Fedora 6 wrong kernel
by Nikola Kojic
What's up with anaconda picking up the wrong kernel arch? How can I upgrade
kernel from i586 to i686 without destroying grub?
17 years, 6 months
This is a weird one
by Tom Horsley
I was installing lots of different version of OSen on my system to compare behaviors
and I had one version picked to be the master with grub on the MBR, in all the others
I installed grub in the boot sector of each OS's /boot partition.
After I did yum updates for the i386 FC6 OS (which was not the master,
but one of the ones with grub in the boot sector), the MBR version of grub
wound up corrupted in the strangest way.
It would get through the post screen, print just the word "GRUB", then start
looping, sending screen dumps to the printer port over and over again (I have
a dozen or so pages that came out before I removed the paper :-).
You can perhaps add this to the list of mysterious problems folks have had
with FC6 (re-installing grub from "linux resuce" seemed to fix things, and the
problem has not happened again).
Anyone ever seen grub do screen dumps to the printer like this? Seems like
pretty complicated behavior to be a random corruption.
17 years, 6 months
FC6 AIGLX Issue: title bar missing from windows
by Raymond C. Rodgers
I upgraded a reasonably fresh install of FC5 (clean installation done a
little more than a month ago) to FC6 on Thursday and have been trying to
tinker around with the AIGLX/compiz features, but right away noticed a
problem: the title bar and window borders were missing. (See
http://bbnk.dhs.org/~rrodgers/aiglx_no_titlebar.png .) At first, I
thought it was just me, that I didn't know if the title bar had now been
separated or if the GUI had been made to be more Mac like, but it
bothered me that I could no longer resize or move windows. So I disabled
the desktop effects for the time being.
A few minutes ago I logged in as root to do a few minor things very
quickly, and just for the heck of it enabled the desktop effects again.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the title bars and borders return to
the windows, and was able to use everything properly with wobbly
windows. I cheered; perhaps there was some sort of library dependency
that needed to be cleared up by a reboot (which I had done before
logging in as root). So I logged out as soon as I could and logged in as
my normal user, re-enabled the desktop effects and was once again
disappointed to see that my title bars and borders were gone.
So, obviously, this is going to be a permissions issue... Can anyone
point me in the right direction as to which files need to have their
permissions changed, and to what those permissions should be?
Thanks,
Raymond
17 years, 6 months
Re: [ANNOUNCE]: FC6 ia64 ISOs available
by Prarit Bhargava
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
>
>
> that's a moving target though (esp since -devel has moved on quite a bit
> by now).. would be really nice to get a static set ;)
>
Good point :)
I'll up a set shortly ...
P.
17 years, 6 months
NCP and SMB Filesystems in Fedora Core 6
by Reinhard Brandstaedter
Hi,
I just realized that both network filesystems ncpfs and smbfs are not
included in the default kernel configuration of FC6.
NCPFS is not used that often anymore but SMBFS?
Was this done on purpose or by mistake?
Reinhard
17 years, 6 months
FC6 on Dell Inspiron 6000 - Broadcom 440X Ethernet Card...
by Guillermo de Jesús Hoyos Rivera (gmail)
Hello Listers:
I have just installed FC6 on my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop.
In the previous versions of FC I have never had problems for using
my Ethernet card (a Broadcom 440X), and connecting to the network. However
in this new version, when I try to activate the network interface I get the
next error message:
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A)
Set failed on eth0; No such device
Setting IP information for eth0... failed
The problem is that eth0 is not a wireless card, but a wired one
(10/100TX), and I have not arrived to figure out which could be the problem.
I have not yet tried to configure my wireless card (a Intel
ProWireless 2200 BG), but I will do it tomorrow.
Does someone of you have any advice on how to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance and best regards.
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17 years, 6 months
How to cross compile custom kernel?
by David Wolinski
I have a fast x86_64 machine and a slow x86 machine. I'd like to use
the fast x86_64 machine to build a custom kernel for the x86 machine.
On the x86_64 machine:
- In the kernel build tree, I copy configs/kernel-XXX-i686.config to
my working .config file since I want the kernel built for that
architecture
- "make gconfig" to customize some kernel options
- But while configuring I notice that all of the architecture options
have been set to x86_64 choices (and x86 choices are unavailable)
Clearly "make gconfig" has adjusted the original .config options to suit
my build machine's x86_64 architecture.
I still want to use "make gconfig" to customize kernel options, but how
can I prevent it from changing the architecture automatically?
Thanks for any help.
17 years, 6 months
Re: SATA SCSI Id assignments - two drives being assigned the, same Channel/Id/Lun on boot
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org> wrote:
> It's not trying to mount sdb1 here, it's trying to mount another device
> *on* a directory within sdb1 (your /home). You just need to fix the
> SELinux context type of that directory, as I suggested yesterday:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-November/msg00127.html
>
> Paul.
An easy way to see if this is the problem is to turn off SELinux.
Either go in through the security GUI and set the policy to "permissive"
and reboot or, on reboot, add "selinux=0" to the boot parameters through
grub. If the problem goes away, Paul is right.
Cheers,
Dave
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17 years, 6 months
Re: mount doesn't mount on boot-up
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
Claude Jones <claude_jones(a)levitjames.com> wrote:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 <---
> Vendor: ATA Model: ST3160023AS Rev: 3.05
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 <---
> Vendor: ATA Model: ST3300622AS Rev: 3.AA
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
It looks like the SCSI ID being assigned to these drives is the same.
The ordered triple (Channel, ID, LUN) should be unique for each device.
Don't know how this can happen since it should never happen.
Unfortunately, all of the relics here don't use SATA drives so I can't
take this any further. Also, it looks like the system sorts it all out
by the time you get a command prompt so everything eventually works; you
just can't do things automatically during the boot process.
Past my bedtime here. Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Dave
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17 years, 6 months
FC6 Squid
by Antonio M
After the upgrade from FC5 to FC6 / and no other updates, Squid did not start...
If I try to restart it I get>
squid interrotto
2006/11/02 15:51:36| parseConfigFile: line 2183 unrecognized:
'httpd_accel_port 80'
2006/11/02 15:51:36| parseConfigFile: line 2202 unrecognized:
'httpd_accel_single_host off'
2006/11/02 15:51:36| parseConfigFile: line 2214 unrecognized:
'httpd_accel_with_proxy on'
2006/11/02 15:51:36| parseConfigFile: line 2235 unrecognized:
'httpd_accel_uses_host_header on'
2006/11/02 15:51:36| parseConfigFile: line 3443 unrecognized:
'httpd_accel_host virtual'
FATAL: No port defined
Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE4): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.004 seconds = 0.000 user + 0.004 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 0
/etc/init.d/squid: line 121: 3372 Abortito $SQUID -k check
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17 years, 6 months
