Font Sizes on Login screen
by Naheem Zaffar
Hi Since I updates my FC3T2 system a few days ago, I have a minor
annoyance: The fonts on the login screen (default; gdm?) are really
small. How do I correct the size to the correct size?
iirc this happened in the same update in which I got two panels for
gnome. (now been merged into one). This should help get a time scale.
Further yum updating since has not fixed the problem.
19 years, 7 months
yum with FC3-test2
by Nave, Ronald
10/5/2004
I looks like yum update is working again after todays download. It seems to
have been broken for several weeks.
Up2date still does not work
19 years, 7 months
New yum's STILL not updating FC3T2
by Wood David
OK. Here's the story so far...
I have always used yum to update/upgrade successfully.
I sit behind an http proxy server and define http_proxy=http://... to make
yum work.
I run yum as root.
I use a fast local mirror which I can manually download from without any
problem.
I couldn't use yum-2.0.7-1.1 to update FC3T1 to FC3T2 because of the
base-fonts conflict. However, I worked around this by downloading and
installing the xorg-x11* and fonts-xorg* rpm's manually. I could then use
yum to do the rest. So I am now at FC3T2.
The problem is that every version of yum (up to 2.1.5) I've tried since
yum-2.0.7 just won't work. The header downloading seems really slick in the
new versions, and yum check-update works fine. But when I do yum update I
get this:
# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repo: development
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 927 kB 00:03
developmen: ################################################## 3423/3423
Resolving Dependencies
gcc-java-3.4.2-4.i386.rpm 100% |=========================| 1.8 MB 00:02
Fedora/RPMS/gcc-java-3.4.2-4.i386.rpm: [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
Error: failure: Fedora/RPMS/gcc-java-3.4.2-4.i386.rpm from development:
[Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
I've gone back to using yum-2.0.7-1.1 and that works just fine.
Any ideas?
David
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19 years, 7 months
Radeon troubles with latest FC2 upgrades.
by Jim Cornette
As a note: There have been reports regarding the latest xorg-x11 updates
pushed to FC2. This revision causes radeon 7000 problems for users,
using the 6.7.0-9 release and they need to drop back to 6.7.0-5 because
of this problem.
Bugs have been filed by those w/ the problem on xorg bugzila. I don't
know if bugs were filed on fedora bugzilla.
Jim
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19 years, 7 months
Automount / Autofs not timing out and unmounting usb flashkey
by Andy Green
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Hi folks -
Just noticed on two machines tracking the Development branch, that autofs
seems to be ignoring --timeout. Eg:
/etc/auto.master:
/misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout=2
/etc/auto.misc:
usbautocam
- -fstype=vfat,nosuid,nodev,sync,dirsync,uid=99,gid=99,umask=000 :/dev/sda1
mount shows autofs running:
...
automount(pid6032) on /misc type autofs
(rw,fd=4,pgrp=6032,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
On device insertion, it is automounted:
...
automount(pid6032) on /misc type autofs
(rw,fd=4,pgrp=6032,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
/dev/sda1 on /misc/usbautocam type vfat
(rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,dirsync,uid=99,gid=99,umask=000)
However....
[root@fastcat ~]# lsof -n | grep /misc
automount 6032 root 4r DIR 0,18 0 18246 /misc
Okay so nothing is touching the mountpoint /misc/usbautocam. Wait several
seconds and do another mount command to see what is what....
...
automount(pid6032) on /misc type autofs
(rw,fd=4,pgrp=6032,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
/dev/sda1 on /misc/usbautocam type vfat
(rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,dirsync,uid=99,gid=99,umask=000)
Previously the mountpoint would disappear after a couple of seconds, now it is
immortal.
[root@fastcat ~]# rpm -q autofs
autofs-4.1.3-22
Unmounting by hand works okay, and will allow reinsertion of the device, which
is then automounted again. But never auto-unmounted.
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19 years, 7 months
fc3-test2-x86_64 vs HP Pavilion zv5000z
by D. Hugh Redelmeier
I'm trying FC3-test2 X86_64 on my new notebook. Lots of problems. I
welcome hints!
1. the DVD image is too big.
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132998>
I've remastered the .iso, leaving out the SRPMs for koffice and
OpenOffice (as suggested somewhere).
I have attached my script for remastering to the bugzilla entry.
2. Checking the MD5 sum of the DVD works fine, but when it finishes,
it goes into install. I'd like to be able to go back to the initial
screen that gives me choices like "rescue".
Probably hard to fix this, but it is an interface design infelicity.
3. During graphical install, the mouse (actually a Synaptics
Touchpad) is not found.
Some mailing lists suggest that the psmouse module needs to be pushed
later than normal startup does. I don't understand. Could this be
fallout from udev?
See for example:
<http://quanta.homeip.net/pipermail/linuxr3000/2004-September/000388.html>
4. During graphical install, X comes up nicely (except for mouse
problem noted above). Switching to any of the text consoles shows a
broken display. Perhaps it could be described as lost sync, except I
don't know that LCD panels have sync.
This is apparently a known problem with the NV (nVidia) driver. The
open source one, not the proprietary one.
"lspci -v" says this about the video controller:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go 64M] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006d
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
See for example:
<http://quanta.homeip.net/pipermail/linuxr3000/2004-September/000369.html>
5. In rescue mode ("linux rescue" or "linux rescue noprobe"), when I
type "reboot", I get:
The system is going down NOW !!
Sending SIGTERM to all processes.
