Re: F23 dracut can't find disk

2016-04-21 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 20.04.2016 18:58, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 04/19/2016 06:07 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: >> I wrote: >> >>> I have five machines which were fresh-installed with F23 back in >>> February and all have been booted successfully a few times since. >>> Today, booting of all of them fails in exactly the same

Re: ping now impossible?

2014-07-18 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 18.07.2014 14:22, Tom Horsley wrote: > Yesterday, I could run ping. This morning I installed updates > which came with a new kernel, and all attempts to ping > generate this: > > tomh> ping marmot > ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted > > I now have to use sudo in front of ping to

Re: Have you registered for Flock?

2014-07-17 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 17.07.2014 17:03, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 05:52:35PM +0530, Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Ruth Suehle wrote: >> >>> If you tried to register yesterday and weren't able, please try again now. >>> Registration is re-opened for just a couple

Re: F19 not able to boot by UUID

2013-08-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 08/29/2013 03:55 PM, g wrote: > > > On 08/29/2013 06:46 AM, Mark Haney wrote: > <<>> >> >>> My first guess would be to check that you're using the exact same UUID in >>> the boot parameter as on the drive partition. Check the partition UUID is >>> what you thought it is. Check for typos in t

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 08/26/2013 09:20 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:12:34 -0700 > Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 08/25/2013 09:21 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >>> While I respect Joe Zeff as a reputable member of this list, those >>> instructions on fedoraforum are a total piece of crap. I don't know >>>

Re: Disable built-in WiFi card so that USB WiFi device gets used --- systemctl?

2013-07-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 07/29/2013 02:28 AM, poma wrote: > On 29.07.2013 02:01, Rolf Turner wrote: > … >> (b) Would it be possible to disable/mask the internal WiFi card but >> leave the USB WiFi device >> available, so that I can actually get a WiFi connection? > … >>> I am running Fedora 17; output of "uname

Re: Dracut on reboot

2013-04-10 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 10.04.2013 10:55, schrieb poma: > On 10.04.2013 10:07, Harald Hoyer wrote: > >> Well, the strategy here is to mount /boot and save any files there for later >> inspection. /boot is chosen, because it's a simple partition. > > *boot* *simple* > Only if you

Re: Dracut on reboot

2013-04-10 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 10.04.2013 07:00, schrieb Joe Zeff: > On 04/09/2013 08:03 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: >> When you are at the "dracut:/#" prompt, you are still running from the >> initramfs, probably without even the normal root filesystem mounted, and >> "~" resolves to the root directory in the initramfs. Stori

Re: Dracut on reboot

2013-04-08 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 07.04.2013 00:47, schrieb Richard Vickery: > Hi Gang, > > A number of times f18 has become stuck for so long that I felt it necessary to > call the command reboot. Certain times a dracut command line shows up and I > call > systemctl, which shows what it does, and with little-to-no current tec

Re: mount --move doesn't work

2013-04-04 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 04.04.2013 10:01, schrieb Pasha R: > Hi, > I'm trying to understand how mount --move can be used. Whenever I use it, I > get > an error "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock..." > for example (something I found that supposed to work): > mkdir foo bar > mount --bind foo foo > mount -

Re: Fedora 18 existing /usr partition -- need to merge into rootfs?

2013-04-02 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 02.04.2013 11:50, schrieb Noah Cutler: > Harald > > Ok, so then separate /usr is apparently not broken, or for now there's a > fallback mechanism (as of F18) to make things work in the event that /usr is > on > its own partition. > > Either way my setup is working (appears to), but it would b

Re: Fedora 18 existing /usr partition -- need to merge into rootfs?

2013-04-02 Thread Harald Hoyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 02.04.2013 11:23, schrieb Reindl Harald: > > > Am 02.04.2013 11:14, schrieb Harald Hoyer: >>> it makes ZERO sense to split /usr to a own partition you owuld really >>> clone a partition containing the whole syst

Re: Fedora 18 existing /usr partition -- need to merge into rootfs?

2013-04-02 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 02.04.2013 11:18, schrieb Ed Greshko: > On 04/02/13 17:14, Harald Hoyer wrote: >> >> This is FUD. The idea is perfectly fine and we should bring our OS in shape >> for >> doing it so. >> >> >> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ojgzJOfWB8XaC5k

Re: Fedora 18 existing /usr partition -- need to merge into rootfs?

2013-04-02 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 01.04.2013 17:26, schrieb Robert Nichols: > On 04/01/2013 07:47 AM, Noah Cutler wrote: >> Hey all. >> >> I'm confused over the whole separate /usr partition is broken thing: >> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken >> >> From an email in current fedora-user thread

Re: Fedora 18 existing /usr partition -- need to merge into rootfs?

