Fedora Upgrade 8 > 10 Login problem
by Jim
Upgrade Fedora/KDE 8 > 10.
Bootup, It gets to Login Window, select User, add password, starts to go
into KDE desktop, but comes back to login Window. It has no problems
with User name or Password.
I select "Console Login", login at Console: username, password and I'am
in console as "user".
I then do a "startx" in user and it takes me into KDE desktop.
What is my problem trying to Login at Login Window ?
15 years, 2 months
DST, will Fedora change the time on the fly?
by Antonio Olivares
Dear fedora users,
I have a quick question about DST(Daylight Savings Time), I know that in the US, we will change the time Spring forward, Fall back
http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b2.html
I am running Fedora 9 x86_64 at home
[olivares@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27.19-78.2.30.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 24 19:44:45 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[olivares@localhost ~]$
My concern is that the clock will be moved forward one hour, will it happen by itself in Fedora or do I need to update a package like tzdata?
I don't update everything because I am on dialup and only update the kernel mostly. Maybe I will learn if this was changed automatically in the morning, but I do need to make sure I don't fall asleep when I need to head to work on Monday :)
Thank you in Advance,
Antonio
15 years, 2 months
Help out with the Fedora Crawler
by Renich Bon Ciric
Hola, Fedorans!
I need some help maintaining the Fedora Crawler. This is a custom google
search engine that looks into specific fedora sites so, for Fedorans, it's
great for looking for help. You can add it to your iGoogle or your Firefox
search, etc.
Anyway, I'm sure we could make it better if some contributors stepped in.
It's not hard to manage.
I'll include this custom Google invitation if you want to join.
Renich Bon Ciric has invited you to contribute to their custom search
engine: Fedora Crawler.
To accept this invitation and register for your account, visit
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=011057779923588025604%3Aakrqpglozlu
In addition to contributing to other people's search engines, you can also
build and deploy a search engine on your own website in a matter of a few
minutes using Google Custom Search. If you're interested in creating your
own search engine, click here to get started<http://www.google.com/coop/cse/>
.
To view all of the search engines you have created or are contributing to,
you can visit your My search
engines<http://www.google.com/coop/manage/cse/>page.
Thanks,
The Google Custom Search Team
Thanks to anybody that joins!
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15 years, 2 months
Re: Hardware upgrade -> Volume Group "VolGroup00" not found. [SOLVED]
by Richard Shaw
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> This is the second time this has happened to me. The first time was
> after a hardware upgrade on the computer I'm using right now, however,
> it was an F8 system so instead of preupgrade I decided a fresh install
> was in order, no big deal.
>
> This time it's with my Myth Box running F10 and if I don't fix this
> quickly the wife is going to kill me. Why does a hardware change (new
> MB) cause this problem? Shouldn't it be able to find the volume group
> regardless?
>
> In my previous situation a livecd could find the volume group but the
> installed system could not and I suspect the same will happen this
> time but I am creating a livecd just to be sure.
>
> Any troubleshooting ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
> Old System:
> AMD Sempron 64 3100+
> Cheap nForce3 MB
>
> New(er) system:
> AMD Athlon X2 5200+
> Gigabyte AMD 770 chipset. MB
Ok, the initrd was the culprit as both Mikkel and I suspected even
though I still don't know why the initrd I copied from my working
system which had identical hardware specs didn't work.
If you ever need to rebuild an initrd from a broken system using a
rescue disk or livecd/usb system there are a couple of things you need
to do before you can successfully build an initrd from a chroot
environment.
The plain chroot environment does not map things like /dev /sys /proc
which mkinitrd depends on. I'm not sure if every one of these steps is
absolutely needed but it worked for me. Also, I'm going to break the
steps down a lot for those that find their way here from google.
1. Boot livecd/usb system (rescue boot from an install CD/DVD should
work as well).
2. Open terminal or console and run "su" for root.
3. Mount your root partition or logical volume (in my case VolGroup00/LogVol00)
3a. cd /mnt
3b. mkdir sysimage
3c. mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 ./sysroot
4. Mount your boot partition: (In my case /dev/sdb1)
4a. mount /dev/sdb1 ./sysroot/boot
All the above I already knew, here is where it got interesting (and
frustrating getting to this point):
5. Mount w/ bind the /dev from your rescue system to your problem system
5a. mount --bind /dev ./sysroot/dev
6. Go into the chroot environment
6a. chroot sysroot
7. Mount /proc and /sys
7a. mount /proc
7b. mount /sys
8. Now we should be ready to run mkinitrd
8a. cd /boot
8b. mkinitrd -v -f initrd-$(kver).img $(kver) # where $(kver) is the
full kernel name (i.e. 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10_x86_64) or something
like that
Make sure you update grub.conf if you use an initrd name that's not
already setup in it.
