iwconfig lies
by JD
I have wpa2-psk, and aes enabled.
wireless-tools-29-6.1.fc15.i686 (which is latest for fc16)
Yet iwconfig wlan0 says
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"VegetarianMeat"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: xx.....
Bit Rate=243 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2346 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off <<<<<<< WHAT???
11 years, 7 months
Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails
by JD
It fails after it displays that the installed fedora 16 will be
upgraded, and I click next.
I filed the bug with redhat bugzilla but when I logged in to my bugzilla
accout
I do not see the bug listed in "My Bugs" list.
I ran the self check for the DVD and it passed. I
checked the sha256 sum of the iso downloaded
and it checked out just fine with the contents of
the Fedora-17-i386-CHECKSUM file.
The failure to upgrade is repeatable in exactly the same way.
It seems that when I click Next to proceed with the upgrade,
it crashes and dumps the stack. The stack shows that it was
trying to unmount the root dir of the currently installed fc16,
and it failed to do that, and bailed out.
11 years, 7 months
Accessing fedora on LAN by hostname
by Lukáš Šembera
Hi all,
on my home LAN network, there are 2 fedora computers. The problem is that
I'm unable to access one from the another by hostname. So, for example,
when I'm mounting a NFS share, I've to use the IP address. The same issue
is with ping, ssh, etc. What do I need to configure to make resolving by
hostname on LAN work? Thank you very much.
Best regards,
Lukáš Šembera
11 years, 7 months
mysqldump on Fedora 16 slightly OT
by Roger
HI
I'm hoping Arjen or another mysql guru can help me with a mysql command
line entry.
I got this command line from Google
mysql mydb1 -u user -p password -e 'select tables like
"field_data_field%"'| xargs | mysqldump -u user -p password d7x
Where mydb1 is a Mysql database on my pc, a mysqldump of the server
database, which has several tables I do need to copy:
field_data_field, node, taxonomy, user and role to the d7x (drupal
7)database on my pc.
I need to copy table structure and content.
Apparently the tables are too big for phpmyadmin which seems to be
particularly limited to miniscule amounts of data.
The command line runs, produces terminal output of each table but puts
nothing into the tables of the d7x database.
I could copy a table one at a time but there are about 35 and a typo
could wreck things.
11 years, 7 months
Sound volume problems
by Veeti Paananen
Hi,
I'm experiencing two annoying problems with the sound volume on my
computer and I was wondering if anybody would have any helpful hints on
solving them.
First off, every once in a while the master volume seems to reset to a
point where all sound output is clipping and distorted. Simply moving
the volume slider in the taskbar a bit below and back to 100% fixes this
but it keeps happening. I've also tried to fix the volume using
alsamixer and then use alsactl to store the new settings, but that
hasn't helped.
Second, the output volume of certain applications also seems to drop to
a lower level than others randomly. I've noticed this happening to Flash
player from Chrome and VLC but I'm not sure if it's exclusive to them.
This is occurring with both the internal soundcard (snd_hda_codec) and
another internal soundcard (snd_ca0106), so I doubt it's a
hardware/driver-specific problem.
Thanks,
--
Veeti P. - PulseAudio is OK
11 years, 7 months
Re: f16, no response to commands "grub" or "grub2"
by Jackson Byers
Michael Schwendt responded:
> Well, what do you get when you run
> rpm -qa grub\*
>? If it shows that "grub2" is installed, examine the package's list of
> files and look into how to use GRUB2.
----------
[root@f16a9 ~]# rpm -qa grub\*
grub-efi-0.97-84.fc16.i686
grub2-1.99-13.fc16.3.i686
grubby-8.8-2.fc16.i686
[root@f16a9 ~]# yum list installed | grep grub
grub-efi.i686 1:0.97-84.fc16 @anaconda-0
grub2.i686 1:1.99-13.fc16.3 @anaconda-0
grubby.i686 8.8-2.fc16 @anaconda-0
[root@f16a9 ~]#
[root@f16a9 ~]# locate grub2
/home/byers/Downloads/GRUB 2 bootloader - Full tutorial_files/grub2-00.jpg
/home/byers/Downloads/GRUB 2 bootloader - Full tutorial_files/grub2-05.jpg
/home/byers/Downloads/GRUB 2 bootloader - Full tutorial_files/grub2-40.jpg
/home/byers/Downloads/GRUB 2 bootloader - Full
tutorial_files/grub2-add-chainload.png
/home/byers/Downloads/GRUB 2 bootloader - Full
tutorial_files/grub2-boot-grub.jpg
/home/byers/Downloads/GRUB 2 bootloader - Full
tutorial_files/grub2-chainload.png
many more
what do i do with these image files? how to view them?
isn't Downloads a peculiar place for documentation?
isn't there some standard/automatic way to use grub2?
or do I still need a series of "configure" steps?
Jack
11 years, 7 months
Fedora 17 does not see Atheros AR8161L ethernet device on HP h8-1320t
by Stowell Davison
I recently installed Fedora 17, 64 bit, on an HP h8-1320t. The machine has
an on-board ethernet port (RJ-45). According to the machine's spec sheet,
that is device is an "Atheros AR8161L".
