F17 upgrade dirty disc dialog --Update
by Mark Haney
I've hit a snag on upgrading my netbook to F17. Every time I go into
the upgrade section I get a dialog saying my root volume is dirty and to
reboot into linux, have it clean the FS and restart the upgrade.
Ideas?
--Update
Well, I've pulled every trick I can think of and some off the list and
the internet and I'm still stuck with this stupid dialog. Here's what
I've tried forcefsck,pvck,vgck,fsck all from within a second terminal
session after getting the dialog during the F17 upgrade. Everything
came up clean. I can't imagine why the system thinks ANY filesystem is
dirty with those results.
There was a post about the possibility of a previous kernel being loaded
instead of an f17 kernel during the upgrade, but I'm loading an f17
kernel from GRUB.
I'm running out of ideas (and frankly, patience, too). At this point,
is a big report in order? Or are there any other ideas out there?
--
Mark Haney
Software Developer/Consultant
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11 years, 11 months
Making sound from Perl - How?
by agraham
Hi Guys,
Are there any perl bindings in Fedora to play sound samples from perl?
e.g. The ability to use PortAudio or Libao or something else from perl?
Thanks in advance.
Albert
11 years, 11 months
Built in SD card reader problem
by Arthur Dent
Hello all,
I have had my Dell Dimension 5200 DM061 PC for about 3 years now. It has a
built in multiple card reader that takes SD cards and others. In the
entire time I have had the PC I have never even tried to use the card
reader.
Yesterday I got my Raspberry Pi (yipee!) and the first thing I needed to
do was to flash an OS image onto the SD card.
OK - So I popped the card into the card reader slot and waited for
something to happen. This is a Fedora 16 box. I have no other OS installed
(the pre-installed Windows Vista got blown away long ago).
Nothing happened....
(a green light went on in the card reader bay, but no response on the
screen).
So then I did what all good Linuxites do - I looked a dmesg. Nothing.
So then I ran a "tail -f /var/log/messages" and removed and re-inserted
the SD card into the slot. Still nothing.
So then I looked at lspci (see below). I may be wrong but I can't see
anything which might be a card reader listed there. It's as if I don't
actually have a card reader.
I am really disappointed. I have become so used to things just working
(nowadays anyway) and being smug with my Windows-loving colleagues when I
tell them that I can do anything with my Linux box. I really had my tail
between my legs when I had to admit that I needed to fire up my work
laptop with Windows7 (which also has a built-in SD card reader) and flash
the card from that!
What can I do? Am I missing a driver or a kernel module or something?
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions...
Mark
# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub
(rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port
(rev 02)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562V 10/100 Network
Connection (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HH (ICH8DH) LPC Interface
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA
IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller
(rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA
IDE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300
LE] (rev a1)
11 years, 11 months
Booting from AHCI controller on f17
by Alex
Hi,
I have an older Xeon x86_64 box that I'm trying to install fc17 on.
I've set up the BIOS to "Enable" the "SATA AHCI" controller. However,
when I finish the install, and install the bootloader on /dev/sda, the
system reports "Operating System not found" when booting.
Changing it back to "Disable", and apparently using the older "IDE"
boot method, it works okay.
Does anyone have an idea why this doesn't work? Is it a limitation of
the server itself or fedora?
Thanks,
Alex
11 years, 11 months
yum remove selinux*
by Neal Becker
I don't want/use selinux. Any reason I shouldn't just do:
yum remove selinux* ?
11 years, 11 months
F17 - no network
by David A. De Graaf
Upon first boot after a fresh installation, there's no network;
no way to continue the installation, to say nothing of useability.
Running lsmod, I see only 4 modules are loaded, in contrast with the
80 or 90 that are customary. Neither the ath9k family, needed for my
wireless radio, nor r8169 for my ethernet device are loaded.
These modules are present in /lib/modules.
A manual insmod ath9k fails, saying
Error: could not load module ath9k: No such file or directory
ath9k.ko is plainly present in the customary place.
I have, rather hysterically, added insmod lines to /etc/grub2/grub.cfg
but these had no effect.
Running grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg nearly wiped me
out because grub2-mkconfig is braindead concerning UUIDs and
rd.luks.uuid values. It put in totally wrong values for F16,
resulting in booting the defective F17 no matter what I chose.
I was able to reconstruct correct values and can once again boot the
old F16 system, but I almost lost the whole thing.
This was a fresh install from a USB stick to a new root partition,
keeping the old /boot and /home and old /f16 partitions intact.
On this netbook all partitions except /boot are encrypted.
As in the past, I boot with rhgb removed, noselinux added to boot
options, and use multi-user.target to emulate init level 3.
I chose XFCE and unchecked Gnome during installation.
On first boot I tried to edit the grub kernel line but couldn't.
One must now use "simple emacs commands" to do so. I have spent
four decades avoiding emacs and becoming good with vi - the STANDARD
editor.
The reboot, shutdown, halt commands are now guaranteed to hang the system.
Only a forced power-off will recover. That's just sad.
F17 seems totally hosed and useless.
Why are essential modules not being loaded?
Does anyone have an idea how to dig out?
I'm leaving for a trip in three days and need this netbook to work.
--
David A. De Graaf DATIX, Inc. Hendersonville, NC
dad(a)datix.us www.datix.us
"Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you
bought two or three seats."
