2.6.15-1.1955_FC5 memory leak?
by Russell Coker
I recently setup a server on the Internet in a fairly default FC5T2
configuration. I had it running kernel 2.6.15-1.1955_FC5 for 9 days when I
noticed that it had apparently run out of kernel memory. All processes were
highly swapped and the OOM killer was killing processes (by the time I
noticed the problem most services had been killed).
The machine is a P3 with 256M of RAM, it has full net access with no firewall
(iptables is used in a fairly default configuration but there is nothing in
front of the machine protecting it).
Is there a known kernel memory leak in 2.6.15-1.1955_FC5?
The machine in question has BIND, Postfix, Amavis + clamav, and Postgrey
installed. However as it doesn't yet have an MX record pointing to is there
has been little use (some DNS traffic is all that it would get).
I tried rebooting the machine and it crashed. I guess that the OOM killer
killed something that was needed for a reboot. Tomorrow when I get it
running again I will upgrade it to the latest kernel. Let me know if there
are any tests I should perform if this happens again (unfortunately I can't
get a net-dump server in there but disk-dump is an option I guess).
--
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18 years
Keyboard situation - Non-US users dead in water?
by Chris Tyler
There are a number of interacting issues surrounding XKB at this point,
but the bottom line is that many (most? all?) users using non-US
keyboards are pretty much dead in the water right now.
Putting aside issues with libxklavier and keyboard options, the console
(non-X) keyboard maps, and the keyboard switching applet, it's simply
not possible to select certain keyboards which are in widespread use.
Here's one example: in FC4 and before, the de-facto standard French
Canadian keyboard was identified as ca_enhanced, and it worked
reasonably well. (Note: This is the keyboard that is shipped by Dell,
IBM, HP, etc, and the keyboard that you you would buy at a Future
Shop/Best Buy in Quebec. English Canadian users (such as myself) use the
"us" keyboard layout. All other "Canadian keyboards" are corner cases).
With the current set of XKB data, this keyboard is identified as ca(fr),
and it can be selected manually:
setxkbmap "ca(fr)"
When selected in this way, they keyboard works perfectly (except for
RightAlt-E which is labelled as Euro on newer versions of the
keyboard).
However, this keyboard option cannot be selected at installation time,
nor can it be correctly selected after installation using the KDE or
Gnome applets, which expose the corner-case keyboards but don't provide
an option for this one. I'm assuming (from browsing Bugzilla) that
similar problems exist for some of the other international keyboards.
(It's unclear to me where the current (X11R7) set of xkb maps came from.
They're not the legacy maps that shipped with 6.8.2, but they're not the
current xkeyboard-config maps either - perhaps they're a snapshot of
older xkeyboard-config data, since they seem closer to xkeyboard-config
than they do to the 6.8.2 set).
What needs to be done to get this working for FC5?
--
Chris Tyler
18 years
Fedora Core 5 Test 3 + nforce raid = noboot?
by Glen Bishop
hello,
im having difficulty getting core 5 test 3 installed on my system, its an
asus a8n-vm csm motherboard (nforce 430) and 2 seagate barracuda drives in
a raid1 done by the nvidia 430. there seems to be talk of other having
this issue over on fedoraforum.org but not much resolution, so im looking
here :)
for me either doing the default layout (with lvm) or creating a custom
partition table makes the boot process fail with the below message (see
screenshot and thanks to the pic donor)
http://www.glenbishop.com/20060225-FC5-test3-kernel_panic.jpg
i can load up the drives in normal sata mode and everything will install
fine, just the raid1 is having the issue. i've tried a couple things with
grub but nothing seems to work.
does anyone have a resolution for this? thanks
--
-glen
18 years
hibernate/suspend?
by Mike Leahy
Hello list,
I installed FC5T3 yestereday. I found that I was able to successfully
hibernate/restart before running any updates. However, it took about 3
or 4 minutes to complete, partly because of some errors I get when the
screen first goes blank...something that looks like:
"end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, <something else here>".
Last time I asked about this, somebody said it was an issue with the
kernel.
At any rate, I ran yum to update the system, and hibernate is pooched
again...it just goes black, shows those end_request errors about
accessing a floppy device that I don't even have on my laptop, and then
just sits there. As an alternative, I tried to suspend. This worked
halfway, until I un-suspended, after which I got just a blank screen.
Is there anything I should do to try to debug either the suspend or
hibernate tools?
Mike
18 years
Mouse lockups in X.org w/ ATI
by Gordon Messmer
Using FC5-test3, will all of the updates as of tonight, I'm still seeing
X lose input from the mouse. None of the functions -- motion, buttons,
or scroll wheel -- function after I'm in X for about a minute. If I
switch VTs and come back, it's usually working again. I saw this
problem in the installer, and have seen it consistently as I've applied
updates since installing a couple of days ago.
