Access from outside
by John Aldrich
Ok. I managed to *briefly* connect with my machine from outside. I
still think there's something "hinky" about my config since I
installed F10. It *was* working on FC6, and I wiped and reinstalled
F10. Now, I can SSH in from my wife's XP box on the LAN, but I can't
SSH in from outside, either on port 22 or the non-standard port I
configured to make things more difficult for hackers (port number is
in excess of 2000).
I can SSH in from inside the LAN on either the standard port or the
non-standard port, but I cannot access my machine from outside.
I've tried several things, but none of them seem to work. Any
suggestions where to look?
15 years, 4 months
mailx cannot send emails to external address
by Kevin Kempter
Hi All;
If I run mailx to send a file the mail never arrives (although mailx does not
raise any errors on the screen).
How do I configure my Fedora 10 box so mailx can send to external email
addresses ?
Thanks in advance
15 years, 4 months
ULi SATA/RAID controller (m5287) driver
by Mr. Bravismore Mumanyi
Dear All,
I would like to install Fedora 9 on a desktop with the above-quoted
controller and need help on a site where I can download driver for RAID
controller.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Regards
/Bravo
15 years, 4 months
Netbook wifi, wlan0 and inet6 address (F10)
by Anne Wilson
I'm still strugging to find a solution to the problems of the AR5006EG
wireless on the Acer Aspire One.
It seems that the driver is not being loaded, no matter what I do, so I
considered the options.
Using ndiswrapper and a windows driver - not simple, as I didn't buy the
windows system. I can find several download pages but they all want me to
install a windows program to investigate the hardware so that they can give me
the correct driver. Yesterday I did find
http://www.atheros.cz/download.php?atheros=AR5006EG&system=1from which I found
a driver and an inf file. I tried installing these with ndiswrapper this
morning, but it says it can't find a sys file. I've never used ndiswrapper
before, so it's possible I'm missing something.
Using madwifi - there have been reports that on some systems the madwifi
driver gives better results than the kernel driver. I installed madwifi and
kmod-madwifi. What must I do to make the system use this instead of the
kernel driver?
Lastly, I checked ifconfig, which now lists wifi0 and wlan0. wifi0 has no
inet addr: at all. wlan0 has an inet6 addr: - I do not use inet6 at this
stage. Is there something I must do to disable inet6 before it can get an
inet4 address?
I have tried everything I know or have read about. Any help would be
gratefully received.
Anne
15 years, 4 months
VMware Server 2.0, selinux, and F10
by Christopher A Williams
I had promised to do this and post my results a week ago and got
thoroughly tied up over the holidays - sorry about that. It was a good
Christmas for us though! :)
So - I did get around to loading up a server with the latest version of
F10 (32-bit in this case) to run the 32-bit version of VMware Server 2.0
(build 122956) to try and answer the burning question: Does selinux need
to be disabled for VMware Server to run properly on F10?
I know the inpatient out there can't wait to read the whole post, so
here's the answer:
Yes.
According to our testing (a friend of mine who also frequents this list
was here too), the current version of VMware Server DOES NOT RUN on F10
(32-bit) unless selinux is DISABLED. Permissive mode doesn't cut it - it
still causes VMware Server to not run.
Here are the details:
Server: "Whitebox" Supermicro 1U chassis, dual 2.4GHz Pentium Xeon
processors, 4GB RAM, Dual Gig-E NICs, dual 250GB IDE drives
OS: F10 32-bit, with all patches as of 12-28-08
Kernel: 2.6.27.9-159.fc10 (PAE version - required to see the full 4GB)
We loaded a fresh copy F10 with all of the required development tools
and supporting stuff VMware Server needs to compile, and left selinux in
its default (enforcing) mode and targeted policy. The system was
intentionally updated with all of the latest available patches. After
rebooting (kernel update that included a switch to the PAE kernel), we
then installed VMware Server from the RPM via Package Kit. The initial
RPM install went as expected with no errors or issues beyond the warning
that the RPM is not signed (Request to VMware: Please, PLEASE make sure
that you always sign your RPMs!).
