Removable media not mounting on F8
by Frank Chiulli
I have an up-to-date Fedora 8 box. If I put a CD into the CD drive or
plug a USB flash drive into a USB port, nothing gets mounted. I know
it sees the USB drive because there are messages in /var/log/messages.
I'd like these things to automount as they did in F7.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Frank
16 years, 3 months
Top shows cpu pct of 9999
by SternData
I've now seen this on three separate F8 systems, one i386 and two 64 bit.
While watching top for hours on end, I'll see a process show "9999" in
the %CPU column. It's there for one cycle and gone.
Is this a sign of the impending apocalypse?
16 years, 4 months
video issues
by Max
Has anyone else noticed any video/graphics issues lately? I am getting some flicker before the
screen saver starts. I googled around of course and found many similar issues across a range of
distros. A bug in the ati driver may be to blame. However this has only recently ( last few days)
been an issue. I am thinking maybe a recent update has broken something or maybe exposed a
previously unknown bug. The box in question is running Fedora 8(64 bit)with Radeon Xpress200.
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16 years, 4 months
desktop manager death via livecd-creator
by Michael Wiktowy
Hello all,
I didn't have the greatest first experience with livecd-creator.
I had 1.5 GB of diskspace available and I wrongly figured that was
enough to make a livecd. That got filled up while trying to make an
XFCE livecd using a modified (fixed repo name) ks file from
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram/XfceLive and the command:
livecd-creator --config=./ks_from_above_site
--fslabel=Fedora-livecd-xfce .
After downloading the required rpms and installing them in the
loopback image, this crashed my Gnome session that was running at the
time and hung the system so I ctrl-alt-del to reboot. My system hung
while trying to unmount all the loopback filesystems that
livecd-creator was keeping busy so I hard rebooted.
Now my system does not start the gdm. After it goes though various
attempts to start X, it gives up for 2 minutes. In poking around the
command line, I can manually startx while the root user and get a
normal desktop but not as my normal unprivilaged user. It also seems
that while I have space left on the harddrive, it is not being freed
up and that might be part of my problem. Even after deleting a few
more files, the space doesn't show up as available when I do a df.
After booting from a livecd:
[root@localhost ~]# fsck /dev/sda2
fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
e2fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
/1: clean, 291067/31129600 files, 61905503/62257899 blocks
[root@localhost ~]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/livecd-rw
4128448 2170692 1957756 53% /
tmpfs 517476 12 517464 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sr0 712808 712808 0 100% /mnt/live
/dev/sda2 245124236 243714652 0 100% /media/_1
There should be over 1 GB free but it is not showing up.
Anyone have an idea what broke?
/Mike
16 years, 4 months
mounting /usr readonly
by Robert P. J. Day
something i brought up a while back but, in order to prevent myself
doing something incredibly dumb and wiping out anything under /usr by
accident, i like to mount the /usr filesystem as read-only.
occasionally, when i've tried to do that manually, i've been
disallowed with the error that that filesystem is currently busy, and
one of the possible reasons is that prelink was running.
more generally, i'm assuming that (re)mounting /usr readonly will
always be disallowed if anything is currently open for write, and the
simplest way to check for that that i use is:
$ fuser -muv /usr
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/usr: rpjday 3142 ...e. (rpjday)gnome-keyring-d
rpjday 3143 ...e. (rpjday)gnome-session
rpjday 3208 ...e. (rpjday)dbus-launch
rpjday 3216 ...e. (rpjday)gconfd-2
rpjday 3220 ...e. (rpjday)gnome-settings-
rpjday 3228 ...e. (rpjday)gconf-helper
rpjday 3229 ...e. (rpjday)metacity
rpjday 3230 ...e. (rpjday)gnome-panel
rpjday 3232 ...e. (rpjday)nautilus
rpjday 3236 ...e. (rpjday)gnome-volume-ma
rpjday 3238 ...e. (rpjday)bonobo-activati
rpjday 3245 ...e. (rpjday)gnome-vfs-daemo
rpjday 3247 ...e. (rpjday)bluetooth-apple
rpjday 3253 ...e. (rpjday)nm-applet
rpjday 3254 ...e. (rpjday)puplet
rpjday 3255 ...e. (rpjday)python
rpjday 3261 ...e. (rpjday)pam-panel-icon
rpjday 3262 ...e. (rpjday)gnome-power-man
rpjday 3267 ...e. (rpjday)/usr/bin/sealer
rpjday 3294 ...e. (rpjday)gnome-screensav
rpjday 3306 ...e. (rpjday)mapping-daemon
rpjday 3327 ...e. (rpjday)wnck-applet
rpjday 3329 ...e. (rpjday)trashapplet
rpjday 3347 ...e. (rpjday)gam_server
rpjday 3361 ...e. (rpjday)notification-ar
rpjday 3363 ...e. (rpjday)fast-user-switc
rpjday 3365 ...e. (rpjday)clock-applet
rpjday 3367 ...e. (rpjday)mixer_applet2
rpjday 3371 ...e. (rpjday)gnome-terminal
rpjday 3381 ....m (rpjday)bash
rpjday 3462 f...m (rpjday)firefox
rpjday 3482 f...m (rpjday)run-mozilla.sh
rpjday 3487 f..e. (rpjday)firefox-bin
rpjday 3524 ....m (rpjday)bash
rpjday 3905 f..e. (rpjday)npviewer.bin
rpjday 4062 ....m (rpjday)bash
now, according to the man page for fuser, anything open for write
will be identified with an "F", so the above should be good and, in
fact, the remount worked.
