two major failures after yesterday updates - anyone else
by mike cloaked
I have had an unprecented pair of events last night and this morning - two
machines (both Dell Inspiron 530s desktops) have died completely (
unbootable) - having been running on f11 very successfully for some time. I
had no reason to suspect the hardware at all and both were running fine from
new a couple of years ago - but I am now wondering if this has anything to
do with updates that came in on 28th October. The new kernel and a number of
other updates were installed yesterday morning on both machines. Both were
also using ext4 files systems.
I would like to know if this is a chance event or related to kernel changes,
particularly related to ext4?
If nobody else has anything remotely similar happen then I will conclude
that I am just very very unlucky - but I would like to know if anybody
else has had a mysterious total failure of their system in the past 24
hours.
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14 years, 5 months
Re: How to play .AU files with Fedora?
by William W. Austin
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Mike McCarty wrote:
> I have some .AU files which have no association under GNOME.
> I tried the "media player", and no sound comes out.
> "Music Player" won't recognize them at all.
>
> What app should I associate to play .AU files?
> I have some .AU files which have no association under GNOME.
> I tried the "media player", and no sound comes out.
> "Music Player" won't recognize them at all.
>
> What app should I associate to play .AU files?
AU files are Sun audio files - I have a very large number of them on a
Sun server.
Many of those do not play well on either of 2 f7 boxen (dual-core
Athlon, if relevant - YMMV). However, so far _all_ of the ones I have
tried work find with /usr/bin/aplay which is part of the alsa-utils
package.
Good luck
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14 years, 5 months
Linux software for Motorola Razor phone?
by William W. Austin
This may have been answered before, but scanning the archives, I
haven't found it (sorry...).
My wife recently surprised me with a new gsm phone, a Motorola Razor.
I already had the USB cable which works with it (use it with my
camcorder), but a web search for Linux software to use the phone with
one of my Linux boxen didn't turn up anything. Basically I want to
synchronize the calendar and phonebooks, and be able to back up files
from the phone to the computer (and restore). I'm running both FC4 and
FC5 here so anything which would work with either of those would be
great - and much apprecited.
Thanks in advance,
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14 years, 5 months
Network problems on new FC4 box - please help.
by William W. Austin
I had to replace a disk (the one with all of the home directories on
it) on an FC3 box, and so I bought a new drive (particulars
unimportant).
To make a long story short, I decided to put FC4 on this box, and so I
installed the new drive and put the root filesystem on it. I still
have the old FC3 root drive and can boot to either for comparison...
Under FC3, I have no network problems that I can detect; however, under
FC4 there are two distinct (related? no idea) problems which have
eluded me. I have tried looking up both of these in the archives, but
have had no luck (some similar issues, but nothing exactly like either
of these unless I missed them).
Problem 1: network card goes to sleep.
This machine has 2 network cards, both on-board. The 1GB card L(Intel
82540EM) goes to the smartswitch to tolk to the local network, and does
not show any problems.
The other card (nVidia nForce2) is a 100MB card and talks to the DSL
modem. Periodically I cannot connect to the internet at all - or even
ping the DSL modem. This happens irregularly but about 5-10 times/day.
If I reboot back to FC3, the problem does not occur. Network
configurations between the two (FC3/FC4) are as identical as I can make
them. The first few times the problem occurs, sometimes retarting
networking works, but eventually a full sys reboot is the only thing
which works.
Problem 2: slow local network.
Under FC3 throughput on the LOCAL network (1GB lan) is very fast.
Under FC4, the best I have seen is ONE transfer of about 1.2 MB/s - and
throughput drops to as low as 50-75KB/s at times. Again, this does not
occur under FC3 but does under FC4. Again the same setup as nearly as
I can make it. No workaround found so far.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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14 years, 5 months
Sound volumes giving you fits?
by Michael Cronenworth
It might be that new "feature" implemented in F11 called "flat volumes."
In an attempt to copy Windows, for only God knows why, the PA folks made
your apps change the system volume. This, coupled with a bug in
gstreamer adjusting at logarithmic amounts instead of linear, it makes
volume management a pain. The fix?
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf
Uncomment "flat-volumes = yes" and change it to "no" and save. Log out,
wait 30 seconds for pulse to die (another great "feature") and log in.
