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Very BAD preupgrade experience.
by Michael D. Setzer II 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

Just had a bad experience with preupgrade. Had a phenom II x64 machine that had Fedora 11 freshly installed with default settengs a few weeks before 12 came out. Finally decided to try the upgrade to see how it would work, but could have done a clean install if it didn't work. Preupgraded started find downloading files, but eventually came up with a message that it needed more space on /boot. Removed all but latest kernel, and memtest and eventually needed to remove the splash graphic to get it to work, but fianllly got enough space. So the preupgrade to finish the process to reboot. Then when it rebooted, there was a message that it needed more space, but there was nothing on the /boot to be removed. I was able to boot back to the Fedora 11 kernel, and then tried a last resort option. Took the initrd in the upgrade directory, and first gunziped it, and then used lzma on it. The resuld was about 500M smaller size, and then was able to reboot. This then alllowed the preupgrade boot to work, and the system has now upgraded. It would have been nicer to get a message to either no do a preupgrade, or to have a way to resize the systems. Would have tired partimage, but it doesn't resize lvm, so that would be another problem. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@kuentos.guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 9,096,112.043433 | EINSTEIN 3,519,158.940851 ROSETTA 1,594,890.066776 | ABC 8,703.320170

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RAID 1 Mismatches
by Rick Wagner 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

I have three disks in my system, divided into a mix of RAID-1 and RAID-5 partitions. I have /boot as a RAID-1 on MD0 (SDA1, SDB1), / as RAID-1 on MD1 (SDA2, SDB2), and the remainder as RAID-5 with LVM (SDA3, SDB3, SDC3). The intent is that for boot and root, if SDA fails, I can boot off SDB. Every week I get an "Anacron job 'cron.weekly'" e-mail telling of: "WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on /dev/md1". If I look at /sys/block/md1/md/mismatch_cnt, I will see a number, usually 128, sometimes 64. If I manually invoke a scan, I will see the same number. Note that neither MD0 or MD3 report any errors. If I set SDB1 bad, then remove then re-add it, it will rebuild fine, and a scan shows no errors. Scanning the messages (current and historical), I see no reports of medium errors reported for any of SD[ABC]. I have several questions: 1) Where can the errors be coming from? I would understand if a drive were reporting errors. Could it be during boot, one of the R-1 members is being written too before MD is started? 2) Sans drive errors messages, how to determine which drive is out of sync. I have resynced SDA2 to SDB2, but that is basically a coin flip; if SDB2 were correct, then I may have damaged files on SDA2. How can I determine where the mismatches occur, and then determine the file(s) potentially affected? Thanks, --rick

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A very good PCI Wireless card for Fedora/Linux
by Jim 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

Sabrent 802.11N PCI-802N , two antennas, When I purchased this card it drove me crazy determining which Linux driver that was for this card. RT2860sta driver, I have it in a bedroom in a PC that couldn't get a 100% signal to it from a Linksys router, but with this card it gave me a 100% signal. And it doesn't shut down. Copy and Paste the model above into Google search and find locations that sell it. I don't have any connections to anyone that make or sell it, I just want to pass on to the info to Fedora/Linux users that have need of a PCI wireless card.

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Re: [fedora-virt] how to active XEN on Fedora 12
by Dario Lesca 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

Il giorno mer, 23/12/2009 alle 05.03 -0800, Boris Derzhavets ha scritto: > You can use F12's KVM, but once again Libvirt will be required to > manage VMs. > F12 is a bleeding edge system for development, high performance > virtualization > environment. You might not need it at all. > So, VMware might be the best option for you. Thanks Boris, I use F12 on my Laptop and I want run some VM for test new version of distro. Now I use qemu-kvm but each machine use 30/40% of CPU of host system. I want use XEN to see if it works better... I have found this note: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-centos-xen-virtualization-installation-h… But if I run "yum install xen virt-manager kernel-xen" this is the output: > % sudo LANG=C yum install xen virt-manager kernel-xen > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > * fedora: ftp.uni-bayreuth.de > * livna: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de > * rpmfusion-free: ftp.nb.lug.ro > * rpmfusion-free-updates: ftp.nb.lug.ro > * rpmfusion-nonfree: ftp.nb.lug.ro > * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: ftp.nb.lug.ro > * updates: ftp.upjs.sk > Setting up Install Process > Package xen-3.4.1-5.fc12.x86_64 already installed and latest version > Package virt-manager-0.8.0-7.fc12.noarch already installed and latest version > Package kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64 already installed and latest version > Nothing to do then I'm looking for some thing to do after this.... Thanks -- Dario Lesca <d.lesca(a)solinos.it>

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]$ glxinfo: “Error: glXCreateContext failed”
by Bill Case 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

Hi; Just to clarify things. I have the above error when I checked glxinfo after I tried Susyem => Preferences => Desktop Effects and got this warning "Accelerated 3D graphics is not available Desktop effects require hardware 3D support." I googled and got the fallowing advice: "The following needs to be present in the xorg.conf file: Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" EndSection" My xorg.conf contains: # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (mockbuild@) Sun Nov 22 21:04:19 EST 2009 # Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" EndSection I can add the ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" manually. But as the advice is dated April 2009, is it out of date (i.e. for versions earlier than F12)? Shouldn't this type of configuration be added by some program or package automatically? I have the "nVidia Display Settings" gui. Shouldn't there be a way to set this configuration through that? I am running a GeForce 9500 GT on a PCIe Bus and a rpmfusion nvidia driver as part of a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU system. -- Regards Bill Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28 Evo.2.28, Emacs 23.1.1

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Blocking auto-update of Kernel
by James Allsopp 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

Hi, Is there an option to stop the F12 auto-update system updating my kernel. I want to avoid a situation where my kernel gets updated but there isn't a matching Madwifi rpm in the repositories? Best regards James

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F12 and CUPS (Epson Aculaser C4000)
by Luc MAIGNAN 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

Hi, before F12 i didn't have any problems to configure my Epson Aculaser C4000 with CUPS. Unfortunaly, with F12 it doesn't work. The recommended driver doesn't work (my printer doesn't seem to like PS) and when I use my previous PPD file, it says to me that there is no filter. Anyone has an idea ? Regards

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fedora
by parag 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

hi I want fedora DVD of karmic 9.10 can any body send me or is there any site from where i can request it -- Hi .... This is Parag Phatowali ..... >From Shillong .......

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Nouveau driver with nvidia dual head
by Kirk Lowery 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

I just installed Fedora 12 using the LiveCD. It discovered my nvidia and samsung hardware with the dual monitors. In particular, it stretched the default desktop background across both screens. All was well. Until I rebooted. Then, when I logged in, the desktop background was no longer stretched across both monitors, but each monitor had its own complete copy. Everything else works right: all windows stretch across the monitors as one large desktop. I've played around with all the settings, googled for the problem, no joy. I even installed the livna kmod drivers and they would only recognize one monitor. Besides, the LiveCD did TheRightThing(tm), so it ought to work. Any suggestions on how I might proceed? Kirk

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no sound from wrapped macro-media flash player
by Ralph Blach 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

Please excuse the previous post in html. Seamonkey did not ask me to choose between html and plain text Anyway, I have installed macro-media flash, and it works fine, except there is not sound. This worked great on when I wrapped on fedora 10. Any suggestions? Chip

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