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F8 rescued fails on FC7?
by Michael D. Berger 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

On my dual boot laptop with WinXP and F7, if I try to start from the F7 rescued, it appears to run properly. However, with an eye toward installing F8, if I boot from the F8 rescued, it hangs after printing the line: running /sbin/loader The downloaded rescued iso passed sha1sum, and I tried it with two different burned disks. !!Now while typing this, perhaps five minutes later, it suddenly started correctly! So what took so long? Thanks, Mike.

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onboard NIC: Attansic L2
by Dan Thurman 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Folks, Motherboard: P5GC-MX/1333, onboard Attansic L2 NIC chip Earlier I reported a nightmarish experience trying to get my onboard Attansic L2 NIC working after compiling the source code for it, installing it, and so on and could not figure out why the NIC was not turning on the phyiscal link. I think I understand the symptoms but not the underlying cause. I reported in my earlier post, that I blamed the twisted pair cable but it turns out this was not the problem. The cabled is fine. I had to go to my garbage can to retrieve the cable I almost threw out. I can repeatedly prove (at least to myself), that under a multiboot situation, if you boot using w2000/XP, M$ turns ON/OFF/ON the link when coming up and when it is shutdown/rebooted, it disables the link. It somehow turns the NIC OFF on reboot/shutdown. When you bootup Fedora, Fedora goes along as it normally does, probes eth0, but FAILS to turn ON the link. You CANNOT get Fedora to bring up the link no matter what you do. The ONLY way to get the link back is to physically power off the power supply because the motherboard always get's it's power unless the PS itself is turned off and until the power drains out. Only then, you can bring up Fedora's OS and get the NIC link to work. I wonder if M$ plugs microcode into the Attansic L2 chip that renders Fedora unable to turn on the link OR the code is missing from the Fedora networking process to turn ON the link. Can someone in development look into this and let me know what is going on? At the moment, I have a temporary solution for now but I'd like to make sure no other helpless chap faces this problem like I did for weeks trying to figure this out. Regards, Dan

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Anyone seen radeon driver fail to find DVI?
by Tom Horsley 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Haven't had a chance to gather much data on this, but on a machine at home with a fairly old radeon card (might be a 9200 or 9600, I can't look right now), debian etch has no problem running the display with the xorg radeon driver it has, but fedora 8 can't talk to the display. When I look at the log file, I see it believes that it should be talking to DDC_VGA (which isn't connected), doesn't find a monitor (which makes sense), and refuses to talk. The log when I boot debian doesn't mention VGA at all, but goes right to the DVI connector and works fine. Just wondered if this rings any bells for anyone before I kill a lot of time to examine it in more detail.

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Possible bug with TypeError in Python
by Aaron Konstam 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

The following seems like an bug in python in both f7 and f8 but I would like input before I post a bugzilla. It seems the exception handler cannot trap the TypeError in python. For example: def plus(a,b): try: return(a+b) except TypeError: return None If we define plus as above and call it with: plus(3,) we should get nothing returned. Instead we get: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./calculator", line 47, in <module> exec("register=op[tokens[0]](register)") File "<string>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: plus() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given) This seems like a bug. An ideas out there? -- ======================================================================= Please keep your hands off the secretary's reproducing equipment. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net

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Customizing Fedora Core 6
by potat0 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Dear All, I am working on customizing fedora core 6 with limited packages,and some additional packages. I trimmed all packages to 1.4 GB and planning to make installation disks(probably 2 CDs). Now I have the same directory structure what CD1 has, but only difference is RPMS directory contains all trimmed pacakages. I have resolved all the package dependencies using "rpm --test". My query is how can I divide the RPMs so that we can accomodate in 2 CDs. Please provide me some suggestions or procedure for doing this Praveen New Delhi -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=236607&topic_i… If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster(a)fcp.surfsite.org and/or blame praveecbt(a)yahoo.co.in.

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USB disk won't mount during boot
by Larry Breyer 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

I have three different Dell desktops. They are running FC5, FC6, and F7, respectively. I mention this because the problem does not occur on FC6. I have Western Digital USB drives with ext3 filesystems attached to each. On the FC5 and F7 machines the boot process fails to mount the USB drive. There is some complaint about an invalid ext3 filesystem. But, after the machines are fully booted, I can mount the USB drives without any problem. Is the mount being attempted before the drivers are in place? Is there a way to resolve this problem? Thank you! -- Larry Breyer Systems Administrator, Computer Services Salk Institute for Biological Studies 858-453-4100 x1981 Fax:858-554-0572

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gettext function not found by Perl module
by M. Fioretti 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Greetings, I need to install the gettext-1.05 perl module from CPAN because some inherited , very obscure unmaintenable scripts I _need_ to run on FC8 64 bit need it. When I run the perl Makefile.PL command, I get: [root@polaris gettext-1.05]# perl Makefile.PL checking for gettext... no checking for gettext in -lintl... no gettext function not found. Please install libintl at Makefile.PL line 18 but I don't know anymore where to find this libintl thing. After the first time I got this error, I did: yum install gettext yum install perl-libintl yum install perl-gettext yum install libintl yum install gettext-devel and nothing changed, I still get that error. yum search libintl only returns: perl-libintl.x86_64 : Internationalization library for Perl, compatible with gettext what else? I've even installed by hand the libintl-perl and Locale::Maketext::Gettext modules from CPAN, and nothing changes, I still get that error. What do I need to install to make it go away? Thank you in advance for any feedback, Marco PS: if it helps, the error message comes from this piece of Makefile.PL: unless (conftest("char *x = gettext(\"foo\");", "gettext", 0)) { # try with -lintl $libs = "-lintl"; unless (conftest("char *x = gettext(\"foo\");", "gettext", 0)) { unlink("conftest.c"); unlink("conftest"); die "gettext function not found. Please install libintl"; } -- Help *everybody* love Free Standards and Software: http://digifreedom.net

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Code name for Fedora 9
by Antonio Olivares 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

The code name for Fedora 9, scheduled for release on 29 April 2008, will be https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-January/msg00012.… Interesting! :) Regards, Antonio ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

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libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted) Fedora-8-xfce
by Frank Murphy 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

PCI-Card loaded first in bios. libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted) so: dmesg | grep agp Linux agpgart interface v0.102 agpgart: Detected an Intel i810 Chipset. agpgart: detected 4MB dedicated video ram. agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe80000 This is my inbuild video-chip. Below is my PCI-Card. dmesg | grep drm [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [drm] Initialized radeon 1.28.0 20060524 on minor 0 [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [drm] Loading R200 Microcode [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs How do I prevent the error(s). Frank

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CD and DVD ISO images
by John Summerfield 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

The latest Fedora newsletter triggered this. Someone was asking about CD-sized ISO images. For some time I've wondered whether it might be a Good Thing for distros to create a bunch of CD-sized ISO images, and then for the DVD-sized ISO image simply glue the lot into a single ISO image that boots the installer and installs as usual. I don't see much point to making different-sized install media that are so different. Anaconda already has to logic to loop-mount ISO images, it just needs to be applied to the "CDROM" install path. There would be space advantages to all who host the distro; they'd simply host the DVD images. Users who want the CD images would download the DVD image, loop mount it on Linux or OS X (I think there's brand-X software for Windows too) and then extract the ISO images to burn or not. I'm assuming nobody (Debian users excepted) downloads less than a full set of images. Most, but not all, of my too-numerous computers have DVD drives, and right now I'm looking at installing something that I downloaded as a DVD image on a system that hasn't a DVD drive. What do others think? -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa(a)coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa(a)coco.merseine.nu -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-)

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