Volume level changes are now normal again! Coupled with the latest PA
update yesterday, F11 now sounds like F10. Ah...
Have a good one.
14 years, 5 months
Re: TV tuner, sound etc. -- what does this mean?
by Bill Case
Hi;
I have been going through my messages log and saw this.
...
kernel: tuner 2-0042: chip found @ 0x84 (cx23885[0])
kernel: tda829x 2-0042: could not clearly identify tuner address,
defaulting to 60
kernel: tda18271 2-0060: creating new instance
kernel: TDA18271HD/C1 detected @ 2-0060
kernel: tda829x 2-0042: type set to tda8295+18271
...
Is this normal, or does "could not clearly identify tuner address"
indicate a problem?
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Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3
Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 22.3.1
14 years, 6 months
installing Fedora 11 on dual-boot machine changes active partition?
by Andre Robatino
My father has a dual-boot Vista/Fedora 11 machine, with Grub on the MBR.
He recently enabled recommended updates in Vista, and it wanted him to
install SP2, but he was unable to. At Stage 3, after rebooting, it got
to 100% but then failed and reverted the changes. The associated error
number was 80004005. We found that the source of the problem was that
the active partition was the Fedora /boot partition, not the Windows
one. By using Vista's Disk Management tool to make the Vista partition
active again, the problem was solved. Grub doesn't seem to care which
partition is active (at least if it's on the MBR). Looking at old saved
fdisk output from 2 of my machines, I suspect that F11 changed the
active partition, and that in F10 and earlier, the Windows partition was
active. Is this new behavior in the F11 installer (to change the active
partition, even though Grub doesn't care), and if so, is it deliberate?
14 years, 6 months
anyone install android 2.0 sdk on 64-bit fedora?
by Robert P. J. Day
given the first release of android 2.0, has anyone out there
successfully installed that on a 64-bit fedora? specifically, fedora
11 or (hopefully equivalently) fedora 12 beta.
i'm just about to give it a shot, but it would be nice to know that
someone else has already done it and identified any glitches hidden in
the install instructions:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
based on a quick perusal, it would seem that open jdk is now
compatible (whereas it didn't used to be), and one still has to
install the minimal packages for 32-bit compatibility. in any event,
if someone else has already done this, that would be awesome.
rday
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14 years, 6 months
F11 Nvidia 8300 GS and kmod-nvidia-PAE fail
by mike cloaked
Has anyone had a total failure to run kmod-nvidia with an 8300 GS graphics
card in f11?
My system
(http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_0461ec99-2d05-44bf-ac48-1a0d78a17c52)
used to run with the kmod-nvidia-PAE installed from rpmfusion just fine in
f10 with no issues at all.
When I installed (clean) the new f11 system on this machine (in fact two
machines with this card both have identical issues), the install was fine, I
then yum updated to the latest kernel and, as per my normal upgrade
procedure, then yum installed kmod-nvidia-PAE from rpmfusion. This process
worked without issue on two other machines which have nvidia graphics cards
(but not the 8300 card). On rebooting, the boot began as normal (text
kms/plymouth with the blue/white running line on the bottom of the screen),
but as soon as x should start - it didn't. There was a blank screen with a
flashing cursor at top right only. I removed the kmod-nvidia package, and
xorg.conf and ran without it until yesterday.
After updating the system to the new kernel yesterday I booted to the new
kernel 2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i686.PAE - which was fine and tried yum install
kmod-nvidia-PAE (which is the correct version of kmod-nvidia for this card
and kernel I believe) and rebooted - same as the original problem - after
the plymouth non-graphical boot, blank screen with flashing cursor - except
that some seconds later a couple of lines of text appeared on the screen
related to selinux audit. I removed kmod-mvidia and am running without it
again - this morning in the syslog there are lines:
audit(1256631766.417:29202): auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295
subj=system_u:system_r:readahead_t:s0 op=remove rule key=(null) list=2 res=1
However I am not sure this is directly related to the kmod-nvidia-PAE or
not.
Anyway I wonder if anyone else has had a problem with this card and an
inability to use kmod-nvidia? If so is there a known workaround?
Thanks for any replies.
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