a doubt of grub ..about stage1 stage1.5 stage2
by Alin Fang
Hello, all.
I do this test:
=================================
1:
A new PC never run grub-install before .
rm /boot/grub/*stage*
reboot
Is OK. Grub can run and can load kernel.
================================
2
grub-install /dev/sda
rm /boot/grub/*stage*
reboot
you can see : grub can not load stage2.
========================
I know that : grub load kernel by this way :
stage1
/ \
stage2 stage1.5
\
stage2
But I don't know : how grub chose one ?
15 years, 8 months
non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?
by Bj=?ISO-8859-1?B?+A==?=rn Tore Sund
It has now been a full week since the first announcement that Fedora had
"infrastructure problems" and to stop updating systems. Since then there
has been two updates to the announcement, none of which have modified the
"don't update" advice and noen of which has been specific as to the exact
nature of the problems. At one point we received a list of servers, but
not services, which were back up and running.
The University of Bergen has 500 linux clients running Fedora. We
average one reinstall/fresh install per day, often doing quite a lot
more. Installs and reinstalls has had to stop completely, nightly updates
have stopped, and until the nature of the problem is revealed we don't
even know for certain whether it is safe for our IT staff to type admin
passwords to our (RHEL-based, for the most part) servers from these work
stations.
Sometimes unfortunate events happen beyond anyone's control. We
understand this as well as anyone. We trust the assurances that the
infrastructure team is working hard on resolving the matter and are
greatful to them for the job they do. So far nothing that has happened
with this issue has reflected poorly on them.
Sadly, the same cannot be said about the Management of the Fedora
project. Their choice of complete non-disclosure is enough to eradicate
any and all confidence that Fedora is a trustworthy platform for Linux
installations. What information they have released has been deliberately
vague and, frankly, useless. For a day or two to secure things this may
be a workable strategy. For a full week, not giving the community
participants any chance whatsoever to protect themselves from threats
indicated but not specified? This is poor management and poor judgement
and reflects very badly not only on the Fedora project but on Fedora's
RedHat sponsor as well. The issue is more than serious enough and has
gone on for more than long enough that someone higher up the scale should
have stepped in a long time ago and made sure that all relevant info was
released to the community.
We strongly encourage both the Fedora management and RedHat as a Fedora
sponsor to immediately release any and all information relating to the
current infrastructure problems.
Regards,
-BT, linux client architect, University of Bergen
--
Bjørn Tore Sund Phone: 555-84894 Email: bjorn.sund(a)it.uib.no
IT department VIP: 81724 Support: http://bs.uib.no
Univ. of Bergen
When in fear and when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
15 years, 8 months
more RAID whoe's
by Gary Stainburn
Hi folks.
Last week I added another drive to my backup server.
I then reshaped the RAID arrays and then resize2fs'd the main partition.
All looked fine until I rebooted, at which point it failed after loading the
kernel.
Last time I got round this by upgrading from FC7 to FC8, during which time it
re-installed the boot loader and installed the latest HDD image and all such
*stuff*.
I tried this again, upgrading from FC8 to FC9, but this time it isn't working.
However, it didn't work but in a way I didn't expect.
My boot partition partition is mirrored on the 1st and 2nd HDD's as it always
has been. The boot loader then booted from the copy on /dev/sda1, and then
remounted later as normal using /dev/md0.
However, now I get the following displayed on screen. It looks like the boot
loader doesn't like the partition type - but this hasn't changed. The splash
screen and menu all appear on-screen so GRUB at least can see the /boot/
partition to do this. (The following were collected having booted from the
rescue CD).
I have noticed that the mirror isn't symetrical either as there seems to be an
extra partition (
Anyone got any ideas
Booting 'Fedora (2.6.25-14.FC9)'
root(hd0,0)
Filesystem type ext2fs, partition type 0xfd
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9 ro root=/dev/md2 rhgb quiet
Error 15: File not found
Press any key to continue...
sh-3.2# mdadm -D /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 00.90.03
Creation Time : Thu Dec 6 10:53:13 2007
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 1020032 (996.29 MiB 1044.51 MB)
Used Dev Size : 1020032 (996.29 MiB 1044.51 MB)
Raid Devices : 3
Total Devices : 3
Preferred Minor : 0
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Tue Aug 26 12:43:54 2008
State : clean
Active Devices : 3
Working Devices : 3
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
UUID : 1f31c4b8:d602299e:6378c18c:1cc4f42f
Events : 0.18
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1
1 8 2 1 active sync /dev/sda2
2 8 17 2 active sync /dev/sdb1
sh-3.2# mdadm -D /dev/md2
/dev/md2:
Version : 00.90.03
Creation Time : Thu Dec 6 10:37:22 2007
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 1937180672 (1847.44 GiB 1983.67 GB)
Used Dev Size : 484295168 (461.86 GiB 495.92 GB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 2
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Tue Aug 26 12:44:15 2008
State : clean
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 256K
UUID : dee71d7b:567f2962:2d68770a:c36412ac
Events : 0.777308
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 5 0 active sync /dev/sda5
1 8 19 1 active sync /dev/sdb3
2 8 66 2 active sync /dev/sde2
3 8 50 3 active sync /dev/sdd2
4 8 34 4 active sync /dev/sdc2
--
Gary Stainburn
This email does not contain private or confidential material as it
may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown
and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000
15 years, 8 months
Re: The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list
by Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 23:52 -0400, fedora-list-request(a)redhat.com wrote:
>
> This list, fedora-list(a)redhat.com, is one of the first lists that most
> Fedora users join, and therefore quite important to the community.
