Network install of Fedora 16 problems
by n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
I am having no luck trying to install Fedora 16, it hangs part way
through installation, then if a re-installation then tries to fix it, it
fails to boot from grub.
Removed an Advantages SCSI card
Tried increasing latency in BIS
Tried installing from network install CD
Tried installing from KDE Live CD
Tried install over prevision install
Tried install using whole drive
I can boot KDE Live CD in simple graphics mode
Currently I'm trying to use just the Fedora 16 repository, no updates.
If that fails I will disconnect the ATAPI Zip drive before retrying
This is disappointing as I was hoping Fedora 16 would solve the many
reported problems with Fedora 15.. Much as I like Fedora and have used
it since Fedora core 2, this must be the most number of difficulties
I've ever had, (Fedora 15+16)) that I have not found a remedy.
Here's to hoping Fedora 17 eventually returns to the stability of Fedora 14
If anyone has had similar problems that they managed to remedy, I'd love
to here what you did. Unfortunately, as this is a tedious time consuming
thing to do I'm not prepared to provide more detailed information, or
attempt to do so, as past experience trying to do so was a somewhat
unpleasant.
Regards
cpp4ever
12 years, 2 months
Hibernate: not enough swap space
by Geoffrey Leach
This is a fresh install of Fedora 16 on a new laptop with 8GB memory.
When I attempt to hibernate from the Session Menu I get a popup with
the message:
Failed to hibernate session
Not enough swap space.
Here's the disk layout:
(parted) print
Model: ATA WDC WD7500BPKT-0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 750GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot
2 106MB 42.8GB 42.7GB primary ntfs
3 42.8GB 43.3GB 524MB primary ext4
4 43.3GB 750GB 707GB extended
5 43.3GB 148GB 105GB logical ext4
6 148GB 358GB 210GB logical ext4
7 358GB 463GB 105GB logical ext4
8 463GB 473GB 10.5GB logical fat32
9 473GB 484GB 10.5GB logical ext4
10 484GB 493GB 9437MB logical linux-swap(v1)
11 493GB 493GB 1049kB logical ext2
12 493GB 750GB 257GB logical ext4
As you can see, I've allocated 9GB for swap.
Any suggestions?
12 years, 2 months
/sbin/shutdown -r +5 doesn't work since recent systemd upgrade
by Patrick Horgan
# uname -r
2.6.41.10-3.fc15.x86_64
First there was an upgrade:
Feb 12 05:09:27 s3 yum[14291]: Updated: systemd-units-26-16.fc15.x86_64
Feb 12 05:09:43 s3 systemd[1]: Reexecuting.
Feb 12 05:09:44 s3 systemd[1]: systemd 26 running in system mode. (+PAM
+LIBWRAP +AUDIT +SELINUX +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP; fedora)
Feb 12 05:09:44 s3 yum[14291]: Updated: systemd-26-16.fc15.x86_64
Feb 12 05:09:45 s3 yum[14291]: Updated: systemd-sysv-26-16.fc15.x86_64
Feb 12 05:09:50 s3 systemd[1]: Reloading.
Feb 12 05:09:32 s3 yum[14291]: Updated: kernel-headers-2.6.42.3-2.fc15.x86_64
Feb 12 05:09:40 s3 yum[14291]: Installed: kernel-2.6.42.3-2.fc15.x86_64
Then, when a cron job noticed the new kernel and tried to do a shutdown
timed reboot via
/sbin/shutdown -r +5
in /var/log/messages I get:
Feb 13 03:00:01 s3 systemd-shutdownd[2733]: Received message without
credentials. Ignoring.
and the system does not reboot. Since it talked about credentials, I
double checked that selinux is not active on the machine:
# /usr/sbin/sestatus
SELinux status: disabled
yum update is done every day, but the problem still persists. The cron
job notices every day that the running kernel is not the new one and
tries to schedule a reboot and the same error message gets into the logs.
I have been reading about systemd. I've read everything on the wiki, the
man pages, and on Lennart's blog. I've watched videos of his
presentation about systemd and I STILL don't have a clue. My next
choice is to use strace on the pid and see what happens when I try the
shutdown so I can see what it's trying to do that makes is issue the log
message, but I was hoping someone here would know;)
Patrick
12 years, 2 months
OT: Sending e-mails from a database
by Paul Smith
Dear All,
Sorry for this out of topic post, but I do not know of more appropriate forum.
