after upgrading fedora rawhide this morning, no graphical desktop
by Robert P. J. Day
recently, i upgraded my ASUS G74S laptop to fedora rawhide and it
was running nicely. then this morning, i did another "yum update",
which appeared to update well over 200 packages (including a slightly
newer kernel), after which, when i booted, i had no graphical desktop
anymore, just the little blue and white fedora logo.
i can still switch to VC2 and log in at the command line (where i am
now), so i can certainly check log files, but i don't see anything
immediately amiss.
i rebooted both to the earlier rawhide kernel, and even back to the
latest fedora 20 official kernel -- same result, the fedora logo in
the middle of the screen on VC1, but the ability to log in on another
virtual console.
has anyone else run into this? i have an nvidia graphics card, and
am running the nouveau driver. i'll keep poking around the log files,
and if you have any suggestions, i'm all ears.
rday
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10 years, 2 months
OT: Fujitsu Lifebook T734?
by Michael D. Setzer II
I'm the maintainer of the G4L disk imaging project, and have been contacted
by a user that has these machine, but they are freezing on the kernel load
process. I build the kernel on Fedora systems, but the kernels are build from
the kernel.org code. There isn't a panic or anything, it just stops. Have tried
loads of kernel boot options, and various options, for debugging, but nothing
has come up to identify what the issue might be? Wondering if someone on
the list has any experience with these machines. I don't have physical access
to one, so it has been a NY to Guam email exchange for testing.
Thanks.
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Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor
Guam Community College Computer Center
mailto:mikes@kuentos.guam.net
mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com
http://www.guam.net/home/mikes
Guam - Where America's Day Begins
G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
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http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original)
Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471
Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes
(Total Hours: 287,489)
BOINC@HOME CREDITS
ROSETTA 12457970.923526 | SETI 21208893.683083
ABC 16613838.513356 | EINSTEIN 19360755.880348
10 years, 2 months
F20 - HP3050 scanning problems
by Paul Erickson
I am having trouble getting F20 to work with the scanning function of my
HP3050. hplip and hp-setup are installed, and the printing function
works fine, but the "Simple scan" and Xsane are not able to see the
scanner. Running hplip-3.14.1.run returns a F20 not supported error,
stating that I can try the F19 files. I have not proceeded with that
option as I am concerned that doing so might cause more problems.
Further google searches have revealed no other information that seems
relevant.
Any suggestions?
cheers, Paul
10 years, 2 months
DNF vs. YUM
by Mark Haney
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I've been using DNF pretty regularly since upgrading to F20 and so far
I'm not sure I see any real big difference between them. Although, I
may not be supposed to see a difference.
The one thing I have noticed is that DNF quite often shows no updates
available and YUM does. For instance today, on two F20 systems (one
at home and the other the system I'm on now) dnf update said there
were no updates but yum had 20+ on both.
I'm curious, why is there such a big discrepancy? Aren't they both
using the same repositories? Is it an architectural change that
causes that? I know it's still in testing mode, but I would think the
output would be nearly the same.
What gives?
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Mark Haney
Network/Systems Administrator
Practichem
W: (919) 714-8428
Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) 3.13.4-200.fc20.x86_64
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10 years, 2 months
AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work
by Paul Cartwright
I have googled & read all I could find, with no apparent solution in sight.
I have a Dell desktop with a Radeon HD 5670 video card :
lspci|grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] Redwood XT [Radeon HD 5670/5690/5730]
I installed the amd catalyst via the file:
amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.run.
I see the amd catalyst control center & Administrative mode items in my
menus ( System-Preferences-Hardware). when I select either menu item,
nothing happens.
my xorg.conf file shows this:
ection "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
but a rpm -q fglrx says it is not installed. I'm confused. There is an
annoying lag when I drag windows, and I was trying to configure the
display, but nothing seems to work.
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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
10 years, 2 months
Wierd partition behaviour with BTRFS
by Patrick O'Callaghan
(Sorry for the subject line but it's the best I could come up with)
I recently installed F20 on a new system with a 120GB SSD and 1TB hard
drive. I'm using the SSD for /, /boot, /var and swap, and the hard drive
for /home. I decided to live on the edge and partition /home as BTRFS.
All this was done from Anaconda with no subsequent changes except adding
a few labels.
