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FC6 (&7) netboot
by Stefan van der Eijk 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hi, I'm trying to get FC6 working on a diskless system. I hope this is the correct list to discuss this topic, if not please ignore this message. As I mentioned, I'm trying to get FC6 to work in a diskless system. To do this I first installed FC6 in a VMware (with disk). I'm using that as the "example" system. I'm following the instructions provided in the documentation of the system-config-netboot-0.1.41-1.FC6 package. After rsyncing over the files to the NFS server, setting up DHCP and TFTP servers it's time for the first attempt. The diskless client is a vmware, confgured to boot over the network (PXE). With the first attempt, the system stops with the following error: "Mounting rot filesystem: /nfsroots/fc6-diskless/root from 192.168.254.254 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.254.254:/nfsroots/fc6-diskless/root, missing codepage r other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so." For screenshot see: http://eijk.homelinux.org/~stefan/fc-diskless/1.jpg As mentioned in http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Diskless_Frontend#Redhat_and_Fedora_Co… /sbin/mount.nfs is missing in the initrd.img. This patch adds it (although I'm not sure if mount.nfs4 should be added too): # diff -ur /usr/share/system-config-netboot/diskless/updateDiskless.orig /usr/share/system-config-netboot/diskless/updateDiskless --- /usr/share/system-config-netboot/diskless/updateDiskless.orig 2007-04-29 23:18:24.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/share/system-config-netboot/diskless/updateDiskless 2007-04-29 23:18:50.000000000 +0200 @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ done; #/bin/cp "$ROOT"/usr/share/hwdata/pcitable $MNTPOINT/usr/share/hwdata/ || die; # disklessrc now uses modules.pcimap, not pcitable -BINS="/sbin/busybox.anaconda /sbin/insmod /sbin/modprobe /sbin/rmmod /sbin/dhclient /bin/bash /bin/mount /sbin/route /sbin/ip /usr/bin/expr /sbin/lspci /sbin/ifconfig /sbin/consoletype /sbin/pivot_root /bin/hostname /bin/domainname /usr/bin/host" +BINS="/sbin/busybox.anaconda /sbin/insmod /sbin/modprobe /sbin/rmmod /sbin/dhclient /bin/bash /bin/mount /sbin/mount.nfs /sbin/mount.nfs4 /sbin/route /sbin/ip /usr/bin/expr /sbin/lspci /sbin/ifconfig /sbin/consoletype /sbin/pivot_root /bin/hostname /bin/domainname /usr/bin/host" # Set up links to all the busybox functions - # may be different for different versions of busybox! if [ ! -e $ROOT/sbin/busybox.anaconda ]; then 2nd attempt ended with it complaining that it couldn't pivot_root. Seems that /.oldroot directory isn't created. For screenshot see: http://eijk.homelinux.org/~stefan/fc-diskless/2.jpg After making that directory it also complains that /.snapshot isn't made either. Starting udev takes ages, http://eijk.homelinux.org/~stefan/fc-diskless/3.jpg I didn't wait for it to finish, just made the directory on the NFS server and reset the vmware. http://eijk.homelinux.org/~stefan/fc-diskless/4.jpg After re-reading the .html pages in /usr/share/doc/system-config-netboot-0.1.41/ I followed the instructions to create a client. Changed the pxe config to reflect this. label fc6 KERNEL vmlinuz APPEND initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 init=disklessrc NFSROOT=192.168.254.254:/nfsroots/fc6-diskless ramdisk_size=19102 ETHERNET=eth0 SNAPSHOT=fc6-diskless resulting in this: http://eijk.homelinux.org/~stefan/fc-diskless/5.jpg added "ramdisk_blocksize=1024", from http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Diskless_Frontend#Redhat_and_Fedora_Co… The end result is a FC6 diskless client that hangs on starting udev. http://eijk.homelinux.org/~stefan/fc-diskless/6.jpg I'm wondering what I've missed in the documentation and what I'm doing wrong. I feel that I'm already correcting too many things myself --> this stuff should be made in a way that it just works and is trivial to set up. As the package version/release is still the same in rawhide, I guess this same package is going to be shipped with FC7. What would be the best way to move forward? Shall I start with filing some bugreports? Or is this not the right time to do so (freeze for fc7)? with kind regards, Stefan van der Eijk

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FC6 Combo drive doesn't work with DVD's
by Antonio M 01 May '07

01 May '07

I see that also after recent updates in FC6 my combo drive (that is detected as QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW242U and device /dev/hdc) works with CD/CD-R/CD-RW but when I insert a DVD with data/files nothing happens. I suppose that DVD should show up on my dsktop.....on the other hand I can play a DVD with Xine even if it is not automatically mounted. Any idea??? -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag

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Switching to libata drivers
by John Wendel 01 May '07

01 May '07

I'd like to switch my PATA drives to use the new libata drivers instead of the old ide drivers. Can someone point me to a howto or other document that explains what I need to change. Thanks, John

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I need some help.
by Art Giles 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Could some one help me out? I tried putting in Fedora 7 as a download. it would not install. so I put Fc6 back in. When I rebooted all the font was very small, pages where half sizes,photos thumbnail size and smaller the delete on hotmail show 1/4 page icons vary small. so is there any help with this? Thanks. Oldtimer.

