Re: Problem installing Fedora 22 Alpha RC3

2015-03-06 Thread Chris Murphy
articular emphasis on the exact thing you did that behaved contrary to your expectations and why you expected it to behave differently. Someone must be able to follow your steps and reproduce the problem, so you need to be able to articulate the steps you've taken. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailin

Re: rsyslog

2015-03-05 Thread Chris Murphy
sider these decisions being done in isolation. What does /var/log/README say about this? I haven't read it in forever but there is a README there that explains these changes. I wonder if it does, or should if it doesn't, describe how to revert back to the old behavior by installing rsyslo

Re: rsyslog

2015-03-04 Thread Chris Murphy
a socket; so if an rsyslog log doesn't have what you're looking for, but it is in the journal, then rsyslog is filtering it. journald doesn't filter anything. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscriptio

Re: rsyslog

2015-03-04 Thread Chris Murphy
logrotate-3.8.7-4.fc21.x86_64 is already installed by default with Fedora 21 Workstation. I don't know why, seems unnecessary. But it's there. Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.o

Re: rsyslog

2015-03-04 Thread Chris Murphy
it's the only option. Most cars come with RF fobs these days, not keys, so now the fob is the only option. My parents and friends with new cars in the last few years, no keyholes in the car anywhere, car did not come with a key. It's a fob with a battery in it. Battery dies, you can&#x

Re: rsyslog

2015-03-02 Thread Chris Murphy
auses the journal to be written to /run/log/journal instead of to disk, while allowing rsyslog to manage /var/log/messages like you're used to. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: UEFI -

2015-03-02 Thread Chris Murphy
way around this. But now we're deep in multiboot weeds... -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidel

Re: UEFI -

2015-03-02 Thread Chris Murphy
boot option uses a nohostonly initramfs which should boot on most any hardware. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.

Re: computer boot (some times) in emergency mode.

2015-03-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2015 3:37 AM, "Angelo Moreschini" > wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I tried with e2fsck -f /dev/sdc1 >> but I got the message: > > Buried in my long first reply: > "booting

Re: computer boot (some times) in emergency mode.

2015-02-28 Thread Chris Murphy
gt; WARNING!!! The filesystem is mounted. If you continue you ***WILL*** > cause ***SEVERE*** filesystem damage. > > Of curse I didn't continue... > > How I have to do this test ? > Have I to boot the computer using some utility that didn't need the hard disk ? >

Re: Looking for a life-save LVM Guru

2015-02-27 Thread Chris Murphy
ur cumulative knowledge base. Quite. > I can attest that I once lost a volume that was so important to me that I > got sick to my stomach. I am loathe to wish that upon anyone. Backups! -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscript

Re: Looking for a life-save LVM Guru

2015-02-27 Thread Chris Murphy
This inquiry was cross posted here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2015-February/150351.html which is contrary to the guidelines on no cross posting: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#Do_not_Cross_Post I suggest this thread be closed. Chris Murphy -- users mailing

Re: Looking for a life-save LVM Guru

2015-02-27 Thread Chris Murphy
he filesystem (metadata) is dup on single drive (except SSD) and raid1 on multiple devices. So while you lose files (data) on the missing drive, the fs itself is intact and will even mount normally. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chang

Re: Leaping from F18 -> F21

2015-02-27 Thread Chris Murphy
2003. GNOME 3.15.90 (Fedora 22) walks rather than run. It's not usable for production purposes, I'd probably use xfce or lxde for that, but it makes a decent test server. I'd guess it was around Fedora 14/15 that this laptop usably ran GNOME. -- Chris Murphy --

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 02/26/2015 07:26 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Ralf Corsepius >> wrote: >>> >>> On 02/25/2015 09:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> >>>> If peo

Re: computer boot (some times) in emergency mode.

