Re: possible cause of horrifically unreliable NFS?

2009-03-23 Thread Roger Heflin
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:46 PM, David Burns tdb...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  what is the most common cause of NFS bouncing back and forth between OK and not responding?  should i be messing with the mount options? 2

Re: Advice on changing to 64 bits

2009-02-14 Thread Roger Heflin
Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Up to last week, I had Fedora running in subsequent versions 2 or so to 10 on my old Pentium 4 system. Now I have a rather recent new desktop computer with much of the latest and greatest hardware: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 with 4 GB RAM, harddrive with lots of

Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-25 Thread Roger Heflin
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test this first! Anyway, since this is my ASUS Eee and my swap is on the SD card, by pulling the SD card the boot halts and puts me into Repair Filesystem

Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-20 Thread Roger Heflin
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test this first! Anyway, since this is my ASUS Eee and my swap is on the SD card, by pulling the SD card the boot halts and puts me into Repair

Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-20 Thread Roger Heflin
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Roger Heflin wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz mount -o rw,remount / So I tried this (had a DAH moment after you posted this), but got an error: mount: / not mounted already, or bad option So I tried just 'mount' to see what the status

Re: F9 doesn't find swap or /root system on new motherboard

2009-01-17 Thread Roger Heflin
M. Fioretti wrote: Greetings, My motherboard, on which I was running F9 x86_64 off one SATA drive, died. I bought a new motherboard with a new cpu of the same type (AMD) and connected the hard disk with F9 to it. Now Grub does start with these options: kernel/vmlinuz/-2.6.27-etc ro

Re: F9 doesn't find swap or /root system on new motherboard

2009-01-17 Thread Roger Heflin
Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 17:57 -0600, Roger Heflin wrote: M. Fioretti wrote: Greetings, My motherboard, on which I was running F9 x86_64 off one SATA drive, died. I bought a new motherboard with a new cpu of the same type (AMD) and connected the hard disk with F9 to it. Now

Re: F9 doesn't find swap or /root system on new motherboard

2009-01-17 Thread Roger Heflin
M. Fioretti wrote: On Sun, January 18, 2009 1:36 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Read the man page for mkinitrd - it tells you how to include specific modules, as well as an option to overwrite the current initrd. just to be sure (sorry, it's almost 2 am here and I'm really tired), this

Re: Simple question regarding touch and mv

2008-12-21 Thread Roger Heflin
Don't some programs interpret -- as stdin? No. But some programs do interpret -- as no more options after this. so: touch -- -foo will work as the -- tells touch that there are no options after this. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: perl-PDL-LAPACK

2008-11-30 Thread Roger Heflin
Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I updated my machine to Fedora and I facing a problem that I cannot solve. I need to sue the perl package perl-PDL-LAPACK which is not available in a binary form, so I tried to compile it but it fails because I do not have anymore a f2c.h library thank for your

Re: Workstations shutting down for no apparent reason (F8)

2008-11-27 Thread Roger Heflin
Alain Cochard wrote: Hello. I am running 40 workstations with 3 kinds of hardware, all under fedora 8. From time to time -- about once every 3 days -- one of the machine (not always the same) shuts itself down. Otherwise they are running 24 hours a day every day. The excerpt of the

Re: any program / script to connect to router to check status

2008-11-27 Thread Roger Heflin
chloe K wrote: Hi Any program to connect to router to check status I would like to output eg: sh int to file Thank you - Now with a new friend-happy design! Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger If your router is one that allows

Re: D-Link DGE-550SX (dl2k): WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:219 dev_watchdog+0xda/0x12d()

2008-11-26 Thread Roger Heflin
Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Hello, we just upgraded our old router (Fedora Core 5 on AlphaServer 800, kernel 2.6.17) to new Fedora 10/2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 kernel on Core2Duo i686. PCI-X Fiber 1000BASE-SX D-Link Network Adapter DGE-550SX, which worked fine in old Alphaserver, freeze on new

Re: F10 NFS Install Query

2008-11-26 Thread Roger Heflin
John Austin wrote: Hi Previous versions of Fedora just needed the .iso file on the server for an NFS install For F10 I needed to mount the file in loopback and copy the contents of the DVD to a separate directory before anaconda could find it - is this a bug or a feature? Does anyone know if

Re: mtrr funnies

2008-10-15 Thread Roger Heflin
Bill Davidsen wrote: Roger Heflin wrote: I know a bios engineer once told me that some chipsets/bios can only remap entire dimms (not parts of a dimm) and doing an entire dimm would result in only 2GB below 4GB and that bothers some vendors since it would cause issues with memory

