Fedora-10 killed my computer ...
by Timothy Murphy
Has anyone found the F10 has done something nasty to their BIOS?
I transferred the Fedora-10-Snap3-i686-Live-KDE.iso
to a USB stick following the instructions at
<http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-making-media.html>.
This went fine; I like the new (I think) liveusb-creator program.
I used the USB stick to install Fedora-10 on two Thinkpads.
Then I tried it on a machine with an Asus/AMD motherboard.
The Live CD seemed to start OK, but then it froze.
Now for the disaster.
When I went to re-boot the machine
it said "NO Keyboard Detected --- Press F1".
On pressing F1 I found that the keyboard was indeed disabled.
But after a couple of seconds Fedora - the default OS - booted,
and when it started the keyboard was working normally.
I changed the default to Windows in grub.conf , and re-booted.
Again, I could not change the chosen OS as the keyboard was disabled,
but Windows started up fine.
I could not get back to Fedora easily, as I could not access grub.conf
in Windows; but I was able to use a Knoppix CD
to mount Fedora \boot , and edit grub.conf .
Now, my question is:
Was the fact that this happened after running F10
a pure coincidence?
I'm intending to look at the CMOS battery,
and perhaps try re-installing the BIOS.
Any other suggestions gratefully received.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
15 years, 5 months
rpmdb: Thread/process 21524/3086247616 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library
by Antonio Olivares
Dear fellow testers,
I tried to use xterm but it was not installed, so I wanted to yum install it, and I got message in the title.
[root@riohigh ~]# yum install xterm
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
rpmdb: Thread/process 21524/3086247616 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library
rpmdb: unable to allocate memory for mutex; resize mutex region
error: cannot open Name index using db3 - Cannot allocate memory (12)
rpmdb: unable to allocate memory for mutex; resize mutex region
error: cannot open Providename index using db3 - Cannot allocate memory (12)
rpmdb: Thread/process 21524/3086247616 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library
What does all of that mean?
Thanks,
Antonio
15 years, 5 months
F10Snap3 KDE LiveCD: no graphics on Mobility Radeon 9600
by Markku Kolkka
I tested Fedora-10-Snap3-i686-Live-KDE on my HP nc6000 laptop,
and the system booted to a black screen. Ctrl-Alt-F1 gave me a
working text console, so the problem is failing X
startup. /var/log/messages contains:
Oct 25 22:01:50 localhost kernel:
[drm:drm_buffer_object_validate] *ERROR* Failed moving buffer.
Oct 25 22:01:50 localhost kernel:
[drm:drm_buffer_object_validate] *ERROR* Out of aperture space
or DRM memory quota.
Oct 25 22:01:50 localhost kernel: mtrr: base(0x98b48000) is not
aligned on a size(0x400000) boundary
Oct 25 22:01:50 localhost kernel: [drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR*
invalid framebuffer id
Oct 25 22:01:50 localhost kdm[2948]: X server died during startup
Oct 25 22:01:50 localhost kdm[2948]: X server for display :0
cannot be started, session disabled
If I use the "nomodeset" parameter the system works normally. I
guess modesetting bugs should be filed against kernel?
--
Markku Kolkka
markku.kolkka(a)iki.fi
15 years, 5 months
Will shared swap bite me?
by Bill Davidsen
I have to set up a machine as dual boot 32/64 bit and I would really love to not
waste space on swap partitions being duplicated if I don't have to. That said,
if I do two installs and use the same swap partition, what evil will come of it?
The only obvious issue I see is suspending the non-default kernel and trying to
boot the other (found that in FC6) and I can avoid that. Any other know issues I
have to avoid?
The object is to run one 64 bit program without reinstalling the whole stable 32
bit environment.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
15 years, 5 months
Newer Kernels: Boot failed (Bug in Bugzilla)
by Roger Grosswiler
I installed 9.92 recently my dell latitude. Everything went well until the first boot.
The system didn't ask for the disk-encryption-password, the plymouth-progress-bar moved
and hung at the end. I rebooted, supressed rghb and quiet in in grub and found the
following messages
- Logical Volume not found (There is a Bug filed in Bugzilla, hoping this meets also my
problem)
- Boot failed
finito, basta.
