Raid Monitor -
by Bob Goodwin
One of the items that my F-15 boot process stalls for a few
seconds at:
"Started LSB: Start and stop the MD software raid monitor"
That doesn't sound like something I need since I don't have a
raid system. Is there something I can disable or remove to
eliminate that?
Bob
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12 years, 11 months
Hard disk upgrade
by Timothy Murphy
I've found that upgrading Fedora-14 to Fedora-15 has been very simple,
with no problems at all, even though I am keeping the same /home partition,
which has caused problems (mainly with KDE) in previous upgrades.
However, I had one problem trying to do a hard disk upgrade
on a machine with no internet access, but running Fedora-14.
I copied Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso to / (/dev/sda5) via a USB stick,
and copied isolinux/vmlinuz and isolinux/initrd.img to /
(after "mount -o loop").
Then I re-booted with the grub stanza
-------------------------
title Fedora 15 install
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz repo=hd:/dev/sda5:/Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso
initrd /initrd.img
-------------------------
This booted OK, up to the point where I chose my uk keyboard,
but then said it could not find the (somewhat garbled) repo.
Is there something wrong with the above line?
If I omitted the repo=... then the machine booted fine,
but then looked for an internet connection, which it did not have.
[I actually solved the problem in the end by running a 20 metre
ethernet cable up the stairs to the attic where the computer was.]
There were two other probably unrelated side-issues:
1. I noticed that Knoppix-6.4.4 called the hard disk /dev/sde .
2. When I re-installed grub with Knoppix
it booted Fedora-14 (and Windows XP) fine,
but said that /vmlinuz was now an incompatible format.
However, when I re-installed grub again with Fedora-14,
/vmlinuz was accepted.
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
12 years, 11 months
OT: cannot ping remote machine
by Timothy Murphy
I can access a remote computer (in Italy) with openvpn,
but I cannot ping its external address,
or ssh to this address.
I can login with ssh to the openvpn address 192.168.5.22 ,
and then I get the external address with
------------------------
[tim@alfred ~]$ lynx -dump "http://checkip.dyndns.org"
Current IP Address: 79.46.130.4
[tim@alfred ~]$ ping -c1 79.46.130.4
PING 79.46.130.4 (79.46.130.4) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 79.46.130.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=253 time=1.14 ms
------------------------
As shown, I can ping this address from the remote machine.
However, I cannot ping it from my home machine (in Ireland).
I'm using a Billion modem/router in Italy;
I'm not sure if the problem lies with this?
Or if some server along the way refuses to allow pings?
When I run "traceroute 79.46.130.4" from Ireland
I get as far as Milan (in Italy) but then just get *** .
The issue is rather academic, as I can (and do) use openvpn.
But I have a (free) DynDNS account, which gets the IP address OK,
and I would quite like to be able to access the machine that way.
Any elucidation gratefully received,
and apologies if this is too OT.
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
12 years, 11 months
Calendar and gnome-shell
by Tanguy Eric
The evolution calendar is well integrated in gnome-shel. Is it possible
to have the same thing with thunderbird + lightning ?
Thanks
Eric
12 years, 11 months
Failure to detect dependency...whose responsible?
by Ed Greshko
Hi,
I've enabled the rpmfusion repos and have just tried to do "yum install
kmod-nvidia".
It offered to install the following....
Installing:
kmod-nvidia
Installing for dependencies:
kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64
nvidia-settings
nvidia-xconfig
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs
I don't think that is correct since
rpm -q -R -p
kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64-270.41.06-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm
returns
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/sbin/depmod
/sbin/depmod
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64
nvidia-kmod-common >= 1:270.41.06
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1
and uname -r returns
2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64
So, I think it should have failed with a dependency error, yes?
Would this be considered a bug in yum?
