eth0 not working - fine in Windows
by Chris
Hi,
A couple of days ago whilst running F10, a friend was inserting a USB
stick and the physical connection on the front panel of my PC broke.
The machine immediately powered off. When I booted again, everything
seemed fine except that the network connection had stopped working.
When I try "service network start", it says it's unable to determine
IP information - check cable.
If I boot into Windows it works fine. I'm doubtful that it's a
hardware problem because (a) it works in Windows, and (b) the problem
USB connector is on the front panel and connected via a lead, i.e.
it's not directly attached to the motherboard.
Any ideas on where to start investigating?
As a side question, when I look in system-config-network, I've got a
device called pan0. I don't recall it being there, but it may have
been there and I just didn't notice it. I'm not using NetworkManager
as I've found it can just cause problems. Maybe I could give it a go
anyway but I suspect the problem is deeper than that.
Thanks, Chris.
15 years, 4 months
[OT] searching for a regular expression to match strings
by Christoph Höger
Hi,
anyone knows about a (high-performance) regular expression to match
java-like Strings?
(e.g. "Hi, World \n this is a \"-quoted string.\n")
I have tested
((\\.)|[^"\\])*
which basically does what I want (although capturing too much escape
sequences).
The problem is: I've tried jakarta's regexp and java's implementation
and both run into Stack Overflows for input strings with more than 500
characters. That is definitely not acceptable as a hard limit for
tokenizing source code.
Any suggestions?
15 years, 4 months
AGP 4x Video Recommendation for FC10 w/ 1600x1080 LCDs
by Adrian Kuepker
Hello All.
I've recently upgraded my FC8 to FC10 and I'm not exactly happy with
the video output from the old video card. Since I'm running other
boxes also as a "dual boot" XP/LTSP workstations, I decided that I'd
buy in volume and set up my various home workstations with identical
video.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a known-good AGP 4x (FC10 on an
Asus TUV4X M/B) video adapter that will run LCD monitor resolutions?
I'm going to buy several of these for my workstations for ease of
compatibility with the LTSP install
(Semi-Unrelated Note: My XP boxes have NVidia cards (GEForce4 MX) that
don't reliably run 1600x1080 on my Optiquest monitors under XP. I can
get it working -- sometimes -- but every time XP installs any updates
the settings get blown away and I have to re-install drivers from
scratch. Very annoying, and I'm tired of it, thus I'm looking to
replace these video adapters too.)
I ran a large LTSP network some years ago at an old job and I've got a
soft spot for the ATI cards which served us so well, but if there's a
better option I'm perfectly open to that too. I'm not looking to spend
a big pile of cash, as these workstations are being used primarily for
web browsing and spreadsheets.
Suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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http://www.roadsnw.com
15 years, 4 months
TurboTax.com (Here we go again...)
by Christopher A Williams
Well - It seems that time of year has come once again...
And once again, Intuit is doing browser checks on their TurboTax site
and refusing to run any browser if the OS is Linux.
Firefox on Windows or Mac is fine, but not Linux.
I got around this before by finding a UA Switcher config that fooled it.
Anyone know where I can find one that has FF 3.0 on Windows as an
option?
I did my part by sending Intuit a strongly, but professionally worded
complaint about this. It included (truthfully) how I have used their
product for years and that I am now considering using a competitor's
product because, in today's Web 2.0 world, this kind of browser checking
stuff is completely unacceptable.
Anyone care to do the same?
Cheers,
Chris
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15 years, 4 months
F10 and Gnome - not root login
by Aldo Foot
I ran into a problem today for which I already found the answer, but I wanted
to ask what in the world is going on with F10 and gnome's initial install??
Today I decided to install F10 for the first time and decided to try out the
Gnome desktop. The install was clean. Somewhere during the install I was
asked for the root password. I did noticed I was not given a chance to
create a regular user account.
The system booted and I enter the username (root) and its password. So now
I now that for security reasons root is not allowed to login using the GDM. The
fix is to edit /etc/pam.d/gdm to comment out the line with "user != root" in it.
But now, seriously, how I'm I supposed to log in at the desktop when I was not
offered the chance to create a regular user account during the installation?
This has to be the most discouraging thing for someone who wants to try out
fedora for the first time. How in the world is a newbie going to
figure this things out?
I skimmed through the release notes and didn't see anything related to this.
~af
15 years, 4 months
Error building custom kernel on ps3
by mikael.larsson＠bredband.net
Hello, have been trying to recompile the latest fedora 10 ppc64 kernel
on a playstation 3 with no luck.
I followed the instructions on
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel that always works
perfectly on my i386 and x86_64 machine.
Is there any difference when recompiling for ppc64?
I start the build with:
$rpmbuild -bb --without debuginfo --target=`uname -m` kernel.spec
If I look at the output from the build it looks as if the kernel and
'modules stage II' gets built and after 3.5 hours the system freezes for
about 10 to 15 minutes with no disk activity and then continues leaving
an error that file /var/tmp.<something> returned with wrong status.
How can I find out what's going wrong here?
Regards
Mikael Larsson
15 years, 4 months
f10: fs errors; journal write error in flush_commit_list
by g
greetings,
from start of installation of f10, 4 months ago, to present, f10 has been
having a problem of staying operational, in that after being up for a short
time, it would bomb and have just now found problem.
last update update was last night and while at command line, system showed
error messages of what is happening.
these are not all of messages, but should be enough for finding problem.
previously;
+++
REISERFS: abort (device sdb8): Journal write error in flush_commit_list
REISERFS: Aborting journal for filesystem on sdb8.
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device sdb6): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal
Remounting filesystem read-only
+++
last night;
+++
EXT3-fs error (device sdb6): in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device sdb6): in ext3_reserve_dirty_inode: Journal has aborted
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device sdb6): in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device sdb6): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal
Remounting filesystem read-only
+++
google search shows hits on patches to previous kernels and other non relate
info, but none of help.
suggestions? pointers? links?
tia.
--
peace out.
tc,hago.
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