Locked screen
by William John Murray
Hi all,
Just a thought for improving Fedora. We now have a 'new login'
menu item in gnome at least, which creates a new session nested inside
the old. Isn't this MOST useful when someone has left the screen locked?
I come along, find one of my kids has locked the screen, and I can
either 'ctrl-atl-tab' or go and look for him. Bein able to just nest
a new session would be great.
Where does this have to happen? xscreensaver?
Bill
18 years, 11 months
1341 smp (and all other recent smp) freezeup @ login prompt
by Jonathan Deitch
On a FC4T3 system, with latest yum updates ...
Dual xeon system running on an Intel server motherboard, getting a
freeze after the boot process completes ... login appears, cursor
blinks, but keyboard/mouse are unresponsive, as well as network (system
appears hung) - can only reset to fix.
Booting the UP kernel system works flawlessly ...
Checking in logs, there's *no* logging at all for the smp boot - it's as
if it never happened.
any ideas? I'm flat-out stumped ...
- Jonathan
18 years, 11 months
Installing Xen
by Maimon Oded
Hi,
I've installed FC4-T3 and then install the xen packages,
following this manual: http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstart
I've got to the step that i need to create change the domain0 RAM used,
by running:
xm balloon 0 384
it didn't work because the xend is not running, I've tried to start it
by issuing:
/etc/init.d/xend start
after a few seconds it finished and i checked to see if the xend is up,
ps -ef | grep xen returned only [xenblkd], the logs xend & xend-debug
return no new lines,
can some one please tell me what's wrong or how i can debug this?
(I'm using the latest Xen packages)
thanks,
Oded.
18 years, 12 months
Re: Fedora Core 3 Test Update: kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
by Francesco Tombolini
Hi shrek-m
doublececk your selinux installation!
you can have the following condition:
#yum list selinux-policy-targeted
Installed Packages
selinux-policy-targeted.noarch 1.17.30-2.96 installed
selinux-policy-targeted.noarch 1.17.30-2.85 installed
uninstall the old package or the update not work.
Byez
--
Francesco Tombolini <tombo(a)adamantio.net>
18 years, 12 months
SMB overactive?
by William John Murray
Help!
I just realised that SMB has become overactive in my FC4T3 box. From
ethereal, I see it seems to pass messages like this to every other
machine on
our intranet:
Trans2 Request, QUERY_FS_INFO, Query FS Size Info
Trans2 Response, QUERY_FS_INFO
etc. It just keeps on doing it, round and round, ~10-20 machines a second.
I don't know when this started, but it keeps the little blue 'Network'
light on
my eth0 at about 20% permanently and cannot be good for the network.
Which process will be responsible? I do have 4 remote cifs mounts -
should I remove them?
Thank you,
Bill
18 years, 12 months
Disable firstboot or text-mode firstboot(FC4/rawhide)
by Sean Bruno
I am having some issues with firstboot that appears to be causing the X
server to display garbage.
I can't actually get into the machine to answer all of the questions at
this point(Nvidia 6200 PCI-E).
Is there a way to put firstboot into a text mode or to disable firstboot
altogether?
Sean
18 years, 12 months
Installing Xen
by Maimon Oded
Hi,
I've installed FC4-T3 and then install the xen packages,
following this manual: http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstart
i've got to the step that i need to create change the domain0 RAM used,
by runing:
xm balloon 0 384
it didnt work becuase the xend is not runing, i've tried to start it by issuing:
/etc/init.d/xend start
after a few seconds it finished and i checked to see if the xend is up,
ps -ef | grep xen returned only [xenblkd], the logs xend & xend-debug
return no new lines,
can some one please tell me what's wrong or how i can debug this?
(I'm using the latest Xen packages)
thanks,
Oded.
18 years, 12 months
Out of disk space
by William John Murray
Hello there,
In the latest update for FC4-T3 I filled my disk up with
160Mb of yum downloads. The install went fine, but using Firefox
afterwards looked strange so I tried rebooting.
Bad mistake. I could not log in. gdm error:
May 25 16:07:31 wjmurray gdm[4622]: gdm_auth_user_add: Could not write
cookie
May 25 16:07:31 wjmurray gdm[4622]: gdm_auth_user_add: Could not write
cookie
May 25 16:07:33 wjmurray gdm(pam_unix)[4622]: session closed for user murray
This happened even in 'failsafe terminal mode'. Now I could ssh in from
another machine and free some space that way, but why could 'failsafe'
terminal not be opened?
Or maybe even better gdm could do some triage on /tmp, /var/cache etc?
I know this is too late for FC4, but maybe 5?
Bill
18 years, 12 months
Yum error
by Christopher Carney
While running Yum I get this error: Error: Missing Dependency:
libjawt.so.6 is needed by package openoffice.org-core
[root@localhost ~]#
Is this a known issue and actively being worked?
Chris
--
The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.
-Arthur C. Clarke
18 years, 12 months
ext3 compiled-in vs module in FC4
by Tim Taranov
Hi -
I was wondering why FC4 has ext3 as a kernel module rather than having
it compiled into the kernel?
The reason I'm asking is because I encountered an issue with booting
FC4 from a raid volume with ext3 compiled as a module (the default
configuration) - the kernel would panic after not being able to mount
/. After I rebuilt the kernel to have the ext3 compiled-into the
kernel, the booting problem went away (my /boot and / are ext3-based,
running off a h/w raid controller based volume).
I was using the default FC4 test 3 at the time - I haven't tried it
with the latest kernel, but I suspect the results may be the same.
Thanks,
Tim
18 years, 12 months