Re: How to get XFS to be properly supported in FC
by Peter Gordon
> Hello Folks,
> I hope that you are well. I just wanted to find out how I could go
> about soliciting support for getting XFS into the Anaconda installer
> GUI and text FS selector drop down menu without having to type
> linux xfs at the prompt.
For the moment, XFS is not officially supported by the Fedora Project
(i.e., you're probably on your own if something breaks).[1] It's also
one of the things on the Wishlist for FC5.[2]
[1] http://www.fedorafaq.org/#reiserjfs
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Wishlist
Hope that helps.
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18 years, 8 months
Forthcoming FC4 kernel update, more testing required.
by Dave Jones
I've completed a 2.6.13 kernel rebase, and pushed out a
test kernel to fc4-updates-testing. (FC3 probably won't
get another rebase before EOL).
Please give this a try on your systems, and file any
bugs that you happen upon in bugzilla.
You can also find interim 'snapshot' builds at
http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC4/
which may fix additional problems since the last updates-testing
release.
I'm hoping to get this pushed out fairly soon depending upon
the feedback I get from how well this kernel works out.
Thanks,
Dave
18 years, 8 months
SNMP Problems
by Timothy A. Holmes
Good Morning everyone:
I am hitting a bit of a snag here with SNMP:
I have a FC3 samba server which I wish to begin monitoring, and I am in
the beginning stages of getting it set up.
I logged into the system remotely using ssh
Checked the snmpd.conf file but didn't change anything
Started the snmpd daemon
Fed it the following command
Snmpwalk -v 1 -c public localhost system
I got an error indicating that the net-snmp-utils were not installed, so
I
yum install net-snmp-utils
now when I try to start snmpd I get the following error
[root@srvfs-02 snmp]# service snmpd start
Starting snmpd: /usr/sbin/snmpd: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/snmpd:
undefined symbol: snmp_log_syslogname
[FAILED]
I have googled around for this problem, and have found nothing - can
someone please suggest a solution or a course of action????
Timothy A. Holmes
IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher
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18 years, 8 months
Suspend/hibernation/sleep of laptop on FC4?
by Patrick
Hi all,
The last item to tackle on my new laptop is to figure out how to get it
to go into some sort of standby mode when I either close the lid,
briefly press the power button or right click on the battery icon and
select suspend. I have googled around but haven't really found the one
stop shop how to do it. I've read that "suspend to disk" is only
supported with the patches from http://swsusp2.net/ but Dave Jones'
stance ("My comments on swsusp are largely unprintable" don't really
inspire confidence. See
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-October/msg01375.html)
So I have a few questions:
1) what is supported by the latest FC4 update kernel (2.6.13-1526)?
2) how can I make the parts that are supported (and safe) work on FC4?
3) according to one report the kernel parameter "acpi_sleep=s3_bios" can
result in filesystem corruption on 2.6.12. Does that apply to the FC4
kernels too? See:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Fedora_Core_4_on_a_ThinkPad_X41_...
If possible I would like the power button to act as follows:
- press it briefly and go into some sort of standby
- press it longer and shut down the laptop
On the laptop I also have a key combination (Fn-F4) that supposedly
generates an ACPI sleep message. Would be nice if I could use that one
too.
Many thanks for any pointers.
Regards,
Patrick
18 years, 8 months
Stellarium
by Antonio Montagnani
using Stellarium but location cannot be set properly, unless directly in
config.ini file, otherwise latitude and longitude are unproperly
recorded in this file.
Fedora Core 4, Stellarium 0.7.0-1.2.fc4rf@i386 RPM...and I am in Italy,
in case that hint is connected to some noise due to language :-)
Tnx
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18 years, 8 months
non-ASCII error messages from gcc
by Berna Massingill
On FC2 (and earlier RedHat) systems, error messages from gcc seem
to have been straight ASCII. On a couple of FC4 systems, output
includes some non-ASCII characters; specifically, the characters
used for single quotes (previous ` and ') have been replaced by
something multi-byte. (I base this claim on redirecting stderr
into a file and then displaying file contents with "od -c".)
The sequence that replaces ' displays okay, but the sequence that
replaces ` does not (appears as boldface u with umlaut).
