Re: System hang on reboot after FC12 upgrade
by philbrog
> Hi,
>
> I upgraded from FC11 to FC12 and system hangs during reboot. I removed RHGB from the boot command line and I see 4 occurrences of this error message:
>
> Missing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions, exiting.
This suggests a severely corrupted system.
> Then this message:
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth: line 298: 858 segmentation fault /sbin/dhclient ${DHCLIENTARGS} ${DEVICE} failed. [FAILED]
This too.
>
> Then these error messages:
>
> Starting NFS daemon: rpc.nfsd: unable to resolve ANYADDR:nfs to inet address: Name or service not known
> Rpc.nfsd: unable to set any sockets for nfsd [FAILED]
This, and the remaining error messages are a consequence of the first two,
and are immaterial.
> System hangs at this point. Any help is appreciated, thank you.
You have major system corruption. First, review your installation/upgrade
process, if you remember for any hint as to what went wrong. If there's any
hint of a problem with an upgrade, it should be cancelled immediately,
rather than forging ahead, blindly.
Next, boot and append "1 forcefsck" to your kernel boot command, resulting
in a full fsck and a boot into run level 1. This checks your filesystems to
verify that they're in a consistent state, then throws you into a root
shell, skipping most of the initialization.
Then, run "rpm --rebuilddb" to check and make any necessary repairs to your
RPM database. Afterwards, you'll have to use some elbow grease to identify
which packages weren't properly installed, and reinstall them via yum or
rpm. The missing network-functions script is from the initscripts package,
for example, so at the bare minimum you'll need to reinstall initscripts.
It's almost a certainty that you have a long list of broken packages to
reinstall, not just initscripts. Like dhclient. And probably many others.
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The FC12 install went fine, no error messages were reported. I would have stopped it if I had seen any errors.
I booted and forced an fsck (successful), and then to runlevel 1. I ran rpm --rebuilddb successfully.
I don't have time for the remaining steps you suggest, I just want to copy some files from it, and then install net-new. Given the current state of my system, will I be able to copy files to a USB drive or CD-ROM?
Thanks again for your time and help.
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14 years
bittorent-error display
by Paolo Galtieri
Sometimes when I run bittorent-curses to download an iso image it will
display an error message. This error shows up in bold just below the
"peers: 0 seen now" line. The problem is that only the first 80
characters of the message are visible. In order to see the full text of the
error I have to stretch the gnome-terminal window. I don't know if this is
a bittorent curses error or a gnome-terminal error, but it seems strange
that which ever of the two is at fault is unable to make the full error
message fit in the 24x80 window.
Has anyone else seen this?
Paolo
14 years
Nvidia
by Henry Wyatt
Downloaded the following from Nvidia website
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36.15-pkg2.run
How do I install driver on Fedora 12 x64
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Henry E. Wyatt, Jr.
14 years
[Fwd: Recent Bugzilla Comment Concerning Fedora 11 EOL]
by Paul W. Frields
Hello fine Fedora friends,
I wanted to pass on this message to you in case any subscribers might
have had a bug affected by this message.
----- Forwarded message from John Poelstra -----
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:15:44 -0700
From: John Poelstra
To: announce at lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Recent Bugzilla Comment Concerning Fedora 11 EOL
All open Fedora 11 bugs recently received a comment warning about the
upcoming end of life for Fedora 11. This email serves as correction to
part of that notification.
Due to an error on my part this warning was sent out earlier than it
should have been. The statement "Approximately 30 (thirty) days from
now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 11..."
is incorrect. The end of life (EOL) for Fedora 11 will be June 18,
2010, which is thirty days after the release of Fedora 13, currently
scheduled for May 18, 2010. When Fedora 11 reaches EOL at that time,
bugs open for Fedora 11 will be closed as previously described.
For more information on Fedora's policy for maintenance of our releases,
please refer to:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle#Maintenance_Schedule
My apologies for any inconvenience or confusion this error may have caused.
John
----- End forwarded message -----
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14 years
Recent Bugzilla Comment Concerning Fedora 11 EOL
by John Poelstra
All open Fedora 11 bugs recently received a comment warning about the
upcoming end of life for Fedora 11. This email serves as correction to
part of that notification.
Due to an error on my part this warning was sent out earlier than it
should have been. The statement "Approximately 30 (thirty) days from
now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 11..."
is incorrect. The end of life (EOL) for Fedora 11 will be June 18,
2010, which is thirty days after the release of Fedora 13, currently
scheduled for May 18, 2010. When Fedora 11 reaches EOL at that time,
bugs open for Fedora 11 will be closed as previously described.
For more information on Fedora's policy for maintenance of our releases,
please refer to:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle#Maintenance_Schedule
My apologies for any inconvenience or confusion this error may have caused.
