Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2015-03-17 at 21:22 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >> Sounds like a UI bug. > > Agreed. And, it would appear, that becomes a "don't really care about > fixing it" issue, as sound still works, even if the controls are > backwards. > >> Are you tal

Re: Could someone explain why thunderbird creates so many processes per folder

2015-03-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17Mar2015 14:51, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 03/14/2015 04:17 PM, jd1008 wrote: $ lsof | grep Sent thunderbi 3165 jd 37u REG 8,19 3107745 62260168 /sdb3/home/jd/.thunderbird/jd1008/Mail/pop.googlemail.com/Sent.msf Gecko_IOT 3165 3192 jd 37u REG 8

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/18/15 12:42, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/17/2015 08:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> 2. how to provide useful debugging info - if the user will not test a >> non-tainted kernel I see no possible way for an automated system to >> know where to file the bug > > You are assuming that it's practical (or

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/17/2015 08:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> 2. how to provide useful debugging info - if the user will not test a >> non-tainted kernel I see no possible way for an automated system to >> know where to file the bug > > > You are assuming th

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2015-03-17 at 21:22 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > Sounds like a UI bug. Agreed. And, it would appear, that becomes a "don't really care about fixing it" issue, as sound still works, even if the controls are backwards. > Are you talking about tainted kernels (3rd party, out of tree kernel

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/17/2015 08:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: 2. how to provide useful debugging info - if the user will not test a non-tainted kernel I see no possible way for an automated system to know where to file the bug You are assuming that it's practical (or even possible) to run without a tainted kern

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2015-03-17 at 14:51 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >> If you know the site already, why not just file the bug directly on >> that bugzilla? Why does it need to be automated? > > As a general response, I'd say that: > > People are more likely to mak

Cannot umount ntfs-36 with umount command

2015-03-17 Thread dabicho
Hello I am having a problem with umountint an ntfs-3g mounted filesystem This is the output I get from the commands [siirfe@010121 ~]$ mount /mnt/mac/ [siirfe@010121 ~]$ mount |grep mac /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/mac type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1002,group_id=1002,allow_other,blk

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2015-03-17 at 14:51 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > If you know the site already, why not just file the bug directly on > that bugzilla? Why does it need to be automated? As a general response, I'd say that: People are more likely to make a bug report if it's not a protracted exercise for th

Re: Unexpected bios behavior??? due to connection of an external drive.

2015-03-17 Thread jd1008
On 03/17/2015 06:45 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 03/17/2015 04:23 PM, jd1008 wrote: On this old dell (dual pentium), connecting the external drive (a seagate 2TB external 2.5" "backup plus" drive. When I got the drive, I connected it after booting into fedora. Partition 1 contained some window

Re: Unexpected bios behavior??? due to connection of an external drive.

2015-03-17 Thread jd1008
On 03/17/2015 06:43 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: No bootloader code. It has no partition 1 or 2 entry, they're in 3 and 4. Ooosp! Right. They are indeed. there are no other partitions. I guess you already saw my response to Joe Zeff?? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: Unexpected bios behavior??? due to connection of an external drive.

2015-03-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > It's pretty common for the BIOS to, by default, try to boot external > media (CD ROM, USB, eSATA and such) BEFORE booting a local hard disk. If it's common, it's a good reason to consider parted's behavior a bug these days, because it guaran

Re: Unexpected bios behavior??? due to connection of an external drive.

2015-03-17 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/17/2015 04:23 PM, jd1008 wrote: On this old dell (dual pentium), connecting the external drive (a seagate 2TB external 2.5" "backup plus" drive. When I got the drive, I connected it after booting into fedora. Partition 1 contained some windows related stuff for backup. I backed it up to a

Re: F21 - SSH slow at some things

2015-03-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/17/2015 08:38 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 03/17/2015 05:23 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: This is really a problem that I have had since I installed F21. It was a clean install, not an update. Anyway, when I connect to various servers that are setup for user/paswd login, it is a while befo

Re: Unexpected bios behavior??? due to connection of an external drive.

2015-03-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 6:28 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 03/17/2015 06:19 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> dd if=/dev/sdX count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C > > # dd if=/dev/sdb bs=440 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > || >

Re: Unexpected bios behavior??? due to connection of an external drive.

