/dev/mapper and Anaconda install failures (FC6 x86_64)
by Sean Bruno
I've been wrestling with anaconda this evening on my x86_64 machine. It
seems that anaconda (or some other piece of the installer) is
forcing /dev/mapper to be created even when I have no RAID devices
enabled.
I have cleared the 'fake' raid stuff off of my disks from rescue
mode(dmraid -E), but with 2 disks installed the installer insists on
trying to configure /dev/mapper/mpath0.
I see each disk individually if I only have one SATA drive connected at
a time. Which seems odd as heck to me, but I can install FC6 and at
least send you folks this email this way.
Is there a 'nodmraid' option to the installer that I can pass to allow
me to see /dev/sda & /dev/sdb instead of the dmraid stuff? What's even
stranger is that there appears to be a way to disable dmraid from the
GUI screen when you choose to 'remove all partitions', but the option is
greyed out?!?
Any guidance would be appreciated.
Sean
16 years, 11 months
rdesktop "X Error"
by Stephen Mah
Used to work in rhel4 u4. I'm on fedora now.
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 78 (X_CreateColormap)
Value in failed request: 0x34a
Serial number of failed request: 7
Current serial number in output stream: 8
Fedora Core release 6 (Zod)
2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:37:32 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386
GNU/Linux
Name : rdesktop Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 1.4.1 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 4 Build Date: Thu 31 Aug 2006
10:26:15 AM PDT
Install Date: Tue 27 Feb 2007 01:57:24 PM PST Build Host:
hs20-bc1-6.build.redhat.com
btw, how do I get yum updates?
16 years, 11 months
YUM update dies with confict between poppler-utils and xpdf-utils
by Arch Willingham
I have two machines that are running into a problem when doing a YUM update (or YUMEX or PUP update) when they hit the poppler-utils package. The error is as follows:
Transaction Check Error: file /usr/bin/pdftoppm from install of poppler-utils-0.5.4-3.fc6 conflicts with file from package xpdf-utils-3.01-26.fc6
file /usr/share/man/man1/pdftoppm.1.gz from install of poppler-utils-0.5.4-3.fc6 conflicts with file from package xpdf-utils-3.01-26.fc6
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Arch
16 years, 12 months
Anyone know what this means?
by Adam Hough
I get this from dmesg running FC5 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5smp. The machine
seems to be stable (was crashing very frequently before this kernel in
FC). Also yes I know to boot with noapci as a kernel parameter to most
likely get rid of this error. I am still curious as to what it means.
ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is
not present [20060707]
ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x2
ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is
not present [20060707]
ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x3
Also hyperthreading is disabled in the bios as the machine refuses to
boot if it is enabled with this kernel and all previous FC5 kernels
panic on this machine. Memory is fine also no errors after ~90 hours of
memtest86+. The motherboard and processors are new also.
--
Adam Hough
High Performance Computing
ahough(a)lsu.edu
16 years, 12 months
Cursor problem
by Астахов Петр
Hello!
I bought motherboard Gigabyte GA-K8N51PVMT-9 on chipset GeForce 6150 and
installed FC5. I can't see cursor in X. When computer loading, and rhgb
show the progress of loading, I see cursor and everything OK. When
computer is loaded and X started, there is no viewable cursor on the
screen. I move mouse, all necessary menus etc are highlighted, but no
cursor. I update kernel and xorg - result the same. I installed nvidia
drivers for video from livna - but result the same - no cursor.
What shall I do?
With best regard, Peter (Zebar) Astakhov
16 years, 12 months
dump/restore (or "star") and SELinux problems
by Kayvan A. Sylvan
Hi folks,
I am trying again. I haven't gotten an answer that works yet and hoping that
people who know more about SELinux and Fedora can see this and suggest
a solution (or at least a way to investigate).
My goal: To be able to reszie a partition (or rearrange filesystems) without
losing any data or meta-data.
parted is useless, since it won't handle the xattr filesystem data.
I used dump to create a filesystem backup, then used the FC5 Install DVD
to go into rescue mode and restore the dump. That seem to work okay for
the file data. However, for each and every file, I get the message:
restore: lsetxattr ./filename_being_restored failed: Invalid argument
Using "ls -Z", I see that all the files end up being unlabeled (or they
are in the unlabeled_t context).
These files were all set up in Fedora FC4, using the targeted policy.
When I am booting up using the FC5 Install DVD ("linux rescue"), the SELinux
startup shows:
security: 3 users, 6 roles, 1161 types, 135 bools, 1 sens, 256 cats
security: 55 classes, 38679 rules
SELinux: Completing initialization.