2015-02-26 Thread Chris Murphy
t; > > > so I should do : > e2fsck -f /dev/sdc1 > and after > e2fsck -f /dev/sdc2 Yes for sdc1, but not for sdc2 which is an LVM PV. You need to do e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/fedora/root Thing is, at the rd break, it might not be active. Check with blkid. If not, then vgchange -ay

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 02/25/2015 09:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> If people aren't actually going to test what we have, and file bug >> report, > > If you want to see this thing fixed, tested and see bug reports, then > pu

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/25/2015 03:27 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> But no, you were just being a discourteous >> person. > > > Actually, until you made it clear that one of your main reasons for posting > was to create dissension,

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/25/2015 03:15 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> No, my posts are designed to hold people accountable for things they >> say, and insist they provide facts, not mere opinions. If that demand >> just so happens to cause the

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/25/2015 02:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> THAT'S THE F'N DEFINITION OF TROLLING. FACTLESS! > > > No, trolling is making posts designed to get other people angry and cause > dissention, which you'v

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/25/2015 02:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> No in fact I love being wrong, it means I get to learn something new >> and I value that more than being right. But shadenfreude is delicious, >> so I also like causing

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/25/2015 02:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> So 75+ emails on a thread about how the installer can't do what you >> want, and it's actually based on uncertainty? You need more Pai Mei in >> your lif

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
p://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/21/html/Installation_Guide/sect-installation-gui-manual-partitioning.html Starting with "To discard all changes..." -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admi

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/25/2015 01:57 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> I refuse your premise. The feature requesters have no champion >> offering to even create this hypothetical Expert Mode, therefore no >> one is refusing to patch bugs

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
F19. I don't know what custom function you're referring to that's in F19, but not F18 or F20. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Condu

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/25/2015 12:14 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> One single button with 4000 lines of code behind it. You assume that >> providing full control in a GUI just happens magically as if that work >> is already done

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 02/24/2015 05:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Ralf Corsepius >> wrote: > > >>> Similar restriction apply elsewhere. E.g. I have an older BIOS system >>> w

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
#x27;m hearing, I'd recommend no go. Instead, please put these resources into accessibility. I'd rather make life easier for the vision impaired before spending more resources coddling so called power users who won't/can't use CLI tools or kickstart and want to produce questi

Re: computer boot (some times) in emergency mode.

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
the drive to recover this data. If not, at the very least, again if it's a bad sector, you'll get something in dmesg that's explicitly a read error and will have an LBA associated with it. Now you can find out what file's data is on that LBA using debugfs and reinstall t

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-24 Thread Chris Murphy
ow to > manually partition their drives. Nor should they. Check the partitioning of a mobile device, it has more than a dozen partitions, the user doesn't need to be involved in this at all yet they benefit. It is possible to have an overall better experience, faster development, less bugs,

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-24 Thread Chris Murphy
ies: "A tool which doesn't suffice my needs, will not > be my choice and will loose me as a customer" Yes, but it's a 60+ email thread and the people complaining about Anaconda Manual Partitioning, especially the "custom isn't custom" claim, haven't produced

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
hat layout the installer won't let them create; or won't use once precreated elsewhere. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Condu

Re: What constitutes a backup, was:F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
for archive (backup) better than checkpoint > (detached mirror)?? For one, achive≠backup≠raid. For two, the backup needs to be on its own filesystem, and on a separate device. And this is an example of neither, because the fs is the same, and the logical block device is actual

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
e installer - yum upgrade - fedup or whatever its next incarnation > might be! Well as yet not neurotic enough if you aren't doing backups, yet so worried about your /home data you think it's going to be the installer that nukes it. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.f

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/23/2015 01:03 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> And you have backups right? Because by definition it's not important >> unless you have backups. > > > First, I'd like to point out that just because the i

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/23/2015 12:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> If you really want partitions, why aren't you doing this with gparted >> then? What's the problem with that workflow? Why do you need it >> integrated in Anac

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
nd then sacrificing a goat under a full moon on the Nazca plains. You're right, you've found a bug. That's definitely the wrong ritualistic incantation to compel the installer to be permissive of a bad idea it can't possibly understand. -- Chris Murphy -- user

