disabling graphical boot and shutdown in Fedora 17
by lee
Hi,
how do I turn off all the graphical booting and shutting down?
What I want is *not* to start any X session when I boot or shutodwn.
When booting, I want to end up at the console, and I want to use startx
to start an X session from there after logging in.
When shutting down from the console, a graphical screen appears showing
the Fedora logo. That's really silly and I'd like to turn that off ---
but how?
11 years, 5 months
new NetworkManager dependencies?
by Tom Horsley
I have found that the only way I can ever get networking to
function correctly on my systems is to
yum erase NetworkManager
with NM installed it insinuates tentacles into everything,
doing stuff like grabbing control of USB network devices
when I plug them in (devices I don't want it fooling with).
Now, yum has just reinstalled NetworkManager because new
dependencies dragged it in. When I remove it, all this
new junk goes with it:
Removed:
NetworkManager.x86_64 1:0.9.4.0-9.git20120521.fc17
Dependency Removed:
NetworkManager-gnome.x86_64 1:0.9.4.0-9.git20120521.fc17
control-center.x86_64 1:3.4.2-4.fc17
gnome-bluetooth.x86_64 1:3.4.2-1.fc17
gnome-shell.x86_64 0:3.4.1-6.fc17
orca.x86_64 0:3.4.2-1.fc17
Most of those things didn't depend on NM previously,
why do they depend on it now? Why should I need to
have NM installed just to get to the audio volume
control (for example).
11 years, 5 months
What are the limitations of preupgrade
by Bill Davidsen
Preupgrade used to be quite limited in capability, and restricted to a single
version upgrade at a time. I have some systems I would rather not upgrade by
hand if possible, but they need to go from fc13 to fc17, and I'm sure doing it
insteps would take more effort on my part than a single step and some fixup. I
noted that preupgrade offers to try to go to to fc17 in a single step, but it's
not obvious if it's kidding me or itself.
Downtime should be minimized, so it's worth at least considering. Any experience?
--
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
11 years, 5 months
New 64-bit Fedora Will Not Mount Similar 32-bit Filesystem
by Alan Feuerbacher
Hi,
This is my first post on this list, so please bear with me.
I've been trying to get a new 64-bit Fedora 17 installation to recognize
an older disk that contains a 32-bit installation. I had installed the
32-bit version on my older Intel-based machine, but recently decided to
replace the motherboard and CPU with 64-bit stuff, and get a new hard
disk for the 64-bit system. I have many files on the 32-bit disk that
I'd like to be able to access on the new 64-bit system, but so far I
have not been able to mount the old disk. I've tried various "mount"
commands with no success. I don't really understand the error messages
when I try to mount the old disk.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Below is some information from the 64-bit installation that I think is
relevant.
Here I'm trying to mount the old system:
###########
[root@alan-fedora alan]# mount /dev/sdc /mnt/fedora32
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
[root@alan-fedora alan]# mount -t auto /dev/sdc /mnt/fedora32
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
I've already created the /mnt/fedora32 mount point:
###########
[root@alan-fedora alan]# ls -l /mnt
total 4
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Nov 4 11:02 fedora32
[root@alan-fedora alan]# fdisk -l
###########
Here's what "fdisk -l" shows. /dev/sda is not used yet. /dev/sdc is the
old 32-bit installation disk. /dev/sdb contains the new 64-bit
installation.
###########
Disk /dev/sda: 256.1 GB, 256060514304 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 31130 cylinders, total 500118192 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000479af
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util
fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sdb: 3000.6 GB, 3000592982016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 364801 cylinders, total 5860533168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 4294967295 2147483647+ ee GPT
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Disk /dev/sdc: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders, total 2930277168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0006e27f
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 2048 206847 102400 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 1026048 2930276351 1464625152 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_alan--fedora-lv_swap: 18.7 GB, 18656264192 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2268 cylinders, total 36438016 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_alan--fedora-lv_root: 53.7 GB, 53687091200 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6527 cylinders, total 104857600 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_alan--fedora-lv_home: 2927.7 GB, 2927691300864 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 355938 cylinders, total 5718147072 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
###########
I think that one thing that's happening is that the LVM software is
getting confused by the fact that both the 32-bit and 64-bit
installations have the same names for the LVM volumes (or whatever the
proper terminology is). But I don't know what to do to straighten out
the confusion.
