GDM slow to accept password

[Robert Arkiletian]

Using Fedora 11 x86_64 and 12 i686

During login,  after selecting username it takes too long (up to 10
seconds) for gdm to present  the password prompt. However, if I simply
type in my password and hit enter before the password prompt appears,
the login is successful. I remember the password prompt would show up
much more quickly before. Has anyone seen this behaviour?

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uuid -> /dev/sdx partition resize

[Robert Arkiletian]

I have 1 drive /dev/sda (which is actually a hardware raid 10 array
but Fedora doesn't know that)

I want to resize my partitions bigger.
Going to use Clonezilla to make an image of each partition and save it
on another box.

Then re-partition and format new bigger partitions.
Then restore images with Clonezilla.

But I know UUID's will be wrong and I don't feel like creating new
ones. I just want to use /dev/sdx

Am I correct in assuming I only need to edit /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf
or is there anything else I need to edit?

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Re: uuid -> /dev/sdx partition resize

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Linuxguy123  wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 16:19 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>> I have 1 drive /dev/sda (which is actually a hardware raid 10 array
>> but Fedora doesn't know that)
>>
>> I want to resize my partitions bigger.
>> Going to use Clonezilla to make an image of each partition and save it
>> on another box.
>>
>> Then re-partition and format new bigger partitions.
>> Then restore images with Clonezilla.
>>
>> But I know UUID's will be wrong and I don't feel like creating new
>> ones. I just want to use /dev/sdx
>>
>> Am I correct in assuming I only need to edit /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf
>> or is there anything else I need to edit?
>
> I highly recommend using gparted.  I used it via Ubuntu 10.4 live.   I
> am not sure if its on the Fedora live distros or not.
>
> With gparted you don't need to copy any of the filesystem anywhere.  It
> will resize the partition and move the data on the drive without copying
> it anywhere.
>

My initial question remains.

Am I correct in assuming I only need to edit /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf
to boot from the new partitions?


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Re: uuid -> /dev/sdx partition resize

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Mikkel  wrote:
> On 06/25/2010 11:22 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>>
>> My initial question remains.
>>
>> Am I correct in assuming I only need to edit /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf
>> to boot from the new partitions?
>>
> You may have to re-install Grub. When you change the size of the
> /boot partation, you may change the physical location of Grub's
> stage 1.5 loader that understands the file system. Grub stage 1 only
> understands physical drive position, not file systems.
>

Thanks Mikkel,

That's what I wanted to know. So I will have to boot to linux rescue,
chroot to the system and issue grub-install /dev/sda
Does it matter if I use a F12 cd to do this on a F11 system?


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high i/o dirs

[Robert Arkiletian]

Rebuilding an nfs fileserver.  I want to put the high i/o directories
on a separate raid 1 array for performance. Currently everything is
under / in one raid 10 array.
How can I tell which directories, obviously other than /home, are
getting high reads and/or writes? Any tools to measure read/write i/o
per directory?

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Re: Continued kernel updates for F14?

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Christopher Svanefalk
 wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> for those of us who are a little reluctant about moving to Gnome3 just yet,
> does anyone know if there are plans to release rpms of kernel versions later
> than 2.6.35 for F14?
>

Is there any chance that Fedora will extend security updates for F14
until F16 comes out to allow time for gnome3 to improve?
+1 if you agree

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Re: Continued kernel updates for F14?

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Robert Arkiletian  wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Christopher Svanefalk
>  wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> for those of us who are a little reluctant about moving to Gnome3 just yet,
>> does anyone know if there are plans to release rpms of kernel versions later
>> than 2.6.35 for F14?
>>
>
> Is there any chance that Fedora will extend security updates for F14
> until F16 comes out to allow time for gnome3 to improve?
> +1 if you agree

Sorry I meant until F17


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preupgrade or netinstall from i686 to x86_64

[Robert Arkiletian]

I don't see an option in preupgrade to go from F13 i686 to F14 x86_64.
Is it possible?

Or is it possible with an F14 x86_64 netinstall iso disk?

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Vote to extend F14 security updates

[Robert Arkiletian]

I run Fedora in school computer lab. I cannot upgrade to F15 because
of gnome3. In order to help the community stay with Fedora, could
security updates for F14 be provided until F17 is released?
Hopefully by then gnome3 will be fully baked.

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Re: F15, diskless node, systemctl start tmpfs.device timeout

[Robert Arkiletian]

2011/9/5 Xiao Peng Wang :
> Hi,
>
> I made a diskless image against Fedora15, during the boot I found it
> displayed the following error message and went into emergency mode.
>

Not 100% sure but take a look at this

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/var-run-tmpfs

and also try

systemctl enable NetworkManager-wait-online.service


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Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Gregory P. Ennis  wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 08:18 +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
>> On 09/02/2011 04:25 AM, Peter G. wrote:
>> > Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>> >
>> >> I run Fedora in school computer lab. I cannot upgrade to F15 because
>> >> of gnome3.
>> > Boo hoo.
>> >
>>
>> He is not alone
>
> I agree, there are a lot of us that would like to extend F14.  The
> hardware requirements for F15 make a lot of equipment unusable; for sure
> these machines may be obsolete anyway, but one of the nice things about
> Fedora was that it would function on this equipment which meant a
> desktop could be put together very cheaply and used effectively with
> great software.
>
> I understand that transitions related to enhancements should occur, and
> in fact are required to occur.  What Fedora has done in this area is
> great However, some of us would sill like F14 to last another couple
> years :)


Well let's be realistic. An extra 6 months of *only* security updates
would be super. Time enough for F17.

gnome3 is an issue for ME because I introduced Linux to my school
populace 6 years ago. Students and staff have associated gnome2 with
Linux. They slowly got used to it. Now if I put gnome3 in front of
them, I can just imagine all the calls I'm going to get. "How do you
do this? It's different. What happened? Why can't I _? ."