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > To delete and existing /opt or /home requires explicit user > intervention for this to happen. It doesn't happen by itself. You have > to a.) click the mount point, b.) click the minus (-) button to > indicate you want

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
se, once "Begin Installation" has been clicked and on-disk changes have already been made. Better to pre-fail than fail later. And it's not like I've seen anyone (except me) post bugs demonstrating their installer failure cases. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list us

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
mulated digital clutter! And you have backups right? Because by definition it's not important unless you have backups. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fe

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
here are > other standalone GUI partitioning tools that exist. If you really want partitions, why aren't you doing this with gparted then? What's the problem with that workflow? Why do you need it integrated in Anaconda? -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
what they want. People who aren't filing bugs, who aren't contributing code, want what? If the use case is viable, and helps a large percent of users, then I think this could be done. But please feel free to be specific, rather than generally casting the installer with a broad brus

Re: Converting server to workstation

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
" which is somewhat related. The gist is that this possibility should be de-emphasized, if not unsupported. The fact environments show up (non-hidden) in yum/dnf group list suggests (to me) that this is intentional, but it turns out this is an aberration that ought to be fixed, as in hide it.

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 >> ch

Re: etc-shadow

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
n /etc/shadow, so that too is self describing. I'd expect that jtr can directly parse these variants in /etc/passwd, but I haven't tested it. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

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.

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

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 progra

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 inst

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

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
on. So if FreeBSD allows it, that's probably why, they aren't using linux. Windows NTFS also has a configurable block size above 4KB, as does OS X's HFS+. Different kernels. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or ch

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
where I didn't want it to have, but also the partition > numbers itself get replaced while configuring. Like I keep saying, any notion the installer gives you the ability to create partitions is an illusion. If there's a case for partitions being in a certain order, for everyone, then

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
e layouts and hence ways to boot the system. It's a big circular "let's make more work for ourselves" extravaganza. But then, funny enough, if it weren't for that, we maybe wouldn't have projects like Fedora Atomic which is really quite cool. -- Chris Murphy -- users m

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
s block sizes, right now on Linux the block size can't be larger than page size, which on x86 is 4096 bytes. Btrfs gets around this somewhat with a 4KB blocksize, while defaulting to 16KB nodesize. I'm not sure of the upper limit, I've tested 64KB nodesizes. -- Chris Murphy -- users

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

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
primary partitions on linux anyway. Extlinux depends on primary partitions, but GRUB doesn't. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of

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 pass

Re: etc-shadow

2015-02-21 Thread Chris Murphy
d.c before asking. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailin

etc-shadow

2015-02-21 Thread Chris Murphy
w-password-hash-formats/ But Fedora doesn't have mkpasswd by default, whereas passwd seems to only update shadow rather than outputting to stdout. And if there's a salt used I can't tell how that would be referenced. Thanks, -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: /tmp files

2015-02-18 Thread Chris Murphy
naged by systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedora

Re: What's in my hard drive?

2015-02-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >Or could the firmware at power on not > actually supply the firmware with LBA0 contents to execute but some > arbitrary code (possibly even stored on hidden sectors on the drive) > that acts as a persistent bootkit? Oops. Rewrit

Re: What's in my hard drive?

2015-02-17 Thread Chris Murphy
e and being easily able to decrypt the contents. Or could the firmware at power on not actually supply the firmware with LBA0 contents to execute but some arbitrary code (possibly even stored on hidden sectors on the drive) that acts as a persistent bootkit? -- Chris Murphy -- users

Re: boot partition too small

2015-02-16 Thread Chris Murphy
nt BIOS doesn't support 48-bit LBA, then there could be a problem where the boot partition begins too. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code o

Re: boot partition too small

2015-02-15 Thread Chris Murphy
ll curious about the *-0-rescue-* kernel. It is quite large. > Is it really necessary? If you delete it I'm pretty sure new-kernel-pkg causes one to be rebuilt the next time there's a kernel update. What big is the rescue initramfs, it's about 3x larger because it's a nohostonly

