How to boot fedora with a squashfs image as root fs
by Ali AlipourR
I made a squashfs image from my system root, I want to put it on a USB
drive among some Live ISOs, and make boot menu using GRUB2.
What kernel boot parameters should I use to specify that Squashfs
image as root file-system?
I used this as grub configuration, but Dracut fails to find and mount
root ( http://fpaste.org/277308/43462614/ ):
insmod gzio
insmod xzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod squash4
insmod iso9660
insmod ext2
insmod btrfs
insmod regexp
insmod multiboot2
set pager=1
set timeout_style=menu
set timeout=10
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
menuentry '2. Fedora Workstation' {
set imgfile=/boot/images/fedora.squashfs
loopback loop /$imgfile
linux (loop)/boot/vmlinuz-4.1.8-200.fc22.x86_64 ro rd.fstab=0
root=$imgfile elevator=deadline enforcing=0 #rhgb quiet
LANG=en_US.utf8
initrd (loop)/boot/initramfs-4.1.8-200.fc22.x86_64.img
}
Thanks
}
8 years, 6 months
Something is weird about Firefox 41…
by Sam Varshavchik
Is anyone else seeing some layout – weirdness, as best I can put it, after
installing the FF 41 update?
After I installed the FF 41 update, many – but not all – web sites appear
to end up getting formatted to a fixed width. Resizing the browser window
does not rewrap the content, but just centers it, with the same effective
content width, by adding large, empty, margins on both sides.
Almost, as if, the content is formatted for a mobile device with limited
horizontal resolution. That's the best I can describe what I'm seeing.
8 years, 6 months
starting to look at the cloud...
by bruce
Hey guys/list.
I know. This has nothing to do with fed/centos, but it might be
helpful/useful to others.
I'm starting to lean to tinkering with a couple of instances in the
cloud - DigitalOcean/Atlantic.net/rackspace/etc... (Not sure I want
to play with AWS as of yet!)
My goal, to get a bit of exposure to how to do basic
dns/provisioning/monitoring of multiple instances. To be able to craft
(quickly) whatever has to be created to be able to spin up/down, have
a couple of separate apps running on different instances, and having
them interact with a test db, that kind of thing..
In order to get the above, gotta climb the learning curve. Keep in
mind, I'm not looking to dive into sysadmin stuff any more than I need
to!!!
So, any pointers on where to turn to for initial docs/stuff to look over..
Heck, if I could find the right resource, I'd pay to get where I need to be!
Thanks guys..
8 years, 6 months
Change ip address -
by Bob Goodwin
I have a device that when reset requires I set my Fedora-22 computer to
the address 1.1.1.2 in order that I can access it at 1.1.1.1. with my
Firefox browser.
I only need to do this long enough to change it's address to 191.168.1.200.
My attempts at using the network GUI have not been successful.
Can someone point me to an instruction or tell me how to do this?
Thanks,
Bob
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Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 FEDORA-23beta/64bit LINUX XFCE POP3
8 years, 6 months
install custom rpm package: failed dependencies
by arnaud gaboury
I wrote a .spec file to build a meta pacakge with many shared librairies
installed by Intel parallel studio 2016. The spec file is attached.
There is no Fedora package for Intel, but the installation script
install many .rpm packages, and all are correctly listed when running
$ dnf list | grep intel
214:intel-ccomp-doc.noarch 2016.0-047
@System
215:intel-comp-all-doc.noarch 16.0.0-109
@System
216:intel-comp-l-all-common-109.noarch 16.0.0-109
@System
217:intel-comp-l-all-devel-109.x86_64 16.0.0-109
@System
..................etc...................
Building the rpm package went fine but I am left with one issue when installing.
# dnf install R-3.2.2-intel.fc22.1.x86_64.rpm
R-devel-3.2.2-intel.fc22.1.x86_64.rpm
R-core-devel-3.2.2-intel.fc22.1.x86_64.rpm
R-java-3.2.2-intel.fc22.1.x86_64.rpm
R-core-3.2.2-intel.fc22.1.x86_64.rpm
R-java-devel-3.2.2-intel.fc22.1.x86_64.rpm
libRmath-devel-3.2.2-intel.fc22.1.x86_64.rpm
libRmath-3.2.2-intel.fc22.1.x86_64.rpm
Error: nothing provides libimf.so()(64bit) needed by
libRmath-3.2.2-intel.fc22.1.x86_64.
nothing provides libifcoremt.so.5()(64bit) needed by
R-core-3.2.2-intel.fc22.1.x86_64.
nothing provides libimf.so()(64bit) needed by
libRmath-3.2.2-intel.fc22.1.x86_64.
