browsing to certain web sites causes a kernel panic
by Robert P. J. Day
based on updating to f12 beta solely from the contents of the latest
beta release DVD, if i browse to a specific web site, a kernel crash
takes down my entire system. i can see that "yum list updates" gives
me 500+ packages to be installed/updated, so it's possible that might
fix things. but has anyone else seen this? i tried one site 3 times
-- 3 kernel crashes.
rday
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14 years, 6 months
F12 RC3 Can't create modem network connection
by Jim Haynes
I installed F12 RC3 in what I think is a typical gnome desktop
configuration, and I customized the installation to select
dialup networking. Then I tried to use System->Administration->Network
to create a new modem connection. The program crashed with the following
error report
Component: system-config-network
Version: 1.5.99
Summary: TBf1b4415d NCPluginDevModem.py:37:getModemList:ImportError: No module named kudzu
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/NCPluginModemInterface.py", line 136, in on_Modem_prepare
dlist = getModemList()
File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/plugins/NCPluginDevModem.py", line 37, in getModemList
import kudzu
ImportError: No module named kudzu
Local variables in innermost frame:
I checked and there is no kudzu package installed, but I don't know if
that is the cause of the above error.
jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
14 years, 6 months
F12 RC3 Where is system->administration->windows?
by Jim Haynes
I installed what I expected to be a typical desktop gnome workstation
setup from the F12 RC3 disks. When I clicked on System->Preferences
I didn't see a Windows menu item, which I have used in the past to
set the way the windows respond to mouse movement.
jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
14 years, 6 months
no more wireless in f12?
by cornel panceac
due to this bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457441
my pcmcia card is not working in fedora 12 (while working in ubuntu, simply
mepis and sidux). however, it worked with ndiswrapper until i installed
2.6.31.5-127
now, kernel no longer sees the wireless card. dmesg shows no wlan. if i
remove the ndiswrapper file form /etc/modprobe.d (and maybe if i comment out
the ndiswrapper line in modprobe.conf and blacklist ndiswrapper), the kernel
detects the wlan card but can not connect to the wap. is there any method on
getting wireless back with this pcmcia card on -127?
(Ralink RT2500)
it still works if i reboot in
2.6.31.5-122
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14 years, 6 months
rawhide report: 20091110 changes
by Fedora compose checker
Compose started at Tue Nov 10 08:15:09 UTC 2009
Updated Packages:
gnome-do-0.8.2-4.fc12
---------------------
* Tue Nov 10 2009 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> - 0.8.2-4
- Remove "Docky" due to patent issues
Summary:
Added Packages: 0
Removed Packages: 0
Modified Packages: 1
14 years, 6 months
Question about Fedora Unity
by Cristian Sava
Hi all,
Is Fedora Unity still providing re-spins?
(the last is F10 from April)
Is revisor the only option for now?
Thank you and sorry if off topic
C. Sava
14 years, 6 months
From the Department of Redundancy Department ... dracut bureau
by Robert G. (Doc) Savage
This could be just cosmetic, but maybe not. Before the interactive
startup I see the following:
dracut: Starting plymouth daemon
dracut: Starting plymoutn daemon
...
...
...
dracut: Mounted root filesystem /dev/sda2
dracut: Mounted root filesystem /dev/sda2
dracut: Loading SELinux policy
dracut: Loading SELinux policy
...
dracut: Stitching root
dracut: Switching root
Updated to kernel-2.6.31.5-122.fc12.x86_64.
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL
14 years, 6 months
upgrading f11 -> rawhide: verifying the general technique for debugging
by Robert P. J. Day
(if you can stand one more post on the topic, i'm still working on
this for the entertainment value, and also to school myself in the
intricacies of debugging upgrades of this complexity. and now, to the
specific example.)
just to see how much upgrading this would involve, i tried the
following:
# yum upgrade udev
fully expecting to see *piles* of packages that would have to come
along for the ride, and i was not disappointed:
...
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 44 Package(s)
Upgrade 287 Package(s)
Total size: 380 M
...
further up the output, we have this verification:
Installing:
... snip ...
udev x86_64 145-12.fc12 rawhide 303 k
replacing udev-extras.x86_64 20090226-0.5.20090302git.fc11
ok, all the dependencies were resolved so just let it go and see what
happens:
...
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Check Error:
file /lib/udev/hid2hci from install of udev-145-12.fc12.x86_64
conflicts with file from package bluez-4.42-9.fc11.x86_64
file /lib/udev/rules.d/70-hid2hci.rules from install of udev-145-12.fc12.x86_64
conflicts with file from package bluez-4.42-9.fc11.x86_64
#
um ... what? why should the new udev conflict with the *existing*
bluez given that bluez should be upgraded as well?
