Yum repair
by Timothy Murphy
I upgraded FC-6 to F-7 on an Athlon64 machine,
and the process hung several (3 I think) times during installation.
Each time I re-started the machine,
the number of packages was greatly reduced: 950 ... 400 ... 50.
The system works fine,
but it is pretty clear all the packages were not properly installed.
Eg when I ran "yum update" after the installation
only 30 or so packages were downloaded,
while on other systems the number was 300-400.
Is there any way of checking that everything has been downloaded?
Or is there even a command like "yum --force install"
to force a re-installation of a particular package?
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tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
16 years, 1 month
keyspan usb serial and fc6 help
by matt pieklik
I had my keyspan USB serial adapter 19HS working with FC5, but now
that I have upgraded to FC6 it is no longer fully functional. It is
detected, and I get one way communication through it when I use
minicom. I am able to send but not receive, I determined this by
connecting two machine via serial.
Is this a problem with the USB serial adapter, or do I not have the
associated serial port configured correctly?
Here is the output from the startup:
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 2 choices
SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for
Keyspan - (without firmware)
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for
Keyspan 1 port adapter
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for
Keyspan 2 port adapter
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for
Keyspan 4 port adapter
usb 2-2: Keyspan 1 port adapter converter now attached to ttyUSB0
usbcore: registered new interface driver keyspan
drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.c: v1.1.4:Keyspan USB to Serial Converter Driver
Thanks for any help.
Matt
16 years, 1 month
/tmp running out of space
by Anne Wilson
/tmp is filling up rapidly. I'm guessing that it would be safe enough to
delete everything dated previous to the last bootup. Am I right?
Anne
16 years, 2 months
tuxtype2 doesn't launch
by Ed Landaveri
I have installed tuxtype2 for my daughters to learn typing but every time I launch it the screen goes black as though it will work but not, it returns to the desktop. If I try to launch it from the terminal It gives me a message:
Load settings: Settings file doesn't exists! Settings not loaded!
Load settings: Settings file doesn't exists! Settings not loaded!
Please can anyone tell me how to fix this? Thanks a lot
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16 years, 2 months
Rsync
by Paul Ward
Hi Peeps,
Does anyone know if it is possible to use rsync to back up an ftp site
that uses a password.
I am aware of rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/SRC [DEST] but how do I
handle the password?
If this is not possible does it mean I have to use sftp?
Thanks in advance
16 years, 2 months
Can scp be used to update a directory?
by Anne Wilson
The scp man page is not very verbose ;-) I want to copy a directory,
recursively, over the lan, but only those files that are new or updated.
MS-DOS could do this back in ...Ummm.... so I can't believe it can't be done
in scp, but I can't see how to do it.
Anne
16 years, 2 months
New FC6 Installation DVD released
by Lyvim Xaphir
Latest FC6 Respin installation DVD was released on 2007-01-19. Lots of
known FC6 bugs fixed and it uses the latest updated packages as of Jan
11th. If you have had install problems with Core 6 before, you are
encouraged to try installation with this new FC6 Respin DVD.
http://fedoraunity.org/news-archives/core-6-re-spin-20070111/
"The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO
Re-Spins of Fedora Core 6. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on Fedora Core 6
and all updates released as of January 11th, 2007. The ISO images are
available for i386 and x86_64 architectures via BitTorrent starting
Thursday, January 18th, 2007. PPC images will follow within the next 5
days, but will have had only limited testing.
This release was delayed while waiting for fixes to known issues with
Fedora Core 6[1] as well as the creation of a new tool for composing
Re-Spins. Previous releases were built with a homebrew script. This
release was built with the new tool called Pungi[2], developed by Jesse
Keating, a leading community member and Fedora Release Engineer, with
community input. This tool will be used in future official Fedora
releases and for Fedora Unity Re-Spins. We have joined in this effort to
bring a full featured tool to the Fedora community, enabling anyone to
build Re-Spins and Live-Spins now and in the future."
LX
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16 years, 2 months
Re: fedora 7 wpa_supplicant/ath0 booting problems
by Andrea
> I have an atheros cardbus card made by ubiquiti. Every once in a
> while wpa_supplicant gets in a loop where it negotiates the key, I
> very briefly see "completed" with the wpa-psk, CCMP, etc displayed in
> wpa_gui. Before I can blink the wpa_gui says DISCONNECTED and all the
> vitals are cleared. It then repeats the above forever. The fix is
> usually to do a "service wpa_supplicant restart". Sometimes I need to
> take down the ath0 interface and bring it up too. It feels like a
> timing problem where wpa_supplicant just isn't waiting long enough for
> something.
>
> BTW. I just spent an hour trying to get the network working with
> wpa_supplicant started before the network code. If I put an "exit 0"
> at the start of ifup-wireless then the dhclient never got started,
> even though wpa_gui shows the association exists. Ipv6 is also up, so
> the network is usable for that. I have no idea why dhclient didn't get
> started. The only thing I can guess is timing also. I've returned to
> starting wpa_supplicant from the bottom of ifup-wireless and things
> are back to normal.
Forgot to mention 2 things:
1) "exit 0" is not good since the file is included in another script
(I think), so you end up skipping the rest of its parent (where dhcp
is started).
You should add something like
if WPA ....
fi
around all the settings via "iwconfig"
2) I had to disable ipv6 completely, otherwise my interfaces (both
wireless and cable) were not able to go up and down. They were up once
and then if-down hanged.
cheers
16 years, 2 months
network question
by LC
Hi,
I have a samba machine which i will access to it via a public and local area
network. Am i right to set the both public and LAN IP on two seperate
network cards?
regards
16 years, 2 months
eth0 dont start at bootime
by Wolfgang Morawetz
Hi,
each time i boot fedora i must enable by hand the eth0 device (by the
gui congig-tool).
What must i do to enable the device at boot?
# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=bugs.acme
# cat /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0
# cat /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0
# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
all 3 the same output
# Macronix, Inc. [MXIC]|MX987x5
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=00:50:BF:76:39:8F
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
DHCP_HOSTNAME=bugs.acme
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
Thx
Wolfgang
alias wfx (http://teg.sf.net)
16 years, 3 months
