[F8 i386] Drive mount locations change at startup.
by Scott Beamer
I've got 4 internal and two external hard drives.
Every time I boot and log in I find at least one of my internal drives
mounts in a different directory than it had previously (the others may
as well, but I've not yet noticed - read on).
It's never the same directory (it's either "/media/disk"
"/media/disk-1", or "/media/disk-2" or "/media/disk-3").
I've got a symlink from a directory in ~/ to a subdirectory on one of my
internal drives and it breaks with every boot.
Is this a bug or a feature? ;)
How might I get my drives to mount in the same place every time?
Thanks.
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16 years, 2 months
Automount external hard drive?
by Reid Rivenburgh
Hi. I'm still tweaking my setup with my external USB hard drive.
It's generally working, but it still has this annoying habit of
getting lost, with messages like these:
Mar 3 10:33:33 pigpen kernel: usb 3-1: USB disconnect, address 4
It "only" happens every few days on average now. When it does happen,
though, I manually umount, e2fsck, and mount it. I did create an
fstab entry so can refer to it as "/mnt/disk2", but it's still a bit
tedious, and the filesystem is unavailable until I notice that it's
missing. So I'm wondering if there's a good way to automate this. I
know about autofs, which should work, but that implies a lot of
mounting and unmounting (depending on timeouts and access frequency),
when logically this is a permanently attached drive. The ideal thing
is if there was a way to perform my umount/e2fsck/remount whenever it
gets lost. Shortly after getting lost, the kernel finds it again, so
it seems analogous to unplugging and replugging the USB cable. Is
there a proper fedora way of handling this? I run KDE, not GNOME, but
it seems like any solution should be independent of desktop
environment; i.e. at a lower level and not dependent on a user being
logged in. If autofs is the best way to go, that's fine.
(For the record, it was disconnecting much more frequently when I had
my wireless router right next to it. I moved the router a few feet
which seems to have helped some. It may be completely unrelated, who
knows....)
Thanks,
Reid
16 years, 2 months
"Failed to initialize OpenGL" in Fedora 8, used to work in Fedora 7
by Chris G
I have just installed Fedora 8 to replace my Fedora 7 installation.
Most things have gone very smoothly including VMWare but when I start
VMWare Workstation I now get a pop-up error box saying "Failed to
initialize OpenGL". I didn't get this when I ran VMWare on Fedora 7.
I have an NVidia GeForce 7300 GS display and have installed the latest
NVidia drivers for Linux (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2.run).
Has anyone else seen this problem? Any ideas how to fix it?
--
Chris Green
16 years, 2 months
OT: Something better than kino?
by Dotan Cohen
A new Fedora user asked about a replacement for "Sony Vegas Studio 8".
I suggested to him Kino, but apparently Kino is "to simple". Is there
anything better out there? Thanks in advance.
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
16 years, 2 months
PAM `/var/' permissions are lax ??
by Erik P. Olsen
Hi,
I am getting subject error message quite often in logwatch and in secure.log
there are thousands of them. Does it mean that the permission of directory /var
is too lousy? I checked the permission bits and they are 777, so I changed them
to 755 but I am still receiving the message.
Should I worry? And if so what can I do?
--
Erik.
16 years, 2 months
any experience about vlan setup
by chloe K
Hi all
i am trying to use fedora to setup vlan to connect the HP switch.
how can I set it up?
ls it reliable?
Thank you
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16 years, 2 months
FC 8, Gnome, Tiling Windows
by Michael R. Wirtzfeld
Good day,
A quick question... Is there any way to tile windows (cascade,
horizontal, vertical; like in the Windows environments)?
Thanks in advance,
Michael.
16 years, 2 months
Fedora will not boot to GUI
by John BORIS
Hello,
I have a SuperMicro SC832S-550 Chassis and I am having trouble getting
Fedora LINUX to boot into Graphical mode. My Mother board is a Biostar
K8M800 AM2 with an AMD Sempron Processor and the RAID controller is a
LSI Logic MegaRAID SCSI 320-1 attached to the Hot Swap backplane. There
are 5 75gb Hard drives in the array which is configured for RAID-5.
I loaded Fedora 8 64bit version and the system would panic after the
first boot sequence went through and rebooted. Subsequent reboots would
leave the system hang at the GUI startup.
I did a new install of the i386 version and got the same GUI hang
results. I then got the boot up to stop at GRUB and got the system to
boot to run level 3. The system worked fine, as I could login from a
remote workstation but when I tried to start the GUI , startx. The
system hung at the same screen again , the arrow with the swoosh around
it. The mouse would work but after a long while the system would panic.
I got it to go into run level 3 again and got to snoop in the log files
but didn't see anything that said failure, error .
Thinking that it is Fedora 8 I tried Fedora 6 (i386 version from Fedora
6 Bible DVD). The install went fine. The Graphical install screens came
up (just like it did in Fedora 8) it asked a bunch of questions, I
created a new user and then it said it had to reboot to handle the
changes I made during first boot. As it rebooted I got the normal start
up screens (as I have been getting all along) and then it went to start
the GUI and I was presented with the arrow and swoosh again with nothing
happening.
I am starting to think that the Biostar MB's onboard video chip is not
compatible with the setup. I have an email into SuperMicro for
recommending a compatible MB but I don't think I will get the answer I
want. I don't have any docks for the SCSI Array that came with the
Chassis. It is an SCA array and the drives are all Fujitsu 75gb.
Any pointers or help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
John J. Boris, Sr.
JEN-A-SyS Administrator
Archdiocese of Philadelphia
"Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel
Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!"
16 years, 2 months
Updating respins
by Bill Davidsen
While jigbo is better than full downloads of respin images, on fast
moving releases I find that there are still a boatload of changes to
make after only a few weeks. I wind up doing a Unity install from a
recent respin, and then mounting a repository of recent upgrades and
updating again.
Since I have to burn a repository DVD before going to do an install, it
would be nice if there were an easy way to just generate an update
respin of my own, with just the updates we have done in the office (not
maintaining a full rsync mirror).
I have the feeling that there should be such a way, and that someone is
way ahead of me on this, the "Live CD" stuff doesn't seem to be quite
what I want, I need to update the most recent respin with whatever any
system in the office has saved in its yum cache, and make an updated
install DVD.
Note: I do installs in places with poor network connections, install
from a DVD or even the CD set, is the practical way.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
16 years, 2 months