SW RAID 0+1?
by Mike McMullen
Hi All,
I have an FC2 system with / mounted as a RAID 0 md device. It's two
73GB partitions on separate IDE controllers. Performance is pretty good.
I've decided I'd like to mirror the stripe set. Is this possible with s/w raid?
If not, is it possible to break the stripe set and make them RAID 1? While
the performance is better with striping, I'd like the security of mirroring.
TIA,
Mike
19 years, 4 months
What'll Happen?
by Gene Poole
I've just about narrowed down what I need to do to migrate from RHL9 to
FC3.
One last thing (well, maybe 2 or 3 last things):
What will happen to the Samba v2 running on the RHL9 box when it's
upgraded to Samba v3?
On my PDC that's running RHL7.3 and the Samba v2 that comes with it -
what conflicts can there be once I'm running Samba v3 on my BDC?
I plan to document every step in the migration and maybe it can be used to
help someone else.
Thanks,
Gene Poole
gene.poole(a)fds.com
19 years, 4 months
FC3-i386-disc2.iso
by ltm893＠comcast.net
Group
I am having trouble downloading a valid disc 2 ISO image. When I use the media check that comes with the install package, it returns a FAIL. I am able to download disk images 1,3, and 4 that pass that PASS the media check utility. I have tried downloading the image from the redhat site and mirrors; I have also tried burning the image with 2 separate burners and burning software.
When I run md5sum on FC3-i386-disc2.iso I get 2c11674cf429fe570445afd9d5ff564e which is different than that listed on the web page.
Any Ideas ?
Thanks
Todd
19 years, 4 months
Athlon+1024 Mb RAM+FC3
by John Summerfield
I've been happily running Debian/Sarge on my Athlon 1400, Giganyte GS-7@748-L
motherboard, 512 Mbytes RAM.
Following a power failure, I
a) Replaced CPU fan
b) added a further 512 Mbytes RAM for a Giggle total.
On reboot, Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird (my primar email client) all segfault
on starting.
Worse, parts of KDE (eg Konqueror and Kkmail) also crash randomly with
segfaults.
Surmising some corruption I applied 70 Mbytes or so of updates to no effect.
I'm pretty sure I installed Epiphany and that it also doesn't work.
This Debian system has been seriously mistreated over time; I suspect I
originaly copies ~summer from a Valhalla system.
Since I had 80 Mbytes or so of disk, I decided to install fc3. True to form I
copied ~summer from Sarge.
Well, here a crash there a crash.
Actually, figuring that out wasn't as simple as it should be; some fartherless
soul thinks sending error messages to /dev/null a fine idea, and I'm not sure
that I checked that everything's the same. Some is, though, right down to
segaulting in the same scripts.
Somewhere I began to suspect RAM so I ran two or three passes with memtest86
(from the FC3 DVD) with no errors.
That left corruption in ~summer so I spect some time trying to find common
config files used by the failing programs in ~summer. Couldn't see anything
so
finally I created ~john and tried that.
That also fails, and there is no chance of pollution of the FC3 system with
stuff from Sarge.
So...
Is anyone running FC3 in 1 Gbyte RAM on IA32?
Does anyone else have any ideas?
Here's the short-form list of the hardware:
Glider:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 746 Host (rev 10)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media
IO] (rev 25)
0000:00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0016
0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
Sound Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0
Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0
Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0
Controller
0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI
Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
0000:00:09.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc.
HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 01)
0000:00:09.1 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc.
HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2
Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)
Glider:~#
That aside, there are two further critical barriers to my use of FC on the
Atlhon:
1.
These work from Sarge to FC3 and Nahant:
8634 ? S 10:33 /etc/X11/X -query kookaburra :2
8651 ? S 1:47 /etc/X11/X -query dugong :1
8671 ? S 0:01 /etc/X11/X -query Thylacine.demo.room :3
8687 ? S 0:00 /etc/X11/X -query Quokka.demo.room :5
Actually, Quokka is a Sun Ultrasparc running Debian/Woody.