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on \
unknown-block(3,2)
Note: I did *not* ask for any partition on the HD to be mounted at the
start of rescue mode. This is because the only partion is NTFS (so
far).
6. I installed FC3-test2 X86_64. I had to use text mode since the
touchpad was not detected. This went well. Unfortunately there was
no way to suppress a graphical login for the installed system.
Eventually I booted the DVD in rescue mode and editted the installed
/etc/inittab to set the initial runlevel to 3.
On initial boot of the installed system, I was asked to set up a few
things. It was awkward without a mouse. Selecting the monitor from
the list seemed impossible (I could not find a keystroke to expand a
selected manufacturer list), so I accepted the default. Switching to
the text consoles (CTRL-ALT-F2, for example) didn't work because they
were corrupted (see above).
7. Now I can log in in console mode. When I do, the CPU speed is not
throttled, even though the CPU is mostly idle. As a result, the
notebook is blowing a lot of hot air. It would be better to switch it
down to the lowest speed. WinXP does this.
8. I just tried pressing the power button briefly. In WinXP this
means "suspend to disk". Under FC3, I got a screen full of:
vt: argh, driver_data is NULL !
I have no idea how many, but at least a screen full.
I then pressed C-A-D and got an oops:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000000000 RIP:
<ffffffff8024cc24>{vt_ioctl+34}
PML4 1a142067 PGD 17a79067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [2]
[skipping list of modules linked in: I'm too lazy to type it]
Pid: 9935, comm: shutdown Not tainted 2.6.8-1.541
[skipping]
Call Trace: ... {filemap_nopage+362} ... {selinux_file_ioctl+735}
... {do_no_page+1944} ... {tty_ioctl+4023}
... {do_munmap+1212} ... (sys_ioctl+1029}
... {system_call+126}
Code: 44 8b 38 49 63 c7 44 89 ff 48 8b 04 c5 e0 36 4c 80 48 89 44
I can flip between virtual consoles, but nothing I type goes into the
WindowsXP. C-A-D will generate new Oopsen.
To be continued.
19 years, 7 months
Re: up2date & yum, behind corporate firewall
by Jamie Bohr
Hi,
The proxy setting can be set manually via "up2date --configuration". I have had problems with up2date losing the proxy setting though so be careful.
- Jamie Bohr
Carl Gherardi <carl.gherardi(a)nautronix.com.au> wrote:
>On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 21:34 +0530, Banibrata Dutta wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any way to use up2date & yum from behind a corporate
>> firewall, except setting up an explicit HTTP tunnel (which BTW is
>> banned by my co.!! so it's a strict no-no). ?
>>
>
>If you have proxy access, export http_proxy=http://proxybox:port/
>
>Cant comment on up2date, i'd assume it used gnome/kde prefs though.
>
>Carl
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19 years, 7 months
up2date & yum, behind corporate firewall
by Banibrata Dutta
Hi,
Is there any way to use up2date & yum from behind a corporate
firewall, except setting up an explicit HTTP tunnel (which BTW is
banned by my co.!! so it's a strict no-no). ?
also, is there a easy way to check connectivity with the up2date / yum
servers for their ability to serve the update files ?
sorry about the pretty naive sounding questions!!
thanks & regards,
bdutta
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19 years, 7 months
tvtime broken
by Jim Bevier
Tvtime has become broken in the last few days.
It now gets a segentation fault. Here is the info:
Oct 5 13:38:25 jbsys kernel: tvtime[6028] general protection rip:43d5fd
rsp:7fbfffe638 error:0
Here is the output of tvtime -v:
Running tvtime 0.9.13.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /home/jbev/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
cpuinfo: CPU AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+, family 15, model 4, stepping
8.
cpuinfo: CPU measured at 181385697692486.312MHz.
xcommon: Display :0.0, vendor The X.Org Foundation, vendor release 60801000
xfullscreen: Single-head detected, pixel aspect will be calculated.
xfullscreen: Pixel aspect ratio on the primary head is: 16/15 == 1.07.
xfullscreen: Using the XFree86-VidModeExtension to calculate fullscreen
size.
xfullscreen: Fullscreen to 0,0 with size 1280x1024.
xcommon: Have XTest, will use it to ping the screensaver.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 16:15.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 16:15.
xcommon: Window manager is KWin and is EWMH compliant.
xcommon: Using EWMH state fullscreen property.
xcommon: Using EWMH state above property.
xcommon: Using EWMH state below property.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 16:15.
xcommon: Displaying in a 720x576 window inside 720x576 space.
xvoutput: Using XVIDEO adaptor 53: NV Video Overlay.
speedycode: Using MMXEXT optimized functions.
station: Reading stationlist from /home/jbev/.tvtime/stationlist.xml
videoinput: Using video4linux2 driver 'cx8800', card 'Leadtek Winfast 2000XP
Expert' (bus PCI:0000:00:0d.0).
videoinput: Version is 4, capabilities 5010011.
videoinput: Width 720 too high, using 640 instead as suggested by the
driver.tvtime: Sampling input at 640 pixels per scanline.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 16:15.
xcommon: Displaying in a 720x576 window inside 720x576 space.
xcommon: Received a map, marking window as visible (76).
xcommon: Window fully obscured, marking window as hidden (76).
xcommon: Window made visible, marking window as visible (76).
videoinput: Tuner refuses to tell us the current frequency: Invalid argument
videoinput: Please file a bug report at http://tvtime.net/
The kernel is 591 and all updates as of today. I am not sure when it
broke in the last week or so.
Jim
19 years, 7 months