DD Rules
by Karl Larsen
If you want to copy something big from one partition to another the
old dd method is for you. You have to do it right. This means that:
1. The destination partition MUST be at least a byte larger than the
source partition where the data is coming from. This is essential!
2. The dd copies everything including the file system.
3. Be ready to check the file system of the copy with fsck.
4. If you are making a copy of an entire working Fedora system make sure
you change all the entries in /etc/grub.conf and /etc/fstab files to the
new partitions of the copy before you try to run it.
5. To copy a partition from the source, called /dev/source to a
destination partition called /dev/destination use the standard dd form:
# dd if=/dev/source of=/dev/destination
6. Always run dd in the source computer.
7. Take your time doing all this. It will save you problems later. There
are a lot of ways to make errors.
8. Think of how dd works this way, dd see's the source partition as just
a pile of bytes. It takes a few bytes each cycle and puts those bytes on
the destination partition. When done dd reports how many bytes it found
and how many it put on destination. They are the same large number.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
16 years, 8 months
Re: using Miro
by kwhiskerz
I can't seem to get it to work, either.
When I run from the command line, I get:
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus_bindings.py:1: DeprecationWarning: The
dbus_bindings module is not public API and will go away soon.
Most uses of dbus_bindings are applications catching the exception
dbus.dbus_bindings.DBusException. You should use dbus.DBusException
instead (this is compatible with all dbus-python versions since 0.40.2).
Then later on:
INFO *** Launching Downloader Daemon ****
WARNING Menu item action "CheckVersion" not implemented
WARNING Menu item action "RenameVideo" not implemented
WARNING Menu item action "FastForward" not implemented
WARNING Menu item action "Rewind" not implemented
WARNING Menu item action "UpVolume" not implemented
WARNING Menu item action "DownVolume" not implemented
WARNING Volume changed before videoDisplay created
And finally, just before it crashes:
INFO *** Daemon ready ***
INFO got https://www.miroguide.com/
TIMING feed update for: http://revision3.com/diggnation/feed/quicktime-large
too slow (0.189 secs)
TIMING feed update for: http://jetset.blip.tv/?skin=rss too slow (0.134
secs)
/usr/bin/python: symbol lookup
error: /opt/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol:
PR_NewMonitor
WARNING downloader: connection closed -- quitting
INFO Shutting down downloaders...
Does anyone have any ideas?
16 years, 8 months
Re: setting X windows display back?
by Mikkel
Paula J. Lindsay wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a box running fedora core 2. I cannot set the display back
> to this box when I'm on another machine. Here is what
>
> I type:
>
> berry:/home/paula: xhost +
>
> then I open up a terminal and ssh to another machine. When I get
> to the other machine, I type,
>
> straws:/home/paula: setenv DISPLAY berry:0.0
> permission denied
>
>
> and it does not work. There is no selinux or firewalls up, so it
> isn't a security issue. Does someone know something about this? I
> don't have this trouble on any of my other boxes.
>
> Many thanks,
> Paula
>
>
Paul, by default, Fedora is set to "Deny TCP connections to X
server". You can change this by going to System --> Administration
--> Login Screen --> Security. There is a check box for it.
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
16 years, 8 months
Nvidia legacy drivers allowing unconfined executable?
by Michael Angell
I changed over to nvidia-96xx driver to improve game speed as it was so
slow they were unplayable. That fixed the gaming problem but then...
I found Selinux memory protection allowing unconfined executable to make
stack executable and to map memory region as executable and writable.
Should this be done? Anyway without allowing it the desktop wont load
xorg.config. Selinux says to report any executable to bugzilla that call
upon this type of executable. I hesitate to report a bug because really
I am not qualified to make this kind of determination after only 2 weeks
using linux.
16 years, 8 months
Ode to Karl Larsen
by Peter Connolly
Subtitled: It just takes one bad apple to spoil the barrel...
Subsubtitled: Against stupidity, the gods themselves rally in vain.
--von Schiller
There once was a ham--k5di,
who thought himself quite the Linux guy.
He blogged every thought to Fedora.
Yes! Every pointless minutia!
Every day, we of fedora-list,
suffer his posts with content bereft.
When kind folks do try to help him out,
he starts flaming and acts quite the lout.
