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possible cause of horrifically unreliable NFS?
by Robert P. J. Day 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

i have a small embedded ARM board and i'm trying to boot it off via an NFS mount point sitting on my fedora 9 system. i thought i set up NFS properly in terms of exporting a (debian flavour) root fs but, when i boot, i get numerous diagnostic msgs of the form: VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem). Freeing init memory: 112K nfs: server 192.168.1.241 not responding, still trying nfs: server 192.168.1.241 OK nfs: server 192.168.1.241 not responding, still trying nfs: server 192.168.1.241 OK ... etc etc ... i'm asking on this list since it's the fedora system that's acting as the NFS server. if i try to do a normal NFS mount, i'll get a couple *pages* of those messages and finally a hung embedded system. when i tried to simplify things with "init=/bin/sh", i got only a few lines and, finally, a booted system: sh-2.05b# mount 192.168.1.241:/home/rpjday/ts7250/rootfs/tmp/mnt on / type nfs (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,default) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) # what is the most common cause of NFS bouncing back and forth between OK and "not responding"? should i be messing with the mount options? read and write sizes or something? it's a 2.6.21 kernel. thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ========================================================================

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copying lvm with the same name
by Frank Cox 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

One of my computers died and, of course, there is un-backed-up data on there that I want to recover if I can. The hard drive seems to be in good shape so I took it out of the dead box and installed it on this computer (my main desktop machine.) I have been doing a bunch of reading about logical volumes and some of what I've found is self-contradictory, incomplete and stuff that I just don't really understand (yet.) And, as you can imagine, since this is my main desktop machine I'm not terribly anxious to just start playing around with the lvm configuration without knowing what I'm doing. Here are my findings so far: [root@mutt ~]# pvscan PV /dev/sdb2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [279.25 GB / 32.00 MB free] PV /dev/sda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [465.56 GB / 32.00 MB free] Total: 2 [744.81 GB] / in use: 2 [744.81 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] [root@mutt ~]# lvscan ACTIVE '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [277.28 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01' [1.94 GB] inherit It looks like the machine can see the second drive and the lvm that's on it /dev/sdb2, but it has the same VolGroup name as /dev/sda2. What I would like to do is twofold: First, and most importantly, I would like to mount it as-is so I can copy my data off of there. Second, I would like to re-format it and add it to the storage capacity that I already have on this machine. Heck, if it's still a good drive I might as well put it to use. So, how can I mount VolGroup00 that's on /dev/sdb2? The vgchange command followed by a simple mount command looks like what I want to do, but what's the syntax? As I said, I really don't want to bugger up my primary hard drive.... -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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which driver to use for ATI HD2400 mobile.
by David Hláčik 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

Hello guys, I am wondering which driver is the best to use for the subject radeon (xorg ati) or radeonhd ? Also if known, which will as first support 3D for this and if known when? Thanks in advance, David

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Problem with keyring not really acceptable?
by Hugh Caley 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

My Fedora 10 machine uses NIS for authentication. I changed my NIS password. I was able to successfully log into my Fedora box, but my first attempt to open an SSH session to another machine in gnome-terminal is blocked by the keyring, which wants the old password. Is this really acceptable? I don't know why I would need to access my local keyring in order to open a remote SSH terminal session anyway. But the keyring never helped with anything; I would still have had to enter a password for this connection, only with the keyring I have to enter two. I don't remember being invited to create the original keyring, nor was I given an option to fix the problem when it occurred, nor does there seem to be local documentation to explain what is going on (other than a general description of what the keyring is supposed to do). I had to search the Internet to find a way out of this, and I suppose I'll have the same problem if I change my password again. Hugh -- Hugh Caley, Linux Administrator Aldon Computer Group 6001 Shellmound St. Suite 600 Emeryville, CA 94608 (510) 285-8542 | hughc(a)aldon.com

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F10 and built-in Intel graphics
by Matthew Saltzman 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

I have a Dell P4 desktop machine with a built-in Intel graphics card. lspci reports: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller Intel Corp 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) The graphical installer freezes and X freezes after a short time (usually seconds or tens of seconds) after starting (even with a fully updated system). I've seen reports of issues with the Intel graphics driver on F10, but does anyone have a way of making this work or does anyone know what the status is of the driver? I'd consider putting another card in, but the only slots in the machine are PCI and it hardly seems worth it, as I got the machine for free and it will mostly be running relatively non-graphics-intensive Windows XP stuff. TIA. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs

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Preupgrade F-9/F-10 disaster -
by Bob Goodwin 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

I decided t to try "preupgrade" in the hope of preserving a lot of configuration. It ran for hours on my satellite connection but fails on install with "Error mounting device sdc2 as /mnt/f9: mount: special device /dev/sdc2 does not exist" I'm not sure how to deal with this since an attempt to boot F-9 produces screens full of error messages. The bios permits me to enable/disable individual drives. I began trying things there without success and went to bed ... I'm awake now and barely functioning. Fortunately this F-10 computer is working and may be able to access the F-9 box although I haven't tried that yet? Am I the only one with such a problem? Waht to do next? Bob

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Request for help on VM
by RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

G'day all, I have two partitions in my PC. I have installed F10 on one partition and Windows XP on the second partition. Now, can I run the XP as guest OS on F10 using VM? and how? Thank you. K. Rama Kishore BAbu

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freenx-client vs. nxclient/2xterminalserverclient in F10
by Joachim Backes 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

Hi, I installed freenx-client.i386 0:0.9-7.fc10 in F10, configured it and tried to start qtnx, but without success: Process started stdout> notQProcess error: 0 crashed. errno:2 Process exited Process started Somebody has been successful to use freenx-client? My aim was to eliminate nxclient or 2xterminalserverclient for getting rid from some key problems (arrow up now pops up a screen photo windows, and "|" or "<" are not mapped properly). These problems I never had in a F9 client machine with nxclient/2xterminalserverclient. On the server site, which is F9, nx-3.2.0-30.fc9.x86_64 and freenx-server-0.7.3-11.fc9.x86_64 are installed. All comments are welcome. Regards Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de>

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by Pablo Andres Ibarra Duprat 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

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Xserver failed to start (got it to boot gui followup)
by dcooke＠efn.org 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

Finally, Xserver along with messagebus, named and nfs took almost an hour to come to life and seemingly working again, but on Shut Down things are not saving properly and I am back to square one next BootTime. Should any 'on demand services' be running in order for messagebus, named and nfs to work? I am showing 'xinetd(pid number)' is running; but is not in the 'on demand services' list. I have started or restarted these daemons; Their 'status', saved and running..everything is seemly fine but Yum, I am still getting a '..not having a connection available', though 'Nightly yum update (is showing) enabled'. Any thoughts on what might be going on and a direction in getting these three daemons and Xserver running properly again? Booting is painful, David Cooke In trying to get Yum working, I stopped these services improperly named messagebus nfs and now my system either takes forever to boot or doesn't at all. I restarted them and saved but it didn't work on reboot. Seems the system really needs dbus services and 'messagebus' but I can't seem to save it in the gui. Failed to start xserver (graphical interface). After viewing xserver output and okay to diagnose got 'fatal server error'. And 'could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list'. I truly appreciate any help. Currently using Fedora Core 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp David

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