Switching to libata drivers
by John Wendel
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
17 years
I need some help.
by Art Giles
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.
17 years
Really, REALLY slow computer
by Steve Blackwell
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
17 years
Re: Confession of error...
by Michael Wiktowy
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
17 years
Can no longer use my USB mouse with my laptop
by Kevin Cummings
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)
17 years
Subversion 1.4 for FC4
by Dave Cross
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...
17 years
Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat
by Arne Chr. Jorgensen
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.. )
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17 years
Graphics Magick segmentation fault
by Ambrogio
Hi all,
I installed GraphicsMagick to elaborate some images.
Every command (like gm identify pict1944.jpg) I launch cause the
Segmentation Fault.
Someone knows the cause?
tnx to all
Ambrogio
17 years
Slow performance
by Ashley M. Kirchner
Hi folks.
I'm posting this to both the Fedora as well as the CentOS lists in
hopes that somewhere, someone can help me figure out what's going on. I
have a dual Xeon 3GHz server that's performing rather slow when it comes
to disk activities.
The machine is configured with a single 160 GiB OS drive (with
CentOS 5.0) and 4x500 GiB drives setup in a RAID-5 configuration. All
drives are setup for 3.0 GiB SATA link, and the motherboard also
supports that. Looking in dmesg when the system comes up, I see that
reflected as well:
ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 312581808 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
scsi1 : ahci
ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata2.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 976773168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
scsi2 : ahci
ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata3.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 976773168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
scsi3 : ahci
ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata4.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 976773168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
scsi4 : ahci
ata5: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata5.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 976773168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
scsi5 : ahci
Now, I don't know what performance numbers *should* be, but on a 1.8
GiB copy on the RAID (cp from one location to another on the RAID), it
gets done in just under 50 seconds. If I try to delete the folder
afterwards (rm -rf FOLDER) it takes a few seconds to do so, however if I
delete the CONTENTS of the folder, it does so within a fraction of a
second (but then 'sync' takes a few seconds to catch up.)
That same folder that I'm copying contains 452 jpeg files in it,
ranging from 2.5 to 6.2 MiB. Doing some image processing on them is
where it takes a long time. At the moment I'm doing a simple thumbnail
creation with the ImageMagick suite (convert FILE -thumbnail "200x200>'
`basename FILE .jpg`.th.jpg) and it takes upwards of 8 minutes to
complete. The whole time it's running, 'top' reports the server load as
follows: load average: 1.06, 1.00, 0.81 And the CPU usage is around 9%.
Interestingly, if I run the same command and have it create .png
instead, it takes longer, but I won't go there just yet. My question
is, is this the expected performance on something like this, or should I
be able to get better results? Is there something I should or could do
to speed up disk based processes?
Or is this something where it's more memory intensive and I need to
look at adding more (right now it has 2 GiB of memory.)
This problem is causing one of our web sites to time out because
it's trying to process hundreds of image files and generate thumbnails,
and it's taking forever to do that. So I'm starting at the bottom of
the pile here, hardware. If it turns out the hardware is fine, and
there's nothing else that can be done to speed it up, then I'll move
forward to other possible culprits, such as the routines within the site
scripts themselves...
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