Am I a Bonehead or what? (# rm /dev)
by Mike McCarty
Well, I was using a chrooted environment with some bind mounts
to /dev and other places, and realized that some of the builds
I had done still pointed outside the chrooted environment, and
the images won't run becuase they are linked wrong.
I decided to wipe it all and start over. So, as root, I started
deleting the stuff out of the chrooted environment (needed to
be root for some of the stuff, doncha know).
Anyway, I deleted some of the chrooted stuff, among it /dev,
when suddenly (a little later) realized that I still had
bound mounts! So, I wiped my REAL /dev. Well, I used
mount to tell me what was still mounted, umounted and deleted
the rest of the stuff. Holding my breath, I rebooted.
Of course, now my machine won't boot, right? Right. It gets
as far as "Nash starting" and then hangs.
What to do?
Well, I boot a rescue disc, and copy off what was the original
real / onto another disc, and then start to ponder. I need help!
Using the LiveCD rescue disc, I created me another user with
my name, and uid and group and gid, and point the home directory
to the mounted disc which contains it in the live environment.
Ok, su - jmccarty now works, I'm logged in as me (sorta) and
I can access my files and my PATH is set correctly to my local
~/bin so I can run my mailer, and ask for help here.
NOPE! Thunderbird can't open the display for some reason.
Hmm. This environment thinks it has enough devices to run.
Hmm.
# cd /media/hda5
# mv dev dev_save
# rsync -a /dev .
# shutdown -r now
System now boots and runs. Mailer works fine.
Phew! Dodged a bullet!
Anything else I need to do?
Mike
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15 years, 8 months
updates?!
by Yordanis Tornes Medina
Hi, there is any problem with updates? I can't get any updates from fedora updates repo, yum update always response No Packages marked for Update. I'm running Fedora 9.
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15 years, 8 months
automatically mount removable devices
by Carlo Nyto
I have a system with four removable drives (in USB enclosures). I want
them to be mounted automatically in the same location every time. I
want this to happen at bootup. I also want this to happen if the
system is booted without the drives and they are plugged in later,
regardless of the order.
Is this possible?
15 years, 8 months
usb plugins cause reboots
by Jack Howarth
Has anyone else seen this behavior under Fedora 9 i386?
I have Fedora 9 with the latest 2.6.25.14-108.fc9 kernel
installed on a Dell Lattitude D810 portable. The machine runs
fine with one exception. If I pull in either a usb mouse or
a usb memory stick into the upper USB port, the machine will
instantly reboot. The lower USB port doesn't seem to exhibit
this problem. Are there any known issues with usb causing
kernel reboots under Fedora 9?
Jack
15 years, 8 months
f9 domU with JDK1.5 crashes
by mantra UNIX
I have a Xen f9 domU running under REHL5.2, I have installed JDK 1.5.0_15.
Now when ever i perfrom any Java command the systems give a Kernel OOPS
message and I have to reboot to make t work.
Have any one seen this ?
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15 years, 9 months
f9 iommu
by Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
I'm trying to bring up F9 on an Asus M3A78-T (a relatively new AMD
Phenom-x4 capable board). Going through /var/log/messages I see that
the kernel doesn't think the BIOS enabled the IOMMU and gripes about
it.
Googleing a bit found me a magic parameter to add to grub.conf,
"iommu=memaper=4". That gets me a new error message preceding the
former: "kernel: Aperture pointing to e820 RAM. Ignoring.". I do have
over 4g of dram, so having a bounce-buffer sounds important, but I'm
plumb out of ideas. Is there a slower fallback the kernel is using
(like purely software moves???) for systems that don't have a working
IOMMU?
-wolfgang
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15 years, 9 months
ETA for upgrades?
by Andre Costa
Does anyone know when upgrade packages will be available again? I know
systems are being rebuilt after least week security breach and I can only
imagine how much work needs to be done to fully restore upgrade operations,
I am just curious...
Regards,
Andre
15 years, 9 months
install of squirrelmail broken
by Gregory Machin
Hi
I did a yum install of squirrelmail and whe I view the log in page and
login there is htm tags and other html junk alover the place... So I
downloaded the orignal source and got the same result ... how do I
fix this mess ?
Thanks
15 years, 9 months