-Victor Borge, playing to a half-filled house in Flint, Mich.
11 years, 11 months
how to capture flash, etc
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
Time was all I had to do to capture a video stream was start one, pause
it and wait while the stream accumulated into /tmp. Once complete I
could move it. /tmp is now a deep tree with obfuscated names making
such endeavors nigh on impossible.
I've feel like I've been Gnomed. Is this the new direction? Look,
don't touch?
Does anybody know how to capture a stream now or has that ability also
been taken away?
TIA,
Mike Wright
11 years, 11 months
What happened to /media ??
by Brian Millett
Ok, so I didn't read about the removable media mount point being changed to
/run/media/<USERID>/device
Would have been nice to have that as a gotcha.
--
Brian Millett
"Zathras knew you would not leave him. Zathras trusts The One."
-- [ Zathras, "Babylon Squared"]
11 years, 11 months
Announcing Fedora 17. Relish it.
by Mike Chambers
For those not on the announce lists. Here what ya been waiting for.
Mike Chambers
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Robyn Bergeron <rbergero(a)redhat.com>
Reply-to: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
To: announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org,
test-announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org,
devel-announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Announcing Fedora 17. Relish it.
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 07:01:30 -0700
"At the heat of a thousand hot dog cookers, the seventeenth release of
Fedora shall be forged by contributors the world over, and it will be
known as: Beefy Miracle. The mustard shall indicate progress.
For six months, participants in the Fedora Project shall freely
contribute to the release of the distribution, in the spirit of the Four
Foundations -- Freedom, Friends, Features, and First -- and moreover,
they shall relish in Fun, as a community without Fun would be like a day
without sunshine.
Upon release, a free and open source operating system shall be available
to all, catering to a variety of tastes -- those of end-users, systems
administrators, and developers, with a common thread that binds them
all: No, not their love for hot dogs, silly, as we certainly know that
Fedora shall be created and used by those whose dietary preference could
be either Beefy or Leafy. Freedom, my friends, Freedom is the Great
Condiment, which shall enable all users of the Beefy Miracle to Create,
Share, and Do."
-- The Book of Sauerkraut, Chapter 12, Verse 529
The Beefy Miracle hath arrived. Behold, for it is available to download now:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
And lo, detailed information about this release can be seen in the
release notes:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Release_Notes/
== Condiments ==
Frankly, we believe this is the beefiest release ever -- chock full of
condiments, more commonly known as Features, to customize your
experience to your tastes. We take pride in our toppings, and in our
fine ingredients; Fedora 17 includes both over- and under-the-bun
improvements that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing
state of free (range) software.
On the desktop: GNOME 3.4 introduces many user experience improvements,
including new search capabilities in the activities overview, improved
themes, and enhancements to the Documents and Contacts applications. A
new application, GNOME-boxes, provides easy access to virtual machines.
Additionally, GIMP 2.8, the newest version of the GNU Image
Manipulation Program, brings new improvements, such as single-window
mode, layer groups, and on-canvas editing.
For developers: You never sausage a great array of development tools!
Fedora 17 includes a pre-release of Juno, the release of the Eclipse
SDK expected in June 2012. Java 7 (and OpenJDK 7) is the default Java
runtime and Java build toolset, and GCC 4.7.x is now the primary
compiler in Fedora. Other language refreshes include shipping Ruby
1.9.3, the latest stable version of the Ruby language; PHP 5.4, the
latest PHP stack; an update of Erlang to the R15 release; and the D
language has been updated to the 2.058 release.
Under the hood, and in the cloud: Serving up hot dogs all day long?
Increase your reliability and versatility with the new enhancements to
the clustering stack in Fedora 17. Load balancing and high availability
improvements have been made, allowing systems administrators to deploy
Fedora in environments requiring greater availability and clustered file
systems. JBoss Application Server (AS) 7 has also been added to Fedora
17; this fast, lightweight, and modular application server allows you to
run full Java EE applications. oVirt, a server virtualization management
system with advanced capabilities for hosts and guests, is also
included. The automatic multi-seat feature enables multiple, concurrent
end-users to utilize a desktop from a single machine, which any systems
administrator can relish. And we couldn't possibly write this without
talking about our foray into Hot Dogs as a Service (HDaaS)... oh, just
kidding, we just had to make a cloudy joke. In all seriousness, though,
OpenStack, a collection of services that can be used to set up and run
cloud compute and storage infrastructure, has been updated to the latest
release, 2012.1 (Essex), in Fedora 17.
Ketchup with the full list of features for Fedora 17 here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/FeatureList
=== Download and Upgrade ===
Fedora 17: It's bun-believable. Get it now: http://get.fedoraproject.org
If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading
Fedora 17 full release notes and guides for several languages are
available at:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
Fedora 17 common bugs are documented at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs
=== Fedora Spins ===
Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora, tailored for various types
of users via hand-picked application set or customizations. They can be
found at:
http://spins.fedoraproject.org
== Contributing ==
There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help
translate software and content, test and give feedback on software
updates, write and edit documentation, design and do artwork, help with
all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use
by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit
http://join.fedoraproject.org today!
== Behold, the history of His Meatiness ==
Who is this Beefy Miracle character? Ketchup on his history:
http://beefymiracle.org/history.html
== Contact information ==
Journalists and reporters can find additional information at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press
Cheers, and enjoy.
-Robyn
11 years, 11 months