2013-04-02 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 01.04.2013 14:57, schrieb Reindl Harald: > > > Am 01.04.2013 14:47, schrieb Noah Cutler: >> I'm confused over the whole separate /usr partition is broken thing: >> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken >> >> Everything appears to work swimmingly here after 1 month

Re: Fedora 18 existing /usr partition -- need to merge into rootfs?

2013-04-02 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 01.04.2013 14:47, schrieb Noah Cutler: > Hey all. > > I'm confused over the whole separate /usr partition is broken thing: > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken > > From an email in current fedora-user thread we have: > "That should not be necessary. And would

Re: hibernate with keystroke?

2013-03-24 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 23.03.13 18:17, schrieb poma: > On 23.03.2013 06:05, Harald Hoyer wrote: >> Am 22.03.2013 21:32, schrieb poma: >>> On 22.03.2013 13:00, Harald Hoyer wrote: >>> ... >>>> you must not resume from a raid array >>>> >>> >>> Let

Re: hibernate with keystroke?

2013-03-22 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 22.03.2013 21:32, schrieb poma: > On 22.03.2013 13:00, Harald Hoyer wrote: > ... >> you must not resume from a raid array >> > > Let me show you how country feels :) > > Version: 025-35.git20130211.fc18 [1] > > /etc/dracut.conf.d/dracut-custom.conf: >

Re: hibernate with keystroke?

2013-03-22 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 22.03.2013 12:45, schrieb poma: > On 22.03.2013 07:18, Harald Hoyer wrote: >> Am 22.03.2013 02:23, schrieb poma: >>> On 22.03.2013 01:32, poma wrote: >>> ... >>>> btw on 3.8.3-203.fc18.x86_64 the hibernate is broken on some mobos. >>> >>&

Re: hibernate with keystroke?

2013-03-21 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 22.03.2013 02:23, schrieb poma: > On 22.03.2013 01:32, poma wrote: > ... >> btw on 3.8.3-203.fc18.x86_64 the hibernate is broken on some mobos. > > Actually, dracut --hostonly generated initramfs broke the hibernate. > dracut 1 - 0 systemd :) > Hi Ho Silver! > > poma > > Does it work, if yo

Re: Check your /etc/default/grub, if you use raid 1.

2012-07-31 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 29.07.2012 16:25, schrieb Reindl Harald: > > > Am 29.07.2012 16:19, schrieb Bruno Wolff III: >> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:02:00 -0400, >> Sam Varshavchik wrote: >>> There's a long standing combination of two bugs: the list of rd.md.uuid >>> boot parameters generated by anaconda for >>> /e

Re: Fedora 17 - Only one kernel

2012-07-12 Thread Harald Hoyer
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/10/2012 11:43 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: >> >> Do you have any information on this problem? What did you try to solve >> it? > > > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769747 for details. Note > that I'm not the original reporter, an

Re: F16->17 preupgrade - does it handle the /usr move?

2012-07-12 Thread Harald Hoyer
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Steve Dowe wrote: > I'm unsure whether to make this an issue in bugzilla, given my unorthodox > route here, but it seems like there is an issue with the F17 initrd being > created while running in F16's 3.3 kernel. Could anyone comment on this? > > Anyway, I hope

Re: Fedora 16 kernel panic

2012-02-24 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 24.02.2012 19:02 schrieb "Tom Horsley" : > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:58:55 -0500 > Brian Johnson wrote: > > > "initramfs unpacking failed > > uncompression error" > > It is just a gzipped cpio archive, try running it through > gzip -d < initramfsfile | cpio -t (or something like that, > I'd check

Re: Partition boot order

2012-02-13 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 12.02.2012 17:57, schrieb Frank Murphy: > In the box there are two physical drives > /dev/sda, /dev/sdb both gpt formatted. and encrypted where necessary > "/, swap, home" > > How can I change the default booting order. > > /dev/sda3 "swap" always comes up first. when booting up. > > How can

Re: Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown & Restart options

2011-05-27 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 26.05.2011 14:45, Misha Shnurapet wrote: > 26.05.2011, 11:17, "Juan R. de Silva" : >> Could anybody explain it, why GNOME folks decided to hide the Shutdown >> and especially Restart buttons/options from a user so well? Is it >> especially dangerous to use them nowadays? Or GNOME folks assume pe

Re: (fedora) Re: After F14->F15 boot hangs

2011-05-27 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.05.2011 13:51, schrieb Jouk Jansen: > harald.ho...@gmail.com wrote on 26-MAY-2011 13:25:19.97 > > Thanks Harald for the quiack answer, but... > >> Am 26.05.2011 13:11, schrieb Jouk Jansen: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Today I tried to upgrade one of my machines from F14->F15 (x86-64) using the >>> DVD

Re: systemd service config where?