Re: mtrr funnies

2008-10-12 Thread Roger Heflin
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Roger Heflin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: On the AMD's I remember one of the AMD experts mentioning that the 4GB memory stuff is automagic so is not listed as a MTRR at all. It is just there. Does cat /proc/meminfo and top both show

Re: mtrr funnies

2008-10-11 Thread Roger Heflin
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: I've got a motherboard with a fairly new chipset (Asus M3A78T w. AMD/ATI 790GX) and I'm seeing a funny MTRR setting. I have 8GB memory and am running a 64-bit kernel, but I'm only seeing ~4GB mentioned in the MTRR's. Is this a bug? Do I need to add the upper 4+GB

Re: Using all of 4GB RAM... questions and Vista versus Linux...

2008-10-01 Thread Roger Heflin
Linuxguy123 wrote: I have a new HP hdx laptop with a Core Duo T8100 processor and 4 GB of RAM. $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.26.3-14.fc8 #1 SMP Wed Sep 3 03:40:05 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Even though I have 4GB of RAM installed, Linux appears to only be using 3GB of it.

Re: Using all of 4GB RAM... questions and Vista versus Linux...

2008-10-01 Thread Roger Heflin
Linuxguy123 wrote: Here is the spec sheet for my laptop. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01490775cc=uslc=endlc=enproduct=3747924 It says: Memory 4096 MB Memory Max Up to 4GB DDR2 (Up to 1 GB may not be available due to 32-bit operating system resource requirements)

Re: Greater than 2TB disks bootable?

2008-09-30 Thread Roger Heflin
Phil Meyer wrote: There is a lot of confusion available from articles on the Internet about whether or not a greater than 2TB disk can be made bootable in Linux. In order to go that large, the disk must be labelled, via partd, as type GPT. Ok so far. Now, is it possible to use fdisk to cut

Re: desperately seeking IgnoreEDID

2008-09-20 Thread Roger Heflin
Robert P. J. Day wrote: i'm still fighting to get my WUXGA display laptop to ignore the EDID information coming back from a video device, so i simplified the problem and here's what's happening so far. i have a fresh install of f9 on an aging dell inspiron 9200 with a full WUXGA display,

Re: desperately seeking IgnoreEDID

2008-09-20 Thread Roger Heflin
nope, that made no difference. in fact, from the X log file, it doesn't appear that it had any effect at all. at least with Option IgnoreEDID True the contents of the X log file suggest that EDID processing is cancelled (even though it clearly isn't). with the option above, the X log

Re: Ntpdate fails to start

2008-09-07 Thread Roger Heflin
Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At booting, ntpdate fails to start, and also the following command fails: # /sbin/service ntpdate start ntpdate: Synchronizing with time server: [FAILED] # The log messages are: Sep 7

Re: Nvidia driver

2008-08-26 Thread Roger Heflin
Claude Jones wrote: On Tue August 26 2008 9:20:00 am Per Anton Rønning wrote: rpm -qa | grep kernel returns this: kernel-PAE-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 kernel-headers-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i386 kerneloops-0.11-1.fc9.i386 kernel-PAE-2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 And this seems to

Re: Nvidia driver

2008-08-26 Thread Roger Heflin
Claude Jones wrote: On Tue August 26 2008 10:52:21 am Roger Heflin wrote: Don't count on that, the 4GB thing is a very very rough and often wrong *SIMPLE* rule. Just because a machine has under 4GB of ram does not mean that the PAE kernel won't give you more memory.The bios *CAN* (some do

Re: Nvidia driver

2008-08-26 Thread Roger Heflin
Per Anton Rønning wrote: Claude Jones wrote: On Tue August 26 2008 10:52:21 am Roger Heflin wrote: Don't count on that, the 4GB thing is a very very rough and often wrong *SIMPLE* rule. Just because a machine has under 4GB of ram does not mean that the PAE kernel won't give you more memory

Re: H.D. install problem -

2008-08-25 Thread Roger Heflin
Bob Goodwin wrote: Tim wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 19:58 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: I had hoped to make the new drive a third one but sadly I found only two SATA connectors on the motherboard so I had to revert to plan B. Or there's plan c - buy a SATA card to plug into your

