Re: f10dvd installs but won't boot
by Jackson Byers
> A. let it boot up until the screen disappears...
> press <Control><Alt><F2>
>
> or
>
> B. Press a key at the grub prompt and highlight the kernel with the
> arrow keys and press the letter 'e', move down to the kernel line and
> press the letter 'e'. Add a space and put in the number "3" to tell it
> to boot to runlevel 3
> ---------------------------
> jbyers:
> A. did not work, all it does is recover a blinking white dash,
> no response to keyboard
>
> B. I got partway thru this, i think including adding "3", then I did
> something wrong
> left with
.> grub>
> I wasnt clear at this point put in "boot"
> got many error msgs
>
> I finally went back to my fc5 and put a space and a "3" at end of kernel line
> in the f10 grub.conf.
> This got me to login
>
> I will try
> yum update mkinitrd
> yum update
>
> later today; I need my fc5 right now.
----
>>well, it won't do you any good since you are not getting past grub
>>at this point, I would probably...
>> boot the Install DVD, put the kernel argument into the boot command...
>> linux install scsi_mod.scan=sync
>>Making /dev/sda1 about 200 megabytes for just /boot and then /dev/sda4
for /
>>At least if you boot the DVD with the scsi_mod.scan=sync kernel
>>parameter, when it installs the kernel and builds your initrd, it will
>>build it with that parameter already.
>>Craig
-------
jbyers:
I am not at all sure I did B. procedure correctly,
so my not getting past grub could have been due to my error?
And I do get to level 3 login using my modified f10 grub.conf
I will try at least f10 reinstall with "linux install scsi_mod.scan=sync"
--won't get to it until > noon pst.
Question on your sda1 for /boot, sda4 for / :
My experience using disk druid in the install is weak.
I have used gparted from a systemrescuecd
and this seems pretty easy to use.
So from gparted i would
1)format current sda1 first? or not necessary?
2)Shrink sda1 from its current 21gb down to 200mb.
3)new partition sda4, to start at end of new sda1
and to end at old sda1end
this process will leave present size, location of sda2,sda3 untouched?
so in order on disk, sda1,sda4,sda2,sda3 ?
Jack
-------------------
15 years, 1 month
Setup Firefox so mailto links use Kmail
by Kevin Kempter
Hi all;
I did the following to setup firefox mailto links to use kmail but it did not
work. Thoughts ?
1) I went to about:config in firefox and ensured that the value
"network.protocol-handler.external.mailto" is set to true
2) I did a right click and choose new --> string
in the popup for the preference name I entered the following:
network.protocol-handler.app.mailto
Then in the next popup asking for the string value I entered this:
kmail
However when I click on a mailto link firefox still wants to bring up
evolution. I even tried using /usr/bin/kmail as the string value.
Thanks in advance...
15 years, 1 month
FC4: Kernel Panic - Not Syncing
by Kumar Limbu
Hi,
I have a server which is running Fedora Core 4. I have updated the kernel to
version 2.6.17 because I was getting kernel panic on version 2.6.11. I used
yum for update. After the update the server worked fine for months before
the problem again started to surface. Now I get a similar Kernel Panic error
every few weeks.
Kernel panic - not syncing: bad locking
I thought that this might be an issue with the kernel so I tried updating it
again. Only this time yum doesn't show any new version as available.
So what are my options? How do I update the kernel on my server without
upgrading the OS itself? I would prefer an RPM update as opposed to a TAR
balls update.
Please feel free to ask further questions regarding the error message. I
will be more than willing to answer your queries.
Thanks for your help.
--
View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/FC4%3A-Kernel-Panic---Not-Syncing-tp2826754p2826754....
Sent from the fedora mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
15 years, 1 month
Re: f10dvd installs but won't boot
by Jackson Byers
Craig responded:
Either...
A. let it boot up until the screen disappears...
press <Control><Alt><F2>
or
B. Press a key at the grub prompt and highlight the kernel with the
arrow keys and press the letter 'e', move down to the kernel line and
press the letter 'e'. Add a space and put in the number "3" to tell it
to boot to runlevel 3
---------------------------
jbyers:
A. did not work, all it does is recover a blinking white dash,
no response to keyboard
B. I got partway thru this, i think including adding "3", then I did
something wrong
left with
grub>
I wasnt clear at this point put in "boot"
got many error msgs
I finally went back to my fc5 and put a space and a "3" at end of kernel line
in the f10 grub.conf.
