Re: FC 3 and Kernel Lock or Hang
by Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 at 12:00pm, Tom Browder <tbrowder(a)cox.net> wrote
> I have continued to be plagued by a kernel hang or lockup since FC 2 on AMD
> dual cpus with ATI radeon 7500. I am currently running FC 3 with the latset
> released kernel (681).
>
> Is there any hope for the problem by using one of the test kernels?
What motherboard are you using? There are lots of us throwing out our
Tyan S2466 based systems as fast as we can. After a while they start
exhibiting the behavior you're seeing (hard locks (no OOPS available)) at
random times that are very hard to diagnose/resolve.
See the beowulf list archives for a fair bit of discussion of this.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
19 years, 3 months
re: a modest request
by gslink
The problem with bad sectors is not with sectors that show a write check
but with those that don't show a write check but are bad. The write
check on most hard drives is very simple and consists only of parity.
If a certain number of bits are dropped then there will be no write
check and install will work perfectly. You will never know about this
until you try to run the program because there will be no read error.
In addition there is the case where buffers are being allocated. No
check of media integrity is made on these(swap partition). This has
always been a problem with RH. Most shops have discs with small bad
spots and many discs develop these over time. The c option was put into
mkfs just to take care of these problems. At the present time we must
take ANY disc that displays even a small bad spot and use mkfs on
another system before we can install Linux. I suspect that a surprising
number of the strange troubles that are being reported by only one user
are due to this problem. When you invoke Disc Druid you need to be able
to request a long format or else mkfs needs to be on the recovery disc.
Currently discs are tested at the factory and bad sectors are locked
out In some large discs there are quite a few bad spots. In normal
operation perfectly good discs will have bad spots develop over time.
This is not a serious problem with modern discs if it is handled by the
software. The problem has always been that RH doesn't handle the
problem. Incidently, Microsoft does.
19 years, 3 months
New kernel blah
by RaXeT
Why can't something be done short term to fix the Marvell gigabyte lan
module missing mess. The update from Syskonnect has been available since
early October 04. It was supported in earlier 2.6 kernels?
Anyone? And don't tell me someone has to add it upstream at kernel.org,
cause that's ridiculous.
RaXeT
19 years, 4 months
Testing - kernel-2.6.9-1.715_FC3 panics on GUI Exit
by Jim Cornette
I just did a fresh install of FC3 and then applied the updates available
from the FC3 testing and updates repository to my computer. I had
several problems but the kernel panic seems to be the greatest.
The problem seems to be triggered when exiting the GUI. When booting in
runlevel 5 and logging out of X, the hourglass stays in the center of
the screen and the caplocks light flashes.
When booted into runlevel 3 and closing down, the text on the screen
displays a series of numbers and states that it has a panic condition
and the cap-locks light is flashing.
Synaptics is a problem also with the mouse not functioning, if this
could be a related issue. The mouse was working on the runlevel 3 test
and not functioning for the runlevel 5 error.
Jim
--
When you're down and out, lift up your voice and shout, "I'M DOWN AND OUT"!
19 years, 4 months
[Fwd: Re: Kernel building]
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
Somehow, this bounced - any clues as to why?
TTFN
Paul
--
"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
- Life of Brian, Monty Python
19 years, 4 months
rpm problem
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
Whenever I try to remove an rpm (and sometimes install them), I get a
lot of errors saying there is a script error with preun and postun. I've
rebuilt the rpmdb, but still get the same error.
Is there anyway of tracing what has broken to cause this problem?
TTFN
Paul
--
"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
- Life of Brian, Monty Python
19 years, 4 months
Firefox,Epiphany,Up2date
by JERRY WHITMIRE
The attachments with + is what Fedora sets as default. these settings work
when boot up or the up2date icon would not show that i need to up2date
files. konqueror and opera works with these.
firefox,epiphany,mozilla,netscape and up2date do not.
# 1 dns 192.168.0.1
# 2 dns 205.171.3.65
the ones with - is what i can put in that makes
firefox,epiphany,mozilla,netscape and up2date work very fast now.
# 1 dns 192.168.0
# 2 dns 205.171.3.65
I have did more testing the original dns # worked very slow
# 1 dns 205.171.3.65
# 2 dns 205.171.2.65
and came up with second set that works very fast for all of the above
borwesrs and up2date.
# 1 dns 192.168.0
# 2 dns 205.171.3.65
Thanks
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19 years, 4 months
problem in booting fedora core
by RAVI GUPTA
RESPECTED SIR
I AM STUDENT OF INFORMATION TECH. AND I HAVE BOUGHT A NEW PC HAVING FOLLOWING CONFIGURATION:
INTEL D915GAV MOTHERBOARD
INTEL 3.0 GHz PROCESSOR
512 MB RAM
80 GB HDD
PROBLEM 1:
WHEN I INSTALLED FEDORA CORE-2 THE WHOLE INSTALLATION WENT SMOOTHLY BUT AFTER THE COMPLETE INSTALLATION WHEN REBOOTING WAS DONE THE SYSTEM SHOWED BOOT LOADER ERROR AND WAS UNABLE TO DETECT HARD DISK. AFTER MAKING CERTAIN ARRANGEMENT IT RAN ALSO BUT DURING BOOTING OF LINUX IT SHOWED UNSUPPORTED CHIPSET. AND THEN AGAIN AFTER RESTARTING THE COMPUTER IT AGAIN STARTED SHOWING BOOT LOADER ERROR.
PROBLEM 2:
AND THEN WHEN I INSTALLED FEDORA CORE-3 AGAIN AFTER INSTALLATION WHEN I REBOOTED THE SYSTEM MY SYSTEM KEPT RESTARTING AGAIN AND AGAIN AND FINALLY STUCK TO SCREEN DISPLAYING :
GRUB Loading stage 2 .....
-
ALL THE GOOD AND INTELLIGENT PEOPLE PRESENT THERE PLEASE HELP ME OUT I AM REALLY IN BIG TROUBLE AS OUR INSTITUTE REALLY BACKUPS ON FEDORA CORE LINUX OPERATING SYSTEMS.
WAITING FOR REPLY.
YOURS SINCERELY,
RAVI KANT GUPTA
19 years, 4 months
yum fails on today's rawhide
by Tom London
yum update
<<snip>>
---> Package libgcc.i386 0:3.4.3-11 set to be updated
---> Package gcc.i386 0:3.4.3-11 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libselinux = %{epoch}:1.19.3-3 for package:
libselinux-devel
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 7, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 104, in main
(result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 219,
in buildTransaction
(rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 187,
in resolveDeps
(checkdep, missing, conflict, errormsgs) = self._processReq(dep)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 271,
in _processReq
CheckDeps, missingdep =
self._requiringFromTransaction(requiringPkg, requirementTuple,
errormsgs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 420,
in _requiringFromTransaction
provSack = self.whatProvides(needname, needflags, needversion)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 65, in
whatProvides
(r_e, r_v, r_r) = rpmUtils.miscutils.stringToVersion(version)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rpmUtils/miscutils.py", line
307, in stringToVersion
epoch = string.atol(verstring[:i])
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/string.py", line 419, in atol
return _long(s, base)
ValueError: invalid literal for long(): %{epoch}
--
Tom London
19 years, 4 months
