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Boot hangs after fresh install
by Ned Voorhees 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

Hello, I am a Fedora newbie, although I have used other flavors of unix for a number of years. I have just downloaded and installed FC3 32-bit 2.5.9-1.667. I checked the media before the install and it passed. The installation experience was nice/easy and all seemed to go as expected. At the end of the installation process, I was prompted to eject the cd and click a button to reboot. I did this and the machine hung on startup. After waiting for 10 minutes or so, I rebooted again (and several more times) and it always hangs in the same place. This machine is an old Aptiva with a Pentium 350 with 128M RAM. I checked the hardware just before installing Fedora core by booting the existing Windows 98 OS that was installed on it. Win98 came up just fine. It is not dual boot - blew away *everything* on the hard drive to install one new partition with Fedora core only. Below are the messages shown on the screen at boot time: --- snip --- Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)' root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet [Linux-bzImage, setup=0z1400, size=0x155da5] initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img [Linux-initrd@0x7ef3000, 0xecfed bytes] --- snip --- The above is all that is shown on the screen when the boot process hangs. If anyone has any suggestions on what I might want to do or check, I would very much appreciate it. Thanks much, Ned

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Your e-mail message has been rejected ???
by gaetan yavorsky 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

What is this ??? I post 2 messages on the list, and each time I receive back this king of e-mail coming from : Auto.Reply(a)lee.k12.nc.us Looking my email shows me that my original message was successfully sent. Looking expanded mail header, shows me that the mail is coming normaly from the list. So, what is this ??? This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://linux.bitdefender.com/ ******************************* This message has been blocked because it scored over the maximum spam threshold. The reason your message was denied was because of the following: Yes, score=10.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO, UNSUBSCRIBE,XXX autolearn=no version=3.0.0 Your message contained an instance of the previously mentioned tests (see test= above) If you did not send the original message then please ignore this e-mail. Sun Jan 2 09:32:08 EST 2005 -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://linux.bitdefender.com/

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What happened to my swap ? !!
by Appeet 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

I originally installed my installation with swap on hdb4 (linux on hda2) However when I "physically" mounted my second harddrive I had to install it as a secondary slave. Because of this reason the definition for my swap is now hdd4. When I do a "top" I see that swap available is "0" (I originally had 1 gb on hdb4) so i guess my question now is how do I make linux use hdd4 as swap. Thanks in advance. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more.

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(dell8200) laptop with disk(hda) and cd(hdb) too busy?
by Peter Teuben 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

My dell8200 laptop has often given me problems with disk I/O speed in both KDE and Gnome when their cd-cgecking deamon was active. Thus a command like hdparm -t /dev/hda would give me terribly erratic results (1-7 MB/sec) if there was no CD in the tray. Once mounted, things were better, or normal. I'd get more like 17-22 MB/s, depending on the disk of course. At least in rh7 and rh9 i knew how to solve it (they were filed in bugzilla). I'm sadly returning to this problem with FC3. This time the problem is even present outside of X. I returned to runlevel 3, but even there i can terrible I/O. One side-effect of bad disk I/O is that the "startx" command will take forever to load, and don't even try something like openoffice :-) So, first of all, i'm looking for soulmates who can confirm that a dell8200, or any other laptop with hda and hdb populated have the same problem, and then see how this can be solved. As it stands now, i cannot use FC3. I don't know if the problem should occur with two drives on hda and hdb, since once the CD is either inserted or mounted, the problem appears to go away. I should also add i've been running FC3 just fine on a desktop, with IDE (a+c) software raid and a SATA disk. - peter

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Mount Fat32-HD
by Falko Jeske 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

Hi all, first: i am a newbee in linux, but advanced in PC generally. I usually uses Windows. I wanna mount my fat32-HDs in Linux. I used "mount /hdax -t vfat /home/name/win". But after reboot, i need to mount again. How can i mount permanent? Thanx Falko

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pam message in /var/log/messages
by nix4me 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

Hi, I am getting bombarded with the following message in the /var/log/messages log and I have no idea what is causing it. Jan 2 12:33:27 localhost pam_timestamp_check: pam_timestamp: `/' permissions are lax Jan 2 12:34:02 localhost last message repeated 7 times Any ideas on what is causing this? Mark

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Re: now i can't install ipw2200 NEW Failed
by Jim 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

i have all 3 rpms installed i'm going to reboot to see if the card shows up at boot thanks fpr the patience -- James Lawrence Rochester NY

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Hostname in fc
by Partha Bagchi 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

There was a question about hostname in FC, namely that the router did not show the name of the linux machine on the router DHCP table. In my setup (FC3, linksys router), I made the following change: Go to System Settings -> network and then select your interface. I have wired and wireless. I picked the wireless and selected edit. I then changed the DHCP hostname to my computer name and saved. I restarted the network and voila - They name was visible in the router DHCP table. HTH, Partha

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now i can't install ipw2200
by Jim 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

i removed all libraries references etc to ipw2200 in my system i went to re-install the driver and now i can't here is a snip of the errors [root@localhost wireless]# cd ipw2200-0.19 [root@localhost ipw2200-0.19]# [root@localhost ipw2200-0.19]# make make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-1.681_FC3/build SUBDIRS=/home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19 MODVERDIR=/home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19 modules make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.681_FC3/build' Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST Warning: could not find versions for .tmp_versions/ipw2200.mod make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.681_FC3/build' [root@localhost ipw2200-0.19]# see http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/INSTALL for install info -- James Lawrence Rochester NY

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Confused with scanner and libusb
by gaetan yavorsky 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

Hi, Moving from FC1 to FC3 Prior to FC3, I had a script like : res=`/usr/bin/scanimage --mode Color -d epson:/dev/usb/scanner0 -- resolution 100 |/usr/bin/pnmtojpeg >$1` Now, scanimage -L shows :device `epson:libusb:002:012' is a Epson StylusScan2500 flatbed scanner But the problem is that the libusb:xxx:yyy is changing each time the scanner is plugged in. Is there any way to make a symlink to something like /dev/scanner, to use always the same device ? Thanks. Gaetan Yavorsky

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