Boot disk?
by Jeffrey Ross
Is there a way to identify which disk the BIOS is using to boot from (eg
disk 0 or 1) when I don't have physical access to the system to view the
BIOS settings?
The situation is this, I have a machine at a remote location where the
system runs RAID-1 and both disks (0 and 1) can boot the system, I need
to rewrite the boot sectors on the disks and I don't have easy access to
the machine so I have to be careful as to which order I do them.
Thanks, Jeff
12 years, 4 months
when does --skip-broken get applied when using yumex?
by Kevin Martin
When running "yumex --skip-broken --nogpgcheck" I see a number of packages in the list of updates that are excluded as having
dependency issues if I run "yum --skip-broken --nogpgcheck". Does the skip-broken with yumex get considered *only* if I try to
apply the updates? Until I'm sure about that I'm a little worried about doing an apply with yumex (as many of the packages that get
excluded under yum but not yumex are X packages and I don't want to have a non-working X environment suddenly).
Thanks.
Kevin
12 years, 4 months
Enable PHP on local Apache2 server
by Klaus-Peter Schrage
I have set up a local webserver for testing static html (of which I have
some basic knowledge) and dynamic html (which is quite new to me). After
I had set proper permissions on /var/www/ and had copied my testfiles to
the appropriate locations, httpd worked out of the box (i. e. with the
original httpd.conf that came with Fedora 16). I could run Perl scripts
(e. g. a guestbook) in cgi-bin, but no PHP scripts. Apache's error log gave:
(8)Exec format error: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/test.php' failed
Premature end of script headers: test.php
The script test.php simply calls phpinfo() and works on my hired
external webspace, so this must be a configuration issue with my local
webserver. Strange enaugh, I didn't find many clues on enabling PHP in
the Apache.org documentation and even elsewhere.
Thanks for any pointers
Klaus
12 years, 4 months
Anacrontab start-range Night hours?
by Frank Murphy
Ho do I set anacron to just run jobs:
10pm to 8am (the night shift)
I was thinking 0-24,
but am worried the jobs would be rushed on bootup @10
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Regards,
Frank Murphy
UTF_8 Encoded
Friend of fedoraproject.org
12 years, 4 months
Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.
by linux guy
Last week the SSD in my laptop threw errors when I was doing a backup
copy of it. Only 69 of 70 GB copied using Dolphin disk to disk with
"Auto Skip" enabled when there were errors. I guess the good part is
that 69 of 70 GB of data copied during the backup and the other good
part is that I store my most essential data on another drive. So
maybe not much was lost, although the copy was my home directory, so
the data lost has to be of some importance.
You can read about the initial experience in the thread "File copy
errors on EXT4 SSD but fsck says its clean ????" on this list.
I'd like to take a kick at the cat at restoring the rest of my data
and determining what happened.
I ran the BIOS tools on both the memory (RAM) and the hard drive
itself on the laptop. Both tools returned no errors, as did all the
other tools that I have run against this drive. (See previous
thread.)
I am attempting to mount the drive via a USB external drive interface
on another machine. When I connect the interface, dmesg gives me
this:
usb 2-1.2: new high speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
[ 142.896505] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=152d, idProduct=2338
[ 142.896508] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=5
[ 142.896509] usb 2-1.2: Product: USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge
[ 142.896511] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: JMicron
[ 142.896512] usb 2-1.2: SerialNumber: C609942002B8
[ 142.897806] scsi9 : usb-storage 2-1.2:1.0
[ 143.897825] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access INTEL SS DSA2M160G2GC
02G9 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
[ 143.898332] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 143.898919] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] 312581808 512-byte logical blocks:
(160 GB/149 GiB)
[ 143.899642] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 143.899644] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
[ 143.900408] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed
[ 143.900411] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 143.902663] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed
[ 143.902665] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 143.903904] sdb: unknown partition table
[ 143.906419] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed
[ 143.906421] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 143.906423] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
What should I do now ?
12 years, 4 months
SSH on Fedora 16
by Daniel Bossert
Hi all
I did a fresh install of Fedora 16 two days ago.
Really I searched much on the internet but couldn't find any solution.
I have the problem that I only can connect locally to my PC, not from
remote with ssh.
First he denied the connection, so I went and disabled the firewall even
though port 22 was enabled..
Now I can connect, but entering the password is always the wrong one?
I checked with service sshd restart, checked chkconfig for sshd on on
runlevel 3-5..
Has anyone a solution?
Kind regards
Daniel
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PGP-Key-ID: 0x7C7A722B
12 years, 4 months
Problem with email program of lpeng564
by Aaron Konstam
I ran a test. I sent e-mail to this user. As you can see below it came
back to me as sent without and comments from lpeng564. I conclude there
is a misconfiguration of his mail program that echoes what is sent to
him.
