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Announcing Fedora 7 Test 1 (6.90)
by Jesse Keating 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Just a quick blurb. Fedora 7 Test 1 has been released today. For this particular release, we only did a Desktop spin of the package collection. We are still fine tuning targetted spins of the collection as part of the merger of Core and Extras. We also produced a LiveCD that has the ability to install to your harddrive, should you wish. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7 has the gory details of our work on the 7th release of Fedora. Downloads ========= DVD, CD and network installation are available. Please read the Important Warnings below in this announcement for more details. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ The recommended method of download is via BitTorrent from this site. http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html HTTP, FTP, and RSYNC downloads are available from Fedora Project mirrors listed above. Note that not all mirrors may be synced at this time. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora

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info about ext2/3 resize tools' status on fc6
by Gianluca Cecchi 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

I would like to online resize an LVM ext3 partition on my fc6 system. What would I have to install and do? In the past I used ext2online and e2fsadm on rh as 4, but it seems that both e2fsadm and ext2online are missing on my fc6 system e2fsprogs package (I have e2fsprogs-libs-1.39-7.fc6, e2fsprogs-devel-1.39-7.fc6, e2fsprogs-1.39-7.fc6). What is current status for ext2/3 resize tools (both online and offline) for fc6? And eventually plans for fc7? Reading man page for resize2fs it seems that in my case I could online resize by 1Gb my /usr filesystem, that is ext3, using: - lvextend /dev/rootvg/usrlv -L +1G - resize2fs /dev/rootvg/usrlv Can anyone confirm this? Is documentation for resize2fs aligned with fc6 kernel? Currently it is: The resize2fs program will resize ext2 or ext3 file systems. It can be used to enlarge or shrink an unmounted file system located on device. If the filesystem is mounted, it can be used to expand the size of the mounted filesystem, assuming the kernel supports on-line resizing. (As of this writing, the Linux 2.6 kernel supports on-line resize for filesystems mounted using ext3 only.). [snip] The resize2fs program does not manipulate the size of partitions. If you wish to enlarge a filesystem, you must first make sure you can expand the size of the underlying partition first. Thanks in advance. Gianluca

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Will ext4 be in FC7?
by Justin Conover 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

With experimental release of EXT4 in 2.6.19, is it possible it will be in rawhide soon and in FC7 at release time? Thanks,

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Notes on attempted upgrade
by Adam Huffman 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

I tried to upgrade a Shuttle SN41G2 system currently running FC6. The first problem I encountered was that anaconda didn't detect the DVD drive - I had to load the pata_amd module manually. (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226912) Just as the graphical stage of the installer started, there were lots of errors like this on the console: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py:74: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6 In the end, anaconda aborted the upgrade because it couldn't mount a partition listed in the current fstab: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226923 I also tried the new "boot from local disk" GRUB option, but it didn't work for me: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226924 Another thing I noticed when switching back to the console to read anaconda.log, is that I received the following warning when using 'less': Warning: Terminal is not fully functional Adam

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install fails using nForce4 pata (FD-6.90-x86_64-DVD)
by John Reiser 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Attempting to install Fedora 7 Test 1 Desktop (FD-6.90-x86_64-DVD) using method Local CDROM [DVD] fails to find any drivers for the media, on x86_64 with nVidia CK804 nForce4 chipset. The sata_nv driver was loaded automatically from initrd. Using HTTP install and Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get a shell, fdisk reads the partitions correctly on the actual SATA harddrive /dev/sda. The actual PATA DVD (old /dev/hdc) is not found. The actual PATA harddrive (old /dev/hda) is not found. This was reported as http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226912 against Fedora Core, devel version. Bugzilla had no plain "Fedora" category, and "Fedora Core" has no "f7..." nor "fc7..." version. The Release Notes button displays the ones for Fedora Core 6, the previous version. The wiki page referenced in the F7 announcement was displaying static content, and had no "common problems" section or link. --

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The state of rawhide
by Jonathan Corbet 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

