NFS/SAMBA shares
by max
Does anyone know of any problems with NFS or Samba? I have shared files
with both before so I don't think i am forgetting anything but neither
one is working at all. I have even tried sharing my Public files on the
network and i get no access. The services are running and the firewalls
have the appropriate ports open. I did notice that my single nfs share
multiplied into three somehow, with each one using part of the folder
name. What's going on? I haven't used either in quite some time , has
something changed? I can connect to microshit boxes no problem but
nothing else.
Hopefully its just me having a duh sort of day,
Max
16 years, 3 months
GIMP can not do it
by elk dolk
Hi all,
I have some 600x450 pixel photos and want to reduce their size to 60K and keep the aspect ratio, GIMP can't do it , anyone know of a Linux photo manipulation SW for batch processing photos?
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16 years, 3 months
corrupted disk/drive issue...
by bruce
Hi...
Ran into an interesting issue during the past week, and figured I'd post the
issue, and solution here in case it might come in handy for someone else...
The laptop was running, but it was left on with the lid closed for a day or
so.. when powered up, the laptop went into a state saying it couldn't find
the mounts... hmm.. shouldn't have thought this could happen. figured the
drive might screwing up, so i reinstalled FC8.
after a few hours, got everything back.. went and plugged the laptop into a
power strip that had a short..!! ouch, saw the same behavior.. got sort of
nervous, but thought it should be ok (hopefully!) so after another
reinstall, got to really wondering what was really going on... didn't think
about it.. the laptop was working.. things were cool.. for a day! and after
closing the lid, and then reopening.. after another day or so. saw the same
behavior.
here's what i was seeing:
Filesystemtype is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
"VolGroup00" using etadata type lvm2
2 logical volumes in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev dm-3
mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: Invalid argument
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
========================================
at this point, talked to a few people, and started thinking that somehow the
disk was getting, had gotten corrupted.
so...
started to try to see what the drive had, if anything!
poped in the FC8 rescuedCD, and went to work..
ran the cmds:
lvm pvscan
lvm vgscan
lvm lvscan
since i had installed using the defaults for FC8 LVM, the drive showed that
it was basically ok.
went ahead and ran fdisk /dev/sda and saw that i indeed had my two
partitions /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2
so at this point..
i did a
mkdir /dev/sysimage,
followed by a
mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/sysimage
this worked, and got me to a point where i could hopefully fix/repair
whatever errs might be on the drive...
i then ran
e2fsck -y /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
after a little hope.. and an amount of time as the system did it's thing, it
came back saying how many sectors where corrected, etc...
i then rebooted, and the laptop was back up/running as it should!
feel free to add to this if you have useful information, or additional
insight that you want to share.
peace.
16 years, 3 months
yum problems
by Ric Moore
As of late, I've started getting this error:
yum install python-gtk
Loading "kernel-module" plugin
Loading "basearchonly" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "fedorakmod" plugin
Loading "downloadonly" plugin
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Loading "tsflags" plugin
Loading "merge-conf" plugin
Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
Loading "allowdowngrade" plugin
Loading "changelog" plugin
Loading "protect-packages" plugin
Loading "presto" plugin
Loading "skip-broken" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
Repository fedora is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository fedora-debuginfo is listed more than once in the
configuration
Repository fedora-source is listed more than once in the configuration
Determining fastest mirrors
Could not retrieve mirrorlist
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/7/mirrors-freshrpms error was
[Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: freshrpms
So, I've looked and looked, but do not find the repos noted being listed
twice anywhere. And, the freshrpms thing is happening even while the
freshrpm repo is inactive without me enabling it. Anyone have a clue??
Everything worked until a day ago. Ric
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16 years, 3 months
USB removable disks and memory cards
by Da Rock
Can anyone tell me how to find usb device settings? I'd like to find out
the process used to automatically mount removable disks on fedora.
Cheers
16 years, 3 months
atheros AR5006EG wireless network card
by Peter Lesterhuis
Hi,
I purchased a Compaq Pressario A900ED notebook and installed fedora 8.
Internet connection with the network cable plugged in works fine. There
is however no chance to make the wireless network card work (Atheros
Communications Inc. AR5006EG). This card isn't supported by Madwifi
driver ath5k. A patch should make this driver work, but when I install
this patch, packeged by T. Chung
(http://tchung.fedorapeople.org/madwifi/ar2425/) I can't boot anymore:
it keeps hanging during the boot.
Does someone have a better experience with this wireless card? Anyone
got this card going with ndiswrapper?
Peter
16 years, 3 months
Keeping kernels
by david walcroft
I'm trying to keep 4 kernels in /boot/grub/grub.conf
I have this in /etc/yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800
exclude=
installonly_kernel=4
# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d
But it is not working,is there somewhere else that controls this
or have I got 'installonly_kernel=4' wrong.
david
16 years, 3 months
Acer Crystal WebCam
by Parlindungan Isa Anshory Siregar
lHi, Im using FC8 on Acer Aspire 5573.
On windows, I't work fine, but when I install FC8, my WebCam can't be use.
When I used:
yum list uvcvideo
there is no uvcvido, howot installed My deiver?
16 years, 3 months