I'm not interested in tutoring *everyone* in gnome3. I have lots of
other work. For those that say, use KDE, I can't as I run DRBL so all
clients are diskless with NFS root. KDE 4 performance is unacceptably
slow in that environment. XFCE is a viable option but, in all honesty,
it's a step backwards from gnome2. It's kind of like moving the Linux
desktop back 5 years. Doesn't give a comparable impression to Win7.
But it is an option.

Plus gnome3 is not the only problem with F15. Systemd is also an issue
because of the diskless, pxe boot, nfs root environment.

Simply put it's just too much change for my use case and my comfort
level at work.

But don't misunderstand me. I am appreciative with the pioneering work
that Fedora and Red Hat do. It's great to see things advance. It will
be interesting to see X replaced by Wayland and having a display
server that does not run with root privileges. My own personal desires
and my workplace requirements are not always the same though.


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Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Kevin Fenzi  wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 11:55:56 -0700
> Robert Arkiletian  wrote:
>
>>
>> Well let's be realistic. An extra 6 months of *only* security updates
>> would be super. Time enough for F17
>
> ...snip...
>
>> Simply put it's just too much change for my use case and my comfort
>> level at work.
>>
>> But don't misunderstand me. I am appreciative with the pioneering work
>> that Fedora and Red Hat do. It's great to see things advance. It will
>> be interesting to see X replaced by Wayland and having a display
>> server that does not run with root privileges. My own personal desires
>> and my workplace requirements are not always the same though.
>
> I'm curious... how would an extra 6 months help your case?
>
> F17 will still have gnome3 and systemd. I suppose it gives you more
> time to train up your users, but it's going to be a training/switchover
> sometime, no?

True. But I'm hoping issues with systemd will be ironed out by then
and "hopefully" gnome3 will have matured too.  Plus F14 support ends
in Dec (I think). I try to avoid distro upgrades mid school year. I
like to do big changes over the summer. I just upgraded from F13 this
summer. Honestly, I'm not holding my breath. I know extending F14
security updates (even just critical security updates) is probably not
going to happen. But no harm in asking. Do you think it's at all
possible?

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Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Joe Zeff  wrote:
> On 09/05/2011 11:55 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>> XFCE is a viable option but, in all honesty,
>> it's a step backwards from gnome2.
>
> How long has it been since you've tried it?  F14 comes with 4.6, F15 and
> up with 4.8, the most recent version.  If you haven't used it in several
> years, give it a spin; you may be pleasantly surprised.

Yeah, I did notice F15 comes with XFCE 4.8. Is it all that different from 4.6?


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Re: Using diskless clients in Fedora 14

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA)
 wrote:
> It's been a while since I've done anything with diskless clients.
>
> I've read and followed the steps Chapter 18 of the "Storage Admin Guide". My 
> cluster (server + 2 nodes) is working, but I have some questions:
>
> 1) The docs make it look like all the clients share the same filesystem and 
> mount it read-write. Wouldn't this cause problems? I recall in the older 
> versions there were separate directories for each client.
>
> 2) I've tried looking for a concrete examples of setting up a small diskless 
> cluster using Fedora 14.  Has anyone done it?
>

http://drbl.sourceforge.net/


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Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

[Robert Arkiletian]

Hi,

Using 'crontab -e' I set crond to play an ogg music file with ogg123.
But it only plays it if I'm logged in.
How does one make it play even if a different user is logged in or
nobody is logged in?

To debug I tried su - to another user and play the file. I got error

ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect:
Connection refused

=== Could not load default driver and no driver specified in config
file. Exiting.

So I'm thinking it's the same infrastructure to prevent others music
playing when you switch users. But in my case I *want* it to play. Any
ideas?

Thanks

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Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Frank Cox  wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 12:55 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>> So I'm thinking it's the same infrastructure to prevent others music
>> playing when you switch users. But in my case I *want* it to play. Any
>> ideas?
>
> /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms
>

I created a new perms file called 51-default.perms
and added

##
=/dev/snd/* /dev/snd
 0666  0666 root
##

rebooted (Did I need to?)

I now notice that the devices in /dev/snd are  crw-rw-rw-+. So Others
should be able to write to the device.  But I still cannot get cron to
play an ogg music file unless it's for the person currently  logged
in.

I have checked that the file plays fine when normally played so it's
not an issue with ogg123 or the music file. Here is my crontab line
(as tried for root)

30  12  *  *  1  /usr/bin/ogg123  /root/Mists_of_Time-4T.ogg

/var/log/cron tells me the command is issued but no sound from speakers.

Here's the funny part. If I ssh in (as a different user) and run
ogg123 from command line, sound plays on the sshd server machine. It
works!! But not if I set it to play using cron.  So basically one must
be logged in either at the machine or through ssh.

