F18: minor issues after fedup at boot time
by Antonio M
I upgraded my F17 to F18 through Fedup. I run all available updates.
I didn't carry out the grub2 update as I was already in grub2 and my
machine is not UEFI.
Now at start-up I don't get the splash screen and the login window is green
instead of blue.
Running a notebook with intel grapphic and i915 driver.
How can I debug it??
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Antonio Montagnani
Skype : amontag52
Linux Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle
11 years, 3 months
Which Fedup?
by John Aldrich
I was looking to download Fedup, but I see that there is one for F17 and one
for F18. I am currently running F17, so I'm guessing I should download that
one????
11 years, 3 months
Ncat not working after upgrade from F17 -> F18
by Suvayu Ali
Hi,
Has anyone else noticed ncat is not working after upgrading to F18? I
am presuming it is because of some firewall issue, but I don't know how
to debug this.
This is a typical output:
$ nc -vvv www.google.com
Ncat: Version 6.01 ( http://nmap.org/ncat )
NSOCK (0.0030s) TCP connection requested to 173.194.32.114:31337 (IOD #1) EID 8
NSOCK (10.0130s) Callback: CONNECT TIMEOUT for EID 8 [173.194.32.114:31337]
Ncat: Connection timed out.
My usecase is to check if the Gmail imap servers are up before I sync my
email. So a test like the following command gets stuck.
$ nc -vvv imap.gmail.com 993
Ncat: Version 6.01 ( http://nmap.org/ncat )
NSOCK (0.0030s) TCP connection requested to 173.194.70.108:993 (IOD #1) EID 8
NSOCK (0.0210s) Callback: CONNECT SUCCESS for EID 8 [173.194.70.108:993]
Ncat: Connected to 173.194.70.108:993.
NSOCK (0.0210s) Read request from IOD #1 [173.194.70.108:993] (timeout: -1ms) EID 18
NSOCK (0.0210s) Read request for 0 bytes from IOD #2 (peer unspecified) EID 26
Can someone help?
Thanks,
PS: I do not know if this is relevant, the new F18 kernel does not work
for me so I am booting with the last F17 kernel 3.6.11-1.fc17.x86_64
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Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
11 years, 3 months
Fedora 17 over a Windows 8 RAID
by mike
I am trying to install Fedora 17 on a system that came with a Windows 8
RAID setup of 3 1 TB drives. Anaconda (I think) sees the drives but
report RAID date drive ignored. System is an HP Envy Model number h8-1420Z.
Anyone else seen this problem?
I hope so because Windows 8 is the very rebirth of the Black Plague!
Mike D
11 years, 3 months
F18 "Unable to send message to PackageKit"
by Fedora User
Yum keeps complaining. Any ideas what to try or file a bug against?
While I am at it, I have an incomplete yum transaction that I do not
want to complete. Does anyone know how to get yum to forget about it?
Thanks
11 years, 3 months
F17 NetworkManager doesn't prompt for wireless OTP
by Chris Bredesen
Hi List,
Been having an issue for at least a couple Fedora releases now (haven't
yet moved to F18...). Our work network allows authenticated Wireless
using a PIN+OTP. This works fine when I select the Wireless connection
explicitly. However, when that connection is already selected and I wake
the machine up or log into it, I never get the password prompt. I can't
seem to screen shot the GNOME 3 widget but the Wireless section says
something like "authencation requred" and it just sits there never
connecting to the OTP-authenticated connection. If I switch to another
connection and then back, I get the prompt right away and everything is
happy.
I do have the "ask for this password every time" box ticked in
nm-connection-editor. Is this a bug? NM version 0.9.6.4, same version
for nm-gnome.
Thanks,
Chris
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Chris Bredesen
Supervisor, Software Engineering
Red Hat Global Support Services
11 years, 3 months
Regenerating /etc/sysconfig/grub
by Alex
Hi all,
I had a problem with an fc17 install at the last step, where it
installs the bootloader, so had to run mkgrub-config and grub2-install
manually. As such, it didn't create the /etc/sysconfig/grub file, so
whenever I update the kernel, I have to edit the actual grub file
manually.
How can I create this file according to my system details?
For another system I have, it contains the following contents:
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Fedora"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md.uuid=d546cf93:a8b6adfc:d40b759d:4c011e19
rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 SYSFONT=True KEYTABLE=us
rd.md.uuid=30cec390:d8f2c416:8fe6e632:ac71908b rd.luks=0
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 security=0"
#GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt"
I'm not exactly sure how the new system is configured, so I'd like to
programatically figure it out. This way I can add changes to it such
as vga resolution, disable selinux, etc.
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Alex
11 years, 3 months
F18, Had to compile Evo and EDS from source
by Fedora User
After the update, Evo would not budge. Quickly compiled both packages
from source and everything runs as I left it in F17. Otherwise, this was
a reasonably straightforward Fedora upgrade.
11 years, 3 months
Wireless issues with Dell Inspiron 5520
by Brian Fehrle
Hi all,
I have a new Dell Inspiron 5520, which I've installed Fedora 17 64 on.
I had trouble getting wireless working, but I found a forum where
someone had a similar network device (Intel Device 0887) and installed
the iwl2030-firmware. This got wireless working, however over the past
day, I've had wireless die and the following error message twice:
Jan 15 09:49:36 mycompy kernel: [56840.617508] WARNING: at
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/tx.c:1187
iwlagn_rx_reply_tx+0x9b6/0x9f0 [iwldvm]()
Jan 15 16:10:13 mycompy kernel: [21281.822421] WARNING: at
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/tx.c:1187
iwlagn_rx_reply_tx+0x9b6/0x9f0 [iwldvm]()
To get wireless working again I had to restart the computer (restarting
networking fails without ethernet plugged in, and no matter how many
times I reconnected to the wireless, no network access was possible)
Could I have the wrong driver, or is this caused by something else?
Some info:
System: Host: mycompy Kernel: 3.6.11-1.fc17.x86_64 x86_64 (64 bit,
gcc: 4.7.2)
Console: tty 2 Distro: Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)
Machine: System: Dell product: Inspiron 5520 version: A11 serial:
2RKCJV1 Chassis: type: 8 version: A11 serial: 2RKCJV1
Mobo: Dell model: 04G65K version: A00 serial:
.2RKCJV1.CN129662BA0EB1. Bios: Dell version: A11 date: 10/03/2012
Networking:
Card-2: Intel Device 0887 driver: iwlwifi ver: in-tree:d
bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:0887
IF: wlan0 state: up speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac:
84:a6:c8:e1:b7:cf
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
- Brian F
11 years, 3 months
Icons missing on F18 XFCE
by Paul Smith
Dear All,
I have just installed Fedora 18 with XFCE, and I am noticing that some
icons are missing, namely for the action button "Lock screen". Any
ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
11 years, 3 months