They do not work from FC3 on that machine (Glider). There are no messages
about why on Glider to say why, and the others say:
Dec 19 15:54:36 kookaburra gdm[2878]: gdm_child_action: Aborting display
Glider.demo.room:1
Dec 19 15:57:41 kookaburra gdm[2878]: gdm_child_action: Aborting display
Glider.demo.room:2
2.
I switch virtual consoles often. I regularly switch between my GUI desktop to
a VC (quite likely I have six in use, some running screen).
This works as epected on Debian/Sarge, but I have serious video corruption on
FC3: not always, but once it starts I can only clear it with a reboot. I't
clearly based on what is supposed to be on the screen; VC1 with the boot
messages has more than the others, and all respond to the keyboard.
I think (I have seen this before) the problem will not occur if I boot with
VGA=6, but I've not tried that yet.
I'm looking forward to any handy hints regarding any of these. To the list pls
so others can comment.
--
Cheers
John Summerfield
tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/
19 years, 4 months
Re: Boot hangs after fresh install
by Ned Voorhees
Hi Darren,
Thanks for responding. I am still stuck on this one. Any suggestions
are welcome!
The machine I'm using for this is very old. The configuration is as follows:
IBM Aptiva Model # 2163-540
PII 350MHz(512KB)
128MB RAM
10GB HDD IDE PCI/ISA
Microtwr(3X4)
Riva 4X DVD
Thanks,
Ned
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:02:12 -0000, Darren Coleman <daz(a)superficial.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure if this will be any help to you really, I just thought I'd
> share my experiences.
>
> I too tried installing Fedora Core (2) on my "old" Linux PC, which is pretty
> basic in terms of configuration - one hard drive, graphics card, Athlon
> 1.3Ghz Thunderbird processor, no sound card or other peripherals, 768Mb of
> RAM.
>
> After I had installed Fedora in exactly the same way as you and rebooted,
> the boot process hung at exactly the same point. I tried all kinds of
> kernel boot parameters to no avail.
>
> In the end, on a whim, I installed Red Hat 9 which worked flawlessly first
> time.
>
> I upgraded the kernel on my Red Hat 9 installation to a recent version of
> the 2.6 kernel, a process I have done countless times on other systems, and
> when I booted the new kernel it got stuck at exactly the same position as
> Fedora Core did. It wasn't kernel panic'ing or anything like that, it
> wasn't even getting to the first step.
>
> The only thing I could conclude was that there was some serious hardware
> incompatibility between my system and the 2.6.x kernel. From the sounds of
> it you have the same problem.
>
> I would be interested to know what your hardware configuration is so I can
> compare it against mine, as I would like to install and use Fedora
> successfully at some point.
>
> Regards,
>
> Darren
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
> > bounces(a)redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ned Voorhees
> > Sent: 01 January 2005 20:16
> > To: Dave Jones
> > Cc: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > Subject: Re: Boot hangs after fresh install
> >
> > Thanks very much Dave.
> >
> > I was able to remove the "quiet" as you suggested. The boot process
> > messages look good up until I see the message "Configuring kernel
> > parameters:" on a line by itself. That is the last message that I see
> > when it hangs. I can hit return and see line feeds at this point, but
> > nothing else seems to be going on (no hard drive activity, etc.).
> >
> > Any further thoughts or suggestions (Dave or anyone else)?
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> > Ned
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:55:23 -0500, Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 02:50:42PM -0500, Ned Voorhees wrote:
> > > > Below are the messages shown on the screen at boot time:
> > > > --- snip ---
> > > > Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)'
> > > > root (hd0,0)
> > > > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> > > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb
> > quiet
> > > > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0z1400, size=0x155da5]
> > > > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> > > > [Linux-initrd@0x7ef3000, 0xecfed bytes]
> > > > --- snip ---
> > > >
> > > > The above is all that is shown on the screen when the boot process
> > > > hangs. If anyone has any suggestions on what I might want to do or
> > > > check, I would very much appreciate it.
> > >
> > > When you get to the bootloader screen, if you press 'e' you
> > > can edit the command line, and remove 'quiet' from it.
> > > You'll then see all the kernel messages, and see exactly where
> > > it hangs.
