 AM, William Stock wrote:
 You have to burn the DVD as an .iso image.
 If you burn it as a regular file it won't boot/run.
 If you're using Brasero it's the bottom button (burn image).

 I prefer the KISS method: right click on the file in Nautilus and select
 Write to Disc.  Works a charm and gets it Right every time.

Come on, have some fun. Open a terminal and growisofs.

:-)
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RE: Yum strange behavior after upgrade to Release 14

2010-12-01 Thread Alan J. Gagne
 On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:07 PM, John Vo jvo at eagle.net wrote:
 Greetings:

 I am new to the list so I will apologize for any problem with my post.

 I upgraded my Fedora 13 to 14 using the yum method.

 Although that method is pseudo-supported, I would try preupgrade in
 the future as recommended by
 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum

 After the upgrade, when I ran yum upgrade, I ran into a few problem:

 Did you run yum upgrade or yum update?

 Error: Package: PackageKit-0.6.6-2.fc13.x86_64 (@updates/13)
Requires: PackageKit-yum-plugin = 0.6.6-2.fc13
Removing: PackageKit-yum-plugin-0.6.6-2.fc13.x86_64
 (@updates/13)
PackageKit-yum-plugin = 0.6.6-2.fc13
Updated By: PackageKit-yum-plugin-0.6.9-4.fc14.x86_64 (fedora)
PackageKit-yum-plugin = 0.6.9-4.fc14
  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem


 And...many many of these..

 ** Found 313 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
 ImageMagick-6.6.4.1-14.fc14.1.x86_64 is a duplicate with
 ImageMagick-6.5.8.10-6.fc13.x86_64
 PackageKit-0.6.9-4.fc14.x86_64 is a duplicate with
 PackageKit-0.6.6-2.fc13.x86_64
 PackageKit-device-rebind-0.6.9-4.fc14.x86_64 is a duplicate with
 PackageKit-device-rebind-0.6.6-2.fc13.x86_64
 PackageKit-glib-0.6.9-4.fc14.x86_64 is a duplicate with
 PackageKit-glib-0.6.6-2.fc13.x86_64
 PackageKit-gtk-module-0.6.9-4.fc14.x86_64 is a duplicate with
 PackageKit-gtk-module-0.6.6-2.fc13.x86_64


 I'm a casual Fedora users. Help please.

 Don't take this the wrong way as it can be difficult to discern tone
 in an email but, the site I referenced specifically states:
 Although upgrades with yum works, it is not explicitly tested as part
 of the release process by the Fedora Project. If you are not prepared
 to resolve issues on your own if things break, you should probably use
 the recommended installation methods instead.

 There may be a more automated method but I ran into some issues
 orphaned packages after upgrading with preupgrade and did the
 following for each problem package:

 Uninstall the old package:
 rpm -e --nodeps package

 Install the new package:
 yum install package


 Richard

I used preupgrade, but yum distro-sync did a great job of cleaning up 
the packages identified by running package-cleanup --orphans.

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RE: Ganglia - gmetad segfaults after starting gmond [SOLVED]

2010-11-17 Thread Alan J. Gagne
 After upgrade to fedora 14 from 13 gmetad process segfaults when
 updating rrd graphs. Anybody seeing this problem ?

 [linux2 ~]# rpm -qa | grep ganglia
 ganglia-web-3.1.7-2.fc14.i686
 ganglia-gmetad-3.1.7-2.fc14.i686
 ganglia-3.1.7-2.fc14.i686
 ganglia-gmond-3.1.7-2.fc14.i686


 To get around this problem I compiled ganglia 3.1.7 from source

The problem was with rrdtool-1.3.8-4.
The new version of rrdtool-1.4.4-1.fc14.i686 fixes this issue.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654246 for details.


Alan


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RE: One satisfied customer with f14!

