Fedora 12 Update - Lost Dual Monitor
by Phil Pinkerton
The installation of Fedora-12 x86_64 was flawless ( great job folks ). I
install it on my Acer Aspire 7520 ( nvidia 7000m ) that also has a 22" AOC
monitor attached.
I was able to set up everything the way I liked it ... then I made a big
mistake I ran "yum update" then "yum upgrade" and after a re-boot I lost the
second display and also th display configuration tool. Too Bad as I really
liked the original look and fonts. Now I only have 1024x789 or less
available for my laptop screen ( normally 1400x900 ) and a fuzzy large font.
before the update I needed to add stuff like Subversion and Freemind that
went ok I guess but Skype was not able to be installed. I like to compile
some of my own stuff so the update added the binutils and stuff I needed.
Should I wait for Fedora 13 x86_64 and re-install from scratch to recover
my dual monitors and configuration tools ?
or is there another update or something I can do to recover ?
thanks
Phil
--
" The fundamental principle here is that the justification for a physical
concept lies exclusively in its clear and unambiguous relation to the facts
that it can be experienced" AE
Please Feed and Educate the Children... it's the least any of us can do.
14 years
Virt-manager cannot connect to local hypervisor qemu:///system
by jaivuk
Hi guys,
I have huge problem with virt-manager as it displays errors below [1].
Problem happened after I upgraded in quick succession from F10 to F11 and
then to F12. If I do yum update, it says "No Packages marked for Update" -
so I'm pretty sure my system is up-to-date F12.
My libvirt is running:
root 8030 1 0 10:34 ? 00:00:00 libvirtd --daemon
However my polkit agent is not running [2]. (not sure if it is a must)
I have two virutal machines defined under qemu-kvm and one is running fine
and one is not. Without virt-manager I'm unable to investigate the problem.
Is there any other way how can I get inside my running virtual machine (ssh
does not work)?
I'm also not sure if my problem is related to this bug or not, but I also
have exactly the same problem as described in this bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=581387
And in final here are the packages I use:
Package python-virtinst-0.500.1-2.fc12.noarch already installed and latest
version
Package 2:qemu-kvm-0.11.0-13.fc12.x86_64 already installed and latest
version
Package virt-manager-0.8.2-3.fc12.noarch already installed and latest
version
Package virt-viewer-0.2.0-1.fc12.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package libvirt-0.7.1-15.fc12.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Any help is appreciated, I have web-server running inside non functional
virt-machine and it is down now :(
Thank you in advance,
Jaiv
[1]
Unable to open connection to hypervisor URI 'qemu:///system':
authentication failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 872, in
_try_open
None], flags)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 102, in
openAuth
if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
libvirtError: authentication failed
Error starting Virtual Machine Manager: Failed to contact configuration
server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking
for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See
http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to
get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include:
the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy
blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was
broken.)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 404, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 335, in main
icon_dir, data_dir)
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/config.py", line 89, in __init__
gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE)
GError: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are
that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS
locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for
information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not
receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not
send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply
timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
[2]
# /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
[1] 22686
#
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:22686): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **:
Unable to determine the session we are in: Remote Exception invoking
org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GetSessionForUnixProcess() on
/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager at name org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit:
org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GeneralError: Unable to lookup session
information for process '22686'
org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GeneralError
Unable%20to%20lookup%20session%20information%20for%20process%20%2722686%27
14 years
Problem with boot loader
by BadMagic
Hi all,
I have 2 SATA drives - Windows on the sda and have just installed FC12
on sdb. I installed
the boot loader on sdb.
Now, I'm using the XOSL boot manager (installed on its own dedicated
primary partition
on sda).
If I change the boot sequence in the BIOS to boot from the disk that has
the Fedora install
on it, it boots fine but if I try to boot from XOSL, I just get a black
screen with the cursor
flashing in the top left corner. Does anyone know what's going on and
how to fix it?
Regards,
Steve Laurie
14 years
Re: Cpu usage by X (with more info) -even more
by DB
On 04/05/10 21:28, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
> Subject:
> Cpu usage by X (with more info)
> From:
> DB <Freddog_de(a)yahoo.co.uk>
> Date:
> Tue, 04 May 2010 18:34:34 +0200
>
> To:
> Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
>
>
> Hi All!
