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2.6.15-1.1955_FC5 memory leak?
by Russell Coker 19 Mar '06

19 Mar '06

I recently setup a server on the Internet in a fairly default FC5T2 configuration. I had it running kernel 2.6.15-1.1955_FC5 for 9 days when I noticed that it had apparently run out of kernel memory. All processes were highly swapped and the OOM killer was killing processes (by the time I noticed the problem most services had been killed). The machine is a P3 with 256M of RAM, it has full net access with no firewall (iptables is used in a fairly default configuration but there is nothing in front of the machine protecting it). Is there a known kernel memory leak in 2.6.15-1.1955_FC5? The machine in question has BIND, Postfix, Amavis + clamav, and Postgrey installed. However as it doesn't yet have an MX record pointing to is there has been little use (some DNS traffic is all that it would get). I tried rebooting the machine and it crashed. I guess that the OOM killer killed something that was needed for a reboot. Tomorrow when I get it running again I will upgrade it to the latest kernel. Let me know if there are any tests I should perform if this happens again (unfortunately I can't get a net-dump server in there but disk-dump is an option I guess). -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page

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Keyboard situation - Non-US users dead in water?
by Chris Tyler 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

There are a number of interacting issues surrounding XKB at this point, but the bottom line is that many (most? all?) users using non-US keyboards are pretty much dead in the water right now. Putting aside issues with libxklavier and keyboard options, the console (non-X) keyboard maps, and the keyboard switching applet, it's simply not possible to select certain keyboards which are in widespread use. Here's one example: in FC4 and before, the de-facto standard French Canadian keyboard was identified as ca_enhanced, and it worked reasonably well. (Note: This is the keyboard that is shipped by Dell, IBM, HP, etc, and the keyboard that you you would buy at a Future Shop/Best Buy in Quebec. English Canadian users (such as myself) use the "us" keyboard layout. All other "Canadian keyboards" are corner cases). With the current set of XKB data, this keyboard is identified as ca(fr), and it can be selected manually: setxkbmap "ca(fr)" When selected in this way, they keyboard works perfectly (except for RightAlt-E which is labelled as Euro on newer versions of the keyboard). However, this keyboard option cannot be selected at installation time, nor can it be correctly selected after installation using the KDE or Gnome applets, which expose the corner-case keyboards but don't provide an option for this one. I'm assuming (from browsing Bugzilla) that similar problems exist for some of the other international keyboards. (It's unclear to me where the current (X11R7) set of xkb maps came from. They're not the legacy maps that shipped with 6.8.2, but they're not the current xkeyboard-config maps either - perhaps they're a snapshot of older xkeyboard-config data, since they seem closer to xkeyboard-config than they do to the 6.8.2 set). What needs to be done to get this working for FC5? -- Chris Tyler

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Fedora Core 5 Test 3 + nforce raid = noboot?
by Glen Bishop 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

hello, im having difficulty getting core 5 test 3 installed on my system, its an asus a8n-vm csm motherboard (nforce 430) and 2 seagate barracuda drives in a raid1 done by the nvidia 430. there seems to be talk of other having this issue over on fedoraforum.org but not much resolution, so im looking here :) for me either doing the default layout (with lvm) or creating a custom partition table makes the boot process fail with the below message (see screenshot and thanks to the pic donor) http://www.glenbishop.com/20060225-FC5-test3-kernel_panic.jpg i can load up the drives in normal sata mode and everything will install fine, just the raid1 is having the issue. i've tried a couple things with grub but nothing seems to work. does anyone have a resolution for this? thanks -- -glen

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hibernate/suspend?
by Mike Leahy 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

Hello list, I installed FC5T3 yestereday. I found that I was able to successfully hibernate/restart before running any updates. However, it took about 3 or 4 minutes to complete, partly because of some errors I get when the screen first goes blank...something that looks like: "end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, <something else here>". Last time I asked about this, somebody said it was an issue with the kernel. At any rate, I ran yum to update the system, and hibernate is pooched again...it just goes black, shows those end_request errors about accessing a floppy device that I don't even have on my laptop, and then just sits there. As an alternative, I tried to suspend. This worked halfway, until I un-suspended, after which I got just a blank screen. Is there anything I should do to try to debug either the suspend or hibernate tools? Mike