2010-11-17 Thread Alan J. Gagne
 Jerry Feldman wrote:
 On 11/17/2010 11:36 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
 Just a in my experience note, running an upgrade from a DVD/USB has been 
 far
 more successful than preupgrade for me. Older installs had a small /boot and
 often don't work well due to lack of room. YMMV.
 When I installed F13 from DVD, I specifically allocated a larger /boot
 for this specific reason. My /boot is 485MB.

 If preupgrade runs in that I'd love to know how much stuff it installs. And
 doesn't change my feelings about the inherent complexity of doing an in-place
 upgrade on a running system.

On three machines I just upgraded to F14 from F13 they have 300MB /boot. 
I took all three down to just the running kernel prior to using 
preupgrade. Just before the reboot to the actual upgrade it reports I 
have 60MB left on /boot and need 26MB for the kernel. I think next time 
around I will need to do fresh installs so I can resize my /boot.

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RE: anacron broken after upgrade from 13 to 14 [Solved]

2010-11-15 Thread Alan J. Gagne
A new crontabs package was released that fixed this problem.

crontabs-1.11-1.2010git.fc14.noarch


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anacron broken after upgrade from 13 to 14

2010-11-14 Thread Alan J. Gagne
None of the daily or weekly jobs have run since upgrading to fedora 14.
Jobs in /etc/cron.d are working (denyhosts,sa-update,lmsensor_charts).

I am waiting to see if the daily/weekly jobs run after manually 
executing anacron by
running /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron

[linux0]# uname -r
2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64

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RE: anacron broken after upgrade from 13 to 14

2010-11-14 Thread Alan J. Gagne

/  None of the daily or weekly jobs have run since upgrading to fedora 14.
//  Jobs in /etc/cron.d are working (denyhosts,sa-update,lmsensor_charts).
/
I go to a lot of trouble to disable anacron, so I've had to discover
how it is enabled in order to disable it. It starts with /etc/cron.d/0hourly
which has the line that runs the anacron stuff via cron every hour.
This is installed by package cronie. That is what makes the
/etc/cron.hourly/0anacron script run, and that, in turn, examines
the /etc/anacrontab file. (At least the last time I figured it
out, that was the way it worked - it keeps changing :-).



Thanks

All the bits seem to be in place as you describe so it
should be working. I downgraded crontabs back to crontabs.noarch 
0:1.10-33.fc14
on one of the two machines. I am in the process of run diffs on the 
files to see what changed.


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RE: anacron broken after upgrade from 13 to 14

2010-11-14 Thread Alan J. Gagne

After seeing this bug, I checked on my cron jobs and found
they were not working either. After a bit of investigation
I found the crontabs problem:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=653132

Work around: Find any crontab that is using run-parts
and make sure you add a trailing / to the directory name
passed as an argument. (I think :-).

Ya,

I found this from the diffs of the old run-parts and new.
I added the slash and am waiting to see if things work.

OLD:
 for i in $(LC_ALL=C; echo $1/*[^~,]) ; do
---
NEW:
 for i in $(LC_ALL=C; echo $1*[^~,]) ; do

Thanks
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RE: Ganglia - gmetad segfaults after starting gmond

2010-11-14 Thread Alan J. Gagne

After upgrade to fedora 14 from 13 gmetad process segfaults when
updating rrd graphs. Anybody seeing this problem ?

[linux2 ~]# rpm -qa | grep ganglia
ganglia-web-3.1.7-2.fc14.i686
ganglia-gmetad-3.1.7-2.fc14.i686
ganglia-3.1.7-2.fc14.i686
ganglia-gmond-3.1.7-2.fc14.i686



To get around this problem I compiled ganglia 3.1.7 from source.


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Ganglia - gmetad segfaults after starting gmond

2010-11-10 Thread Alan J. Gagne
After upgrade to fedora 14 from 13 gmetad process segfaults when 
updating rrd graphs. Anybody seeing this problem ?