Re: H.D. install problem -

2008-08-25 Thread Roger Heflin
Bob Goodwin wrote: Roger Heflin wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: Tim wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 19:58 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: I had hoped to make the new drive a third one but sadly I found only two SATA connectors on the motherboard so I had to revert to plan B. Or there's plan c

Re: [OT] Machine won't boot

2008-08-21 Thread Roger Heflin
Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2008 15:14, Ed Greshko wrote: What motherboard are you talking about...and what time frame are you certain was the time when it was manufactured with faulty capacitors? What I know is not precisely for one specific type of motherboard. It's just

Re: Intel 82541GI NIC comes up at 10mbps on one port

2008-08-17 Thread Roger Heflin
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Sam Varshavchik wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson writes: Try using ethtoolto lock the port to 100 Mbs Full Duplex. It is probably that the two do not handshake correctly to set the faster speed. If I remember correctly, that was one of the things that the exact protocol

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Roger Heflin
Alan Cox wrote: Is this just a sign of superb quality control in the samsung disk factories turning out identical disks that last almost the exact same amount of time in the same CPU case with the same number of power cycles? I gad a very similar thing happen with IBM disks and a raid 1 array.

Re: PAN Failure -- Help

2008-08-13 Thread Roger Heflin
MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:24:57 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: I am talking to you from my laptop (running F8 and pan-0.132-2.fc8) because my desktop (running F7 and pan-0.131-1.fc7) suddenly stopped working. When I start pan (under KDE), its

Re: PAN Failure -- Help

2008-08-13 Thread Roger Heflin
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:30:29 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: [...] The error is not terribly useful, I doubt there is going to be a better suggestion than to try a few files at a time, though you may be able to run strace -o pan.out -f pan on the command line and see

Re: PAN Failure -- Help

2008-08-12 Thread Roger Heflin
MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: I am talking to you from my laptop (running F8 and pan-0.132-2.fc8) because my desktop (running F7 and pan-0.131-1.fc7) suddenly stopped working. When I start pan (under KDE), its GUI flashes briefly and then disappears. Other things, including Firefox and Apache

Re: Hardware trouble? Me? Or ...??

2008-08-07 Thread Roger Heflin
Beartooth wrote: My #1 machine (with F9 on one hard drive, and XP (to run topo maps) on the other) won't do anything; it doesn't even turn its little blue light on. This *could* be my doing. Fool that I was, I went and fiddled with what I had in sys-config-network, or whatever

Re: Unable to compile kernel-2.6.19.2 on FC 9

2008-08-07 Thread Roger Heflin
Vishwas Dubey wrote: Hi All, I am trying to build and compile a new kernel. Currently, I have linux-2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 installed on my machine, which I use to build and compile the new kernel for linux-2.6.19.2. I follow the standard procedure for building and compiling the kernel, but

Re: NFS mount points (directories) inaccessible in RunLevel 3

2008-08-04 Thread Roger Heflin
djgardner wrote: I have seen the following issue on several and current Redhat Linux distros. I'd like to understand the problem and avoid it. More importantly, I want to fix the problem on my current server. As root, I created 5 directories under /mnt and mounted remote directories via NFS.

Re: No space for new partition on SATA drive, but 61GBfreespace

2008-07-31 Thread Roger Heflin
Nigel Henry wrote: This is the first time that I've used SATA harddrives on this new machine that I've built, so am a bit in the dark. Fedora 8 is using sda1 for / , and sda2 for /home. sda3 is swap sda4 (the 4th primary is the extended partition) sda5, and 6, are / , and /home for another

Re: Can I get a word in edgewise here, puhlease?

2008-07-29 Thread Roger Heflin
Gene Heskett wrote: Does anyone know how to make that work, or, how to change channels in the xine front end? I can't find a channel up/down function in its gui. No... Don't actually use xine for this purpose. What do you use? xine works, but it sure is kludgy to change channels. A minute

Re: Can I get a word in edgewise here, puhlease?

