Grub clarification
by Dan Thurman
I am trying to install F8 onto my old system and having
trouble getting grub to find the drive. Here is the story.
I have removed all drives except the one drive I am attempting
to install F8 on.
I was able to get the F8-Live to work but apparently I must
be doing something wrong when it comes to custom
partitioning screen.
I defined my partitions as:
/dev/sda1 /boot 75MB
/dev/sda2 / 13GB
/dev/sda3 swap 1GB
I committed the partitions, but when it comes to the grub
configuration screen, it shows:
[o] The GRUB boot loader will be installed on /dev/sda
Default Label Device
x fedora /dev/sda2
Taking the defaults w/o any changes, I proceed and completed
the installation.
On reboot, GRUB fails to find the drive.
Am I doing something wrong?
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16 years, 5 months
Fedora upgrade on DVD with yum
by Martin Marques
I'm trying to do an upgrade from FC6 to F7 with a DVD, the DVD is OK as
it passed the check. But after booting, anaconda comes up and the system
hangs (text more or graphical mode, does the same).
So, I'm trying to do and installation from the DVD using yum, and I
encounter several problems:
1) Following instructions from the web I tried to make a dvd.repo file
and put it in /etc/yum.repo.d/. The dvd.repo has this:
# cat DVD.repo
# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d
[InstallMedia]
name=Fedora 7
mediaid=1180276843.561677
metadata_expire=-1
gpgcheck=0
#cost=500
baseurl=file:///media/Fedora%207%20i386%20DVD
If I try with this I get an error about not getting the metadata
directory even if I can access it:
# yum update --enablerepo=InstallMedia
Loading "downloadonly" plugin
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "kmdl" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
InstallMedia 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for syslinux to pack into transaction set.
media://1180276843.561677/Fedora/syslinux-3.36-4.fc7.i386.rpm: [Errno 4]
IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>
Trying other mirror.
Error: failed to retrieve Fedora/syslinux-3.36-4.fc7.i386.rpm from
InstallMedia
error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>
As you see it's looking for some strange id that I took from the DVD (as
I found in jkatz page).
Any ideas on how to circumvent his?
16 years, 5 months
[OT] Is Samba client not following the protocol?
by Deepak
Hi,
May be dumb question but I am testing this so I need to ask.
I have a windows machine sharing a folder. Using samba client in my FC
machine, I see whole lot more drives than the one shared (C$, D$,
E$,...). IFAIK these are shared for administrative purposes. Besides
that if certain folders are shared with "$" sign (for invisibility
purpose), Samba client shows all these drives.
Why?
Isn't that when you put "$" sign at last of your share (in windows),
it was not supposed to be visible.
Windows machine perfectly follows these rules. If I have Samba share
which is set to invisible, Windows machines doesn't show any of the
invisible folders in their network browser.
Since I don't have windows server installation, I cannot test it but I
guess if I share a folder from windows server with hidden status,
samba client will probably will show all the hidden shares.
So is this extra information a feature or bug?
Thanks
16 years, 5 months
compiz: mem leak?
by Colin Brace
Hi all,
My F8 box seemed really sluggish this morning, so I checked top. Compiz was
using on the order of 1.2 GB resident RAM and another 1GB of swap memory,
this after an uptime of around three days. See:
$ ps u - C compiz
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
colin 2303 8.1 58.9 1008016 1223272 ? RL Nov30 323:22 compiz
--sm-client-id default1 glib gconf
It hadn't consumed all the memory of this two gig box, so killing it was
easy enough.
This is the second time in recent weeks I have encountered this. Has anyone
else seen this behaviour?
Is it worth filing a report of this on bugzilla? It is not something I can
reproduce at will; it just seems to kinda happen.
Details:
$ rpm -aq | grep compiz
compiz-gnome-0.6.2-3.fc8
compiz-0.6.2-3.fc8
$ rpm -aq | grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia-100.14.19-18.lvn8
kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.1-49.fc8-100.14.19-18.lvn8
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-100.14.19-4.lvn8
$ lspci | grep -i nvidia
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7100 GS (rev
a1)
$ uame -r
2.6.23.1-49.fc8
Thanks.
--
Colin Brace
Amsterdam
16 years, 5 months
Samba/Fedora 8 problems
by Michael Eager
I'm having problems getting Samba to work on Fedora 8.
Perhaps someone has an idea.
Here's the simple smb.conf I'm using:
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
security = users
wins support = yes
[work]
comment = Work Area
path = /export/work
public = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = yes
readonly = no
printable = no
browseable = yes
SELinux is disabled, no firewall.
When I run "smbclient -L localhost -U%" I get the following:
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
work Disk Work Area
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.27a-0.fc8)
Server Comment
--------- -------
Workgroup Master
--------- -------
I would expect the workgroup name and server name to be listed.
findsmb reports Samba servers on other systems, but not localhost.
I've tried with "security = share" and without the "wins" line.
I've also tried a working smb.conf from a FC 5 system.
I created a user with smbpasswd. None of this makes any difference.
