nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-22 Thread Jens Neu
Dear list, maybe since 2 weeks (close to upgrade to Twenty_One), my nfs shares are no longer mounted at boot. Claims that the nfs server is not resolvable, but it clearly is. Raised the timeo to 200, but no luck. Hints? Bugworthy? regards Jens [root@andrea ~]# systemctl status media-jessa.mo

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-22 Thread Jens Neu
On 02/22/2015 09:00 AM, Jens Neu wrote: Dear list, maybe since 2 weeks (close to upgrade to Twenty_One), my nfs shares are no longer mounted at boot. Claims that the nfs server is not resolvable, but it clearly is. Raised the timeo to 200, but no luck. Hints? Bugworthy? regards Jens forgot t

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/22/15 16:06, Jens Neu wrote: > On 02/22/2015 09:00 AM, Jens Neu wrote: >> Dear list, >> >> maybe since 2 weeks (close to upgrade to Twenty_One), my nfs shares are >> no longer mounted at boot. Claims that the nfs server is not resolvable, >> but it clearly is. Raised the timeo to 200, but no

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-22 Thread Jens Neu
On 02/22/2015 09:13 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: Are you using the DNS server of the nfs client system? All my systems use 192.168.17.2 as dns server: nfs-server, client(s), etc. Technically the dns server is a CentOS 6.6 KVM machine with bind9 on the nfs-server. -- users mailing list users@list

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/22/15 17:40, Jens Neu wrote: > On 02/22/2015 09:13 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Are you using the DNS server of the nfs client system? >> > > All my systems use 192.168.17.2 as dns server: nfs-server, client(s), etc. > Technically the dns server is a CentOS 6.6 KVM machine with bind9 on the >

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 09:00:32 +0100 Jens Neu wrote: > maybe since 2 weeks (close to upgrade to Twenty_One), my nfs shares are > no longer mounted at boot. My consistent experience is that systemd has no clue when the network is "up" if by up you mean actually capable of talking to other things on

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-22 Thread Roger Heflin
Yes.I have noted systemd stops the network then tries to umount nfs on fedora 20. Not really a good plan. And I also did the rc.local mount as it was not mounting on boot because it tries to mount nfs before the network is live and fails. There do seem to be some significant issues around

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/22/2015 03:24 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: Yes.I have noted systemd stops the network then tries to umount nfs on fedora 20. Not really a good plan. Did you try f21? I share your experience on f20, but the effect "healed by itself" with f21. Actually, this really annoying deficiency

'top' fails: 'xterm-256color': unknown terminal type

2015-02-22 Thread Stuart McGraw
When I try to run 'top' on the Fedora 21 system I am installing I get the error: 'xterm-256color': unknown terminal type 'TERM=xterm top' also fails: 'xterm': unknown terminal type. and fails the same way no matter what the terminal type is set to. I don't have a TERMIFO_DIRS env variable s

Replacing Fedora Postgresql with non-Fedora version?

2015-02-22 Thread Stuart McGraw
Hello all, I'm doing a new install of Fedora 21 and migrating apps and services from my old Fedora 15 machine to it. I've run into the following problem... I have Postgresql-9.3 installed from the Fedora 21 yum repo in order to satisfy any packages that need postgresql. But I need to run Pos

F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, booted from the F21 XFCE spin and tried to create four primary partitions: /boot/efi swap / /home However, this seems to be impossible. When choosing the last of the four partitions, the F21 installer automatically generates a /dev/sda5, within an extended partition (sda4). No matter what I

Re: 'top' fails: 'xterm-256color': unknown terminal type

2015-02-22 Thread Stuart McGraw
On 02/22/2015 10:16 AM, Stuart McGraw wrote: When I try to run 'top' on the Fedora 21 system I am installing I get the error: 'xterm-256color': unknown terminal type Never mind... I posted another message to the list about problems I was having trying to run two versions of Postgresql and t

Re: Replacing Fedora Postgresql with non-Fedora version?

2015-02-22 Thread jd1008
On 02/22/2015 09:35 AM, Stuart McGraw wrote: Hello all, I'm doing a new install of Fedora 21 and migrating apps and services from my old Fedora 15 machine to it. I've run into the following problem... I have Postgresql-9.3 installed from the Fedora 21 yum repo in order to satisfy any package

Re: etc-shadow

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 06:07:18PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: >> I read this: >> http://www.aychedee.com/2012/03/14/etc_shadow-password-hash-formats/ >> But Fedora doesn't have mkpasswd by default, whereas passwd seems to >> only update sha

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > Is there something I missed? There is only one difference in functionality between 3 primaries + 1 extended, vs 4 primaries: the former can have more partitions added without deleting any partitions. There's no actual advantage of primary pa

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.02.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: > There's no actual advantage of primary partitions on linux anyway. > Extlinux depends on primary partitions, but GRUB doesn't. The thing is that I no longer have the freedom to do what I want when installing (unless I've missed something crucial). If there is

Issue with Fedora21 "settings" after a power failure in the middle of an update.

