selinux-policy-3.3.1-110.fc9 Error
by Joshua C.
when trying to install the new selinux-policy-3.3.1-110.fc9 I get this:
Installing : selinux-policy-targeted [1/2]
libsepol.context_from_record: type cyphesis_run_t is not defined
libsepol.context_from_record: could not create context structure
libsepol.context_from_string: could not create context structure
libsepol.sepol_context_to_sid: could not convert
system_u:object_r:cyphesis_run_t:s0 to sid
invalid context system_u:object_r:cyphesis_run_t:s0
libsemanage.semanage_install_active: setfiles returned error code 1.
semodule: Failed!
15 years, 5 months
gspca modules in FC10
by Benjamín Valero Espinosa
Since I updated to FC10 Rawhide the webcam in my laptop doesn't work. In FC9
it worked thanks to the gspca modules in Livna repository, so I have been
expecting them to appear in RPMFusion. I have read that this functionality
has been inserted in the kernel, but of course I have the last kernel
updated and I can't make it work. Please, any info?
Benja
15 years, 5 months
F10 on Homebuilt Box - Absolutely Brutal...!!!!
by Christopher A Williams
I decided to take the plunge and install F10 x86_64 preview on my main
system at home. This was absolutely the WORST and MOST BRUTAL
installation of Fedora I have ever experienced!!! What in wide world of
sports is going on here??? I was up until midnight trying to get my
system working again.
Had I been a newbie, my impression on Fedora and Linux would have been
that it truly sucks big time. Have I gotten anyone's attention yet...?
...Good. Here's what's wrong and (hopefully) what's needed to fix it.
First here's a summary of my system config (output of lshal available):
Motherboard:
eVGA e7100/630i
This MB uses nVidia onboard GeForce 7100 video with the nForce 630i
chipset. It also uses nVidia MCP73 High Definition Audio
CPU: Intel 2.4GHZ Core2 Quad
4GB RAM
320GB Western Digital SATA drive (WDC_WD3200AAKS)
Monitor: Acer P243W (connected via DVI cable)
OK - Here we go...
Installation was a nightmare (as witnessed by a friend who also
frequents this list). The main thing that was wrong was video. Simply
put, it just doesn't work - and to the point that the Live CD is
unusable and the Install DVD will only install in text mode. What I
found (after a lot of troubleshooting) was that F10 in the default
configuration just doesn't recognize the nVidia card correctly. To get
this to even come up, I had to:
1) Build a bootable USB drive from the live CD with a 2GB persistent
overlay
2) Boot the USB drive, and (because you get a BLANK SCREEN for a GDM
login window) use Alt-F2 to switch to a different tty
3) Login as root and then install system-config-display to the pen drive
4) Switch to run level 3
5) Run the command: system-config-display --reconfig and accept the
default configuration (which meant using the VESA driver and NOT the nv
driver)
6) launch launch X via startx and then run the installer
Notes on this (after "fixing" the USB drive):
1) Loading ANY video driver other than the VESA driver fails miserably.
2) Running the autologin loads a session, which immediately goes to a
blanked out white screen after trying to load 2 "untitled" windows (not
sure what these are), but just makes the desktop unusable. You must
switch to runlevel 3, login as root, load X, and then install.
3) Prior to installing, the hard disk MUST BE MANUALLY PARTITIONED with
fdisk such that ALL partitions are removed. If partitions exist on the
drive, the installer fails when trying to re-partition the drive. You
MUST REBOOT before attempting to install after removing all partitions
because the kernel apparently refuses to use the new partition table.
4) Something in the installation process takes a REALLY LONG TIME to
finish (I mean 20 minutes or more). I later found out that it has
something to do with kernel install / updates.
After getting to a successful completion of an install, reboot from the
hard disk and X will again no longer work. You have to do the following
next:
1) Boot the system, and switch to a different tty (as before)
2) Switch to runlevel 3
3) Install system-config-display (again)
4) Run "system-config-display --reconfig" and accept the VESA driver
defaults (again)
5) Reboot the machine so that firstboot can do its thing
Next, you get F10 in all its 800x600, 16 color display resolution glory
(think Monty Python style "...and there was great rejoicing" applause
here)...
First, run all of the rawhide patches. ANOTHER PROBLEM - the kernel
update alone took over 20 minutes to complete. Why??? It only seemed to
move forward after I put selinux into permissive mode - at which point
several hal oriented messages came through. I think this is also why the
last part of the install took 20 minutes (looking like it was dead at
the time). Reboot after the patches are done.
