System and network response slower
by Aaron Kincer
After the following package updates (ripped straight from the update
log), my system is slower and network response is almost unusable. In
other words, anything using the Internet is miserable now including e-mail.
[Tue Mar 30 12:36:44 2004] up2date installing packages:
['kernel-2.6.4-1.298', 'kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.126']
[Tue Mar 30 12:56:46 2004] up2date installing packages:
['SDL-1.2.7-2.1', 'SDL_mixer-1.2.5-1', 'alsa-lib-1.0.3a-1']
[Tue Mar 30 13:07:50 2004] up2date installing packages:
['bash-2.05b-38', 'fedora-release-1.91-6']
How do you roll back to older packages? I can't hardly use my computer
now. Also worthy of note is booting to older kernel versions DOES NOT
fix the problem.
20 years
selinux and mounted partitions
by Thomas Molina
I have my system set up for testing and easy swap between setups. I put
the root partition on one ide drive (/dev/hda) and /home and /usr/local on
a second ide drive (/dev/hdd). /dev/hda is in a removable caddy, allowing
me to swap in a known stable setup or change between several test setups.
How possible is it that I will run into trouble when I install an
selinux-enabled setup, swap out to my stable caddy, and then swap back in
the selinux setup? If so, what could I do to minimize the problems?
Thanks.
20 years
FC2T2 Evolution Problems
by Will H. Backman
Clicking on a link in e-mail body does not launch browser, nor does
right-click "launch in browser". Looks like epiphany %s is the deafult,
although it seems to be not installed on a Personal Workstation install.
Right clicking on IMAP folder in tree-view does not produce a pop-up
menu allowing me to add my IMAP INBOX to the shortcut bar.
Anyone else getting these errors?
20 years
SELinux issue
by Parrish M Myers
Help!
I have a habit of keeping a copy of Knoppix close by when installing
Linux on my laptop. Primarily because the video card [ATI Radeon
Mobility U1] will normally cause linux to go bonkers and I have to hard
reboot].
Well, the installation went well enough, until the system tried to boot
for the first time. It was OK though the first boot wizard and all,
but then the screen went black! Assuming this was a video card issues
again, I booted in knoppix and changed the inittab file to boot to
runlevel 3.
Now! I can't boot at all. SELinux claims there is an issue with the
file and the system can't find an init file.
How do I relabel, or whatever, this file so the system will accept the
file again? I have even tried adding 'selinux=0' to the boot options
and this doesn't work either. It seems my inittab file is just
tainted. It's driving me crazy! Can someone help?
Thanks.
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"Parrish Myers" <parrishmyers(a)yahoo.com>
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Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. -- (Winston Churchill)
20 years
Audio problem
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
On my area when I use xmms and go to the preferences, I see I'm using
ALSA. Click on configure, I can see 4 devices : default, two
soundblasters (hw:0,0 and hw:0,3) as well as the internal Intel sound. I
have the device set to default and the use software volume control box
ticked. XMMS works fine on my area.
If I go to the wifes area, xmms only shows the default device. I've set
it to use ALSA with the volume control box ticked. The only device
available is the default one.
When I tried using kmix, it is showing up as there being no audio mixers
at all.
What files do I need to alter on /dev so that any user has access to
them?
Currently, /dev/mixer is set as crw------- 1 paul root 14, 0
/dev/mixer0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 ->mixer
/dev/mixer1 crw 1 paul root 14,16
I imagine I need to set /dev/mixer & /dev/mixer1 to be chown root.root
and chmod 777 on it.
TTFN
Paul
--
"Discovery is, in it's essence, a matter of re-arranging or transforming
evidence in such a way that one is enabled to go beyond the evidence so
re-assembled to additional new insights" - Bruner
20 years
any chance for a quick respin of FC2t2?
by Robert P. J. Day
i'm still working my way thru the numerous emails discussing the booting
problem with FC2t2, and i haven't seen any mention of debugging the boot
problem and issuing updated CDs/DVD images.
i was just about to start a DVD ISO download, but i'm willing to wait if
a new image might be available in the next few days that fixes this. any
chance of that? or do we just go with what's there?
rday
20 years
wine problem
by Neal Becker
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What do I need to do to workaround this?
