Curious directory move
by Timothy Murphy
I just upgraded my laptop to FC3-test2
and found one odd feature which I don't understand.
I'm running uucp,
and the uucp config and other files are in /etc/uucp
which I take to be the standard place for them.
For some reason, under FC3-test2 uucico looks for
/usr/conf/uucp/config (as I found with strace).
When I symbolically linked this to /etc/uucp/config
all went well.
But I am baffled by this change.
Has there been some general move of config files to /usr/conf/ ?
I don't recall this directory ever existing before.
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19 years, 6 months
VFS
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
On my desktop are a pile of unwanted icons for drives (not removable
ones) mounted in fstab, including /dev/hda1 (called idedisk2).
I did report this and was told it was going to be fixed.
As other users use this machine (and I don't want them to have access to
these drives/mount points), is there anyway to make them vanish from the
desktop. I can't see anything obvious in gconf-editor to do it.
TTFN
Paul
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19 years, 6 months
yum.conf test2
by Gabriel Moreno
I am new to test release. I would like to add some mirrors to my
yum.conf for base and additional software. But I want to help out all
I can in testing test2. What should I look for in adding mirrors.
Thanks,
Gabriel
19 years, 6 months
FC3T2 - How to reinstall GRUB after boot problem... RTFM didn't help.
by Mike Martin
Hello.
I've got a problem that I've not been able to solve via RTFM for two
days now. Perhaps someone here could point me in the right direction.
I'm running both WinXP and FC3T2. My setup is simple. Two ATA drives in
my system:
/dev/hda - Windows disk.
/dev/hdb - FC3T2 disk. /dev/hdb1=/; /dev/hdb2=swap
/dev/hdc - CD Burner.
/dev/hdd - CD Burner.
GRUB was installed on /dev/hda
I had problems with Windows and had to reinstall WinXP. The GRUB boot
loader was blown away. No problem.
Try #1) I booted from the FC3T2 ISO image #1 and executed "linux rescue"
at the first prompt. Good. It found my FC3T2 install. Good.
/mnt/sysimage had it all. Good.
I then typed "chroot=/mnt/sysimage" and then type "grub-install
/dev/hda". The system complained that /dev/hda with either read-only or
didn't exist. I then typed "ls /dev | grep -i hda" and hda was not found.
I exited the chroot env and then tried to execute
/mnt/sysimage/sbin/grub-install and it complained "grub not found."
Next I typed "ln -s /mnt/sysimage/sbin/grub /sbin" and then typed
"grub-install /dev/hda" and it said
"/usr/share/grub/blah-blah-blah/stage1 not found".
Spent 4 hours RTFMing and obviously didn't search well as I found
nothing that would help.
Try #2) Booted KNOPPIX 3.4 and attempted to install GRUB.
Mounted /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1. Good. All my files are there.
Typed "ls -alR /mnt/hdb1/boot" and all the grub files were there.
grub-install didn't work with the same song and dance from above.
Spent all afternoon today searching for info, but again it is obvious
I'm not looking in the right directions.
All I want to do is just put GRUB back on /dev/hda so I can resume my
FC3T2 stuff.
Can someone help me in pointing out what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks for your time,
-mm
19 years, 6 months
Speaking of yum ...
by Robert Couture
Hi ...
Does anybody have a decent list of mirrors for rawhide? The mirrors
page shows base but not development.
Thanks in advance.
Rob.
19 years, 6 months
RE: noob sata question...
by Joe Robertson
Try using one of the scsi names (like /dev/sda)...
Thanks,
Joe Robertson
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of
> Chris Tencati
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> To: fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com
> Subject: noob sata question...
>
>
> Back when I had FC2 with the 2.4.x kernel, obviously there
> was no sata
> support built-in, but I'm using a promise controller and they
> make their
> drivers available for download/build, so everything worked
> fine. Now I'm
> using an up to date (as of yesterday) version of FC2T2, and
> that's causing
> some problems for me. SATA support is now built-in to the
> kernel, which is
> great, but I can't figure out how to actually access the
> disk...with the old
> driver I think it got reported as a scsi drive (which I swear
> is wrong) that
> was then faked as a normal ide drive, and I could mount it
> normally as
> /dev/hdc. Now though I don't have any scsi drives listed,
> udev made my
> cdrom into /dev/hdc (which is lame, it's not an hd!) and there are no
> addition hd* devices and nothing in general that looks
> correct. md0 is also
> unmountable. The sata_promise module/driver and others are
> loaded, and the
> system does recognize that there is a sata drive connected -
> KDE's hardware
> browser lists it under RAID devices (it's not hardware raid
> though if that's
> important), but I can't figure out any way to access it. I
> tried playing
> with MAKEDEV but since I don't really know what to try with
> it, that didn't
> help at all. /etc/fstab and /proc/partitions don't list
> anything except my
> 'normal' drives...
>
> >From looking at all the stuff online about sata and linux
> and the new
> >2.6
> kernels, it seems I'm missing something painfully obvious,
> but I really
> can't think of what else to try. Promise doesn't have
> binaries or source
> for independent modules that support the 2.6 kernels (which
> makes sense
> since it's now included in the kernel itself), so I can't
> just do what I did
> before either. So any idea what stupid thing I'm
> overlooking, so that I can
> actually use this other drive?
>
> FC2T2
> kernel 2.6.8-1.541 (stock FC build)
> Promise SATA 150 TX2plus controller
> some Maxtor SATA drive
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19 years, 6 months
grub reinstall
by chessir
My understanding about reinstalling grub - The procedure I am familiar
with is to initially make a grub boot floppy then boot from the floppy and
# root (hd1,0)
#setup (hd0,0) for hda boot sector
19 years, 6 months
(no subject)
by Michael Mansour
Hi,
I decided to try the I2O support in FC3T2, since I
currently run FC1 on that machine and trying to
upgrade to FC2 fails on that server (can't detect
disks from installation), and as I've just found out,
so does FC3T2.
I've read the material on:
http://i2o.shadowconnect.com/fedora.php
and they claim that they do not know of any issues
with the driver and kernel used on the installation
process of FC3T2.
The following is my problem.
I have an Adaptec I2O SCSI RAID Controller
BIOS V001.62 (2002/11/16)
Model 2010S Revision 3B05
32Mb of RAM
Booting the FC3T2 CD, I select to add additional
drivers and select the "I2O block" driver from the
list.
Then when going through the install the following
appears before going to the Disk Druid section:
Bug
Assertion (sectors <= 63) at disk_dos.c:476 in
function probe_partition_for_geom() failed
click Ignore
Bug
Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:471 in
function probe_partition_for_geom() failed
click Ignore
then the install shuts down for reboot.
Any ideas?
Michael.
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19 years, 6 months
Video: Intel 810 / Monitor: Dell 991
by Daniele Bartoli
I am somewhat new to the world of Linux. However, I ran into this issue.
If I load FC2, I have no video problem.
If I load FC3-T2, the video has an issue, being that the video is
highly distorted - you can not understand anything in the display as
you see many different color lines, etc.
Both instances, the video is an Intel 810, which is built onto the
motherboard. The monitor is a Dell 991.
Any suggestions?
19 years, 6 months
dovecot imap broken
by Neal Becker
After today's updates dovecot imap seems to be broken. This was working -
Oct 1 19:07:58 rpppc1 imap-login: Login: nbecker [10.4.0.3]
Oct 1 19:07:58 rpppc1 imap(nbecker): Trying to allocate 0 bytes
Oct 1 19:07:58 rpppc1 dovecot: child 11061 (imap) killed with signal 6
19 years, 6 months