# yum list bluez\*
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* fedora: fedora.mirror.iweb.ca
* rawhide: mirror.its.uidaho.edu
* rpmfusion-free: mirrors.tummy.com
* rpmfusion-free-rawhide: mirrors.tummy.com
* rpmfusion-free-updates: mirrors.tummy.com
* rpmfusion-free-updates-testing: mirrors.tummy.com
* updates: fedora.mirror.iweb.ca
Installed Packages
bluez.x86_64 4.42-9.fc11 @updates
bluez-cups.x86_64 4.42-9.fc11 @updates
bluez-libs.x86_64 4.42-9.fc11 @updates
Available Packages
bluez.x86_64 4.57-2.fc12 rawhide
bluez-alsa.i586 4.42-9.fc11 updates
bluez-alsa.i686 4.57-2.fc12 rawhide
bluez-alsa.x86_64 4.57-2.fc12 rawhide
bluez-compat.x86_64 4.57-2.fc12 rawhide
bluez-cups.x86_64 4.57-2.fc12 rawhide
bluez-gnome.x86_64 1.8-16.fc11 fedora
bluez-gnome-analyzer.x86_64 1.8-16.fc11 fedora
bluez-gstreamer.i586 4.42-9.fc11 updates
bluez-gstreamer.i686 4.57-2.fc12 rawhide
bluez-gstreamer.x86_64 4.57-2.fc12 rawhide
bluez-hcidump.x86_64 1.42-4.fc12 rawhide
bluez-libs.i586 4.42-9.fc11 updates
bluez-libs.i686 4.57-2.fc12 rawhide
bluez-libs.x86_64 4.57-2.fc12 rawhide
bluez-libs-devel.i586 4.42-9.fc11 updates
bluez-libs-devel.i686 4.57-2.fc12 rawhide
bluez-libs-devel.x86_64 4.57-2.fc12 rawhide
#
as i read the above (and correct me if i'm doing this incorrectly),
i certainly see a newer (rawhide) version of bluez that i would have
thought would be part of the upgrade, but apparently it isn't.
if i go back through the lengthy list of packages to be
installed/upgraded, nothing of the form "bluez*" is listed. why not?
it's listed as available, it's clearly(?) in rawhide, but it's somehow
not being picked up in this sizable upgrade.
how *would* one interpret the above diagnostic?
rday
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Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.
Web page: http://crashcourse.ca
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday
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14 years, 6 months
F12 RC possible bug when windows pre installed???
by Gianluca Cecchi
Hello,
just downloaded boot.iso (170Mb) from
http://ftp.tudelft.nl/download.fedora.redhat.com/linux/development/x86_64...
with timestamp 07-Nov-2009 14:13 171M
My test system has a partition layout that comprehends
sda1 ntfs with windows XP and set as bootable by windows xp itself
inside the winxp fs I also have the copy of the first 512 bytes of sda4, to
boot my F11 partition (with grub installed previously in root partition)
from boot.ini of windows.
Now I have also sda2 that is scratchable.
I run the cd where I burnt the boot.iso and select sda2 as target partition
and to install grub on root partition (so sda2)
This grub setup phase completes, but then I get an error about repositories
not aligned with my install treee and I can only retry (with same failure)
or reboot.
I reboot and I'm not able to start win xp anymore.
I start the same f12 cd in rescue and notice with fdisk that now my sda has
this
sda1 no bootable flag
sda2 bootable flag
so that I remove bootbale flag from sda2 and set bootable flag for sda1 and
my windows XP starts again and also is able again to start my F11 from sda4
Is this a bug or does it depends on installation not finished?
Anyway I think we have to consider a possible error and the bootable flasg
should not be removed from sda1.....
I copied these files and they are available to check
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 57822 2009-11-07 18:32 anaconda.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 20840 2009-11-07 18:32 program.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 39602 2009-11-07 18:32 storage.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 32733 2009-11-07 18:32 X.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1541 2009-11-07 18:32 yum.log
yum.log contains:
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,198] INFO_2 : Loaded plugins: blacklist, whiteout
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,205] WARNING : Excluding devel repo Fedora - Rawhide -
Developmental packages for the next Fedora release for non-devel anaconda
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,206] WARNING : Repo Fedora - Rawhide - Debug contains
-source or -debuginfo, excluding
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,207] WARNING : Repo Fedora - Rawhide - Source contains
-source or -debuginfo, excluding
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,209] WARNING : Excluding devel repo Fedora rawhide -
x86_64 - Test Updates for non-devel anaconda
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,210] WARNING : Repo Fedora rawhide - x86_64 - Test
Updates Debug contains -source or -debuginfo, excluding
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,210] WARNING : Repo Fedora rawhide - Test Updates
Source contains -source or -debuginfo, excluding
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,213] WARNING : Excluding devel repo Fedora rawhide -
x86_64 - Updates for non-devel anaconda
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,214] WARNING : Repo Fedora rawhide - x86_64 - Updates -
Debug contains -source or -debuginfo, excluding
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,214] WARNING : Repo Fedora rawhide - Updates Source
contains -source or -debuginfo, excluding
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,217] WARNING : Excluding devel repo Fedora rawhide -
x86_64 for non-devel anaconda
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,218] WARNING : Repo Fedora rawhide - x86_64 - Debug
contains -source or -debuginfo, excluding
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,218] WARNING : Repo Fedora rawhide - Source contains
-source or -debuginfo, excluding
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,219] DEBUG : Config time: 0.404
Possible that it excludes all repositories?
Any hint, also for install?
Gianluca
14 years, 6 months