gam_server and gnome settings racing condition?
by Jim Cornette
Using top to detect when my installation goes into maximum racing
confditions, I have found that top points to the two culprets above.
Using the userspace applet to change my cpu frequency down to a cooler
running level 662 MHz, (43 percent), it keeps popping back up to 1.52
GHz and I need to go back to the applet to lower the speed again. This
happened at least 4 times. When I lower the speed back to 43% things
eventually settle down.
Does anyone know of any tricks to record the cpu usage for system
processed during initial system load? This is a very slow process
compared to FC3 or any prior versions on this particular computer.
Jim
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19 years, 2 months
Very slow network performance
by jery_wang
I have a Rawhide networking issue ...<br /><br />I get max speed on any network interface of 50-60k/s ... this happens irrespective of :<br /><br />kernel version (from the original 2.6.8-1.541 FC3 kernel to the latest Rawhide (2.6.10-1.1146_FC4 ...<br /><br />Net card hardware type (tried every kind of card I can get my hands on)<br /><br />Switch it's plugged into<br /><br />System it connects to (other linux, windows, or systems across the internet)<br /><br />Actual interface (eth0, eth1, etc.)<br /><br />Even have tried creating dummy devices and transferring between them, same result.<br /><br />Happens with firewall on or off ...<br /><br />System is current to latest yum update downloads, was originaly a FC3 default server install, with yum set for updates gotten from : <a href="ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/development/$basearch/" target="_blank">ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/development/$basearch/</a><br /><br />There are, of course, exactly zero
errors listed in any log file.<br /><br />This has me totally baffled. I can't trace it to a particular kernel version or hardware cause.<br /><br />Anyone have any ideas?<br /><br />thanks<br /><br />- litz
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19 years, 2 months
today's yum update trashes FC3?
by Dan Hollis
A friend of mine reported that today's yum update trashed two completely
separate FC3 machines of his. It would hang during grub load, just sits
there with a blinking _
here are the updates that went in today:
gaim-1.1.3-1.FC3.i386.rpm
squid-2.5.STABLE8-1.FC3.1.i386.rpm
pcmcia-cs-3.2.7-2.2.i386.rpm
openssh-clients-3.9p1-8.0.1.i386.rpm
openssh-askpass-gnome-3.9p1-8.0.1.i386.rpm
openssh-askpass-3.9p1-8.0.1.i386.rpm
openssh-3.9p1-8.0.1.i386.rpm
openssh-server-3.9p1-8.0.1.i386.rpm
postgresql-libs-7.4.7-3.FC3.1.i386.rpm
he reports it rebooted fine before he did the update, and after he did the
update, it no longer loaded grub. he had to boot off a grub floppy to
recover it.
anyone else notice this?
-Dan
19 years, 2 months
Complete lockups with new kernels on FC2 and FC4-devel
by Rodd Clarkson
Hi All,
Ever since upgrading to recent kernels on FC4-devel and FC2 I've been
experiencing total lockups on two different laptops.
The FC2 laptop ran fine until upgrading to the 2.6.10-1.12 kernel (the
kernel before that is 2.6.7-something and worked well) and the upgrade
was handled using yum. The current 2.6.10-1.14 kernel doesn't even seem
to want to boot, but I haven't had a chance too look into this because
it's my wife's laptop and she's only just reported it this morning after
the upgrade last night.
On the FC4-devel laptop, I've been getting similar (the same) lockups
using recent kernels. I'm pretty sure the problem isn't in the
2.6.10-1.1143 kernel, but I get is a lot with the 2.6.10-1.1148 kernel
and I'm pretty sure it was an issue in the 2.6.10-1.1146 kernel too.
These lookups are complete. The mouse and keyboard do not respond at
all, the screen doesn't change and you can't ping the box from another
machine. The only thing to do is yank the battery and powercord and
reboot.
Are other noticing this?
Rodd
19 years, 2 months
re: unable to read superblock
by Anne & Lynn Wheeler
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 06:30:45 +0000, Philip Wyett wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 19:54 -0700, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>
>>I built a brand new FC3 smp kernel system using 681 on a system that had
>>two SATA drives. I configured with logical volume support with boot
>>filesystem mirrored/replicated and configured striped for all the other
>>filesystems. All of the kernels since 681 have failed during boot with
>>error message saying unable to read superblock.
