cron.{daily, weekly, ...} and hibernate
by Ville-Pekka Vainio
Hi,
I've been wondering about the cron.{daily, monthly, weekly, hourly}
scripts and hibernate. It seems to me that when I use hibernate, these
jobs are almost never run, unless of course I need to do a complete
reboot due to a kernel update or such.
Cron almost never gets to run these jobs because the computer is usually
hibernating when cron is configured to run. It seems like anacron
doesn't run the jobs either when the computer is actually running. To
fix this I've written a simple bash script for hibernating which first
runs hibernate and then restarts crond and anacron when waking up.
Am I wrong here, is there something wrong with my configuration or is it
really the situation that the cron jobs are not run after waking up from
hibernation?
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Ville-Pekka Vainio
15 years, 4 months
acpid daemon wont start after F8 -> F9 upgrade
by Paolo Galtieri
I upgraded my system from F8 -> F9. When I boot the system I see an error
regarding starting the acpid daemon. When I restart it manually I see:
[root@jackstrw ~]# /etc/init.d/acpid restart
Stopping acpi daemon: [FAILED]
Starting acpi daemon: acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource
busy
[FAILED]
When I run:
[root@jackstrw ~]# lsof /proc/acpi/event
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
hald-addo 2861 haldaemon 4r REG 0,3 0 4026531960 /proc/acpi/event
And ps shows:
[root@jackstrw ~]# ps axlw | grep hald
5 68 2767 1 20 0 30468 5224 sys_po Ss ? 0:00 hald
0 0 2771 2767 20 0 17836 1092 sys_po S ? 0:00
hald-runner
0 0 2854 2771 20 0 19952 1016 sys_po S ? 0:00
hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event0
/dev/input/event6 /dev/input/event13 /dev/input/event3
4 68 2861 2771 20 0 12456 852 acpi_b S ? 0:00
hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpi kernel interface /proc/acpi/event
0 0 2900 2771 20 0 19948 992 sys_po S ? 0:00
hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 2 sec)
0 0 12021 11717 20 0 316 92 sync_p D+ pts/8 0:00 grep
hald
So how do I fix this so that acpid starts correctly on boot?
Thanks,
Paolo
15 years, 4 months
Gnome - file browser view
by Jeffrey Ross
by default (or at least default on my system) whenever I use the GUI to
view a directory, I am presented with and icon view of the
files/directory. I know I can go to "View" and then "view as list" or
Control-2 but how do I make the the default behavior? I really don't
want to see big icons normally.
TIA, Jeff
15 years, 4 months
DriveReady SeekComplete Error on hda
by Robert L Cochran
I'm getting these messages with reference to drive hda:
hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
hda is this device:
Jan 4 10:52:51 dk kernel: hda: WDC WD2500JB-00REA0, ATA DISK drive
Jan 4 10:52:51 dk kernel: hda: max request size: 512KiB
Jan 4 10:52:51 dk kernel: hda: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB
Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, UDMA(100)
Jan 4 10:52:51 dk kernel: hda: cache flushes supported
Jan 4 10:52:51 dk kernel: hda: hda1 hda2
Jan 4 10:52:52 dk kernel: EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
Jan 4 10:53:00 dk kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
Jan 4 10:53:00 dk kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Jan 4 10:53:00 dk smartd[3011]: Device: /dev/hda, opened
Jan 4 10:53:00 dk smartd[3011]: Device: /dev/hda, found in smartd
database.
Jan 4 10:53:01 dk smartd[3011]: Device: /dev/hda, is SMART capable.
Adding to "monitor" list.
My question is, should I replace hda? Are the drive_cmd messages a sign
it is going dead?
Thanks
Bob Cochran
15 years, 4 months
Devil's Pie question ??
by Bill Case
Hi;
I have a gdevilspie script, ~/.devilspie/Evolution_ws3.ds, that works
fine as far as it goes. I have devilspie set in my sessions manager to
start at startup. The script is set to start Evolution on workspace 3
with a certain geometry.
However, I have noticed that Evolution still starts on workspace 1,
flashes for a fraction of a second, and is then moved to workspace 3.