Fedora does not see that interface device at all. Dmesg and
/var/log/messages contain no mention of "Atheros AR8161L" or any useful
substring thereof. There are no *eth0* files in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
I know that the port hardware works because I was able to make network
connections from the machine using MS Windows.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Stowe Davison
http://nic-nac-project.de/~davison
11 years, 7 months
virsh and libvirtd
by Gary Artim
I have a fedora system configured and running with virsh using
kvm/qemu. All I want is to have a fixed ipaddress for that virtual
machine. I know that there is the Host and Guest sides to the network.
The host has virbr0 interface, which i guess is a bridge. Seem when
ever I define a interface to the guest with a type=routed it hoses my
other interfaces on the host and requires a console reboot --
completely hanging the network. I'm no networking expert, but there
must be a simple N step procedure for defining a static IPaddress to
route to a guest machine? Has anyone got this working and have a
procedure. My network has 2 nic, eth0 and eth1 (10.0.0.253 and
10.0.1.253), one nic has a route to an nfs machine, the other passes
through a linux based router to the wan. I can alias the 10.0.1.253
(eth0) to another address in the subnet, like 10.0.1.251 (eth0:0) and
would like to use it in some way to connect to the guest -- I have the
nat/routing working fine from the router to eth0:0. The network for
libvirt is confusing. It not obvious which side (guest or host) your
defining and seem to keep multiple definitions around, even after a
restart of libvirtd.service. An help would be great!
11 years, 7 months
USB HD (Ext4) does not auto-mount anymore
by nomnex
Fedora 15 XFCE (the file manager is Thunar). I use an external USB HD
(formatted Ext4, same as my system) to backup my system. The drive
auto-mounts when I turn the notebook on.
I violently pulled the USB cable by accident. Both the drive and the
external HD were transferring data when it happened.
I turned off both devices, I checked the USB cable and the USB
sockets. After re-booting, the external drive starts, but it does
appears anymore in my file manager. I tried with a second portable USB
HD (also formatted Ext4). The lead turns green, but it does not
auto-mount either.
I tried with a USB stick (Fat32). I can see this drive in the file
manager.
How do I troubleshoot that?
--
nomnex <nomnex(a)gmail.com>
Freenode: nomnex
Registered Linux user #505281. Be counted at: http://linuxcounter.net
11 years, 7 months
Wrong SSD sector count with current F17 (right with live)
by Michael J Gruber
F17 with current updates gets the sector count wrong (too large by 5)
for my SSD (Jetflash USB), resulting in read errors (during boot, fdisk
reading the disk etc.) for those sectors. While everything "seems to
work" this is not OK, of course. I'd be grateful for any clue.
Test systems
============
F16 with updates (kernel 3.4.9-2)
F17 live (kernel 3.3.4-5)
F17 with updates (kernels 3.3.4-5, 3.5.0-2, 3.5.2-3, 3.5.3-1)
F16 and F17 live are OK, F17 with updates is not (no matter which
kernel), where "OK" means no read errors. So the relevant difference is
not in the kernel but something else which has been updated since release.
lsusb
=====
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 2174:07d0
dmesg
=====
(after a common part about the USB to S-ATA device)
F16 (booted from a different device):
[ 287.229149] scsi6 : usb-storage 2-1.5:1.0
[ 288.230862] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access JetFlash TS128GSSD18C3
0004 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 288.231591] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
[ 288.232184] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] 250069676 512-byte logical blocks: (128
GB/119 GiB)
[ 288.234815] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off
[ 288.234820] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 288.235676] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] No Caching mode page present
[ 288.235680] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] Assuming drive cache: write through
F17 (booted from that SSD):
[ 2.661796] scsi5 : usb-storage 2-1.5:1.0
[ 3.665597] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access JetFlash TS128GSSD18C3
0004 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 3.666375] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
[ 3.666917] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] 250069681 512-byte logical blocks: (128
GB/119 GiB)
[ 3.667784] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
[ 3.667789] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 3.668657] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] No Caching mode page present
[ 3.668661] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
Note the different sector count!
After enumerating the partitions, dmesg throws:
[ 3.674173] sdf: sdf1 sdf2 sdf3 sdf4 < sdf5 >
[ 3.678160] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] No Caching mode page present
[ 3.678165] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 3.678168] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk
[ 3.694795] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Unhandled sense code
[ 3.694798] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Result: hostbyte=invalid
driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 3.694802] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[ 3.694806] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Add. Sense: Recorded entity not found
[ 3.694811] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 0e e7 c2 b0 00 00
01 00
[ 3.694821] end_request: critical target error, dev sdf, sector 250069680
[ 3.694824] Buffer I/O error on device sdf, logical block 250069680
The last few lines get repeated.
The same difference in sector size is reported by fdisk and hdparm:
geometry = 15566/255/63, sectors = 250069676, start = 0
vs.
geometry = 15566/255/63, sectors = 250069681, start = 0
Interestingly, "hdparm -N" agrees in both cases:
max sectors = 250069680/1(250069680?), HPA setting seems invalid
(buggy kernel device driver?)
But ignore_hpa=0 for the libata module in all cases (Fedora default).
Stomped!
I can provide the full dmesg, of course. Please help :|
11 years, 7 months