Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?
by Rolf Turner
People keep sending me links to videos and then when I click on them
Firefox says
that the video won't play since I don't have flash installed. But then
when I click
on the installer I (eventually) get messages to the effect that the
required package
is already installed.
If I click on Tools -> Addons -> Plugins I get messages to the effect
that I don't
"have any plugins of this type installed". (***WHAT*** <expletive
deleted> type?
I never mentioned any "type"!!!
I've googled around quite a bit and any suggestion that I've found was
of no use
whatever. (I.e. I keep getting the same message that I don't have flash
installed.)
WTF do I have to do? Is the problem the fact that I am still running
Fedora 17?
(I have not upgraded since everything except the flash business seems to
be running
smoothly, and I don't want to get into an incomprehensible upgrade
hassle unless
I absolutely have to.)
Grateful for any suggestions and/or advice.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
10 years, 5 months
Hardware may be failing - how to check it out
by Robert Moskowitz
There have been a few things going weird on this Lenovo x120e and I
thought it may have been f17. But now with f20 kind of installed, and
with the problems i had getting anything installed, I think I may really
have flaky hardware. Here are the problems.
Probably the worst is I can't write reliably to a USB stick or SD card
in the SD slot. I can read them and I can r/w to a powered USB HD and
seemingly to a DVD/RW drive (both CD and DVD disks). The reason I say
seemingly, is I had many failed attempts today installing f20 for disks
I burned on this system. Are the disks bad or is it read problems
though the USB ports. And it does not seem to matter which of the 3 USB
ports I try. Oh, I was able to install the i386; lots of failures and
bug reports on the x86_64 install attempts.
Another annoying problem is audio. No sound most of the time. I may
have sound for a while after boot, but then it stops. All standard
indicators is there is sound, but nothing comes out.
VGA adapter can get flaky and red stops. Plug unplug. Suspend/resume
and eventually it comes back. Sometimes the external VGA stops working
all together. Then later starts again.
I have not found any system, within my budget other than the x120e that
suits my requirements.
12", duo core, 4GB memory, and 'eraser head' pointer are the must
haves. Oh and under $200!
10 years, 5 months
Re: relabel
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I wanted to clone my distribution fedora 19, I used to do it with
previous release but I failed with fedora 19.
I copy (-a) the partition / (lvm2) and /boot (ext4)
I ran:
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
fixfiles relabel (the new partitions)
the file grub.cfg seems OK.
To try to have the rigth /boot and /
I modified the grub.cfg but I cannot get the boot rigth
Typically, I get an error:
failed to setart Journal service
(it looks lilke that the service do not start).
However, I do not understand how the /boot is recognized:
This my grub.cfg file:
menuentry 'Fedora release 19' --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-gnulinux-simple-69ee06ed-3f6a-4b9f-9b86-6e24c1847cf6' {
(this is the new partition for the /boot, it has been created by mkconfig)
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos6'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos6 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos6 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos6 --hint='hd0,msdos6' fff6282e-eb24-405f-b43b-06ba5cc92c70
(this is the old /boot partition UID associated with msdos6, but if I change it for the new UUID
and the new /boot [msdos16] it does not help)
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root fff6282e-eb24-405f-b43b-06ba5cc92c70
fi
linux /vmlinuz-3.12.5-200.fc19.i686.PAE root=/dev/mapper/VolGrpSys3-root ro vconsole.keymap=fr rd.dm=0 rd.md=0 rd.luks=0 vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd.lvm.lv=VolGrpSys3/root
(VolGrpSys3/root is the new partition, UID:69ee06ed-3f6a-4b9f-9b86-6e24c1847cf6)
initrd /initramfs-3.12.5-200.fc19.i686.PAE.img
}
I know that what I am doing is recommanded. However, the question is
how I could clone a distribution? Something which was easily doable before.
Thank for your help.
=========================================================================
Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
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10 years, 5 months
relabel
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I dupliqued a distribution.
I propably need to relabel the partitions.
and/or run restorecon
How I do it in fedora19 ?
Thank.
