Fedora 19 - filesystems slow (George R Goffe)
by George R Goffe
Hi,
Thank you for the response.
hdparm -B showed the APM settings at 128, even the system drive. I have reset them to 255 and verified that these settings are in place.
I will report on the status of this tomorrow.
Again, thanks for the response.
George...
9 years, 9 months
5tFTW: "Winning", FESCo election, Workstation To-Dos, Bugspad, and CentOS & EPEL (2014-07-01)
by Matthew Miller
Reposted from <http://fedoramagazine.org/5tftw-2014-07-01/>.
Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to follow it all. This series
highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week.
It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links
to each. Here are the five things for July 1st, 2014:
What Does “Winning” Mean for Fedora?
------------------------------------
The Fedora Project Board is exploring the question “What is success for
Fedora?”, brought to the board-discuss mailing list by Board member
Josh Boyer. This is a public mailing list for all Fedora community
members, and we welcome your thoughtful contributions to the
discussion.
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board
* https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/board-discuss/2014-July/012613....
* https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss
FESCo Summer Election
---------------------
We are holding an election for three open seats on FESCo, the Fedora
Engineering Steering Committee. More information on Fedora Magazine,
in an announcement I sent this morning, and of course directly on
the Fedora Project wiki.
* http://fedoramagazine.org/election-announced-for-the-fedora-engineering-s...
* https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2014-July/001413...
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
Workstation To-Do List
----------------------
Fedora Workstation Working Group member Christian Schaller recently
posted a message about the group’s new Tasklist wiki page, which
details current and future tasks for the subproject, and explains how
you can get involved (or simply better follow what’s currently going
on).
* https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2014-June/009929.html
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Tasklist
Google Summer of Code Project: Bugspad
--------------------------------------
Last week, I highlighted Google Summer of Code work in Fedora on the
Waartaa chat system. This week, take a look at Fedora contributor
Mayank Jha’s work on Bugspad, a new bug tracker focused on speed and
aimed at replacing Bugzilla. In last Thursday’s Fedora Infrastructure
meeting, Mayank notes that at test instance will be deployed on our
internal private cloud and that he’s currently testing it with a
million (auto-generated) bugs (the kind of load we need to handle in
real-world Fedora).
* http://fedoramagazine.org/5tftw-2014-06-24/
* https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014
* https://www.waartaa.com/
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mjnovice
* http://bugspad.org/
* http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2014-06-26/infrastructure...
EPEL in CentOS 7
----------------
And finally, a quick note from our sibling project, CentOS.
EPEL (“Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux”) is a long-standing Fedora
subproject which targets Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS, providing
a wide universe of packages that aren’t provided by Red Hat. Many of
these packages are very close to their Fedora equivalents, and it’s a
common entry-point to Fedora for sysadmins and other folks who work in
the enterprise world as their day job.
CentOS developer Jim Perrin notes on the centos-devel mailing list
that, as of the upcoming CentOS 7 release, the `epel-release` package
will be included in the centos-extras repository (although not
installed by default). That means to get Fedora-produced EPEL packages
on CentOS, you’ll just have to `yum install epel-release` and then
install whatever you like.
* http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2014-June/011110.html
--
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
9 years, 9 months
update
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
How do you explain the following behavior?
When I run yum update.
it starts to download the package at a high speed: 111 MB/s
then the speed regularly decrease to reach 400B/s
then it decides to switch to another site.
Then again, it does the same, starts high and finish very, then
FAILS again and find another mirror site, etc........
It takes very long to finish the update!!!!
Do you have explanation?
Thank.
===========================================================================
Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
===========================================================================
9 years, 9 months
yum update
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
When I run
yum update,
only few packages are update,
fedora is not is the list.
Then I run yum clear all
and again
yum update
and then fedora is in the list of package to update
and the update can be complete.
What is wrong?
Thank.
===========================================================================
Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
===========================================================================
9 years, 9 months
Strange problem with Haswell HD 4600 IGA and screen resolution
by Paul Livingston
All,
I recently built a new desktop machine using a Shuttle SZ87R6, an I7-4770S and a Dell U2713HM monitor. Did my initial HW burn-in and testing using a Fedora 20 KDE Spin Live CD (Kernel 3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64 & KDE Systems settings v4.11.3) everything worked fine and the display resolution was 2560x1440 (native for the display). The last of the parts came in (HD for secondary storage) and I finished the build and did an install and a full system update (Kernel 3.14.8-200.fc20.x86_64 and KDE System Settings v4.11.10, along with ~=750MB of other updates) The display looked odd after rebooting and when I checked it was set to 1600x1200 (not only wrong resolution but wrong aspect ratio).