>
> Anyone able to give me an idea where to look......
>
> Sometimes when I start my desktop, System Monitor tells me that "X" is
> running at max CPU %-age. Other times, "X" is 4th or 5th in the list
> (I selected the CPU column to put the highest users on top), using 1
> or 2 %.
>
> So, my question to you all: What is "X" doing & how can I stop it
> doing whatever & keep my CPU chip cool????? BTW, I have no idea what
> X is!!! I've tried killing it & that usually kills my desktop; just
> now killing it caused the system to restart.
>
> My system: uname -ar
> Linux Fedora-Blue 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Thu Feb 11
> 06:51:26 UTC 2010 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>
> running F11 & kde installed from the F11-KDE-Livecd.
>
> As ever, Thanks for any help!
>
> Dave
>
> Oooops, forgot to put in "top" o/p:
>
>> Tasks: 128 total, 3 running, 125 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
>> Cpu(s): 53.6%us, 45.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.7%hi,
>> 0.3%si, 0.0%st
>> Mem: 510416k total, 451276k used, 59140k free, 22560k buffers
>> Swap: 2047992k total, 2140k used, 2045852k free, 199012k cached
>>
>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
>> 1922 root 20 0 72224 30m 5748 R 69.5 6.1 15:45.70 X
>> 2132 Dave 20 0 126m 33m 21m R 24.5 6.7 1:20.48 ksysguard
>> 2088 Dave 20 0 259m 28m 18m S 2.6 5.6 0:03.76 kwin
>> 2091 Dave 20 0 297m 24m 14m S 0.7 4.9 0:02.54 knotify4
>> 2092 Dave 20 0 304m 37m 23m S 0.7 7.4 0:13.00
>> plasma-desktop
>> 48 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.85 scsi_eh_1
>> 2116 Dave 20 0 274m 26m 17m S 0.3 5.3 0:01.81 krunner
>> 2351 Dave 20 0 89924 19m 13m S 0.3 3.9 0:04.49 konsole
>> 2369 Dave 20 0 2536 1076 828 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.48 top
>> 1 root 20 0 2000 716 632 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.72 init
>> 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
>
>
> & there's another 100 or so processes loafing around.....
>
>
Hi again,
Here's the output from top when all is running well
top - 22:09:50 up 9 min, 3 users, load average: 1.29, 0.88, 0.46
Tasks: 128 total, 1 running, 127 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 10.6%us, 3.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 86.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
0.0%st
Mem: 510416k total, 493592k used, 16824k free, 25280k buffers
Swap: 2047992k total, 752k used, 2047240k free, 236980k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1803 Dave 20 0 120m 29m 19m S 7.3 5.9 0:34.66 ksysguard
1495 root 20 0 70836 30m 5744 S 3.3 6.1 0:32.77 X
1954 Dave 20 0 90420 21m 14m S 2.3 4.3 0:04.78 konsole
1764 Dave 20 0 301m 35m 22m S 0.3 7.1 0:08.29
plasma-desktop
1807 Dave 20 0 2436 1008 704 S 0.3 0.2 0:00.88 ksysguardd
1835 Dave 20 0 66580 12m 10m S 0.3 2.6 0:00.22 klipper
1971 Dave 20 0 2536 1076 828 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.51 top
1 root 20 0 2000 620 564 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.66 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset
8 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 netns
10 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 async/mgr
11 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0
12 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 kblockd/0
13 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
14 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
15 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.14 ata/0
Etc. etc. etc.
At this time ( like in the previous example) I had nothing running. It
seems as though when the system starts up, if x gets in first it hogs
everything, if not everything runs ok, temp of the CPU goes down. When
x plays up, it would appear that it carries on "whatever it's doing"
even while the screen is blanked out cause when I come back the cpu temp
is up to 59 deg C.
Anything else I can give anyone?
And thanks to those who have already replied!!!!!
Dave
14 years
Cpu usage by X
by DB
Hi All!
Anyone able to give me an idea where to look......