Also, if nobody is logged in, nothing is heard. But as soon as I log
into the user who has the cron job running, the sound comes on
immediately at login. If I then log out while the song is playing,
sound stops. Log back in and sound comes on again. Obviously, the
ogg123 process is running but the sound is being disconnected unless
the user is logged in.

wondering if udev rules is somehow responsible. Here is

/etc/udev/rules.d/90-alsa.rules

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="sound", KERNEL=="controlC*", \
  RUN+="/sbin/alsactl -E ALSA_CONFIG_PATH=/etc/alsa/alsactl.conf
--initfile=/lib/alsa/init/00main restore /dev/$name"
ACTION=="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="sound", KERNEL=="controlC*", \
  RUN+="/sbin/alsactl -E ALSA_CONFIG_PATH=/etc/alsa/alsactl.conf store
/dev/$name"

Any  ideas much appreciated?

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Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Frank Cox  wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 12:59 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>> Any  ideas much appreciated?
>
> Looks like you have the authorization for the sound device sorted out;
> there may also be something you have to do to tell pulseaudio to play
> sound for a user who is not currently logged in.
>
> I don't know enough about pulseaudio to guide you there; perhaps a
> google search for something like "pulseaudio user authentication" or
> "pulseaudio user authorization" will be of value?

Solved:

I simply removed pulseaudio and it works fine now. (on F11)

#yum remove pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio

I must say, I find it kind of Windows-Like of Pulseaudio to force
users to be logged in for audio to work. I think ALSA works just fine.

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Re: Fedora 13 networking performs extremely well

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Uwe Zimmermann  wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> our product "MIMIC Simulator" has been running on Fedora for a long time
> (eg. see
>
> http://www.gambitcomm.com/site/support/support_platforms.shtml
>
> ).  But, we have seen a steady decline in performance over successive
> versions of Fedora (eg. see
>
> http://gambitcomm.blogspot.com/2010/06/mimic-1030-performance-test-report-high.html
>
> Our application is somewhat unique in that it can create many (10s of
> thousands) IP aliases, opens sockets to multiple ports on each.
>
> Only with Fedora 13 (kernel version 2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64) have we
> seen a surprising performance improvement, where running 20,000 simulated
> agents is the same as running 10, in terms of networking performance. At
> first we could not believe it, but subsequent tests have confirmed that
> we indeed are seeing the improved performance. The specific improvement
> seems to be that the kernel seems to be efficiently demultiplexing among
> all open sockets to deliver received messages from the network card.
>
> Can some expert point me at a specific fix (spec, kernel module, source
> code revision) that could account for this? It would be in the networking
> code, possibly the socket demultiplexer. I have looked for this for a
> while and just cannot find it. This change would be after Fedora 12.
> Any hint would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Uwe Zimmermann
> Gambit Communications

F13 uses 2.6.33 but I know 2.6.35 has an improvement that could also
benefit you. Maybe Fedora devs included it in F13 but I doubt it.

>From 
>http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-2-6-35-1047707.html?artikelseite=1;page=2

"Google developer Tom Herbert submitted two major improvements to the
network subsystem of Linux 2.6.35: Receive Packet Steering (RPS) and
Receive Flow Steering (RFS). RPS distributes the processing steps for
handling received network packets across the available processor cores
so that these can work in parallel from the protocol layer onwards.
RFS, together with other functions, is said to offer a software
emulation of the multi-queue functionality found in network cards
(NICs).

RFS, the second technology, is based on the first and tries to assign
the processing of layer 3 and 4 of the network protocol directly to
the processor core which runs the userspace application that will
eventually accept and process the network data. The kernel hacker
gives a rough overview of how this is done in his commit comment in
the source code management system. This comment also contains various
test results which show that the throughput is increased a little
further with RFS; the benchmark results also show considerably shorter
latencies. Further details about these technologies can be found in an
article about RPS and RFS on LWN.net."

More technical info at LWN.net
http://lwn.net/Articles/362339/
https://lwn.net/Articles/382428/


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Kernel bug in F11

[Robert Arkiletian]

Any chance this
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Critical-Vulnerability-Silently-Patched-in-Linux-Kernel-152678.shtml

will be fixed for F11? I know F11 is EOL but sometimes this has been
overlooked if it's a really big bug, like this one.

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Can't build Gnash 0.8.8

[Robert Arkiletian]

Gnash 0.8.8 apparently now works 100% with Youtube. Considering that
there is no 64 bit flash from Adobe anymore, I tried building gnash
from source

http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnash/0.8.8

on F11 64bit but the mozilla plugin does not build.
./configure is not finding
/usr/include/gstreamer-0.10/gst/pbutils/install-plugins.h
I have both
gstreamer-devel-0.10.25-1.fc11.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-base-devel-0.10.25-3.fc11.x86_64
already installed so the header file exists.

Can someone try building it and share success or failure. Maybe I am
missing something. Thanks
I have posted a bug here
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30858

PS (I have also tried it on F12 32bit with same problem)
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Re: Advanced Format drives + RAID5 + LVM + EXT4 = migraine

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Jake Peavy  wrote:
...
>
>
> I have a feeling my array should perform much better than this and it's
> probably because I haven't taken the 4k sector size into account and I'm
> bleeding performance.
>
> Can anyone comment?  If I need to take the 4k sector size into account,
> where should I do so?  With partitions?  In pvcreate?  Some other place?  Or
> multiple places?
>

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-4kb-sector-disks/

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bonding and ip aliasing together possible?

[Robert Arkiletian]

Has anyone successfully created a bonded interface (bond0) with say
two nics AND also then aliased that interface to get bond0 and bond0:1
(for an alias ip)

I just want to know if it's possible and reliable.

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Re: bonding and ip aliasing together possible?