This got me to login
I will try
yum update mkinitrd
yum update
later today; I need my fc5 right now.
Jack
15 years, 1 month
Any recommendation for Groupware Software?
by Khemara Lyn
Hi All,
I'm in the middle of choosing a Groupware software. I've been looking at 2 of
them now: OpenGroupware(oGo) and eGroupware.
May I ask for some ideas from those with experience with the 2 systems? Any
recommendation would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks & regards,
Khem
15 years, 1 month
Re: No modules get loaded
by Mick M.
> Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 6:46 AM
> Mick M. wrote:
> > Hello;
> > I have F10, the two latest kernels.
> > I did a "insmod pvrusb2, and a depmod pvrusb2", under
> both kernels.
> >
> > Now I do not have any modulles loaded at boot.
> lsmod produces no output ?
That is coreect.
Just the titles, then a <CR> and prompt.
>
> > modprobe.conf is empty.
> I think most module load is triggered through (udev/hal)
> rules these days; my modprobe.conf only has:
> alias eth0 forcedeth #nforce
> alias scsi_hostadapter pata_amd #pci-sata card
> install ipv6 /bin/true #kill ipv6
> options snd cards_limit=8 # ?
>
[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 23 23:08:10 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
# default modutils aliases
alias binfmt-204 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-263 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-264 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-267 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-387 binfmt_aout
alias block-major-1-* rd
alias block-major-3-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-8-* sd_mod
alias block-major-9-* md
alias block-major-11-* sr_mod
alias block-major-13-* xd
alias block-major-15-* cdu31a
alias block-major-16-* gscd
alias block-major-17-* optcd
alias block-major-18-* sjcd
alias block-major-20-* mcdx
alias block-major-22-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-23-* mcd
alias block-major-24-* sonycd535
alias block-major-25-* sbpcd
alias block-major-26-* sbpcd
alias block-major-27-* sbpcd
alias block-major-29-* aztcd
alias block-major-32-* cm206
alias block-major-33-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-34-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-37-* ide-tape
alias block-major-44-* ftl
alias block-major-46-* pcd
alias block-major-47-* pf
alias block-major-56-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-57-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-88-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-89-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-90-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-91-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-93-* nftl
alias block-major-113-* viocd
alias char-major-4-* serial
alias char-major-5-* serial
alias char-major-9-* st
alias char-major-10-2 msbusmouse
alias char-major-10-3 atixlmouse
alias char-major-10-135 rtc
alias char-major-10-139 openprom
alias char-major-10-157 applicom
alias char-major-10-175 agpgart
alias char-major-10-250 hci_vhci
alias char-major-13-* input
alias char-major-13-0 joydev
alias char-major-13-32 mousedev
alias char-major-19-* cyclades
alias char-major-20-* cyclades
alias char-major-22-* pcxx
alias char-major-23-* pcxx
alias char-major-27-* zftape
alias char-major-34-* scc
alias char-major-35-* tclmidi
alias char-major-36-* netlink
alias char-major-48-* riscom8
alias char-major-49-* riscom8
alias char-major-57-* esp
alias char-major-58-* esp
alias char-major-63-* kdebug
alias char-major-90-* mtdchar
alias char-major-96-* pt
alias char-major-97-* pg
alias char-major-107-* 3dfx
alias char-major-109-* lvm-mod
alias char-major-188-* usbserial
alias char-major-200-* vxspec
alias char-major-206-* osst
alias char-major-216-* rfcomm
alias dos msdos
alias dummy0 dummy
alias dummy1 dummy
alias iso9660 isofs
alias net-pf-1 unix
alias net-pf-2 ipv4
alias net-pf-17 af_packet
alias netalias-2 ip_alias
alias irlan0 irlan
alias irda-dongle-0 tekram
alias irda-dongle-1 esi
alias irda-dongle-2 actisys
alias irda-dongle-3 actisys
alias irda-dongle-4 girbil
alias irda-dongle-5 litelink
alias irda-dongle-6 airport
alias irda-dongle-7 old_belkin
alias plip0 plip
alias plip1 plip
alias tunl0 ipip
alias cipcb0 cipcb
alias cipcb1 cipcb
alias cipcb2 cipcb
alias cipcb3 cipcb
alias slip0 slip
alias slip1 slip
alias tty-ldisc-1 slip
alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
alias tty-ldisc-11 irtty-sir
alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
alias tty-ldisc-15 hci_uart
alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe
install ppp-compress-21 /bin/true
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias usbdevfs usbcore
