Re:FC6 - Xeon DP crashes
by Michael Angell
> The server resets, no kernel panic, no oops,
> nothing but a reset. I have *.debug in syslog, and see no errors in
> syslog or in dmesg.
>
Check your backup power log file.
16 years, 6 months
xosview
by Globe Trotter
Does anyone know if there is a F7 RPM for xosview or similar?
Many thanks,
Trotter
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16 years, 6 months
Grub installation on USB disk
by Antonio M
Installing GRUB on SCSI device A partition 1 with commands root
(hd0,0) and setup (hd0,0) ..
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
When I try to install Grub by Webmin on my USB disk in order to boot
directly from my USB disk I get:
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename.]
grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup (hd0,0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this is not fatal)
Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this is not fatal)
Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0,0) /grub/stage2 p /grub/grub.conf
"... succeeded
Done.
grub>
.. install failed!
What does it mean???
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Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag
16 years, 6 months
Re: [NFS] nfs write problems
by Bob Kryger
Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 15:56 -0400, Bob Kryger wrote:
>
>> So, I have a relatively new system on which I am seeing strange NFS
>> behavior.
>>
>> In short I am getting seemingly random errors in files written via NFS.
>>
[snip details]
>> Anyone ever seen anything like this before?
>> Suggest where I might look next?
>> Additional tests?
>>
>
> Feel free to describe your test in a bit more detail. Without more
> information, we obviously can't rule out the existence of an NFS bug,
>
I was trying to be thorough, I hope I succeeded.
Is there anything else that might be helpful? I certainly would not go
to a bug first, as I may very well have something misconfigured, but I
cannot seem to identify what that might be. I do have about 8 other
linux NFS servers in production on different hardware, SATA mostly,
where I am not seeing any issues. I don't think it's a hardware issue
though, as I cannot reproduce the problem without the use of NFS. (Hmm,
maybe if I NFS mount to the server itself. Would that prove anything?)
> however usually whenever people describe this sort of problem it is
> because they have failed to understand the NFS caching model as
> described in
>
> http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#faq_a8
>
Excellent, Thanks for the lead and I will test these items shortly.
After reading the FAQ, I'm not sure I see how the cache consistency
mechanisms apply to this problem. If I test the files after they are
closed shouldn't the data be consistent, written completely to the
server? If there were a data write error should I not see it somewhere?
If so where? client? server? would it be up to the client program to
catch it? I wonder if dd would see it. For the purpose of testing, I
have limited this server to serving to only a single client at a time,
so there will be no other variables/systems interfering.
So to test this I read back the data of a newly written, 256M file,
right from the client that wrote it. In this case with nocto option.
This should take the client cache into account. I compared the results
from the server side as well. It had errors, the same errors in the same
locations on both the client and the server. So, this seems to indicate
that it is the issue is on the nfs client not the server. (hmmm) But the
same client does not have a problem with any other server. At least one
has never been reported. I'll verify that rigorously.
I am not familiar with the mechanism that NFS uses to verify data
validity between the client and the server. I assume that there is some
sort of checksum. Did I mention that this is NFSv3? At least I have not
specified v4.
> So please include a reproducible test for us.
>
Easily reproducible on this system. Short of providing access to this
system, not sure what more to do. Oh, wait, was that humor? Indicating
that I have provided significant detail? Dang, I've got to sharpen my
international tongue-in-cheek detector.
> Cheers
> Trond
>
Cool name
thanks
Bob
>
>
16 years, 6 months
Re:Install or Upgrade to Fedora 7 with dud DVD
by Michael Angell
From: Simon Slater <pyevet(a)aapt.net.au>
>
> I'm helping an older lady from church get set up with a laptop and
> software so she can finish a book nearly ready for publication and to
> start on her next. After some looking about, we settled on an Acer
> Extensa 5220 with a Slimtype DVD A DS8A1P drive (the price + cashback
> left plenty in her budget for printer etc). I installed FC6 to
> experiment with dual booting for the first time. All went well.
>
> I bought DVD media for Fedora 7 (yes I'm still on dialup) to
> take
> advantage of the new featuresbut could not install. After 4 days of
> reading posts here and on Bugzilla (this drive is one mentioned
> there),
> I think I now know the problems, but can't find a solution other than
> wait for Fedora 8 and hope it is fixed.
This site will take care of you.
http://fedorasolved.org/
16 years, 6 months
Install or Upgrade to Fedora 7 with dud DVD
by Simon Slater
I'm helping an older lady from church get set up with a laptop and
software so she can finish a book nearly ready for publication and to
start on her next. After some looking about, we settled on an Acer
Extensa 5220 with a Slimtype DVD A DS8A1P drive (the price + cashback
left plenty in her budget for printer etc). I installed FC6 to
experiment with dual booting for the first time. All went well.
