RE: [Fedora] 'userdel' irony -- what do you say ?

2010-05-30 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
So this would be my guess: The first time you invoked userdel, it removed the user from the system (/etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow) but didn’t delete the home folder because according to lastlog the user was still logged in. When you invoked it a second time, it failed because the us

FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-21 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Type in 'waiting for hardware to initialize' into Google and you get a lovely list of some 452,000 results. I'm one of those. I admit, this is an older hardware (think 5-8 years) however at the same time, it was running RH7.3 this whole time with no problems, and I'm able to put a Windo

Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-21 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On 1/21/2011 1:22 PM, JB wrote: > Just install CentOS (as if you were installing F14 - layout mainly), > select > desktop set (X, GNOME), nothing more. It will take 15 min or so. > Then pass to the list the following displays: > $ dmesg > $ lspci > > JB That I can do. In the interest of not

Fwd: Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-22 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Below are the output of dmesg and lspci as JB previously requested. Original Message Subject:Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:40:08 -0700 From: Ashley M. Kirchner Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users To: Commun

Re: Fwd: Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-22 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On 1/22/2011 11:11 AM, JB wrote: > I have to guess somewhat, which is a polite way to admit ... > Pass these on kernel line: > xdriver=vesa nomodeset agp=off > > JB No dice. Same spot. At this point I may just have to continue running CentOS, it's not like it's the end of the world an

Re: Fwd: Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-22 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On 1/22/2011 11:31 AM, JB wrote: > Remove "quiet" and > add "ignore_loglevel" > (without "" characters) to the boot options to see where it hangs. There was no 'quiet' option on the boot line to begin with. After the 'waiting for hardware to initialize...' line, there are several lines

Re: Fwd: Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-22 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On 1/22/2011 12:03 PM, JB wrote: > Kernel command line: > always keep --> ignore_loglevel > add --> enforcing=0 The only major difference this time is that it's also detecting the additional drives that are on the add-on card. Previously it wasn't, but now I can see them after it says '

Re: Fwd: Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-22 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On 1/22/2011 12:35 PM, JB wrote: > Ashley M. Kirchner pcraft.com> writes: > > there is something perhaps with your two Ethernet setups (you have 2 NIC > controllers shown in lspci). > > always keep --> ignore_loglevel enforcing=0 > add -->ether=0,0,eth1 &g

Re: Fwd: Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-22 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On 1/22/2011 1:03 PM, JB wrote: > I do not see any audio (sound) device controller in your lspci ... > Is that possible ? That would be correct, it's a server board, it has no onboard audio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: htt

Re: Fwd: Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-22 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On 1/22/2011 12:38 PM, Rick Sewill wrote: > I looked at URL, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelCommonProblems, > for hints. It has a suggestion, under "Crashes/Hangs", > "# initcall_debug will allow to see the last thing the kernel tried to > initialise before it hung." > I have the impression,

RE: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-22 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
> > Ok try this > > Remove the 'quiet' add > > irqpoll initcall_debug > > The first one tries to catch and deal with hangs due to IRQ routing bugs in the > BIOS etc, the second will print a trace of each function called during > initialisation. It's not exciting to most people but as part of a

Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On 1/22/2011 2:53 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > Ok try this > Remove the 'quiet' add > > irqpoll initcall_debug > > The first one tries to catch and deal with hangs due to IRQ routing bugs > in the BIOS etc, the second will print a trace of each function called > during initialisation. It's not exciting to

Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On 1/24/2011 12:14 PM, Terry Polzin wrote: > Install with basic video? Or what ever the correct verbage is. Tried that already. Also tried running in text mode, vnc mode, nothing. It doesn't even get there, it dies way before that. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On 1/24/2011 1:43 PM, JB wrote: > I am looking at that dmesg posted by you - CentOS had some errors too. > We have to reset the kernel line and run it again with max verbose debugging. > > Please reset kernel parameters to only the ones needed for debugging (and keep > them always), remove anything

Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On 1/24/2011 2:06 PM, JB wrote: > I am looking at kernel parameters and Fedora kernel problems - there is so > much of it that could go wrong that the head is spinning. > > Let's hope that Alan finds time to come back to the thread - he is the real > expert here. > > I will continue looking into it

Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On 1/24/2011 2:32 PM, JB wrote: > Let's take a shot at hard disk problems: > keep only -> ignore_loglevel enforcing=0 initcall_debug > > Keep these 2 runs separately. > > 1st run: > add -> pci=nomsi pci=nommconf pci=nocrs > > 2nd run (remove 1st run added parameters): > rdblacklist=ahci > > JB

Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On 1/24/2011 4:04 PM, JB wrote: > Try: > keep only -> ignore_loglevel enforcing=0 initcall_debug > > Keep these runs separate. > > 1st run: > add -> pci=use_crs > > 2nd run (remove 1st run added parameters): > add -> noapic nolapic nolapic_timer > > 3rd run (remove 2nd run added parameters): > n

Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On 1/24/2011 4:33 PM, JB wrote: > Read Lamar Owen's post. > You may search Google and Bugzilla for problems related to your Broadcom > CNB20LE board. > > There is a chance that Alan drops by and he is expert on hard disks. > > Tomorrow will try some more. > > JB Yep, I'm going to try and boot

Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-25 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On 1/25/2011 5:41 AM, JB wrote: > Check the board's BIOS date. > In Bugzilla 665109 they claim that this board can have old or incomplete BIOS. > Does it seem to be outdated ? Is there any update on manufacturer's or > reseller's web site ? > > I would look at the BIOS settings too (sometimes their

Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-25 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Well, with the confetti guns at the ready, I tried FC13, no dice. Boot options were: ide=nodma noapic acpi=off ignore_loglevel initcall_debug It quit at the same point it has been lately, which is giving me garbage on screen like my image posted yesterday, and ata3 times out,

RE: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-25 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
> -Original Message- > From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users- > boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of JB > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 4:43 PM > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs > > Do not worry, be happy.

Odd /proc/cpuinfo

2010-01-11 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
So I never paid attention to this since I always assumed the system will do The Right Thing (TM), however while going through servers today, I came across this discrepancy and was hoping someone here could help me figure out what's going on. While 'cat'ing /proc/cpuinfo I see this (oth

Re: [Fedora] Re: Odd /proc/cpuinfo

2010-01-11 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
So why's procinfo incorrect? -- W | It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature. +------------ Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ash...@pcraft.com> . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / Websmith .

Re: [Fedora] Re: Odd /proc/cpuinfo

2010-01-11 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Rick Stevens wrote: >> While 'cat'ing /proc/cpuinfo I see this (other information removed): >> >> vendor_id : GenuineIntel >> cpu family : 15 >> model : 4 >> model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz >> stepping

Re: [Fedora] Re: Odd /proc/cpuinfo

2010-01-11 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
fo will change. If it. -- W | It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature. +-------- Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ash...@pcraft.com> . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / Websmith . 800.

Multiple Servers tied together

2010-01-12 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
We're going to split out main server up into 3, possibly more with backup redundancy. The basic setup will be 1 server (USER) holding everyone's physical account, 1 server (MAIL) which holds everyone's mail spool (INBOXES only), and 1 server (WEB) that will hold everyone's web space. A u

Re: [Fedora] Re: Multiple Servers tied together

2010-01-13 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Check out these two projects: > > GFS: http://www.redhat.com/gfs/ > LDAP: http://directory.fedoraproject.org/ > > Both are available in Fedora. > Thanks. I saw the LDAP project before I sent my e-mail out. I'm still looking at it to see if it's what I need, or

Re: what just happened (time went backwards?)