Checked the U2713HM OSD and found that while the max resolution was 2560x1440, current resolution was 1600x1200 and the interface was correctly reported (DVI-D). Verified the interconnection was DVI-D to DVI-D via a dual link DVI cable. Went back inside and rechecked the Display and Monitor settings in Systems Settings and maximum available resolution was 1600x1200 (which is what the display was set to). also noted that the Display and Monitor applet was reporting an HDMI interconnect vice the actual DVI-D. Ran xrandr from the command line and found that while 1920x1200 was shown as an available resolution (at least the correct aspect ratio), I could not set it to that using the command line. Scratched my head and spent several hours Googling to see if anyone else had run into this problem - no luck although there were some postings from roughly a year ago about people in the Win8 world having video problems with the HD 4600 IGA. I then spent some time on the Intel site, found several conflicting threads on HD 4600 capability and did an explicit update to the latest version of the Intel video stack for Linux. No change and still unable to reset video resolution or aspect ratio from within F20. BTW, going back to the earlier kernel is not really an option as I wanted the privilege escalation bug fix that came out in 3.14.6, however with the earlier kernel the resolution and aspect ratio is correct.
At this stage, I have pretty well established (at least in my own mind) that it is a SW vice a HW problem and it is entirely reproducible as when I reboot with the Live CD the 2560x1440 resolution comes up by default. While at this point I rather strongly suspect the Intel i915 driver and video stack, it could also be either a KDE or an xorg or a kernel issue and I really don' know where to file a bug report since I can't nail down which SW is screwing up or what to try next short of installing a low TDP video card, which I would rather avoid.
Any ideas, insight or suggestions would be most welcome.
Paul Livingston
pml(a)accokeekwoods.com
9 years, 9 months
Broadcom Wireless adapters and kernel updates
by Temlakos
Everyone:
Updating to the new kernel temporarily knocked out my wireless
connectivity on my Dell Inspiron 1545.
That is, until I executed:
# modprobe b43
Or, since I am a member of "wheel":
$ sudo modprobe b43
A few seconds after I issued that command, wireless was enabled, and the
connection I had long been using, re-activated itself.
Question: must I execute "modprobe xxx" with every kernel upgrade?
(By the way: it turns out that module "wl" is not necessary.)
Temlakos
9 years, 9 months
Re: Broadcom Wireless adapters and kernel updates [SOLVED]
by Temlakos
On 07/01/2014 01:58 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 07/01/2014 01:32 PM, Temlakos wrote:
>> # echo b43 >> modules
>>
>> while is directory /etc
>>
>> Now I have a file called "modules" with the line "b43" in it.
>>
>> Temlakos
> I had to do that very thing for my Uncle... I showed him how to do the
> "modprobe b43" but he is 80 years old... so I found this to make it
> permanent & it did work..
>
>
The problem is: it doesn't seem to work for me. When I reboot, the
machine does not mention wireless at all. Not, that is, until I execute
"sudo modprobe b43" from a regular user prompt. Then it finds the
connection at once.
Temlakos
PS: next I'm going to try to load "wl" first, then "b43" and see what
happens.
Temlakos
9 years, 9 months
yum update took 99.99% of cpu
by JD
FC20.
I ran yum -y update.
After all the files were downloaded, the delta processing started. From
there on, all the way through to the end of
installation and cleanup, cpu was 99.99% taken up
by the update process, and the entire desktop became
unresponsive. I was unable to switch display windows,
of which I had 6.
The update had downloaded a total of 161MB, for a total
of about 30 updates, most of them wine related.
The machine is a dual core Intel running at 2.4GHz,
with 4GB ram.
9 years, 9 months
Problem with iptables
by JD
Hi all,
When I run /sbin/system-config-services
I see that iptables is enabled, and that
/etc/sysconfig/iptables contains the rules
I want.
However, after bootup, I open a terminal and
run iptables -L -n
and do not see those rules at all, and all
the rules are in "ACCEPT" state.
I have to resort to start iptables manually
in order to install the rules I have in
/etc/sysconfig/iptables.
So, what needs to be done to force iptables to run
and to use the rules I have in the iptables file?
9 years, 9 months
dconf-editor bug?
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
Using f20, gnome3.
Appears to be a bug in dconf-editor-0.18.0-2.fc20.
Drilling down:
org->gnome->desktop->wm->preferences: *auto-raise* has no effect.
Targeted window receives focus but doesn't raise to the top when mouse
or sloppy is selected.
If somebody else verifies it I'll bz it.
9 years, 9 months