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Mouse lockups in X.org w/ ATI
by Gordon Messmer 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Using FC5-test3, will all of the updates as of tonight, I'm still seeing X lose input from the mouse. None of the functions -- motion, buttons, or scroll wheel -- function after I'm in X for about a minute. If I switch VTs and come back, it's usually working again. I saw this problem in the installer, and have seen it consistently as I've applied updates since installing a couple of days ago. Nothing is printed in X.org's log at the time of the lockup, and killing processes in my X session doesn't restore control of the mouse. My PS2 keyboard doesn't seem to be affected. The mouse is a Logitech USB wheel mouse, and in case it matters, I'm using an ATI video card. X.org's log says: (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000] rev 1, Mem @ 0xf0000000/26, 0xff7f0000/16, I/O @ 0xc800/8, BIOS @ 0xff7c0000/17 (--) PCI: (1:0:1) ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Radeon 9000] (Secondary) rev 1, Mem @ 0xec000000/26, 0xff7e0000/16 Is anyone else seeing this problem? I've only seen one other post on the list archives that looks similar.

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bcm43xx driver on FC5T3 driver doesn't work and freeze my machine.
by Alberto Patino 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Hi! I'am very excited with the inclusion of the bcm43xx driver in FC5 , I want to replace the venerable but awkward ndiswrapper driver, unfortunately the driver doesn't work for me and freeze my computer: I have a laptop DELL Precision M60 with : # lspci -vvv ... 02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1350 WLAN Mini-PCI Card Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5 Region 0: Memory at fafec000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] 1- I downloaded the newest driver from DELL:R115321.EXE (dated Jan-06-2006) [albertop@amturing driver]$ cat Version.txt Title : Network:Dell _Wireless (US) WLAN Network Adapter Card, TrueMobile 1300 b/g PCMCIA, TrueMobile 1300 Internal b/g MPCI, TrueMobile 1400 Internal Dual-band WLAN Card , Wireless 1350(b/g)WLAN miniPCI Card, Wireless 1370 (b/g)WLAN MiniPCI Card, Wireless 1390 (802.11g) WLAN MiniCard, Wireless 1390 WLAN (802.11g) ExpressCard, Wireless 1450 (a/b/g) Dual-Band WLAN miniPCI Card, Wireless 1470 (a/b/g) Dual-Band WLAN miniPCI card, Wireless 1490 (802.11a/g) Dual-Band WLAN MiniCard, Wireless� 1350 WLAN (b/g) PC Card Driver Version : A09 OEM Name : Dell OEM Ver : 4.10.40.0 / 4.10.47.3 Computers : 1D7, 6400/E1505, ME051, MXC051, MXC061, MXG051; Inspiron - 1000, 1100, 1150, 1200, Inspiron - 2200, 300m, 500m, 5100, 510m, 5150, 5160, 6000, 600m, Inspiron - 700m, 710m, 8500, 8600, 9100, 9200, 9300, 9400/E1705, B120, Inspiron - XPS, XPS Gen 2; Latitude - 100L, 110L, 120L , D400, D410, D420, D500, D505, D510, D520, D600, D610, D620, D800, D810, D820, X1, X300; Precision - M20, M60, M65, M70, M90; XPS - M1710, M2010, Oses : Windows 2000 Professional,Windows XP Home Edition,Windows XP Media Center EditionWindows XP Professional Languages : Brazilian Portuguese,Chinese-S,Chinese-T,English,French,German,Italian,Japanese,Korean,Polish,Russian,Spanish,Swedish Created : Fri Jan 6 11:45:40 CST 2006 2. I run fwcutter: [root@amturing bcm43xx-fwcutter-003]# bcm43xx-fwcutter bcmwl5.sys fwcutter can cut the firmware out of bcmwl5.sys filename : bcmwl5.sys version : 4.10.40.0 MD5 : 30d20fc98bcfd52e1da778cf19b223d4 extracting bcm43xx_microcode2.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_microcode4.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_microcode5.fw ... *****: Sorry, it's not posible to extract "bcm43xx_microcode11.fw". *****: Extracting firmware from an old driver is bad. Choose a more recent one. *****: Luckily bcm43xx driver doesn't include microcode11 uploads at the moment. *****: But this can be added in the future... extracting bcm43xx_pcm4.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_pcm5.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval01.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval02.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval03.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval04.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval05.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval06.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval07.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval08.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval09.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval10.fw ... 3- I installed the firwware to /lib/firmware [root@amturing bcm43xx-fwcutter-003]# make installfw if ! [ -d /lib/firmware ]; then mkdir /lib/firmware; fi install -o 0 -g 0 -m 600 bcm43xx_*.fw /lib/firmware 4 Restart my machine. [root@amturing bcm43xx-fwcutter-003]# iwconfig eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4306" Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off I run manually: iwconfig eth1 essid .. iwconfig eth1 rate 11Mb iwconfig eth1 mode Managed iwconfig eth1 ap 00:0d:72:7c:24:c9 iwconfig eth1 key restricted 00000000 I run again iwconfig ans I see again: Access Point invalid The worst thing is when I do a iwlist eth1 scan My computer freeze and iwlist says something like eth1 no such device!!!! The last thing logged before the freeze: Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: set security called Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .active_key = 0 Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .level = 1 Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .enabled = 1 Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .encrypt = 1 Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first. Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up? Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned on Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Chip initialized Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA initialized Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: 80211 cores initialized Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Keys cleared This is info from my /var/log/messages at startup: Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7 Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno(a)linux.intel.com> Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx driver Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x3 Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Number of cores: 5 Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243, enabled Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x5, vendor 0x4243, disabled Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243, enabled Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243, disabled Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243, enabled Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 2, Type 2, Revision 2 Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2) Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x3d4-0x4ff: clean. Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x3c0-0x3d2: clean. Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 0/64 Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0260 (TX) max used slots: 0/512 Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0240 (TX) max used slots: 0/512 Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0220 (TX) max used slots: 0/512 Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/512 Feb 28 00:11:32 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: set security called Feb 28 00:11:32 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .active_key = 0 Feb 28 00:11:32 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .level = 1 Feb 28 00:11:32 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .enabled = 1 Feb 28 00:11:32 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .encrypt = 1 Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: set security called Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .active_key = 0 Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .level = 1 Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .enabled = 1 Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .encrypt = 1 Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first. Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up? Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned on Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Chip initialized Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA initialized Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: 80211 cores initialized Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Keys cleared Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready I tried disabling encription in my AP but this didn't work neither. By the way my acces point is a 2Wire Appliance Other messages that i recover from messages before a freeze: Freeze n-2: Feb 27 22:56:35 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at: drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:403:bcm43xx_plcp_get_bitrate() Feb 27 23:08:09 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at: drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:403:bcm43xx_plcp_get_bitrate() Freeze n-1: Feb 27 23:32:35 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at: drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:403:bcm43xx_plcp_get_bitrate() I'd like to fix the problem, but I don't know what else to do! Thanks for your help Alberto Patino