[linux2 ~]# rpm -qa | grep ganglia
ganglia-web-3.1.7-2.fc14.i686
ganglia-gmetad-3.1.7-2.fc14.i686
ganglia-3.1.7-2.fc14.i686
ganglia-gmond-3.1.7-2.fc14.i686

[linux2 ~]# rpm -qa | grep rrdtool
rrdtool-1.3.8-8.fc14.i686

Working ganglia prior to upgrade.
[linux2 ~]# grep ganglia /var/log/yum.log
Feb 06 12:37:45 Installed: ganglia-3.1.2-4.fc12.i686
Feb 06 12:37:45 Installed: ganglia-gmetad-3.1.2-4.fc12.i686
Feb 06 12:37:47 Installed: ganglia-web-3.1.2-4.fc12.i686
Feb 06 13:39:38 Installed: ganglia-gmond-3.1.2-4.fc12.i686

[linux2 ~]# grep rrdtool /var/log/yum.log
Feb 06 12:37:43 Installed: rrdtool-1.3.8-4.fc12.i686

Remove existing rrd's
[linux2 ~]# rm -rf /var/lib/ganglia/rrds/*

gmetad: debug 10

[linux2 ~]# service gmetad start
Starting GANGLIA gmetad: Going to run as user ganglia
Sources are ...
Source: [Home, step 15] has 1 sources
 ip.xxx.xxx.xxx
xml listening on port 8651
interactive xml listening on port 8652
Data thread 3029039984 is monitoring [Home] data source
 ip.xxx.xxx.xxx
cleanup thread has been started
data_thread() got no answer from any [Home] datasource
data_thread() got no answer from any [Home] datasource
data_thread() got no answer from any [Home] datasource
[Home] is a 2.5 or later data stream
hash_create size = 1024
hash-size is 1031
hash_create size = 50
hash-size is 53
hash_create size = 50
hash-size is 53
rrd_dontneed: Argument 'rrd_file' is NULL.
/bin/bash: line 1:  1361 Segmentation fault  /usr/sbin/gmetad
[FAILED]

Crashes shortly after starting gmond.

dmesg
[270478.078104] gmetad[1361]: segfault at c ip 0029ee96 sp bf8df050
error 4 in librrd.so.4.0.7[27d000+31000]

from /var/log/messages:
Nov 10 13:23:41 linux2 kernel: [270478.078104] gmetad[1361]: segfault at
c ip 0029ee96 sp bf8df050 error 4 in librrd.so.4.0.7[27d000+31000]
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RE: Workspace switcher crashes at 20

2010-10-01 Thread Alan J. Gagne

 The backtrace disagrees with you. It aborts due to an assertion that
 the workspace name isn't NULL. No indication of not enough memory
 or heavy memory usage when enabling 20 workspaces.
 I ran into this issue when increasing from 14 to 18 workspaces.
You could switch between spaces with the mouse but as soon as you
use ctl+alt+arrows metacity would crash with the assertion failure.

I found a way to get around  this by naming the workspaces.
Currently I have 20 workspaces configured.

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re: Xorg - High CPU - Desktop hung

2010-08-11 Thread Alan J. Gagne
 Anybody seeing an issue with Desktop hangs with Xorg using 90% CPU.
 This started for me with the latest kernel.

 Aug 03 09:54:35 Installed: kernel-2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686

 Runs fine using previous kernel. (2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686)

 Snip from Xorg log.

