Announcing Fedora 7 Test 1 (6.90)
by Jesse Keating
Just a quick blurb.
Fedora 7 Test 1 has been released today. For this particular release, we only
did a Desktop spin of the package collection. We are still fine tuning
targetted spins of the collection as part of the merger of Core and Extras.
We also produced a LiveCD that has the ability to install to your harddrive,
should you wish.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7 has the gory details of our work on
the 7th release of Fedora.
Downloads
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DVD, CD and network installation are available.
Please read the Important Warnings below in this announcement for more
details.
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
The recommended method of download is via BitTorrent from this site.
http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html
HTTP, FTP, and RSYNC downloads are available from Fedora Project mirrors
listed above. Note that not all mirrors may be synced at this time.
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
17 years, 4 months
info about ext2/3 resize tools' status on fc6
by Gianluca Cecchi
I would like to online resize an LVM ext3 partition on my fc6 system.
What would I have to install and do? In the past I used ext2online and
e2fsadm on rh as 4, but it seems that both e2fsadm and ext2online are
missing on my fc6 system e2fsprogs package (I have
e2fsprogs-libs-1.39-7.fc6, e2fsprogs-devel-1.39-7.fc6,
e2fsprogs-1.39-7.fc6).
What is current status for ext2/3 resize tools (both online and
offline) for fc6? And eventually plans for fc7?
Reading man page for resize2fs it seems that in my case I could online
resize by 1Gb my /usr filesystem, that is ext3, using:
- lvextend /dev/rootvg/usrlv -L +1G
- resize2fs /dev/rootvg/usrlv
Can anyone confirm this?
Is documentation for resize2fs aligned with fc6 kernel? Currently it is:
The resize2fs program will resize ext2 or ext3 file systems. It can be
used to enlarge or shrink an unmounted file system located on device.
If the filesystem is mounted, it can be used to expand the size of the
mounted filesystem, assuming the kernel supports on-line resizing. (As
of this writing, the Linux 2.6 kernel supports on-line resize for
filesystems mounted using ext3 only.).
[snip]
The resize2fs program does not manipulate the size of partitions. If
you wish to enlarge a filesystem, you must first make sure you can
expand the size of the underlying partition first.
Thanks in advance.
Gianluca
17 years, 4 months
Will ext4 be in FC7?
by Justin Conover
With experimental release of EXT4 in 2.6.19, is it possible it will be in
rawhide soon and in FC7 at release time?
Thanks,
17 years, 4 months
install fails using nForce4 pata (FD-6.90-x86_64-DVD)
by John Reiser
Attempting to install Fedora 7 Test 1 Desktop (FD-6.90-x86_64-DVD)
using method Local CDROM [DVD] fails to find any drivers for the media,
on x86_64 with nVidia CK804 nForce4 chipset. The sata_nv driver was
loaded automatically from initrd.
Using HTTP install and Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get a shell, fdisk reads the
partitions correctly on the actual SATA harddrive /dev/sda.
The actual PATA DVD (old /dev/hdc) is not found.
The actual PATA harddrive (old /dev/hda) is not found.
This was reported as http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226912
against Fedora Core, devel version. Bugzilla had no plain "Fedora" category,
and "Fedora Core" has no "f7..." nor "fc7..." version.
The Release Notes button displays the ones for Fedora Core 6, the
previous version. The wiki page referenced in the F7 announcement
was displaying static content, and had no "common problems" section or link.
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17 years, 4 months
The state of rawhide
by Jonathan Corbet
So...I've been finding the rawhide experience to be a little more raw
than usual since about when FC6 came out. I've not seen a lot of
complaints, though, which leads me to wonder if I'm the only one.
Here's some of what I've encountered on my x86-64 system:
- The system thrashes. I guess I'm an old-fashioned sort of guy, but I
really think that 1GB ought to be enough to run a basic desktop, even
on a 64-bit system. Firefox, Thunderbird, and Liferea are all leaky
as sieves; I have to restart them occasionally or the system just
bogs down. There is a memory-leak in gnome-terminal that I can't get
the developers to even look for. Tomboy is huge, but that may just
be part of life with mono.