SELinux: Setting up existing superblocks.
SELinux: initialized (dev loop0, type squashfs), not configured for labeling
SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev debugfs, type debugfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev hugetlbfs, type hugetlbfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev devpts, type devpts), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev eventpollfs, type eventpollfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev inotifyfs, type inotifyfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev futexfs, type futexfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev pipefs, type pipefs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev sockfs, type sockfs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev cpuset, type cpuset), not configured for labeling
SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev bdev, type bdev), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev rootfs, type rootfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev sysfs, type sysfs), uses genfs_contexts
I have also tried using "star" with the following args:
star -v -c -xdev -sparse -acl -link-dirs level=0 -wtardumps \
f=root.star -C / .
And then, when booted into the rescue mode, did the following to extract:
star -xpU -restore f=root.star
This produced the same result. The files end up being unlabeled.
I am wondering if I have to have the same SELinux policy loaded while
in the rescue mode in order to avoid the "lsetxattr: invalid argument"
error? How would I go about doing that?
Thanks for any help!
---Kayvan
--
Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids:
Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan, | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89)
http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | my beautiful Queen. | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)
17 years
Re: Webcam with FC6
by Mike Zingale
Keith, I have, I believe, the same camera. You need to install the
SPCA driver for it -- this is not part of the mainline kernel. The
following worked for me:
wget http://drpixel.tuxfamily.org/fedora/drpixel-release-1-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh drpixel-release-1-1.noarch.rpm
yum install --enablerepo=drpixel kmod-gspca
in aMSN, if you use a NAT/router, you need to open ports 6890-6900 for
the camera to work. I believe I also had to do this in the fedora
firewall.
Mike
> I have read that the Logitech Quickcam Chat web cam works 'out of the
> box' with Linux. So I have bought one. Unfortunately, I can't get it
> to work in Linux, let alone 'out of the box'! It works extremely well
> with XP and Windows Live Messenger.
> The camera active light is on, but no Linux programs appear to be able
> to find it. The camera is plugged into a USB socket on the back of
> the computer.
[snip]
> Please, what should I try next to get the webcam to work?
> Any advice will be *very* gratefully received.
> Many thanks
> Keith
17 years, 1 month
Skype solution
by Matthew Saltzman
I remember a relatively recent thread in which folks complained about
having trouble getting their microphones to work in Skype with FC6, but I
don't recall a definitive solution being posted. It took me quite a bit
of fiddling, but I finally got it.
For the use of anyone who cares, here are the relevant mixer settings from
my GNOME volume control. I did this on a Thinkpad T41, with Intel
82801DB-ICH4 using the ALSA drivers. I'm using skype-1.3.0.53-fc5.
On the Playback tab, line in and mic are muted. Master and PCM are
unmuted--Master is up full and PCM is at about 75%.
On the Capture tab, both the speaker icon and the mic icon are unmuted.
They are linked, and they are set at about 40% gain. (Much higher and
you'll start to hear feedback.)
On the Switches tab, I have Mic Boost (+20dB) checked, and (inexplicably,
but it works--I don't know yet if other settings also work) Microphone
Capture and Line-in Capture are unchecked.
On the Options tab, Mic Select is Mic1.
When the Skype test call connects, if you have the Capture tab displayed,
you will see the gain boosted to about 70%. The test call works fine and
the playback is perfectly audible.
So the key seems to be to put Mic Boost on and adjust the gain for a
reasonable level with no feedback.
Hope that info helps somebody.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
17 years, 1 month
got the "Intel 82801G ICH7 Family" sound card to work.
by Todd Warner
I have a T60 widescreen laptop with this soundcard:
Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition
Audio Controller (rev 02)
That audio device, though supposedly supported, will not work out of
the box for many distributions I found out after smashing my head
against the wall for some time.
Well, I got it working and filed a bug because the hack shouldn't be necessary:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222606
I thought I would share in case anyone else has had that problem, and
from the looks of it, a lot of folks are running into this. So... this
is what I did:
1. I ensured my box has the latest alsa
2. I added these two lines to /etc/rc.local:
modprobe -r snd_hda_intel
modprobe snd_hda_intel
Reboot and sound should work.
17 years, 1 month
view function of Bind 9
by Edward S.P. Leong
Dear All,
If the client machine using IP ( 192.168.1.0 / 24, IP range from the NAT
service of a Server machine ) and the server machine using IP (
192.168.0.1 / 24 ), then, it need to be configed by using view function ?
Edward.
17 years, 1 month