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Robert Arkiletian  wrote:
> Has anyone successfully created a bonded interface (bond0) with say
> two nics AND also then aliased that interface to get bond0 and bond0:1
> (for an alias ip)
>
> I just want to know if it's possible and reliable.

Forgot to mention it would be mode 4  802.3ad bonding


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X crashes on diskless NFS mounted / filesystem

[Robert Arkiletian]

d i915 1.6.0 20080730 for :00:02.0 on minor 0
HDA Intel :00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
  alloc irq_desc for 34 on node -1
  alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
HDA Intel :00:1b.0: irq 34 for MSI/MSI-X
HDA Intel :00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
vboxdrv: Warning: 2.6.31+ kernel detected. Most likely the hardware performance
vboxdrv: counter framework which can generate NMIs is active. You have
to prevent
vboxdrv: the usage of hardware performance counters by
vboxdrv:   echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_counter_paranoid
vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores.
VBoxDrv: dbg - g_abExecMemory=a02dc1c0
vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x262 offMax=0x1b12
vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 3.2.6_OSE (interface 0x00140001).


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Re: X crashes on diskless NFS mounted / filesystem

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:33 PM, JD  wrote:
>
> On 09/08/2010 07:59 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>> Fully updated F13 kernel 2.6.34.6-47.fc13.x86_64
>> I have even tried upgrading to xorg-x11-drv-intel 2.12 from koji ajax
>> build (no joy)
>>
>> The boot process fails launching X. It keeps showing
>>
>> init.orig: prefdm main process ended respawning
>> init.orig: prefdm main process [1913] terminated with status 1
>>
>> until it says respawning too fast, stopped
>>
>> I have tried setting an xorg.conf file and also without it (no joy)
>>
> Robert, what's this init.orig
> The init process is just called init,
> not init.orig.
> How many init programs do you have in /sbin ??
> Is /sbin/init a symlink to /sbin/init.orig?

Not sure. That's just what is displayed on the screen before it dies.
Ah now that I think of it it's probably the custom version of init
DRBL is using. DRBL is the diskless system I am using. See
http://drbl.org/

>
> anyhow... moving on...
>
> So, the reason prefdm re-spawns so fast is
> because gdm starts and dies causing prefdm
> to restart in order to respawn gdm.
>
> Why is gdm dying? It is because the Intel driver
> you selected in your xorg.conf has a serious bug.

Again not sure. I think X is crashing, read the Xorg log I pasted.
Unfortunately, I read you cannot issue nomodeset to the kernel at boot
in F13.

>
> Could you try to use the generic vga driver?
> You do that by editing your xorg.conf and setting
> the driver to vga (instead of intel).
> and restart.

Yes I already tried using "vesa" in xorg.conf. It works but it's
completely unusable for students in terms of performance (very slow)
and look as monitors are all widescreen lcd.

>
> Let us know.
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Re: X crashes on diskless NFS mounted / filesystem

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:04 PM, JD  wrote:
>
> On 09/08/2010 08:45 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>> Again not sure. I think X is crashing, read the Xorg log I pasted.
>> Unfortunately, I read you cannot issue nomodeset to the kernel at boot
>> in F13.
>>
> I am running F13 and I do have nomodeset in grub.conf.
> Could yout at least try it?
>

SOLVED. JD you are awesome!

DRBL automatically puts the kernel boot parameter nomodeset by
*default* for client systems. Not good. I removed it, and it works
now. JD, you saved me a lot of work.
Thank You  :-)

I will report to DRBL project their bug.

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How to disable KDE desktop option in GDM login

[Robert Arkiletian]

I want to disable KDE desktop option in GDM login, but I don't want to
remove all the KDE apps so yum remove @kde-desktop is not an option.


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Re: How to disable KDE desktop option in GDM login

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Tom Horsley  wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:02:04 -0700
> Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>
>> I want to disable KDE desktop option in GDM login, but I don't want to
>> remove all the KDE apps so yum remove @kde-desktop is not an option.
>
> /usr/share/xsessions/kde-safe.desktop
> /usr/share/xsessions/kde.desktop

Thanks Tom,

That worked perfectly. :-)


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Kernel 2.6.35 Receive packet steering for F13 ?

[Robert Arkiletian]

kernel 2.6.35 comes with RPS (Receive packet steering )
http://lwn.net/Articles/362339/

wondering if F13 already has this in 2.6.34?

I can't find a 2.6.35 kernel for F13 on koji. I want RPS in F13 any ideas?

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How to tell which user is active (which display is up)?

[Robert Arkiletian]

Assume there are two or more people logged in to separate X sessions
with "Switch User". If I ssh in to that box (as root), how can I tell
which user is the active one?
Put another way, is there any way to tell which display is currently
being shown.

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Re: Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:35 PM,   wrote:
> well I have the same problem. actually the mice of both of my two laptops
> don't work well with the clicking the touch pads. One is Lenovo, another is
> Dell Inspiron 6000. haven't got time to look into it. Hopefully it can be
> solved by driver updating.
>

try

synclient  TapButton1=1

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Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Liam Proven  wrote:
...
>
> There is no need for separating out admin binaries, user binaries,
> local binaries, graphical binaries etc. any more, and hasn't been for
> about 2 decades.

What about DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot Linux) and LTSP (Linux Terminal
Server Project)? If /usr is nfs mounted then booting becomes an issue.

It's important to remember that there are *many* different but valid
use cases. Similarly, I think Systemd is another big disruption for
these projects.
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Re: Can Fedora run on Lenovo ThinkPad T430?