===========================================================================
Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
===========================================================================
10 years, 5 months
creating new RHEL6.5 vm using VMM doesn't create a network
by Robert P. J. Day
(note: i was tempted to post this to the "virt" list but i suspect
it's something fairly trivial so i'll stick with the basic fedora
list, at least for now.)
on my new fedora 20 system, i installed all the crucial virt
packages with:
# yum groupinstall Virtualization
then fired up VMM and selected to add my first VM, CentOS 6.5.
however, early on, it became obvious that i wasn't going to get a
network interface to that VM -- the menu for network interface
selection was totally greyed out, which i thought was odd.
after the installation of the VM, sure enough, i started up the
centos VM and there was no (virtual) net connection to it. if memory
serves, when i was running centos 6.5 as the *host*, and i created a
fedora VM as a *guest*, the net connection was there automatically.
i went into the VMM, selected the QEMU hypervisor, and used that to
create a virtual network (device virbr0) as 192.168.100.0/24, and sure
enough, net interface virbr0 is now active on my fedora 20 host. so
as a test, i created a second centos 6.5 guest, and this time i can
see an "eth0" interface, but it has no IP address, and trying to bring
it up has no effect.
so, short question -- what's the proper prep on my fedora 20 host to
set up KVM/QEMU virtualization before i start creating VMs so that i
have networking? when things were the other way around, and i had a
centos host and was adding a fedora guest, networking just ... worked.
i didn't have to mess with it at all.
rday
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http://crashcourse.ca
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday
LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday
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10 years, 5 months
Script to install/reinstall OS
by bruce
Hi.
Anyone have pointers to a script that I can use/modify to allow me to
restore/replicate an install once I have a system working.
I'm looking into chef/puppet/etc.. but wondered if others might have
thoughts on this.
Actually, something that would not only install the OS, but also copy
files from a backup system for required data would be great.
Thanks
10 years, 5 months
hacked/recovery steps
by bruce
Reason:
-Discovered linux/old fedora system was hacked.
-Quick run of rkhunter/chkrootkit revealed hacks,
plus the root passwd changed, as well as other issues.
Resolution/Steps to recover:
-remove the machine
-given machine was laptop, with 2.5" drive,
make a couple of copies of the complete drive on
separate drives, using "slow" usb connection to
usb drive bays - jesus, this is slow!!
-I copied the complete drive, ~400G worth of files
I wanted to have a complete copy of the data files,
as well as all of the OS stuff as well...
-the backup/copy will never be used to run a box, as it's
corrupted
The corrupted laptop drive was initially setup to have
separate partitions
-root, apps, home, backup
-apps contains the "majority" of the actual data..
-Analyse the initial/corrupted machine/system to determine
what apps are required from the desktop/panels
-Determine what additional apps are required based on the
rpm analysis
-Determine the required files/dirs from the data partition "apps'
-Determine the additional required files for the dev environment
php/python/javascript
For the OS/system/apps - inspect/analyse centos to ensure the
required yum/rpm/repositories exist
-create script/bash to completely rebuild system (except the data)
test out all of this
TBD:
-create/test a base rsync/backup strategy
-implement rkhunter/chkrootkit for the new restored/reinstalled
system
-create a faster approach to doing the complete copy/backup
--using/copying from usb to usb drive is too slow,
perhaps an external drive bay that allows the internal
2.5 to be plugged into it, to copy to an attached backup drive
or to copy via ethernet to an attached drive
Anything else??
thoughts/comments
thanks
10 years, 5 months
how to set up my "fetchmail" on f20 without sendmail?
by Robert P. J. Day
finally getting around to building my new f20 machine and, as i
read it, f20 now ships without sendmail.
so far, to match what i've used for years, i've installed on my
f20 box:
* alpine
* fetchmail
and i've copied over from my old (ubuntu) system the relevant files:
* .addressbook{,.lu}
* .pinerc
* .fetchmailrc
i can check that there is mail waiting at my ISP with:
$ fetchmail -c
and sure enough, there's a pile of mail there. however, not
surprisingly, if i try to fetch it, i get:
fetchmail: Connection errors for this poll:
name 0: connection to localhost:smtp [::1/25] failed: Connection refused.
name 1: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: Connection
refused.
fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
since (obviously), without sendmail, nothing is listening on port
25. so what's the solution these days? a pointer to a web page
somewhere would work just fine. thanks.
rday
10 years, 5 months
OT: OVM as nested hypervisor under KVM
by Jamie Bohr
Sorry this is off topic.
I am trying to setup OVM (Oracle VM hypervisor) as a nested hypervisor
under KVM. OVM installed once I change the network card to e1000 but gives
udev trace errors when booting. I have tried several HW combinations, none
work.
Nesting KVM works without any issues.
Any advice would be great.
--
Jamie Bohr
10 years, 5 months
Trying to install to new drive, but drive caddy torked
by Robert Moskowitz
Can't get the screws loose on the drive caddy (lenovo e120x)! Someone
really torked them tight or glued them in. :(
$9.9 to buy one used from someone that either figured out how to loosen
the screws or has the right tools.
Venting here.
10 years, 5 months
