Re: SSD discharge battery on power off
by Vinny Onelli
> From: Todor Petkov <zakk(a)online.bg>
> On 07/12/2013 07:35 PM, Vincent Onelli wrote:
> > Hello.
> > I have an HP laptop envy dv7, it came with 12 GB ram, windows 8
> > installed on 1TB conventional drive every thing works good. I decided
> > to
> > replace the conventional HD with a SSD 450GB and installed fc19 again
> > every thing works good, except if I turn off the laptop and leave it
> > off
> > for a couple day the battery is discharged. I reinstalled the
> > conventional HD no problem. I purchased a second SSD 250GB same
> > problem.
> > Any body had a similar experience? any idea how can be fixed?
> > I contacted the manufacture, they never heard that problem.
> > I appreciate any input
> > Vinny.
>
>
> Sounds like the laptop is not going in power-off mode, but in
> hibernate. What system uptime does it say after being turn on in for
> example 1 hour?
The uptime result: 9:36:41 up 0 min, 2 users, load average: 0.56, 0.17,
0.06
10 years, 6 months
sharing /boot among multible Linux distros
by Javier Perez
Hi
I need some advice here.
I am running a triple-boot system (Windows 2K, Fedora 19, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS).
It has three HDDs, one for each OS. (Windows, Fedora, Ubuntu).
I am planning to upgrade this system for Christmas. Windows will go away
and I will only run it virtualized. I have more than a year since I boot it
last.
I am planning to put a a small (100GB to 200 GB) SDD to host the OS of
Ubuntu and Fedora and have a big HDD for the /home, /var partition and
swap partitions.
In theory, Ubuntu and Fedora will have their own partitions inside the SDD.
My question is, can I share the /boot partition between Fedora and Ubuntu?
both are using Grub2. Right now I have two /boot partitions (one on each
HDD) and it is a pain. For some reason, Ubuntu does not find out Fedora
unless I mount the disk each time I update ubuntu kernel. If I update
Fedora kernel I have to go to Ubuntu to redo the boot config files. (Yes,
the master boot goes to Ubuntu for some reason I do not remember any
more). I want to keep just one /boot partition of maybe 800 MB to make
everyone feel confy.
Also, although it is off topic, is there any good tutorial to virtualize
the Win2K partition as is? I'd really hate having to reinstall all my
programs and stuff even if I am not using them much anymore.
It will be kind of more trouble having to search for old drivers and
stuff.I have the original CDs for all the programs, but many of the updates
will be missing/disappeared. Also I will have to locate again FOSS software
compatible with win2k
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10 years, 6 months
how to boot on f16 in rescue mode?
by Adel ESSAFI
hello,
I followed the official documentation to try to boot in "rescue" mode and
then
when booting from the live CD
i pressed "tab" key, deleted all the command line and then put "linux
rescue".
However, fedora always boot "normally"!!
I found no /mnt/
sysimage
Thank you for any input.
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10 years, 6 months
Speaking of UEFI
by Mark Haney
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This might be slightly off-topic, but here's the problem, I'm having a
devil of a time getting my daughter's laptops to downgrade to Win7
with UEFI enabled. F19 installed beautifully, but Win7 has become a
real PITA.
So, let's assume what I want to do is switch from UEFI to BIOS booting
to get Win7 installed. How possible would it be to repair the
existing F19 install to boot via the same method? Would I have to
just wipe it and re-install?
- --
Mark Haney
Network Administrator/IT Support
Practichem
W:919-714-8428
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10 years, 6 months
Fedora 20 with UEFI/Secure Boot
by Dave Cross
Hi,
I'll be buying a new desktop PC in the next week or so. It'll probably
be a DELL XPS 8700. I expect it'll arrive at about the same time as
Fedora 20.
My usual approach would be to use PartitionMagic to shrink the Windows
installation and install Fedora alongside it so I can dual-boot.
But it's just occurred to me that this new machine will be running
Windows 8 and therefore will come with all the UEFI/Secure Boot
nonsense. So before I place the order I just wanted to confirm that
I'll be able to do something like that in a UEFI environment.
If anyone could point me to details about how I can do this, then that
would be great.
Cheers,
Dave...
--
Dave Cross :: dave(a)dave.org.uk
http://dave.org.uk/
@davorg
10 years, 6 months
F19 Nautilus seems to have silly flaws
by D. Hugh Redelmeier
I rarely use Nautilus on F19. I'm trying it now. There are a few
improvements that seem obvious.
It calls itself "Files" (see "about files") but is nautilus (see ps(1)
output). Make up your mind. I think "files" is a terrible name -- it
is too generic. "Gnome Files" might be OK. But I like "Nautilus" (it
makes me think that I'm Captain Nemo).
SFTP capability is wonderful. But it is hidden. There should be some
hints in "Browse Network" or "Connect to Server" that SFTP is
supported.
There should be some GUI way of constructing the terse URI-like-object
for SFTP. This is the syntax for it (from some random web page):
sftp://[user[:password]@]example.org[:port]/[path/to/directory/]
Even that seems wrong: my experience suggests that the final
unconditional / is sometimes but not always optional. One reason for
using Nautilus is to avoid powerful but arcane notations like this.
When I got an error "mounting" through SFTP the error was
asynchronous.
- the error report was generic (didn't pinpoint the problem)
- the error disappeared after I clicked OK so I couldn't study it
- could not see what I had typed. It was gone
- I could not study what I had typed to figure out the error
- I could not edit what I had typed. So I had to retype
that intricate string
There is "open" and "open in new tab" but no "open in new window".