2011-05-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.05.2011 13:10, schrieb Tom Horsley: > On Thu, 26 May 2011 06:56:59 +0530 > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> If I understand your question correctly, you can figure this out by >> looking at symlinks at /etc/systemd > > Well, there is stuff in there all right, but I can tell I'm going > to have to

Re: After F14->F15 boot hangs

2011-05-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.05.2011 13:11, schrieb Jouk Jansen: > Hi all, > > Today I tried to upgrade one of my machines from F14->F15 (x86-64) using the > DVD distribution. All was OK till booting in to the new F15. Somewhere in > the booting process it seems to "hang" forever. The last printed message on > the screen

Re: non fatal POSTTRANS scriptlet failure

2011-05-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.05.2011 10:12, schrieb Scott van Looy: > Today Harald Hoyer did spake thusly: > >> Am 26.05.2011 10:02, schrieb Scott van Looy: >>> Running Transaction >>> Installing : kernel-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64 >>> 1/1 >>> Non-fatal POSTTRANS scriptl

Re: non fatal POSTTRANS scriptlet failure

2011-05-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.05.2011 10:02, schrieb Scott van Looy: > Running Transaction > Installing : kernel-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64 > 1/1 > Non-fatal POSTTRANS scriptlet failure in rpm package > kernel-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64 > > I believe this is yum trying to run dracut and it failing. Is there any > way I can

Re: kernel panic on boot with fedora 15

2011-05-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.05.2011 09:15, schrieb Scott van Looy: > Today Harald Hoyer did spake thusly: > >> Am 26.05.2011 08:55, schrieb Scott van Looy: >>> Today Harald Hoyer did spake thusly: >>> >>>> Am 26.05.2011 08:26, schrieb Scott van Looy: >>>>> Aha!

Re: kernel panic on boot with fedora 15

2011-05-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.05.2011 08:55, schrieb Scott van Looy: > Today Harald Hoyer did spake thusly: > >> Am 26.05.2011 08:26, schrieb Scott van Looy: >>> Aha! >>> >>> For some reason the initramfs is missing from the Fedora 15 kernel on my >>> system. Any idea how t

Re: kernel panic on boot with fedora 15

2011-05-25 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.05.2011 08:26, schrieb Scott van Looy: > Aha! > > For some reason the initramfs is missing from the Fedora 15 kernel on my > system. Any idea how to get it back? :) # dracut /boot/initramfs-.img -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio

Re: What on earth is mounted?

2011-05-25 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 25.05.2011 um 20:39 schrieb Michael Cronenworth : > Tom Horsley wrote: >> Where on earth do those /tmp /var/tmp and /home entries come from? >> They certainly aren't all mounted on top of the same filesystem root. >> There are no entries for them in /etc/fstab. What is going on? > > systemd h

Re: suggestion for emergency boot

2011-05-25 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 25.05.2011 15:05, schrieb Genes MailLists: > >May I cordially suggest we add a grub stanza for 'Emergency Boot' > >This could be especially important if booting to single user with 's' > or '1' is no longer supported (is it?) and needs in its stead: > > systemd.unit=emergency.target

Re: Changing Owner on a backup drive

2011-04-03 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 04.04.11 04:16, schrieb JD: > On 04/03/2011 06:41 PM, Jim wrote: >> Fedora 14 >> >> I have a backup drive at sdb1 a Vfat (fat32) partition a USB hard drive >> that before upgrading from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14 , the owner was >> Michael , but after upgrade it is now owned by root. all the backup

Re: Fedora 14, wireless keyboards and encryption

2010-12-02 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 02.12.2010 00:15, schrieb Chris Northwood: > Thanks for the advice, but after manually recreating the initrd then > the same still occurs. My wired keyboard is also USB, so I don't think > it's that. I dug into it some more and checked dmesg - my > keyboard/mouse aren't getting recognised until

Re: Using ionice -c3 in f13: system seems less responsive than under f12

2010-11-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 25.11.2010 14:30, schrieb John Pilkington: > Hi: My system spends a lot of its time processing video data, often > with not much numerical processing involved - just remuxing or making an > iso image. atop often shows disk activity above 90%. I do most of this > using ionice -c3, (ie 'idle' s

Re: No keyboard with GDM on F14

2010-11-22 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 22.11.2010 12:48, schrieb Jean Francois Martinez: > When I boot F14 and I reach the GDM screeen there is simply no field to > enter the user ID and no user list, apparently it doesn't detect the > keyboard. This happens both with an USB keyboard and with a PS/2 one. > > If I force a restart of

