Specifying a static I.P. address for a Fedora 8 box - having issues
by Kevin Kempter
Hi List;
I've installed Fedora 8 on 2 of my home servers. I want to specify an I.P.
address so I did this.
Running KDE, went to K-Menu --> Administration --> Network
entered the root passwd
In the Network Config tool I clicked on edit and I see that the "Automatically
obtain IP address via dhcp" is checked.
If I run an ifconfig I get this:
$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:D7:71:44
inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4cff:fed7:7144/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1250431 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:726057 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1762907258 (1.6 GiB) TX bytes:49097625 (46.8 MiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xa000
I have a firewall which has the IP 192.168.1.1 and it's setup as my dhcp
server. If I log into the firewall and see the LAN settings I see this:
Name:
Device Name: ixp1
Status: Connected
Network: LAN
Connection Type: Ethernet
MAC Address: 00:c0:49:f4:32:b6
IP Address: 192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
IP Address Distribution: DHCP Server
Received Packets: 4873480
Sent Packets: 6792793
So, I did the following:
1) clicked the Statically set IP address button and entered the following:
-- Address: 192.168.1.71
-- Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
-- Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1
2) Exit the network config tool and save my changes
3) restart the network:
/etc/init.d/network restart
Now if I run ifup, then look at the output of ifconfig I see this:
# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:D7:71:44
inet addr:192.168.1.71 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4cff:fed7:7144/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1562719 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:916632 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2178981981 (2.0 GiB) TX bytes:62483658 (59.5 MiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xa000
At this point I can ssh/scp to/from the server via 192.168.1.71 however I
cannot get anywhere on the web. If I try and ping google I get this:
# ping www.google.com
ping: unknown host www.google.com
Now if I change the settings back to automatically get an IP via dhcp, and
restart the network then I can ping www.google.com and get a reply.
What am I doing wrong here?
Thanks in advance.
/Kevin
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16 years, 3 months
Strange.... X11 and Cirrus card
by Dan Thurman
That was wierd. I had just did a PUP update of which an
xorg update was included and when the system rebooted, my
"normal" (1024x768) came up just fine. But when I opened up
my firefox browser to test my svn repository, the screen
blanked out and GDM "got lost" trying to find the FB. Ok,
so I knew that my xorg.conf file must have gotten trashed
yet again, (I diff'ed a saved backup) and sure enough it
reverted by to that darn DefaultDepth 24. Sigh, my card
and system is old - but geez when will the xorg group check
these things before ram-rodding my xorg.conf file. Never mind,
I have restore it.
Well. The interesting thing here is that before, when I had
determined that there was NO WAY I could get past the
1024x768 "barrier", and the display app was also saying
the same thing but this time, I got more than I bargained
for: I got a list beyond the 1024x768 "barrier" and the
display app shows for "Thousands of Colors" adding
1152x768, 1280x720, and 1280x768.
Well, that is all fine except that the screen looks really
warpy beyond 1024x768 - that is, the aspect ratio is very
odd looking.
The question I have is, why can I not have something like
1024x1024 or other choices that "looks right"?
Can someone point me to how I can check this out manually
to see if I can "squeeze out" more than what xorg does
"automagically"? I mean is there a way to manually test
and maximize the video-chip's capability?
I have a Cirrus GD-5480 onboard chipset and a CM715
Hitachi Monitor which can support up to 1600x1200@72Hz
resolutions not that this video-chip could support it.
Thanks-
Dan
16 years, 3 months
Good bye: Res has a potty-mouth.
by Chris
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 21:51:24 +1000 (EST)
Res <res(a)ausics.net> wrote:
>
> PS
>
> learn some list netiquette, if one is sub'd to a list it stands to
> reason they most likely will see it, no need to CC the same useless
> shit to a user as well
>
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Chris wrote:
>
>
>
Here again, telling us (me) to learn some netiquette. Take your own
words as some advise. Foul language is certainly a sign of supreme
knowledge (or lack there of).
Shame on you. Play nice in the sandbox or someone (the List
Moderators, if they indeed exist, will take ball and go home).
Translation: If this list is moderated, you could be the one looking
inside from out.
--
Best regards,
Chris
Darth Vader:
Commander, tear this ship apart until you've
found those plans. And bring me the passengers, I
want them alive!
16 years, 3 months
Re: Good bye: Res has a potty-mouth.
by Jacques B.
> Yawnnnnnnnnn, sometimes one needs to take my approach, after all, it got
> your attention didnt it, but of course your still too dense to even
> consider what i've said, like tehr est of the wankas around here.
>
> My hours left of this distro are ticking away, so I'll be leaving the list
> anyway by Monday morning, as I said a few days ago.
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Res
>
I haven't been following this discussion closely, but I've checked in
now and then and I've seen your approach. Doesn't matter if you had
the answer to every question anyone could ever have about Fedora.
Most of us "wankas" will not miss your egotistical attitude dishing
out advice laced with mockery and juvenile language (I agree it's not
always like that, but it's enough that it gets noticed).
I was once contacted by my personnel branch in regards to a vacancy
that needed to be filled. They had two candidates within the
organization. One had strong technical skills but a bad attitude.
The other had limited technical skills but a very hard worker with an
excellent attitude. I told them I can teach someone the necessary
computer skills to do the job. I can't change someone's nasty
disposition and bad attitude. I took the one with limited skills.
