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Suggestion for fedora.redhat.com
by AARON DRAKE 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

Hi, Just thought it would be helpful to mention to persons who are new to linux or IRC that in order to join #fedora on a freenode server you have to register with NickServe. It would have saved me about two days worth of headaches trying to find out how to identify myself. Thanks

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OpenLDAP on Fedora
by Bevan C. Bennett 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

I'm trying to use an FC1 system as a departmental LDAP server. I previously had an ageing RH7.1 box happily performing this task. The first hurdle was that approximately once per week slapd would start to syslog messages about how it couldn't open /etc/hosts.deny because there were too many open files. I tried to address this with the following: # /etc/security/limits.conf ldap hard nofile 65535 #!/bin/sh #/usr/sbin/slapd-wrapper ulimit -n 65535 exec /usr/sbin/slapd $@ And changing /etc/init.d/ldap from: daemon ${slapd} -u ldap -h "ldap:///" -l daemon $OPTIONS $SLAPD_OPTIONS to: daemon ${slapd}-wrapper -u ldap -h "ldap:///" -l daemon $OPTIONS $SLAPD_OPTIONS This seems to have settled that issue, as the number of open files appears to happily edge over the 1024 former line of death. [root@urd sbin]# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr 1508 890 209708 However, something is still wrong. Still approximately once per week (possibly corresponding with open files exceeding 1024), my slapd now appears to be failing in the same manner, only silently (no syslog messages). Clients (even the ldap server itself) start reporting: nss_ldap: could not get LDAP result - Can't contact LDAP server and applications that try to do authentication start failing fatally. Could there be other per-user limits that are preventing openldap from servicing new requests? Does anyone have any ideas of how to avoid this behavior? Why do Redhat7.x (and presumably RHEL) not suffer from similar problems? Has anyone actually gotten LDAP clients to successfully fail over to an alternate server? (I have it configured, but it never seems to work...)

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RE: USB Devices not working
by Shawn Iverson 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

> From: Shawn Iverson [mailto:shawn@nccsc.k12.in.us] > Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 5:33 PM > > See bugzilla report: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113787 > Under the section of this bugzilla report where you copy certain modules.usbmap to usb.usermap is not necessary if the following is done (specifically with the Lexar Jumpdrive, but should affect ALL usb-storage devices): Edit the /etc/hotplug/hotplug.functions do the following: Move the following script lines up: if echo "$MODULE" | grep -q "usb-storage" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then [ -x /usr/sbin/updfstab ] && /usr/sbin/updfstab fi Move them right above this section: if [ -x $HOTPLUG_DIR/$TYPE/$MODULE ]; then debug_mesg Module setup $MODULE for $DESCRIPTION $HOTPLUG_DIR/$TYPE/$MODULE LOADED=true fi The $HOTPLUG_DIR/$TYPE/$MODULE translates to the /etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage script. It executes mount as indicated in bugzilla #113787, but nothing mounts because no entry is made in /etc/fstab. The reason that the usb.usermap workaround works is because the usb.agent script calls load_drivers () again for the contents of usb.usermap, and since the entry has been made, the mount succeeds. As for the root problem, I am trying to figure out how the /dev/fd0 device becomes owned by the current user. If I can figure this out then the rest should be history. I am filing this into the bugzilla report.

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RE: USB Devices not working
by Shawn Iverson 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

> From: Shawn Iverson [mailto:shawn@nccsc.k12.in.us] > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 7:20 PM > > > From: Fritz Whittington [mailto:f.whittington@att.net] > > Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 10:46 AM > > > > > > >> Also, once you are have troubleshooted your issue, > always manually > > >> unmount > > >> your device before unplugging it, especially if you are > > performing write > > >> operations to it. > > >> > > How very important! If you don't believe that delayed-write is > > working, try mounting a USB fs (one that uses a solid-state > > memory, like > > Compact Flash or Smart Media), copying several MB of files > > from it to a > > hdd, and note how slow it is. Then delete all the files > on the USB > > device, and copy all the files back. The copy is done almost in an > > instant! But then, when you unmount it, you can see it > take several > > seconds to actually write the files from cache. So if you > > yanked it out > > without unmounting it, you wouldn't really have anything. > > > > It would be nice if usb devices such as this could be forced > to write their > data ASAP instead of waiting for a umount (despite a > performance lag). It > is so tempting for many people that I know to just go ahead > and unplug. I > am going to do some research on this. > > The closest thing I could find was the "sync" option that can be passed to mount. Taking the device entry out of updfstab and manually making an fstab entry seems to be the best way to pass the sync option. This works for the msdos and vfat filesystems. It still is necessary to wait before unplugging the device, just not as long.