alias xfrm-type-2-50 esp4
alias xfrm-type-2-51 ah4
alias xfrm-type-2-108 ipcomp
alias xfrm-type-10-50 esp6
alias xfrm-type-10-51 ah6
alias xfrm-type-10-108 ipcomp6
alias cipher_null crypto_null
alias digest_null crypto_null
alias compress_null crypto_null
alias sha384 sha512
install binfmt-0000 /bin/true
install binfmt_misc /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install binfmt_misc && { /bin/mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc > /dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
install nfsd /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install nfsd && { /bin/mount -t nfsd nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd > /dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
install sunrpc /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install sunrpc && { /bin/mount -t rpc_pipefs sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs > /dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
install char-major-10 /bin/true
install char-major-10-1 /bin/true
install dummy0 /sbin/modprobe -o dummy0 --ignore-install dummy
install dummy1 /sbin/modprobe -o dummy1 --ignore-install dummy
install net-pf-19 /bin/true
install net-pf-3 /bin/true
install net-pf-6 /bin/true
install ov518_decomp { /sbin/modprobe ov511; } ; /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install ov518_decomp
install scsi_hostadapter /bin/true
install usbmouse /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install usbmouse && { /sbin/modprobe hid; /bin/true; }
remove binfmt_misc { /bin/umount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc > /dev/null 2>&1 || :; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove binfmt_misc
remove ov518_decomp /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove ov518_decomp && { /sbin/modprobe -r ov511; /bin/true; }
remove usbmouse { /sbin/modprobe -r hid; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove usbmouse
remove sunrpc { /bin/umount /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs > /dev/null 2>&1 || :; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove sunrpc
remove nfsd { /bin/umount /proc/fs/nfsd > /dev/null 2>&1 || :; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove nfsd
alias usb-uhci uhci-hcd
alias usb-ohci ohci-hcd
alias uhci uhci-hcd
alias char-major-116-* snd
alias sound-service-*-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-*-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-*-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-*-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-*-12 snd-pcm-oss
install sound-slot-* /sbin/modprobe snd-card-${MODPROBE_MODULE##sound[_-]slot[_-]}
install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-device && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-oss
alias nfs4 nfs
alias rpc_pipefs sunrpc
alias rpc_svc_gss_pipefs sunrpc
install eth1394 /bin/true
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && /sbin/modprobe snd-emu10k1-synth
alias gre0 ip_gre
alias char-major-89-* i2c-dev
[root@localhost ~]#
> , but I get a lot of modules loaded by the time I have a
> running desktop $ lsmod|wc
> 56
> 200 2536
>
> The man says modprobe is the way nowadays, along with
> rmmod.
>
> DaveT.
>
As I said this happened on both the newer kernels.
[root@localhost ~]# ls /boot
config-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64
config-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64
efi
grub
initrd-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64.img
initrd-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64.img
initrd-2.6.29.2.img
lost+found
System.map-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64
System.map-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64
vmlinuz-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64
vmlinuz-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64
[root@localhost ~]#
I downloaded the kernel rpm, then put it onto a usb stick.
No modules == no USB,
So I burned onto a cd/rw.
No modules == no CD.
I booted system_rescue_CD, mounted the F10 filesystem and the CD.
Copied over the rpm, and booted the older kernel.
Then used yum to remove the new kernel and then re-install it.
I am sure there is a better way, but this worked.
The problem was that you don't find out about the missing modules until you reboot.
So something gets set/reset, then during the next boot modules are not loaded, although the files are there.
Mick M.
15 years, 1 month
Re: f10dvd installs but won't boot
by Jackson Byers
Sam Sharpe responded
2009/5/5 jackson byers <byersjab(a)gmail.com>:
> jbyers:
> html? my apologies, i had no idea.
> I guess i need some info in gmail how not to do that.
