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running a specified binary across reboots
by Kevin Wilson 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

Hello, Fedora users, I want to run a binary of some Fedora application I wrote immediately after reboot. I know that as a workaround I can wrap it as a systemd daemon, but I prefer not to. In previous fedora distros, making it run across reboots was enabled by adding an entry in /etc/rc.local. What is a good practice to achieve it in Fedora 20 ? there is no /etc/rc.local in my fedora 20, and trying to add an entry in /etc/rc.local does not cause it be be run across boots. regards, Kevin

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Strange parted behaviour
by Robert Moskowitz 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

So I am making progress but saw a strange bit. #parted /dev/sdb mkpart uboot ext3 4 516 # parted /dev/sdb print Model: Generic- Multi-Card (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 7969MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 4194kB 516MB 512MB fat32 uboot I formated it with: #mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 # parted /dev/sdb print Model: Generic- Multi-Card (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 7969MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 4194kB 516MB 512MB ext3 uboot So why did parted mislabel the partition?

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seg fault - how to track down cause!
by bruce 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

Hey guys.. Running a test parent php app that's a long running app. It spins out test child apps via the "system" call periodically. On an intermittent basis, the parent php app dies, and I get a segmentation fault error. Any thoughts/pointers on what I can setup from an OS perspective to allow me to track down exactly what's causing this to happen.. Thanks

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inconsistent wifi at boot time, is it a kernel bug or NWM bug?
by Chris Murphy 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

I filed the nitty gritty details as this bug against NetworkManager even though I don't know that it's a Network Manager problem. I don't see any kernel messages at all that indicate the kernel is mad or confused. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127022 The gist is that if WiFi comes up at boot time, it works fine for the entirety of that boot "session". If I reboot, maybe it works again or maybe it doesn't (non-deterministic); and if it doesn't work, I can't get it to work it's a total fail. By fail, not only does it not connect to my network, it doesn't see any networks at all. Turning the WiFi radio off then on doesn't fix it. b43 wifi has been flakey since maybe kernel 3.11 for me, so it may very well just be time to give up on that and go with the proprietary driver *sigh* in particular because I only get 802.11g with b43. No wireless-N. So if there are opinions on being sane and just giving up, I'd accept that also. If you've got strong wifi knowledge, probably best to reply in the bug if I can enhance the quality of the bug reporting. If it's throwing spaghetti at a wall advice, I'll go for that too, but probably best to keep it on the list until there's something useful to report in the bug. Chris Murphy

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Sendmail problem
by Kevin Cummings 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Starting at some point during the day on July 30, my outgoing emails have been queueing up on my Fedora 19 server with some strange messages: > # mailq > /var/spool/mqueue (1 request) > -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient----------- > s75EJYwb013189* 3981 Tue Aug 5 10:19 <cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net> > (Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.localdomain.homeip) > <recipient(a)gmail.com> > Total requests: 1 It takes a manual flush (/usr/local/bin/runq, where runq is a script to run: sendmail -q) to send them out. Initially I thought this was a name server problem, but even after adding entries to /etc/hosts for localhost.localdomain.homeip.net (to point to 127.0.0.1) my sent emails keep queueing up and not being sent out. But I can now flush them manually. Any ideas what is wrong? And why is localhost.localdomain being prepended to my local domain name in the mqueue? I'm fairly sure this is my problem. What happened on July 30th? My yum logs show that no updates were applied between July 28 @ 22:46 and August 2 @ 00:50, but my outgoing emails started hanging up on July 29 or 30th.... I have resorted to adding a crontab entry to flush my mailq every 5 minutes in the meantime. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome(a)verizon.net cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net cummings(a)kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User #1232 (http://www.linuxcounter.net/)

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Re install Fedora 20
by Roger 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

I have Fedora 20 LVM but cannot access it due to grub error which defaults to grub rescue. Can I reinstall Fedora without touching the /home directory on an LVM please thanks Roger

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Fedora power management
by CLOSE Dave 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

I have some laptops running F20/KDE which, among other purposes, are acting as gateways to a private network. Most of the time these laptops are unattended -- no one is logged into the console -- but the gateway function must continue to run so that remote users can reach the private network. So I need to prevent these laptops from going to sleep. It appears that KDE's power management function applies to the user logged into the console. If a user is logged in, I can easily prevent sleep. But if the user logs out or the laptop is booted by a remote user, no power management seems to be active and they eventually go to sleep. Is there a way to keep the power management function active even when no one is logged into the console? -- Dave Close

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Thunderbird not displaying content of some messages
by Robert Moskowitz 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

I have some messages that Thunderbird is not displaying. And I looked back in a couple folder archives and messages that use to display are now not displaying. So obviously something changed. Anyone else seeing this? ANy tips? Anyone interested, I could forward one of the messages off-list.

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start of app starts in background
by awbestesq 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

hello, i have a niggling little problem. whenever i start a program, the window comes up at the bottom of the z-order, rather at the top. i have looked in the system setting where i saw nothing obvious. any assist is greatly appreciated. -- regards, awb

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F19 install and custom / RAID partitioning
by Gary Stainburn 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Hi folks. I'm building a F19 box to replace my dead Bacula server and I'm trying to emulate as close as possible the F17 install I did then. However, this install UI is different and I've got a small probem. I've got 2 x 3TG drives sda and sdb. I've selected both drives (sda defaulted to boot device) Selected Standard Partitioning I'm in manual partitioning have done 1) + Mount point = /biosboot capacity = 1MB got this bit by googling a previous error partition put on sda1 2) + Mount point = /boot capacity = 50GB Device type = RAID /biosboot is moved to sda2 3) + Mount point = SWAP capacity = 6GB Device type = RAID /biosboot is moved to sda3 4) + Mount point = / capacity = 100GB Device type = RAID /biosboot is moved to sda4 5) + Mount point = /var/bacula capacity = blank (default to remaining space) Device type = RAID At this point I press "Update settings" to store the details for the last partition. As soon as I press the button it goes wrong and either removes some of the partitions or all of them and I get the message Storage configuration reset due to unrecoverable error. Click for details On clicking I then get the message Can't have overlapping partitions. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to sort this.

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