coreutils and util-linux
by Gene C.
The latest updates for FC2-T1 (from development) for the coreutils and
util-linux packages have problems. These packages need to be installed
together. Because of the version-release of the util-linux package in the
base being 2.12pre-3 and the update being 2.12-4, both up2date and rpm
consider that the old package is newer.
To get around this, you need to manually download the updated
util-linux-2.12-4 package (and the coreutils-5.2.0-8 package if you do not
have it) and then use rpm -Uvh --force util... coreutils...
--
Gene
20 years, 2 months
hpoj difficulties in FC2-test1 (and FC1)
by Steve Ward
I've seen some posts about problems with scanning under test1, and I
think I understand what's going on. In the startup scripts in
/etc/rc.d, hpoj is being started after CUPS. From the hpoj
documentation, it appears to me the opposite order is required. This is
so the hpoj printer port is available when CUPS starts.
On my system I have simply renamed all the S55cups files to S60cups and
things seem to work OK. I have also done this on my FC1 system (which
is running the kernel.org 2.6.3 kernel) and printing, scanning and card
readers on my PSC2210 are working fine.
20 years, 2 months
using latest rawhide as snapshot
by Gene C.
With the latest slip for the next full snapshot (FC2-Test2), I started
thinking about creating my own snapshot from rawhide (development). This
interest was intensified when I noticed that a lot of new packages where in
rawhide that where not in FC2-test1. So on Saturday (28 Feb) I grabbed a
copy of Fedora/base/*, Fedora/RPMS/* and bott.iso defom development and
attempted an nfs everything install.
Everything proceeded well until I got to the actual install/ That is, system
configuration, package selection, etc. went OK but the install died when it
actually tried to install the packages. On my first attempt, it appeared to
die due to some selinux configuration issue. On my second attempt booting
with selinux=0, it also does but there was no apparent reason.
My download cost does not bother me (remarkable what a 3Mbps cable modem plus
the right mirror site can do). However, I would prefer not to waste the
bandwidth trying to do this daily. Therefore, if one of you Red Hat
developers who is knowledgable would mention when the daily snapshot is
particularly installable, it would be appreciated.
--
Gene
20 years, 2 months
set geometry of kedit
by Harry Putnam
This may be a general question about all kde menu items but I see no
way to adjust the geometry of kedit.
Rigth/left click on the menu item just brings it up. Using menu
editor I see a place to set the command line but after looking at the
kde help brower on kedit... I didn't see talk of geometry settings.
The (starndard for older linux apps) `-geometry' doesn't do it. Seems to
have no effect at all like this: kedit -geometry 90x120&
Still starts in too small a terminal.
20 years, 2 months
kernel 2.6 and sata
by Levin Fritz
Hi all,
I installed the current Fedora development kernel yesterday and tried to
boot it, but when it tries to use the hard disk it gets really slow and
spits out a lot of "lost interrupt" messages. The problem seems to be the
onboard VIA SATA controller. With recent 2.4 kernels (I'm running
2.4.22-1.2174.nptl right now) the same hardware works just fine.
I tried the kernel-2.6.3-1.116 rpm and a 2.6.4-rc1 kernel I compiled
myself; the 2.6.4-rc1 one had the exact same problem.
I have a Pentium IV with onboard VIA ATA/SATA controller, an ATAPI CD/DVD
drive connected with parallel ATA and a Seagate Barracuda harddisk
connected with SATA. I appended (part of) the output of lscpi and the
messages I got from the kernel while booting at the end of this email.
Tell me if you need more information.
Since my hardware works fine with kernel 2.4.22, that points to a bug in
the 2.6 kernel, right? Does anyone know how to fix this or who I should be
asking about it?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Levin
Here's what lspci -vv knows about the ata controller(s):
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3149 (rev 80) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc: Unknown device 921f
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at bc00 [size=8]
Region 1: I/O ports at c000 [size=4]
Region 2: I/O ports at c400 [size=8]
Region 3: I/O ports at c800 [size=4]
Region 4: I/O ports at cc00 [size=16]
Region 5: I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc: Unknown device 921f
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
Region 4: I/O ports at d400 [size=16]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Here's the relevant kernel messages (with kernel 2.6.3-1.116):
-- snip --
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE Driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 3MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VIA 3275SATA: IDE controller at PCi slot 0000:00:0f.0
VIA 3275SATA: chipset revision 128
VIA 3275SATA: 100% native mode on irq 10
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xcc00-0xcc07, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf: pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xcc08-0xcc0f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh: pio
hde: ST3160023AS, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide2 at 0xbc00-0xbc07, 0xc002 on irq 10
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci 0000:00:0f.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hda: DMA, hdb: pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdc: pio, hdb: pio
hdc: DW-224E-A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
hde: max request size: 1024KiB
-- here it starts getting quite slow --
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8172KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
hde: DMA interrupt recovery
hde: lost interrupt
hde1 hde2 <<4>hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
hde: DMA interrupt recovery
hde: lost interrupt
hde5<4>hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
hde: DMA interrupt recovery
hde6<4>hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
-- gets faster again --
-- snip --
-- gets really slow again --
hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
hde: DMA interrupt recovery
hde: lost interrupt
It keeps printing those last 3 lines while while it tries to mount the
root fs; I eventually gave up and rebooted.
I had to copy theses messages to paper first, so there might be a typo
here and there.
20 years, 2 months
Apt-get downloading packages
by jim tate
Fedora core Test1.
Apt-get upgrade , downdloaded a number of RPM packages from
freshrpms.us.net/development
and put them in the /var/cache/apt/archive and they are later versions
than installed .
Why can't I rpm -Uvh *.rpm those packages? Apt-get comes back with
something about
"Unsigned /var/cache/apt/archive (for all the packages) what gives, Am I
of the understanding
that you just can't upgrade Fedora Test1 core?
Thanks
Jim Tate
20 years, 2 months
Failed dependencies libgtop
by Efthym
# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1.90 - Development Tree
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
.Package gnome-applets needs libgtop-2.0.so.1, this is not available.
Package gnome-applets needs libgtop_common-2.0.so.1, this is not available.
Package gnome-applets needs libgtop_sysdeps-2.0.so.1, this is not
available.
# rpm -qa |grep libgtop
libgtop2-2.5.0-2
20 years, 2 months
NFS fails due to remove_locks_posix in kernel 2.6.3-1.116
by G.Wolfe Woodbury
If bugzilla'd this, but the latest kernel build won't run the current
NFSds due to a missing kernel symbol in the NFS modules.
I've had to drop back to the custom 2.6.3-1.110 that I've been using.
--
Gregory G. "Wolfe" Woodbury `-_-' Owner/Admin: wolves.durham.nc.us
ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us U RHCT August 2003
"The Line Eater is a boojum snark." Hug your wolf.
20 years, 2 months
Kickstart doesn't?
by Lars Kellogg-Stedman
Howdy all,
I'm netbooting into the Fedora (test 1.90) installer, and the installer
is having a hard time aquiring a lease from my DHCP server (ISC DHCP
version whatever's-current-in-redhat-9). I see the requests going out,
an the following errors in the syslog on the DHCP server:
Feb 27 19:54:38 flowers dhcpd: fallback_discard: Resource temporarily
unavailable
What's more:
- The PXE loader (pxelinux) is able to aquire a lease w/o a problem, and
- The second stage installer is also able to aquire a lease.
This system is using a 3Com 3C905C-TXM NIC.
I recall seeing a similar issue discussed in the archives, but I'm
unable to search the archives at the moment ("redhat.com is temporarily
unavailable. Please try back later."). Has anyone else run into this
problem?
-- Lars
20 years, 2 months