> in my gmail setting
> Outgoing message encoding:
> Use default text encoding for outgoing messages <<selected
> Use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding for outgoing messages
> nothing here explicitly HTML
> i will try the utf-8
That's interesting - I didn't actually see how you are sending HTML.
My Gmail is set to "default text encoding" (not UTF-8) and I seem to
be sending messages in text:
Subject: Re: what is "Document Viewer"?
From: "Sharpe, Sam J" <sam.sharpe+lists.redhat(a)gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Your messages are sending in both HTML and text, so technically the
receiver can decide which one to view based on their capabilities or
preferences (but you're still wasting other people's bandwidth - which
is typically what they are objecting to). I had no idea how you set
Gmail to do that, but having had a look around, I found this post:
http://personalweb.about.com/b/2005/04/04/gmail-lets-you-send-html-email.htm
I've never noticed the "Rich formatting" link that appears above my
compose box before, but I think that's what you are using - try
hitting the "Plain text" link you should have and see if that sticks
as a preference (as I can't see anywhere to force it).
--
Sam
---------------
jbyers:
how could you see that I was sending in both HTML and text?
I dont see a Content-Type line on my gmail sends
is there some configure step i am missing?
I have left utf selected
but also did switch out of the rtf into text
Is this email being received as only text?
Jack
15 years, 1 month
Installing a module
by Bill Case
Hi;
I have had difficulty getting tvtime to work. There is no sound and the
channel changer wouldn't work.
I have solved the channel changing problem by modprobe tuner -- but I
can't get it to stick i.e. I need to put a line into modprobe.d. How do
I do this?
I have checked man modprobe.d -- "install modulename command..."
Will "install tuner" do or do I need a specific command? If so what
would it be? I have no dependencies etc.
As well, there is file /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf.dist. I assume
this is where I add the line -- but no mention of modprobe.conf.dist is
made in man.
Just some suggestions would be helpful regarding sound.
I am using alsa
My tvtime.xml is set to :line
I have no actual external line-in from my Hauppauge WinTV HVR 1800 PCIe
tv tuner card to my sound.
My Volume Gui is set to HDA Intel (Alsa Mixer)
with volume sliders for Master (60%), PCM (100%), Front (100%), Line-in
(100%), CD (0 %), PC Speaker (100%)
I have been told that tvtime automatically finds my sound mixer driver
and after that all sound problems are with alsa !?
What other sound configurations should I experiment with?
--
Regards Bill
Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.3
Evo.2.24.5, Emacs 22.3.1
15 years, 1 month
Re: f10dvd installs but won't boot
by Jackson Byers
jbyers:
end of quote re "scsi_mod.scan=sync"
Important Note: mkinitrd-6.0.71-3.fc10 fixes the issue above!! Please
update your system after fixing manually, or better after booting
using the kernel argument "scsi_mod.scan=sync" !!!
---
Craig:
If you read Bill Nottingham's comment (# 19), the solution seems far
easier..
----
jbyers:
<<#19 in the bugreport
Bug 473305 - Booting from SCSI/RAID device fails
Comment #19 From Bill Nottingham 2008-12-19 12:09:08 EDT
Install the update mkinitrd and remake your initrd
-----
Craig:
You would have to get a boot up and into a virtual console.
Either...
A. let it boot up until the screen disappears...
press <Control><Alt><F2>
or
B. Press a key at the grub prompt and highlight the kernel with the
arrow keys and press the letter 'e', move down to the kernel line and
press the letter 'e'. Add a space and put in the number "3" to tell it
to boot to runlevel 3
After startup either way...
login as root and as root, run...
yum update mkinitrd
yum update <<< will update all installed pkgs
This would take some time to install all of the updates.
jbyers:
doing above means I dont have to run mkinitrd to make new initrd?
Because the yum update will update the initrd also?
Craig:
This still won't solve your X problems.
That would probably need you to switch to the console again as above and
again, login as root
init 3
yum install system-config-display
system-config-display --reconfig
and see if you can get a working X display
You can test it by typing 'startx'
Once you get X running, you can type 'init 5' or just reboot
----
jbyers:
I am familiar with startx, I run that way in my fc5
Are you telling me that my f10 boot is actually finishing?
and only then failing on X-server?
thanks for response
Jack
15 years, 1 month