2015-03-17 Thread jd1008
On 03/17/2015 06:31 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/17/2015 05:04 PM, jd1008 wrote: Sorry, my bad!! I meant partition 1 as ext4. Thank you; that seems much more reasonable. Well, I just rebooted. I looked into the bios, and the boot order was to boot from 1. cd/dvd 2. usb drive 3. internal drive

Re: F21 - SSH slow at some things

2015-03-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/17/2015 08:23 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: This is really a problem that I have had since I installed F21. It was a clean install, not an update. Anyway, when I connect to various servers that are setup for user/paswd login, it is a while before I see the password prompt. After worki

Re: F21 - SSH slow at some things

2015-03-17 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/17/2015 05:23 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: This is really a problem that I have had since I installed F21. It was a clean install, not an update. Anyway, when I connect to various servers that are setup for user/paswd login, it is a while before I see the password prompt. After working on

Re: Unexpected bios behavior??? due to connection of an external drive.

2015-03-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/17/2015 05:04 PM, jd1008 wrote: Sorry, my bad!! I meant partition 1 as ext4. Thank you; that seems much more reasonable. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of

Re: Unexpected bios behavior??? due to connection of an external drive.

2015-03-17 Thread jd1008
On 03/17/2015 06:19 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: dd if=/dev/sdX count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C # dd if=/dev/sdb bs=440 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 || * 01b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Re: Unexpected bios behavior??? due to connection of an external drive.

2015-03-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:23:30 -0600 jd1008 wrote: > Now, if I power up with this external drive connected (usb3), > all I get is a cursor at upper left corner. Sounds to me like the bios is trying to boot from that drive and can't handle it gracefully. I'd see if you can change the BIOS boot setti

F21 - SSH slow at some things

2015-03-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
This is really a problem that I have had since I installed F21. It was a clean install, not an update. Anyway, when I connect to various servers that are setup for user/paswd login, it is a while before I see the password prompt. After working on the system for a while, the session is sudden

Re: Unexpected bios behavior??? due to connection of an external drive.

2015-03-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 6:08 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 03/17/2015 05:58 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> The solution is to go to firmware setup and define a different drive >> as primary. Or zero the first 440 bytes of the external drive e.g. dd >> if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=440 count=1 > > Intere

Re: kernel-core-3.18.9-200.fc21.x86_64 fails to boot

2015-03-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/18/15 08:05, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/16/15 21:13, Tom Horsley wrote: >> according to http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia you now need >> something absurd like:"kernel-devel-uname-r == $(uname -r)" >> added to the yum command. > I don't think that is anything new under the sun. On the initial

Re: Unexpected bios behavior??? due to connection of an external drive.

2015-03-17 Thread jd1008
On 03/17/2015 05:58 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 5:23 PM, jd1008 wrote: Partition 2 is 8GB swap partition. I formatted partition 2 ext4. I'm confused because this seems like partition 2 is swap and ext4. Now, if I power up with this external drive connected (usb3), all

Re: Unexpected bios behavior??? due to connection of an external drive.

2015-03-17 Thread jd1008
On 03/17/2015 05:58 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: The solution is to go to firmware setup and define a different drive as primary. Or zero the first 440 bytes of the external drive e.g. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=440 count=1 Interesting. I used fdisk. I guess fdisk does not clear those first 440

Re: kernel-core-3.18.9-200.fc21.x86_64 fails to boot

2015-03-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/16/15 21:13, Tom Horsley wrote: > according to http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia you now need > something absurd like:"kernel-devel-uname-r == $(uname -r)" > added to the yum command. I don't think that is anything new under the sun. On the initial install that is just ensuring you're inst

Re: Unexpected bios behavior??? due to connection of an external drive.

2015-03-17 Thread jd1008
On 03/17/2015 05:56 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/17/2015 04:23 PM, jd1008 wrote: Partition 2 is 8GB swap partition. I formatted partition 2 ext4. Why, and how? I don't think I've ever seen anaconda ask how a swap partition is to be formatted, because the kernel doesn't use a filesystem when

Re: Unexpected bios behavior??? due to connection of an external drive.

2015-03-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 5:23 PM, jd1008 wrote: > Partition 2 is 8GB swap partition. > I formatted partition 2 ext4. I'm confused because this seems like partition 2 is swap and ext4. > Now, if I power up with this external drive connected (usb3), > all I get is a cursor at upper left corner.