If this is the way it has to be, I can live with it. But it seems a bit
"hacky". Is there a way, or a startup file (eg xresources), that I can
use so that the start up feels and looks smoother; so that Evolution
just seems to start in workspace 3 with no milli-second flash?
By the way, I have read and explored several good wiki's and tutorials
on using devilspie, but either I am blind or they remain silent on this
question.
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Regards Bill
Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.2
Evo.2.24.2, Emacs 22.2.1
15 years, 4 months
Using BB as Bluetooth Modem on F10
by Christopher A Williams
Just curious if anyone has managed to set up a Blackberry as a bluetooth
modem on F10. I have managed to successfully pair it to my laptop, but
am not sure where to find the device after that, let alone what I might
need to do to set up more.
This does at least look possible, and I will keep working on this and
post what I find. Ideas appreciated...
Cheers,
Chris
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"If we don't succeed,
we run the risk of failure."
-- Former President Bill Clinton
15 years, 4 months
Yum problem on F10
by William W. Austin
Apologies in advance if this gets through twice - I posted this about
24 hours ago, have not yet seen it on the list, and just got a bounce
message, so I assume that the first try won't get through.
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I have three machines on which I installed f10 about 2 weeks ago.
Two of them are identical as to hardware and the other is a bit larger
and faster. All are x86_64 machines previously running fedora 7, 8, or
9.
On two of the machines I wiped the drive on which I installed /,
/tmp, /usr, and /var, and on the third (the 'larger' machine) I added a
new 1TB drive to hold those (plus other things).
The install - using the same install DVD - went smoothly on all 3 of
them.
However, on two of the machines (one of the twins and the "larger" box)
yum works just fine. On the third - which according to "rpm -qa" has
exactly the same packages installed - yum fails every time with a
message "public key for <rpm name> is not installed".
Obviously I have hosed up something here on that third machine, but I
haven't found it yet and it's driving me batty. I have gone through
documentation until I'm going blind without picking up a clue.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to write me
privately if you prefer and I'll summarize for the list later.
Thanks
- wwa
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william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
15 years, 4 months
Upgrade Caused Downgrade
by Eugene Poole
All,
I've just experienced one of the most unnerving situations. I've a
custom built machine that was running the following:
ECS GeForce 6100SM-M mother board
AMD 64 X2 5600+
4GB RAM DDR2 800
nVidia GT7300 PCIE 256MB video card
2 - SATA Hard drives; 1 - 320 GB WD and 1 - 500GB Seagate
550 watt Antec power supply
Fedora 9 x86_64 with all of the latest patches
For Xmas I upgraded the machine to:
Gigabyte MA790X-DS4 mother board
AMD Phenom Quad core 9550
8GB RAM DDR2 800
Retained the video card from above
2 - SATA Hard drives; 1 - 500 GB Seagate and 1 - 1TB Seagate
850 watt Antec power supply
I attempted to install, from the same DVD used above, Fedora 9 x86_64
with 4 failures at just about the same place while installing packages.
I used my i386 Fedora 9 DVD and all went well during the install so
attempted to do a upgrade to x86_64 without luck. I did a test using my
Fedora 8 x86_64 DVD and it installed perfectly. I then attempted to do
a upgrade to Fedora 9 without any luck (it appeared to fail at about the
same place). I then downloaded and burned another copy of the Fedora 9
x86_64 DVD, checked it and attempted to do another install and one again
it failed at about the same place.
What could possibly be happening? I since reinstall Fedora 8, but that
has reached it's E-O-L. Should I just attempt to go to Fedora 10 x86_64?
Any help or advice would be great!
Gene
15 years, 4 months
Boinc
by John Aldrich
Anyone here running Boinc on Fedora 10 x86_64? I followed the instructions on
their (Boinc/Seti@home) website and ran "yum install boinc..." and it
installed two packages. Now when I try to run boincmgr, I get the following
error in the console:
connect: Connection refused
execvp(/oldhome/john/boinc, --redirectio, --launched_by_manager) failed with
error 13!
connect: Operation now in progress
Any ideas? What the heck is "error 13"????
15 years, 4 months