2015-02-22 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Hey, I am unsure how to even look at the system now. I have installed a Fedora 21 Gnome Desktop on a USB disk and while updating+upgrading the system from the basic state (57X packages) there was a power failure. After turning on the PC I have tried to turn it on it was fine and booted. I did

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 08:08:14PM +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: > > There's no actual advantage of primary partitions on linux anyway. > > Extlinux depends on primary partitions, but GRUB doesn't. > The thing is that I no longer have the freedom to do what I want when > installing (unless I've missed

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread jd1008
On 02/22/2015 12:08 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 22.02.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: There's no actual advantage of primary partitions on linux anyway. Extlinux depends on primary partitions, but GRUB doesn't. The thing is that I no longer have the freedom to do what I want when installing (unless I

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:13:28 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: > * how well it succeeds _is_ another question. I gave up on installing on physical hardware as soon as the new anaconda first showed up. I don't trust a single thing the hopelessly obnoxious interface shows me and have no idea what on eart

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread jd1008
On 02/22/2015 12:25 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:13:28 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: * how well it succeeds _is_ another question. I gave up on installing on physical hardware as soon as the new anaconda first showed up. I don't trust a single thing the hopelessly obnoxious int

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread jd1008
On 02/22/2015 12:25 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:13:28 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: * how well it succeeds _is_ another question. I gave up on installing on physical hardware as soon as the new anaconda first showed up. I don't trust a single thing the hopelessly obnoxious int

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-22 Thread Jens Neu
On 02/22/2015 06:50 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: I share your experience on f20, but the effect "healed by itself" with f21. Actually, this really annoying deficiency of f20 was the #1 reason for me to switch to f21. Unfortunately - whatever this problem is - it does not "heal itself" with 21, s

Re: Replacing Fedora Postgresql with non-Fedora version?

2015-02-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 09:35:54 -0700, Stuart McGraw wrote: I have Postgresql-9.3 installed from the Fedora 21 yum repo in order to satisfy any packages that need postgresql. But I need to run Postgresql-9.4 so I disabled the yum postgresql startup via systemd and installed the EDB version

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.02.2015, Matthew Miller wrote: > The installer UI is intended* to present meaningful decisions, > and make those choices easier and more straightforward.. When I chose "custom partitioning", I actually chose to do things on my own, which however won't be the case. That's weird. There's the

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.02.2015, Tom Horsley wrote: > Instead, I install in a virtual machine where anaconda is free > to trash the virtual disks in any way it sees fit, then I > copy the virtual images to partitions I create myself > adjust the grub.cfg and fstab files and boot using the > configfile option of a

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 22.02.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> There's no actual advantage of primary partitions on linux anyway. >> Extlinux depends on primary partitions, but GRUB doesn't. > > The thing is that I no longer have the freedom to do what I want when >

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:19 PM, jd1008 wrote: > I have a 2TB drive formatted as a single MBR partition. > I guess that's just about the limit of and MBR partition size. > But what if the sector size is made to be programmable > and is increased at formatting time to values like 2K bytes > or ev

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread jd1008
On 02/22/2015 01:11 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:19 PM, jd1008 wrote: I have a 2TB drive formatted as a single MBR partition. I guess that's just about the limit of and MBR partition size. But what if the sector size is made to be programmable and is increased at formatt

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:29 PM, jd1008 wrote: > Seems like grub UI could be improved by providing clearer > explanations for each choice and it's consequences. What GRUB UI? Haha. GRUB upstream is not targeted at the mortal user. It's basically a buffet of tools for distributions, who then patc

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread jd1008
On 02/22/2015 01:47 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:29 PM, jd1008 wrote: Seems like grub UI could be improved by providing clearer explanations for each choice and it's consequences. What GRUB UI? Haha. GRUB upstream is not targeted at the mortal user. It's basically a buff

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 22.02.2015, Matthew Miller wrote: > >> The installer UI is intended* to present meaningful decisions, >> and make those choices easier and more straightforward.. > > When I chose "custom partitioning", I actually chose to do things on my ow

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 1:21 PM, jd1008 wrote: > Interesting. > What about FreeBSD's UFS (sometimes aka FFS - fast fs)? > Does it not also allow for FS blocksize to be > than page size? The block size needing to be at or smaller than the page size is a linux kernel limitation. So if FreeBSD allo

Network printer out of ink weirdness

2015-02-22 Thread Jim Lewis
Hi everyone, I have already found a solution to the problem I am about to discuss, I am just posting this in case it can help someone else. I am also wondering if there was a better way in case I missed it. I have a Fedora 14 desktop, an F20 laptop, and 2 F21 laptops. All run wireless except

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/22/2015 01:09 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: I completely disagree. More custom, more flexibility, in a GUI installer, is a trap. It directly leads to unnecessary design work, coding work, maintenance work, and bugs. I can remember when custom partitioning let you do whatever you wanted, even i