nothing provides libifcoremt.so.5()(64bit) needed by
R-core-3.2.2-intel.fc22.1.x86_64.
nothing provides libifcoremt.so.5()(64bit) needed by
R-core-3.2.2-intel.fc22.1.x86_64.
nothing provides libifcoremt.so.5()(64bit) needed by
R-core-3.2.2-intel.fc22.1.x86_64.
nothing provides libifcoremt.so.5()(64bit) needed by
R-core-3.2.2-intel.fc22.1.x86_64.
nothing provides libifcoremt.so.5()(64bit) needed by
R-core-3.2.2-intel.fc22.1.x86_64
These share libs are in /opt/intel/lib/intel64/
$ ls /opt/intel/lib/intel64/
.............
libifcoremt.so.5
libimf.so
...............
$ ls /etc/ld.so.conf.d
bind99-x86_64.conf intel-compiler-base.conf intel-fortran.conf
intel-mkl.conf intel-openmp.conf
with all correct path to shared libs
***************************
I do not see where this issue comes from. I would like to avoir # rpm
-i --no-deps to install my package. Why the <nothing provides
libifcoremt.so.5()(64bit) needed by R-core-3.2.2-intel.fc22.1.x86_64.>
message is repeating 5 times?
Thank you for any hints where to look.
google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx
8 years, 6 months
Fedora 21 and Chromebook 15
by Gary Mann
Hello
I recently purchased a Acer CB5-571-58HF and installed Fedora 21 on it
using MATE as my window manager. Everything seems to run perfectly.
However, I'm really annoyed with the keyboard because everything I've tried
doesn't seem to work... After a couple of updates it seems like the volume
and brightness keys work by default. What I really want though, is a home,
end, delete, pageup/down, and insert buttons. I've tried setting these
buttons up behind xbindkeys or xmodmap, and for whatever reason, it doesn't
seem to work everywhere.
For example, the default keyboard schema supports pressing Shift + Up as
PageUp, Shift + Down as PageDown. These two combinations will work in
mate-terminal, however if I try to use them in google-chrome, or pretty
much anything else they don't. Also, Shift + Left is Home, but using it in
a terminal instead will shift the view all the way to the top of the buffer
instead of moving the cursor to the beginning of the line, this is also the
same for Shift + Right, which is Prior, it instead is used to move the view
all the way to the bottom of the buffer.
I would love to get Shift + BackSpace as Delete and Ctrl + Shift +
BackSpace as Insert, but I've not had any luck doing so with xmodmap or
xbindkeys...
Has anyone used a Chromebook on Fedora and experienced similar issues, and
if so would you be able to provide any details on how you corrected them,
pertaining to the keyboard schema?
Thanks.
8 years, 6 months
YouTube videos in full-screen mode block Firefox
by Paul Smith
Dear All,
When making YouTube videos playing in full-screen mode, Firefox
becomes blocked. Do others experience the same? Any solution?
The same behavior does not occur with Chromium.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
8 years, 6 months
looking for a good "git/gerrit on fedora" online tutorial
by Robert P. J. Day
i've offered to put together a basic presentation on how to set up
git and gerrit (in my case, on fedora), and i've collected a few
moderately decent tutorials that i can cannibalize to get the final
result, but if there's something already out there that covers that
topic, that would be just ducky.
i'm after something that both sets up the server side and databases,
then shows developers how to check out and configure to start using
gerrit as part of their workflow.
i have a good chunk of this already, but has anyone already written
something like this specifically for fedora? thanks.
rday
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http://crashcourse.ca
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday
LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday
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8 years, 6 months
dnf hangs - looking for advice
by Timothy Murphy
I've install Fedora-23 beta from a KDE Live USB stick,
and it seems to be working fine.
The installation went quickly with no problems.
However, on running "sudo dnf update",
all 542 packages were downloaded OK,
but then dnf hung after a few cleanups, at
Cleanup: initial-setup-0.3.35-1.fc23.x86_64
I ran "sudo dnf clean all" and then update again,
but it just tells me
Nothing to do.
Complete!
Is there any way of completing the cleanup?
Or is that unnecessary?
--
Timothy Murphy
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin
8 years, 6 months
xscreensaver & password
by Beartooth
I'm at home, and nobody ever touches this PC but me; yet I have
little success with getting xscreensaver *not* to demand a password every
time it takes over. I tell it to do so after zero seconds, and uncheck
the box telling it to do so. Yet it does, anyway -- and I've been having
this problem for years. Is there a solid way to prevent it??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
8 years, 6 months