I bought DVD media for Fedora 7 (yes I'm still on dialup) to take
advantage of the new featuresbut could not install. After 4 days of
reading posts here and on Bugzilla (this drive is one mentioned there),
I think I now know the problems, but can't find a solution other than
wait for Fedora 8 and hope it is fixed.
I downloaded a boot.iso from
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/... but still no go. The development boot.iso worked but didn't like the DVD media.
What is the best course of action? Stay with FC6 and wait for Fedora
8? Set up a local repo from the Fedora 7 DVD on another box and yum
upgrade ?
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Simon Slater
16 years, 6 months
update seem to have brocken iptables
by Gregory Machin
Hi can anyone please advise me why since I did updates Uloading
iptables modules fails ..
[root@server ~]# service iptables restart
Flushing firewall rules: [ OK ]
Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter nat [ OK ]
Unloading iptables modules: [FAILED]
Applying iptables firewall rules: [ OK ]
Loading additional iptables modules: ip_conntrack_netbios_n[ OK ]
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Gregory Machin
gregory.machin(a)gmail.com
www.linuxpro.co.za
16 years, 6 months
Desktop Frozen after trying to launch NFS mounted folder from Nautilus
by Sudheer
Hello,
I'm using FC6 and GNOME. I had shortcut to an NFS shared folder on my
desktop. Today I clicked the shortcut folder icon on the desktop and
nautilus and desktop froze. I can't launch nautilus. The icons on the
desktop are not visible either. Nothing happens when I right click on
the desktop. Apparently the NFS server is down. I tried
CTRL+ALT+Backspace and then swithing to runlevel 3 and back to runlevel 5.
I still can't launch nautilus and my desktop is blackened. How can I
resolve this?
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With Warm Regards,
Sudheer. S
http://www.binaryvibes.co.in
16 years, 6 months
agpgart aperture check fails with kernels 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 and 2.6.22.5-71.fc7
by Antti J. Huhtala
Hi list,
I've just filed a bug in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278721
to report about agpgart aperture check failure after two recent kernel
updates in my AMD Athlon 64 3000+ desktop box with ASUS K8N MB, Nvidia
nForce3 chipset and ATI Radeon 9200 PRO controller.
The problem appears in trying to restart the computer (warm boot). Then
the booting process freezes right after 'Booting the kernel.' appears on
screen. It won't go on from that point.
To be able to use the box at all I must perform a cold boot, i.e. power
the system completely off. A couple of seconds off is sufficient. When
booted after power-off, four lines of agpgart messages including
"No usable aperture found."
"Consider rebooting with iommu=memaper=2 to get a good aperture."
are printed but booting continues past the 'freeze point' and eventually
ends up in usual Gnome login screen. From then on the box runs normally.
agpgart aperture check has worked in this box through all kernels since
FC4 in June, 2005 until 2.6.22.4-65 update on 25th Aug. apgart version
is still the same 1.02 which has worked just fine for at least several
months.
A more detailed description can be read from bugzilla. If anyone on this
list has similar experience and box components, please add your comments
to the above bug. If someone knows a quick remedy, that's welcome, too.
Thank you!
Antti
16 years, 6 months
Suggestion for personal log categories?
by Fajar Priyanto
Hello,
First of all I want to thank you for all the suggestion about tool for
managing personal log. All of those suggestions look very interesting. So far
they are (in no particular order):
- basket http://basket.kde.org/
- kjots, gjots
- elog http://midas.psi.ch/elog
- zim
- tuxcards
I'm overwhelmed by all of those choices :) I guess I'll spend my weekend
evaluating them.
On further thought, can someone suggesting what is the best way to categorize
our personal log? Currently using Kate, I just throw in all of them in one
file with the only mark on them is date and title.
To explain clearer how difficult it is for me to arrange the categories is
that I'm working on multiple distro: ubuntu, rhel, fedora, centos, sles/d,
opensuse. And also some major continuous projects such as samba, zimbra,
linux-ha.
For example, regarding keeping part of log files, should I put it into the
respective distros/projects, or should I put log files in it's own categories
whose sub categories of various distros/projects.
Example 1:
1. Distros
1a. Centos
1a1. Log files
1b. Ubuntu
1b1. Log files
.....
Or:
Example 2:
1. Distros
2. Log files
2a. Centos
2b. Ubuntu
.....
I'm sorry if this things look silly. I just hope that I can learn from others,
and hopefully soon I can share it to others too.
Based on the screenshots, I think I have several categories already:
1. Un-categorized :)
2. Credentials (for any username and passwords)
3. Web links
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16 years, 6 months