That person worked extremely hard and acquired the necessary technical
skills to do the job and is now a fantastic team player with skills
comparable to their peers. I don't regret the decision at all. If
the attitude you dish out on this list is representative of how you
conduct yourself in person, you're at grave risk of ending up on the
losing end of a job opportunity despite being the stronger technical
applicant (if that hasn't yet happened).
Most don't expect model behaviour at all times. But there are limits
to what most find acceptable.
Please don't forget to close the door on the way out,
Jacques B.
16 years, 3 months
Re: Good bye: Res has a potty-mouth.
by Jacques B.
> > I was once contacted by my personnel branch in regards to a vacancy
> > that needed to be filled. They had two candidates within the
> > organization. One had strong technical skills but a bad attitude.
>
> ah the cant shut em up one way we'll try persuade em another, jesus
> christ, this lame example has been used for over 20 years, even well back
> in the early days of fidonet, didnt work then on anybody, it certainly
> wont work now.
>
Hardly a lame example. It's very much the truth. If it was
hypothetical I would have qualified it accordingly. You simply don't
have the ability to recognize it if it ever did happen to you, much
like the person in that case had no idea that I passed them over
because of their attitude.
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Res
>
As for you caring, I wasn't naive enough to think it would cause you
to care. You don't appear to possess the ability to care about much
of anything.
Happy Trails. We now return to Fedora issues minus Res...
Jacques B.
16 years, 3 months
Is a distro independent grub boot possible using a boot partition???
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
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Is a distro independent grub boot possible using a boot partition???
Hello, I'm trying to set up a boot partition on my multi-boot laptop
using grub. But I must be doing something wrong. And I'm not sure if
it can do what I really want anyway...
I was hoping that if I properly set up a boot partition with grub, it
would still work if I replaced the distro with which I originally
installed grub to the mbr???
The laptop came with vista, though I seldom go there.I just installed
FC8 from dvd. I have an existing kubuntu installation. And an very
outdated mepis installation from which I originally installed grub. And
I'm thinking of dumping mepis.
I set up a boot partition (sort of) I copied mepis' /boot to it,
modified both menu.lst files to replace lines consisting of:
root (hd0,6)
[ the mepis partition ] with lines containing:
root (hd0,2)
[ the intended boot partition ]
I know it's using the vmlinuz from (hd0,2) because I temporarily
renamed the one I had for the kubuntu in the mepis /boot dir
and could still boot kubuntu... I also know I'm still using the
menu.lst file on (hd0,6) because I modified one of the title lines to
include the words "native /boot" And that was displayed in the boot
menu.
I suspect that to make grub use the menu.lst that's on (hd0,2) what I
need to do is to mount /dev/hda3 on /boot while running the mepis that
installed grub, and then do a "grub-install /dev/hda". But I'd like to
confirm that before I wing it because unlike my old pc there is no
floppy so I can't test it with "grub-install /dev/fd0" first. So I guess
I'm asking if that's all there is to it?
But what I really want to know is once the grub installed to the mbr is
booting from (hd0,2) using the menu.lst from that partition, will it
continue to boot from the mbr if the linux that installed it to the mbr
is no longer there?
Or will I always have to reinstall grub to the mbr from some other
installed linux before I trash the distro that last installed it???
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16 years, 3 months
mysqld won't start
by Dave Stevens
Hi,
I have mysql installed in my F7 x86-64 system. When I try to use the System |
Administration | Server Settings and highlight mysqld and click on start I
get a delay and
"mysqld failed. The error was: Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL
Daemon.
Starting MySQL: [FAILED]"
This is less informative than I would like it to be.
/var/log/mysqld.log ends with:
080131 16:19:46 mysqld ended
080131 16:25:55 mysqld started
080131 16:25:55 InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally!
InnoDB: Starting crash recovery.
InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files...
InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the doublewrite
InnoDB: buffer...
080131 16:25:55 InnoDB: Starting log scan based on checkpoint at
InnoDB: log sequence number 0 36808.
InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 0 43655
080131 16:25:55 InnoDB: Starting an apply batch of log records to the
database.
..
InnoDB: Progress in percents: 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
5
1 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76
77
78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99
InnoDB: Apply batch completed
080131 16:25:56 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43655
080131 16:25:56 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables:
Table
'mysql.host' doesn't exist
080131 16:25:56 mysqld ended
I don't know what this means or what to do about it. I have searched for
mysql.host and it seems not to be present. Ideas?
Dave
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decisions. Any model of sustainability that is driven solely by an economic
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Columbia,2007
16 years, 3 months
Adobe Reader 8.1.1 printing does not work
by reikred@gmail.com
Adobe Reader 8.1.1 printing does not work for me in F8_x86_64.
The printer indicates activity, but then goes back
to idle and nothing comes out. This is a postscript level 2 printer
(nec superscript 1800) and it works fine with Adobe Reader 7.
I also see that the printer often gets disabled in system-config-printer
after the above failure.
Is this a common problem? Any ideas on how to fix it?
The same pdf files print fine from Adobe Reader 8 in windows xp, but that is
via PCL and not PS.
16 years, 3 months
Desktop == home directory in FC8?
by wob
Thanks for your reply.
>
> I can tell you that under Gnome, your desktop folder is ~/Desktop
>
If you used FC8, you'll notice there's no such thing as "Desktop",
your desktop IS your home directory, that means all your folders,
files on your home directory are visible on your desktop, which is
annoying. I'm not talking about browser or anything else.
>
> What do you mean by "severything"?
>
Sorry my bad. it's "puts everything".
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16 years, 3 months