gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general

F18 re-add missing disk radi1

Frank Murphy — 2013-05-19T06:51:10

While Having a coffee,
The cat decided to dissemble 
a soft raid by playing with the sata cable.

Having replaced the cable,
still coming up as one disk short.

Looked at:
http://www.ducea.com/2009/03/08/mdadm-cheat-sheet/
mdadm --add /dev/md3 /dev/sdb1
Is this correct (check twice, run once)

for some reason the F18 Live CD calls the raid
/dev/md124  


# cat /proc/mdstat
ARRAY /dev/md3 level=raid1 num-devices=2
UUID=25e07f11:ef68c858:29f9be4e:6bf24034

# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] 
md124 : active raid1 sdd1[0]
      976759672 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [U_]
      bitmap: 4/8 pages [16KB], 65536KB chunk


# mdadm --detail /dev/md124
/dev/md124:
        Version : 1.2
  Creation Time : Sat May 11 11:29:04 2013
     Raid Level : raid1
     Array Size : 976759672 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 976759672 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
   Raid Devices : 2
  Total Devices : 1
    Persistence : Superblock is persistent

  Intent Bitmap : Internal

    Update Time : Sun May 19 02:39:14 2013
          State : active, degraded 
 Active Devices : 1
Working Devices : 1
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0

           Name : yumser.frankly3d.home:3  (local to host
           yumser.frankly3d.home) UUID :
           25e07f11:ef68c858:29f9be4e:6bf24034 Events : 7931

    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
       0       8       49        0      active sync   /dev/sdd1
       1       0        0        1      removed

Yum kernel upgrades don't boot

Bill Davidsen — 2013-05-19T01:40:24

It appears the when a kernel upgrade is applied by yum, the rebuild of 
grub2.conf seems to reset the kernel command lines to default, dropping options 
to use working video and network drivers and stable clocks. Even the vital 
"nomodeset" option is dropped from the old stanzas in the original grub2.config. 
Is this part of the war on using vendor drivers? Booting into a system with an 
unstable clock, no video even text in runlevel 3, and no working network doesn't 
make a upgrade easy.

So is dropping the kernel command line options a bug, or deliberate policy?

Can't open port in firewalld

আনন্দ কুমার সমাদ্দার Ananda Samaddar — 2013-05-18T20:47:06

Hello all,

So I've found out that by default my script controlled ethernet
connection is in the public zone in firewalld.  I however cannot open a
port for Transmission, the torrent client.  I set Transmission to use
the static default port 51413.

I then do the following:

firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=51413/tcp
firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=51413/udp

Transmission shows the port as closed.  It's definitely a firewalld
issue.  As soon as I disable firewalld by using systemd the port is
shown as open in Transmission.

Am I doing something wrong here?

thanks,

Ananda

Device Drivers in Fedora 18

Alan Findly — 2013-05-18T20:37:22

Dear users,
   I am on the verge of a rather thorough hardware upgrade, ie. 
motherboard/cpu, and in addition want to migrate from XP 32 to Fedora 18 
64.  So, now it occurs to me that all the drivers from Windoze will be 
gone--are there drivers in the Fedora CD package, or will I have to hunt 
them down?  Actually, there may be a more basic driver issue--namely, 
running the CD player itself: the driver won't be loaded yet.  Is this a 
problem?  I also have an ISO image on USB, if needed.
   Thanks for any info.

Bootable distro on Flash - Howto?

2013-05-18T19:24:51


Please advise, how to create a USB Flash memory to

be bootable and contain a full FC18 distribution (~4GB

like on DVD)?




I copied (by using dd) the image file but only some 

minimal installation was inclued.. :(




Could you help please anybody?




Thank you so much.

L

FC18 Installation: No X comes

2013-05-18T16:37:08

Dear all,



Could you please advise how to get GUI up and running?




I used FC13 and I needed to upgrade to FC18. So I created 

a USB installation flash and installed Fedora 18. But after 

booting only CLI comes. I can login and use it normally but 

unable to get X server up and running. May be something

new came what I don't know about?




Pls, Help! Help! Help!




Thank you so much...!

Firewall and DNS caching without NetworkManager

আনন্দ কুমার সমাদ্দার Ananda Samaddar — 2013-05-18T13:41:56

Hello all,

I've just installed Fedora 18 X86-64.  I disabled and uninstalled
networkmanager and use the standard networking stuff which seems to
use dhclient. I'm using a standard ethernet connection.

So I need to do two things.  Feel free to tell me to RTFM if you can
provide a link!

1.  How do I enable pre-pending of nameservers?  I want to use dnsmasq
to cache DNS requests so I need to add 127.0.0.1 to the top of
resolv.conf.  Google searchs take me to the Arch Wiki.  I can't seem to
find a dhclient.conf file anywhere in /etc.

