polling of IDE CD-ROM drive at 10/second
by John Reiser
By looking at /proc/interrupts, I see that there are 20 interrupts/second
on the IDE channel that has two empty CD-ROM drives (actually one CD and
one DVD) when running the GNOME desktop from a Workstation install of FC4.
[cat /proc/interrupts; sleep 10; cat /proc/interrupts ==> delta of 200]
Is there a setting to reduce the frequency to only 1/second per drive,
or to turn off polling completely?
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19 years
fstab error on boot
by MIKE LURK
I don't know if anyone else had this problem after a fresh install of
FC4 from the DVD iso, but it happened to me. I did a manual disk
partition using disk druid and chose what I wanted to install. The
install went fine untill I did a reboot, after firstboot, and I got an
error with fstab, damaged fstab error line 7 ignoring remainder ( I
think that was the error as I didn't write it down).
The only way that I could edit fstab was using vi in a terminal window.
Looking at fstab I found that line 7 was for my swap file it read;
LABEL=pool s@@@@@sap swap swap
or something like that. I had changed it to what it should be and saved
it. Rebooted and everything booted normally, with no errors.
Before the fstab was fixed I could not use my cd or DVD burner, it
wouldn't even find my externel hard drive. I don't know what caused the
problem but I am glad it was an easy fix.
I didn't have this problem when I installed FC4T3 from DVD.
Mike
19 years
RE: <crtl><alt><F*> not working
by Fred New
On 17. juuni 2005. a. 17:31, Mark Bradbury wrote:
> Just did an upgrade from FC3 to FC4 and all went cool
> only thing I found not working is that a <ctrl><alt><F*> is not
> working I get a green border from top left to bottom right. any one
> else have this prob ?. I need the console for vdr please help
>
You're correct, virtual consoles don't appear on my system, either.
Try rebooting without "rhgb". This works for me.
I also noticed after pressing <Ctrl><Alt><F1> that my keyboard worked
as if I was on virtual console 1, but I couldn't see what was happening.
That is, I could log in and see on a SSH session that I was logged in,
but my screen looked like it was on the X screen - <Alt><F7>.
Fred
19 years
FC4: Out of memory error
by Brian Rademacher
I read the post on this error earlier this month, but don't know if it is
quite the same as mine...
I had 3 days of uptime until it crashed with an out of memory error...I'm
out of town and don't know exactly what process caused this because it
wasn't logged...
Setup is a dual Opteron 246 with 2 gigs of RAM...
Just wondering if anyone is continuing to have problems with this...
19 years
No volume groups found after a clean full install of FCR4
by niall brady
hi guys,
this is my third install of FCR4 final in two days, (third machine, a dell latitude X300, more than a year old so not exactly brand new chipset etc...)
the install went fine, no issues at all using the same cd's as i used on the other boxes. However after booting into grub, i get a kernel panic
the errors appear like this
Uncompressing Linux... ok, booting the kernel.
Red Hat nash version 4.2.15 starting
reading all physical volumes. this may take a while...
No volume groups found.
Unable to find volume group "VolGroup00"
Error: /bin/lvm exited abnormally with value 5 ! (pid 418)
and goes on ending with a kernel panic.
so, in disbelief i booted from cd1, and did linux rescue,
that goes fine until finally it tells me it cant find any linux partitions, so i cannot go in and look at grub or anything.
does anyone have any ideas about this ? is it a known bug ? the only reference i found to it (similar issue) was here https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-April/msg02208.html
i'd appreciate your thoughts,
cheers
anyweb
http://www.linux-noob.com
forums, tips, news, reviews and stuff :-)
19 years
Java rpm's for FC$
by David Bentley
Having just installed FC4 I have heeded the warning
about not using the sun java rpm and followed the
instructions and created my own package(s) using the
file from the java-1.5.0-sun link under the non-free
section at www.jpackage.org.
Following the instructions given for building your own
files this resuls in 8 rpm files as follows :-
java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.03-1jpp.i586.rpm *
java-1.5.0-sun-alsa-1.5.0.03-1jpp.i586.rpm
java-1.5.0-sun-demo-1.5.0.03-1jpp.i586.rpm
java-1.5.0-sun-devel-1.5.0.03-1jpp.i586.rpm
java-1.5.0-sun-fonts-1.5.0.03-1jpp.i586.rpm *
java-1.5.0-sun-jdbc-1.5.0.03-1jpp.i586.rpm
java-1.5.0-sun-plugin-1.5.0.03-1jpp.i586.rpm *
java-1.5.0-sun-src-1.5.0.03-1jpp.i586.rpm
I have installed the ones marked *
Would it be benificial to install any of the others.
19 years
sendmail.mc cookbook?
by Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
Is there a CURRENT cookbook for configuring sendmail.mc
to allow incoming mail from the internet? I had to overerite
FC4 sendmail.mc with a version that worked just to get mail.
IMO the default should allow incoming mail.
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Chuck Forsberg caf(a)omen.com www.omen.com 503-614-0430
Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications
Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software"
10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 FAX 629-0665
19 years
Evolution Questions
by Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
The FC4 Evolution does not rescan the /var/spool/mail
queue unless it is "kicked". In FC3 evolution updated
itself.
Furthermore the "you have
mail" notification in the toolbar has disappeared.
--
Chuck Forsberg caf(a)omen.com www.omen.com 503-614-0430
Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications
Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software"
10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 FAX 629-0665
19 years
RE: <crtl><alt><F*> not working
by Fred New
On Fri 6/17/2005 6:27 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 6/17/05, Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron(a)camerontech.com> wrote:
> > vi /boot/grub/grub.conf and remove rhgb from the kernel lines of the
> > config file. Reboot.
>
> has anyone filed this in bugzilla yet?
Actually, this looks a lot like
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160470
This bug mentions another workaround to try (but I'm away from my
offending computer for the weekend).
Fred
19 years