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/22/2015 01:09 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> I completely disagree. More custom, more flexibility, in a GUI >> installer, is a trap. It directly leads to unnecessary design work, >> coding work, maintenance work, and bugs. > > > I can remembe

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/22/2015 01:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Well you're not going to convince me that highly unusual requirements is a valid reason for someone else to do the monumental amount of work to get a GUI installer to do arbitrary things for what amounts to total edge cases. And yet, I used to be able

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/22/2015 01:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> Well you're not going to convince me that highly unusual requirements >> is a valid reason for someone else to do the monumental amount of work >> to get a GUI installer to do arbitrary things for

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/22/2015 02:01 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: If you, who seems to care about such things so much, won't do that work, then why should anyone else do it? I haven't done any programming worth mentioning since the late '80s and never learned python. My impression was that back then, anaconda used

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.02.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: > Windows, OS X installers have maybe 2-3 total layouts between them. > And their installers are completely, totally, bullet proof. They don't > ever crash, or ask the user to create required partitions, they always > succeed in their penultimate goal which is t

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:39:10PM +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: > I see. Maintainability preceeds flexibility by reducing/eliminating user > influence at the same time. While it took over 100 years in medicine to reduce > "i know what's best for you" and moving towards "shared decision making", it > g

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/22/2015 02:01 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> If >> you, who seems to care about such things so much, won't do that work, >> then why should anyone else do it? > > > I haven't done any programming worth mentioning since the late '80s and > nev

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/22/2015 03:05 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Yes. Matthew already mentioned that. The exception is that the installer insists on root fs being formatted by the installer. I see no problem with that. If I'm doing a clean install, that's what I want anyway, and with today's machines, the amount

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 22.02.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> Windows, OS X installers have maybe 2-3 total layouts between them. >> And their installers are completely, totally, bullet proof. They don't >> ever crash, or ask the user to create required partitions,

Re: etc-shadow

2015-02-22 Thread Alex Regan
Hi, On 02/22/2015 01:23 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Matthew Miller mailto:mat...@fedoraproject.org>> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 06:07:18PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: >> I read this: >> http://www.aychedee.com/2012/03/14/etc_shadow-password-hash-formats/ >>

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Alex Regan
Hi, On 02/22/2015 06:43 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 22.02.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: Windows, OS X installers have maybe 2-3 total layouts between them. And their installers are completely, totally, bullet proof. They don't ever crash, or ask

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/22/2015 03:05 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> Yes. Matthew already mentioned that. The exception is that the >> installer insists on root fs being formatted by the installer. > > > I see no problem with that. If I'm doing a clean install, tha

Re: etc-shadow

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Alex Regan wrote: > Do you happen to know if there's a pre-built version of John-the-Ripper or > another password testing program that's available and works with these new > passwords? I don't know that this is all that new. It's also self-describing, the /etc/sha

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-22 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 09:14 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > My consistent experience is that systemd has no clue when > the network is "up" if by up you mean actually capable of > talking to other things on the network. Thus all of the > dependencies it waits on never wait long enough. There was a thr

tab completion FC 21

2015-02-22 Thread Stephen Davies
I have just upgraded a box from fc20 to fc21 using fedup and tab completion has gone bezerk. I have erased the bash-completion package but the weird behaviour continues. It is even guessing/remembering passwords. In most cases, hitting tab during command entry does nothing. In others (randomly

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-22 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 22, 2015 1:01 AM, "Jens Neu" wrote: > > Dear list, > > maybe since 2 weeks (close to upgrade to Twenty_One), my nfs shares are no longer mounted at boot. Claims that the nfs server is not resolvable, but it clearly is. Raised the timeo to 200, but no luck. Hints? Bugworthy? > > regards Jens

Re: etc-shadow

2015-02-22 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:23:45AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > Curiously, Anaconda calls authconfig to create the key, and the resulting > shadow entry contains a 16 character salt. Whereas passwd uses an 8 > character salt. Huh, that is curious. I assume we really want to be using the 16-char sa

Re: etc-shadow

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:23:45AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: >> Curiously, Anaconda calls authconfig to create the key, and the resulting >> shadow entry contains a 16 character salt. Whereas passwd uses an 8 >> character salt. > > Huh, th

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/22/2015 09:01 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: What Anaconda did with new UI is break with that tradition, and emphasize final results, not the nutty esoteric details of how to get there. Where it still frustrates is how it doesn't convey this worldview very well to the user. Well, I think you hav

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/23/2015 12:43 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: Look at even Android and cyanogen. Look at the reinvention of all OS's for mobile devices and how much simpler things are when constraining choices. Chromebooks are in that same category. Simple. Just works. They picked a layout and stuck with it. Th

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 15:01 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > What you're talking about might be in-scope for blivet-gui. It > definitely sounds out of scope for a GUI OS installer. > > Windows, OS X installers have maybe 2-3 total layouts between them. > And their installers are completely, totally,