Next up was to configure the system. We fired up a terminal window,
switched user to root, and then launched vmware-config.pl as normal. The
script properly found everything it needed, set up the virtual networks,
and compiled all of the modules against the PAE kernel with no errors at
all. All of the services reported in as having started successfully when
the script exited, which was when the trouble started.
We immediately picked up an selinux error saying that one of the modules
required the ability to use text relocation. No big deal here, which is
why I don't remember off hand which module committed the offense. I'll
go back and pull it up next chance - I'm on a different system right
now. The selinux troubleshooter gave us the required command to address
this issue, so we fixed the problem and off we went.
...Or so we thought.
It seems that something else in selinux is interfering with a new VMware
Server 2.0 service called VirtualMachines. I'm not sure what the problem
is, how it happens, or why. What happens is that you can launch Firefox
to talk to VMware server (http://localhost:8222 in this case) and get
the VMware Server login page. However, from there you are unable to
login. The system times out with a message basically saying that
communication with the back-end server processes has been lost. Further
checking (service vmware status) shows that several VMware Server
services are actually NOT running.
Upon trying to restart the vmware services (service vmware restart), we
see that the VirtualMachines service has failed. There are no errors I
can see, and nothing in dmesg out of the ordinary.
Next, we placed selinux into permissive mode to see if anything might
pop up or change, and then rebooted the system. We saw exactly the same
behavior from VMware Server as before when selinux was in enforcing
mode.
Finally, we disabled selinux altogether and rebooted once more. This
time, VMware Server came up and ran flawlessly. In fact, it was
impressively fast given the age of the hardware.
Just for grins, we then completely erased VMware Server, rebooted, and
double-checked to make sure everything about it was completely gone from
the system. We then re-installed it using the exact same procedure as
before. VMware Server installed and ran flawlessly. In fact, just to be
sure again, we rebooted the server one more time. Again VMware Server
came up and ran without issues.
Thus, in our testing of this, it is clear there are multiple issues with
VMware Server and selinux. One of the issues is that a specific module
requires text relocation, which is easily solved. The other issue is
going to be a little more difficult to troubleshoot, but clearly there
is something that conflicts between selinux and one of the new VMware
Server services, and the only way to get around it at this point is to
disable selinux.
I'll have the system handy for the next day or so to do some additional
testing, but then I have to put it back into production. Let me know
what specifics I should look for next to find the source of the problem.
Cheers,
Chris
--
==================================
By all means marry;
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
--Socrates
15 years, 4 months
Re: Upgrade Has Caused A Downgrade
by Gene Poole
a) When you say "upgrade", do you mean telling Anaconda to upgrade an
existing
installation? Anaconda doesn't have logic to handle migrating from i386
to
x86_64, so it's not expected to work. Upgrading from F8 i386 to F9 i386
or F10
i386 generally should work. If you want to switch architectures, you need
a
fresh install.
I attempted to upgrade from Fedora 8 x86_64 to Fedora 9 x86_64 - which
failed at the point where the new packages were being installed.
b) You haven't given us any diagnostic information at all. F9 and F10
wouldn't
have been released if x86_64 builds routinely failed to install, and
there's
nothing exotic about your hardware, so it's highly unlikely that anyone is
going
to immediately know what's wrong with your setup. Please at least give us
an
error message or something.
There is no diagnostic information from the initial install because it was
a 'bare metal' install. I didn't retain and logs or other diagnostic
information from the upgrade attempt because the machine would not boot
because the primary OS file systems (/; /boot; /usr) were not fully
populated with the Fedora 9 software - but - the Fedora 8 software was no
longer at a point where it would boot.
