Does Anyone Know How To Get VMware Server Working in Fedora Core 6?
by Jeffrey D. Yuille
Hello,
Has anyone been able to get VMware server working in Fedora Core
6? I have VMware-server-1.0.1-29996 that I would like to install. It
gets to the point near the end of the installation where it aborts. Any
clues as to how to fix this?
Jeff
17 years, 7 months
what partitioning rule am I not aware of?
by Tom Horsley
In an excess of energy I decided to see how many different OSes I
could install to compare their behavior with a weird X bug I
encountered in FC6:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8790
I figured 20 gig was about enough for each root, and decided to
create 7 small /boot partitions near the front of the disk (since
so many boot loaders have problems with big addresses) and 7 20
gig partitions after that for different kernels (my disk is a 160
gig sata drive).
Windows has no problems doing this, but fdisk -l won't print any
info about partitions after /dev/sda15 and if I try to install
FC5 on a system that actually has an sda16 and sda17 partition
(even if I don't try to use them for anything), anaconda blows up
at the partitioning stage when it is about to try to partition
and install.
If I go back to windows, delete the last two partitions, and
re-install, all goes smoothly.
Is there some rule I don't know about on the number of
partitions? Or is it a rule about the starting address of a
partition (can't be too big maybe)?
Its really very irritating that they keep making disks bigger and
bigger and software never seems to know what to do with them :-).
17 years, 7 months
mount doesn't mount on boot-up
by Claude Jones
I've got a third 500GB SATA drive which I mount manually to
~/archive using:
mount -t ext2 -w /dev/sdc1 /home/cj/archive
on reboot, it always fails, and in system logs I find:
Oct 30 02:11:12 localhost kernel: audit(1162192269.878:6): avc:
denied { mounton } for pid=2347 comm="mount" name="archive"
dev=sdb1 ino=65175554 scontext=system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0
tcontext=user_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 tclass=dir
Oct 30 02:11:12 localhost kernel: audit(1162192269.878:7): avc:
denied { mounton } for pid=2347 comm="mount" name="archive"
dev=sdb1 ino=65175554 scontext=system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0
tcontext=user_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 tclass=dir
It's calling my drive dev=sdb1 --- Why would this be happenning?
Once the machine comes up, it mounts manually again with the above
command???
--
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA
17 years, 7 months
tty oddness since upgrade to Fedora Core 6
by Elaine Normandy
Yesterday, I upgraded my desktop to Fedora Core 6: an upgrade, not a clean
install. Since then, when rebooting, I find that at the end of the boot
sequence I am looking at one of the text tty's, not the gdm screen. I can
get to the gdm screen by pressing Alt-F7. Is there a way that I can boot
directly to the gdm screen. I am in runlevel 5, and Xorg and gdm are
running, I just don't see them until I hit Alt-F7.
--
Weblog: http://www.stardel.com/fiveacres/
17 years, 7 months
e2fsck advice needed
by Michael Wiktowy
Hello,
I have a friend's laptop that was having some strange problems in that
it would start to boot normally and then just stop making any progress
without giving any errors at all.
Since this happens even when booting from a LiveCD, it popped the HD
out and put it into another laptop of mine to do some work on it. I
installed FC5 and yum upgraded it to FC6 and somewhere during that
process it started spewing out bad I/O errors and such so I decided to
boot to a LiveCD and run a fsck on the HD.
Normal e2fsck with no options passed fine. I decided that I should
check for badblocks so I used the double c option (e2fsck -c -c
/dev/hda2). That progressed until about halfway through the disk and
then started going very sloooooow. No errors showing yet though ... it
would update the number once every minute or two whereas the first
half, it was updating it every second or so. Figuring that the -c -c
option was maybe a bit rigorous, I switched to just a single -c and
found the same thing. So I left it over night and was presented with a
bunch of questions this morning that seemed to be coming from phases
of the check beyond the badblocks check.
All of this to lead to my questions ...
What could be causing this massive slowdown on the fsck? There didn't
seem to be any errors popping out during this time but the badblocks
phase seemed to spit out a single number (something in the 500 range).
Is that the number of badblocks that it found?
Is the badblocks info preserved through a format? If I now go and
reinstall FC6 from scratch and choose to format the drive, will it
overwrite that badblocks table?
If it is going to take a long time to run through, I would like to run
fsck overnight. Are the questions that fsck asks set up such that
always answering yes will try to fix the problem and always answering
no will be conservative and do a minimal of fs manipulation?
I know that I should just get another HD at this point (I have already
advised my friend to research the purchase of another laptop and this
is not the only problem with the laptop from what I can gather).
However, I am taking this opportunity to learn about laptop hardware
troubleshooting and if I can ressurect this machine from the dead, it
will save him a few hundred bucks that he doesn't have at the moment.
Thanks for any help that you can offer.
/Mike
17 years, 7 months
yum prob on lappy
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
Over the weekend I tried to drag out my lappy and update it, getting ready
to upgrade to FC6, its currently FC5, but about 2 weeks out of date.
To make a long story shorter, what with editing the repo addresses, putting
fedoraproject.org in where downloads-redhat.com was due to the repo or
mirroring failures, I now have a __.000db file that when I shut it down
yesterday, was a zero length file and both yumex and smart package manager
were spitting out terminal tummy aches over it. An 'rpm --rebuilddb' also
fails, as does an "rpm --initdb"
Humm, now this morning, its back to complaining about an "invalid baseurl
for core".
As that _000.db file seems to be missing now, and its not bitching about it
ATM, whats the next step here?, I've been out of the loop since last
wednesday, out on the road. So if its been posted, whats the subject
line?
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
17 years, 7 months
carriage return
by sharif islam
Hi,
I have a text file imported from filemaker pro. When I open it in vi i
see several ^]. Is this some sort of row delimiter?
17 years, 7 months
NVidia from Livna seems to have broken X
by Claude Jones
I'm not seeing this exact issue, apologies if I missed it
I installed NVidia drivers from Livna on a working FC6
On reboot, it gets all the way to the second X start and the
screen then just goes black and nothing happens
I tried booting into runlevel 3 the old way by typing "a" when the
splash screen came up, and typing "3" at the prompt - that didn't
work
Next time I typed "runlevel3" at the prompt, and that led to same
result as above, but in a much shorter boot time - just a black
screen
Tried booting into runlevel1 with the same result
Anyone else encountered this?
--
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA
17 years, 7 months
update icon
by Eric Tanguy
i can't understand why this icon allways says there is 34 updates
available whereas when i try to update there is no update available. I
tried to refresh it without any success.
Someone have an idea ?
Thanks
Eric
17 years, 7 months