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Cinema Display 30 and Radeon 9600
by Scott 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Greets. First off, this is NOT on a Mac or PPC system. :) I seem to have run into a hardware issue while trying out FC5 test 3 i386. I have an ATI Radeon 9600 (RV350 AGP) connected to an Apple Cinema Display 30. This card is known to support the dual link dvi connection required to display 2560x1600 which is the native resolution of the ACD 30. During install I see no video after leaving text mode. I can switch back to vt2 and check the logs. The X server apparently launches just fine and the only EE logged is about dri not being able to load. I think that is expected given the chipset of the 9600. I've tried various video resolutions that I know to work, including 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768. This system is a dual boot config with Windows XP SP2 also on the drive. The video card and monitor work as expected under XP, which is great to confirm that I have the monitor hooked to the right DVI port of the 9600 and that the monitor will work at full resolution. Any suggestions for getting video during install? For now I'm installing in text mode and plan to try and get video after the install is complete. -- Scott

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Copy files to NFS directory loose time stamps
by Paul Dickson 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

If I do a "cp -a" to a NFS volume, the resulting files have the current time stamp. Do I need to change my mount options or is this a kernel bug? Current options in fstab: defaults,owner,rw,user,auto,hard,intr,exec -Paul

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eth0 ceases to function after reboot on FC5T3
by Dane Mutters 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Hello all. I just installed test 3 from DVD, and after rebooting eth0 will no longer work. I can't ping local or internet addresses by name or by IP. Currently, it's set to static IP, but DHCP doesn't work either. It worked fine during the installation and on the first boot, but quit after that. Any ideas? Should this be filed as a bug report, or is this a known issue? I tried googling for it, but turned up no solutions. Thanks. --Dane

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FC5, progression or regression?
by Stanton Finley 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

My Intel onboard 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller used to run glxgears at blinding speeds with FC4 and I didn't even have to install a driver for it on my eMachines T5026. It just worked great out of the box on FC4. Now with FC5 (in the absence of glxgears which apparently I can't get on FC5) my 3d graphics and screensavers run jerkily and seem sluggish. Firefox 1.5 rendering time is abysmal compared to Firefox 1.0.7 on FC4 on this same machine. It has a 3 GHz P4 processor for heaven's sake. It should run FC5 like the wind. Stanton Finley http://stanton-finley.net/

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