> However, it's a high-volume list (and is sometimes perceived to have a
> high noise level), so many veterans of the Fedora community aren't
> subscribed.
>
> As the result of discussion at the last public (IRC) board meeting,
> it's
> been proposed that narrow the scope of this list a bit. The current
> description of this list simply reads:
>
> fedora-users: For users of Fedora
>
> The proposed replacement is:
>
> fedora-users: Help and support for using the Fedora distribution.
>
> Feedback on this proposed change is welcome.
>
> In addition, this list has been without an owner. Paul Frields and I
> have assumed ownership of the list, and we'd welcome one or two
> experienced members of the community to join us.
Some clarification based on the discussion that's taken place (while I
slept :-) ...
- Yes, I meant "fedora-list" and not "fedora-users" (sorry!)
- The intention is not to moderate or censor the list, but to make it
more useful by clarifying the list description and encouraging
participation in the list by more of the long-term community members.
- Likewise, the intention is not to reduce the list traffic by
moderation, but hopefully a clearer purpose and better participation
will increase its value to the community. (Obviously, moderation is an
option if things really get out of hand, but I don't think anyone really
wants to go there, and moderating a high-volume list in a timely fashion
is a huge task).
- That the list needs some love is clearly shown by the 149 messages in
the admin queue, dating back to early 2007 (mostly messages over the 60K
length limit and messages with subjects like "help" and "unsubscribe").
There's been some great feedback and suggestions on the list
description. How about this?--
fedora-list: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for
using the Fedora distribution.
--
Chris
15 years, 8 months
F9 : generic driver for sound card
by Luc MAIGNAN
Hello all,
I have a Creative Labs SB X-FI sound card. I cannot setup it or use the
beta driver provided by SB. Is there a way to use a generic driver to
use my sound card ?
BR
15 years, 8 months
simscan problem compile
by Jean Carlo
I have a problem to compiling simscan version 1.3.1 on Fedora 8
the problem is as follows:
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -O2 -g -pipe -Wall
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic
-fasynchronous-unwind-tables -Wall -c `test -f 'simscanmk.c' || echo
'./'`simscanmk.c
In function 'open',
inlined from 'make_cdb' at simscanmk.c:379:
/usr/include/bits/fcntl2.h:51: error: call to '__open_missing_mode'
declared with attribute error: open with O_CREAT in second argument
needs 3 arguments
make[2]: *** [simscanmk.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/simscan-1.3.1'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/simscan-1.3.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
erro: Código de saída inválido do /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.43842 (%build)
tanks list
15 years, 8 months
No GD in Fedora 9
by Sanjay S Nair
HI
I am trying to use gd for some project in php. But i found that the gd is
not installed. So downloaded the gd library manually and installed the
source. but still the phpinfo() showing there is no GD installed.
Where is the probelm in this.
And I can't use the yum because of some error "Error: Cannot retrieve
repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: dag. Please verify its path
and try again"
Thanks
15 years, 8 months
Since F9, Images on Firefox Fuzzy
by Oliver Ruebenacker
Dear friends,
Since I upgraded to Fedore 9, all images appear fuzzy on Firefox. I
have a Dell Latitude D820 laptop with a nVidia card and work with a
resolution of 1680x1050. If I save the images and display them outside
Firefox, they all look sharp. This is true for gif, jpg and svg.
Why I think that's a Fedora issue? Well, because under Fedora 8, all
images were sharp in Firefox. Also, system-config-display does not
seem to work. It fails to detect my display or the possible
resolutions, and when I select a resolution, it will ask me to restart
X, and then happily forget anything I entered. I sometimes felt like
asking some one to have a look at the code and confirm that it
actually is written to do anything.
Thanks!
Take care
Oliver
--
Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher
BioPAX Integration at Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org/biopax)
Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org
15 years, 8 months
Cannot use yum
by Sanjay S Nair
I have tried to install gd for php but i can't install got some error
[root@localhost ~]# yum -y install php php-gd
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
livna | 2.1 kB
00:00
fedora | 2.4 kB
00:00
http://apt.sw.be/fedora/9/en/i386/dag/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP
Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: dag.
Please verify its path and try again
Thanks
15 years, 8 months
update error on F9
by Paul Allen Newell
Finally managed to get FC5 upgraded to F9 by forgetting the upgrade and
doing a full re-installation (the thread on 6 -> 9 made it clear I had
to do that if I had any errors).
Even managed to get internet access which I could never do on FC5, so
I'm already ahead of the game.
I got the expected notice of all the stuff that needed to be updated via
pop-up and said "sure" after I had logged in as root to make sure there
would be no permissions issue. It failed with the following error message:
org.freedesktop.packagelist.update-system
auth_admin_keep_always
I tried from the other pulldown (admin?) for update system, got the
window, said update, it did nothing.
I was able to verify that I could get an update by downloading Firefox
3.0.1 (install DVD has Firefox 3 Beta 5) ... of course I couldn't
install it as I could figure it out since it wasn't the "ultra newbie"
Windows "download, click, install" system (since I've never had internet
access on Linux, I know this is another issue I have to learn ... and will).
My question to fedora-list is "what is the org.frredesktop.etc error and
how to I correct so it will work". If I need to go command line and do
it through yum, that's okay ... I just need a bit of guidance on the
process.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
15 years, 8 months