April 2007 - test - Fedora Mailing-Lists

by Styma, Robert E (Robert)

Tried out FC7T4 on my test machine as a clean install. The install went in clean and everything looks good. The machine is triple boot with FC7T3 and CentOS 5Beta. It had one PATA (IDE) drive in the primary master. For the FC7T4 testing, I added a SATA PCI card and a SATA drive. Now, FC7T3 went in first when there was only the IDE drive. It saw the IDE drive as SDA. SDA1 -> / SDA2 -> /home SDA3 -> swap Added CentOS 5 Beta to the mix to see if the final version would be suitable for my wife. It detected the primary IDE as HDA as expected. HDA1 -> / (from FC7T3) HDA2 -> /home HDA3 -> swap HDA4 -> Extended HDA5 -> / (from CentOS 5 Beta) So far everything makes sense. Added the SATA drive and installed FC7T4 as an initial install on the SATA Drive. During installation, it detected the SATA drive as SDA and the IDE drive as SDB! I let it install grub and told it to allow me to boot to SDB1 (FC7T3) and SDB5 (centos). It did not detect these automagically, but did allow me to add them during install. The triple boot works. Fortunately the FC7T3 system sees the IDE drive as SDA and the SATA as SDB. That way things mount correctly. The question becomes, can I predict what will happen when I install an IDE primary slave. CentOS 5Beta with the old drivers will detect it as HDB. How will the two FC7 systems detect the new drive? Is there a method to the madness? Bob S

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FC7 Test 4 KDE based i386 Live CD - problems with KRDC

by Arch Willingham

I booted the FC7 Test 4 KDE based i386 Live CD. If you click on "KRDC" it pops up with an error message saying: "Could not start rdesktop". Arch

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F7t4 - intel driver doesn't seem to hot-swap displays

by Per Bothner

I thought the big feature of the new "intel" driver was its ability to hot-swap displays. It doesn't seem to work for me, though I realize this is beta code, and perhaps it isn't expected to work yet. (If it is expected to work, I can file bugzilla report and provide more details.) I have a Dell Inspiron R1405 with a 945GM chipsset and a 1440x900 screen. If I boot with my external monitor (ViewSonic, 1600x1200) plugged in, then the external monitor is recognized, and 1600x1200 is used. The laptop mirrors the external monitor. It would be nice to be able to show separate screens (with nvidia calls "twinview"), but I haven't figured out how to do that, and it's not that important to me. What would be nice is being able to plug in an external monitor *after* X has started, and have it be recognized, and used at full 1600x1200 resolution. When if I unplug the external monitor, I should be back to the laptop, at 1440x900 resolution. As I said, if this expected to work, I'll collect more data and submit a bugzilla entry -- --Per Bothner per(a)bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/

17 years, 1 month

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Laptop not booting under the 2.6.20-1.3036 kernel

by Paul F. Johnson

Hi, I've installed and updated my son's laptop using the F7T3 dvd and it refuses to boot. It gets past grub, starts to load vmlinuz and then restarts. I've tried nopci and noprobe as command line options but it continually reboots. It's an old laptop - Compaq Presario 1246, but it should be able to handle things. The HD was installed originally on my laptop (x86) and transferred over - I've done this plenty of times in the past. If I put the drive back in my laptop, it boots fine. TTFN Paul -- Sie können mich aufreizen und wirklich heiß machen!

17 years, 1 month

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fc7t4: still eating babies?

by Benjamin De Kosnik

However, I found some bugs. In particular: 1) two drives in systems, installing onto one, not doing anything to the second, but try to mount the second on say /mnt/drive/montsouris so that one can read files from it. Kills anaconda dead. 2) same as one, but without the mount. Reboot: it looks like grub written to the wrong drive (ie, installing on to drive one, grub info written to drive two). UGH!!!! Minor panic as I contemplate a day of moaning and non-paris rando velo riding, but then I reboot into the fc7t4 disk and mount drive two manuall: data still intact, apparently boot info fried. Ie, there is a directory "/boot" but nothing is in it. Any pointers on how to get drive two bootable again? Drive two is an up-to-date FC6 install, or used to be. Thanks, benjamin ps. Usually I physically unplug the second drive to avoid this kind of thing. Ever the optimist.... pps. please cc my gmail account on replies as my mail is now screwed.