Re: F21 on UEFI

2015-02-15 Thread Chris Murphy
ug reports or this stuff isn't going to get better any faster. (A tiny point is that some firmware can tolerate BIOS+GPT, meanwhile others faceplant, so either just use MBR or be prepared to test GPT.) Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: F21 on UEFI

2015-02-15 Thread Chris Murphy
l efibootmgr, shim and grub2-efi packages, update fstab, run grub2-mkconfig, change grub symlink to point to new grub.cfg location so grubby can find it, run dracut, and that ought to just about do it. Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: boot partition too small

2015-02-15 Thread Chris Murphy
d to resize and move the partition immediately after this /boot one by 300MB, thereby allow you to grow the current /boot to 500M. I think this is a bit nutty. Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproj

Re: swapping

2015-02-15 Thread Chris Murphy
ausearch -m AVC -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelin

Re: journalctl --follow

2015-02-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > Chris Murphy writes: >> Is this delayed behavior reproducible in a shell running journalctl -f >> ? Or only happens with the script log? > > I guess I need to get off my duff and run that test. > >&g

Re: journalctl --follow

2015-02-10 Thread Chris Murphy
7;ll get better help from systemd-devel@. Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fe

Re: journalctl --follow

2015-02-09 Thread Chris Murphy
l > seems more likely to be the culprit, hence the subject line. I haven't seen this. If you quit and then issue a new journalctl -f, do you see a bunch of things that previously weren't there with (approximately) current time? It might be a bug worth inquiring about on systemd-d

Re: rescue kernel

2015-02-09 Thread Chris Murphy
usual case at install time is that grub2-mkconfig makes this entry as well as for the regularly named kernel and hostonly initramfs; grubby doesn't really have a role except with kernel upgrades. Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: rescue kernel

2015-02-09 Thread Chris Murphy
use that same grubby command manually, but add --debug flag and see what it's complaining about. What filesystem is /boot on? -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mail

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2015-02-08 Thread Chris Murphy
lformed boot entries from scratch is upstream's idea of multibooting... Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.o

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2015-02-08 Thread Chris Murphy
g, it will have an empty 30_os-prober section. Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidel

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2015-02-08 Thread Chris Murphy
more information by editing /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober and adding to the top: set -v set -x And then rerun 'bash -x grub2-mkconfig'. The output will likely be a lot longer. This very well could be a bug. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2015-02-07 Thread Chris Murphy
What's the output from rpm -q grub2 bash -x grub2-mkconfig Try to post the entire thing to the forum. If it bounces back, then stick the text file up somewhere and provide the URL. Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription op

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2015-02-07 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > grub2-mkconfig find systems which do not exist > For example it find a partition root=/dev/mapper/VolGrpSys0-root > which does not exist > Where is kept VolGrpSys0? What output do you get from os-prober?

Re: shutdown doesn't shut down

2015-02-06 Thread Chris Murphy
before systemd can actually complete the poweroff. Whereas poweroff -f skips all the normal nice quit sequence of services and goes straight to telling the kernel to power off the hardware. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription o

Re: shutdown doesn't shut down

2015-02-06 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 02/05/2015 08:38 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Ralf Corsepius >> wrote: > > >> So the way to do it in the summary is basically: All these ways to >> shutdown actual

Re: shutdown doesn't shut down

2015-02-04 Thread Chris Murphy
oot (examples), but poweroff -f works correctly. Following http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging/#index2h1 attached is shutdown-log.txt. Chances are you can look in that file and figure out what the problem is, what component to file the bug for. But if it's not obvious you cou

Re: shutdown doesn't shut down

2015-02-04 Thread Chris Murphy
s, problems, or bonuses. For example on one of my computers, CSM/BIOS boot results in the SSD being treated as an IDE drive, and performs at best 1/4 of the performance when I boot in UEFI mode. Most of the video problems in UEFI boot that have been resolved by enabling CSM/BIOS mode are solved, b

Re: shutdown doesn't shut down

2015-02-04 Thread Chris Murphy
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging/#index2h1 If power is shut off, then you've got some shutdown script or unit actually instigating the reboot, and this can probably be logged by following the instructions in the URL above. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fe