I couldnt make my mkinitrd as i didnt have modules installed. I tried also a newer
kernel from koji. Same effect.
Does anybody know, if there is hope to get this resolved? I just got it running when
installing from live-cd.
I have also some sideeffects i didnt have with 3d desktopeffects, i havent had when i
installed fresh from rawhide and everything went well.
at least, with the kernel from 9.91 (livecd) i have a working system to test.
Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466071
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466607
15 years, 5 months
Note to testers of F10: scanbuttond
by John Summerfield
I've just updated an FC5 system to F9 and one of the benefits is that
the attached HP Laserjet 3052 (multifunction printer scanner copier) now
works as a printer. Indeed, it "just works."
I thought to try scanning, and discovered scanbuttond which seems a
wonderful idea, except as installed it doesn't actually work.
It has a startup script to run it as a daemon, and is supposed to run
various programs when a "scan" button is pressed. I used quotes because,
judging from the comments, it is supposed to handle buttons for
scanning, printing, emailing (but not, as far as I could see) faxing.
However, it doesn't seem to recognise my scanner, and even it it did it
would not work. It calls scanimage with the argument "-depth 8" and
scanimage, in F9, does not understand that.
It gets a little worse.
The script, that is supposed to run a part of the daemon process can
call the Gimp and Thunderbird, depending on which button is pressed. I
don't know a way a daemon process, even one running as root, can open a
GUI on a user's desktop.
It seems to me that it needs a little testing, and that it didn't get it
before release in F9.
At the very least, "--depth" has to be removed from the scanimage
command (unless F10's scanimage understands it). If testers with HP MFPs
and such can test it, that would be really good. I don't have an HP MFP
and F10 system close enough to do any testing.
I note that there are shared libraries for other brands, it might be
that the task of getting it working with scanbuttond might not be trivial.
btw The package needs improvement, conf files aren't flagged as conf
files and doc files aren't flagged as doc files, and a man page would be
really good. Debian may have one (Debian rules require it).
And, the script that is urn when a button is pressed has internal
configuration. That should be stripped into a separate file and sourced,
so as to facilitate fixing other bugs in the script, such as "--depth"
I've mentioned.
Have fUn!
--
Cheers
John
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15 years, 5 months
XO: Could not update .ICEAuthority
by Bryan Kearney
I had been getting this error after autologin, so I re-installed
everything (new SD card files and removed /home/liveuser directory from
within sugar). On the next reboot, I ge thte same error:
Could not update .ICEAuthority file /home/liveuser/.ICEauthority
Any ideas what I have done? I did remove the replace_overlay command in
the boot line. Could that be it?
-- bk
15 years, 5 months
rawhide testing results
by Chuck Anderson
Here's my comments on installing rawhide today. I'll work on
researching/opening bugs when I have more time.
Dell Optiplex GX620. Radeon X600, two Dell 2001FP monitors whose
native resolution is 1600x1200, connected via DVI. I installed to a
new LV created out of free space on an existing VG that was on an
encrypted PV. Otherwise I chose mostly defaults throughout the
installer.
1. Anaconda font was too small. It was hard to read the text. It may
be that the wrong resolution or DPI was chosen. See also #2.
2. Default dual-head "clone" or "mirror" mode behaves strangely with
KMS. In Anaconda, the 2nd monitor didn't scale the image to fit the
LCD, but the 1st monitor did. When changing VT's back to X/Anaconda,
the 2nd monitor no longer mirrored the 1st. Instead, a frozen version
of whatever the last text console contents were left behind on the 2nd
monitor.
3. Lots of Anaconda warnings about unreadable partition tables for
devices: ram0 - ram15, dm-0, loop0, etc. Had to manually ignore all
these warnings many times.
4. Anaconda warning about "unable to determine geometry of file/device
/dev/loopX" for loop1 - loop7. Had to manually ignore this many
times.
5. Partitioning screen selections/data is cleared when starting to
format the filesystems. This is kinda scary since it leads you to
believe that all your partitions/devices were deleted. In actuality,
everything is fine.
