Grub install broken after kernel update
by Pierrette Barbaresco
Hello,
We updated smp kernel on a Sun V20Z AMD Opteron Scsi device.
After installation we tried grub-install /dev/sda and we got
/sbin/grub-install: line 475: 4041 Segmentation fault
[root@cict-009 ~]# uname -a
Linux cict-009.toulouse.grid5000.fr 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp #1 SMP Thu Jan 13 16:58:29 EST 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@cict-009 ~]# grub-install /dev/sda
/sbin/grub-install: line 475: 4041 Segmentation fault $grub_shell --batch $no_floppy --device-map=$device_map >$log_file <<EOF
root $root_drive
setup $force_lba --stage2=$grubdir/stage2 --prefix=$grub_prefix $install_drive
quit
EOF
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.
# this device map was generated by anaconda
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/sda
Any idea.
Regards
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19 years, 2 months
Attention Fedora Core 3 Radeon users
by Mike A. Harris
Does DRI actually work on Radeon for _anyone_ out there without
crashing either immediately, or within some timeframe?
There are oodles of DRI related radeon bugs, and I'm just trying
to get an idea if it actually works for anyone at all, so we can
decide the best approach to resolving the issues reported so far.
Thanks in advance.
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OS Systems Engineer - X11 Developer - Red Hat
19 years, 2 months
USB2 memory stick failing to mount
by Peter Lawler
Hi!
I've googled and check the archives a little, but found not much of use.
I can't get my USB2 memory stick to mount. This is about the only useful
kind of info I can get out of dmesg.
usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 2-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 2-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 2-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
My system is 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp Pentium 4. Any thoughts/comments
appreciated.
Regards,
Pete.
19 years, 2 months
i2o raidutils problem (FC 3, kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp)
by Danny Yee
My RAID arrays seem to be working fine, but I have no way of checking
up on them, as I haven't been able to get raidutils to work with the
latest FC3 kernel.
# /usr/bin/raidutil -L logical
Engine connect failed: COMPATIBILITY number
osdIOrequest : File /dev/dpti17 Could Not Be Opened
# rpm -qf /usr/bin/raidutil
raidutils-0.0.4-2
# uname -srvmp
Linux 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp #1 SMP Thu Jan 13 16:53:16 EST 2005 i686 i686
# lsmod|grep i2o
i2o_proc 29461 0
i2o_config 14673 0
i2o_block 16589 5
i2o_core 41065 3 i2o_proc,i2o_config,i2o_block
Is this "known not to work" or have I missed something?
Danny.
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19 years, 2 months
Could an Intel 486 wake up with FC3
by Kumara Jayaweera
Could somebody advice me if it is a good idea to do so.
I have an Intel 486 DX4-S mechine with 504MBs of HDD
and 16MB's of RAM. it is hardly running windows 98 and Internet. (very slow and with a lot of crashes and stucks).
could someone advice me to put FC1 on it and test???
May I try it? hope your advice from the list. I want to enjoy the power of Linux in different ways
ThX in advance
Mohan
19 years, 2 months
Big mistaking extracting files, how to "undo" it?
by Leandro Melo
Hi.
I had a zip file which i needed to extract.
This zip file contains a base folder in which there are a few subfolders, etc...
I opened the zip file with file roller, which naturally showed me the
base folder (the one i just mentioned). Then I set it to extract this
file under /usr/.
Specifically, this was the Eclipse project file. The zip file contains
a base folder called eclipse in which are all the subfolders and
project files.
Then i thought that file roller would extract the files to me in a way
that i would maitain the same hierarchy. So, i thought i would have
the folder /usr/eclipse and under /usr/eclipse i would have the other
subfolders and files.
The problem is that when i told it to extract, file roller simply
extract all FILES of the original zip file undre /usr/. So now i got
hundreds of file under my /usr/ directory.
Addionally, file roller didn't create any of the subfolders of the
eclipse base folder (which, as said, was not created either).
What could i do to "undo" this process? I'm very new to linux.
Is there a way i to delete files created at some specific date??? So i
just would go with this. For example: Delete all files created after
saturday 30.
Also, i could delete only all FILES from my /usr/ dir, which before
the whole thing only had subfolders. Maybe i could use rm for that,
but as i'm a linux beginner i'm not sure which comannda line options
to use. Maybe: rm -/usr/*
Well, any help is appreciated.
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Leandro
19 years, 2 months
Re: TurboTax - Linux?
by Pete Schmitt
I used TaxAct last year and really like it. It's both web based and PC-based.
Since I'm a UNIX bigot, I used the web-based version. It also remembers you
from year to year. It can be found here: http://www.taxact.com/
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:25:36PM -0500, Steven Pasternak wrote:
> This is really out of the blue, but if I use linux and want to do taxes with
> my computer with something like turbotax, does it work with wine? Is there a
> linux equivilant for it? Like I said, this is REALLY random. Thanks!
>
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My Prayer: "Lord, please make me the kind of person my dogs think I am."
19 years, 2 months
Fedora Community: Under threat?
by D. D. Brierton
I've been a RHL and FC user for quite some time. I've been on the
mailing lists, and had bugzilla accounts for a long time now. But this
mailing list is strangling itself. The volume is way too high. Look at
the beginning of the Fedora Project and see how many Red Hat engineers
regularly posted to this list, and now look at how many do (Tim Waugh
and Dave Jones make an occasional appearance here these days, and we're
lucky to have them). That's it. Who's driven them away? WE HAVE.
