rescue from Live USB?
by David L
My 4 year old just tripped over my laptop's power
cord and it smashed into the hardwood floor. :(
The hard drive appears to have been somewhat
damaged, but still kinda sorta works. But
it no longer boots to Fedora 11 successfully... it
gets a kernel panic, presumably due to a corrupt
or missing file. I have a Fedora 11 live USB. Any
chance I can use that to recover the earlier Fedora
installation without a re-install?
If I do have to do a re-install, I'd like to preserve
whatever might be salvagable from my existing
f11 partition, which is an LVM partition that is only
about half full. Can I use gparted to shrink that
partition and create a new partition for a new
installation? I'm not too familiar with LVM and
would prefer to use an old-school partition for
any new installation.
On a different topic, if this doesn't work out
for me... any recommendations on a good
bang/buck laptop for <$450 without a
Windows tax that works well with f11?
Thanks...
Dave
14 years, 10 months
gpg2, kgpg and kmail
by Maurizio Marini
Fedora 11 fully upgraded.
I see that kgpg can be configured to use gpg or gpg2 or whatever you setup.
Kmail, instaed, doesn't (or, better, i was not able to find it).
In my ~/.gnupg file option was modified by fedora11 upgrade and these line were
appended to it:
###+++--- GPGConf ---+++###
utf8-strings
debug-level basic
log-file socket:///home/maumar/.gnupg/log-socket
###+++--- GPGConf ---+++### Wed 06 May 2009 09:34:17 AM CEST
# GPGConf edited this configuration file.
# It will disable options before this marked block, but it will
# never change anything below these lines.
Now, using gpg i get the obvious error
gpg -d cryptato
gpg: /home/maumar/.gnupg/options:119: invalid option
gpg: /home/maumar/.gnupg/options:120: invalid option
but using tha old one, i can get gpg to work fine:
~/.gnupg ]$ gpg --options options.gpgconf.bak -d cryptato
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Maurizio Marini <maumar(a)datalogica.com>"
1024-bit ELG-E key, ID 33B888E3, created 2002-08-07 (main key ID 72094E5C)
etc etc
i wouldn't rename
option -> option.gpg2
then
options.gpgconf.bak -> option
then configure kgpg to use /usr/bin/gpg2 --options $HOME/.gnupg/option.gpg2
i hope there is another solution, for example to configure default option file
for either gpg and gpg2, without recompiling them, i dunno how is possible
any suggestion is welcome :)
-m
14 years, 10 months
Intel KMS Support
by Saravan Pantham
Hi, I have an Intel 82815 onboard graphics card. I have Fedora 11 with the default kernel. however, i cannot plymouth to work. all i get are the blue bars. is there anything that i have to do that i am missing? adding vga=0x0318 gives me text mode resolutions and not vesa resolutions. how do i solve this problem? thanks for your help.
14 years, 10 months
fedora 11 on mac g4 ppc
by Phil Savoie
Hello,
I am trying to install Fedora on an old mac G4 given to me. I have
successfully installed Suse 11.1 and now want to install Fedora. I am
using this g4 with a windows keyboard, an nvidia ge5200 video card and
normal monitor.
First things first. When I installed opensuse 11.1 I held down the c
key and that forced it to boot from dvdrom. Once opensuse is installed
none of the commands work to boot from the dvdrom. I know I shouldn't
do this but what I did to get it to boot was to unplug the internal
drives from the motherboard. They are cabled together as hda and hdb
and this allowed boot access from the dvdrom. Once the dvdrom booted I
plugged in the drive cable.
Everything appeared to go nicely (even the dvd test) until I got to the
disk partitioning screen. Once I made my choice it would not write
complaining of "no boot partiton". I even tried to use the exact same
partitions as what suse used.
Could anyone please give me any advice as to how to get this install to
work with fedora and this G4 mac or am I stuck with opensuse 11?
Thanks very much,
Phil
14 years, 10 months
Re: Non-root USB-mount: How to?[SOLVED]
by Hiisi
> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:17:50 -0500
> From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel(a)infinity-ltd.com>
> Subject: Re: Non-root USB-mount: How to?
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using
> Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <4A47899E.80800(a)infinity-ltd.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Hiisi wrote:
> > Dear Fedora-Folks!
> > I have FC11 system, running in a text mode most of the time. I would
> > like to mount USB-flash under ordinary user (not root only). Here is
> my
> > /etc/fstab:
> > #
> > # /etc/fstab
> > # Created by anaconda on Sun Jun 14 21:32:42 2009
> > #
> > # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under
> '/dev/disk'
> > # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for
> more
> > info
> > #
> > UUID=783c1044-238d-4ce7-adef-11f71fdc8abf /boot
ext3
> > defaults 1 2
> > /dev/mapper/vg_imt-lv_root / ext4 defaults
1
> 1
> > /dev/mapper/vg_imt-LogVol03 /var ext4 defaults
1
> 2
> > /dev/mapper/vg_imt-LogVol02 /home ext4 defaults
1
> 2
> > /dev/mapper/vg_imt-lv_swap swap swap defaults
0
> 0
> > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> > devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
> > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> > /dev/sdb1 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
> > /dev/sdc1 /media/fl1 auto user,nouato 0 0
> >
> > I added last two lines for the task. But it doesn't work properly. I
> > have 2 USB-disks. One of them is an old 126 MB Transcend drive, vfat
> > type. I can mount it from non-root account simply typing 'mount
> > /media/fl', when it is plugged into /dev/sdb1. But I can't mount it
to
> > the second USB-port (/dev/sdc1). If I try 'mount /media/fl1' I have
> the
> > following error:
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
> > missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> > dmesg | tail or so
> > The other USB-drive is 2 GB Kingston, vfat either. I can mount it
from
> > root account using mount /dev/sdc1 /media/fl1. But have the above
> error
> > when trying to mount it under non-root account. What the deal? Could
> > anybody help me? Thanks in advance.