 [104476.705] [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an 
 infinite loop.
 [104476.705]
 Backtrace:
 [104476.705] 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x3c) [0x80ddfac]
 [104476.706] 1: /usr/bin/Xorg (mieqEnqueue+0x1b7) [0x80d91b7]
 [104476.706] 2: /usr/bin/Xorg (xf86PostButtonEventP+0xcf) [0x80b535f]
 [104476.706] 3: /usr/bin/Xorg (xf86PostButtonEvent+0x6c) [0x80b540c]
 [104476.706] 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0x34a000+0x341b) 
 [0x34d41b]
 [104476.706] 5: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x739e0) [0x80bb9e0]
 [104476.706] 6: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x10fd04) [0x8157d04]
 [104476.706] 7: (vdso) (__kernel_sigreturn+0x0) [0x292400]
 [104476.706] 8: (vdso) (__kernel_vsyscall+0x2) [0x292416]
 [104476.706] 9: /lib/libc.so.6 (ioctl+0x19) [0x8bd0b9]
 [104476.706] 10: /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2 (drmIoctl+0x2e) [0x4b55a7e]
 [104476.707] 11: /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2 (drmCommandWrite+0x3c) [0x4b55e0c]
 [104476.707] 12: /usr/lib/libdrm_nouveau.so.1 (0x181000+0x2a9a) [0x183a9a]
 [104476.707] 13: /usr/lib/libdrm_nouveau.so.1 (nouveau_bo_map_range+0xf1) 
 [0x183c91]
 [104476.707] 14: /usr/lib/libdrm_nouveau.so.1 (nouveau_bo_map+0x34) 
 [0x183d64]
 [104476.707] 15: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so 
 (0x1b5000+0x3a36) [0x1b8a36]
 [104476.707] 16: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x3cc000+0x3521) [0x3cf521]
 [104476.707] 17: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x3cc000+0x66ad) [0x3d26ad]
 [104476.707] 18: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x3cc000+0xf7f5) [0x3db7f5]
 [104476.707] 19: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x3cc000+0xd37e) [0x3d937e]
 [104476.707] 20: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0xc8d77) [0x8110d77]
 [104476.707] 21: /usr/bin/Xorg (CompositePicture+0x290) [0x81030e0]
 [104476.708] 22: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0xc1fa5) [0x8109fa5]
 [104476.708] 23: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0xbeb34) [0x8106b34]
 [104476.708] 24: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x50ab7) [0x8098ab7]
 [104476.708] 25: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x1a595) [0x8062595]
 [104476.708] 26: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x7fecc6]
 [104476.708] 27: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x1a181) [0x8062181]


I have a record up time so far on this kernel 
(2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686) of 21 hours.

Currently I am running with the boot parameter nouveau.noaccel=1 based 
on information from the following Bugzilla entry.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596330

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Xorg - High CPU - Desktop hung

2010-08-10 Thread Alan J. Gagne
Anybody seeing an issue with Desktop hangs with Xorg using 90% CPU.
This started for me with the latest kernel.

Aug 03 09:54:35 Installed: kernel-2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686

Runs fine using previous kernel. (2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686)

Snip from Xorg log.

 [104476.705] [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite 
 loop.
 [104476.705]
 Backtrace:
 [104476.705] 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x3c) [0x80ddfac]
 [104476.706] 1: /usr/bin/Xorg (mieqEnqueue+0x1b7) [0x80d91b7]
 [104476.706] 2: /usr/bin/Xorg (xf86PostButtonEventP+0xcf) [0x80b535f]
 [104476.706] 3: /usr/bin/Xorg (xf86PostButtonEvent+0x6c) [0x80b540c]
 [104476.706] 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0x34a000+0x341b) 
 [0x34d41b]
 [104476.706] 5: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x739e0) [0x80bb9e0]
 [104476.706] 6: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x10fd04) [0x8157d04]
 [104476.706] 7: (vdso) (__kernel_sigreturn+0x0) [0x292400]
 [104476.706] 8: (vdso) (__kernel_vsyscall+0x2) [0x292416]
 [104476.706] 9: /lib/libc.so.6 (ioctl+0x19) [0x8bd0b9]
 [104476.706] 10: /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2 (drmIoctl+0x2e) [0x4b55a7e]
 [104476.707] 11: /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2 (drmCommandWrite+0x3c) [0x4b55e0c]
 [104476.707] 12: /usr/lib/libdrm_nouveau.so.1 (0x181000+0x2a9a) [0x183a9a]
 [104476.707] 13: /usr/lib/libdrm_nouveau.so.1 (nouveau_bo_map_range+0xf1) 
 [0x183c91]
 [104476.707] 14: /usr/lib/libdrm_nouveau.so.1 (nouveau_bo_map+0x34) [0x183d64]
 [104476.707] 15: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so 
 (0x1b5000+0x3a36) [0x1b8a36]
 [104476.707] 16: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x3cc000+0x3521) [0x3cf521]
 [104476.707] 17: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x3cc000+0x66ad) [0x3d26ad]
 [104476.707] 18: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x3cc000+0xf7f5) [0x3db7f5]
 [104476.707] 19: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x3cc000+0xd37e) [0x3d937e]
 [104476.707] 20: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0xc8d77) [0x8110d77]
 [104476.707] 21: /usr/bin/Xorg (CompositePicture+0x290) [0x81030e0]
 [104476.708] 22: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0xc1fa5) [0x8109fa5]
 [104476.708] 23: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0xbeb34) [0x8106b34]
 [104476.708] 24: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x50ab7) [0x8098ab7]
 [104476.708] 25: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x1a595) [0x8062595]
 [104476.708] 26: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x7fecc6]
 [104476.708] 27: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x1a181) [0x8062181]

