Sendmail Config
by JDK
Is there an applet I'm missing for Sendmail config? Seems like
there is one for most things. I've installed FC2, and currently
can't send mail from my box, because sendmail is presenting itself
as locahost.localdomain, and my connection gets refused. I figured
that editing the sendmail.mc was the answer, but thought there
might be an easier way for the real basic options.
As an aside, I noticed that Postfix was also an option at time of
install. Which is the "preferred" option?
TIA,
jdk
20 years, 8 months
Grub stage1 file error
by Ossama Khayaat
Hi,
After installing fedora core on my Toshiba laptop and restarted, I didn't get the boot screen. I'm sure I chose to install a boot loader (grub).
Anyway, I booted with my first CD and use 'linux rescue' to install the boot loader (just thought something is wrong).
It turned to be that file /boot/grub/stage1 couldn't be read!
I used 'rpm -V grub' and didn't get any error at all.
I tried removing and installing the package again, but still no use.
I checked the MD5SUM of the ISO images and they are also fine.
Any suggestions?
Regards,
Ossama Khayat
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20 years, 8 months
Severn/Fedora hangs during boot at PCMCIA?
by Mark G. Spencer
Hello,
I became interested in upgrading one of my laptops from Red Hat 9 to Severn
after hearing that some improvements significantly increased the overall
responsiveness on older computer systems. My laptop is older, and painfully
slow under the load of Gnome. ;)
I'm hoping you all can help me resolve two of the major problems I've had.
My laptop is a Toshiba 2615DVD/6.0. It's an older Celeron based machine.
Red Hat 9 installs and runs without any problems, including after I upgraded
to the latest kernel (non-beta) from RHN.
When I tried to install Severn on this laptop, it would always hang at
"running /sbin/loader" .. After browsing Google for a while, I found a
mention of disabling usb via "linux nousb" at install. I did this, and I
was able to get past the hang and continue installation.
Once the system boots now though, it hangs at starting PCMCIA services.
I've tried booting a few times and waited up to 30 minutes, so I know at
this point I will never get past starting PCMCIA services.
Any ideas? Is this a bug, or is some support for older chipsets removed on
purpose from Severn? Is there a way for me to troubleshoot why usb and
pcmcia work fine on Red Hat 9 on this laptop, but not on Severn.
Thanks for the advice .. I'm really looking forward to getting Severn and
the latest 2.6 kernel running on this laptop now that I've heard so many
good things about them!!
Mark
20 years, 8 months
Ideas for a new Fedora apt/yum/up2date hierarchy
by Maynard Kuona
I was thinking. I do not always need to update to the latest versions of
software "for the hell of it" especially if it is something I do not use
much. But some things, like security updates I like to keep up to date
with, pun not intended. So, I am proposing an idea for Fedora's
repository heirarchy. It would be good to be able to apply only the
security updates, so maybe these could have their own 'channel' for lack
of better word. This is especially useful if you have minimal
bandwidth, but would like security updates quite conveniently. One could
also hae a cron job that checks for security updates. I do not know if
there is a way of doing this with apt or yum or up2date, i.e, selecting
a specific channel to download updates from. So maybe a little
modification for apt would be in order, i.e, introduce apt-get upgrade
<channel-name> to download all updates from a specific channel.To get
security updates one would type apt-get upgrade security, or something
like that. This should also not require a change on the server side too.
20 years, 8 months
Fedora test-2 up2date SSL errors
by Steve Ward
Is anyone else seeing SSL errors with up2date? Basically it starts
downloading (headers or RPMs) then it barfs. Sometimes it will download
a couple of items successfully, other times it won't even make it
through the first item.
20 years, 8 months
"sysfs" and the 2.6.0 kernel?
by Robert P. J. Day
on to the next 2.6.0 kernel-related topic, which is support for the
"sysfs" filesystem. this looks fairly straightforward, but first a
general question -- is there any compelling application for this
filesystem. it's cute, sure, but is anyone putting it to practical use?
just curious. so can anyone confirm the details of the following?