That seems dumb to me: I want two directories open so that I can see
and operate on them both at one time.
You can get the "open in new window" effect by "open in new tab" and
then dragging the tab off the window, but that seems needlessly
intricate and not obvious (except retrospectively).
I almost never want a directory displayed as per "view items as a grid
of icons". Is there a way that I can make my choice of view ("view
items as a list") the default? I waste so much time and motion
selecting this.
Often when I eject a USB flash memory device, I get a pop-up window
saying
This location could not be displayed.
?? could not be found. Perhaps it has recently been deleted
[OK]
I haven't taken the time to characterize when this happens. But it
seems quite sloppy. It leaves the user (me) a bit disturbed.
10 years, 6 months
systemd restart service on resume
by Greg Woods
I am trying to find a way to get a service to restart when the system is
resumed from suspend or hibernation. I can get something to run when the
system is put to sleep by using sleep.target (for example, I have an
"ssh-suspend" service that kills all the ssh sessions because they are
always hung after a resume and I have to close the windows manually
anyway), but I haven't figured out the exact incantation to get a
service to restart on resume. Saying "After=sleep.target" has not
worked, and there doesn't seem to be anything like a resume.target or
wakeup.target . Here's an example service file:
[Unit]
Description=Restart IPSEC tunnel on resume
After=sleep.target NetworkManager-wait-online.service
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemctl restart racoon
RemainAfterExit=yes
[Install]
WantedBy=sleep.target
(I have tried it both with and without the Install section).
This service never runs:
# systemctl status racoon-resume.service
racoon-resume.service - Restart IPSEC tunnel on resume
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/racoon-resume.service; enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Sat 2013-11-23 18:29:48 MST; 2 weeks 0
days ago
Main PID: 2605 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/racoon-resume.service
Nov 23 18:29:48 cobweb.gregandeva.net systemd[1]: Starting Restart IPSEC
tunnel on resume...
Nov 23 18:29:48 cobweb.gregandeva.net systemd[1]: Started Restart IPSEC
tunnel on resume.
That was from when I tested it manually. So how to I program it to
restart a service upon resume?
The real problem is that the racoon daemon (which negotiates IKE keys
for an IPSEC tunnel) stops working after a suspend/resume, and needs to
be restarted on resume in order for the tunnel to work again.
I have this service file that starts and stops the tunnel at
boot/shutdown time, and this works fine:
[Unit]
Description=IPSEC Tunnel Service
After=syslog.target
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/local/etc/racoon.rc
ExecStop=/usr/bin/pkill racoon
ExecStopPost=/usr/sbin/setkey -FP
PIDFile=/var/run/racoon.pid
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=racoon.service
--Greg
10 years, 6 months
fedup 18->19 and GRUB upgrade several seconds
by Dave Mitchell
I'm currently preparing to fedup an F18 system to F19, looking at these
instructions:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Installation_Guide/ch1...
The bit about updating the GRUB bootloader has got gotten me confused.
My system is a newish x86_64 laptop, with F18 as the only thing on it,
installed from scratch (no upgrades etc).
The instructions say to look in /var/log/anaconda/anaconda.program.log
where you'll find a command similar to
efibootmgr -c -w -L Fedora -d /dev/sdX -p Y -l \EFI\redhat\grub.efi
then later on, run
efibootmgr -c -w -L Fedora -d /dev/sdX -p Y -l '\EFI\fedora\grubx64.efi' -b bootnumber
Now, the command I see in the anaconda log is in fact:
efibootmgr -c -w -L Fedora -d /dev/sda -p 1 -l \EFI\fedora\shim.efi
This differs from the example in the docs by '-p 1' verses '-p Y' and
'shim.efi' verses 'grub.efi'.
So, what values should I give for the -p and -l options?
Also, its not entirely clear what 'bootnumber' value for the -b arg should
be; should this the same number as used to delete the old boot entry in
the previous step?
--
You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
10 years, 6 months
Fedora's audience
by Beartooth
Recent exchanges here and in related places have reminded me
strongly of long discussions held on RedHat lists fifteen or twenty years
ago.
Was (now is) RH/F, and Linux generally, *for* all & sundry? Or
was/is it essentially a plaything of the Alpha Plus Technoids? Which
*should* it be?
That distinction applied to shoes and ships and sealing wax, to
cabbages and kings; i.e., all the way from designing new apps for GUI,
for CLI only, or for some compromise -- to what sorts of posters and
questions ought to be welcome or unwelcome on the public lists.
I remember pointing out repeatedly that when the Baby Boomers
began to retire, and cease to be bound to their employers' systems, some
fraction of them would take up Linux -- and it wouldn't need a very big
fraction of their numbers to make a substantial difference to Linux.
To the best of my recollection, that issue never resolved into
any consensus. RedHat changed its whole strategy, and suddenly many of us
had far more urgent concerns than just the philosophic ones.
By this time, at an informed guess, the Boomers must be retiring
in spates and floods. My subjective impression is that I see more fellow
retirees than before, but I can't guess numbers. Does anyone here have
such numbers, or know of a source from whence to get them?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
10 years, 6 months
font manager
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
Trying to use font-manager, I get:
font-manager:4338 : WARNING **: sqlite3_step failed!
INFO : Finished loading 0 families
and no font ca be displayed!
The behavior of the font veiwer is also strange, I cannot view the
symbol font. Onlt square boxes are displayed!
Thank for your help.
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
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10 years, 6 months
