Kernel numbers
by Jeff Stevens
What does it mean to see an rpm with a kernel of 2.6.10-1.741_FC3, when
we go to a site like http://www.kernel.org and see the latest kernel is
at 2.6.10? If one wanted to compile their own kernel from this site,
would they be losing fixes/etc. from the "-1.741_FC3" portion?
Thanks, still learning here...
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Jeffrey Stevens
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15 years, 12 months
Re: Rescuing files from a LVM partition
by Andrew Stewart
> Before doing any more damage,
> make at least one disk image of what you have.
> If a disk image is a file of a larger drive,
> you can use loopback to examine it.
> If you want to make changes, don't use your only copy.
>
> --
> Mike hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
> "Horse guts never lie." -- Cherek Bear-Shoulders
I'm not sure how to do that when I can't even mount the disk.
Any suggestions on what to do next?
I've noticed that lvm archives a volume group configuration when a change is
made to it (under /etc/lvm/archive.. In plain text too!) By looking at
these I can tell exactly what commands I ran in order to muck things up...
Fri Sep 21 17:56:48 2007: 'vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sdb2'
Fri Sep 21 18:25:40 2007: 'vgreduce VolGroup00 /dev/sdb2'
Fri Sep 21 18:25:45 2007: 'vgcreate VolGroup01 /dev/sdb2'
Mon Sep 24 18:37:52 2007: 'vgremove VolGroup01'
Tue Sep 25 13:51:10 2007: 'vgcreate VolGroup01 /dev/sdb2'
I can also tell what pv's and lv's belonged to the corresponding VolGroup in
each archive.
(btw, I've seen archived threads from what looks to be an old linux-lvm
specific mailing list. Anyone know if this still exists? I can't find it
anywhere)
16 years, 1 month
realplayer and pulseaudio on F8
by Ian Malone
This is mainly a happy story, but things could be better.
Under F7 i686 I ran a nightly build of realplayer (from
<helixcommunity.org>) which understood ALSA. As
such I was able to set up a dmix device for it and it
played happily with the rest of the system.
When I moved to F8 I changed to using the x86_64
system, and the first thing I did was try a 64bit realplayer
build. After changing it to use the hardware device
(as it wont output to a pulse ALSA device), I discovered
that:
a. The sound warbled. The closest effect to it that I've
heard before is where there's a rate mismatch and the
buffer keeps running out.
b. The mozilla plugins wouldn't work, with or without
nspluginwrapper. I'm hypothesising that despite being
included with the 64 bit build they are intended for 32
bit realplayer.
So, I changed to a 32 bit build of RP. I have it outputting
through a dmix device set to 48kHz as otherwise it runs
too fast (i.e. if I load a file on the machine it plays it back
at an incredible speed and a high pitch). It now runs
okay both stand-alone and as a browser plugin.
However, because most things use pulseaudio now
(including flash and rhythmbox), using RP is mutually
exclusive with most other sound apps.
I /think/ the solution to this would be to set up a dmix
or plug device going into the pulseaudio ALSA device,
but I've had a couple of goes and can't work it out.
Any suggestions?
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imalone
16 years, 1 month
tar backup on tape doesn't work
by Budiono
Hi all,
I 'm just install a scsi card BusLogic BT-958 and HP DAT 40, on my
fedora core 6 system. I usually backup my system, using tar.
My problem is backup doesn't running well.
And this is my backup script:
#tar -b 1024 -cvf /dev/st0 /usr/local/src/my_home/yahoomail | bzip2 -9 >
/var/log/Backup.log.bz2
Backup only run a while, and archive some files in directory and then stop.
[root@mis-s155 ~]# tar -b 1024 -cvf /dev/st0
/usr/local/src/my_home/yahoomail | bzip2 -9 > /var/tmp/Backup.log.bz2
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: /dev/st0: Cannot write: Device or resource busy
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
But when I put out -b parameter on tar. It run a while and not backup
directory at all
The backup script I used was running well when I'm using redhat 9.0 system.