Starting '/opt/cxoffice/bin/wineloader' '--'
'Y:\gs814w32.exe'
err:virtual:map_image Standard load address for a Win32 program (0x00400000)
not available - security-patched kernel ?
/opt/cxoffice/bin/wineloader: could not load 'Y:\gs814w32.exe' as Win32 binary
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20 years
Problems with Core 2 Test 2
by Michael A. Peters
First let me state that C2T1 worked beautifully - no issues at all.
Here's my hardware -
Asus A7N8X Deluxe (Athlon 2700 XP+) w/ 256 MB PC 3200
IDE Bus 0 - Master: (/dev/hda) 4GB IDE drive (Quantum Fireball -
originally from a 233 Rev A Beige G3 - it's my test install drive)
IDE Bus 1 - Master: (/dev/hdc) Sony CD-RW CRX140E
IDE Bus 1 - Slave : (/dev/hdd) Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1712
Generic floppy on /dev/fd0
Video: AOpen (Generic) NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440]
PCI Cards:
Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U (no drives attached)
Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (tulip card)
U.S. Robotics 56k PCI hardware modem
Problems
-=-
The CD's (I tried CD1 and CD2) would not boot (md5sum of burned media
checks out fine)
I had deb sarge on my test drive - so I booted that and mounted the
first CD to look for a boot floppy (like I had to use to boot Mandrake
10 C.D.) - found the boot.iso - burned that, that booted.
First that hung at trying to load a USB mass storage driver. So I shut
down, detached my digital camera card reader, and tried again.
It got a little farther - but said it didn't have a driver for the media
- and asked if I wanted to load a driver. I didn't see any nforce IDE
drivers in the list - I'm assuming it's a bug.
-=-
At any rate - FC2T1 boots and installs on this hardware absolutely no
problem. Even with the flash card reader attached.
Since Mandrake Community Download 10 also has the same issue - I'm
wondering if Fedora and Mandrake are using the same mastering software
(I assume isolinux and friends) that happens to be broken with my CDROM
drive ... (RH 8/Knoppix/FC2T1/MandrakeMove/Sarge all boot me no
problem).
Is there a boot floppy anywhere I can gran to try to boot the install CD
1 that way? Anyone else with similar hardware have a solution?
20 years
how to install without a cd-rom?
by Marius Andreiana
How to install FC2 on systems without CD-ROM? (e.g. from HDD or network)
Please document how to use PXE boot in order to start install from
network.
--
Marius Andreiana
Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania
http://www.galuna.ro
20 years
failure mounting a PLEXTOR CD-R PX-320A
by Joao Palhoto Matos
Hello:
Can someone offer some advice on this one before I dive into bugzilla or
start swapping hardware?
I have a PLEXTOR CD-R which seems to be correctly identified by the
hardware browser as a PLEXTOR CD-R PX-320A which used to perform well
but not frequently (I believe it worked with FC2T1).
Currently mount attempts by root give
[root@a213-22-64-242 root]# mount /dev/cdrom
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
/dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/hdc
Line in /etc/fstab is
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
and was freshly included by kudzu.
Failure happens both with
kernel-2.6.4-1.281
and
kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1
This is a i386 FC2T2 system (I am not particularly fond of testing
anaconda and burning CDs except for the occasional data backup so I got
here all the way from RH9 using up2date / apt / yum and, hardly using CDs,
not going through any kind of OS install and reading the list; I am
mentioning this because lots of people on this list seem to be unaware of
the possibility and become quite upset with failed CD boots for
installation...).
--
João Palhoto Matos http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~jmatos
Departamento de Matemática
Instituto Superior Técnico
Lisboa mailto:jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt
20 years