2008-07-29 Thread Roger Heflin
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2008, Roger Heflin wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Does anyone know how to make that work, or, how to change channels in the xine front end? I can't find a channel up/down function in its gui. No... Don't actually use xine for this purpose. What do you use

Re: stop kernel messages from splashing on the console

2008-07-28 Thread Roger Heflin
Vikram Goyal wrote: Hello, I am getting these kernel messages on the consoles which I want to avoid as many times I have to login through them as the system runs in level 3. I have edited the /etc/syslog.conf as: #kern.* /dev/console kern.*/var/log/kern_messages

Re: PAE kernel and 4GB of memory

2008-07-24 Thread Roger Heflin
Howard Wilkinson wrote: I am looking for a definitive answer to the question of where the PAE kernels become useful. I have seen various articles that mention needing PAE kernels if you have more then 4GB of physical memory in a 32-bit processor environment. I have also seen statements that

Re: Program to compress AVI files

2008-07-14 Thread Roger Heflin
Paul Smith wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Mark Haney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some program to compress AVI files? Compress? Video and graphics files tend not to compress well at all. Are we talking ZIP compression? Or encoding to a smaller file size? Thanks to both. I am

Re: Fedora 9 Install RAID Size Error

2008-07-13 Thread Roger Heflin
Tim Berryhill wrote: Fedora 9 install is failing on a new machine. I suspect the problem is related to my RAID's. I have two small, fast drives in a RAID 0 600GB array, partitioned into two drives which currently hold Vista and XP. I have three large, slow drives in a RAID 5 1.4TB array, as a

Re: FC9 x86_64 powers off unexpectedly

2008-06-23 Thread Roger Heflin
Dan Farmer wrote: Hi All, My system has been spontaneously powering off once or twice a day for the last week or so. The obvious candidate would be thermal issues, so I took some steps to improve cooling and I believe that is fairly well resolved. At the last power off that I was present for I

Re: Trouble installing/compiling the Marvell sky98lin on F8

2008-06-22 Thread Roger Heflin
Ubence Quevedo wrote: Hi All, I am having problems installing the Marvell sky98lin driver on a 32-BIT F8 Core 2 Duo system. I have the kernel source installed like the instructions recommend, but whenever the installer gets to the module creation part it fails. Here is the contents of the

Re: SATA - System Freezes

2008-06-20 Thread Roger Heflin
Henry Ritzlmayr wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 19.06.2008, 09:52 -0600 schrieb Robin Laing: Henry Ritzlmayr wrote: Am Dienstag, den 17.06.2008, 13:25 -0400 schrieb Jorge Fábregas: Hello Everyone, I'm running Fedora 8 and my system freezes (for about 20 to 40 seconds) a couple of times a day.

Re: f9 tar fails during backups

2008-06-14 Thread Roger Heflin
Skunk Worx wrote: Suppose I want to back up my home directory using tar. I see this : ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ? ??? .gvfs ...and this : tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors What service do I need to stop to

Re: make thunderbird NOT show html

2008-06-08 Thread Roger Heflin
David Boles wrote: Ric Moore wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 00:13 +, g wrote: David Boles wrote: Roger Heflin wrote: snip And that bad news for us is those clueless people are developers that develop email programs and really don't have a clue what they are doing, but certainly think

Re: Kernel Issues

2008-06-07 Thread Roger Heflin
Jelena i Zoran wrote: I have not been able to update the kernel on FC8 since kernel-2.6.24.3-12.fc8. All later versions stop loading at udev stage. I looked on the interned and others seem so have similar issues. None of the suggestions I found on the internet worked. The message I get at the

Re: make thunderbird NOT show html

2008-06-06 Thread Roger Heflin
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Mike Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, It seems that there are many clueless people who could never write a web page but seem to feel more than qualified to send html mail. I am tired of squinting at itty bitty fonts that are rendered by Thunderbird

Re: make thunderbird NOT show html

2008-06-06 Thread Roger Heflin
David Boles wrote: Roger Heflin wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Mike Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, It seems that there are many clueless people who could never write a web page but seem to feel more than qualified to send html mail

Re: make thunderbird NOT show html

2008-06-06 Thread Roger Heflin
David Boles wrote: Roger Heflin wrote: David Boles wrote: Roger Heflin wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Mike Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, It seems that there are many clueless people who could never write a web page but seem

Re: testing hardware - use what software ?

2008-06-03 Thread Roger Heflin
max bianco wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Roger Heflin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robin Laing wrote: Compiling up something called HPL (with something called MPI) at least does nicely at finding that you have a memory/overheat/internal CPU issue. If the results corrupt or the machine

Re: EDAC i5000 NON-FATAL ERRORs

2008-05-30 Thread Roger Heflin
Jack Howarth wrote: I noticed that after upgrading the kernel on a Fedora 7 x86_64 box is the latest kernel (the box hadn't been rebooted for some months) that I am now seeing the following in my messages log... May 25 04:30:56 fourier kernel: EDAC i5000 MC0: NON-FATAL ERRORS Found!!! 1st