I attach some message from my system
scsi: ***** BusLogic SCSI Driver Version 2.1.16 of 18 July 2002 *****
scsi: Copyright 1995-1998 by Leonard N. Zubkoff <lnz(a)dandelion.com>
scsi5: Configuring BusLogic Model BT-958 PCI Wide Ultra SCSI Host Adapter
scsi5: Firmware Version: 5.06I, I/O Address: 0xDC00, IRQ Channel:
225/Level
scsi5: PCI Bus: 2, Device: 3, Address: 0xFEAFF000, Host Adapter SCSI ID: 7
scsi5: Parity Checking: Enabled, Extended Translation: Enabled
scsi5: Synchronous Negotiation: Fast, Wide Negotiation: Enabled
scsi5: Disconnect/Reconnect: Enabled, Tagged Queuing: Enabled
scsi5: Scatter/Gather Limit: 128 of 8192 segments, Mailboxes: 211
scsi5: Driver Queue Depth: 211, Host Adapter Queue Depth: 192
scsi5: Tagged Queue Depth: Automatic, Untagged Queue Depth: 3
scsi5: SCSI Bus Termination: Both Enabled, SCAM: Disabled
scsi5: *** BusLogic BT-958 Initialized Successfully ***
scsi5 : BusLogic BT-958
Vendor: HP Model: C5683A Rev: YP61
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
scsi 5:0:3:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 1
st: Version 20050830, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
st 5:0:3:0: Attached scsi tape st0
st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B)
[root@mis-s155 ~]# mt -f /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x26 (DDS-4 or QIC-4GB).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (1010000):
ONLINE IM_REP_EN
I very appeciate for any solution and comment.
Thank you
Budiono
16 years, 1 month
Nagios yum install
by Mike Morraye
Dear List,
I just installed nagios on my Fedora 8 trough Yum. (standard repo's)
Now it seems that the rpm installs in different dir's than what you're
expected to do while installing from source.
Now it's quite hard to follow the official nagios manual, and i can't seem
to find modified ones.
What should I do?
16 years, 1 month
Re: Port forwarding
by Andy
Hi,
Jari Marikainen wrote:
> I would like to forward incoming traffic from internet to
> "<195.198.111.x> port 80" to "<some other ip on the internet> port 80"
> in FC3 on the same interface.
I would try the DNAT/SNAT iptables targets, along the lines of:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -d 195.198.111.x \
-j DNAT --to-destination 65.114.4.69
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -d 65.114.4.69 \
-j SNAT --to-source <your external IP address on this machine>
The second line makes the real server send it's replies through the same
path (otherwise it will reply directly to the client)
You have to enable/allow forwarding for everything to work.
hth,
/Andy
16 years, 1 month
Integrated bluetooth on Toshiba laptop wont work
by Zlatko
Hello to everybody, and greetings from Croatia (Europe)...
I need help...
Model of laptop: Toshiba Satellite P200-10C
My integrated bluetooth wont work, unless I do the following:
1. I start laptop with Windows Vista
2. I restart from Vista to Fedora
Each time I do this, bluetooth works fine. But, if I turn off computer,
and start it again directly to Fedora, bluetooth wont work, and system
wont recognize any bluetooth device.
I have described this problem on Fedora forum, also, but nobody answered
my question so far, even I have posted that post month ago.
Here is the link to that post:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=172988
If anybody knows how to handle this problem, I'll be very appreciated...
Also, my combination of pressing Fn + (F1-F9) wont work either...
Thanks
16 years, 1 month
Fedora 8: X/Nautilus eating CPU
by wwp
Hello all,
now that my Fedora 8 is fully set up, I notice periodical short
hangs of the Desktop, making its use quite uncomfortable. `top` tells me
that the X and Nautilus processes are eating up to 30% of CPU every
15-20sec approximately (I can hear some disk activity as well).
Sensors applets are configured to poll on a longer period basis so it's
probably not them. No cron activity has been set. Anyway, I was running
the same applets with my Fedora Core 5 and GNOME and never encountered
such behaviour before.
For the record, nautilus-action is installed and there are few mounts
(USB disks) visible onto the Desktop. I've tried closing all apps (but
GNOME Desktop) and this still happens.
Anybody has this too? Or any hint?
Regards,
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wwp
16 years, 2 months
