Locked screen
by William John Murray
Hi all,
Just a thought for improving Fedora. We now have a 'new login'
menu item in gnome at least, which creates a new session nested inside
the old. Isn't this MOST useful when someone has left the screen locked?
I come along, find one of my kids has locked the screen, and I can
either 'ctrl-atl-tab' or go and look for him. Bein able to just nest
a new session would be great.
Where does this have to happen? xscreensaver?
Bill
19 years
1341 smp (and all other recent smp) freezeup @ login prompt
by Jonathan Deitch
On a FC4T3 system, with latest yum updates ...
Dual xeon system running on an Intel server motherboard, getting a
freeze after the boot process completes ... login appears, cursor
blinks, but keyboard/mouse are unresponsive, as well as network (system
appears hung) - can only reset to fix.
Booting the UP kernel system works flawlessly ...
Checking in logs, there's *no* logging at all for the smp boot - it's as
if it never happened.
any ideas? I'm flat-out stumped ...
- Jonathan
19 years
Installing Xen
by Maimon Oded
Hi,
I've installed FC4-T3 and then install the xen packages,
following this manual: http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstart
I've got to the step that i need to create change the domain0 RAM used,
by running:
xm balloon 0 384
it didn't work because the xend is not running, I've tried to start it
by issuing:
/etc/init.d/xend start
after a few seconds it finished and i checked to see if the xend is up,
ps -ef | grep xen returned only [xenblkd], the logs xend & xend-debug
return no new lines,
can some one please tell me what's wrong or how i can debug this?
(I'm using the latest Xen packages)
thanks,
Oded.
19 years
Re: Fedora Core 3 Test Update: kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
by Francesco Tombolini
Hi shrek-m
doublececk your selinux installation!
you can have the following condition:
#yum list selinux-policy-targeted
Installed Packages
selinux-policy-targeted.noarch 1.17.30-2.96 installed
selinux-policy-targeted.noarch 1.17.30-2.85 installed
uninstall the old package or the update not work.
Byez
--
Francesco Tombolini <tombo(a)adamantio.net>
19 years
SMB overactive?
by William John Murray
Help!
I just realised that SMB has become overactive in my FC4T3 box. From
ethereal, I see it seems to pass messages like this to every other
machine on
our intranet:
Trans2 Request, QUERY_FS_INFO, Query FS Size Info
Trans2 Response, QUERY_FS_INFO
etc. It just keeps on doing it, round and round, ~10-20 machines a second.
I don't know when this started, but it keeps the little blue 'Network'
light on
my eth0 at about 20% permanently and cannot be good for the network.
Which process will be responsible? I do have 4 remote cifs mounts -
should I remove them?
Thank you,
Bill
19 years
Disable firstboot or text-mode firstboot(FC4/rawhide)
by Sean Bruno
I am having some issues with firstboot that appears to be causing the X
server to display garbage.
I can't actually get into the machine to answer all of the questions at
this point(Nvidia 6200 PCI-E).
Is there a way to put firstboot into a text mode or to disable firstboot
altogether?
Sean
19 years
Installing Xen
by Maimon Oded
Hi,
I've installed FC4-T3 and then install the xen packages,
following this manual: http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstart
i've got to the step that i need to create change the domain0 RAM used,
by runing:
xm balloon 0 384
it didnt work becuase the xend is not runing, i've tried to start it by issuing:
/etc/init.d/xend start
after a few seconds it finished and i checked to see if the xend is up,
ps -ef | grep xen returned only [xenblkd], the logs xend & xend-debug
return no new lines,
can some one please tell me what's wrong or how i can debug this?
(I'm using the latest Xen packages)
thanks,
Oded.
19 years
Out of disk space
by William John Murray
Hello there,
In the latest update for FC4-T3 I filled my disk up with
160Mb of yum downloads. The install went fine, but using Firefox
afterwards looked strange so I tried rebooting.
Bad mistake. I could not log in. gdm error:
May 25 16:07:31 wjmurray gdm[4622]: gdm_auth_user_add: Could not write
cookie
May 25 16:07:31 wjmurray gdm[4622]: gdm_auth_user_add: Could not write
cookie
May 25 16:07:33 wjmurray gdm(pam_unix)[4622]: session closed for user murray
This happened even in 'failsafe terminal mode'. Now I could ssh in from
another machine and free some space that way, but why could 'failsafe'
terminal not be opened?
Or maybe even better gdm could do some triage on /tmp, /var/cache etc?
I know this is too late for FC4, but maybe 5?
Bill
19 years
Yum error
by Christopher Carney
While running Yum I get this error: Error: Missing Dependency:
libjawt.so.6 is needed by package openoffice.org-core
[root@localhost ~]#
Is this a known issue and actively being worked?
Chris
--
The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.
-Arthur C. Clarke
19 years
ext3 compiled-in vs module in FC4
by Tim Taranov
Hi -
I was wondering why FC4 has ext3 as a kernel module rather than having
it compiled into the kernel?
The reason I'm asking is because I encountered an issue with booting
FC4 from a raid volume with ext3 compiled as a module (the default
configuration) - the kernel would panic after not being able to mount
/. After I rebuilt the kernel to have the ext3 compiled-into the
kernel, the booting problem went away (my /boot and / are ext3-based,
running off a h/w raid controller based volume).
I was using the default FC4 test 3 at the time - I haven't tried it
with the latest kernel, but I suspect the results may be the same.
Thanks,
Tim
19 years