I noticed that nmbd is started by /etc/init.d/smb on the FC 5
system, but that F8 doesn't. Not sure what that means.
Any suggestions?
--
Michael Eager eager(a)eagercon.com
1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077
16 years, 5 months
Excessive network traffic -
by Bob Goodwin
Below is about thirty seconds of data recorded at the RJ45 connector on
my Wildblue receiver/modem. The computer I'm using to test with is a
new F8 installation [192.168.1.10] and I don't know that it does
anything F7 didn't do but I see continuous activity, apparently the
result of DNS activity, since it is to the Wildblue DNS server on port
53. Is that normal? 60 bytes doesn't amount to much of a days usage
but still it is consuming bw.
Bob Goodwin
Mon Nov 26 12:30:19 2007; UDP; eth1; 63 bytes; from 192.168.1.10:32771
to 12.189.32.61:53
Mon Nov 26 12:30:24 2007; UDP; eth1; 60 bytes; from 192.168.1.10:32771
to 12.189.32.61:53
Mon Nov 26 12:30:29 2007; UDP; eth1; 60 bytes; from 192.168.1.10:32771
to 12.189.32.61:53
Mon Nov 26 12:30:34 2007; UDP; eth1; 60 bytes; from 192.168.1.10:32771
to 12.189.32.61:53
Mon Nov 26 12:30:39 2007; UDP; eth1; 60 bytes; from 192.168.1.10:32771
to 12.189.32.61:53
Mon Nov 26 12:30:44 2007; UDP; eth1; 60 bytes; from 192.168.1.10:32771
to 12.189.32.61:53
Mon Nov 26 12:30:49 2007; UDP; eth1; 60 bytes; from 192.168.1.10:32771
to 12.189.32.61:53
16 years, 5 months
SSL Bug in Fedora Core 8 (and 6)
by Duncan Berriman
I have found a problem with openSSL on FC8. The site being connected to has
a
TLSv1 and SSLV3 SSL Certificate, however as of Fedora Core 6
onwards if SSLv2 is disabled an SSL connection can not be negotiated.
openssl s_client -no_ssl2 -connect xxxxxx.xxxx.com:443
CONNECTED(00000003)
2159:error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl handshake
failure:s23_lib.c:188:
On Fedora Core 4 it works fine and wither a TLSv1 or SSLv3
connection can be made.
New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is RC4-MD5
Server public key is 1024 bit
SSL-Session:
Protocol : TLSv1
Cipher : RC4-MD5
Session-ID:
00152056A7A28668B4EB1451B8A2F6809C29A16858585858474743BD00006718
Session-ID-ctx:
Master-Key:
720DC5F3697624BF8C3BEA800AC9EB386B234BB759F9ACD338ADA9DDEBB090
9FD693C0F32DD0A6D577D6CA18A6345C72
Key-Arg : None
Krb5 Principal: None
Start Time: 1195851233
Timeout : 300 (sec)
Verify return code: 18 (self signed certificate)
This encounted on a live server at a data
centre running Fedora Core 6. I then did a fresh install on
another machine at the office of FC6 and reproduced the
problem. I then did a fresh install of FC8 on the same
machine and again managed to reproduce them straight away.
I have since downgraded the live server to FC4 and it has
Fixed the issue. Problem is not apparent in FC4, Enterprise 3
Or enterprise 4.
Happy to provide the server name off list or do any debugging
If someone can tell me what they need.
Thanks in advance
Duncan
16 years, 5 months
Yum problem
by John Pierce
Hello all,
I installed the x86_64 on my athlon 64 X2 and everything worked fine
until I did the yum update.
I had installed several packages without a problem, then I ran yum
update and now when I try to install
any package I get hundreds of these lines:
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1941, in install
self.install(po=obsoleting_pkg)
Followed by this:
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1940, in install
obsoleting_pkg = self.getPackageObject(obsoleting)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1648,
in getPackageObject
pkgs = self.pkgSack.searchPkgTuple(pkgtup)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 526, in <lambda>
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 362,
in _getSacks
if self._pkgSack and thisrepo is None:
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 29,
in __len__
return len(self.simplePkgList())
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line
328, in simplePkgList
return self._computeAggregateListResult("simplePkgList")
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line
378, in _computeAggregateListResult
sackResult = apply(method, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 655,
in simplePkgList
if not self.pkglist == None:
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp
I have removed yum, and reinstalled it and still the problem persists.
I have no idea what the problem is.
I appreciate any thoughts or ideas.
--
John
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16 years, 5 months
How to Enable in-built camera on laptop?
by Arijit Sarkar
Hi,
I have Lenovo 3000 N100 series laptop. It has integrated webcam on top
of the screen area.
Recently I've removed winxp home (got it pre-installed) and installed
Fedora 8.
Almost everything's fine. Bluetooth is working. Didn't check WLAN
(wireless internet is not popular in my country). But the in-built
webcam is not detected/working. How can I enable it?
Any guide will be appreciable.
regards,
Arijit Sarkar
16 years, 5 months