Nothing is printed in X.org's log at the time of the lockup, and killing
processes in my X session doesn't restore control of the mouse. My PS2
keyboard doesn't seem to be affected.
The mouse is a Logitech USB wheel mouse, and in case it matters, I'm
using an ATI video card. X.org's log says:
(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000] rev
1, Mem @ 0xf0000000/26, 0xff7f0000/16, I/O @ 0xc800/8, BIOS @ 0xff7c0000/17
(--) PCI: (1:0:1) ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Radeon 9000]
(Secondary) rev 1, Mem @ 0xec000000/26, 0xff7e0000/16
Is anyone else seeing this problem? I've only seen one other post on
the list archives that looks similar.
18 years, 1 month
bcm43xx driver on FC5T3 driver doesn't work and freeze my machine.
by Alberto Patino
Hi!
I'am very excited with the inclusion of the bcm43xx driver in FC5 , I
want to replace the venerable but awkward ndiswrapper driver,
unfortunately the driver doesn't work for me and freeze my computer:
I have a laptop DELL Precision M60 with :
# lspci -vvv
...
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1350 WLAN Mini-PCI Card
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV-
VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
Region 0: Memory at fafec000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
1- I downloaded the newest driver from DELL:R115321.EXE (dated Jan-06-2006)
[albertop@amturing driver]$ cat Version.txt
Title : Network:Dell _Wireless (US) WLAN Network Adapter Card,
TrueMobile 1300 b/g PCMCIA, TrueMobile 1300 Internal b/g MPCI,
TrueMobile 1400 Internal Dual-band WLAN Card , Wireless 1350(b/g)WLAN
miniPCI Card, Wireless 1370 (b/g)WLAN MiniPCI Card, Wireless 1390
(802.11g) WLAN MiniCard, Wireless 1390 WLAN (802.11g) ExpressCard,
Wireless 1450 (a/b/g) Dual-Band WLAN miniPCI Card, Wireless 1470
(a/b/g) Dual-Band WLAN miniPCI card, Wireless 1490 (802.11a/g)
Dual-Band WLAN MiniCard, Wireless� 1350 WLAN (b/g) PC Card Driver
Version : A09
OEM Name : Dell
OEM Ver : 4.10.40.0 / 4.10.47.3
Computers : 1D7, 6400/E1505, ME051, MXC051, MXC061, MXG051;
Inspiron - 1000, 1100, 1150, 1200, Inspiron - 2200, 300m, 500m, 5100,
510m, 5150, 5160, 6000, 600m, Inspiron - 700m, 710m, 8500, 8600, 9100,
9200, 9300, 9400/E1705, B120, Inspiron - XPS, XPS Gen 2;
Latitude - 100L, 110L, 120L , D400, D410, D420, D500, D505, D510,
D520, D600, D610, D620, D800, D810, D820, X1, X300;
Precision - M20, M60, M65, M70, M90;
XPS - M1710, M2010,
Oses : Windows 2000 Professional,Windows XP Home Edition,Windows
XP Media Center EditionWindows XP Professional
Languages : Brazilian
Portuguese,Chinese-S,Chinese-T,English,French,German,Italian,Japanese,Korean,Polish,Russian,Spanish,Swedish
Created : Fri Jan 6 11:45:40 CST 2006
2. I run fwcutter:
[root@amturing bcm43xx-fwcutter-003]# bcm43xx-fwcutter bcmwl5.sys
fwcutter can cut the firmware out of bcmwl5.sys
filename : bcmwl5.sys
version : 4.10.40.0
MD5 : 30d20fc98bcfd52e1da778cf19b223d4
extracting bcm43xx_microcode2.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode4.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode5.fw ...
*****: Sorry, it's not posible to extract "bcm43xx_microcode11.fw".
*****: Extracting firmware from an old driver is bad. Choose a more recent one.
*****: Luckily bcm43xx driver doesn't include microcode11 uploads at the moment.
*****: But this can be added in the future...
extracting bcm43xx_pcm4.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_pcm5.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval01.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval02.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval03.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval04.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval05.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval06.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval07.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval08.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval09.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval10.fw ...
3- I installed the firwware to /lib/firmware
[root@amturing bcm43xx-fwcutter-003]# make installfw
if ! [ -d /lib/firmware ]; then mkdir /lib/firmware; fi
install -o 0 -g 0 -m 600 bcm43xx_*.fw /lib/firmware
4 Restart my machine.
[root@amturing bcm43xx-fwcutter-003]# iwconfig
eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
Tx-Power=off
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
I run manually:
iwconfig eth1 essid ..
iwconfig eth1 rate 11Mb
iwconfig eth1 mode Managed
iwconfig eth1 ap 00:0d:72:7c:24:c9
iwconfig eth1 key restricted 00000000
I run again iwconfig ans I see again: Access Point invalid
The worst thing is when I do a
iwlist eth1 scan
My computer freeze and iwlist says something like eth1 no such device!!!!