2.  How do I assign a zone in firewalld to my connection?  I want to be
able to open ports for bittorrent and XMPP jingle voice/video.  The
firewalld wiki on the Fedora site doesn't seem to be able to answer my
question.

thanks in advance,

Ananda Samaddar

F18+Windows7+"Secure boot not enabled"

Celik — 2013-05-18T02:26:16

Hi,

I'm trying to replace Windows 7 OS with F18 but running into the problem of
"secure boot not enabled".

Background information:
Laptop: Acer Aspire 5560
Current OS: Windows 7
Phoneix SecureCore Tiano Setup


When starting the laptop F2 opens the Phoneix setup menu, in the "Security"
sub-menu there is not option to enable "secure boot".

I'm trying to perform the installation via DVD
Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso<http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Live/x86_64/Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso>.
Haven't attempted the USB -live image installation option discussed in
F18 documentation as I made the assumption that if I can't boot from the
DVD then also won't be able to boot from USB. Also integrity of the DVD
.iso if fine as I used it to upgrade F16 to F18 on another computer.

Do you have any suggestions as to what to do? Please note I'm a newbie.

Regards,
C

A Software Center for Fedora?

Anthony — 2013-05-18T01:45:24

One of the things I really like about Ubuntu is the concept behind the
software center. Canonical has poorly implemented it but the idea
behind it is pretty solid.

That got me wondering...why doesn't Fedora have a similar product?
Yes, I'm aware of Yum Extender but that's not a 'proper' software
store. I mean a full fledged store, complete with backend processing
and tracking.

Perhaps this is something that would be better for the dev list but I
thought I'd float it here before going there just to see the general
feel of the community.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Anthony Papillion

Dual head - Nouveau issue F18-64

Laing, Robin — 2013-05-17T19:52:23

Hello,

I have a 64 bit F18 system that worked beautifully after the clean install.  After an update some time ago, I have had an issue with the dual head setup.

Before the problem occurred, I would boot and get all messages on the left screen until the X server started.  If the screen saver locked the screen, the unlock box would be on the left screen (screen 0).  I could run KDE with effects enabled.

Due to work schedule, I couldn't deal with the problem before now.

Now, when I boot, both displays are in mirror mode.  When the X server kicks in and KDE starts, the display goes to side by side as expected. The desktop works as side by side when I can drag windows between the monitors and virtual desktops as expected.

I cannot run any of the KDE desktop effects.

When the screen saver kicks in, it is two different screen savers on each monitor, not one across both.

If I move the trackball, I get a unlock box on both screens but they are not mirrored.  If I enter a password in to one box, the desktop unlocks.

I cannot use anything that requires a full screen such as You Tube videos in a browser or any game.

I have gone through the settings in Grub and tried different desktop settings.

This setup has worked flawlessly for two years now.

Due to this issue, the system runs slower when moving between screens or virtual desktops.  Lack of full screen is a pain for some things.  No Tux Extreme racer unless I want mirrored action.

Robin

Dual head - Nouveau issue F18-64

Laing, Robin — 2013-05-17T19:46:55

Hello,

I have a 64 bit F18 system that worked beautifully after the clean 
install.  After an update some time ago, I have had an issue with the 
dual head setup.

Before the problem occurred, I would boot and get all messages on the 
left screen until the X server started.  If the screen saver locked the 
screen, the unlock box would be on the left screen (screen 0).  I could 
run KDE with effects enabled.

Due to work schedule, I couldn't deal with the problem before now.

Now, when I boot, both displays are in mirror mode.  When the X server 
kicks in and KDE starts, the display goes to side by side as expected. 
The desktop works as side by side when I can drag windows between the 
monitors and virtual desktops as expected.

I cannot run any of the KDE desktop effects.

When the screen saver kicks in, it is two different screen savers on 
each monitor, not one across both.

If I move the trackball, I get a unlock box on both screens but they are 
not mirrored.  If I enter a password in to one box, the desktop unlocks.

I cannot use anything that requires a full screen such as You Tube 
videos in a browser or any game.

I have gone through the settings in Grub and tried different desktop 
settings.

This setup has worked flawlessly for two years now.

Due to this issue, the system runs slower when moving between screens or 
virtual desktops.  Lack of full screen is a pain for some things.  No 
Tux Extreme racer unless I want mirrored action.

Fedora 18 on Dell XPS13

Ranjan Maitra — 2013-05-17T18:56:24

Does anyone have any experience with F18 on a Dell XPS13 with the FHD
1080p display? What does this Full High-Definition 1080p mean
anyway? I guess my question is: is this the real resolution or some
virtual resolution not obtained via linux.