"sysfs" support is already compiled into the kernel, and you can create
a mount point and mount it at any time with:
# mkdir /sys
# nount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
then check out /sys.
to make this feature permanent, it *seems* like you need to do some
combination of the following:
1) create the mount point (mkdir /sys)
2) add an entry to /etc/fstab
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
3) make some changes to /etc/rc.sysinit
add this:
mount -n -t proc /proc /proc
+mount -n -t sysfs sysfs /sys
and this:
mount -f /
mount -f /proc
+mount -f /sys
then change all occurrences of "/proc/bus/usb" to "/sys/bus/usb"
4) make a change to /etc/init.d/halt:
-awk '$2 ~ /^\/$|^\/proc|^\/dev/{next}
+awk '$2 ~ /^\/$|^\/proc|^\/sys|^\/dev/{next}
AFAICT, that's all that needs to be done, although during the
boot process, there are some depmod errors based on looking in
the old location, /proc/bus/usb, and i'm not sure what to do
about those.
comments/clarifications on the above?
rday
20 years, 8 months
logistics related to moving up to the 2.6.0-test kernel
by Robert P. J. Day
from what i can tell, it's getting progressively easier to drop
in a 2.6.0-test kernel these days, so i just wanted to make some
observations and ask some questions in order to summarize the
process. feedback always appreciated.
newer RPMs
----------
it appears that there's no longer any need to get newer (rawhide)
versions of things like modutils, initscripts, etc. the versions
in fedora 0.94 seem to work fine. does this sound about right?
USB support
-----------
once upon a time, you would have wanted to edit the /etc/rc.sysinit
file and change the lines similar to:
action $"Initializing USB keyboard: " modprobe keybdev 2> /dev/null
action $"Initializing USB mouse: " modprobe mousedev 2> /dev/null
so that the module names were no longer keybdev and mousedev, but
were usbkbd and usbmouse. now that doesn't appear to be necessary
anymore. in fact, it *appears* that you can remove those two lines
entirely.
from running "make xconfig", it looks like all you have to do is
select "USB", then input device support, with which you get basic
mouse and keyboard support automatically. i don't see separate
config options for mouse and keyboard, so i'm suspecting these
two lines can just be removed. can anyone confirm/deny that?
/etc/rc.sysinit
---------------
there are a number of other changes that can be made to this
file. one is to change all occurrences of
/proc/ksyms -> /proc/kallsyms
more to come later, particularly activating "sysfs".
rday
20 years, 8 months
up2date
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
I've installed test2 of Fedora on my laptop. It's rather groovy.
However, I do have some questions, so please, bear with me. I realise it
is beta software so problems may be encountered...
Having followed the instructions on the rhn website, I can still not
subscribe to up2date. All I get is that I cannot change my base channel.
Is there any way to subscribe and start using up2date?
I need to add exec-shield=0 to my kernel line in order to get to my
desktop. I know this is something to do with module underruns/overruns,
but is there any way to fix this as it's a bit damned annoying.
Is it me, or is the current kernel slower that 2.4.20-20.9 from RH9? The
whole desktop environment seems sluggish while the command line seems
less responsive on some tasks.
There is a problem with the panel. If I add a drawer and bung some
launchers in there all seems fine. Soon after though, the icons are
still there, but only activatable by moving the cursor onto the icon and
hitting return. The mouse fails to launch the application. Has anyone
else seen that?
Other than these, it's yet another great step forward.
TTFN
Paul
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20 years, 8 months
RE: Grub stage1 file error
by Ossama Khayaat
> Well, is the file there or not?
Sure it's there!
> I think you could post a listing of the contents of /boot/grub,
> check the permissions of the directory (must be writable), show
> that you really have a good installation of the grub package,
No need for that, it's just a default successful installation.
> and run
>
> grub-install --debug /dev/hda
>
> You could also try "grub-install --just-copy" and then list the
> contents of /boot/grub. The stage* files should be there.
I took the stage1 and stage2 files and put them in the /boot/grub
directory for nothing happened.
Seems like the hard disk (at least this partition) had a problem. The
reason I say that, is because when I list the partitions (fdisk -l) it
shows me the partition as Fat16 and not ext3.
I started the PC from the fedora CDs and went through the setup process
until I got to the partitioning part. There, I can see that the
partition is an ext3 and not fat16!!
Really don't know what to say or do.
I guess I'll just wait for the next release.
Ossama
20 years, 8 months