The last thing logged before the freeze:
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: set security called
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .active_key = 0
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .level = 1
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .enabled = 1
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .encrypt = 1
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for
networks first.
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: failed to
initiate scan. Is device up?
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned on
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Chip initialized
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA initialized
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: 80211 cores initialized
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Keys cleared
This is info from my /var/log/messages at startup:
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: ieee80211: 802.11
data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005
Intel Corporation <jketreno(a)linux.intel.com>
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx driver
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A]
-> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x3
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Number of cores: 5
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x4,
vendor 0x4243, enabled
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x5,
vendor 0x4243, disabled
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d, rev 0x2,
vendor 0x4243, enabled
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807, rev 0x2,
vendor 0x4243, disabled
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804, rev 0x9,
vendor 0x4243, enabled
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 2,
Type 2, Revision 2
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID:
2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2)
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x3d4-0x4ff: clean.
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x3c0-0x3d2: clean.
Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off
Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 0/64
Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0260 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0240 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0220 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
Feb 28 00:11:32 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: set security called
Feb 28 00:11:32 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .active_key = 0
Feb 28 00:11:32 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .level = 1
Feb 28 00:11:32 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .enabled = 1
Feb 28 00:11:32 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .encrypt = 1
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: set security called
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .active_key = 0
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .level = 1
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .enabled = 1
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: .encrypt = 1
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for
networks first.
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: failed to
initiate scan. Is device up?
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned on
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Chip initialized
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA initialized
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: 80211 cores initialized
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Keys cleared
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
I tried disabling encription in my AP but this didn't work neither.
By the way my acces point is a 2Wire Appliance
Other messages that i recover from messages before a freeze:
Freeze n-2:
Feb 27 22:56:35 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at:
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:403:bcm43xx_plcp_get_bitrate()
Feb 27 23:08:09 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at:
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:403:bcm43xx_plcp_get_bitrate()
Freeze n-1:
Feb 27 23:32:35 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at:
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:403:bcm43xx_plcp_get_bitrate()
I'd like to fix the problem, but I don't know what else to do!
Thanks for your help
Alberto Patino
18 years, 1 month
Cinema Display 30 and Radeon 9600
by Scott
Greets.
First off, this is NOT on a Mac or PPC system. :)
I seem to have run into a hardware issue while trying out FC5 test 3
i386. I have an ATI Radeon 9600 (RV350 AGP) connected to an Apple
Cinema Display 30. This card is known to support the dual link dvi
connection required to display 2560x1600 which is the native
resolution of the ACD 30.
During install I see no video after leaving text mode. I can switch
back to vt2 and check the logs. The X server apparently launches just
fine and the only EE logged is about dri not being able to load. I
think that is expected given the chipset of the 9600. I've tried
various video resolutions that I know to work, including 640x480,
800x600, and 1024x768.
This system is a dual boot config with Windows XP SP2 also on the
drive. The video card and monitor work as expected under XP, which is
great to confirm that I have the monitor hooked to the right DVI port
of the 9600 and that the monitor will work at full resolution.
Any suggestions for getting video during install? For now I'm
installing in text mode and plan to try and get video after the
install is complete.
--
Scott
18 years, 1 month
Copy files to NFS directory loose time stamps
by Paul Dickson
If I do a "cp -a" to a NFS volume, the resulting files have the current
time stamp. Do I need to change my mount options or is this a kernel bug?
Current options in fstab: defaults,owner,rw,user,auto,hard,intr,exec
-Paul
18 years, 1 month
eth0 ceases to function after reboot on FC5T3
by Dane Mutters
Hello all.
I just installed test 3 from DVD, and after rebooting eth0 will no longer
work. I can't ping local or internet addresses by name or by IP. Currently,
it's set to static IP, but DHCP doesn't work either. It worked fine during
the installation and on the first boot, but quit after that.
Any ideas? Should this be filed as a bug report, or is this a known issue?
I tried googling for it, but turned up no solutions.
Thanks.
--Dane
18 years, 1 month
FC5, progression or regression?
by Stanton Finley
My Intel onboard 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family Graphics
Controller used to run glxgears at blinding speeds with FC4 and I didn't
even have to install a driver for it on my eMachines T5026. It just
worked great out of the box on FC4. Now with FC5 (in the absence of
glxgears which apparently I can't get on FC5) my 3d graphics and
screensavers run jerkily and seem sluggish. Firefox 1.5 rendering time
is abysmal compared to Firefox 1.0.7 on FC4 on this same machine. It has
a 3 GHz P4 processor for heaven's sake. It should run FC5 like the wind.
Stanton Finley
http://stanton-finley.net/
18 years, 1 month