- Gnome-terminal occasionally becomes unresponsive. Some windows work,
others do not - though they usually come back eventually. This
behavior seems to be correlated with the memory problems, but the
system is not thrashing while I'm waiting for a terminal to
acknowledge my existence.
- Gnucash now refuses to start. I get a lot of messages like "Failed
to dlopen() '/usr/lib64/gnucash/libgncmod-hbci.la': file not found".
The interesting thing being that the indicated files *do* exist.
- Metacity occasionally gets hung. It happens most often when trying
to resize a window, but I can also occasionally see it when using
menus from the panel at the bottom of the screen. The pointer goes
into an "I'm busy" state, and nobody gets any more keyboard or mouse
events. Switching out of X and back (alt-ctrl-F1) makes the hang go
away.
- I still have to clear out /var/lib/rpm/__db* fairly often.
Now I'm not complaining. I know the drill, and I'm sufficiently
masochistic (and backed up) to run rawhide on a system I use for real
work. But I begin to wonder if there might be something that has gone
fundamentally wrong on my system, or if this is just the way rawhide
works these days...?
Thanks,
jon
17 years, 4 months
FC7 from rawhide : "display" menu unavaible ?
by LarryT
Hi all.
Hmm, is too early to ask a question about rawhide FC7 ?
Installation was *very* nice from within VMware 5.5, and i do appreciate
many changes in the look.
I have just one problem atm : I cant find "display menu" which is in
the path System/admin/display within FC6.
I have only 800 and 640 for resolution..
Larry
One more time *excuse-me* if it is too early ! and then forget it ;)
17 years, 4 months
[FC7-test1_dvd] resolution and OOo
by LarryT
After a fresh and fast installation of FC7-test1, i can say it boots off
very well :).
-- but i got some problem about resolution : system-config-display is
gone away (or maybe the name changed ???), and even editing xorg.conf,
there no "modes" in subsection screen.
So is there a way to set something better than 800... so i can press
"next" buttton to set up evolution ? Because so far i can see this
button :-/
-- OOo never launches. I tried from terminal too, many times... Is it
something normal from test1 ?
Larry
17 years, 4 months
Ethernet problem in 2895 kernel
by Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
Since updating to the FC6 386 2895 kernel I have has a number
of partial failures of the Ethernet system under heavy load.
System: Asus a8n-e socket 939 with 3 GB RAM running 386 FC6.
Eth0 is a PCI 10/100 NIC, eth1 is the onboard gigabit NIC.
NAT controlled by rc.firewall 2.4. Eth0 connects to the
cable modem, eth1 to the local net.
Under heavy load, the following error messages appear
and then eth0 stops working, severing the internet connection.
I have not seen this problem prior to the 2895 kernel.
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status 8601.
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: diagnostics: net 0cd8 media 8880 dma
0000003a fifo 0000
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered --
IRQ blocked by another device?
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 80(0) current
80(0)
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: Transmit list 00000000 vs. f714b200.
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 0: @f714b200 length 80000042 status
00010042
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 1: @f714b2a0 length 80000052 status
0c010052
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 2: @f714b340 length 80000043 status
0c010043
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 3: @f714b3e0 length 80000045 status
0c010045
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 4: @f714b480 length 80000042 status
00010042
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 5: @f714b520 length 8000004a status
0c01004a
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 6: @f714b5c0 length 8000004c status
0c01004c
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 7: @f714b660 length 8000004d status
0c01004d
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 8: @f714b700 length 80000052 status
0c010052
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 9: @f714b7a0 length 80000043 status
0c010043
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 10: @f714b840 length 80000045 status
0c010045
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 11: @f714b8e0 length 8000004a status
0c01004a
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 12: @f714b980 length 8000004c status
0c01004c
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 13: @f714ba20 length 8000004c status
0c01004c
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 14: @f714bac0 length 80000052 status
8c010052
Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 15: @f714bb60 length 80000056 status
8c010056
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Chuck Forsberg caf(a)omen.com www.omen.com 503-614-0430
Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications
Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software"
10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 FAX 629-0665
17 years, 4 months