Next, go get the RPMFusion nVidia drivers (after poking around in all of
the /etc/yum.repos.d based repository files to point them to something
that actually works). Apparently, RPMFusion is currently still confused
over if we should be looking at the rawhide or pre-F10 repositories.
Doing this multiple times last night, there was no rhyme or reason to
this I could figure out, but eventually the rawhide repos worked.
Reboot one more time, and F10 came up on my screen in accelerated
1920x1200 resolution with all of the colors intact.
So now I have F10 running and all of my data has been restored from
backups.
* Flash works kind of - there's no sound.
* Speaking of sound, the sound tests work, but I don't actually GET any
sound to play until a few seconds after something tries to play. Thus,
the login sound never gets heard, neither does the logoff sound, etc.
* Evolution Bogofilter can't seem to figure out how to look for junk
mail. Loads of "Error checking for Junk" messages. Spamassasin works,
but is impressively slow (incredibly slow if you do remote tests).
I'm sure I'll find more as I dig into this deeper.
So there you have it. A very BRUTAL installation session for F10 preview
and an upgrade to rawhide.
I really hope we can do a lot better than this. My lshal output is
available upon request.
Cheers,
Chris
--
==================================
By all means marry;
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
--Socrates
15 years, 5 months
preupgrade driverlist misses e1000e
by Henk Breimer
Trying to use preupgrade. after reboot preupgrade complained that it
could not find a driver.
It presented an enormous list of drivers.
My intel mb likes the e1000e driver, but only e100 and e1000 were
available.
Does a solution exist for this problem?
Thanks
Henk
15 years, 5 months
f10 beta sendmail boot delay
by cornel panceac
after installing f10beta (x86_64) from current boot.iso, the boot has a
significant delay waiting for sendmail and sm-client to fail. the problem is
not present after installing from live cd. of course, disabling the sendmail
service skips the problem for now.
--
Linux counter #213090
15 years, 5 months
F10 on Asus N10J netbook
by David A. De Graaf
It's probably too late to matter, but here's my reaction to F10:
I've recently installed Fedora 10 Live onto my new Asus N10J-A2
netbook and am not happy with the experience. I am very sad to see
the direction that Fedora is taking toward making it more Windows-like
and disregarding important *NIX precepts. I especially deplore the
trend toward forcing use of Gnome instead of properly treating X as just
another utility that may or may not be useful. I happen to dislike Gnome
and use XFCE in its place, but start it only when I deem it worthwhile.
Along with having Gnome rammed down our throats, comes the concealment
of valuable progress information during boot and shutdown. What's the
use of that? Can anyone say they prefer to be left with a blank
screen while important things are happening (or not happening)?
We have the new 'plymouth' system to thank. The designers chose not
only to suppress the grub menu, but all the important [OK] or [FAIL]
messages as various system elements start, or fail to start.
Instead we see an animated logo, devoid of information content.
The Release Notes tell how to overcome this defective design -
Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to comment out the 'hiddenmenu' line,
and change the kernel line to delete 'rhgb' and add 'vga=0x315'
as boot options. Actually, the Notes advocate 0x318, which is invalid
on my machine, however the error message is improved. It now lists
the available VGA modes with an alphabetic label for immediate use,
but also with the proper hex code for addition to grub.conf.
I customarily edit /etc/inittab to use init level 3 so I can see the
important startup messages and delay entering X until I'm ready.
The F10 bootup and login procedure is all very sanitary, very
Windows-like, and very free of information. Is this good?
I think not.
The Gnomophiles on the design committee seem to have forgotten some
basic precepts of good system design. An increasing number of
subsystems that have nothing whatever to do with a graphical interface
now have Gnome as a prerequisite.
With Fedora 9 we had the spectacle of pulseaudio which would start
only in Gnome, but not in XFCE4. The complaints were loud due to the
frustration this engendered. I managed to deduce a complex fix so
that any and all users could use the audio system, including the
ability to again play a sound in rc.local (run by root), and to have
sound capability in consoles and in XFCE4 and in Gnome. This required
editing of the sacrosanct udev rules. Now these rules are gone in
F10, and I haven't found where they went.
The Release Notes promise us a "Glitch-Free PulseAudio".