6. No UUIDs are shown on the Partitioning screen. It would be nice to
have these for when you are working with existing disks and you have
an old fstab printed out on paper so you can match up the devices with
the UUID= lines in the fstab.
7. initrd failed to decrypt root fs on bootup after installing. This
was fixed with a new mkinitrd:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468856
8. After fixing #7, I get prompted for the password to unlock the PV
(/dev/sda7 in this case). Then I get prompted again, and again, etc.
up to 4 or 5 times. Each time I enter the correct password. What is
interesting is that the first time I'm asked (presumeably from the
initrd) the font is different and it doesn't say which device I'm
unlocking. The other 4 times (presumably from the rc.sysinit) it says
it needs to unlock /dev/sda7. The system boots up fine after entering
the correct password multiple times.
9. "telinit 3" keeps the keyboard in raw mode or something like that.
Every key you hit prints a weird different character. There is no way
to log into the getty like this. Had to reboot remotely from SSH.
10. Still need to create an xorg.conf file to do dual head because
spare memory isn't reserved for the larger virtual resolution.
System->Preferences->Hardware->Screen Resolution still fails to notify
the user when xrandr fails because of this. Uncheck "mirror", drag
monitors side-by-side, click Apply, nothing happens. Also, it's still
hard to tell which monitor is which in the applet, even with the green
and red identifying blocks, because in clone/mirror mode, both blocks
are green! Bad user interface experience.
11. After creating xorg.conf with virtual resolution to encompass
3200x1200, dual-head mode doesn't really play nice with KMS. Had lots
of issues with the 2nd monitor going blank/off and not being turned on
again, xrandr not configuring dual-head properly, etc. Had to turn
off KMS by adding "nomodeset" to grub.conf.
12. Metacity displays the window menu for each window on the left head
no matter what. For windows that are actually on the left head,
everything works correctly. For windows that are on the right head,
the menu is disembodied from the window it belongs to, all by itself
on the left head, usually at the far right edge of the left monitor.
(my main monitor is on the right, left one is secondary).
That's it for now.
15 years, 5 months
rawhide report: 20081031 changes
by Fedora compose checker
Compose started at Fri Oct 31 06:01:18 UTC 2008
Updated Packages:
NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.0-0.12.svn4229.fc10
-------------------------------------------
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> 1:0.7.0-12.svn4229
- Fix hang in auth dialog (rh #467007)
PackageKit-0.3.9-3.fc10
-----------------------
* Tue Oct 28 18:00:00 2008 Richard Hughes <rhughes(a)redhat.com> - 0.3.9-3
- Install the usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindQPackageKit.cmake file so we
can build KPackageKit from svn head.
- Fix installing the preupgrade package when we check for distro upgrades
on machines with 32 and 64 bit versions available. Fixes #469172
* Tue Oct 28 18:00:00 2008 Richard Hughes <rhughes(a)redhat.com> - 0.3.9-2
- Apply a couple of patches from upstream to fix development filtering
and installing the web plugin.
binutils-2.18.50.0.9-7.fc10
---------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil(a)redhat.com> 2.18.50.0.9-7
- Fix %{_prefix}/include/bfd.h on 32-bit hosts due the 64-bit BFD target
support from 2.18.50.0.8-2 (BZ 468495).
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil(a)redhat.com> 2.18.50.0.9-6
- binutils-devel now requires zlib-devel (BZ 463101 comment 5).
- Fix complains on .gnu.linkonce.r relocations to their discarded
.gnu.linkonce.t counterparts.
digikam-0.10.0-0.6.beta5.fc10
-----------------------------
* Mon Oct 27 18:00:00 2008 Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.10.0-0.6.beta5
- digikam-0.10.0-beta5
fedora-release-notes-9.92-4
---------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com> - 9.92-4
- Fix URI in Release Notes OMF file (#469179)
gambas2-2.9.0-1.fc10
--------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> 2.9.0-1
- Update to 2.9.0
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-2b12.fc10
------------------------------------
* Mon Oct 27 18:00:00 2008 Lillian Angel <langel(a)redhat.com> - 1:1.6.0-2b12
- Updated icedteasnapshot.
- Fixed post scriptlet to remove gcjwebplugin.so.