He'll tell them they are stupid
(and start yet another thread).
It would have been much better,
had he had his own "Blogger".
But no! He'll happily blather
'til we've been whipped to a lather.
Fie upon thee, Karl Larsen!
Always will you plague Fedorans.
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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
16 years, 8 months
Regd Installation of FC- 6
by pavan kumar
Hi Experts
I am trying to dual boot FC -6 on my Windows XP, Intel Core 2 Duo m/c with 512 MB Ram ..
I have 20 GB free Space on Windows XP ...
I got strucked up during Installing Saying
"Unable to Create Primary Partition (/) .. No Freee space on the disk" ...
Plz help me out ...
Thanks and Regards
Pavan Kumar. N
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16 years, 8 months
No sound on ASUS notebook
by Astakhov Peter
Greetings!
I bought ASUS A7M notebook.
Fedora installed ok, but no sound.
Everything looks good, but sound not working.
What shall I do?
Peter Astakhov
Module Size Used by
fuse 46293 2
autofs4 24773 2
hidp 26688 2
rfcomm 44377 0
l2cap 30401 10 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth 57893 5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 161981 1
ipv6 277957 22
cpufreq_ondemand 12237 1
dm_multipath 21961 0
video 21065 0
sbs 22729 0
button 12113 0
dock 13921 0
battery 14149 0
ac 9285 0
snd_usb_audio 79553 0
snd_usb_lib 19777 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi 26817 1 snd_usb_lib
snd_hwdep 13125 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_hda_intel 243417 8
snd_seq_dummy 7877 0
snd_seq_oss 33473 0
snd_seq_midi_event 11073 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 50609 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 11981 4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 43457 0
snd_mixer_oss 19521 2 snd_pcm_oss
wlan_scan_sta 16512 1
snd_pcm 74949 5 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
ath_rate_sample 15872 1
sr_mod 20837 0
nvidia 7253108 26
snd_timer 24901 4 snd_seq,snd_pcm
cdrom 37089 1 sr_mod
ath_pci 92832 0
firewire_ohci 20801 0
sdhci 20941 0
snd 53317 21 snd_usb_audio,snd_rawmidi,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
r8169 33097 0
firewire_core 43137 1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 6337 1 firewire_core
soundcore 11681 2 snd
snd_page_alloc 13769 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
i2c_nforce2 9921 0
rtc_cmos 12001 0
joydev 13825 0
pata_amd 16581 0
serio_raw 10821 0
wlan 186948 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
mmc_core 30149 1 sdhci
k8temp 9537 0
i2c_core 27841 2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2
hwmon 7365 1 k8temp
ath_hal 195536 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
usb_storage 77057 0
sg 37469 0
dm_snapshot 20709 0
dm_zero 6209 0
dm_mirror 25153 0
dm_mod 56833 9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
sata_nv 22853 3
ata_generic 11589 0
libata 119985 3 pata_amd,sata_nv,ata_generic
sd_mod 31297 4
scsi_mod 140749 5 sr_mod,usb_storage,sg,libata,sd_mod
ext3 125513 2
jbd 59881 1 ext3
mbcache 12485 1 ext3
ehci_hcd 35405 0
ohci_hcd 23877 0
uhci_hcd 27089 0
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI-X GeForce Go 6100 (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
05:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
05:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
05:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
05:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
05:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
alias ath0 ath_pci
#alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
#options snd-hda-intel model=asus
options snd cards_limit=8
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel index=0
alias snd-card-7 snd-usb-audio
options snd-usb-audio index=7
16 years, 8 months
yum update
by tony.chamberlain@lemko.com
"yum update" gave me this.
Any ideas how to fix it?
--
[root@chamberl chamberl]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
http://crash.fce.vutbr.cz/crash-hat/centos/4/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: crash-hat
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from crash-hat: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from crash-hat: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
16 years, 8 months
updatedb crashes
by Gregory Machin
hi . when I run updatedb -v it crashes with the following .. what
would be causing this ?
/sys/module/nfnetlink/sections/.text
/sys/module/nousb/parameters
updatedb: src/updatedb.c:601: scan_cwd: Assertion `name_size > 1' failed.
Aborted
16 years, 8 months