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screwed up a drive (i think)!
by bruce 26 Dec '13

26 Dec '13

Hi. I have a 640G drive I put back in a laptop, that now is showing up in the "File System" as a vg_dell45 icon, as well as showing up under the disk utility as a "Multi-disk Device" The drive didn't appear in these areas before. Here's the situation: -Took the drive out of the laptop -Inserted the drive into a usb external bay, copied a bunch of files to a separate system -Before copying the drive, I ran the "vgchange -ay" cmd to be able to access the different partitions on the drive and copy the data -the initial system is an old FC13, the newer system is a Centos6.5 -after copying, I then reinserted the drive back in the initial FC13 system. -everything boots, appears to run -however, when I look at the GUI File System/Disk Uility apps, I get what I mentioned above... I then did a fdisk -l and I see that the drive no longer appears to contain valid partition tables!!! So, something has happened. Researching doesn't point to anything, so I'm looking for pointers as to the bonehead screwup I did, as well as how to correct it. Here's the output of the fdisk -l [root@dell-1 ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x28000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 64 512000 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 64 77826 624618496 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/dm-0: 268.4 GB, 268435456000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 32635 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-1: 8220 MB, 8220835840 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 999 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-2: 80.5 GB, 80530636800 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9790 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-2 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-3: 161.1 GB, 161061273600 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19581 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-3 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-4: 89.1 GB, 89120571392 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10834 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-4 doesn't contain a valid partition table [root@dell-1 ~]# vgchange -ay 5 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_dell45" now active [root@dell-1 ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x28000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 64 512000 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 64 77826 624618496 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/dm-0: 268.4 GB, 268435456000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 32635 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-1: 8220 MB, 8220835840 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 999 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-2: 80.5 GB, 80530636800 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9790 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-2 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-3: 161.1 GB, 161061273600 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19581 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-3 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-4: 89.1 GB, 89120571392 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10834 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-4 doesn't contain a valid partition table here's the df -h for what it's worth.. [root@dell-1 ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_dell45-lv_root 247G 188G 46G 81% / tmpfs 2.9G 356K 2.9G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 485M 66M 394M 15% /boot /dev/mapper/vg_dell45-lv_apps 148G 91G 50G 65% /apps /dev/mapper/vg_dell45-lv_home 74G 616M 70G 1% /home /dev/mapper/vg_dell45-lv_backup 82G 7.3G 71G 10% /backup So, how can i get this back to normal! Thanks

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What happened to 'play' command line music player?
by Edik Landaveri 26 Dec '13

26 Dec '13

Please, can you tell me why I can't find the 'play' command line music player. It used to be on the Fedora repositories 'till a few releases ago. Was it outdated & not developed anymore? I liked it because it just let me play my ogg files on the fly without even going to runlevel 5. If it's no longer developed? It's something similar? Not CMUS or higher end one, which allows you to build playlists and the like. My music is on ogg format so I just one a simple command line music player. Thanks a lot & Happy New Year. -- Edik Landaveri <elwanka(a)gmail.com>

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live usb
by Patrick Dupre 26 Dec '13

26 Dec '13

Hello, I am trying to create a bootable pen stick. for super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.00s1-beta6.iso and rescatux_cdrom_usb_hybrid_i386_amd64-486_0.31b5_sg2d.iso I tried liveusb-creator. However, every time I get: There was a problem executing the following command: `checkisomd5 while the md5 file is at the same location if I use md5sum then it is OK. Probably because this error, any thing is copied on the key (only a label Live). Is there another alternative? Thank. =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France ===========================================================================

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Change locale globally (f20)?
by Michael Hannon 26 Dec '13

26 Dec '13

Greetings. I evidently did not pay enough attention when I recently installed Fedora 20 on my desktop system, as my system appears to be set for the GB locale. E.g., $ env | grep LANG LANG=en_GB.utf8 GDM_LANG=en_GB.utf8 Likewise, the following: $ cd /etc $ find . -type f -exec grep "GB" {} /dev/null \; gets a gazillion hits. This leads to some undesirable behaviour/behavior. My spell checker (hunspell) was using British spellings, for instance. I've mitigated the problem by adding: LANG="en_US.utf8" export LANG to my .bash_profile, but I wonder if there's some way to change the setting globally, i.e., from GB... to US... Any thoughts? Thanks. --Mike

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Auto OS Install Process
by bruce 26 Dec '13