Re: Unexpected bios behavior??? due to connection of an external drive.

2015-03-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/17/2015 04:23 PM, jd1008 wrote: Partition 2 is 8GB swap partition. I formatted partition 2 ext4. Why, and how? I don't think I've ever seen anaconda ask how a swap partition is to be formatted, because the kernel doesn't use a filesystem when reading/writing swap so the partition is le

Re: Question about TB

2015-03-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/17/2015 04:06 PM, jd1008 wrote: If that's not what you want, then select your Name-Removed-by-me account, make sure that the option to "Place a copy" of your sent mail is checked, and then select whatever folder you want to store mail for that account. You misunderstood. I meant that accou

Unexpected bios behavior??? due to connection of an external drive.

2015-03-17 Thread jd1008
On this old dell (dual pentium), connecting the external drive (a seagate 2TB external 2.5" "backup plus" drive. When I got the drive, I connected it after booting into fedora. Partition 1 contained some windows related stuff for backup. I backed it up to another drive. I partitioned the drive

Re: Question about TB

2015-03-17 Thread jd1008
On 03/17/2015 03:58 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 03/14/2015 03:45 PM, jd1008 wrote: All of the items under copies and folders (sent, archives, drafts and templates), are being saved in @gmail.com so are those in the account jd1008. It gets very hard to interpret support requests when you re

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 03:29:55PM -0600, jd1008 wrote: > Also, how about abrt CREATE the full report, and let the user > save it in a file, and submit it to anyone s/he desires? > Is THAT too much to ask for??? Well, you can _ask_ for anything. It is definitely too much to expect someone else to

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 17, 2015 3:30 PM, "jd1008" wrote: > > Because the user is not provided with an easy > way to generate the crash report with a full stack dump > of all the CPUS, the full contents of RAM and the full > kernel binary - so that the dev (who would work on the report) > can do a reasonable sta

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 02:46:15PM -0600, jd1008 wrote: > >Why bother with this infrastructure if no one is going to look at > >the reports or do anything about them? > They are bugzilla servers, and follow the same protocol of bug > submission as the fedora and the redhat report submission protoco

Re: Question about TB

2015-03-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/14/2015 03:45 PM, jd1008 wrote: All of the items under copies and folders (sent, archives, drafts and templates), are being saved in @gmail.com so are those in the account jd1008. It gets very hard to interpret support requests when you redact the pertinent information. If all of the

Re: Could someone explain why thunderbird creates so many processes per folder

2015-03-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/14/2015 04:17 PM, jd1008 wrote: $ lsof | grep Sent thunderbi 3165 jd 37u REG 8,19 3107745 62260168 /sdb3/home/jd/.thunderbird/jd1008/Mail/pop.googlemail.com/Sent.msf Gecko_IOT 3165 3192 jd 37u REG 8,19 3107745 62260168 /sdb3/home/jd/.thunde

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread jd1008
On 03/17/2015 02:51 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 03/17/2015 01:26 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: If the kernel aborts and abrt determines it's a tainted kernel, then it could pop up this list of additional sites and let the user report the crash to

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-17 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 17.03.2015, stan wrote: >> >> I think cgroups are integrated into Fedora, and so the CFS with >> cgroup is required. Thus, BFS will probably not work in Fedora, >> as it has no support for cgroups. > > CFS is not required at all, and so are

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 03/17/2015 01:26 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> a. It actually has to communicate with a server, so whose hosting this >> "other" bugzilla? > > > I think the point here is that a user could configure ADDITIONAL > bugzilla sites. Do you have e

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread jd1008
On 03/17/2015 02:41 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 03/17/2015 01:26 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:15 PM, jd1008 wrote: On 03/16/2015 02:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/16/2015 12:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Just because the crash doesn't occur in an out of tree module, do

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread jd1008
On 03/17/2015 02:26 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:15 PM, jd1008 wrote: On 03/16/2015 02:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/16/2015 12:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Just because the crash doesn't occur in an out of tree module, doesn't mean that the out of tree module isn't inst

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/17/2015 01:26 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:15 PM, jd1008 wrote: On 03/16/2015 02:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/16/2015 12:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Just because the crash doesn't occur in an out of tree module, doesn't mean that the out of tree module isn't ins

