Hang with 2.6.3-1.106
by Kevin Martineau
After installing with up2date, I cannot boot with this kernel. The
system hangs at the SELinux startup. How do I dig around to determine
what's happening. None of the log files I reviewed in /var/log seem to
have the unsuccessful attempts to boot.
20 years, 2 months
System-config-soundcard now detects alsa.
by Jim Cornette
I made a statement that I tried system-config-soundcard and it only
testd for oss. I just tried using system-config-soundcard and it played
a test sound successfully.
I am trying out some of the assistive technologies available from
Gnopernicus and gnome-speech and was wondering if either a text
functionality will be added to the program or if there could be a
shortcut key for the blind to be able to configure the sound by using
certain keystrokes selected by default. Being able to adjust soundlevels
would be a great aid also for adjusting the sound with selected
shortcut keys.
Also, I was able to get gedit to read text that I cut from my mailer and
pasted into gedit. Are there very many programs in the distribution that
are assistive technology compatible?
Jim
20 years, 2 months
rsyncing a mirror from mirrors
by Harry Putnam
Sorry to stick this in here but its turning out to be quite a
difficult search to find a hit on this subject with an example or
list.
Where can I get a list of rsyncable servers containing fedoraC2?
20 years, 2 months
up2date and yum package exclusion problems
by kas
Am I am the only one wondering why up2date complains about dependency
problems with packages ***not*** shown in the GUI's list of "Available
Package Updates" and thus cannot be removed from said list? In this
case it is rusers-server causing the immediate problem. And just so I
don't seem biased, yum seems to trip over the same problem. Using
exclude=rusers-server or exclude=rusers-server* in yum.conf here doesn't
help so I am assuming that there is a problem with the header that
neither up2date nor yum can handle gracefully. It sure would be nice if
they did something sensible in this case. How come exclude didn't work?
If this is operator error, someone please put me out of my misery.
This isn't the first time this has happened lately.
Karen
20 years, 2 months
How do I get rid of avc: errors.
by Peter Banks
I keep getting these avc: error messages on the console.
They are filling up dmesg making debug difficult.
I presume that they connected with Secure Linux features.
Regards
pab
20 years, 2 months
stange results
by Gene C.
I have been rebuilding the updated packages that come out for i386 on my
x86_64 platform. When I do there is usulaly some size differences. However,
when I rebuilt samba-3.0.2-7.FC1.src.rpm the size did not just increase a
little, it increased over a factor of 7 ... from around 9.5MB fir the i386 to
over 70MB for the x86_64.
The samba packages in the base i386 and x86_64 distributions are about the
same size. I cannot explain why these should increase so much. I can see
that the sizes are valid in as the size of some of the binary files have
increased dramatically. For example, smbclient from from around 874KB to
over 19MB (both amd64 packages ... 3.0.0-15 and 3.0.2-FC1 respectively).
To rebuild I used rpmbuild -ba --clean with the provided spec file.
Is this a bug of some kind?
--
Gene
20 years, 2 months
Laptop networking issues
by Phil Savoie
Hello All,
I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop which does a network install of the new FC2
test 1 release. I start with a boot askmethod and fill in the blanks to do a
network install which works flawlessly.
However, on reboot after the install, the same pcmcia card I used for the
network install is not seen or is seen and doesn't work. The pcmcia card is
a netgear FA511 32 bit card which works great in RH8,9 Mandrake 8-9.2 etc.
In Fedora Core 1, the only way the card will work is if after the boot I tke
it out and put it back in again. I have moved the /etc/rc3.d and /etc/5.d
network and pcmcia files around so that pcmcia is started before eth0 gets
loaded but still no go.
Would/could anyone enlighten me as to how I can solve this?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Phil
20 years, 2 months
Install Help Please
by Jonas Persson
I am trying to install on a computer using a GeForce FX and a ViewSonic 18
flat screen monitor. When the graphical version of the install program
starts the screen goes black. The app is still running but nothing is shown
on the monitor. I tried to start the install program by typing "linux nofb"
after the first prompt but no luck. Any suggestion appreciated.
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20 years, 2 months
README in /usr/src/linux* need updating
by Harry Putnam
I was considering configuring a custom kernel, mainly for
reintroducing smbfs.
I'm running the updated one of a few days ago (kernel-2.6.3-1.97)
Judging by reports here, it is more stable for now than the newer
one in rawhide.
But to cut to the chase:
I happened to look at the README in /usr/src/linux*
and noticed it has some fairly dated material in it.
[...]
o - In order to boot your new kernel, you'll need to copy the kernel
o image (found in .../linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage after compilation)
o to the place where your regular bootable kernel is found.
o
o For some, this is on a floppy disk, in which case you can copy the
o kernel bzImage file to /dev/fd0 to make a bootable floppy.
[...]
That is no longer possible...
[...]
o If you boot Linux from the hard drive, chances are you use LILO which
o uses the kernel image as specified in the file /etc/lilo.conf. The
o kernel image file is usually /vmlinuz, /boot/vmlinuz, /bzImage or
o /boot/bzImage. To use the new kernel, save a copy of the old image
o and copy the new image over the old one. Then, you MUST RERUN LILO
o to update the loading map!! If you don't, you won't be able to boot
o the new kernel image.
That hasn't been true for several versions now.
Does this need to go the Bugzilla route or can I just submit a diff
somewhere and hope it is accepted.
20 years, 2 months