- Updated jvisualvm requirement.
- Added build option --with-pkgversion=6b12-Fedora-10
- Resolves: rhbz#428503
- Resolves: rhbz#251829
- Resolves: rhbz#415061
- Resolves: rhbz#452188
* Mon Oct 27 18:00:00 2008 Lillian Angel <langel(a)redhat.com> - 1:1.6.0-1.2.b12
- Added netbeans requirement for devel package.
- Fixed removal of gcjwebplugin.so link when installing plugin package.
- Updated Release.
- Resolves: rhbz#468635
kdegraphics-4.1.2-4.fc10
------------------------
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)fedoraproject.org> 4.1.2-4
- respin libkexiv2/libkdcraw backport patches
kernel-2.6.27.4-68.fc10
-----------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Dave Airlie <airlied(a)redhat.com> 2.6.27.4-67
- radeon: try and workaround AGP badness with kms + enable VRAM mtrr
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Jarod Wilson <jarod(a)redhat.com> 2.6.27.4-66
- Update to latest firewire git code:
* Resolve spb2/ohci module load race causing delayed sbp2 logins (#466679)
* Prevent >256 bus resets from crashing the system (improves #244576)
* Fix assorted memory leaks
* Include timestamps in iso packet headers
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Reduce maximum supported CPUs on x86-64 to 64.
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Dave Airlie <airlied(a)redhat.com> 2.6.27.4-65
- radeon modesetting : misc fixes - rs690, agp unload, module unload warning
kipi-plugins-0.2.0-0.4.beta3.fc10
---------------------------------
* Mon Oct 27 18:00:00 2008 Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)fedoraproject.org> 0.2.0-0.4.beta3
- kipi-plugins-0.2.0-beta3
kphotoalbum-3.2-0.4.20081007svn.fc10
------------------------------------
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)fedoraproject.org> 3.2-0.4.20081007svn
- respin (kdegraphics)
ldm-2.0.15-1.fc10
-----------------
* Fri Oct 31 18:00:00 2008 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.15-1
- ldminfod tells LDM client location of Xsession script
fallback to client's known location if ldminfod failed to tell it
- ldminfod moved from ltsp-server to ldminfod package
ltsp-5.1.30-2.fc10
------------------
* Fri Oct 31 18:00:00 2008 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> - 5.1.30-2
- ltsp-server requires ldminfod
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> - 5.1.30-1
- ldminfod tells LDM client location of Xsession script
fallback to client's known location if ldminfod failed to tell it
- ldminfod moved from ltsp-server to ldminfod package
- Add alsa-plugins-pulseaudio to client chroot, should allow most
localapps to output sound.
- Fix client boot with F10 iproute
- Debug shells on VT2-VT6 are now disabled by default
edit /var/lib/tftpboot/i386/lts.conf to enable if you need it
mash-0.4.2-3.fc10
-----------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> - 0.4.2-3
- Add patch from upstream that hasn't been relased yet.
- Drop patch to ignore F10 key.