12 years, 11 months
fc14->fc15 usb 3.0 not working
by Monty Clift
hi,
i have used preupgrade to moved from fc14 to fc15. with fc14 i had my two usb 3.0 ports working. however, with fc15 my usb 3.0 ports are disabled. i have read the instruction at the common fc15 bugs doc and removed the kernel parameter xhci.enable=1 and also erased the file /etc/pm/config.d/xhci. still the usb 3.0 ports are not working.
i am using kernel 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64. i cannot use the 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64 since there no nvidia drivers for it.
any advice will be appreciated.
monty
12 years, 11 months
kmod-nvidia or dkms?
by Ed Greshko
I've just installed F15 x86_64 and have been trying my best to use the
nouveau driver. However, it is falling short. I could probably live
with the failures in some of the "desktop effects" in KDE. But, the one
I can't seem to accept is the inability run GNOME 3 in a Vbox guest. In
F11 to get this running, I had the nVidia drivers loaded and checked
enable 3D support in Vbox. Worked fine. As it is, the Vbox guest
crashes when starting GNOME. It "quarter" works with KDE.... No
crash....but lousy rendering.
When I was using F11 I used the dkms method because I wanted retain the
same nVidia version and still not worry about kernel updates.
I'm thinking of changing to the kmod method from rpmfusion. Has anyone
gone this route with F15? Any gotchas or things their install misses?
Works out of the box?
Thanks,
Ed
12 years, 11 months
Re: F15 - 640MB RAM Requirement Issue
by Freak Trick
Hi,
It does not seem that the slow speed is due to high load on F15 servers, I guess it is a problem with the beta. I have got decent processor and I don't think simultaneously downloading and processing would be an issue.
I guess, I will try with presto and see how it can help. But, I hope that further installers do not discontinue the installations when minimum requirements are not met.
--------------------------------------
Saturday, 28 May, 2011 10:24 PM
From:
"Kam Leo" <kam.leo(a)gmail.com>
To:
"Community support for Fedora users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> wrote:
> On 05/28/2011 01:22 PM, Kam Leo wrote:
>> It's a trade-off. If you have a fast internet connection but a slow
>> processor you might actually be better off downloading the full rpm
>> instead of waiting for your processor to decompress and/or merge the
>> deltas.
>
> True. However, I inferred from what the OP wrote that the download time
> was an issue. And, if you stop and think about it, it probably is. F
> 15 just came out; lots of people have just upgraded to it and are
> sucking down whatever updates have come out since F 15 was finalized.
> This can be slowing down the downloads until things stabilize. If so,
> presto can be a big help.
> The OP stated that he had problems with the F15-beta updates. His
>download speed improved when F15 reached final.
12 years, 11 months
Capture audio out
by Kalpa Welivitigoda
hi,
I want to capture audio out in Fedora. Like I want to capture the
sound of a music playing in my computer. Any help to do this?
--
Best Regards,
Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda
http://about.me/callkalpa
12 years, 11 months
Re: Why no icons? Was, Re: How to switch back to metacity
by Bill Davidsen
Peter Boy wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 28.05.2011, 17:27 -0400 schrieb Bill Davidsen:
>> Learning new things is good, having to learn a new way to do the old
>> things, not so much.
>
> That is exactly my problem as well. Unfortunately I couldn't spent the
> time over the last months to make my own experiences using the betas but
> just followed closely the discussion here and was concerned. Yesterday I
> downloaded the live image and made my experiences. Now I'm simply
> horrified. I use Fedora for my daily work and just can't spend the time
> to reorganize all my working habits and routines.
>
> So my question, perhaps slightly OT for this thread: Did you find a way
> to handle the situation?
>
> Is there some kind of "Fedora survival guide for unteachable Gnome2
> users" around?
>
http://scientificlinux.org - grab their 6.0 release and live with it for a
decade or so. Note that CentOS hasn't gotten to 6.0 yet, SL has a similar
approach but (a) makes it easy to have site customization, and (b) may get
things out sooner, due to using paid staff rather than volunteers.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
12 years, 11 months