So...I've been finding the rawhide experience to be a little more raw than usual since about when FC6 came out. I've not seen a lot of complaints, though, which leads me to wonder if I'm the only one. Here's some of what I've encountered on my x86-64 system: - The system thrashes. I guess I'm an old-fashioned sort of guy, but I really think that 1GB ought to be enough to run a basic desktop, even on a 64-bit system. Firefox, Thunderbird, and Liferea are all leaky as sieves; I have to restart them occasionally or the system just bogs down. There is a memory-leak in gnome-terminal that I can't get the developers to even look for. Tomboy is huge, but that may just be part of life with mono. - Gnome-terminal occasionally becomes unresponsive. Some windows work, others do not - though they usually come back eventually. This behavior seems to be correlated with the memory problems, but the system is not thrashing while I'm waiting for a terminal to acknowledge my existence. - Gnucash now refuses to start. I get a lot of messages like "Failed to dlopen() '/usr/lib64/gnucash/libgncmod-hbci.la': file not found". The interesting thing being that the indicated files *do* exist. - Metacity occasionally gets hung. It happens most often when trying to resize a window, but I can also occasionally see it when using menus from the panel at the bottom of the screen. The pointer goes into an "I'm busy" state, and nobody gets any more keyboard or mouse events. Switching out of X and back (alt-ctrl-F1) makes the hang go away. - I still have to clear out /var/lib/rpm/__db* fairly often. Now I'm not complaining. I know the drill, and I'm sufficiently masochistic (and backed up) to run rawhide on a system I use for real work. But I begin to wonder if there might be something that has gone fundamentally wrong on my system, or if this is just the way rawhide works these days...? Thanks, jon

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FC7 from rawhide : "display" menu unavaible ?
by LarryT 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Hi all. Hmm, is too early to ask a question about rawhide FC7 ? Installation was *very* nice from within VMware 5.5, and i do appreciate many changes in the look. I have just one problem atm : I cant find "display menu" which is in the path System/admin/display within FC6. I have only 800 and 640 for resolution.. Larry One more time *excuse-me* if it is too early ! and then forget it ;)

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[FC7-test1_dvd] resolution and OOo
by LarryT 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

After a fresh and fast installation of FC7-test1, i can say it boots off very well :). -- but i got some problem about resolution : system-config-display is gone away (or maybe the name changed ???), and even editing xorg.conf, there no "modes" in subsection screen. So is there a way to set something better than 800... so i can press "next" buttton to set up evolution ? Because so far i can see this button :-/ -- OOo never launches. I tried from terminal too, many times... Is it something normal from test1 ? Larry

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sort installed but not found
by Chitlesh GOORAH 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Hello there, I have a strange behaviour from sort on lastest rawhide (of today) when I try to pipe rpm -qa | sort >> list see screenshot http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=376030395&size=o Chitlesh -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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Ethernet problem in 2895 kernel
by Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Since updating to the FC6 386 2895 kernel I have has a number of partial failures of the Ethernet system under heavy load. System: Asus a8n-e socket 939 with 3 GB RAM running 386 FC6. Eth0 is a PCI 10/100 NIC, eth1 is the onboard gigabit NIC. NAT controlled by rc.firewall 2.4. Eth0 connects to the cable modem, eth1 to the local net. Under heavy load, the following error messages appear and then eth0 stops working, severing the internet connection. I have not seen this problem prior to the 2895 kernel. Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status 8601. Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: diagnostics: net 0cd8 media 8880 dma 0000003a fifo 0000 Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device? Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 80(0) current 80(0) Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: Transmit list 00000000 vs. f714b200. Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 0: @f714b200 length 80000042 status 00010042 Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 1: @f714b2a0 length 80000052 status 0c010052 Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 2: @f714b340 length 80000043 status 0c010043 Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 3: @f714b3e0 length 80000045 status 0c010045 Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 4: @f714b480 length 80000042 status 00010042 Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 5: @f714b520 length 8000004a status 0c01004a Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 6: @f714b5c0 length 8000004c status 0c01004c Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 7: @f714b660 length 8000004d status 0c01004d Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 8: @f714b700 length 80000052 status 0c010052 Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 9: @f714b7a0 length 80000043 status 0c010043 Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 10: @f714b840 length 80000045 status 0c010045 Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 11: @f714b8e0 length 8000004a status 0c01004a Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 12: @f714b980 length 8000004c status 0c01004c Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 13: @f714ba20 length 8000004c status 0c01004c Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 14: @f714bac0 length 80000052 status 8c010052 Jan 31 22:01:19 omen kernel: 15: @f714bb60 length 80000056 status 8c010056 -- Chuck Forsberg caf(a)omen.com www.omen.com 503-614-0430 Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software" 10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 FAX 629-0665

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