Thanks,
Alan
11 years, 5 months
Re: disabling graphical boot and shutdown in Fedora 17
by R. G. Newbury
On 11/05/2012 07:00 AM, sergio wrote:
> > When shutting down from the console, a graphical screen appears showing
>> > the Fedora logo. That's really silly and I'd like to turn that off ---
>> > but how?
>> >
> Delete 'rghb' in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub
>
> Or just uninstall the plymouth theme then you won't have that logo at
> shutdown and the plymouth theme at startup will be a simple progress bar.
I knew about the first bit, but could you please explain *how* to
'uninstall the plymouth theme'. iirc there are 8 different plymouth
services in systemd.
Geoffrey
11 years, 5 months
Renewing sendmail.pem, and other self-signed certs
by Philip Prindeville
I have an original sendmail.pem that was generated with /etc/pki/tls/certs/make-dummy-cert (which is similar to /etc/pki/tls/certs/Makefile), but it's now expired.
I tried to use the script below to extract the key, subject, and serial #, and generate a new cert based on the same, but for whatever reason Thunderbird balks at it with:
Oct 27 16:59:26 mail sendmail[6025]: STARTTLS=server, error: accept failed=0, SSL_error=1, errno=0, retry=-1, relay=macbook.redfish-solutions.com [192.168.1.17]
Oct 27 16:59:26 mail sendmail[6025]: STARTTLS=server: 6025:error:14094412:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate:s3_pkt.c:1195:SSL alert number 42
Oct 27 16:59:26 mail sendmail[6025]: q9RMxQX8006025: macbook.redfish-solutions.com [192.168.1.17] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MSA
What am I missing? And should that makefile have a:
%.repem: %.pem
dummy target that updates a cert? Or do we need a update-dummy-cert script additionally?
Here's the script that I used to update the cert.
Thanks,
-Philip
11 years, 5 months
KMail folder not appearing
by Timothy Murphy
I'm running KMail on my Fedora-17/KDE laptop,
collecting email from an dovecot/IMAP server
on a remote CentOS-6.3 machine that I control.
I created a new KMail folder "MathProblems"
by going to File=>New=>Add Folder on my laptop,
and I verified that this created a folder ~/Mathdir/.MathProblems
on the dovecot server (which stores email in ~/Mathdir),
with the usual cur, new, tmp sub-folders.
However, the files dovecot.index, dovecot.index.cache, etc,
do not appear in the .MathProblems folder
as they do in other similar folders,
and the folder does not appear in KMail on my laptop.
Is this a KMail or Dovecot bug?
And is there any way of creating the missing files?
Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
11 years, 5 months
"Please verify your user details" when trying to access a Windows 7 share
by Sam Varshavchik
Running Windows 7 in a virtual machine, I shared a folder, publically. I
told Windows to share it with "Everyone".
Back in Fedora, I choose "Connect to server" option in the "Computer" window
from the Gnome desktop, change the type to "Windows share", and enter the
Win 7 VM's IP address.
Hitting "Continue" always comes back with a "Please verify your user
details" warning/message, with my Linux account's name in "User name", and
"MYGROUP" for the domain name.
I tried fiddling with some of this stuff, changing the domain to
"WORKGROUP" (what Win 7 shows its domain to be), specifying my account
name's for the user name (even though I shared the folder with "Everyone"),
explicitly putting "Users" as the share's name (the share's name, as shown
in Win7), etc…, without much luck.
Looking for ideas where to look, and how to troubleshoot this.
11 years, 5 months
what broke chrome flash?
by Neal Becker
f17. Was using nvidia + google-chrome-unstable.
Somehow, today flash doesn't work. chrome about:plugins says:
Adobe Flash Player - Version: 11.5.31.1
Shockwave Flash 11.5 r31
Name: Shockwave Flash
Description: Shockwave Flash 11.5 r31
Version: 11.5.31.1
Location: /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so
Type: PPAPI (out-of-process)
Disable
MIME types:
MIME type Description File extensions
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash
.swf
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player
.spl
1. yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia. Reboot. Back to nouveau. Still no flash
2. yum remove google-chrome-unstable. yum install google-chrome-beta. Still no
flash.
I don't know what else to try.
11 years, 5 months