automount lvm volume in different box
by javajunkie
Hi,
I pulled a lvm disk off another system and want to access the data. I
can mount it successfully using the following but how can I get it to
automount. The non-lvm partion on the disk gets automounted but...
/sbin/vgchange -a y;
mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/dell
Using FC6.
Thanks,
Shawn
17 years, 4 months
RE: FC6 - Audacity
by Roberto Malinverni
Usually the sound demon locks the audio device that Audacity needs.
So: either disable the sound demon (esd for Gnome, arts for KDe), or kill
the daemon before starting Audacity.
Another option is to set the sound daemon so that it will release the audio
device after some time of inactivity.
For KDE, you can do this in the KDe Control Center - for Gnome, I don't
know.
17 years, 4 months
FC5/FC6 latest kernel crash when using cifs
by Lars Bjørndal
This have been mentioned earlier, I know. But do any one know what's
the status of this issue?
I tried to download the latest cifs module from git.kernel.org, but
the download is aborted every time by an EOF error.
The latest Fedora kernel which is working, is 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5.
How can I upgrade to FC6 and still use cifs shares?
Thanks!
Lars
17 years, 4 months
iscsi initiator and mounting lvm on startup
by Sander Hoentjen
Hi,
I am having some trouble with iSCSI. I have a server that I would like
to have the volumes on a iscsi target mounted at startup. I have in
fstab stuff like:
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-name /home/name ext3 _netdev 0 0
But after boot /home/name is empty.
If I the issue the command:
# service netfs start
No devices found
Setting up Logical Volume Management: 72 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
[ OK ]
Checking network-attached filesystems
[ OK ]
Mounting other filesystems: [ OK ]
now /home/name does have the files i want (now it is mounted, mtab tells me the same)
# chkconfig --list netfs
netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
So I would think netfs would start, and mount stuff.
Does anyone have any hints/explenations for me?
Sander
17 years, 4 months
Network card crashes system on boot if connected?
by Scott Evans
Got another small issue with my new Linux install...
I have a Rosewill RC-402 10/100 network card installed, and have just
started using FC5. No previous Linux install on this box. Although it
connects to the network fine and dandy, it will hard-lock the whole system
on bootup if the network cable is connected. If the cable is not
connected, it'll boot fine and then I'm able to enable the network card
manually and connect just fine. However, if the cable is connected when
it's in the startup process, it'll do a hard-lock on the whole system.
The startup details show the loopback interface coming up fine, and then
the next message says "Bringing up interface eth0:", and it immediately
locks at that point.
I have been able to narrow it down to the point where the startup is running
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth ifcfg-eth0
But don't know enough of what the ifup-eth script is doing to troubleshoot
the issue any more than that.
This wouldn't be a big problem, except the box is in an unattended area,
and it will be a pain to manually unplug the cable each time the box is
rebooted.
Thanks!
Scott
17 years, 4 months
Simple iptables script
by Louis Garcia
For me the default iptables script is a little to lenient. For my laptop
with no server services I minimized the script to these lines. Did not
want icmp and ping coming in, a stealth box. Web, email and gaim all
seem to be working. Am I missing something? Everything from the outside
should be dropped right? One thing I'm not sure of is syn-flood but they
should be dropped also.
-Louis
*filter
:INPUT DROP [0:0]
:FORWARD DROP [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp ! --syn -m state --state NEW -j DROP
-A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
COMMIT
17 years, 4 months
Wireless ipw2200 in FC6
by Lane Brooks
I have FC5 and FC6 installed on my laptop. It has an Intel 2915AB
wireless card. I am completely up-to-date on both FC5 and FC6. The
wireless works great on FC5. In FC6, however, it has problems. Most of
the time it does not see all of the networks. If I restart the ipw2200
driver with a rmmod/modprobe, sometimes that helps and it will find all
the SSIDs. When I do get it to connect to the network I want, it is
extremely flakey, drops the connection all the time, and has very poor
bandwidth. Once again, this is not the case with FC5. FC5 works great.
I use Network Manager to manage my wireless connections on both FC5
and FC6.
Are there any known significant differences between FC6 and FC5 in this
regard? Any insight as to whether this is due to differences in the
kernel, wireless tools, firmware, Network Manager, etc. would be useful.
Thanks,
Lane Brooks
17 years, 4 months
OCD programmers and backwards compatibility :-).
by Tom Horsley
>> In fact, while we're at it - never have another "release", just keep
>> upgrading rpms forever with individual packages being released,
>> but nothing called a whole distribution having a release. Individual
>> rpms just get marked obsolete and replaced with new ones in the
>> ever updated lists.
>>
>> Now *that* would be a Knight in shining armor! Fedora 7 is a mere
>> feeble imitation in comparison :-).
>
>There's a great counter-example actually coming up in Fedora 7. The
>kernel will switch to calling (nearly? [1]) all hard disks, PATA and
>SATA alike, /dev/sdx (or whatever) as part of the switch to libsata.
>This should be a lot more powerful, reliable, and maintainable.
Sounds like a better example of why linux should be more interested
in backwards compatibility than it seems to be now. Why change the /dev
names just because the underlying mechanism changes?
The most recent horrible example of this is Xorg 7 versus 6.9. The content
of the initial 7 release was absolutely identical to the content of the
final 6.9 release, but with the names of everything changed so as to
utterly devastate all 3rd party rpms that expect things to be installed
in certain places. What reason was there for this change? As near as
I can tell the only reason was a bunch of OCD programmers who broke
into a sweat every time they saw a directory named /usr/X11R6 instead
of /usr/share/X11 :-). The software worked just as well with either
directory name. If the fate of the world isn't at stake, there is no
reason to make changes like this. The cost to the rest of the world
is still being calculated as developers who could be doing something
useful spend their time "fixing" their packaging instead, and users find
all the tools they used to install don't work till they poke around on
the web for hours and find the descriptions of how to add symlinks to
their system to fix the broken installation under Xorg 7.
Sure, its a fun game, but not everyone likes playing it :-).
The same sort of attitude prevails in the kernel driver source code
as well. I've had to patch and rebuild the truecrypt driver several
times on new kernel releases, and not once has the change been anything
substantive about the driver model. Once again, it is all ticky-tak
junk like changing the name of a macro or routine because some moron
who had the power didn't like the old name and didn't care how much
work changing it foists off onto the rest of the world.
If a new kind of linux release mechanism could raise the level of
outrage over totally gratuitous non-backward compatible changes to
the point where the size of the outcry could actually make the fools
stop checking in non-backward compatible changes without fantastically
good reasons, then we NEED this new linux release mechanism :-).
17 years, 4 months
Thunderbird issues
by Jeffrey Ross
I use Thunderbird (1.5.0.9 - current version installed by yum) on a FC6
machine (x86_64) and I have 2 issues that maybe somebody has a solution
to these
1) I can't set a custom sound to play upon receiving mail, the default
"ding" works fine, and the wave file I want to use plays file with the
"play" command. When playing the sound I just get screeching from the
speakers.
2) resizing the fields in the inbox also resized the fields in the sent
mailbox. The issue is the I want to see the sender of the message in
the Inbox but I want to see the recipient in the sent mailbox. Right
now I either have to resize every time I go into mailbox or leave both
fields expanded.
Suggestions?
TIA
Jeff
17 years, 4 months