17 years, 1 month

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Wireless ACX on T4

by Roger Grosswiler

I use a D-Link DWL-G650 which has a TI ACX-Chip (100 or 111 no longer sure). Why are the acx-cards not supported out of the box? Firmware-Problem? Thanks, Roger

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Fedora 7 Test 4 GNOME based i386 Live CD report

by Rahul Sundaram

Hi Just installed the F7 T4 GNOME based i386 live cd and here are some of my observations after playing with it for a day. * You do not need to accept the EULA anymore. It just has a pointer to the wiki link instead of including the text. * Smolt integration UI is good and works well. Noticed that it said it would update the profile automatically on a monthly basis. My test system profile is http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=492900d9-5ee0-441c-9792-fc2ecc86... * Look and feel is good. Flying high theme with Mist based icon set. * Firefox and Evolution are the default panel applications but seem to be using the old Blue Curve icons. * Network manager (nm-applet) is enabled by default * Blog, stock ticker, bittorrent and gparted applications installed by default * fast user switcher applet is on the panel by default and shows up on the lock screen. too. * Multiple locales and input methods available by default * Abiword does not crash on startup anymore. gnumeric is also available but we are missing a small presentation program to complete this sort of mini office suite. * Beagle is installed by default and replaces gnome-search-tool on the UI like the previous release. Might be better to keep these entries separate. * gThumb and GIMP are available by default but not f-spot. * Pigdin has replaced Gaim. Has new icons and a better interface. * Wodim has replaced cdrecord. cdrecord is a symlink to wodim and works as expected. * New application, system-config-selinux is available under administration. Looks pretty comprehensive. SELinux boolean configuration has been removed from system-config-securitylevel and is now available in this tool. Title says "system-config-selinux.py" instead of just "system-config-selinux" which is a minor wart in the UI. * Places and /home/<user> is filled by default folders for documents, video etc. Might look less cluttered if those default folder were under a common parent. /home/<user>/personal/<default folders> for example. * Preferences menu is organized into multiple categories now. The central control panel that GNOME includes is disabled by default (upstream inherited) but can be enabled using alacarte. Menu editor is a entry now in the preferences menu. * Yum is faster. Pirut and Pup UI does not appear to hang anymore. * About Fedora menu entry uses old wordings and says Fedora people instead of Planet Fedora as we have agreed upon now for consistency. * nautilus-open-terminal extension was not installed by default unlike previous live cd releases. * SCIM input icon doesnt show up on the system tray unlike the previous test release. Default is showing on demand but setting it to show always does not make it show up on the system tray. * nautilus has crashed more than once during login including the previous test releases with some vague bonobo error which I did not note down. Anyone else seeing this? * Turning on desktop effects immediately makes it crash Xorg * shutdown entry showed up twice as first and last entries in the system menu just once. Rest later, Rahul

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liferea flakes only for me?

by Jonathan Corbet

For some time now, I've found rawhide liferea (x86-64) to be broken almost to the point of uselessness. It runs for something between ten minutes and a few hours before going into a loop where it no longer responds to any sort of input events. Instead, it occupies itself with the vital task of printing (gecko:13277): GThread-CRITICAL **: g_cond_timed_wait_posix_impl: assertion `end_time.tv_nsec < G_NSEC_PER_SEC' failed over and over again until put out of its misery. I filed this bug a month or two ago (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231073) but not much seems to be happening there. Releasing F7 with a broken liferea seems like a bad idea...but maybe it's only broken for me? Anybody else seeing this or have any ideas? Thanks, jon

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Latest Rawhide kernel doesn't boot

by Mike Chambers

It gets to "Starting Time server" and freezes. New kernel = kernel-2.6.21-1.3116.fc7 (freezes) Old Kernel = kernel-2.6.20-1.3104.fc7 (works) -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "Sex is like air, it's not important unless your not getting any!"

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Interrupted upgrade from FC6 to F7 T4

by José Abílio Matos

Hi, I am writing this report here since I can not reproduce anymore the result. I used the dvd version to update my laptop from an existing FC-6. While updating (760/850 total packages) the update stop and anaconda complained that the it was not possible to update because of a possible corrupted media. I asked for reboot and anaconda never returned the output. I changed to vt2 where I saw (using top) that some of the programs that usually run in the post install stage were running. After waiting for more than an hour only anaconda was running so I decided that it was time to force a reboot. What is strange about this is that the package that anaconda complained about was installed (redhat-lsb), the media check to the dvd returned an OK, and according to the last report left in the installation log there was a problem running a postinstall script. I have used yum to update the system and everything seems to work as it should. The only problem of the interrupted update was that no xorg server was installed. After installing xorg-x11-server-Xorg everything works as expected. -- José Abílio

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