SMP enabled on UP kernel
by mostafa.afgani＠world.iu-bremen.de
Dear all,
After the last kernel update (2.6.15-1.1831_FC4) the rt2500 (RaLink
WiFi) driver is causing the system to freeze on modprobe -- on
restarting the PC the boot process hangs and hence renders the machine
unusable.
A post on the rt2x00 driver forum led me to the information that SMP is
enabled even on single processor FC kernels (at least from 2.6.15 on). I
just though it must be a mistake and dutifully filed a BUG report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182640
But, within minutes of posting the report, I got a reply that the it is
NOTABUG & CLOSED! The reason provided was "The performance loss from
running SMP on a UP x86_64 machine is negligable."
Now, what I don't understand is what good is SMP on a UP kernel?? If I
want SMP, I'll install the SMP kernel. I assume I'm not the only one who
needs to run a UP kernel to make certain hardware work that won't
otherwise work with SMP! Someone please tell me why anyone would want
SMP enabled on UP kernels?
If this is the way it's going to be then I'll have no other choice than
to recompile every new kernel that is released... and I really hope it
doesn't come to that...
Your comments please.
-M
18 years, 3 months
RE: M$ question [OFF TOPIC] [SOLVED]
by Dan Thurman
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>To: Michael D. Setzer II; For users of Fedora Core releases
>Subject: RE: M$ question [OFF TOPIC]
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>>From: Michael D. Setzer II [mailto:mikes@kuentos.guam.net]
>>Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:20 AM
>>To: Daniel B. Thurman; For users of Fedora Core releases
>>Subject: Re: M$ question [OFF TOPIC]
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>>>
>>> Sorry Folks,
>>>
>>> I know this is a fedora group (I have fedora systems too) and
>>> I hope some of you are tolerant of *gasp* windoes.
>>>
>>> I am desperate so I need to ask if anyone had any experience
>>> in trying to create/copy the entire M$ windows OS (win2k pro) from
>>> a main (old) drive to a new (bigger) drive successfully? I
>am trying
>>> to get off of an old drive, transfer the contents of the old
>>to a newer
>>> drive and remove the old drive. I cannot get windows to
>boot off the
>>> new drive.
>>>
>>> Here is what I tried to do:
>>>
>>> 1) Use Maxtor's disk utility:
>>>
>>> a) Created 3 partitions; 36GB, 50GB, 50GB (from a 200GB HD) and
>>> was forced to keep total # of space used to <= 137GB due to
>>> the fact my old system does not support it (BIOS and
>>MS 2000Pro)
>>>
>>> b) Used partition to partition copy
>>>
>>> Results: booting on the new drive worked however had a
>>problem with
>>> missing pagefile.sys - and the fact that explorer will
>>not run no matter
>>> what user you log in as. Followed everything to restore
>>pagefile.sys
>>> but does not solve problem with user login (refuses to
>>bring up the
>>> user's profile / run explorer - but otherwise allows
>>login to work but
>>> limited context)
>>>
>>> 2) Used Norton's ghost 2002
>>>
>>> This works well however ghost does not recogize specific
>>partition
>>> pre-created on the destination drive and wants to claim
>the whole
>>> drive. I was not given any choice to choose the
>>specific destination
>>> partition desired and it wants a NEW parition EVERY TIME.
>>>
>>> 3) Used M$'s own backup/restore program (lite version of
>Backup Exec)
>>> and it pretty much useless while you are running in
>>windows as most
>>> critical files are NOT backed up successfully due to
>>open files. A restore
>>> does not create a full and perfect copy of the drive
>>being backed up.
>>> Pretty useless so it seems.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions are appreciated!
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Dan
>>>
>>
>>In addition to some of the other comments already, what is the bios
>>configuration of the drive? I've worked with G4L (ghost for
>
>BIOS configuration of the drive? You lost me here! :-(
>
>>linux), and when
>>moving to a larger drive it is usually critical that the
>>number of heads and
>>sectors per track need to be the same when moving to a larger
>>drive. The
>>number of total tracks can be greater. I just imaged a 40GB
>drive to a
>>250GB drive, and then took the free space to make another partition
>
>Going from 20GB to 200(137)GB drive
>
>>afterwards. I found that Norton would not recognize newer
>>linux partitions,
>>so they could only be copied using the sector mode.
>>
>>Is the Maxtor software loading a special program to get around
>>the bios like
>>ontrack, which might be why ghost doesn't see the other
>>partitions correctly?
>
>I specifically have a MAXTOR Ultra-Series DiamondMax, 200GB,
>8MB buffer, 7200 RPM hard drive that Staples.com promo sold
>this week for < $40.00. The kit provides "MaxBlast v4.0"
>software for formatting and partitioning of these drives and
>yes, they install the ontrack stuff on the drive but you can
>opt not to allow it to be installed but I did not choose that
>option so maybe that is why Ghost gets confused. I will try
>that again and let you know if this was/is the problem.
>
Removing the offending MAXTOR DDO(?) allowed Ghost to do the
parition to partition copy and the drive boots! The only
downside I encountered was that I had to disconnect/reconnect
to the domain controller and re-setup the users for this disk.
Thanks for responding,
Dan
>>Have you looked to see if a BIOS upgrade is available for the
>>machine to
>>support the larger drivers.
>
>Apparently, I have the latest BIOS version installed and it
>supports LBA (32) but I dont have an ATA 133 IDE chip so
>therein lies the problem with the Motherboard. There is
>also no guarantee that if I buy the Maxtor ATA 133 card
>that the BIOS would even allow this drive to be bootable
>off the card. That is is why it is not an option for me
>as I tried this once and I returned 5 different ATA 133
>cards due to the boot issue so I did not want to take this
>route again.
>
>Thanks for responding!