My guess is that there's an environment variable somewhere that's
not getting set quite right; the man page for gcc seems to be
indicating that what gets produced for error messages is controlled
by environment variables LANG and LC_MESSAGES. LC_MESSAGES is unset;
LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8.
Anyone know how to make the error messages display properly?
-- blm
18 years, 8 months
command "du" reports wrong size ?
by Steven Shiau
Hi
I got a strange problem. i.e. "du" command reports wrong size in FC3/4,
dd --version
dd (coreutils) 5.2.1
du --version
du (coreutils) 5.2.1
[fc3]~/tmp>dd if=/dev/zero of=dd.128 bs=1M count=128
128+0 records in
128+0 records out
[fc3]~/tmp>du -B 1M dd.128
129 dd.128
129 != 128
However, if I use the dd and du in RedHat 9:
[rh9]~/tmp>dd --version
dd (coreutils) 4.5.3
[rh9]~/tmp>du --version
du (coreutils) 4.5.3
[rh9]~/tmp>dd if=/dev/zero of=dd.128 bs=1M count=128
128+0 records in
128+0 records out
[rh9]~/tmp>du -B 1M dd.128
128 dd.128
That's correct in RH9. Is that a bug of du in the coreutils 5.2.1 ? Or
where am I wrong ?
Thanks.
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Steven Shiau
18 years, 8 months
Choose a Session
by Thufir
On my Fedora Core 3 system, set to runlevel 5, there's a graphical
login screen. Clicking on "session" brings up a window with two
choices:
1. Default System Session
2. failsafe_Terminal
Starting gnome-panel from an Xterm window brings up the gnome panel
very nicely. Also, starting nautilus from an Xterm window will bring
up the desktop.
Is there some sort of setting in the menu which I can configure so
that Gnome will appear in the list of session options? It was listed
until quite recently.
Thanks,
Thufir
18 years, 8 months
fc4 yumex update now no sound
by Josh Coffman
Hi,
I just ran updates to my fc4 laptop and fc4 desktop.
On the desktop I did everything including the latest
kernel. On the laptop I skipped the kernel cause I
didn't feel like reinstalling nvidia drivers and
ndiswrapper.
Both are having problems with sound under supertux.
but I can play stuff in mplayer. I don't know what
exactly was updated, gtk2 might have been one of them.
If someone can point me in the right direction, I
would really appreciate it.
Even better, if someone happens to have a could idea
inspite of my vaque description, I would really
appreciate that.
TIA,
-j
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18 years, 8 months
Newbie: Compiling Gnome 2.12
by Marcus Zingmark
I'm compiling Gnome 2.12 with Garnome and have run in to some trouble.
Since I'm a Linux newbie I hope that someone could help me out here.
This is the last I get from the compiling:
configure: Checking to see if we can build Python bindings
checking whether /usr/bin/python version >= 2.4... yes
checking for /usr/bin/python version... 2.4
checking for /usr/bin/python platform... linux2
checking for /usr/bin/python script directory...
${prefix}/lib/python2.4/site-packages
checking for /usr/bin/python extension module directory...
${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.4/site-packages
checking for pyrexc... no
checking for headers required to compile python extensions... found
configure: error: Building python explicitly requested, but can't build
python bindings
make[9]: *** [configure-work/main.d/dbus-0.36.2/configure] Error 1
make[9]: Leaving directory
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/freedesktop/dbus'
make[8]: *** [../../freedesktop/dbus/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[8]: Leaving directory
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/platform/gnome-vfs'
make[7]: *** [../../platform/gnome-vfs/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[7]: Leaving directory
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/platform/libgnome'
make[6]: *** [../../platform/libgnome/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[6]: Leaving directory
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/platform/libbonoboui'
make[5]: *** [../../platform/libbonoboui/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/platform/libgnomeui'
make[4]: *** [../../platform/libgnomeui/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/desktop/nautilus'
make[3]: *** [../../desktop/nautilus/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/bindings/gnome-python'
make[2]: *** [../../bindings/gnome-python/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/bindings/gnome-python-extras'
make[1]: *** [paranoid-install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/bindings'
make: *** [paranoid-install] Error 2
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I have python-devel installed, if that matters. Some other useful
information might be that I'm on a FC4 machine.
18 years, 8 months