Re: repeatable kernel freeze

2010-06-17 Thread Joe Conway
On 06/17/2010 08:01 AM, stan wrote: > I haven't tried a stock kernel for a long time, so maybe the problem is > gone now. It is so easy to compile a kernel that is custom I just keep > doing it. Because the config has turned off so much cruft I don't use, > it only takes about 10 to 15 minutes fo

Re: repeatable kernel freeze

2010-06-16 Thread Joe Conway
On 06/16/2010 08:34 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 18:24:05 -0700, > Joe Conway wrote: >> >> But if I do nothing, my choices are: >> 1) hope to get lucky on some future kernel update >> 2) buy new hardware >> 3) live with not using sc

Re: repeatable kernel freeze

2010-06-16 Thread Joe Conway
On 06/16/2010 05:39 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Based on the assumption that you are experiencing a kernel crash, there > are two ways of obtaining diagnostics: > > 1) A serial console. Going retro, getting a null-modem adapter, and > connecting the serial port of the ailing machine with the seri

repeatable kernel freeze

2010-06-16 Thread Joe Conway
I have had a problem with kernel freezes for several months. It started when I first moved to the 2.6.31 kernel on Fedora 12. At that time it was relatively infrequent. When the 2.6.32 kernel came out, the problem became very bad -- every night when cron.daily runs the kernel would hang. Note that

Re: Resizing virtual display on virtual machine

2010-06-05 Thread Joe Conway
On 06/04/2010 10:56 AM, Christoph A. wrote: > I was also looking for an answer to this question yesterday and got a hint: > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/374160.html > > 1) set the video model to vga > 2) within the VM: 'yum install system-config-display' > -> use it

Re: Resizing virtual display on virtual machine

2010-06-04 Thread Joe Conway
On 06/04/2010 10:43 AM, Dale J. Chatham wrote: > Using virtual machine manager > fedora core 13 vm > > > How do I change the display resolution in the virtual machine? 1024x768 > seems to be all I can get. > > I've scoured every way I can think of, Fedora docs, VMM docs, KVM, etc. Switch the

Re: Windows 7 on a Fedora 12 KVM Box ?

2010-05-04 Thread Joe Conway
On 05/04/2010 09:05 AM, Jim wrote: > Has anyone been successful installing Windows 7 on a Fedora 12 KVM ? Yes > Did you have any difficulties or sticking points ? It has been a couple of months now, but none that stick out in my mind. HTH, Joe signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sign

Re: network bridge default MTU -- apparent change (SOLVED)

2010-03-18 Thread Joe Conway
On 03/17/2010 05:49 PM, Joe Conway wrote: > On 03/17/2010 05:44 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:28:42 -0700 >> Joe Conway wrote: >> >>> A bit more sleuthing and I found that the culprit is dhclient. I am >>> using a dynamically assigned ad

Re: network bridge default MTU -- apparent change

2010-03-17 Thread Joe Conway
On 03/17/2010 06:02 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:49:18 -0700 > Joe Conway wrote: > >> Interestingly I cannot even find dhclient among the listed components here: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided&product=Fedor

Re: network bridge default MTU -- apparent change

2010-03-17 Thread Joe Conway
On 03/17/2010 05:44 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:28:42 -0700 > Joe Conway wrote: > >> A bit more sleuthing and I found that the culprit is dhclient. I am >> using a dynamically assigned address (pinned to a static IP at my dhcp >> server), and I b

Re: network bridge default MTU -- apparent change

2010-03-17 Thread Joe Conway
On 03/12/2010 01:59 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:53:18 -0800 > Joe Conway wrote: > >> But it now shows up on both my host machine and independently on a >> fedora 12 virtual machine. Both are x86_64. Are you running x86_64? > > Yep. 64 bit fedo

Re: network bridge default MTU -- apparent change

2010-03-12 Thread Joe Conway
On 03/12/2010 01:35 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:27:31 -0800 > Joe Conway wrote: > >> Anyone have any idea what package would determine the default MTU for a >> bridged network device? > > I can't help with that, but my fully updated f12 system

Re: network bridge default MTU -- apparent change

2010-03-12 Thread Joe Conway
On 03/11/2010 04:20 PM, Joe Conway wrote: > Interestingly after a reboot: > > > # brctl show > bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces > br0 8000.18a9051f09f0 no eth0 > > # ifconfig > br0

Re: network bridge default MTU -- apparent change

2010-03-11 Thread Joe Conway
On 03/11/2010 04:37 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:20:04 -0800 > Joe Conway wrote: > >> So I can at least work around the issue this way after starting the VM, >> but still don't understand the root cause. > > The vnet0 may be coming from th

Re: network bridge default MTU -- apparent change

2010-03-11 Thread Joe Conway
On 03/11/2010 02:52 PM, Joe Conway wrote: > On 03/11/2010 02:31 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Check all interfaces under "ifconfig -a" and see if any of the participants >> in the >> bridge have a small MTU. IIRC, the smallest MTU will be propagated >> to the b

Re: network bridge default MTU -- apparent change

2010-03-11 Thread Joe Conway
On 03/11/2010 02:31 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 03/11/2010 02:14 PM, Joe Conway wrote: >> In the last few days I've noticed network connectivity issues from >> multiple virtual machines (fedora, centos, winxp) running on a fedora 12 >> host. What seemed odd was that

network bridge default MTU -- apparent change

2010-03-11 Thread Joe Conway
In the last few days I've noticed network connectivity issues from multiple virtual machines (fedora, centos, winxp) running on a fedora 12 host. What seemed odd was that I could ping by host name, showing that both the basic network functionality as well as DNS was working. What was failing was br