Sometimes when I start my desktop, System Monitor tells me that "X" is
running at max CPU %-age. Other times, "X" is 4th or 5th in the list (I
selected the CPU column to put the highest users on top), using 1 or 2 %.
So, my question to you all: What is "X" doing & how can I stop it doing
whatever & keep my CPU chip cool????? BTW, I have no idea what X is!!!
I've tried killing it & that usually kills my desktop; just now killing
it caused the system to restart.
My system: uname -ar
Linux Fedora-Blue 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Thu Feb 11
06:51:26 UTC 2010 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
running F11 & kde installed from the F11-KDE-Livecd.
As ever, Thanks for any help!
Dave
14 years
Need new (cheap) notebook
by Robert Moskowitz
More things are acting up on my 4 year old HP nc2400, so I am looking at
alternatives.
The NC2400 is REALLY a notebook, measuring 8.5" x 11" closed and having
a 12" screen. But it is old bios and somethings do not seem to work right.
I guess the target OS is F12/13 with battery life ~8 hours. 60Gb of
disk is enough, and probaby 2Gb of memory (that is what I have now).
One other consideration is I HATE thumb pads; no control. I prefer the
'eraser head' that my HP has (and I have had on all of my notebooks
since IBM invented it).
Any experience/recommendations?
14 years
X-Win32
by Siavoush Dastmalchi
Dear List,
I am trying to X-window from my PC to a Fedora core V5 Linux system, but so far no luck. I am using X-Win32 software and it is working fine for
doing X-session to another Linux system which is in other country. I can also establish X-window to a SGI Unix system that I have. The
configuration of X-Win32 to the SGI machine and the other Linux box (the one in an other country) is the same as that for the Linux machine that I am not able to X-Window. I am assuming that there is something in the latter Linux machine that need to be set or fixed in order to make it
possible to do x-session. I will appreciate it if you help me out with
this.
Cheers, Siavoush
14 years
Which device assigned to removable media
by Geoffrey Leach
When I plug in an eSATA drive, it is assigned to sdb or sdd depending
on whether other devices are installed. The device is reported by the
kernel (/var/log/messages), but I'd like to be able to find this
information without processing the log. Any pointers?
Thanks.
14 years
Cpu usage by X (with more info)
by DB
Hi All!
Anyone able to give me an idea where to look......
Sometimes when I start my desktop, System Monitor tells me that "X" is
running at max CPU %-age. Other times, "X" is 4th or 5th in the list (I
selected the CPU column to put the highest users on top), using 1 or 2 %.
So, my question to you all: What is "X" doing & how can I stop it doing
whatever & keep my CPU chip cool????? BTW, I have no idea what X is!!!
I've tried killing it & that usually kills my desktop; just now
killing it caused the system to restart.
My system: uname -ar
Linux Fedora-Blue 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Thu Feb 11
06:51:26 UTC 2010 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
running F11 & kde installed from the F11-KDE-Livecd.
As ever, Thanks for any help!
Dave
Oooops, forgot to put in "top" o/p:
> Tasks: 128 total, 3 running, 125 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 53.6%us, 45.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.7%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
> Mem: 510416k total, 451276k used, 59140k free, 22560k buffers
> Swap: 2047992k total, 2140k used, 2045852k free, 199012k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 1922 root 20 0 72224 30m 5748 R 69.5 6.1 15:45.70 X
> 2132 Dave 20 0 126m 33m 21m R 24.5 6.7 1:20.48 ksysguard
> 2088 Dave 20 0 259m 28m 18m S 2.6 5.6 0:03.76 kwin
> 2091 Dave 20 0 297m 24m 14m S 0.7 4.9 0:02.54 knotify4
> 2092 Dave 20 0 304m 37m 23m S 0.7 7.4 0:13.00 plasma-desktop
> 48 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.85 scsi_eh_1
> 2116 Dave 20 0 274m 26m 17m S 0.3 5.3 0:01.81 krunner
> 2351 Dave 20 0 89924 19m 13m S 0.3 3.9 0:04.49 konsole
> 2369 Dave 20 0 2536 1076 828 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.48 top
> 1 root 20 0 2000 716 632 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.72 init
> 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
& there's another 100 or so processes loafing around.....