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:46 AM, EGO.II-1  wrote:
> I've had Fedora running on a T-420 since FC18...and I've never had any
> problems. I'm thinking about getting a T-430, but if there's gonna be issues
> with the kernel or other featuresI might hold off until FC21.
>

Beware Lenovo has changed the keyboard (no more seventh row and large
ESC and DEL key) on the newer T430 chiclet keyboard. It's not as good
for programmers or sys admins using vim. They also took away the real
mouse buttons after the T430.
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Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Mickey  wrote:
...
> If I use Opera on those same websites I have no problems at all.
> As to why this is happening I do not know.

Don't use Opera.  Opera for the Linux desktop is pretty much
abandoned. Last update 12.16 was almost a year ago (july 2013). The
Windows version is at 21.0 released a week ago.
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Re: dnf errors on update

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Frank McCormick 
wrote:

> On 12/15/2015 01:21 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
>> On 12/15/2015 10:10 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/15/2015 01:00 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>
 On 12/15/2015 09:51 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:

> Having trouble trying to update Fedora 22 this morning.
>
>
> [root@localhost frankzen] # dnf update
> Failed to synchronize cache for repo
> 'rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing'
> from
> '
> http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-updates-testing-22&arch=i386':
>
>
> Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Curl error (7): Couldn't connect to
> server for
>
> http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-updates-testing-22&arch=i386
>
> [Failed to connect to mirrors.rpmfusion.org port 80: Connection timed
>
 Strange. isup.me reports mirrors.rpmfusion.org appears to be down.
>>> Everything else works on this machine including Google and imap email so
>>> I don't think it's a problem at this end. I'll reboot my router & modem
>>> anyway and
>>> we'll see.
>>>
>>
>> Actually, you're right. Just tried to update my laptop and got the
>> same timeouts for rpmfusion.org, but ONLY for rpmfusion.org:
>>
>> [root@golem4 ~]# dnf update
>> Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rpmfusion-free-updates' from '
>> http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-updates-released-22&arch=x86_64':
>> Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Curl error (7): Couldn't connect to
>> server for
>> http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-updates-released-22&arch=x86_64
>> [Failed to connect to mirrors.rpmfusion.org port 80: Connection timed
>> out], disabling.
>>
>> Everything else worked OK.
>>
>
>Guess we'll just have to wait. Is there a way to alert rpmfusion...or
> is it not needed ?
>
>
>
Same issue here.

http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org is down.
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Re: dnf system-upgrade fails with key verification

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Sam Varshavchik 
wrote:

> One upgrade to F23 succeeded. The second server fails, repeatedly with
> "dnf system-upgrade --releasever 23 download" resulting in:
>
> …
> [SKIPPED] zukitwo-gtk3-theme-0.0.2-1.fc23.noarch.rpm: Already downloaded
> [SKIPPED] zukitwo-gtk2-theme-0.0.2-1.fc23.noarch.rpm: Already downloaded
> warning:
> /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade/kernel-core-4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64.rpm: Header
> V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 34ec9cba: NOKEY
> Curl error (37): Couldn't read a file:// file for
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64 [Couldn't open file
> /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64]
> The downloaded packages were saved in cache till the next successful
> transaction.
> You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'.
>

I'm getting this exact same Curl error (37) trying to do a dnf
system-upgrade.

Except my warning is about libgudev-230-2.fc23.x86_64.rpm instead
of kernel-core-4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64.rpm as above.

Does anyone have a fix??
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Re: dnf system-upgrade fails with key verification

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Robert Arkiletian  wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Sam Varshavchik 
> wrote:
>
>> One upgrade to F23 succeeded. The second server fails, repeatedly with
>> "dnf system-upgrade --releasever 23 download" resulting in:
>>
>> …
>> [SKIPPED] zukitwo-gtk3-theme-0.0.2-1.fc23.noarch.rpm: Already downloaded
>> [SKIPPED] zukitwo-gtk2-theme-0.0.2-1.fc23.noarch.rpm: Already downloaded
>> warning:
>> /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade/kernel-core-4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64.rpm: Header
>> V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 34ec9cba: NOKEY
>> Curl error (37): Couldn't read a file:// file for
>> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64 [Couldn't open file
>> /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64]
>> The downloaded packages were saved in cache till the next successful
>> transaction.
>> You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'.
>>
>
> I'm getting this exact same Curl error (37) trying to do a dnf
> system-upgrade.
>
> Except my warning is about libgudev-230-2.fc23.x86_64.rpm instead
> of kernel-core-4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64.rpm as above.
>
> Does anyone have a fix??
>

going from f21 to f23

# dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=23
...
[SKIPPED] yum-utils-1.1.31-508.fc23.noarch.rpm: Already downloaded

[SKIPPED] zenity-3.18.1.1-1.fc23.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded

warning: /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade/libgudev-230-2.fc23.x86_64.rpm: Header
V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 34ec9cba: NOKEY
Curl error (37): Couldn't read a file:// file for
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64 [Couldn't open file
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64]
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Re: dnf system-upgrade fails with key verification

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Rick Stevens  wrote:

