fedora 20 to 21
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I wish to update a fedora 20 installation to 21 by using a DVD.
Is it possible?
Actually, I burn a DVD bootable server fedora 21, but I did not find
the option update.
When I go to installation
then System, I can select my hard drive and manually partitioning
I can see the installed system (/ /boot and swap)
I can install fedora 21 but not on the same partition (I can reuse /boot)
I have to install it on a new /
I cannot have a mounting point / on the old fedora /
This seems to indicate that I cannot upgrade from this DVD.
How do you update a fedora 20 without network?
Thank.
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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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7 years, 3 months
chown ?
by Mickey
Fedora 20
I have a User Directory named "kitty" I want to change all the
directories. files to the owner kitty .
There are some other owners of files that I want to change to kitty.
chown -R kitty kitty:kitty
Is this Correct ?
7 years, 3 months
kded issue
by Martín Marqués
Hi all,
I have a laptop with Fedora 20 (IIRC I had F19 and upgraded like 6 or 7
months ago to F20) and everything was working great til a few weeks ago.
The problem is that every now and then, when I try to sent the laptop to
sleep, by closing the top or pressing Fn+F4, it doesn't full finish the
sleep process.
Let me explain this last thing:
It takes some time for the laptop to sleep, and when you open the top and
press any key it wakes up but the screen isn't blocked and kded is draining
the CPU (I mean kded is hanged). This means that most kde applications
won't work (NM won't authenticate, for example)
The only way to get back is to kill -9 kded (yes, kill -15 doesn't kill
it), and start it again.
I'm going to install debugging symbols now so that next time I can gdb on
the process.
Anyway, has anybody else experienced this?
--
Martín Marqués
select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com'
DBA, Programador, Administrador
7 years, 3 months
not able of booting into rescue mode
by Angelo Moreschini
Hi,
I'm not able of booting fedora 20 into rescue mode.
In the manuals is wrote:
Once you have booted, using one of the described methods, (booting from a
boot CD-ROM or DVD, ..., ...)
add the keyword rescue as a kernel parameter.
For example, for an x86 system, type the following command at the
installation boot prompt:
linux rescue
etc ...............
*but I can not see any prompt* where I can type
that command.
When I boot from my disk of installation (fedora live 20)
I get (only) the following menu:
-
start fedora live in basic graphic mode;
- test this media and start fedora live
- run a boot memory test
- boot from local drive
- return to main menu
( I opt for the first option (of course) and so by the installation of the
OS)
nothing to do with a recovery procedure .....
What am I doing wrong ?
Regards
Thank you
Angelo
7 years, 3 months
Mediacast to TV
by Patrick O'Callaghan
I have a smart TV (Sony Bravia) and can use Android Cast Screen from my
phone or tablet to see content. Apparently it also works with the Apple
equivalent. Is there a way to do this from my F21 desktop?
poc
7 years, 3 months
Old Kernel Modules Directories not Cleaned up
by Stephen Morris
Hi,
DNF is currently configured to keep 3 kernel versions, consequently
when I exceed that number of kernels it automatically uninstalls the
oldest kernel, which I don't have any issues with, but what I do have an
issue with is when these uninstalls are done it does not clean up the
/lib/modules directories, they are left lying around. I had to delete a
dozen of these directories this morning manually, why are these not
removed when the associated kernels are removed? I didn't check what was
in these directories, but I do have the nvidia and virtualbox kernel
drivers installed as well, is it possible the removal of these when the
associated kernel is removed is not cleaning up properly?
regards,
Steve
7 years, 3 months
Re: fedora 21 booting error with 3.17 & 3.18 kernels-SOLVED- still need info
by Paul Cartwright
I finally let the boot sequence error out, took about 5 minutes. I got
this line:
Dracut-initqueue[283] Warning: Cancelling resume operation. device not
found.
then the next line showed the UUID, ending in c063. That was the OLD
swap partition. I rebuilt the swap partition, did the swapon, and added
that UUID to /etc/fstab. Still errored out with same error. I removed
the 3.18.3-201 kernel & headers & module, reinstalled them, and now it
works. where is that old swap info kept, if not in /etc/fstab?? I
grepped for c063 in /boot and found entries in System.map-3.18.3-201...
but I am not sure it was the actual swap partition.
> running fedora 21 x86_64
> I was redoing my drive partitions, reran grub2-install, and now I get
> stuck, and the boot won't complete when I select any 3.17 or 3.18
> kernel. I have the latest 3.18.3-201 installed. 3.16 kernel booted..
> I see what looks like dracut errors. Not sure what to do, google wasn't
> much help.
> /var/log/messages shows:
> Jan 29 03:00:05 pauls-server systemd: Started dracut pre-mount hook.
> Jan 29 03:00:05 pauls-server systemd: Started dracut mount hook.
> Jan 29 03:00:05 pauls-server systemd: Starting dracut pre-pivot and
> cleanup hook...
> Jan 29 03:00:05 pauls-server systemd: Started dracut pre-pivot and
> cleanup hook.
> Jan 29 03:00:05 pauls-server systemd: Stopping dracut pre-pivot and
> cleanup hook...
>
>
> not very descriptive.. suggestions on where to look or what is wrong?
> right now I am booted into fedora 20, using the same /home.. it's just
> that not everything works..
> uname -a
> Linux pauls-server 3.16.7-200.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 30 18:12:41 UTC
> 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
--
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
7 years, 3 months
Annoyances with mate DT
by JD
For a while (like a few weeks), mate was saving the apps running on the
DT when I shutdown the system, and they would be auto started on reboot.
Slowly, some apps no longer get started.
This behavior first manifested 2 or 3 months ago when the mate-terminals
would no longer be started on reboot.
Then it was ktorrent.
Now, added to that is smplayer.
I had raised a bug with mate, but the bug report was rejected.
I am on the verge of dumping Mate altogether. Cinnamon is just
not mature enough, and I literally detest gnome3. It does nothing
that I want or like.
Hope that future fedora users who want to switch to mate might
see this and decide if they still want to run mate.
7 years, 3 months
No graphics
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I cannot run in graphic mode in fedora 21!!!!!
It is an intel Q965 card
What would I do?
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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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7 years, 3 months
DRM MM Objects?
by Andy Blanchard
Just upgraded a box at home to new hardware with embedded Intel
graphics (i5 Haswell), did a clean install of Fedora 21, and while
poking around trying to fix a few issues while rebuilding my config
spotted something I've not noticed before. With KDE running "lsof"
lists over a thousand entries like this:
Xorg.bin 659 662 root DEL REG 0,4
16016 /drm mm object
Xorg.bin 659 662 root DEL REG 0,4
16011 /drm mm object
kwin 964 zocalo DEL REG 0,4
38725 /drm mm object
kwin 964 zocalo DEL REG 0,4
19275 /drm mm object
QProcessM 964 986 zocalo DEL REG 0,4
19277 /drm mm object
QProcessM 964 986 zocalo DEL REG 0,4
47240 /drm mm object
These are the only three processes that appear to own these files, and
the number of entries appears to fluctuate as windows are
opened/closed, and other GUI events happen.
A Google search comes up with a bunch of stuff about memory leaks from
a few years ago, plus some documention on Kernel memory management,
but I couldn't find anything that explains what these "/drm mm object"
entries are, whether this is normal behaviour, or if there is
potentially a problem.
Any ideas?
--
Andy
The only person to have all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe
7 years, 3 months