I work for a living. I have no idea what most of the other people on
this list do, but I often feel in a minority. This list should have a
narrow focus, restricted to using Fedora, and that's it. But instead we
have all manner of ridiculous threads, not all of them flame wars, that
go on and on and on. For the last couple of months I actually suspended
delivery from this list because I just couldn't cope with the volume.
Even as it is, I skim through messages, quite possibly missing things
that i could either learn from or help others with just because there is
too much traffic. Who's at fault? Well there is no one else to blame but
ourselves. We *are* the list. Either we decide to only respond to
genuine questions and issues, and ignore the trolls and flame-bait, or
we give into our urges and wreck this community completely. Given the
traffic the last couple of days I have myself considered unsubscribing.
Which is a shame, as whilst that flame war was going on I was helping
someone who was a complete newbie actually install Fedora. Shame on
everyone who perpetuated that total waste of time with so little
consideration for the silent majority on this list.
All of you can say, "If you don't like the heat get out of the kitchen",
but if the temperature gets any hotter so many people might leave that
the Fedora community might end up as one long slanging match like the
Debian community is. I assume that that is not what we want.
So could all of us think twice about what to reply to? If someone says
something stupid, or slags us off, or asks a question they could clearly
answer for themselves if they just tried, how about just ignoring them?
How about all of us exercising a little restraint?
Best, Darren
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Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson)
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19 years, 2 months
xorg external monitor display problem
by David.Mackintosh＠xdroop.com
Kind of a specialized question here, I can't find anything on the web
which matches my problem.
I have this new Dell D600 laptop which I have installed FC2 on. It
has a SXVGA+ (ie, 1400x1050) display. X will display at this
resolution (at 24-bit depth) on the LCD display, no problem.
However, when I plug the laptop into a docking station which has an
Acer 77e 17" monitor attached to it, the Acer displays the 1400x1050
desktop, as viewed through a panning 640x480 window.
Experimentation has shown that the presence or absence of the dock
(ie just plugging the Acer straight into the back of the Dell) makes
no difference.
I know it is possible to have this monitor display 1400x1050x24 --
Windows does it. I've also driven this monitor at 1600x1280x24 when
attached to a different linux system. I also know that it is
possible to have this Linux display properly at this resolution on an
external monitor -- I have a Sony G400 at the office which does it.
I have gone through the FC2 System Settings -> Display applet
and have explicitly defined my monitor as an AcerView 77e. I have confirmed
in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf that there is an appropriate monitor defined:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Acer 77e"
HorizSync 30.0 - 72.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0
EndSection
The presence and/or absence of this section doesn't appear to change anything.
When I boot the laptop at the office, it is connected to the Sony G400 and it does
the appropriate thing. At home, it still does not behave with the Acer.
In the Xorg.0.log, I've noticed that when connected to the Sony, the log reports:
(II) RADEON(0): Displays Detected: Monitor1--Type 2, Monitor2--Type 1
(II) RADEON(0): Monitor2 EDID data ---------------------------
(II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer: SNY Model: 290 Serial#: 8011257
(II) RADEON(0): Year: 2000 Week: 25
(II) RADEON(0): EDID Version: 1.2
[...lots of monitor stuff trimmed...]
(II) RADEON(0): End of Monitor2 EDID data --------------------
(II) RADEON(0):
(II) RADEON(0): Primary Display == Type 2
(II) RADEON(0): Clone Display == Type 1
...which tells me that it is detecting the Sony all by itself and
making appropriate assumptions. Where as when it is connected ot the
Acer, I see:
(II) RADEON(0): Displays Detected: Monitor1--Type 2, Monitor2--Type 1
(II) RADEON(0):
(II) RADEON(0): Primary Display == Type 2
(II) RADEON(0): Clone Display == Type 1
...which tells me that either the Acer isn't detected at all, or it
is detected improperly. However, I still don't know what to do about
it. I'm starting to suspect that the config file is merely there for
my amusement and xorg is trying to auto-detect things at startup
rather than read the config file.
What I can't find is an explanation as to why I'm getting this 640x480
on an external monitor which is clearly capable of displaying much more, nor
an explanation of how to fix it. All pages on the web I've found suggest
that it means that my monitor can't run the video mode I selected (known
to be false) or that my video card can't run the video mode I selected
(also known to be false). It has to be a configuration problem.
Incidentally, a co-worker has the same problem, only he's started with
FC2 and done an "upgrade" install to FC3.
Any ideas what I should begin looking for?
People interested in the complete contents of my xorg.conf file, and/or
the log files showing what happens when the Acer, Sony, or nothing is
plugged into the computer can find them attached to the snip at
http://xdroop.dhs.org/space/Linux/Dell+D600+External+Monitor
Thanks for any comments or guidance.
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19 years, 2 months
FC3 and NTFS
by Loren Lockwood
Hi all. I'm very new at Linux. Have tried a couple of distros and like
FC3 best so far. Some problems exist, though. I have dual boot with
Win2K using NTFS. FC3 can't see that partition. Bumming around on the
net I found out that seeing NTFS is an option which is turned off by
default in the kernel of this distro. To turn it on, they say I have to
recompile the kernel. That seems scary to me, but I found a site with
very extensive instructions and decided to try it. But first I need the
kernel source code. Where do I find that? I poked around in Red Hat's
site, also Fedora's, but didn't find anything.
Also, does this mean that every time a new kernel is issued I'll have to
go through the same procedure? Isn't there some way to get this option
turned on by default?
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
BTW, I have read through a couple hundred emails from this list and not
found any other references to this problem. Can it be that nobody else
needs NTFS access from FC3? Is that why it's turned off by default? I
still need W2K for certain jobs, although I hope that the number of such
jobs will approach zero as time goes by.
Thanks. -Loren
19 years, 2 months