I am interested in this because it claims to have a 1080 vertical
resolution (not sure if this is accurate) in an Ultrabook.

Note that Dell sells this with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (for a price more than
with MS Windoze). 

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx

Ranjan

space error in creating a fedora spin

Ranjan Maitra — 2013-05-17T18:29:27

Hi,

I have been getting an error of "No space left on device" using my own
kickstart, so I decided to try and make the lxde ks on my own to see
what was up.

Here is what I tried:

sudo setenforce 0
sudo livecd-creator --cache=cache --fslabel=LXDE
--config=fedora-livecd-lxde.ks

There are a number of messages (all looking fine) till:

 Installing: ethtool                      ###################
[1052/1050] 1909 blocks

No changes to default zone needed.
Removing password for user root.
passwd: Success
Note: Forwarding request to 'systemctl enable NetworkManager.service'.
Note: Forwarding request to 'systemctl disable sshd.service'.
rm '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/sshd.service'
Missing EFI file (/boot/efi/EFI/*/shim.efi)
Missing EFI file (/boot/efi/EFI/*/gcdx64.efi)
Failed to copy EFI files, no EFI Support will be included.
Missing shim.efi, skipping efiboot.img creation.
The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be
enabled using systemctl.
Possible reasons for having this kind of units are:
1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another
unit's .wants/ or .requires/ directory.
2) A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which
has a requirement dependency on it.
3) A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path,
timer, D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...).
Packages within this LiveCD
......

......
3922 manual pages were added.
0 stray cats were added.
0 old database entries were purged.
8.5%
I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale
settings) Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation
  1.43% done, estimate finish Fri May 17 13:20:26 2013
  2.86% done, estimate finish Fri May 17 13:21:01 2013
  4.29% done, estimate finish Fri May 17 13:20:26 2013
genisoimage: No space left on device. cannot fwrite 32768*1
Error creating Live CD : ISO creation failed!

What is this error creating message? Is it because a standard CD has no
more that 700MB of space? (But the F18 LXDE spin takes less than 600
MB if I recall correctly. So then what is it?) How do I get around this?

Btw, I checked to be sure, and I do have HDD space in / (2.9GB) /tmp
(4GB) as well as in home (5 GB).

Many thanks for any help and best wishes,
Ranjan

bluetooth PAN network server

Aleksandar Kostadinov — 2013-05-17T16:30:07

Hello,

I was wondering if fedora 18 can be used as a PAN network server. I 
tried ask.fedoraproject but my question seems to have been buried:

https://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/25811/how-to-setup-a-bluetooth-pan-sharing-server-with-fedora/

F18: Create a USB install of CentOS 6 from iso

Mihamina Rakotomandimby — 2013-05-17T15:05:42

Hi all,

On a F18, I installed livecd-tools-18.15-1

I downloaded CenOS6.x minimal .iso and with livecd-iso-to-disk the 
resulting USB is never bootable: the computer doesnt boot on it. Tested 
on many computers.

The fact is I succeded to install CentOS on a Netbook (no CD/DVD tray), 
but I dont remember how I invoked livecd-iso-to-disk.

I tried with many combinations (/dev/sdc is the USB pendrive):

1°)
$ sudo livecd-iso-to-disk --format --force <ISO> /dev/sdc

2°)
$ sudo livecd-iso-to-disk --format --force <ISO> /dev/sdc1

3°)
- Format with VFAT on partiion #1 then
$ sudo livecd-iso-to-disk <ISO> /dev/sdc1

4°)
- Format with Ext on partiion #1 then
$ sudo livecd-iso-to-disk <ISO> /dev/sdc1

...

N°)
I dont remember what I tried, but it was many, mostly tried with CentOS 6.2

Please, if someone has a F18 + an USB drive: would you test and see if 
you succed?
If you ever succed, how did you?

creating a fedora spin in F18

Ranjan Maitra — 2013-05-17T13:36:52

Hello,

I am trying to make a spin (remix). I am also trying to include a few
rpms locally (stuff I rolled up for now). How do I include these in the
rpm?
 
Many thanks,
Ranjan

F17 to F18 upgrade using fedup

Mark Haney — 2013-05-17T11:49:34

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Hash: SHA1

I know I'm a bit late to the game on this issue, but the problem I'm
having is only happening on my Gateway/Samsung netbook so it's not
been a problem.  I'm finally getting time to work on it and I can't
seem to find anything that specifically addresses my problem.  Here's
the issue:

dracut-initqueue[200]: Warning: Could not boot.
dracut-initqueue[200]: Warning: /dev/mapper/vg-marius-lv_root does not
exist
dracut-initqueue[200]: Warning: /dev/vg_marius/lv_root does not exist
dracut-initqueue[200]: Warning: /dev/vg_marius/lv_swap does not exist

Now, this isn't my first issue with this netbook and booting Fedora.
To get F17 booting (because I had a similar problem initially with
GRUB) I ended up doing this from grub>:

set prefix=(hd0,5)/boot/grub
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 ro
initrd /initrd.img
boot

This is a repost as I think emails from my yahoo account may not be
getting through. Hopefully, someone can give me an idea what to do to
fix this.