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Upgrading to KDE 3.2 in Fedora core 1
by Haroldo Dijigov 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

Hi, Does anybody know if kde 3.2 will be available in fedora core 1 (as RPM package) ? If I got rpm files please, what is the upgrade procedure ? Thanks, Haroldo. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Hotmail, o maior webmail do Brasil. http://www.hotmail.com

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Re: Anyone using Win4Lin from Netraverse with Fedora
by Keith Lofstrom 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

Frank Lipski wrote: > I have used Win4Lin for several years with various versions of Redhat > including 9. I just installed Fedora and the online installer is saying > no compatible kernel found. > > Netraverse shows via faq that is works with core release 1, but now > details. > > This seems to be a very active list so I thought someone out there would > be using Win4Lin with Fedora. > > Thanks, Frank I am using Win4Lin with FC1. I had to patch and recompile the kernel, but I had other things to patch anyway. There are instructions on the Netraverse site that work pretty well. Be sure to configure grub so you can boot both the old and the new kernel, and set those version numbers! I remember there were some issues of the right patch versus the almost right patch, but no details. My Win4Lin source directory (I made a separate one, of course) is: /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2115.W4L and the patch files I used are called mki-adapter_1_2_9.patch and Kernel-Win4Lin3-Fedora1.0_2.4.22.12115.patch . I hope that helps. Recompiling the kernel is scary until you do it once or twice. Then it is merely annoying, coupled with the perverse satisfaction that "da man" doesn't want you to be able to recompile kernels. So do it! Perhaps one of the things that belongs in an FC1 FAQ are the instructions for figuring out which flavor of kernel off the distro disk you are running, then building a .config file that exactly reconstructs an identical kernel. A tiny step to be sure, but being able to duplicate the kernel would be a great first step for cautious newbies learning to patch kernels. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom keithl(a)ieee.org Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs

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Realplayer 9 and crashes
by Bill Spears 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

I'm trying to get realplayer 9 to work. My kernel is kernel-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl. When I try to execute it from a terminal a gui flashes briefly and then the error message: Floating point exception appears. I've tried these versions: $ env LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.22 realplayer as well as =2.2.5, =2.4.19 as well as $ realplayer Is there anyway to make this work? -- Bill Spears <bspears(a)easystreet.com>

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Re: (no subject)
by Erik P. Olsen 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

** Reply to message from Jonathan Chrisitison <jonbon_c(a)blueyonder.co.uk> on Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:47:41 +0000 > Hello, > > I recently acquired another PC is it possible to cluster them but still > use them as a desktop PC on fedora core 1 ? > thanks for yore help Please set a subject on your mail. -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen

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SSH Display Problem
by Mike Chepesky 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

I have a problem relating to SSH and how it handles the creation of new xterm windows. I have an account at my school, and I can log in via SSH using "ssh -l login_name server_name". When in the labs on campus, there is an X Windows environment, and when certain programs are run (e.g. Matlab, emacs), another xterm window will be created. However, when I log in remotely using the above command, and run "matlab" or "emacs", the system just seems to hang, not creating a new xterm window. I looked around for a solution, and it seemed that it might be in the /etc/ssh/ssh_config file. However, this is read-only and cannot be modified, nor can the permissions be changed using chmod. Any suggestions? Mike _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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how make rpm
by peter peter 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

There is a source file > http://spell.linux.sk/aspell/aspell-sk-0.50.3-1.2.tar.bz2 How I make rpm from this file? peto

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