John
14 years
Strange genisoimage result
by Paolo Galtieri
I was using genisoimage to create a backup iso image. The contents of the
directory I backed up are as follows:
total 4234022
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 pgaltieri pgaltieri 221 2010-01-01 08:10 excludes
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 pgaltieri pgaltieri 4318858312 2010-01-01 08:36 files.tgz
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 pgaltieri pgaltieri 12992359 2010-01-01 08:11 flist
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 pgaltieri pgaltieri 3784365 2010-01-01 08:11 fprops
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 pgaltieri pgaltieri 560 2010-01-01 08:10 partitions
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 pgaltieri pgaltieri 4 2010-01-01 08:36 ver
When I tried to back it up it failed initially because the files.tgz was >
4Gb. I reran it with the -allow-limited-size which worked. I mounted the
iso image in loopback mode, ran ls -l /mnt/loop and got the following
result:
-r--r--r--. 1 4294967295 4294967295 221 2010-01-01 08:10 excludes
-r--r--r--. 1 4294967295 4294967295 4318858312 2010-01-01 08:36 files.tgz
-r--r--r--. 1 4294967295 4294967295 12992359 2010-01-01 08:11 flist
-r--r--r--. 1 4294967295 4294967295 3784365 2010-01-01 08:11 fprops
-r--r--r--. 1 4294967295 4294967295 560 2010-01-01 08:10 partitions
-r--r--r--. 1 4294967295 4294967295 4 2010-01-01 08:36 ver
Notice the strange user and group ids. I backed up another directory
total 2055002
-rwxrwxrwx. 2 pgaltieri pgaltieri 3344047 2009-11-25 22:53 259313 All
code.zip
-rwxrwxrwx. 2 pgaltieri pgaltieri 403648 2009-11-25 22:55 9780470525937
Entire Book Download.zip
-rwxrwxrwx. 2 pgaltieri pgaltieri 342437920 2009-11-12 17:16
AcroPro90_efg.exe
-rwxrwxrwx. 2 pgaltieri pgaltieri 27386280 2009-11-24 22:06
AdbeRdr920_en_US.exe
-rwxrwxrwx. 2 pgaltieri pgaltieri 2381 2009-09-08 17:22 Advanced Subnet
Calculator.lnk
.
.
.
and after generating the iso image and mounting it loopback it shows:
[root@peglaptop ~]# ll /mnt/loop
total 2054932
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 3344047 2009-11-25 22:53 259313_a.zip
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 403648 2009-11-25 22:55 97804705.zip
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 342437920 2009-11-12 17:16 acropro9.exe
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 27386280 2009-11-24 22:06 adberdr9.exe
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 2381 2009-09-08 17:22 advanced.lnk
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 251840 2010-01-11 12:40 b2cappse.exe
.
.
.
In this case the user and group ids were changed from pgaltieri to root. Is
the behavior using -allow-limited-size expected behavior or is this a bug in
genisoimage?
Paolo
14 years
Installing Fedora 12
by Nathan Woodruff
I've downloaded the Fedora 12 desktop edition and I've installed it now
three times on a U2 server of ours. Every time after the reboot of the newly
installed system, I get the login screen. The first time when I installed, I
used a password that I always use as a default, at least I thought, I wasn't
100% sure. I typed in "root" with out the quotes and type in the default
password that I always use. "Authentication Failed" and doesn't log on.
Okay, another 6 hours of installation, this time I write down the password
that I typed in for root. Another reboot without the live CD to the clean
install, and I get the login screen. I type "root" and the written down
password. Same thing "Authentication Failed".
That night I start another 6 hours of a clean install and this time I use
the word "password" for the requested password. I know that I can not mess
that up.
The next day I come in to a clean install from the Live CD and I get the
login screen. I type "root" and "password". "Authentication Failed"..
If I wanted an operating system that all it does is display "Authentication
Failed", I'd be in business. I was hoping it would do more than that.
What am I doing wrong?
Nathan Woodruff
14 years
Startx crash after update
by Fil-ShinyMetal
Hi there,
I will describe shortly my situation.
2 Z800 HP server, 6 GBytes of ram with 1 80 GB sata for the os and 2 sata 1TB in software raid1.
The graphic board is an Nvidia Quadro FX380
I have other servers ( FC10 ) that mirrors locally the update and everything publicly available repositories.
The installation went smoothly with FC12_64.
After the installation I arranged to boot in text mode, no graphic ( I do this for all my servers, so nothing strange ).
I got the first troubles when I did the updates : doing a startx, both the Z800s rebooted, and unbelievably the discs were no more accessible : the only way to recover from that was to cycle the power !
Quick investigation, and I discovered that with the installation kernel ( 2.31.5 ) X starts well.
Googling around, I discovered the solutions proposed in the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/Common but none of them worked for me.
I've not yet tried the Nvidia driver for time reasons, maybe tomorrow I will do, but I suspect the problem is not there.
As a last bit, I did the installation and update with 32bit FC12, with the same results.
Any idea about this?
Regards
Filippo
Skype shinymetal-skype
14 years
F12 crash
by Nermin Celik
Hi,
I installed Fedora 12 x86-64 onto Hp Z800 workstation, had a problem with
software updates so used
$su -c 'yum update',
problem was fixed. Installed Adobe Acrobat Reader. Downloaded few other
programs but did not install them. Then, the screen froze. Tried
Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart, didn't work, so reset the machine from the power
button. Then someting very interesting happened - machine went into a loop
mode, started, failed to boot fedora, shutdown, restarted by itself, failed
to boot fedora, shutdown...etc about six times. Then I just shut the machine
off. Before fedora could be loaded, the pc just shutdown in each case. At
start tried pressing F10 but didn't work.
Has anyone else experinced a similar problem?
Nermin
14 years
Strange issue with ceasing IO operations
by Ziemowit Pierzycki
I'm having an issue with my server. After successful installation of F12
the system works normally for a while and then seems like all IO operations
cease. I am not able to access anything from the disk so only the cached
commands work. The CPU utilization is very low while load average is
through the roof along with IOWAIT pegged at close to 100%. There is no
disk activity at all. There are no errors anywhere. Everything seems to be
in order.
I think this is related to the software RAID I setup on the system. I have
four 1 TB Western Digital Green drives configured using BIOS configuration
into RAID10. I'm just not sure what the heck is going on.
I'm not sure this is motherboard/CPU/memory related because I tried it with
two different computers and the only thing that I moved between them were
the drives. Any ideas how I could troubleshoot this further?
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Thank you,
Ziemowit Pierzycki
14 years