>>
>
>
> What are the error messages you get at boot time?
right after Nash version starting:
EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
mount: error 22 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
switchroot: mount failed: 22
umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
Kernel panic -- not syncing, attempted to kill init!
... at this point machine hangs ... no buttons work and I have to
unplug/plug machine power cord and then power on.
19 years, 2 months
gaim-1.1.3-1 aborts....
by Tom London
Running latest rawhide:
gaim-1.1.3-1 aborts on startup:
[tbl@tlondon Downloads]$ gaim
Gaim has segfaulted and attempted to dump a core file.
This is a bug in the software and has happened through
no fault of your own.
It is possible that this bug is already fixed in CVS.
If you can reproduce the crash, please notify the gaim
maintainers by reporting a bug at
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/bug.php
Please make sure to specify what you were doing at the time,
and post the backtrace from the core file. If you do not know
how to get the backtrace, please get instructions at
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/gdb.php. If you need further
assistance, please IM either RobFlynn or SeanEgn and
they can help you.
Aborted
Any ideas if this is an upstream or fedora problem?
tom
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19 years, 2 months
Fedora Core 3 Test Update: yum-2.2.0-0.fc3
by Jeremy Katz
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-104
2005-02-21
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : yum
Version : 2.2.0
Release : 0.fc3
Summary : RPM installer/updater
Description :
Yum is a utility that can check for and automatically download and
install updated RPM packages. Dependencies are obtained and downloaded
automatically prompting the user as necessary.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Update Information:
New yum release fixes multiple small bugs. Changes include:
* Improved output formatting
* Display amount of data to be downloaded
* Enable regets
* Add automatic gpg key retrieval. See 'gpgkey' in yum.conf(5)
* Improved handling of mirror lists for disabled repositories
* Miscellaneous speedups
* Man page fixes
* Fixes for usage behind proxies
* Multilib bugfixes
---------------------------------------------------------------------
* Mon Feb 21 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.2.0-0.fc3
- update to 2.2.0
* Tue Feb 1 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.13-0.fc3
- update to 2.1.13
* Wed Dec 8 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.12-0.fc3
- rebuild for fc3 update without the python2.4 hack
* Mon Nov 29 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.12-1
- update to 2.1.12
- add hack from jbj to workaround python 2.4 urllib breakage (#138535)
* Mon Nov 8 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.11-4
- rebuild for python 2.4
* Sun Oct 31 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.11-3
- fix multilib update patch to allow installing noarch (#135396,
continued)
* Fri Oct 29 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.11-2
- add patch to fix multilib updates on ia32e (#135396)
* Thu Oct 28 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.11-1
- update to 2.1.11
- fix config file error handling
- better handling of empty lines/comments in mirror lists
- improve some error messages
* Sun Oct 24 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.10-3.1
- make the cron job executable (#136764)
* Thu Oct 21 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.10-3
- actually remove the repositories
* Wed Oct 20 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.10-2
- remove repositories from being explicitly listed in yum.conf,
.repo files will be included in the fedora-release package
* Tue Oct 19 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.10-1
- update to 2.1.10
* updated man pages
* make more resilient to broken groups file
* fix urlgrabber failure callback (#136178)
* Mon Oct 18 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.9-1
- 2.1.9 includes the path fix
* Mon Oct 18 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.8-2
- fix path in /usr/bin/yum
- turn on gpgchecking by default
* Mon Oct 18 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.8-1
- 2.1.8, fixes #135735, #135998, #135775
* Wed Oct 13 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.7-2
- add yum-arch
* Wed Oct 13 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.7-1
- 2.1.7
- use mirror list by default
* Wed Oct 6 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.6-1
- 2.1.6
* Mon Oct 4 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.5-1
- 2.1.5
- turn on obsoletes=1 by default in yum.conf
* Wed Sep 29 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.4-1
- 2.1.4
* Fri Sep 3 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.3-1
- 2.1.3
* Thu Sep 2 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.2-1
- 2.1.2