It's definitely been a while since I had to do with F17, so I don't
think the problem is the same, but I tried doing that from grub using
'linux /vmlinuz-fedup'  but that didn't work. When I googled the error
this morning, the only real fix that I could find was to edit rd.dm=0
to rd.dm=1.  Another mentioned building a new initramfs, but neither
seems to really apply to my problem.  This is what my UPGRADE grub
line looks like:

setparams 'System Upgrade (fedup)'

    load_video

    set gfxpayload=keep
    insmod gzio
    insmod part_msdos
    insmod ext2
    set root='hd0,msdos5'
    if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos5
- --hint-efi=hd0,msdos5 --hint-baremetal=ahci\
        0,msdos5 --hint='hd0,msdos5' 829c424e-a791-49ba-884d-8783a8289ca3
          else
             search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set-root
829c424e-a791-49ba-884d-8783a8289ca3
    fi
    echo 'Loading System Upgrade (fedup)'
    linux    /vmlinuz-fedup root=/dev/mapper/vg_marius-lv_root ro
rd.lvm.lv=vg_marius/lv_root rd.md=0 rd.lvm\
.lv=vg_marius/lv_swap SYSFONT=True KEYTABLE=us rd.luks=0
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd.dm=0 rhgb quiet upgrade systemd.unit=s\
ystem-upgrade.target plymouth.splash=fedup enforcing=0
    echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
    initrd /initramfs-fedup.img

Since I had to type it in directly, any misspellings are my fault.
Hopefully, it's completely accurate.

As I said, I can't quite decide the proper answer to fix this, so does
anyone else have and helpful ideas?
- -- 
Mark Haney, Software Developer
Mobile: 828-337-6540 Email: mark.haney< at >gmail.com
Linux augustus.homelinux.org 3.8.11-200.fc18.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Firewalld - list tables?

John Horne — 2013-05-17T11:26:46

Hello,

I have been looking at the new Fedora firewall 'firewalld' and the
'firewall-cmd' command. I'm currently running F17 on a PC with an F18
virtual machine, and have been trying to understand firewalld prior to
upgrading to Fedora 19.

The PC has a modified iptables. So I have been trying to see how to
incorporate the changes into the new firewalld. I suspect I will need to
use the 'firewall-cmd --direct' option to add the iptables rules (as I
see no other way of specifying on the rules source/destination addresses
using 'firewall-cmd').

However, 'firewall-cmd' offers both the '--get-chains' and '--get-rules'
options, but these both require specifying which table is to be used.
How do I know what the tables are? There is no '--get-tables' option.
I can run 'cat /proc/net/ip_tables_names' and this lists the standard
iptables tables (nat ,mangle, filter). But if I use these names with
'firweall-cmd' all I get is a blank line displayed. E.g.

  firewall-cmd --direct --get-chains ipv4 nat

The same occurs with all the table names.

So, my question is this, is 'firewall-cmd' working correctly and simply
stating that none of the tables have any chains (and so no rules)?
Secondly, how do I find out what tables are defined for firewalld?




Thanks,

John.

bad extended attribute: Repair or Replace?

Frank Murphy — 2013-05-17T10:41:50

F18.x86_64

cat /var/log/messages <snipped>
May 17 11:29:05 torrent kernel: [70821.104326] EXT4-fs error (device
dm-0): ext4_iget:4110: inode #1046: comm yum: bad extended attribute
block 1002188096 May 17 11:29:05 torrent yum[31617]:
abrt-2.1.4.31.g6c04.dirty-1.fc18.x86_64: 100

A string of above repeated.

If repair "fsck -Af" from LiveCD?

cache files in some subdirs of /usr/share/icons

Joachim Backes — 2013-05-17T07:54:34

Hi all,

I'm running F18 (and F19), and I saw some files called
*icon-theme.cache* in a lot of subdirs of /usr/share/icons, partially 
consuming a lot of disk space.

MY question: Can I remove them safely?

Kind regards

Joachim Backes

Halo Scanner Mouse used on Fedora

Jim — 2013-05-16T23:57:20

Fedora 18

Has anyone used a Halo Scanner Mouse in Fedora ?

It will scan the following formats.  PDF JPG Tiff BMP PNG XLS DOC .

Would ImageMagic work ?