F19 display weird
by Beartooth
On an old laptop (IBM-refurbished T30 Thinkpad), F18 had been
running fine (using xfce) for months. I followed the directions at http://
fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp (except that I became root on gnome-
terminal, instead of using sudo).
I ran 'yum update' and rebooted. I ran 'fedup-cli --network 19',
but forgot to check the log. I chose System Upgrade from grub. When it
finally finished, I ran 'yum update' just for lagniappe, and rebooted yet
again.
Then the weirdness hit, making the display all but useless for my
ancient eyeballs: it looks as if a sheet of transparent deep red plastic
were covering the screen. The boot messages are beyond my vision. (I
tried to watch them.)
I can just make out the splash screen, select xfce, and log in.
Once I do, I can see the logo at bottom center, and the mouse cursor;
moving that slowly across the top of the screen, with frequent pauses,
got me once to a list of options starting with high contrast. I clicked
that, but haven't been able to get back to it. Moving the cursor by about
the width of any letter in the logo, and lingering longer than is
normally necessary, seems to have been exhausted by that one use.
I can ssh into the laptop from the machine I'm on now, and become
root; but I'm running short on ideas. I did try this :
[root@T30 ~]# startx
hostname: Name or service not known
xauth: file /root/.serverauth.947 does not exist
X.Org X Server 1.14.3
Release Date: 2013-09-12
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: 3.10.9-200.fc19.x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux T30.localdomain 3.10.11-100.fc18.i686.PAE
#1 SMP Mon Sep 9 13:40:50 UTC 2013 i686
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.10.11-100.fc18.i686.PAE root=/
dev/mapper/vg_t30-lv_root ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 KEYTABLE=us SYSFONT=True
rd.lvm.lv=vg_t30/lv_swap rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd.lvm.lv=vg_t30/
lv_root rhgb quiet
Build Date: 16 September 2013 12:43:28AM
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.14.3-1.fc19
Current version of pixman: 0.30.0
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.1.log", Time: Mon Sep 23 12:11:36 2013
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
setversion 1.4 failed
Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
Initializing built-in extension XTEST
Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS
Initializing built-in extension SYNC
Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC
Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
Initializing built-in extension RENDER
Initializing built-in extension RANDR
Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
Initializing built-in extension RECORD
Initializing built-in extension DPMS
Initializing built-in extension X-Resource
Initializing built-in extension XVideo
Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
Initializing built-in extension SELinux
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DGA
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DRI
Initializing built-in extension DRI2
Loading extension GLX
(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) xf86OpenConsole: VT_ACTIVATE failed: No such device or address
(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the Fedora Project support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
(EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.1.log" for
additional information.
(EE)
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error
[root@T30 ~]#
and this (both being over my head) :
[root@T30 ~]# xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA1 connected primary 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
axis) 473mm x 296mm
1680x1050 60.0*+
1600x1000 60.0
1280x1024 75.0 60.0
1440x900 59.9
1280x960 60.0
1152x864 75.0
1152x720 60.0
1024x768 75.1 60.0
832x624 74.6
800x600 75.0 60.3
640x480 75.0 60.0
720x400 70.1
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
[root@T30 ~]#
I hope all this layman-incomprehensible stuff means something to
someone here.
I have not yet tried to update grub, because of the weirdness.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
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So, I just decided to remove the update 3.11.1 kernel. I don't need it... yet.
I saw a thread a while ago on this list discussing the decision to update or just wait for a new Fedora release. If yum can't be told to ignore certain updates, I may switch camps. It's not worth my time and effort to keep a machine up-to-date if those updates are going to sporadically break the machine and require investigation.
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I use Geneweb on my computer for genealogy without problem for 5 years ago.
i don't update it today but now when i modify an ancestor a i have a
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Thanks
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Hi.
testing priv/pub keys...
working on a local server, behind firewall, with it's own dhcp ip. the
external wan ip is not the same as the internal ip.
create the priv/pub key for the local server
the normal ssh user(a)target.com works
change the local eth0 ipaddress...
rerun the ssh user(a)target.com works as expected...
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however, the one thing I haven't tested, is to be able to change the
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I'm of the opinion that this wouldn't change the priv/pub key, but I
might be missing something..
thoughts/comments?
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Hi all,
Go daemon keeps grabbing 100% of my cpu. I don't really know what it
is, good
tells me it is something to do with online accounts (which I never
use). Is there some
way to tame it? Or any way to switch it off completely? It is drawing a
lot of power...
Bill
--
Bill Murray ---- ATLAS
STFC/Warwick at: Bat 40 4-C28, CERN,1211 Meyrin, Geneve 23, Switzerland
Tel:- CERN +41 22 7678432
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Testing out setting up ssh - using priv/pub keys
The test config file
cat /home/foo/.ssh/config
HostName 192.168.5.18
User foo
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however, any other ssh is also intercepted by the config file..
ie
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' $ sudo fedup-cli --network 18
setting up repos...
default-installrepo/metalink | 34 kB 00:00:00
fedora/18/i386/metalink | 34 kB 00:00:00
No upgrade available for the following repos: fedora updates
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The installation repo isn't available.
You need to specify one with --instrepo.'
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Cheers,
Phil...
--
currently (ab)using
Arch Linux, CentOS 5.9 & 6.4, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy, Spherical & That Damn Cat, Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow Leopard & Tiger, Ubuntu Precise, Quantal & Raring
GnuGPG Key : http://phildobbin.org/publickey.asc
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Hi all,
I have an very old and cranky laptop that won't install past f14, used
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I'm trying to update some of its software using yum. I created a repo,
fedora-archive.repo:
[archive]
name=Fedora 14 - i386
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releas...
enabled=1
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
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tia,
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smbclient:
$ smbclient -k -L //rail/
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[global]
security = ADS
realm = ENDOFRAME.NET
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--
Braden McDaniel <braden(a)endoframe.com>
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