Re: Nouveau won't load with custom kernel 2.6.35.6-48

2010-11-17 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 17.11.2010 17:24, schrieb stan: > I compiled a custom kernel in F14 using the Fedora source RPM, and > created a custom initramfs for it using dracut. It boots, and X tries > to load nouveau, but it fails and falls back to VESA. Here is the > pertinent section from Xorg.0.log while it was boot

Re: Last Kernel update left me without initramfs

2010-10-28 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 10/28/2010 08:36 AM, Federico Marziali wrote: > Hi all, > > with Fedora 13, the last kernel update left me without the file > intirmafs in the /boot partition. All the rest is there, and I was > wondering if there is an easy way to build this file myself... Any > tutorial available for fedora? >

Re: Last Kernel update left me without initramfs

2010-10-28 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 10/28/2010 08:36 AM, Federico Marziali wrote: > Hi all, > > with Fedora 13, the last kernel update left me without the file > intirmafs in the /boot partition. All the rest is there, and I was > wondering if there is an easy way to build this file myself... Any > tutorial available for fedora? >

dracut documentation

2010-09-20 Thread Harald Hoyer
Hi Fedora users, I started to write a dracut user and developer manual, and follow the "release early and often" mantra. Here is what I have for now: http://people.redhat.com/harald/dracut.html source is here: http://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=dracut/dracut;a=blob;f=dracut.xml

Re: Fedora 13 installation, does not boot

2010-07-20 Thread Harald Hoyer
You might want to edit /etc/grub.conf in rescue and remove "quiet" and "rhgb" and add "rdinit rd_NO_PLYMOUTH" to the Kernel command line. On Wednesday, July 21, 2010, Vincent Onelli wrote: >> From: "Darr" > >> >> H... if grub's boot menu never appears, how do you know >> >> there's only 1 ke

Re: Fedora 13 installation, does not boot

2010-07-19 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 07/18/2010 04:24 PM, Vincent Onelli wrote: >> From: "Darr" >> On Saturday, 17 July, 2010 @23:56 zulu, Vincent Onelli scribed: >> >>> I used the rescue disk typed: chroot /mnt/sysimage >>> then dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) and got the >>> fallowing answer: >>> find:'/lib/

Re: Fedora 13 installation, does not boot

2010-07-17 Thread Harald Hoyer
On Saturday, July 17, 2010, Chris Rouch wrote: > > It could be that your initramfs file is corrupt - it doesn't have > references to the correct disks. By default, nothing is hardcoded by dracut in the initramfs. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscr

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-20 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 05/18/2010 05:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 18 May 2010, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: >>> On Monday 17 May 2010 08:40:31 pm Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/18/2010 09:09 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:

Re: CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-14 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 04/06/2010 05:38 PM, Andrew Junev wrote: > Hello François, > > > Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 10:25:04 AM, you wrote: > >>> This is a strange question, perhaps... How do I _enable_ CD-ROM >>> automount on Fedora 12 machine? > >> 2 tests: > >> Immediately after boot, check for soft link: > > /dev/dv

Re: Recent Fedora 12 update (FEDORA-2010-1088) question

2010-01-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 01/29/2010 03:52 PM, Jay_Linux wrote: > Did an update a couple of days ago. One of the updates related to > dracut-initramfs-builder [1]. This mentions rebuilding the initramfs > after this update: > > You want to rebuild the initramfs to test this: > mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).

Re: F12: Latest Two Kernels Won't Boot

2010-01-28 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 01/28/2010 11:34 AM, Tony Molloy wrote: > On Thursday 28 January 2010 09:45:44 Harald Hoyer wrote: >> On 01/28/2010 10:36 AM, Tony Molloy wrote: >>> On Thursday 28 January 2010 09:07:13 Harald Hoyer wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Tony Molloy wrote:

Re: Boot Issues:

2010-01-28 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 01/28/2010 03:23 AM, Jeff Maxwell wrote: > After installing the latest upgrades including Kernel updates, I have > the following message when rebooting: > > > Fatal could not > load /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686/modules.dep > > No root device found > > boot has failed, sleeping foreve

Re: F12: Latest Two Kernels Won't Boot

2010-01-28 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 01/28/2010 10:36 AM, Tony Molloy wrote: > On Thursday 28 January 2010 09:07:13 Harald Hoyer wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Tony Molloy wrote: >>> When I boot I get as far as the cursor flashing on the top left hand >>> corner of the screen a

Re: F12: Latest Two Kernels Won't Boot

2010-01-28 Thread Harald Hoyer
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Tony Molloy wrote: > When I boot I get as far as the cursor flashing on the top left hand corner of > the screen and then the following error. > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File ""/init", line 157 in > if __name__=='__main__': main() > File "/init",line