Something Broke My Grub
by Dave Cross
An hour ago I had a fully functioning machine. Now I just get the word
"GRUB" in the top left of the screen. Something has gone wrong in the
last hour or so.
Here's what I did.
* Earlier today I ran a "yum update" which pulled in a new kernel. I
didn't reboot the system at that point.
* Later on I installed mediatomb and started playing with that.
* After a while I got bored and stopped the mediatomb daemon.
* At that point I realised that my network connection had dropped.
* I tried to restart the network, but it claimed that the device
(eth1) was already in use.
* So I decided to reboot. Kill two birds with one stone, try out the
new kernel and hopefully unstick the networking.
* At which point I discovered that something was broken in the GRUB
configuration.
I can boot the system using the rescue disk and everything seems ok
(as far as I can tell). So I think it's just something wrong with GRUB
- perhaps caused by today's kernel upgrade.
Has anyone else seen anything like this? And, more importantly, does
anyone have any suggestions of ways to fix it?
Thanks,
Dave...
15 years, 1 month
Strange Thunderbird IMAP problem
by John Thompson
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I have 2 computers here running linux and using Thunderbird for email.
One is a laptop, running Vectorlinux-4.2; the other is a desktop,
running Fedora 10 x86_64. Thunderbird is configured identically on both
to ccess to separate IMAP accounts. Until this morning, both worked
fine. Now the Fedora machine can no longer access my gmail IMAP account;
it times out without establishing the connection. My laptop can still
connect perfectly well. Did I mention they were configured identically?
There are no firewall rules blocking gmail on the desktop machine:
[root@lancre ~]# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain blocksshd (0 references)
target prot opt source destination
I can send mail from the desktop machine via gmail's smtp service, but
copying the sent message to the IMAP folder fails, because the
connection cannot be established. The mail is received properly by the
laptop machine.
WTF is going on? The only change in the system was installing Fedora's
newest kernel and rebooting, as requested by the system update applet.
# uname -a
Linux lancre 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 23 13:00:23
EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The last mail received from gmail on the desktop machine was at 0745CST
this morning, just prior to installing the new kernel and rebooting.
I can't imagine a kernel update specifically blocking IMAP on gmail, but
I have no other clues to go on.
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John (john(a)os2.dhs.org)
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15 years, 1 month
practically no volume in f9
by Dave Feustel
I'm experiencing almost no volume with youtube videos on f9.
Pulseaudio says the volume is at max. Is pulseaudio causing
this problem?
Thanks.
15 years, 1 month
Setting gnome-terminal default size
by Jonathan Ryshpan
Is there any way to make gnome-terminal have a default size of (say)
90 wide x 30 high, rather than the system default of 80x24? I am
getting tired of setting the size every time I start the system.
Thanks - jon
15 years, 1 month
NetworkManager do not work with WIFI
by Javier Gaiano
Hi everybody,
Since an update last week, no WIFI connection appears in my NetworkManager
applet.
To make WIFI work I must open a term and execute:
ifup eth0
I have not moved my laptop, so I suppose that everything works because the
connection I use was configured before.
Any ideas??
Thanks in advance.
15 years, 1 month
Clarification on roles of networking components.
by Simon Slater
G'day all,
I've been setting up a SOHO network, switching things over from a
labour intensive /etc/hosts based system to a more automated setup.
With much reading I think I can't see the wood for the trees any more.
I have found a lot of material on the individual components and their
configuration, but not on the overall integration of the parts into a
whole. Is there such a guide or even schematic to illustrate how and
where each component is best used? More specifically:
Is there any overlap in the functions of NIS, bind and LDAP? Or are
these mutually exclusive?
When using DHCP, is /etc/hosts redundant?
What is the optimal way to resolve names in a small but growing
network?
Any help in clearing the fog will be thankfully received.
--
Regards,
Simon Slater
Registered Linux User #463789. Be counted at: http://counter.li.org/
15 years, 1 month
My fedora freeze it
by Jose Severino
i have Fedora 10 with GNOME, and all my system freeze it after 10 or 20 minutes, what can i do?
i have a laptop HP Pavilion dv5-1147la
Sorry for my English
Thank you
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15 years, 1 month
linkage problem?
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
Now running F10. When I click on a link in an email that would normally go to
firefox, it is starting a fresh copy even though there is a copy running on
another window, AND it is opening two tabs of the new invocation in the new
copy of firefox, which of course opens on top of the window kmail is running
in.
When I was running F8, kmail simply handed the link to whatever firefox that
was running as it could just as easily been 2.0.0.19.
I note that in kontrol->file associations, there are often 2 copies of
firefox, presumably because when F10 installed itself, it installed 3.0.4
alongside the 3.0.6 install. I had yum remove the 3.0.4 version and then
relinked /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (the 3.0.6 install) to /usr/sbin/firefox
which I believe was the previous setup.
Any idea where to go looking for this? It is a bit of a PIMA.
Thanks all.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I'll eat ANYTHING that's BRIGHT BLUE!!
15 years, 1 month
What are these yum plugins for ? (kmod-nvidia related)
by linux guy
What are the following yum plugins for ?
downloadonly, kmdl, priorities, refresh-packagekit
Could any of them interfere with my ability to "see" (ie yum list) the
most recent kmod-nvidia package ?
Thanks
LG
15 years, 1 month
Skype and F9
by Dave Feustel
I have become interested in using Skype on F9. I know next to nothing
about Skype, so I read the wiki entry which is an eye-opener. The Skype
software for linux is for F7. How well does that software work on F9?
How much does it cost?
Are there any open-source alternatives to Skype?
Any other comments?
Thanks.
15 years, 1 month