home network password request, in error.
by Rory Gleeson
I installed Test 3. Unlike any other distro I've ever tried, Fedora C2T3
recognized by home network (to one XP computer), found the shared folders on
the other computer and found the printer hooked to that computer
automatically, all during install. Well done, Fedora!
But, when I try to open the shared folder or to print, I'm denied access. The
shared folders require a login and password. The printer debug report
"access denied" error seems to support this.
However, there is no password or login required for this machine. The XP
machine automatically logs on. When trying other distros, I've never seen
this prompt.
Might this be a possible bug or is there a different solution?
Rory
P.S. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a newbie issue. If it's the latter, my
apologies for posting it on this list and feel free to let me know where I
can find a newbie list.
~Rory
20 years, 1 month
desktop switching tool and kmail bugs?
by Rory Gleeson
I'm trying to establish if this is a user issue or distro issue. I installed
Test 3 (chose "everything" to install).
Two possible bug reports:
1) Every time I open Kmail, I get a Signal 11 crash.
2) Every time I try to open the Desktop Switching Tool, nothing opens.
Are others seeing either of these issues?
~Rory
20 years, 1 month
RE: Downloading the 4GB DVD iso
by Henry Hartley
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robert La Ferla [mailto:robertlaferla@comcast.net]
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:07 AM
>>
>> Robert La Ferla wrote:
>> > I tried ws_ftp and it said "file too large for defined file type" I
>> > also tried AbsoluteFTP by VanDyke and it thought the file was 80MB.
>> > What to do???
>> >
>> I also tried FileZilla and it gave the same exact error message as
>> WS_FTP: "file too large for defined file type"
>>
>> Here is the URL I am using:
>>
>> ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/1.92/i386/iso/
Then it's possible that the server is having a problem with that file, not
your client. Both WS_FTP (version 7.62 is what I've got) and FileZille
(version 2.2.5a) work fine when I try to get the file from
ftp://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/test/1.92/i386/iso but fail
from the above location.
--
Henry
20 years, 1 month
FC2 T3 installation comments
by Mikko Paananen
Does the installation crash after firewall selection screen only on my
computer, or is that real bug? Booting with "linux selinux" seem to
help.
Another case, 160MB RAM doesn't seem to be enough for graphical
installation, but there should be more helpful error message than "Out
of memory, killed" scrolling on virtual console.
I'm pretty sure FC1 did install on that machine without extra hassle. Or
was FC1 network install text based last time? Any case, it would be a
good idea to fall back to text based install if memory requirements are
not met (>=256MB?).
Or swap partitions could be activated during install, now on disk druid
swap partition was unselectable, but anyhow actived least after first
boot.
20 years, 1 month
anaconda eats grub
by Richard Hally
So, I thought I'd try an "upgrade an existing installation" with my new
FC2 TEST 3 CD's since I had a spare RH9 installed system(dual boot with
win xp) sitting around. Pretty straight forward, then after the "point
of no return" the install runs for a while doing things in preparation
for instaling packages and finds that there isn't enough space to do the
upgrade. So, I click OK on the error message box and I'm back to the
point of no return page of the installer. Then it ctl-alt-del, take the
CD out so I can try to boot the old install or failing that, the Win
XP but low and behold on the BIOS screen (after the usual mem check) at
the point where it usually show the GRUB menu all it shows is the one
word "GRUB" at the bottom of the screen and nothing else! Can't boot
'cause grub has been eaten by anaconda when doing an "Upgrade" installation.
Don't you think this situation (not enough space for an upgrade) should
be handled a little better? There will probably be many people trying to
"Upgrade" their FC1 to FC2 and a least a few will not realize how much
additional space it will take and run into this problem. So, part of the
question is why is GRUB clobbered in an "Upgrade" install before it
determines if there is enough space?
20 years, 1 month
Upgrading FC1 -> FC2T3
by Joakim Arnling
is this a good idea, or should i do a clean install?
What problems could there be, anybody that succeed?
Cheers
Joakim Arnling
20 years, 1 month
libc problem after yum upgrade
by Stefan Thierl
i ran yum upgrade on a fedora-devel box last week, after which 90% of my
system binaries refused to run, with messages similar, but not identical
to the following:
ImportError: /lib/librt.so.1: symbol __librt_disable_asynccancel,
version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time
reference
the extent of this breakage was that my machine was rendered unusable,
with things like networking failing completely, and even simple console
tools such as ls refusing to run. i fixed almost everything by obtaining
a replacement librt.so from a friend who was also running fedora-devel,
and since then everything has worked fine except yum, which fails like
so:
[root@oiktest root]# yum
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ?
import yummain
File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 22, in ?
import clientStuff
File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 18, in ?
import rpm
ImportError: /lib/librt.so.1: symbol __librt_disable_asynccancel,
version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time
reference
i've also obtained replacement libc.so files from another friend running
devel, but that hasn't made any difference. i yum upgraded two other
similar machines on the same day with no problems. has anybody got any
idea how i could fix this and get back up to date? i don't fancy doing
another clean install right now :)
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20 years, 1 month
Re: Downloading the 4GB DVD iso
by Brian Bober
Robert La Ferla wrote:
> What are the best ways to download the 4GB DVD iso image on Windows? I
> tried the torrent but it was too slow. I tried via browser and ftp but
> the clients couldn't handle 4GB. They thought the file was 80MB. Ideas?