This is what I find:
$ lsblk --fs
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
├─sda1 ext4 boot 6d5929d8-fd35-49e6-a8bf-aab5309dad77 /boot
├─sda2 btrfs fedora_pxeclient-arch-00000-undi-002001-d4-3d-7e-f4-1b-08 22fecad3-619d-4a9b-aace-35a2e4e04c49 /home
├─sda3 ext4 root 6a9a800c-309b-4b69-b269-884ad495e7b9 /
├─sda4
├─sda5 ext4 var d5955869-af07-4d6e-b1b3-6ccb31208b41 /var
└─sda6 swap 1431e6d2-531e-46cd-8633-1cf878c6b2a1 [SWAP]
sdb
└─sdb1 btrfs fedora_pxeclient-arch-00000-undi-002001-d4-3d-7e-f4-1b-08 22fecad3-619d-4a9b-aace-35a2e4e04c49
Note that /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb1 have the same UUID and label.
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 68G 8.5G 56G 14% /
devtmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev
tmpfs 7.9G 5.6M 7.8G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 7.9G 1.1M 7.9G 1% /run
tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 7.9G 72K 7.9G 1% /tmp
/dev/sda1 477M 113M 335M 26% /boot
/dev/sda5 27G 1.8G 24G 7% /var
/dev/sda2 932G 73G 858G 8% /home
Note that /dev/sda2 is mounted and /dev/sdb1 is not. However /dev/sda2
has around 1TB of space, so it's clearly the hard drive.
What's going on, and should I be worried?
Also, how can I change the label of the BTRFS partition? I used the
"btrfs filesystem label ..." command but although it registers the
change, the existing fedora_pxeclient.... label still shows up
in /dev/disk/by-label.
poc
10 years, 2 months
KMail issues after update
by Stephen Davies
Yesterday my Fedora 20 automatic updater installed 178 items; one of which
seems to have been KMail.
KMail now says 4.12.3. I believe it was 4.12.2.
Since then,the KMail behaviour has been decidedly strange.
I can read mail, reply to mail and send mail but I cannot delete mail nor save
it to folders.
Also, mail that has been read, does not change colour.
I am using KMail as a POP client with dovecot.
My folders are all below my home directory and look to be correct in terms of
ownership and permissions.
Any ideas as to what has happened and what I can do to fix things?
Cheers and thanks,
Stephen
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10 years, 2 months
kernel tainted?
by Paul Cartwright
I got this error report today:
A kernel problem occurred, but your kernel has been tainted (flags:GW).
Kernel maintainers are unable to diagnose tainted reports.
not sure where to look in /var/log, nothing in messages.
what does it mean?
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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
10 years, 2 months
Partitions
by Hunter Jozwiak
When I installed my Fedooa, I had a partion for /, /home, swap, and a
boot. Now, I need to grow my / partition, but when I go to Gparted, I
see /sda4. When I expand that, I have /sda5 and 6. But they don't have
no labels, so it is hard to discern which is which. Help would be
appreciated.
10 years, 2 months
krb5-workstation dependency
by Pal, Laszlo
Hi,
For some reason I need kinit which is included in krb5-workstation
(I'm using fc20)
Unfortunately there is some broken dependency in the repo
Do you have any idea how to solve it?
[vlad@tohuvabohu git]$ sudo yum install krb5-workstation-1.11.3-33.fc20.x86_64
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, fastestmirror, keys, langpacks,
priorities, refresh-packagekit, remove-with-leaves, show-leaves,
: upgrade-helper
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* fedora: fedora.intergenia.de
* rpmfusion-free: ftp.upjs.sk
* rpmfusion-free-updates: ftp.upjs.sk
* rpmfusion-nonfree: ftp.upjs.sk
* rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: ftp.upjs.sk
* updates: fedora.intergenia.de
102 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package krb5-workstation.x86_64 0:1.11.3-33.fc20 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: krb5-libs(x86-64) = 1.11.3-33.fc20 for
package: krb5-workstation-1.11.3-33.fc20.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: krb5-workstation-1.11.3-33.fc20.x86_64 (fedora)
Requires: krb5-libs(x86-64) = 1.11.3-33.fc20
Installed: krb5-libs-1.11.5-4.fc20.x86_64 (@updates)
krb5-libs(x86-64) = 1.11.5-4.fc20
Available: krb5-libs-1.11.3-33.fc20.x86_64 (fedora)
krb5-libs(x86-64) = 1.11.3-33.fc20
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
Thank you
L:
10 years, 2 months