2014-02-25 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Besides the time changing, I'm also dying to know how (or WHY rather) it also decided to stop all those services. On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > This f20 server has been running just fine for months. Today it became > unresponsive. Couldn't ssh into it (ping ok). Not

Re: bitcoin miner

2014-05-02 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
You are better off buying bitcoin than mining it right now. Last I checked it's down in the $450s (from last year's bubble of above $1,500) On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 8:57 AM, cheng chen wrote: > Oh man.It's already too late > > > 2014-05-02 16:46 GMT+02:00 Bruno Wolff III : > > On Fri, May

Re: bitcoin miner

2014-05-02 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
I've been able to compile and run bfgminer on my 64bit machine with no problems. On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 05/02/2014 12:14 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > You are better off buying bitcoin than mining it right now. Last I > > checked it

Procmail issue

2013-01-23 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Hey folks, Seems the procmail list has fallen off of the face of the planet ... at least, the address given on the procmail.org website doesn't seem to work anymore. So perhaps someone here might be able to help. I'm trying to figure out why a recipe isn't working (when it used to in the past.)

Re: Procmail issue

2013-01-23 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:12:32 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > > :0 > > * !^X-Forwarded-For: kira...@gmail.com ash...@pcraft.com > > * !^X-Forwarded-For: kira...@gmail.com ash...@pcigrafx.com > > * !^From.*kira...@gmail.com > > * !^To.

Re: Procmail issue

2013-01-23 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Ok, adding those two lines does nothing. I have: LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail VERBOSE=on (also tried 'yes') This is at the top of the recipe. I'm getting nothing in that log file. It exists, and it's writable. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: >

Re: Procmail issue

2013-01-23 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
arded-For: kira...@gmail.com ash...@pcraft.com ! salesd...@pcraft.com On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:32:29 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > > Ok, adding those two lines does nothing. I have: > > > > LOGFILE=/var/l

Re: Procmail issue

2013-01-23 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
GFILE line: LOGABSTRACT=off And neither of them have an explicit 'VERBOSE=yes' (or 'on') line. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Ashley M. Kirchner said: > > It works if I use ${HOME} instead of ${HOMEDIR}. > > > > It

Re: Procmail issue

2013-01-23 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Ok, well those recipes are working and logging to /var/log/procmail. I don't understand why this one, which is a lot shorter and simpler, won't log. Nor will it work properly. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:45:52 -0700, Ashle

Re: Procmail issue

2013-01-23 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
to the salesdept email address. So somewhere it's failing. And it doesn't matter which domain I use, it only seems to run the first part of the recipe. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Ok, well those recipes are working and logging to /var/log/procmai

Re: Procmail issue

2013-01-23 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
g in thinking that when it comes back and passes the first rule, it will also run through the second rule. Is this a case where I need to write things wrapped in a nest? Sort of like an IF .. THEN .. ELSE? A On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:50 PM, jdow wrote: > On 2013/01/23 15:28, Ashley M. Kirch

Re: Procmail issue

2013-01-23 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
t;> is and the second is simply ignored. >> >> Now, perhaps I'm wrong in thinking that when it comes back and passes the >> first >> rule, it will also run through the second rule. Is this a case where I >> need to >> write things wrapped in a nest? Sort

Re: Procmail issue

2013-01-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
t;mailto:kira...@gmail.com> > ash...@pcigrafx.com <mailto:ash...@pcigrafx.com> > /tmp/foo2 > > /tmp/foo3 > > That should sort the mail to three different destinations in /tmp. You > can easily see where the messages go as you try variants without polluting > mai

Re: Procmail issue

2013-01-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Yeah. I realize that's probably what's getting jdow confused as well. Hopefully my previous message explains it better. One bit I forgot to add, was something jdow asked, 'what happens if someone e-mails kirash4@gmaildirectly' GMail forwards it back to my @pcraft domain. And that too will have

Odd email errors

2012-04-28 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Anyone here seen these before? It seems some e-mails are getting through and others aren't, and those that don't produce this error: - Transcript of session follows - 550 5.1.2... Host unknown (Name server: alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.: host not found) -- users mailing li

Re: Re: Odd email errors

2012-04-28 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On 04/29/2012 08:17 AM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Anyone here seen these before? It seems some e-mails are getting through and others aren't, and those that don't produce this error: - Transcript of session follows - 550 5.1.2... Host unknown (Name server: alt4.