Sorry folks. If anything, its worse.
The draconian permission restrictions, previously cryptically buried in
/etc/udev/rules.d, have now disappeared. Therefore they cannot be fixed.
Empirically, if I invoke startx to run Gnome, sound can be produced.
If I invoke startxfce4 to run XFCE4 the sound system is silent.
If I install in rc.local the command
/usr/bin/aplay /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
no sound occurs at bootup to let me know it's ready to logon.
Pulseaudio is a system daemon that should be started by a script in
/etc/init.d just like other system services, so its capabilities are
available to all users at all times, without regard to whether X is
running or not. The current design is unacceptable.
It's hopelessly frustrating.
I understand this ill-considered design has made it nearly impossible for
blind users to log on. It's merely inconvenient for me, since I enjoy
hearing an audible signal when the system is ready for me to log on.
Not having sound is certainly a showstopper for Fedora 10.
I've read about, but not experienced, the feature of NetworkManager
that requires a user to login before an encrypted wireless link will
connect. I would really like to hear someone explain how a remote
machine, connected only by wireless, can successfully auto-reboot.
A wireless connection, encrypted or not, is an attribute of a system,
not a user. Whether a user is logged in is irrelevant. To require a
user to login first is an incredibly dumb design.
Here are some specific complaints:
1) Now that I've managed to unsuppress the boot messages, the first
one seen is "Could not detect stabilization. Waiting 10 seconds."
So the vaunted faster bootup has been defeated by some mysterious
failure on my Asus N10 netbook.
2) The default Gnome login method, gdm, I think, now absolutely
forbids root to login. Previously it merely warned that this
was a bad practice. During installation you are strongly urged but
not compelled to create a regular user account. I did not, because
that would conflict with the standard set of user accounts and user
IDs that I apply to all my machines. I run a little script to create
all accounts in a standardized way. The Fedora 10 guardians (nearly)
defeated me. When installation finished and I rebooted I could not log
in, thanks to this newly stupid gdm restriction.
Fortunately, I remembered to switch to a console (CTL-ALT-F1), where
root was still allowed to login. I ran my little script to add the
standard list of users and saved the day.
Have Linux users really grown too stupid to understand the admonition
not to log in as root (except when really necessary)?
Finally, here are some real improvements and benefits of Fedora 10:
1) My Asus N10J netbook contains some new hardware that wasn't
well supported previously. The RTL8111/8168B gigabit ethernet port
worked in F9 but not during installation. Now it works fine.
2) The wireless adapter, Atheros Comm device 002a (rev 01), which
includes 802.11 a/b/n, requires the new ath9k driver, which wasn't
available in F9. It works perfectly.
3) There's a builtin camera that seems to work perfectly with the
newly expanded support for cameras. The 'cheese' program "just works",
displaying my handsome visage, albeit upside down and reversed. There are
option settings to fix that, but no way to save them (that I've found).
4) The sound system, with the caveats above, produces sound that's
barely audible. But that's an improvment, because F9 didn't support
the sound card at all.
--
David A. De Graaf DATIX, Inc. Hendersonville, NC
dad(a)datix.us www.datix.us
15 years, 5 months
No graphic mode on Asus boards
by A.J. Werkman`
On the Asus M3N-H/HDMI and M2N-VM DVI board installation of rawhide
falls back to text mode because the X-server fails.
Are these boards/chipsets not support at the moment?
Koos.
15 years, 5 months
Problem setting up wired networking
by Anne Wilson
I've just completed an install of a rawhide snapshot, approximately one week
old. I was not able to configure the network during the install, so I'm doing
it now. Unusually, the wireless network has set up without a problem but the
wired connection is failing to set. The 'OK' remains greyed out.
Is it necessary to give a MAC address during setup? I confess I don't know
how to get it until I have a connection.
I want to use static IP on the wired connection. Is that not possible at this
stage?
I can fall back to dhcp for the present, if that's the case.
Anne
15 years, 5 months
Daily Preview Snapshots...
by Christopher A Williams
OK - I'm feeling really stupid at the moment. Most likely this is a
caffeine deficiency (I'm addressing that now... <grin>).
In the meantime, are there some post F10 PR snapshots out there? If so,
I have an opportunity to test them since I'm reloading my laptop...
Cheers,
Chris
--
==================================
By all means marry;
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
--Socrates
15 years, 5 months