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Really, REALLY slow computer
by Steve Blackwell 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

So, new job and a shiny new HP Duo Core computer with 2G RAM and twin 250G ATA drives, loaded with Windows XP of course. The 1st thing I do is to load FC6 on the 2nd of the disks. After 2 days (!) I have everything loaded and updated but the system is running really, and I mean REALLY slow. It takes about 15 mins to boot up and 5 to log in. Both processors are heavily loaded but yet top shows nothing out of the ordinary, memory usage is abot 15%. During boot I get these two error messages: ... Starting udev: Wait timeout. Will continue in the background. [FAILED] ... and ... Warning: Error inserting freq_table (/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2944.fc6/kernel/drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.ko): Required key not available. ... The CPU frequency monitor applet show CPU0 to be running between 1.60 and 2.13GHz. I checked through messages and these couple of things look suspicious: ACPI: exception (acpi_processor-0677): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [10060707] This message was repeated for the 2nd processor. speedstep-centrino with X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI config is depreciated. Use X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ (acpi-cpufreq) instead ata: 0x01F0 IDE port busy ata: conflict with IDE 0. ata: 0x0170 IDE port busy ata: conflict with ide1 ata_piix: probe of 000:00:1f.2 failed with error -16 Does anyone have any insight of these messages or whwre to start looking to fix this. Thanks, Steve

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Re: Confession of error...
by Michael Wiktowy 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

On 4/30/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson(a)georgeanelson.com> wrote: > At 1:30 AM -0400 4/30/07, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > >On 4/29/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson(a)georgeanelson.com> wrote: > >> (After > >> install, do "yum update yum", then "yum update", then "yum grouplist", then > >> "yum groupinstall <available groups you want>".) > > > >Don't upgrade yum separately first. While it may seem like a good > >strategy, I got burned by doing so in this exact situation. The yum > >got updated but the various python libs it depened on did not. This > >left a non runnable yum and a dependency hell to sort out manually. > ... > > This cannot happen with yum. OK, it can, but it would be a very very > serious bug if it did, either in yum or in the packages themselves, and > likely would be reported many times by more diligent people and fixed very > quickly. > > So update yum first, in case the initial version had a bug that was fixed. OK ... maybe I misinterpreted what the OP wants to do. I was thinking that he was looking at the possibility of a yum update between versions ... maybe not. So I will clarify ... If you are upgrading via yum, don't do "yum update yum" after you have updated the repositories to the new Fedora version ... do it before. My point is that doing a "yum update yum" is not good in all situations when upgrading. I did report my problem (and solution) on the list (1) and was told to follow the yum upgrading procedure (2) and yum upgrading issues were not bugzilla-worthy (3). Ref: (1) http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-September/msg00054.html (2) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq (3) http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-September/msg00056.html

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Can no longer use my USB mouse with my laptop
by Kevin Cummings 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

OK, so I plug my wireless USB mouse into my laptop, and I see the following messages in my logs: > Apr 27 21:08:32 kjclap kernel: usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 > Apr 27 21:08:32 kjclap kernel: Device driver usbdev1.2_ep00 lacks bus and class support for being resumed. > Apr 27 21:08:32 kjclap kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > Apr 27 21:08:32 kjclap kernel: input: HID 062a:0000 as /class/input/input8 > Apr 27 21:08:32 kjclap kernel: input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HID 062a:0000] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1 > Apr 27 21:08:32 kjclap kernel: Device driver usbdev1.2_ep81 lacks bus and class support for being resumed. and my mouse doesn't work. It used to work! Can someone please shed some light on the messages, and explain why it doesn't even work after rebooting the machine? kernel-suspend2-2.6.20-1.2933_1.fc6.cubbi_suspend2 I've recently booted 2.6.20-1.2944_1.fc6.cubbi_suspend2 and it didn't work there either. This laptop came with 2.6.19-1.2895_1.fc6.cubbi_suspend2 installed initially. As far as I can tell, this may have broken with the 2.6.20-1.2933 kernel and I didn't notice it until recently (I don't always use the mouse with this laptop). -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome(a)rcn.com cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net cummings(a)kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)

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Using Firefox in place of MS Explorer
by Jim 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

What and where is the addon app that allows Firefox to tell a website , it's a Explorer browser ? Jim

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Subversion 1.4 for FC4
by Dave Cross 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this question before I even ask it, but let's try it anyway. Does anyone know of any subversion 1.4.x RPMs that work with FC4? The svn 1.2 that comes on FC4 is looking a bit old now and there are a number of add-ins that require 1.4. And, yes, I realise that FC4 is old and unsupported. I'm working on getting that changed too, but it might take a month or two, so I'm looking for a temporary workaround. Cheers, Dave...

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Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat
by Arne Chr. Jorgensen 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Hi, ( note: this message may have occured earlier, while I have not seen it on the list ) I hope to be excused as it was very complicated to figure out the Fedora jungle of where to ask og suggest anything. Microsoft: When it crashes, you insert the software CD, and somehow you will get going again. Fedora&RedHat: When it crashes, you insert the software CD, but instead of the situation above, most of your work is lost ! ------------------- True/False ? I suggest that the installation WILL have an OPTION for installing the X-server. It can be on the rescue disk, for instance. ------------------ If anyone has a good tip as how to reinstall X in Fedora6, I sure would like to know and hopefully rescue my disk. But frankly, I don't understand why such an option isn't there in the first place. //ARNE BTW - it was the Add/Remove software packaged that failed, it should only remove some graphical package, but surprisingly removed the X-server as well. ( did look like it rolled back the depencies.. ) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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