14 years
Can't get Virtual Network Setup in KVM
by Jim
1. Installing KVM, In these instructions under # 1 have been completed,
Network setup is problem.
Fedora 12 KVM Host:
First check if your CPU supports hardware virtualization - if this is
the case, the command
egrep '(vmx|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo
should display something, e.g. like this:
[root@server1 ~]# egrep '(vmx|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall
nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl pni cx16
lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall
nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl pni cx16
lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch
[root@server1 ~]#
If nothing is displayed, then your processor doesn't support hardware
virtualization, and you must stop here.
To install KVM and virtinst (a tool to create virtual machines), we run
yum install kvm qemu libvirt python-virtinst
Then start the libvirt daemon:
/etc/init.d/libvirtd start
To check if KVM has successfully been installed, run
virsh -c qemu:///system list
It should display something like this:
[root@server1 ~]# virsh -c qemu:///system list
Id Name State
----------------------------------
[root@server1 ~]#
If it displays an error instead, then something went wrong.
Next we need to set up a network bridge on our server so that our
virtual machines can be accessed from other hosts as if they were
physical systems in the network.
To do this, we install the package bridge-utils...
yum install bridge-utils
2. Trying to setup a Virtual Network using KVM .
No network connection, Network Manager is OFF.
The /etc/sysconfig/network scripts br0, eth0 are shown below.
I can't get a "virbro" in ifconfig.
The Network Configuration shows br0 is Active and eth0 is Inactive .
3. The setup instructions are below with ifcfg-br0, ifcfg-eth0 and the
ifconfig output.
Next we need to set up a network bridge on our server so that our
virtual machines can be accessed from other hosts as if they were
physical systems in the network.
To do this, we install the package bridge-utils...
yum install bridge-utils
... and configure a bridge.
I disable Fedora's NetworkManager and enable "normal" networking.
NetworkManager is good for desktops where network connections can change
(e.g. LAN vs. WLAN), but on a server you usually don't change network
connections:
chkconfig NetworkManager off
chkconfig --levels 35 network on
/etc/init.d/network restart
Check your /etc/resolv.conf if it lists all nameservers that you've
previously configured:
cat /etc/resolv.conf
If nameservers are missing, run
system-config-network
and add the missing nameservers again.
Nameservers are in /etc/resolv.conf.
To configure the bridge, create the file
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0 (please use the BOOTPROTO, DNS1
(plus any other DNS settings, if any), GATEWAY, IPADDR, NETMASK and
SEARCH values from the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file):
vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0
VICE=br0
TYPE=Bridge
BOOTPROTO=static
DNS1=127.0.0.1
DNS2=172.16.0.1
GATEWAY=172.16.0.1
IPADDR=172.16.1.101
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes
IPV6INIT=no
USERCTL=no
Modify /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 as follows (comment
out BOOTPROTO, DNS1 (and all other DNS servers, if any), GATEWAY,
IPADDR, NETMASK, and SEARCH and add BRIDGE=br0):
vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
# Networking Interface
# Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit
Ethernet controller
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=6C:F0:49:06:47:CB
TYPE=Ethernet
#BOOTPROTO=none
#NAME="System eth0"
UUID=5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03
ONBOOT=yes
#PEERROUTES=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=no
IPV6INIT=no
USERCTL=no
BRIDGE=br0
Then reboot the system:
reboot
After the reboot, run
ifconfig
It should now show the network bridge (br0):
[root@server1 ~]# ifconfig
br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6C:F0:49:06:47:CB
inet addr:172.16.1.101 Bcast:172.16.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe06:47cb/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:201 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:18276 (17.8 KiB) TX bytes:5621 (5.4 KiB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6C:F0:49:06:47:CB
inet6 addr: fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe06:47cb/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:325 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:33650 (32.8 KiB) TX bytes:3252 (3.1 KiB)
Interrupt:27 Base address:0xa000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:540 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:540 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:34648 (33.8 KiB) TX bytes:34648 (33.8 KiB)
But i'm not getting a;
virbr0
14 years