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/17/2015 01:26 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> Why bother with this infrastructure if no one is going to look at the >> reports or do anything about them? > > > Why do you assume that nobody's going to pay attention to those bug reports? Becau

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/17/2015 01:26 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Why bother with this infrastructure if no one is going to look at the reports or do anything about them? Why do you assume that nobody's going to pay attention to those bug reports? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:15 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 03/16/2015 02:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> >> On 03/16/2015 12:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> >>> >>> Just because the crash doesn't occur in an out of tree module, doesn't >>> mean that the out of tree module isn't instigating the problem thoug

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:11 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 03/16/2015 01:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:44 AM, jd1008 wrote: >> >>> Since none of the crashes occur in the modules >>> inserted via akmods, why is the fedora abrt not >>> allowing thes ending of such reports

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread jd1008
On 03/16/2015 05:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted Ed, even that is no help. MY kernel is tainted by mods from rpmfusion. yet: $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted 0 So, what does that leave the user? abrt says it is tainted, which is correct. -- users mailing list users@lists.

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread jd1008
On 03/16/2015 02:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/16/2015 12:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Just because the crash doesn't occur in an out of tree module, doesn't mean that the out of tree module isn't instigating the problem though. Agreed. That's why I suggested trying to duplicate the crash wit

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread jd1008
On 03/16/2015 02:43 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:44:16AM -0600, jd1008 wrote: Since none of the crashes occur in the modules inserted via akmods, why is the fedora abrt not allowing thes ending of such reports? Kernel modules can pretty much do whatever they like once

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-03-17 Thread jd1008
On 03/16/2015 01:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:44 AM, jd1008 wrote: Since none of the crashes occur in the modules inserted via akmods, why is the fedora abrt not allowing thes ending of such reports? I think this question needs to go to the Fedora devel@ list, or ma

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.03.2015, stan wrote: > I think cgroups are integrated into Fedora, and so the CFS with > cgroup is required. Thus, BFS will probably not work in Fedora, > as it has no support for cgroups. CFS is not required at all, and so are cgroups. Any kernel with the BFS patch applied will run just

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.03.2015, stan wrote: > Lucky you! Lucky? The machine was fully unusable. > Are you using F21? Which kernel? Yes, this machine is on F21. [htd@chiara ~]$ uname -a Linux chiara.fritha.org 3.19.2-rc1-bfq #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 16 16:16:07 CET 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux It's a c

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-17 Thread stan
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:56:37 +0100 Heinz Diehl wrote: > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/3.0/3.18/3.18-sched-bfs-460.patch > (BFS is designed with latency in mind, not throughput). By significant workaround and patching in kernel/sched, I was able to compile a kernel without FAIR_CGROUP_SCHED ac

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-17 Thread stan
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:05:37 +0100 Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 09.03.2015, Martin Cigorraga wrote: > > > Just a minor clarification: when compiling, the -j flag should > > point to a unit above your available cores in order to fully > > utilize all of them. > > Curious what would happen, I remembe

Re: unlock screen?

2015-03-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 08:08:04AM +0100, Niels Weber wrote: > Is there any way that I missed so far? Or is it simply not possible? Please try: $ loginctl list-sessions $ loginctl lock-session $ID $ loginctl unlock-session $ID -- Regards, Olav -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: unlock screen?

2015-03-17 Thread Niels Weber
Am Dienstag, den 17.03.2015, 15:49 +0800 schrieb Ed Greshko: > On 03/17/15 15:08, Niels Weber wrote: > > I'm experimenting around with blueproximity (on F21). The default > > commands it uses to lock and unlock the screen use the > > gnome-screensaver-command tool, that doesn't exist any more. I al

Re: unlock screen?

2015-03-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/17/15 15:08, Niels Weber wrote: > I'm experimenting around with blueproximity (on F21). The default > commands it uses to lock and unlock the screen use the > gnome-screensaver-command tool, that doesn't exist any more. I already > found out that I can lock the screen by sending a dbus comman

unlock screen?

2015-03-17 Thread Niels Weber
Hi, I'm experimenting around with blueproximity (on F21). The default commands it uses to lock and unlock the screen use the gnome-screensaver-command tool, that doesn't exist any more. I already found out that I can lock the screen by sending a dbus command: dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=o