FC6 Upgrade Hangs on "Preparing transaction from installation source"
by Pete Pinter
On arguably the world's smallest production server - an 8 year old
Compaq laptop (Pentium MMX @166Mhz and 140MB RAM) happily running FC5
serving web/email/mysql/etc., the upgrade to FC6 has seemingly stalled
early during package installation.
It took an hour to get past the documented 'No Handler ...
yum.YumBase' bogosity, but it eventually continued, prompting for CDs
1 through 5 before hanging at the point indicating 0% completion
during Processing - "Preparing transaction from installation source".
I've waited over two hours now, with no discernible disk activity. Is
there anything I can do here, or am I looking at regressing back to
FC5?
I couldn't find any minimum system requirements for FC6 that
disqualified this museum piece from upgrading and I would really like
to stay current, if at all possible.
17 years, 8 months
what wireless nic do you recommend?
by Gabriel M. Elder
Ok, i'll try this one more time, this time in plain text and subscribed.
Hi, everybody. I'm running fedora core 5, and soon, probably 6. I'm
looking for a reliable wireless pci nic at a good price. The cheaper,
the better, but i'm willing to pay up a little if it works perfectly,
with a minimum of installation hassle. I prefer that it have excellent
native driver support, but i'll live with it if it works with
ndiswrapper. For security, it should support wpa-personal with tkip, at
a minimum. I emphasize: i want it to work reliably; i don't want to have
to mess around with dropped connections, flaky authentication, or
whacked-out, time-consuming configuration or reconfiguration. I'm
looking for as close to that happy::it-just-works experience as i can
get. You boot it up, and, once (painlessly) installed and configured, it
works without having to think about it. Ever.
I have a couple of marvell chipset nics that used to work halfway
decently with ndiswrapper, but something must've changed in the wireless
extensions support, because now wpa-personal doesn't work with the
wireless tools and/or ndiswrapper with these cards anymore in fc5,
whether i use the rpm-packaged software or the latest-and-greatest from
source. Transcieving in the clear is just not cool.
So... what make/model should i buy?
thanks in advance,
- gabriel
17 years, 8 months
Cpuspeed service for Centrino FC6
by Chong Yu Meng
Hi all,
One other problem I am seeing in FC6 is that when I try to start the
cpuspeed service, I get this error:
FATAL: Module speedstep_centrino not found
This is my configuration in /etc/cpuspeed.conf:
=== /etc/cpuspeed.conf starts here ===
VMAJOR=1
VMINOR=1
# uncomment this and set to the name of your CPUFreq module
#DRIVER="powernow-k7"
DRIVER="speedstep-centrino"
# Let background (nice) processes speed up the cpu
OPTS="$OPTS -n"
# Add your favorite options here
#OPTS="$OPTS -s 0 -i 10 -r"
# uncomment and modify this to check the state of the AC adapter
#OPTS="$OPTS -a /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/*/state"
# uncomment and modify this to check the system temperature
#OPTS="$OPTS -t /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature 75"
=== end ===
Here is information about my CPU:
[root@jadeblue etc]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 1729.115
cache size : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx up est tm2
bogomips : 3461.06
How can I get cpuspeed working properly? All information and advice
gladly welcomed!
Thanks in advance !
Regards,
Pascal Chong
17 years, 8 months
OT: the rm bug hit me again
by Joe Klemmer
I alomst hate to admit it but the rm bug bit me for the second
time in my life over the weekend. The first time was back, oh, late '94 I
think. But everyone gets bit by this at least once in their *NIX career.
But my braindead brain was cleaning out some redundant gunk in /usr/lib
(like all the versions of firefox and mozilla laying around). You know
what's coming...
# cd /usr/lib
# rm -fR mozilla *
^-------- There was supposed to be a "." there.
I caught it quickly but not before it whacked some GNOME junk (what the
heck is a bonobo?).
Oh well, guess it was my turn to play "crusty old phart who does
stupid newbie move" today. :-)
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17 years, 8 months
FC5 -> FC6 borked openldap address book
by Brian Millett
I upgraded my laptop with the DVD from FC5 to FC6. Other than the i586
kernel problems, all seemed to work, till I tried to access my openldap
address book. Got an error "no such object". What?? Further
investigation showed that I had a upgrade.ldif file and a rpmorig
directory in my /var/lib/ldap directory.