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: lpeng564(a)gmail.com <lpeng564(a)gmail.com>
To: Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: SSH on Fedora 16
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:46:44 +0800
lpeng564(a)gmail.com
在 2011-12-27,5:31,Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net> 写道:
> On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 04:24 +0800, lpeng564(a)gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> lpeng564(a)gmail.com
>>
> Why do you keep sendng replies to the list with no comments from you.
>
> --
> =======================================================================
> Maj. Bloodnok: Seagoon, you're a coward! Seagoon: Only in the holiday
> season. Maj. Bloodnok: Ah, another Noel Coward!
> =======================================================================
> Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net
>
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A certain amount of opposition is a help, not a hindrance. Kites rise
against the wind, not with it.
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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net
12 years, 4 months
Apache2 death
by Roger
I realise that this is not a ubuntu forum but, the ubuntu home site
forums so far seem pretty darn hopeless for finding possible answers to
problems and obtaining wise response that I am accustomed to on Fedora
list/s.
Is there a list, of similar calibre to this to which I can turn for help
with apache2 which failed to find localhost this afternoon. I've been
googling, reading experimenting all afternoon and evening. External
browsing is unchanged, localhost is dead.
I would really appreciate help.
thanks in advance
Roger
12 years, 4 months
Gnome3 RFE discussion !?
by Bill Case
Hi;
I am looking for suggestions of where I can get this conversation going
with some people who would like to participate in such a conversation.
I have tried the Gnome users list but no takers. My interest is in
exploring the ideas expressed here before taking them forward as a
request for enhancement.
I want to go forward not back. I would like to see Gnome get rid of all
panels, task bars, and extraneous doodads in my work spaces. I want
instead to use dockers, multiple dockers that I can call up by short cut
key, mouse motion or from the activities space.
I would like the dockers to have all the properties of a file, an icon,
a launcher and a panel or several different panels.
I want to be able to create a new different docker on the Activities
window, place launchers and files in the docker and name it. That way I
can have a main application running in a work space but also a docker
that contains subsidiary programs that I use often while working in that
application.
I can then design or load dockers that would have applications or what
used to be applets that are apropos to the type of work I was doing
and/or the main application I was using. I would have several different
kinds of dockers these created by me to pick and choose from.
I would like the dockers to be made visible on my desktop/workspace the
same way I can make a main program visible. I.E. drag and drop it in a
workspace in the activities window.
I would like the docker to appear on my workspace as a small icon that
could be opened like a file to see all of the subsidiary applications or
functions I have available to me. I would like the docker not to be
restricted to a bar shape, but be able to re-size and re-shape it much
the same way as a application window by grabbing the edges or bottom
right corner.
There are many other considerations that could go into this design, but
essentially I would like to get rid of the desktop metaphor and instead
make my workspaces project and work oriented.
I do more than one kind of thing on my computer. I want to be able to
easily write an article in LibreOffice using all my tools such as
dictionary, thesaurus and character map for writing. Then, say, switch
to something completely unrelated like working with music or photographs
in another workspace and have a docker for each of those that contained
music subsidiary applications, or browsing the internet. I would like
to have a docker where I kept all my system tools. The menu would serve
me as the place to find the items I wanted to put in my various dockers
or to store programs seldom used.
Is anybody interested in this kind of concept and/or discussion?
--
Regards Bill
Fedora 15, Gnome 3.0.2
Evo.3.0.2, Emacs 23.2.1
12 years, 4 months
Giving Up On Fedora
by Swapnil Bhartiya
Hi,
I did not want that subject line, but am forced to.
I have been writing about Fedora on Muktware and the review was massive
hit -- around 80,000 reads. Users liked the review and our articles. But
since now I myself am not able to run Fedora on both my machine I don't
know how to write about it. I am willing to share info (error messages)
with you so as to be able to use Fedora.
I have been a long time Ubuntu user and decided to switch post Unity
mess. I tried Fedora 16 and loved it. I installed it on both my main PC
(which has Nvidia GTX 470 card) and Dell XPS. The main was stuck at
boot, after first reboot and installing Nvidia drivers. Could not find a
fix and started using openSUSE. Just today the Fedora on XPS also got
stuck during boot and shows "use systemct1 default" or Ctrl D. Not able
to boot into the system. I posted the issue about main PC on the forum
but did not get any solution, which I totally understand as its
volunteer list and not everyone may face the same problem. But since
Fedora is not running on both my PCs I am in bad position. I do want to
use Fedora, but due to my own technical limiations I can't. I
desperately seek your help to enable me to use Fedora :(
Best
Swapnil Bhartiya
12 years, 4 months