getting dumped to emergency console on boot
by Ian Malone
Anyone else seeing this? I'm getting dropped to emergency mode during
boot since my last F16 yum update. It included a kernel update, but
I'm not certain yet that it is the kernel, because it's not 100%
reproducible. Issuing a ^D gets me to GDM and the system appears to
work. At the console there are no particular messages (occasionally an
alsa warning), the only real clue I can find is this in dmesg:
[ 113.821947] systemd[1]: Job
dev-disk-by\x2duuid-87b66172\x2dcd62\x2d498a\x2da33b\x2d621948ce37ea.device/start
timed out.
[ 113.823409] systemd[1]: Job fedora-autorelabel-mark.service/start
failed with result 'dependency'.
[ 113.823487] systemd[1]: Job fedora-autorelabel.service/start failed
with result 'dependency'.
[ 113.823500] systemd[1]: Job local-fs.target/start failed with
result 'dependency'.
[ 113.823510] systemd[1]: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies of
local-fs.target.
[ 113.824494] systemd[1]: Job dbus.service/start failed with result
'dependency'.
[ 113.824571] systemd[1]: Job avahi-daemon.service/start failed with
result 'dependency'.
... long string of failed dependencies
$ grep 87b6 /etc/fstab
UUID=87b66172-cd62-498a-a33b-621948ce37ea /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
Not sure how to further troubleshoot this.
That alsa warning, but doesn't seem relevant:
[ 351.117493] ALSA sound/usb/clock.c:228 4:3:1: cannot set freq 16000
to ep 0x86
[ 351.254642] ALSA sound/usb/clock.c:243 current rate 290 is
different from the runtime rate 24000
[ 351.263413] ALSA sound/usb/mixer.c:866 5:2: cannot get min/max
values for control 2 (id 5)
--
imalone
http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk
11 years, 7 months
How can I prevent udevd from renaming eth0 to em1
by JD
I googled this and came across 2 purported
solutions, neither of which worked.
1. Uninstall package biosdevname and reboot.
That did not prevent udevd from renaming eth0 to em1.
2. Add the line
biosdevname=0
to /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
That did not work either.
Any other way to get around this renaming?
11 years, 7 months
ImageMagick -filter suggestion
by Fedora User
We start with the available filters:
# convert -list filter
Bartlett
Blackman
Bohman
Box
Catrom
Cubic
Gaussian
Hamming
Hanning
Hermite
Jinc
Kaiser
Lagrange
Lanczos
LanczosSharp
Lanczos2
Lanczos2Sharp
Mitchell
Parzen
Point
Quadratic
Robidoux
Sinc
SincFast
Triangle
Welsh
I haven't the first clue how to compare all of these so here is what I
am trying to accomplish in a script for repeated usage:
I have an image that is mostly text. I am trying to reduce the size of
the image to a fixed width (usually about 20%) while keeping the text as
readable as possible.
If I do this in GIMP, "cubic" will not produce the desired result.
Lanczos comes close. I assume that I can get even closer with "convert."
Slow is fine. Can some kind sole, more clever with graphics than I am,
suggest the -filter * that I am looking for?
TIA
11 years, 7 months
Remote Amarok music collection?
by Marko Vojinovic
Hi folks! :-)
I am trying to migrate from XMMS to Amarok, with the hope of improved
functionality and ease of dealing with my music collection.
So I have a very trivial problem: my music collection is now on a http
server. How do I get Amarok to make a collection database out of that,
short of downloading all that to a local disk? The very point of
having all the files on a http server is that I *don't* want to have
them on a local disk. So I want Amarok to create a database of the
files present on the server, from which I can later create playlists.
The music would stay on the server, and Amarok would read the files
over http and play them one by one.
I can do all this trivially with, say, mplayer --- I just need a text
file containing lines of http://www.myserver.com/music.mp3, and it
would play if I do a "mplayer -playlist myplaylist.txt". What I want
is to do the equivalent in Amarok, since I expect to have a better UI
regarding the order of files, shuffle&repeat stuff, etc.
Amarok doesn't appear to have a "load playlist from a txt file" kind of option.
N.B. I've been using Amarok for about 20 minutes total, so please tell
me that I have missed something really obvious. ;-)
:-)
Marko
11 years, 7 months
systemd shutdown/reboot problems
by Ian Chapman
Hi,
I have a home server which runs F17 and for a long time now it just
doesn't reboot or shutdown cleanly. I've had the same issue since it was
running F16 and possibly F15. When the server shuts down, I get spurious
messages about some services failing or a dependency was not met for the
shutdown target, or sometimes a black screen with a line which just says
"Adding Swap target" (really, on a shutdown?). The output seems to vary
every time, sometimes wildy different but the end result is often the
same, having to hit the reset button. How do I about starting to
diagnose these problems with systemd? Given that the system is left in a
state where I can't do anything with it. The usual places such as
/var/log/messages doesn't turn up anything useful. Maybe because syslog
has already been stopped by then.
--
Ian Chapman.
11 years, 7 months
Dual boot with Windows question
by Alex
Hi, I'd like to install Windows 7 and fc17 on my laptop that has two
disks. I'd like to use one disk for Windows and one for Linux.
Should I just install Windows first, then Linux?
How do I replace the Windows boot loader with grub and still be able
to boot Windows?
Thanks,
Alex
11 years, 7 months
Failed Displaying jpg or png pictures in kde
by Mickey
F17 /KDE-4.9.2-1
I did a fresh install from F10 to F17 ,but I kept the old User directory
in the /home partition.
I did delete the old .kde /user/directory from the F10 install.
I can view most of the jpg or png pictures in /home/user directory, but
there is a number of jpg or png that I can't view, I get this error message:
"Failed Loading Meta information, failed"
This problem is all over a Google search ,but no solutions on correcting
the problem.
11 years, 7 months
Chinese written character input support?
by Chris Smart
Installed Fedora 17 on a laptop and trying to get Chinese input working
for a user who doesn't know pinyin (therefore he needs to write the
characters using mouse/tablet).
I've tried WritRecogn and while it recognises characters, doesn't input
them anywhere (like into Firefox).
I've installed cellwriter but can't get past training mode after drawing
all the characters.
I've installed tomoe but can't find a way actually use it. There used to
be scim-tomoe package (presumably for scim support) but it no-longer
exists since F12.
So is it possible or am I trying in vain?
Thanks,
-c
11 years, 7 months
Re: Fixing a crashed disk
by Reindl Harald
Am 27.10.2012 01:41, schrieb Steven Stern:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 27.10.2012 01:29, schrieb Steven Stern:
>>> Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 8 Offline uncorrectable sectors
>>> Smartctl tells me the problem is at LBA 2014551336 (this is a 2TB disk)
>>
>> sounds bad
>>
>>> Here's the question: If I just reformat and restore /home from a
>>> recent backup, will the disk automatically deal with the sectors
>>> pending reallocation?
>>
>> REALLY: throw away the disk and do not restore backups to it
>>
>> be thankful that you got warned instead lsoe the disk
>> from one moment to another and replace it
>>
>
> It's a brand new computer, and there are only 8 bad sectors so far.
> Throwing away the disk seems a bit harsh at this point. It might be
> time to call Gateway and see if I can get it replaced under warranty,
> but I doubt they'd do it for only 8 sectors on a 2TB disk.
so what
i had last year a vrand new computer with 4x2 TB server grade
disks as RAID10 and the first dies completly after 5 days
with never come back to read any sector
if a disk on a brand new computer has any single bad
sector the manufacturer has to replace it and yes most
disks are dying at the very first begin or they run
for years
11 years, 7 months
