systemd: Failed at step CGROUP spawning ...
by Neal Becker
any idea of what this message means?
systemd: Failed at step CGROUP spawning /usr/lib/systemd/systemd: No such file
or directory
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-- Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it
9 years, 2 months
Recovering a Crashed Fedora
by Mickey
I have a Fedora 15 hard drive that crashed and I want save the Users files.
I have a Fedora 20 Live Cd on the computer and I can read the users home
directory.
I want to do a tar -cvf on the Users home directory and temporyly store
it on my PC until I do a complete install of fedora 20 on the crashed
drive.
I'm going to remove the hard drive from the crashed computer to my PC
and tar -cvf from there and tempory store the tar file there until I
make the new install.
But what I'm concerned about is that Root will change the owner of the
Tar files. after i do the new install it will have the same user on the
crashed drive.
Then I will put the user files back onto the new Fedora 20 install.
9 years, 2 months
rpm option --import
by JD
is not shown in the manpage nor is it displayed when
running rpm --help
Hope the devs lurking on this list see this
and look into other undocumented options and
document them in the man page.
I gamble that there are many *nix* and *nux* man pages
and help menus that have this issue.
9 years, 2 months
Suddenly can't get nameserver resolution on FC21 after ...
by William W. Austin
I have a Linux workstation with 2 network cards - one to get to the internet (so that I can work remotely from my home office) and one for my local lan (other machines, printers, etc.)
About a week ago I updated it from FC20 to FC21 and had absolutely no problems. Everything was working smoothly and I was able to use both networks with no problems. Then one of my 2 network cards "died" (SIDS I think) and I replaced it with another of a different model. I did have to system-config-network-gui to set the network parameters correctly and for two days it ran fine.
However I had a system crash (bad disk) yesterday (user files - nothing related to the system) and after that I replaced the drive and rebooted. However from that point on I no longer get name resolution from my ISP's 2 name servers. The new card is still working correctly (and if I know the IP address I can get to my office, web pages, etc. However if I try to do a ping <host> or nslookup <host> or traceroute <host>, I have to wait until the command times out (or hit delete and kill the command) and eventually I get a variation on "CANNOT CONNECT TO HOST" or some such.
I have checked my ifcfg-* files under /etc/sysconfig/ (all 3 links of each of the 2 nics) and they are unchanged.
My /etc/hosts file is unchanged, and there is nothing in /var/log messages to indicate what the problem is (nor does dmesg show anything unexpected).
In short I have a heavy-duty workstation which should be able to connect to the internet but can't.
Any suggestions will be appreciated, and any requests for further information will be answered. This one is driving me crazy at this point.
Thanks in advance,
- wwa
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william w. austin airedad(a)att.net
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
9 years, 2 months
Net install of Fedora 21: use local "installation source"
by Chris Stankevitz
Hello,
My company has a fedora mirror. I can configure an already-running
fedora installation to use this mirror by modifying these files:
yum.repos.d
baseurl=https://maggie.toyon.corp/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
fedora-updates.repo
baseurl=https://maggie.toyon.corp/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
Question:
While installing using Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-21.iso, what do I
specify for the installation source as described in section 5.4.6 of
the fedora installation guide[1]?
a) Select "https://" from the combo box and type
"maggie.toyon.corp/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/"
in the text box.
b) Select "https://" from the combo box and type
"maggie.toyon.corp/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/" in the text
box
c) [something else]
BTW options (a) and (b) don't work :)
Thank you,
Chris
[1] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/21/html/Installation_Guide/sec...
9 years, 2 months
Does anyone have fake flash drives?
by Richard Hughes
Hi all,
I've added some initial functionality to gnome-multi-writer yesterday
to detect fake flash drives. If anyone has any USB storage drives that
they know misreport their true capacity, or that they suspect might be
counterfeit, I'd appreciate some testing of a new command line tool.
See http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2015/01/28/detecting-fake-flash/ for details.
If it works, I'll probably move the code down into udisks so that it
can be used from gnome-disks as well, but I'm hesitant to do that
until I've had more people test it. Thanks,
Richard.
9 years, 2 months
SMS VMG reader
by Max Pyziur
Greetings,
Is there a Linux-based RPM-distributed reader of VMG files.
>From what I can tell, SMS messages are stored in VMG files, a text file
that is marked-up similarly to VCF files.
Much thanks!
Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com
9 years, 2 months
Latest Java-openjdk upgrade
by Kevin Cummings
I updated to java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64 1:1.7.0.75-2.5.4.2.fc20 today
(along with the java-1.7.0-openjdk-headless and java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel
packages). After the upgrade, nothing java related would run. (not the
compiler, not the jar command, and I couldn't run any pre-built .jars.)
The error was:
> Error occurred during initialization of VM
> java/lang/ClassFormatError: Unknown constant tag 99 in class file java/lang/Class
Downgrading back to java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64 1:1.7.0.60-2.4.3.0.fc20 et
al fixed the problem.
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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/)
9 years, 2 months