Some other thoughts about hardware upgrades:
Both machines I upgraded the ethernet changed to "eth1" but I'm not
sure where to get rid of the old settings but it's working so I may
leave it alone.
Maybe there could be some sort of hardware upgrade helper to help with
this process? It could install itself on your system as a rescue image
to help walk you though the process like preupgrade but for hardware.
Richard
15 years, 2 months
OpenOffice No Launch Icons
by Alex Makhlin
Hi all,
I am running Fedora 10 KDE 4.2 and have just installed OpenOffice but I
can't find the launch icons anywhere. Anyone know the answer?
Thanks.
15 years, 2 months
Installing Oracle 11g problem in Fedora 10.
by gmspro
Getting information from here:
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/OracleDB11gR1InstallationOnFedora...
trying to install Oracle 11g.
But after 12% installation the progress bar of installation does not increase.
Waiting and waiting,
After ./runInstaller
[oracle@localhost database]$ ./runInstaller
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking Temp space: must be greater than 80 MB. Actual 5680 MB Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 2326 MB Passed
Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors. Actual 16777216 Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM. Please wait ...[oracle@localhost database]$ Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0x9a0767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_unlock+0x31) [0x9a0831]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(_XReply+0x254) [0x9e6ee4]
#3 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so [0xa38abd3e]
#4 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so [0xa3895d47]
#5 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so [0xa3895ec3]
#6 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so(Java_sun_awt_X11GraphicsEnvironment_initDisplay+0x26) [0xa3896106]
#7 [0xb27b7c4b]
#8 [0xb27b1b3b]
#9 [0xb27b1b3b]
#10 [0xb27af217]
#11 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so [0xb7908d8c]
#12 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so [0xb7a1cfd8]
#13 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so [0xb7908bbf]
#14 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so(JVM_DoPrivileged+0x32d) [0xb796634d]
#15 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so(Java_java_security_AccessController_doPrivileged__Ljava_security_PrivilegedAction_2+0x3d) [0xb774a2cd]
#16 [0xb27b74eb]
#17 [0xb27b1a64]
#18 [0xb27af217]
#19 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so [0xb7908d8c]
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0x9a0767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_lock+0x2e) [0x9a090e]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0x9e6079]
#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XGetVisualInfo+0x26) [0x9dc246]
#4 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so [0xa3895089]
#5 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so [0xa38952d3]
#6 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so [0xa3895f71]
#7 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so(Java_sun_awt_X11GraphicsEnvironment_initDisplay+0x26) [0xa3896106]
#8 [0xb27b7c4b]
#9 [0xb27b1b3b]
#10 [0xb27b1b3b]
#11 [0xb27af217]
#12 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so [0xb7908d8c]
#13 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so [0xb7a1cfd8]
#14 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so [0xb7908bbf]
#15 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so(JVM_DoPrivileged+0x32d) [0xb796634d]
#16 /tmp/OraInstall2009-03-09_12-08-24AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so(Java_java_security_AccessController_doPrivileged__Ljava_security_PrivilegedAction_2+0x3d) [0xb774a2cd]
#17 [0xb27b74eb]
#18 [0xb27b1a64]
#19 [0xb27af217]
[oracle@localhost database]$
Can anyone give the solution?
15 years, 2 months
install issue
by Jim Douglas
I had been using FC5,6 and 7 on my server.
The upgrade to 9 was too painful so I switched to Kubuntu.
Now I want to come back to FC10.
I download the Live.iso, verify the install media, screens freeze. I have to cut the power.
I download the DVD.iso, verify the install media, screens freeze. I have to cut the power.
I go back to FC9, install works fine.
Why doesn't the FC10 install work?
Jm
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15 years, 2 months
Connecting to internet via Mac with internet sharing
by Alex Bennee
Hi,
I'm currently visiting family in Oz. They have internet access but as
they only have one machine
it's plugged directly in the 1 port DSL box which seems to have
assigned a full inet IP (211.30.x.x).
I had hopped to turn the Mac into an access point connecting my fedora
netbook to it's AirPort.
The Airport is otherwise unused/un-configured. When I turn on
"Internet Sharing" it gives itself the
IP 10.0.2.1. I've tried this with WEP enabled and disabled. According
to ifconfig on the Mac the
interface is Active.
On the Fedora side I've tried just connecting with DHCP and with
manual configuration of IP but it
doesn't seem to get passed the wireless configuration. The log goes
(paraphrasing):
wlan0: scanning-> associating
wlan0: link timed out
Activation (wlan0/wireless): association took too long, failing activation
wlan0: device state change 5->9
Has anyone succeeded in getting this sort of setup to work? I'm
wondering if it only supports
Mac to Mac sharing by doing something special and secret?
Regards,
--
Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/
CV: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/cv.php
15 years, 2 months