A rpm -q --scripts openldap-server shows that those are created &
cleaned up, but didn't. I checked the /root/upgrade.log file and see
that openldap-server failed with the following error:
Upgrading openldap-servers - 2.3.27-4.i386
=> bdb_tool_entry_put: id2entry_add failed: DB_KEYEXIST: Key/data pair already exists (-30996)
=> bdb_tool_entry_put: txn_aborted! DB_KEYEXIST: Key/data pair already exists (-30996)
slapadd: could not add entry dn="listName=momillett.org" (line=12): txn_aborted! DB_KEYEXIST: Key/data pair already exists (-30996)
So I have an address book that is borked.
Any ideas where to start to recover the database?
Is the upgrade.ldif good to just clear the old files and load it?
Thanks.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212997
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17 years, 8 months
FC6 + KDE + AIGLX + compiz anyone ??
by Chris Jones
Hi,
I have just upgraded to FC6 and have the desktop effects running under gnome.
very cool.
However, I prefer KDE... Has anyone managed getting these effects going under
KDE ? googling around suggests its possible, but I haven't found out how
yet...
Chris
17 years, 8 months
FC6 install hangs on HP Proliant ML310 G3
by GianPiero Puccioni
Hi,
I am trying to install on a HP Proliant ML310 G3 with two SATA disk with RAID
mirroring but FC6 hangs just after starting the graphical interface (the X
appears and that's it). I tried a text install but it hangs anyway.
I tried FC5 and it started everything right but it couldn't see the RAID but
only the two disks separately. FC6 seems to recognize the RAID device and loads
AHCI (FC5 didn't, I think) but the result is worse as I don't even get the
openening screen. It seems to give some ACPI errors (tried disabling ACPI from
the BIOS to no avail) and something about "cpuindex", I read that sometimes
there is a problem recognizing the CPU type but I don't know what to do.
Any advice?
Thanks,
GianPiero
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17 years, 8 months
Re: Fedora Core 6 ROCKS ! Salute to the developers !
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
Ric Moore <wayward4now(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 20:44 -0700, David G. Miller wrote:
>
>>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> Works well for user apps but I lived through the evolution of ipfwadm ->
>>> ipchains -> iptables. Need to be careful with system stuff. It would
>>> be nice to see core functionality supported for upgrades even if every
>>> oddball app isn't. One of the arguments against supporting upgrades is,
>>> "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." That is, once a release supports a
>>> platform, why change. As with my laptop example, there are good reasons
>>> to upgrade from an OS release that only marginally supports a hardware
>>> platform to one that fully supports it. Let's hope somebody at
>>> Fedora/RH listens.
>>
>>
>All the more reason to use the old timey /usr/local system
>upgrades won't touch it. Maybe we need to adjust our tinfoil and go
>retro, the old timers had methodologies that may need revisiting. Ric
>
That approach worked a lot better before X. Something like the change
from XFree86 to X.org screws everything up since a lot of users like
WIMP interfaces. Same for any significant change to the GUI.
It would be nice to see something like:
1) Critical system functionality -> gets upgraded.
2) Common applications -> upgraded or at least at reasonable stab at it.
3) Other stuff -> install new config and save the old as rpmsave.
The goal would be that a functioning system gets upgraded to the new OS
release that, for the most part, works. That is, everything works but
it's possible that some settings are left to the admin/user to bring
forward.
Cheers,
Dave
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17 years, 8 months
FC5 rhythmbox can't find MP3 decoder
by Matthew Saltzman
I have
rhythmbox-0.9.4.1-1.fc5.1
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.5-1
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.4-3.lvn5
gstreamer-tools-0.10.4-1
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.2-1
gstreamer-0.10.4-1
I briefly had a podcast subscription that was working fine, but now it
fails to download new episodes or play old ones. For existing episodes:
You do not have a decoder installed to handle this file. You might need to
install the necessary plugins.
For new episodes:
The GStreamer plugins to decode "MP3" files cannot be found
Any idea what might have gone wrong?
TIA.
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Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
17 years, 8 months
FC6 & Sony VAIO Experience
by Chris Wright
Did a clean install over FC5 on my Sony VAIO VGN and it couldn't have
been more pain free.
Only problem was the eth1 which was the Intel 2200 Wireless adaptor.
Quick visit to get the latest and greatest firmware, reboot. All sorted.
My kids use stellarium and the big difference I noted was the frame rate
went from 1-10fps to 100+ FPS. Everything seems to be working much
quicker.
Great work by the FC6 team. Congrats to all involved.
17 years, 8 months