> On 12/18/2015 09:42 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Robert Arkiletian > <mailto:rob...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Sam Varshavchik
>> mailto:mr...@courier-mta.com>> wrote:
>>
>> One upgrade to F23 succeeded. The second server fails,
>> repeatedly with
>> "dnf system-upgrade --releasever 23 download" resulting in:
>>
>> …
>> [SKIPPED] zukitwo-gtk3-theme-0.0.2-1.fc23.noarch.rpm: Already
>> downloaded
>> [SKIPPED] zukitwo-gtk2-theme-0.0.2-1.fc23.noarch.rpm: Already
>> downloaded
>> warning:
>> /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade/kernel-core-4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64.rpm:
>> Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 34ec9cba: NOKEY
>> Curl error (37): Couldn't read a file:// file for
>> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64 [Couldn't open
>> file /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64]
>> The downloaded packages were saved in cache till the next
>> successful transaction.
>> You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'.
>>
>>
>> I'm getting this exact same Curl error (37) trying to do a dnf
>> system-upgrade.
>>
>> Except my warning is about libgudev-230-2.fc23.x86_64.rpm instead
>> of kernel-core-4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64.rpm as above.
>>
>> Does anyone have a fix??
>>
>>
>> going from f21 to f23
>>
>> # dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=23
>> ...
>> [SKIPPED] yum-utils-1.1.31-508.fc23.noarch.rpm: Already downloaded
>> [SKIPPED] zenity-3.18.1.1-1.fc23.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded
>> warning: /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade/libgudev-230-2.fc23.x86_64.rpm:
>> Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 34ec9cba: NOKEY
>> Curl error (37): Couldn't read a file:// file for
>> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64 [Couldn't open file
>> /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64]
>>
>
> Looks like a bug in the packaging of those RPMs. They should be
> specifying:
>
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-23-x86_64
>
> which is a symlink to:
>
> /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-23-primary
>
> (at least on my system it is). I'd bugzilla those RPMs (the libgudev and
> kernel-core RPMs).
>
>>
>>
Is there a workaround?
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Re: dnf system-upgrade fails with key verification

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Rick Stevens  wrote:

> On 12/18/2015 12:06 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Rick Stevens > > wrote:
>>
>>  file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-23-x86_64
>>
>> which is a symlink to:
>>
>>  /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-23-primary
>>
>>
>> I have run into the situation where this symlink still points to the
>> wrong place, which would cause any of the RPMs to fail the check. Look
>> to see if the symlink is actually pointing where it should. I've also
>> seen it try to use /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64, so check
>> to see that this one points to the correct Fedora version's key.
>>
>> There are clearly some bugs in dnf system-upgrade where setting up the
>> GPG keys isn't done correctly.
>>
>
> That's an issue, but what was scary to me was that the RPM was
> referencing a file or symlink that did NOT have the Fedora version
> in it--just "fedora-x86_64" rather than "fedora-23-x86_64". Something
> like a kernel that doesn't specify the version is a BAD thing (IMHO).
>
> In other words, I don't think this is a dnf issue, but rather an RPM
> packaging error (at least in these two cases).


easy workaround was --nogpgcheck option of dnf
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F23 login fails after logout

[Robert Arkiletian]

1) boot
2) login
3) logout
4) login (fails with correct password) I'm simply dumped back to the gdm
login screen


if I kill the remaining processes of the user which was logged in (systemd
and something else) with pkill -U user , then I can log back in.

Anyone experience this or have a fix?
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Re: Chess under Fedora-23

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Martin Skjöldebrand  wrote:

>
>
> On 08/03/16 09:05, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
> >
> > On 07/03/16 16:05, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >> Tim wrote:
> >>
> >>> Allegedly, on or about 06 March 2016, Timothy Murphy sent:
>  I have gnuchess, knights and xboard installed.
>  As I said, adding the --xboards option to gnuchess has no effect.
> >>> "xboard" vs "--xboards"
> >>>
> >>> Have you checked for simple typing and syntax errors?
> >> I'm not sure what you mean.
> >> According to "gnuchess -h" there is an option
> >>   -x, --xboard   start in engine mode
> > I had to try this as I am a national master class player, but haven't
> > used gnuchess nor xboard for anything for ages. As I read it the -x
> > switch description it means that -x formats gnuchess out/input for use
> > with xboard, but doesn't necessarily start xboard.
> >
> > Indeed
> >
> https://www.gnu.org/software/chess/manual/html_node/XBoard-chess-engine.html
> > indicates the correct incantation to start xboard with gnuchess as the
> > backend, namely
> >
> > xboard -fcp 'gnuchess --xboard'
> >
> knights --help-all doesn't reveal anything to load a specific engine
> from the command line
>
> Stockfish chess engine is also available for Linux.
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Re: can't switch from X to tty consoles

[Robert Arkiletian]

I am also experiencing this issue on F23 x86_64 on older hardware.

On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 12:51 PM, maderios  wrote:

> On 04/22/2016 09:04 PM, maderios wrote:
>
>> Sometimes with F23, after some hours, I can't switch from X to tty
>> consoles (ex, with ctrl+alt+f2). Consoles are frozen, I can switch only
>> to tty1, from which I started X with startx. All F23 kernel versions are
>> concerned, now kernel-4.4.7. Same problem happens with xfce4, fluxbox or
>> Enlightenment-0.20.x. I don't use any display manager like lightdm, gdm,
>> etc...
>>
>
> No answer... I reply to myself.
> Same problem with kernel-4.4.8-300
> It doesnt happen with debian testing or sid installed on another
> partition. So, it's not hardware problem.
>
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how to download F18 with rsync

[Robert Arkiletian]

Trying to dl F18 beta. Public mirror list shows which mirrors support
rsync. But I don't know  how to find dir path to iso. Hovering mouse
over rsync link doesn't show full path to iso.

rsync -Pv rsync://mirror---/Fedora-18-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso  .