mkinitrd-6.0.69-1.fc10
----------------------
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> - 6.0.69-1
- Make it so we actually handle luks devs, cciss or otherwise. (dlehman)
Resolves: rhbz#468856
perl-CGI-SpeedyCGI-2.22-4.fc10
------------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Robert Scheck <robert(a)fedoraproject.org> 2.22-4
- Fixed default configuration file reading loadmodule (#448320)
phpMyAdmin-3.0.1.1-1.fc10
-------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Robert Scheck <robert(a)fedoraproject.org> 3.0.1.1-1
- Upstream released 3.0.1.1 (#468974)
plymouth-0.6.0-0.2008.10.30.2.fc10
----------------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 0.6.0-0.2008.10.30.2
- Update prompt text colors to be legible on new artwork
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 0.6.0-0.2008.10.30.1
- Drop upstreamed patches
- Patch from Charlie to update artwork
- Patch from Charlie to make password screen match animation better
(bug 468899)
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 0.6.0-0.2008.10.27.8
- Fix escape at password prompt (bug 467533)
policycoreutils-2.0.57-10.fc10
------------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.0.57-10
- Fix traceback in audit2why
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.0.57-9
- Make GUI use translations
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.0.57-8
- Fix typo in man page
* Tue Oct 28 18:00:00 2008 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.0.57-7
- Handle selinux disabled correctly
- Handle manipulation of fcontext file correctly
pyxdg-0.16-1.fc10
-----------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> - 0.16-1
- update to 0.16
- fix indent bug in DesktopEntry.py (bz 469229)
rhythmbox-0.11.6-15.6005.fc10
-----------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 - Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> - 0.11.6-15.r6005
- Update to rev 6005
- Fixes typo in the LIRC config
- Force GConf library location to be a URI on startup
rssh-2.3.2-5.fc10
-----------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Ian Weller <ianweller(a)gmail.com> - 2.3.2-5
- Remove pre and post scripts
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456182#c17
selinux-policy-3.5.13-11.fc10
-----------------------------
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 3.5.13-11
- Fix confined users
- Allow xguest to read/write xguest_dbusd_t
* Mon Oct 27 18:00:00 2008 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 3.5.13-9
- Allow openoffice execstack/execmem privs
shared-mime-info-0.51-4.fc10
----------------------------
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 - Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> - 0.51-4
- Add patch to avoid picture CD being anything with a pictures directory
(#459365)
solar-backgrounds-0.91.1-1.fc10
-------------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Martin Sourada <mso(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.91.0-2
- Bump Release for rebuild
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Martin Sourada <mso(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.91.0-1
- Split into basic wallpapers with standard resolution (for Live CD Spins) and
-extras package with more resolutions
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Kevin Kofler <Kevin(a)tigcc.ticalc.org> - 0.91.1-1
- Fix 5:4 to be really 1280x1024, not 1280x1014 (add top 10px from dual version)
* Tue Oct 28 18:00:00 2008 Kevin Kofler <Kevin(a)tigcc.ticalc.org> - 0.90.0-2
- Split out a -common so we can symlink the wallpapers we need in the KDE theme
- without having to require all the ones we can't use.
solar-kde-theme-0.1.11-1.fc10
-----------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Kevin Kofler <Kevin(a)tigcc.ticalc.org> 0.1.10-3
- list 1200x900 (OLPC XO) for 4:3
- list 1280x768 (5:3) as widescreen (used by at least one netbook)
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Kevin Kofler <Kevin(a)tigcc.ticalc.org> 0.1.10-2
- use backgrounds from solar-backgrounds-common (>= 0.91.0, with the new look)
- support aspect ratios in the KDM theme
- add some more 4:3 and 8:5 resolutions to the symlink lists (KDM, wallpapers)
- use solar_wide.png for 800x480 and 1024x600 in KDM and wallpapers
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik(a)redhat.com> 0.1.11-1
- fixes full qualified host name runs past the boundaries (bz#469048)
- removes backgrounds from source tarball
totem-pl-parser-2.24.2-1.fc10
-----------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 - Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> - 2.24.2-1
- Update to 2.24.2
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-38.fc10
------------------------------
Summary:
Added Packages: 0
Removed Packages: 0
Modified Packages: 28
Broken deps for ppc64
----------------------------------------------------------
livecd-tools-019-1.fc10.ppc64 requires yaboot
15 years, 5 months
fedora 10 beta ==> current rawhide
by Antonio Olivares
Dear all,
I have gotten a new machine and I installed Fedora 10 Beta and currently updating it to current rawhide 1.3 GB of updates are coming in currently. I formatted the root partition ext4(used ext4dev). Last time I tried that, I could not boot to latest kernel, I am asking if I should change the /etc/fstab to ext4 because the one that I had before had ext4dev and the newer kernel(s) had ext4 only. Should I change it now that I can and reboot and boot into the newer 2.6.27.4-5??.fc10 kernel?
I could not submit smolt profile since the machine was not on the network. I manually assigned an IP to get the updates. Tomorrow in the morning I will see what happens. Thanks for advice/suggestions offered.
Regards,
Antonio
BTW:
before the snapshot issue comes up, I cannot get torrent files. I can only get the releases from mirrors. I wanted to try a network install, but the documentation is not current and I do not want to ask for a nice howto that might not be available.
15 years, 5 months
