way to flush /var/log/message
by Paul Allen Newell
Hello:
Is there a way to flush output to /etc/log/message so a tail -f catches
things when they happen rather than what I think I am seeing as a buffer
hold-until-full delay?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
11 years, 10 months
Adobe no longer maintaining yum repo for flash-plugin
by Andre Robatino
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I'm not sure what else to do. The Flash plugin
was updated to 11.2.202.235 about a week ago. This is a security update. But
their yum repos (both i386 and x86_64) still have 11.2.202.233. I filed
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3185733 and they promptly
closed it as NotABug. There is an updated RPM at
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ under ".rpm for other Linux" but I'm not sure
if it's identical to what the repo is supposed to provide. In any case,
providing a yum repo implies a promise that it will be kept updated. Could
people please vote for my bug in the hope of getting someone at Adobe to wake
up? Thanks.
11 years, 10 months
uuidd fails to start
by JD
Booting with every fc16 kernel, I always get this failure.
Boot.log shows
Failed to start LSB: UUID daemon FAILED
See 'systemctl status uuidd.service' for details.
# systemctl status uuidd.service
uuidd.service - LSB: UUID daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/uuidd)
Active: failed since Tue, 29 May 2012 00:06:00 -0600
Process: 1003 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/uuidd start (code=exited,
status=1/FAILURE)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/uuidd.service
So, I tried to start it manually:
# uuidd
Failed to open/create /var/run/uuidd/uuidd.pid: No such file or directory
Even if I create dir /var/run/uuidd and restart the system,
it fails the same way, because the dirs in /var/run get removed.
But I can start it manually, if I create the dir and invoke uuidd.
Of course, it does not survive a reboot.
Also, I searched the system for uuidd.service
# locate uuidd.service
#
# find /lib/systemd /etc/systemd -name uuidd.\*
#
So, where is this service file? Or is it created dynamically at boot time?
Googling for uuidd.service shows some early development mods containing
uuidd.service.in , but it is not in latest source code of
util-linux-2.20.1-2.3.fc16.src.rpm.
I anyone has a solution or a clue, please share.
11 years, 10 months
Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions
by Javier Perez
I hope Slashdot has it wrong, although the presented documents seem to agree
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/05/31/190217/red-hat-will-pay-microsof...
Looking up the article: "Implementing UEFI Secure Boot in Fedora" at
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html
"The last option wasn't hugely attractive, but is probably the least worst.
Microsoft will be offering signing services through their sysdev
portal<http://sysdev.microsoft.com>.
It's not entirely free (there's a one-off $99 fee to gain access), but it's
cheaper than any realistic alternative would have been. It ensures
compatibility with as wide a range of hardware as possible and it avoids
Fedora having any special privileges over other Linux distributions. If
there are better options then we haven't found them. So, in all
probability, this is the approach we'll take. Our first stage bootloader
will be signed with a Microsoft key."
If I have to pay $99 to Microsoft in order to install my Free/Open
Operating System, then I am making Microsoft $99 richer off the effort of
multiple volunteers that made Linux and Fedora possible and my "Free"
Operating System now effectively costs $99. And if this catches up, then
breaking the Secure Boot will eventually be a DMCA violation and we'd have
to be asking the Copyright office every three years for the "right" to
jailbreak/root our own computers again.
I'd rather go back to the times of Compatibility lists of motherboards than
enable the above state of affairs. I say NO to Danegeld for Microsoft.
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~~~~ Javier Perez
~~~~ While the night runs
~~~~ toward the day...
m m Pepebuho watches
from his high perch.
11 years, 10 months
Filesystem format for external hard disk
by Paul Smith
Dear All,
I have got a new external hard disk, which I would like to use as a
mirror of my home directory (for backup purpose). What format for the
external disk filesystem do you recommend? And what the proper command
to accomplish the formatting?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
11 years, 10 months
How to apply updates to a system with no Internet access?
by Peter Butler
How would one go about applying FC16 updates to a system with no Internet
access?
The system will be freshly installed via DVD, and then requires all the
associated updates. Is there any way to download the updates on another
machine (that has Internet access), copy them over to the target system
and apply them that way? i.e. create a 'local' repository so to speak?
11 years, 10 months
Anyone got three monitors working?
by thomas cameron
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I have Gigabyte EP43-UD3L motherboard with a single PCI Express 2.0 x16
slot. It currently has a decent NVidia card - a GeForce 7300 GT. I've
got two monitors attached, one via the VGA port and one via the digital
video port. It works well, I get accelerated X and wobbly windows and
all that silliness. Guilty pleasure: I like eye candy.
I'd *really* love to do triple head - the monitor in front of me for my
main work, and the two side screens for supporting stuff.
I am wondering, since my motherboard has a four PCI Express x1 ports and
I see PCI Express x1 video cards for decent prices, if I can either
replace my single card with two identical two-port X1 cards, or just add
a single X1 video card to what I already have and get triple head.
Has anyone done this?
Thomas
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11 years, 10 months
Fedora 16 continously rebooting
by Armelius Cameron
Hello,
My F16 system seems to have gotten to a very strange state. It's a Dell
laptop. It started when I have the laptop unplugged, and I closed the lid.
Usually this makes it goes to sleep (i.e. suspend to RAM). This time, it
didn't seem so; the fan started to run in high speed, and after a while I re-
opened the lid and tried to wake up the machine without success. It was
unresponsive. I then decided to hard-kill it by pressing the power button for
several seconds.
This is where the strangeness started. I was able to boot it back, but then it
keeps rebooting after the boot process is done. It would get to the state
where I need to log in, and within several second, it would reboot itself.
This happens over and over.
I tried running it in single mode, it stills rebooting itself. "emergency"
mode stopped it from this reboot cycle, but as soon as I changed runlevel with
systemctl, it would reboot after it finishes loading the new runlevel.
I tried running linux rescue with F16 boot disk, chroot to the installation
root, updated the system, and reboot. And this continuous rebooting happens
again.
I even tried "upgrading" the system from F16 book disk (so, upgrade to
itself). And that doesn't solve the issue either.
I am running out of ideas. The only thing left is to completely re-install,
and I don't really want to do that right now as I have lots of stuff there
already. So, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
AC
11 years, 10 months
Solution to RAID /boot issue in fc17?
by Alex
Hi,
I believe the ability to have /boot on RAID was removed in fc15 so in
fc16, /boot was a single partition, like /dev/sda1. I recently had my
primary disk fail on one of my systems, and recovering with a failed
sda was very difficult.
Has this issue been fixed in fc17? Is it now possible install RAID on
/boot so there are multiple disks that can be used to read the boot
information?
I still don't understand why LVM is the default layout method when
there is no redundancy. I also choose to create my own filesystem
layout, as tedious as it has become.
Is the 2MB BIOS BOOT partition necessary?
Thanks,
Alex
11 years, 10 months
Make F17 automount disks?
by Beartooth
Where can I tell F17 under fxce if possible) I want it to
automount any disk I put into a drive?? (In addition to its own internal
drive for removable media, each machine can also be connected to an
external USB drive.)
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Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
11 years, 10 months