* Wed Sep 1 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.1-1
- 2.1.1
* Tue Aug 31 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.0-1
- update to 2.1.0
* Wed Jul 7 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 2.0.7-3
- Back to rawhide
* Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
* Tue May 11 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 2.0.7-1.1
- Update config again
* Fri May 7 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 2.0.7-1
- update to 2.0.7
- change config to point to final FC2 locations
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.7-0.20040416
- new snap
* Sat Apr 3 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 2.0.7-0.20040403
- new snap, should fix yum -e name.arch
* Wed Mar 17 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 2.0.6-1
- update to 2.0.6
* Wed Mar 10 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 2.0.5.20040310-1
- update to today's snap
* Wed Mar 3 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 2.0.5.20040303-1
- today's snap
* Tue Mar 2 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.5.20040229-1
- update again per seth's request
* Thu Feb 26 2004 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de>
- mv /etc/init.d -> /etc/rc.d/init.d
* Tue Feb 24 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.5.20040224-1
- newer
* Mon Feb 23 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.5.20040223-1
- update to current snapshot per skvidal's request
- add retries=20 to yum.conf
* Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
* Fri Jan 23 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 2.0.4.20040103-1
- update to current snapshot
- fix config for FC2 test 1
* Tue Dec 23 2003 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)redhat.com> 2.0.4-5
- build yum daily snapshot for amd64 fix.
* Wed Nov 12 2003 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 2.0.4-4
- patch for excluding dirs in yum-arch from CVS
* Thu Nov 6 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 2.0.4-3
- patch to work with python 2.3 from Seth
* Wed Oct 29 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 2.0.4-2
- Stick in a new yum.conf for FC1.
* Mon Oct 20 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de>
- new upstream release 2.0.4
* Tue Sep 16 2003 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)redhat.com> 2.0.3-1
- update to 2.0.3
- drop yum-init patch, merged into 2.0.3.
- change rpm version requirement to 4.1.1.
* Thu Jul 24 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de>
- change init script to more current RHL style
* Wed Jul 23 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com>
- require libxml2-python, because yum does
* Thu Jul 17 2003 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)redhat.com> 2.0-1
- update to 2.0.
* Thu May 22 2003 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)redhat.com> 1.98-0.20030522
- update to snapshot.
* Mon May 12 2003 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)redhat.com> 1.98-0.20030512
- create.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3/
5f6150dacc8aceec48fad65294dc6855 SRPMS/yum-2.2.0-0.fc3.src.rpm
7d27b8dd9c6be77d956ce65d19522a6a x86_64/yum-2.2.0-0.fc3.noarch.rpm
7d27b8dd9c6be77d956ce65d19522a6a i386/yum-2.2.0-0.fc3.noarch.rpm
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. You may
need to edit your up2date channels configuration. Within
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources enable the following line:
yum updates-testing
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3...
---------------------------------------------------------------------
19 years, 2 months
Libraries locations
by David McCormick
I am trying to set up a wireless network at home and need to add
libiw.so.27 to load several rpms,its required before you can load them.
How can i find which library contains it so I can load it? This is with
FC-3 I386. It appears to have been loaded automaticaly on my FC-3
X86_64 machine.
Thanks Dave
19 years, 2 months
Update on screen savers
by JERRY WHITMIRE
I was going to tell witch ones that would not work but it is better to tell
you witch ones that do work and that is in banners & pictures [banners &
slideshow] are the only ones that works.
In desktop distortions [ science] is the only one that works.
in flying things [lines work and tux works in a small screen in the upper
left conner ]
whirlwind warpx has 99% cpu usage.
in fractals none works
in gadgets & simulations [ xflames 99% cpu usage] none work
illusions of depth none works
in miscellaneous none works
in open gl none works
rapid motions none works.
visit to flatlands { apple 2 99% cpu usage} pong 99% cpu usage.
set it to random the screen savers work like they should.
Only [four] out of all of them not very good with my computer at all .
this is with Fedora core 3 and it is up2date.
And i do like noof the best .
This is why i need some advice.
THANKS AGAIN
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