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re: Xorg - High CPU - Desktop hung

2010-08-10 Thread Alan J. Gagne
 Since no one else is reporting this (at least not that I have seen),
 it is probably caused by the graphics chip driver used by Xorg.
 What is your graphics chip brand and model?

lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX 
Go5200 64M] (rev a1)

Using nouveau driver, no xorg.conf.

Looks a lot like Bug 559791.
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RE:preupgrade 12 to 13 error

2010-06-07 Thread Alan J. Gagne

 eed a little help to determine next step.

After reboot from running preupgrade I get the following message.

Error downloading kickstart file.
Then I am being requested to modify the following parameter.

ks=hd:UUID=d99009ca-09f4-4607-9176-c3a6f6863fa8:/upgrade/ks.cfg

This machine is a fully updated fresh install of F12 with a 300mb 
/boot on mdraid.


FROM GRUB:
title Upgrade to Fedora 13 (Goddard)
   kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade 
repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade 
ks=hd:UUID=d99009ca-09f4-4607-9176-c3a6f6863fa8:/upgrade/ks.cfg 
stage2=hd:UUID=d99009ca-09f4-4607-9176-c3a6f6863fa8:/upgrade/install.img

   initrd /upgrade/initrd.img
title Fedora (2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64)
   root (hd0,1)
   kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64 ro 
root=/dev/mapper/vg_linux8-lv_root  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us quiet 
rdblacklist=nouveau vga=791 elevator=noop

   initrd /initramfs-2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64.img

FROM FSTAB:
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Mon Apr  5 20:18:40 2010
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more 
info

#
/dev/mapper/vg_linux8-lv_root / ext4   
 noatime,errors=remount-ro1 1
UUID=d99009ca-09f4-4607-9176-c3a6f6863fa8 /boot ext4   
 noatime,errors=remount-ro1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_linux8-lv_swap swap  swapdefaults   
  0 0
tmpfs   /dev/shmtmpfs   
defaults,noatime,mode=1777   0 0
tmpfs   /tmptmpfs   
defaults,noatime,mode=1777   0 0
devpts  /dev/ptsdevpts  gid=5,mode=620 
  0 0
sysfs   /syssysfs   defaults   
  0 0
proc/proc   procdefaults   
  0 0
/dev/vg_linux8_1/lv_opt/optext4defaults   
  1 2
I am able to determine that the error is due to being unable to mount 
the drive.

(/dev/d99009ca-09f4-4607-9176-c3a6f6863fa8)
So I tried to use /dev/md126p2 but it is still unable to mount the drive 
to access the ks.cfg.


I can see the above information using alt+f3 when I get to the error 
dialogue screen when trying to boot into the

preupgrade kickstart.

