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Anything Like Solaris' Live Ugrade?
by Tim Evans 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Does anyone know of any sort of Linux utility that does something like what Solaris' Live Upgrade (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-7933/index.html) does? In my past life as a Solaris sys-admin, I found this an extremely useful tool for upgrading and patching running systems, as well as for maintaining redundant boot environments on separate system disks for disaster situations. -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court Linux/UNIX Consulting | Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394-3864 http://www.come-here.com/News/ | tkevans(a)tkevans.com

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network-scripts documentation
by Sam Varshavchik 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Google isn't helping me find the documentation for /etc/sysconfig/network- scripts/* in F18. It brings me to F14's "Deployment Guide", and browsing TOCs for the F18 documentation doesn't find anything promising. My old router, that was running DD-WRT firmware, bit the dust. The stock brand router that replaced it doesn't have the ability to send NTP for clients via DHCP. I'm trying to figure out if I had drop something into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*, that'll have the effect of doing that.

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F18 Xorg/drm/kernel - Failed to find memory space for buffer 0xXXX eviction
by Wolfgang S. Rupprecht 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

On most of my systems the F17 to F18 upgrade went well. On the main one, my desktop, I'm seeing a string of failures that leaves the display in various states of unusable depending on the positions of the stars and planets. The file /var/log/messages contains the following and the displays have messed up icons and background images. It looks like the frame buffer is just displaying random snippets of past items in some mosaic-ed pattern. 2013-01-27T20:06:10.077567-08:00 arbol kernel: [ 28.832592] [TTM] Failed to find memory space for buffer 0xffff88021ceda848 eviction 2013-01-27T20:06:10.077590-08:00 arbol kernel: [ 28.832604] [TTM] No space for ffff88021ceda848 (9660 pages, 38640K, 37M) 2013-01-27T20:06:10.077592-08:00 arbol kernel: [ 28.832609] [TTM] placement[0]=0x00070002 (1) 2013-01-27T20:06:10.077593-08:00 arbol kernel: [ 28.832613] [TTM] has_type: 1 2013-01-27T20:06:10.077595-08:00 arbol kernel: [ 28.832616] [TTM] use_type: 1 2013-01-27T20:06:10.077596-08:00 arbol kernel: [ 28.832619] [TTM] flags: 0x0000000A 2013-01-27T20:06:10.077597-08:00 arbol kernel: [ 28.832621] [TTM] gpu_offset: 0x20000000 2013-01-27T20:06:10.077599-08:00 arbol kernel: [ 28.832624] [TTM] size: 131072 2013-01-27T20:06:10.077600-08:00 arbol kernel: [ 28.832627] [TTM] available_caching: 0x00070000 2013-01-27T20:06:10.077601-08:00 arbol kernel: [ 28.832629] [TTM] default_caching: 0x00010000 Does this ring a bell with anyone? Is there something I can turn off (perhaps in Xorg.conf) to stop this lossage perhaps at some cost in CPU time or speed? It feels like it must be some video acceleration hack gone awry. Why else would the kernel get involved in this level of xorg userland drawing to the framebuffer? I put in a bugzilla for this a dozen days ago, but so far, not even a peep from anyone. I figured I'd try for a larger audience. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896170 -wolfgang -- g+: https://plus.google.com/114566345864337108516/about

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F18: Update problems ?
by Aaron Gray 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

Hi, Is anyone experiencing update problems with Fedora at the moment ? I keep getting restarts and Gnome 3 boot failures into old desktop. Then restart and I get Gnome 3 again after a restart and then it wants to do updates again. And the whole thing goes in a circle. Aaron

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Syncevolution: will not sync local contact data with could
by Max Pyziur 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

