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Kernel numbers
by Jeff Stevens 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

What does it mean to see an rpm with a kernel of 2.6.10-1.741_FC3, when we go to a site like http://www.kernel.org and see the latest kernel is at 2.6.10? If one wanted to compile their own kernel from this site, would they be losing fixes/etc. from the "-1.741_FC3" portion? Thanks, still learning here... -- Jeffrey Stevens gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D2E5A4E8 Key fingerprint: 1C86 8717 E485 FA4D B9EF 96E2 A1AC 4B00 D2E5 A4E8

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Re: Rescuing files from a LVM partition
by Andrew Stewart 11 May '08

11 May '08

> Before doing any more damage, > make at least one disk image of what you have. > If a disk image is a file of a larger drive, > you can use loopback to examine it. > If you want to make changes, don't use your only copy. > > -- > Mike hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu > "Horse guts never lie." -- Cherek Bear-Shoulders I'm not sure how to do that when I can't even mount the disk. Any suggestions on what to do next? I've noticed that lvm archives a volume group configuration when a change is made to it (under /etc/lvm/archive.. In plain text too!) By looking at these I can tell exactly what commands I ran in order to muck things up... Fri Sep 21 17:56:48 2007: 'vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sdb2' Fri Sep 21 18:25:40 2007: 'vgreduce VolGroup00 /dev/sdb2' Fri Sep 21 18:25:45 2007: 'vgcreate VolGroup01 /dev/sdb2' Mon Sep 24 18:37:52 2007: 'vgremove VolGroup01' Tue Sep 25 13:51:10 2007: 'vgcreate VolGroup01 /dev/sdb2' I can also tell what pv's and lv's belonged to the corresponding VolGroup in each archive. (btw, I've seen archived threads from what looks to be an old linux-lvm specific mailing list. Anyone know if this still exists? I can't find it anywhere)

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realplayer and pulseaudio on F8
by Ian Malone 11 May '08

11 May '08

This is mainly a happy story, but things could be better. Under F7 i686 I ran a nightly build of realplayer (from <helixcommunity.org>) which understood ALSA. As such I was able to set up a dmix device for it and it played happily with the rest of the system. When I moved to F8 I changed to using the x86_64 system, and the first thing I did was try a 64bit realplayer build. After changing it to use the hardware device (as it wont output to a pulse ALSA device), I discovered that: a. The sound warbled. The closest effect to it that I've heard before is where there's a rate mismatch and the buffer keeps running out. b. The mozilla plugins wouldn't work, with or without nspluginwrapper. I'm hypothesising that despite being included with the 64 bit build they are intended for 32 bit realplayer. So, I changed to a 32 bit build of RP. I have it outputting through a dmix device set to 48kHz as otherwise it runs too fast (i.e. if I load a file on the machine it plays it back at an incredible speed and a high pitch). It now runs okay both stand-alone and as a browser plugin. However, because most things use pulseaudio now (including flash and rhythmbox), using RP is mutually exclusive with most other sound apps. I /think/ the solution to this would be to set up a dmix or plug device going into the pulseaudio ALSA device, but I've had a couple of goes and can't work it out. Any suggestions? -- imalone

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tar backup on tape doesn't work
by Budiono 10 May '08