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Re: how to download F18 with rsync

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Matthew Miller
 wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:55:41PM -0800, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>> Trying to dl F18 beta. Public mirror list shows which mirrors support
>> rsync. But I don't know  how to find dir path to iso. Hovering mouse
>> over rsync link doesn't show full path to iso.
>
> That's browser-specific, I think. I'm seeing the full URL in Firefox. But,
> in any case you should be able to right click and choose "copy link
> location" (or the equivalent in whatever browser you are using).
>
> That won't give you the whole path, though, if you're looking at the same
> mirror page I am. Try
>
> rsync -Pv 
> rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/test/18-Beta/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso
>  .
>
>
Using chrome.
I usually use the ftp site to find the correct path to use with rsync.
Kernel.org has the same dir structure for ftp and rsync so it's easy
but some others like Nexicom don't. Any other way to find the path.

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Re: how to download F18 with rsync

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Robert Arkiletian  wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Matthew Miller
>  wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:55:41PM -0800, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>>> Trying to dl F18 beta. Public mirror list shows which mirrors support
>>> rsync. But I don't know  how to find dir path to iso. Hovering mouse
>>> over rsync link doesn't show full path to iso.
>>
>> That's browser-specific, I think. I'm seeing the full URL in Firefox. But,
>> in any case you should be able to right click and choose "copy link
>> location" (or the equivalent in whatever browser you are using).
>>
>> That won't give you the whole path, though, if you're looking at the same
>> mirror page I am. Try
>>
>> rsync -Pv 
>> rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/test/18-Beta/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso
>>  .
>>
>>
> Using chrome.
> I usually use the ftp site to find the correct path to use with rsync.
> Kernel.org has the same dir structure for ftp and rsync so it's easy
> but some others like Nexicom don't. Any other way to find the path.
>

Never mind. Nexicom seems to use same dir structure as kernel.org.
Thanks for the help.


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Re: Do I need avahi?

[Robert Arkiletian]

It's not that bad. This page explains it clearly.

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/three-levels-of-off
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Re: gtk-recordmydesktop creates video completely out of sync with audio on F19

[Robert Arkiletian]

I have had the exact same issue with recordmydesktop for a long time.

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Ranjan Maitra
 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently recorded a lecture video at:
>
> https://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/~stat580/video/R-video2.ogv
>
> but the video seems to have been recorded at a supersonic speed. The
> audio is fine but as a result, completely out of sync with the video.
>
> Would anyone know of a way to bring back the audio and the video into
> sync? I prefer using tools available on Fedora.
>
> I have no clue as to how this happened. I have been recording such
> videos on Fedora for a long time (3 years), albeit on a different
> machine from this one, and I have never had this problem.
>
> I really don't want to go over and have to redo this video again. Other
> than the unnecessary effort, the big issue is that I have no way of
> knowing if the same problem will not recur.
>
> Many thanks again for any help you can possibly give!
>
> Best wishes,
> Ranjan
>
> 
> FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop!
> Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth
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fedup from f19 to f21 possible?

[Robert Arkiletian]

I have used fedup in the past to hop one version. f17 -> f19. Wondering if
it will work now from f19 -> f21?  I know f21 is a little special so I'm
wondering if anyone else has tried it?
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upgrade F12->F14 small /boot

[Robert Arkiletian]

I've got a F12 32bit box with raid1 (software mdadm) 200MB /boot. I
know I can't use preupgrade (/boot too small) but what about using an
F14 install DVD? Will that upgrade work?

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Re: upgrade F12->F14 small /boot

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Danishka Navin  wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Robert Arkiletian 
> wrote:
>>
>> I've got a F12 32bit box with raid1 (software mdadm) 200MB /boot. I
>> know I can't use preupgrade (/boot too small) but what about using an
>> F14 install DVD? Will that upgrade work?
>
> AFAIK, F12 > F13 > F14
>

You mean to say the small /boot part is ok but I can't go directly
from 12 to 14 using an install dvd?



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upgrade F12 with small raid1 boot partition

[Robert Arkiletian]

Going from F12 to F14
200MB /boot partition (software raid1)
I know Preupgrade won't work as /boot is too small.
Can I use an F14 netinstall cd with Anaconda to upgrade or does that
also require a larger /boot partition?

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Re: upgrade F12 with small raid1 boot partition

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Bruno Wolff III  wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 09:49:21 -0800,
>  Robert Arkiletian  wrote:
>> Going from F12 to F14
>> 200MB /boot partition (software raid1)
>> I know Preupgrade won't work as /boot is too small.
>> Can I use an F14 netinstall cd with Anaconda to upgrade or does that
>> also require a larger /boot partition?
>
> You should be able to use yum to do the upgrade. You'll probably need to
> handle a few quirks by hand. I have kitchen sync installs including some
> stuff from rpmfusion and I usually need to handle a few packages blocking
> upgrades of other packages. If you have a default install and are not
> using third party repos or one off packages, the upgrade may just work.
> There were a few release transitions that had special problems (e.g. there
> was one where the rpm format changed), but f12-f14 was long enough ago,
> that I don't remember if either of those was special. If so you may need
> to go from f12 to f13 and then to f14.
>
> As a side note, F14 is losing support in less than a month. It may make
> more sense to backup /home and /etc and do a fresh install of f16, restore
> /home and look to see if any of your change in /etc need to be ported.
> Doing that would possibly be faster than a series of upgrades.
>


Here is a question.
Currently got /boot as a separate raided partition. What if I boot
into linux rescue mode with install cd and copy /boot dir to the /
partition. Essentially removing the separate /boot partition. Then
edit

/etc/fstab  (remove /boot partition mount)
/boot/grub/grub.conf

to point to the right partition. Then re-install grub to the mbr.  Do
I also need to rebuild my initrd image too?