Re: mdadm: Cannot get exclusive access to /dev/md127

2015-02-02 Thread Chris Murphy
'll take a while to time out to get to this failure also). If you still get a boot delay and ultimately a failure looking for this device, rebuild the initramfs with dracut -f. Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: mdadm: Cannot get exclusive access to /dev/md127

2015-02-02 Thread Chris Murphy
unmount it. Then you need to close it. cryptsetup luksClose luks-ab8911f9-b3a4-4f33-8b10-7e52c7217ae9 Now you can wipefs the md127 device, then stop the array, then wipe the members of the array. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change s

Re: libreoffice 4.4

2015-02-01 Thread Chris Murphy
for everyone. Longer term more integration happens once kdbus lands, so there's a way for containerized applications to do things like copy-paste between them, and more sophisticated data sharing and messaging. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: mdadm: Cannot get exclusive access to /dev/md127

2015-02-01 Thread Chris Murphy
and wipe the mdadm superblock signature. That ought to fix the problem unless there's also LVM stuff going on here too. The --backup isn't strictly necessary but will write out a file and instructions on how to restore what it wipes in case you get the command wrong and wipe the wrong de

Re: Impossible to add a remote printer

2015-02-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 3:22 PM, poma wrote: > On 01.02.2015 21:41, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 12:28 PM, poma wrote: >>> On 01.02.2015 18:50, antonio wrote: >> >>>> correct, it was working in F20, but only if you were installing a new &g

Re: Impossible to add a remote printer

2015-02-01 Thread Chris Murphy
tting IPP. I posted a message on desktop@ whether there should be a printing related release criteria. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: not able of booting into rescue mode

2015-02-01 Thread Chris Murphy
s and usually journal playback is sufficient to make the file system consistent again. The whole idea of journals is to obviate the need for (most, not all) filesystem checks or repairs. So if you have to do it often it'l make me think something else is wrong that's causing file syst

Re: Impossible to add a remote printer

2015-02-01 Thread Chris Murphy
@ so the Workstation WG is aware of it. A brief search of desktop@ doesn't bring up printing related subjects in 6 months. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: fedora 20 to 21

2015-02-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Chris Murphy writes: > >> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > Trying to upgrade to fedora 21. I did: >> > mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom >> > fedu

Re: not able of booting into rescue mode

2015-02-01 Thread Chris Murphy
e filesystems, then you can use guestfish to access the image's filesystem to run fsck. Guestfish is in libguestfs-tools package. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailm

Re: fedora 20 to 21

2015-01-31 Thread Chris Murphy
I just had time to see something like > Failed to mount https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185607 -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code

Re: No graphics

2015-01-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > OK, > > I am going to try. > However, I donot have the network in text mode. > > how can I start the network in text mode? nmcli d wifi connect password -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: No graphics

2015-01-31 Thread Chris Murphy
po so you could try that. And if you're brave you can go to koji and download a current 3.19 build which will have a bunch of debugging options enabled that might have some chance of further revealing the problem well enough for a bug report at least. Chris Murphy -- user

Re: not able of booting into rescue mode

2015-01-31 Thread Chris Murphy
t; > what we can do with the prompt (boot : ) that comes when we type "escape" > from the "iso installation disc CD" ? http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX Creating a Bootable Disk "SYSLINUX will display a LILO-style "boot:" prompt. The user can th

Re: fedora 21 booting error with 3.17 & 3.18 kernels-SOLVED- still need info

2015-01-31 Thread Chris Murphy
ype GUID in which case they don't need fstab entries at all. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct G

Re: not able of booting into rescue mode

2015-01-30 Thread Chris Murphy
7;s always control-x, nothing else works. Joy.) Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fe

Re: Anaconda illegal address

2015-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
r kickstarts, crashing if things aren't exactly spot on is probably permitted criteria wise. I'm not saying it's OK that it crashes, it's just that exception handling takes some coding either to parse the kickstart and reject it from the start, or some sort of

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