If this happened with a recent version of Mozilla (1.7+), or Firebird (0.8+)
then please report a bug against Mozilla on http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/.
Browsers are generally not reliable ftp clients. You might want to try gftp (or
cuteftp/wsftp if you are on windows) or if you are feeling brave, nc-ftp for
cygwin. Older clients might have a problem with files larger than 4 GB.
Hopefully, the FTP servers hosting the DVD isos don't, but if they are just
mirrors, then some of them might without realizing it. I remember when I used
to host the Redhat 9 DVD iso I created, an older version of proftpd had
problems, but a newer version didn't. I know for a fact IE just cannot handle a
4 GB file through ftp unless its been fixed recently (but I doubt it will be
unless it meant $$ to them).
Bittorrent isn't that slow, you just need to give it some time to speed up. By
the end of the download, I had gotten up to around 120Kbits/s. Let it run, go
to bed and when you wake up, it'll probably be there.
By the way, I didn't know that fedora DVDs were hosted on FTP. Which server is
it on?
20 years, 1 month
Re: ntfs support
by Troy Carpenter
Strange...I had an NTFS partition go corrupt just this weekend and
Windows (and even Norton Ghost for that matter) would not use the
partition to backup files. So I popped the drive into my Fedora machine
and no joy.
It's not that code for NTFS is not there, it's that the kernel builders
are not even building it as a module. When you reconfigure the kernel,
you will find the NTFS selections blank. I had to rebuild the kernel to
get the NTFS module built.
I went ahead and installed my custom kernel and rebooted with it to get
the support. I wasn't sure if I could use the newly built module with
the original kernel and didn't want to risk it.
Troy Carpenter
troy(a)carpenter.cx
-----Original Message-----
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:04:17 -0400
From: Ted Kaczmarek <fedora(a)linsolutions.com>
Subject: Re: ntfs support
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
<fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
Message-ID: <1083150256.6649.1.camel@tarkus>
Content-Type: text/plain
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 11:04 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 10:44, Anthony Richardella wrote:
> > Just wondering if there are any plans for adding support for
> > mounting ntfs filesystems.
> >
> > Anthony
> >
>
> The kernel supports it but Redhat disables it. It is easy to put it
> back in by rebuilding the kernel. Install the kernel-source and follow
> the instructions in the README
>
> specifically these lines To configure and build the kernel use:
> cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.N
> make O=/home/name/build/kernel menuconfig
> make O=/home/name/build/kernel
> sudo make O=/home/name/build/kernel modules_install install
>
> Please note: If the 'O=output/dir' option is used then it must be
> used for all invocations of make.
>
> when you run the make menuconfig you will get an option to include
> ntfs support. If you are using grub it will install the custom kernel.
> Just reboot and you have ntfs support.
>
Why does it have to be compiled into the kernel?
Is it no longer loadable as a module?
Ted
20 years, 1 month
Re: More on file fragmentation, torrents, etc.....
by t l
Tom,
The filesystem was pretty empty: even with the images, it reports
9GB used with 62GB available. I was pretty surprised at the extent
of the fragmentation.....
thanks,
tom
-----------------------------------------
I doubt that you did anything wrong. One of the things that torrent
does is fragment the way it gets the files all different parts at the
same time from piles of places. I have 3% of the download on one
collection but have some bits for all the iso images in it.
If it is really slowing you down, you should be able to clean it up by
stopping the torrent making a copy and remove the downloaded file with
all the insane extents, then rename the copied files back as they
were and then restart torrent.
Something like:
mv FC2-test3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.is foo
cp foo FC2-test3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso
rm foo
or better yet:
cp FC2-test3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.is foo
filefrag FC2-test3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.is foo
# pick the best and give it the name you and torrent expect.
It might take a couple of copy and move cycles of these big old files
for the filesystem to tidy things up... much will depend on how full
the FS is and what else is going on.
It will be interesting to hear back, I believe filefrag is new in
e2fsprogs-1.35-7.1. In one copy/rename cycle on an old iso image I
went from 1063 extents to 164 extents. One more time and I was back
up to 324 extents but the filesystem was not idle.
None of mine are as bad as yours appear to be. How full is your
filesystem? Making a bit of space by moving things to a different
filesystem then back can help bunches.
As always, double check the MD5SUMS with this sort of tinkering.
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