Thanks,
Gene Poole
15 years, 4 months
auto-configure NTP in Kickstart?
by Cameron Mura
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to setup NTP info via kickstart ? More
specifically, I'd like to do the following on Fedora 10 systems via the
kickstart mechanism:
1) Specify NTP servers (e.g., ntp1.virginia.edu, ntp2.virginia.edu, ...)
2) Enable / activate NTP -- I.e., What one would get by running
'system-config-time' and clicking the "Enable Network Time Protocol" box.
I know this stuff can set manually, post-installation, via the
system-config-time route, and that it also can be setup immediately
after a kickstart-based install by setting "firstboot --enable" to run
the Setup Agent upon first reboot (...and then manually entering the
info at that screen.) But seems as though this could be done at the
kickstart level ??
I couldn't find anything on ntp-in-kickstart in the Anaconda Kickstart
reference at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart or by
searching around the web. I naively did the following in a ks file to
modify ntp.conf, but that doesn't actually 'enable' ntp on the system:
> cat >> /etc/ntp.conf <<EOF_ntpconfig
> server ntp1.virginia.edu dynamic
> server ntp2.virginia.edu dynamic
> server ntp3.virginia.edu dynamic
> EOF_ntpconfig
Any tips (or pointers to possible advice) would be most sincerely
appreciated...
Cameron
15 years, 4 months
Problem removing: fmt-ptrn-java-1.3.17-1.fc9.i386
by Dan Thurman
I was receiving email log notices that there was
a problem with removing fmt-ptrn-java-1.3.17-1.fc9.i386,
so I attempted to remove it:
# yum remove fmt-ptrn-java-1.3.17-1.fc9.i386
Loaded plugins: aliases, fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package fmt-ptrn-java.i386 0:1.3.17-1.fc9 set to be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
================================================================================
Package Arch Version
Repository Size
================================================================================
Removing:
fmt-ptrn-java i386 1.3.17-1.fc9
installed 11 k
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 1 Package(s)
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
============================== Entering rpm code
===============================
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Erasing :
fmt-ptrn-java 1/1
/sbin/ldconfig: relative path `1' used to build cache
=============================== Leaving rpm code
===============================
Removed:
fmt-ptrn-java.i386
0:1.3.17-1.fc9
Complete!
Geez, one might think yum actually removed it, but in this case, it lied.
Trying to pull the ol'e sliparoo on me, ehh? I tried running yum remove
as above again and the same exact removal messages appears again and
again - so, it is NOT removed! So, I tried another way:
# apt-get --fix-broken install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
fmt-ptrn-java#1.3.17-1.fc9 (1.3.17-1.fc9)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 11.0kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Committing changes...
Preparing ##############################
[100%]
Cleaning up / removing
fmt-ptrn-java-1.3.17-1.fc9.i386 ##############################
[100%]
/sbin/ldconfig: relative path `1' used to build cache
error: %postun(fmt-ptrn-java-1.3.17-1.fc9.i386) scriptlet failed, exit
status 1
Done.
W: Some errors occurred while running transaction
Ah! Well at least it is telling me there is a problem in attempting
to remove this package... Well apt-get cannot remove this package
so, I tried using rpm directly:
# rpm -e fmt-ptrn-java-1.3.17-1.fc9.i386
/sbin/ldconfig: relative path `1' used to build cache
error: %postun(fmt-ptrn-java-1.3.17-1.fc9.i386) scriptlet failed, exit
status 1
Three strikes, and I am out!
So, how can I get rid of this package?
Thanks!
Dan
15 years, 4 months
X locks up after a random time
by Marko Vojinovic
Ok, this is a Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo U9200, with Intel graphics, F10 64bit,
updated last week. KDE desktop, compiz and all, but I believe it is not
related.
The symptom: system boots up regularly, I do regular work, and after a random
amount of time, X freezes. If compiz is on, all I can do is move the mouse
pointer. If compiz is off, even the mouse pointer is frozen. The OS itself is
not, I can ssh from a remote machine and read logs. This is not reproducible,
it happens too randomly and I can only sit and wait for it to happen.