can i assume that, as long as nothing is open for write, the
read-only remount should work? is there any other reason that i would
be told that the device is busy. put another way, if i run the above
command and don't see an "F", should the remount always work?
rday
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16 years, 4 months
How to get "du -sk *" to work sensibly
by Chris G
I always used to use the command "du -sk *" to get a quick indication
of where all my disk space was going.
Now, because I have a few slow external filesystems mounted, it no
longer works in a finite time and I can't see how to get it to skip
the slow file systems.
If I "cd /" and give the command "du -skx *" it *doesn't* skip the
mounted filesystems because they're mounted on root directories. E.g.
home# du -sk *
83266088 a2
53643968 backup
6448 bin
14009 boot
4 cd
200 dev
121800 etc
/a2 is actually a mount point for another file system and the next
one, /freecom, never gets displayed because it's too slow.
The -X option doesn't work either because it excludes files, not
directories.
So how can I get an idea of the size of the various directories on my
root file system? There seems no easy way.
--
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16 years, 4 months
big problems with Via-ide and dvd
by Nico Sabbi
Hi,
the driver for my Via 8237a sata/ide controller seems to have huge
problems with my ide dvd drive: often during reading
-but also just after the plain insertion od a dvd- I see messages like
the following in the log:
Dec 30 13:12:05 xp kernel: ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr
0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 30 13:12:05 xp kernel: ata4.00: cmd
a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0
Dec 30 13:12:05 xp kernel: res
40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Dec 30 13:12:05 xp kernel: ata4: soft resetting port
Dec 30 13:12:05 xp kernel: ata4.00: configured for PIO0
Dec 30 13:12:06 xp kernel: ata4.01: configured for UDMA/25
Dec 30 13:12:06 xp kernel: ata4: EH complete
and obviously the dvd drive becomes unaccessible.
The 2 Sata disks work perfectly (so far).
The drive is not broken, as Solaris on the same pc has been working
perfectly for a long time.
Does anyone know how I can solve my problems?
Thanks,
Nico
16 years, 4 months
Proper way to install adobe flash
by Louis Garcia
What is the proper way to install adobe flash on F8? I use to just put
the binary blob in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. With nspluginwrapper what
is recommended way?
-Louis
16 years, 4 months
Installing Fedora without Gnome using the DVD
by Michael C
Hi,
I was wondering whether it's possible to select KDE to the exclusion of
Gnome in Anaconda using the Install DVD.
This is what I'd intended to do when I installed F8 last month, but
despite checking KDE and unchecking Gnome, it was installed regardless.
I assumed at the time that I'd unwittingly selected Gnome development
tools in the "Development" section, and Gnome had been erroneously
dragged in as a dependency!
Best,
Michael
16 years, 4 months
How to remove some mounted partition icons?
by Valent Turkovic
Hi,
I have Fedora 8 and on the gnome desktop I see some icons from my
partitions that I don't wan't on my gnome desktop.
I don't have a problem with having my storage partition on my desktop
but I also have also 4 other linux distos on my laptop and I see all
of their system partitions on my desktop!
I know that there is a way to disable ALL partition shortcuts but then
I wouldn't see my usb drives on desktop when I plug in usb flash
drives and I don't want that.
So how do I remove only the shortcuts I don't want from my desktop?
I saw an Ubuntu (which obviously also uses Gnome) trick which doesn't
work on fedora
On ubuntu only drives that are in /media are shown on the gnome desktop.
I edited /etc/fstab so that partitions I don't want on desktop are
mounted in /mnt - that worked on my Ubuntu but it didn't work in
Fedora
And ideas?
Thank you
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16 years, 4 months