10 May '08

Hi all, I 'm just install a scsi card BusLogic BT-958 and HP DAT 40, on my fedora core 6 system. I usually backup my system, using tar. My problem is backup doesn't running well. And this is my backup script: #tar -b 1024 -cvf /dev/st0 /usr/local/src/my_home/yahoomail | bzip2 -9 > /var/log/Backup.log.bz2 Backup only run a while, and archive some files in directory and then stop. [root@mis-s155 ~]# tar -b 1024 -cvf /dev/st0 /usr/local/src/my_home/yahoomail | bzip2 -9 > /var/tmp/Backup.log.bz2 tar: Removing leading `/' from member names tar: /dev/st0: Cannot write: Device or resource busy tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now But when I put out -b parameter on tar. It run a while and not backup directory at all The backup script I used was running well when I'm using redhat 9.0 system. I attach some message from my system scsi: ***** BusLogic SCSI Driver Version 2.1.16 of 18 July 2002 ***** scsi: Copyright 1995-1998 by Leonard N. Zubkoff <lnz(a)dandelion.com> scsi5: Configuring BusLogic Model BT-958 PCI Wide Ultra SCSI Host Adapter scsi5: Firmware Version: 5.06I, I/O Address: 0xDC00, IRQ Channel: 225/Level scsi5: PCI Bus: 2, Device: 3, Address: 0xFEAFF000, Host Adapter SCSI ID: 7 scsi5: Parity Checking: Enabled, Extended Translation: Enabled scsi5: Synchronous Negotiation: Fast, Wide Negotiation: Enabled scsi5: Disconnect/Reconnect: Enabled, Tagged Queuing: Enabled scsi5: Scatter/Gather Limit: 128 of 8192 segments, Mailboxes: 211 scsi5: Driver Queue Depth: 211, Host Adapter Queue Depth: 192 scsi5: Tagged Queue Depth: Automatic, Untagged Queue Depth: 3 scsi5: SCSI Bus Termination: Both Enabled, SCAM: Disabled scsi5: *** BusLogic BT-958 Initialized Successfully *** scsi5 : BusLogic BT-958 Vendor: HP Model: C5683A Rev: YP61 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 scsi 5:0:3:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 1 st: Version 20050830, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 st 5:0:3:0: Attached scsi tape st0 st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B) [root@mis-s155 ~]# mt -f /dev/st0 status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x26 (DDS-4 or QIC-4GB). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (1010000): ONLINE IM_REP_EN I very appeciate for any solution and comment. Thank you Budiono

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Nagios yum install
by Mike Morraye 08 May '08

08 May '08

Dear List, I just installed nagios on my Fedora 8 trough Yum. (standard repo's) Now it seems that the rpm installs in different dir's than what you're expected to do while installing from source. Now it's quite hard to follow the official nagios manual, and i can't seem to find modified ones. What should I do?

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Re: Port forwarding
by Andy 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi, Jari Marikainen wrote: > I would like to forward incoming traffic from internet to > "<195.198.111.x> port 80" to "<some other ip on the internet> port 80" > in FC3 on the same interface. I would try the DNAT/SNAT iptables targets, along the lines of: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -d 195.198.111.x \ -j DNAT --to-destination 65.114.4.69 iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -d 65.114.4.69 \ -j SNAT --to-source <your external IP address on this machine> The second line makes the real server send it's replies through the same path (otherwise it will reply directly to the client) You have to enable/allow forwarding for everything to work. hth, /Andy

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Integrated bluetooth on Toshiba laptop wont work
by Zlatko 02 May '08

02 May '08

Hello to everybody, and greetings from Croatia (Europe)... I need help... Model of laptop: Toshiba Satellite P200-10C My integrated bluetooth wont work, unless I do the following: 1. I start laptop with Windows Vista 2. I restart from Vista to Fedora Each time I do this, bluetooth works fine. But, if I turn off computer, and start it again directly to Fedora, bluetooth wont work, and system wont recognize any bluetooth device. I have described this problem on Fedora forum, also, but nobody answered my question so far, even I have posted that post month ago. Here is the link to that post: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=172988 If anybody knows how to handle this problem, I'll be very appreciated... Also, my combination of pressing Fn + (F1-F9) wont work either... Thanks

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Fedora 8: X/Nautilus eating CPU
by wwp 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

Hello all, now that my Fedora 8 is fully set up, I notice periodical short hangs of the Desktop, making its use quite uncomfortable. `top` tells me that the X and Nautilus processes are eating up to 30% of CPU every 15-20sec approximately (I can hear some disk activity as well). Sensors applets are configured to poll on a longer period basis so it's probably not them. No cron activity has been set. Anyway, I was running the same applets with my Fedora Core 5 and GNOME and never encountered such behaviour before. For the record, nautilus-action is installed and there are few mounts (USB disks) visible onto the Desktop. I've tried closing all apps (but GNOME Desktop) and this still happens. Anybody has this too? Or any hint? Regards, -- wwp

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MySQL for an absulute beginner - Need recommandation
by Barry Yu 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Would appreciate point me to a place where I could find the info in learning MySQL as an absolute begginer.

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Re: printer problem fixed -- but why?
by Andrew Couture 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Do you have 'cups' installed? Why not use 'http://localhost:631/', it works well. If you printer doesn't have a driver there, try the 'gutenprint-' package. It is not a *rpm yet, but the instructions are straight forward. andy

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