RE: slow FC4 to FC5 upgrade
by Henry Hartley
Henry Hartley wrote:
>> Henry Hartley wrote:
>> >
>> > Well, on my (very old and slow) pentium 200, I'm into my second
>> > day and it's working on disc 2. Remaining time is currently
>> > estimated as 11,985 minutes (over 8 days).
>> >
>> > For the record, I did NOT include ide=nodma when I started this.
>>
>> At 4:00 (3.5 hours later) I was asked for disc 3 and the estimated
>> time remaining was down to a "reasonable" 3,235 minutes. At 4:15 I
>> got an error saying it could not read
>> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-100dpi-7.0-3.noarch.rpm and I get one
>> option - [Reboot]. No choice to skip that package or to replace
>> the CD and try again. Just reboot. Sweet.
I took out CD number 3 and rebooted. The system started up and appears
to be FC5 but of course, I know that there are a significant number of
un-updated packages. I checked the yum repositories and they seem to be
right so I ran yum update. After a fairly lengthy time of going through
all the packages that were to updated, if finally died after complaining
that three packages required older versions of things that were to be
updated. These were iiimf-qt, iiimf-le-sum-thai, and lvm2-cluster. I
guessed that I could do without those so I "yum removed" them. That
went fine.
Now, a yum update goes through, finds 981 packages to update and runs
the transaction test. Unfortunately, it ends with an error:
memory alloc (4 bytes) returned NULL
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Henry
18 years, 2 months
Documents in 2 homes via NFS
by Thomas Widhalm
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Hi!
I have to Linux Distributions on clients within my network. It SuSE 10.0
and Fedore Core 5. Some users switch from one to another. I mount /home
from a nfs- server and have nis enabled. As it is no good to mount the
same home into two differen distributions I made a /home/fc5 directory
within the nfs- server and make seperat homes for the fc5 users in there
and mount it as /home on fc5.
What I need is the directory /home/Documents within the /home/user and
/home/fc5/user to be in sync. There are few enough users to make a
solution by hand. I tried a symlink, but unfortunately the clients can't
follow, because the target isn't mounted on fc5 clients anyway. (link
was /home/user/Documents to /home/fc5/user/Documents) And I can't
hardlink a directory.
In short I need a client to follow a link to a directory which is not
mounted on it, but just available on the server.
Is there any other solution, you would suggest?
Regards,
Thomas
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18 years, 2 months
Can't tell if I have been hacked :(
by Lovell Mcilwain
Hey guys,
Can you give me some input on whether I have been hacked or not?
I logged into my machine via ssh and found that I couldn't run any
commands and got a input/output error. I couldn't run the who command
to see if anyone else was logged into my machine and I couldn't check my
firestarter log to see if I have been breached.
I was able to run an ls -al and found that a lot of my permissions had
???? as the owner. My gnome interface is pretty much disappeared and
all I see is the background. I can't shut down this machine because the
halt and shutdown commands are not recognized (I get the same
input/output error)
Is it possible I have been hacked?
If so how is this possible when I have set my firestarter firewall to
only allow connections from a specific network address and to deny
anyone else that tries to connect?
Any input is helpful.
Thanks
18 years, 2 months
ISA PnP modem
by Pasha R
Hi. I have an ancient ISAPNP modem. After latest FC4 kernel update
(2.6.16-1.2069_FC4), it doesn't work anymore. In kernel boot log, I see
2 messages related to the device.
Mar 31 15:15:02 pashar kernel: pnp: Device 01:01.00 activated.
Mar 31 15:15:02 pashar kernel: pnp: Device 01:01.00 disabled.
How do I enable it?
18 years, 2 months
Re: AobeReader and FC5
by Bengt Lindholm
>>bengt lindholm salnet fi wrote:
>>
>> After last yum-update I can't start acroread:
>>
>> /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while
>> loading shared libraries: /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.
>> 0/Reader/intellinux/lib/libJP2K.so:
>> cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
>>
>> What to do?
>Try:
>
># chcon -t textrel_shlib_t /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.
0/Reader/intellinux/lib/libJP2K.so
>
>(that's all one line)
>
>Paul.
Thanks, that solved the libJP2K.so. The chcon -t textrel_shlib_t solved also
the next libCoolType.so -permission denied problem and AdobeReader starts, but
new problems popped up:
There was an error while loading the AcroForm.api, checkers.api, EFS.api, ewh.
api,
MakeAccessible.api, PPKLite.api, SearchFind.api, SOAP.api, Accessibility.api,
Annots.api, DigSig.api, LegalPDF.api.
There seems to be some deeper problems?
Bengt
18 years, 2 months
YUM D/L procedure?
by Ali Helmy
Hey mates,
Just out of curiosity, but I was downloading the mplayer package, and a
number of accompanying packages, and noticed that yum started downloading
them in the order
mplayer-fonts-... 1.0 MB
mplayer-skins-... 12 MB
mplayer-1.0-1... 5.2 MB
So I was just wondering off the top of my head... what algorithm exactly
does yum use to determine which packages to download from a set in what
order? I mean, as far as I can see, they are not ordered by name nor size,
nor by dependancy (downloading mplayer first then its fonts & skins)
Any ideas?
PS: I know... I know... just too much free time :)
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A. Helmy
18 years, 2 months
Gnome Desktop Icons
by Ali Helmy
Hey mates,
Is there a way to remove all the icons from the gnome desktop? I cannot
remove the Home, Computer and Waste Basket icons, and I can't find any place
to do so...
Thanks
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A. Helmy
18 years, 2 months
