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"error unmounting /mnt/source" while installing F8
by Konstantin Svist 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

I'm getting an error message while trying to install F8 on my laptop. When I got to the screen where I select the package options (Office&Productivity/Software Development/Web Server), I selected "Additional Fedora Software" and chose "Customize now" (so I could select packages on the next screen). When I pressed Next, I got the following error message repeated ad infinitum: "An error occurred unmounting the disc. Please make sure you're not accessing /mnt/source from the shell on tty2 and then click OK to retry" I was only using anaconda UI up to that point, didn't even switch to any other consoles. The only out-of-the-ordinary options I chose earlier were to modify the partition layout by hand & to use normal partitions instead of that whole LVM business - and the package options I mentioned above. Where did it go wrong? Is there a fix?

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Yumex, pirut, pup don't work after upgrading
by korgull 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

Hi, After upgrading to Fedora 8 yumex doesn't work any longer : 11:53:27 : Setup Yum : Groups 11:53:32 : Failure getting http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/x86_64/repodat…: 11:53:32 : --> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum 11:53:32 : Trying other mirror. 11:53:34 : Failure getting http://ftp.SURFnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/fedora/linux/updates/8/x86_64/repo…: 11:53:34 : --> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum 11:53:34 : Trying other mirror. 11:53:35 : Failure getting http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/fedora/linux/updates/8/x86_64/repoda…: 11:53:35 : --> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum 11:53:35 : Trying other mirror. 11:53:37 : Failure getting ftp://ftp.tudelft.nl/pub/Linux/download.fedora.redhat.com/linux/updates/8/x…: 11:53:37 : --> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum 11:53:37 : Trying other mirror. 11:53:38 : Failure getting ftp://alviss.et.tudelft.nl/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/x86_64/repodata/comps-f8.xml: 11:53:38 : --> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum 11:53:38 : Trying other mirror. 11:53:40 : failure: repodata/comps-f8.xml from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. Any solution ? regards, Marcel

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make a grub option for rescue
by Development discussions related to Fedora 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

Has someone tried to make the rescue environment available from the hard disk ? That is from the grub menu. I grabbed the vmlinuz and initrd from the pxeboot folder, and put them on the boot partition. I then added a /boot/grub/grub.conf entry: label Fedora 8 Rescue root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz rescue keyboard=us lang=en_AU.UTF-8 method=hd://sda7/ ip=dhcp initrd /initrd.img I can then boot that; but still need to specify: - keyboard - hard-disk dev - hd path - yes to network etc It seems like the params are ignored in conjunction with rescue. Anyone know for sure ? DaveT.

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wpa_supplicant not starting at boot time in f8
by Mike C 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

I have not been able to get wpa_supplicant daemon started during boot time in f8. (The daemon will start manually after boot just fine) I have put in a bugzilla report at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=375721 If anyone else has similar experiences then it would be useful to know (or add to the bz report) -- mike cohler

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ACPI Not Working on F8
by Dave Cross 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

I'm running the old F7 kernel kernel-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 on F8 for reasons that I've explained in another mail. This (as you might expect) is causing problems. I noticed that the battery indication monitor had vanished from the panel. I went to add it back, but I got the error message Can't access ACPI events in /var/run/acpid.socket! Make sure the ACPI subsystem is working and the acpid daemon is running. And, obviously, the battery indicator isn't working. This is a bit of a problem as that's what I use to suspend the laptop. Am I completely wasting my time hoping that the old kernel will work here? Has the ACPI interface changed between F7 and F8? If it helps, the laptop is a Philips Freevents X5q (which is actually a rebadged Twinhead 12D). Thanks, Dave...

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FC 7 show drives
by Tim 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

It seems FC does not want me to find the drives as root in Gnome, or it's really I don't know what I'm doing. I just can't find the end where these are really mounted at /mnt is empty. I'm stuck. Ideas? [root@fedora ~]# mount /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw) [root@fedora ~]# [root@fedora ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 10.8 GB, 10800857088 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1313 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 10 80293+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 24 1313 10361925 83 Linux /dev/sda3 11 23 104422+ 82 Linux swap / Solari Partition table entries are not in disk order Disk /dev/sdb: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 5 40131 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 * 14 20023 160730325 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/sdc: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 1 7266 58364113+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sdc2 7267 20023 102470602+ 83 Linux

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burn cd/dvd in command line
by François Patte 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, Now that there are no more entries for cd/dvd devices in fstab, how shall proceed to umount a cd/dvd-rom (needed to blank for instance)? graphical icon only allow to eject... Thanks - -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 44 55 35 61 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Remi - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHNXcbdE6C2dhV2JURAreoAJ49pQcZP6TctWEi09sEC4ZXl6YXrwCfT0qx dSff47WbrfrYbtoSYnPhdxE= =4J/L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fedora 8 install: Anaconda exits abnormally
by Keith G. Robertson-Turner 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

The system is a VIA EPIA (C3 533Mhz, 512MB RAM), currently running F7. I get to the "running anaconda" stage, then it just exits "install exited abnormally [1/1]" (IIRC). I checked the other ttys, and there are no other error messages. On one tty it just reads "starting Anaconda /usr/bin/anaconda", and another tty lists the modules being loaded, ending with something to do with multipath. There's certainly nothing there that looks like an error, other that the above message. So what now? I don't really have enough info to file a bugzilla, and I don't know how to get that info, since there is no login prompt on any tty at that point. I just read about using a serial dump, but that depends on me having a second system with a serial interface, and I'm afraid I don't have such a system.

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vertical bars over images in firefox
by Mike Wright 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

Hi all, When using firefox since fc6 (I skipped fc5) I've noticed that many images, suchas .swf, now display as a large pair of vertical bars, somewhat simalar to the insignia worn by U.S. Army captains, that may appear alone or on top of some other background. On really lousy sites where it's flash or nothing or where most of the adverts are flash this is (IMO) just plain ugly and really annoying. It's as if someone is threating "Use flash or else we'll destroy your user experience". If that's the case how about a little CSS ala "body {display: none;}" and we wouldn't have to waste our time on sites like that. <-- me being facetious ;) Whatever happened to "failing gracefully", the mantra of web designers? Does anybody know where these abuses have come from? Are they from the Mozilla project or is this something peculiar to fedora's spin of firefox or perhaps something peculiar to fedora itself? Regardless of its origin I would like to stop it. Anybody know how to change this behavior? Forever indebted to whomever has a solution, Mike Wright

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avahi failed to update correctly after yum upgrade F7 to F8
by Claude Jones 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

I tried the yum update method F7-F8 on my home computer last night, and it worked fairly well. The machine is up and running, but, a few problems: I'll list them in separate posts, but, the first is that avahi failed to update correctly. I now have this: # rpm -qa | grep avahi avahi-0.6.21-6.fc8 avahi-qt3-0.6.21-6.fc8 avahi-compat-howl-0.6.21-6.fc8 avahi-compat-libdns_sd-0.6.21-6.fc8 avahi-devel-0.6.21-6.fc8 kdnssd-avahi-devel-0.1.3-0.2.20060713svn.fc8 kdnssd-avahi-0.1.3-0.2.20060713svn.fc8 avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7 avahi-glib-0.6.21-6.fc8 So, I have two versions of avahi, now - the fc7 and fc8 Attempts to remove avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7 result in an error: # rpm -e avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7 error: %postun(avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 I get a similar message using smart, yum, or kpackage Can anyone give me an idea of how to proceed? -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA

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