It should reboot fine correct?

I don't really care about losing use of that 200MB array. It's so
small. Shouldn't I be able to use preupgrade then without issue?

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Re: upgrade F12 with small raid1 boot partition

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Robert Arkiletian  wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Bruno Wolff III  wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 09:49:21 -0800,
>>  Robert Arkiletian  wrote:
>>> Going from F12 to F14
>>> 200MB /boot partition (software raid1)
>>> I know Preupgrade won't work as /boot is too small.
>>> Can I use an F14 netinstall cd with Anaconda to upgrade or does that
>>> also require a larger /boot partition?
>>
>> You should be able to use yum to do the upgrade. You'll probably need to
>> handle a few quirks by hand. I have kitchen sync installs including some
>> stuff from rpmfusion and I usually need to handle a few packages blocking
>> upgrades of other packages. If you have a default install and are not
>> using third party repos or one off packages, the upgrade may just work.
>> There were a few release transitions that had special problems (e.g. there
>> was one where the rpm format changed), but f12-f14 was long enough ago,
>> that I don't remember if either of those was special. If so you may need
>> to go from f12 to f13 and then to f14.
>>
>> As a side note, F14 is losing support in less than a month. It may make
>> more sense to backup /home and /etc and do a fresh install of f16, restore
>> /home and look to see if any of your change in /etc need to be ported.
>> Doing that would possibly be faster than a series of upgrades.
>>
>
>
> Here is a question.
> Currently got /boot as a separate raided partition. What if I boot
> into linux rescue mode with install cd and copy /boot dir to the /
> partition. Essentially removing the separate /boot partition. Then
> edit
>
> /etc/fstab          (remove /boot partition mount)
> /boot/grub/grub.conf
>
> to point to the right partition. Then re-install grub to the mbr.  Do
> I also need to rebuild my initrd image too?
>
> It should reboot fine correct?
>
> I don't really care about losing use of that 200MB array. It's so
> small. Shouldn't I be able to use preupgrade then without issue?

Oh Oh. I forgot. My / is ext4. F12 can't boot off ext4 filesystem. But
I know F14 *can*. Hmm.

So if I go ahead with this plan to get rid of my /boot partition, I
won't be able to boot back into F12 to run preupgrade.  AAHH! This is
frustrating.

What will happen if I just copy /boot to /boot2 in / partition.
Then change

/etc/fstab

and

rename /boot to /boot1  (original boot dir)
rename /boot2 to /boot  (new boot dir)

fix  the new grub.conf to point to the second raid array (not the first)

So my original /boot array is still there but renamed to boot1.
Then I run preupgrade. Will that work?



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Script to globally set startup applications for all users

[Robert Arkiletian]

I'm writing a bash script to push "Preferences/Startup Applications"
settings to all users. I've tried changing the setting manually for
one user then looking at what files have changed. I found

.config/autostart
.gconfd/saved_state

both change. I thought about copying those 2 files to all users homes
but I'm afraid I may change more than just startup app settings.

Anyone have advice how to do this?

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Re: Writing a book w/F16?

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
 wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 10:17 +, Ian Malone wrote:
>> On 11 December 2011 08:31, Jussi Lehtola  
>> wrote:
>> > On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:18:33 -0500
>> > Tom Horsley  wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:39:57 -0430
>> >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > The irony is that once you
>> >> > learn a few basics, LaTeX is also easier and quicker for writing
>> >> > those 1-page memos!
>> >>
>> >> Only if you write them frequently enough to remember the
>> >> LaTeX commands :-).
>> >
>> > .. or if you use LyX.
>>
>> Agree about LyX, writing LaTeX is another distraction from writing
>> content, with LyX you can write and then adjust things later more
>> easily. Cut and paste is better because LyX can worry about sections
>> for you.
>
> I'll just put in a good word for Kile (a KDE LaTeX tool), though I last
> used it a few years back.
>
> poc
>

I too prefer Kile over LyX. But I like Texmaker the best.

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Re: Pulseaudio strikes again!

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:22 PM, David A. De Graaf  wrote:
> Does anyone know how to allow root and users other than me to use the
> sound system?
>
> Ever since pulseaudio was introduced in Fedora 8 and Mr. Lennart
> Poettering inflicted his peculiar ideas of security on us, the default
> installation hasn't worked properly, despite many BZ's and copious
> complaints!  Specifically, pulseaudio invents the "seat" and only the
> one person in the "seat" can use the sound system.  This precludes
> having root, or anyone else, from generating sounds - presumably it's a
> security risk.  Bosh!

Yup. Ran into this problem trying to make an alarm clock with atd or
crond. Can't have sound unless you are logged in. I had to totally
remove PA and just use alsa. But I know that's not possible any more.
Now we have systemd too. Joy.

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Fedup from 17 -> 19 okay?

[Robert Arkiletian]

Can I skip 18 and upgrade from 17 to 19 with fedup?
Has anyone tried this with success or failure?
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Re: Fedup from 17 -> 19 okay?

[Robert Arkiletian]

If anyone is interested, it worked fine.

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Robert Arkiletian  wrote:
> Can I skip 18 and upgrade from 17 to 19 with fedup?
> Has anyone tried this with success or failure?
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