26 Dec '13

Hi, In order to do an OS install, you need to have an external media to start the install process. This media provides a "base"/small system that you can then use to do a larger netinstall, or a larger update process to get the drive/system setup the way you want. All of the larger system install data/packages/etc can come from the http/net install process. In most (all) cases I've seen, the process is then to take/remove the CD from the system, followed by a restart, where the system OS on the drive then gets invoked. So this process requires some manual interaction. Here's my question: Is there a way to do the same basic process, except to always leave the CD in, and to then be able to "switch" the system, so it "knows" which media to install from. If this can be done, one can setup a system with a basic cd that will, when run, create/start the basic OS install, but then not be used any other time... This could allow for an auto/programatic approach to be able to do a remote/auto OS install. Is there any other way that this might be accomplished? Thoughts/Comments? thanks

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gedit as root now locks desktop hard
by Robert Moskowitz 26 Dec '13

26 Dec '13

Again, after a bunch of tweaking, I needed to edit a system config file, so sued, and ran "gedit file.conf &" and the desktop locked hard. Only option was a power off via the switch. I rebooted and after logging in, just opened a terminal, sued, and opened gedit and locked hard. This was working nicely before I did all that tweaking. Perhaps one of the extensions or how do I look for this. It is too painful to test...

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Screen lock stopped working
by Robert Moskowitz 26 Dec '13

26 Dec '13

I have been doing a lot of customizing (tweaking) of Gnome on f20. Now screen lock <cntl-alt-l> does not work. I can still lock with the action button on the topbar pull down. I don't see this in tweaking. Where might I have mis-set it?

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bumblebee fun
by Robert Dady 26 Dec '13

26 Dec '13

Hi everyone! Merry Christmas! I have successfully installed bumblebee on my F20 laptop according to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bumblebee. I use my laptop mostly as xen server with F20 dom0, and in this setup optirun fails with error accessing seconary GPU and secondary X server, but it works fine when F20 booted natively without xen. Any idea? Best regards, Robert

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Re: relabel
by Patrick Dupre 26 Dec '13

26 Dec '13

Hello Chris, Thank for your help. I did exactly like you said, but the result is the same as before. I am sure that the issue is with the initramfs. According to the tests that I made. it is probably due to the /boot which is not found However, how can I know exactly what is going on? I try to uncompress the new img, but it does not work cpio -i -d -H newc -F ../initramfs-3.12.5-200.fc19.i686.PAE.img --no-absolute-filenames cpio: premature end of file This the grub.cfg generated: menuentry 'Fedora, with Linux 3.12.5-200.fc19.i686.PAE' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.12.5-200.fc19.i686.PAE-advanced-69ee06ed-3f6a-4b9f-9b86-6e24c1847cf6' { (this UUID is correct: new /) set gfxpayload=text insmod gzio insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='hd0,msdos16' (this is correct: new /boot) if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos16 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos16 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos16 --hint='hd0,msdos16' c2010fed-5fcf-4c59-bca9-10922b131d8b (this is the UUID of the new /boot) else search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root c2010fed-5fcf-4c59-bca9-10922b131d8b fi linux /vmlinuz-3.12.5-200.fc19.i686.PAE root=/dev/mapper/VolGrpSys3-root ro vconsole.keymap=fr rd.dm=0 rd.md=0 rd.luks=0 vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd.lvm.lv=VolGrpSys2/root (this is bizarre: it should be: linux /vmlinuz-3.12.5-200.fc19.i686.PAE root=/dev/mapper/VolGrpSys3-root ro vconsole.keymap=fr rd.dm=0 rd.md=0 rd.luks=0 vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd.lvm.lv=VolGrpSys3/root why? VolGrpSys2/root is the cloned /) initrd /initramfs-3.12.5-200.fc19.i686.PAE.img } How can I check each step? Thank. > > Hello, > > > > I wanted to clone my distribution fedora 19, I used to do it with > > previous release but I failed with fedora 19. > > > > I copy (-a) the partition / (lvm2) and /boot (ext4) > > You probably need to remake the initramfs. The easiest way to do all of this after the cp -a of everything is to put together the clone at /mnt such that you have /mnt as rootfs, then /mnt/boot, and then use mount -B to mount the faux file systems, /proc, /dev/, /sys at their respective locations, /mnt/proc, /mnt/dev, /mnt/sys. Then chroot /mnt. > > Now blkid to find the uuids for /boot and /, and change fstab so that it's mounting the right volumes. Use dracut -f to make a new initramfs. And then grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to make a new grub.cfg. > > If you started out with a system with correct labels, the cp -a will preserve them as it implies -Z so fixfiles/restorecon isn't needed. > > Chris Murphy > -- > users mailing list > users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France ===========================================================================

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Kmail and QP
by Martin S 26 Dec '13

26 Dec '13

I have one contact that uses an email client that sends everyting in QP- encoded. Unfortunately she is also one of the more important contacts I have. Apparently KMail chokes on these messages and displays nothing (apart from a boilerplate message which isn't QP encoded). How do I get KMail to read these abominations? I've been googling but not finding anything. /Martin S

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