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getting dumped to emergency console on boot
by Ian Malone 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Anyone else seeing this? I'm getting dropped to emergency mode during boot since my last F16 yum update. It included a kernel update, but I'm not certain yet that it is the kernel, because it's not 100% reproducible. Issuing a ^D gets me to GDM and the system appears to work. At the console there are no particular messages (occasionally an alsa warning), the only real clue I can find is this in dmesg: [ 113.821947] systemd[1]: Job dev-disk-by\x2duuid-87b66172\x2dcd62\x2d498a\x2da33b\x2d621948ce37ea.device/start timed out. [ 113.823409] systemd[1]: Job fedora-autorelabel-mark.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. [ 113.823487] systemd[1]: Job fedora-autorelabel.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. [ 113.823500] systemd[1]: Job local-fs.target/start failed with result 'dependency'. [ 113.823510] systemd[1]: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies of local-fs.target. [ 113.824494] systemd[1]: Job dbus.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. [ 113.824571] systemd[1]: Job avahi-daemon.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. ... long string of failed dependencies $ grep 87b6 /etc/fstab UUID=87b66172-cd62-498a-a33b-621948ce37ea /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 Not sure how to further troubleshoot this. That alsa warning, but doesn't seem relevant: [ 351.117493] ALSA sound/usb/clock.c:228 4:3:1: cannot set freq 16000 to ep 0x86 [ 351.254642] ALSA sound/usb/clock.c:243 current rate 290 is different from the runtime rate 24000 [ 351.263413] ALSA sound/usb/mixer.c:866 5:2: cannot get min/max values for control 2 (id 5) -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk

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How can I prevent udevd from renaming eth0 to em1
by JD 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

I googled this and came across 2 purported solutions, neither of which worked. 1. Uninstall package biosdevname and reboot. That did not prevent udevd from renaming eth0 to em1. 2. Add the line biosdevname=0 to /boot/grub2/grub.cfg That did not work either. Any other way to get around this renaming?

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ImageMagick -filter suggestion
by Fedora User 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

We start with the available filters: # convert -list filter Bartlett Blackman Bohman Box Catrom Cubic Gaussian Hamming Hanning Hermite Jinc Kaiser Lagrange Lanczos LanczosSharp Lanczos2 Lanczos2Sharp Mitchell Parzen Point Quadratic Robidoux Sinc SincFast Triangle Welsh I haven't the first clue how to compare all of these so here is what I am trying to accomplish in a script for repeated usage: I have an image that is mostly text. I am trying to reduce the size of the image to a fixed width (usually about 20%) while keeping the text as readable as possible. If I do this in GIMP, "cubic" will not produce the desired result. Lanczos comes close. I assume that I can get even closer with "convert." Slow is fine. Can some kind sole, more clever with graphics than I am, suggest the -filter * that I am looking for? TIA

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Remote Amarok music collection?
by Marko Vojinovic 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Hi folks! :-) I am trying to migrate from XMMS to Amarok, with the hope of improved functionality and ease of dealing with my music collection. So I have a very trivial problem: my music collection is now on a http server. How do I get Amarok to make a collection database out of that, short of downloading all that to a local disk? The very point of having all the files on a http server is that I *don't* want to have them on a local disk. So I want Amarok to create a database of the files present on the server, from which I can later create playlists. The music would stay on the server, and Amarok would read the files over http and play them one by one. I can do all this trivially with, say, mplayer --- I just need a text file containing lines of http://www.myserver.com/music.mp3, and it would play if I do a "mplayer -playlist myplaylist.txt". What I want is to do the equivalent in Amarok, since I expect to have a better UI regarding the order of files, shuffle&repeat stuff, etc. Amarok doesn't appear to have a "load playlist from a txt file" kind of option. N.B. I've been using Amarok for about 20 minutes total, so please tell me that I have missed something really obvious. ;-) :-) Marko

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systemd shutdown/reboot problems
by Ian Chapman 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Hi, I have a home server which runs F17 and for a long time now it just doesn't reboot or shutdown cleanly. I've had the same issue since it was running F16 and possibly F15. When the server shuts down, I get spurious messages about some services failing or a dependency was not met for the shutdown target, or sometimes a black screen with a line which just says "Adding Swap target" (really, on a shutdown?). The output seems to vary every time, sometimes wildy different but the end result is often the same, having to hit the reset button. How do I about starting to diagnose these problems with systemd? Given that the system is left in a state where I can't do anything with it. The usual places such as /var/log/messages doesn't turn up anything useful. Maybe because syslog has already been stopped by then. -- Ian Chapman.

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Dual boot with Windows question
by Alex 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

Hi, I'd like to install Windows 7 and fc17 on my laptop that has two disks. I'd like to use one disk for Windows and one for Linux. Should I just install Windows first, then Linux? How do I replace the Windows boot loader with grub and still be able to boot Windows? Thanks, Alex

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Failed Displaying jpg or png pictures in kde
by Mickey 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

F17 /KDE-4.9.2-1 I did a fresh install from F10 to F17 ,but I kept the old User directory in the /home partition. I did delete the old .kde /user/directory from the F10 install. I can view most of the jpg or png pictures in /home/user directory, but there is a number of jpg or png that I can't view, I get this error message: "Failed Loading Meta information, failed" This problem is all over a Google search ,but no solutions on correcting the problem.

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no audio on kernel-3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64
by Gordon Messmer 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

After updating a Lenovo T430S to kernel-3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64, the system doesn't generate sound. dmesg from a working kernel is here: http://paste2.org/p/2332429 dmesg from kernel-3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64 is here: http://paste2.org/p/2332432 Before I file a bug report, has anyone else seen this problem?

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Chinese written character input support?
by Chris Smart 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

Installed Fedora 17 on a laptop and trying to get Chinese input working for a user who doesn't know pinyin (therefore he needs to write the characters using mouse/tablet). I've tried WritRecogn and while it recognises characters, doesn't input them anywhere (like into Firefox). I've installed cellwriter but can't get past training mode after drawing all the characters. I've installed tomoe but can't find a way actually use it. There used to be scim-tomoe package (presumably for scim support) but it no-longer exists since F12. So is it possible or am I trying in vain? Thanks, -c

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Re: Fixing a crashed disk
by Reindl Harald 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Am 27.10.2012 01:41, schrieb Steven Stern: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote: >> >> >> Am 27.10.2012 01:29, schrieb Steven Stern: >>> Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 8 Offline uncorrectable sectors >>> Smartctl tells me the problem is at LBA 2014551336 (this is a 2TB disk) >> >> sounds bad >> >>> Here's the question: If I just reformat and restore /home from a >>> recent backup, will the disk automatically deal with the sectors >>> pending reallocation? >> >> REALLY: throw away the disk and do not restore backups to it >> >> be thankful that you got warned instead lsoe the disk >> from one moment to another and replace it >> > > It's a brand new computer, and there are only 8 bad sectors so far. > Throwing away the disk seems a bit harsh at this point. It might be > time to call Gateway and see if I can get it replaced under warranty, > but I doubt they'd do it for only 8 sectors on a 2TB disk. so what i had last year a vrand new computer with 4x2 TB server grade disks as RAID10 and the first dies completly after 5 days with never come back to read any sector if a disk on a brand new computer has any single bad sector the manufacturer has to replace it and yes most disks are dying at the very first begin or they run for years

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