Greetings, I've been using a Memotoo, a cloud-based service, for syncing data between my desktop and devices. However, while using syncevolution's gui I get the following message: There is problem w/ the local database; syncing again or rebooting may help Syncing again doesn't help; rebooting (the machine?) doesn't either (is there something else - evolution-data-server? - that can be rebooted). Digging deeper there is the following message: [2013-01-27 20:35:40.237] error code from SyncEvolution fatal error (local, status 10500): addressbook: reading all items: Cannot get contact list: Contact not found So, it seems that some sort of index or file has been corrupted. Is there a way of rebuilding it? Currently, I have no problems working w/ my contacts/addressbook in Evolution itself. I also have no problem syncing my calendar to Memotoo. Much thanks in advance for all advice and suggestions, Max Pyziur pyz(a)brama.com

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fedora 18 unable to mount any usb based device
by Gianluca Cecchi 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

Hello, I get errors and nothing mounted when inserting usb key, disk or ipod on my Fedora 18... It seems it is not able to create special files: when inserting for example a key like this # fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 1018 MB, 1018167296 bytes, 1988608 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xcdf165a5 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 61 1987135 993537+ 6 FAT16 in messages I get Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman kernel: [ 420.005496] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman kernel: [ 420.120834] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0204, idProduct=6025 Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman kernel: [ 420.120846] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman kernel: [ 420.120854] usb 2-1: Product: Flash Disk Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman kernel: [ 420.120860] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: USB0804C Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman kernel: [ 420.120865] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 18100900571E9C06 Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman kernel: [ 420.122468] scsi10 : usb-storage 2-1:1.0 Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 4: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.2/usb2/2-1" Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 4 was not an MTP device Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [ 421.124891] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB0804C Flash Disk 5.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [ 421.126752] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [ 421.127416] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] 1988608 512-byte logical blocks: (1.01 GB/971 MiB) Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [ 421.127986] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [ 421.128487] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [ 421.128494] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [ 421.131852] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [ 421.131864] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [ 421.132482] sdc: sdc1 Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [ 421.135966] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [ 421.135977] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [ 421.135984] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman systemd-udevd[2854]: inotify_add_watch(7, /dev/sdc1, 10) failed: No such file or directory and in /dev only special file for the whole disk is generated # ll /dev/sdc* brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 32 Jan 28 02:15 /dev/sdc Tried also to update to latest version but no way.... any known bug on this? Thanks Gianluca

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Uninstall packages with live CD
by Paul Smith 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

Dear All, Is it possible to uninstall rpms from a computer that does not boot and using a live CD? If so, how? (The computer runs Fedora 18.) Thanks in advance, Paul

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RPM wildcard question
by Doug 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

If you have a directory with a whole batch of RPMs, all part of some program suite, is it possible to use a wildcard to install all of the RPMs at once, like so: rpm -Uvh *.rpm If not is there some other simple way ot do it? The program in question has about 20 RPMs. (No, I don't know why they did it this way.) Thanx--doug

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F18: bumblebee/bbswitch stopped working after latest update
by Alexander Volovics 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

Anybody else noticed that bumblebee and bbswitch stopped working after the latest update to Fed18 (kernel-3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64, xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.6-1.fc18.x86_64, etc.) This on a laptop with optimus (intel/nvidia). Could the fact that "/sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch" is now a default entry and that "vga_switcheroo" is enabled have anything to do with it. dmesg |grep switcheroo [ 13.840837] VGA switcheroo: detected Optimus DSM method \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP handle [ 16.711017] vga_switcheroo: enabled cat /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch 0:IGD:+:Pwr:0000:00:02.0 1:DIS: :Pwr:0000:01:00.0 AV

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F17->F18: Where'd my audio input go?
by Richard Shaw 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

Well, it looks like the pulseaudio GUI changed again. I no longer have a tab where I can select the particular audio device and configure it. I have two sound cards, one built-in which had sound quality issues with 5.1 playback so I bought a Asus Xonar which is quite nice. Under F17 I configured the Xonar for playback only since the inputs were not supported by Alsa at the time, they may or may not be now. Then I configured my built-in device for input only for ham radio digital mode decoding. Now under the F18 gui it looks like it tries to enumerate all the inputs but the *only* input listed for the built in audio is the iec958. Alsa-info output: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34775202/alsa-info.txt Thanks, Richard

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