I would like to send several e-mails from a GMail account and with the
same content but with a different opening for each recipient. Is it
possible to accomplish it with Fedora?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
12 years, 2 months
F16 occasionally breaks RAID1 (md) on boot
by Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Hello users of Linux software RAID!
I have two identical harddisks, and on a freshly installed Fedora 16
all my filesystems (/boot, /, /home, /usr/local, /opt, swap) are set up
as software RAID1 (md).
Occasionally (about every second boot), Fedora 16 silently removes
one of the mirrors from the RAID1 devices. Sometimes this happens
for just one device, sometimes for up to three. So far, it never
happened to "/boot", "/" and swap but only to "/home", "/usr/local"
and "/opt".
The harddisks are fine. There are no errors in /var/log/messages.
SMART is happy. Partition tables, partition types etc. are identical
for both disks. As said, it doesn't happen always, so hardware and
configuration should be okay in general. There must be a bug in the
kernel or in the startup scripts that assemble the RAID devices
during the boot process.
If I do "mdadm --add /dev/mdX /dev/sdaX" everything is fine after
a couple of seconds. All the UUIDs are fine. It's all there and
as it should be. There's no reason what goes wrong during startup.
So far, it never happened to the second harddisk (/dev/sdb),
only the primary harddisk (/dev/sda) was affected.
With Fedora 14 (and before), I never had such issues.
Basically the same problem has been reported by Sam Varshavchik
in <cone.1323864504.969555.2535.1000(a)monster.email-scan.com>
but there wasn't a final solution.
Fact is, that the failing RAID devices are not mentioned in the
kernel options in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg. I've checked with my old
F14 config (GRUB1), but it was the very same there (only /boot, /
and swap were specified, but no other RAID devices). And F14 worked
perfectly fine. And it works with F16 also, but just not always.
Software RAID is a mess in Fedora 16. First that issue with /boot
on RAID-1, now the startup process fails to assemble RAID devices.
Greetings, Andreas
12 years, 2 months
VMware workstation 8 on linux 2.6.42 (Fedora 15) anyone?
by Dean S. Messing
A recent update installed the 2.6.42.3-2 kernel and now VMware
Workstation 8.0.2 (and 8.0.1) won't compile its modules. Does anyone
know if module patches have been issued. I've been unable to find them.
Secondarily, is anyone here running Workstation 8 with the 2.6.42
kernel?
Thanks!
12 years, 2 months
Bizarre kernel messages
by Timothy Murphy
I've just started getting an apparently endless stream of messages
in /var/log/messages .
Does anyone else get these?
Who or waht is CRDA?
What is my World regulatory domain?
-------------------------------------
Feb 21 14:10:45 blanche kernel: [ 5252.059081] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to
update world regulatory domain
Feb 21 14:10:45 blanche kernel: [ 5252.065345] cfg80211: World regulatory
domain updated:
Feb 21 14:10:45 blanche kernel: [ 5252.065349] cfg80211: (start_freq -
end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
Feb 21 14:10:45 blanche kernel: [ 5252.065353] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz -
2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Feb 21 14:10:45 blanche kernel: [ 5252.065357] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz -
2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Feb 21 14:10:45 blanche kernel: [ 5252.065361] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz -
2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Feb 21 14:10:45 blanche kernel: [ 5252.065364] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz -
5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Feb 21 14:10:45 blanche kernel: [ 5252.065368] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz -
5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Feb 21 14:10:45 blanche kernel: [ 5252.065384] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for
country: IE
Feb 21 14:10:45 blanche kernel: [ 5252.070151] cfg80211: Regulatory domain
changed to country: IE
Feb 21 14:10:45 blanche kernel: [ 5252.070155] cfg80211: (start_freq -
end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
...
-------------------------------------
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin
12 years, 2 months
Applications do not close with new kernel
by Roger
None of my apps close since the last kernel kernel update and everything
becomes inaccessible..
Opening apps is fine but then the system stops, not the keyboard
fortunately.
The only way to kill an app is to <ctrl><alt><F2> and log in again then
try to kill the app or reboot.
Roger
12 years, 2 months