> >
> You can try running gnome-mount to mount as a user.
>
> To make your fstab entries work, you will need to give your
> partitions a uuid, and use the uuid in fstab. You would replace
> /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 with something like:
>
> UUID=87eedd14-6bf2-4e7a-a4d9-fe23dd6f021c
>
> Your uuid would be different, but that gives you the idea.
>
> Mikkel
> --
>
> Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
> for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
Thank you Mikkel!
There were already entries starting with UUID=<somevalue> in /etc/fstab.
For example for /boot directory. I just needed to look carefully or read
MAN. /dev/sdc1 would does the task either but only for one USB port.
UUID will work for any USB port on the machine. The problem was, as I
already told, in my inattention. I wrote mistakenly 'nouato' instead
'noauto' in the last entry. I found that with a help of dmesg | tail
--
Hiisi.
Registered Linux User #487982. Be counted at: http://counter.li.org/
14 years, 10 months
F11 won't mount audio CDs.
by Erik P. Olsen
I have recently built two F11 systems, one x86_64 and one i586, and I am
unable play audio CD on both. When I insert an audio CD, nothing happens. I
have no problem playing my audio CDs on my F10 system. Mounting data CDs is
no problem.
In /var/log/messages I see:
> Jun 22 20:54:46 epotest kernel: sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
> Jun 22 20:54:46 epotest kernel: sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
> Jun 22 20:54:46 epotest kernel: ILI
> Jun 22 20:54:46 epotest kernel: sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
> Jun 22 20:54:46 epotest kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
> Jun 22 20:54:46 epotest kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
What can my problem be and how can I diagnose it further?
--
Erik.
14 years, 10 months
Re: Dealing with Fedora's mailing list
by Mick M.
> > What would make sense, is asking people to subscribe
> from an address that
> > correspond to an ISP.
>
Then you have not had the *pleasure* of changing ISP's.
I use yahoo because it is *not* tied to an ISP.
I have had AOL (win98 days), a couple that I forget (dot com days), Foxinternet, and now Comcast cable.
They all sucked, esp ComCast.
With a Yahoo account I can have some stability, and ny friends can find me.
I still use the 'classic' yahoo, they keep bugging me to upgrade.
I just want plain old text email.
Mick M.
14 years, 10 months
Re: "One or more disks are failing" ?
by Antonio Olivares
> > Filesystems (see "man badblocks") and the hard-disk
> itself protect against
> > a first bunch of errors that can only be worked around
> by reallocating/ignoring
> > sectors. Until the hardware failures become fatal all
> of a sudden. Hence
> > an early warning can be helpful.
>
> Well that make sense, I'm questioning the accuracy of the
> waring I
> guess. :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Scott
> http://angrykeyboarder.com
> I've never used an OS I didn't (dis)like.
> ©2009 angrykeyboarder™ & Elmer Fudd. All Wites
> Wesewved
>
> --
Scott(AngryKeyboarder)
Sometime ago I was Angry and posted a Bugzilla over here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498115
I saw the warning on two/three machines and I ran the tools that they asked me. I disabled the warning by going to startup sessions on one machine and on the other I moved to KDE. That way I got not see that error message which BTW (Is a bunch of BULL$HIT) IF my drives were failing they would have died by now, I did have one die, but I did not even get the warning it just DIED :(
Add stuff/enhance the bugzilla.
Regards,
Antonio
14 years, 10 months
[Fwd: Re: nvidia problem]
by Gary Waters
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: nvidia problem
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:03:44 -0400
From: Gary Waters <ganana(a)videotron.ca>
Reply-To: ganana(a)videotron.ca
To: François Patte <francois.patte(a)mi.parisdescartes.fr>
References: <4A4F4A29.4080506(a)videotron.ca>
<4A4F4EB8.1040000(a)mi.parisdescartes.fr>
François Patte wrote:
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> Le 04/07/2009 14:25, Gary Waters a écrit :
>> I recently switched from my old CRT screen to a nice 19" LCD. I am using
>> the proprietary nvidia driver downloaded from the nvidia site and not
>> the kmod driver.(NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.14-pkg2.run).
>
> Did you install something (kmod/akmod) about nvidia from fedora? You
> have, maybe, a: "livna display Config" in System>Adm
>
> Go there and untick: Allow livna-config-display to edit configuration file.
>
> Best is to install akmod, it will compile automatically your nvidia
> driver everytime you need it when your kernel is updated
>
>
>
> - --
> François Patte
> UFR de mathématiques et informatique
> Université Paris Descartes
> 45, rue des Saints Pères
> F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
> Tél. +33 (0)1 4286 2145
> http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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No, I don't have the kmod driver installed. I also remember reading
somewhere that having both the kmod and proprietary nvidia driver
installed simultaneously could cause problems.
When I use "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.14-pkg2.run --uninstall" from
command line and remove the nvidia driver, X-windows does not start at
all until I re-install the nvidia driver again, which I did to see if
this would resolve the issue.
What would be the safest method to uninstall the nvidia driver and
switch to kmod? Use yum to install kmod, and then init 3 to command line
and remove the proprietary nvidia driver?
Gary
*sigh*...I keep forgetting that sometimes clicking on reply sends it the
the respondent and not directly to the list....here's the forward...
14 years, 10 months