[aga...@linux0 ~]$ uname -r
2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64

[aga...@linux0 ~]$ df -k
Filesystem   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_linux8-lv_root
  68509224   7532824  57496236  12% /
tmpfs  3059132   652   3058480   1% /dev/shm
/dev/md126p2297485205636 76489  73% /boot
tmpfs  3059132  2520   3056612   1% /tmp
/dev/mapper/vg_linux8_1-lv_opt
  72082768  51480996  16940156  76% /opt

Alan


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RE: preupgrade 12 to 13 error

2010-06-07 Thread Alan J. Gagne


On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 16:22:49 +0300,
   Doron Bar Zeevdoronbr770 at gmail.com  
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users  wrote:
/  On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 16:14, Alan J. Gagnealanjgagne at gmail.com  
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users  wrote:
//
//  
//  
//This machine is a fully updated fresh install of F12 with a 300mb /boot 
on
//mdraid.
//  
//  
//  
//  I think that /boot must not be on a raid, which may be the problem.
/
Raid 1 is OK.
I am actually running raid 0 (BIOS RAID) using two 80GB ssd drives split 
into
three partitions. (Win7 on md126p1 and F12 on md126p2 - /boot,md126p3 
LVM for / and swap)


Alan

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{Disarmed} RE: preupgrade 12 to 13 error

2010-06-07 Thread Alan J. Gagne


On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 16:52 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
/  On 06/07/2010 04:43 PM, Craig White wrote:
//BIOS RAID sounds suspiciously like fake RAID which meant that you had to
//load a specific device driver/kernel module just to get Fedora 12
//installed and that specific driver is not included in the reboot process
//of preupgrade so it won't work.
//
//  That's not quite true. Most of the proprietary BIOS RAID (aka
//  ata-RAID, fake RAID etc.) formats have been supported for quite a long
//  time now by the dmraid project:
//
//  http://people.redhat.com/heinzm/sw/dmraid/
//
//  Some of the formats (as is the case with Intel ISW on F13) are now using
//  MD RAID but it's been quite a while since you had to use non-standard
//  proprietary drivers or kernel modules to use these things.
/
good to know - mostly I use Fedora for desktop and RHEL or CentOS for
servers so I hadn't seen the change but I am generally very careful
about which RAID controller I pick for servers.

Craig


Yes this is Intel fake raid with fedora using mdraid to support it.
No special drivers or kernels needed.
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preupgrade 12 to 13 error

2010-06-06 Thread Alan J. Gagne
Need a little help to determine next step.

After reboot from running preupgrade I get the following message.

Error downloading kickstart file.
Then I am being requested to modify the following parameter.

ks=hd:UUID=d99009ca-09f4-4607-9176-c3a6f6863fa8:/upgrade/ks.cfg

This machine is a fully updated fresh install of F12 with a 300mb /boot 
on mdraid.

FROM GRUB:
title Upgrade to Fedora 13 (Goddard)
 kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade 
repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade 
ks=hd:UUID=d99009ca-09f4-4607-9176-c3a6f6863fa8:/upgrade/ks.cfg 
stage2=hd:UUID=d99009ca-09f4-4607-9176-c3a6f6863fa8:/upgrade/install.img
 initrd /upgrade/initrd.img
title Fedora (2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64)
 root (hd0,1)
 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64 ro 
root=/dev/mapper/vg_linux8-lv_root  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us quiet 
rdblacklist=nouveau vga=791 elevator=noop
 initrd /initramfs-2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64.img

FROM FSTAB:
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Mon Apr  5 20:18:40 2010
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/vg_linux8-lv_root / ext4
noatime,errors=remount-ro1 1
UUID=d99009ca-09f4-4607-9176-c3a6f6863fa8 /boot ext4
noatime,errors=remount-ro1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_linux8-lv_swap swap  swap
defaults 0 0
tmpfs   /dev/shmtmpfs   
defaults,noatime,mode=1777   0 0
tmpfs   /tmptmpfs   
defaults,noatime,mode=1777   0 0
devpts  /dev/ptsdevpts  
gid=5,mode=620   0 0
sysfs   /syssysfs   
defaults 0 0
proc/proc   proc
defaults 0 0
/dev/vg_linux8_1/lv_opt/optext4defaults
  1 2
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