>Dan
>
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18 years, 3 months
FC4 --> FC5T3. Via nfs from dvd iso. Howto bootstrap install.
by Nat Gross
Basic question, folks.
Machines A and B, both FC4.
A is the one I want to upgrade to FC5.
B has the dvd iso image in /nfs and is exported. (checksum ok.)
A currently has B:/nfs mounted in /mnt/B.
A can currently browse the iso ok.
Question: How do I get the show on the road.
Thanks;
-nat
18 years, 3 months
Need Recommendation for RAID Monitoring Software
by Matthew J. Roth
List users,
We are running Fedora Core 3 on multiple Dell PowerEdge servers. Each
machine has an onboard LSI Logic PERC 4e/Si RAID controller, megaraid
drivers (2.20), and two SCSI disks configured in a RAID 1 (mirrored).
As part of our backup routine, we pull out a drive from each machine and
swap in a new one. The pulled drives are stored as backups, and the
mirrors are rebuilt on the new disks.
This has been working well for us, but we have not been able to find
software that allows us to monitor the rebuild. The only ways that we
can tell when it is complete are by monitoring the drive activity lights
or by rebooting the server and going into the RAID controller's firmware
utility. The first method is error-prone and the second method is not a
valid option, because we need to keep the machines available during the
rebuild.
I'm fairly certain that there is Dell software for RAID monitoring from
the OS, but it is Windows specific. I would greatly appreciate it if
someone could recommend a text-mode software package for FC3 that offers
the same functionality as well as the ability to monitor the RAIDs for
disk failures.
Thank you,
Matthew Roth
InterMedia Marketing Solutions
Software Engineer and Systems Developer
18 years, 3 months
Printer went away (FC2)
by Mike McCarty
I installed HPLIP, but found that the "extra" functions do not
operate with my printer, so uninstalled it.
I can no longer use my printer. I tried printing a test page,
using GNOME print manager, and nothing came out. I got this as part of
the error log.
I [21/Feb/2006:22:11:31 -0600] Adding start banner page "none" to job 490.
I [21/Feb/2006:22:11:31 -0600] Adding end banner page "none" to job 490.
I [21/Feb/2006:22:11:31 -0600] Job 490 queued on 'printer1' by 'root'.
I [21/Feb/2006:22:11:31 -0600] Started filter
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 4806) for job 490.
I [21/Feb/2006:22:11:31 -0600] Started filter
/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 4807) for job 490.
I [21/Feb/2006:22:11:31 -0600] Started backend
/usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 4808) for job 490.
E [21/Feb/2006:22:11:31 -0600] PID 4807 stopped with status 22!
I [21/Feb/2006:22:11:31 -0600] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug"
to find out more.
I do not know how to set the LogLevel to "debug", nor how to debug this
problem.
# /etc/init.d/cups status
cupsd (pid 3609) is running...
So the problem is not just cups.
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 7633264 5905208 1340308 82% /
/dev/hda3 99075 24602 69358 27% /boot
none 124044 0 124044 0% /dev/shm
I've got some free space.
Would anyone please give me some help finding what is wrong?
Mike
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18 years, 3 months
F17 in Konsole
by Paul Lemmons
OK, I give up. This is probably a trivial question but I have exhausted
my resources hunting for it.
I have an application that, when run, gets to a point and asks me to
press "F17" to continue. I am using Knonsole and I have tried every
combination of keys that would make sense to send an "F17" (and a few
that did not make sense) with no cheese down any hole. I am clearly
missing something. Any assistance would be appreciated.
18 years, 3 months
Hard disk drivers at bootup with new kernel (Phillip)
by Phillip
So far no luck. forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=89538 caries an
identical problem. Our boot screen shows the following:
SCSI subsystem initialized
Loading sd_mod.ko module
Loading jbd.ko module
Loading ext3.ko module
Creating root device
mkrootdev: label / not found
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 2 mounting ext3
Switching to new root
ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!: 2
error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0
error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 1
error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 2
unmounting old /proc
unmountin old /sys
switchroot: mount failed: 22
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
[and some trace info]
We have only a binary driver for the controllers. Moving to the
appropriate modules directory for the new kernel does not work
For other suggestions:
yes -- SCSI
yes -- raid
yes -- have aliases in /etc/modprobe.conf for both controllers
yes -- we have tried mkinitrd but it cannot find the .ko driver with or
without full path name and using the --with parameter.
More suggestions?
Phillip
>>>>> ptho(a)firefly.nlm.nih.gov 2/23/2006 10:19 AM >>>
>>> We have a High Point Sata controller. When we boot up with an updated
>>> kernel, the OS reports that it cannot find the disk.
>>
>>> How do we tell the new kernel at boot up where to find the driver?
>>
>>> Details: grub can see the available kernels; booting on the old kernel
>>> works; booting with the new kernel gives the cannot find disk message.
18 years, 3 months
archmage problem
by xor exor
İ have installed archmage program but when i try to execute it the following
error occurs:
archmage Oreill_Java.chm /usr
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/archmage", line 8, in ?
from CHM import *
ImportError: No module named CHM
i searched google but no result if anyone knows please reply.....
18 years, 3 months
gnome 2.12
by lostson
Hello
I am curious as to why gnome 2.12 was not added as an update. Why wait until
FC5 comes out and then we might get 2.14 but with the release schedule the
way it is I don't really count on that either.
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18 years, 3 months
Samba Doubts
by Thiago Amaury Ferraz
Hello All! I would like to ask if someone knows how to block directory
creation in a samba resource.. or be, I need that my users create files..
but I can't permit that they create directories.. another doubt is if is
possible to block users create file with blank spaces in the name..
Well, I really thanks any help, suggest.. my fingers are hurting of so many
tests.. I already realized..
Tamauryf
18 years, 3 months