> > >
> > > Dave (hating 'quiet' more and more each day)
> > >
> > >
> >
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19 years, 4 months
fc3-64 for a newby?
by Jason Hiller
I want to get some opinions on whether Fedora Core-64
is a good choice for a Linux newby. I have some
experience w/ Linux but not a great deal. I am going
to buy a new computer and was considering getting a
AMD-64 chip. I am going to run Fedora Core
exclusively on the new machine. Is installing and
running FC-64 within the grasp of a Linux beginner or
should I stick with i386? Are there any other
drawbacks to going with FC-64 vs. FC-i386? Any
opinions are appreciated. Also, if this is the wrong
place to ask this type of question please redirect me.
Thanks in advance.
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19 years, 4 months
Re: Evolution 2.02 not sending mail
by kevin.j.lisciotti＠jpmchase.com
Hi Alexander,
>From what my ISP has told me, the SMTP server has no authentication and is
configured to accept any email from within its domain. The funny thing this
that I also have Novell Linux Desktop 9 with Evolution and that sends mail
just fine. Also, my wife's XP machine using Outlook send mail ok as well.
I believe it to be an FC3 issue. I'll use a sniffer and see what the
traffic looks like.
19 years, 4 months
JTA package?
by Brian Mury
I'm trying to install Eclipse from the JPackage yum repository, but it
fails on the jta dependency. I can't find a jta package anywhere -
anyone know where I can get it?
19 years, 4 months
Evolution 2.02 not sending mail
by kevin.j.lisciotti＠jpmchase.com
Hi All,
I just installed FC3 and used yum to install all the patches and updates.
The system is now running the 2.6.9-681 kernel. I started up Evolution and
went through the wizard to setup the email account. Once I finished I sent
a test email to myself. Evolution prompted me for my pop password and then
successfully download my email. When trying to send the test email it
returned with a 'mail from user unknown error'.
I've seen previous threads and postings on this but no resolution. Has
anyone else experienced this problem or know a fix?
Thanks!
Kevin Lisciotti, CISSP
19 years, 4 months
USB/ACPI problem on Compaq R3000z
by Gene Czarcinski
Since the volume is high on this mailing list while the signal-to-noise is
often low, I would appreciate any communications on this to be done off-list
(I will post any results to the list).
I have a Compaq R3000z (Athlon64) notebook. There are multiple systems
installed: WinXP on a shrunk hda1, swap on hda2, a FC3 minimal install on
hda3 as a boot director, FC3 i386 everything install on hda5 and FC3 x86_64
everything install on hda6. My problem(s) occur identically (as far as I can
tell) on both the i386 and x86_64 systems.
Booting with ACPI=ON (actually specifying nothing at boot time):
1. The integral synaptic touchpad is detected as a generic PS2 two-button
input device.
2. A USB (1.1) mouse is not detected/useable.
3. USB 1.1 flash drive is not detected although USB 2.0 flash drives are
detected and useable.
Booting with ACPI=OFF:
1. The integral synaptic touchpad is not detected.
2. The USB (1.1) mouse is detected an useable. It can be hotplugged if not
present at boot time.
3. Both the USB 1.1 and the USB 2.0 flash drives are detected and useable.
Bug reports have been filed:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143893
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143894
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143895
There are some bug reports filed at bugzilla.redhat.com which may be the same
thing or at least related. However, nothing recent which sounds like this.
I also searched bugzilla.kernel.org and came up with some reports indicating
problems in the 2.5/2.6 kernel with USB/ACPI (one very old report pointed me
in the right direction).
I have also tried these devices on a ASUS SK8V/Opteron system and everything
worked fine there. This "problem" seems to have been around for a while and
I know that there are Compaq R3000z notebooks (or the HP equivalent) out
there being used with FC3. I am a bit surprised that this problem is not
more widely known.
I am also interested in trying a "generic" kernel from kernel.org if that is
possible/practical. Does anyone know if it is "safe" to run the generic
kernel without all the Red Hat/Fedora Core patches (a lot fewer patches than
SUSE run but nevertheless a significant number).
Any help will be appreciated.
--
Gene
19 years, 4 months