However, it is extremely annoying, since it has a tendency to freeze when I'm
in the middle of some work in progress.
If I log in remotely and kill -9 the X process, the whole machine locks up and
I can only power-cycle it. Don't know a way to restart X short of rebooting,
keyboard doesn't respond to ctrl-alt-backspace or anything else.
So far, dmesg and /var/log/messages do not show anything related or even
suspicious (afaics), while /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows this at the end:
=================
[snip most of the regular log of a working X server]
(II) intel(0): EDID for output TMDS-1
(II) intel(0): EDID for output TV
[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x4e7a26]
1: /usr/bin/X(mieqEnqueue+0x291) [0x4c8591]
2: /usr/bin/X(xf86PostMotionEventP+0xc4) [0x491494]
3: /usr/bin/X(xf86PostMotionEvent+0xa9) [0x491669]
4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input//evdev_drv.so [0x7feeeaf3e126]
5: /usr/bin/X [0x47a765]
6: /usr/bin/X [0x46b307]
7: /lib64/libc.so.6 [0x3522232f90]
8: /lib64/libc.so.6(ioctl+0x7) [0x35222de037]
9: /usr/lib64/libdrm.so.2 [0x7feefd045023]
10: /usr/lib64/libdrm.so.2(drmCommandNone+0x16) [0x7feefd045326]
11: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//intel_drv.so [0x7feefcdd0fc8]
12: /usr/bin/X [0x51cdb9]
13: /usr/bin/X [0x4f7311]
14: /usr/bin/X(BlockHandler+0x50) [0x44a320]
15: /usr/bin/X(WaitForSomething+0x161) [0x4e4eb1]
16: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x7f) [0x4465ef]
17: /usr/bin/X(main+0x45d) [0x42cd1d]
18: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x352221e576]
19: /usr/bin/X [0x42c0f9]
[mi] mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping.
[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
[the last two lines repeat a lot of times]
=================
So if the server is really in an infinite loop, then something so very Not
Good is happening. Now, given that these are Intel open-source drivers
driving my graphics card here, I have the following questions:
1) What does the [mi] stand for here? Can anyone decypher the backtrace for
me? (I don't mind reading a "too technical" answer)
2) How can I further diagnose the problem and help fixing it?
3) In order to be efficient in diagnosing, does anyone know how to trigger the
lockup on purpose?
4) This has been happening since I installed F10 on this machine --- has
anyone spotted the problem already? Is there a known bugzilla report that I
can add to?
5) Is there a workaround until a fix comes?
6) Can I somehow restart the X server from a remote console (without rebooting
the whole machine) to recover clean from this?
7) F10 is out for a while now, how come a bug such as this (X in infinite
loop) has not been fixed already? I mean, many people here bragg about the
open source drivers being better then closed source when it comes to fixing
broken things, so why is an issue such as this still present?
// ok, this is a rant, I know, but I really am frustrated by this //
Oh yes, lspci -v says this:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Fujitsu Siemens Computers Device 110f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at fc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 18f8 [size=8]
Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
Count=1/1 Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
Kernel modules: intelfb
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated
Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Fujitsu Siemens Computers Device 110f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at fc100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1M]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
There is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, default stuff...
Help please?
Best, :-)
Marko
15 years, 4 months
USB stick with ext2?
by Alan Evans
Howdy!
When I insert a USB thumb drive formatted with vfat, it gets
automagically mounted under /media with appropriate permissions so the
logged in user can write to the device. But if the thumb drive is
formatted ext2, only root can write to it.
$ mount
/dev/sdb1 on /media/Devel type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)
/dev/sdc1 on /media/disk type vfat
(rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500)
$ ll
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-01-05 21:27 Devel
drwxr-xr-x 3 alan root 16384 1969-12-31 16:00 disk
Is there a way to make that work?
-Alan
15 years, 4 months